Have Easter plans? Try these restaurants | Food and More with John ...

If you haven?t made reservations for a special Easter meal this Sunday, there may still be time. Here are some restaurants around town that will be celebrating the holiday.

103 West

Brunch buffet with kid-friendly fare and live entertainment. Activities for the children include bunny visits and face painting. 10:30 a.m. ? 3:00 p.m. $62 adults, $24.50 ages 6-12, free for 5 and under. 404-233-5993.

Antebellum

Sunday brunch menu from 9 a.m. ? 3 p.m. 770-965-8100

Bantam & Biddy

Special Easter meal served alongside regular menu. 11 a.m. ? 9 p.m. $20 Easter meal. 404-907-3469

Canoe

Holiday brunch menu from 10:30 a.m. ? 2:30 p.m. 770-432-2663

Chicken & the Egg

Sunday brunch menu served from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 678-388-8813

Ecco

Special brunch menu, 11 a.m. ? 3 p.m. 404-347-9555

Haven

Three-course brunch menu beginning at 10:30 a.m. $29.00, a la carte children?s menu will be available for $8.00 per item. 404-969-0700

Livingston Restaurant & Bar

Brunch buffet, $35 for adults, $15 for children ages 6-12, free under 5 years. 404-897-5000

No. 246

Brunch and lunch menus offered. Kids Easter egg hunt at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 678-399-8246

Ray?s on the Creek

Sunday brunch buffet served from 9 a.m. ? 3 p.m. $29.95 adults, $14.95 ages 5-10, 4 and under eat free. 770-649-0064

Ray?s on the River

Easter buffet served from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. $39.95 adults, $19.95 children ages 5-10, 4 and under free. 770-955-1187

Rosebud

A la carte menu, 9 a.m. ? 4 p.m. 404-347-9747

South City Kitchen (both locations)

Three-course brunch menu staring at 10 a.m. (Vinings locations) and 11 a.m. (Midtown). $32, $16 children under 12. 404-873-7358 (Midtown) or 770-435-0700 (Vinings)

The Family Dog

No reservations accepted for this a la carte meal, 10:30 a.m. ? 4 p.m.

The Shed at Glenwood

Brunch buffet, 10 a.m. ? 3 p.m. $25 adult, $12 child. 404-835-4363

Valenza

Three-course Easter dinner with side items for the table to share starting at 5 p.m. $24. 404-969-3233

Villa Christina

Brunch buffet with complimentary mimosas. Activities for the kids include egg hunts, face painting, moon walk, Easter bunny photos and crafts. 11:30 a.m. ? 3:00 p.m. $45 adults, $25 children 6-12 years, free ages five and under. 404-303-0133

?by Jenny Turknett, Food & More blog

Source: http://blogs.ajc.com/food-and-more/2013/03/27/have-easter-plans-try-these-restaurants/?cxntfid=blogs_food_and_more

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Researchers trap light, improve laser potential of MEH-PPV polymer

Mar. 18, 2013 ? Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a low-cost way to enhance a polymer called MEH-PPV's ability to confine light, advancing efforts to use the material to convert electricity into laser light for use in photonic devices.

"Think of a garden hose. If it has holes in it, water springs out through a million tiny leaks. But if you can eliminate those leaks, you confine the water in the hose and improve the water pressure. We've plugged the holes that were allowing light to leak out of the MEH-PPV," says Dr. Lewis Reynolds, a teaching associate professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the research.

MEH-PPV is a low-cost polymer that can be integrated with silicon chips, and researchers have long sought to use the material to convert electricity into laser light for use in photonic devices such as optical amplifiers and chemical sensors. However, attempts to do this have failed because the amount of electricity needed to generate laser light in MEH-PPV was so high that it caused the material to degrade.

Now researchers have developed an inexpensive way to confine more light in the material, which lowers the energy threshold needed to produce focused laser light by 50 percent. The researchers did this by sandwiching the MEH-PPV between two materials that have matching indices of refraction, efficiently reflecting light back into the MEH-PPV and preventing light from escaping. This results in lower thresholds for laser light.

"This approach is fairly inexpensive and could also be easily scaled up for large-scale processing," Reynolds says.

The "sandwich" also makes the material more stable by limiting the MEH-PPV's exposure to oxygen. This makes the material less subject to degradation due to photo-oxidation, which occurs when materials are exposed to both light and oxygen.

"This is a meaningful step forward for low-cost fabrication of these devices, but further optimization is required," says Dr. Zach Lampert, a former Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of the paper. "We're working on that now."

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1. Zach E. Lampert, John M. Papanikolas, C. Lewis Reynolds. Enhancement of optical gain and amplified spontaneous emission due to waveguide geometry in the conjugated polymer poly[2-methoxy-5-(2?-ethylhexyloxy)-p-phenylene vinylene]. Applied Physics Letters, 2013; 102 (7): 073303 DOI: 10.1063/1.4793422

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Yes to Carrots Nourishing Shampoo Review - Makeup and Beauty ...

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Yes to Carrots Nourishing Shampoo Review

Yes to Carrots Shampoo can be purchased at Walgreens or Target and retails for $7.99.

Anyone who knows me knows that I?m not a hair person.

I?ll spend an hour on the perfect makeup look, but hair not so much?

My hairstyles of choice (a ponytail for day and a bun for night) take 10 minutes at most.

I?m totally not joking here folks I wish I was, but I?m not.

Some days I even dream about doing the Miley Cyrus/Charlize Theron chop, but then I remember how high maintenance short hair is and decide against it.

I think one of the reasons I?m not a hair person is because my hair is super thick.

So thick in fact that almost every hair stylist I?ve ever had complains about cutting it.

So it takes a lot of time and energy to make it look good otherwise it tends to just be flat, thick and blah.

One product that makes my hair look amazing though is Yes to Carrots Nourishing Shampoo.

Out of the bazillion shampoos I?ve tried in my lifetime it?s one of the best.

A true miracle worker for hair.

It makes my hair shiny, easy to manage and silky smooth.

My hair just wouldn?t be the same without it.

It looks so good in fact I almost want to leave it down and styled, but then I check the forecast and it?s going to be 80 degrees today so up in a ponytail it goes.

Because really who wants to wear their hair down when it?s 80 degrees and super humid outside?

Not I!

If you?re looking for an amazing shampoo for thick, hard to handle hair this just might be the product you?ve been looking for.

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Boehner Pressures Senate to Pass Budget or Have Pay Withheld

WASHINGTON - Despite President Obama's call for Congress to prioritize issues like immigration reform and address climate change during his inaugural address Monday, House Speaker John Boehner said that the House of Representatives will instead continue its focus on fiscal responsibility, including a plan to balance the budget over the next decade.

"There are a lot of priorities for the Congress [and] a lot of priorities for the president, but right now the biggest issue is the debt that's crushing the future for our kids and our grandkids," Boehner, R-Ohio, said. "Taxpayers understand that you can't keep spending money that you don't have, so we're going to continue to focus, especially here over this next 90-, 120-day period, on bringing some fiscal responsibility to Washington."

Boehner, who conducted his first news conference since Dec. 21 this evening, said the House will move forward on its No Budget No Pay act, which directs both chambers of Congress to adopt a budget resolution for FY 2014 by April 15, 2013. If either body fails to pass a budget, members of that body would have their paychecks put into an escrow account starting on April 16 until that body adopts a budget. But, because of the 27 th Amendment, any pay that is withheld would eventually be released at the end of the current Congress, even if a budget doesn't ever pass.

"Over the last four years, House Republicans have offered plans, our budget plans. We've done our budgets but it's been nearly four years since the Senate has done a budget," he said. "Most Americans believe you don't do your job you shouldn't get paid. That's the basis for No Budget, No Pay. It's time for the Senate to act."

The bill, H.R. 325, also temporarily suspends the statutory debt limit until May 18, granting the Treasury Department the additional borrowing authority to meet obligations that require payment over the next three months.

Facing trillion dollar annual budget deficits, Boehner told the House Republican Conference this afternoon that the GOP will advance a budget that becomes balanced over the next 10 years.

"It's time for us to come to a plan that will in fact balance the budget over the next 10 years," he added. "It's our commitment to the American people and we hope the Senate will do their budget as they should have done over the last four years."

Still, the country's growing $16 trillion federal deficit would not balance by then, and Boehner stressed that Republicans are not open to new tax revenue as part of a comprehensive plan to reduce the deficit.

"We are not going to raise taxes on the American people," Boehner insisted. "Nobody on our side is interested in raising taxes on the American people. It's time to deal with the serious problem that we have, which is spending."

That is sure to be a point of contention among Democrats. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer rejected the GOP's doggedness that new revenue would not be part of a package to reduce the deficit.

"We absolutely reject that. The president absolutely rejects it, I reject it, period," Hoyer, D-Md., said during a pen and pad briefing with reporters Tuesday. "Going forward, revenues are going to still need to be part of the solution, as are cuts and restraints and reduction of growth. All are going to have to be part of it."

The House is expected to vote Wednesday on a three-month increase to the debt limit, a move intended to sync up the next slate of fiscal deadlines facing Congress and provide lawmakers with more time to work out a so-called "Big Deal" on deficit reduction.

As he left the news conference, Boehner ignored a question about whether he believes the measure will pass. Still, the president has promised not to veto it and many congressional Democrats appear open to supporting it.

"This bill is a game bill. It's not a substantive response to a serious problem," Hoyer said. "Having said that, I've made it very clear that defaulting is not an option. All the Republicans leaders believe it's not an option. And so I think, in that context, I'll have to look at it."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-pressures-senate-pass-budget-pay-withheld-012551916--abc-news-politics.html

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Lutherans bristle at suggestion of joining Catholic Church

PARIS (Reuters) - Two leading Lutheran clerics have rejected suggestions from the Vatican that it could create a subdivision for converted Lutherans similar to its structures for Anglicans who join the Roman Catholic Church.

The dispute, concerning tiny numbers of believers but major issues in ecumenical relations, comes as the churches mark the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity this week.

Rev Martin Junge, the Chilean-born secretary general of the World Lutheran Federation (WLF), said in a statement that the suggestion caused great concern and would "send wrong signals to LWF member churches around the world."

Bishop Friedrich Weber, the German Lutheran liaison with the Catholic Church, said the idea was unthinkable and amounted to "an unecumenical incitement to switch sides."

The Vatican announced special structures for disaffected Anglicans in 2009, creating a so-called ordinariate so conservatives opposed to female and homosexual bishops could become Catholic while retaining some of their traditions.

Several thousand Anglicans, including dozens of priests and a few bishops, have joined ordinariates established in England, Australia and Canada. Married clergy are exempted from the obligatory celibacy of the Catholic priesthood.

Relations among Christian churches have improved greatly since the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council and most now see each other more as partners than as competitors. A Catholic bishop attended an ecumenical service Weber celebrated last Sunday.

But this Vatican welcome has raised suspicions among some Protestants that the huge Catholic Church, which makes up half the world's 2.2 billion Christians, now wants to woo away believers from smaller churches torn by internal debate.

IRRITATIONS OVER THE REFORMATION

While the Vatican's opening to Anglicans followed years of bitter public splits in that church, very few of the world's 75 million Lutherans seem interested in reunification with Rome.

Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, said last October the Vatican would consider creating an ordinariate if Lutherans asked for one.

Archbishop Gerhard Mueller, head of the Vatican's powerful doctrinal office, was reported in Catholic media last week as saying Rome might envisage a special section for Lutherans.

Junge said very few Lutherans wanted to switch to the Catholic Church and creating a special subgroup for them would complicate ties between the churches and confuse Lutherans who wanted to work in harmony with Catholics.

"Creation of such a special structure would have deep ecumenical repercussions," he said, mentioning the issue of how Christianity should be organized. Catholicism is united under the pope while Protestant churches are decentralized.

Weber told the German Protestant news agency Idea that Lutherans desiring full communion with Rome should simply join the Catholic Church rather than seek a special status in it.

He said subjugation to papal authority was alien to the Lutheran view of religious freedom, which Martin Luther set out after he challenged the corrupt papacy in 1517 with the 95 Theses that led to the Protestant Reformation.

Catholic-Lutheran relations have improved to the point that in 1999 they declared the theological dispute over justification - the way that believers can get to Heaven - that led to the Reformation had been resolved.

But Lutheran plans to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 have irritated German Catholic leaders who find the plan to call it a jubilee too triumphalist.

Initial work on a joint statement about the Reformation for the anniversary has highlighted how deeply the Lutherans see their split from Rome as a positive act and the Catholics view the division of western Christianity as a defeat.

(Reporting By Tom Heneghan; Editing by Jon Boyle)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lutherans-bristle-suggestion-joining-catholic-church-131448991.html

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Graham Spanier Seen Courtside At Penn State-Nebraska Game

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Ex-Penn State President Graham Spanier sat courtside at the school's men's basketball game against Nebraska on Saturday, making a rare high-profile appearance as he awaits trial on charges he hushed up child sex abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Spanier told The Patriot-News at halftime that he was "invited" to attend the game but wouldn't say by whom. He then said he "wasn't giving interviews." Nebraska narrowly edged out Penn State for the win, 68-64.

Spanier had been Penn State's president for 16 years when he was forced out after Sandusky's November 2011 arrest. He remains a faculty member but was placed on paid leave. He also served as chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1991 to 1995.

Sandusky, who spent decades on the Penn State staff and was defensive coordinator during two national championship seasons, was convicted in June of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years. He is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence and maintains his innocence.

Spanier was charged last November with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, failure to properly report suspected child abuse and conspiracy. Former Athletic Director Tim Curley and former Vice President Gary Schultz face the same charges.

The three are awaiting a preliminary hearing and have denied the accusations.

The abuse scandal rocked Penn State, bringing down Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno and leading the NCAA, college sports' governing body, to levy unprecedented sanctions against the university's football program.

A university-sanctioned investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh accused Spanier and Paterno of participating in a cover-up to protect the school's image.

Paterno died almost a year ago. His family has firmly denied the allegations of a cover-up.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/20/graham-spanier-courtside_n_2517589.html

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How to grow prospects into clients - Steve Gordon Marketing Systems

Last week I got a newsletter in the mail from colleague Jason Leister (you?ll hear more from him in a special interview on Wednesday?stay tuned).

One of the articles talked about the idea of ?growing clients.?
Something I?ve been thinking about for several months?

We underestimate the importance of the growing process for our clients?we expect that we?ll just show up and ?harvest? them.

Doesn?t work like that (and you know it).

And my last three new clients are poster children for the need to ?grow.?

One has been on my email list for almost three years. A year ago he bought a low-priced training course from me. Now he?s ready for 1-on-1 help.

The second, I?ve known in the business community for close to two years?said he?d been ?thinking about it for a while? and was now ready.

The third, I?ve met with a number of times over the last few years, he?s flirted with getting my help, but never committed until now.

They?ve all been ?with me? for YEARS. They all knew they had a problem or challenge that I might be able to help with?but they just weren?t ready yet.

And that?s OK.

I take the long view with my prospects (and you should too).

By the time each one approached me about working together, I had no competition. I worked for years to slowly build trust with them?one email or webinar or newsletter at a time.

I was patient and persistent.

And you know in your heart and in your head that patience and persistence pays off.

But you?re not doing it.

You don?t have a system to do it. (Hey, without a system I?d have never worked with these three clients.)

But you can get a system?a system like mine (and like the one these three clients will have soon).

All you have to do is take the first step here?

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