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PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Pearl Road is lined with summer-dining options, but here are a few places that offer outdoor seating, bars and summer specials.
Brew House: This bar and grill is a new addition to Parma Heights. Itopened a few months ago after the city granted owner Mas Ahmed his liquor license and renovations on the building were complete.
Brew Houseis open from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. on weekdays and on weekends is open at 11 a.m.
"We get so packed on the weekends," Ahmed said, adding that Thursdays at Brew House will be ladies night starting on Aug. 7. "I want this to be more than just another sports bar. Guys can watch sports here while eating calamari or drinking a variety of beers."
Brew House has a patio with a tiki bar that can seat 36. However, he said the patio usually fills up with more than 70 people when the weather is nice.
He said the most popular drink is the strawberry and chocolate martini, but he won't say what's in it because it a Brew House specialty. The $8-drink tastes like a chocolate covered strawberry.
"I'll be honest with you, this drink has been popular with both ladies and men," Ahmed said.
Flyers: Another restaurant and bar native to Parma Heights is Flyers on Pearl Road.
Owner Cheryl Staursky, of Middleburg Heights, said Flyers is a "mom and pop place," and has been in Parma Heights for 18 years. She owns and runs the bar and grill with her husband, three sons and parents.
Flyers' happy hour runs from its 11 a.m. opening to 7 p.m. The restaurant has different specials every day, such as 40 cent wings on Mondays and mussels, tacos and burritos on Wednesdays for $1.50 per dozen.
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Sally Jewell has been in her Cabinet position for more than a year, but how much do we really know about her? We know she was the chief executiveof Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) before becoming interior secretary, and before that worked as an oil engineer for Mobil.
But what about the big stuff? Her hopes and dreams (other than climate change legislation), and, the really important questions, like her favorite foods? We learned, among other things, that the lover of the outdoors is not a huge TV watcher (not a huge surprise, there) if shes stuck inside shed much rather be cutting up jigsaw puzzles.
Which Cabinet secretary would you most like to (or do you) hang out with, and what would you do?
Sylvia Burwell. Besides being multifaceted (reallyOffice of Management and Budgetand now Health and Human Services), we share a common connection to Seattle, an appreciation for good, wild salmon and a commitment to connecting children to nature and the great outdoors.
Whats your favorite non-work-related Web site/blog/app/magazine?
National Geographic. Nat Geo takes me on an adventure every time I read it.
Fill in the blank: People would be surprised to know that I _________.
Cut jigsaw puzzles as a hobby. Picking up the skill from my father, learned from his aunt who made a living during the depression cutting diabolically difficult puzzles, it has been a fun family tradition. My son has now learned the skill, proposing to his new wife through a jigsaw puzzle it took her three days to find the marry me message.
Whats your dream job (other than your current gig)?
While this is a great job, and leading REI was hard to beat, being a back-country park ranger working with children would be great. My favorite office is the one with no walls.
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer
It's been a frustrating month for Elena Delle Donne.
Chicago's star forward has been sidelined with a recurrence of Lyme disease that's forced her to miss 17 of the Sky's last 18 games.
She'll make her return to the lineup Thursday night when Chicago hosts New York in a key Eastern Conference matchup. Delle Donne said she's not feeling 100 percent yet, but is good enough to be back on the court.
"I've gone through this before twice in college and it wasn't fun," Delle Donne said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. "It's not like an injury where you know you'll be better in six weeks and then back to 100 percent in eight weeks."
Delle Donne won't start and hopes to play about 20 minutes against New York in her first game back since the team announced she would be sidelined indefinitely on June 27. She played briefly at Connecticut the day before she left the team. She then headed home to Delaware to receive treatment.
"I know I'll be a bit rusty and honestly I still feel some of the symptoms, but I know I'm ready to go," Delle Donne said.
Sky coach Pokey Chatman said she'll monitor Delle Donne, hoping to play her for a few minutes at a time to gauge how the reigning rookie of the year is feeling.
"I hope to get her about 3 or 4 minutes at a time and go from there," Chatman said. "Every time she comes out of the game, she'll talk to the trainer and my assistants to see how she's doing."
Unlike many players in the league who play overseas in the winter, Delle Donne spent that time in Chicago to help grow the Sky's fan base. She felt the best she's been in a long time and the 25-year-old started to wean off some of her medication. That may have caused the recurrence.
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By JEFF HORWITZ Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Companies overseeing millions of mortgage loans appear to be skirting new federal regulations and legal settlements intended to stop them profiteering at the expense of troubled homeowners.
They are selling or have sold nearly nonexistent insurance agencies - in some cases with no offices, no websites and only a single registered agent - in multi-million dollar deals, as new rules prohibit them from collecting commissions on insurance they force homeowners to buy.
The deals illustrate how regulators are still wrestling with messy banking practices more than six years after the housing market's collapse. They also mean that newly sold insurance agencies have an incentive to compel struggling homeowners to buy costly policies, to justify the high sales prices commanded when the insurance agencies were sold.
The deals involve "force-placed insurance," a type of backup property insurance meant to protect mortgage investors' stake in uninsured properties. Standard mortgages require borrowers to maintain homeowners insurance and authorize the loan's servicer to buy coverage when borrowers don't. If the borrowers don't pay for the new insurance, servicers foreclose on their properties and stick the bill to mortgage investors.
Even before the housing boom, mortgage servicers found ways to profit from buying insurance with other people's money. Insurance carriers paid banks including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup to buy policies at inflated prices, according to an investigation by New York's Department of Financial Services. To hide this "kickback culture," as New York regulators described it, some servicers created virtual insurance agencies and disguised illicit payments as commissions.
New rules by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, investigations by state regulators and class-action settlements now prohibit servicers from collecting commissions on such insurance policies, and the country's biggest brand-name banks have renounced the practice.
But some of the largest subprime mortgage servicers in the country - companies that handle the troubled loans most likely to be subject to the insurance policies - appear to skirt those rules or have already made profitable business arrangements that comply with them.
Because people tend to stop paying insurance when they're struggling to keep up with their mortgage, the collapse of the housing market after 2007 turned the practice into a multi-billion dollar industry. In many ways, force-placed insurance's rise reflected the behavior that fed the housing bubble: After profiting from putting borrowers in homes they couldn't afford, mortgage companies were profiting from inflated insurance bills they assigned to homeowners at risk of foreclosure.
The country's second largest non-bank mortgage servicer, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc., has been trying to sell an insurance agency for roughly $100 million, according to people familiar with the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sale.
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By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer
RENTON, Wash. (AP) - Marshawn Lynch's holdout is over, ending one distraction so far for the Super Bowl champions.
Lynch arrived at the Seattle Seahawks practice facility on Thursday afternoon following the team's morning practice. The team confirmed Lynch had reported for camp, ending a holdout that spanned a week.
Lynch was caught by television cameras talking on his phone out near the Seahawks practice fields wearing a hooded "Beast Mode" sweatshirt and knit cap on an 85 degree day. He was later hanging out in the lobby of the facility.
ESPN reported earlier Thursday that Lynch was expected to end his holdout. Seattle coach Pete Carroll said after practice that he did not know if Lynch was on the verge of reporting.
"Hopefully he's here," quarterback Russell Wilson said after practice. "He's such a good football player we would love to have him here and he's done a tremendous job for us since I've been here. I know that. He's had some unbelievable runs for us."
Lynch must still pass his physical and be added to the active roster. Seattle's roster is currently at the 90-man limit.
Lynch missed the first week of training camp unhappy with his contract status. Lynch is scheduled to make up to $5.5 million this season in base pay and roster bonuses. It's the third year of a four-year deal Lynch signed before the 2012 season.
Seattle made clear on the first day of training camp that it had a plan in place before Lynch signed his extension and it was not inclined to stray from those plans.
"We've had a substantial plan working for us for years now and Marshawn was a big part of this plan," Carroll said on the opening day of camp. "Just a couple of years back we made a big statement and made a big effort for him and we wish that he was with us now."
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