Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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If you have a Safeway store in your area you may just want to head over there tomorrow, Wednesday 1/30 where you can pick up a FREE 2-liter bottle of 7-UP, Sunkist Ten, Canada Dry Ten or A&W Ten!? Just load the?Just 4 U?coupon to your card.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

"For those looking for pilot career information" - BANYAN Education ...

?For those looking for pilot career information, you can actually find some very insightful information on many of today?s online blogs. These blogs provide information about what it takes to begin a career as a pilot. This includes the required skills and educational requirements. Another good source for getting information about pilot careers are online discussion forums. Many of these forums provide informative discussions between pilot students and former career pilots. These former pilots are able to provide answers to commonly asked questions. They also provide other members valuable information based on their own personal experience. This type of information can be very helpful to those who have major questions and concerns about becoming a pilot.?



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Green Blog: An Ecolabel for McDonald's Fish Fare

McDonald?s has signed on with the Marine Stewardship Council to show that the fish it serves is caught in an environmentally responsible manner. While the fish is not changing, the deal will make the council?s distinctive blue logo familiar to tens of millions of Americans for the first time.

The world?s biggest fast-food company announced last week that its sourcing of fish for the United States market, which is entirely wild-caught Alaska pollock, had been certified by the council, perhaps the best-known organization promoting sustainable fishing around the world.

The most tangible effect of the sustainability imprimatur is that, beginning next month, Filet-O-Fish wrappers sold in the burger giant?s 14,000 American restaurants will display the Marine Stewardship Council label. McDonald?s also announced on Thursday that it would roll out a new promotional menu item in February called Fish McBites ? think chicken nuggets, only made from pollock ? that would also carry the council?s label.

Judging from photos like this one, it will be impossible to eat a McDonald?s fish product without getting reassurance that your meal is not harming the seas.

McDonald?s did not have to do much to comply with the council?s requirements. Susan Forsell, McDonald?s vice president for sustainability, said that under the company?s own in-house sustainable fisheries program, which began 10 years ago, 100 percent of McDonald?s fish is already purchased from fisheries that have received stewardship council certification.

In Europe, where McDonald?s products rely on both the Alaskan pollock and sustainable European fisheries, the council?s logo already appears on the company?s packaging, Ms. Forsell said.

While McDonald?s packaging in Asia does not currently carry the label, she said, obtaining certification there would not present a problem because McDonald?s fish products there are also sourced from sustainable fisheries.

Beyond burnishing the company?s green credentials, the deal bolsters the image of the Marine Stewardship Council, which has already entered the consciousness of some American consumers through arrangements with Kroger, Costco, Supervalu and Wal-Mart.

Mike DeCesare, a spokesman for the council, said that it receives a 0.5 percent licensing fee on wholesale fish sales when the label is used by a partner.

He declined to provide additional details, saying that partner data was confidential. But McDonald?s sold more than 200 million Filet-O-Fish sandwiches last year in the United States alone, so the deal will probably work out to be a substantial windfall for the organization.

How good the deal is for the fishery, or sustainability in general, is less clear. As I?ve reported in the past, many fisheries scientists are skeptical about the value of the Marine Stewardship Council?s stamp of approval. The organization, founded in 1995 to provide a market-based solution to overfishing, assesses fisheries on the basis of three major criteria: the quality of stock management and the health of the stock and the ecosystem that supports it.

Some of the council?s decisions have met with wide criticism, including the certification of a fish called the New Zealand hoki that McDonald?s serves in some Filet-O-Fish sandwiches outside the United States. The council has also certified as sustainable fisheries for which scientists say the data is so scarce that any management plan is pure guesswork, including those of the Antarctic krill and the Antarctic and Patagonian toothfish.

Many conservationists, including groups like the World Wildlife Foundation, one of its founders, continue to support the council, and some argue that in the absence of straightforward regulation, it is better than nothing. The Marine Stewardship Council says its own analysis shows that the fish stocks it certifies have proved vastly less likely to be overexploited than uncertified stocks.

The Alaskan pollock fishery, the largest food fishery in the United States, is said to be worth about $1 billion. The majority of the catch is turned into fish sticks and surimi, in which the fish is processed into products like imitation crab. The stock is also, the National Marine Fisheries Service likes to say, considered one of the world?s best-managed major fisheries.

As if to prove that one person?s sustainability is another?s catastrophe, native fishermen decried the McDonald?s announcement almost before the ink was dry. They argue that the commercial pollock fishery is responsible for the waste of thousands of king salmon each year as bycatch.

An earlier version of this post carried an illustration of a Marine Stewardship Council logo that is not precisely the label to be placed on McDonald?s fish packaging. As reflected above, the label also includes the words ?Certified Sustainable Food: MSC www.msc.org.?

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/an-ecolabel-for-mcdonalds-fish-fare/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Apple reportedly readying 128GB "Ultimate" iPad 4 for launch

Apple reportedly readying 128GB

No sooner was support for 128GB NAND flash storage capacities found in iOS 6 beta 5, than reports pop up saying Apple is readying 128GB "ultimate" versions of the iPad 4 for launch. The news come by way of Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac, who typically has excellent sources on imminent product releases.

We?ve gotten word from sources that Apple is preparing to release (in some fashion) a single, additional iPad model. This would be a new SKU for the current fourth-generation iPad with Retina display line. At this point, we do not have pricing information, so it is definitely difficult to pinpoint exactly what this new iPad model is.

The code names are listed as P101 Ultimate and P103 Ultimate. Gurman stresses that it's not a new iPad, or iPad 5, or anything like that, simply a new, higher capacity version of the current iPad 4, in both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + Cellular, and in both white and black.

In early 2008, Apple bumped the original iPhone from 8 to 16GB, so this type of new SKU launch isn't unprecedented. While it lacks the oomph of a completely new model, given that the iPad was refreshed in both March and October of 2012, it does at least give Apple something new on the market, and at 128GB, and presumably at the pricier end of the line-up, at the top of the market.

No word yet on 128GB versions of the iPad mini, or of the iPhone 5 or iPod touch 5.

Anyone compelled enough by big storage to consider a new purchase when/if he hit stores?

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Ice storm encases Midwest, heads east for start of work week

(Reuters) - A storm encased the U.S. Midwest in glistening ice on Sunday, forcing officials to cancel flights and closing roadways and threatening to tangle the start of the work week as freezing rains headed east.

Hundreds of churches across Iowa called off Sunday services as sidewalks were turned to sheets of ice by the storm that meteorologists said had covered the Midwest in about a half-inch (13mm) of ice by midday.

Flights in and out of Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Louis were grounded on icy runways.

The National Weather Service issued a freezing rain advisory for Chicago and the surrounding area for Sunday until 9 p.m. CST (0300 GMT Monday), when temperatures were expected to warm up enough to make it just rain. Until then, the NWS warned of dangerous conditions for driving and even walking.

"Pockets of sleet, freezing rain and freezing drizzle are possible farther east late tonight into Monday morning from Buffalo, New York, to New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Roanoke, Virginia," meteorologist Brian Edwards said on Accuweather.com.

Slick roadways were reported from South Sioux City, Nebraska, to Iowa, where numerous crashes were reported, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. In Franklin County, Iowa, Interstate 35 was blocked by tractor trailers struggling to get a grip on treacherous surfaces.

"Instant icing of windshields and roadway surfaces (as well as driveways, sidewalks and parking lots) can be expected in the areas with freezing temperatures," the Iowa DOT said.

In Missouri, ramps to connecting Interstate 270, which circles the St. Louis area, to Interstate 70 were closed early Sunday morning because of ice, but were later reopened, said Marie Elliott, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Transportation.

(Additional reporting by Tim Bross in Missouri, Kay Henderson in Iowa and David Hendee in Nebraska; Editing by Edith Honan and Bill Trott)

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The Fourth International workshop on Ad hoc, sensor & Ubiquitous ...

The Third International workshop on Ad Hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (ASUC-2013)

In conjunction with WiMoN-2013

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July 13 ~ 15, 2013, Chennai, India.

Call for Papers

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???????????? ?The Fourth International workshop on Ad hoc, sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (ASUC-2013) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Ad Hoc & Ubiquitous computing. Current information age is witnessing a dramatic use of digital and electronic devices in the workplace and beyond. Ubiquitous Computing presents a rather arduous requirement of robustness, reliability and availability to the end user. Ad hoc, Sensor ?& Ubiquitous computing has received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life.

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Topic of Interest

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??? Authors are solicited to contribute to this workshop by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to

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Ad Hoc Computing

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  • Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems
  • Addressing and location management
  • Architectures, protocols, and algorithms
  • Data management issues
  • Distributed technology
  • Mobile ad hoc learning
  • Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks
  • Mobile agents for ad hoc networking
  • Network design and planning
  • Novel Architectures for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
  • Performance Analysis and Simulation of Protocols
  • Power-aware and energy-efficient designs
  • Quality of service
  • Resource allocation
  • Security and privacy
  • Self-configuring and self-healing schemes
  • Services and applications
  • Wireless & Mobile network Security
  • Wireless sensor network

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Sensor Networks

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  • Architectures, protocols and algorithms
  • Data allocation and information
  • Deployments and implementations
  • Embedded, network-oriented operating systems
  • Energy optimization
  • Hardware aspects of sensor design
  • Location management and placement
  • MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks Middleware and software tools
  • Modeling and Performance evaluation?
  • Radio Issues with other wireless/mobile systems
  • Resource allocation, services, QoS and fault tolerance
  • Scalability of wireless sensor networks
  • Security and dependability issues
  • Sensor circuits and devices
  • Software, applications and programming
  • Under water sensors and systems
  • Visualization of sensor data
  • Work models

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Ubiquitous Computing

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  • Architectural structure, design decisions and philosophies
  • Autonomic management of ubiquitous systems
  • Context and location awareness, context based and implicit computing
  • Distributed Computing
  • Ubicomp Human-computer Interaction for devices
  • Intelligent devices and environments
  • Internet Computing and Applications
  • Interoperability and large scale deployment
  • Middleware services and agent technologies
  • Personalized & special field applications
  • Security Issues and Applications
  • Service discovery mechanisms and protocols
  • Software infrastructures
  • System support infrastructures and services
  • Ubiquitous systems and trust
  • User interfaces and interaction models
  • Virtualization over networks of devices
  • Wearable computers and technologies
  • Wireless networking and mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
  • Wireless/mobile service management and delivery
  • Mobile Computing
  • Network Protocols & Wireless Communication

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Authors are invited to submit papers for the conference through submission system (Easy chair) by 14 February, 2013. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer (Confirmed). Selected papers from ASUC ? 2013, after further revisions, will be published in the International Journals (confirmed).

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Hard copy of the Springer Proceedings will be distributed during the Conference. The softcopy will be available on SpringerLink

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Selected papers from ASUC 2013, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journal.

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Important dates:

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??? Submission Deadline?? :? 14 February, 2013?

??? Authors Notification??? :? 20 April, 2013?

??? Final Manuscript Due? :? 1 May, 2013

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Video: Take a peek inside NYC's $95M ?mega mansion?

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Chevron explores Morocco oil, undeterred by Algeria crisis

Chevron has signed agreements with Morocco officials that give the US company rights to explore for oil in three offshore sites, Alic writes. Chevron and?other oil majors are hardly shaken by recent events in the North African Sahel, she adds, including the Algeria hostage crisis.

By Jen Alic,?Guest blogger / January 25, 2013

A Chevron gas pump is shown at a Chevron gas station in Encinitas, Calif. Chevron is working hard to expand its frontiers amid recent earnings declines, Alic writes.

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Chevron Corp (NYSE:CVX), one of the world?s four largest integrated companies, is now planning to explore for oil in Morocco?s deep waters in a deal that would give it a 75% stake in three concession areas.

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The oil majors are hardly shaken by recent events in the North African Sahel, including the spectacular hostage crisis last week at a BP-operated gas field in the remote Algerian Sahara.

Morocco will not be immune to the Sahel?s growing instability, but the Chevron deal?if it goes through?is an offshore deal, which presents less of a security threat to personnel and operations.?(Related Article:?Why This is All Libya's Fault)

Chevron has signed?agreements?with Morocco?s Offices National Des Hydrocarbures Et Des Mines that give the US company rights to explore for oil in three offshore sites covering some 11,300 square miles. Chevron would gain a 75% stake in the areas, while the remainder would go to the Moroccan government.?

Somali government arrests 3 over scholarship fraud

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ? Three officials have been arrested for mismanaging a scholarship scheme that sends Somali students to Turkey, Somalia's education minister said Saturday, a sign that the fledgling government is committed to fighting the corruption that contributes to the country's failed-state status.

Minister Maryan Qasim Arif said the officials were arrested for offering the scholarships to undeserving students. The officials include the ministry's former director general, who faced widespread accusations that he took bribes, Arif said.

"We are aware of the arrest of the ministry's former director general and two other persons after public complaints about fraud," Arif said.

A probe into the scam is under way, she said.

Ranked as the world's most corrupt country by Transparency International, Somalia is now recovering from decades of war and strife. Somalia held elections last year following the success of Somali and African forces in ousting Islamist extremists from the capital, Mogadishu, a city that is now coming to life for the first time in 20 years. The city government has repaired potholed streets and installed streetlights, and Western-style restaurants are opening, including near Mogadishu's beach front, where men and women swim together without fear of punishment from militants.

In a sign of the country's progress, the United States last week officially recognized Somalia's government for the first time in two decades. The U.S. hadn't recognized a Somali government since warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.

At his inauguration in September Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud vowed to fight official corruption and to create "an effective justice system" that serves all Somalis.

"I promise (that) my government will deliver a new democratic beginning," Mohamud said at the time.

The arrest of the education officials suggests that Mohamud's government will at least try to combat the kind of graft that, along with prolonged war, contributed to Somalia's reputation as a dysfunctional state.

In a similar case of suspected corruption, Somalia's chief justice has suspended three appellate court judges for unlawfully releasing a defendant charged with the killing of two foreigners who worked for the aid group Doctors Without Borders.

"They were demoted and suspended because they have released a criminal without due process," Chief Justice Aideed Ilko Hanaf said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The suspect, Ahmed Salad Hassan, was charged with the murder of Belgian Philippe Havet and Indonesian Andrias Karel Keiluhu inside the aid group's compound in Mogadishu in December 2011.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/somali-government-arrests-3-over-scholarship-fraud-124955960.html

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Can kids outgrow autism? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Is it possible for children to outgrow autism?

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Autism has always been considered a lifelong diagnosis, but a new study might just refute that claim.

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According to a study published recently in the?Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, some young children who were diagnosed as autistic might outgrow both their symptoms and their diagnosis as they get older. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health included children, teens, and young adults who were diagnosed as autistic as children but then moved off the autism spectrum as they grew older. ?

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For the study,?Dr. Deborah Fein from the University of Connecticut and her research team evaluated 34 children who had been diagnosed with autism in early childhood as well as 34 other children in their classes at school. These children were then compared with?another group of 44 children who were the same age and sex and had the same non-verbal IQ scores but were diagnosed as having "high-functioning" autism, in other words, they were less severely affected by their condition.

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Using both cognitive and observation tests, researchers found that children who were originally diagnosed as autistic no longer had distinguishable symptoms of the condition. These children showed no sign of problems with language, face recognition, communication or social interaction.

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So, did these children outgrow autism? It's possible, but researchers urge caution when interpreting these results. Another possibility is that the children had learned how to expertly compensate for their autistic symptoms.

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In either case, it's potentially good news for children who are diagnosed with autism, and the families who love them.

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Dana White?s video blog involves a frozen waterfall, a zipline and a cold shoulder

Check out Dana White's video blog, and ponder that he had to turn all of his waterfalls on so the pipes at his house wouldn't burst. Don't they insulate pipes in Las Vegas? Also, notice which fighter he doesn't say hello to before the UFC on Fox 6 press conference.

Enjoy, and don't forget to follow Cagewriter on Twitter for the latest from UFC on Fox 6. Today, it's Jon Jones' fan Q and A, and the weigh-ins.

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Attention shoppers: Another credit card fee is here

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It could soon cost you more to shop with a credit card at some stores. As of this Sunday, Jan. 27, merchants who accept credit cards issued by Visa and MasterCard will be allowed to add a service charge to the purchase price.

Visa and MasterCard had always prohibited merchants from doing this. They agreed to change the rules and allow the surcharge as part of the settlement of an antitrust suit brought by retailers.

The surcharge is supposed to equal the actual cost of processing the credit card transaction, which is typically 1.5 to 3 percent. Under the agreement, the fee is capped at 4 percent. The surcharge can vary based on the type of card. For example, it could be higher for a rewards card or premier card.

Merchants still cannot add a surcharge to debit card transactions.

The big question is: Will any stores do this? Should you worry about paying a credit card surcharge?

?We have discussed the settlement with many, many merchants, and not a single merchant we have spoken to plans to surcharge,? Craig Sherman, spokesman for the National Retail Federation (NRF), said in a statement. The NRF was not involved in the class action lawsuit.

NBC News contacted some of the country?s largest retailers. Wal-Mart,?Target, Sears and Home Depot said they have no plans to add a credit card surcharge.

Credit card surcharges are banned by law in 10 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas.

Visa and MasterCard have rules that require retailers to handle credit cards the same way in all of their stores across the country. That means a chain with stores in any of the 10 states where a surcharge is banned would not be able to have a surcharge at any of its stores.

The National Retail Federation points out that under terms of the settlement, a merchant who adds a surcharge to purchases on a Visa or MasterCard would have to do the same with American Express cards. But AMEX prohibits surcharge fees. So a merchant who accepts American Express as well as Visa/MasterCard would not be able to surcharge any of those cards.

?The bottom line is that very few retailers would be able to surcharge under the settlement, and that the vast majority don?t want to surcharge even if they could,? the NRF?s Sherman said.

Ed Mierzwinski, Director of Consumer Programs at U.S. PIRG agrees.

?In the brick-and-mortar world, no one who does any sort of volume business is going to want to surcharge because it will drive their customer crazy and slow down transactions,? Mierzwinski said.

In fact, most consumer advocates believe that except for some small retailers, a credit card surcharge is a non-issue in the short-term.

But Edgar Dworsky, founder of ConsumerWorld.org, worries that over time surcharges will gain traction.

?It?s predictable what?s going to happen,? he said. ?We?re at the top of the hill and we?re going to start going down that slippery slope.?

Dworsky points out that stores factor in the cost of processing credit cards when they price their merchandise. Charging for that again, he said, would be double-dipping, unless stores rolled back their prices ? which no one expects them to do.

?We shouldn?t have gotten to the point, but unfortunately because of the court settlement we have,? Dworsky told me. ?There?s no one standing up for consumers and saying that this is really bad.?

Dworsky points to Australia, where surcharging credit card use began in 2003. At first, few merchants charged the fee.? His research shows that approximately one-third of the sellers there ? including some hotels, supermarkets, department stores and utilities ? now charge extra to use a credit card.?

What about disclosures??
The advocacy group Consumer Action has published a booklet on credit card checkout fees. It warns shoppers to be on the lookout for these fees and advises them to express their dissatisfaction.?Customers shouldn?t stand for it,? said Ruth Susswein Consumer Action?s deputy director of national priorities. ?Our advice is to tell them you don?t like the fee and this makes you want to take your business elsewhere.?

The new rules from Visa and MasterCard require retailers who apply a credit card surcharge to post a notice at the store?s entrance. The exact percentage of the surcharge does not need to be disclosed until the point of sale. The customer receipt must list the amount of the surcharge.

Online stores with a surcharge will not be required to have a notice on the home page. They only need to alert shoppers about this when they reach the page where credit cards are first mentioned. In most cases, that means the final step of checkout when the purchase is being completed.

Not the end of this story?
The settlement that allows merchants to impose a surcharge is only preliminary. The court has yet to issue its final ruling in this case. That?s expected later this year.?

Once that happens, various retailers and business groups plan to challenge the settlement. That could drag into late 2014.

For now, the possibility that the settlement could be modified will probably keep most businesses of any size from instituting credit card fees.

?We?re not convinced this is going to be an issue,? Consumer Action?s Susswein told me. ?They may never do it, but as individual consumers we need to be aware.?

Herb Weisbaum is The ConsumerMan. Follow him on Facebook and Twitteror visit The ConsumerMan website.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/attention-shoppers-another-credit-card-fee-here-1C8086499

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Famous bridge in India is in danger of coming down ... because of spit

Engineers say that Kolkata?s landmark Howrah bridge is in danger because gutkha chewing tobacco spit is corroding its pillars. Now activists are trying to ban the acidic tobacco.

By Shaikh Azizur Rahman,?Contributor / January 20, 2013

Indians bathe on the banks of the River Ganges River beside the landmark, Howrah Bridge on a cold winter morning in Kolkata, India, last week.

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It was first reported in 2010 that the pillars of Kolkata?s landmark Howrah bridge were being used as spittoons by pedestrians who chewed gutkha?? a tobacco product popular with millions in India.

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Engineers who surveyed the cantilever structure then reported that the struts supporting the girders of the bridge had already lost half of their metal casing: The corrosion was apparently caused by acids in the gutkha.

Soon the Lions Club of Howrah launched a ?Save Howrah Bridge from Spit? campaign urging people not to spit on the bridge. ?

The campaign spread across the city of Kolkata, where reddish-brown gutkha stains are visible almost everywhere ? pavements, streets, office staircases, business houses, and residential complexes. Prominent citizens of Kolkata joined the campaign in an effort to rid the city of the ugly stains.

Gutkha is a commercially produced pre-packaged mixture of crushed betel nut, tobacco, lime, paraffin, and other ?secret? ingredients, many of which are carcinogenic and addictive.

Some brands of gutkha also contain lead, arsenic, chromium, nickel, and cadmium, which are as bad as nicotine. To make its shelf life longer, magnesium carbonate ? which is used in fire extinguishers and is a known carcinogen ? is also added to gutkha.

Activists reported about a year ago that one-third of men and one-fifth of women across India are addicted to chewing tobacco and gutkha was its most popular form.

Because of its candy-like flavor and dirt-cheap prices ? 4 to 6 cents per sachet ? gutkha has become increasingly popular among children, who chew and even eat it. An estimated 5 million of India?s children are addicted to gutkha, and every day another 5,000 try it for the first time, according to reports last year by the American Cancer Society.

Research indicates that tobacco kills 1 million Indians annually and that gutkha alone leads to 80,000 cases of oral cancer every year ? the highest incidence in the world. In recent years an anti-gutkha campaign has picked up steam across the country with several nongovernment organizations lobbying for a ban on gutkha.

In August 2011, India?s Food Safety and Standard Authority issued a regulation declaring that no foodstuff, including gutkha, could contain tobacco. Last year some states began following the order by banning gutkha.

With Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states having banned it earlier this month, the manufacture and sale of the product has now been prohibited in 17 of India?s 28 states and 3 of the 7 union territories (UTs), including New Delhi. However, reports in many local newspapers suggest that gutkha?is being smuggled from other regions and is still being sold in many states.

Kolkata-based anti-gutkha campaigner Sekharesh Ghoshal said that states and union territories should cooperate and ban the tobacco in the national interest.

?Sachets of gutkha display a warning that it?s dangerous for health. Yet gutkha users do not pay any attention to such health risks and keep on chewing it,? says Dr. Ghoshal.

?Unless gutkha is banned and actually made unavailable in the market, you cannot stop people from using it. A ban only in parts of the country is of no help.?

But in many states the gutkha companies are fighting the ban by taking the local government to court.

They argue that gutkha is a tobacco product that cannot be classified as a foodstuff, and therefore cannot be banned. Still, courts in most states have upheld the ban.

Bela Naskar, the mother of two child addicts in a slum in Kolkata, says she vehemently supports a ban on gutkha.

?My 10- and 13-year-old sons have been into gutkha for some years. They take several sachets of it every day. It?s bad for their health. But they don?t listen to my warnings.?

?We really need a ban on gutkha in our state,? Ms. Naskar says. ?Otherwise I shall not be able to rid my children from this dangerous addiction.??

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/csmonitor/globalnews/~3/Fu90cJul_HI/Famous-bridge-in-India-is-in-danger-of-coming-down-because-of-spit

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Friday, January 25, 2013

New dinosaur fossil challenges bird evolution theory

Friday, January 25, 2013

The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight.

Co-authored by Dr Gareth Dyke, Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Southampton, the paper describes a new feathered dinosaur about 30 cm in length which pre-dates bird-like dinosaurs that birds were long thought to have evolved from.

Over many years, it has become accepted among palaeontologists that birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theropods from the Early Cretaceous period of Earth's history, around 120-130 million years ago. Recent discoveries of feathered dinosaurs from the older Middle-Late Jurassic period have reinforced this theory.

The new 'bird-dinosaur' Eosinopteryx described in Nature Communications this week provides additional evidence to this effect.

"This discovery sheds further doubt on the theory that the famous fossil Archaeopteryx ? or "first bird" as it is sometimes referred to ? was pivotal in the evolution of modern birds," says Dr Dyke, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

"Our findings suggest that the origin of flight was much more complex than previously thought."

The fossilised remains found in north-eastern China indicate that, while feathered, this was a flightless dinosaur, because of its small wingspan and a bone structure that would have restricted its ability to flap its wings.

The dinosaur also had toes suited to walking along the ground and fewer feathers on its tail and lower legs, which would have made it easier to run.

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Obama picks foreign policy aide as chief of staff

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama announced Friday that his new chief of staff is longtime trusted aide Denis McDonough, whom the president described as a close friend unafraid to deliver straight talk.

McDonough has been a longtime foreign policy adviser to the president and is popular among the White House staff. Obama made the announcement in the East Room of the White House with McDonough and outgoing chief of staff Jack Lew, who has been nominated as treasury secretary, at his side.

"I know you'll always give it to me straight, as only a friend can, telling me not only what I want to hear, but more importantly, what I need to hear to make the best possible decisions on behalf of the American people," Obama told McDonough.

Obama said McDonough has played a key role in all the major national security decisions of his presidency, including the end of the war in Iraq, winding down the war in Afghanistan, responses to natural disasters in Haiti and Japan and repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members.

McDonough's place in Obama's inner circle was illustrated during the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011. He is among those whose images are captured in a White House photograph in the situation room with Obama and other senior officials watching the raid unfold.

Obama complimented McDonough for being so humble, visiting troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center without fanfare or cameras to learn about the needs of the troops. "Then he comes back here to the White House, and he gets it done. And that's the kind of focus, but also the kind of heart, that I want in this White House," Obama said.

He said McDonough also is tough, having been raised in Minnesota as one of 11 children. And he teased that the father of three and former St. John's University football player "made up for modest talents with extraordinary dedication and a high threshold for pain."

Earlier, McDonough worked as a foreign policy specialist in Congress, including as a senior foreign policy adviser to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., before moving to Obama's Senate office. Obama joked that McDonough showed him where the Senate restrooms were and how to get a bill approved by Congress.

The selection of McDonough was even met by a rare show of approval from a prominent Republican: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who described Obama's new chief of staff as a smart, steady hand respected by members of both parties.

"President Obama's decision to choose Denis McDonough was wise and I think he will serve the nation well," Graham said in a statement.

McDonough's new role was previously filled by Rahm Emanuel, William Daly and Pete Rouse, as interim chief of staff, before Lew.

Obama also bid goodbye to top aide David Plouffe, his 2008 campaign manager, who was leaving the White House Friday. "If it were not for him, we would not have been as effective a White House, and I probably wouldn't be here," Obama said.

Other senior personnel shifts were made Friday, including the appointment of Obama chief congressional lobbyist Rob Nabors as McDonough's deputy for policy. Vice President Joe Biden's national security adviser, Tony Blinken, is taking over McDonough's post as deputy national security adviser.

Katy Kale is being promoted from to assistant to the president for management and administration after serving as the deputy for that post. Assistant Attorney General Lisa Monaco, head of the Justice Department's National Security Division, was selected to take over for John Brennan as adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism once Brennan's nomination as CIA director is confirmed.

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer is being promoted to senior adviser. Pfeiffer deputy Jennifer Palmieri will take over as communications director.

Miguel Rodriguez is being named to take over the top lobbying post after serving under Nabors, and Obama campaign staffer David Simas is being named a deputy senior adviser for communications and strategy.

The White House announced Friday that Chris Lu, an aide who has been with Obama since his time as a senator and most recently managed relations with his Cabinet, was leaving his post. The job will be taken over by Danielle Gray, formerly deputy director of the National Economic Council. In a statement, Obama praised Lu for overseeing "one of the most stable and effective Cabinets in history" and said he's asked him to consider taking on another administration job after he takes some time off.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-picks-foreign-policy-aide-chief-staff-142350877--politics.html

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UN expert investigates US drone killings

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? A U.N. expert on Thursday launched a special investigation into drone warfare and targeted killings, which the United States relies on as a front-line weapon in its global war against al-Qaida.

One of the three countries requesting the investigation was Pakistan, which officially opposes the use of U.S. drones on its territory as an infringement on its sovereignty but is believed to have tacitly approved some strikes in the past. Many Pakistanis say innocent civilians have also been killed in drone strikes, which the U.S. has rejected.

The other two countries requesting the investigation were not named but were identified as two permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.

The civilian killings and injuries that result from drone strikes on suspected terrorist cells will be part of the focus of the investigation by British lawyer Ben Emmerson, the U.N. rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights.

The U.N. said Emmerson will present his findings to the U.N. General Assembly later this year.

"The exponential rise in the use of drone technology in a variety of military and non-military contexts represents a real challenge to the framework of established international law," Emmerson said in announcing the probe Thursday in London.

Emmerson said countries that use drones have "an international law obligation to establish effective independent and impartial investigations into any drone attack in which it is plausibly alleged that civilian casualties were sustained."

John Brennan, the anti-terrorism chief who has been nominated as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was the first Obama administration official to publicly acknowledge the highly secretive targeted killing operations, defending the legality of the overseas program and crediting it with protecting U.S. lives and preventing potential terror attacks. The CIA runs the drone program.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed lawsuits against the United States over drone attacks that killed three U.S. civilians in Yemen in 2011, including an al-Qaida leader who had been born in the U.S., cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

"We welcome this investigation in the hopes that global pressure will bring the U.S. back into line with international law requirements that strictly limit the use of lethal force," said Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project.

Drone strikes have been on the rise under Obama. According to the Long War Journal, which tracks such attacks, there were 35 strikes in Pakistan during 2008, the last year President George W. Bush was in office. That number grew to 117 in 2010, then fell to 64 in 2011 and 46 last year.

The program has killed a number of top militant commanders, including al-Qaida's then-No. 2, Abu Yahya al-Libi, who died in a drone strike in June.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/un-expert-investigates-us-drone-killings-161100835.html

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Search Answer: What, Why, and Where are These Stone Circles?

Search Answer: What, Why, and Where are These Stone Circles?Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution?using whatever search technology and methodology fits the bill.

Quick answer: The brick circles show the outlines of underground cisterns of water that can be used to fight fires even when the city's regular water supply is broken.

The details?

Search Answer: What, Why, and Where are These Stone Circles?

First, I'm impressed that so many people recognized San Francisco, the City by the Bay, from the pictures I showed. I guess it's not a completely wild guess, given where I work and those hills in the background, but still?that's impressive deduction!

Search Answer: What, Why, and Where are These Stone Circles?The fastest route to solving this challenge was simply to type in the simplest possible description of what you can see in the images. This is case:

[ brick circles ]

...and then let autocomplete give you a suggestion for San Francisco. If you take the suggestion and run the query:

[ brick circles San Francisco ]

There are a number of sources that give various versions of the answer. Let's talk about those versions for a moment.

The circles mark cisterns for emergency fire-fighting water supplies that were put in place after the great 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed most of the city.

The SF fire department claims there are 172 cisterns on this page?but in other SFFD pages, they say the number of cisterns is 177. Go figure. I imagine there's a master map someplace with all of the cisterns (see below), but bear in mind that the city is building more cisterns even now (see the Fire Commission meeting minutes from 2011) so the number COULD be varying!

Are the cisterns pressurized? Many readers gave solutions that commented on the cisterns being pressurized. They could be, but keeping large underground tanks pressurized for more than 100 years would be an engineering challenge. (Especially in a place like San Francisco, which has its fair share of earthquakes.) What's more, since the cisterns were built in response to the great earthquake and fire of 1906, the engineers realized that they couldn't rely on having power or intact water lines throughout the entire city. This led to the design of the cisterns as more-or-less stand-alone reservoirs. As this page from the SF fire department illustrates, there are actually 4 different water supplies for fire fighting in San Francisco.

(1) The high pressure system (most US cities have this?it supplies the ordinary fire hydrants at curb-side).
(2) The low pressure system just taps into regular drinking water supply?these hydrants are all white.
(3) Sea water system. There are 52 suction connections along the northeastern waterfront that allow fire engines to pump water directly from the Bay. Both city-owned fire boats can also supply saltwater to the system by pumping into any of five manifolds.

And finally,

(4) Cisterns?these are the big tanks of water (usually around 75,000 gallons each) that are under key street intersections. They are unpressurized, but the water can be pumped out through the green-topped hydrants. On the site SFFD says "?the cisterns have no connection to either the Water Department or high pressure supply system. They are under continual inspection by the Fire Department and are kept full by the Bureau of Engineering and Water Supply." That is, they go around every so often and pour water in them, usually from the low-pressure system.

Search Answer: What, Why, and Where are These Stone Circles?

San Francisco fire fighting water supply map showing the cistern locations as red dots.

From SFgov2.org report on the Auxiliary Water Supply System Study, January 23, 2009.

For some truly beautiful photos of the cisterns, see: untappedcities.com/2012/06/29/cisterns/

Search Lessons: READ CAREFULLY! Several readers passed along information that the cisterns are part of the pressurized system. I looked at all of the references that readers gave, and I can see why you might make that inference. But if you read carefully, in most cases you'll see it's not actually implied? but merely a co-occurrence of a discussion about the "pressurized system" next to the discussion about cisterns. Careful not to overread. Pay attention to where and when the topic changes. (And, of course, always look for a non-copied confirmation in a second source.)

And...Don't assume you know the answer just because it seems obvious. The circles are NOT cable car turnarounds. This is an example of jumping to a conclusion due to priming. Because San Francisco is well-known, and well-known for cable cars, the conclusion that these circles are cable car turnarounds seems obvious?but remember to check your work!

Search on!

Answer: What, why, where are these stone circles? | SearchReSearch


Daniel M. Russell studies the way people search and research?an anthropologist of search, if you will. You can read more from Russell on his SearchReSearch blog, and stay tuned for his weekly challenges (and answers) here on Lifehacker.

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NIH Told to Retire Most Research Chimps

About half of 21 ongoing biomedical and behavioral experiments would be ended, under advice from a working group of external agency advisors


Chimp at Africa Alive, Suffolk, England Most research chimpanzees would be retired under new recommendations. Image: Flickr/timparkinson

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) should dismantle a decades-old colony of 360 chimpanzees, retiring all but roughly 50 of the animals to a national sanctuary, the biomedical agency was told on 22 January in a long-awaited report.

The report, from a working group of external agency advisors, also counsels the NIH to end about half of 21 existing biomedical and behavioral experiments, saying they do not meet criteria established in a December, 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report.

?Clearly there is going to be a reduction in the use of chimpanzees in research,? says working group co-chair Kent Lloyd, the associate dean for research at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis.

The report says that the NIH should begin planning sanctuary housing for the retiring animals ?immediately?, and that a colony of about 50 animals would be sufficient for future research. The report also sets high hurdles for new chimpanzee experiments in the future, calling for the establishment of an independent committee that would vet individual study proposals after they first pass routine NIH scientific review. In cases where the burden on the animals is high, the benefit to humanity should have to be ?very high? to pass muster with the committee, says Daniel Geschwind, the other co-chair of the working group and a geneticist at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The report suggests that three of nine ongoing invasive experiments, involving immunology and infectious diseases, could continue, because they meet the IOM criteria. These require that a study be needed for public health; that no alternative animal model exists; that performing the study in humans would be unethical; and that the animals be maintained in socially and physically appropriate habitats. The report also says that eight of 13 behavioral or comparative genomics studies could be allowed to continue, but in some cases only conditionally ? meaning that funding for these experiments could not be renewed without passing the independent committee review.

The working group ? a subgroup of NIH?s Council of Councils, a trans-agency advisory body ? was chartered by NIH director Francis Collins one year ago to advise the agency on how to implement the recommendations of the IOM report, which found that most chimpanzee research was not necessary. Its recommendations are not binding; Collins is expected to respond to them in late March, after a 60-day period of public comment. But they signal yet another significant step in an ongoing retrenchment. Last month, the agency announced that it will retire 110 chimpanzees to the national Chimp Haven sanctuary in Keithville, Louisiana, after they had been first slated to move to an active NIH-supported research centre in San Antonio, Texas.

Today?s recommendations speak to the fate of an additional 360 research-eligible chimpanzees that are owned by the biomedical agency and housed at facilities in Texas and New Mexico.The fate of an additional 91 animals that the NIH pays to maintain, but does not own, was not clear; the agency cannot compel the retirement of these animals, housed at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) in San Antonio.

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=55b0964e1bafac65feed1b303c15be84

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Taylor Swift Meets with Cancer-Stricken Fan

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Detroit Restaurants Opening In 2013: Digging Into What's Next In ...

This story originally appeared in Model D.

In 2012, we saw a slew of new restaurants and cafes opening around the city -- some of which already seem like they've been part of the landscape for years, so much have the locals embraced them (Green Dot Stables or Great Lakes Caf? come to mind).

Happily, 2013 is already shaping up to outpace last year by leaps and bounds, based on the sheer number of restaurants slated to open -- and it?s only January.

We spoke with the proprietors of a few of these establishments to get some behind-the-scenes updates on how things are progressing and what our stomachs can look forward to. Here?s a sampler of what?s in store:

Frontera

When proprietor Greg Holm tells me the name of the restaurant he?s opening on Gratiot just east of Russell Street, he?s quick to point out that yes, he?s aware there?s a similarly named Mexican restaurant in Chicago. But he?s committed to using it anyway -- it?s his mother?s maiden name, and he wants to pay tribute to the family roots in the Eastern Market, which go back over 100 years. "My family had a business renting pushcarts. They were also the first to put produce on school buses and drive them to neighborhoods like Black Bottom," he says.

The restaurant may share a name with Rick Bayless?s famous Chicago eatery, but the similarities end there. Rather than Mexican food, the menu at Detroit?s Frontera will be a stylish mix of French and New American cuisine, with Asian and Spanish influences thrown in for good measure. Holm speaks enthusiastically about chef Pablo Ventura, whom he?s bringing in from New York, and who has cooked for the likes of Tommy Hilfiger and Oscar de la Renta.

Ventura?s fianc?e, Emmy Moy, is a pastry chef and will provide baked goods for a daytime caf?. Holm?s concept involves two adjacent spaces -- what he describes as a "sweet shop/ bodega" on one side, and a fine dining restaurant next door.

He also plans to have a small, affordable daytime menu. "We have a bus stop right out front, so it?s important to us to have options that are accessible to everyone in the community," he says. While he works on the build-out, Holm has been connecting with several local chefs and artisanal food producers. He describes the food community as "one big family"; a family we?re more than happy to welcome him to.

Detroit Vegan Soul

While many restaurants can take years from conception to realization, Detroit Vegan Soul has taken off like a rocket. Founded in February 2012, the business has existed without a brick-and-mortar location, working out of a commissary delivering meals and catering events. Partners in work and life, Kirsten Ussery and Erika Boyd had tossed around the idea of a food business for a few years, but participating in D:Hive?s Build business class last spring helped them to solidify their plans. They took inspiration from the diversity of vegan restaurants they?d visited in other cities, and set to work "veganizing" some family recipes with the intent of proving that soul food doesn?t have to be unhealthy to be delicious.

I ask Ussery whether it?s challenging to convince people who are unfamiliar with vegan food to try it. Her experience is that many people are pleasantly surprised to like something out of their comfort zone. "I wish I had video of some people?s reactions," she says. She knows she may not convert diehard lovers of soul food to a vegan diet, but she?s happy to at least show them that there are other, healthier options. "We?re just a stop along their journey."

Ussery and Boyd did a pop-up in the West Village recently, and decided to make the neighborhood their permanent home; they?ll be opening at 8027 Agnes Street this spring. Urban Alterscape, the firm who designed City Wings, has been hired to design the interior.

Of course, the above-mentioned establishments are just two of the many projects coming to the city this year, not to mention expansions of already-popular restaurants. Slows just added a brand new bar this month with 36 beers on tap and an additional 8 tables, completed in a mind-boggling 11 days (more heresup on the expansion) Supino Pizzeria is taking a slower-paced approach building out their adjacent space, but we?re sure it?ll be worth the wait.

Other eateries to enjoy in 2013 -- and beyond

? Detroit Institute of Bagels, the long-awaited bagel shop coming to Corktown (scheduled to open in July). Co-owner Ben Newman is putting his urban planning degree to good use -- he designed a "pocket park" that will occupy what is now a gravel lot between his building and PJ?s Lager House, creating a green space on an otherwise vast expanse of concrete. We got a peek at the rendering, and it looks like it?ll be a fantastic addition to the neighborhood. For a full story on the shop?s progress, go here).

? Craftwork, brought to you by Hugh Yaro (of Ronin Sushi and Commonwealth) and Michael Geiger, a culinary instructor and DJ, opening in the old Harlequin Caf? space this spring. No word yet on the menu, but based on Yaro?s other establishments, it promises to be quality.

? La Feria, a Midtown tapas restaurant that won the 2012 Hatch competition. See our feature story here.

? Maccabees at Midtown, a new deli/ bistro across from the DIA. We haven?t had a chance to sample the food yet, but initial reports are glowing, and it?s always nice to have more brunch options. Technically they opened on Dec. 30, but last Friday was the first day of full dinner and bar service.

? Topsoil, a vegetarian restaurant being opened by the owners of Russell Street Deli. The quick-service restaurant is geared toward providing fast and affordable lunch, and will be housed in the Auburn building at Cass and Canfield. The opening date? We'll let you know as soon as we get it.

? Gold Cash Gold, a new venture by the Cooley family. Ryan Cooley, of Slows and O?Connor Realty, says the restaurant will likely not be open until 2014, but hey, we can dream. The menu hasn?t been developed yet, but Cooley says they are meeting with chefs next month to do tastings. The chosen chef will also be part owner, following the Slows model.

Although they?re unsure of the direction of the food, Cooley says they know it?ll be at the same price point as Slows, welcome news for those of us whose appetites are bigger than our pocketbooks.

Noelle Lothamer writes about food and drink for Model D. She'll be following the most scrumptious taste trends throughout the year.

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