| Pupils showcase their inventions
MONSON - Following the lead of famous inventor Thomas Edison, Quarry Hill Community School fourth-graders put their thinking caps on and came up with inventions of their own. The pupils in Geri Laferriere's and Dawn Lecours' classes also had a special guest talk to them about inventions: James M. Goldberg, whose company Deep River Snacks in Old Lyme, Conn., makes gourmet kettle chips, pita chips and popcorn. Goldberg's connection to Monson is his niece, Emily H. Hedspeth, 9, who is in Laferriere's class. The pupils displayed their inventions on their desks for Goldberg to see. "This is my Uncle Jimmy," Emily told her peers. Goldberg then opened up boxes of his kettle chips and tossed them to the children, who enthusiastically reached in the air for bags of sweet Maui onion and original kettle chips.
He cooks up his own way to honor grandfather
Nearly 10 years ago to the day - April 15, 1997 - Jesse Robinson Simms, then 18, was on the field at Shea Stadium, shoulder-to-shoulder with a cadre of luminaries that included President Clinton, taking part in a 50th anniversary celebration of the day his grandfather, Jackie Robinson, broke through major-league baseball's color barrier. At the time, Simms seemed on a path to be the first in the family to carry on his grandfather's athletic legacy. A 6-foot-3, 270-pound prep school football star from North Stamford, Conn., Simms had signed a letter of intent with UCLA, where Jackie had excelled in baseball, football and track and had met his wife, Rachel, Jesse's grandmother. The emotional attachment to UCLA was strong. Jesse never knew his grandfather, who died seven years before he was born, but he became well aware of his deeds through his mother, Sharon, Jackie's daughter, and his now-84-year-old grandmother, who helped raise him and still visits almost every weekend.
Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Optimized For
In addition to minimizing the costs of the 'BIDI' (bidirectional) fiber optic assembly required for client premises, this approach allows one standard BIDI to be manufactured and installed for all users. WDM-based PONs can provide significant performance advantages, as they can upgrade the capacity of a single wavelength system by as many as 32. A WDM network can also eliminate or reduce the contention inherent in the time-domain multiplexed architectures of current EPONs/GPONs - providing operators with much more service flexibility and making the network more suitable for low latency applications such as gaming . Research and development engineers have been investigating reflective SOAs for use in PON applications for a number of years, but such work is often based on standard amplifiers with less than optimal characteristics.
Melbourne chock-full of shops for cocoa nuts
MELBOURNE'S love of the humble cocoa bean has come of age, with gourmet chocolate shops, cafes and even bars springing up all over the city. The traditional Easter Bunny jostled for position alongside chilli chocolate truffles and "enrobed" pralines in tastefully lit shop windows across Melbourne's CBD. Chocoholic Tours founder Suzie Wharton has been tasting the local wares for 13 years and said there had been a marked increase in the number of stores selling handmade and high-end chocolates. "Chocoholics have always been there but they haven't been catered for by many companies," Mrs Wharton said. Ten years ago speciality chocolate shops were thin on the ground, with Haigh's Chocolates, Ernest Hillier, Newman's Chocolate and Darryl Lea the only places to get a fix, she said.
Restaurant review: Sit a spell over breakfast at Mary's Kitchen
If you have ever spent time in Venice Beach, Calif., Mary's Gourmet Kitchen will be familiar. And though there are fewer surfers here than there are in Venice, there is a certain California feeling to this gem in Jensen Beach where you half expect the Beach Boys (or a surfer girl) to join your table. Breakfast is popular and sometimes you have to wait for a table. Once seated, our two coffees ($1.50 each), orange juice ($1.95) and water arrived quickly. That we needed some time to make our decisions didn't ruffle the staff. Diners can relax at Mary's. .
Food Notes Food Notes
New Rivers Bistro in Providence probably will be closed for a month while repairs are made to the kitchen, the site of a fire last week, owner Bruce Tillinghast reported. The fire on April 9 did relatively little damage to the building at 7 Steeple St. but it will take time and money to restore things to normal in the restaurant, he said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, he said, though it seems to have begun in duct work and some of the kitchen's hardwood charcoal used for cooking. Tillinghast wasn't at the bistro at the time of the 8 p.m. fire. He said he had left the restaurant at 5:30 p.m., gone for a swim at the Y and was home making dinner at the time he was called by his staff who said the flames were quickly extinguished. The restaurant was serving dinner at the time.
MasterCard Launches New Experiential Programs for Premium Cardholders
PURCHASE, N.Y., April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- If our lives represent the sum of our experiences, then MasterCard is about to make life a lot more interesting. For some, it might be chartering a private jet to remote areas of the world. For others, it's having a professional chef come to your home to teach a gourmet cooking class for you and your friends. Others still dream of playing a round of golf at one of the world's top courses while enjoying VIP access to PGA events. MasterCard Worldwide announced today that it's setting out to make these and many other dreams come true. The company introduced MasterCard Unique Experiences, a new program designed to offer a unique set of benefits to its U.S. World MasterCard(R) and World Elite(TM) MasterCard(R) cardholders.
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