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Among the many Australian designers, Christopher Hanlon—the founder, and the brand itself—ties a knot with Chinese culture. He enjoys Chinese cuisine, and likes to drink Shou Wu Chih (首乌汁 shǒu wū zhī), an anti-aging Chinese herb, to keep the years off his appearance.
Christopher not only brings to the world statement-making designer handbags, fashion pieces, and accessories, he has also created a range of organic herbal skin care products with mysterious oriental features. He learned much from his mom, and his first skin care product was made from her recipe.
He has the distinction of being Australia's first perfumer, and his is the only 100 percent Australian-owned and made organic cosmetics company. Christopher is also a pioneer in Men's Organic Skin Care products.
Christopher's loyal fans include Nicole Kidman, Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, Madonna, Anne Hathaway, and Robbie Williams.
Here are Christopher Hanlon's 10 tips for success:
Ride the donkey while you look for a horse.
My friend Vienne said to me: "Do the things today that you don't want to do in 5 years' time."
My father Ross said to me: "A boy goes to the edge of a cliff and is scared because he cannot fly. His father says: 'Don't be afraid,' and pushes him. The boy begins to fly."
My mother Delia said to me: "Don't worry about money. Do what you love, and the money will come naturally."
My high school teacher said to me: "A young tree that moves with the wind will not break. An old tree that stays still may break."
Your No.1 selling product today may be your worst product in the future.
Rise early. Eat healthy. Save your money. All drugs only in moderation, e.g., alcohol.
Follow your dreams. It is the only way they can come true.
BELIEVE in yourself. Be yourself.
Make the most out of every moment. Life does not go the way you plan it. But you will get there.


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The trending news this period is that Apple has released a new version of its flagship iPhone 7 in a unique color of red. The release of the iPhone 7 red expands the range of options available for iPhone lovers.
The release of this unique brand of iPhone marks the positive partnership between AIDS Charity and Apple. Therefore, customers buying the red iPhone are contributing to the RED global fund which tends to tackle the problem of AIDs in some parts of the world.
Red iPhone Details
Officially, the red iPhone has been released and will be available online for customers to purchase starting form 24th March. It will come in two variants that is the 256GB model and the 128GB model.
The red iPhone 7 is expected to start at $749 from Apple store. It boasts of some top class features like aluminum design and rounded edges with white antenna which is placed across the back. Other features include Retina HD Display, Force sensitive home button, rear facing 12 MP camera and lots more.
Let's Review the Red Hot iPhone 7
1 Design
Looking at the design of the red hot iPhone 7, it is really difficult to actually tell the difference between its design and other iPhones like the iPhone 6s. Its difference is actually not noticeable because they are identical in shape and size.
However, the iPhone 7 is actually lighter when compared to iPhone 6s. There is a deviation from the design of the plastic antenna at the back like it is on iPhone 6 but this time, it is made a single line instead of a double line. The line is almost invisible when viewed in other colors like the black models but can be seen on the gold, silver and the newly released red iPhone.
There is a slight chance in the camera from the design in iPhone 6 as it is a little bit enlarged but you will have to hold the two phones side by side to notice it. The new iPhone has the headphone port removed and replaced by an extra speaker grill.
2 Headphone Socket Absent
This is a major noticeable difference when compared to the earlier iPhones. There is no headphone socket in the red iPhone 7. Like the other colors, you will have to plug your wired headphone into its charging port or use a wireless means to listen to music on the device. The implication of this is that charging your phone and listening to music at the same time is no longer possible.
However, this shouldn't be a problem for the red iPhone 7 if you are have been using other colors of iPhone 7 before now. To make things easier, apple have made it in such a way that you can still use your old headphones with the red iPhone 7.
3 Home Button Redesign
This is different from the ones you have on iPhone 6. IPhone 7 including the red one makes use of a "Solid State" home button instead the clickable ones on the older models. This type of home button ensures that there is no movement when it is pressed but note that it is press sensitive. The essence of this radical change is to improve the water resistance of the phone by removing the spaces that allow water enter into the electrical components of the phone.
However, note that the new button design needs a human contact to work, therefore pressing it with gloves and nails will simply not work for it.
4 Water Resistance
The red iPhone 7 like the other colors release before it is water resistant. In fact, it seems to withstand much more than other people think. It has a classification of IP67 which makes it survive deep into the tank. However, it is not expected that you swim with it. Things like drink splash, tea etc does not even affect it.
5 Camera
The camera of the red iPhone 7 is as good as the ones before it. It has some kind of background enhancement which allows it to capture even better photos. When compared to the iPhone 6 photo quality, it is safe to say that the red iPhone 7 produces better. Besides, it has a 7 Megapixel selfie camera which is better than that of iPhone 6
My Verdict
iPhone 7 remains one of the best and the red option has even given it a more appealing outlook. I really love this iPhone and there is no doubt about it. The newly released red iPhone 7 in my view is going to be loved because it is really "hot" and irresistible.

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By Rick Boxx
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After being convicted of stock fraud in 1988, Barry Minkow did his prison time. Then he became a pastor in San Diego and began working with the FBI to uncover fraud at a number of companies.
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In 1993, after five years of grad school and low-wage postdoctoral research, Michael Kremer got a job as a professor of economics at MIT. With his new salary, he finally had enough money to fund a long-held desire: to return to Kenya's Western Province, where he had lived for a year after college, teaching in a rural farming community. He wanted to see the place again, reconnect with his host family and other friends he'd made there.
When he arrived the next summer, he found out that one of those friends had begun working for an education nonprofit called ICS Africa. At the time, there was a campaign, spearheaded by the World Bank, to provide free textbooks throughout sub-Saharan Africa, on the assumption that this would boost test scores and keep children in school longer. ICS had tasked Kremer's friend with identifying target schools for such a giveaway.
While chatting with his friend about this, Kremer began to wonder: How did ICS know the campaign would work? It made sense in theory—free textbooks should mean more kids read them, so more kids learn from them—but they had no evidence to back that up. On the spot, Kremer suggested a rigorous way to evaluate the program: Identify twice the number of qualifying schools as it had the money to support. Then randomly pick half of those schools to receive the textbooks, while the rest got none. By comparing outcomes between the two cohorts, they could gauge whether the textbooks were making a difference.
What Kremer was suggesting is a scientific technique that has long been considered the gold standard in medical research: the randomized controlled trial. At the time, though, such trials were used almost exclusively in medicine—and were conducted by large, well-funded institutions with the necessary infrastructure and staff to manage such an operation. A randomized controlled trial was certainly not the domain of a recent PhD, partnering with a tiny NGO, out in the chaos of the developing world.
But soon after Kremer returned to the US, he was startled to get a call from his friend. ICS was interested in pursuing his idea. Sensing a rare research opportunity, Kremer flew back to Kenya and set to work. By any measure it was a quixotic project. The farmers of western Kenya lived in poverty, exposed to drought, flood, famine, and disease. Lack of paved roads hampered travel; lack of phones impeded communication; lack of government records stymied data collection; lack of literate workers slowed student testing. For that matter, a lack of funds limited the scope. It was hardly an ideal laboratory for a multiyear controlled trial, and not exactly a prudent undertaking for a young professor with a publishing track record to build.
The study wound up taking four years, but eventually Kremer had a result: The free textbooks didn't work. Standardized tests given to all students in the study showed no evidence of improvement on average. The disappointing conclusion launched ICS and Kremer on a quest to discover why the giveaway wasn't helping students learn, and what programs might be a better investment.
As Kremer was realizing, the campaign for free textbooks was just one of countless development initiatives that spend money in a near-total absence of real-world data. Over the past 50 years, developed countries have spent something like $6.5 trillion on assistance to the developing world, most of those outlays guided by little more than macroeconomic theories, anecdotal evidence, and good intentions. But if it were possible to measure the effects of initiatives, governments and nonprofits could determine which programs actually made the biggest difference. Kremer began collaborating with other economists and NGOs in Kenya and India to test more strategies for bolstering health and education.
At home, meanwhile, his work was helping to inspire a small movement of economists and other social scientists—playfully dubbed the "randomistas," in reference to the randomized nature of the studies. In 2003, a few years after Kremer had moved across town to Harvard, three like-minded economists at MIT launched a research institution, now called J-PAL (the full moniker is the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, named for the late father of a donor), to promote the use of randomized controlled trials on questions of poverty and development. They work closely with an independent sister NGO, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), which implements evaluations in the field. Kremer joined both groups as an affiliated researcher.
In the decade since their founding, J-PAL and IPA have helped 150 researchers conduct more than 425 randomized controlled trials in 55 countries, testing hypotheses on subjects ranging from education to agriculture, microfinance to malaria prevention, with new uses cropping up every year (see "Randomize Everything," below). Economists trained on randomized controlled trials now work in the faculties of top programs, and some universities have set up their own centers to support their growing rosters of experiments in the social sciences.
To find out what works on the ground, you need to climb down from the ivory tower and do some serious legwork in the places you're trying to help.
Their results have challenged—or, in some cases, confirmed with hard data—widely held beliefs about aid strategies that command billions of dollars in annual outlay. It turns out that retrospective analysis of a program's impact or even suggestive case studies from a few targeted households can be worse than useless in understanding how a program actually affects a community in the real world.
J-PAL researchers will be the first to caution that each study is specific to its context. What works in one community may not in another. But in the realm of human behavior, just as in the realm of medicine, there's no better way to gain insight than to compare the effect of an intervention to the effect of doing nothing at all. That is: You need a randomized controlled trial. And that means you need to climb down from the ivory tower and do some serious legwork in the places you're trying to help.
The first thing you need to know about randomized controlled trials, especially those pertaining to economics and human behavior, is that they're hard—very hard. To evaluate the textbook campaign, ICS Africa had to collaborate with the Kenyan education ministry to choose 100 schools in the rural Western Province, ensure the textbooks got to the assigned schools, and develop and administer tests to thousands of students whom ICS then tracked for the next four years. And that was simple compared with some of the other developing-world trials that IPA researchers have gone on to construct. For example, when two researchers were trying to study the effects of different pricing models for getting people to use bed nets to protect against malaria, the local nonprofit that sold subsidized nets declined to help them with the research or even sell them nets at the discounted rate. So the team had to spend a year recruiting a local research staff and drumming up funds to buy thousands of bed nets. Then they had to win the cooperation of 20 different prenatal clinics in Kenya, and then they had to oversee the experiment as it tracked the behavior of 10,000 pregnant women.
But there's a beautiful utility that can emerge from accumulating data, as interventions that researchers expect to be marginal—or, in some cases, weren't even thought of when the study began—reveal themselves to be highly effective. For example, after ICS's textbook campaign, it worked with Kremer to test a host of other strategies for increasing school participation rates in western Kenya, from subsidized meals to free uniforms to merit scholarships. One of the most cost-effective ways to boost attendance came as a big surprise: treatment for intestinal worms, which caused absenteeism to drop by one-quarter. And it wasn't only the schools receiving treatment that benefited. Attendance also rose at nearby schools as the overall transmission rate in the region dropped. The researchers calculated that, on average, deworming "buys" one extra year of school attendance for just $3.50, less expensive than any other intervention tested. This unexpected finding has led researchers to found an initiative called Deworm the World, which has worked in partnership with governments and NGOs to treat 37 million children.
Similarly, a 2004 experiment to promote water treatment wound up suggesting a solution that the researchers hadn't imagined. In this case, the larger goal was to combat diarrheal diseases, which kill millions of people every year, especially children under 5. Chlorine treatments can render water safe; but despite years of education efforts in Kenya, few people purchased and used the chlorine solution, even though it was widely available.
To test remedies, the researchers identified 88 springs that supplied nearly 2,000 households in western Kenya. Surveys of local women, who usually collect the water for the family and monitor children's health, found that 70 to 90 percent knew about the chlorine product but only 5 percent used it, and IPA's in-home tests detected chlorine in the water of just 2 percent of households. These women knew how to make their water safe, but they weren't doing it.
After that, the researchers spent four years testing different interventions. Giving away the chlorine solution helped in the near term, but when the free supply ran out, usage fell off. Half-off coupons for chlorine were a bust; out of 2,724 coupons handed out, just 10 percent were ever redeemed. The study also tested whether local "promoters," sent door to door with one free voucher per family, might succeed in evangelizing the use of chlorine among their neighbors. Promoters did make a difference in the short term; in this cohort, 40 percent of household water samples showed evidence of chlorine. But that number fell significantly when the vouchers ran out.
Finally, the researchers tried a new strategy, one that they had come to late in their design. Collaborating with engineers at MIT and Tufts and local artisans in Kenya, they developed chlorine dispensers that could be installed at the spring. Each tank was large enough for a whole community; two turns of a knob would release the right amount of chlorine to treat the standard 20-liter jerrican that women typically carry water in. In communities with these dispensers, the percentage of households with detectable chlorine in their water jumped to 60 percent, versus 58 percent in a group where seven free bottles were actually delivered to their homes. And the dispensers cost less than a third as much.
The researchers developed the dispenser with one big insight about human behavior in mind: We're far more likely to develop a good habit when we have cues to remind us what we should be doing, and when no inconveniences stand in the way. People saw the dispenser right by the spring, they saw their neighbors using it, and it was easy to use it themselves. But before the campaign, there would have been no way to justify why community dispensers should have been pursued over strategies suggested by other theories (that people would purchase chlorine once they had become used to using it, that a nonzero price would confer a sense of value, that social pressure could overcome cost barriers). In the absence of a controlled trial, our theories are just more noise.
The randomista movement is here to stay, bringing data and evidence into conversations that for too long have been dominated by poignant anecdotes and academic speculation. On a stormy September afternoon, I visit an empty New Hampshire summer camp to watch as J-PAL and IPA train the next generation of researchers. Many of the 68 attendees hold recent undergraduate or graduate degrees in economics from top-tier universities. Heidi McAnnally-Linz, the global outreach coordinator for IPA, passes her seven-week-old daughter to her husband for safekeeping and takes her place at the front of the room. Projected on a large screen beside her is a slide. On the left is a single orange and a price: $1. On the right is a bag of oranges and the same price: $1. At the bottom of the slide is a question: Which would you buy?
The trainees chuckle. There's no need for an economics degree to answer that.
"We use this to explain our work to funders," Linz says, and advances to the next slide. On the left, a photo of smiling schoolchildren in Africa, labeled "Free School Uniforms," shows a price of $5,000. On the right, a picture of a teacher handing a pill to a student, labeled "Deworming Children," also shows a price of $5,000. Below is the same question: Which would you buy? Answering that question took nearly a decade of research involving tens of thousands of Kenyan students—but the value of the answer is incalculably high.
The young staffers come from different backgrounds, but they're all hoping to use their economics training for good. Madeline Duhon has just defected from the private sector, where the explicit goal of her department was to raise the company's stock price. "That wasn't a huge motivator for me," she says. Andreas Tiemann recently accepted a position at IPA after working as a research analyst for J-PAL in Chile. "It's definitely not a 9-to-5 job," he says, pointing out that one research team he knows is trying to study nomads in Mongolia.
Tiemann is here to teach trainees how to design surveys so that the questions elicit good data. He's also trying to drive home just how seriously J-PAL and IPA take quality control, with reentry of survey results in duplicate—and sometimes triplicate—to ensure the accuracy of the data. The trainees are also learning how to identify communities for an evaluation, how to randomize, how to protect participants' privacy. They brush up on their database and statistical skills and think about how to work with other researchers and local staff. When the training is over, some will depart for two-year assignments in other countries; others will stay to work at the J-PAL or IPA offices in the US. Many are headed for higher degrees and research projects of their own.
J-PAL and IPA aren't just carrying out trials; they're also coordinating—and championing—the use of randomized controlled trials throughout the social sciences. As part of that effort, they're building a master registry, overseen by the American Economic Association, to provide a transparent record of trials across disciplines. By showing all the ways that rigorous studies can be carried out with modest budgets and small staffs, these organizations have allowed a tool once confined to medical trials to help investigate just about anything.
One recent trial in China gauged the effect on productivity, work-life balance, and employee turnover of allowing call-center staff to work from home. Another evaluated a policy of publicly releasing audits and revealing corruption of elected officials in Brazil, to see how it affected the reelection of incumbent mayors. Several are currently testing rainfall and crop price insurance programs for farmers in India, Malawi, and Ghana. Another is evaluating whether paying local residents to refrain from cutting trees can curb deforestation in Uganda. And the breadth of questions being investigated is expanding quickly.
Indeed, for some of the newest experiments in the database, researchers will be able to leave their passports at home. J-PAL has recently launched a North American wing, and it's working with groups such as the Lab for Economic Opportunities at Notre Dame and the Crime Lab and the Urban Education Lab at the University of Chicago. With 15 percent of Americans living below the poverty line, a growing income gap, and the highest incarceration rate in the world, the US has its own dark corners that could use some statistical illumination.
Yes, randomized testing can be expensive and time-consuming. But by surfacing the small details that can determine a campaign's success or failure, it is potentially saving billions of dollars and years of effort. And it's providing something invaluable, something beyond intuition and anecdote: hard statistical proof on the most effective ways to change the world.
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The government on Tuesday appointed former Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Kazuyoshi Umemoto as the new ambassador to the United Nations, while naming the current consul general in Hong Kong, Yuji Kumamaru, as the new ambassador to Cambodia.
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This performance is in contrast to rises in other major markets, including Japan up 5.3%, the US up 1.0% and the UK up 0.3%. Singapore was down 2.7%, Hong Kong down 2.5% and Germany was down 0.4%, according to ASX.
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Volatility (as measured by the average daily movement in the All Ordinaries Index) was 0.6% in May, down on the previous month (0.7%).
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The Best of Lake Erie
It feels like you're stepping into a 1950's summer when you hit the kitschy, fun-filled strip of pizza joints, arcades and sweets shops in eastern Ohio. And the good times are still rolling all around the lake. Check out the ale trail in Erie, Pennsylvania. Have barbecue on the beach in Conneaut, Ohio. Bike the river in Buffalo. Or try your hand at the latest craze to sweep the lake — indoor shuffleboard clubs.
By Colleen Smitek
Michael Cavotta
Holey Toledough – Best Doughnut
Laura Watilo Blake
The Erie Social Shuffleboard Club & Bar – Best Indoor Fun
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Jimmy G's – Best Food Truck
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Heavenly Creamery – Best Ice Cream
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The Strip at Geneva-on-the-Lake
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The Best of the Strip at Geneva-on-the-Lake
Step onto the Strip and you feel it — the buzz of fun about to happen. The thing is, there are distinctly different kinds of excitement that occur on and around this historic stretch. For an 8-year-old girl, it doesn't get any better than hitting a 1,000-ticket winner at an arcade, followed by an ice cream cone. For a couple celebrating their anniversary, it's a night away in a room with a lake view, with a nice dinner just down the street. Whatever your age, here's how to make the most of the mile.
Best Time for Kids — Adventure Zone
You might want to save this place for your last stop on the Strip because, once they're here, your kids won't leave. Inside, there's the arcade and prize counter. Outside, there's go-carts, bumper boats, a merry-go-round, mini golf, batting cages, a zipline, a climbing wall and even a vertical trampoline that is one of only four in the world. Wearing a harness, you're hoisted up alongside a trampoline "wall" that you can then bounce off of as you hang in the air. 440-466-3555, adventurezonefun.com
Best Fast Food — Eddie's Grill
There's a reason Eddie's Grill looks like its straight out of the 1950s — it is. Owner Edie Sezon launched the place in the summer of 1950 as a root beer stand and still works the counter today. Grab a seat at the counter outside or head inside, where there will be a juke box at your table. The menu is tasty and simple — foot-long hot dogs, Slovenian sausage, burgers, sloppy Joes and fried fish — and the root beer is still served out of a barrel. 440-466-8720, eddiesgrill.com
Best Mini Golf — Allison's Mini Golf
This golf course has some serious bragging rights. Established in 1924, it claims to be the oldest continuously operating mini golf course in the United States. It's also a peaceful — and shady — reprieve from the hustle and heat of the Strip in peak summer, thanks to the huge maples that were only saplings when the course opened. It's $5.50 for adults to golf, and owners Bill and Georgette Allison haven't raised the price in years. "We want people to be able to golf more than once while they're in town," Georgette says. "We see the same people year after year. We've seen infants grow up, get married and have kids." 440-466-7922, allisonsminigolf.com
Best Dining Experience — Crosswinds Grille at The Lakehouse Inn
Even if the food were awful — it's not! — this place would be worth it. The outdoor dining area sits right on the lake on a terraced stone patio surrounded by flowers — and also the herbs and vegetables chef Nate Fagnilli uses to create his true farm-to-table cuisine. You could keep it as simple as a wood-fired margherita pizza ($14) or go with the dish named just "pork" ($26) that features a grilled loin chop, smashed kohlrabi, wilted kale and scape pesto. 440-466-8668, thelakehouseinn.com
Best Water Fun — Wild Water Works
Sure, there's lots of fresh lemonade and ice cream to cool you off as you stroll through Geneva-on-the-Lake on a hot summer afternoon, but the ultimate refreshment can be found right in the middle of the Strip on these two giant, side-by-side water slides. A $10 pass buys all-day access or you pay $2.75 per ride. 440-466-8650
Best Beer — GOTL Brewing Co.
The Strip has no shortage of places to grab a Bud, but if you're looking for something more, head to the east end to check out GOTL Brewing Co. and its large outdoor beer garden right on the water. The menu includes burgers, sandwiches, pasta, Lake Erie perch and walleye and certified center-cut angus steak. But you also can't go wrong ordering a few apps — especially the lobster corn dogs — to share. 440-361-4864, gotlbrewing.com
Best Pizza — Capo's Pizza
It was a wrong turn that landed the Capo family in Geneva-on-the-Lake. They were headed from their home in Pennsylvania for a day of fun in Conneaut, Ohio, but ended up stumbling upon the Strip. Father Frank Capo's response has become something of a legend: "We can sell some pizza here." They've been doing exactly that now for 51 years, using the same recipe and still hand-tossing their pizza. 440- 466-6144, capospizza2.com
Best Ice Cream —Whip-n-Dip
Whip-n-Dip — just off the Strip across from The Lodge at Geneva-on-the-lake — may look like your classic roadside ice cream stand, but don't expect your standard soft serve. It's always offering new flavors, including apple pie, pistachio and cotton candy. True fanatics, however, keep close tabs on the stand for the two times a year when it serves its famous homemade peanut butter ice cream. 440-466-0128
Best Overnight Stay — The Cottages at The Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake
Located right on the lake with both indoor and outdoor pools, The Lodge has long been the top hotel in the area. But with the addition this summer of six cottages on the water, it's now also ideal for longer stays. The new, two-bedroom cottages feature kitchenettes, granite-and-tile baths and living rooms with gas fireplaces and flat-screen TVs. Watch the water from your front porch or chat with your neighbors at the communal fire pits. Rates start at $319 a night in the summer, but dip down to $189 in October, the perfect time of year to take advantage of The Lodge's wine shuttles to enjoy the many wineries in the area. 866-806-8066, thelodgeatgeneva.com/cottages
Best Donuts — Madsen Donuts
The secret to Madsen Donuts' success? The proprietary recipe it's been using to make its famous chocolate cream stick donuts since 1938. The cream filling is marshmallow-based and the chocolate topping, like everything else, is fresh and made on site in the 450-square-foot storefront. The glazed donuts, meanwhile, are so pillowy soft they almost melt in your mouth. 440-466-5884, madsendonuts.com
Best Tour Guide: Chip Duggan
Chip Duggan's lived in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, all his life. He can't imagine living anywhere else — and it shows in the tours he gives through Island Transportation. "It's my family heritage, and I think it's a really great place to live," he says. "I take a lot of pride in being from Put-in-Bay, and I like everybody on the island."
Island Transportation rents bikes and golf carts, but you can get the full Chip Duggan experience by buying a ticket for the tour train, which takes a little less than an hour and covers about 80 percent of the island, including Heineman Winery, Perry's Cave and other spots of historical significance. 419-285-2016, putinbaytrans.com
Best Jam: Cleveland Jam
Jim Conti didn't want to waste anything from his winemaking, so he started making jam. "I brought it to a family party and everybody liked it," Conti says. "I was just thinking of other ways to use grapes."
And that's how Cleveland Jam was born. Conti's original vineyard is in Cleveland's Clark-Fulton neighborhood, so he looked to nearby Great Lakes Brewing Co. for his next project, making jelly with its beer. He makes a pepper jam with Burning River Pale Ale, and a fig apple jam with Eliot Ness Lager — both available at the brewery.
"Beer jelly's a little more complicated, just because it's more ingredients," Conti says. "It's a lengthier process, too."
Conti is branching out, too, having bought a former florist shop with an attached greenhouse in Old Brooklyn. "We'd like to be self-sufficient," he says. 440-390-1170, cle-jam.com
Best Boutique Hotel: Hotel Kilbourne
When Ryan Whaley and his wife Nikki Lloyd opened Volstead, a speakeasy in downtown Sandusky, the reaction was uniformly positive — with one exception. "Everyone kept saying, 'I wish there was a place to stay downtown,'" Whaley says. "And we said, 'I think we have an idea for our next project.'"
After a year's worth of work, the Hotel Kilbourne — named for Hector Kilbourne, the Master Mason who laid out downtown Sandusky in the shape of a Masonic emblem — was born.
The hotel has nine rooms, but the couple also bought the building next door for potential expansion. In addition, there will be a first-floor bar — and one on the rooftop, which Whaley says will be the crown jewel.
"You'll get amazing views of Cedar Point, Sandusky Bay and Kelleys Island," he says. 844-373-2223, hotelkilbourne.com
Best Doughnut: Holey Toledough
As far as Chris Ritter is concerned, a doughnut is a delivery device for toppings. "You can go sweet or savory," he says. "Salty and sweet works well. Salty sweet and savory work well too."
Ritter, of Toledo, Ohio, started making doughnuts in 2014, and, today, Holey Toledough delivers them to coffee shops in Toledo and nearby Perrysburg. Ritter is in the midst of a crowdsourcing campaign to get a 1,700-square-foot storefront in Toledo, which he says will be a game-changer.
But for now, he makes doughnuts, from a classic maple bacon doughnut to really interesting concoctions, like a pizza fritter with basil, garlic, pepperoni and sun-dried tomatoes; or a pad Thai doughnut, with curry, lime peanuts and sriracha. "It was an oddball, but a lot of people liked it," he says. 419-810-7880, holeytoledough.com
Best Burger: Mamo Burger Bar
Mamo Burger Bar prides itself on its freshly ground beef, dry-aged by the Butcher of Kingsville. But the Canadian burger joint also has turkey burgers, homemade chorizo — and a vegan burger that will fool even the most refined palate.
"I'm a meat eater," says general manager Manuel Cantara. "It's the best veggie burger in town."
The original location opened in Windsor, Ontario, in 2013, and has proved successful enough that a second location opened last year in nearby Tecumseh. "We wanted to clone them, but we quickly discovered people have different tastes," Cantara says. 519-973-1234 (Windsor), 519-735-3999 (Tecumseh); mamoburgerbar.com
Best Candy: Brummer's Chocolates
Treat yourself to a sweet piece of history at Brummer's Chocolates. The Brummer family has been making candy for three generations in New Jersey, and their store in Vermilion, Ohio, just celebrated its 26th anniversary. The cases are full of chocolate-covered goodies but go for the best-selling buttercrunch, made in-house by covering toffee in chocolate and rolling it in almonds.
There's also a sugar-free line as a nod to its namesake. "My husband Bob is a diabetic," says Sandy Brummer. "He can't eat most of the candy." 440-967-2329, brummers.com
Best Ice Cream: Heavenly Creamery
Variety is the yummy spice of life at Heavenly Creamery in Conneaut, Ohio. Owners Joe and Christine Ericksen had a divine idea to open an ice cream shop in a former church on U.S. Route 20.
At any given time, the shop offers 24 flavors out of the 120 concoctions the Ericksens have perfected. They use all-natural ingredients to make small batches (about six gallons) daily ranging from sweet corn to pineapple upside-down cake. "We make a lot of different ice creams you just can't get anywhere else," Joe boasts. They also make fresh baklava and Texas sheet cake to serve with the ice cream, with fresh apple dumplings on Sundays. 440-593-6080, facebook.com/heavenlycreamery
Best Bath and Body Products: Cottage North Soapworks
Owner Dori Lynne Shrubb estimates she sells 35 to 40 glycerin-based soaps — everything from soothing Oatmeal, Milk and Honey to exfoliating Lemon Poppyseed — in her Port Dover, Ontario, storefront, along with five custom-scented collections of soap, lotion or body butter, and sodium laurel sulfate-free bubble bath/shower gel.
The newest, Blush, boasts a warm vanilla tone and white-flower notes; the most popular, Lakeside, "has a very clean, watery fragrance."
Everything bearing the Cottage North label is concocted in a room behind the shop by Shrubb and a soap-maker using high-grade phthalate-free fragrance and essential oils. An award-winning floral designer creates arrangements sold from a small walk-in cooler. "The energy in the store, it's just so wonderful," Shrubb says. "It's a feel-good kind of place." 519-583-3977, cottagenorthsoapworks.com
Best Food Truck: Jimmy G's
There is no earthly reason that Jim Gippert should be having the success he is running a barbecue restaurant and food truck. "I worked at Wendy's for a semester in college," Gippert says. "I have no business doing this."
Gippert is a pastor at New Hope Vineyard Church in Fremont, Ohio, and took to barbecue as a social activity to bring the congregation together and reach out to potential new members of the flock.
"I built a smoker and stumbled on to a passion," he says. "I realized something bigger than myself was going on."
Gippert opened a restaurant in Fremont in 2012. This year, he's expanded his operation with a food truck, which has traveled as far as Brighton, Michigan. "The restaurant is the hub," he says. "I envision other spokes, and the truck is the first."
Gippert makes his own corned beef, pastrami and bacon, and has come up with six barbecue sauces, from a vinegar-based Carolina barbecue sauce to the Memphis sauce, which he says is "like your wife kissing you and then punching you in the mouth."
It may seem like an odd transition from the pulpit to the smoker, but Gippert doesn't see it that way. "I started barbecuing to show kindness and build community," he says. "And the Lord has favored me with success."
Besides, it's in the Bible. "When the prodigal son came home, they killed the fatted calf," he says. "They had brisket." 567-201-2920, jgbbq.com
Best Pie: Bremfield's
Customers at this cozy cafe, with the exposed brick walls in the lakeside town of Port Colborne, Ontario, rave about the always-changing lunch menu, the date squares, and the smell of fresh flowers you can't help but stop to sniff — and maybe even take home with you.
But it's Bremfield's pies — with their homemade crust and oozing sweet filling — that has our tastebuds begging us to return for another visit. Choose from multiple choices each day, like apple, fudge, blueberry and pecan. Our only complaint: Choosing just one is really hard. We'll have dessert before lunch, please. 289-836-9863, facebook.com/bremfields
Best Fungi Foray: Long Point Eco-Adventures
Don't miss your chance to join a naturalist, a mycologist and a chef on a mushroom foray day trip in the Carolinian Forest near St. Williams, Ontario. Organized by Long Point Eco-Adventures, the adventure includes a trip into the woods to hunt mushrooms, a talk on identifying your favorite fungi, and a meal paired with wines from nearby Burning Kiln Winery. The one-day adventure — the idea of which is sure to grow on you — will be held Sept. 24, 2016, and costs $85 per person. 877-743-8687, lpfun.ca
Best Porch Perch: Ashley's Island House
There's no better place than the front porch at Ashley's Island House in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, to settle in for people watching, waiting out a storm, or just to sipping a drink before heading out to find a great spot for dinner on this Ohio island.
If you happen to be there on a Sunday afternoon, it's a great spot to watch the antique car parade go by. The inn, which has 13 rooms and was built in 1865, is just a block from downtown. Along with its welcoming porch, the hardwood floors, lofty windows, paddlewheel fans, and antique furniture and lighting give guests the feeling of a 19th century charm that stays true to its roots. 419-285-2844, ashleysislandhouse.com
Best Cheese: Reverie Creamery
Let's be honest: There's hardly any cheese we don't like. But — holy cow's milk — the Wanderer cheese from Reverie Creamery, a small batch artisan cheesemaking company and cheese shop in Chautauqua County, in Mayville, New York, is in a league of its own.
Wanderer, made from grass-fed raw milk, is an Alpine-style cheese with a rind washed in Southern Tier Brewing Company's Porter beer. A typical Alpine cheese has a sweet, nutty and savory flavor. This one stands out because of its unexpected notes of salted caramel, hazelnut and sweet malty aroma. It is excellent on its own, or try microplaning it, and adding it to fresh roasted asparagus. Yes please, pass the cheese. 716-789-5757, reveriecreamery.com
Best Do-it-Yourself Dinner: The Lakehouse Inn & Winery
The Lakehouse Inn & Winery in Geneva, Ohio, kicks hands-on culinary experiences up a notch — or three — with its full-day hog butchering and sausage-making classes. Guests, after learning the art of hog butchering, finish their day with a three-course dinner featuring select cuts from that day's butchering session. Participants get to take home a selection of their cuts as well. The next butchering class is Nov. 19 and costs $159. 440-466-8668, thelakehouseinn.com
Best Place to Bike — on the Water: Buffalo
Yep, that's right. You can bike on the water. Not near the water. Not alongside the water. On the water. Water Bikes of Buffalo rents easy-to-ride solo and tandem water bikes to tour the Buffalo Harbor and river. Pedal past giant grain elevators, right alongside naval ships, and as far as the lighthouse near Lake Erie. Rentals start at $18. 716-681-4643, waterbikesofbuffalo.com
Best Place to Bike — on the Beach : Presque Isle
The Yellow Bike Rental Co. on Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, has added two new fat-wheeled rental options to its lineup this year. First up are fat-tire bikes, popular because of their ability to ride in places that are usually difficult terrain for bike riders. At Presque Isle you can ride the bikes right on the beach, for instance. The other new available rentals are Aqua Trikes, three-wheeled contraptions that sit about 4 feet above water and can be pedaled around Waterworks Pond. 814-833-7347, presqueisletouringcompany.com
Best Giant Meatball: Villaggio
Ellicottville native Nick Pitillo, who also owns Osteria 166 in downtown Buffalo, opened Villagio, in Ellicottville, New York to immediate acclaim in the fall 2015. One of Villaggio's unexpected stars is its super-sized meatball, all beef and white bread and simmered in Nani's Sunday Sauce (Nani is Nick's mother). Go simple by getting the meatball topped with a dollop ricotta as an appetizer, or dress it up by ordering The Carl, which sandwiches an oversized meatball among Italian sausage, sautéed banana peppers, onions, melted mozzarella and Sunday Sauce. 716-699-2199, villaggioevl.com
Best Gelato: II Gelato di Carlotta
Everyone has cones and cups. But a gelato burger? What's that? Find it at II Gelato di Carlotta at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. It seals your choice of gelato in an organic, Italian-imported brioche bun, then drizzles the concoction with gianduia — a warm, hazelnut chocolate spread that is much better than ketchup.
It's not just the unique burger that makes this place a favorite in a town where ice cream and gelato stores dot every block. The gelato here is made with grape sugar, and its fruits are direct from local farms. You'll find a dozen or more flavors from which to choose — caramel-mou, apple pie, chocolate and red wine, cookies, ice wine. Can you pick just one? Why try? Stop by every day on your next visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake. 905-468-8999, gelatodicarlotta.com
Best Dessert to Share: La Bella
La Bella in Erie, Pennsylvania, is well-known for its great food, but one dessert in particular really gets people talking. It's called "The Kitchen Sink" and includes everything from ice cream and cookies to bananas and candy. It's served in (you guessed it!) an actual sink. 814-456-2244, labella-restaurant-catering-services.letseat.at
Best Elvis Menu Item: Cloud 9
You can't help falling in love with Erie, Pennsylvania's Cloud 9 Wine Bar's Fat Elvis, a twist on Elvis's favorite comfort food. The Cloud 9 version is a grilled PB&J served on sourdough bread with bacon, banana and a hint of honey — so good it's sure to get you all shook up. Those in the know save it (and share it!) for dessert. Your server will add a scoop of ice cream on the side if you ask nicely. 814-870-9007, cloud9erie.com
Best Birthday Bash: The Erie Playhouse
One of the oldest and largest community theaters in the nation, the Playhouse will celebrate its 100th season in 2016-2017. Along with another stellar season of mainstage and Youtheatre performances (including "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Scrooge," "A Chorus Line" and "James and the Giant Peach"), celebrations will include a huge anniversary gala, a re-enactment of the first plays ever performed at the playhouse, a concert extravaganza and a street fair. 814-454-2852, erieplayhouse.org
Best Boat Parade: Tall Ships Erie
The parade of sails that opens the Tall Ships Erie festival Sept. 8-11 is a dramatic, can't-miss event. Ten tall ships will parade around the enclosed Presque Isle Bay while thousands cheer from shore. If you're lucky a few might even shoot off their cannons. Adding to the fun: An appearance by the world's largest floating duck — it's more than six stories high, 64 feet wide and 80 feet long and weighs 11 tons. 814-452-2744, tallshipserie.org
Best Breakwater: Port Stanley Pier
This breakwater closed in 1998 in need of repairs. The municipality responded to the public's continued call for renewed access to the structure by repairing it, then topping it with a sleek new cap of concrete. The result, which opened last September, is a 12½-foot-wide pedestrian promenade that extends some 1,470 feet into Lake Erie, ending at a picturesque lighthouse. Visitors will find decorative streetlights to illuminate evening strolls and benches for lolling. Stretches of concrete wall give way to glass panels that provide unimpeded water views. "It's very popular with people with disabilities coming out in wheelchairs and scooters," says Lloyd Perrin, director of physical services for the municipality of Central Elgin. 877-463-5446, elgintourism.com
Best Coffee: Out of the Grey Coffeehousecafe
Why, it's the one you invent, of course! This coffee house in Fairview, Pennsylvania, gives customers the opportunity to fully customize coffees, then name and share their creation with others. Can't make it in? You can order a custom creation online too. But you should try to visit — Out of the Grey is full of comfy couches, with a fireplace to curl up in front of and a menu of yummy food, all of which makes it a can't-miss place if you're nearby. 888-354-5282, outofthegreycoffeehousecafe.com
Best Barbecue: The Breakwall
You will smell it before you see it. And you can't eat closer to the water than this: The Breakwall in Conneaut, Ohio, literally is just feet from the water's edge. The menu offers a nod to its location with an obligatory Lake Erie perch sandwich or basket, but remains barbecue-centric, and it is not uncommon to see — or, better yet, smell — a whole pig cooking on the grill for hours just outside the concrete block kitchen's door. The deck comes to life at night with festive lights and weekend performances by local musicians. Try the loaded pork tots — a bed of fried tater tots or fries smothered in pulled pork, shredded cheddar cheese, jalapenos, black olives and cheese sauce with a side of sour cream — that manager Joe Hawn says has been a recent favorite. Almost everything served is made fresh, including the sweet vinegar-based coleslaw and two sauces on each table, with a hotter one in reserve for the more adventurous palate. Check out the Breakwall's Facebook page or call 440-599-2264.
Best Hard Cider: Blueberry Hill Estates
Perhaps the biggest (and most unexpected) thrill on Blueberry Hill is the St. Williams, Ontario, winery's Fighters Cider. The slightly sparkling libation derives its name from the bruise-colored combo of blackberries and blueberries winemaker Nick Vranckx adds to his commercial- and heritage-apple blend. "The blueberry adds some red-fruit flavor at the beginning of the palate," he says. "And then the blackberry adds some velvetiness to the end." It is considerably drier than most hard-cider counterparts — Vranckx likens it to a traditional English-style cider such as Strongbow. And the salmon hue is appealing, too. "When you see it poured, it's just like, 'Whoa!'" he says. 519-586-8712, blueberry-hill.ca
Best Fall Event: Norfolk County Fair & Horse Show
The fair, held from Oct. 4 to 10, celebrates its 175th anniversary this year, and is expected to draw more than 100,000 visitors. Head over to the grandstands to catch a demolition derby, monster truck show or tractor pull. Check out the local fruits, vegetables, floral arrangements, handmade quilts and other crafts. See huge pumpkins, some weighing up to 1,000 pounds. But if you want to experience the fair the VIP way, sign up for the Harvest Dinner & Concert ($125 per person), which includes the very best local growers and restaurants have to offer.
Simcoe, Ontario, 519-426-7280, norfolkcountyfair.com
Best Dessert to Share: La Bella
La Bella in Erie, Pennsylvania, is well-known for its great food, but one dessert in particular really gets people talking. It's called "The Kitchen Sink" and includes everything from ice cream and cookies to bananas and candy. It's served in (you guessed it!) an actual sink and is enough for at least two dozen people. 814-456-2244, labella-restaurant-catering-services.letseat.at
Best Pound of Perch: Tackle Box 2
Hidden away on the banks of the Sandusky River in Fremont, Ohio, 16 miles by boat from Lake Erie, the Tackle Box 2 knows what it's good at — fried fish served in a fun, festive atmosphere — and doesn't pretend to be anything else. Yes, your Bud Light will be served to you in a can. But your pound of fresh perch ($16.95 on Fridays, $18.95 the rest of the week) will be delicious. 419-334-4643, facebook.com/thetacklebox2
Best Indoor Fun: The Erie Social Shuffleboard Club & Bar
The Marblehead Peninsula has always been a good time in summer, but now there's an option for fun when it rains — or even snows. Erie Social offers six regulation-size indoor shuffleboard courts, corn hole, old English-style dart boards and vintage game boards, as well as cozy wooden booths from which to watch the action. The full-service bar keeps it lively with offerings like Bucket Roulette (five beers hand-selected by bartenders for $9) and even Shirley Temples and Buck Rogers for the kids. The adjacent Sandwich Shoppe offers an assortment of creative options like The Catawba (stacked roasted turkey, sliced Fuji apples and crème brie served on walnut cranberry bread, $9.50). The best part? Erie Social will be opening a second location on the west side of Cleveland this fall. Marblehead, Ohio, 419-960-7895, theeriesocial.com
Best Pig Roast — Mesenburg Creative Catering
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They do things a bit differently at the Huron Room in Detroit. It starts with a promise that all fish is sourced from the Great Lakes Basin. Next, you choose your fish: whitefish, lake smelt, Ohio yellow perch, white perch, catfish or walleye. Finally, you decide whether you'd like your catch battered and fried, grilled or served in a taco. Top off your meal with a grilled banana pudding and peanut butter sandwich served with Guernsey vanilla ice cream and house potato chips. 313-265-3325, huronroom.com
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Lets start off with a little bit of a history lesson. Rewind back to 1991, we had HTTP 0.9. And it was designed around the notion of doing text based document exchanging. 0.9 was designed around the notion of GETs and GET-ting documents, it was essential very request and response based. You could only do GETs and there was only the HTML response type permissible in 0.9. It was designed for sharing physics documents for the folks over at CERN.
Fast forward to 1996 It was officially RFC'd to 1.0 so that other individuals and organizations can implement systems that required HTTP. They formalised the request and response dance further by adding request and response headers. The RFC also called for multiple response types (images for example), so HTTP started to support more resource types to be delivered over the wire.
In 1999, HTTP/1.1 was finalized and RFC'd. In my opinion the most important aspect of HTTP/1.1 is that it introduced a couple of more verbs or actions that describe your request. POST, DELETE, PUT, PATCH, and OPTIONS to name a few. Another major 'feature' of HTTP/1.1 is that the support for persistent connections was added (using Keep-Alive's). This allowed clients to reuse connections going to the same server, reducing the latency cost of doing a connection handshake with an HTTP server.
HTTP/1.1 has seen its days numbered for a few years now. It was not designed for today's web pages. Today's web pages are rather large (2+MB per page). With HTTP/1.1 when you load up a web page there is no way to tell the HTTP server how you would want to prioritize your requests. These days we are at the mercy of whatever browser the user is running to do that, which is not that great since if you developed your web application, you might know which requests and responses are more important, and thus you could prioritize them on page loads. Anyways one of the things that HTTP/2 will address is that exact issue, resource/request prioritization. Another issue that HTTP/1.1 has is that persistent connections, while a brilliant concept, has a gigantic flaw called head-of-line blocking. Head of line blocking is where a client/server cannot send data to its reciprocal while data is currently in flight between those two parties on that particular connection. HTTP/2.2 addresses this by encapsulating the data in a data stream and allowing data to be multiplexed on the wire. This multiplexing of data will seriously amortize the cost of establishing connections to websites. And as someone like me who lives very far away from popular websites, this means I get to have a better experience on the web since I will not have to incur that latency cost as often as I do today. Reducing latency is crucial to a better browsing experience.
What is HTTP/2? Well besides what I have already mentioned, HTTP/2 is a giant improvement over HTTP/1.1. The spec of HTTP/2 was largely inspired by SPDY, and in fact HTTP/2 picks up where SPDY left off since SPDY is no longer being actively developed. SPDYs goals were to improve loading times of pages by reducing the price incurred by high latency, and its other major goal was to improve web security altogether. The guys who designed SPDY over at google, are on the RFC committee overseeing HTTP/2.In short, HTTP/2 has the following goals:
While the spec of HTTP/2 does not mandate any use of TLS, most of the big browsers have come out and said that they will not implement non-HTTPS for HTTP/2. There is already a lot of noise out there. If you work in the Microsoft universe you'd be glad to know that IIS 10 supports HTTP/2. Check out these links for more information on HTTP/2


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Dog Groom and Bride Pendants: Spoiled Sweet or Spoiled Rotten?
Some dogs simply won't tolerate a hat or veil atop their heads, and a full costume seems way too stuffy, especially for Summer. If you want to let a pet celebrate your big day with a little collar addition, there are these charms to do the trick.Now I'm wondering if the disparity between the price of the Dog Groom ($65) and Dog Bride ($95) has something to do with the fact that a bride would probably be more willing than a groom to shell out the cash for this Swarovski crystal and seed bead pendant. Either way, would you buy in?


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TOKYO — Coastal residents fled to higher ground as a powerful earthquake sent a series of moderate tsunamis toward Japan's northeastern shore Tuesday and fueled concerns about the Fukushima nuclear power plant destroyed by a much larger tsunami five year ago.
Lines of cars snaked away from the coast in the pre-dawn hours after authorities issued a tsunami warning and urged residents to seek higher ground immediately. The warning was lifted nearly four hours later.
The magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the same region that was devastated by a tsunami in 2011, killing some 18,000 people.
There were reports of minor injuries and damage, Japanese broadcaster NHK said. The earthquake shook buildings in Tokyo, 240 kilometres (150 miles) southwest of the epicenter.
NHK also showed one person's video of water rushing up a river or canal, but well within the height of the embankment. It was eerily reminiscent of the 2011 disaster, when much larger tsunamis rushed up rivers and overflowed, wiping away entire neighbourhoods.
On Tuesday, tsunami waves were recorded along the coast. The highest one was 1.4 metres (4.6 feet) in Sendai Bay. A tsunami advisory for waves of up to 1 metre (3 feet) remained in effect along the coast.
The operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant said there were no abnormalities observed at the plant, though a swelling of the tide of up to 1 metre was detected offshore.
The plant was swamped by the 2011 tsunami, sending three reactors into meltdown and leaking radiation into the surrounding area. The plant is being decommissioned but the situation remains serious as the utility figures out how to remove still-radioactive fuel rods and debris and what to do with the melted reactor cores.
Plant operator TEPCO said a pump that supplies cooling water to a spent fuel pool at the nearby Fukushima Dai-ni plant stopped working, but that a backup pump had been launched to restore cooling water to the pool. Both plants are run by Tokyo-based TEPCO.
Naohiro Masuda, head of TEPCO's decommissioning unit, said he believes that the pump was shut off automatically by a safety system as the water in the pool shook.
He said decommissioning work at the destroyed Dai-ichi plant had been temporarily suspended because of the earthquake.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude at 6.9.
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What is it about a good story of the 'wee folk' that gets people so fascinated, yet terrified of them?
I myself enjoy any readings or documentaries in which legends, folklore or eyewitness accounts recount the strange encounters with fairies or gnomes. Yes, you can say that this is just all myth and fairy-tales. No pun intended. I grew up with these stories and with an innate fear of such little creatures existing. There was a book I read a long time ago about a certain "Coke Bottle Man". This story has fascinated me ever since.
To this day, I don't remember the name of the book in which the story appeared but I've found the excerpt of that particular story floating about the internet. I wrote about it in the post "Lilliputian hallucinations: A theory on the 'wee folk' ".
This is the only reference of the "Coke Man" gnome that I've found online:
Source: Mail-Archive
A traditional Tsalagi (Cherokee) legend may possibly throw
some light on a couple of modern diminutive humanoid sightings from
North Carolina. The best-known modern "mini-man" was probably the "Coke
bottle man" seen near Dunn, North Carolina in October 1976 by an
8-year-old boy and a 20-year-old woman two weeks apart is one of the
best best-known modern reports of "mini-men" a few inches to less than
two feet tall. The Cherokee tradition suggests that "mini-men" may have
been sighted in the southeastern United States for cenuries.
Little Tonnlie Barefoot was playing in a cornfield near his home
on October 12, 1876, when he saw a little man "not much bigger than a
Coke bottle," wearing a black "German-type hat," a white tie, a blue top
and trousers, and black boots. He reached for something in his pocket,
froze, squeaked like a mouse, and ran off through the cornstalks,
leaving behind footprints 2 1/4 long by 1 inch wide with bootmarks. Two
weeks later, Shirley Ann McCrimmon, coming home from a party just before
daybreak on October 25, saw a little man with light-brown skin, wearing
boots and a thin garment. He shone a tiny bright yellow light in her
eyes, and ran away when she screamed. Dogs also barked at him.
Footprints were again found, in hard ground, but none in the soft ground
where he had stood, and in the cornfield the footprints ended abruptly.
For some reason, these "wee folk" have been on my mind recently and I wanted to share with you an interesting show on them.
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nonya secrets No. 2 Nonya Sambal Mix
Even with the benefit kitchen gadgetry, Nonya sauces require painstaking and lengthy preparation. There are a vast number of herbs; rhizomes such as galangal, turmeric, ginger together with onions, garlic, chillies, lemon grass. They all need to be carefully measured, sliced and ground to a fine texture to produce the sambals and smooth curry pastes which are then cooked so that the onions caramelise and the ingredients come together in a melange of hot and sweet, spicy and smooth.
Created using an old family recipe, Nonya Sambal Mix has a delicious lemon flavour running through it. Combine this fragrant, citrusy mix with coconut milk and add to chicken for a rich and delicious Nonya curry.


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Maybe you've noticed but it's been since March that I've posted on this blog and that is for several reasons/excuses. I got a full-time job, I was learning about marketing at my job and become completely immersed in that while channeling my writing juices into my company's blog, and then I got on a serious budget which stopped my cash flow into adventurous cooking and cocktail/beer explorations. That said, in the interim I discovered how much I loved Twitter, then dumped it for Google+.
My refocused energies mean I've decided to start a rotating small plates club (way better than book club), try running a 5K/8K this year, retire this blog and move it to Google+, rev up my Italian and get my groove back. Any and all interested in joining me on my little adventure, heave ho!
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Sir Cliff Richard is planning to sue the BBC after they filmed a police raid on his UK home, it was claimed last night.
The 74-year-old singer is seeking damages for breach of privacy if he isn't charged over an allegation of historic sexual abuse.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Sir Cliff is also considering legal action against South Yorkshire Police. The force struck a deal with the Corporation to film the swoop on his £3 million penthouse.
In August the BBC faced an avalanche of criticism from leading lawyers, celebrities and politicians after it dispatched a helicopter to hover over the Berkshire property and stationed reporters at its gates before police had even arrived.
Cameramen in the air were able to zoom in on officers through the windows as they searched through belongings. Sir Cliff, who vigorously denies any wrongdoing and has not been arrested, was in Portugal at the time.
'No citizen should have to watch on live television their home being raided in this way,' concluded a blistering Home Affairs Select Committee report.
Sir Cliff's lawyer Gideon Benaim denounced the 'premature and disproportionate' reporting which caused the veteran entertainment 'immeasurable harm'.
Friends say Sir Cliff is now determined to launch a concerted fightback. As his association with the BBC goes back to the start of his career – he appeared on Juke Box Jury in 1961 and on the first episode of Top Of The Pops in 1964 – legal action is likely to cause acute embarrassment.
The singer was said to be dismayed to learn of the extent of co-operation between South Yorkshire Police and the BBC in the weeks leading up to the raid.
As the Home Affairs Select Committee noted last month, not only did the force give the broadcaster the date of the search, it also 'handed over a great deal of information freely'.
This newspaper can disclose that emails, text messages and other documents given to the committee show that the BBC:
Expressed concern that the alleged sex abuse victim might ruin its exclusive story by alerting other media.
Was privy to operational details not usually released to journalists – including how officers struggled to find Sir Cliff's home and how they were considering searching his overseas properties.
Received a running commentary from police at the start of the raid. At one point BBC reporter Dan Johnson was told: 'Going in now, Dan… We have managed to gain entry.'
Asked to be alerted before officers removed anything 'so we can get the chopper in place for a shot'.
One legal expert said last night that the level of intrusion meant Sir Cliff would have a 'strong case' and added that the BBC would struggle to mount a public interest defence.
The police investigation began when a man, now in his 40s, came forward earlier this year to claim Sir Cliff sexually assaulted him during a Christian rally in Sheffield organised by Billy Graham, the American evangelist, in 1985.
A BBC spokesperson said:"The Home Affairs Select Committee has already endorsed the way the BBC handled this story. We have nothing further to add." while South Yorkshire police said that "While we believe our actions in relation to dealing with the media were within policy and were well intended they were ultimately flawed and we regret the additional anxiety which was caused to Sir Cliff Richard."
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Despite eroding confidence in global economies hampered by trade disputes and slow growth, many of Canada's small and medium-sized business owners plan to continue investing in their companies over the next 12 months, according to the latest survey from the Business Development Bank of Canada.
Entrepreneurs entered 2020 feeling more pessimistic than they were a year earlier, according to the survey conducted last fall. But this hasn't dulled a belief among entrepreneurs in the manufacturing and services sectors that their sales will grow this year, and they expect to hire more workers to meet "sustained" demand for their products and services.
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"There's reason to be optimistic," said Pierre Cléroux, BDC's vice president of research and chief economist, noting that he believes the new free trade agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico will reinstate "favorable conditions" for Canadian goods and services.
There are regional differences in sentiment across the country, with investment intentions for this year rising in Ontario and Quebec but declining elsewhere, particularly in the western provinces.
In British Columbia, spending intentions on machinery and equipment has "significantly decreased," the survey found. Meanwhile, low commodity prices and limited cash flow have made business owners in the Prairies the most pessimistic.
While entrepreneurs in Quebec have rising investment intentions for this year, labour shortages are a concern in the province and are noted as a "top factor" limiting such spending.
The BDC survey also found that investment intentions are rising sharply among exporters across the country while, in contrast, they are "sluggish for businesses focused on the domestic market."
Larger businesses — those that earn more than $10 million a year — are driving spending intentions in Canada, according to BDC.
The business owners that plan to increase their investments say they will do so in areas including technology, marketing, intellectual property and employee training. However, investments in tangible assets such as real estate, machinery and equipment are expected to decline.
This is a continuation of a trend identified by BDC in previous studies, and is "in line with a shift toward a services economy and the digitization of businesses."
In the coming year, events such as the U.S. election and Brexit are expected to continue to cloud the global economic outlook. Last year, 90 per cent of countries experienced a lower growth rate than in 2018, according to Cléroux.


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Apple is deliberately holding back on entering the mobile payments business, reports the WSJ.
Apple recently unveiled a new app called Passbook that will store customers loyalty cards, tickets, and coupons; however, the app does not offer mobile payment capabilities.
Holding back in mobile payments was a deliberate strategy, the result of deep discussion last year. Some Apple engineers argued for a more-aggressive approach that would integrate payments more directly. But Apple executives chose the go-slow approach for now.
The Journal notes that Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller, recently said that mobile payment services are "all fighting over their piece of the pie, and we aren't doing that." However, Apple engineers have been experimenting with Bluetooth and NFC payment solutions. At a review meeting in early 2012 Apple CFO questioned the security of NFC and Schiller was worried that Apple facilitated credit-card payments could cause customers to blame Apple for a bad experience with a merchant. Thus, the company decided to release a scaled down version of Passbook for the time being.
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