Hi dudsiam, I followed mikie's suggestions. In that same frame of notifications tab I see "icons" and under that "system icons". In the "icons" area I have "customize" to the right of "hide inactive icons". If you click this customize option, you should be able to individually choose which icons you would like to "hide" or "show". Thanks for posting this question. I have been wondering how to make my ISP icon show upon start, instead of waiting for it to happen on it's own. Hope this helps you some!!! Sure helped me! Donna

Perhaps we should also consider the following; There are restaurants you go to because you want a quick meal, restaurants you go to because you want cheap food, restaurants you go to because you want a romantic atmosphere, restaurants you go to because you want normal familiar good food, ----. Palate may be a restaurant you go to because you enjoy something that�s new. I am not saying Palate is good or bad. It probably is not a restaurant you would take your family for a regular dinner, not the first time anyway. It appears to me that Palate is a well thought out place based on many factors, including their mission statement. Keeping in mind that a good chef may be a lousy menu designer. As I tried to illustrate my point by the examples I have given, strange ingredients can be surprisingly good. There is a very famous restaurant, Stone Barns at Blue Hills in NY, expensive, and reservation in advance a must. http://www.bluehillfarm.com/ A very interesting restaurant that they farm their own organic food and meats next to the restaurant. If you dine early, you can take a tour around the farm. The restaurant is owned by David Rockefeller. The menu is very unique, creative and impressively original; however the few times I was there I did not like the food which I ordered. I felt the entire concept was a little dictatorial. Take it or leave it, this is the way we cook. For instance, a beef dish came basically raw. I can eat raw beef, but that�s not the point, they never told me on the menu, or the waitress that the meat would be near raw. Still, I respect what they are doing, I highly recommend going there just for the adventure and experience. You may find that what I didn�t like, you like. dcarch

During your visit, it would be fun to throw a big cooler in the car on Saturday morning and take a food shopping trip to Allentown. You could fill it up with enough goodies for the whole week. IÂd recommend this route: 1. StravinoÂs (no web site - 269 5th St, Whitehall 610-432-255) for Italian deli items and excellent bread and cold cuts. 2. Less than a mile from there is Soumaya Middle Eastern bakery (no web site - 264 Fullerton Ave., Whitehall 610-432-0405) for freshly baked pita bread (with zataar on Saturdays), baklava, hummus, baba, tabouli, etc. Their meat and poultry items like shawarma are only fair  itÂs a bakery and thatÂs their specialty. 3. The main street in front of Soumaya leads directly to the Elias Market (no web site - 101 W Tilghman St, Allentown 610-776-1030), a Middle Eastern/Hispanic market thatÂs treasure trove of ME spices, hard-to-find produce, Bulgarian feta, Greek yogurt and items you wonÂt find in most grocery stores. 4. Next door is the Elias Fish Market (no web site and doesnÂt open until 10 A.M.) with the freshest fish for miles around. Note: Most fish are only sold whole and the lower prices per pound reflect this. You can have them filleted but have to buy a whole fish. The striped bass/rockfish are great and will save you a trip to New Jersey. 5. Next stop would be the Allentown Fairgrounds Market (website if you Google it  17th & Chew St.), which is a typical PA indoor market with produce, butchers and poultry purveyors, bakeries and prepared foods. One spot not to miss is DanÂs in the center of the market for their chicken pies. 6. If youÂre ready for lunch, The Ritz BBQ (no web site) next to the market is a bastion of home cooking with the PA version of BBQ (ham BBQ platter pictured below), hot beef or turkey sandwiches with gravy, old-time milkshakes and malts, and excellent pies. 7. Another alternative also only a couple of blocks away for the best burgers in the valley is WertÂs Café (no website - 515 N 18th St, Allentown 610 439-0951). Their specialties are stuffed burgers, hand-cut fries and masses of thin onion rings. Those items are wonderful but itÂs better not to venture into the dinner menu. 8. On the way back, IÂd include a stop at Crystal Springs dairy store (no website - 3550 Bellview Road Schnecksville) to pick up dairy products from the herd behind the store and a container of their pepper cabbage. IMO, they also make the best shoofly and custard pies in the area. I have included a link to a trip report I wrote on another site that included some of these places. If you search those forums for "Poconos", youÂll also find some restaurants closer to where youÂre staying. Here is a link that might be useful: Lehigh Valley food shopping

We lost the spot for our chalkboard when we remodeled but we had one big empty wall behind our kitchen table. Our drywall has a light texture and I was afraid just painting with chalkboard paint would result in a surface too bumpy to write on successfully. So we bought a sheet of masonite (Home Depot cut it to the finished size for us) and painted it with chalkboard paint. We then mounted the masonite on the wall with sheetrock anchors. Our edges are unfinished but it would be easy to build a frame with molding around the edges.