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It was a long day on Halloween, and I spent it at my nephew?s 7th birthday party. Cooking dinner was the last thing I felt like doing after spending the day entertaining 15 sugared-up little boys. So, Jim and I decided to check out a new dim sum and Chinese restaurant in Ranelagh, Mak at D6. I hadn?t heard much about it but we were in the neighbourhood, hungry and looking to try somewhere new.

For a start, what a lovely space! We were seated by a very friendly hostess at the window looking out onto the busy triangle. The restaurant was quiet enough: Halloween night in Ranelagh and all the mums and dads are busy taking their darlings trick or treating. We noticed that the tables weren?t too close together and the acoustics were perfect, creating a pleasant low hum, especially after the noisy day we?d had.

I love dim sum but have never found anywhere in Dublin that matches up to the great meals I?ve had in London. Mak at D6 has a great selection while also offering traditional Chinese cuisine. We ordered two bottles of Tsingtao beer (?5.25) which, personally, I think is a little expensive for a small bottle of beer, but it?s good beer all the same.

Onto the food. We asked our server for recommendations on the dim sum so after some deliberation we decided on Pork Bun (?5.50), Steamed Black Bean Ribs (?5), Prawn & Bamboo Potstickers (4 pc ?6.50), Salt & Pepper Calamari (?6.50), Aromatic Duck Pancakes, ? (?9.50) and a side dish of Singapore Noodles (?4.50). Oh my, but everything was delicious! So, so good. Stand out mentions to the potstickers and the calamari, both the best I?ve ever tasted in Ireland. The calamari almost made me weep tears of joy.

I probably wouldn?t order the pork bun again, there was absolutely nothing wrong with it but I?d never had it before and it just wasn?t to my taste. We were a bit worried when everything came out that it wouldn?t be enough but after we?d eaten we both felt satisfied without feeling horribly full. The meal wasn?t very cheap, including sparkling water our bill came to ?53.90, but anywhere with small sharing plates can add up, the quality is so good it?s worth it, and it?s in Ranelagh, which is basically it?s own micro-economy.

I?m already planning on going back to Mak at D6 with friends over Christmas. I think sharing dim sum makes a nice change to the same old set menus everywhere in December. It?s definitely going to be one for many repeat visits.

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Two highly recruited freshmen fell in love with their first Husker Heroes event earlier this week at the Hawks Championship Center, and the experience reminded both student-athletes why they chose Nebraska over multiple options.

"Hearing Keith Zimmer talk about life after football and life after college was a big differentiator in my recruiting," said Greg McMullen, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound freshman defensive end who chose Nebraska over Ohio State and Notre Dame.

"I want to major in special education, and Life Skills was a huge factor in my recruiting because of the way Nebraska serves others," said Kiki Stokes, a three-time prep All-America softball outfielder who selected Nebraska over Florida and Tennessee.

200 Student-Athletes Host 300 Special Guests

"We have some gifted freshmen student-athletes who come here wanting to make a difference and fully embrace being role models," said Keith Zimmer, Nebraska's associate athletic director for Life Skills. "It's exciting when you see 200 mostly freshmen student-athletes take the time to make 300 kids with special needs and 800 other members of their family feel so special."

"To me, reaching out to the community is a very important part of being a football player," said McMullen, who goes against Nebraska's first-team, high-octane offense every day. "These kids and their families appreciate us being here and interacting with them, but I don't know if they know how much they inspire us."

When McMullen was sizing up athletic programs, he analyzed integrity, honesty and respect. "Nebraska has been all of that," he said. "I have a friend who plays in another major conference, and they don't even talk about community involvement, let alone help others."

In Special Education Terms, She's No Rookie

Stokes says she grew up in a home where her mom was a day care provider for 14 years. "That's how I fell in love with special education," she said. "It was a cool experience for me to able to run a lot of different special education events. I've also been part of a high school mentoring program.

"Kids light up your heart," Stokes said, "because they have so much charisma. The way they can inspire you is just awesome. One little girl with Down Syndrome came up to me on Husker Heroes night to tell me that she plays softball, too, and loves coming to our games. Getting our autographs was a big deal to her, and she told us that she can't wait for the season to get started."

Scott and Christy Rine attended Husker Heroes with their two sons, Garrett, 7, and Keegan, 8. "Keegan was diagnosed with being Autistic when he was 3," Christy said. "Events like this make him seem like a normal kid for the moment."

Once He Warmed Up, He Had a Great Time

The Rines are thankful that Nebraska's Life Skills Department has the vision and the ability to marshal enough resources to host Husker Heroes. "Our son loves Husker sports, but can't handle being in a huge crowd most of the time," she said. "Watching him being able to interact with some Husker athletes one-on-one was amazing for him.

"He had to warm up first, but once he did he had the best time," Keegan's mother said. "We were just so impressed that so many athletes would show up on a Sunday night when it was raining. Everyone that we spoke to treated every child with the utmost respect, and I just love seeing that."

It would be difficult to determine which group benefited the most from Husker Heroes - the 1,100 total guests or their 200 student-athlete hosts. Based on what I saw, it would be a toss-up because everyone went home that night equally enriched by the experience.

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Remembering Bob Ross, the host of 'The Joy of Painting'

The Google homepage honors public television legend Bob Ross, who would have celebrated his 70th birthday today.?

By Matthew Shaer / October 29, 2012

The Google doodle today depicts Bob Ross, the host of "The Joy of Painting."

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The Google homepage today depicts a big-haired painter with a squirrel on his shoulder, a brush in his hand, and a look of bemused happiness on his face. The painter, of course, is Bob Ross, the resolutely earnest public television personality, who would have celebrated his 70th birthday today. From 1983 until 1994 ? a total of 403 episodes in all ? Ross hosted "The Joy of Painting," an unabashedly low-budget how-to guide.

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Ross's official Facebook page calls "The Joy of Painting" "the most popular art show" on TV. And maybe it was (no statistics are provided). But for many of us, it was simply?the mellifluous soundtrack ? as the Monitor's Molly Driscoll notes, Ross's voice had an?infamously?soporific?effect ? to a 1980s childhood. To others, it was the program starring the dude who kindly?fed?a baby squirrel with the world's smallest milk bottle.

As?Steven Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times notes today, Ross was more than a painter. He was icon, an innovator, a figure of genuine cult celebrity.

"You'd watch Ross quietly at home, half-admiringly and half-ironically, thinking you were one of the few," Zeitchik writes. "Meanwhile, millions of people around the country were doing the same. Long before there was viral video, Ross was going viral."

Robert Ross was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1942, and raised in Orlando.

He attended Orlando High School, and at the age of 19, he signed on with the Air Force. He was immediately dispatched to Alaska. "I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work," he later said of his time in the Air Force. "The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it."?

He left the Air Force in 1981, with a rank of master sergent, and studied for a time under William Alexander, the host of a television show called "The Magic World of Oil Painting." At first, he?taught art for a while for an art-supply company. Then Ross got the idea to submit his own audition video to public television stations. An outlet in Virginia?agreed to give him a pilot, and the rest is history.?

Ross, the New York Times wrote in an obituary, was an encouraging presence, who was convinced he could teach just about anyone to paint in half an hour.?His "folksy demeanor eventually came to be interpreted as a kind of reverse chic," the Times noted.?

Ross hosted "The Joy of Painting" for more than a decade ? more or less to the end of his life. He died in 1995.?

Ross's legacy has endured. According to his official Facebook page, The Joy of Painting is?carried by approximately 95 percent of all public television stations in the US, "accessing more than 93.5 million households." Foreign broadcasts reach a range of markets, including the UK, the Netherlands, Mexico, Switzerland,?The Philippines, South Korea, and Hong Kong.?

Meanwhile, dozens of Bob Ross instructional videos and books remain in print; a reported 3,000 teachers have been certified in the official "Bob Ross" style.

But you don't have to sign up for a class or purchase a book to learn from the master. Instead, you can navigate over to the Bob Ross topic page on YouTube, where dozens of clips of Ross ? and his disciples and fans ? are stored.?

Bob Ross aficionado??Drop us a line in the comments section. And for?more tech news, follow us on?Twitter @venturenaut.

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