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Disclaimer: No More Heroes belongs to Grasshoper Manufacture and Suda51. Kyle belongs to RedemptionWarrior.
A/N: This is a story for the Anti-Cliche and Mary-Sue Elimination Society. If you are not a member, you will be completely lost, so I suggest either skipping this story or catching up on our C2. Not much else to say except that my co-author and I hope you enjoy!
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Chapter 1 - Introduction
Kyle was feeling bored. It was a seemingly slow day for the Society and he was feeling the awesomeness withdrawal after a binge of Mobile Fighter G Gundam and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann...again. Still, it was time for his shift in the Monitor Room, so he forced himself to sluggishly trudge over and do his job. After collapsing into one of the chairs, he pulled out his music maker to play something calming. He relaxed to the music, just letting the slowness of the day drag him along without resistance.
However, some minutes later, the computers picked up a Sue's signal and sounded the alert. Annoyed at the interruption, Kyle's attention honed in on his task. He shut the alert down and tracked the signal's location. With that figured out, he frowned at the readings he got. He opened a communication line to one of the leaders.
"Hey, Michael. I've got a Sue ranked at level 3. Who's available to take it?"
The response came back shortly, "Most of the rookies are out on training assignments. You'll have to get one of the more experienced Agents to do it. Let's see here."
As the Chief Agent looked over who could go, Willie sauntered into the Monitor Room. Kyle looked in his direction and blinked before turning back to his communicator.
"Michael, is Willie available to send?" The Agent looked a bit confused as the reply came.
"Yes, he's currently open for missions. Why, did he just enter the Monitor Room?"
"Yeah. I'll send him out ASAP." The conversation ended as Kyle hang up. He then turned to the new arrival, who had figured out what they had been talking about.
"There's a new Sue that's been detected?"
Kyle nodded. "How quickly can you get ready?"
"What's the Sue's level?" Willie asked.
"Currently, it's a level 3, but the readings seem to indicate that it's started to approach level 4." Kyle informed the fellow Agent.
"Is that all? I'll deal with it right now." The darker Agent scoffed as he headed into an open portal. Kyle blinked a bit before shrugging it off and keying the monitor's watch system to follow Willie. It wasn't long before his fellow Agent had found the Mary Sue. He commented to himself as he watched.
"What kind of weapon is that? Does she want to lose? Willie's not even taking her seriously. Whoa, what are his razors made out of? They cut that thing to pieces in a few strokes. She's panicking now...good, good, she surrendered. Wait...Willie, what are you..." Kyle got to watch as his fellow Agent incinerated the helpless Sue with his Hellfire.
The portal opened again and Willie stepped out of it like nothing happened. However, Kyle was now pissed for having witnessed that act of cruelty. He stood up from his chair and got in the other Agent's way.
"What the Hell, 'Hero'! She had surrendered! There was no excuse for that kind of merciless death!"
"No excuse? She was a Sue. No other excuse necessary." Willie replied, as calm and casual as you please.
Kyle's body tensed up, his hands curling into fists and his face took on an angry frown. And then he exploded with that anger. "That's your reasoning?! You're a psychopath!"
"Yeah, and I've been in this club for, what, years now, and you haven't realized this? What rock have you been living under, you self-righteous ass?" Willie then sighed and turned away, walking towards the door. He then swayed to the side to avoid the punch Kyle sent his way. He turned back and scoffed dismissively.
"Enhanced instincts, asshole. With all the rage coming out of you, I could see that punch coming a mile away. Anyway, what's the problem if I kill some soulless, worthless pieces of creative en-" Willie was then cut off by Kyle's other fist slamming into his face, sending him crashing into a wall. Kyle's music maker device activated from where it was left on the Monitor Room's computer. It was playing Travesty, a song from the final battle of No More Heroes 2.
"You hypocritical bastard. You could have ended up like that too, or have you honestly forgotten your own origins?" Kyle stated. No answer emerged from the cloud of smoke. "He couldn't be really so weak that I could take him out with one hit, could he?" The Agent wondered aloud, his frown changed slightly to a more thoughtful one. Like a bullet, a metal spike coated in flames shot out of the smoke. Kyle diverted its flight path with a simple flick of his head, sending it crashing into the wall to his right.
The smoke cleared, revealing Willie standing, mostly unharmed and with many more spikes surrounding him. "Alright, now you've made me angry." He flicked his arms forward, sending the spikes barreling towards Kyle. Said Agent just looked angry again as he raised both arms up with palms facing his now foe. The spikes diverted around him, plowing into the wall behind him. Willie paused for a second before renewing his attack from a different angle.
"Spikes couldn't do it, so how about this then?" He snapped his fingers, igniting a powerfully intense bonfire around Kyle. "Feeling the heat, you jackass?"
The fountain of flames mostly hid Kyle from sight for a few moments. However, a slight movement could be seen and then Kyle dispersed the fire with a wave of his arm. Willie got this look of realization as the Agent he faced started cracking his knuckles.
"Fire equals Thermal Energy...riiiiight." Like it was a cue, Kyle surged forward to try and slam a glowing fist into Willie's face. Said Agent slid out of the way with ease, countering by launching some of the wall's bricks. His opponent couldn't correct his posture quick enough to defend against them and got hurtled into the opposite wall. "Ha ha, you got stoned!"
He found Kyle right in his face, driving a jab into the left side of his torso. Willie had felt it coming, but Kyle's Accelerator was too fast for him to act on it. The jab was then followed up by Kyle spinning around Willie's side as he flinched from the blow and drove a kick into the back of Willie's knee on the same side. Incidentally, due to the increased speed, Kyle's blows had far greater power behind them. Anyway, as his opponent was slowly folding before his eyes while still charged up by his Accelerator, Kyle slammed both hands into Willie's back as open palms, launching him forward a little bit and skidding to a stop on his front.
As his use of Accelerator was making him hungry, Kyle stopped it with a sigh. However, when he did, a somewhat large dome of Metal covered Willie. Apparently to ward off physical blows, it was covered in spikes that were short enough to have no way around them, but long enough that contact would cause severe damage. Apparently, Willie was protecting himself until he got his second wind.
"Ow, damn it! Those blows hit like sledgehammers! That bastard, I'm really going to make him pay!" He slowly stood up, his outfit changing into larger black armor and a katana attached to his back. Then, with absolute deliberateness, Willie drew the enchanted blade from its sheath, flinching as it took its price of an ounce of his blood. "Kyle's the honorable and/or moral type. He'll try to break through my dome to get at me. When he does, I'll kill him with this."
However, he was underestimating Kyle's mood. Anger and Rage are good ways to ensure that Kyle won't show mercy on his opponent. In other words, if he gets pissed, don't count on Kyle fighting fair. Willie only got a couple seconds of warning as a powerful slam of feet and the sound and rumble of explosions headed his way as Kyle declared, "Blasting Quake."
"The ground?!" Willie expressed in surprise before he used magic to lift himself and the dome into the air. It only exposed him for a split second before he used more Metal to make his protection a full sphere. Using Air magic to not suffocate inside his barrier, Willie sighed with relief before he started ranting, "What the hell! I would have been vaporized by that attack! That asshole honestly just tried to kill me! I never knew he had it in him."
Kyle merely looked unimpressed at the floating spiked ball that protected Willie; however, before he could attempt to penetrate it to get at his foe, Tash came running in. She'd take one look at the floating Metal sphere and all the damage to the room before shouting.
"What the bloody hell is going on here?!" With one of the Leaders there, Kyle shook his head and took a deep breath to calm himself. Willie took a hesitant look outside his protection by opening it a crack. With Tash looking peeved and his opponent calming down, the darker Agent grumbled as his armor and katana disappeared.
"Damn it, I wasted an ounce of blood for nothing." He then spoke louder to say, "Kyle started it. He was getting in my face for doing my job."
"It's not your job to be a merciless psychopath! She surrendered, damn it!" Kyle spat back.
"Shut up, both of you!" Tash shouted in return. "I don't particularly care who started it or not because it's quite obvious that the two of you were going into this with intent to kill! Therefore, I am counting this as a strike on both your records."
"What?! But I was defending myself!" Willie exclaimed, his face red with indignation.
"And he killed a defenseless Sue! How is he not out yet?!" Kyle shouted in return.
"That's why he's getting the additional strike. Besides, he has two, you have one, and you were on the offensive first. Now then, my real reason for coming was to give you a mission Willie. There's a level 6 Stu in the No More Heroes fandom."
"Sweet," Willie replied, beginning to calm down. "I'll be able to go on a nice mook-based murder frenzy to get over this. Or am I not allowed to do that anymore?" he asked, sarcasm practically dripping from his lips.
Tash sighed. "You'll never change. But regardless, you're taking Kyle with you. No arguments."
Willie's eyes widened, and he began to sputter. "Wha-bu-but he tried to fucking kill me!"
"And he's a murderer! I can't work with him!" Kyle looked equally shocked.
"I said no arguments! Besides, considering Willie's…circumstances and the fact that you were justified, Kyle, I'm giving you both a second chance. If you two can actually get along AND accomplish this mission without killing the Stu, I might consider clearing your records. Now get going!" With that, Tash stormed out of the room, clouds of steam almost visible from the back of her head.
Willie looked at the door for a minute, and then sighed. "Well, might as well get this over with. The sooner we do this, the sooner I can get back to no-strikes. About time she thought about forgiving me for the head thing." Willie opened his Plothole Generator and activated it, opening the swirling vortex. He stepped partway in, then turned to Kyle. "You coming, jackass?"
Kyle stared at Willie's face, then muscled him aside as he entered the Plothole, not saying a word. As Willie followed suit, the Plothole closed behind them.
-Anti-Cliché and Mary-Sue Elimination Society-
The sun rose on Santa Destroy, a town which had recently entered a new era of violence and insanity, much to the joy of the populace. Following the defeat of Rank 1 UAA assassin Travis Touchdown, the new Rank 1 immediately began a takeover of the UAA. All current members were stripped of their positions and either rehired as office workers or simply killed, allowing for a new, fresh crop of powerful assassins to take their place. With the matches televised, money was flowing in to the town like never before, all thanks to the mysterious challenger who had appeared out of nowhere. While most only knew him as Mr. Rank 1, those in the UAA knew him as Atticus Breakdown.
-Anti-Cliché and Mary-Sue Elimination Society-
In the center plaza, near the defunct Pizza Batt headquarters, a swirling vortex of energy opened as a sullen Willie and Kyle walked out, saying nary a word to one another as the vortex closed behind them.
"All right, where is this Stu bastard? We need to get to him as quick as possible." Willie muttered under his breath, glancing around the area. Kyle looked at him with barely contained frustration.
"Why, so you can kill him as he squeals for mercy? Go right ahead. The Society would be a much better place without you murdering all over the place."
"Oh, go find a thesaurus. Hearing you say "murderer" and "psychopath" all the time is making me want to kill you, and I really don't need any more incentive to do so."
"Hmph. Go ahead and try."
"Are you tempting me? Why I ought to -"
"Gentlemen, please. How do you expect to defeat me if you can barely exchange two words?" a smooth voice asked, its dulcet tones washing over the Agents. They turned quickly, and knew instantly that they'd found their target.
The man behind them had long chestnut brown hair that descended to around mid-back. His tanned skin was smooth and unlined, and his purple eyes glittered with insight. He wore a suit of such immaculate whiteness that it seemed a second sun and a necklace of the purest gold. His half-open lips revealed the merest glimpse of pearly-white teeth. Even without the absurd number of descriptive adjectives in the previous few sentences, his identity was obvious.
Yes, even obvious to the Agents as they stood there while trying to shield their eyes from his suit's shine. Atticus Breakdown merely kept his smug grin as he continued speaking.
"Like my outfit? It makes it so easy to kill someone. Forcing them to shield their eyes and cower before I dispatch them. What a wonderful feeling." To anyone in the audience who hasn't figured it out, this guy's almost as psychotic as Willie.
"Hey, you're the narrator! You're supposed to be impartial!" Said Agent snapped at me. By his side, Kyle shook his head and sighed.
"Great, two narrators for one story. At least we don't have to worry about the fourth wall here, it seems."
Atticus never lost his grin as he replied, "What fourth wall? Anyway, to prove yourselves worthy of dying by my hand, I offer a challenge to you."
Both Agents looked at him with expressions that promised him pain, lots and lots of pain. However, he merely shrugged it off by saying, "You wouldn't be the first ones that stain my suit with blood, although you two both probably have no idea on how hard it is to get blood stains out of white clothing. Anyway, the challenge is this. You will both enter into my United Association of Assassins..."
"That's United Assassins Association, you asshat!" Willie burst out while drawing his razors. He'd only get a warning of what almost happened to him when the clang of metal on metal rang out. A small, ornate throwing knife dropped to the ground and Kyle was standing in front of him.
"Well well. Seems your colleague here is the better fighter of you two. In any case, I'm the one running the show, so I can name it whatever I want. Now, if you've finished your childishness, I'll continue," The tone Atticus took with Willie was beyond condescending. Then, he cleared his throat. "As I was saying, you will both enter into my United Association of Assassins and share rank 11. Then, you will both work your way up to number 2. Once you've cleared that, then I will fight you. Deal?"
Kyle solemnly nodded his consent, the Stu clapping his hands together before Willie could give his input.
"Excellent! I'll be kind and arrange all the paper work! Oh, unlike that con artist Silvia, I am far more generous with whoever enters my UAA so no need for any entry fees!" He gave them a small bow before suddenly disappearing into thin air.
Willie was not happy, "What the hell, you pompous ass! I didn't even get to give my opinion on the matter!"
"And who just saved you from being impaled through the heart by a dagger?" Kyle countered without even turning around. "It's not like we had much choice. You would have tried to kill him, thus probably got one more mark on your record, AND I would have lost this chance to clear mine!"
"Then why didn't you try to fight him? You could keep up well enough, it looked like!" Willie yelled at his current partner.
"Because he's an assassin and wouldn't likely have hesitated to use you as either a shield or target practice in attempts to get through my defenses." Kyle stated in a matter of fact tone.
"Well, I don't have to like it," was what his fellow Agent grumbled as the truth of it sank in. With a sigh, he spoke up, "Argh, this sucks ass! I'm going to miss my Sailor Moon reruns!"
"That's your priority?" Kyle deadpanned. He shook his head before starting to walk away.
Willie called after him, "Hey, where are you going?!"
The other Agent replied over his shoulder, "To get a place to live until we're done with this bullcrap!"
Kyle was well down the street before Willie realized it and thus had to hurry to catch up. When he was about even paced with his fellow member of the Society, he started saying stuff out loud to cheer himself up.
"On the bright side, I'll be able to slaughter hundreds of mooks without mercy! After all, it's part of the game mechanics that you have to kill all the mooks before you can move on to the next part of the area. Oh, this is going to be so much fun!"
Interestingly, Kyle ignored his companion as they came upon a somewhat rundown two story motel. They could barely make out that it was called the "No More Heroes Motel". Upon reaching the front desk, Kyle started exchanging words with the clerk before pulling out his Paycard and handing it over. The process didn't take more than a few minutes before he was handed the keys to an apartment and his paycard. Thanking the clerk, Kyle gestured for Willie to follow him.
They headed up the stairs and spot the ever so helpful exclamation point that indicates where they're to live. Willie paused outside the door.
"Hey, I recognize this. If I'm not mistaken, this is the door to Travis's apartment!"
Kyle unlocked the door with a shrug and then opened it. Inside the apartment, it was obvious that someone had lived there and that no one had yet bothered to clear everything out. There were many luchador masks on the walls and several shelves and bookcases holding scale models of girls from a Show-within-a-Show anime. An open door to the left of the entrance showed a bedroom and to the left of that door was a bathroom. A light with three prongs, each with a lamp, hung over a comfy-looking red chair. Behind that and off to the right was a mini-fridge. There were signs of a cat having lived there, but the cat itself didn't appear to be.
"Well, we're here. Now, we should probably start planning-" Kyle began, only to be cut off by the sound of metal shattering glass. He turned, and saw Willie flicking what appeared to be nails at various points in the room, causing miniature glass shards to drop to the ground. "What are you doing?"
"Destroying the hidden cameras." Willie responded, his voice indifferent.
"And how did you know there were hidden cameras?"
Willie shot him a look. "If you're actually about to tell me you thought I was just a blood-crazy goofball, I will have lost all respect for you. Not saying much, but still."
Kyle gazed at him with a measuring stare, and then nodded. "I figured as much. So you guessed that Mr. Breakdown isn't as fair as he's claiming to be and used air manipulation to confirm it?"
Willie finished flicking the last of his nails at a point right above the bathroom door and nodded. "Yep. Now we should be good. So, do you have a plan in mind?"
"I do. The basic premise is this; we cannot work together as it stands."
"Agreed. So you want to split the fights so we see as little of each other as possible?"
"Exactly. We each get two fights and then switch off. You get 10 and 9, I'll get 8 and 7, and so on until we get to Atticus. Considering how powerful he is, we'll probably have to fight him together."
Willie sighed in resignation. "Fair enough. The less I have to see of you, the better. Speaking of that, dibs on the bed."
Kyle blinked at him. "Just when I begin to see your hidden depths, you pull something as childish as that?"
"Look, I'm a simple man, with simple needs. Blood, anime, and not sleeping on a place probably covered with records of Travis's porn viewing. There's no TV in the bedroom, so you're getting the chair."
"Correction, I'm getting the bed. You owe me for getting me a strike."
"Well you owe me for trying to kill me!"
"Because of you killing a helpless victim!"
"Oh, if you bring that up again I will-"
"Boys, boys, settle down," a calm voice rang out. It sounded like a woman, or perhaps a girl nearing womanhood, standing at the door. Willie shook his head in frustration.
"If I get cut off one more time, I swear heads will roll. Now who might you be?" he asked, turning around, before stopping dead. The girl standing at their door had blonde hair and blue eyes, an image of delicacy that matched the bizarre cross between a Gothic Lolita outfit and business suit she wore. No other description was necessary for her, as all present instantly recognized her as Margaret Moonlight.
Kyle stood, his eyebrows seemingly heading up to his hairline. "How did we not recognize her voice?"
"Too busy caught up in our own problems. But that doesn't answer the question of why are you here?" Willie responded, never taking his eyes off of the musical assassin.
Margaret's poise was undeterred. "I am your Fight Coordinator for the duration of your stay. Our marvelous leader, Atticus Breakdown, has sent his most loyal servant to watch over your journey."
Kyle blinked a few times, his breath coming hard and fast. "That bastard corrupted one of my favorite characters in the game? He'll pay for this."
Willie, on the other hand, looked thoughtful. "I'm not quite sure, actually. Hang on." Willie quickly strode over to the door, gently shoved Margaret over the threshold, and closed the door behind them. "It's alright, Miss Moonlight. There are no cameras in here."
Margaret's response was immediate. She let out a breath of relief and looked at the two gratefully. "Thank you. If I had to pretend to worship that philistine any longer I would have gone insane."
Kyle's breathing slowed as he processed the current development. "Wait, you were pretending to be converted? I figured that the first thing the Stu would have done would be to suppress the wills of all female characters."
Margaret nodded. "Normally that would be the case, but we're all aware of this place's lack of a Fourth Wall. Everyone who was not killed by him during his takeover merely feigns acceptance in order to avoid death."
"I see. Would you like to stay here, then?" Kyle asked. Willie gasped, and immediately began making X-shapes with his hands, something they both ignored.
The smile Margaret gave was truly beatific. "It would be my pleasure." No sooner were the words out of her mouth did Willie grab her by the shoulder and turned her to face him.
"Think about this for a minute! Just because he can't see into this apartment, he'll realize that you're staying here! He will find out that your subservience is an act, and if we fail, he will kill you! Are you willing to take that risk?"
Margaret looked him in the eye for a moment and then smiled once more. "I greatly appreciate the concern, but I have no fear of death. I assumed the façade of an adoring fan not to save my own life, but to take his. Almost a day ago, I realized it was worthless. Were it not for your arrival, I might have taken my own life. We all know that I am an assassin. There is either death or honor in my world, and I would gladly take the former to maintain the latter."
Willie looked at her for a moment, then sighed. "Well, you certainly are what you seem to be. Alright, I'll go make sure there are no cameras in the bedroom and bathroom for you." Willie then stalked off, leaving Margaret and Kyle, for all intents and purposes, alone in the room.
"Huh. Willie's actually accepting that you take the bed."
"I believe he respects me. Not so much you."
Kyle shook his head. "I can live without his respect. He's like Bad Girl, an unrepentant, sadistic psychopath!"
"Bad Girl had a lot of pain. Maybe he's not any different?"
Kyle looked at her, before looking down. "I saw some other aspects to him, but the end result's the same. He's just a psychopath."
Margaret shrugged. "Believe what you want. The two of you will have to work together at some point. Atticus is a monster."
"What makes you say that?"
"Because yesterday, I saw him butcher Alice Twilight."
Kyle's face took on a look of horror as he heard those words, almost failing to notice Willie walk back in. "You're all set," he said, offering Margaret his arm. "Allow me to show you your room."
"Thank you," she responded, "but no need for aid. I do believe I can walk on my own." With that, she made her way into the bedroom, closing the door behind her. Willie looked at Kyle, taken back by his horrified expression.
"What's wrong?"
"I'll paraphrase something from the movie Braveheart. 'The Author tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're screwed."


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Following stunts are not thrilling, they are shockingly hilarious
1. Killing On Phone
Oh my God! If killing could be done on phone, then it is the easiest way and you don't even have to go to prison for no one has seen you.
2. Flying Punch
This one is not difficult. All you have to know is flying. If you can do that, you can fight with any number of people.
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Jeeps don't lie! See the power of bullet.
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Marvelous! This is called "bull's eye". He should have been in sports rather than movies.
6. Robotics By Rajni
Did you know how earth rotates? Rajni is spinning it on his finger. Nothing is impossible for him.
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Where there is a will, there is a way. This cop has failed Ranjnikant with his extraordinary effective brain. He used knife to divide one bullet into two to kills the villains. Incredible!
8. Stunt to Impress A Girl
If you perform this action, there is no way girl would say no to your proposal but attempt at your own risk.
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Ajay Devgan seems to have remote control of car. He knows how to roll it over in air and how many inches away to drop it.
10. The Dhaai Kilo Ke Haath Stunt
Ye dhaai kilo ka hath jab padta hai to admi uthta nai, uth jata hai. Looks like he has underestimated himself. His hands seem to be heavier than dhaai kilo.
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A Renbel Community Chief has urged police to investigate reports that some Members of Parliament are in possession of illegal firearms, saying he is sure the hierarchy of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is fully aware of who the MPs are. "I know successive police commissioners and the new one know who the politicians are. Why aren't they doing anything about this," West Rennell Chief Jonathan Tohuika told Island Sun yesterday. Mr Tohuika's call comes as new information emerged that high-powered rifles such as M16 might have beenRead More
Gov't renews provincial government consultant's $71k fortnightly after-tax salary
THE Government has renewed the contract of an overseas consultant engaged to provide technical assistance to the Provincial Governance Strengthening Programme at an after tax salary of $71,000 a fortnight, documents obtained by Island Sun shows. The six-month extension will cost taxpayers some $776,160 in fixed daily professional fee as well as a daily subsistence allowance of $271,500, according to the contract documents. Momodou Lamin Sawaneh's contract extension was approved by the Public Service Commission last December. It is effective from January 1 this year, according to the documents. "IRead More
Solomon Islands faces serious deforestation
OVER harvesting of our forest resources is good for our economy but will cause extensive damage to the forestry sector in the future. The country's economy has survived for decades on forestry resources and now officials are signalling red light as a result of high levels of deforestation. Speaking during the signing of Capacity Development for Sustainable Forest Resource Management Project yesterday, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Forestry and Research Mr Vaeno Vigulu said the country's forest resource is currently harvested at an unsustainable level posing a possible inclineRead More
Amendments to Adoption laws stop foreigners adopting SI children
THE new amendments to the adoption laws do not allow foreigners to adopt Solomon Islands children although the old Act did allow it The amended 2016 Adoption Bill which Parliament had passed also stipulates the requirements to be more strict and for extra material to be available to the courts in order to decide applications for adoption from non-residents. And most importantly, the courts must be satisfied that there are no other suitable arrangements for the children in Solomon Islands and that the adoption is in the children's best interests.Read More
JICA and Ministry of Forest seal new project
JAPANESE International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Ministry of Forest and Research have sealed a five-year Forest Management project. A signing ceremony took place at the Mendana Hotel yesterday between the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Forestry and Research, Mr Vaeno Vigulu, and Resident representative of JICA, Mr Kyoji Mazutani. Mr Mazutani said the project is focusing on capacity development for sustainable forest resources management. He adds that the project is titled, Capacity Development for Sustainable Forest Resource management in Solomon Islands. Mr Mazutani said the Ministry and JICA haveRead More
Market Master denies re-imposing littering penalty
THE Honiara City Council Market Master condemns public rumours concerning penalty charges over littering around the city's central market compound. There has been rumors from the Honiara Central Market saying the HCC will re-impose the littering charges starting at the central market. However, Mr Jimmy Hanson Riunga, the Market Master and officer overseeing the Market Ordinance, has denied the rumours utterly. "I am not aware about anything as such, maybe they heard from someone but from me I haven't heard or even in our council's meeting it was never beenRead More
Six granted bail out of 76 arrests
SIX of the 76 locals arrested in relation to the logging dispute at Vasara logging camp, Rendova, have been granted bail. Five are juveniles and one is an MPA in the Rendova Constituency. The other 70 are being remanded in custody for the next 14 days. Principal Magistrate for Western Province, Mr Jim Botica Seuika, ruled that the other 70 will still be remanded in custody because the situation is tense, and it is also for their own safety. "I have not granted them bail as they will be remandedRead More
76 people arrested over Rendova incident
POLICE Commissioner Mathew Varley has confirmed that 76 people were arrested and have appeared in the Gizo Magistrate Court yesterday. This is in relation to the logging row in Vesara camp Rendova in the Western Province. Mr Varley said six of those 76 people arrested were juveniles. This is a very serious public order incident that was prevented by police. "We worked very hard to make sure that we negotiated a peaceful outcome on this," Mr Varley said. And when that was not successful and still risk for public safetyRead More


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|Das, Modan
|Carver, Brett
|Xu, Xiangyang
|Krenzer, Eugene
Submitted to: Crop Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/11/2003
Publication Date: 7/1/2003
Citation: Bai, G., Das, M.K., Carver, B.F., Xu, X., Krenzer, E.G. 2003. Covariation for microsatellite marker alleles associated with rht8 and coleoptile length in winter wheat. Crop Science. 44:1187-1194. Interpretive Summary: Cleoptiles are the first leaves that appear above ground. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars with longer coleoptiles are preferred in dryland regions and in early-planted management systems of the Great Plains. Gibberellic acid (GA3), a plant growth hormone, may play a role in promoting coleoptile elongation. However, many modern cultivars are insensitive to GA3 due to the presence of dwarfing genes and therefore tend to have short coleoptiles. Fortunately, the gene Rht8 can reduce plant height and also sensitivity to GA3. Recently a molecular marker diagnostic for Rht8 has been discovered. Rht8 can be an alternative in modern wheat cultivars to replace GA3 insensitive dwarfing genes. Our objectives were to survey the presence of Rht8 gene in collections of hard winter and soft red winter wheat. Results were compared to samples of Chinese accessions from a Rht8-rich geographic region, and coleoptile lengths of cultivars with and without were compared. About 8% of all U.S. accessions carried the molecular marker diagnostic for Rht8, compared with 64% of the Chinese accessions. Coleoptile length varied among accessions from 4.4 cm to 11.4 cm. Coleoptiles for cultivars containing the Rht8 diagnostic marker were not significantly longer than those without the marker. Since coleoptile elongation may be controlled by several genes, using Rht8 gene alone may not be sufficient to select coleoptile length in a semidwarf plant type.
Technical Abstract: Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars with greater coleoptile elongation are preferred in low-precipitation dryland regions and in early-planted management systems of the Great Plains, but the presence of GA3-insensitive dwarfing genes tends to restrict coleoptile elongation. The agronomic value of Rht8 and the discovery of its diagnostic microsatellite marker, Xgwm 261, have accelerated breeders' interest in Rht8 as an alternative dwarfing gene. Our objectives were to determine allelic distributions at the marker locus in contemporary samples of hard winter and soft red winter wheat relative to samples of Chinese accessions from a Rht8-rich geographic region, and to compare coleoptile elongation in the presence or absence of Rht8 determined by the Xgwm 261 marker. The 165-bp (primarily hard winter wheats) and the 174-bp (primarily soft red winter wheats) alleles of Xgwm 261 were most frequent. About 8 % of all U.S. accessions carried the 192-bp allele diagnostic for Rht8, compared with 64% of the Chinese accessions. Coleoptile length varied among accessions from 4.4 cm to 11.4 cm. Frequency distributions for 192-bp and non-192-bp genotypes showed no advantage of the 192-bp allele to coleoptile elongation. None of the 192-bp genotypes from the Great Plains showed greater coleoptile length than 'TAM 107', a hard red winter cultivar without Rht8 often chosen over contemporary cultivars for its greater emergence capacity with deeper seed placement. Since coleoptile elongation may be controlled by several quantitative trait loci, identifying only the presence of 192-bp allele of Xgwm 261 may be misleading if the primary motivation for its deployment is to increase coleoptile length in a semidwarf plant type.


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Femtocells: Boon, bane or benign for cable operators?
At their least intrusive, femtocells may be a technological Switzerland, neither favoring nor opposing the existing broadband infrastructure. At their worst, femtos, which should be in serious trials by the end of this year and on the market early next year, are the advance scouts for invading telecom forces that will use cable resources to improve in-residence mobile wireless broadband and insidiously infect consumer thinking.
The worst-case scenario might not materialize, but until MSOs build their own mobile wireless platforms (as Cox appears prepared to do) or find a favorable partnership (as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House have with cellular provider Sprint), the industry will have to keep an eye on femtos from a competitive perspective.
Femtocells are small cellular base stations that provide enhanced coverage at the far edge of the network to let mobile service providers shore up their in-residence coverage without needing expensive towers. They also help alleviate broadband wireless traffic congestion by using the in-residence wireline broadband connection for backhaul.
A telco like AT&T or Verizon would make a femtocell part of an overall consumer broadband offering, adding the mobile element to an existing fiber or DSL connection. This is where femtos pose the greatest threat to cable because they can entice subscribers with broadband mobility as part of a package of telco services.
Femtos have two major problems. They only work on the wireless provider's spectrum and each wireless provider has its own frequency, placing a major hurdle to wide retail sales of interoperable products; and they're still relatively expensive in the whole retail scheme.
"If you look at what's being asked for, you're really looking at $100 or $200. Vodafone threw out a benchmark of $100 or less to the vendor community to try to set the bar and some people are striving to meet that," said David Readman, director of global business development for femto maker ZTE.
Samsung's Airave Femtocell
Compare that to more established wireless technology and it's a hurdle.
"You can add Wi-Fi into a home gateway for $20 to $30; adding femto into the same home gateway, you're probably going to be looking at over $100," said Alan Lefkof, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's broadband solutions group.
That doesn't mean a subscriber with a weak in-residence mobile connection won't shell out the bucks for the device, or that the wireless carrier won't subsidize the expense to help subscribers get better service, but it does indicate that there won't be a mass push to retailers to buy devices just to compete with cable with mobile broadband data and video services. Still, as prices come down, that's exactly the path femtos are expected to take: compete with cable and satellite by adding a mobile component to the home communications package.
"It's a little easier to understand the femto opportunity from a telco perspective, and especially from a telco perspective when the wireline telco is merging with the wireless mobile provider," said Lefkof. "Cable is a little trickier because no cable operator owns its own cell phone operation."
Cable has several wireless options. There's the multi-billion-dollar financial investment Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Communications threw into the "new" Clearwire. That, though, is WiMAX, and WiMAX supposedly won't need a femtocell signal boost.
Cox Communications provides a standalone view of what the industry could be doing. Cox had been part of the failed Pivot relationship with Sprint but didn't renew its vows when its fellow members invested in Clearwire and WiMAX. Cox also went out on a cable limb by bidding for 700 MHz bandwidth that could be used for a wireless play either using conventional mobile technology or WiMAX. Cox is also still allied with Comcast and Time Warner in SpectrumCo, a joint venture that bid $2.37 billion for 137 wireless spectrum licenses.
Like all cable operators, Cox has its eyes on femtos if for no other reason than the devices could end up in Cox homes using the cable broadband network for backhaul.
"We evaluate a lot of different technologies and things that are happening in the marketplace (and) this is another one. If it starts to emerge, it's something to watch," said Michael Gillin, senior product development manager-wireless, for Cox.
On the other hand, watching and doing are two different things, as athletes often tell sportswriters.
"We can't say it's an area that we're definitely going to delve into. We're looking at Wi-Fi," he said.
Cox figures Wi-Fi, an established (read cheap) technology that's somewhat ubiquitous, might provide a better wireless broadband data play than a femto. The MSO has lit up an area in downtown Wichita to study how consumers use the service because "Wi-Fi was designed initially for more of a broadband extension," he said.
. . ."Our business model has been... [that] the robust mobile Internet model is an extension of the Internet and the wireless; it's not an extension of cellular going to the Internet," said Atish Gude, senior vice president of mobile broadband operations for Sprint's Xohm business unit. Sprint is making Xohm a cornerstone of the new Clearwire WiMAX initiative which should settle out by the end of this year.
WiMAX supposedly will be powerful enough to easily penetrate the residence and deliver high-speed data connectivity along with fixed voice-over-IP. It will also evolve to mobile as chips become smaller and consume less power and end devices migrate from laptops to PDAs to cell phones. WiMAX is one vision of fourth generation mobile technology; LTE, which stands for long term evolution, is the other that is being pursued by most mobile operators who will drag their existing mobile infrastructure into high-speed mobile broadband. Time wise, Clearwire's WiMAX play is already up and running and should start to get traction next year; LTE is still two years out.
To offset this time differential, mobile providers are increasingly offering a form of broadband – not the blazing speeds of cable modems, DOCSIS 3.0 or fiber, but enough to push Internet services over mobile devices using third-generation technology. The speed bump for so-called smartphones that get Internet broadband is in-residence reception and traffic congestion, and that's where femtocells have an impact.
This early lead with 3G as WiMAX gives telcos a "minor advantage," said Readman. "In areas where they can bundle those things and they have the subscriber on both sides (wireless and wireline) there's an opportunity, but the overlap is quite small."
Readman estimated that AT&T and Verizon have one-tenth as many broadband subscribers as they do wireless
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subscribers, and only a minority of those have both services. Still, it's a foothold for both AT&T and Verizon and even Sprint, which, sans Clearwire, is exploring.
Even if cable doesn't cooperate with Sprint, and the new Clearwire relationship does call for use of the mobile carrier's 2/3G networks, there's a good chance that some wireless carrier is going to invade the cable residence with a femtocell and there's nothing the cable operator can do about it.
"By the time it gets to the gateway and backhauls on the cable line, it's just another IP packet. It would be a little hard to lock it out not knowing which packet is which, and consumers would be in an uproar," said Lefkof.
It not only would be unwise to try to block femto traffic, it would be relatively impossible, said Jim Parker, senior manager of Samsung Telecommunications America, which builds femtocells.
"It's using IPsec, and IPsec is a tunneling mechanism used for corporate e-mail," Parker said.
IPsec allows a corporate user to bring home a laptop and log onto the company network using the cable broadband connection so "the person that owns the wireline infrastructure that you're using to piggyback this femtocell offering on top of would not be able to differentiate traffic from a femtocell versus someone like myself taking my corporate laptop home and checking e-mail," he said.
In other words, the enterprising wireless provider can use the cable broadband connection to boost its broadband service. More likely, that wireless carrier would work some bundle with a wireline partner to make mobile broadband an element of a four-prong voice, video, data and mobility package.
It all depends on what the user wants from the provider, and what the provider wants to give to the user.
"In the U.S., a lot of people do not get very good cell phone coverage in their home so the femto gives you better coverage because your cell phone would look to the antenna in the gateway instead of looking to the macro cell tower," Lefkof said.
It's not the same for Europe, where in-residence cell coverage is more than adequate.
"The new devices that are going crazy in Europe are 3G USB sticks to plug into your laptop. When you start uploading and downloading big files with those USB sticks, you're starting to clog the 3G macrocell network," he said. "The operators are very interested in getting extra 3G capacity leveraging the home broadband because their own marketing has been too successful with the USB sticks on the laptop."
In short, the value of femtos will be whatever the mobile operators make it. The knee-jerk cable reaction is to dismiss this new device as no threat to cable's powerful broadband throughput. The more reasoned approach is to consider what impact it might have on overall subscriber numbers – especially if improved in-residence mobile drives subscribers away from digital landline phone – and what impact those increasingly heavy loads of data will have on the cable backhaul.
"We're in the early stages of the whole femtocell environment...but it provides the vehicle to start linking together the wireless/wireline environment, and given the amount of wireless traffic that occurs from consumers in their home...using a DSL or cable high-speed connection for that call in the home environment has some economic appeal," said Dan Moloney, president of Motorola's home and networks mobility group. "For those who own DSL fixed line networks, obviously, it's simple. For those who don't, the ability to team up either with a fixed line carrier or a cable operator to leverage that backhaul capability is something that's being very actively explored."


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Thanks to reader Joe who shot this photo (below right) of a promo Carl's Jr. is running on Friday at a limited number of locations.
Stores that sell the Hardee's biscuits will be giving away a free sausage biscuit Friday, Sept. 2 from 6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
I don't know where the biscuits are sold in Orange County. This particular photo was taken at the unit on Imperial Highway and La Palma in Anaheim Hills. In the past, Maven readers have spotted the biscuits in Buena Park, Fullerton, Newport Beach and Laguna Hills.
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Readers: Support Strong for Staying Away From Older, High-Priced Free Agents
We should target free agents like linebackers Karlos Dansby (Arizona) and Channing Crowder (Miami), and offensive linemen like Jason Brown (Baltimore) and Vernon Carey (Miami). All these guys are fairly young, and are dependable starters who we could sign with cap-friendly contracts. When it comes to the draft we should target one of those top-five, blue-chip tackle prospects or B.J. Raji, the massive defensive tackle from Boston College.
Posted by: hillb03
Use the four picks in the following manner: Right tackle, left guard or linebacker, defensive tackle or center and cornerback. Sign some of the young players (Alex Buzbee, Rob Jackson, Chris Wilson) and pay them with money saved from redoing Cornelius Griffin and Jason Taylor's contracts. Then, get 'em on the field. . . . Sign DeAngelo Hall. Tell Carlos Rogers he's a third corner and pay him to cover the slot guy. Draft a young guy to challenge Fred Smoot.
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You have to go to free agency and get guys like (Ravens linebacker) Bart Scott as opposed to a Terrell Suggs. You wait for (Cowboys linebacker) DeMarcus Ware to become available. You draft a defensive end next year. Depending on Carlos Rogers's situation you draft offensive line, cornerback and place kicker this year. Perhaps you sign a good defensive tackle to replace Cornelius Griffin. . . . Preserve the heart of the defense while trying to rebuild the offensive line.
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We can save nearly $20 million by not bringing back most of our aging vets: Marcus Washington, Jason Taylor, Cornelius Griffin. . . . Re-sign DeAngelo Hall. Hope that Shawn Springs will restructure and move him to free safety. If he doesn't agree . . . he's gone. Re-sign all restricted free agents. Sign a new center. . . . Trade down in the draft, from 13th to the late first or early second. Take offensive line or defensive line with first pick.
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Aubrey Plaza Gossip
Aubrey Plaza gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie in The Little Hours
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A loosely-derived mash-up of a couple stories from Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron—the first and second tales from Day Three—The Little Hours is a raunchy sex comedy by way of a fourteenth century Italian convent. Written and directed by Jeff Baena (Life After Beth), and starring a cohort of top-notch comedy actors, The Little Hours is destined for the Polarizing Comedy Hall of Fame. Full Story
Bad Nuns
One of my favorite literary sub-genres is "Stuff Written During The Plague". There's a whole shelf in my bookcase dedicated to Stuff Written During The Plague (between "Angry Repressed Victorians" and "Maritime Mysteries [Non-Fiction]"). Medieval plague breakouts drove people out of cities—if you could afford to leave the city, that is. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, November 4, 2016
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The Sun has pulled a story that said Victoria's Secret casting directors called Cara Delevingne "bloated." I believe the letter – she is too famous to go through the regular casting channels. She's young, she's cool, she's popular, she's fun – VS would want her. Full Story
Zac Efron is tired in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
The movie poster for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates promises the movie is full of "hot messes," and boy does it deliver as advertised. Mike and Dave is full of hot air, with some real laughs but a pretty thin premise. It really wants to be the new Wedding Crashers, but ultimately feels too calculated and even references the film in a lengthy scene before Zac Efron announces something along the lines of, "Wedding Crashers is just a movie!" This is sloppy seconds, with some good, yet sparse, jokes and too-frequent pop culture references. Full Story
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Busy Philipps is feeling herself in this outfit as she should be. Amazing print. And I don't care if it's not a "summer" print. Summer clothing dates fast, doesn't it? This won't date. Obsessed with this look for my press today! Thank you @kmannmakeup for my face and @ionstudionyc for my hair! Full Story
The Emmy Snubbing of Amy Poehler
I have this bad feeling about what happened to Amy Poehler. Sarah and Maria have had various takes on the concept of people who win over and over again, and I pointed out that Claire Danes has nomination ennui. But Amy – Amy is not the same as some of those people. For example, she's got a million jobs. Full Story
Aubrey Plaza: Worst Globes Caboodles
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I've been on such a nostalgia kick lately. Party of Five reruns on Netflix and old ads for Sassaby. I miss my Sassaby, wish I still had it. It was so cool and so far superior to the knockoff. The flat-colour Caboodles that always involved about four shades of purple. This is what Aubrey Plaza looked like. Full Story
Super Fun Girl Time
Look at this picture that Aubrey Plaza tweeted yesterday. It's of she and Rashida Jones and Tatiana Maslany, obviously going to or coming from the Parks & Rec set. Don't they look like they're having fun? Maslany is doing a guest stint as Tom Haverford's love interest. Full Story
Girlfriends Edition: Amy & Aubrey/Kiki & Isla
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No Girl Sh-t here… Amy Poehler and Aubrey Plaza, co-stars on Parks & Rec, went to the movies together last night. It was Afternoon Delight. Aubrey makes a great bitch face, non? I feel like we've underappreciated her in this department. Earlier in the day, Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher hit the gym. Full Story
Amy Poehler's party
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I know it was officially the Time 100 party last night but scanning through all the pictures it really looked like it was Amy Poehler's party. I want to go to an Amy Poehler party. Remember at the Emmys when all the comedy ladies took the stage like a pageant and held each other until a winner was crowned? You know that was all Poehler, right? Poehler is what Ashley Judd was trying to write Full Story
Best Emmy White: Aubrey Plaza
Remember my hate-on for that annoying girl in Crazy, Stupid, Love? Analeigh Tipton? The over-breather? Click here for a refresher. Tipton goes to the Kristen Stewart school of over-breathing - three times in a short sentence for dramatic effect, which seems to have become the acting hallmark of a generation, and somehow this has translated into a not insignificant amount of interest in her, now being labelled the new "quirky, funny, hot girl" and my answer to that is . Full Story


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About the Book
A reluctant traveler, I stepped out of myself and took in a new environment. I was surprised to see all the wonderful sights in Bangkok. It is so many different cities all wrapped up in one, so I tried to express how eclectic it was. A Marvelous city, that I was so glad to visit.
The cover shows the view outside of my hotel room. The back cover is one of the spirit houses that almost every dwelling is equipped with. Opposite flap has the motorcycles moving to the front for the race to the next light. The picture on this flap are some street vendors selling their wares
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- Publish Date Nov 13, 2007
- Tags Southeast Asia, Thailand, Photography, Bangkok
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The Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti)
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|Dansk Folkeparti
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|Danish People's Party
|Party Leader
|Kristian Thulesen Dahl
|Seats in Parliament
|37 of 179 seats
|17.122 (2015)
|Representative on the DIPD Board
|Aia Rebecca Fog
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Woof! 35 dog-friendly restaurants in Bucks & nearby
We are dog lovers, plain and simple. Big dogs, small dogs, sweet dogs and even yappy dogs. But our previous two dogs—Cody and Canta—weren't behaviorally suited to going out in public (Cody was very abused in his former life and Canta just couldn't be bothered).
But in March we got a very well-behaved miniature schnauzer named Winston. He came from a home where the small children thought it was okay to kick him. But he's landed on all fours in heaven on earth: a childless, middle-aged couple. Does it get any better?
And we can take him places! Last month we walked the canal in Lambertville, then had a drink at the Boathouse outside and had dinner on El Tule's patio. With one exception—a Labradoodle he really wanted to play with—he was the perfect gentleman.
Now we're excited to go to restaurants that welcome well-behaved doggies. So we've done some research and here are the places that are dog-friendly. [Note: There may be more local restaurants that are dog-friendly but these are the ones that got back to us.]
Got a cute pic of your pup at your favorite eatery? Send it to info@BucksCountyTaste and we'll include it in this post.
Do keep in mind…
- Dogs are never allowed inside the restaurant, even to walk through to the outside seating area, as per the Board of Health (except service dogs).
- Any outside seating area that has a bar or is preparing food outside, is not allowed to permit dogs, as per the Board of Health.
- A well-behaved dog is a welcome dog. Make sure your pup is good in public, and won't bother other diners (not everyone is a dog lover!).
Big Bob's BBQ
1248 Route 113
Blooming Glen, PA
Bowman's Tavern
1600 River Rd, New Hope, PA
Where: Patio in front of restaurant
Bowman's North
1274 Easton Rd
Riegelsville, PA
Where: Outside patio
C&C Cafe
609 W Market St # 1, Perkasie, PA
Where: Patio in front of restaurant
Comments from restaurant: "C & C has been dog-friendly for 9 years. We even give bacon & water to our furry friends."
Carversville Inn
6205 Fleecy Dale Rd, New Hope, PA
Where: Front porch
Domani Star
57 West State Street, Doylestown, PA
Where: Sidewalk tables in front of restaurant
Comments from the restaurant: "Domani Star allows dogs to dine with their owners at our four outside tables. Our staff is very dog friendly and loves when people bring their furry friends. We always try to bring some water out for the pups too. The only 'condition' is that the dog respects the other patrons dining outside since the tables are close together. However, we've never had an issue with a rowdy dog."
Down to Earth Café
1141 North 5th St., Perkasie, PA
Where: Courtyard
Comments from restaurant: "Down to Earth Cafe is dog friendly. Our outside courtyard is for any patron and any patron who has dogs. We'll also give your pup some complimentary water."
Doylestown Brewing Company
52 E. State St., Doylestown, PA
Where: Patio
Comments from the restaurant: "The Doylestown Brewing Co. loves dogs! They are always welcome on the patio. Every pup that comes gets a greeting with a fresh bowl of water at his table!"
Fancy Fig Cafe
2310 2nd St Pike (at The Gathering in Penns Park)
Wrightstown/Newtown, PA
Where: Outside patio
Genevieve's Kitchen
19 East State Street, Doylestown, PA
Where: Outside garden tables
Comments from restaurant: "We are happy to accommodate dogs as long as the restaurant isn't too crowded."
The Hattery Stove & Still
18 West State Street, Doylestown, PA
Where: Front porch of Doylestown Inn
Hickory Kitchen
9 West Court Street, Doylestown, PA
Where: Sidewalk tables in front of restaurant
Homestead General Store
1650 Bridgeton Hill, Upper Black Eddy, PA
Where: Porch
Comments from restaurant: "We are dog-friendly. In fact, we have a resident dog named Stretch that lives and works here, and he's popular among some of the regular patrons. We do ask that your dog can behave well around other dogs, humans and small children. They should also be okay with crowds. Please pick up after your pup!"
42 Shewell Ave., Doylestown, PA
Where: Sidewalk tables in front of restaurant
Comments from restaurant: "Our outside seating is pretty tight, but if the dog can lay under the table then they are welcome to join. We'll even bring out a water bowl for them. We do prefer if you call ahead and let them know you are bringing your pup pal."
Marty's Smoke Shack
110 S Main St, New Hope, PA
Where: Patio in front of restaurant
Max Hansen's Carversville Grocery
6208 Fleecy Dale Rd
Carversville, PA
Where: Outside picnic tables
Maxwell's on Main (MOM's)
37 N. Main St., Doylestown, PA
Where: Sidewalk tables in front of restaurant
Comments from restaurant: "MOM's is a dog friendly establishment. Dogs are allowed on the first floor outdoor dining area. There is an additional outdoor patio on the second floor, but that is for humans only (sorry)."
NelliRae's Kitchen
8826 Easton Road, Revere, PA
Where: Front porch
Comments from restaurant: "We have a lovely front porch where customers are welcome to bring their furry friends to sit with them as they eat. We always have a doggie bowl filled with fresh water for them."
Pag's Pub
72 W State Street, Doylestown, Pa
Where: Patio in front of restaurant
Pag's Wine Bar
70 W State Street, Doylestown, Pa
Where: Patio in front of restaurant
Paganini Trattoria
81 W State St, Doylestown, PA
Where: Patio
Pat's Colonial Kitchen
127 South State St. #4, Newtown, PA
Where: Front porch
Comments from restaurant: "We can only seat parties of two on the porch, so we just have to be careful to not block the walkway to other businesses."
Penn Tap Room
80 W. State St., Doylestown, PA
Where: Patio in front of restaurant
Comments from restaurant: "The Tap Room does allow dogs, we just ask that the dogs are behaved so other guests can have a pleasant experience. We also have a few dog bowls to offer canine guests as a way to quench their thirst, and try to put them in areas that give them room to sit or lay."
Pineville Tavern
1089 Durham Rd,
Pineville, PA
Where: Outside patio
Quinoa Peruvian & Mexican Restaurant
762 N Easton Rd, Doylestown, PA
Where: Outside tables in front of restaurant
Triumph Brewing Company
400 Union Square Dr, New Hope, PA
Where: Patio tables by railroad tracks
Comments from restaurant: "Our entire outside area is dog-friendly — that includes our patio where the dining tables are and our outside lounge. We do ask that dogs must be on a leash."
The Vault Brewing Company
10 S Main St, Yardley, PA
Where: on the patio, weather permitting.
Comments from restaurant: "Dogs must be leashed and no feeding is allowed."
Caffe Galleria
23 N. Union Street
Lambertville, NJ
Where: On porch
54 N Franklin St, Lambertville, NJ
Where: Outside patio at back of restaurant
El Tule
49 N Main St, Lambertville, NJ
Where: Outside patio
Hamilton's Grill Room
8 Coryell St, Lambertville, NJ
Where: Outside garden tables
It's Nutts
1382 River Rd, Titusville, NJ
Where: Outdoor patio, they'll bring your dog a bowl of water, too!
Kingwood Tavern
650 County Road 519
Frenchtown, NJ
Where: Outside dining area
Lambertville Station
11 Bridge St, Lambertville, NJ
Where: Outside tables on the train platform
Comments from restaurant: From Danny Whitaker, owner, "Even if we don't have the outside seating officially open, if someone with a dog wants to sit down, we'll serve them (weather permitting). One guy bought his dog a filet every time he came!"
Lovin' Oven
62 Trenton Ave., Frenchtown, NJ
Where: Patio in front of restaurant
Comments from restaurant: "We do encourage people to bring their dog friends along while they enjoy a meal on our patio. (Dogs however are not allowed inside unless they are certified service dogs). We just ask that guests use their best judgment when choosing to bring their canine friends along — that the dog be friendly and well-behaved as well as able to coexist in a space with other dogs, people and young children. We offer fresh water for all doggie guests and lots of love from our animal loving staff. We also make home-made dog biscuits from time to time!"
31 Race Street, Frenchtown, NJ
Where: Front porch
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Judith E Decker says:
The deli in Point Pleasant! We always take our dog and sit on the front porch with our breakfast sandwiches on weekend mornings before his towpath walk.
Please check this: a waitress at the Golden Pheasant told us (at a great Friday night "Local" special you promoted here) we could bring the dog onto their front porch or patio.
In other parts of the country, it is pretty common to see dogs just about everywhere now. Oregon, Utah. Are they all "service dogs?"
Rory Mikulski says:
The deli in Point Pleasant allows dogs. So does the Lumberville General Store and Martibe's Riverhouse- but only outfront, outside. Villa Vito in New Hope allows them as well.
Hi Rory,
Thanks for your info. We reached out to both Martine's and the LGS and got no reply, so we were hesitant to add them to the post (without permission). But by all means, if they allow dogs, go for it!
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Kstuhlly says:
I believe the Vault in Yardley on their outdoor deck. I believe they used to anyway… Please check.
Will do. Thanks.
Charles Brous says:
Big Bob's BBQ in Blooming Glenn on Saturdays only. Ask one of the pit members for a small sampling of scraps from the BBQ Beef brisket for your furry friend!
Heather says:
This article is inaccurate. Just last Sunday afternoon I was told by the staff at Genevieve's that dogs are not allowed at the outside seating under any circumstance.
Thanks, Heather. The owner gave "permission" when I contacted her last year. I'm contacting her again to get clarification.
Hi Heather. I did check with Genevieve and she assured me that dogs are allowed in the patio area. She also apologized for the misinformation from an employee.
Eric Froberg says:
Unless I missed it, you left out The Landing in Hew Hope. Dogs are allowed on the outside patio next to the river.
Alas, no, Eric. I checked with them last year. The Board of Health's rule is that dogs are not allowed outside if food is being prepared there. Since the Landing has an outside bar, they cannot permit pups. 🙁
Jerry Smedley says:
The Dog & Bull in Croydon PA has a dog friendly patio.
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Abbreviation: Int. J. Livest. Prod.
Language: English
Start Year: 2009
Page 1 of 8, showing 20 records out of 149 total, starting on record 1, ending on 20
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2017.0362[Article Number: 39B4C8B64993]
Breed improvement and conservation are optimally achieved when the available genetic resources are characterised and strategies developed to achieve the goals. This study aimed at investigating the management practices, performance and morphological features of the indigenous cattle ecotypes in Rwanda on 250 cattle farming households. A total of 20 measurements taken on 305 female and 45 male cattle were: body length... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2017.0371[Article Number: 0597B7165000]
Several trials has been conducted by poultry nutritionist in evaluating effects of soybean processing on its nutritive value and the performance of broilers without clearly declaring the best processing method to be adopted by farmers that will give them on the average a cumulative best result output. A qualitative selection approach was thus adopted in the evaluation of different processing methods of soya beans... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2017.0368[Article Number: 11DB69964309]
The success or failure of artificial insemination starts with the quality status of semen used, hence, this study aimed to investigate the effects of breed, season and year on bovine semen quality of the National Bull Stud of Rwanda kept at Masaka bull station, Rwanda. A total of 1475 semen samples were collected bi-weekly from nine bulls of Holstein Friesian (n = 3), Inyambo (n = 3) and Jersey (n = 3) breed using an... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0354[Article Number: 739648364337]
The study was conducted in Moretna Jiru district, North Shoa zones of Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia from February 2014 to January 2016 to assess fattening cattle marketing system. The primary and secondary data were collected through structured interview, focus group discussion and direct filed observation. Statistical package for social science (SPSS 16) were used to analyze data. In the study area, most... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0343[Article Number: BB83C5A64339]
The experiment was conducted for 90 days of feeding trial at Bako district, Western Ethiopia using twenty yearling male Horro sheep weighing 20.42 ± 0.35 kg (mean ± SD) with the objectives to evaluate the effect of supplementation of nougseed meal and wheat bran mix (1:1) on body weight (BW) gain and carcass characteristics of Horro sheep. The experiment was arranged with four blocks and four treatments in... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0352[Article Number: 10C88D063921]
Gambia is the smallest country on the African mainland and is one of the poorest. Agriculture contributes about 23.6% of the national Gross Domestic Product, mainly from crop production. Cattle are the most important livestock species and oxen originally provided most of the draught power. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, horses were traded by the Portuguese with local inhabitants for slaves and then used... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0316[Article Number: C37094863923]
The study was conducted in Hawzen and Hintalowagerat districts of Tigray region Northern Ethiopia with the objective of enhancing meat production performance of the local sheep through cross breeding with high yielding exotic Dorper sheep under smallholder farmers. Pure male Dorper mated with local sheep produced first and second generation with 50 and 25% blood level of Dorper, respectively. Farmer's research... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2017.0365[Article Number: AE47CC663548]
This study was conducted in order to investigate the dietary inclusion effects of a commercially available probiotic mixture and an antibiotic on the growth performance, cecal microbiota and small intestinal morphology in broiler chickens. A total of 100 broiler chickens (Cobb 500) were subjected to 35-days of study period. The broiler chickens were randomly divided into four groups named T1 (control group), T2... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0350[Article Number: BADC60A63550]
The aim of this study was to characterize the phenotype of the indigenous sheep population in central zone of Tigray. A total of 450 mature sheep were sampled randomly for collect qualitative data. Based on dentition adult sheep were classified into four age categories (from one pair of permanent incisor to four pair of permanent incisor). Coat colour, tail type, ear orientation and presence of wattle were significant... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0346[Article Number: 581FAD563559]
The study was conducted at Abergelle Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopia using 24 yearling intact male Abergelle sheep with initial body weight of 17.52 ± 1.13 kg. The objectives were to evaluate substitution of dried mulberry (Morus indica L.) leaf meal (DMLM) for concentrate mix (CM) on feed intake, digestibility, body weight gain and carcass characteristics, and to determine cost benefit analysis of the... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2015.0222[Article Number: EB7C05963196]
A 42-day study was carried out with ninety 14-day old broiler chickens (Cobb 500) to evaluate the dietary inclusion of cassava flour in full replacement with maize on growth performance, carcass characteristics and haematological parameters. The chickens were randomly allotted to 6 pens involving two dietary treatments of three replicates per each treatment and 15 birds per each replicate in a Complete Randomized... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0297[Article Number: D096B1E62571]
The study was conducted in Gasera and Ginnir districts of Bale mid to highland areas, Oromia regional state, southeast Ethiopia; to assess livestock feed resources, to determine major feed nutritional value and their implication on animal productivity. Stratified random sampling (poor, medium and wealth) was applied to identify the sampled unit of 156 households in the selected districts. The chemical compositions of... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0339[Article Number: 84197FE62573]
In Pakistan, the most favorable consumption in meat nowadays is chicken. The inclination of the dietary pattern to chicken meat more than red meat may be because of its better taste, easy availability and low cost. At the same time, there is an increase in prevalence of polycystic ovaries 5 to 10% in Pakistan. The present study was designed to investigate the effects of the chicken feed and chicken meat on the growth,... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0338[Article Number: BAB187562441]
The objectives of this study were to assess the hormonal response, conception rate, calving rate and perception of farmers towards the technology. From 220 cows and heifers brought by farmers for the services, 65% (143) that fulfilled the selection criteria were selected and injected with 2 ml of Cloprostenol. Data on the history of each heifers and cows, number of heifers and cows responsive to hormonal treatment,... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0318[Article Number: E62B12062457]
The cow, the milking and milk handling procedures at the farm level expose the milk to potential risk of contamination with spoilage microorganisms. Milk contamination if not prevented will lead to milk losses along the dairy value chain. The objective of this study was therefore to identify the risk factors associated with contamination of milk with spoilage microorganisms at the farms in rural and peri urban in Nakuru... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0314[Article Number: EEC831761755]
Two separate experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of tanniferous (CT) browse plant supplementation on the growth, nutrient digestibility and blood biochemical properties of Djallonké sheep. The browse plants were Albizia lebbeck, Gmelina arborea, Senna siamea and Ceiba pentandra and were harvested from natural grazing fields within the vicinity of Nyankpala in Ghana. In experiment I, 20... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0298[Article Number: 6BAEEBE61757]
The need to reduce cost of production of meat animal has necessitated the use of plant materials with medicinal properties as feed additives capable of minimizing the influence of pathogenic microbes and improving performance of the animal. This study investigated the effect of such medicinal plant materials Garcinia kola on the growth performance and the haematological parameters of 20 weeks old rabbits. Thirty six... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0293[Article Number: 0281DC961759]
The study was conducted to assess the effect of roughage source on meat quality and sensory attributes of yearling Tswana cattle. The sensory traits and meat quality of yearling Tswana steers fed maize stover diet (treatment A), sorghum stover diet (treatment B) or commercial beef finisher diet (treatment Control) were evaluated and allotted feeding trial by adopting Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The commercial... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0308[Article Number: 5C17B2661911]
The effect of strains on fertility, hatchability, and embryo mortality of indigenous chicken reared in the high rain forest zone of Nigeria was investigated. In this investigation, indigenous chicken with normal feathered phenotype, naked neck, and frizzle feathered phenotype which consisted of 10 cocks and 35 hens as the parents were used. They were put in 7 breeding groups: (1) Normal feathered cock with normal... Read more.
DOI: 10.5897/IJLP2016.0321[Article Number: 77010E061274]
The study was conducted in east Hararghe zone of Oromia regional state, eastern Ethiopia to assess the major available livestock feed resources. A total of 150 households with experience in livestock keeping practice for at least two years were selected. All respondents indicated that shortage of feed resources, dominance of unpalatable forages and low nutritive values of usable forages were the major feed problems.... Read more.
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Caught In Flight, Naomi Watts is perfecting her shy and hesitant in the lead-up to the production of "Caught in Flight", in which she'll play the late Princess Diana.
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Ecosse Films today announced that British-born Academy® award nominated actress NAOMI WATTS (J. Edgar, Eastern Promises, Fair Game, 21 Grams) will play the role of Princess Diana in the upcoming movie CAUGHT IN FLIGHT.
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Academy® Award nominated Downfall), and based on the screenplay by Stephen Jeffreys, production will begin in the UK later this year.
CAUGHT IN FLIGHT is a compelling portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales during the last two years of her life. It charts how finding true personal happiness for the first time allowed her to achieve her defining successes evolving into a major international campaigner and humanitarian.
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Man accused of eating cats arrested
Published 4:00 am, Friday, February 17, 2012
Man accused of eating cats
Kern County investigators say the man arrested for allegedly preparing and eating cats was found with a headless carcass in his kitchen sink.
Investigators are releasing new details about the bizarre case, including reports from a neighbor who reported seeing Jason Wilmert decapitate a cat in his backyard.
The neighbor called deputies, who were told by other neighbors that they had heard the sounds of cats screaming coming from the 35-year-old's home in Oildale.
Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt says a deputy looking into the backyard saw a cat's head on the ground. Inside the house, they found the cat's carcass as if it were being prepped for cooking.
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