| New restaurant adds its Italian flavor to the Power & Light District
Vinino features polished wood, a tiered dining room, a lounge with Pottery Barn-perfect couches and a newly inaugurated raw bar, where customers can feast on oysters on the half-shell and other seafood. The west side of the space looks out onto the courtyard of the entertainment district, where live music will headline under a translucent canopy. Former Phillips ChopHouse executive chef Marshall Roth is overseeing the kitchen and polishing up the menu. It is enticing: small plates like Skewered "Angry" Prawns — grilled medium-sized shrimp served with wedges of Yukon gold potatoes — or Grilled Calamari, the bodies, with tendrils attached, lounging atop a romaine heart pedestal like a Varga '40s pinup girl. I liked the Pickled Beet Salad — golden and red pickled beets encircled a handful of arugula, which was positioned next to a silver-dollar-sized slice of warm goat cheese.
Some of my best friends are cyberpenguins
One of the most valuable, yet bewildering, facets of parenthood is that it often makes you feel as if you have pressed an existential "fast forward" button. Everything seems to happen so quickly. Personally, I feel as if I am still learning to breathe my way through that first contraction, but no. Here I am with a four-year-old and a seven-year-old, already, and the four-year-old wants her own Frank Sinatra CD "because you godda love Frank", and the seven-year-old wants her own e-mail address, so she can join Club Penguin. Club Penguin is kind of like Second Life for kids - First Life, I guess, given that they haven’t really done much yet, except wobble their teeth around until they fall out. However, instead of being sexy avatars dressed in sexy Abercrombie & Fitch, who spend all day trying to have sex, as on Second Life, on Club Penguin the kids are just ovoid penguins in bobble hats, looking for fish.
Bennett backs private school ban
The Independent Schools Council rejected his stance, saying private education was a "human right". The row comes as arguments continue over the charitable status of public schools - which some critics say amounts to a state subsidy for rich fee-paying parents. 'Elephant in the room' Mr Bennett's successful play, which tells the story of a group of grammar school boys trying to get into Oxford and Cambridge, has reopened in London's West End. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Bennett described the abolition of fee-paying schools as the "elephant in the room" that no-one would talk about. .
After chaos, buyers dig deep for BHP
The most popular buy for its clients was BHP, which fell to as low as $31 from highs of about $47. A Commsec spokesperson confirmed the most popular buy there yesterday was also BHP, followed by NAB, Oxiana, Lend Lease, Woolworths and Wesfarmers. Woolies had dropped to about $29, having reached $33, while NAB is trading at about $32. Unlike in the US, the Australian economy is not at risk of recession. Quite the opposite, with 17 years of economic growth having awakened an inflation genie and risks of interest rate rises. On days like Tuesday, fear and greed rule and the uneducated follow the mob out the door. This is different from a market where fundamentals such as company profits prevail. Inevitably, the market reverts to fundamentals, and that's the time to buy.
US Asia Policy Specialist Heads Korean Uni.
If there is any sense that the long-term security situation is instable, that may make the prospects look cloudy, even if the potential on the ground is great. So the unresolved problems with North Korea that I have devoted my work to are deeply linked to the projects of a business school, and it is natural that I should be here.
The progress we have had so far in integrating North Korea into the international community has generated considerable investment opportunities over the last two decades. There remains much opportunity, but it is dependent on an improved security environment. For example, there is a Tuman River economic zone in North Korea up near the Russian and Chinese border that offers immense potential, but it has been languishing for years. The security environment has not encouraged people to invest there.
Tiger Direct lists the Toshiba HD-A3 for $129.99
DailyTech brought you steady coverage over the past week concerning the latest news in the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray wars. Unless you've been living under a rock, you by now already know that Warner Bros. made the decision to back Blu-ray exclusively. The move by Warner Bros. was followed by similar actions from New Line Home Entertainment and HBO Home Video. Recent stories have even suggested that Paramount is also tossing around the idea of supporting the Blu-ray disc standard. Toshiba apparently doesn't want to go down without a fight and is instead slashing the prices on its HD DVD players. Toshiba's second generation HD-A2 players previously dipped down to the sub-$100 mark during November -- but that was during the traditional holiday buying season and not truly indicative of regular retail pricing.
The Maddox Corollary
After five years of writing this NFL column, I'm lodging an official protest. Every week during the season, I bang out my research on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, watch all the relevant shows, grab a post-"Survivor" coffee and write until the wee hours of Thursday night. That's my routine. And over the years, I came to grips that things can change from Friday morning (my last chance to change a pick) to Sunday morning (when games start on the West Coast). Six or seven times a year, I'll get screwed by a late pregame injury or an unforeseen weather report. I'm fine with this. But I'm drawing the line with last week's Tommy Maddox debacle. On Sunday morning, right around 9:48, my daughter and I were watching the pregame shows when we saw a chilling graphic flash on the bottom of the screen: "MADDOX TO START FOR STEELERS." Now ...
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