Try some of the best authentic Greek foods available this side of the Ionian Sea: lamb or chicken kabobs (generous portions of seasoned meat with onion and green pepper slivers grilled on a skewer), grilled lamb dinners, pork or chicken souvlakia (smaller pieces of meat grilled on a skewer), gyro sandwich (a blend of beef and lamb with Mediterranean spices served on warm pita bread and topped with tomatoes, onions and traditional tzatziki sauce (yogurt, cucumber and garlic) sauce; pastitsio (seasoned ground beef and macaroni) and moussaka (seasoned ground beef and eggplant), ...

20 years to life in prison. That's what our client faced if he had been convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. That's how long he would have spent locked in a small room in prison, because he had a previous felony drug conviction. Like the majority of cases, this one settled before it reached trial. And because most cases settle before they reach trial, much of the art and skill of lawyering at the federal level is at the negotiation stage. Here, everything depends on the defense lawyer's ability to get the best results possible for his or her client ...

The Shopoff Group, an Irvine, California based progressive real estate investment company, has expanded its dynamic platform of investment products with the release of its newest offering, Shopoff Commercial Income Fund. This distinctive program was designed for California residents seeking to take advantage of off-market and value-added opportunities primarily in Southern California and the San Francisco area. "Shopoff Commercial Income Fund delivers what our clients and the marketplace have told us they want most in their real estate portfolios: California properties ...

Recent news reports in the transportation media indicate that financing for commercial truck purchases is becoming a little easier to find. But finance expert Patrick Gaskins says that the decision to choose a lender should not be focused strictly on interest rates. "Financing should be based on many factors, including fuel efficiency, maintenance costs, and resale value of the vehicle to be financed. These all impact the choice of the best financing solution," he explains in a blog posted on the AmeriQuest Transportation Services Website. Gaskins points to reports that ...

The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter H. Gistelinck as its new Executive Director, effective May 19, 2014. Mr. Gistelinck was unanimously approved by the KSO Board following a six-month nationwide candidate search process led by Arts Consulting Group, Inc. "We are absolutely thrilled to have Peter join us here in Kalamazoo," said Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Board President Doug Phillips. "Peter brings the right mix of artistic and administrative experience, with a perfect blend of tradition and innovation. ...

CMicrotek has announced the uCurrent Probe line of ultra-low current probes, optimized for the wide dynamic current ranges of today's battery powered products. "The latest generation of low-power micros can draw as little as 4 or 5 nA in sleep mode," explains Mike Lease, President and founder of CMicrotek. "Using the traditional method of measuring voltage drop across a sense resistor, an engineer can use a large enough resistor to measure such low currents with a standard scope probe. However, turn on a wireless radio and instantly the current draw can jump over 100,000 ...

Venue Valet, LLC announces CallConnect(TM), a patent-pending venue management system, now available and being showcased this week at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, NV. In collaboration with Entertainment Supply & Technologies, LLC. CallConnect benefits a wide variety of entertainment venues such as sports stadiums and arenas. This week's public launch of CallConnect at CinemaCon is directed at the movie theater industry. "The recent trend of movie theaters focusing their attention to providing a more complete 'dinner and a movie' experience has forced the industry to rethink ...

On April 15th, 2014 registration is open for contestants and sponsors to participate in the new World Ballet Art Competition, to be held at Living Arts Centre in Mississauga On November 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th in late 2014. The event is prepared with the intention to showcase the world's masters of ballet and to give the opportunity for dancers of all ages to learn from the best in the industry and present their talent on the world's stage. This special evening will provide qualified contestants with the chance to learn from the best in the industry, to be introduced ...

EDC Consulting LLC (EDC), a leading Federal government IT services provider and Oracle Platinum partner, today announced a successful "go live" of the U.S. Army's Integrated Personnel Pay System - Army (IPPS-A). As the prime contractor responsible for systems integration, EDC implemented PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1 software along with Oracle 11g database capabilities to develop IPPS-A Increment I. IPPS-A is a web-based resource designed to provide integrated multi-component personnel and pay capabilities and create a comprehensive personnel ...

After eight successful years with The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Executive Director Peter H. Gistelinck will resign his position at the end of the 2013-2014 season, on May 16, 2014. He leaves his role with the Chamber Orchestra to become Executive Director of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia has experienced pivotal growth under the leadership of Mr. Gistelinck. During his tenure, among other highlights, the organization has witnessed the hiring of current Music Director Dirk Brosse, partnerships with the prestigious ...

b2bYellowpages.com, a leading business-to-business (B2B) yellow pages announced today that its free all-inclusive advertising program now surpasses 35,000 listings. In addition to the websites nearly 15 million listings of businesses throughout the US, the program allows businesses the ability to additionally promote their company to millions of annual buyers with an extensive array of features. - Priority Listing in 4 Directory categories. - Priority Listing in Local Search Results - Submission of up to 20 keywords. - Their own web page that allows members to write ...

Dash's of Old Town, a menswear shop located in Alexandria, Virginia, has been honored with a recognition by the Washington Flyer Magazine, a publication produced by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for travelers in Washington Dulles and Reagan National airports, in its selection as one of the "Best Men's Wear Shops in the Washington, DC Area" in the December 2013 issue. The featured section highlights independent, local businesses inside the Capital Beltway that have established themselves as the "best of the best" across a variety of industries. Victor ...

Travel around Europe is set to become less expensive and easier to plan with the integration of ridesharing options into Rome2rio's popular journey planning site, rome2rio.com. "Ridesharing is typically a much more affordable choice than air and rail services, and we've made it easy to compare the cost of a rideshare trip to those more traditional options in our search results," said Rod Cuthbert, Rome2rio CEO. "Take for example a trip from Frankfurt to Munich, Germany. Deutsche Bahn's Inter-City Express train service is an obvious first choice, but at an average ...

Just in time for the release of the latest blockbuster movie starring colourful Jim Henson creations The Muppets, we've created a brand new 'Unusual Suspects' roller blind to pay homage to Kermit and his friends. The movie, which comes out at the end of March, is called 'Most Wanted' and is sure to be a huge hit with the kids. So what better way to celebrate these classic characters than a cool new roller blind design that the little ones will love. The design features funky illustrations of all your favourite Muppets standing with co-star Ricky Gervais in a police ...

In the Western world, bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the eighth most common in women, with many patients experiencing recurrence after treatment. A new study published in BJU International indicates that inheriting certain DNA sequences can affect a patient's prognosis. The findings may help physicians identify sub-groups of bladder cancer patients who should receive intensive treatment and monitoring. Nearly half of patients diagnosed with bladder cancer experience tumor recurrences, but it is difficult to predict which patients are at risk. ...

VIDEO: The video shows how much goats like cognitive challenges and their motivation to access the box. This goat, called Willow, had already learned how to use the box and retrieve... Click here for more information. Goats learn how to solve complicated tasks quickly and can recall how to perform them for at least 10 months, which might explain their remarkable ability to adapt to harsh environments, say researchers at Queen Mary University of London. Writing in the journal ...

Male bears are seemingly always on the prowl, roaming much greater distances than females, particularly for mating. For bear evolution, studying the paternally inherited Y chromosome is therefore a rich source to trace both the geographic dispersal and genetic differences between bear species. This new study is particularly important, because a large part of our current knowledge about range-wide population structuring in mammals relies on data from maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). More extensive male than female movement in bears and many other mammals ...

Influential economic ideas first advanced in 1911 — stressing innovation and entrepreneurialism as the fundamental generators of growth and wealth — were deemed inappropriate for developing countries, stunting progress in many parts of the world throughout the 20th century, says a distinguished Harvard academic. In a newly-published paper, Calestous Juma of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs calls on emerging economy countries and development agencies to revisit and adopt ideas rejected in the 1950s by "pessimistic" architects ...

The Joint British Societies' consensus recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (JBS3), which have been drawn up by *11 UK professional societies and charitable organisations, are based on the latest available scientific evidence. They emphasise the importance of putting patients in the driving seat and starting preventive action early on, using a new method of risk assessment - the JBS3 risk calculator. Heart disease deaths have almost halved over the past 40-50 years, particularly in high income countries, thanks largely to the identification of ...

Doctors routinely record blood pressure levels that are significantly higher than levels recorded by nurses, the first thorough analysis of scientific data has revealed. A systematic review led by the University of Exeter Medical School, and supported by the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care in the South West Peninsula (NIHR PenCLAHRC), has discovered that recordings taken by doctors are significantly higher (by 7/4mmHg) than when the same patients are tested by nurses. Dr Christopher Clark, of the ...

VIDEO: Millions of children in the UK are potentially receiving penicillin prescriptions below the recommended dose for common infections, according to new research led jointly by researchers at King's College London,... Click here for more information. Millions of children in the UK are potentially receiving penicillin prescriptions below the recommended dose for common infections, according to new research led jointly by researchers at King's College London, St George's, ...

Scientists have used one of the brightest lights in the Universe to expose the biochemical structure of a 50 million-year-old fossil plant to stunning visual effect. The team of palaeontologists, geochemists and physicists investigated the chemistry of exceptionally preserved fossil leaves from the Eocene-aged 'Green River Formation' of the western United States by bombarding the fossils with X-rays brighter than a million suns produced by synchrotron particle accelerators. Researchers from Britain's University of Manchester and Diamond Light Source and the Stanford ...

Knowing what another person wants is not a trivial issue, particularly when the other's desires are different from our own. The ability to disengage from our own desire to cater to someone else's wishes is thought to be a unique feature of human cognition. New research challenges this assumption. Despite wanting something different to eat, male Eurasian jays can disengage from their own current desire in order to feed the female what she wants even when her desires are different to his. The study, which was funded by the BBSRC, is published today in the Royal Society ...

A study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) is the first to provide direct evidence that fetal brain response to a dose of sugar given orally to its mother is associated with the mother's insulin sensitivity. This may indicate that the risk of subsequent obesity and diabetes may be pre-programmed in the womb. The study is by Dr Hubert Preissl and Dr Andreas Fritsche, University of Tübingen, Germany and German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, and colleagues. Diabetes or obesity in the mother ...

Improving cooking fuels and kitchen ventilation is associated with better lung function and reduced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to research published in this week's PLOS Medicine. The study, led by Pixin Ran from the Guanzhou Medical University, China, followed 996 villagers from southern China for 9 years to examine the effects of cleaner fuels and better kitchen ventilation on lung function and disease. An estimated 3 billion people worldwide heat their homes and cook by burning biomass such as wood or animal dung. The resulting indoor air ...