to beef brisket, pulled pork, St. Louis ribs, whole chickens, and pastrami, which appear in items scattered throughout the meaty menu.

"The menus are largely similar from place to place, but we're going heavy on the barbecue here," reports Cole, a competition barbecue champ himself.

Appetizers include pretzels paired with cheese sauce and honey mustard, panko-breaded and fried pickles, and smokehouse nachos loaded with pulled pork, cheddar cheese sauce and jalapeños. In the sandwich department is a Philly cheesesteak made with smoked and shaved top round, peppers and onions, a Reuben starring house-smoked pastrami, and the now-familiar roundup of Headwiches, those intimidatingly large creations. Rounding out the menu are salads and stone oven pizzas.

Training for the 125 employees who will work in the restaurant and brewery is wrapping up now.oppression at the Hong Kong airport, shutting it down for a second day. Their struggle is to assert that they are free persons and not slaves to Beijing. Once again, we see the conception of a nation, and the world stands by to see if it will be allowed to live.

The Hong Kong situation has been an embarrassment for the Western world since Margret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of Brittan, capitulated to the threat of Communist China marching the People’s Army of China into Hong Kong if the UK did not agree to end it’s lease in 1997. Twenty-two years have passed since the people, who in their mind had grown up British during the 99-year lease because it was the only life that they had ever known,