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Best Chinese Restaurants In USA
Do you like Chinese food? And you know which Chinese Restaurants is best? In this post, I will tell you 50 best Chinese Restaurants in the United States.
1. China Magic Noodle House, Chandler
Watch through a window as the noodles you just ordered are handmade and pulled for you.
China Magic Noodle House serves outstanding beef noodles for less than $10. Huge portions and you can get them dry or with broth.
The egg rolls are a good appetizer, but spicy marinated pig ear is also on the menu. If that isn't enough, they serve freshly squeezed juice and boba milk tea.
2015 N. Dobson Road, Chandler, Ariz.; +1 480 786 8002
2. Beijing Pie House, Monterey Park
Beijing Pie House isn't a traditional Chinese restaurant. No white tablecloths, moo shu pork or dim sum carts here.
The place trumpets the glories of meat pies — flaky pies stuffed with searing hot pieces of meat. All for $7.
If you haven't gotten your carnivore on yet, you can always pair your pie with a savory beef roll.
Cash only.
846 E. Garvey Ave., Monterey Park, Calif.; +1 626 288 3818
3. Chef Chu's, Los Altos
Extensive selection, big portions and reasonable prices. Chef Chu's was opened in 1970 by Lawrence C.C. Chu himself. Since then the chef has made countless media appearances and become a best-selling cookbook author.
The Los Altos-based restaurant serves dishes covering all regions of China, but manages to cater to the American palate.
Specialties are Peking duck (order four hours ahead) and a scintillating chicken salad with hot-mustard peanuts.
Notable diners include Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter and none other than the Biebs, Justin Bieber.
1067 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, Calif.; +1 650 948 2696; www.chefchu.com
4. Class 302, Rowland Heights
Class 302 is as close as you get can to authentic Taiwanese food outside Taiwan. The restaurant is structured like a traditional Chinese classroom.
The pork belly rice gets it just right and you know you're in a solid place when you see customers flocking from all over Southern California just to get their tongues on the highly touted shaved snow (shaved ice).
Cash only.
1015 S. Nogales St., No. 125, Rowland Heights, Calif.; +1 626 965 5809; www.class302.com
5. Del Mar Rendezvous, Del Mar
Located close to the ocean, Del Mar Rendezvous sports acclaimed and extensive gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan menus. The craft beer selection is also impressive.
With top-notch service and an inventive Chinese fusion menu — the duck breast Shangri-la with teriyaki glaze is superb — Rendezvous is a long-time favorite among locals.
The Xango dessert is a banana cheesecake wrapped in a cinnamon pastry topped with caramel and chocolate sauce. It's like your cell phone — leave the restaurant without it and you'll have to go back.
Del Mar Plaza, 1555 Camino Del Mar, No. 102, Del Mar, Calif.; +1 858 755 2669;www.delmarrendezvous.com
6. Dintaifung, Arcadia
This dumpling house's reputation stretches far and wide — especially in Taiwan, where it originated.
Dintaifung is known for its succulent xiaolongbao, or soup dumplings. The dumplings are tiny, but there are pocketfuls of juice in every bite.
Definitely be prepared for a long wait. The restaurant is always busy.
Additional location in Seattle.
1108 S Baldwin Ave., Arcadia, Calif.; +1 626 574 7068; www.dintaifungusa.com
7. Enjoy Vegetarian Restaurant, San Francisco
A veggie restaurant with two branches in San Francisco, Enjoy has vegan food that not only looks but tastes like real meat. Lots of gluten-free options and a fair selection of Americanized-Chinese food, such as sweet-and-sour chicken.
No MSG, garlic or onion in any dishes.
Even meat eaters have become addicted to the place. Well, some.
754 Kirkham St., San Francisco; +1 415 682 0826; 839 Kearny St., San Francisco; +1 415 956 7868; www.enjoyveggie.com
8. Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot, San Mateo
With locations all over the world, including China and Japan, Little Sheep sets the standard when it comes to hot pot.
You can get different flavored broths, but the favorite tends to be the spicy one. You can also divide your pot in half if you have people in your party who can't stomach lots of spice.
It's family style, so this is a group event. You'll walk out smelling like hot pot.
Additional locations in Texas, California and New York.
215 S. Ellsworth Ave., San Mateo, Calif.; +1 650 343 2566; www.littlesheephotpot.com
9. San Tung Chinese Restaurant, San Francisco
The main attraction at San Tung is the dry-fried chicken wings — juicy wings lightly fried and drenched with a sweet and tangy sauce.
San Tung adopts the Shandong (the Chinese region known for its flour-based foods) style of cooking and so plays up the pot stickers and fresh noodles.
The restaurant is usually packed, so be prepared for a wait.
1031 Irving St., San Francisco; +1, 415 242 0828; www.santungrestaurant.com
10. Savoy Kitchen, Alhambra
This hole-in-the-wall in Alhambra has developed a cult following for its Hainan chicken rice.
The chicken portions are substantial with much more meat than bone, with chicken-broth rice with ginger and an orange hot sauce on the side. Everything about the dish is well worth the $6.95.
138 E. Valley Blvd., Alhambra, Calif.: +1 626 308 9535
11. Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant, Rosemead
Located in the San Gabriel Valley, a Chinese foodie hotspot, Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant is a classic dim sum joint that's always packed on weekends.
There are no dim sum carts. Instead, you order from a checklist.
From the extensive dinner menu, the Hong Kong Dungeness crab is both a customer and L.A. food-critic favorite. With an amazingly flaky crust and hot egg-y center, the egg tarts are a dim sum dessert classic.
3939 Rosemead Blvd., Rosemead, Calif.; +1 626 288 3939
12. Newport Tan Cang Seafood Restaurant, San Gabriel
Newport Tan is one of the most acclaimed Chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley, especially known for its house special lobster. It's smart to come with a large group so you can order a variety of seafood, such as fish with basil-and-walnut shrimp.
If you're craving red meat, the filet mignon cubes are outstanding.
518 W. Las Tunas Drive, San Gabriel, Calif.; +1 626 289 5998; www.newportseafood.com
13. R&G Lounge, San Francisco
Heavily promoted by restaurant personality Anthony Bourdain, R&G Lounge in San Francisco constantly rakes in rave reviews. The salt and pepper crab ($35-$41) is messy, but delicious.
The Peking duck is served Cantonese style, so you get buns instead of pancakes to go with your crispy duck slices.
631 Kearny St., San Francisco; +1 415 982 7877; rnglounge.com
14. Star Kitchen, Denver
Star Kitchen gets a shining star for its dim sum, which are priced around $3 a pop.
The dinner menu has a great seafood selection that comes from live tanks of fish, crab and lobster.
The barbecue pork buns are memorable and you can get anything from tofu to goose intestine to frog from the hot pot menu.
2917 W. Mississippi Ave., No. 5, Denver, Colo.; +1 303 936 0089; www.starkitchendenver.com/
15. Tropical Chinese, Miami
A dim sum restaurant with a lot of class, Tropical Chinese sports a sophisticated decor. The restaurant's website provides a good visual introduction to the upscale offerings.
Consistent favorites are orange beef, shrimp dumplings and egg tarts.
For dim sum fans who don't want to wait, there's a take-out menu.
7991 S.W. 40th St, Miami; +1 305 262 1552; www.tropicalchinesemiami.com
16. Canton House Chinese Restaurant, Atlanta
This Cantonese restaurant serves dim sum for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Talk about commitment to craft.
Tables near the kitchen are the best. You get front row seats and dibs on the carts of steaming dumplings rolling by. Impressively fast service, too.
4825 Buford Highway, Atlanta; +1 770 936 9030
17. Tasty China, Marietta
Once you've tried the spicy fried eggplant with the numbing beef roll at this Sichuan restaurant, you probably won't have enough sensation in your tongue to go for more.
Get some raw vegetables with this combo, as they will tone down the heat. You're going to need them.
585 Franklin Road S.E., Marietta, Ga.; +1 770 419 9849
Hawaii, Honolulu
18. Legend Seafood Restaurant
Legend is a Honolulu dim sum joint by day and seafood restaurant by night that's very popular with the locals. Seats fill up quickly.
It's best to arrive before 10 a.m. on weekends. Deep fried taro puffs should be ordered without a moment's hesitation. They run out fast.
100 N. Beretania St., No. 108, Honolulu; +1 808 377 6735; www.legendseafoodhonolulu.com
19. Sweet Home Café, Honolulu
A Taiwanese BYOB joint, Sweet Home Café is constantly flooded with locals who come to get their hot pot fix. Hot pots are served family style and you get to make your own dipping sauce.
The restaurant is so crowded that there's a 90-minute time limit to eat.
2334 S. King St., Honolulu; +1 808 947 3707
20. Lao Sze Chuan, Chicago
The spicy chicken at Chicago Chinatown's Lao Sze Chuan will make your eyes water. It's loaded with red-hot chili peppers. Despite the burning sensation, you'll probably keep reaching for more because it's absolutely addictive.
The Peking duck is perfectly cooked and served with the usual condiments. Go ahead and suck on the bones — they're just that good.
2172 S. Archer Ave., Chicago; +1 312 326 5040, www.tonygourmetgroup.com
21. Sun Shui, Arlington Heights
Mixed genres are normally a red flag, but this Chinese restaurant with a sushi bar delivers high quality.
It's a classy and inexpensive venue for a date. The "Dinner for Two" option ($38) comes with soup, a starter, two entrées and dessert.
This the American heartland, so General Tso's chicken is a popular pick.
155 W. Rand Road, Arlington Heights, Ill.; +1 847 870 8888; www.sunshui.com
22. Trey Yuen, Mandeville
Talk about adaptation. Trey Yuen is a Chinese restaurant that serves Cajun-influenced dishes. Sichuan flavorings are added to alligator and crawfish to create the ultimate Louisiana-meets-China cuisine.
600 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville, La.; +1 985 626 4476; www.treyyuen.com
23. China Bistro, Rockville
China Bistro is dumplings depot. It's a mom-and-pop shop with no more than a couple tables, but each dumpling is handmade and served fresh.
Mama's Special is a unique blend of pork, shrimp, chive and nappa.
Refreshing bubble tea is also served.
755 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, Maryland; +1 301 294 0808
24. Gourmet Dumpling House, Boston
In Boston's Chinatown this one is, obviously, known for dumplings. The crispy scallion pancakes pair perfectly with xiaolongbao (soup dumplings).
The restaurant combines northern and southern Chinese flavors and serves an assortment of Taiwanese appetizers, such as oyster pancakes and stinky tofu.
52 Beach St., Boston; +1 617 338 6223; www.gourmetdumpling.com
25. Taiwan Cafe, Boston
Taiwan Cafe has the best soup dumplings in Boston and a wide variety of Taiwanese specialties, such as oyster pancakes and pork over rice.
Nothing extraordinary about the venue or location, but the Chinatown restaurant is probably the closest thing to Taiwan in Massachusetts.
34 Oxford St., Boston; +1 617 426 8181
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26. Best China, CantonBest China really is the best in Michigan. With less than a dozen tables, it's a hole-in-the-wall, but the Shanghai-style rice cakes (nian gao) achieve the perfect level of chewiness without being gummy. There are two menus — Chinese and English. As at any authentic Chinese place, adventurous eaters can ask for the Chinese menu (they're usually differ slightly from the English menu) and get recommendations from waiters.
7233 N. Lilley Road, Canton, Mich.; +1 734 459 1688
27. Little Szechuan, St. Paul
Little Szechuan's mapo tofu and typically spicy Sichuan fare will leave your taste buds screaming for water, but don't worry; there are plenty of milder options. For those unfamiliar with authentic Chinese foods, pictures are provided on the menu.
Entrées tend to be larger than expected. We're not complaining.
422 University Ave. W., St. Paul, Minn.; +1 651 222 1333; www.littleszechuan.com
28. Joyful House, Las Vegas
No fusion or Americanized dishes at this Vegas favorite. Just consistent and authentic Cantonese selections from a Hong Kong-trained chef.
The honey-walnut shrimp is a treat — not too heavy on the mayo glaze, good shrimp-to-walnut ratio and expertly cooked.
The restaurant is located near Chinatown. Picture menus make it easy to order.
4601 Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas; +1 702 889 8881, www.joyfulhouselv.com
29. Wing Lei, Las Vegas
A Michelin-starred restaurant inside The Wynn casino on the strip, Wing Lei's decor offers a twist on French-influenced Shanghai. The food is as classy as the atmosphere, with prices on most dishes starting at around $30.
Peking duck ($88) is the house specialty. It's carved whole next to your table and served two ways, with steamed buns and hoisin sauce, and also diced in a lettuce cup.
Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas; +1 702 770 3463;www.wynnlasvegas.com
New York
See also Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot in the California section.
30. A-Wah, New York
Don't judge a restaurant by its storefront. Although it looks humble, A-Wah is a Chinatown restaurant with a big reputation.
What you get here is old-fashioned Hong Kong-style comfort food, like clay pot rice. Up to 17 types of bo zai faan (clay pot rice) are cooked in authentic clay bowls, so that the bottom layer of rice is cooked to crispy perfection.
5 Catherine St., New York; +1 212 925 8308
31. Joe's Shanghai, New York
Specializing in wonderful soup dumplings, this local favorite has three locations: Midtown, Chinatown and Flushing. The crab and pork dumplings with a plate of scallion pancakes could make this your new favorite Chinese place.
Dumplings come in sets of eight and average around $5 per set.
Midtown: 24 W 56 Street, New York; +1 212 333 3868
Chinatown: 9 Pell St., New York; +1 212 233 8888
Flushing: 136-21 37th Avenue, Flushing, New York; +1 718 539 3838
32. Prosperity Dumpling, New York
Get this: dumplings for US$0.20. You can't get a better deal anywhere in the United States. And the dumplings aren't only cheap, but tasty.
Pair a couple of dumplings with a $1.75 sesame pancake and you've got a decent-sized lunch in New York for less than $3.
Best deal ever this side of Shanghai.
46 Eldridge St., New York; +1 212 343 0683
33. Xi'an Famous Foods, New York
Xi'an Famous Foods serves Muslim-inspired dishes that taste as good as they do in western China. Lamb burgers are the highlight of this very authentic establishment. You can watch as they hand pull noodles right in front of you.
88 E. Broadway, No. 106, New York; +1 212 786 2068; www.xianfoods.com
North Carolina
34. Gourmet Kingdom, Carrboro
With more than 150 dishes on the menu, Gourmet Kingdom doesn't lack in variety. Prices average around $15 per dish, but you get a hearty amount, so drag along friends.
The $5.25 lunch special is a steal, with choice of appetizer (the eight-piece dumpling order is a good option) paired with an entrée such as the highly recommended take on the old standby kung pao chicken.301 E. Main St., Carrboro, N.C.; +1 919 932 7222, www.thegourmetkingdom.com
35. Sichuan Bistro, Mason
Sichuan Bistro is as close as you're going to get to China in Ohio. The servers are Chinese and the menu is in Chinese (English translations provided). Cumin lamb is a customer favorite that will have you returning for more.
No worries for those who can't stomach the authenticity. Sichuan Bistro divides its menu into traditional Chinese and American-friendly Chinese.
7888 Mason Montgomery Road, Mason, Ohio; +1 513 770 3123; www.sichuanbistro.com
36. Shandong Restaurant, Portland
Shandong offers "a new look at classic dishes" in a pleasant though simple dining room.
The ginger-infused, hand-rolled pot stickers are large and one of the best-selling items. There are also freshly hand-pulled noodles and a unique deep-fried pork dish cooked in a cherry and ginger sauce.
Cheap happy hour appetizers, such as pan-Pacific wontons, Chilean rock crab and shiitake dumplings, are available from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Is this the cutting edge of Chinese cuisine? A growing number of devotees think so.
3724 N.E. Broadway, Portland, Ore.; +1 503 287 0331; www.shandongportland.com
37. Wong's King Seafood Restaurant, Portland
Wong's is an authentic dim sum joint in an Asian strip mall where you can get the whole carts-piled-with-steamed-buns-and-dumplings experience. Dim sum hours are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays and 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the weekends.
No reservations available during dim sum hours and Sundays tend to be packed to the brim.
Despite the long lines, servers are friendly, the food emotes pure Hong Kong goodness and there's no rushing you out the door, an unfortunate practice in too many popular dim sum places.
The pork shu mai and steamed buns are customer favorites.
8733 S.E. Division St., Portland, Ore; +1 503 788 8883; www.wongsking.com
38. Han Dynasty, Philadelphia
The glaring red of Han Dynasty's storefront suggests tongue-numbing spice and the place definitely doesn't disappoint heat-seekers.
Dan dan noodles are a customer favorite. They're silky and soaked in flavorful pork broth.
Most selections are drenched in chili oil or fried with Sichuan peppercorns. Approach with caution.
Han Dynasty, 108 Chestnut St., Philadelphia; +1 215 922 1888, www.handynasty.net
39. Yangming, Bryn Mawr
In Bryn Mawr, Yangming is an Asian-fusion joint, catering to a mostly American crowd.
That's not a complaint. The golden crabmeat purse appetizers, shrimp coconut soup and lemongrass sake shrimp are all noble and tasty twists on Chinese cuisine.
Chocolate-covered fortune cookies come at the end of every meal. How's that for Asian fusion?
1051 Conestoga Road, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; +1 610 527 3200, www.yangmingrestaurant.com
South Carolina
40. Red Orchid's China Bistro, Charleston
Red Orchid is an Americanized Chinese restaurant, but that doesn't mean it's not delicious. The barbecue pork buns are fantastic and the dumplings are one of the most frequently ordered times.
Matching the expertly crafted and presented food is a pleasing ambiance and contemporary decor.
1401 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., Charleston, S.C.; +1 843 573 8787
See also Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot in the California section.
41. Asia Cafe, Austin
You know you've stepped into an authentic place when the menu on the restaurant whiteboard is completely in Chinese.
Don't let language barrier or its location in an Austin strip mall deter you. Asia Café serves remarkable Sichuan, such as spicy fish soaked in oil and pepper flakers, and the best mapo tofu in Texas.
8650 Spicewood Springs Road, Number 115, Austin, Texas; +1 512 331 5788;www.asiamarketaustin.com
42. First Chinese BBQ, Austin
Leave it to Texas to have a top-notch Chinese restaurant that centers around barbecue dishes. You'll know you're there when you see a row of roasted duck carcasses hanging from the ceiling.
This Texas chain serves authentic Chinese, with marinated meats as the specialty. Roasted duck and barbecue pork are reliable bets for first-timers.
10901 N. Lamar Blvd., No. 401, Austin, Texas; +1 512 835 8889; www.firstchinesebbq.com
43. Little World Chinese Restaurant, Salt Lake City
Cheap food, big portions, fast service. As the name suggests, the restaurant is small, cramped and doesn't have more than a couple of tables. But the flavor eclipses the hassle.
The pork and eggplant hot pot is heavenly, with a large serving of eggplant and finely cut strips of pork. The eggplant is flash fried before being transferred into a pot with broth, scallions and cabbage.
1356 S. State St., Salt Lake City, Utah; +1 801 467 5213
44. Red Maple Chinese Cuisine, West Valley City
Great service and good dim sum often don't come hand-in-hand, but Red Maple is one of those rare places where they do. Dim sum carts are filled with the usual fare and there's a decent seafood selection.
You can't go wrong with Singapore noodles and honey-walnut shrimp.
3361 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, Utah; +1 801 747 2888, www.redmaplechinese.com
45. Single Pebble, Burlington
Single Pebble's specialty is a $10 mock eel: shiitake mushroom braised in a ginger sauce.
Owned by Chiuho Duval, a Taiwanese photojournalist-turned-chef, Single Pebble is all about authenticity and flavors from Taiwan, Hong Kong and regions of China, including Sichuan and Chengdu.
The eight-course Chef Tasting menu is well worth a long dinner event with a group.
133 Bank St., Burlington, Vt.; +1 802 865 5200; www.asinglepebble.com
See Washington, D.C.
See also Dintaifung in California section.
46. Chiang's Gourmet Restaurant, Seattle
Chiang's is a pure Chinese joint in Seattle located in an awkward spot off the freeway. We can't rave about the service or location, but the food is authentic and cheap, with most dishes under $10.
The restaurant has a vegetarian menu (rare for most authentic Asian places) and a Sichuan menu, catering to those with a spicier palate.
The stinky tofu is the real thing here, a pungent offering that divides any table into lovers and haters.
7845 Lake City Way N.E., Seattle; +1 206 527 8888; www.chiangsgourmet.com
47. Facing East, Bellevue
Facing East's Taiwanese pork burgers are simple. They're made with a large piece of fatty pork sandwiched in a bun with salted vegetables, chopped nuts and cilantro. They're also the reason why there's always a long line at this authentic Taiwanese joint.
You can get two for around $4.
There's good shaved ice for dessert.
1075 Bellevue Way N.E., B-2, Bellevue, Wash.; +1 425 688 2986
48. Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon, Seattle
Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon was started up by none other than Judy Fu, an immigrant from the northern Chinese city of Tsingtao. Her noodles are rolled and cut upon order and you can get them sautéed or served in flavored broth.
The dumplings are another customer favorite that you can also buy frozen to make at home.
Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon, 8917 Roosevelt Way N.E., Seattle; +1 206 528 5575;www.snappydragon.com
Washington, D.C.
49. Harmony Café, Washington D.C.
A vegetarian cafe, Harmony is a homey Georgetown place that offers Chinese food with delicious fake meat. They have an awesome lunch deal for $5.95 that comes with salad, spring roll, white rice and an entrée.
Customer favorites include the crispy shiitake mushroom and mock chicken with cashews.
3287 M St. NW, Washington, D.C.; +1 202 338 3881
50. Peking Gourmet Inn, Falls Church
It's not every day you can dine in a restaurant visited by generals, diplomats and presidents. Peking Gourmet Inn has an impressive clientele list.
As the name suggests, the star attraction is the Peking duck.
The duck comes out perfectly bronzed and crisp and is hand-carved in front of you. Complimentary pancakes, cucumber strips, scallions and hoisin sauce are provided.
Reservations strongly recommended.
6029 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, Va.; +1 703 671 8088; www.pekinggourmet.com
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Amanda Frickle came to The College of Idaho as a freshman from Billings, Mon., with a passion for social justice, a desire to ask questions and a commitment to serving others. Those qualities helped the 2012 graduate become the seventh C of I alumnus to win the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award in the world.
Frickle, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and political economy and served as student body president during the 2011-2012 academic year, was one of 32 young Americans to be named a Rhodes Scholar in November 2012.
Frickle plans to pursue a career in social justice advocacy and will attend the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom as part of the Class of 2013.
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MARSING, Idaho (KBOI) - The mega load is a boom for some small towns in its path. The mega load can't even fit through most small towns along the way, it has to watch out for lights or trees over the road. But business owners of the town of Marsing say they like the business the load brings. "It's picked up. We were closed over Christmas but the days we were opened we definitely saw people in and they were talking about it and going out to see it. Lot of people from Boise, Nampa and Caldwell," said the owner of Spot pizza, Debbie Watson.
The big load started its trek on December 2nd at Port Umatilla in Oregon. It's a heat exchanger that's on its way to Canada and has been parked outside the town of Marsing on 95 and highway 55 since Monday. The oversized load can only move through the night and goes between 20 and 35 mph. According to the Omega Morgan company there are two trucks that push the load and one truck that pulls it. From one end to the other, its longer than a football field. It can't make it through most towns without having to temporarily take down power lines and move signs and light poles.
It didn't go through the town of Marsing but they still felt the effects of the load going by. Visitors have been showing up from other parts to get a glimpse and take a few pictures. "A lot of them have been from Boise, but we have had some from Oregon. They almost kind of like follow it. Some of the people do," said Debbie Carter of D&J grill.
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Brian Sanderoff has been in charge of redrawing New Mexico's political districts for the past three decades. Seated at a polished wooden table at Research & Polling Inc., the Albuquerque-based company he heads, Sanderoff leans forward, stretching two long arms in either direction, and describes the standoff that occurred in the state Legislature 10 years ago:
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"We sat there for a couple days, in this room—the computers and the legislative leadership and my staff—and they developed a plan," Sanderoff recalls. "Was it a perfect plan? No. But they needed to come up with a plan that the Democrats, Republicans and the governor could live with."
In the contentious world of redistricting, such a plan is a small miracle. By the time the six state senators were convening in Research & Polling's rectangular conference room,several redistricting plans had already been debated and passed by the Democrat-controlled state Legislature—only
to be vetoed by Republican then-Gov. Gary Johnson.
"Whatever party has the majority typically will draw a plan that benefits them," Sanderoff says. "The Democrats thought it was a reasonable plan and thought they could've gone much further in harming Republicans, but the Republicans had a different perspective," he says. "That's politics."
This year, a similar battle will likely unfold. Despite Republican gains in the state House of Representatives during the November 2010 elections, the New Mexico Legislature is still dominated by Democrats. But Republican Gov. Susana Martinez will have the power to veto any redistricting plan that doesn't give equal consideration to GOP interests.
Veterans of the redistricting process say it's consistently fraught with political infighting—not just between the two parties, but also among members of the same party.
"Redistricting is perhaps the most intensely personal dynamic present in the legislative process," New Mexico state Sen. Rod Adair, R-Chaves, tells SFR. "I have seen, in the majority party, just as much intraparty elbowing as there is interparty."
And a heated 2010 election season—which vaulted Republicans into power in the US House of Representatives and, in New Mexico, captured eight state House seats and the governorship for the GOP—is widely considered a litmus test for both public sentiment and partisan assertiveness.
"At the [state] Legislature, this will turn into a bitter fight," Denise Lamb, the chief deputy clerk for Santa Fe County Bureau of Elections, predicts. "There will be two members of the same party that are colleagues pitted against each other, and then you'll have the Ds and the Rs pitted against each other. It's very ugly."


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Demon-Haunted Brain
If the brain mediates all experience, then paranormal phenomena are nothing more than neuronal events
Five centuries ago demons haunted our world, with incubi and succubi tormenting victims as they lay asleep. Two centuries ago spirits haunted our world, with ghosts and ghouls harassing sufferers during all hours of the night. This past century aliens haunted our world, with grays and greens abducting captives and whisking them away for probing and prodding. Nowadays people are reporting out-of-body experiences, floating above their beds. What is going on here? Are these elusive creatures and mysterious phenomena in our world or in our minds? New evidence adds weight to the notion that they are, in fact, products of the brain. Neuroscientist Michael Persinger, in his laboratory at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, for example, can induce all these perceptions in subjects by subjecting their temporal lobes to patterns of magnetic fields. (I tried it myself and had a mild out-of-body experience.) (continue reading…)


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Electrocuting metal Christmas trees, dangerous firing pistols and remote-controlled helicopters that could catch fire, are some of the toys that will not end up in Christmas stockings this year.
Fair Trading NSW has conducted its annual Christmas blitz, seizing 146 Christmas toys and 17 electrical products – an increase of 26 dangerous toys since last year.
NSW Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts said there was a "disturbing" number of remote-controlled helicopters seized this year that could catch fire or could electrocute the user. The fire hazard came from having European plugs that needed adaptors, he said.
"European plugs are illegal, even with an adaptor they are just downright dangerous," he said.
Mr Roberts warned dads – notorious for buying action toys that they can also play with – to watch out for high-powered firing guns or archery sets.
"These toys have dangerous removal caps and are very high powered," he said.
Another worrying trend was high-voltage Christmas lights. Mr Roberts said some LED Christmas lights were discovered to use up to 240 volts.
"If you break a light bulb and you then touch the bulb, you will get the full force of 240 volts," he said.
The increase of dangerous toys comes as the number of investigations have risen from 975 retail outlets being investigated last year, to 1133 this year.
This year, fair trading officers also increased their scope, investigating toys in 257 NSW towns compared with 236 last year.
The majority of seized toys were found in discount variety stores, Christmas markets and "pop up" Christmas stores. Of the 146 toys seized, 122 had small parts that could be a choking hazard, 14 were dangerous projectile toys and 10 toys had cords that could strangle children.
"When people are looking at buying a bargain, quite often they are buying more than a bargain. They are putting themselves and their families at risk."
Mr Roberts said individuals caught selling dangerous toys face a maximum fine of $220,000 and corporations could be fined up to $1.1 million.
"I urge consumers to buy Christmas gifts at reputable outlets with good refund and return policies," he said.
"It comes down to commonsense."


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'The highlight of the period — heck, maybe the game — was a prolonged fight between Boston's P.J. Stock, playing his first game after missing the last 12 with a high ankle sprain, and Buffalo's Eric Boulton. They tangled deep in the Buffalo end for what B's coach Robbie Ftorek estimated was 70 seconds. It was truly an exciting, two-way, free-swinging clash of designated bad guys.'
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The U.S. national team was routed in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final by a Mexican side featuring young attacking talent so good, it likely left even the most biased American fan wistful.
The U.S. under-17 team was hammered 4-0 by Germany in the second round of the FIFA U-17 World Cup. If the game appeared to match pros against amateurs, it's because it essentially did. All 21 members of Germany's team already are in the systems at major professional clubs.
Top European teams are ignoring U.S. players during their summer spending sprees. Clint Dempsey, the most successful American currently working abroad, is set to begin his sixth season at Fulham, a club that never has qualified for the UEFA Champions League.
It has been a humbling summer for American soccer, but not an unfair or surprising one. The aforementioned adversity is the inevitable product of a youth soccer culture that's very different from much of the world.
Disparate (and often naïve) coaching philosophies, along with the pursuit of college scholarships and trophies awarded at myriad youth tournaments, long have governed player development in the U.S. Why ask a competent striker to try a different position, and work on expanding his skill set and tactical understanding, if you've got a chance to win that upcoming Memorial Day showcase?
Meanwhile, foreign footballers are groomed by professional clubs with far more interest in the end product than in an under-15 state title.
The result? No American men play at any of the most prestigious clubs in Europe, and the U.S. continues to compete at a second-tier level internationally.
The U.S. Soccer Federation is well aware of the problem, but culture isn't easy to change.
A significant part of the equation is being implemented by Major League Soccer, which has encouraged its 18 clubs to invest in player development by making it easier and cheaper to sign homegrown talent.
Many of those MLS youth teams compete exclusively in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, a four-year-old league for 15- to 18-year olds that stresses training and limited but high-level competition. A few talented Academy products already have made the jump to fully professional play.
But what about younger players? What can be done to equip adolescents with the tools, mentality and motivation to commit to training in a professional environment as teenagers?
Last year, U.S. Soccer turned to Claudio Reyna to find the answer. Reyna, 37, was born and raised in northern New Jersey, the son of a former pro from Argentina. He rose to become one of the most successful American players ever, captaining the U.S. national team at the 2002 and 2006 World Cup and starring for clubs in England, Germany and Scotland.
Over the course of a year in his position as youth technical director, Reyna visited top clubs and training centers around the world to learn more about how they forge premier players. He consulted with coaches and teams throughout the U.S. In April, he unveiled the product of that work -- a coaching curriculum designed to unify the development of American players up to 13 years of age and give them the foundation needed to succeed in more demanding environments.
"It's time to look at what we're doing as a coaching force in this country and understand the big picture," Reyna told Sporting News. "The competition isn't a team from Virginia trying to beat a team from D.C. It's the world. The world is our competition. That has to be the mindset of coaches around the country, that they're part of something bigger."
The curriculum is comprehensive and outlines systems of play (Reyna prefers the versatile, attacking and ball possession oriented 4-3-3 that fueled decades of dominance at Ajax Amsterdam and FC Barcelona), age-appropriate practice plans, coaching points and philosophies and tactical principles. The idea is to create the same framework of understanding for players, coast to coast.
"Imagine our school system if all the teachers just went in and said, 'I'm going to do whatever I want.' We'd be all over the place. We'd be a third-world country in terms of education," Reyna said. "The idea is, let's do the same in soccer. One year builds on the next. Build it up and have a collective vision that prepares kids for the real world."
America's unique history presents unique challenges. While club and development systems arose organically in most countries, the sheer size, diverse cultures and primacy of other sports hindered that growth in the U.S.
"That's the reason we haven't developed a playing style," he said.
At the core is Reyna's insistence that technique comes before trophies. The urge to win at the youth level can lead misdirected coaches and parents to stress size and athleticism over skill and to limit the experimentation and subsequent mistakes a player needs to grow.
Understand that, and the wins will come when it matters.
"We need our coaches to become educators and teach the game and less managers and coaches trying to win games," Reyna said. "That means making the Monday through Friday the priority versus the Saturday or Sunday.
"The commonalities at the best places around the world are that young players are in environments where they can relax and develop."


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Graduate Faculty: Deering, Duggan, Fanelli, Golden, Grigolini, Harrison, Hu, Kobe, Kowalski, Littler, Mackey, Matteson, McDaniel, Mueller, Ordonez, Perez, Roberts, Sears, Shiner, Sybert, Ward, Weathers, West.
Students in the Department of Physics have the opportunity to obtain training on state-of-the-art equipment in new and modern research laboratories in areas of interest to the scientific and industrial communities, particularly those involved in microelectronics, semiconductors, applications of accelerators, lasers and modern computational methods. Opportunities are available to develop highly marketable skills in modern basic and applied physics as well as close interactions with regional industries.
The physics department is conducting research in solid state and semiconductor physics; atomic, molecular and nuclear magnetic resonance; and in theoretical physics in quantum, statistical and computational physics and non-linear dynamics, including applications to biomedical phenomena.
The condensed matter, molecular and atomic physics programs include studies of energy levels, lifetimes, scattering mechanisms, transition rates, dissipative responses and interaction of light with matter. Housed in the Physics Building and the Science Research Building, the laboratories associated with these programs contain continuous CO and CO2 and far infrared lasers. Low temperature and high magnetic field facilities and transmission electron microscopes also are located in these laboratories. Current semiconductor projects include magneto-optic interactions, two-photon spectroscopy and the study of artificially structured materials.
In nuclear magnetic resonance, high-resolution multipulse methods are used to study interactions in solids. A prime interest in theoretical physics lies in applying quantum theory to many-particle systems. Mathematical problems involving Green's functions, Feynman diagrams, canonical transformations and gauge theory are being investigated. These and other methods are being applied to solids, quantum fluids and nuclei.
The Accelerator Laboratory contains three accelerators, including a 200 keV high-current Cockcroft Walton machine, a 2.5 MeV single-ended van de Graaf and a $1 million 3 MeV Tandem Electrostatic Pelletron-Type Accelerator. The program's objectives are (1) fundamental studies of ion atom collisions, including ionization, excitation and charge transfer processes, and (2) the use of ion beams for materials characterization and modification of electronic and other materials. The most notable of these characterization techniques is the development of an accelerator-based Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS) that will be able to detect impurities in materials at the parts-per-trillion level. This technique, called Super SIMS, is being developed in conjunction with the materials characterization group at Texas Instruments Inc. Other materials characterization techniques include nuclear reaction analysis, charged particle activation analysis, Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, ion channeling and particle-induced X-ray emission. Modification of metal and semiconductor materials will be by ion implantation.
Atomic and molecular spectroscopy investigations are being made to determine interaction parameters from line width and line profile data to better understand the collision phenomena and momentum transfer associated with gaseous mixtures. Experimental measurement and theoretical modeling of vibrationally excited molecular systems are being conducted with the goal of understanding molecular potentials.
The program in statistical physics has a variety of specializations, including both classical and
quantum non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with an emphasis on stochastic differential equations. There also
are investigations into deterministic randomness (chaos) and its relation to traditional stochastic
These techniques along with the numerical methods are applied to all areas of physics. In addition to the study of chaos, the techniques for non-linear dynamics are applied to the understanding of neural networks (research done in collaboration with members of the biological sciences department) and other complex physiological systems.
The Laboratory of Polymers and Composites, operated jointly with the Department of Materials Science, works on polymer liquid crystals and their blends, composites and polymer solutions. Mechanical, thermophysical and rheological properties are investigated using computer simulations, statistical mechanics and a variety of experimental techniques (DMTA, TMA, DS, TSD, P-V-T relations, computerized tension, compression, bending and impact testing).
Center for Nonlinear Science (CNS) is a research organization whose research focus is phenomena-driven rather than discipline-driven and, therefore, spans traditional disciplines such as physics, mathematics, biology and economics. The emphasis of CNS is on the development of new analytic and computational techniques to assist in the understanding of complex (nonlinear) phenomena that have not yielded their secrets to traditional methods of investigation.
Federal support of research projects in the department includes the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Army Night Vision Laboratory. Other research support has been granted by the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the Gulf Oil Foundation, the Texas Advanced Technology Research Program and the Vought Corporation.
The student must apply for and be granted admission through the office of the dean of the Toulouse School of Graduate Studies; admission requirements applicable to all departments may be found in the Admission section of this bulletin. A student who has not had the equivalent of an undergraduate major in physics at this institution may expect the time required for completion of degree requirements to be longer than average.
Departmental forms for applying for financial aid and information concerning evaluation of credit in physics may be obtained from the chair of the Department of Physics. In addition to presenting a minimum score of 1100 (verbal and quantitative) on the aptitude test of the Graduate Record Examination, required of all applicants for admission, applicants for financial aid are requested to present scores on the GRE advanced physics test. International applicants must also provide a minimum of 550 on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam. An entrance interview concerning fundamental physics is required of all students. The interview is used as an aid in placement. Further details may be obtained from the departmental office. The entrance interview is administered preceding the first day of registration in the fall and spring semesters and the first summer term.
The Department of Physics offers graduate programs leading to the following degrees:
Master of Arts (with thesis) or Master of Science (with research problems in lieu of thesis).
The graduate credit requirement for the Master of Arts degree is 30 semester hours chosen in the following manner.
1. PHYS 5500, 5510, 5710 and 5720.
2. PHYS 5950 (6-hour thesis). The thesis must be submitted in the manuscript form prescribed by the American Institute of Physics.
3. 8 semester hours chosen from physics or related fields, with permission of academic adviser.
The graduate credit requirement for the Master of Science degree is 36 semester hours chosen in the following manner.
1. PHYS 5500, 5510, 5710, 5720 and 4 additional hours chosen from the basic curriculum of the physics PhD program.
2. PHYS 5920 and 5930 (Problems in Lieu of Thesis). Research problems in lieu of thesis are independent though not necessarily original studies that may be experimental, computational, tutorial, bibliographic, pedagogic or a combination of these. As part of the requirements for each problems course, the student must present a formal written report of the work done in the course, which must be approved by the advisory committee and filed in the graduate dean's office. Reports for PHYS 5920 and 5930 must be submitted in the manuscript form prescribed by the American Institute of Physics (see AIP Style Manual, current edition).
3. 10 hours chosen from physics or related fields. Physics courses must include 5450, 5610 and 6000.
The graduate credit requirement for the Master of Science degree is 39 semester hours chosen in the following manner.
1. PHYS 5500, 5510, 5710, 5720, 6000, 6030 and 6110.
2. 3 hours of 5000- or 6000-level physics courses.
3. 8 additional hours, which may include 2 hours of PHYS 5940 and 6 hours of PHYS 5900.
All physics graduate students are expected to register for PHYS 5940 or 5941 during each semester of full-time graduate study.
An entrance interview concerning fundamental physics is required of all students. The results are used for advisory, placement and remedial purposes.
An oral presentation of the master's thesis (PHYS 5950) is required. The thesis is accepted by the student's advisory committee after an oral examination is successfully completed. Problems in lieu of thesis (PHYS 5920 and 5930) must be accepted by the student's advisory committee; oral presentation is optional.
The Doctor of Philosophy degree represents the attainment of a high level of scholarship and achievement in independent research and hence cannot be prescribed in terms of a fixed semester-hour requirement. Course work and research amounting to the equivalent of two academic years beyond the master's degree or three years beyond the bachelor's degree may be considered the minimum.
Departmental admission to the doctoral program in physics (as distinguished from admission to candidacy for the PhD degree) requires a satisfactory score on the first part of the qualifying examination taken after completion of the basic curriculum (see below), which normally occurs after the second year. Enrollment in PHYS 6950 will not be allowed until the student has completed this requirement.
Consult the graduate adviser, Department of Physics, for requirements.
In addition to the entrance interview required of all graduate students in physics, as described above under the master's examinations, the following examinations apply to the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
1. The first part of the qualifying examination is taken after completion of the basic curriculum (see below) and consists of an examination over its contents. The departmental examination committee will schedule and administer the exam.
2. The second part of the qualifying examination consists of the student's oral presentation to the
graduate advisory committee. The presentation will detail a proposed dissertation topic and will
familiarity with both appropriate equipment and the theoretical basis of the phenomena to be studied. Upon acceptance of the proposal by the advisory committee, the applicant applies to the dean of the School of Graduate Studies for admission to candidacy and may begin research.
This oral examination is primarily a defense of the dissertation, which must be submitted in final form to the final examination committee at least 30 days prior to the scheduled oral examination. Additional committee members will be named by the dean of the School of Graduate Studies to participate in this examination.
For the student who has not had previous graduate study, the approximate requirements follow.
The concentration requirement can be satisfied by completing courses in one of the following areas.
All Courses of Instruction are located in one section at the back of this catalog.
The "Course and Subject Guide," found in the Courses of Instruction section of this book, serves as a table of contents and provides quick access to subject areas and prefixes.
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It's an Editor's JobRebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What expression is represented here?
Exnxgxlxixsxh Bx...reakfast
Exaxrxl Gxrx...ey
N.e.e.d.l.e.'s. h. etc...ole
V.i.e.w.i.n. etc...g organ
C.a.p.t.a.i.n.'s s.a. etc...lute
NOTE: the ...'s and etc are intended to show continuation
HintPedantic people are generally particularly good at the answer to this teaser.
AnswerCrossing the t's and dotting the i's
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Crossing (x'ing) the t's (teas) and dotting (.'ing) the i's (eyes, ayes)
English Breakfast, Herbal, and Earl Grey are all types of tea (t) and they are being x'd or crossed
A needle's hole = eye
Viewing organ = eye
Captain's salute = aye or aye aye
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Winter: Pedestrians
As most sidewalks are covered with snow and unpassable, here are safety tips for pedestrians and drivers.
For Pedestrians:
- Cross the street at marked crosswalks and intersections ONLY
- Before crossing, look left, right, then left again
- Use pedestrian pushbuttons
- Begin crossing the street on "Walk" signal
- Wear bright colored clothing, as dim, winter light hampers visibility
- Dusk and dawn are the most dangerous times of the day for pedestrians. If walking or jogging, make sure you walk against the traffic and remember reflective clothing
For Drivers:
- Be alert to pedestrians around snowpiles, corners and areas where snow is covering lanes
- Stay in the confines of your lanes as much as possible
- Stop for pedestrians at crosswalks
- Slow down and obey posted speed limits
- Look before opening your vehicle door
- Use caution when passing stopped vehicles


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A Keighley councillor mingled with several royals as he attended the Queen's Garden Party.
Adrian Farley was among hundreds of people invited to Buckingham Palace for the prestigious event.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and Camilla, Sophie, Edward and Alexandra were in attendance.
And although Coun Farley did not manage to speak to any of the Royal Family he was still bowled over with the experience.
Coun Farley, who represents Keighley West ward, was among several members of Bradford Council whose names were picked out of a hat to receive a ticket.
He said: "Every year Buckingham Palace sends a number of tickets to City Hall and I put myself forward because it was something I'm interested in.
"I think it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunit. I'm probably not the most ardent monarchist but it was a brilliant experience."
Coun Farley said he had always been fascinated by the concept of the garden party and the history of Buckingham Palace.
He said: "Walking through the palace is quite unreal, you're looking around you as you walk."
The Queen's Garden Party involves members of the Royal family taking specific routes around the palace gardens while guests are randomly presented to them.


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DEPENDING on your age, vinyl records are back in fashion or never went out of fashion in the first place, either way, their popularity in Swindon on Saturday cannot be doubted.
Record Store Day, an international celebration of the independent music sector, has been running for seven years in the USA and UK, with Swindon's own Red House Records getting in on the act for the first time this weekend.
Located inside Farringdon Road's Holmes Music store, the record store has been open since May of last year, when it launched in line with the upsurge of interest in vinyl records.
Owner Paul Holmes, who has worked at the family-run business since 1979, said: "We had always been looking at doing something specifically with records and then we heard about the return of vinyl.
"It's been building up for quite a few years now. When HMV shut in the town centre we knew that was the best time to do something, because there was nowhere else in town to buy them.
"There are still a lot of people who would assume they stopped making vinyl years ago and they're quite surprised when I say it's a brand new release.
"Other people never stopped buying them. There is a complete mixture of people interested in vinyl now.
"The age ranges are vast, teenagers are getting into vinyl, adults born into the CD age are getting into it, and then there are those who used to buy lots of vinyl when they were young."
In the 1980s, when vinyl was being mass produced by record companies the quality tailed off, with wobbly plastic creations which were easily scratched.
However, new releases are now made to a much higher quality, not only in the physical structure of the vinyl, but in sound quality too, according to Paul.
"It's much more of an event, if you have got an album by your favourite artist and have something to show for it, rather than just a download, it's much more special," he said.
"Having the artwork on a big display with all the sleeves and lyrics, makes buying music more of an event."
The biggest advantage of Record Store Day for Paul and his team, was the increase in customers. Many of those interested in the celebration had never known of this small corner of Swindon which sells records, until finding it on the official website.
Kevin Bowles, 55, of Windsor Road, who bought his first vinyl in 1973, said: "Bringing more people into the store on a day like this keeps the vinyl industry going and reminds companies there is a market for that type of product.
"It's better than a CD. There is more of a warmth in vinyl records. You can sense it."
Augusto Pomponi, 59, of Old Town, owns approximately 2,000 vinyl records. He said: "It's a collectors' thing. Once you start buying them, you can't stop, which is why I carried on.
"It beats owning music digitally. I have all the music I want, on the shelf and ready to go whenever I want."


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You will experience a quiet, peaceful time with a private beach stretching
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GajaPuri Resort & Spa Koh Chang is a Boutique style hotel at the beach of Kai Bae.
Only a short 15 minutes drive from Ao Sapparod ferry pier, the resort offers you a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere in the middle of tropical gardens. To the west you'll find the beach with astonishing sunsets in the Gulf of Siam while behind GajaPuri and GajaLanai to the east the protected natural rainforest with scenic mountain views surrounds your line of sight.
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(Bungalow / near reception)Lanai in Sanskrit word means "Veranda", the new concept of our wood cottage with its own veranda for each unit. With 52 m2 accommodation including the private deck where you can relax on the sun loungers with sunshade to enjoy astonishing view to the mountains covered by rain forest, the pond or the pool or the Gulf of Siam.
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SAN BERNARDINO -- Members of the Justice for Immigrants Coalition of Inland Southern California as well as other immigrant and workers' rights supporters marched through downtown San Bernardino Wednesday in honor of International Workers Day.
Hundreds of people joined the march from Secombe Lake, 160 E. 5th St. to San Bernardino City Hall, bringing attention to immigration reform and workers' rights.
Participants shouted "Obama Escucha. Estamos en la Lucha," which means "Obama listen. We are in the fight," as they marched to City Hall, where they heard from speakers calling for legislators to fix the country's immigration system and strengthen rights for low-wage workers.
Father Jorge Garcia with the seminary school at the San Bernardino Diocese joined the march to help make people aware of what happens to families affected by deportation.
Garcia said he regularly sees parents deported, leaving behind their American born children.
"I come to support this cause because we are asking for basic human rights for everyone," he said. "We don't want to see families pulled apart by deportation anymore."
Jose Gutierrez , 43 of Hesperia, was brought to the county illegally by his mother when he was 9 years old.
He and his wife, Shena Gutierrez, marched with the activists in San Bernardino.
"I always felt like I belonged here, like this was my country," he said.
Jose Gutierrez is currently facing deportation for the second time.
He was deported two years ago, but tried to come back to be with his two small children who were undergoing medical treatment.
He was granted a federal stay, which is about to expire.
"What would you do if you were in his shoes?" said his wife, Shena Gutierrez. "Wouldn't you want to come back to your kids, to your family?"
This year participants marched with the "We Voted, We Organized, Now We March," to bring attention to immigrant rights, workers' rights and the struggle for the working poor.
Children and adults alike are carrying homemade signs and waving American Flags to drivers-pay who are honking in support.
The Justice for Immigrants Coalition has organized the May Day March since 2009, alternating between the cities of San Bernardino and Riverside.


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Ex-student sentenced for Hanover College stabbing
A former student at a southern Indiana college has been sentenced to two years in prison for breaking into a dorm room and stabbing a man.
A judge ordered that sentence for 22-year-old Demetrius Jones of Columbus after he pleaded guilty last week to a felony charge of criminal recklessness for the October 2011 attack at Hanover College.
Authorities say Jones stabbed Vincent Johnson of Jamestown, Ind., following a fraternity party confrontation.
Jefferson County Prosecutor Chad Lewis tells The Madison Courier that the plea agreement balances punishment with a chance for Jones to have the felony conviction reduced to a misdemeanor if he stays out of trouble.
Jones had been studying to become a math teacher at the private college in the Ohio River town of Hanover.
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Topic: Ball in a jar
A friend shared this with me today… I think it makes sense
…One day I saw a notice for a talk on helping children through bereavement by Barbara Monroe, the Chief Executive of St Christopher's Hospice in London. When I arrived, what I saw resembled a physics lesson. On the table before her was a very large glass jar. Beside were three balls: one large, one medium-sized, one small. Without a word, she began to stuff the large ball into the jar. With a great deal of effort, she wedged it in. 'There!' she said. 'That's how grieving feels at first. If grief is the ball and the jar is your world, you can see how the grief fills everything. There is no air to breathe, no space to move around. Every thought, every action reminds you of your loss.' Then she pulled the large ball out of the jar and put in the medium-sized ball. She held it up again, tipping it so the ball rolled around a bit. 'Maybe you think that's how it will feel after a time – say, after the first year. Grieving will no longer fill every bit of space in your life.' Then she rolled the ball out and plopped in the small ball. 'Now, say, by the second or third year, that's how grieving is supposed to feel. Like the ball, it has shrunk. So now you can think of grief as taking up a very small part of your world – it could almost be ignored if you wish to ignore it.' For a moment, considering my own crammed jar, I thought of leaving. 'That's what everyone thinks grieving is like,' the voice continued. 'And it's all rubbish.' I settled back into my seat. Two other glass jars were produced from under the table: one larger, one very large. 'Now,' she said,imperiously. 'Regard.' Silently, she took the largest ball and squeezed it slowly into the least of the three jars. It would barely fit. Then she pulled the ball out and placed it in the next-larger jar. There was room for it to roll around. Finally, she took it out and dropped it into the largest glass jar. 'There,' she said, in triumph. 'That's what grieving is really like. If your grieving is the ball, like the ball here it doesn't get any bigger or any smaller. It is always the same. But the jar is bigger. If your world is this glass jar, your task is to make your world bigger.' 'You see,' she continued, 'no-one wants their grief to shrink. It is all they have left of the person who died. But if your world gets larger, then you can keep your grief as it is, but work around it.' Then she turned to us. 'Older people coping with grief often try to keep their world the same. It is a mistake. If I have one thing to say to all of you it is this: make your world larger. Then there will be room in it for your grieving, but your grieving will not take up all the room. This way you can find space to make a new life for yourselves.


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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., —On Friday, May 1, the New York State Historical Association and The Farmers' Museum will fill to capacity when over 425 middle and high school students from across New York State arrive to participate in the annual New York State History Day competition.
Judging of all entries begins at 9:00 am and runs until early afternoon. Students will present their projects at various locations around Cooperstown, including the Fenimore Art Museum, The Farmers' Museum, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and The Otesaga Hotel. Nearly one hundred community members, consisting of historians and educators, will serve as judges for the event. The day's events culminate in an awards ceremony at the Cooperstown High School at 5:00 pm.
The state contest, sponsored by the New York State Historical Association, is a yearlong history education program that challenges students in grades 6-12 to produce exceptional scholarship on topics in history related to an annual theme. This year's theme is "The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies," and students from 13 regions around New York State will present their final projects in the form of dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries, interactive web sites and scholarly research papers to a panel of judges. Students placing first and second in their categories will be eligible to compete at National History Day in College Park, Maryland, in June.
The public is welcome to view the performance, documentary, and exhibition categories, held at designated sites. A schedule with locations and times is available on the program website (www.nyshistoryday.org) or at the Registration and Information Desk at The Farmers' Museum on Friday, May 1.
For more information on New York State History Day, e-mail the State Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit the New York State History Day web site at www.nyshistoryday.org.
New York State History Day is sponsored by the New York State Historical Association. Major funding for the program, made possible by the generous support of Senator James L. Seward, is provided through the New York State Education Department.
About the New York State Historical Association The New York State Historical Association is committed to engaging and connecting a broad public audience to New York State's unique cultural heritage through exhibitions, extensive library collections, statewide educational programs, and publications that provoke, delight, and inspire. Founded in 1899, NYSHA is a private, non-profit, membership-based, educational and cultural institution dedicated to preserving, collecting, and interpreting art and historical artifacts significant to New York State's rich history and American culture. The Association's remarkable collections, showcased in the Fenimore Art Museum, comprise some of the best examples of American landscape, history, and genre paintings including seminal works by Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, William Sidney Mount and Benjamin West; the renown Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art, a masterpiece collection of more than 800 art objects, representing a broad scope of North American cultures; and one of the nation's most comprehensive and significant folk art collections. NYSHA's Research Library holdings include over 90,000 volumes on American, New York State, and local history. For more information on the Association, the Fenimore Art Museum, the Research Library, or Membership, please call (607) 547-1400 or visit www.nysha.org. The Association's mailing address is P.O. Box 800, 5798 State Hwy. 80, Lake Rd., Cooperstown, NY 13326.
About National History Day
National History Day (NHD) is a nationally acclaimed, yearlong history education program that annually challenges over half a million students and thousands of teachers to ask questions that uncover life-changing answers. On April 11, 1974, National History Day was launched when 129 students from the Cleveland, Ohio area attended a history competition on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.
The revolutionary program was designed to reform and invigorate the teaching and learning of history at the elementary and secondary levels. With initial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National History Day soon became a staple of history education in classrooms throughout the United States. Today, National History Day serves as the model for history and civics education reform. For more information on National History Day, please visit www.nationalhistoryday
Todd Kenyon, Public Relations
New York State Historical Association
Fenimore Art Museum/The Farmers' Museum
Phone: (607) 547-1472 / E-mail: email@example.com


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There are other reasons to be cautious. The prior low was not climactic, meaning it is unlikely to be a lasting low. The Arms Index moving averages, as seen on the second chart, are becoming overbought. Volatility and volume both remain low. And look at Wednesday's trading range; it was tiny. That suggests the rise of the prior two days is already meeting with difficult overhead supply. Consequently, it looks as though the rise may be nearly over, but I am willing to move stops in close to see if the move can carry a little further....243 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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ByTom Gara
Anyone who did the bulk of their gaming in the Super Nintendo era would find much of today's console market a bit tough to comprehend. Remember four kids sitting on a living room floor passing around two controllers? Those days are long gone, replaced by cinematic extravaganzas designed to be played alone, or against online adversaries. Mario Kart they are not.
But here's a more subtle change coming up in Microsoft next-generation console, the Xbox One: No longer will video games be like books or old-fashioned music CDs, self-contained content that works anywhere, anytime, and can be resold or lent to any of your friends. Xbox One games are part physical disc, part online service, and tightly controlled both my Microsoft and the game publisher.
Here's an explainer from the company on how the console and its games will work. A few highlights:
- Games will not work, full stop, if the console has not connected to the internet in the last 24 hours.
"With Xbox One you can game offline for up to 24 hours on your primary console, or one hour if you are logged on to a separate console accessing your library. Offline gaming is not possible after these prescribed times until you re-establish a connection, but you can still watch live TV and enjoy Blu-ray and DVD movies."
So bad luck if your internet gets cut – after a day, you can't even entertain yourself with your Xbox games.
- You can't sell your second-hand games to any store that might want to buy them from you:
"Today, some gamers choose to sell their old disc-based games back for cash and credit. We designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers. Microsoft does not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games."
Not only will games only be able to be sold to "participating retailers" — those retailers will only be able to buy games if the publisher has "enabled" them to be bought and sold second hand. And as Microsoft says, those publishers "may set up business terms or transfer fees with retailers" that will regulate the conditions of such sales on a game-by-game basis.
- You can't just pass games around among your friends:
"Xbox One is designed so game publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends. There are no fees charged as part of these transfers. There are two requirements: you can only give them to people who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and each game can only be given once."
Again, game discs can't just be handed around — first the publisher needs to "enable" the game to be given to a friend. And even then it can only change hands once. "Loaning or renting games won't be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners," Microsoft says.
All these terms are a big change from what has come before, and Microsoft seems to be aware that consumers might have something to say about the new deal:
"As we move into this new generation of games and entertainment, from time to time, Microsoft may change its policies, terms, products and services to reflect modifications and improvements to our services, feedback from customers and our business partners or changes in our business priorities and business models or for other reasons. We may also cease to offer certain services or products for similar reasons.
In the months ahead, we will continue to listen to your feedback as we meet with our partners in the ecosystem to bring additional detail about our policies."
Worth watching in the months ahead: not just how consumers react, but how gaming studios and rival console maker Sony play the situation. Will the next Playstation come with a similar set of restrictions? And will be big game companies seek to cash in and charge fees for reselling second-hand games?
"This new generation of games," as Microsoft describes it, is worth putting into context: It's the final stage in the transition of video games from goods, sold as a physical object that you own, to services, delivered online in tandem with a disc you buy in a store.
You own an object, but you merely access a service.
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Grinding glaciers and granite peaks mingle in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this summertime image of the park on January 21, 2013. This image shows just a portion of the park, including Grey Glacier and the mountain range of Cordillera del Paine. (The large-image download link provides a wider view.)
The rivers of glacial ice in Torres del Paine National Park grind over bedrock, turning some of that rock to dust. Many of the glaciers terminate in freshwater lakes, which are rich with glacial flour that colors them brown to turquoise. Skinny rivers connect some of the lakes to each other (image upper and lower right).
Cordillera del Paine rises between some of the wide glacial valleys. The compact mountain range is a combination of soaring peaks and small glaciers, most notably the Torres del Paine (Towers of Paine), three closely spaced peaks emblematic of the mountain range and the larger park.
By human standards, the mountains of Cordillera del Paine are quite old. But compared to the Rocky Mountains (up to 70 million years old), and the Appalachians (480 million years), the Cordillera del Paine are very young—only about 12 million years old. study published in 2008 described how scientists used zircon crystals to estimate the age of Cordillera del Paine. The authors concluded that the rock was formed in three pulses, creating a granite laccolith, or dome-shaped feature, more than 2,000 meters (7,000 feet) thick. Later uplift, combined with glacial erosion, created the current mountain range.
- Michel, J., Baumgartner, L., Putlitz, B., Schaltegger, U., Ovtcharova, M. (2008) Incremental growth of the Patagonian Torres del Paine laccolith over 90 k.y. Geology, 36(6), 459–462.
- Rivera, A., Casassa, G. (2004) Ice elevation, areal, and frontal changes of glaciers from national park Torres Del Paine, Southern Patagonia Icefield. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 36(4), 379–389.
- Torres del Paine. Accessed January 24, 2013.
- U.S. Geological Survey. (2003, May 20) America's Volcanic Past: Appalachians Mountains. Accessed January 24, 2013.
- U.S. Geological Survey. (2004, January 13) Geologic Provinces of the United States: Rocky Mountains. Accessed January 24, 2013.
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OAKLAND — An 18-year-old man was fatally shot and another wounded in a Thursday afternoon gunbattle in East Oakland, one of several shootings that injured three other people in a bloody five-hour period, police said.
The man who was fatally wounded was scooped up by his associates but later was dumped more than a mile away as he was bleeding and clinging to life, police said.
That shooting at 77th and Bancroft avenues about 4 p.m. was just one of three shootings within blocks of each other Thursday. Another shooting late Thursday morning made it one of the most violent days in East Oakland in recent weeks.
In the 4 p.m. shooting, two men exchanged fire with one other man.
One of the men in the duo was struck by gunfire and fell onto a median while running away, police said. His accomplice ran to a nearby getaway vehicle, and a man in the car helped pull the wounded man inside. A few minutes later, they stopped the car and left the injured man at 96th Avenue and Sunnyside Street; he was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Police did not immediately identify him.
The other man in the gunbattle was also struck by gunfire and boarded an AC Transit bus stopped nearby on Bancroft Avenue. A bullet hit the windshield of the bus during the gunbattle, but no one on the bus was injured.
The bus continued down Bancroft and stopped at 82nd Avenue, where the wounded man got off the bus, police said. He was transported to a hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.
Police did not release names, ages or cities of residence for anyone wounded in the shootings.
Earlier in the day, two men were wounded — one in the leg and one in the arm — in a drive-by shooting at 11:15 a.m. in the 9000 block of Thermal Street but managed to get to the 8900 block of MacArthur Boulevard, where police and paramedics responded.
The black car used in that shooting and the people in the vehicle match the description of the getaway car and the people involved in the shootout later in the day, police said. Investigators did not say Thursday night if the two shootings are linked.
Also Thursday about 1 p.m., a man was shot near 90th Avenue and Plymouth Street by a gunman who ran to a nearby truck and drove away, police said. That victim's name and age were not released. He is expected to live.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $10,000 in reward money for the fatal shooting and $5,000 in the other shootings for information leading to the arrest of the gunmen. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 510-238-3426 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.


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This morning, David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital announced that he would oppose a proposal made by Apple (AAPL) to eliminate the ability to offer a preferred stock from its charter. Einhorn said that such a move would take away the flexibility and the option of providing cash to shareholders.
The big question is why Apple wants to eliminate the preferred in the first place, but we side with Einhorn -- it doesn't make sense to take away the ability to at some point be able to offer a preferred security.
We've been critical of Apple's handling of its cash (as have many). It has $275 billion on its balance sheet, or $145 a share, and shareholders are rightfully frustrated that Apple has not addressed its cash strategy. CEO Tim Cook is speaking at Goldman's conference next week, and there's been speculation that he will announce the company's cash plans -- a dividend increase is the rumor. Should it announce something, it certainly would make value investors more interested in the stock. The stock is cheap, but a higher yield would make it more appealing. It currently has a 2.3% yield.
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