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A new favorite. Im serious. This was GOOD! I have made it before with a chocolate frosting but this time for Purim, I made it with a basic creamy white frosting.

This cake has a delicious deep yellow cake flavor and yet is spongy too. What I LOVE about the quantity of the batter is that it makes three 9 round cakes! This means you can double the cakes for a nice height (and freeze the 3rd:) or triple them for an over the top height OR you can slice each cake in half and layer them into a 6 layer cake.the ultimate decadent cake experience!

(I have done this before for Succos and I must say, our guests were speechless as I cut slices of 6 layered cake filled with chocolate frosting. Definitely a sweet way to end the meal!)

The link to the original recipe is here so you can see which frosting they used and how it looks as a 6 layer cake)

Bon Appetite Original Recipe

Enjoy! I think this one will be a favorite in your home too!

Arrange racks in upper and lower thirds of oven; preheat to 350. Coat cake pans with nonstick spray. Line bottom of pans with parchment-paper rounds; coat paper. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl until no lumps remain. Combine buttermilk, oil, and vanilla in a medium bowl.

Combine sugar, butter, and brown sugar in another large bowl. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean. Using an electric mixer, beat butter mixture until light and fluffy, 34 minutes. Add yolks and eggs one at a time, beating to blend between additions and occasionally scraping down sides and bottom of bowl.

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A new bar at the Line hotel in Koreatown just opened and it fulfills our need for nostalgia and kitsch. Break Room 86 is a magical and straight-up cool bar where you enter through a retro vending machine and get transported to the '80s.

In the same vein as Good Times at Davey Wayne's and La Descarga, Houston Hospitality has done it again: created an immersive bar experience where you feel like you're in another country or decade. Break Room 86 is the newest addition to The Line hotel's growing hip bar and food scene, and it's all about the impeccable '80s touches that make us feel giddy in this space.

LAist visited Break Room 86 on opening night on Tuesday. To get into the bar, you walk a long way through a loading dock off Ardmore Ave. and Wilshire Blvd. and end up at a snack machine that also just so happens to double as a door to Break Room 86. Suddenly, you're in a reddish and dimly-lit bar with leather booths, gig equipment boxes as coffee tables, and tiled walls and ceiling as if you're in a New York subway station. Music from the likes of Prince, Tears for Fears and Simple Minds is blasting while folks dance in front of stacked vintage TVs showing retro '80s videos. The walls are covered with cassette tapes, old stereos, speakers and band posters. You can toss some quarters into the vintage arcade games like Pac-Man and Galaga that sit in a corner of the room. And there's even a wall lined with red lockers to make you feel like you might be in a scene from The Breakfast Club in real life.

Fitting in with Koreatown culture, Break Room 86 also has four karaoke rooms for groups of 10 to 20 people that guests can rent out. Even getting into those rooms is like a trip through Narnia. One of the entrances is through the wall of an old telephone booth. We'll leave it to you to find the other ones. Once inside, you'll find a cozy room that feels like somebody's den in the Midwest, with vintage album covers lining the walls and neon signs featuring things like the Ghostbusters logo. Apparently, you can also play games from the Atari console in there. As expected though, these karaoke rooms don't come cheap and can go from $150 per hour to $1,500 all night depending on how many people you bring along with you.

As for their craft cocktailsa menu helmed by Houston Hospitality beverage director Joe Swifkathey are new spins on colorful and sugary sweet and fruity drinks popular in the '80s. Their Rock-It Pop drink (one of our favorites) is a throwback to the red-white-and-blue rocket popsicles. They also have drinks with names like Cherry Chapstickcherry-infused Encanto piscoand Purple Rain, made with Pernod absinthe. True to '80s fashion (a la 1988 Tom Cruise flick Cocktail), they even have a bartender there doing some impressive flair cocktail tricks, like flipping bottles around in the air and balancing glassware.

Break Room 86 also has flavored wine coolers to bring you back to your Boone's Farm days that arrive in glass flasks. The best part is that you can also get alcoholic Push-Up Pops at the bar as well. Fair warning, after enough sugary drinks, you might find yourself with a heinous hangover. However, you can wash that all down with some childhood snacks like Pop Tarts, Cup O'Noodles and Cheez Balls that you can get at the bar. And since it's all about the details with twin brothers Mark and Johnnie Houston, who are the masterminds behind the bar, even the cocktail menus are inside of old VHS boxes with films like The Lost Boys or Ferris Bueller's Day Off on the covers.

One of the things I was most amused by were the live performances that guests can expect on some busy nights. Behind the bar is a stage on hydraulics that seems to appear out of thin air. A breakdancing crew came out and helicoptered to When In Rome's "The Promise":

And then a Michael Jackson impersonator came out moonwalking:

When I turned around for a split second after the performance, the stage seemed like it disappeared. Another mysterious and otherworldly feel to Break Room 86.

Break Room 86 is located at 630 S. Ardmore Ave., Koreatown, (213) 368-3056. It's open Tuesday through Saturdays from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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If Community had a motto itd probably be something like More with less. That is, if it isnt Six seasons and a movie or a quote from Bloodsport or Weird, Passionate, and Gross translated into Latin. Actually, there are probably about as many possible mantras for the show as there are classes in Ruffles the Dogs course loadincluding Greendales own Youve already been acceptedbut suffice it to say a certain narrative thriftiness has always been one of the big guns in Harmon & Co.s arsenal.

The show makes varied use of its spaces, finding all the nooks and crannies of storytelling they can in Greendales impossible geography. The college is like a TARDIS, or whatever off-brand police box used by Inspector Spacetimeits a lot bigger on the inside. Similarly, the show can stuff a lot of story into a space as small as the meeting room. Two of the series best episodes are bottle episodesthe paired bookends Cooperative Calligraphy and CooperativePolygraphyrelying on bedrock of the shows solid character interactions over any conceptual or meta razzle-dazzle. So when the third episode of the sixth season turns out to be a near-bottle episoderallying the troops in the library as an emergency response team for an attack ad put on the air by those snobby neer-do-wells over at City Collegeit also serves as a good point to assess the structural integrity of the cast now that a few load-bearing characters have been switched out for newer, less stress-tested replacements.

It turns out the center can hold. I thought the episode was the quickest, strongest, and funniest half-hour of the three so-far aired from Yahoos new season. Tasked with combating the image that Greendale is the kind of incompetent, anarchic place that would give a dog a degree, the group runs into trouble with the fact that Greendale is exactly the kind of incompetent, anarchic place that would give a dog a degree. The meeting room is given yet another makeoverthis time a central nervous system of operations for political strategizing straight out of The War Roomand the group splits off into more manageable groups. Some are united by flimsier bonds than others: Elroy shrugs Shes wearing my pants! when he runs off with a sloppy drunk Britta, but Annie and Frankie self-separate to compare and contrast their twin Type-A personalities.

Paget Brewster is turning out to be an interesting addition to the stew. Shes still partly the outsider commenting on the show after five seasons of Flanderization (her line Did we give a degree to a dog? is perfectly deadpan), but shes also revealing individual specificities. While shes as fastidious and checklist-oriented as Annie, shes also a hard-nosed pragmatist who doesnt have time for Annies rose-tinted optimism. Hope is pouting in advance, she says, dousing the fire in Annies heart with a bucket of cold, wet truth. Hope is faiths richer bitchier sister. Hope is the deformed attic-bound incest monster offspring of entitlement and fear.

They eventually find a way to get the ad pulled on a technicality. Ruffles overdue fees at the library (mostly Jack London books and the occasional shameful Cat Fancy) prevented him from actually receiving a degree, despite being enrolled in dozens of classes. But while this counts as a win (as Frankie puts it, Victory, you know within the context of Greendale), Annie sees it as an opportunity to take a cold hard look at themselves and decide whether they really should be so proud about being at a school where a dog only almost graduated with a 28-dog-year degree. Its hard not to read self-commentary into pretty much every second of Community, and here Annies words almost seem to serve as a reminder to the shows creators that silliness will only get you so far, a preemptive (even anxious) course-correction and reminder that there should always be a there there.

Add into all this the Deans text correspondence with a Tokyo schoolboy pretending to be Jeff, Brittas 90s-style music video drunken hallucination, and Keith Davids look of unfiltered disgust when Frankie says she doesnt own a TV, and youve got a a solid bottle-and-a-half episode of Community worth its weight in canned olives.

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MANCHESTER Manchester VA Medical Center recently celebrated the opening of a veterans Integrated Health Care addition with a ribbon-cutting.

The new addition offers space to support delivery of integrated health care services to veterans.

It is our mission to honor Americas veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being, said Medical Center Director Tammy Krueger. Manchester VAMC is strengthening its foundation, and adding key building blocks that will continue to enhance veterans experiences at the medical center.

Gov. Maggie Hassan and U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta, R-N.H., attended and shared remarks. The program was opened by Jorg Dreusicke, veteran and 6th District commander, Department of New Hampshire VFW, who led the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The new addition is home to Nurse First (expedited care provided by a registered nurse to resolve minor health concerns), Primary Care and Mental Health.

It offers state-of-the-art technology with a group treatment conference room including secure telehealth video capability allowing veterans to receive care remotely.

The medical center also announced its involvement as a pilot site for a new model of care for veterans that are chronically homeless. Called Homeless Primary Aligned Care, it is staffed by a primary care provider, a registered nurse, a social worker, and a peer support specialist.

The team will case manage veterans from homelessness to when they obtain permanent housing. The model of care is meant to be a bridge or transition team to assist until the veteran obtains stability, which is defined as permanent housing.

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The pursuit of Hector Olivera was already surrounded by mystery, but now the plot has thickened. The soon-to-be30-year-old Cuban infielder has agreed to a six-year, $62.5 million deal with the Dodgers, perhaps the team best positioned to absorb the risks he presents. Los Angeles is already poised to set a major league record with a $268 million payroll, albeit one that lacks an immediate opening for Olivera, a pricey player whose health and representation issues scared away potential suitors.

That figure will increase in 2015, as will the teams marginal tax rate, to 40%. The current $268.3 million figure, which comes via Cots Contracts, includes actual '15 salaries, but not that of Olivera, since its unofficial and its structure is yet unknown; based on its AAV, the Associated Press estimated that it would add $4.17 million to the teams tax bill.

In terms of overall size, Olivera's deal ranks behind those of recent Cuban defectors Rusney Castillo (seven years, $72.5 million from the Red Sox), Yasmany Tomas (six years, $68.5 million from the Diamondbacks) and Jose Abreu (six years and $68 million from the White Sox). Its the Dodgers largest to a Cuban defector, eclipsing the seven-year, $42 million to which the team signed the much younger Yasiel Puig in 2012.

As if that weren't enough, Olivera changed representation shortly after being declared a free agent, but Rudy& Santin, his original trainer/negotiation representative (who is not certified by the MLB Players Association), and new agent Greg Genske both continued to field offers from teams. Santin was said to be expecting a deal in excess of $70 million, but reports from several anonymous executives suggested his deal would wind up in the $4550 million range. When I checked in on March 10, the Braves, Padres and Dodgers were the teams most heavily linked to Olivera, with the Athletics, Giants and Marlins having fallen out of the running.

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In the abstract, it's no surprise that the Dodgers won out for Olivera's services given their seemingly bottomless reserve of resources, but with Howie Kendrick and Juan Uribe set to open as their starting second and third baseman, respectively, it's not clear where Olivera will play. Via FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal, the Dodgers themselves haven't decided:

The 31-year-old Kendrick, who was acquired from the Angels in December to replace the traded Dee Gordon, and the 36-year-old Uribe, who is heading into his fifth season with the Dodgers, are both pending free agents, and relatively affordable ones at that, making $9.5 million and $6.5 million this year, respectively. Both are coming off productive seasons and offer strong defense to go with above-average offense: Kendrick hit .293/.347/.397 for a 115 OPS+ and seven Defensive Runs Saved en route to 5.4 WAR last year, and Uribe hit .311/.337/.440 with an NL-high 17 DRS en route to 4.0 WAR.

Kendrick will almost certainly generate a compensatory draft pick via a qualifying offer next winter. The same probably can't be said for Uribea Ned Colletti signing who has put up two strong seasons in a row after two sub-replacement level onesgiven his age, but he has emerged as a particularly important clubhouse presence, as well as a mentor to players as disparate as Puig and Hyun-Jin Ryu. Reigning NL MVP and Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw thanked Uribe in his acceptance speech for the latter award: "Thank you for making me laugh. You are one of the most important people in our clubhouse."

Guerrero missed seven weeks last year after Albuquerque teammate Miguel Olivo big off part of his left ear in a dugout skirmish, a shocking and untimely blow that came just as Uribe hit the disabled list with a hamstring injury. Now 28 years old, Guerrerowho hit .333/.373/.621 in 308 minor league PA last year, his first statesideis making a strong bid to stick by playing shortstop, his regular position during his seven seasons in Serie Nacional but one that he played in just seven minor league games last year.

Guerreros four-year, $28 million deal includes a provision allowing him to become a free agent at season's end if he's traded, though he could play his way into the teams plans as Kendricks successor. Olivera would then shift to third, with prospect Corey Seager, whos starting his age-21 season at Double A, taking over shortstop from Jimmy Rollins, a December acquisition who will be a free agent after the season. The 25-year-old Arruebarrena, meanwhile, hit a combined .259/.304/.417 in 272 minor league PA and was outrighted off the Dodgers' 40-man roster in January after clearing waivers, meaning that there were no takers for the remainder of his five-year, $25 million deal.

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"You learn from the mistakes, you learn from the past, and for me it's been a learning process," he said Monday. "Every year you learn something new.

"I believe that I'm getting to a point," he added with a smile, "where it's time to do it instead of just learning about it."

When asked where he can improve, Andrus responded: "Everywhere. I know that so far in my career I haven't had a career year yet. That's why I want to work harder and get after it, and that way I can maximize my qualities and my tools. So far this year, I'm in great shape and I'm feeling really well on the field, physically and mentally."

The rest of the Rangers organization carries legitimate hopes for a better Elvis Andrus. When general manager Jon Daniels is asked whether Andrus' improvements can be defensive or offensive, he replies.

"All of the above."

"We invested in him because we thought he was arrow-up. We've been encouraged this winter and this spring by the feeling that he's kind of recommitted, after last year being below his standards.

"We don't see why he can't be one of the best defensive players and baserunners in the game. He controls the bat, he can get on base, do some different things. I don't expect him to hit for power, but I think he can be an impactful player. He's a winning player."

The Rangers' $120 million investment in Andrus extends through 2022, and illustrates a firm belief in his abilities. This isn't all projection. Andrus has twice been an All-Star and in two seasons has been the shortstop for a pennant-winning team. Over the last six seasons, he is fourth in the Majors in stolen bases. He is an established Major Leaguer, but a higher level beckons.

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Up on the seventh floor of Pfizers cold, black-and-gray exteriored world headquarters in New York is a weird little room with a quirky little poster that will be used (and copied) more and more if Pfizer does things right.

Its the Innovation Room for Pfizers innovation team, which occupies the seventh floor in New York. The space has germinated many of Pfizers Dare To Try initiatives the project Pfizers used to try and encourage innovation within the company.

It seemed out of place a room more likely to be a found in a bootstrapping accelerator than a Big Pharma company. A poster on the door to the room has caricatures of Pfizer team members who offer practical (put the furniture back where you found it) to inspirational (bring freshness) advice. Exercise balls blend with post-it notes about policy and vision.

Creating a more innovative mindset is an ongoing obsession with large healthcare companies. Pfizers no exception. They host worldwide internal conferences on the topic, push projects such as Dare to Try and keep tinkering with ways to bring startups into Pfizer. So its interesting to see where some of this thinking is hatched.

I took some photos earlier this year and Wendy Mayer, Pfizers vice president for worldwide innovation, answered some questions about the space and where Pfizers heading with innovation. She even shared a little Pfizer innovation slang. Below are some excerpts from that interview.

Q. How long had the Innovation Room been around and what is the goal?

A. We introduced the innovation room last year because most of our space in the New York headquarters is currently configured as private or semi-private offices and traditional conference rooms. Our direct team needed this space because so much of what we do requires collaboration and team brainstorming. We needed a space that would allow the team to work together in an environment that was more conducive to creative development.

We also need to set an example and create a space as a demonstration for what an innovation space should look like and give them the availability of the space for their own innovation/creative discussions.

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