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Los Angeles, CA, United States (CNS) – With record-breaking video game sales this year, it’s clear that, even in this economy, people are working hard but playing even harder. After hundreds of votes, these are games voted by Celebrity News Service readers as the Top 10 Best Video Games of 2010.

Top 10 Best Video Games of 2010

10. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, DS, PC)

Lego and Harry Potter team up again to bring Harry, Ron, and Hermione to, well, block in this game based on the first four books and movies.

9. Bayonetta (PS3, Xbox 360)

This action-packed title bewitched gamers all year with the sexy title character’s magical attacks, including using her long locks as a weapon.

8. Epic Mickey (Wii)

Disneyland goes dark in this new Wii-exclusive game, which features the titular hero entering a cartoon wasteland of forgotten characters and abandoned attractions in order to fight forces of evil.

7. Donkey King Country Returns (Wii)

Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are back in full swing in the first traditional Donkey Kong game in years. Both retro and new-school, the reviews this game has received since its release last month are bananas.

6. Heavy Rain (PS3)

Part film noir, part crime thriller, Heavy Rain investigates the serial murders of the Origami Killer in a game that critic Tim Clark “one of the freshest, most exciting, and even important games on PS3 so far.”

5. Red Dead Redemption (PS3, Xbox 360)

Rockstar Games released this action-packed western earlier this year to wild acclaim as gamers bring former outlaw John Marston to justice as he hunts for his former gang members.

4. Michael Jackson The Experience (Wii, DS, PSP)

As other dance games come and go, Michael Jackson The Experience is the only game to feature the timeless music and choreography of the King of Pop. From greatest hits like “Bad” and “Beat It,” to lesser-known tracks like “Ghosts” and “Streetwalker,” The Experience is thrilling MJ fans everywhere.

3. Angry Birds/Angry Birds Seasons (Apple iOS, Android, Maemo, Palm webOS)

Released late last year, this mobile game where players slingshot birds for points also launched versions for all kinds of smart phones platforms and even a seasonal spin-off. Its mix of humor, addictive replay value, and low price earned it millions of devotees.

2. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, DS, PC)

The last installment in the “Call of Duty” series boasted record-breaking sales and the voice talents of “Avatar” star Sam Worthington, Gary Oldman, and Ed Harris, among others. This first-person shooter takes place during the Cold War and its one of the hottest games of the year.

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)

The sequel finds Mario in familiar territory, following Bowser to outer space where he’s captured Princess Peach. But this re-telling not only improves upon the original, it’s one of the best-reviewed games in years, earning a perfect score from GameSpot and IGN UK, among others, and being voted in as the best game of 2010 by our readers.

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Los Angeles, CA, United States (CNS) – Justin Bieber had fans flock to Wal-Mart for the release of his exclusive “My Worlds Acoustic” album. But if they want to hear the album through his new headphones, they’ll have to head to Best Buy.

Bieber just released his own line of headphones, Justbeats by Dr. Dre, exclusively at Best Buy. Bieber joins Lady Gaga and, of course, Dr. Dre as the latest artists who released their own line of headphones under the Beats by Dr. Dre moniker.

The headphones come in Justin’s favorite color purple and are available as on-ear Justbeats by Dr. Dre Solo Headphones and in-ear iBeats by Dr. Dre Justbeats Edition headphones.

Both sets of headphones include ControlTalk features, which allows users of the headphones to answer calls while listening to music on some iPods, iPhones, and and Blackberrys.

Fans can purchase the headphones at Best Buy stores or at the website.

The Justbeats Solo Headphones retail for $199.95, while the iBeats Justbeats Edition headphones retail for $119.95. They’re currently available for $179.95 and $99.95 on the Best Best Buy website, respectively.

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If you were playing a word association game, the word “Denny’s,” wouldn’t be confused with “gourmand” or “high of the line.” It’s not a place known for luxurious accomodations, or five famous person cuisine. Denny’s is merely a smart place to urge a meal, when an evening of partying or before daily of fishing. The majority of of their locations are open 24 hours every day/twelve months a year, which them convenient for these purposes. Denny’s has been around since the 50′s, when the first location was opened in California by Harold Butler. They currently have over 1600 locations in the United States, with over one thousand of those being franchised possessed. This suggests that Denny’s is the the majority of important full service family vogue restaurant in the country, and they’re visible in communities on both the East and West coasts. The majority of of them are located off of primary intersections, or by exits on interstates. This typically leads to an interesting clientele, and Denny’s has had issues with how individuals are treated.

Although Denny’s is known for its positive commercials,including the one where the woman refers to it as “Lenny’s”, this chain has had some valid issues in the last decade. There were various incidents of poor service involving minorities, including a well publicized 1 with a cluster of United States Secret Service agents. When lawsuits and boycotts, Denny’s finally set to increase its diversity training. They have a zero tolerance policy for any sort of discrimination, and have signed charters with African Yank and Hispanic advocacy teams to increase opportunities for minorities in the company. Additionally, Denny’s has been a good corporate citizen towards underprivileged youngsters, as they’re a serious sponsor of the organization “Save the Children.” Every year they donate some of their proceeds to the present, and even sell merchandise like ties,shirts, and hats to bring it required funding. I have been in Denny’s many times, and at a heap of their locations in the Mid Atlantic Region. I’ve got never seen any activity that would seem to be discriminatory, and my acquaintances are diverse and eclectic. Service could be a serious issue with Denny’s, as all locations have a ton of inconsistency. It is either outstanding, or bottom of the barrel. I have been striveing to find a contented medium for years in this regard, but it is just not possible. A heap of this is often due to the dimensions of the crowds, and how fast they’re arriving at the restaurant. On Friday and Saturday nights, there is invariably a substantial anticipate a table in non-smoking or the smoking sections.

The neat half concerning Denny’s, is that you’ll order breakfast at any time of day. But, when a night of drinking at my local bar, I usually opt for the appetizer/dinner menu. Denny’s lunch/dinner menu encompasses a lot of alternatives also, and their menu things include: Chicken Strips, Turkey and Stuffing, Steak Dinner, Fish and Chips, Country Fried Chicken, Steak and Shrimp, Classic Burger, Bacon Double Cheese Burger, Mushroom Burger, BLT, Boca Burger(Vegetarian), Club Sandwiches, Super Birds, Delidingers, Chicken Melts, etc. Their burgers are to be avoided. Although the Boca Burger may be a Soy Burger, I’m convinced the rest of their line has that as a additive. I can not prove this, but they’re disgusting.

The standard is at the lowest common demoninator, and it does not matter if you raise for it charred. You will still style how nasty it’s. For all of my vegetarian acquaintances(I am sorry, I am unable to do it), there are more options to settle on from then the Boca Burger. There’re salads which include: garden salad. They do not provide much, I’m sorry! If you like salad with meat, then you’ll be able to select from their Chef, Taco, Fried Chicken Strip, and Grilled Chicken Breast varieties. I can not say how smart they are, since I have never ordered any of them. However, their soups are quite decent, and style recent and yummy. Their soups are chicken noodle, broccoli and cheddar, clam chowder, and vegetable beef. Whoever created their Clam Chowder is from Spanking new England-it is very good.

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San Francisco, CA, United States (AHN) – California’s commuter train service, Caltrain, has approved a proposal to raise fares and cut service to address a $2.3 million budget shortfall.

The rail service’s board of directors voted Thursday to charge 25 cents more for each zone. The increase means a rider traveling from San Francisco to Atherton stations will pay $6.50 instead of $6.00. Caltrain has six zones beginning in San Francisco and ending in Gilroy.

The price of the annual Go Pass will be $155, up from $140.

The board also decided to stop midday trains 236, 237, 256 and 257. The four trains ply the San Francisco-San Jose route.

The changes take effect on Jan. 1.

Caltrain expects to earn an additional $1.4 million from the zone fare hike, and $150,000 from the Go Pass increase.

The agency has received more than 1,500 comments from riders during a month-long public comment period. Some groups had put forth formal proposals, such as the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.

Caltrain had been considering more cuts but decided against reducing weekday early morning and evening service since many commuters would be left without a means to get to work.

Agency executive director Michael Scanlon made clear last month the changes would be the first of many because of a projected budget deficit of nearly $30 million in fiscal year 2012.

“These will be the good old days compared to what we will face in July,” Scanlon had said.

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POS for restaurant are an important aspect of point-of-sale. Good POS solution have been making the complicated hospitality management as easy as typing just a few words into a computer—that’s all it takes. Manual order taking and passing it on to the kitchen is sometimes becomes a cumbersome job and then bringing the food to the table is again time consuming. All in totality will take at least half an hour. Bar POS service for bar restaurant has made this work easy task. Here you will have touch-screen menus, remote ordering and printing, automated billing, and guest account organization and staff supervision at your fingertips.

We believe in running our organization smoothly and have introduced three different POS for business that are for our front-office, back-office and kitchen administration. To provide the fast customer services and order management of a restaurant, the track number of the customer can be easily kept in track. Our system basically consists of administration software that has electronic menu screens and order processing through monitors. The fast POS has given us the organized running of the restaurant with an accurate record of minute-to-minute activities on any particular day. The latest pos service for restaurant is very helpful in storing the information in single database on timekeeping, inventory, stock management, security and there are other activities too, to keep the restaurant open and running.

Being having different departments, our pos cash drawers require input and output devices as in any other computer system. The keyboards and the touch-screen line displays as input devices, while others use electronic cash registers as both input and output devices. According to the customer demand, the touchscreen POS software, used by us acts as sophisticated cash registers with printers and monitors in different, but convenient locations and connected through an interface to the server at the back office.

We have a careful consideration of different activities that are needed to be controlled by the electronic POS in a food establishment. The cheap pos program launched by us has now been used in almost every restaurant and retail store for employing hospitality in one flavor or other. There has been a great advancement in computer technology and our cheap POS price that has made it possible for smaller retail outlets and fast food stores to compete on a level playing field against large corporations with out breaking the bank.

Allowing many of the smaller retail chains to purchase the quick pos, POS technology has come down in price over the years to an affordable level. Advanced pos is easy to manage, modular yet simple and easy to update, food pos for bar and restaurant is designed allowing smaller restaurants and shops to install basic systems and software functionality with the ability to upgrade by switching on built in modules as and when business dictates.

In our POS, you can assign multi-level user-access for your managers, servers, bartenders, and above all for you as the owner. This guarantees that responsive information related to sales-figures or wages are not compromised at any level. All POS software endow with proper utilities to backup your data in safe online locations.

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Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Burdened by a weak economy and the use of electronic communications, the Postal Service is studying options to keep itself viable after its request for a 2 cent increase in rates was denied.

The agency wanted to raise the price of first class mail to 46 cents, and that of postcards to 30 cents by next year. The Postal Regulatory Commission, however, unanimously ruled Thursday against a rate hike, saying there were no exigent circumstances to justify it.

The Postal Service has the power, under a 2006 law, to implement rate increases higher than the annual cap but only during exigent situations such as a natural disaster or terror attack.

“The Postal Service’s cash flow problem is not a result of the recession and would have occurred whether or not the recession took place. lt is the result of other, unrelated structural problems and the proposed exigent rate adjustments would neither solve nor delay those problems,” the commission said.

The author of the 2006 law, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), had opposed the request for a price increase.

“In addition to not meeting the criteria set forth in the law, the exigent rate case is simply a bad business decision,” she said in a statement. “Rather than help restore postal solvency, an exigent rate increase will worsen the Postal Service’s crisis by further driving down mail volumes and thus revenues.”

The Postal Service expects a budget gap of about $7 billion next year despite cost cutting measures worth $10 billion in the last three years.

The agency receives no federal funds for its operations and depends only on revenues from postage and other services. It wants Congress to restructure its $5.5 billion annual payment to the Retiree Health Benefit Fund, an obligation it said it was able to pay for this fiscal year.

“The financial risk remains,” said postmaster general John Potter. “We will carefully manage every dollar we spend in the upcoming fiscal year. Our current forecast shows that we will not have sufficient cash to make the $5.5 billion payment due on Sept. 30, 2011.”

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Nothing can make a trip to Italy more enjoyable and rewarding than a great dining experience—that is, of course, if you know what you’re ordering! This handy, pocket-sized guide helps you navigate Italian menus, in addition to steering you to some great Italian restaurants, bistros, cafes, wine shops, and food markets. Most of the book is a comprehensive menu reader, translating thousands of Italian words into English. There are also sections on restaurant etiquette, a pronunciation guide, English-to-Italian words and phrases, and descriptions of the many different kinds of eating establishments in Italy.   Reviews: “…an opinionated little compendium…the right size for a traveler”—The New York Times … More >>

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There are many different types of Italian Restaurants and dining experiences. There is the Osteria, which cater to simple regional foods of the area. These usually are open for dinner service but sometimes open for lunch. Then there is the Agriturismo. These are working farms that serve meals to guests. Their establishment has a green and gold sign with fork and knife. The Birreria is a bar that serves beer found in the northern and central areas of Italy. The Caffe or Bar serves patrons alcohol, coffee, and sodas. The cuisine is usually Paninis, sputini, tramezzini, and brioche. The Frasca are Friulian wine makers that serve patrons at night, and sometimes food also. The Paninoteca is a daytime sandwich place. The Pizzeria is a pizza shop that makes pizza in wood fire stoves that come from Italy. Ristorantes are restaurants that serve fine dining Italian cuisine with fancy menus. A Spaghetteria serves mainly Italian pasta dishes. There is also the Tavola Calda, which serves regional dishes that are pre made. Last but not least is the Trattoria. It is a family owned and operated Italian dining restaurant. It is usually very affordable.

Italy is the leading wine producer in the world. These wines are made to complement their Italian cuisine. The holiday cuisine in Italy is different from America. On Christmas Eve they have a meatless meal, and serve Tortellini on Christmas Day. On Easter the Italians serve lamb.

In New York there are many Italian restaurants to enjoy. But for a truly authentic Italian dining experience you should try Monte’s Trattoria. Monte’s is located in the heart of Greenwich Village of New York City. It is on MacDougal St. between West 3rd St. and Bleeker. Monte’s has been around since 1918. They serve authentic and traditional Italian cuisine. The atmosphere is always warming, friendly, and cozy. They treat you like family and the service is excellent. The chef even comes out to the tables and talk to the customers. So if you want a unique Italian dining experience when in New York, then try Monte’s Trattoria.

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How to Open a Financially Successful Pizza & Sub Restaurant

The global financial crisis has made it quite difficult for companies, especially small businesses, to get business loans. Ironically, it is also in this situation that smaller companies often need additional capital infusion to boost income. You may need to get small business loans to acquire a better business location, construct a new building, renovate your premises, pay for new equipment, fixtures or furniture or increase inventory and working capital.

Most Small Business Loans Require Collateral

To get business loans, even small business loans, is a major challenge.

First you need to identify which among the many types of small business loans you need. Small business loans ranging from $5,000.00 to $35,000.00 are called micro loans. For larger needs, such as for the acquisition of land, buildings and other major fixed assets, development financing is what you should find. There are also import export loans as well as franchise financing. Do your research to find out if you are qualified for small business loans guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration or SBA.

Any of these small business loans will require extensive preparations and paperwork. As a small business owner, you will need to prove your credit worthiness through a personal credit history report. Lenders will also require a business plan which includes your credentials as the business owner, your company financial statements, business assets and an analysis of your market. All of these should be packaged in a professional loan proposal which presents how the loaned amount will be used to strengthen the business and how you intend to repay the loan. Most of all, you need to present your loan collateral – the assets you will put up to secure the loan.  

Quick and Easy Small Business Loans with No Collateral

For smaller acquisitions or day to day business needs, there is a way for entrepreneurs to get small business loans easily and quickly with no collateral. This is through merchant services.

Merchant services provide credit card services to businesses. This enables them to accept and process payments through credit cards or debit cards either through face to face purchases, online transactions, or even by phone or fax. Merchant service providers supply terminal equipment for card swiping, as well as the necessary software and high speed IP solutions.

Most businesses need credit card services since consumers routinely pay for goods and services through credit cards and debit cards these days. If your business has not taken this step yet, you may have been missing out on more than half of your income potential.

These same merchant services also provide the solution for your small business loans. Collateral-free loans can be availed of through their cash advances, with the loan amount computation based on the monthly credit card revenue your business generates. Credit card sales requirements may be as low as $3,000.00 a month. You will not be asked for collateral since your future revenue is your collateral.  

The best types of merchant cash advances do not require fixed monthly payments nor do they impose deadlines on loan payment. A certain percentage is instead deducted automatically from your credit card revenue each month to go towards loan payment. This way, you never have to worry about loan amortization.

Once your cash advance has been fully paid, you may apply for another one. It is like having a revolving credit line. Make sure that you compare the terms of several merchant service providers, though, and read the fine print on contracts. There are so many merchant service providers competing for your business that you’ll surely find one that fits your needs.