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Gianfranco Zola says Watford will "have to play the game of our life" if they are to shock Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium tomorrow but he maintains the opportunity to take on the Premier League champions is "important" in his side's ongoing quest for improvement.
The Hornets, who will be backed by a 6,000-strong army of fans, go into the FA Cup third round tie priced as big as 18-1 to cause an upset against Roberto Mancini's side and his former Italian team-mate is set to face some key selection issues ahead of the contest.
A late decision is likely to be made on the fitness of keeper Manuel Almunia after he sustained a hamstring problem in the first half of Tuesday's 4-3 defeat against Charlton Athletic and played all the second period with strapping on his right thigh.
Almen Abdi sustained a kick to the pelvis in the match and Zola must also decide what strikers to play and whether to make changes to a defence that was poor, individually and collectively, as it shipped four goals.
However, the head coach was hopeful Lloyd Doyley would be available after a month-and-a-half on the sidelines when he spoke to the media on Wednesday, and Nyron Nosworthy is also an option after he was involved in a Watford match-day 18 for the first time in more than three months the previous day.
The City boss also has some selection decisions to make but irrespective of the side he picks, Watford will still be confronted with a team that cost many millions to assemble.
Looking ahead to the trip, Zola, who won the trophy twice as a Chelsea player, said: "It's not going to be easy but it's OK.
"What I said before, for our team it will be important to play a team like Manchester City. If you want to get better, you need to play against better players so it will be good for us anyway. And in football you never know. It's quite an unpredictable game."
Given they are out of the Champions League and currently trail leaders Manchester United by seven points in the top flight, the FA Cup may represent City's best chance of silverware this season. This could increase the pressure on Mancini's men tomorrow but the Hornets head coach said: "I'm sure it is a competition they're taking seriously so therefore we will require a good performance if we want to go through."
Asked how you go about beating one of the most expensively-assembled teams in history, Zola smiled: "We have to beat them first and then I will tell you.
"Whoever they play, they will be competitive and strong in every single part of the pitch. So we certainly have to play the game of our life and certainly they need to under-perform."
The Hornets go into the game on the back of a five-match unbeaten run on their travels and are also the Championship's highest scorers on the road. However, both Tuesday's defeat and the manner of it were not expected and Zola admitted the following day: "It comes as a surprise to me because we've been defending quite well recently and, honestly, I didn't expect scoring three goals to lose a game anyway. So it's something we are addressing and we are going to address in the next few days."
Asked if he considered putting Nosworthy on as a substitute to attempt to firm up the defence, he responded: "I didn't have the time because we were chasing the game all the time and then we scored the third goal in the second half and how long did it take? 20 seconds to 30 seconds for them to score again, so we were chasing the game and I didn't have the time to make the changes at the back."
City will be without eight first-team players for the Hornets' visit but will still have several internationals to call on.
Sergio Agüero will miss out with a hamstring injury, while Maicon (knee), Jack Rodwell (hamstring), Aleksandar Kolarov (hip) and Micah Richards (knee) are also likely to be absent.
Mancini was dealt a further blow this week, with Yaya and Kolo Toure set to join up with the Ivory Coast squad for the African Cup of Nations tomorrow.
Samir Nasri is suspended after being sent off against Norwich City, while the potential involvement of Mario Balotelli is also in doubt after he was widely pictured having an apparent training ground bust-up with his manager yesterday.

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Pilots are amazing and don't get anywhere near the credit they deserve for the skill with which most pilots handle their aircraft. Landing and takeoff is the riskiest part of any flight. Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, 'Miracle on the Hudson' pilot, said that's because of cloud height, wind and visibility among other factors.


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"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."
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Jim Kinney teaches art and design at George Brown College — with a special twist. He has owned and been a partner in businesses that, from 1987 on, have pioneered the use of new hard and soft technologies to provide leadership in design services, computer graphics and animation, publishing, web development and e-commerce, training simulation, branding, and interface design. He has also been involved in applied education and corporate training since 1989, focusing on the integration of technologies to enhance teaching and learning.
In 2004-2005 he attended the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Media, where he explored the effects of rapid technological innovation and obsolescence on the classroom. From this exploration, he developed a Rapid Integration of Skills and Knowledge (RISK) teaching/learning method. It employs collective narrative processes to facilitate crowd-sourced knowledge creation and curation as an adaptive response to rapid and pervasive technological change.
Kinney has been mentoring students on the co-creation and curation of knowledge resources. He uses the infrastructure and know-how he derived from research done for Apple Computer on mobile learning. He is currently creating a Perpetual Beta Lab for his students to introduce them to collaborative techniques and let them experiment with beta-level technologies. It will pair them with a client to solve a problem where, ideally, the solution uses the new technologies they are exploring.
Kinney holds an undergraduate degree in the Biological Sciences from the University of Waterloo and a master's of Theology from the University of Victoria, University of Toronto.


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Editor's Note: World Water Day is fast approaching! This week we're bringing you content all about the power of clean water, especially its critical connection to nutrition, all in the lead up to the big day on Saturday. Today, enjoy a guest post from one of our friends at The Republic of Tea, a terrific partner in our effort to build a world with more clean water!
With World Water Day approaching this Saturday, March 22nd, we at The Republic of Tea want to take the opportunity to emphasize the strong connection between clean water and nutrition. Access to clean water is critical for people to survive, and to maintain proper nutrition in areas where the threat of waterborne diseases like cholera are an everyday reality.
When a child drinks contaminated water and catches a waterborne disease, it complete undoes the benefits of any nutrition that child has received. Every year, 1.5 million children die from a lack of clean water and sanitation. That means a full 20% of all child deaths could be prevented with safe water and sanitation. These deaths are 100% preventable.
From where I sit, Action Against Hunger is an essential player in promoting clean water and nutrition initiatives around the world. Their team gets water and sanitation services to vulnerable communities across the globe faced with unsafe drinking sources, water scarcity, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene while training and teaching these communities on how to care for their water points properly, all with an eye toward long-term solutions to malnutrition. They install and decontaminate wells, install hand pumps, protect natural springs, pipe water into villages and rehabilitate damaged infrastructure to support lasting effects and save lives. Just recently, Action Against Hunger installed a comprehensive filtration and pumping system in Ziwani Village, located is in Tana River County, Kenya.
Because of The Republic of Tea's connection to the vital importance of clean water, we are proud to partner with Action Against Hunger through the development of our Sip for Clean Water initiative with Hibiscus WatermelonTea Bags and Hibiscus Watermelon Iced Tea One Cuppa™. After all, water is essential to life and for making a cup of tea (you can't enjoy one without it!). We strive to encourage our Citizens (customers) to live life Sip by Sip and to lend a hand to those in need because we depend on one another for the well-being of the whole.
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LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University is spending $200,000 to make it easier for emergency crews by finally giving street addresses to campus buildings.
The move follows last summer's opening of a consolidated 911 dispatch center for Ingham County. University officials say they realized they'd be relying on dispatchers who were less familiar with the whereabouts of various named buildings.
In response, the university began giving more than 500 buildings addresses.
The main costs of the project were for changing building and street signs.
The Lansing State Journal says that north of Mount Hope Road, the addresses follow the block numbers in East Lansing. To the south, they follow the numbering system of the adjoining Lansing streets.
Spartan Stadium's address is 325 W. Shaw Lane.
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- Suspect arrested in deadly MSU stabbing
- Craft's 21 lead No. 18 OSU past No. 4 MSU, 68-60
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
There are literally endless ways businesses, personalities, civic leaders, and others utilize marketing and public relations. By way of offering some practical and humorous advice, understand this: Everything involved in good marketing and PR can be related back to rock n' roll. To wit…

 1. Play with your heart, not your head. Far too often, marketing and PR practitioners fall into the trap of over-thinking, over-analyzing, and over-just-about-everything in an attempt to implement or develop a campaign. So often, organizations and practitioners will laboriously fret (get it?) over every conceivable outcome and focus on tactical minutia, rather than looking at the big picture. Worse still, they'll fail to see something beautiful in its simplicity that would actually work.

 Yes, it's important to be prepared up front, but in looking at your organization, find what will make your customers (the listening audience) passionate and want to sing along with your tune. Stop focusing inward and think outward.

 2. The show must go on. Things happen: The drummer shows up late, six people and your mom are the only ones in attendance, etc. Similarly, no matter how much you plan for an event, a grand opening, publicity, or even desired outcomes, rarely does everything go exactly as planned.

 Good pros aren't thrown for a loop when something outside of their control transpires. Whatever happens, have a back-up and be prepared.

 3. Know when to hire a manager and outside professionals. Sometimes, being a good musician (having a great company or product) simply isn't enough. Hiring outside marketing professionals, just like hiring a lawyer or accountant, is a prudent move.

 Some businesses try to do their own marketing and public relations. The result is usually unintegrated programs, poorly written and self-centered articles and press releases, and Websites that look like they were developed by your cousin Tony's teenage son. A good agency will save you money, not cost you. It will bring hard work, fresh ideas, and creativity, and also bring to bear all these nifty tools and expertise not afforded to most businesses.

 And if you are an internal marketing and public relations pro, don't think hiring outside expertise makes you look bad. Quite the opposite, actually. A good producer can make a good song great, so count on the experts and let them do their job.

 4. You broke a string during the song. Remember, it's only one song of an entire set, an entire show, and possibly even an entire tour. Put things into perspective and refer back to rule number two. Just grab your second guitar or replace the string while you're drummer does his solo (it's called a distraction). Rarely will one single instant or tactic that may have to be changed affect the overall outcome.

 Also, keep in mind sometimes hitting the "wrong chord" or playing the "wrong note" can lead to a much better song or outcome. Never be so rigid in your thinking you believe there can't be a better way, or a serendipitous mistake can't make a program as a whole even better.

 5. We've got to play these kinds of places first. It's amazing how centric most companies and CEOs see their importance in the marketplace. No matter the size of the company or the arena in which it plays, all too often they expect to be on par with the Microsofts, IBMs, or Procter & Gambles of the world. They're amazed CNN isn't interested in devoting 30 minutes to talking about how amazing and brilliant this company or this CEO are. They refuse to do interviews in the Cincinnati Enquirer because they'd rather hold out for USA Today.

 You see, you have to play a lot of dirtball clubs and bars before you get to play Madison Square Garden. It takes time to build a solid following, and also takes time to develop and create programs that will be most attractive to a journalist and media outlet.

 A good agency or practitioner can work with an organization to find what is most likely to pique the interest of the media and how they can most likely secure coverage—regularly.

 6. Good publicity doesn't necessarily mean good attendance. A band can be on the cover of music magazines and newspapers, did live TV and radio interviews, have press kits, and do photo shoots, but none of this guarantees a packed house. You know what does? Hard work, practice, and a helluva show.

 In business, nothing is going to make up for a bad experience by the customer. Call it brand operational dissonance, where the ads and smarmy PR guy say one thing, but the person behind the counter is rude and disinterested. Operations, your customer service, and honestly, the expertise of your people or the novelty of your new product is still going to be key. Find good insights. Test and retest with marketing research and secret shoppers in your specific target audience.

 7. Passion can make up for talent. Just ask KISS: They've never claimed to be great musicians, but they certainly are amazing entertainers. You can feel the love for what they do, witness how hard they work, and experience the passion they have for their fans (your target audience) and their music (their product). Not so coincidentally, they're second only to The Beatles in number of gold-certified albums.

 This job is a paycheck…I'm too good for that task…it's not my job. That kind of attitude is a killer in business. Again, people are smart and know when you're faking it. Not every idea will be a winner, but what's important is you practice your passion and surround yourself with talented people.

 8. Practice! There is no substitute. They say amateurs practice until they get it right, but professionals practice until they can't get it wrong—i.e., it just becomes second nature. You must work with your team over and over and over again. Rehearse your speech, your movements, your key messages, and your interviews.

 Marketing is not necessarily a good place for trial and error. Keep things simple, do what you know and do it better than anyone within the context of what you're trying to do. Should you shred a lead guitar solo during a slow ballad just because you can? Clearly not. Understand how you and your expertise fits in to make the whole greater than the individual parts, then work together in the many facets of your organization or your marketing program to create a comprehensive and leveraged program.

 9. What comes after four? One. With marketing and public relations, it is a process that involves upfront research, assessment, strategic communications and implementation, and finally an evaluation. A good business and a good marketer will constantly find ways to make something work better, work smarter, and more efficiently. If what you're doing isn't working, don't keep doing it because "the plan" says so. If the strategy is solid but the tactics are not working as expected, don't be afraid to improve upon that process.

 Constantly measure and evaluate based on set key performance indicators, such as traffic, impressions, sales, leads, and a host of other measurable objectives. Use unique URLs to track the efficacy of a given advertisement, direct mail, or publicity endeavor. Utilize your tracking services and survey programs with clients and customers. Set your benchmarks at the beginning, run the program well, evaluate, then make it better.

 10. Turn it up! If life is a radio, turn it to 10. Have fun and enjoy what you do, and do your best on each program, each event, each time. Look for fresh ideas and never be afraid to get a "no" from a client, a reporter or a sales prospect. If you never give someone a chance to say "no," they'll never have an opportunity to say "yes." Take time to learn and be positively influenced and impacted by everyone around you. The number 10 is sometimes analogous to perfect, but understand everything will rarely be perfect—marketing and public relations is a process, and should be treated as such.

 11. There's no 11 in music. Unless you play for Spinal Tap, that is. Rock on.

 Rodger Roeser, APR, is the president of the integrated buzz marketing, social media, and public relations firm Eisen Management Group. The company is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, with branch offices in Greater Cincinnati. For more information, visit  www.eisenmanagementgroup.com.


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Don't call it an xA. A badge on its butt clearly says xD. Nonetheless, anyone who remembers the rounder version of the bean-and-box duo that launched Scion in the U.S. will be hard pressed to see the xD as anything but a replacement for the xA.
The two cars are close in size. The length of the xD has increased a mere 0.6 inch over the xA, and the width has gone up 1.2 inches. The xD shares its underpinnings and 96.9-inch wheelbase (up 3.6 inches over the xA.) with the three-door Toyota Yaris. The three-pod instrument cluster from the Yaris is familiar as well, but the interior plastics are more upscale in the Scion.
The good news, at least for the lead-footed, is that the engine has not been carried over from either the xA or Yaris. The xD is fitted with a 1.8-liter inline-four from the Toyota parts bin. In this application, it makes 128 horsepower and 125 pound-feet of torque, improvements of 25 horses and 24 pound-feet over the xA, and it's good for a 7.9-second 0-to-60 time. We didn't test an xA, but it had a similar weight and an identical powertrain to the first-generation xB that required 9.6 seconds for the 0-to-60 run.
Another feature not carried over from the xA to the xD is the chuckable, fun nature of the first-generation Scions. Some of the loss of this fun is probably due to the increase in curb weight. The xD is about 200 pounds heavier than the xA., a forgivable amount considering the 582-pound increase the xB has undergone. In exchange for that extra weight, the xD feels more solid than the xA.. Its doors close with a reassuring thunk, and bumps don't rattle through the cabin.
But similar to the xB we tested in August, the xD is more boring than its predecessor. The steering, for example, is more isolated, lacking feel to the point of numbness. The same goes for the soft suspension, which is good for a modest 0.76 g on the skidpad and plowing understeer around real-world corners. In short, parent company Toyota has done the same thing to the xD that it had done to the xB: made it competent, composed, and mostly dull. In other words, they've turned it into a Toyota.
But hold on a second. The xD still looks, well, interesting. It's a polarizing design, but in a good way, since individuality is hard to come by in this price segment. The interior and the exterior can be customized with dealer accessories. Anyone over 25, though, should stick with the basic stereo or go two steps up to the navigation system.
The mid-level stereo and its multifunction knob were pure frustration to everyone in the C/D barracks except for our youngest part-timers, who were keen on the programmable OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display. The stereo upgrade does not improve the speakers, which lack clarity.
Cargo space behind the rear seats, at 11 cubic feet, is down a foot from the xA's. With the rear seats folded, the xD's 36 cubic feet of storage bests the xA's by four. The rear seats also recline for more comfort or slide forward to squeeze in space without folding. But here the Honda Fit plays the spoiler, with greater cargo capacity and more-versatile cargo space.
The xD looks a lot less boring than it is. That, combined with the multitude of accessories Scion offers for owners to individualize their cars, should be enough for some people. We just wish Toyota would remember that cars can be fun.
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 5-door hatchback
PRICE AS TESTED: $16,543 (base price: $15,130)
ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 16-valve inline-4, aluminum block and head, port fuel injection
Displacement: 110 cu in, 1798cc
Power (SAE net): 128 bhp @ 6000 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 125 lb-ft @ 4400 rpm
TRANSMISSION: 5-speed manual
Wheelbase: 96.9 in Length: 154.7 in Width: 67.9 in Height: 60.0 in
Curb weight: 2611 lb
Zero to 60 mph: 7.9 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 26.5 sec
Street start, 5-60 mph: 8.4 sec
Standing ü-mile: 16.4 sec @ 85 mph
Top speed (governor limited): 118 mph
Braking, 70-0 mph: 175 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad: 0.76 g
EPA city driving: 27 mpg
C/D observed: 31 mpg


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Electronic cigarettes are an $80 billion industry one local company is cashing in on, while at the same time helping wean smokers off traditional cigarettes.
Just ask John Johnson, who's a richer man than he was two months ago. His switch to electronic cigarettes has saved him $155 so far, but more importantly, he says that after smoking for 38 years, it's given him his health back.
"I tried the patch, I tried the gum, I even tried this program that was offered to us by my job, and nothing worked," Johnson said. "I mean, I still had that urge."
He is one of many people quitting traditional tobacco and turning instead to electronic cigarettes, which have become hugely popular among folks trying to quit smoking. They're a new product, but national sales have doubled every year since 2008.
Local company Vapor Nine has seen that growth.
"A lot of people are switching over from smoking regular cigarettes to vaping instead," said Jeffrey Woods, of Vapor Nine. "It's a lot healthier. You're not getting carcinogens, you're not getting the tar."
The company has one store in Riverside and another opening at the beach. It plans to have a total of 50 stores within five years. Apparently, business is booming, and they're getting rich because its cheap.
The smokeable nicotine vapor is inexpensive to make, and for the buyer, the electronic cigarettes cost a fraction of what a carton would cost.
"Every two days I take $5 and I put it in my piggy bank, and I will see my savings at the end of the year," Johnson said.
Inside is nicotine, vegetable oil and flavoring mixed with a vaporizer. Woods said there are no carcinogens or tar. Doctors say smokers still have some diminished lung capacity, but overall, Johnson says, it's a better option than the real thing.
"I'm at that stage of it being more or less psychological, and my jogging has increased, my stamina has increased," Johnson said.
The healthiest option is simply not smoking.
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MSI DR8-A: The Plextor 708A's little brotherby Kristopher Kubicki on 4/7/2004 11:05 PM EST
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jonahXP - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link"Before our 8x dual DVD roundup..."
When will this article be online? I'm looking forward to reading it before I buy a DVD burner. Reply
richardkenward - Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - linkI bought one of these drives in the UK a month ago and had nothing but trouble from the start and MSI were no help. On Verbatum data life CD's it starts writing about 1cm from the centre. I write image files on this writer and want them to be read on both PC's and Macs. The CD's have been unreliable on the PC's and failed on the Mac...well only a few images open then one will totally lock it up. The write veridfication always shows up errors. A trial DVD write was sucesssful but took perhaps an hour to complete!
Tried a TDK R74 CD and the write started in the centre but the image files opened sooo slowly on the MSI drive, and the CD was not seen at all on the Mac! BTW latest firmware was installed and no improvement seen.
Supplier has sent a replacement and much the same result. Has suggested that I need to update the Chipset on the M board and install SP 4 inplace of 3 on the win2k computer I am using with the MSI drive. Surely this should not be necessary? BTW this box has been running a PlextorW2410TA perfectly for ages, and was only changed to get the facility to burn DVD's.
Thanks for reading. Any help would be appreciated. Reply
Ian@CDRlabs - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - linkYou had it finished back in February? Why the wait? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - linkLan,
We had the review finished before the 130D firmware came out. We have a nice sized roundup coming up with the MSI retested at the new firmware.
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Ian@CDRlabs - Friday, April 09, 2004 - linkAfter reading it over, I have a couple of other comments.
While MSI claims that the DR8-A supports 99 minute discs, it really doesn't. It can recognize discs up to 93:58 in size and overburn to about that limit as well.
Kristopher you also make it sound like the NEC 2500A cannot write to 4x DVD+R media at 8x. It can.. just not as well as some drives, like the DR8-A.
Any reason why you didn't use the 130D firmware? Reply
Ian@CDRlabs - Friday, April 09, 2004 - linkViRGE brings up a good point. However, the error correction HD-Burn uses is not CIRC (nor is it overburning). It's a more efficient algorythm that requires less disc space for error correction info. Even then, I do have to agree with some of the people at CD Freaks. The quality of the written data is questionable with some media. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Friday, April 09, 2004 - linkVirge: Youre not really halving the error correction, youre halving the tolerance for error. However, this isnt much different than people who overburn their CDs either. In some cases it may make more sense.
Whether you want to use it or not is entirely determined by the user of course. For noncritical data, it is a nice convienence.
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MadAd - Thursday, April 08, 2004 - linkI take it HD-Burn disks will only play in compliant drives and not in any old cd-rom? I cant seem to find the answer on any of the links given.
#3 ... Perhaps half the error correction wouldnt be so bad if we are talking about cds of mp3s? Reply
ViRGE - Thursday, April 08, 2004 - linkI don't think it's really a good idea to call HD-Burn a good feature on this drive. Why? Take a look at this post from CD-Freaks(http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/6823)
HD-Burn will just *halve* the pit length on the CD, so double the data (and effectively half the error correction).
Now I don't know about you, but CDs are bad enough as is as far as integrity goes. I'm not about to try to halve the error correction, even for another 700MB of space. Reply
kuk - Thursday, April 08, 2004 - linkI'm afraid of Mr. CD-R ... I think he'll eat my CD collection at night. Reply
OCedHrt - Thursday, April 08, 2004 - linkOn page 2 you say the access time is one of the highest but in the chart on page 8 it is actually one of the lowest? Reply


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Triumph's chef, South Carolina native Jonathan Doar, loves playful platings: One evening, his special was a (deconstructed) pig's head: ears, cheeks, "head cheese," lardo.
Around the corner from Triumph (same sidewalk, same building) is a restaurant called Roaring Bowl (516 First Ave. N.), featuring a concept called shabu-shabu. This is a Japanese style of meat fondue: You swirl very thin slices of Kurabota pork or Wagyu beef in hot broth for a few seconds until it's cooked. In addition to the meat, there's a big platter of vegetables and a selection of dipping sauces. No flames; induction cooktops are built into the tables.
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Owner Sean Kaywood discovered shabu-shabu on his travels to Japan and figured it was the perfect interactive cuisine for Seattle.
The property was once home to a QFC, now redeveloped by Seattle real estate mogul Bob Burkheimer and a California outfit, Essex Property Trust. If this sounds familiar, it's perhaps because Burkheimer was also behind the redevelopment of the QFC on Broadway.
At any rate, no fewer than four eateries are slated to be part of the 300-unit Expo project. In addition to the three already mentioned, there's Agave, a Mexican spot, also scheduled to open in late March.
On Capitol Hill, Liz Dunn (who developed the Melrose Market complex) is readying a new spot called Chophouse Row — restaurants, bars and housing at 1424 11th Ave. Ericka Burke of Volunteer Park Cafe will become the anchor tenant with two stores: One spot will be called Chop Shop Cafe & Bar; the other, Chop Shop Juice & Provisions.
Another tenant will be Kurt Timmermeister (former owner of Café Septième; current owner of Kurtwood Farms on Vashon Island), opening his first retail outlet: a tiny cheese shop.
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Elsewhere around town, these newcomers: Cassis, the charming French bistro run by Jef Fike, which closed its outpost on Capitol Hill a few years back, returns in fine form — to West Seattle; the address is 2820 Alki Ave. S.W.
Belltown's newest watering hole is Twisted Pasty, the pasty being a half-held savory pie much loved in England and Australia. It takes over the space vacated by Henry & Oscar's Supper Club (2525 Fourth Ave.); the operators are a mother-and-daughter duo Cassie and Christie Ulrich.
Pioneer Square's getting a lot of new eateries, including the eagerly awaited London Plane, now serving elegant lunches in the former bank building at 300 Occidental Ave. S.
Also in Pioneer Square, Il Terrazzo Carmine (411 First Ave. S.) is planning a new storefront, Intermezzo, on the First Avenue side of the Merrill Place building.
(Side note: Some 20 years ago, Il Terrazzo "traded" locations with Duke Moscrip, who had a chowder house in Madison Park. Nothing is left of either spot today: Carmine's became Nishino; Duke swapped Pioneer Square for Alki.)
In the meantime, Blind Pig Bistro (2238 Eastlake Ave. E.) is expanding into the neighboring space occupied by a teriyaki shop, which will be named Babirusa.
In Ballard, the former Belle Clementine (5451 Leary Way N.W.), will become Porkchop & Co.
And a final farewell to Marché, originally known as Campagne, in the courtyard of the Inn at the Market (86 Pine St.). It's is calling it quits after a quarter-century.
RONALD HOLDEN is a restaurant writer and consultant who blogs at Cornichon.org and Crosscut.com. To comment on this column, write to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Okay, but in that agreement I have to protect something. But what exactly do I protect? Should have the whole idea on paper?
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Thanks, that was really helpful. The reason I asked is that I cant develop the idea by myself so Ill have to hire someone to help and thats why I want to protect myself.
Perhaps you can split up the project into several modules, and organise the development so that no single person has a detailed understanding of all the modules, apart from yourself?
This is how many products are designed and manufactured. Various components are outsourced to one or more factories in lower-cost countries, and key technology and final assembly might be controlled at a single trusted home base under tight control, making it harder for each factory to just 'paint it green' and produce their own complete knock-off product on the side.
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SANFORD, Fla. - The state's responses have been released on Monday just hours before Tuesday's hearing for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman charged with shooting and killing Trayvon Martin.
According to the documents, Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda writes that the defense's motions are designed to defend Zimmerman's reputation and not to seek evidence, as they were filed.
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De la Rionda also said the Martin family attorneys, Benjamin Crump, Natalie Jackson, Ben Parks, are working for Trayvon Martin's family, not the State Attorney.
"No matter how often, how viciously, or how vociferously Defense Council tries to attack Mr. Crump and make him a feature of this case, he is not the issue," De la Rionda writes in the motion.
The state is also getting a copy of the recording of Witness 8's interview with Crump. Witness 8 was the girl Martin was communicating with on his cellphone the night of the incident.
Mark O'Mara filed the documents on Friday, in which they asked for no GPS restriction on Zimmerman, to allow Zimmerman to speak to witnesses and former neighbors and to interview more witnesses.
De la Rionda writes that in O'Mara's motions, there are statements that are "incorrect, incomplete and misleading."
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It is said history is written by the winners, but who would have ended up winning if history had taken a slightly different turn?
In 1979, a close 24-19 victory at LSU convinced Bobby Bowden he could make Florida State into a big-time program. What might have been at LSU, after Charles McClendon retired, had LSU lured Bowden to Baton Rouge?
In 1986, Steve Spurrier craved the LSU job but was spurned in favor of then LSU defensive coordinator Mike Archer. It seems inconceivable to think that Spurrier would have stayed at LSU for decades, but how many tormented seasons in the 1980s and 90s might LSU have avoided if Spurrier had come and set Tiger football on a different path?
It is against such a backdrop that we consider a Miami radio interview with Nick Saban this week, in which the former LSU and Miami Dolphins coach discussed the Dolphins' failure to sign Drew Brees after the 2005 season and his much-criticized departure from South Florida to Alabama.
It has been widely reported for years that Dolphins team doctors examined Brees (then with the San Diego Chargers) and determined that his surgically repaired throwing shoulder was far too iffy to risk a big contract. Saban, however, said the Dolphins did indeed make an offer to Brees, but that he then failed his physical.
Brees, of course, passed his physical with the New Orleans Saints. Both quarterback and shoulder have stayed in the passing lane ever since.
The Dolphins signed Daunte Culpepper instead. The resulting 6-10 campaign was the only losing season of Saban's career, one that left him looking for an exit strategy out of South Florida that he found behind Alabama's gilded door.
The possibilities had Brees passed the physical — or if the micro-managing, dictatorial Saban said hang the physical and signed Brees anyway — are enormous.
Would Brees have been as successful with the Dolphins as he has been with the Saints? Would Miami have won a Super Bowl with Brees throwing and Saban coaching, maybe even the very same Super Bowl Brees and the Saints won in Miami three seasons ago?
And, from an LSU perspective, would Saban have ever left the Dolphins if he won a championship with Brees as his quarterback? Who would Alabama have found to replace Mike Shula after the 2006 season? No one as accomplished as Saban, to be sure, and almost certainly no one who'd now have the Crimson Tide playing for its third BCS title in four seasons. How much more dominant could the Tigers have been with a diminished Alabama occupying the SEC West?
You can play the what-if game from now until this year's Super Bowl and get nothing for the trouble, except ulcers. Better to say history is what it was always supposed to be, and remember that USC could have finished just ahead of LSU in the 2003 BCS standings, or that the Indianapolis Colts could have recovered that third-quarter onside kick.


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Kings Island in Mason in southwest Ohio said Tuesday it brought down the coaster's 218-foot lift hill two months after work began.
The ride opened in 2000 and was billed as the world's tallest and fastest wooden coaster with a signature loop, but was idled repeatedly.
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BURLY thug Ricky Irving-Chatfield is back behind bars for 18 months after admitting assaulting his fifth different partner.
The 33-year-old, who had only just completed a domestic violence course, caused the woman to briefly pass out when he again resorted to strangling his victim.
Colin Meeke, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court that Irving-Chatfield had known his latest partner for about 11 years.
They only started a relationship about a year ago with the 5ft 2ins mum and six footer moving in together last October.
Mr Meeke said things went well to start with but turned sour following a night out on Saturday, May 3 this year.
They had been out for lunch and then went shopping when she said he had been in an 'edgy' mood and 'jolly, but a bit snappy'.
But when they were out in the evening he got jealous when she hugged a man she knew through her time in the Territorial Army.
"He seems to have taken umbrage, took her by the hand and said 'We're going now,' and took her out," Mr Meeke said. "In the small hours of the morning he said to her 'You know what you did? You cheated on me.' She said it wasn't true."
Shortly after he came at her again, jabbing his finger as he spoke and, in fear, she pushed him.
He then pushed her to the floor and punched her to the right eye saying 'You're lying, you cheated,' which she again told him wasn't true.
Irving-Chatfield then grabbed her hair and slammed her head against a wall, causing her to cough up some blood.
He then punched her three more times and put his hand round her throat and started to squeeze causing her to stop breathing for a few seconds and briefly black out.
Mr Meeke said there was then a pause in the violence as he told her she should phone the police.
"He ended up sitting down with that self pity often seen by people who abuse women.
"He said 'You know I love you, you pushed me to it.' He said he knew then that he was going to get into trouble."
The violence then started again and he banged her head against the wall causing her to flee down the garden and call for help on her phone.
When the police arrived they found a note he had written for her saying 'There is nothing I can say for my actions, I am so sorry. I know I will pay for this'.
Irving-Chatfield, of Gays Place, Stratton, pleaded guilty to one charge of actual bodily harm.
He was jailed for three years in 2010 for assaulting the mother of his child, knocking her unconscious for 20 minutes after stamping on her head.
At that hearing the judge was told he had five previous convictions for assaulting three different former partners.
Martin Wiggins, defending, said his client realised he was facing a jail term for what he had done.
During the relationship he had not been violent but they were having money troubles, he had stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication and was not used to drinking.
Jailing him, Judge Tim Mousley QC said: "I am satisfied you acted out of jealousy. She was hugging a male friend and you accused her of cheating on you. This was a prolonged and vicious assault, it is so serious only an immediate prison sentence can be imposed."


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So the bad news is, Jose Reyes is property of the Miami Marlins. The good news?
The earth hasn't crashed into the sun?
No, the good news (or, more appropriately, the somewhat silver lining) is that Sandy Alderson is in a position he's familiar with. He needs to build a team on an extremely limited budget. It would be foolish to blame him for not spending money. No one asks a homeless man why he doesn't buy tailored suits.
But he does know what he's doing. Imagine if Omar Minaya were in charge of doing more with less- he'd sign Alex Cora to play second base and shortstop simultaneously.
So what is on Sandy's shopping list? According to Jon Heyman, it consists of a closer, a setup man, a backup utility infielder, two backup outfielders and a catcher. As of today, Alderson's been told he has $10-15 million with which to do it.
But remember: assuming Mike Pelfrey and Angel Pagan return, that money needs to go a long way. They'd have eight players set to earn approximately $70 million: Johan Santana, David Wright, Jason Bay, R.A. Dickey, D.J. Carrasco, Tim Byrdak, Pelfrey and Pagan.
Even if we assume that the Mets utilize league-minimum salaries on the following: Daniel Murphy, Jon Niese, Ruben Tejada, Bobby Parnell, Ike Davis, Josh Thole, Dillon Gee, Pedro Beato and Lucas Duda- another nine players a around $4.5 million to assume first base, second base, shortstop, right field, catcher, two starting rotation slots and two bullpen slots- that means that $10-15 million needs to cover nine remaining roster slots.
Put another way, Heath Bell wasn't walking through that door.
Accordingly, Free Agent Fit will now try and evaluate those free agents the Mets are rumored to be interested in through that framework. So no Jimmy Rollins, no C.J. Wilson. (And at those prices, probably for the best,anyway.)
I suggest, as you play Hot Stove League in your head, that you do the same.


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Associated Press of Pakistan - September 6- 2008
Adnan Oktar: If we take a brick nothing will happen; even if we take the second brick nothing will happen. But; if we band together all of the bricks, parget them, decorate them, and cover them with hardwood, we would make a palace. Now, the Islamic World is like that, it is disorganized and there are full of bricks. As it is like that; the art, civilization, beauty, aesthetic, and wisdom don't emerge. When we unite and be together, act collectively, the beauty would emerge. That's why this unity should be advocated formally and instantly among the Islamic countries… There is nobody to be the peacekeeper in the area. I mean, there is a reasonable mind, isn't there? There is a consistent mind, the most reasonable decisions are taken, the most cosistent results are achieved – decisions can be taken in favor of and for the benefit of both sides. However, it doesn't happen like that; decisions are taken out of countenance of the both sides. Both sides are disturbed at the end and such disorder emerge at last. The Turkish - Islamic Union will be the elder brother of the area and the world. This is a spiritual sacrifice system, not a self-interest system.
Gulf Today – November 2- 2008Adnan Oktar: This is a mission that has been undertaken by Turkey since past times . We saw this during the rule of the all governments. Turkey always undertakes the leadership of the Turkish – Islamic World virtually.Turkey evokes this everywhere.Turkey always shows the mission of brotherhood implicitly or explicitly in anywhere. TURKEY STEPS IN ALL KINDS OF DISAGREEMENT. For instance; Turkey stepped in, in the formation of the confederation of Caucasia. When there is a disagreement between the other countries Turkey has the position of being the "peacekeeper". Not only in the Natural Gas Pipe Line Project but also in the Petrol Pipe Line Project and in all other projects Turkey's leadership is seen very clearly. Moreover; Turkey does it virtually now without doing any official explanation , and Turkey continues to do this and develops.
Radikal, 26 Şubat 2009
In the statements that he made to the English The Guardian newspaper; The President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that, Iran wants help from Turkey to repair the alliance between Iran and USA, and he explained that, he conveyed this request to the former USA President Bush and said " We are ready to this".
The newspaper wrote those; " The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated to The Guardian that; as a probable prelude to the reunion of Iran and USA; he explained that he wants help from Turkey about breaking the thirty years of conflict between Iran and USA."
Sabah – February, 26- 2009
Prime minister: Iran told us to be the "Peacekeeper"2010-07-06 20:24:48


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HOUSTON - Shoppers hit the stores the day after Christmas, but they had different missions in mind.
Some people were looking for deals on Christmas decorations while others were making returns or exchanges.
Memorial City Mall was just as packed Wednesday as it was on Christmas Eve -- the only big change was that Santa was no longer there.
"Returning things and just looking for more stuff with Christmas money," Brittany Hall said.
Stores said they're seeing fewer returns as the years go by because so many people choose to give gift cards instead of actual merchandise. With signs like "everything must go" and "70 to 80 percent off" at some stores, many shoppers are spending the money on those gift cards.
If you are returning an item, it's best to have the purchase receipt, or a gift receipt, to get the full amount paid back. At some stores, returns made without a receipt will be given credit for the lowest amount the item was offered for in recent months.
If you're headed out to the stores, pack your patience before you get there. Finding a parking spot may be tough and the lines have been long all day.
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