INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Pour the oil into a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan or deep fryer. Bring it to a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius). Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit (90 degrees Celsius). Line a baking sheet with nonstick aluminum foil or parchment paper, and line a large plate with clean paper towels. Place two or three shaped sopes in the hot oil. Fry them for 1 or 2 minutes, or until they turn golden brown on both sides and are fully cooked through. Use tongs to carefully turn the sopes halfway through the cooking time, ensuring that both sides brown evenly. Only work with a few sopes at a time. If you try to fry too many, the temperature of the oil may drop, forcing the sopes to cook longer and become soggy. Remove the hot sopes from the oil using tongs. Place them on the paper towel lined plate. Arrange the sopes with the indentation facing down so that the oil does not gather inside the shell. Wait a minute or so, giving the sopes adequate time to drain, before moving onto the next step. Place the sopes on the lined baking sheet and place the baking sheet in the oven. Keep the sopes in the oven while you work on the remaining batches. Storing the finished sopes in the oven should keep them warm while you finish cooking the rest. After you've finished cooking the remaining sopes, you can remove the entire batch from the oven. Cover the sopes with a clean, dry towel to keep them warm as you prepare the filling.

SUMMARY: Heat the oil. Fry the sopes. Drain the excess oil. Keep the sopes warm.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: There are many misconceptions that beginners have about weight training. Here are some clarifications to keep your expectations realistic. Training a certain area of your body will not reduce fat in that area. Fat reduction happens when you burn more calories than you consume, and it happens in a pattern largely controlled by genetics. For example, doing ab exercises will not reduce fat in your stomach area. It will help the ab muscles get bigger, which, if you're not pairing your weight training with healthy eating, might push out the existing fat and make you feel bigger. Weight training does not make women "bulky". As a woman, the muscle gain you will experience is a part of the "toned look" that many women are after. For toning, you need to build muscle and reduce fat. To reduce fat, you'll need to consume fewer calories than you burn. Progress is the result of having a game plan and sticking to it. For a beginner, it's advised to choose a full body routine that you do three times a week with a full day of rest in between. The amount of sets and reps that you do in your routine effects the end result to your body. To build super dense muscle and strength, do reps in the 1-5 range. To build equal amounts of muscular endurance and muscular strength, do reps in the 8-12 range. To build tone and endurance, do 12 reps and above. Most strength programs that strive to do this have you doing 5 sets of 5 reps. To get stronger and put on muscle, do workout routines that have a traditional strength style workout. Traditional strength style workouts mean you complete one set of an exercise, rest, and then another set of the exercise, and then rest. For example, 3 sets of 10 squats would be: 10 squats, rest, 10 squats, rest, 10 squats, rest. How you eat is 80-90% of your success in weight training. If you're trying to burn fat at the same time, you'll want to be careful to consume just enough calories to give you energy to make progress weight training. This can take some trial and error. Don't be scared to eat more if you feel fatigued or are not making progress. Focus on eating protein and vegetables as the bulk of your diet.

SUMMARY: Set your realistic goals. Choose a routine. Optimize your progress as a beginner in weight training. Eat a quality diet with plenty of water.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Silver makes a really lovely bell-like ringing sound when it is tapped on, particularly when it is tapped on with another form of metal. If you want to try this out before tapping on your questionable silver, find a United States quarter made before 1965. These were made of 90% silver while US quarters made later than 1964 are made of a copper-nickel alloy. The older quarter will give a high-pitched, clear ringing tone, while the newer quarters will give a dull thump of a sound. If it makes a sound like a bell ringing, you have a real silver coin in your hand. If it's dull, the silver is, most likely, mixed with other metals.

SUMMARY: Try the ring test with any coin. Drop your own coin on a flat surface from about six inches above it.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Jimi used studio tools to great effect. He was constantly innovating because, as he put it, the "sounds in his head" could not be reproduced until he or his friends came up with a new technique. Many now standard electric guitar effects can be traced back to Jimi: e.g. wah-wah (foot pedal allowing rapid extreme alterations in tone). The famous slide guitar with heavy echo/reverb solo from 'All Along the Watchtower' was created by Jimi using a Zippo cigarette lighter on its side. He also experimented and tried new techniques with different models of guitars as well. Firstly, he was left-handed but he took a right-handed guitar and turned it upside down after re-stringing the guitar from the low to high E-string. Right-handed guitarist can do this by getting a voodoo Stratocaster or re-stringing like Hendrix. Also, play around with the setting on your amp. Look around for other effects he used on his guitar. Finally, Hendrix usually thumbs his bass note whilst using his other fingers for the rhythm, slides his thumb along the string and heavily uses his whammy bar. He started out learning his licks from the players that he admired, then strived to reach into his soul and apply these lessons to create a sound that was Jimi. Jimi Hendrix never used to play that cleanly, he would just kinda "Get it done" quite a lazy, but very very talented and unique player. Also, he used a lot of finger picking/ physical picking combination. As in he would pick some strings with his pick, while fingerpicking some other strings to get more noise at once that he liked. Technically: To learn his licks, there are a number of playback devices available that allow you to slow down any particular musical passage, making it easier to find the individual notes that were played. Please note that Hendrix oftentimes would "slurry" a number of notes together, making it difficult to identify individual notes, but not impossible. Aesthetically: Once you've found the notes and chords, play along with some of his tunes, to get the feel of them.....then play the tunes on your own. In my opinion, if you can play a smooth, soulful rendition of "Little Wing", you are well on your way. Who knows you might learn to play the exact songs as Hendrix with the same notes but in a different technique that better suits your individual circumstances. Aerosmith and Van Halen tune their guitars down 1/2 step. This makes the strings looser and changes the sound. Also, a capo bar changes the tuning by raising all the strings the same step but doesn't make the strings tighter. Mark Knopfler (formerly of Dire Straits) likes to cap up on the 2nd fret, it raises the bass line and changes the vocals. Dolly Parton has massive fingernails but still plays guitar -- her guitar is tuned to a G chord so all she has to do is play bar-chords up and down the neck to make a song.

SUMMARY:
Innovate. Hendrix was a "stylist" in every sense of the word. Examine how other artist like Jimi Hendrix use innovation to overcome obstacles.