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This week in new hires, Robert Herz was elected to the board of directors at Morgan Stanley and Dune Thorne joined Brown Advisory as a partner. Also, Ken Joseph was appointed as head of the investment advisor/investment company examination program at the SEC's New York regional office.
FASB's Robert Herz Elected to Morgan Stanley Board of Directors
Morgan Stanley announced June 28 that Robert Herz has been elected to its board of directors; the appointment was effective July 2 and brings the board of directors to 14 members. He will serve on the board's audit committee.
Currently president of Robert H. Herz LLC, he has been a director of Fannie Mae since June 2011; he also serves on the Accounting Standards Oversight Council of Canada, and as a member of the standing advisory group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Herz served as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from July 2002 to September 2010 and was previously a member of the International Accounting Standards Board.
Dune Thorne Joins Brown Advisory as Partner
Brown Advisory announced June 28 the appointment of Dune Thorne as partner in the firm's Boston office. She will serve as a senior investment and strategic advisor to families, family offices and foundations.
Thorne joins Brown Advisory from Silver Bridge Advisors, where she was a managing director and principal; she served on the management committee and as dean of faculty of the Silver Bridge Institute, which provides educational programs to enable individuals and families to become more engaged in their financial lives. Prior to Silver Bridge, Thorne was the director of investments for Circle Financial Group. In 2011, AdvisorOne recognized Thorne as one of the Top 50 Women in Wealth.
SEC Appoints Joseph at SEC NY Regional Office
The SEC announced Tuesday the appointment of Ken Joseph as head of the investment advisor/investment company examination program at the agency's New York regional office. In his new role, he will manage approximately 100 accountants, examiners, attorneys, and support staff involved in the examination of investment companies and investment advisers in New York and New Jersey.
Joseph has worked for the past 16 years as a staff attorney, branch chief, and assistant director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C., and New York. Most recently, he was an assistant director in the Enforcement Division's asset management unit.
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QUANTIFYING ASPECTS OF DNA DAMAGE by Christi A. Schroeder A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CHEMISTRY) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Christi A. Schroeder
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Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 3(1). 2020.
Identifying the Greatest Earthquakes of the Past 2000 Years at the Nehalem River Estuary, Northern Oregon Coast, USA. Open Quaternary. 6(1):2.. 2020.
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Another day, another lawsuit against Microsoft. This time, a company known as Office Live, LLC has filed a trademark infringement suit against the Redmond giant claiming the obvious: Microsoft stole their name for its own Office Live service.
Office Live, LLC offers professional advice to a variety of professionals. The company is responsible for web sites such as lawofficelive.com, autoofficelive.com, realtorsofficelive.com, doctorsofficelive.com, and my personal favorite, psychologistsofficelive.com. Its mission statement is worded in such a way that it's quite possible for consumers to confuse Office Live, LLC with Microsoft's Office Live product.
Office Live® will jumpstart your marketing and advertising while web-enabling your professional office for document sharing, real-time meeting technology, web publishing, online marketing services, online collaboration and online web office applications.
While Office Live, LLC claims to "web-enable your office," Microsoft's Office Live provides small businesses with services such as a domain name, web site, traffic reports, and e-mail. Collaboration and management software also ships with certain packages. The services were released for U.S. customers last November.
Office Live, LLC's CEO Larry Targon released a statement this week where he accused Microsoft of ignoring his company's trademark which was registered in December of 2002.
"It is shocking that Microsoft would have so little regard for another company's intellectual property rights that it would select a name belonging to another company. Online software may be the next big thing, but Microsoft has no right to use our trademark without permission."
Although the lawsuit was filed on December 29, 2006, Office Live, LLC decided to put the case on hiatus while it tried to negotiate a settlement with Microsoft. When the two parties could not reach an agreement, Office Live, LLC served Microsoft with the lawsuit earlier this month. Predictably, a Microsoft representative was confident that his company will come out on top. "Now that the complaint has been served, we will vigorously defend our legal position. We also will seek to invalidate Office Live LLC's claim to trademark the phrase 'Office Live' in its common connotation."


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Postcard collectors gather in Oneida
ONEIDA >> Hundreds of thousands of collectible post cards told the history of America in the 1900s at the spring show of the Central new York Postcard Club.
The show, held at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, is the club's 29th annual show and sale.
People toted their collections from near and far, such as Collector Robert Bogdan of Orwell, Vt., who brought his collection of photograph postcards from 1905 to 1930, which he called "the best documentation of American life."
He explains that a person studying the cards can see progress, history and achievements on diverse area, such as aviation and railroads.
Pieces special to him include those by photographer Henry Beach, who once lived in Lowville and Remsen during the early 1900s. Beach photographed much of northern New York for postcards.
Bogdan is happy to be able to attend shows such as the Saturday event for the networking opportunities alone. Postcard collectors are getting harder and harder to find, he said.
Scoping for pieces to add to his collection was Syracuse resident Mark Grasmeyer, who grew up in Chittenango.
He began his collection with postcards of Chittenango Falls, but over the years branched out to include other antique postcards with local or regional imagery on them, especially other waterfalls and the Adirondack Park.
"It's an addiction," said Grasmeyer.
In September, there will be a fall show in Clinton noted, Canastota resident Sandra Drake, the president of the club.
Many of the cards are blank; however, if there is a message written on the reverse that has something to do with the image, that can make it more valuable. Many times though the message and or postal marks mar the card, which makes it worth less.
Most antique postcards that are at show are from the early 1900s or later. It's harder to find cards older than that because it was around that time the United State Postal regulation had changed which allowed for that size to be mailed.
Drake has been a collector for over 40 years and said it was an interest she shared with her mother.
She collects postcards depicting Canastota, but said that, "everybody collects something different."
Some people collect cards with specific historical significance. Some collect cards featuring Santa Claus. There are millions of different postcard themes and everyone picks a theme that has significance to them.
What Drake loves most about the postcards she collects is the history that they depict.
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Opera is quite pleased with the state of the European browser market, now that the EU has ordered Microsoft to give users a fair choice on Windows. But it still bemoans Internet Explorer's ongoing stranglehold in other parts of the world, most notably Korea.
According to Opera chief technology officer Håkon Wium Lie, the company regularly hears from netizens outside the EU calling for Windows browser ballot screens in their parts of the world, and he says that an EU-like antitrust ruling is most needed in Korea. "That's where Microsoft's grip in the strongest," he said today during a press event in Oslo. "It's almost a government requirement to use Internet Explorer."
Famously, Korea has one of the highest broadband penetration rates in the world, and it's a hotbed for computer technology and consumer electronics. But when it comes to the browser, it's rather behind. As Opera co-founder Jon von Tetzchner pointed out to The Reg, Korea spent years designing websites solely for IE and ActiveX.
Microsoft's EU ballot screen - originally pushed out to existing users via Windows Update in March - gives EU citizens a choice of 12 browsers, including IE and Opera. It can be traced to a complaint Opera made to the European Commission in December 2007, claiming that IE was unfairly tied to Windows, and it was Håkon Wium Lie who spearheaded Opera's efforts to provide fair browser distribution in Europe.
Though some internet statistics show Microsoft's influence declining in Korea, Wium Lie said this doesn't reflect the use of IE within corporate intranets.
"Inside the firewalls of companies, there are no measurements taking place," he said. "A lot of people are still using IE in those places. They need our help. The browser ballot screen is not going to help everyone. It is not a silver bullet for everyone, everywhere, all the time. But we think it is a good idea. It has worked in Europe. And it could work somewhere else."
Opera has not formally complained in Korea, and it has no concrete plans to do so. "We had our hands full in Europe. That's a lot of work," Wium Lie said. "Working in Korea would involve a lot of responses as well. We prefer to develop our product. We hope that there are watchdogs out there that can take up the cause without us having to push it actively."
But according to chief exec Lars Boilsen, the company could potentially make complaints in countries outside the EU. "We have no plans make a formal complaint in Korea," he said.
"We think what has happened in Europe is a really good thing. If there's an opportunity to do things outside of Europe where it would not impact our focus on making the best software, we would certainly consider that, but we have no plans as of today."
The Norwegians saw a marked rise in downloads of its Opera desktop browser following the role-out of Microsoft browser screen. In the two weeks following the roll-out of the ballot, Opera saw downloads more than double.
"We actually got [Opera] out to a lot of new users," Boilesen said. "The beauty of the internet is that if you make really good products, you can get distribution – even if your starting point is pretty hopeless. This is kind of the history of Opera. Now, with the Microsoft ballot, we are getting fair distribution." ®


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OROVILLE — On Tuesday, Butte County supervisors will be asked to revise a fee schedule that in some cases will save citizens money.
They will make provisions for a growth industry, and praise a man who for 35 years worked to save some of society's most at-risk children in the county.
Two weeks ago the supervisors approved the county's zoning ordinance, the last chunk of the General Plan 2030. As part of the new ordinance the Department of Development Services has rewritten its entire fee schedule covering such things as use permits, lot-line adjustments and other items.
Most of the costs for various planning department services will be based on a "retainer fee" and then an additional per-hour fee.
In a letter to the board, Tim Snellings, director of development services, said that a combination of greater efficiencies and a more streamlined process should result in lower fees to the public.
In another issue, Cathi Grams, director of the county Department of Employment and Social Services, is asking the supervisors to approve $2.66 million to deal with the growing demand for public assistance, including Medi-Cal, CalWORKs and CalFresh.
Demand has "increased substantially in the past several years due to the recession and are expected to increase" with the full implementation of the federal health care program.
With that in mind, Grams wants to institute a "one-and-done" service center, where applicants for aid can call in and be helped in a single call.
The goal would be to funnel all 12,000 of the department's monthly calls into the service center. The project would require some physical modifications to currently leased DESS facilities.
Grams' letter said the $2.66 million price tag would be spread over the 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal years.
The money will come from a $2 million realignment fund from the state for the current fiscal year, and another $767,000 for the next fiscal year.
The supervisors will also take time to honor Brian Anderson, retiring superintendent of the Butte County Juvenile Hall.
Anderson, who is universally known as "BA," is retiring Wednesday after 35 years working in juvenile probation for the county.
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Cancer Risk of Insulin Key Focus at ADA
Meeting hopes to look into possible link between diabetes and cancer.
PHILADELPHIA — THURSDAY, June 7, 2012 (MedPage Today) — Clinicians are hoping to get some answers about whether insulin analogs raise the risk of cancer from analyses of two large U.S. and northern European registries that will be presented at this year's American Diabetes Association meeting.
Both groups are comparing patients on insulin glargine (Lantus) with those on NPH, or "human," insulin to assess potential differences in incident cancer rates.
"This is an attempt to look at a large database and to get some sort of answer in terms of whether there's any increased risk of cancer," Sue Kirkman, MD, senior vice president for medical affairs and community information at the American Diabetes Association, told MedPage Today.
Concerns arose a few years ago when some studies published in Diabetalogia suggested an increased risk, particularly for breast cancer.
Researchers have since been trying to figure out whether that signal was real or not, Kirkman said. On one hand, insulin is a growth factor, which may increase cancer risk, but type 2 diabetes is in itself a risk factor for cancer.
"There's a lot of confounding including obesity, physical inactivity, and age, so it's hard to completely separate out the risk," she said.
In the case of insulin glargine in particular, it's a longer acting insulin and some studies have shown that it may react more strongly with the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) receptor than human insulins such as NPH, she said.
Subanalyses of the ORIGIN (Outcome Reduction with Initial Glargine Intervention) trial may also offer answers to the insulin-cancer connection, Kirkman said: "The trial didn't set out to look at cancer, but certainly with more recent interest in the topic of cancer and insulin, that's one of the safety issues they'll be looking at."
ORIGIN's main focus, however, is on preventing disease progression. Researchers will offer insights into whether treating prediabetes or early type 2 disease with insulin glargine has any impact on cardiovascular events or mortality, based on nearly eight years' worth of data from about 12,500 patients.
The trial also assessed whether giving omega-3 fatty acids early offers any benefits in this population, Kirkman said.
Treating Diabetes with Aspirin
Some work has suggested that inflammatory pathways are involved in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, so researchers are investigating whether giving the NSAID salsalate (Amigesic), which is closely related to aspirin, has any effect on improving blood sugar control.
Patients in the TINSAL-T2D (Targeting Inflammation using Salsalate for Type 2 Diabetes) study were randomized to salsalate or placebo and followed for a year to assess changes in HbA1c.
"It's interesting to see those results because the mechanism is quite different" from other diabetes drugs, Kirkman said. "I would doubt that it has such a huge effect that you could use it in people late instead of insulin, but I think it might be interesting as an early-on treatment" depending on the results of the trial.
Is Type 2 Diabetes Different in Kids?
Last month, results of the TODAY study dismayed clinicians when it found that large proportions of children with type 2 diabetes eventually stopped responding to their various therapies.
Just over half of kids on metformin (52 percent), 39 percent of those on metformin plus rosiglitazone (Avandia), and 47 percent of those on metformin plus lifestyle intervention eventually failed treatment during a 4-year period.
"It's a bit depressing in a way," Kirkman said. "It speaks to the need to be concerned about type 2 diabetes in adolescents. We should do what we can to prevent it instead."
Additional analyses of data from the TODAY study will be presented at a special session and may provide further clues to better management of the condition in this population.
Start Aggressive Management Early?
During a late-breaking session, researchers will provide additional analyses from the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), looking at the continued effects of early aggressive management.
Previous analyses have suggested that patients who had aggressive management early on in their disease had reduced rates of microvascular complications and cardiovascular disease and death. Further analyses will reveal whether that effect continues, Kirkman said.
"The theories are that perhaps ACCORD, ADVANCE, and VADT didn't show a major effect on complications because intensive glycemic control was started relatively late in the disease," she said. "It seems to matter when you start it."


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2) (Circle Area) Write an application that prompts the user for the radius of a circle and uses a method called circleArea to calculate the area of the circle.
3) (Hypotenuse Calculations) Define a method hypotenuse that calculates the hypotenuse of
a right triangle when the lengths of the other two sides are given. The method should take two arguments of type double and return the hypotenuse as a double. Incorporate this method into an application that reads values for side1 and side2 and performs the calculation with the hypotenuse method. Use Math methods pow and sqrt to determine the length of the hypotenuse for each of the
triangles in Fig. 6.15. [Note: Class Math also provides method hypot to perform this calculation.]
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Interesting facts about Frankfurt
Frankfurt may be best known as Germany's financial hub, but it's also a popular cultural destination. Running along the vast Main River, the city offers some of the most impressive events, museums, and sites in Germany. Book your flights to Frankfurt with Cathay Pacific and enjoy an impeccable travel experience, complete with comfortable reclining seats and personal entertainment systems.
Things to do in Frankfurt
While much of the city was destroyed during World War II, the old town stands proud with some historic buildings, including Römer and the home of Frankfurt-born writer Wolfgang von Goethe. Visit Goethe House to learn about the writer's impact on the city and literature. Visit the Stadel, an impressive art gallery with pieces dating back to the 14th century.
Frankfurt travel tips
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For decades Big Sur evoked images of homesteaders and ranchers, poets and beatniks — certainly not foodies and oenophiles. Yet the creative genius this rugged region inspires has helped create a modern-day gastronomic wonderland.
The Big Sur Food & Wine Festival celebrates this phenomenon with its fourth year of "food, friends and the furtherance of the great culinary artistry in Big Sur."
Event founder Toby Rowland-Jones wants to keep the event small yet fruitful for the charities it supports. After all, there are only 256 hotel rooms in Big Sur, and food, wine and revelry don"t mix well with that snaking, treacherous road trip.
But Rowland-Jones has forged relationships with the illustrious hospitality industry (as well as Lexus), saving the fledgling event from a deep plunge into the red while lending a certain cachet. The weekend begins Thursday, Nov. 1, with the Gateway to Big Sur dinner at Hyatt Carmel Highlands. The resort will open the entire Pacific"s Edge restaurant and adjacent lounge for a grand event, featuring 35 wineries (from Justin and Roederer to Talbott and Pisoni) and 16 chefs (from Carmel all the way down the coast to Buellton). Cost is $160.
Friday brings a bevy of wine panels and other events, including the wildly popular Hiking with Stemware, a name BSFW quickly trademarked after unveiling the inebriated walk on the wild side in Year 1.
The evening brings several wine dinners (the Big Sur Bakery partners with Chappellet Winery while Deetjen"s pairs its food with Laird Family Estate Vineyard) and an after-party at the Henry Miller Library. The best value may be the Wine and Swine celebration at the library. Five chefs create porcine perfection with hogs from Niman Ranch for $90.
Saturday unveils a repeat performance with a slightly different cast of characters. Sierra Mar at Post Ranch Inn gets in on the fun by hosting a Santa Lucia Highlands tasting at Henry Miller, as well as an auction lunch and grand tasting at the Post Ranch. For those with the means (or the guts to cash in a 401k), Post Ranch is hosting an exclusive six-course dinner and Champagne reception for inn guests only (two-night packages max out at around $7,000). New Sierra Mar chef John Cox will share kitchen duties with renowned Michelin-starred chef David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos.
The schedule seems to offer something for everyone.
"So many events, so little time," said Rowland-Jones. "I love the quirkiness of the festival and the ideas that come from the committee that just seem to set us apart from other wine festivals."
Rowland-Jones said many of Big Sur"s charitable needs (especially education and health care) are hidden from view, and the $65,000 raised over the first three years makes running the event more gratifying.
"It"s a testament to the love of community and abiding friendships," he said.
Information: 667-0800 or www.bigsurfoodandwine.org.
Dinner with Alice Waters
She"s been called the mother of American food, and the pioneer of a philosophy that calls on the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients that are produced sustainably and locally.
So any event with Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters as a guest speaker should be on our collective calendars.
Santa Cruz nonprofit Homeless Garden Project welcomes Waters to its Natural Bridges Farm for a Fall Farm Supper benefit. Santa Cruz area chefs, including Michael Clark of Michael"s on Main, Katherine Stern of La Posta and Santos Majano of Soif, will create the family-style dinner.
"This supper, inspired by Alice"s philosophies of simply prepared locally grown food will connect our community with social interests and positive intentions," said Patrice Boyle, owner of La Posta and Soif.
The evening will include music, wine pairings and a four-course dinner. Diners will be able to handpick their fresh organic herbs and salad greens from the farm to add to the dinner.
"The Homeless Garden Project represents the deep therapy that comes from working so closely with your food in the garden," said Waters.
Tickets to the event are $200, at www.homelessgardenproject.org or 426-3609.
Baum & Blume
The September issue of Bon Appetit included a piece about what"s "hot" in restaurants today. The writer waxed poetic about hidden-away, family-owned cafes, intimate open kitchens that allow diners to hang out and watch, new weekly menus, limited social media, farm-to-table cooking, gourmet takeout and exotic cuisine.
Baum & Blume has been doing all that for years, and the Wenzler family"s insulated cocoon in Carmel Valley continues to lead the way in creativity, fun and flavor.
It"s a place to be surprised (East African chicken one day, eggplant and angel hair pasta rollatini the next), pampered (buy handmade, frozen appetizers for unexpected guests or ship out a gourmet gift basket), delighted (the chef recites original poetry after dinner) and inspired (home cooks go there for ideas and techniques).
So what"s new? On Oct. 19-20, the family"s Carriage House at 4 El Caminito Road will be transformed into Oktoberfest Central as they produce authentic Germanic fare in a festive environment.
Lunch specials include yellow split pea soup with ham, a farmer"s platter with beer cheese, pickled egg and summer sausage. (Does Homer Simpson know about beer cheese?) For dinner, look for red cabbage, braised chicken with apples and cream, grilled salmon with gr ne sosse (a tangy "green sauce" with sour cream and herbs). Desert is black forest cheesecake. Reservations 659-0400.
The Grower"s Pub Steakhouse on South Main Street in Salinas has partnered with Salt Shaker Theater for a Mystery Theatre Dinner on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 6:30 p.m. The theater company will perform the hilarious play-within-a-play "Murder Me Always." Tickets for the evening are $125 per couple (includes salad, entrée, dessert, wine, tax, tip and show). Call 754-1488. Seating is limited … The eviction notice on the door of Luxe Lounge in Old Monterey extends to the adjacent Habanero"s Grill and Cantina and Bellagio Pizzeria. The much-maligned cantina never really took off, its formulaic food and uneven hours cementing its doom. Bellagio showed promise with its tasty pizza and late-hour allegiance from barflies, but ultimately mismanagement from the top, specifically from entrepreneurial owner Dennis Barwick (who made his name in the produce industry), proved to be the downfall for this cornered enterprise … El Mariachi on Cannery Row has launched Taco Tuesdays, giving each patron who orders a cocktail a tasty taco. Happy hour begins at 5p.m. and continues for eight hours, with $3 beers, $5 margaritas ($18 for a pitcher) and $1 tacos. Also, enjoy your own cocktail shaker with free mechanical bull rides for those 21 years and over … Free-spirit restaurateur John Pisto is trekking through Europe, focusing on Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with a cameraman in tow. Look for new episodes of "Monterey"s Cooking Pisto Style" and some inspired dishes at The Whaling Station and Paradiso … I finally dined at Lokal, the trendy spot in Carmel Valley run by the son of Cachagua gastronomy guru Michael Jones. Brendan Jones and Matthew Zolan churn out inventive, flavor-forward food in a minimalist"s setting. Loved the $3 drafts and the Joyce Marsanne for $7. Recognized some of dad"s fare, including the pitch-perfect steak tartare, but the son tried hard to outcook pop (and at times did so). Not standing pat, Lokal has installed a new outdoor pizza oven and pizza bar. Look for Raul"s review soon … More Oktoberfest buzz: All through October, chef Julio Ramirez-led Edgar"s at Quail Lodge will serve a special, prix-fixe Oktoberfest menu for $35. We"re talking potato rosti, smoked ham, sauerkraut, j gerschnitzel, apfelstrudel and more.
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Best of The Florida Keys
|The first of the Florida Keys,Key Largo offers some of the most
spectacular scuba diving in the continental U.S. And that's just the
beginning. Being the largest Key, it is home to multiple county and
state parks, fantastic off shore and back country fishing, and just a
stones throw from the mainland and Everglades National park. Lodging
varies ranging from quaint Mom and Pop motels to resorts equipped to
handle a company convention. Check out the top notch dive and snorkel
listings to plan your day on the water. Most offer multiple trips to a
variety of reefs and wrecks, or stay dry with a cruise on the glass
bottom boat.
You may enjoy a sunset cruise, dine overlooking the water, dance to an island beat or nothing at all. It's your vacation... you decide.
|Tavernier Creek separates Key Largo from Islamorada, also referred to as the purple isle. Islamorada also offers a stunning reef line for scuba diving, but is better known for it's off shore and back country fishing. No matter the season, Islamorada has a fishing charter that will know what is biting and where to hook you up with a great catch. This area also boasts a multitude of art galleries and quaint shops. From 5 star resorts to the more simpler roadside motel, their is a fit for everyone in the accommodations department. From strolling the roadside shops to trolling for a big fish, Islamorada may be your choice in the Upper Florida Keys.
|Marathon is located in the middle of the Florida Keys island chain. It
is home to one of our two airports and an array of activities. Visit
the Dolphin Research Center, Turtle Hospital, Crane Hammock Point or
Sombrero Beach. Cruise the seven mile bridge (where the movie True Lies
was filmed) or take to the water for a cruise around the Middle Keys.
Find yourself taste testing local favorites at a waterfront eatery or
strolling the many shops that dot the area. Marathon houses 5 star
resorts to the one of a kind Botels, a motel right on the water with a
slip for you to keep your boat right behind your room. This family
friendly community supports many events throughout the year and welcomes
visitors to join in. Try planning your trip to include an arts or
seafood festival. Or if crowds aren't your thing... plan on getting out
of that hammock just long enough to grab a bite to eat.
|The Lower Keys: back to nature, laid back and stunning. Don't forget to slow down. First of all, it's the law due to our tiny endangered Key Deer... and besides, you are already here so what's the hurry? Things to do include a dive or snorkel trip to Looe Key reef, kayaking the back country, off shore and back country fishing or basking in the sun at Bahia Honda State Park. This park has made the list of top 10 beaches in the U.S. It's stunning white sand gives way to the gin clear waters lapping on it's shoreline. They offer camping, but plan well in advance due to it's popularity. The Lower Keys are made up of many small islands from the southernmost end of the seven mile bridge to mile mark 5, the entrance to Key West. Accommodations are limited and range from a 5 star private island to a beautiful KOA campground on Sugarloaf Key.
|Key West is most often referred to as the Southernmost city in the continental U.S. Located only 90 miles from Cuba and 100 miles from Key Largo, their is something for everyone on this 5 mile island. It is home to one of two airports in the Florida Keys, and is also a port of call for cruise ships, the only such port throughout the island chain. Key West has been home to such notables as Ernest Hemingway from 1931 to 1961. Today his property is open to the public, as is the maritime museum of Mel Fisher and many other writers, actors and explorers. The Harry S. Truman Little White House is open to the public for tours. Key West brims with color, variety and excitement. The island is a mixture of the galleries, museums, theaters, restaurants, shops, bars and entertainers. It is an eclectic mix of old and modern architecture. Duval street is well known, and so are the daily sunset celebrations.


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Your financial support of ARCE, in the form of membership and contributions, helps make the Center's programs possible. Join now and start helping to protect Egypt's rich cultural past.


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We're pleased to announce the winner of our Pin to Inspire contest! It was really a lot of fun browsing through the inspiring Pinterest boards our community put together and picking just one winner was tough. So we've decided to announce our grand prize winner (the winner of a $100 Gift Certificate for bynature.ca) as well as 2 runner-ups. Our runner-ups will each receive a set of 2 Itzy Ritzy reusable snack bags for their contribution towards Inspiring Change.
Our winner of the $100 Gift Certificate to bynature.ca is Andrea Alderman. You can view her inspiring Pinterest board.
My philosophy towards eco living is that every individual can make a difference. Do as much as you comfortably can and never stress about the occasional lapse in "greeness"–like using a paper towel to soak up bacon grease (p.s. if anyone has a better way, I am dying to know). My family does what we can; like composting, cloth diapering, using cloth instead of paper and making our own natural household products. Hopefully this board will inspire you make a few changes in your life!
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U.S. chains expand with world's biggest, tallest hotels
Super-sized hotels are here - and they're not just for Americans.
Last year, the Holiday Inn and Sheraton chains opened their biggest hotels ever, both in Macau (or Macao), Asia's version of Las Vegas. And this month, the J.W. Marriott chain on Feb. 27 will officially open its biggest — and tallest — hotel ever, in Dubai.
You can tour the properties in this photo gallery assembled by USA TODAY's Hotel Check-In.
The gigantic hotels give the three chains great visibility in parts of the world where they're looking to expand. They also offer new insight into running hotels with unusual, super-sized demands.
Sheraton: More lights than Eiffel Tower
Starwood's recently opened 3,863-room, two-tower Sheraton Macao Hotel, Cotai Central, is so big that lighting all of its guest rooms required the purchase and installation of 90,796 light bulbs, or 4.5 times the total number needed to light the Eiffel Tower, according to hotel statistics.
The hotel also had to buy 35,217 plush towels, 15,652 pillows, 6256 beds and 9,372 bed sheets with hospital corners to make the rooms ready for guests.
Additionally, the massive Sheraton has three outdoor swimming pools, and a mini-city in the basement that houses hotel dry cleaning, employee dining venues and other behind-the-scenes operations.
Before Macau, Sheraton's largest hotel was in the state known for doing things on a grand scale: The Sheraton Dallas Hotel has 1,840 rooms.
Super-sized hotels: 'Living' billboards
Running massive hotels in popular destination in Asia and the Middle East give these hotel operators what amounts to free advertising to guests, some of whom hope to visit the USA someday.
"It's a living billboard to the brand," says Hoyt Harper, the Starwood executive who runs the Sheraton brand. The hotel's also the biggest in Macau, and the biggest property in Starwood's system of around 1,100 hotels.
The hotel shows guests from China, India, Indonesia, Korea and elsewhere Sheraton's latest developments, such as the chain's biggest club floor with its own swimming pool, a state-of-the-art fitness center, a "Shine for Sheraton" spa and the lobby's "Link@Sheraton" wired with complimentary Wi-Fi.
So far, the hotel is considered a success, Harper says, noting that two days after each tower opened, each one experienced a sold-out night.
In the same Macau development, the Holiday Inn chain last April opened its biggest-ever hotel: the Holiday Inn Macao Cotai Central.
It has 1,224 guestrooms, including 65 suites, all equipped with coffeemakers, hair dryers and irons, complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access and free local calls.
Between April 2012 and January 2013, hotel employees handled 438,515 check-ins and check-outs, in addition to handling 280,783 pieces of luggage, says Holiday Inn spokeswoman Sarah-Ann Soffer.
Both the Sheraton and Holiday Inn sit within Las Vegas-based Sands Cotai Central, an area of interconnected resorts that also include the Plaza Macao and the Venetian Macao, as well as restaurants, 600 retailers, street performers and theaters.
In Dubai, Marriott three months ago quietly opened the JW Marriott Marquis Dubai, which has 1,608 rooms, nine restaurants and five lounges. It will officially open this month. It's the biggest JW Marriott in the chain so far, says spokeswoman Jessica Kumins.
At 1,164 feet, the hotel is the tallest dedicated hotel building in the world and stands 85 feet shorter than the Empire State Building in New York.
While the well-known hotel chains consider the opening of these hotels major victories, their existence is actually more of a coincidence.
"Often times, the (hotel building) owner makes the decision about room count and then shops the idea around and tries to find a brand," hotel industry tracker Jan Freitag, a senior executive at Smith Travel Research (STR). "So, to a certain extent, the brand is an afterthought."
Chains don't make the Top 10 biggest hotels list for the USA
In the USA, the 10 biggest hotels all are located in Las Vegas and not one is operated by a chain, STR's analysis for USA TODAY shows. They are:
1. MGM Grand Hotel, 6,198 rooms
2. Luxor Hotel, 4,400 rooms
3. Mandalay Bay Resort, 4,332 rooms
4. The Venetian, An InterContinental Alliance Resort, 4,049 rooms
5. Caesars Palace Las Vegas, 4,016 rooms
6. Aria Resort & Casino, 4,004 rooms
7. Excalibur Hotel & Casino, 3,981 rooms
8. The Bellagio, 3,933 rooms
9. Circus Circus Hotel, 3,770 rooms
10. Flamingo Las Vegas, 3,642 rooms


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The number of years of defined contribution plan eligibility has a significant impact on Gen X workers' risk of running out of income in retirement, a report from the Employee Benefits Research Institute found.
EBRI simulated outcomes in its Retirement Security Projection Model to determine how many investors were at risk of running out of retirement income, as well as how severe their shortfall could be. The model considers three different levels of "adequate income," or the accumulated value of deficits generated after all members of the household have died, divided by the accumulated value of the total retirement expenditures for the household.
Almost 44% of Gen X households are at risk of running out of income in retirement, the report, released in June, found.
That figure is based on the assumption that individuals retire at age 65 and that they'll fail to accumulate 100% of adequate income. A little over one-third of households are at risk of having less than 90% of the resources they need, and 19% are at risk of having less than 80%.
When taking Gen X households' future earning and saving years into consideration, the report found more than 60% of households without future 401(k) eligibility were at risk of running out of retirement income. For those with another 20 years of eligibility, just 18% were at risk.
The report found 10% of Gen X families will have a shortfall of between $50,000 and $100,000, with 9.8% having a shortfall of less than $50,000. Single Gen Xers were not so lucky. More than 11% of single men and 20.6% of single women will have a shortfall of between $101,000 and $200,000. Fully 13% of single women could have a shortfall of more than $200,000.
These shortfalls can be dramatically reduced by participating in a defined contribution plan, the report noted. For individuals with no future years in a 401(k) plan, their retirement deficit was estimated to be $78,000. For those with between one and nine years left in a plan, the deficit fell to $55,000. Those with at least 20 years left in a plan could reduce their deficit to $23,000.
EBRI also considered the impact health care and nursing home costs could have on retirement. For example, 90% of single Gen X men were simulated to have no shortfall in retirement if health care and nursing home costs were ignored. By including those costs in the model, the percentage of single men with no shortfalls fell to 68%. EBRI found similar results among single women and married Gen Xers. "Ignoring the impact of nursing home and home health care costs in retirement significantly exaggerates the likelihood of achieving retirement income adequacy," the report noted.
The percentage of households with adequate retirement income has increased by between five and eight percentage points since 2003, EBRI found. Still, despite the small improvement, there are a "significant percentage of households that are simulated to be at risk of not being able to cover retirement expenses and uninsured medical costs" throughout their retirements.


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Rancho Cucamonga >> Judith Oakes, accused of embezzling nearly $2 million from the Rialto Unified School District, will spend her 50th birthday in jail.
Oakes, who worked for the 26,485-student district for 25 years, appeared in West Valley Superior Court on Thursday, only to have defense attorney C. Patrick Milligan ask to delay her bail reduction and pre-trial status report hearing for a month.
Her bail is currently set at $1.8 million, the same amount of money she's accused of embezzling.
She will next appear in court on Aug. 14, 53 weeks after she was first arrested on Aug. 7. She turns 50 on Aug. 8.
The now-snowy-haired Oakes has been in jail at Glen Helen Rehabilitation Center in Devore since Oct. 9, when she was charged with eight counts of embezzlement by a public or private officer and eight counts of a public officer crime.
If convicted of all charges, she faces up to 11 years in state prison.
Although she is charged with embezzling $1.8 million from the Rialto Unified's Nutrition Services Department, an auditor hired by the district reported she may have actually stolen $3.1 million during the last 14 years. The statute of limitations on embezzlement prevents her from being charged for the full amount.
According to the audit, Oakes allegedly stole an average of $2,000 on three out of every four days she worked over the past four years. Video cameras in her office reportedly caught her stuffing bundles of cash into her bra on two occasions.
In February, the Rialto Unified school board fired its auditing firm.


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MONZA, Italy - McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton thrust himself back into the title race with a maiden Italian Grand Prix victory on Sunday, while a "dream" race for Formula One leader Fernando Alonso saw the Ferrari driver finish third to extend his overall lead.
Speculation about Hamilton's future and a possible switch to Mercedes dominated the weekend, but the 2008 champion put the focus firmly back on his driving with his first victory at Monza and the 20th of his career.
"It's a fantastic win in front of the best crowd. I'm happy for the team. It's been the best day," said Hamilton, who started on pole and led almost from start to finish. "It was pretty trouble-free, I don't think I had any problems throughout the race and the guys did a great job through the pit stop. And I got a good start for once, so very, very happy with that."
Hamilton made it three wins in a row for McLaren and moved past defending champion Sebastian Vettel to take second place in the drivers' standings, 37 points behind Alonso. It could have been a perfect day for McLaren, but Jenson Button — who started second and looked on course to finish right behind Hamilton — was forced to retire on the 35th lap.
Alonso started from 10th on the grid after he had technical difficulties during Saturday's qualifying. However, the Spaniard took advantage of a wretched day for Vettel and the Red Bull team to storm his way through the field, much to the delight of the fans at Ferrari's home track.
"It was a perfect Sunday for us," Alonso said. "After the problem yesterday it was not easy to think about victory. So if you are not going to win the podium is the next target.
"All the simulations and predictions said we would never finish on the podium. So it was much better than expected and Jenson was out of the race and so were the two Red Bulls, so the perfect Sunday ... the race went like a movie for us, like a dream."
Vettel had to retire because of a mechanical problem when wisps of white smoke started to emerge from his car with six laps to go. He was joined on the sideline by Red Bull teammate Mark Webber, who retired at the end of the penultimate lap.
Sergio Perez, who revealed he had been feeling sick all weekend, was second on Sunday, 4.3 seconds behind Hamilton after starting 12th. The Mexican finished strongly, moving through the field in the closing stages and cutting into Hamilton's lead, after leaving it until lap 29 to pit and change to softer tires.
"That was a great race for me for my team. It's unbelievable to get a podium in Monza. It's really special," Perez said. "It was really enjoyable. One of those races where you have the pace and you are the one attacking.
"To go that long (before pitting) and to be able to keep the pace was not easy at all. I did quite a lot of laps on those tires. Then in the second stint we managed to go maximum attack and I was able to have good fighting with some drivers. It was just a great race."
Alonso made up three places on the first lap from 10th, and was up to sixth by the second lap.
"Yeah, the start was good," he said. "Obvious we didn't have maybe the best start but it was enough to overtake two or three cars, good first corner and then those two first laps were, I think, making the difference of our race.
"We overtook di Resta, Kimi, Michael very quickly. And that gave us the opportunity to follow Sebastian and the quick cars that were there in the first five positions. So, when you find yourself sixth after two or three laps, the race improves a lot."
A tremendous tussle with Vettel halfway through the race forced Alonso onto the grass adjacent to the track to avoid a collision, with the German later being issued a drive-through penalty.
Ferrari driver Felipe Massa finished fourth after starting third. The Brazilian got off to a strong start, overtaking Button and almost moving past Hamilton on the outside just before the first chicane.
Hamilton managed to hold his old rival at bay, only losing the lead briefly to Perez, who only pit-stopped once.
Button overtook Massa to regain second position shortly before their pit stops and it seemed as if a McLaren 1-2 was on the cards after the team had achieved a record 62nd front-row sweep in qualifying.
One week after giving himself an outside shot at the title with victory at the Belgium GP, however, Button endured a fuel pressure problem and had to quit the race.
That allowed Massa to move into second place but, with Alonso catching him, he allowed his teammate to overtake.
A new threat soon appeared as Perez put in a number of lightning-fast laps. He overtook the Ferrari duo to claim his third podium of the season — and his career.
Alonso finished 20.6 seconds behind Hamilton. Massa was a further 9 seconds behind, just ahead of Kimi Raikkonen and five-time Monza winner Michael Schumacher.


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Meg Whitman: Allred and Jerry Brown in Cahoots
Meg Whitman says she's the victim of a political smear campaign-- engineered by Gloria Allred and Jerry Brown -- and she's suggesting her former housekeeper stole a critical piece of mail.
Whitman acknowledges former housekeeper Nicky Diaz Santillan confessed after 9 years she falsified documents. Whitman says she was "shocked" and had no choice but to fire her for lying and breaking the law.
Whitman says Jerry Brown should be "ashamed of what his allies are trying to do here."
Whitman says her housekeeper is being used by "cynical people around her" -- i.e., Gloria Allred.
Whitman says she never received a letter from the Social Security Administration informing her there was an irregularity in Nicky's Social Security number. Whitman says Nicky is the one who picked up her mail, so she may have intercepted it and never turned it over.
Whitman says she would take a polygraph test to prove that she's not lying.
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Its so apparent I have too much time on my hands at the moment given that Im blogging twice in a matter of days!!
My sewing machine has been sent away to get fixed so I decided to make a few things on my Silhouette machine instead so I thought Id share them.
I keep all my loose change in a tupperware jar so I thought Id jazz it up using some vinyl and made this. My stache, My stash, moustache get it? get it!!?? I saw the idea on Pinterest and thought it was really funny. Tim thinks I need help as I start giggling every time I see it. (He is correct!)
I had lots of little crafting bits and pieces that needed homes so I washed lots of tiny jam jars that I had in the cupboard and labelled them all up to make the a bit neater. (I think I may be nesting... either that or becoming really anal about things!)
And finally, I made a wipe clean board for my craft room. I took an old photo frame and made a white background instead of putting a picture in, then put some vinyl wording on it. I have pens for writing on glass so this will come in really handy for keeping a note of things that I still have to do or make. Im going to paint the outside of it at some point but I couldnt face doing that today!
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(The Root) — In the decade following 9/11, growing cynicism about the Bush administration's military response to the terrorist attack gave rise to a new generation of political satire. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central used humor to speak inconvenient truths for younger Americans — many of whom were disillusioned and convinced that the mainstream media had literally become a joke.
The role of the comedian to expose what is most untrue and unseemly in society is not new. The Italian medieval-Renaissance period saw the rise of the mattaccino ("matachin" in English), a Harlequin-like jester famous for speaking truth to kings through comedy. Even Shakespeare combined tragedy and humor to shape attitudes toward monarchy, colonialism, corruption and political dissent. Stewart and Colbert, along with Bill Maher, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, follow in this tradition — and are all respected for their mastery of satire — but where they falter is a complete lack of racial diversity.
W. Kamau Bell, the host of FX's new late-night hit Totally Biased, offers a balance to the scales of colorblind comedy (T.J. Holmes' new BET show, Don't Sleep, is also doing its part to diversify late night, but with less acclaim). Bell's program is a celebration of diversity, featuring an array of talented comedians: from Dwayne Kennedy, who operates as a de facto "chief black correspondent," to Janine Brito, a dandily dressed lesbian, and Hari Kondabolu, a sharp satirist of Indian descent who is also the older brother of Ashok Kondabolu, a founding member of Brooklyn, N.Y.'s alternative hip-hop group Das Racist.
Totally Biased grew out of Bell's 2010 solo comedy tour entitled "The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour" and his 2010 stand-up album, Face Full of Flour, which was named one of the top 10 comedy albums on iTunes that year. Legendary comedian Chris Rock attended a tour appearance and decided to collaborate by executive-producing the brainchild that became Bell's hit show.
The San Francisco Chronicle declared, "It makes [Jon Stewart's] Daily Show seem like something your dad watches." After a successful run of the show's first six episodes, it has been renewed for a full season. Rock expressed delight at the FX (which is owned by Fox) show's success, joking, "Please don't tell Rupert Murdoch."
Bell takes on race, religion, pop culture and homophobia — balancing insightful political commentary with laugh-out-loud humor that crosses racial barriers. And his first episodes, which featured interviews with the likes of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Alex Wagner, as well as Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl fame, prove that Bell isn't afraid to be unconventional.
Bell spoke to The Root about his new show, President Obama's first term and the need for more laughter and less race-baiting.
The Root: What do you see as the role of comedians in politics?
W. Kamau Bell: Ultimately, the role of the comedian is to be funny. And I can only speak for what my role is — not the role of every comedian. But I spend so much time looking at the world and saying "What?!" because so much is out of step with my sense of what's right.
My humor is often about filling that gap between what is and what could be. I talk about things I care about — and that just happens to be political. Being black in America, for instance, happens to be a political issue, and that's something I care about — since I'm a black person in America. And my president is black. So yes, I see this presidency differently.
TR: What is your ultimate goal?
WKB: My favorite joke is one that is both hilarious and engenders that black-woman-in-church response. You know? That "Umm-hmm" sound: It's a deep recognition that what was just spoken is true.
TR: How are you different from the other guys who do late-night commentary?
KB: This show is different from Kimmel, Leno and the others. They're all great — especially Bill Maher — and I wouldn't be here without their example. But I believe in different perspectives. I love to see female comedians, gays, lesbians, Hindus, Arabs, Asians and Latinos.
Americans often start with black and white, but the country is so much, much broader than that, and my show reflects that fact. It's not just about color; it's about different perspectives. If you want Kamau, I'm going to come with a band of misfits. And people can see what a wondrous, eclectic, intelligently funny band it is.
TR: You're a straight, married father of two, but you're also a vocal supporter of gay rights. Why?
KB: I spent 15 years living in the [San Francisco] Bay Area, where being gay is completely normal, accepted and even admired. I learned a lot just by being quiet and observing the world. I watched my friends who are gay, married and raising happy children. And you know what? Gay marriage is just as boring and loving as any other marriage.
TR: How do you feel about President Obama's first term, the obstinacy he's faced from Republicans and attacks that sometimes appear to be racial?
KB: Well, I certainly feel like it's a part of my job to call that out in a way President Obama never can. And that's not just my role as a comedian who happens to have a television show … that's the role of every responsible citizen. The benefit for me is that I get to make it funny.
Some of this language being used against Obama isn't even coded anymore. It's just plain racist and stupid. Like the guy who said slavery was a blessing to black people. I thought: "What?" Without jokes it's painful and disgusting, but at least with humor, it's seen for what it is: stupid and ridiculous.
I see myself as the campfire for the revolution. We're not the revolution, but we give you warmth and reprieve, so you can then get up and have ammunition. I love that my work can be educational and hilarious.
Totally Biased airs Thursdays on FX at 11:30 p.m.
Edward Wyckoff Williams is contributing editor at The Root. He is a columnist and political analyst, appearing on Al-Jazeera, MSNBC, CBS Washington and national syndicated radio. Follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
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The Pwn Dev Team has released another working jailbreak tool for iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1.
Tired of the same old jailbreak tools? Want to try something new? The Pwn Dev Team has released a new tool dubbed Ac1dsn0w. The tool was originally set to be dubbed Acidra1n. The development team decided to change the name at the last minute and so, if you are looking for Acidra1n, you won't find it.
Ac1dsn0w is a tethered jailbreak for iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1. This means that you will need to connect your iDevice to a computer with Ac1dsn0w installed to boot tethered when you want to turn the device back on after completely powering it down. Along with Redsn0w and Sn0wbreeze, Ac1dsn0w does the exact same things except that it has a different looking interface. Redsn0w has the most features out of all of the three tools. Sn0wbreeze has a prettier graphical user interface, and Ac1dSn0w is an alternative to the two.
Ac1dsn0w supports the following iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1 iDevices:
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Ac1dsn0w is going to have more features added in the near future. One of the most anticipated is being able to jailbreak a device remotely from anywhere around the world. This means that you can help a friend who is not in the same room as you, jailbreak their device. Two of the upcoming Ac1dsn0w features are:
- Custom Firmware Creation
- iRecovery Remote
Ac1dsn0w is currently only available for Mac. It will run on both Mac OS X Lion and also Mac OS X Snow Leopard. A Windows version may be released in the near future so stay tuned!
For legality issues, we will not be providing links. You can find it via Google.
You can follow me on Twitter for the latest Pwn Dev Team updates.
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Chef Jonathon Sawyer's Guide to Eating in Cleveland
Chef and restaurateur Jonathon Sawyer operates six diverse restaurants in Cleveland, including Noodlecat, a noodle house, and soon-to-open Trentina, which is focused on food from the Trentino region of Italy. His flagship restaurant, The Greenhouse Tavern, was named one of Bon Appetit's best new restaurants of 2009 and Sawyer was a Food & Wine Best New Chef in 2010.
Although he has a hectic schedule (we spoke to him in midst of an unexpected restaurant inspection), Sawyer makes a point of dining out and trying all sorts of different restaurants around town so he can give visiting friends and family the best food recommendations. "I think it's important to be an ambassador of the city," he says. "And it's not just the fanciest or most expensive restaurants. There's a whole range of what people enjoy."
Sawyer was raised in Cleveland, but cooked all around the country before returning to build his restaurant empire. Since Cleveland is a long and slim city that runs from east to west, Sawyer often has two favorite places in any particular food category, one for each side of the city.
"We have awesome farmers and we can afford a ton of real estate," he says. "We're the affordable Chicago. The price that we pay for ramps is a quarter what you'd pay in New York. I think people are moving back more so than ever before." Here are Sawyer's top culinary reasons to move back, or at least visit, Cleveland.
Meaty Local Specialties: Hot Sauce Williams for fried chicken and a Polish boy sausage. It's often confused with a po' boy but has nothing to do with it. It's a cool mash-up of Eastern European meets soul-food. The dog is like a Slovenian polish sausage, slightly spicy, very garlicky. They top it with French fries, barbecue sauce, and coleslaw. Their fried chicken I think is the best in Cleveland. Both the hot sauce and the battering technique are impeccable. It takes about 25 minutes to get your order. It's indicative of the quality and well worth the wait. For Memorial Day, I went there and ordered a half slab of ribs while I was waiting for the chicken. So I got a 21-piece of chicken for the family picnic and it was the first thing to go. They have a few locations, but I'm partial to the one on Carnegie Avenue. I've been going there for at least 10 years.
Spicy Chinese Food: Szechuan Gourmet. It's a bone-numbing, unapologetically Sichuan flavor without any frills. Szechuan Gourmet does awesome stuff, from chilled beef tendon salad to crispy fried duck tongues to mapo tofu. It's so spicy that you're sweating from your entire body. I like their twice-friend chicken and pork belly and cashews, too.
Great Grocery Stores: Asia Town Center is my favorite Asian market. It organizes its pantry by country of origin. You can go to the Vietnamese aisle and get Vietnamese rice paper, fish sauce, and more. It's really a thoughtful market. They even have two pretty good restaurants inside, a Vietnamese phở place and on the second floor there's an akido karate studio and right across from that is a Korean restaurant that has pretty awesome Korean barbecue and bibimbap. All the banchan are homemade—steamed eggs, blanched mung bean sprouts, and stinky tofu.
Fantastic Phở: Superior Pho. The owner is one of those interesting characters. He's always on a portable phone in his own restaurant. But his broths are the best. I think you can taste that they've been simmering for years. I'm 90 percent sure that he subscribes to the mothering process of the broth. He would never evaporate his stock pot or drain it. I think he leaves 10 to 15 percent of the broth there and lets it run 24/7. He doesn't go crazy on the spicing. He doesn't use a lot of star anise or cinnamon and there's a deep beef flavor that I don't think anybody else could achieve if they tried it overnight.
Late Night Eats: Michael Symon's Lolita for chicken livers, roasted bone marrow, and mussels. It's a Mediterranean-minded bistro. It's a little Italian, a little North African, and a little Greek. The mussel dish on the menu is my old recipe from when I used to work there. It's Moorish with preserved lemon, cinnamon, and chorizo with mussels. It's always solid. They don't falter on quality. The space has been in the same kitchen's hands for almost 20 years. Lolita has been there for 9 years, but it was Lola before that.
Neapolitan Pizza: Vero Bistro is super solid. There's just one chef, one oven, one pie at a time, but it's super good. It's also a great place to go on a date and it's low-maintenance. There are only maybe 30 seats total, 15 downstairs and 15 upstairs. I love the Piccante with chili flakes, pickled red onions, sharp provolone and a very judicious smear of tomato sauce. Super smoky bubbly crust, Neapolitan-style, but I don't think he has the certification. It has a real airy, nice chew. He knows I like it real charred so I get a little extra. He's real deliberate with how he melts the cheese on the top. He picks up the paddle and allows the smoke from the fire to get up and underneath the pie.
Healthy Options: Before I go on a trip where I know I'm going to eat and drink my face off, I like to have some juice on my way out and then on my way back in. I like Anna In The Raw in East Cleveland and Beet Jar in West Cleveland, which is super new. I like [Beet Jar's] cashew and date milk that is almost sinfully indulgent. I use Anna In The Raw if I'm doing a juice cleanse. She loves turmeric and so do I. It's so good for your blood. It's the most natural anti-inflammatory you can have.
Cleveland Coffee: Rising Star (West Cleveland) and I love also Phoenix Coffee (East Cleveland). Rising Star has the most pour-overs and pulls in Cleveland and roasts on-premise, too. Phoenix also roasts all their coffee, and I like them because they're willing to say no to you. Not every coffee bean is meant to be espresso. They're really specific with what they brew and how they use it. They have a really experiential display for pour-overs, where you can open up, smell, and figure out what your favorite cup for a pour-over is from four to five choices. I've even seen them age both both green and roasted beans in bourbon barrels. When they go through the barrel, a lot of the flavor goes into the coffee. It's one of the most unique coffees I've ever tasted. I just sent some to a brewer (Victory Brewery) that we work with. They're doing a prototype beer with the bourbon-aged coffee. And Phoenix also makes a coffee kombucha as a pet project, although it's not for sale to the public yet.
Best Brewery: My favorite is the smallest in Cleveland. It's called BottleHouse. He had a ton of square footage and rather than put in a 10-barrel system, they put in 10 one-barrel systems so they can create really small-batch beers. Rather than getting bigger and ordering the bigger equipment, they order more of the equipment they like. They're always creating new flavors.
Creative Cocktails: Definitely Velvet Tango Room. If I'm given my choice, I like brown, bitter, and stirred drinks, but I also like trying the new menu here. They pioneered the cocktail industry here in Cleveland. They were doing house-made shrubs that nobody in Cleveland had ever seen. He picked an interesting neighborhood that even to this day is pretty marginal, Duck Island, real pirate-y back in the day. There might be some meth dealers there now. And it's where the most luxurious, high-end cocktail lounge in the city is.
Vegetarian: Tommy's Restaurant has good falafel, pita and hummus. Simple stuff. They have great grilled cheese sandwiches on pita and I just love it. I like to take my kids there. I think it's great hangover food too. I'm not a steak and eggs hangover guy, I'd rather have a bunch of juice and vegetables.
Dessert: Coquette Patisserie. It's a nice little Parisian place that has macarons and financiers and also has oysters and triple cream cheese and beer and champagne. It's the cutest place you could imagine. It's my wife's and my favorite place to get away from the kids for two hours now. She can get organic cider from Normandy and I can get champagne or beer. The ideal meal for her is oysters and dessert.
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Well, it is rather late, but I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, readers. Time has just run away with me this year but I still wanted to get here, my special place, and record our goings on for the festive period. Maybe one reason I've been short of blogging time, is that it has been a very handmade Christmas here this year.
First, as you may recall, there was the granny ripple blanket.
It isn't finished, although, it has grown a lot, but I never thought it would be finished this year. It is much wider than I really anticipated so each stripe takes a good half hour but it is looking great and feeling super cosy. I think I will park it now and get back to it next Christmas when I am in the festive mood again. I have enjoyed the soothing, easy pattern very much.
It wasn't long before I was reacquainting myself with my Christmas fabric stash. I still hadn't got those pot holders out of my head and whipped up a few as gifts for crafty friends.
I also made us a giant bauble pot holder which Mr HenHouse found came in very handy for resting the wine decanter on!
I also became seized by the desire to make another Christmas quilt. I cut many 2.5" wide strips. It was time for a festive scrappy trip along.
I worked on the blocks here and there, adding to my Christmas fabric stash along the way, (there is a new quilting shop in Bridport!) and watching old DVDs of Ally McBeal, so soon, I was nearing completion. I wasn't sure I'd get it finished, so many other things were vying for my time and attention.
In between, we found some time to decorate the house.
I enjoyed gathering together all my red and green vintage bits and pieces for the shelves in my kitchen. Why not having something good to look at whilst washing up? I will miss this when it's time to take it down.
The cottage also had a few decorations put up and was soon looking like a magical grotto!
The dresser had a bit of festive cheer added, too.
Back at the ranch, as they say, the making continued with a cute holly brooch.
I was very late in getting my Christmas cards made this year and I continued what I had started on the Jessie Chorley workshop back in November.
You might just be able to see that the one top left has a little embroidered and beaded Christmas tree brooch attached (which it was possible to remove and wear). I liked this so much, I made the same brooch for myself but this one went to a good, brooch-loving friend.
Somewhere along the way, to accompany the Christmas crooners in the background, the Den received a little festive touch. It's always a pleasure to work in here, but especially at this time of year.
Other making was going on, not necessarily of the textile kind. The cakes had been made well in advance and dutifully fed and watered! One for my in-laws, one for us. I like the old fashioned way of decorating, with thick swirled icing to look like snow and old decorations, as my mum and nan have always done it.
More craftiness took place in the late afternoons and evenings, with the twinkly fairy lights aglow, a roaring fire to stay cosy, and friends dropping in for chat, crochet and nibbles. Jacky Ginge was pleased!
We popped to see family, braving the awful weather (but how lucky we are compared with those poor souls without power or suffering from the floods), and I sat and hand stitched the Christmas quilt binding until it was finished for a shot of the three generations. (The quilt in the background was my Christmas gift to my in-laws a few years back.)
All too soon, for the run up to Christmas Day is really the best bit, I think, it was time to be off to church for the Christingle service. We can still get away with this with the Munchkin but it is getting harder to take a cute shot each year!
Finally, everything was ready for the big day. I don't think Father Christmas came down the chimney in this room!
Looking at the tree, he'd clearly visited, though. Phew, we must have been good.
Fun was had, tearing off all those time consuming wrappings, more quickly by some younger members than others! How fortunate we are, everyone very happy with the lovely things thoughtfully chosen for them. Vorey didn't seem so keen on his bow.
Charlie Boy went for tinsel this year...
By the end of the day, they'd clearly had enough!
We enjoyed a fabulous lunch. All my meat was sent packed in ice, by overnight courier from Bridport, which was just fantastic. We pulled crackers, wore silly paper hats as one must, and generally ate far too much, all under the watchful eye of Her Royal Highness.
We've had a thoroughly wonderful Christmas and now it is admittedly rather nice to have a well-earned rest!
I've packed away the Christmas fabrics and trims and had a good tidy up in the Den. I'm ready for a New Year and lots of fabulous new crafty projects. I do hope you'll share it with me. Xxx


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Student arrested after bringing gun on UAFS campus
Police at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith arrested a student for bringing a handgun on campus.
Brett Ward, 23 of Greenwood was arrested around noon on Wednesday.
Campus police pulled Ward out of class after they got a tip he had a gun in his possession. Ward told the officers he was carrying his gun with him. The officers seized his 9mm Glock and arrested Ward.
Dr. Paul B. Beran, Chancellor of UAFS said, " We are serious about the safety and welfare of those on our campus."
"UPD acted within their authority as sworn officers for the state of Arkansas and will do so at any time, not only to promote safety on campus but to comply with state laws," Beran said.
According to the news release, the UAFS police department officials state that the law specific to university campuses is A.C.A. 5-73-306, which prohibits a concealed handgun "…on any school, college, community college or university campus or building…"