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Looks like some people have decided to add Baltho, The Dog Who Owned a Man to their summer reading. Yesterday my Best Sellers Rank was almost 800,000. This morning it's 118,000.
Whoever you are, thanks! Word of mouth endorsements really boosts sales.
Now, Please help me with paperback sales. I've dropped considerably: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,247,610 in Books
Go to www.thomasrameywatson.com/editing if you want to order a signed copy for the regular retail price.
AND--don't forget to ask your local libraries to order a copy of the book for their patrons.
Walked out the side door with Melchior this morning to find a spider web all over my face with the spider dangling in front of my nose. Not a pleasant way to start the morning, for me or the spider. Got most of the web removed by now. I'd just showered (of course).
We've had so much rain lately that we have to fight off all the vegetation that's growing over the walk paths. The spiders are having great fun spinning their webs everywhere. Can't tell you how many webs I've walked into.
I was getting pretty worried about the paperback sales rank of Baltho which had dropped to almost 2.4 million. I just looked. People seemed to have heard the call and bought it. Here's my rank as of now: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,192 in Books! Whoever you are--if you're reading this--thanks!!!!!!
I'm thinking about starting a group here in Denver for those who want to deal with the loss of a beloved companion animal, dog, cat, etc., which will include making the way for her or him to return to us. My facilitation will include my own experiences with Baltho, who returned as Hattie, and again as Melchior. Please let me know if you'd like to participate. Costs will be affordable.
I am also considering a Skype group for those of you elsewhere. Again let me know if you'd like to participate. Again, costs will be affordable.
We can make cost arrangements through Pay Pal. I will ask that you make some sort of commitment, maybe 10 weeks to start, with the idea that we will continue if the desire is present.
Noir and Melchior
Noir and Melchior looking at each other, Fri. 19 July 2013. If I hadn't been holding onto Melchior's leash, he and Noir would have taken off for a good game of hide and seek and rumble. As always, Noir heard us and came to find us.
I've started offering this special on my FB pages.
If any of you want to order 2 or more signed and inscribed copies of Baltho directly from me, I'll make you a better deal than on my site if you send me a check so I avoid the Pay Pal and other middleman charges. Just message or email me. email@example.com
Trust the mystery: Baltho, the dog with three lives
Here is the beginning of the article about my ongoing adventures with my co-therapist Afghan Hound Baltho and his subsequent incarnations. It was written by freelance writer Geoff Ward, an Englishman living in southwestern Ireland. As soon as the article is placed I will provide a link to the entire thing. I don't want to scoop it here.
Trust the mystery: Baltho, the dog with three lives
The extraordinary world of Denver psychotherapist and coach Thomas Ramey Watson and his therapy dogs
Tom got a message to say the Afghan pup he was waiting for had been born, and that it was an unusual color. But it wasnt the breeder who told him. It was Hattie, Toms Afghan who had died the previous year. Out walking, Tom heard Hatties voice distinctly. Im born, she said.
And so it was into the world came Melchior, the third incarnation, Tom is convinced, of his beloved Afghan Baltho, his first therapy dog. Hattie said the pup must be called Melchior after another of the Biblical Three Wise Men Baltho was short for the Arabian Balthazar. These dogs certainly came bearing special gifts for Tom and others who came into contact with them.
The story begins in the 1990s, as recounted in Toms new fictionalized memoir, Baltho: The Dog Who Owned a Man, and will continue in two more books about the remarkable dogs, and at least one cat, that have helped Tom with his counseling and his life. Before the trilogy continues, however, comes a novel from Tom, Reading the Signs, a paranormal love story, due out in the fall, plus a couple of books of poetry to be published in the interim.
Tom, who lives in northwest Denver, said: With Melchior, born last November, Im now on my third incarnation of Baltho. Melchior is taking up Balthos psychological co-therapist role already. I figured that was the plan when Balthos subsequent incarnation, Hattie, told me where and when to find Melchior and that he wanted to be named for another of the Three Wise Men, this one from Persia.
No stranger to paranormal experiences, Tom, born and raised in Sterling CO, says he has had more of them since childhood than he can remember, never questioning their validity because they were so much part of his life. In 1992, he was planning to adopt a labrador or golden retriever, but an Afghan was telepathically calling me, begging me, to locate and rescue him. Thus Tom arrived at the Denver Afghan Rescue where, at the gate, he had a premonition of a red brindle Afghan jumping up and hugging him.
Denver's Channel 9 News Storytellers is interested in doing a segment on my ongoing saga that started with Baltho and Figgy and continues through Hattie, then Melchior and Figgy. Deb Ridley and Mary Currie, be prepared to verify what I told you Hattie said about her birth--when (including the pregnancy that didn't take and the one that did the following fall), where, what she'd look like, and so on. They may well want to check in with you on the facts. It felt risky telling you what she'd said to me, but the facts are indisputable.
We're making headway with the publicity campaign.
Just like a teenager
Lately the left side of my bed is taken with Noir up near the pillows, Melchior just below him, and Sky on the bottom. Often now, Melchior allows Noir to sleep peacefully till a little after dawn. Then he decides his living chew toy is right there and needing to provide comfort and fun. After Noir leaves Melchior decides to snorkel my ears and neck, driving me crazy with the chewing, licking and worst of all--noise. Then he'll begin on my fingers.
This morning I told him the usual, "Don't be a moron, be a lesson" (puns intended--moron and more-on, less-on and lesson). I heard him reply, "But I want to be a moron!" And he threw himself down across my stomach, his bones hitting all my sensitive areas.
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on your adventures since you were interviewed on Shirley's program! It's very interesting to hear the latest news, and good luck with your books.
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Apache Nutch 2.0 announced - primed for Hadoop crawling
The Apache Software Foundation has unveiled the second series to their network crawling and indexing search framework, Apache Nutch. It is now generally available, promising to help facilitate the winds of change, in regards to Big Data and NoSQL databases.
The highly scalable and Java-written search framework has steady foundations, built on several of its Apache stablemates, including Hadoop, Tika, Solr and Gora. Its main goal? To provide a link-graph database and parsing support for HTML, two areas which could do with a scalability spruce-up.
Nutch fits neatly into the ASF's offering towards the field of Big Data, linking up to a variety of strong projects such the aforementioned ones. Building on the work of storage abstraction and Big Data persistence layer project, Apache Gora, Nutch goes deeper into data mining for big data stores such as Accumulo, Avro, Cassandra, HBase and HDFS (the Hadoop Distributed File System). This gives a large amount of flexibility to those pondering adopting any of these technologies in the near future. It also hooks up to an in-memory data store as well as several high profile SQL stores.
Whilst there's clearly a clamouring for it to enter the world of the top enterprises, the team of developers at Nutch 2.0 say that they want it to be "go-to choice for companies of all sizes, from start-ups and medium sized businesses to large scale organizations." From working across a large quantity of machines, to a single use case on one machine, Nutch claims to be fit for any purpose.
"Having been at the origin of Open Source superstars such as Apache Hadoop or Apache Tika, Nutch now catches up with the NoSQL trends and adopts a table-like representation," said Apache Nutch Vice President Julien Nioche in a press release.
Nutch has been under development for close to two years. In September 2011, the team split with one half focusing on Nutch 1.0 as their mainstream product, and the rest devoting their time to planning this large-scale friendly release. Nutch has a highly pluggable modular architecture, as this presentation demonstrates.
"Our work on Nutch 2.0 gave birth to Apache Gora in the process, which it uses as an abstraction over the storage backends," added Nioche. "This enhanced architecture makes Nutch not only more efficient but also easier to integrate with external tools while still solving a large range of use cases ranging from single servers setups to large-scale Internet crawlers hosted in the cloud."
It's been quite the community effort, with crossover inevitable. Apache's open source effort such as search server Solr and graph database Tika play a huge part in Nutch and both seem to garner attention from the community. Whether Nutch can enjoy similar success remains to be seen.
"Nutch v2.0 is particularly exciting as it catches up with Apache projects like HBase, Cassandra, and Accumulo," added Nioche. "The community's response to the earlier versions of v2.0 has been very encouraging and we hope to see more and more people getting involved."
After being founded by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella in 2003, Nutch has since been eclipsed by Hadoop (also founded by Cutting), with internet giants like Facebook and Amazon turning to the yellow elephant for their huge data needs. With Nutch working on top to make sense of it all, perhaps this release could see the project finally get the love it rightfully deserves.

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All programs are Tuesday � Monday
Group 1 - May 14 � 20 - 16 places
Group 2 - June 11 � 17 - 16 places
Group 3 - July 9 � 15 - 16 places
Group 4 - August 6 � 12 - 16 places
Group 5 - September 3 � 9 - 16 places
Group 6 - September 17 � 23 - 16 places
The program is like this:
Day 1 � Pick you up from Bucharest Airport and transfer you to a 3*** hotel in Tulcea (accommodation in double rooms). If you reach hotel not too late we can do a meeting at the hotel, we'll give you all the info about the tour. If you have enough time we recommend you a visit to the Danube Delta Museum (very close to the hotel).
Day 2 � Day 6- Starting the tour from Tulcea in the morning and paddle to Mila23, the middle of the Danube Delta. We paddle on small channels, wild lakes, in fact we try to reach 'civilization' only in the last day. Every day, after breakfast we depart on a new route, lunch will be prepared by our 2 guides on the spot and you can help them. We'll have traditional fish soup (made right there), every day another recipe OR grill (fish, pork or chicken) + a big traditional salad. Water for everyone but no other drinks.
The paddling time per day is about 5-6 hours, in 2 stages, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. We tray to show you all the beauties of Delta's nature: birds, flower, animals, landscapes. We take enough time to watch everything, our guides are very good naturalists and they can tell you a lot about what you see.
Day 7 � After breakfast we transfer you to Tulcea where the bus for airport is waiting for us.
The average of the distance per day is about 20 km. It is not too much, every one can do it.
The boats we use for this tour are single kayaks, double kayaks and / or canoes. You can find details here: Kayak renting in Danube Delta. Please let us know what kind of boat do you want.
The luggage boat. Will not follow us, will not disturb us. The boat will start before us in the morning, after lunch, with the luggage, food and everything else. You'll have in the kayak only what you need till lunch time or evening, water, photo camera and what you consider. We'll met the boat again on the lunch spot, with a ready place for preparing the food and you can see or even help the guides to cook. Then the boat will leave again and we'll meet with it again in the evening, at the sleeping spot.
The tour
The kayak tour is not a race, we paddle slowly, is more a Discover Danube Delta trip. We stop from time to time for relaxation, we visit shallow water lakes, invaded of vegetation which is a shelter for many species of birds and animals. When we find places with many birds like pelicans, herons, white tailed eagles, ibises, coots, ducks, geese, swans and other, we can make a stop to watch them and take some photos.
The guides
Are very nice guys from Danube Delta, they speak English (good level), they know Danube Delta very well, they know nature very well, they now were to go and how to survive in any conditions. Some of them have military special training in survival. One of the guides will drive the luggage boat, one of them will be all the time with you, paddling in his kayak.
Comfortable clothes and shoes, appropriate for the season - suggested: sun hat, long sleeves, long pants. If you are not sure what is appropriate, you may contact us by email and we will be happy to offer you some suggestions. Please use the weather services to inform yourself accordingly.
Sun protectors
Sun glasses
Insect repellents
Waterproof protection for cameras, phones and other electronic devices
Waterproof bags or barrels for clothing and equipment (or you can rent from us).
The luggage
Even if we'll use a luggage boat, please do not take anything in excess, limit to what is really necessary.
The meals:
For camping sites we have a nice diversity of food. The guides carry with them an iron cast pot for the traditional fish soup and other boiled recipes, a grill for fish, pork or chicken meat and a big pan for morning scrambled eggs and other fried recipes.
For breakfast we have: every day one kind of sausage, Romanian home made goat, sheep or cow cheese, fresh vegetables and fruits, yoghurt.
For lunch and dinner we have: fish soup OR fish/pork/chicken grilled, fresh vegetables (salad), cheese, fruits.
If you have any kind of allergy to food please tell us BEFORE.
700 euro / pers
with airport transfer
630 euro / pers
without airport transfer
Price is in EURO, per person and VAT is included.
Picking up from Airport and transport you to Tulcea (and back) � The Airport trasnfer will be done for all group, on day1, not late then 18:00. If the group is coming from many directions, the meeting with the bus will be at 18:00 in front of the INFO Office.
Accommodation in 3*** hotel or pension, in double rooms, for 2 nights (first and the last)
Tents � we provide you 2 persons tents (one for 2 pers), standard shapes, medium quality (very good tents but not for extreme weather). You need to bring sleeping bag (sorry, this have to be personal use :-) )
Sleeping pads (isoprene) + inflatable pillows
3 meals / day, starting with dinner DAY1 and finishing with breakfast in DAY7, water is included, plates and cutlery included (not necessary to bring with you)
2 guides, one in kayak, will stay with you all the time, one driving the luggage boat, bringing fresh food every day
Danube Delta Administration permit fee (we will need the complete name of each one, as is in the ID or passport, few days in advance to buy the permits)
Luggage boat, gasoline included FOR the program, if you need additional trips gasoline will be paid.
Single or double kayak + PFD + paddle � please tell us what kind of kayak do you want when you book the tour
Transportation from Mila23 pension to Tulceal in DAY7
The price DO NOT include:
Drinks, if you want beer, wine or other drinks you can order for next day and the boat with supplies will bring you.
Any kind of insurance (travel, health etc) and it's recommended to take one.
Have to be done at least 7 days before the trip.
Booking is done by paying a deposit of 50 euro, the rest of the payment can be done in Tulcea, when we meet.
The deposit can be paid by bank transfer or PayPal. Please write to us and we'll send you the payment details.
If you book minimum 4 persons, you have 10% discount for your group.
If you have been with us before, you also have a 10% discount.
* You can have only one of this discounts.
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Fifth Seed Erakovic Victorious on Day 1 in Memphis
Published February 15, 2009 12:00
MEMPHIS, TN, USA - The first three matches of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships & the Cellular South Cup took place on Sunday in Memphis, with a New Zealander, a German and an American making the second round.
Kristina Barrois of Germany was the first to advance, beating Slovakia's Jarmila Groth, 62 57 76(3). Barrois had three match points earlier in the third set - one leading 5-2 and two more leading 6-5 - but ended up needing the deciding tie-break to finish off her hard-hitting opponent. She will next face No.7 seed Alla Kudryavtseva or qualifier Michaella Krajicek, who play their first round match in Memphis on Monday.
New Zealand's Marina Erakovic and American Melanie Oudin were the next two to advance, after Erakovic downed American Julie Ditty, 76(4) 60, and Oudin beat countrywoman Jill Craybas in a lengthy three-setter, 63 46 64. Erakovic, seeded No.5, and Oudin, a wildcard, will play each other in the second round.
The first doubles match of the week also took the court, with Krajicek and Yuliana Fedak beating No.4 seeds Liga Dekmeijere and Ekaterina Dzehalevich, 64 63.
Six of the seven other seeds in the draw - No.2 seed Victoria Azarenka, No.3 seed Lucie Safarova, No.4 seed Anne Keothavong, No.6 seed Sabine Lisicki, Kudryavtseva and No.8 seed Pauline Parmentier - will play their first rounds on Monday. Top seed Caroline Wozniacki will play her opener on Tuesday, taking on Jelena Dokic, who made a scintillating run to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open just a few weeks ago, and a qualifier into this week's draw.


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The Perfect Plants Patients Group, or 3PGs, at 2840B Sacramento St., is still in business.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- A Southern Indiana woman is in jail tonight after police say she shot her ex-husband ten times and stuffed his body into a metal box.
Indiana State Police arrested 42-year-old Danielle Green Tuesday in Rising Sun, Indiana, which is about 20 miles southwest of Cincinnati.
Green had told officers she didn't know where her ex-husband, 62 year-old Raymond Green could be, but when they executed a search warrant, they found his body in a metal box on the couple's property.
An autopsy revealed that he died May 28 from gunshot wounds.
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The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has admitted that one of its former priests, Harry Monroe, was a child molester
A New Yorker serving in the U.S. Coast Guard filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming he was molested repeatedly by a counselor at a popular Catskills summer camp.
The Furor Over Weakland?s Bronze
by Bruce Murphy | Tuesday 1/12/2010
Is there any organization in town that is more clueless about public relations than the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese?
In the midst of what should have been a celebration, the installation of new Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki, the archdiocese is instead engulfed in controversy over whether it should have involved former Archbishop Rembert Weakland in the ceremony and whether a bronze image celebrating his tenure is inappropriate.
The criticism has been led by Peter Isely, the implacable director of the Midwe
A Plover, Wis., woman has sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse, claiming it allowed a priest to remain active for nearly four decades despite knowing he had a history of molesting children.
A new $1,375,000 settlement has been made in a child sexual abuse case involving a Catholic priest who worked in the Chicago archdiocese and now works as a pastor at Shrine of Christ the King in Winfield (Du Page County).
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but not the mind of Charlotte Kirkman.
"I completely ignore
them and throw all the fliers away that come to my house," Kirkman said
She had just cast her vote
for Mark Sanford, and said the kind of put-downs in the commercials don't impact
how he will vote in Washington.
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great governor all the way through. He made some mistakes at the end, but we've
all made mistakes," Kirkman said.
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voter at the Greene Street gym in Beaufort Tuesday.
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pending charge with his wife and all that," Markitta Donnelson said of
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City Kitchen
- Address:
201 South Estes Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514Neighborhood:
Chapel Hill
- Cuisine:
AmericanPrice: $30 and under
City Kitchen
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://citykitchenchapelhill.com/
- Phone: 9199288200
- Hours of Operation:
Daily: 11:30am - 3pm
Sunday - Wednesday: 5pm - 10pm , Thursday - Saturday: 5pm - 10:30pm
Sunday: 10:30am - 3pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: American, Contemporary American
- Executive Chef: Younes Sabouh
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Chef's Table, Farm to Table, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Non-Smoking Area, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Smoking Area, Takeout, View, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine, Wine Bar
- Private Party Contact: Emma Dunbar 9199288200
A word from City Kitchen
City Kitchen family welcomes you with wholesome American fare prepared through simple, time-honored cooking methods such as roasting, braising, preserving and smoking. This urban, contemporary neighborhood eatery evokes the warmth and convivial setting of a residential kitchen and gaathering place dedicated to quality and sourcing locally.Continued
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City Kitchen reviews from OpenTable diners
107 reviews since June 3, 2014
- Food4.4Service4.4
- Ambiance4.2Noise LevelModerate
fit for foodies (61)good for groups (48)great for outdoor dining (45)neighborhood gem (41)special occasion (38)great for lunch (37)vibrant bar scene (25)great for brunch (23)hot spot (20)kid-friendly (19)notable wine list (16)romantic (15)late-night find (7)scenic view (4)Show More
- JillLovesFood2Dined on 9/27/2014chicken and brocoli soup that was the special was excellent, must have again. the grilled cheese is out of this world good! Service was great! Wine was great!Special Features:
- Terrific sushi!lunchproVIPDined on 9/25/2014We sat outside as the weather was really nice. Other than the very unhappy baby who cried for about 10 minutes outside the mall, the outdoor seating was quite pleasant. Our server was terrific and the food was also great. Their sushi is really good. One of the group had a brick oven pizza that was also really tasty. Nice bottle of ridge zinfandel and the evening was pretty terrific!Special Features:
- Wonderful family celebrationBigdumbanduglyDined on 9/19/2014Had a great meal with extended family. A bit loud but vibrant. Service was excellent, timely, friendly, but not overwhelming. Tried the Friday night shrimp and grits.....very tasty if not a bit "rich." But I admit to being a shrimp and grits snob. Beer was very cold, wine specials were tasty. Dessert very goodSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- deltaDined on 9/18/2014I have eaten at City Kitchen many times and have even praised the service at this site. However, the service this week was AWFUL.Special Features:
- group gathering of 8OpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 9/5/2014Wonderful menu with choices for everyone from 10-50 yrs including vegetarians. Attentive service. Never pressured. Have been before and will definitely return againSpecial Features:
- RogerWVIPDined on 9/5/2014Dinner on Friday brings a good crowd and a pretty loud buzz. The service is very good and some of the food (I had pork chops) is excellent. My wife was a bit surprised as to how spicy the mussels were since the description doesn't indicate any spice at all. The spicy thing has occurred from time to time with different dishes, so if you don't like spice, be sure to inform the server or you may be surprised too.I would recommend this to a friend.
- luvtodineDined on 9/5/2014I had eaten at this restaurant before and it was wonderful - great food, service and tolerable noise level. Ate there Friday night and waited a long time for the main course and dessert. The special for the evening sounded great - but was too soupy and not anything like the water had explained. The manager did offer me a discount which was nice and a free dessert. I will go back but not on a weekend night.
- Hot spotbrennenDined on 9/5/2014Definitely a spot to enjoy good food with unique but not over the top ingredients. The grits were great not too much salt or cheese. The fried oysters were crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside. Perfect. We didn't try the pizza that everyone talks about because the salads and entrees we so good. Next time.Special Features:
- TuckDined on 9/5/2014Bring ear plugs - otherwise you'll gop deaf from the noise.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A quick favoriteKarmaGirlDined on 9/1/2014City Kitchen quickly became my favorite restaurant in the area. Food is delicious and always filling, the staff is super friendly, and the atmosphere is great for dining alone or with friends.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Nice placeOpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 8/28/2014A bit pricey for the portions. I like the place very much......Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- wonderful dining experienceexquisitefoodDined on 8/28/2014Had a great time at City Kitchen. Took my niece for her birthday and had terrific drinks and the food was beyond words... I visit the bar most Saturdays for an hour or so and have a few drinks and a salad and your terrific mussels....yum....great service by ChadSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Consistently Good!CaseyDined on 8/27/2014City Kitchen is consistently good. The food is fresh and well prepared. The staff are friendly and efficient.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great FindmamasusuDined on 8/27/2014A group of six women met for lunch and found this restaurant to be excellent. The food was wonderful and the service was great. Will definitely go there again!Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 8/23/2014Fabulous Salmon! Always incredibly good Service. Only negative is my fault - I ordered 'off the menu' side of simple grilled vegetables, but didn't like the "mixed" choice. Totally my fault. They said afterwards they'd give me any vegetable I request if they have it in house. Have been many times. It's consistently great service, great food, fun atmosphere.Special Features:
- So much more than a nameGDubVIPDined on 8/18/2014City Kitchen sounds more like a dive diner than an upscale eatery. However, upon walking in you will notice the intricate details and unique decor from the industrial concrete sushi bar to the re-purposed wood used for the bar and dining tables. The menu is constantly rotating which is nice and aligns with what you would expect from the various seasons NC experiences. Some of the highlights are the braised lamb shank and smoked NC trout. The brunch salad bar is also not to be missed. The service is superb and attentive to the entire table, rarely leaving anyone waiting to order or get a refill. The pricing is exactly where it needs to be to keep people coming back frequently and not isolating itself as a special occasion place.Special Features:
- Great outdoor diningDedeBVIPDined on 8/13/2014Wednesday is a great night for a $5 glass of wine and some appetizers in the outside dining area. Really good calamari.Special Features:
- DinnerOpenTable Diner Since 2007Dined on 8/12/2014Interesting menu items. Unusually good for a shopping mall.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A solid entrytymelyronVIPDined on 8/9/2014Saturday night dinner, surprisingly not too full, but enjoyed our meal. Fried green tomatoes and calamari for starters were tasty, and the short rib and trout entrees were very good. Menu selection was plentiful, as was the cocktail and draft beer choices.Special Features:
- With musicrobustnc1Dined on 7/31/2014This summer City Kitchen added a Thursday night outdoor concert series. What a treat! Great food and service coupled with terrific local bands. The restaurant was quite busy but the wait staff was more than equal to the challenge. I very much recommend.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Awesome Greek Salad!lunchproVIPDined on 7/22/2014I had lunch with a friend and we both had the Greek Salad. I also had the tomato basil soup and my friend had the grilled asparagus. All dishes were delicious. There were roasted beets and heirloom tomatoes on the salad and the dressing was really good. it was our server's first day and he was terrific. Great experience every time I go!Special Features:
- Keep coming backimitropoVIPDined on 7/18/2014So many great restaurants in Chapel Hill to choose from and City Kitchen is no exception. Ample parking, space for larger, noisier groups, easy access for wheelchair or kids in strollers, nice bar atmosphere, super friendly and knowledgeable staff and most important - consistently great food. We find ourselves at City Kitchen more and more!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Amazing!OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 7/15/2014I brought my mom here for her birthday the other night. My boyfriend had called ahead to order a bottle of wine and spoke to the manager who made a great recommendation (Rue 22?). Our server was Sam - couldn't have asked for better service. He was extremely knowledgeable on the menu and suggested some food items that were a little different to us, but we enjoyed them so much! At the end of the evening I requested to speak to the manager on duty, to inform him how great Sam was. Turns out that it was the same manager who spoke to my boyfriend, and purposely put us in Sam's section to ensure my mom and I would be taken care of. All the staff went above and beyond!!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- foodOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 7/11/2014Food was good, company was great, had to wait for our server too long.Special Features:
- New favorite at City KitchenCeconsultDined on 7/10/2014A good friend introduced me this week to City Kitchen and I have returned already. The ambience is excellent, food is excellent, and wait staff service is superior. A+ on all counts.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- ExperiencePhotoprincess14Dined on 7/9/2014I really enjoyed my lunch, but our waitress was a little slow! We were there over an hour before we were given our bill.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Yum!SkywriterDined on 7/6/2014Went out for my birthday, and it was fabulous! Fried green tomato appetizer was delicious, and my steak was cooked perfectly. The chef does really flavorful things with classic american dishes. The drinks were great, too--highly recommend the pimms!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Excellent Dinner MenuOpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 6/28/2014We are pleased to see that there are many tempting choices on the dinner menu. We had an outstanding server named William...very knowledgeable about food and wine. There are special wine values during the week.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- glad i tried it againmop2eliDined on 6/23/2014Went with a large group and was not impressed. Returned with a friend and was pleasantly surprised. The mussels were terrific. The special salad with grouper was artfully dressed, light, and creative to include goat cheese, blueberries ans strawberries. Will certainly return.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- luvtodineDined on 6/21/2014Great and interesting food -- variety of different choices that were delicious and great service.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- SpecialNikkiDined on 6/21/2014The exceptional service and food makes this restaurant perfect for special occasions.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good food, atmospheresummertimeDined on 6/20/2014We were a party of four, and we each enjoyed what we ordered. The seared scallops and the pecan crisp was especially good.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Fabulous tunaFinedinerDined on 6/19/2014Unexpectedly, I had the best tuna I have ever eaten at City Kitchen. It was a special, so I'm not sure how often it's on the menu, but it was perfectly seasoned, perfectly cooked and butter soft. Yummy. I also tried the butter lettuce salad, which was nicely dressed with a lovely citrus vinegarette. The goat cheese mousse needs to go, as do the mushy golden beets. Goat cheese crumbles and some sort of fruit would be better, albeit more predictable, choices to accompany the lovely lettuce. I know esoteric mousses and foams are a "thing" but they are pretentious and unnecessary.Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 6/15/2014Everything was very good except that one person'a food came out 25 minutes later than everyone else's with very little apology. It was awkward.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Anniversary BrunchOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 6/15/2014My wife and I went to City Kitchen for our wedding anniversary. I had made reservations and the staff went above and beyond as far as the service and the table that was reserved for us.Special Features:
- Great first experiencegriddleDined on 6/15/2014My family went to City Kitchen for Father's Day Brunch, and it was fantastic! I had steak and eggs, plus the huge salad bar. The salad bar isn't your usual lettuce + toppings, but rather a wide variety of lettuce- and grain-based prepared salads, along with marinated veggies, Caprese, pita chips with dips and fresh fruit. My eggs were perfectly over easy, and the steak, which I opted for in lieu of bacon or sausage, was a lovely 3-4 oz portion of hangar steak that came out exactly medium rare an well seasoned. We had 5 adults, a 5-year-old, 2-year-old and an infant. Older kids split kids brunch, and service was fast enough to keep them entertained. I look forward to trying Chef's food at Fire in the Triangle! (competitiondining.com)Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good dinnerOpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 6/14/2014We had a great dinner at City Kitchen. They forgot to bring our appetizer but promised us complimentary ones when we come next time. Very good dinner.Special Features:
- Must try the cheesecakeFoodStuffDined on 6/9/2014I love City Kitchen because it starts the meal off with delicious bread and my all-time favorite food: kalamata olive tapenade! The new cheesecake with mango and blood orange is probably the best dessert I've ever had in any restaurant (I can't remember anything better).Special Features:
- good stuffdaddyruchirDined on 6/8/2014We just dined at City Kitchen and we were pleasantly surprised. We had eaten here once before during prom night, and the service was quite disastrous that night. But, on a quiet Sunday night during Restaurant Week, we had a great time. Fantastic service, great heirloom tomato salad and desserts. I had the homemade vegetable fettucini dish, and though the pasta itself was amazing, I do not favor oil sauces. Still, it was pretty good. My wife's fish dish was not so great though. It was really pleasant sitting outside. We tend to dislike nice restaurants in malls or plazas, but I'd say City Kitchen is pretty decent and I'd recommend it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- rezzooDined on 6/8/2014We ate here twice while visiting our son. The short ribs were the best I've ever had...ever! Had to force myself to get something else the second night, and the filet and sushi did not disappoint, especially the off the menu sushi. Could have skipped the strawberry Bavarian, but the Chocolate dessert was outrageously delicious! Thank you for 2 fabulous mealsSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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There is one person for sure who could solve this case, but that person is not talking, so the FBI is looking for the public's help.
The robbery happened on May 8, 2013 at the Fifth Third Bank at 1950 West 33rd Street in Chicago. A man and a woman walked into the bank for what, at first, seemed to be a normal bank transaction. They approached the teller and asked about cashing a check drawn on an account at another bank. Then they turned and acted as though they were going to leave the bank. But as the couple reached the vestibule they turned around and went back to the teller. They handed over a note and announced the robbery. They indicated they had a gun, but never showed one. After getting the cash, they left the bank.
The bank cameras captured some pretty good pictures of the robbers and the feds have already caught one of them.
The man seen in the pictures was identified as Frank Plada. He was located and arrested in Colorado where he lives. On May 14, 2013 he was charged with the robbery.
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FBI agents have developed a number of leads but have been unable to identify or locate the woman.
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As I drove into work this morning my mind flipped back and forth between two main themes: what I should include in today's Morning Drive post and how bright the sunshine is.
So…. how about both of them?
First, the sunshine. It feels great to be alive when the skies aren't gray. Seeing the bright light in the sky is a signal that golf season is nearing. Now if only the temperature on the car thermometer would rise about freezing!
In any case, KHQ's Matt Rogers took his Action Cam to downtown Spokane for the annual Golf Show. The show is chock full of vendors, including Ping who is new to the show this year. Local PGA pros will be holding seminar-type classes all weekend – free with admission. There is also an equipment demo area for you to try out the new products. See you there!
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On to Gonzaga. I turned on the game last night expecting to see Saint Mary's putting up a good fight. Instead, I saw once again how dominant Kelly Olynyk can be. Olynyk scored 17 in the Zags' 77-60 win over the Gaels in Moraga. Gary Bell, Jr. got the good guys off to a fast start in the second half, ending the game with 20 points. The win means Gonzaga's lead in the WCC is pretty darn secure. A pretty darn impressive team, if you ask me.
In high school hoops, congratulations to both Coeur d'Alene and Post Falls in the girls 5A state tournament in Nampa. Coeur d'Alene beat Rocky Mountain 55-36 and will face Capital Friday in the semifinals. Post Falls beat Post Falls beat Mountain View 50-28 and will have my alma mater, Highland.
And in national sports, how 'bout them Lakers? Yes, they lost in grand fashion last night. The Clippers won thanks to Chris Paul's 24 points and 13 assists. Blake Griffin had 22 and Chauney Billups hit five 3-pointers for 21 points.
Will anyone be watching the All-Star events this weekend?
Oh, and one more thing! Happy Birthday to Michael Jordan! The basketball legend turns 50 on Sunday. 50 years old (remember that Saturday Night Live sketch?)! The more time flies, the more I appreciate how great of a player he was. And yes, as as Jazz fan, I still say he pushed off. Nevertheless, ESPN OTL has a great article on Jordan here.
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On Monday, May 6th, 2013 at Lincoln Center in New York City; Deemed "the Oscars of the food world," by Time magazine Chef Colby Garrelts was awarded the country's most coveted honor for chefs; food and beverage professionals; broadcast media, journalists, and authors working on food; and restaurant architects and designers. For more information about the James Beard Awards go to www.jamesbeard.org
This season the team at rye has started growing a garden for the restaurant just beyond our front doors.
Look for many of these items cut fresh and prepared on our menus
– The herbs are: parsley, salad burnet, sorrel, basil, chives, dill, thyme, sage, and oregano.
The vegetable boxes are:
- kale: dinosaur, red russian, and ripbor
- head lettuce: romaine, buttercrunch, and mottistone
- beets: merlin, chioggia, red ace, blankoma, and bulls blood
- rainbow swiss chard
- turnips, carrots, radishes: rainbow and laguna carrots, easter egg, d'avignon, and black spanish radishes, and purple top white globe turnips
- leaf lettuce: tango oakleaf, red saladbowl oakleaf, firecraker, black seeded simpson, parris island romaine, sylvetta, and arugula
- peppers: carmen sweet peppers, anchos, fresnos, cayennes, and habeneros


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A screening of "Everyone's Got One" with filmmaker Garth Donovan. IMDb summary: A delusional janitor meets a celebrity, hoping the hotshot will make him famous. When this doesn't happen, things go sour and the toilet cleaner's madness comes to the foreground...what follows is a strange trip into kidnapping and ultimately motivational speaking.Back to Events Listing »


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High pressure will be slipping to our east while an approaching warm front will be inching closer Sunday. We'll see some sunshine this morning, but that will fade behind clouds as the day goes on.
Temperatures will range mainly in the 60s, but a few spots north and west of Boston may touch near 70. Of course those areas that see a bit more sunshine may see the warmest temperatures. This approaching warm front will also bring hit or miss showers to the area from the southwest to northeast Sunday, but mainly during the afternoon and evening hours. Most plans should be okay during the morning and midday hours, but just be aware a shower may be around later in the day.
Scattered showers will be likely Sunday night as that warm front passes to our north. The passage of this front will introduce much warmer and humid air into New England. High temperatures on Monday will be in the mid to upper 70s with the threat of showers early, but with a few breaks of sunshine developing.
Our focus for the remainder of the week will be on this front to our north that will become stationary and meander across New England this week. Areas of low pressure will ride along it and provide the risk of showers and storms during the week and keep us unsettled. It won't be a complete washout any day, in fact, there will be some sunshine at times too! However, temperatures will fluctuate depending on the exact placement of that boundary. Take a look at the seven day for the extended forecast.
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Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. This week, they discuss British tennis fan Nick Newlife, chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede, Teemu Selanne, and Devils enforcer Cam Janssen.
Dave Naylor, TSN: My thumb is up to Nick Newlife, the British tennis fan who this week became far more famous in death than he ever was when he was alive. You see back in 2003, Newlife made a $2,400 bet that Roger Federer would set a record for victories at Wimbledon, at odds of 66 to 1. When Newlife passed away six years later at age 59, he left his ticket to Oxfam, an international charity dedicated to fighting poverty. And last Sunday, that ticket became worth more than $161,000. We may never know more about Nick Newlife than these two things: he had a good heart and exceptional eye for greatness in tennis.
Steve Simmons, Sun Media: My thumb is down to chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede, where once again horses are dying at the supposed greatest outdoor show on earth. Three horses died in a chuckwagon crash Thursday, one was injured Friday, and all this coming after safety regulations were altered after six horses were killed there in 2010. I'd love to tell you this is all new, but 30 or so years ago I happened to cover chuckwagon racing in Alberta and was witness to a number of horses being killed - all in the name of sport and entertaininment. But understand, this isn't horse racing. This is one small, dangerous sport, and one small circuit. Fifty horses dead in 26 years. Thats enough to convince me its time to scratch chuckwagon racing from the Stampede program.
Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: Because we all deserve a smile, my thumb is up to Teemu Selanne who returns for yet another season in Anaheim. No player radiates more conspicuous joy than Selanne, who is 42 going on 32. He does not defy age as much as wink at it with his annual will-he-or-won't-he-retire bit before he comes back for more. Selanne scored 26 goals last season, not bad for a winger who seemed washed up before the last lockout. Anaheim GM Brian Burke made a $1 million free-agent investment in 2005, and Selanne rewarded him with a 40-goal season. The Finnish Flash has been paying off for the Ducks, and hockey fans, ever since.
James Cybulski, TSN: My thumb is down to Devils enforcer Cam Janssen for his ridiculous comments on a radio show a few days ago. Janssen has since apologized, but not before reminding people how extreme some cases of homophobia still exists in sports. Trying to be funny is one thing, but insinuating that you'll beat someone up because of one's sexual orientation is downright neanderthal to me. Last I checked, its 2012 right? The NHL warned players after an incident last year that this sort of behaviour won't be tolerated anymore. In recent months, several of the game's biggest stars have leant their names to the You Can Play project in attempt to eliminate this sort of attitude, but Janssen's comments shows there's more work to be done.


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Hildegard (758 – 30 April 783) was daughter of the Germanic Count Gerold of Vinzgouw and Emma of Alamannia (daughter of Duke Hnabi). She was the second wife of Charlemagne,[1] who married her around 771. They had the following children:
- Charles, (772 or 773–811), Count of Maine from 781, joint King of the Franks with Charlemagne from 800
- Adelaide (773 or 774)
- Pippin (773 or 777–810), born Carloman and later renamed at baptism, king of Italy from 781
- Rotrude (or Hruodrud) (777–810)
- Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine from 781, emperor from 813 (sole Emperor from 814) until 840
- Lothair, twin brother of Louis, died young in 780
- Bertha (779–823?)
- Gisela (781–808?)
- Hildegarde (782–783?)
- ^ As described by historians such as Pierre Riché (The Carolingians, p.86.), Lewis Thorpe (Two Lives of Charlemagne, p.216) and others. Other historians list Himiltrude, described by Einhard as a concubine, as Charlemagne's first wife, and reorder his subsequent wives; accordingly Hildegard is sometimes numbered as his third wife. See Dieter Hägemann (Karl der Große. Herrscher des Abendlands, Ullstein 2003, p. 82f.), Collins (Charlemagne, p. 40.).
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"Heaven and All" -- Dave Grohl, Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been
"Time Slowing Down" -- Brad Wilk, Chris Goss, Dave Grohl, and Tim Commerford
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"The Man That Never Was" -- Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Rick Springfield, and Taylor Hawkins
"Your Wife Is Calling" -- Alain Johannes, Dave Grohl, Lee Ving, Pat Smear, and Taylor Hawkins
"From Can to Can't" -- Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Rick Nielsen, and Scott Reeder
"Centipede" -- Alain Johannes, Chris Goss, Dave Grohl, and Joshua Homme
"A Trick with No Sleeve" -- Alain Johannes, Chris Goss, Dave Grohl, and Joshua Homme
"Cut Me Some Slack" -- Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear
"Once Upon a Time…the End" -- Dave Grohl, Jessy Greene, Jim Keltner, and Rami Jaffee
"Mantra" -- Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme, and Trent Reznor
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Tech giants should note Microsoft dividend raise
Not all companies in the sector are responding to the software maker's leadership in this area.
Dow component Microsoft (MSFT), the world's largest software maker, added to the dividend craze in the technology sector by announcing that it's boosting its quarterly by three cents, or 15%, to 23 cents a share. The news, announced Tuesday after the close of U.S. markets, is merely the latest in what has become a long string of positive dividend headlines from the Washington company.
Microsoft did not start paying a dividend until 2003. The first payout was eight cents a share per quarter. For the next several years, dividend growth was lackluster, but by 2007 the company was paying an annual dividend of 40 cents per share. That figure doubled by the start of this year -- and that was before Tuesday's announcement.
This is good news for Microsoft shareholders and it continues a spate of favorable dividend news this year from the technology space that has seen the sector become the biggest dividend payer in the U.S. (Microsoft owns and publishes Top Stocks, an MSN Money site.)
Tech, also the largest sector weight in the S&P 500, has room to grow dividends further and other companies should follow the lead of Microsoft, Intel (INTC) and others in increasing shareholder rewards.
Here are a few examples:
Oracle (ORCL)
Oracle, the world's largest maker of enterprise software, pays a dividend. A piddly 24 cents per share per year, which means the shares currently yield 0.7%. Investors could get a trailing 12-month yield that is more than five times that on the less volatile iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund (LQD).
Oracle's free cash war chest is expected to rise to $12 billion this year, Barron's reported in June. The company has 4.88 billion shares outstanding so even a doubling of its dividend would not strain Oracle's fortress-like balance sheet.
If Oracle is a dividend offender for having all that cash and forcing investors to rely on capital appreciation with a puny payout, then data storage provider EMC is a slap in the face of income investors. As in EMC pays no dividend at all despite having $5.65 billion in cash and short-term investments as of early August.
EMC does not like giving shareholders money, but it likes to spend money on M&A. The company has made four acquisitions in 2012, keeping with the firm's acquisitive history. Shareholders may be saying "What about me?" when it comes to EMC's cash hoard.
Google (GOOG)
Google pays no dividend and one can only guess why the company does not. Maybe it is because it wants to make more acquisitions. Maybe it is because it does not want to lose its "growth stock" feel by paying a dividend, though that argument holds no validity now that Apple (AAPL) pays a dividend. Apple has proceeded to touch new all-time highs in recent weeks months AFTER its dividend announcement.
When Google reported its second-quarter earnings in April, it had $49.3 billion in cash. Some of that, an albeit small sum, is being squandered on the Google car that a microscopic percentage of the population can afford or would even want. None of that cash hoard is going to shareholders.
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The Application of AHP Method for Universities Procurement and Bidding
Accompany with the vigorous development of higher education, the materials and equipment requirements in college are increasing year by year. Just, fair and scientific materials bidding method has a decisive significance to ensure that tendered and bidder's legitimate rights and interests. So the method to determine the winning company becomes the focus that tender, bidders and bid evaluation committee pay attention. The commonly used methods that review bid, tender side usually depend on the qualitative analysis and logical judgment, lack quantitative analysis. Bid evaluation is multiple objective decision making problem including technology, economy, security, management and other factors. The applications of the AHP method, taking the influence factors of evaluation as a system to consider, show that the qualitative index can be changed into quantitative index, the evaluation process and conclusions is objectively, fairly and reasonably. This paper proposes a method to quantify the relationship between object and factors in bidding universities procurement of materials, based on the AHP Method and analysis of the representative factors in bidding decision. This model is of universal significance in application.
Key words: AHP Method; Universities; Procurement of materials; Biding
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LI, Dan (2011). Universities Procurement and Bidding Mechanism of Higher Institutions. Value Engineering, (11), 102.
ZHUO, Yi & ZHOU, Jin (2009). Analysis of Solution to the Problems in Supervision in University Bidding. Journal of Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, (11), 73-75.
XU, Lingjun (2010). Long Term Benefit of Government Procurement and Bidding Mechanism of Higher Institutions, Journal of Guangzhou University, (12), 45-50.
LI, Dan & DONG, Zhiguo (2011). The Fuzzy Evaluation Model for Project Bids the Choice. Henan Science, (12), 102.
QIN, Huifang (2010). Discussion on Bidding Evaluation Methods and Evaluation Standards. Value Engineering, (6), 100.
Milgrom P. & Weber R.A (1982). Theory of Auctions and Competitive Bidding. Econametrica, 50(5), 1089-1122.
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