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Angelo's of Lakewood wins the Cheap NFL Jerseys prize
The final choice for our judges came down to representatives of two styles Angelo's, which shows a strong influence of Chicago Wholesale NFL Jerseys style tastes, and Farinacci's, which presented what I've come to recognize as the classic Cleveland crust. It was a close call: In the final vote, Angelo's won 3 2.Along the way to the finals, we also found excellent examples of New York style pies and those that are closer to the Italian originals. We encourage you to explore beyond the pizza places you're familiar with, to see the range available. You can use our list of the 64 places that entered the Playoffs as a start.We want to thank all the restaurants that participated, our judges, and especially all of you who voted in the online portion of the contest. And we congratulate not just Angelo's and Farinacci's, but our other finalists Pizza Roma and P. Jay's as well as Antonio's of Parma and Frankie's Italian Cuisine of Westlake and North Olmsted, which got the votes to be named Regional Reader Favorites; and also the two other regional runners up, Beach Club Grill in Concord and Crostatas Rustic Pizza in Highland Heights.After more than a month of voting and judging, the Pizza Playoffs winner is . . . Angelo's Pizza of Lakewood. The honor is well deserved. This year is its 30th anniversary.It wasn't easy. The five judges myself, chocolatier Dan Malley, Cavs great Campy Russell and two judges from readers, Thomas Hughes of Highland Heights and Mary Lijana Dicostanzo of Parma, sampled pizzas from four pizzerias last Saturday.The Final Formaggio finalists were P. Jay's Pizza of Parma (Southwest region); Pizza Roma of Mayfield (Far East); Farinacci Pizza of Northfield (Near East) and Angelo's Pizza of Lakewood (Northwest). All brought a plain and one or two specialty pizzas to the judging. Specialties included a baked potato pizza, a pierogi pizza, a California style and a Sicilian style pizza.The Playoffs opened Sept. 28 with a call for nominations. There were almost 1,500 comments nominating the original 300 restaurants.We limited entrants to the core of The Plain Dealer's circulation area Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Summit, Portage, Lorain and Ashtabula counties with a few Stark County entrants. Voting began Oct. 5 in the play in round, reducing the number to 16 in each region. (Editor's note: Want to check out all 64? We've got phone numbers, websites and an interactive map.) A series of online votes pared that down to two finalists in each region.A last online vote produced four Regional Reader Favorites Frankie's Italian Cuisine of Westlake and North Olmsted; Antonio's of Parma, Farinacci and Pizza Roma.And now Angelo's is the last place standing.Judge Dan Malley said the task was formidable."All four pizza places offered unique styles and flavors of pizza. It was hard to pick one winner."Angelo's offered a plain cheese pizza, a Meat Lovers pizza and a Baked Potato pizza. Where Angelo's surpassed its competitors was in the general category of volume. Their pizza has a big, fluffy crust with an abundance of sauce, cheese and toppings. In a town where bang for the buck is king, Angelo's had a clear advantage."It reminded me of the quality homemade pizza I used have at a friend's house when I was in grade school," said Malley. "It had that kind of attention to ingredients."Said Russell, "Angelo's crust was the difference for me crispy, buttery and medium thickness, very tasty. All toppings come together well; one topping did not take away from the other topping, the balance of ingredients was solid."View full sizeTed CrowAngelo's founder Tom Kess opened his tiny takeout only pizza shop on Madison Avenue right behind Lakewood High School's football field back in 1981.Despite his diligence, the early years were tough. Kess often had financial woes."I was so poor one winter, my walk in cooler broke down, and I couldn't afford to get it fixed," said Kess on the phone from Florida."So I opened the windows at my office and used my office as the cooler. There was a time when I was seven months behind in rent, my lights and gas were turned off. Coca Cola cut me off because I couldn't pay my bill."Kess almost abandoned the pizza business altogether. But something told him to stick with it."I had been laid off from a construction job for a year. A year later I had spent $23,000 to start Angelo's. I was called back to work. I almost took my old job back. But I told myself no. Don't go back to that job you hate."Kess, then 22, decided to stick with his pizza place dream. But he didn't want to operate just any pizza joint. He decided he wanted the best. Toward that end, he enrolled in a two month program at the American Institute of Baking in Manhattan, Kan., that specialized in pizza crust. Once he got back to business, things started slowly turning around."We really did it one customer at a time," said Kess. "People began telling me how good my pizza was. That helped me build confidence in myself. In the beginning, the place made $800 a week. Now, our target goal is $90,000 a week. I work with my partner Lee Zannoni and my brother James."Zannoni, 40, came on board at Angelo's seven years ago. His father was in the food distribution business, and the pizza place on Madison has been a longtime customer. It's been a good fit."We make a Cleveland version of the Chicago deep dish pizza," said Zannoni, still there Sunday night long after the Browns Texans game."We have a light and flaky butter crust. We've really become famous for our specialty pizzas. The Baked Potato pizza is popular now. It's like a twice baked potato on a pizza. The Mac and Cheese pizza is big. So is the Chicken Club pizza. Three kinds of cheese, red onion, with bacon and lettuce and sour cream on the side."Like his partner, Kress, Zannoni regularly puts in 80 to 90 hours a week. The place is open seven days. Their slow day used to be Monday, until they made it Half Price Pizza Monday. Now Monday has a waiting line. Angelo's has become a civic institution in Lakewood.
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"They're pretty strict on what they allow and what they don't allow so I could see them really frowning on this," said Michael Womer, who used to work at Epcot.
"I don't think they'd let that play. No way," said Megan Evangelista, who is visiting Disney World with her sister, Amy.
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The film's director studied at Full Sail University in Winter Park and has told reporters that the film crew was able to remain hidden among Disney's huge unsuspecting crowds. Cameramen used small hand held cameras, while actors communicated and stored scripts on their iPhones.
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Secrets of the Maya Otherworld
On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chich Itz in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. vi! Lo vi! the shout proclaims. saw it, I saw it! es verdad! Yes, it true! over the mouth of the well, underwater archaeologist Guillermo de Anda needs to make sure that this is what he has been longing to hear for so many months. is true, Arturo? And his fellow archaeologist Arturo Montero, floating down at the bottom of the well, yells up again, zenith light! It really works! Get down here! Then he whoops ecstatically.
What de Anda has been waiting anxiously for his friend Montero to determine is whether the water at the bottom of this nondescript natural well, or cenote, had acted as a sacred sundial and timekeeper for the ancient Maya on the two days of the year, May 23 and July 19, when the sun reaches its zenith. At that moment it is vertically overhead, and no shadow is cast. The fact that the cenote is directly northwest of the main staircase of El Castillo, the famous central pyramid of Chich Itz and within that mysterious city urban limits, made de Anda question particularly intriguing.
Centuries earlier, had Maya priests waited in this very well to observe and correct their measurements of the sun angle when it reached the zenith, as it does only in the tropics? Did they come here during times of drought to deliver anxious offerings and at other times to give thanks for a plentiful harvest? Did they believe this was a place where the sun and the generous waters met and brought forth life? These and other questions involving the Maya people relation to their gods, their sacred city, and their extraordinarily accurate calendar were what the two archaeologists were investigating.
De Anda, renowned for his skills as an underwater archaeologist, had been able to work in the Holt cenote only occasionally and with minimal financing. Montero, from the University of Tepeyac, was at the well on his own money. He had been in the nearby city of M on May 23, leading an archaeoastronomy seminar at the University of Yucat where de Anda was teaching. This morning, the day after the zenith, they were at last heading for the Holt cenote. Their start had been disastrous flat tire, a shortage of gasoline, and sundry other hindrances had landed them at the well just as the sun was about to reach its near zenith position. With minutes to go, Montero and Dante Garc Sedano, an undergraduate student, had struggled into their diving suits, clipped themselves into harnesses, and been lowered into the well by a crew of local Maya farmers.
Now Montero was yelling and whooping, and the farmers were lowering first a rubber raft and then me into the well. De Anda, drenched in sweat in the grilling Yucat heat, was having a hard time with his rubbery suit. But finally he too was lowered 72 feet into the well, making the four of us in all likelihood the first persons in centuries to watch the path the sun god was tracing across these waters.
Beneath the narrow mouth of the cenote, the walls opened up to become a giant dome, cathedral like except for the roots of trees grasping through the rock for the water. Focused by the small opening into a rectangle likely to mirror the four cornered Maya cosmos shaft of sunlight danced like fire on the delicate frillery of surrounding stalactites. The edge of the water too seemed to ignite when it was hit by the light, and beneath the normally dark surface the waters turned a transparent turquoise blue. The sun rays came so close to vertical that Montero now knew that yesterday, at the zenith moment, a pillar of light would have plunged straight into the water. One didn have to be Maya to feel awe.
During the past couple of decades archaeologists have begun paying close attention to the role of caves, the zenith sun, and now de Anda in the beliefs and world vision of the ancient Maya of Yucat Archaeologists had known that the Maya regarded both caves and cenotes as mouths that opened into an otherworld inhabited by Chaak, the god of life giving rain, but the consequences of this fact for architecture and city planning have only recently started to become clear.
In 2010 de Anda, who by then had dived in scores of cenotes, began exploring Holt at the invitation of Rafael Cobos, a recognized archaeologist and project director who has been busy investigating and mapping the hundreds of ancient structures, promontories, and wells in the Chich Itz region. De Anda also had the cooperation of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. Examining the walls of the pool a few yards below the surface, he emerged from a small hollow and felt a protrusion above his head. He was astonished to find that this natural rock shelf held an offering of a human skull, pottery, the skull of a dog, deer bones, and a two edged knife probably used for sacrifices, all neatly placed there centuries earlier. His headlamp, pointed straight down at the cenote depths, revealed broken columns, a carved anthropomorphic jaguar, and a figure similar to one of the little stone men at Chich Itz Temple of the Warriors, sculpted to look as if they were holding up the sky. This well in the middle of a cornfield was clearly a sacred site.
Now, three years later, de Anda and Montero had discovered not only a connection between the zenith sun and Holt but apparently also the role of that sun and the cenote in the siting and orientation of Chich Itz El Castillo pyramid. It was already known that at the spring equinox a snake of sunlight slithers down one side of the pyramid central staircase sight witnessed every year by thousands of tourists. Some walk the short distance to the famous Sacred Cenote, which, over the centuries that Chich Itz was a great city state, received in its mouth any number of Devin Street Youth Jersey human beings and other precious offerings. Early on May 23, the zenith day, Montero had gone to the central pyramid and discovered that the sun, K Ajaw, rises in line with the pyramid northeast corner. It then sets in line with the pyramid western staircase and the nondescript Holt well.
The Maya, to calibrate their calendar, which is justly famous to this day, had to determine the days of the year when the sun shone exactly overhead, not one fraction of a degree lower or higher. Montero and de Anda speculated that Maya astronomers waited inside the Holt well for those two zenith moments in the year when a vertical pillar of sunlight pierces the water without reflecting onto the dome.
For the Maya, astronomy was a sacred activity, as were architecture and city planning. De Anda and Montero now think that not just Holt but other cenotes may have played an important role in determining where to site buildings. The Sacred Cenote lies north of El Castillo. Two other cenotes lie to its south and southeast. The Holt cenote, directly northwest of the pyramid, may have completed the diamond configuration that allowed the Itz people to determine where to build their sacred city and how to angle its main pyramid. If further studies corroborate all this, the most important coordinates of Chich Itz overarching design will snap into place.
Such at least is de Anda hope. But on this day he and Montero had already accomplished much. The sun drew up its spears of light and continued on its way across the face of the Earth, while in the renewed dark the two chattered excitedly about what they had seen and what it meant. abrazo, hermano! Montero exclaimed, and the two men surged toward each other in the water and flappingly embraced.
Aboveground the crew of Maya farmers, in shorts and flip flops, had to work hard to haul the explorers up again. Around us were rustling cornfields that had been waiting for the rain too long, but team master Luis Un Ken, a smiling man respected by everyone in his nearby village, is by nature an optimist. was a good rain the other day, he said, patting the sweat off his face. Chaak moved. men like Un Ken, the old gods are still very much alive, and Chaak, ruler of cenotes and caves, is among the most important gods of all. For the benefit of living things, he pours from the skies the water he keeps in earthenware jars in caves. Chaak is one and many: Each thunderclap is a separate Chaak in action, breaking a jar open and letting the rain fall. Each god inhabits a separate layer of reality, along with dozens of alternately complacent and ferocious gods that live in the 13 otherworlds above and the 9 otherworlds below. Together, they filled the Maya people lives with dreams, visions, and nightmares; a complicated calendar of agricultural times and fertility rituals; and a firm sense of the way things must be done. Chaak had moved, Un Ken said, and that meant the planting season would soon arrive.
Chaak absence can cause the Yucat Maya untold disasters, tragedies properly understood only when one is standing on the hard, lunar surface of their former empire, an endless shelf of karstic rock, or limestone. Rain seeps straight through the karst to groundwater levels, and as a result no river or brook runs through the land. (Cenotes are actually sinkholes that extend to the water table.) From the air one sees a green sea of dense jungle. At ground level the tropical forest is thin trees whose stubborn roots are adapted to the pockets of soil that dot the karst. Wherever the soil hollows are large enough, Maya will plant corn or a milpa, a wise combination of the corn, beans, and squash that constitute their basic source of protein. But corn is a hungry crop; it sucks lots of nutrients from the soil. For thousands of years milpa farmers have kept their small fields productive by burning a different patch of trees every year and planting in the corn friendly ashes. We call this deforestation, but to the Maya it means survival.
As for water for the fields well, that where Chaak comes in. Only seasonal rains can make the corn grow, and they must arrive in an excruciatingly accurate pattern: no rain in winter, so that the fields and forest will be dry enough to burn by March; some rain in early May to soften up the soil for planting; then very gentle rain to allow the planted seeds to sprout and the young corn god to make his appearance in the shape of a barely formed corn ear; finally plenty of rain to send the cornstalks shooting skyward and fatten the kernels on the mature corn. At any point in the yearly cycle irregular rains mean a smaller ration of food for a family.
The unsolved archaeological question is why the great Yucat Maya city states collapsed one after another. The miracle is that they survived at all, fed by corn grown in such a harsh environment.
Yet they did survive prospered too reaping a plentiful harvest and sometimes, as Guillermo de Anda believes happened at the Holt well, placing offerings inside a cenote during a prolonged drought, when the water table could sink by 20 feet. With a population estimated in the millions a thousand years ago, the northern Maya built so many cities the dry north, always next to a life giving cenote one starts to think the Yucat forest is an archaeologist do it yourself: Anyone can trip over an untouched ruin. In fact a couple of days after the Yucat zenith day, I was trudging down a path between milpas and forest a few miles from Chich Itz with archaeologist and cave explorer Donald Slater, when he nodded toward our right and said, it is. There what was? I looked around and saw cornfields to our left and forest to our right. Slater insisted. Just skinny trees, and behind those, more trees. Then what looked like a blurry thickening of the forest about 50 yards off the path turned out to be a steeply pitched hill. Of course there are no steep hills anywhere in the neighborhood. But there are pyramids. This was a particularly tall one, and directly facing its southwest corner was a very big cave.
To the Maya the cave would have been a mouth, the gaping jaws of a devouring Earth deity or one of the dwelling places of Chaak. Slater was hoping to document his claim that this cave was a sacred observation point from which to greet the arrival of the sun on its zenith day and that this pyramid has been known about but never fully explored built or at least oriented specifically in relation to the cave.
Before our visit Slater had asked a crew of Maya farmers to clear the jungle growth covering the structure western face so that the zenith sun track could be observed more clearly. At the cave lip Slater pointed out the remains of a set of stairs rough hewed centuries before, perhaps to give shamans access to this terrifying maw of the Earth. Slater speculates that the solar priests would have spent the night before the zenith sun fasting, dancing, and chanting to the sound of drums and double chambered clay flutes like those he found deep inside the cave, praising the sun god for bringing the zenith day around once more, and with it, the rains.
As we stood where the holy men once might have, the entire pyramid loomed before us. We waited. a fat, orange globe bobbled up behind the pyramid, appeared to pause for a second or two, and then displayed itself in blinding glory as it cleared the top, filling our cave with its fiery light. Centuries ago on the two zenith days, Slater explained, it would have performed its bobble dance on what are now the ruins of a platform on the top southwest corner of the structure.
To the sky gazing Maya, the pyramids in the Yucat others of which were aligned with the rising and setting suns of equinox and zenith days, would have seemed not landbound piles of stone but cosmic timekeepers structures in constant interaction with the heavens. And the interaction of K Ajaw, the sun, and the sacred waters of Chaak was the dance of life that made the cornfields possible.
I was on my own modest search for Chaak. Roaming the Yucat Peninsula, I was looking for rituals and beliefs held by modern Maya that might help me understand their link to their glorious ancestors. Most Maya today live in poor farming communities, and Chaak, who remains so important to them, is celebrated seasonally in an extended rain calling prayer known as a Cha Chaak.
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Cruzoob are basically the Maya who survived, Caamal said to me on a summer afternoon as we zipped down a Anthony Hitchens Youth Jersey flat highway in the Zona Maya toward his hometown. That was something of an exaggeration: The Caste War was a strictly local affair, and there are approximately five million Maya living in an area that encompasses the lower third of Mexico, as well as most of Belize and Guatemala, western Honduras, and western El Salvador. But it is true that in the Yucat the war touched nearly every village.
I asked Caamal how he bridged the difference between the old Maya gods and Jesus Christ, whom the Maya frequently invoke, sometimes calling him Our Lord Most Holy Cross Three Persons. are polytheists, Caamal answered. Strikingly, there is virtually no Catholic presence in the zona; instead there are hmem healers, and enchanters who usually discover their vocation in dreams, then mediate between the gods and their needy worshippers.
In answer to my increasingly desperate queries about where I might be able to witness a Cha Chaak www.cowboysnflofficialauthentic.com/authentic-anthony-hitchens-jersey.html rain ritual, Caamal said his own hmem might know of a Cha Chaak coming up somewhere, although it was late in the season.
In the bruising heat of midday we made a brief stop in Chunp at Caamal family compound. In the oval kitchen hut was strung a row of hammocks, each cradling a Caamal relative who lay chatting and rocking gently. It would have been cooler without the hearth large stones on the dirt floor with embers glowing beneath a large iron griddle the kitchen embers are always stoked. Caamal fierce, tiny mother glared at me, a or non Maya, visitor, but she made some tortillas, offering them with meat and chilies. Later she would pointedly ask her son when I was planning to get out of her hammock and leave, but the rules of hospitality, as set as the movement of the stars, dictated that food be offered.
Back on the road, we saw slender trees shooting up from the bone white, bone hard surface of the karst. We stopped at the village of Chun Yah, which, like many in the Zona Maya, has no land or cellular phone communication with the outside world and only rudimentary schools. In his own dusty compound of oval thatched roof huts, Caamal mentor and hmem, Mariano Pacheco Caamal, greeted me with a broad smile.
Don Mariano said he knew how to use 40 different kinds of plants to cure illnesses and heal fractures and snakebites. At a particularly fragile time for Pastor, Don Mariano had built a protective ring of invisible fire around his friend. In dreams he had learned what to ask each god and on which day of the week. He knew where to find the sacred caves.
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