Eating, Drinking, Cooking (and Toasting the New Year) This ...

What?the world didn?t end? I guess I need to post about this weekend?s events then?

Let?s skip right on over to New Year?s Eve, shall we? After all, that?s the next really big happening. In honor of it turning 2013, how about some foodie NYE events to get the new year on a good foot (assuming you will be able to find your good foot after a night?s revelry)?

blueplate in Mullica Hill is having a four-course spread that includes wines from Wagonhouse Winery. The first course includes a panzarotti with short ribs?oh my.

A wine bar on New Year?s Eve ? now that sounds like a plan! Annata Wine Bar in Hammonton is having a gourmet buffet and champagne toast for $72 a person.

At The Living Room at 709 in Point Pleasant Beach, they?re serving a four-course wine dinner starting at 8PM. Enjoy the menu being put together by 709?s new exec chef Chuck Tomney.

Salem City Cafe in, well, Salem is having a special 3-course dinner starting at 5:30PM for $39.95 a person. The menu is small but focuses on their Cajun cuisine. There?s a Sir Beatle sing along afterwards, and who knows?maybe a Nirvana tribute group will show up, too.

Chef Mark Smith of Tortilla Press in Collingswood and Tortilla Press Cantina in Merchantville has always made an effort to cater to families. His eateries will have a Family New Year?s Eve Menu that will be available from 2PM to 5:30PM. The cost is $22.99 per person, and $11.99 for kids under 12. If you have babysitting, they can accommodate that too: a Very Special New Year?s Eve Menu will be available starting at 5:30PM for $32 a person.

Across the street from Tortilla Press in Collingswood is Blackbird, and they will be serving a four-course menu for $65 a person from 5PM to 10PM. Veal sweet breads are part of course one, so it sounds like it will be a good evening there.

At The Madison in Riverside, there will be two special New Year?s Eve events: a four-course Celebration dinner at 6PM for $49.95 per person, and an 8:30PM Gala that includes hors d?oeuvres, dinner, open bar and champagne toast at midnight for $150 a person. By the way, someone named Lisa Howard-Fusco had a piece this week in the Courier-Post about The Madison.

Cattle ?n Clover in Wildwood is also giving you two options: a 6:30 seating for $60 that includes a four-course meal and a bottle of wine, and the ?full package? at 8PM for $120 that includes the dinner, an open bar, live musical entertainment and chmpagne toast. Nice.

At the Windrift in Avalon, two seatings for a New Year?s Eve dinner: a $150 per couple seating at 5:30PM and one at 9PM for $125.

Under the Moon in Bordentown is having a special five-course prix fixe menu for $55 a person.

If you?re looking for a multi-course dinner with a seafood tilt, Fischer?s Pelican Restaurant in Sewell is doing just that at their 9:30PM seating for $75 a person.

Celebrate New Year?s Eve Scottish-style at The British Chip Shop in Haddonfield with their Hogmanay menu available for $38 per person.

Not into Scottish? How about Russian? A New Year?s Dinner and Dance will be taking place at Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church in Vineland from 10PM to 2AM.

From 4PM to 8PM, Ocean City High School will be the location for First Night Ocean City: A Taste of the Jersey Shore. The cost to taste is $20 per person and $8 for kids under 11.

Down Cape May way, you have the schwank stylings of The Glitter Ball at Congress Hall for New Year?s Eve. For $165 per person, you have a cocktail hour with pasta and hors d?oeuvres followed by a full sit down dinner. At The Ebbitt Room, there will be seatings from 5:30PM to 7:30PM and from 8PM to 10PM. Check out their menu for the evening.

Geraghty?s Pub & Restaurant in Burlington will be offering you three (count ?em, three) options for NYE, depending on what you like to drink. Food is part of the deal, too. Check their options here.

Two options are available at DiPaolo?s Italian Ristorante in Penns Grove: a $39.95 seating from 5PM to 7PM, and $49.95 after 7PM. Special room rates at The Hampton Inn in Pennsville are being made available as well.

For a few more ideas, let?s DO AC!

Let?s do four from Revel: Chef Marc Forgione?s American Cut and Chef Alain Allegretti?s Azure are serving $150 prix fixe meals from 5PM to 11PM. Chef Jose Garces? Amada will be having three seatings: 6PM, 8PM and 10:30PM. The 10:30 seating includes a Cava toast at midnight. For a more inexpensive evening, Lugo Caffe will be having their own prix fixe menu on New Year?s Eve for $55 per person. There will also be plenty of New Year?s Day brunches going at Revel.

OTHER than New Year?s Eve stuff, you do have Cape May Brewing hanging out at Goodnight Irene?s in Vineland on Saturday. Word is they are going to tap their new Apple Pie brew. You also have the Kwanzaa Fest going on at the Willingboro Recreation Center from 11AM to 4PM. Folk workshops and food from local restaurants will be served.

Here?s your cooking class schedule for the weekend:

Saturday: Delicious Homemade Cheese and Date Night: Chef?s Table at Sur la Table in Marlton, and a French Dinner Party and Italian Grill at Viking Cooking School at Harrah?s in Atlantic City.

Sunday: Best of Class: Sushi Maki,?Best of Class: Paris, and?Celebration Dinner Party at Viking Cooking School, and Crepes! at Sur la Table.

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Source: http://www.eatinginsjersey.com/2012/12/eating-drinking-cooking-and-toasting-the-new-year-this-weekend-in-south-jersey-1228-11.html

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surayashah: tahminalucchi: My Pair of Boots: Old Fort- Wing Family ...

The Wing Fort House is located at 69 Spring Hill Road, East Sandwich, Massachusetts. Open Tuesday through Saturday from June 15 to September 30 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There is a small admission fee. For off-season visits please call the Caretakers at (508) 833-1540. Cousins, if you ever have the opportunity, this is a "must do" visit. It is something you will never forget and something you will never tire of talking about.

The oldest house in New England owned and occupied continuously by the same family for over three centuries. Built in 1641.? In 1646 it became the home of Stephen Wing, one of the early settlers of Sandwich, son of the Reverend John Wing and Deborah Bachelor. Stephen?and his descendants occupied the house from then on, adding on as families grew and changing tastes dictated. Now restored, it is furnished almost entirely with Wing family antiques showing the different periods of its long history. The house is maintained by the Wing Family of America and open to the public.

?This house is a must see on my list of Historic Landmarks!

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How to Lubricate Your Garage Door and Opener Properly ? Home ...

During the winter months or arid season, your garage door becomes more susceptible to environmental damage. While making the door shiny with a nice anti-rust coating or replacing the rubber track on the bottom may seem important, but it?s not compared to the garage door when it needs proper lubrication.

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Keeping your door lubricated will ensure that it doesn?t ever lock up or break, and fall off of its tracks. Here are some simple steps to keep your door lubricated this winter.

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Step 1 ? Choose your Grease not Oil!

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The number one mistake that most do it yourself fanatics make is to use oil instead of grease, or WD40 instead of grease made products. Using WD40 on the door is of course acceptable but you will be paying to repair your door a lot quicker. WD40 is made of oil and is a degreaser, so you can see why spraying a degreaser unto a door track that needs greasing to work can be problematic.

The best type of grease you can use is a Lithium based grease but if you can?t find a Lithium spray then you can use a Silicon spray. Both can be used and are a lot better than using oil. Being sprayed on the door, the oil will drip and not stay put, which can ruin your door track.

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Step 2 ? Spraying rollers

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You want to lubricate all moving parts on the door. Depending on your height and eyesight level, you may want to grab a step stool or ladder to reach those hard to get to places.

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Close the door and disconnect it from the motor. You are going to want to spray all the movable parts by moving the door up and down the bendable track part of the door as it leaves most of the metal exposed for greasing.

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A. Plastic and Metal rollers are the most common types of rollers for doors. A plastic roller can be greased but it won?t help much as these are designed to only last a couple of years. As far as the metal roller, the ball bearings are inside of the center and you will need the small spray tube to make sure the grease reaches them.

B. Precision doors use a closed in ball bearing so there is no maintenance.

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Step 3 ? Spraying Pulley?s

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The older that your pulley gets the more wiggle room it will have and at this point in time, grease would be pointless and they would need to be replaced anyway. You want to keep pulleys greased from the start to prevent oxidation.

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Step 4 ? Greasing the opener

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Do not grease up the chain, this is a mistake most make. You want to lubricate the top of the rail but you don?t need to grease the door tracks, just clean them. You want to make sure that your door?s spring system stays clean. Only a torsion spring needs grease which is done simply by spraying the spring and running the door up and down a few times.

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This blog was provided by Littleton Garage Door Service, a company that services garage doors Littleton CO based company. Aurora garage door repair is also available.

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NASA'S Space Launch System core stage passes major milestone, ready to start construction

Dec. 28, 2012 ? The team designing America's new flagship rocket has completed successfully a major technical review of the vehicle's core stage. NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will take the agency's Orion spacecraft and other payloads beyond low-Earth orbit, providing a new capability for human exploration.

The core stage preliminary design review (PDR) was held Thursday (Dec. 20) at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and included representatives from the agency and The Boeing Co. Boeing's Exploration Launch Systems in Huntsville is the prime contractor for the core stage and its avionics. Marshall manages the SLS Program.

"Passing a preliminary design review within 12 months of bringing Boeing on contract shows we are on track toward meeting a 2017 launch date," said Tony Lavoie, manager of the SLS Stages Element at Marshall. "We can now allow those time-critical areas of design to move forward with initial fabrication and proceed toward the final design phase -- culminating in a critical design review in 2014 -- with confidence."

The first flight test of the SLS, which will feature a configuration for a 70-metric ton lift capacity and carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft beyond the moon, is scheduled for 2017. As the SLS evolves, a two-stage launch vehicle using the core stage will provide a lift capability of 130-metric tons to enable missions beyond low-Earth orbit and to support deep space exploration.

The purpose of the PDR was to ensure the design met system requirements within acceptable risk and fell within schedule and budget constraints. An important part of the PDR was to prove the core stage could integrate safely with other elements of the rocket's main engines and solid rocket boosters, the crew capsule and the launch facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Core stage designers provided an in-depth assessment to a board of engineers composed of propulsion and design experts from across the agency and the aerospace industry.

"Each individual element of this program has to be at the same level of maturity before we can move the program as a whole to the next step," SLS Program Manager Todd May said. "The core stage is the rocket's central propulsion element and will be an optimized blend of new and existing hardware design. We're building it with longer tanks, longer feed lines and advanced manufacturing processes. We are running ahead of schedule and will leverage that schedule margin to ensure a safe and affordable rocket for our first flight in 2017."

The core stage will be built at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans using state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment. The plant continues modifying its facilities and ordering materials for construction of the rocket. Michoud has built components for NASA's spacecraft for decades, most recently, the space shuttle's external tanks.

For more information about the Space Launch System, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/sls

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McAfee?s 2013 predictions: Mobile malware threats will grow, Anonymous will fade

When Mommy is away, Dad and son will play. And if your dad works in the video production business, that playtime gets filmed, turned into a time-lapse video and instantly goes viral. Emio Tomeoni, 30, of Kansas City, Mo., works odd hours and often finds...

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Cellular fuel gauge may hold the key to restricting cancer growth

Dec. 27, 2012 ? Researchers at McGill University have discovered that a key regulator of energy metabolism in cancer cells known as the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) may play a crucial role in restricting cancer cell growth. AMPK acts as a "fuel gauge" in cells; AMPK is turned on when it senses changes in energy levels, and helps to change metabolism when energy levels are low, such as during exercise or when fasting. The researchers found that AMPK also regulates cancer cell metabolism and can restrict cancer cell growth.

The discovery was made by Russell (Rusty) Jones, an assistant professor at McGill's Goodman Cancer Research Centre and the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine. Jones along with his team is the first to show that AMPK can act as a tumour suppressor in animals. The research will be published December 27 in the journal Cell Metabolism.

"Cancer is a disease in which cells lose their normal restraints on growth and start to divide uncontrollably. But, in order for cells to grow quickly they need enough energy to complete the task," Jones explained. "AMPK acts like the fuel gauge in your car -- it lets the body know when energy levels are low, and stops cell growth until there is enough gas in the tank. We wanted to see if this fuel gauge could affect the development and progression of cancer. We found that mice lacking AMPK developed tumours faster, suggesting that AMPK is important for keeping tumour development in check, at least for some types of cancer." For this study, Jones' team focused specifically on a type of blood cancer known as lymphoma. They discovered that the protein Myc, which is activated in more than half of all cancers, could promote lymphoma more rapidly when mice were deficient for AMPK.

One of the ways cancer cells support their enhanced rate of growth is by changing their metabolism, or how they generate energy. Cancer cells are different from normal cells in our body because they preferentially use sugar to fuel their growth. Jones discovered that AMPK plays a specific role in restricting cancer cells' ability to use sugar to fuel their growth. "For cancer cells with low AMPK levels, their metabolism goes into overdrive," explained Prof. Jones. "They use sugar more efficiently, allowing them to grow faster. These results suggest that turning on AMPK in cancer cells may be one way that we can restrict cancer growth."

Jones' breakthrough builds on his previous discovery that the widely prescribed medication metformin, a common diabetes drug, can restrict tumour cell growth. The results bring promise that common therapeutics that turn on AMPK and alter cellular metabolism, such as metformin, may become novel tools for cancer therapy. Jones and his colleagues at McGill are currently exploring clinical applications based on this research.

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1. Brandon Faubert, Gino Boily, Said Izreig, Takla Griss, Bozena Samborska, Zhifeng Dong, Fanny Dupuy, Christopher Chambers, Benjamin?J. Fuerth, Benoit Viollet, Orval?A. Mamer, Daina Avizonis, Ralph?J. DeBerardinis, Peter?M. Siegel, Russell?G. Jones. AMPK Is a Negative Regulator of the Warburg Effect and Suppresses Tumor Growth In?Vivo. Cell Metabolism, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2012.12.001

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Asbestos and mold concerns force cleanup of elementary school ...

This story is from Alabama, but this situation could occur in any school district in the United States. The problems are the same across the country, from Maine to California. The town of Montevallo is south of Birmingham, and is facing the issue of cleaning up an elementary school. The cleanup was prompted by high levels of mold spores measured in an air quality test.

During the Christmas break, the school district began a broader cleanup, which went beyond the mold issue to include asbestos removal. In addition to the?mold remediation, the district announced removal of some asbestos-containing materials found in hallway tiles near the first-grade area. The PTO claimed the school was "unsafe" and that some teachers were worried to enter the building because of the asbestos exposure.

The U.S. has approximately 130,000 school buildings and unless they were built in the last few years, the EPA estimated they are practically certain to contain some asbestos materials. Many of the building materials during the time these structures were built used asbestos, as it was inexpensive, effective as insulation and as a fire-retardant.

It was used in spray-on fireproof coatings, insulation on pipes and air ducts, in ceiling tile, floor tile and plaster in walls. The use of material was restricted in the late 1980s, but about half of U.S. schools were built during the decades prior to ban on asbestos. The very small fibers of asbestos can become lodged in the lungs and cause fatal illnesses, such as mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer.

Source: The Birmingham News, "Cleanup, concerns continue over Montevallo Elementary mold, asbestos issues," Martin J. Reed, December 24, 2012

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