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We have been decorating. The flat has been turned completely upside down. The vast majority of our possessions are in the sitting room where we are also sleeping with about 2 square inches of floor space around the mattress.
Happily I have now got my kitchen back, which looks very splendid with its new colours but on Wednesday night it was a different story so escaping and going out for supper was the only option.
I had read the London Foodie's favourable review of the Pear Tree and as the pub is a stone's throw from the flat we set forth for supper. Sadly I do not have any photos as the camera is buried somewhere in the piles of stuff!
The Pear Tree is a traditional local pub that has been semi gentrified. It has that traditional pub feeling without having been overly interior designed. Whether you are going for a pint or a 3 course meal it is a pleasant unpretentious place to spend a few hours.
We ordered, and after what felt like quite a wait (in fairness we were both starving) our starters arrived. I had chosen the tempura vegetables with sweet chili sauce and aioli (£4.25). The batter was perfect: thin, crisp and delicious and not at all oily. There was a fantastic selection of vegetables including mushrooms, broccoli, red & green peppers, aubergines and tomatoes. The aioli was fantastic, homemade with oodles of garlic.
Ed ordered mackerel pate toast with sweet mustard sauce (£5.50). I was expecting a pot of pate with separate toast, but it came ready assembled brushetta style. The pate was very smooth (I would have prefered some texture) but tasted just fine. The star of this plate were the roasted baby cherry tomatoes which were delicious and bursting with flavour.
Predictably, Ed ordered the Aberdeen Angus burger with handcut chips (£9.50). This was splendid, the meat was tender and flavoursome, the burger had great grill marks! We ordered rare and thought that our burger was cooked medium (although our interpretation of rare is possibly anyone else's blue!). The burger was served in a generic lightly toasted plain white bun with a salad garnish. The star of the dish was the chips, they were cross between chips, roast and wedges served with more of the scrummy aioli.
My main was spaghetti noir with seafood and white wine sauce (£10.95). This was fine, but nothing stunning, the pasta was served with scallops and mussels, crushed black pepper and rocket leaves; whilst I was delighted to find scallops the mussels were slightly tough and I was slightly disappointed that there were only two types of seafood. The pasta was slightly too al dente for me, although Ed thought it was perfectly cooked. Being a wet food aficionado I would have liked slightly more sauce.
Both being totally full we skipped the pudding.
I had food envy looking at everything that anyone else was eating which is always a good sign, a pizza looked especially good. I loved the food styling, the pub has a collection of fabulous mis-matched vintage plates and cutlery which works well.
We will certainly be going back for the burgers, but I think that the kitchen needs to refine some of the other dishes, especially with the direct competition from the second Idle Hour that is opening within a 2 minute walk.


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Australia should not have to spend $2.4 billion propping up Papua New Guinea. PNG is the Pacific's most richly endowed nation. As the World Bank regularly notes, its copper, gold and oil reserves, extensive fishing zone and vast tropical forests mean revenue is not the problem. Yet, twice in the past decade Port Moresby has peered over the precipice of fiscal collapse. The apparatus of government remains so compromised as to threaten the delivery of basic services: education, health care and personal security.
Far too much foreign aid to Pacific island nations has been lost to corruption and incompetence. This is why Australia's latest rescue plan for PNG is - rightly - about management and law enforcement, not money. Yet it is a highly interventionist plan and, therefore, very costly. It requires the deployment of hundreds of Australian police officers and senior bureaucrats to take charge of large areas of PNG Government spending over the next five years. Overall, this could prove the most expensive foreign policy investment of the Howard Government era. Much, therefore, rides on the promised enforcement of accountability. That is, linking aid to improvements in governance.
Before PNG is too harshly judged, Australia's responsibilities and motives must be acknowledged. PNG was run by an authoritarian Australian colonial administration before independence in 1975. PNG was rushed to this independence, with none of the traditions of bureaucracy, loyalty to nation or political parties to assist the transition to democratic self-rule. PNG's "wantok" (separate language groups) system puts clans, not vague notions such as national budgets, at the centre of its social structure. PNG has thousands of strong, distinct, village-based societies within a weak, modern nation state. The democratic process has long been distorted by the distribution of jobs, funds and favours along clan lines.
The new nation was never adequately prepared for the complex administrative and management tasks inherent in successful nation-building. The cost of aid programs since has been $12 billion. Australia's new training and management programs are best seen as the proper continuation of an unfinished job which, if successful, should break aid dependency.
Canberra's more immediate motivation, however, is security. A failing PNG to Australia's north - beset by corruption, violence, crime, unemployment and rising HIV infection rates - directly threatens Australia and the stability of the Pacific region. Canberra has assured Port Moresby its officials have no plans to stay in the long term. This is an important point, not just because of the inevitable tensions over Australia's colonial past. PNG's problems are formidable and so Australia's plan is not without risk. The most serious danger is that unless local expertise and leadership is effectively fostered, the malaise of dependency may simply become entrenched.
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The Government's concentration on undermining voter confidence in Mark Latham is the sharpest tribute it can pay the new Labor leader. Tony Abbott, the Health Minister and long-time Latham adversary, acknowledged as much when he justified the "perfectly appropriate" attacks on Mr Latham thus: "Mark Latham is only eight seats away from becoming the prime minister of Australia, and that's a pretty serious situation." Mr Latham has been guilty of unedifying behaviour and his Gatling gun track record in policy formulation has exposed him legitimately to charges of contradiction and inconsistency. For that, he may pay a high political price. But the Government's frustrations in prosecuting the case against him are a sure sign of Coalition jitters.
They also raise questions of Government sincerity. The Prime Minister, John Howard, recently censured Mr Abbott for what sports commentators would call playing the man and not the ball. Mr Abbott had accused Mr Latham of a "brutal streak" and having left a "trail of human wreckage" through a failed first marriage and the breaking of a Sydney taxi driver's arm. Such is Mr Howard's authority that Mr Abbott and anyone else in the Government would have desisted immediately if they sensed the Prime Minister was fair dinkum. That they didn't is a fair sign that Mr Howard's instruction was issued with a nod and a wink - the good cop/bad cop routine - or that he has changed his mind, even though he says now his prohibition applied only to personal matters, such as marriage failures. The Treasurer, Peter Costello, subsequently raised the taxi driver tackle and Mr Abbott followed up by saying his earlier personal attack on Mr Latham was part of an "entirely justifiable speech". Mr Latham, he said, was ferociously personal and, by implication, deserved attacks he provoked.
Indeed, human nature is difficult to resist. Those who live by the verbal sword cannot legitimately complain when abuse is returned in spades. Mr Latham deserves much of what he gets. That, however, is not the issue here. The Coalition tactic is at risk of backfiring because keeping Mr Latham in the headlines enhances his opportunities to amplify ideas for the future and not respond to barbs about the past. As long as Mr Latham resists the temptation to respond in kind, the risk is that those attacking him will be cast in the very mould they seek to apply to him.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The Tavistock Cup Is On!
Yes! The week we've all been waiting for! The Tavistock Cup is here, and sports fans everywhere skip out on work so they can zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...
(Sorry, I'm just not a huge fan of the Tavistock Cup, since I honestly don't even know what courses are involved anymore, and still can't get past the fact that every year the shirts are worse than that 1999 United States Ryder Cup Sunday shirt. Tiger Woods is on a different team this year? What? And everyone arrives in helicopters? Way to keep that image of yourselves as high as possible, guys.)
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It's a silly country club competition with good golfers, that gives some money to charity. Golf Channel shows it because Tiger plays. And given that their alternative programing is pipe dream, and Haney project re-runs, it can't be any worse.
- March 15, 2011 at 7:38 AM
I get the charity argument...fine...but helicopters? No one has explained why they all need to be flown in on helicopters. Put the money they spent on fuel for these things towards charity and have them all drive.
- March 15, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- Shane B. said...
Agreed, Anonymous. It isn't like they're doing it to avoid traffic.
- March 15, 2011 at 10:56 AM
Oh it's totally over the top, and I wish they gave more to charity, but I don't think helicopters cost as much as you think they do, a lot of those guys are wearing more expensive watches.
- March 15, 2011 at 11:36 AM
Now the closest to the pin, and hole in one prizes? those are more insanely and disgustingly excessive then the helicopters to me
- March 15, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Matt said...
Its great to see these guys compete when it really DOESN'T matter - you see a lot more of their normally vacant personalities.
Its quite obvious, though, who the competition is marketed to - just pay attention to all the commercials! Private jets, oil exploration companies looking for investors, private banks, etc.
I'm fairly certain this event is on the plasma screen in every CEO's office in the country.
- March 15, 2011 at 8:05 PM
Matt is absolutely right. The Tavistock Cup is an exclusive, BTB event as much as it is an (exhibition) golf tournament. Even the galleries are hand-picked from the creme of the corporate world and the local Orlando business community. At the parties surrounding the tournament, many big dollar deals are going down. And as for the players, it is a way to make an easy check, under little pressure, while wowing the elite gallery by shooting at member pins.
- March 16, 2011 at 6:39 AM
Another atrocious display of gluttony in these difficult times.
- March 16, 2011 at 6:13 PM
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 3, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apricus Biosciences, Inc. ("Apricus Bio" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:APRI) ( www.apricusbio.com) today announced its corporate goals for 2013, which includes focusing its corporate strategy on its high value assets such as Vitaros ® for erectile dysfunction ("ED") and Femprox ® for female sexual arousal disorder ("FSAD") and plans to seek a buyer for its oncology supportive care products, which consists of two approved products now sold in the United States. The planned divestiture will allow Apricus Bio to better align its resources with its main corporate objectives. Rusty Ray, Chairman of the Board of Apricus Bio, commented, "The Board of Directors believes that the greatest potential for shareholder value creation is in the further development and commercialization, through strategic partnerships, of the Company's primary commercial and pipeline assets, particularly Vitaros ® (alprostadil 0.3% topical cream) and Femprox ® (alprostadil 0.4% topical cream) for male and female sexual health. Both products utilize Apricus Bio's proprietary NexACT ® transdermal delivery platform. The Company's resources therefore, will be directed toward these key assets, a decision that will concentrate the Company's strategic focus and better allow us to deliver value through 2013 and beyond." Apricus Bio's oncology supportive care business includes the rights to Totect ® (dexrazoxane for injection) for the treatment for extravasation from intravenous anthracycline chemotherapy in the U.S. and the Americas, and the U.S. co-promotion rights to Granisol ® (granisetron HCl oral solution) for the prevention of nausea and vomiting associated with certain emetogenic cancer therapy and radiation in the US. Each of these products is now commercially available and marketed in the U.S. "We achieved important progress with respect to Apricus Bio's pipeline development and commercialization goals in 2012, including, manufacturing, preparation and assistance in Abbott Laboratories' up-coming launch of Vitaros ® in Canada and the steps of responding and advancing Vitaros ® through what is hopefully European approval in 2013," said Steve Martin, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Apricus Bio. "These steps will position us to build significant value for our shareholders as we execute our strategy over the coming year." Vitaros ® Vitaros ®, Apricus Bio's lead product candidate for the treatment of ED, is a topically-applied cream formulation of alprostadil, a vasodilator, which directly increases blood flow to the penis, causing an erection. Alprostadil is a widely accepted alternative to the PDE5 inhibitors for difficult to treat patients, and Vitaros ® is relatively safe and effective, and offers greater market opportunity due to its patient-friendly form versus both other alprostadil dosage forms and also relative to oral ED products. With a market affecting nearly 150 million men worldwide and representing approximately $2.6 billion in revenue – excluding the U.S. – Vitaros ® represents a major market opportunity, particularly as a distinct product that addresses a significant underserved population. Vitaros ®-related goals for 2013 include:
- Commercial launch in Canada through Abbott Laboratories. Apricus Bio is actively supporting Abbott with their pre-launch efforts, and continues to expect that a full launch will occur in the first half of 2013.
- European approval via the Decentralized Procedure ("DCP"). A decision regarding the approval of Vitaros ® in Europe via the DCP with Netherlands as the Reference Member State is expected to occur in the first half of 2013, followed by national phase approvals in each of the major markets of Europe. Marketing of Vitaros ® can then be initiated in each country either by Apricus Bio partners or by the Company directly as applicable. In Europe, existing ED products currently generate over $1 billion dollar in sales and Apricus Bio believes a significant portion of the market remains untreated or undertreated.
- Secure additional partnerships.Vitaros ® is now partnered in key markets around the world, including the U.S., Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Gulf countries, certain other countries in the Middle East and Israel. In France, a very significant ED market, Apricus Bio is preparing to commercialize the product directly through its European sales subsidiary. The Company is looking to secure partnerships in the remaining international territories, particularly in the emerging markets.
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The 2013 Pratt Institute Art of Packaging Award Gala, which benefits the Marc Rosen Scholarship and Education Fund for Packaging by Design at Pratt Institute, honored Veronique Gabai-Pinsky and the Aramis and Designer Fragrances division of The Estée Lauder Companies for their outstanding commitment to package design this year. Gabai-Pinsky is the global brand president, Aramis and Designer Fragrances, BeautyBank and IdeaBank.
More than 300 guests attended the gala at a private club in Manhattan on April 30, 2013, and the event raised $350,000 Marc Rosen Scholarship and Education Fund—the only scholarship in the world available to college students looking to pursue careers in cosmetics and package design. The event has raised more than $3.5 million over the last 24 years.
Introduced by Carol Alt, supermodel and skin-care entrepreneur, Trey Laird, chief executive and creative officer of Laird+Partners, presented the Art of Packaging Award to Gabai-Pinsky, who accepted on behalf of the company and spoke about the inspiration of great design. She noted that the initial success of a product is "linked to the creative expression" of the brand through design. She encouraged Pratt communications and package design students to "stay hungry for the thrill of discovery and creative process."
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Beat butter, sugar and dry pudding mix in large bowl with mixer until light and fluffy. Blend in eggs. Mix all remaining ingredients except icing. Gradually add to pudding mixture, beating well after each addition. Refrigerate 15 minutes. Heat oven to 350°. Place dough between two sheets of parchment or waxed paper, roll to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut into Halloween shapes with 3-inch to 4-inch cookie cutters, rolling dough scraps as necessary. Place 2" apart on baking sheets sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Let stand on baking sheets 3 minutes, remove to wire racks. Cool completely. Decorate with icing to resemble the bones of skeletons. Makes about 24 cookies.


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Roundup: Federated Investor's profit jumps 34%; Microsoft earnings dip; more
Federated Investors' profit up 34% in quarter
Federated Investors Inc., the mutual fund management company based Downtown, said quarterly profit jumped 34 percent to $49.6 million from about $37 million the year earlier. Per-share earnings of 44 cents compared with 36 cents. Revenue increased 13 percent to almost $245 million from about $216 million, mainly from a jump in investment advisory fees. Total managed assets increased 2.7 percent to almost $380 billion as of Dec. 31, including a record $52.7 billion in fixed-income assets. Money-market assets under management were flat at $285 billion, while equity assets increased 13 percent to $35 billion.
Microsoft's 2Q earnings dip
Microsoft's earnings for the latest quarter slipped 4 percent, despite a lift from its latest version of Windows. The fiscal second-quarter results announced Thursday are the first to include Windows 8. The program is a dramatic overhaul of the Microsoft Corp. operating system that powers most PCs. Windows 8 came out Oct. 26 with slightly more than two months left in Microsoft's fiscal second quarter. Although the Windows 8 sales haven't been as impressive as investors hoped, revenue in Microsoft's Windows division climbed 24 percent from the previous year. Microsoft earned $6.4 billion, or 76 cents per share, during the final three months of the year. That was down from $6.6 billion, or 78 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 3 percent from last year to $21.5 billion.
AT&T adds customers, posts loss
The introduction of the iPhone 5 helped AT&T attract more new customers in the holiday quarter than it has in three years, but it posted a big loss because of an annual adjustment to its pension obligations. AT&T Inc. Thursday said it added a net 780,000 new customers from October to December, its best result in three years. It activated 8.6 million iPhones — a record for any company. AT&T was the first company to introduce the iPhone in 2007, and has more iPhone users than any other carrier. Dallas-based AT&T's loss was $3.86 billion, or 68 cents per share. That compares with a loss of $6.68 billion, or $1.12 per share, a year earlier, also caused by an adjustment to pension and retiree benefit obligations. Revenue was $32.6 billion, up from $32.5 billion a year ago.
• Southwest Airlines Co. said fourth-quarter earnings fell by nearly half on higher spending for fuel, labor and maintenance. The airline's revenue rose slightly, however, as the average fare climbed almost $8 higher than a year ago. Net income was $78 million, or 11 cents per share, down from $152 million, or 20 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue ticked up 1.6 percent to $4.17 billion.
• FNB Corp., Hermitage, Mercer County, said quarterly net income jumped more than 22 percent to $29 million, or 21 cents a share, from $23.7 million, or 19 cents a share, a year earlier. The year-ago period included a $3.5 million gain from the sale of securities. Results also included a $1.7 million charge related to the 2012 closing of 20 branches connected to FNB's acquisition of Parkvale Financial Corp. last January. FNB's First National Bank operates about 90 branches in Western Pennsylvania.
• Apollo Bancorp Inc., Apollo, Armstrong County, reported quarterly net income increased nearly 14 percent to $353,000, or 71 cents a share, from $310,000, or 62 cents a share, the year earlier. Securities gains offset a decrease in net interest income. Total assets increased 3.4 percent to $151 million as of Dec. 31. Apollo Trust Co. operates five branches in Western Pennsylvania.
Other business news
• Attorney Bernadette Puzzuole was named interim president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Airport Area Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. She succeeds Sally Haas, who recently died after heading the organization for the past 14 years. Puzzuole, whose term begins Feb. 4 and lasts 12 months, is the chamber's immediate past chairman of the board.
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Maria Mutola just grinned after Caster Semenya had galloped her way into tonight's Olympic 800 metres final as the fastest runner.
Mutola would not say anything deeper than, "no comment", but that smile said it all. It was an "I told you so" expression.
The 21-year-old from Limpopo had made a statement of intent so strident and strong that it had left the rest of the field a little stirred, if not shaken.
Semenya and Mutola seem the perfect combination. Mutola is the perfect coach for Semenya. Semenya is the perfect runner for Mutola.
The Maputo Express has won and lost Olympic races. She's a three-time 800m world champion and a double Commonwealth Games winner. She competed in her first Olympics when she was 15 in 1988, and ended in 2008, when she finished fifth.
Under Mutola, Semenya has honed and matured her race tactics. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009, she was a front-runner from the gun. At the World Championships in 2011, she had learnt that races are won in the head as much as with the body. "Maria has been my idol since I started to run," said Semenya last year.
"After Daegu, I asked Maria if she was interested in coaching me. Her answer was positive and I am very happy now. Maria has had a long and super successful career. She will be a great teacher for me."
In her heat on Wednesday, she sat at the front of a bunch chasing the charging Alysia Johnson Montano of the United States, who had gone hard from the start. She controlled the pack quite beautifully, leading them on the chase before putting in a kick in the final 200m to haul Johnson Montano in and qualify for the semifinals on Thursday night.
If she had been impressive in the heats, she was even more so in the semifinals. She eased into fifth spot, running off the shoulder of the leaders, watching and assessing. It was a quick first lap and when they hit the final 250m, she was imperious. She ran a time of one minute and 57.67 seconds, but the manner of it was what impressed. She started strongly, settled in fifth place as the field went through 400m and then kicked with 250m left.
Russian Elena Arzhakova was second fastest at 1:58.13 while Kenya's Janeth Kepkosgei Busienei was third in 1:58.26. Defending Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo was slower, much slower, in 1:59.42.
"I think she (Mutola) will be very happy," said Semenya. "The time I ran makes me very confident. It's about running your own race, you have to think of yourself and about yourself. You have to run a good time to get into the final and that's what I did.
"Sometimes, if you want to run a good race, you have to forget about everybody, just think about your own race because it can disturb you. You have to think about yourself. What matters is when you cross the line. I was a bit nervous but this crowd makes me feel at home and reminds me of good memories.
"It's about putting on the spikes and just running."
Semenya will also be running for more than just the chance of winning South Africa's sixth medal when she leads the 800m off at the Olympic Stadium tonight.
She will be running to help South Africa finish as the top nation in Africa at the 30th Olympic Games. They are ahead of Kenya right now. A win by Semenya would help keep them there and, you would think, would bring more than a "no comment" from Mutola.


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SAO PAULO – As U.S. cornfields withered under drought conditions last summer, Brazil's once-empty Cerrado region produced a bumper crop of the grain, helping feed livestock on U.S. farms and ease a drought-related spike in prices.
The U.S. imports of Brazilian corn were small by world standards. But they are rising fast, and they mark just one element of the increasingly complex and sometimes contentious relations between the world's agricultural superpower and its fast-growing competitor amid shifts in the global economy.


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Company ceases communications calling the beverage "the legal alternative" to the drug.
BALTIMORE -- After much controversy and a stern warning from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Redux Beverages LLC -- the company behind Cocaine Energy Drink -- has stripped its Web site of all text calling the beverage an alternative to the illegal drug, The Baltimore Examiner reported.
Redux Beverages underwent inspection by the FDA on Feb. 14, and the agency found issues with Cocaine being marketed as a dietary supplement "intended to prevent, treat, or cure disease conditions," and as an "alternative to an illicit street drug."
"We're correcting the violations that the FDA believes we have," Jamey Kirby, senior partner and founder of Redux Beverages, told the newspaper. "We're not going to try to get into a battle with the FDA, because, well, we'd lose."
The company's Web site previously called the product "the legal alternative" to the drug cocaine, "liquid cocaine" and "speed in a can."
The FDA sent Redux a letter saying that, as marketed, Cocaine Energy Drink is a drug because the Web site listed the health benefits of the ingredient inositol as preventing hardened arteries and reducing cholesterol. Redux was given 15 days to respond to the warning and correct all violations, or it might face legal action.
"We have gone through and made most of the changes they have requested," Kirby said.
The company's myspace.com page now states, "Cocaine Energy Drink is an energy supplement; following the guidelines set forth by the Federal Food and Drug Administration for dietary supplements," but notes the FDA has not reviewed those statements.


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About the Book
Located in the northeastern part of Erie County, Pennsylvania, North East Township and its Lake Erie Plain have been home to people since the last glacial recession, thousands of years ago.
During those ancient times, Lake Erie and its shoreline, bluffs and tributaries hosted travelers and inhabitants who left behind an elusive and seldom seen record of their presence.
This is a colorful, rare glimpse of the author's 33+ year effort to preserve the area's Stone-Age past. Much of the collection is presented here for the first time in published form.
Illustrations are by artist Peggy Kurtz.
A softcover version of this book is also available.
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Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
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- Publish Date Nov 13, 2009
- Language English
- Tags Stone-Age, archaeology, archeology, arrowheads, Erie, Pennsylvania, northeast, Iroquois, Eriez, Stone Age, Indian artifacts, Native American, Lake Erie, Great Lakes, North East
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Friday, September 21, 2012
TriQuint Wins DARPA Contract
Hillsboro, Oregon-based RF semiconductor maker TriQuint Semiconductor reported a win with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today, saying that it has received a $2.7M contract. The contract is part of a gallium nitride (GaN) research effort focused on improving the power handling performance of those circuits. TriQuint said it is partnering in the program with the University of Bristol (United Kingdom), Group4 Labs and Lockheed Martin.


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By LEANNDRA PADGETT
Staff Writer
When choosing a meat to serve at Christmas dinner, ham should be the obvious decision. The reasons for this are threefold. First, turkey is for Thanksgiving. Second, ham is good. Third, my family always has ham and they're surely right!
November is the time for turkey; nothing is sweeter than a fall bird. By December, however, it is time for a change. American consumers have eaten their fill (or more than their fill) of turkey by the time Christmas rolls around and are ready for ham, the meat of winter. Consider the children's snack pigs-in-blankets. This is a pork sausage wrapped in a roll of dough. Have you ever heard of turkey-in-a-blanket? Of course not! Pigs are able to prepare for the winter and are therefore more fitting for the later and colder of the two holidays. After Thanksgiving, whatever turkeys that have survived are cold and unfit to eat. The pigs have been fattening up for months and are wisely wrapped in blankets. Therefore, ham is the obvious choice.
Secondly, ham is good. Imagine a savory side of ham, glazed with honey and baked to perfection. Picture a platter piled high with Christmas side dishes, culminating with the meat of champions. Ham is the only way to finish Advent.
Finally, ham should be eaten at Christmas because that's what my family always does. They are smart; they are knowledgeable. How could they have made such a grave mistake over so many generations if ham was not the correct choice?
Make the right decision this Christmas: eat ham. Your country depends on you. Only you can prevent turkey consumption. Eat ham upon a midnight clear. The stars in the sky look down where he lay, the little Lord Jesus eating ham in the hay. Sweet, sweet, delicious ham.


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The 2017 Lexus CT 200h gets a couple of new colors this year, and that's about it. It has less to do with Lexus not wanting to mess with a good thing, and more to do with the fact that it's likely the CT will soon be replaced.
Not much is new for the 2016 Lexus CT 200h. It gets a revamped grille with a bright chrome surround, an optional moonroof, and like many 2016 Lexus models, the Enform app suite now offers Enform Remote and Lexus Service Connect.
The 2017 Lexus CT 200h is what happens when you let the luxury division build a fuel-sipping hybrid. It's literally a previous-generation Toyota Prius underneath, with the CT 200h and Prius sharing a hybrid powertrain, suspension and other basic underpinnings. But the disguise is nearly perfect, as you'd be hard-pressed to tell any family resemblance just by looking. There's the massive Lexus-signature "spindle" grille, for starters, and the interior leather and wood trim are exactly the kind of thing the Prius is NOT known for. All the extra finery hurts fuel economy, but the CT 200h gets a bit more power, and it's still a fuel-economy leader in a luxury class that includes the Audi A3 e-tron and Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class.


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No snow, just rain for Central Texas
Updated 9:46 pm, Saturday, December 24, 2011
Parts of Texas are expected to get a sprinkling of snow today, but weather experts said the San Antonio region will get only cold rain.
"You'll have to go about 300 miles to the northwest if you want to see snow," said David Schumacher with the National Weather Service. "There's no chance of snow anywhere in the area, in the Hill Country or San Antonio."
Forecasters on Thursday said the Hill Country could get light snowfall Christmas Eve morning thanks to a cold front that lingered in the area for several days. But on Saturday, Schumacher said the air was too warm and moist.
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Most of the country is expected to be without snow today, with light scatterings predicted for Texas, New Mexico and the Great Lakes region.
"Other than that, there's not much snow around," Schumacher said. "It's a little bit unusual."
Winds were expected to calm slightly today and temperatures will be slightly warmer with a high of 52 as cloud coverage breaks in the afternoon. Rain chances also will drop this Christmas Day.


text: As title suggests, I need to replace the thermostat in the car (2000 A4 (B5) 1.9TDi PD 115). I've been told by a local mechanic that it's a pig of a job, and that the bumper, h'lamps, and rad need to be moved forward. I've also been told it can be done by only removing the alternator. Can anyone give me an idea of how much of a 'pig' of a job it actually is? Is there an online guide available with pictures? I've got the haynes manual for the car, but as we all know, they go 'by the book', and don't mention handy hints to 'shortcut' a few of the tedious processes. Many thanks in anticipation Impster


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by Dawn Feddersen-Poindexter
Contributing writer
Dozens of young soccer players finally got to use their hands when they helped dig the first shovelfuls of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for three new soccer fields in Otsego.
"It was awesome," said Otsego Mayor Jessica Stockamp of the groundbreaking event. "The grading is done. The whole thing is in the works."
Though most of the hard work is done, the field still needs to be seeded and only time will make the grass ready for play, most likely early June 2014. The new fields are located on city-owned land directly to the west of City Hall and across the street from Prairie Park. There will also be a new parking lot adjacent to the fields.
The project is a collaboration between the city of Otsego and Three Rivers Soccer Association, or TRSA. About 1,200 kids currently play for TRSA in Otsego, Elk River, Rogers and Zimmerman.
"TRSA started in 1975 and moved to our first soccer fields in Otsego," TRSA President Steve Zoubek said. "Over the years, we have invested in field development partnerships across our communities in order to ensure our members have quality fields for youth soccer well into the future."
The cost of the project is estimated to be just more than $300,000. TRSA has committed to a donation of $100,000 to the project cost over several years, with the balance funded by the city using monies dedicated by developers for park facility construction.
"The city of Otsego is excited to enter into this partnership with TRSA to work together to develop needed athletic fields given the continued growth of our community," Otsego Parks and Recreation Manager Ross Demant said.
The large group of soccer kids at the groundbreaking, all dressed in bright uniforms, had one additional task to complete that wasn't on the adults' checklist. They all ran across the street to the splash pad at Prairie Park and got soaked, uniforms and all.
Stockamp watched the soccer kids, including her own children, splashing and laughing.
She said, "It's just perfect. They get hot and sweaty playing soccer. Then they can run over there and cool off."


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Best Beach Spiagge Blogs
Graziella, Italian, Louis-Henri, carribean. We left our previous life to experience the world and.. sail the seven seas. And here we are ... (Blog mainly written in ITALIAN, google translator available on the blog)
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"One of the big things we're focusing on is to have a plan with two ways outside and a place to meet if there is a fire at your house," firefighter Jason Hall told the children during the Marlboro Township Volunteer Fire Department's annual Fire Safety Day Friday at Marlboro Elementary School.
Chief Tom Linerode, firefighter/EMT Kyle Mizner and firefighter/EMT Joe Hagan gave an outdoor presentation to the kids in grades K-3 that included learning about how the fire trucks and firefighting equipment work. Inside, Capt. Scott Schwinn, Hall and firefighter Will Griffith showed the children a video and gave demonstrations on how the firefighters' turnout gear works. They also give the children fire safety tips.
Linerode said that Sunday there will be an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. at the fire station, located at 9577 Edison St. N.E. All the firefighters told the kids to ask their parents to bring them to the station, and if they are present and sign up for a drawing to be held at 2 p.m. they will have a chance to win a ride to school in a fire truck. There will also be free hot dogs, rides on the fire truck, a coloring contest and a chance to use a fire hose. "We'll be able to answer all your questions on Sunday, too," Linerode said.
During the Friday program, the kindergartners were the first to see the fire trucks and they were each given a firefighter hard hat to take home. Kids in grades K-3 were also given a bag of goodies that included information for parents on creating a fire safety plan as well as learning activities for the kids.
Linerode also told the children he really appreciated seeing all the students lined up outside when he traveled past the school with the funeral procession for former Fire Chief Gary Haines Oct. 5. "I knew him really well, and I was really proud of you guys. It almost made me cry when I drove by and you were all out here with your hands on your hearts. I appreciated it, and all our guys did, too," Linerode said.
Linerode explained the fire truck equipment next, and the kindergartners asked a number of intelligent questions. Luke Stanley wanted to know why firefighters need an ax. Linerode said in case there is no one home and they have to force their way into the house. It is also used to open up windows, doors and roofs, he added. Megan Kerr asked why they have to climb a ladder. Linerode explained firefighters also have to have two ways out of a fire, so they set ladders up outside in case firefighters have to use them when ceilings begin to cave in, for instance. Lucas Ryan asked if the firefighters step into the fire. Linerode told him no. He said the gear they wear is fire protective, but not fireproof, and the flames can become too hot for the firefighters.
"Stop, drop and roll. Don't get up and run if your clothes catch on fire," Linerode told the kids.
Inside, the children watched a video called "Be Cool About Fire Safety" that warned children not to play with matches and lighters, instructed kids to "fall and crawl" to get out of a burning structure, and to go to a neighbor's house to call 911 and report the fire.
"Don't hide. Go outside. And never go back into the house once you are outside," the firefighters told the children. "Even if your favorite dog or cat is inside. It's your job to get outside. We'll look for the dog or cat."


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A bunch of user manuals for Verizon's upcoming phones
0. phoneArena posted on 07 Nov 2010, 18:32
Several new phones were about to be launched by Verizon Wireless on November 11th. In preparation for big day, Verizon has already posted the user manuals for some of the phones, such as the Samsung Continuum, Motorola CITRUS, LG Cosmos Touch, and Samsung Zeal...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. Joshing4fun (Posts: 1237; Member since: 13 Aug 2010)
None of them seem that great to me but the continuum seems pretty interesting tho. Depending on whether the "ticker" is actually useful or not.
2. mr. droid (Posts: 278; Member since: 21 Aug 2010)
none of the above really.. BUT if those were the ONLY phones available at verizon when i got there and NEEDED a phone because mine was lost or damaged beyond usability, then the droid pro.
I want the HTC merge, where is that??
3. mr. droid (Posts: 278; Member since: 21 Aug 2010)
i would have said the continuum, but i have the fascinate now, so thats why the droid pro would have to be the one out of the ones listed here. i thought the merge was supposed to come out on the 11th. also..
4. mdbabygirl23 (unregistered)
The HTC Merge is launching Nov. 18th.
5. mr. droid (Posts: 278; Member since: 21 Aug 2010)
ok, so i would wait a week and then get a phone, and in the mean time i would take one of the old samsung knack phones I have laying around and use that for that week and go in on that day and get me a new phone. i know it wont have the 1ghz. processor, it has more like a 800mhz.. which is fairly close to 1ghz, but i dont notice a speed difference personally.
6. zerovampire311 (Posts: 42; Member since: 22 Jun 2009)
The Cosmos Touch is resistive, sadly... But it does perform well for what it is. It kinda felt like a Motorola Rival, but without breaking every 5 minutes. I think it'll be a solid basic texting phone.


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Earth Soundings Analysis: Processing versus Inversion
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Earth Soundings Analysis: Processing versus Inversion
by Jon F. Claerbout
Publisher: Blackwell Science 1992
Number of pages: 334
Seismic data acquisition and analysis in the petroleum industry is a multi-billion dollar activity, Earth Surroundings Analysis describes the elements of soundings analysis. In particular, it examines the relationship between the practical (processing) and theoretical (inversion) approaches to the subject. This new text, together with the author's earlier work - Imaging the Earth's Interior (BSP 1985) provides a complete introduction to geophysical data processing.
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Risk of Rain is…fine.
I don't know what else there is to say about it. I certainly don't love it as much as some people do. I look at some of those raves, and I compare them to my own experience with the game, and I'm just left wondering what it was that I missed.
I don't want to give the impression that I hated it, mind you. I definitely didn't. In fact, as a roguelike platformer with short levels and easy-to-grasp controls, I thought it was ideally suited to the Vita. There's no question that it's the kind of game you can drop into and out of without a) feeling like you need to re-acquaint yourself with the story or the controls, or b) having to worry that you'll forget your place and need to start over. As someone who primarily plays games on my way to work, I appreciated that.
I can't say my feelings towards Risk of Rain ever went beyond mere appreciation, though. Maybe the 8-bit graphics didn't do much for me. Maybe it was the way perma-death made it feel like you never really advanced (though to the game's credit, it still allowed you to carry over some of your discoveries from game to game). Maybe I didn't get the full experience, on account of the fact I never played the game's multiplayer mode (though in my defense, I don't think I've ever enjoyed a game more after playing it in multiplayer).
Whatever the reason, I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed Risk of Rain to the same extent that so many other people have. As I said, I still think it's fine, but if you're looking for anything more than that, I don't think it quite delivers.


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Teaching Economic Growth Theory with Data
Many instructors in subjects such as economics are frequently concerned with how to teach technical material to undergraduate students with limited mathematical backgrounds. One method that has proven successful for the authors is to connect theoretically sophisticated material with actual data. This enables students to see how the theory relates to the real world, allowing for a deeper understanding of both. The authors developed a simple and insightful empirical application of the Solow growth model that can be used in an undergraduate macroeconomics or economic growth course. The exercise uses a data set on perception of corruption levels by country to look at the relationship between corruption and the level and rate of growth of output per worker across 70 countries. The results not only allow students to see for themselves the impact that corruption has on gross domestic product per worker but also improve their understanding of the distinction between level effects and long-run growth effects.
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My colleague Carol Coye Benson and I are attending the Association of Financial Professionals Annual Conference in San Francisco October 4-7. If you are planning to attend and interested in getting together to talk B2B payments (or any other payment topic) let us know!
If you aren't familiar with the Association of Financial Professionals, they are a global resource and advocate for the finance profession, providing certification, products, education and training for treasury and corporate finance. This year's conference includes sessions devoted to how corporate finance professionals can:
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Last time in this space we attempted to make sense of the scale of a zettabyte, which is 1 trillion gigabytes, or a 1 followed by 21 zeroes. The attempt was largely futile.
Today we'll tackle some more manageable yet equally interesting numbers from the world of technology, starting with YouTube's contention last week that it is now serving up some 2 billion video views every 24 hours.
According to a blog post by YouTube parent company Google, 2 billion views "represents nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. television networks combined."
Impressive, yet that's not what I found most remarkable about the number. No, what made the 2 billion a day tally so notable is the fact that it was announced publicly in conjunction with YouTube commemorating its fifth year of operations.
From zero to 2 billion views in only five years: Now that's Internet speed.
Yet YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley sees the achievement as a glass almost empty, telling BBC News: "I feel we have much further to go. Two billion video streams is a large number but on average people are only spending 15 minutes a day on the site compared to five hours a day watching TV."
Of course, television had a head start, what it having been around since the 1930s and all.
They grow up so fast, though. … It's a good thing we all have video cameras.
The disappearing landline
It's by no means news that more and more people are choosing to ditch their landline telephones in favor of going all-wireless, all the time. However, it is worth noting the rapidity with which this transformation is taking place, witness a few facts and figures from a semiannual survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (which tracks this trend to help assure accuracy in its telephone-based National Health Interview Survey).
One in four U.S. households has made the leap to wireless-only, according to the latest CDC report. While that number has been rising about 4.3% annually the past several years, it's worth noting that when the data was first collected in 2003 only about 3% of households were without landlines.
In addition:
About 26% of children now live in wireless-only homes and their numbers are rising even faster than the adult population.
As might be expected, younger adults are more likely to go all-wireless – about half of those aged 25 to 29 have done so, while only 5% of those 65 and older have joined them.
As for the number of households without any phone service at all, that continues to hold steady at 2%.
One last thing: That "one in four now wireless-only" statistic is effectively closer to 40% if you consider that another 15% of households have both landline and wireless telephones but conduct all or almost all of their calls on the latter. In other words, their landline phones are largely for decorative purposes.
A hint to that 15%: If you find yourself dusting the handset of your landline telephone, it is probably time to cut the cord.
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- Lunedì Chiuso
- Martedì 12:00 - 13:30, 18:00 - 23:00
- Mercoledì 12:00 - 13:30, 18:00 - 23:00
- Giovedì 12:00 - 13:30, 18:00 - 23:00
- Venerdì 12:00 - 13:30, 18:00 - 23:00
- Sabato 12:00 - 13:30, 18:00 - 23:00
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41 Recensioni
Staff lovely and accommodating, we took our 3 year old who intended to eat from our food but they made extra effort for him to have a proper plate and didn't feel like he had his own food etc. And the food was very tasty and served timely, didn't feel rushed. Great sea views too. Will be back.
we have been going to the paradise gardens for many years and have always enjoyed it we had the banquet for four and it was very good
Fast service big portions and always delivers on quality every time I have visited it has been 110% friendly staff and food absolutely amazing 11/10
We had the banquet menu for five people which was both a good variety of dishes and plentiful. Lovely food and great customer service. Would recommend this to anyone and will definitely return! Thank you
A really friendly restaurant with very helpful staff with excellent food. My family have been coming to this restaurant for years and never yet had anything but a pleasant experience each time. This is the first time I have used this booking system and have found no fault with it so will be using it again next time to book in to the Paradise Gardens Restaurant in the future. Very pleased.
It's been a while since we ate at Paradise Gardens but well worth every penny.The food was outstanding and the staff gave an excellent service.Well done to everyone.
It's been a while since we have been to Paradise Gardens but we were not disappointed, excellent service and excellent food , really enjoyed our meal ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The food is exquisite, the service is second to non and the prices are extremely fair. I love this this place. They bend over backwards to make sure you enjoy your evening. We have been going here for 30 plus years now and will continue, cannot recommend it enough. !!!
The food was good but the atmosphere was a bit weird. The place itself looked like it could do with a little updating. It looked like they had over booked as we had about a half hour wait for our table. No complaints made as it was new year so we expected it to be busy and the quality of the food more than made up for the wait.
Food was excellent and the staff are really helpful and friendly. there was 7 of us in our party and it seems that the tables only take that many bit of a squash but would definitely recommend them
I have been going here for years and always had a good meal. The food is very good and the staff are very nice and make you feel welcome, the set banquet is always a good choice.
The staff are always welcoming and friendly and the food delicious. Also very reasonably priced. We had a 3 course meal with extra sides and drinks and it came to £48 which was an absolute bargain
Excellent food, very helpful staff and very good service, our favorite in the area. We were running late for our meal but there was no issue when we arrived our table was still waiting for us
Excellent service and meal as always. Highly recommended. They have been open for 32 years and we have been going for probably 25 years and in all that time the food has been superb.
The starters were a little small between the 4 of us especially the ribs however they were very tasty. The main courses were awesome more than we could eat. Very good food highly recommended.
Great service fast food 100% recomend potions a good size and price was fine waited 5 minutes for our table but had a drink in bar and was shown straight away
The food was really excellent and the service was brilliant too. This place is a little gem. Would highly recommend the paradise garden to anyone that likes Cantonese food.
had a fantastic night here on saturday with hubby & good friends, food fantastic, staff very polite & friendly, didnt get rushed at all, highly recommend to others
Fantastic- been many times and never disappointed. Best hot and sour soup in the north east. Staff excellent and very accommodating. Never changed in 25years. 5 star restaurant.
The food and service were excellent. The restaurant has a truly authentic oriental atmosphere. Well worth a return visit. Value for money. The evening was enjoyed by all.
This restaurant is one of the best if not the best in the area very good attention to detail and a magnificent tasting food 5* in my books
Beautiful food, great service, but only problem is the bottled drinks, my cocacola came from a 2 litre bottle and was not fizzy, also it was warm as it wasnt in the fridge.
Excellent food, efficient and very friendly service, we will be back. Staff are very welcoming and could not do enough to please. We will recommend to friends
Excellent food and amazing service, food fresh an cooked fast and staff very friendly and can't do enough for you. Will be going back to this place
We were disappointed out favourite dish fillet of steak in sechuan sauce has changed. Tasted nothing like it used to. Sauce was awful. Everything else lovely. But we can't believe they would change the sauce on such a winning dish.
Beautiful food as always and very attentive service. Have been before but recommended from my parents who had been 20 or so years before and it is still great. Will be back.
Food perfectly cooked, interesting choices, and served in a timely manner. Decor is a little dated and drab but certainly worth additional visits in the future.
A lovely meal, excellent quality and superb value for money. Staff were very friendly too. We will be back with the rest of the family soon!
Slightly old fashioned decor but the service and food were excellent. One of our favourite places to eat in Sunderland.A good selection of drinks also.
Our company from canada said the meal was1st class and the service and hospitality was very good highly recomended looking for`ward to our next visit
The food was excellent. The staff were attentive and friendly. My friend and I had one of the Banquet Menus and we enjoyed our evening.
Love this place it's all excellent service and food is amazing never had a bad meal here yet will keep coming back to this place
Great food & great service at very reasonable prices. Banquet for 4 people (4 courses) plus lots of bottled drinks & coffee for less than £120. Excellent value for money
Reservation on line easy to use. Seated on time; friendly, helpful staff. Good selection of dishes in set meal, including ones we had not tried before all served hot.
Always a good dining experience. The staff are pleasant and helpful. We chose additional dishes and they were happy to serve them along with our main courses.
Really good food with excellent service. Booked a party of 5 people and had the set menu, everyone thoroughly enjoyed the meal, and we would definitely return
Loved this place over the years but beginning to look a little tired and its approach a little old fashioned. Still very much worth a visit though and the staff are very polite.
It was a nice night but wasn't an awful lot to eat on the menu for three people couples and menus for four look a lot better portion wise. Not sure if we would go again.
Really good food . Good service and good quantities and really tasty ,unfortunately the place is looking a bit tired and dated which was a shame.
Excellent as always, staff are very welcoming and food is unreal


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London, Sugar & Slavery Free
In the setting of this historic sugar warehouse, the London, Sugar & Slavery gallery reveals how London's involvement in slavery has shaped the capital since the 17th century, and challenges what you think you know about the transatlantic slave trade and long-held beliefs that abolition was initiated by politicians.
Key artefacts in the gallery are the surviving papers of Thomas and John Mills, who owned plantations in St Kitts and Nevis, providing us with glimpses into the lives of both the enslaved and the slaver.
In the gallery you can experience an immersive sound and light show which is projected on the gallery walls every 20 minutes. The experience encourages you to consider enslavement and freedom both in terms of the transatlantic slave trade and what they mean for us all today.
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AMERICAN literary sensation John Green breezed into Swindon for a chat with a sell-out crowd – and had some words of advice for Swindon Town boss Paolo Di Canio. Hundreds of teenagers queued for hours outside the Steam Museum for the audience with the best-selling author and his brother Hank. John is travelling the UK on a promotional tour for his acclaimed novel The Fault In Our Stars, but is also known as the creator of the Swindon Swoodilypoopers an on-line version of the team.
The self-confessed nerd plays as Swindon Town on FIFA before uploading the games to YouTube, together with his commentary, which often strays into his thoughts on life. He said: "I play as Swindon Town on FIFA 11 and through that process I've become something of a fan of the actual club and the town. "It all started because Hank played as Arsenal and Swindon had this famous victory over Arsenal so I thought I'd use the team to beat him, and I did. "I became very loyal to the team and I created this whole alternative universe. Because of that Swindon seemed like the right place to start the UK tour."
The brothers talked about their work, chatted with fans, signed books and posters and sang songs during their appearance on Saturday. "It's really exciting to see so many young people, and adults, so enthusiastic about books and reading," he said. "It's hard to hang out with 500 people at once but we love being able to spend an afternoon with them.
Green, 35, is due to attend a Swindon Town game before his UK tour finishes later this month – and had his own view on Di Canio's possible departure. He said: "I think it's terrible for his career if he actually quits. What's beautiful about his management is that he's so mercurial and he says what other managers only think. "But is he actually going to quit? Has he packed his bags? He's talked about that stuff before. I think it says to any other prospective club if he quits that this guy's really unpredictable. "He's upset about Matt Ritchie, I'm upset about Matt Ritchie, but he needs to finish up the season. I'm biased because I really want them to get promoted again and they have a good chance." Among the 'nerdfighters;' who queued for hours in the cold was Megan Cliffe, 16, from Chippenham. "The books teach you to imagine people complexly and there are metaphors for everything," she said.
Megan's friend Nia Cooper, 18, also from Chippenham, said: "His books are written in the first-person exactly how a teenager would speak."


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FLOWERY BRANCH — An insurance agent from Flowery Branch was arrested Friday morning on allegations that he forged Medicare applications of two elderly women in order to receive a commission check.
Lonnie Robinson, 59, was arrested shortly after 6 a.m. Friday at his home in the Legend Falls subdivision and charged with two counts of insurance fraud.
Georgia Department of Insurance officials say they began investigating Robinson, a Gwinnett County insurance agent, after two women notified them that their Medicare plans had been changed to the Medicare Advantage program without consent.
One victim, a 74-year-old Gainesville resident who declined The Times' request for an interview, discovered she had been fraudulently signed up for the Medicare Advantage plan when she attempted to pick up a prescription and was told it was no longer covered by Medicare, according to Glenn Allen, a spokesman for the state's insurance commissioner.
A 90-year-old Norcross woman also found that she had been signed up for Medicare Advantage without her permission. The woman's name was misspelled on the application and she was listed as a male, Allen said.
Authorities believe there could be more victims, Allen said.
John Oxendine, the state's insurance commissioner, stood by while Hall County Sheriff's deputies and department of insurance officials apprehended Robinson. He said Robinson's arrest was the fifth of its kind this year.
Oxendine said insurance commissioners across the country are noticing that the Medicare Advantage program particularly has made it easy for insurance agents to take advantage of elderly people.
"Crimes against senior citizens (are) a major problem," Oxendine said. "Medicare Advantage, specifically, has become very rampant across this entire country."
Oxendine said the compensation system that awards insurance agents anywhere between $500 to $600 for signing people up for Medicare Advantage, and the fact that applicants do not have to pay for their insurance makes the elderly more susceptible to fraud.
"I sign you up, you don't have to give me any money, I turn in the paperwork and the federal government pays me the commission," Oxendine said. "And that's what happened in these two cases."
Robinson is being held in the Hall County Jail on a $5,000 bond.


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Adam and Marilyn Pink turned up the volume for Coralea Gosnel with a modern bold geometric style. Coralea's hair is very straight. Adam chose to give her an edgy hairstyle that compliments her lifestyle. He went with a bold geometric shape which is currently very popular in Europe. He gave Coralea a clean curved bang to show off her nicely shaped eyebrows and rounded the bottom edge to keep in line with the modern bob influence.
Coming from Native American and Hispanic heritage, Coralea's skin tone is sallow (yellowish) so Marilen decided to go with a dark brown violet base color with some red accent patterns for special effects to emphasize the boldness of the bang. Cool tones go best to offset the sallow tone resulting in a more neutral rosy skin tone. Coralea's eyes are a pretty almond shape. Marilyn wanted to emphasize her eyes to show off her strongest feature by giving her a smoky, smoldering effect. Her cheekbones were lightly blushed. Her lips are a pale matt pink for an overall bold soft look.
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Talk about making a girl feel pretty..... Adam's unique style and flavor has changed my whole look! I was a little scared going to get my long black hair cut. But I knew Adam and Marilyn new just the look for me! The color is gorgeous...and the cut is fabulous.
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The 'District 13' remake will open in the United States on April 25 against 'Walk of Shame' and 'The Other Woman'.
One of Paul Walker's final movies, "Brick Mansions", has gotten an official release date. It's due nationwide on April 25 this year. It will open against rom-coms "Walk of Shame" & "The Other Woman", horror "The Quiet Ones", and drama thriller "Locke".
A remake of 2004's French action film "District 13", it will revolve around an undercover detective (Walker) traversing a deadly ghetto nicknamed "Brick Mansions" to uncover a WMD stolen by a vicious drug dealer (RZA). The film also stars parkour expert David Belle.
Walker passed away on November 30 last year at the age of 40. He died when the Porsche Carrera GT he was riding crashed and burst into flames. He already wrapped "Brick Mansions" back then, but still half completed his other new project "Fast and Furious 7".
"Fast 7" was initially set for July 11, 2014 release, but has been moved to April 10, 2015. In the revised script, Walker's character Brian O'Conner will be retired.
Relativity, which releases "Brick Mansions", will make donation to Walker's charity Reach Out WorldWide which works with first responders around the world for disaster relief.


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Tony Michaelides has been in the music business for over 30 years and has worked with artists ranging from David Bowie to U2, from The Pixies to The Stone Roses.
He will be sharing stories from his experiences as a record promoter in the Manchester, UK, rock and roll scene.
Tony lived through the "24-Hour Party People" scene and his personal reflections on relationships with icons like Tony Wilson from Factory Records, Martin Hannett, Joy Division, and The Happy Mondays provide a unique perspective into the birth of Punk and Rave Culture.
Tony will be promoting his new book "Insights from the Engine Room", published May 21, 2009. The book chronicles his experiences and provides insider's view of the music industry.
"Insights" is also a working guide for music professionals that reflects on lessons learned such as managing creativity from Led Zeppelin, risk-taking from Bono and U2, innovation from David Bowie, and persistence from Simon Cowell.
Tony's ambitious career has garnered him respect not only from artists but from their management teams as well. Speaking of Tony, Paul McGuinness, manager for U2, says "Tony has long been one of the UK's foremost record promoters and undoubtedly one of the best that U2 have had the pleasure of working with."
Editor David Warner of Creative Loafing said some kind and encouraging words on page 26 of the August 26, 2009, issue. Partial quote, "At a moment when ignorance is being aggressively defended, Deep Carnivale still respects our intelligence. Imagine that."
Esther Martinez, in a story at The Florida Book Review" says she knows "Deep Carnivale will be 'A Celebration of Words' and not a Bourbon Street bacchanal."
"But logophile that I am, I reason I'll get drunk on language. With over 70 writers and artists scheduled [for the 2008 Carnivale] to perform or read from their works, my beaded necklaces will be strung with verse. I imagine haiku shooters..."
"It is just before 10am when I arrive at the corner of Palm Avenue and 14th Street—Deep Carnivale ground zero. About a dozen vendor tables are lined up around the Hillsborough Community College courtyard where a band of teenagers [Next Exit] are setting up their instruments."The vendor tables sell books by local writers, HCC publications and baked goods. I grab a Cuban favorite, papa rellena, a potato stuffed with savory ground beef. Belly satisfied, I cross the street and enter the historic Circulo Cubano. A nearly 100 year old neo-classical building of ionic columns and marble staircases, it served as the Cuban Social Club and remains the oldest building of its kind in the country."
"When I look back over 2008, my visit to the second edition of Deep Carnivale was a
highlight. You and your staff did a great job and I loved being part of it, again.
I am sure there will be bigger festivals to come. But maybe not better!!!"
– Darrell House, children's book author and 2008 Deep Carnivale presenter.


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Wolf champions in the spotlight
This past week, we are pretty proud to be part of a growing chorus of howls for sane, science-based management of wolves across the West. From lauded authors, to Smithsonian-featured advocates, to awesome local activists, wolves are getting some much-needed support. [VIDEO]
Great people from all walks of life are howling out for wolves. Talks with Wolfer author Carter Niemeyer and Smithsonian specials bring wolves to life this month. Zoo wolf photo: Flickr user 'Tambako the Jaguar'
We are pretty proud to be part of a growing chorus of howls for sane, science-based management of wolves across the West. From lauded authors, to Smithsonian-featured advocates, to awesome local activists, wolves are getting some much-needed support this week!
Washington citizens speak up
On Friday, March 4, about 20 fans of Washington's healthy wild ecosystems showed up at a legislative hearing in Olympia, many to testify compellingly for Washington's recovering wolf populations and against the anti-wolf House Bill 1109. They spoke to their passion for all of Washington's wildlife, their support of the collaborative wolf management plan, and their desire for science--not politics--to manage wildlife in this state.
Bruce from Thurston County, who was raised on a ranch and farm in Idaho, spoke eloquently on the need for science and not jumping to emotional conclusions, quoting USDA data that only 1% of sheep losses in Western wolf habitat came from wolves, while 20% came from coyotes and another 20% by problems with lambing operations and disease control. He pointed out that wolf impacts "pale in comparison." Bob from Whatcom County, who also commented publicly last year for the wolf management plan, said, "We are all interdependent as part of a natural web...with care and forethought, we can co-exist with these species in Washington State."
Wolf recovery supporters like Bob and Bruce made up the majority of people at the hearing, and we thank them and the nearly 700 online commenters who came together against Washington's bad anti-wolf bills this past month!
Predator hunter turned wolf advocate speaks up
In a recent OregonLive.com feature, author Carter Niemeyer is described as "an Iowa farm boy who spent most of his career as the federal government's hit man against predators." Years of tax-payer funded predator poisoning, trapping for relocation, aerial gunning, and investigating the cause of livestock deaths led Niemeyer to become a wolf expert. This expertise led him to trap BC wolves for reintroduction into Yellowstone, and right into the middle of the West's wolf wars.
"I started realizing there were two sides to this story and the decisions I made had huge ramifications. That gave me the conviction I needed to be more honest, more fair, to dig deeper into why we are doing these things and for what reason," He went on to lead wolf recovery for the US Fish & Wildlife Service for 6 years, where he gained even more insight into the science, and perhaps more importantly, the sociology of wolves. This insight, straightforward sensibility, and stories from the field promise to make Niemeyer's book Wolfer: A memoir, a must read for anyone interested in wolves in the US.
The wolf issue has become the infuriating symbol of federal intervention in the rural West, leaving many people distrusting or discounting those who have the most scientific knowledge of the subject.
"You have a tremendous amount of backlash so that now you have self-appointed wolf experts misinforming the public and instilling fear that wolves are going to kill your kids, wipe out elk herds and spread diseases."
None of that is true, he says. Still, he keeps calling for common ground, urging agencies to co-investigate suspected wolf kills, with transparency and oversight. He wants more conversations with ranchers and encourages more nonlethal controls. And he hopes people learn more than the "Little Red Riding Hood" storyline of the Big Bad Wolf.
You can learn more about wolves and Carter's great story at several events across the region this month: Tuesday, March 8th 7pm with Portland Audubon; Thursday, March 10th 8pm at Fireside Books in Olympia; and Monday, March 28th at the Boise Public Library.
Olympic runner, cancer survivor and wolf biologist speaks up
Smithsonian Channel promises inspiration and adventure with their show Women in Science this month, highlighting female science superheroes in celebration of Women's History Month. I'm particularly excited to see Running with Wolves, the story of Gudrun Pflueger, world championship mountain runner and biologist who faces down cancer, then faces down the wildest lands in Canada in order to help protect the wolves that inspired her to keep fighting her illness. A preview is available below, and the show airs throughout the week, starting Tuesday at 9am EST. [More about the show and schedule]