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Money on the markets
A maturing market amid the mayhem
Bad day for realty stocks
The BSE realty index ended 3.5 percent lower while the broader index dropped 1.7 percent to 17,380 points.
Some of the other losers were Indiabulls Real Estate, which dropped 6.3 percent, Unitech which ended 3.9 percent lower, and HDIL which slipped 3.7 percent.
The Realty Index has dropped over 12 percent so far this year. Do you see a further decline in realty stocks?
ABG, Bharti Shipyard up on stake sale
Shares of ABG Shipyard and Bharti Shipyard gained on Tuesday after a news channel reported yesterday that ABG would sell its 3 percent stake in Great Offshore.
The report said ABG was close to selling a 3 per cent stake in Great Offshore to Bharati in a price range of Rs 440-450 per share, which would fetch ABG Rs 45-50 crore.
HDFC Bank gains
HDFC Bank, India's No 2 private sector lender surged on Monday after it
reported on Saturday that quarterly profit had risen by a third.
HDFC Bank rose as much as 2.8 percent, racing to an all-time high of
1,997.85 rupees, before closing 2.3 percent higher at 1990 rupees.
JP Associates rises on unit IPO price band
Shares in JP Associates ended 6.2 percent higher at 159 rupees with volumes of 2.7 million.
The stock was the top performer of the day and also among the top traded counters.
Reliance Industries gains
Shares in Reliance Industries ended 2 percent higher on Thursday at 1075 rupees on reports that it would buy along with Atlas more Marcellus acreage.
Independent oil and gas company Atlas Energy Inc said it would buy 42,344 acres in the gas-rich Marcellus shale along with Reliance, weeks after the two announced a joint venture.
Unitech rises
Shares in Unitech, India's second-largest listed real estate firm rose on Wednesday after it announced the demerger of its infrastructure operations, including the telecom business, into a new entity to unlock the value of none-core businesses.
The stock ended 2.4 percent higher at 85.55 rupees and was among the top traded stocks of the day with volumes of over 15 million shares.
Banking index slumps ahead of policy review
The BSE Banking Index closed 0.34 percent lower on Monday in a broader market that closed 1.08 percent down at 17,400 points.
Top lenders State Bank of India and ICICI Bank fell 0.7 percent and 0.2 percent respectively, a day ahead of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) policy review.
Goenka Diamond lists at discount
Shares in Goenka Diamond listed on Friday at a discount of nearly four percent on the BSE and over 8 percent on the NSE from its issue price of 130 rupees.
The stock ended 5.3 percent lower after plunging nearly 32 percent from its issue price to 92.35 rupees in intra-day trade, with volumes of over 30 million shares.
Shares in Zee News zooms
Shares in Zee News rose over 30 percent in intra-day trade before closing 27 percent higher at 18.25 rupees after it demerged its General Entertainment Channel business.
Zee News has approved the scheme of arrangement between the company, Zee Entertainment Enterprises and their respective shareholders and creditors, for demerger of the Regional General Entertainment Channel Business undertaking of the company.
Good day for IT stocks
The BSE IT Index ended 3.09 percent higher on Tuesday, mainly led by IT bellwether Infosys Technologies which rose 3.6 pct.
The main index however closed 0.17 percent lower, weighed down by weakness in global markets.


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Thursday, November 17, 2011
What I'm Wearing Today...
I've been feeling really crappy all week with a migraine that would not let up. I believe the cause of it was do to the low barometric pressure. We had nasty tornado weather yesterday. It was warm, humid and dreary. The temperature dropped last night and created a beautiful fall day. I decided that the sun and brisk air was best for what ailed me.Simplicity 2315 pants, with a Missoni for Target t-shirt, Gap denim jacket and Steve Madden wedges.
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You rock it as always :) so glad the headache let up.ReplyDelete
Erica you are amazing ! I have regular fits of migraine (right now for instance)and believe me I am not so well put together as you are. I love the zip of your pants too.ReplyDelete
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I am a fellow natural hair wearing, fashionista who shares your taste in shoes. I have those same shoes...love them! While I do more refashioning, I am starting to spend more time on honing my sewing skills. You are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your journey. Love the outfit and most importantly I'm glad your feeling better.
you look so pretty! Love the touch of red!ReplyDelete
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For many sweethearts, Valentine's Day and chocolate are inseparable. For those who truly want to indulge their Valentine with chocolate, Travelzoo recommends these chocolate-y escapes.
• Madrid, Spain: Spain's capital city is famous for its chocolaterias, which serve fresh churros with a generous side of thick hot chocolate to dip them in.
• Vancouver, Canada: Vancouver's Sutton Place Hotel offers a Chocoholic Buffet at its Fleuri Restaurant. Skip dinner to save room for a feast of cakes, pies, cookies, pastries, ice cream and crepes, with two seatings every Thursday-Saturday night.
• Burlington, Wis.: Every Memorial Day weekend, this quiet, southern Wisconsin town hosts ChocolateFest. In addition to eating chocolate, attendees can watch chef demonstrations, witness a candy wrapper fashion show and partake in chocolate-themed games.
• San Francisco: Only San Francisco has a square named after a brand of chocolate. Transformed from the old Ghirardelli factory, Ghirardelli Square is home to shops, restaurants, live entertainment and, most importantly, the flagship Ice Cream and Chocolate Shop.
• Oaxaca, Mexico: Oaxaca City is known its hot chocolate and its mole negro, which includes chocolate, chili peppers, onions, garlic and the hoja santa plant. Follow your nose to Mina Street, which is full of chocolate shops crafting their wares on-site.


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Rudolph Giuliani is in town and last we checked, an hour ago, he was finishing up lunch at E.B. Green's.
From there it was on to ...
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Good thing it is Giuliani and not New York City's current mayor, the health-conscious, pop-rationing Michael Bloomberg! Bloomberg would pass out if he just walked into E.B. Green's and got a whiff of those duck fries. He would be trying to ration them! And a cigar bar? Forget it.
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To call Nick Mancini a virtuoso of the vibraphone feels like an understatement in the afterglow of the enchanting concert he offered The Descanso Gardens crowd one recent evening.
The ethereal and jazzy resonance made by Mancini and the transcendent band who backed him up could be heard echoing in the hills from across the parking lot, and was, no doubt, a wonder to behold up close.
Mancini has led an illustrious career, recording alongside artists from Julian Fleisher and his Rather Big Band to the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra and performing with many others. A seasoned composer, Mancini's music is at once bold, adventurous, detailed, free-spirited, humorous, and a downright wonder to behold.
His latest album "Psychobabble", available now, features a range of new music, captured from live performances across America, studio sessions, and even a taste of experimentation in the electronic realm.
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By KIM SMITH DEDAM
---- — LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Village Board has awarded the contract for its sewer-trunk-line project.
The work will be completed in two parts by Kubricky Construction Corp., based in Wilton.
"The bid involves two projects that are intertwined with each other," Lake Placid Mayor Craig Randall said.
"Part A is to complete dam removal at Power Pond Dam and subsequent Chubb River restoration. The abutments of the dam will remain there, and an apron will be placed below the water. The contract amount of $767,680 was awarded for that part of the project.
"Part B is installation and replacement of the trunk sewer line with the addition of one new line for $2,234,254.50," Randall said.
The firm was low bidder among nine bids received for Part B, he said.
The project bid was reviewed by engineers before it was awarded.
The total, just over $3 million, is substantially lower than initial project cost estimates.
But that is because the project was made more efficient.
"Four years ago, when I first came into office, we were estimating the project at $4.2 million," Randall said.
"With the removal of the dam, we were able to relocate the sewer line in a way that made it more cost effective for the village," he said.
"The trunk sewer line is being relocated to the side of the river at a higher elevation. It will cross the river in protected shields in a straight line through the Power Pond area and straight into the wastewater treatment plant.
"Dam removal makes a much less complicated project for the village."
The dam removal and Chubb River restoration portion of the project earned funding through the Environmental Facilities Corp.'s Green Innovation Grant Program, the mayor said.
"That is federal money coming through the state, providing a little over $1 million. It means the net cost to sewer users is about half what we originally expected it could be."
The trunk-line project is part of sewer and water upgrades required by a State Department of Environmental Conservation consent order filed with the village in 2004, nearly 10 years ago.
In 2005, Lake Placid upgraded the antiquated wastewater treatment plant and replaced water and sewer lines in the village for a cost near $18 million.
The trunk-line project completes the infrastructure improvement ordered by DEC.
Construction will remove two old sections of sewer pipe that run on either side of the Chubb River and replace them with one large pipe set at a higher elevation, allowing gravity to improve flow.
Where the new line goes into the waterway, it will be surrounded by steel shields, Randall said.
"Probably sometime next spring, they will lower the water at Power Pond to get the new line in. The three lines still running underneath the Power Pond have to be protected until engineers can redirect the sewer flow."
The Chubb River is a tributary of the protected west branch of the Ausable River, a haven known worldwide by avid fly fishermen.
Trunk-line work will be completed in phases, likely working from the wastewater treatment plant backward toward Power Pond.
Power Pond was created as a reservoir when Lake Placid used the dam there to generate electric power, a practice that ended in 1956.
The village did look at the feasibility of restoring hydroelectric power at the dam, the mayor said.
"Recent engineering studies found it is not economical to redevelop hydropower at that site now."
It would have cost another $1 million to restore the dam, while removing it spared cost.
Work in the waterways likely will not affect Mill Pond in the center of the Newman section of Lake Placid.
Mill Pond borders a busy business area at Station Street, which leads to the train station and out toward the hospital.
"There may be, during construction, occasions where they will control the level of Mill Pond so they don't have water conflicting with their project," Randall said.
But the water will not be drained.
From Mill Pond, the Chubb River flows into the Power Pond, which is east of Sentinel Road and not visible from the roadway.
"Ultimately, when the project is completed, we'll have an area down there to be finished with some recreation paths to be used for biking, running, skiing," the mayor said.
"We did a study on what it might look like in its finished state and the drawings are here in the Village Office."
The trunk-line project gained permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, from the Adirondack Park Agency and from local planning regulators last year.
"We expect it will be completed sometime late in 2014," Randall said.
"It's almost 10 years since this matter first came to the village's attention. Through study and engineering, I believe we reduced the cost of the project as much as we possibly could."
Without the trunk-line improvements, development might have faced a moratorium, with expansion and growth in Lake Placid put on hold.
Completion of the trunk line should take care of village wastewater flow needs for the next 100 years, the mayor said.
Ivan Zdrahal Associates, with offices in Lake Placid and in Clifton Park, is lead engineer on the project.
Construction will likely start late next month.
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Representatives of Malvern Borough, Willistown Township and Willistown Conservation Trust set out to create a trail to connect green spaces in Malvern made their case to the Great Valley School District's (GVSD) facilities board Monday.
The four-mile Malvern-Willistown Greenway Project -- which representative from Land Concepts Group Richard Collier, Jr. said is a tentative distance -- aims to connect 12 different green spaces both to promote physical activity and link area green spaces together.
The green spaces include the Paoli Memorial Grounds, Paoli Battlefield, Burkey Park, Quann Park, Randolf Woods, Greentree Park, Mill Road Park, S. A. Rubino Memorial Park, Malvern Borough Library, Sugartown Elementary School and General Wayne Elementary School.
Since the trail will run alongside the two schools, Greenway Project representatives need the district's approval before any action can be taken.
Collier said plans for the Greenway will be finished by the end of the year but sectional construction won't likely move forward for a year or more.
Though the committee was generally receptive to the idea, some concerns were raised in regards to maintenance and safety.
"I think philosophically of course it's a project that anyone could get behind," said committee member Ellen Behrle. "But we, in this economy, need to make sure if there are costs for us that we know exactly what they are."
Collier said that not all details have been worked out, but he suspects each property owner will be the one managing maintenance -- namely cracked sidewalks or snow removal.
"I think frankly it's going to work on a property-by-property basis," he said. "It could be a friends group [that does this]."
So far, Collier said, the plan is to use concrete for the trail, but macadam could be a better low-maintenance solution.
"A big issue for me is do we have to plow the snow off," said Richard Krumrine, committee member and supervisor of buildings and grounds.
Krumrine added that he is concerned about an individual slipping and falling during winter as well as the district being required to plow the walkway.
There will be a public meeting regarding the Malvern-Willistown Greenway Project in Sugartown Elementary School's cafeteria on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m.
The facilities committee will present the information to the school board meeting on Oct. 8.


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SHELBY, N.C. -- Carolinas HealthCare System, the state's largest hospital system, will pay Cleveland County $101 million to acquire the real estate and operations of Cleveland County HealthCare System.
The deal includes land and buildings for Cleveland Regional Medical Center in Shelby, Kings Mountain Hospital, Cleveland Pines Nursing Center in Shelby and Crawley Memorial Hospital in Boiling Springs.
Community leaders and Carolinas HealthCare officials made the formal announcement Friday at Shelby's LeGrand Center. They said the transaction will bring new medical specialties to the county, along with more jobs and economic benefits.
"It will be a plus for the community," said Cleveland County Board of Commissioners Chairman Ronnie Hawkins. "It will help us continue our economic development efforts."
Carolinas HealthCare began managing Cleveland Regional Medical Center and Kings Mountain Hospital in 1994, and has leased these and other medical facilities for $1.45 million annually.
Cleveland County commissioners have unanimously approved an agreement that cancels the current long-term lease running through 2036 and conveys the real estate to Carolinas HealthCare System.
In addition to the payment of $101 million, Carolinas HealthCare will assume all of the county's liabilities and obligations in connection with Cleveland Regional Medical Center and the other hospitals and facilities.
Included in the transaction are the buildings and real estate for Cleveland County's health department, mental health center and employee wellness facilities.
The county will continue to operate these departments and facilities, and will lease the buildings from Carolinas HealthCare for two years for $1 a year.
Cleveland County won't get the $101 million in a lump sum.
Hawkins said Carolinas HealthCare will make a payment of $23 million to the county and then pay $3-million installments annually "until it's capped out."
Meanwhile, the $23 million will help jump-start the county's plans for a single state-of-the-art building to house the health department and mental health center.
"We'll get started as soon as we can," Hawkins said. "We'll sit down with an architect next week."
Joe Piemont, Carolinas HealthCare's president and chief operating officer, said Cleveland County "was among the first to embrace our organization" seeking to form a partnership.
He described the new partnership as "an incredible testament to the 20-year foundation we've laid between us."
Brian Gwyn, president and CEO of Cleveland County HealthCare Systems, said changes that may result from the transaction include advanced oncology programs through a connection with the Levine Cancer Institute, pediatric programs through the Levine Children's Hospital and robotic surgery.
The availability of the county health and mental health department buildings adjacent to Cleveland Regional Medical Center will "open up a new world for growth of our campus in Shelby," Gwyn said. "We're going to bring the very best to the community."
Cleveland County's first hospital was a private institution that opened in Shelby in 1906. Shelby Hospital, the first public facility, opened in 1923 on Grover Street. The name later charged to Cleveland Memorial.
Three years after Carolinas HealthCare began managing what is now Cleveland Regional Medical Center and Kings Mountain Hospital in 1994, the management agreement was replaced with an interlocal cooperation agreement.
Since then, the 241-bed Cleveland Regional Medical Center and 102-bed Kings Mountain Hospital have merged and are part of the Cleveland County HealthCare System.
The system also includes Cleveland Pines Nursing Center, with 120 skilled nursing beds and Crawley Memorial Hospital, a 41-bed long term care facility in Boiling Springs.
There is also a clinical network of 64 doctors and advanced care professionals and other facilities and services.
Over the past 30 years, Carolinas HealthCare has become the nation's second-largest public hospital system, behind the nationwide system of Veterans Affairs hospitals. With about $7 billion in annual revenue, Carolinas HealthCare runs more than 30 hospitals from the North Carolina mountains to the South Carolina coast.
At Friday's announcement in Shelby, former Cleveland County Manager David Dear called it a "historic occasion."
"The whole landscape of medicine has changed in the last 10 years," said Dear, special projects manager for the local economic development partnership. "This transaction is a step forward for the community. It will make the county a true regional health care destination."


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Variety is the spice of life. Caramelized Onion,Bacon, Cambozola Cheese Flatbread , Crab and Artichoke Hot Pot, Mojito Skirt Steak, and Cedar Plank Salmon with Maple Glaze just to name a few, Billy Berk's has flavors for all palettes. Set in a historic, downtown San Jose brick and timber building,
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Dined on 7/19/2014
the food was delicious...the beet
salad and the ahi salads are some of the best that I've tried"
Dined on 6/28/2014
I spent my gift card of 100$ on
items from the main menu.. I should have stuck to the happy hour menu... The Flat Bread is great... but my meal was no flavor, the fish and chips were soggy inside the bread.. and the burger was ok.. I want my money back... but that will never happen!!!"
Dined on 6/21/2014
A group of us were at the
convention center. I had made reservations for 4 and we walked in with 10. They made an instant accommodation, and we were so happy they did. Everyone loved their selection, from salad to sandwich or wrap. High quality food, tasty, and great service. Will definitely go back. Fun atmosphere!"
Dined on 6/17/2014
Not impressed. Great flat bread
and salad. A staff member other than our server brought the main course and set it down without clearing the table. Annoying when you're in a small table as we were. The steak was tough. Could barely get my fork into it, but the prawns and the sauce were great. The jazz band playing was horrible. Kind of soured things worse. Good drinks and a friendly waitress though."
Dined on 6/14/2014
Downtown San Jose Classic Bar with
good variety of dishes, pasta, steaks, complete bar, quite and good jazz. perfect place to take a date for the first time."
Dined on 6/13/2014
Went for my graduation dinner
celebration. Poor choice. Overpriced and the food is blah. We sent two dishes back. I ordered the Louisiana Shrimp dish---6 shrimp for 23 dollars...??!! no thanks. We ended up going to another restaurant because we were still hungry and the food was crap. No wonder the place was empty on a Saturday night!!"
Dined on 5/24/2014
Great concept flawed by execution.
Staff attempts but amateur in approach. Food is adequate but many better in this price range. Nice location, concept and ambiance needs a step up in service and cuisine to get to 4 stars"
Dined on 5/11/2014
Easy to make a reservation on a
Saturday night. Quick hostest, nice waitress, yummy food."
Dined on 4/19/2014
Nice ambiance, adequate service.
Food was a little pricy for what you get, but tasted good. Happy hour menu was nice."
Dined on 3/23/2014
i read great reviews of the ahi
tuna stack. it did not disappoint. good size portions as well"
Dined on 3/13/2014
As always, great service and
wonderful food. This is my go to restaurant. If I take someone anywhere else, that means I don't care for them. Go here"
Dined on 3/8/2014
We had a good time at Billy Berks,
before hitting a show at JJs. The food was good, and the service was excellent - which is a rarity these days on the Peninsula. And the prices were very reasonable given the location. Parking just down the street in a public lot - can't beat that."
Dined on 3/1/2014
I was looking for a place for
dinner with my grown kids close to the airport. After reading some reviews, I chose this based on internet research. Our server, a young woman, was helpful and prompt. The food was good enough but nothing to rave about. The entrees came with a couple of side choices and I went with the green beans. They were the least enjoyable of the meal, seemingly cooked the day before and reheated since the texture was shriveled with no fresh snap. There are many dining options close by and I don't know if I would go here again but only because I would rather keep trying others. The used brick building was warm and ambient and we had a big, comfortable booth at the back of the room which was nice."
Dined on 3/1/2014
Always good atmosphere and warm
comfort food. Love the big booths for dining. We had a nice meal and great time. Good place to watch sports from the bar too."
Dined on 2/23/2014
When you can't get in anywhere
else, I highly recommend Billy Berk's. This was the downtown restaurant where I could make a last minute reservation when my favs were all booked. This was probably my third time there. I like the food ok but would not call it memorable. The service has been somehow disappointing each time. Not that it's bad, but there seem to be minor issues each time. Most recently: waiter (English speaking) doesn't understand the names of the wines. Part of our order never came out until we ask for it. And I've just never felt the love. I do like their large bar, a full square in the center of the main dining room, and the big windows opening on the busy corner of 1st and San Fernando."
Dined on 2/15/2014
This place was really good. The
food is amazingly delicious and the staff was friendly, attentive and professional. The only reason why I'm docking points is because I added a side of steamed broccoli and it was never delivered, but it was charged to my tab, and we asked for a refill on our diet coke, and he never came back with it. I'm not one to lower his tip, or ask twice. I don't feel that a server should ever forget items like that. Other than that, the food tasted great!"
Dined on 2/13/2014
Fourth time dining here, with a
group of 4 before the theater. The menu is not huge, but the selection is wonderful, and being able to select your side dish makes it even better. Three of us had the salmon, which was fantastic, as was the cobb salad with steak. And they usually have some unique cocktails - the martinis are always a hit!"
Dined on 2/11/2014
I would have given 4 stars if the
service was better; Still like the restaurant, will try it again, and do recommend it. Food good; Staff friendly; Service very slow. Waited 20 minutes for order to be taken and 25 for it to be served. We had the calamari appetizer, which was fun because it also had fried Jalapeño peppers, onion strings and lemons in it. Yes, I did say fried lemons. They were unique and delicious. The sauces were good, not extraordinary. My husband had the French Dip sandwich. It was big, had a lot of meat (without stringy fat) and flavorful au juice. I had the Mojoto Skirt Steak, with fresh green beans. The steak quality was good and the beans were cooked perfectly."
Dined on 1/29/2014
Stopped here for dinner before
going to a Sharks game. They had no problem seating 6 people, we had reservations but given the size and layout of the place they would have been able to seat us without reservations easily enough too. Ambiance is pub/tavern style, no need to dress fancy. Large bar turns out decent cocktails quickly. Food is OK but tries too hard. Mojito steak sliders were tasty, but more attention to which piece of meat goes on the slider would be appreciated. Ahi-tuna tower was over-dressed and the house-made tortilla chips were unevenly fried. Shoe-string onion rings were pretty, but flavorless. Overall it was OK but the kitchen just can't quite live up to the promise of the menu. Good for casual dinner and drinks."
Dined on 1/11/2014
Never disappointed when I take
folks to Billy Berk's. There is something for everyone on the menu, and the food is very good."
Dined on 1/6/2014
My family had a very nice evening
at Billy Berk's. It wasn't our first time dining there - we had been there once before. It's welcoming - their servers are attentive, without being intrusive. Service is quick - cocktails are very good."
Dined on 11/27/2013
We like the food and menu
selection, but we had to wait at least 45 minutes for our entrees and the entrees and sides came out a different times. We've been here before and had better service, so not sure what the issue was this time. Our server was good, just seemed like the kitchen was having difficulty on this particular night, maybe because of the crowd of Sharks fans."
Dined on 11/23/2013
The sausage appetizer and salmon
entree were great, the ribeye steak was good."
Dined on 11/19/2013
Would be ok for a few drinks
casual place before a game. Not good for a nice dinner. Food was ok. Nothing special."
Dined on 11/9/2013
We were unfortunately sat next to
a big group of 20 or so people (looked like a large family), so there were some disruptive children running around during our dining experience. Otherwise, the service was great, food was very good, and was an overall good experience!"
Dined on 11/8/2013
We had excellent and fast service.
We didn't need to tell server that we had to get to the theater by a certain time. The food and service were quick and tasty. The calamari appetizer was crisp and hot and the entrees cooked exactly as we liked. My date had steak and I had cedar planked salmon. Portions aren't large and most entrees served with one side only, so if you're a heavy eater, you may have to order an extra side. Prices are reasonable, though."
Dined on 10/30/2013
Visted Billy Berk's for happy
hour. Very nice choice of menu items at a reasonalbe price. Nice cocktail and beer selection, too. Happy hour is from 3 to 7 M-F and noon to 5 on Saturday. The cocktails were excellent - liberal pouring of the spirits. The crispy oriental beef was excellent. Also had the calarmari, sweet potatoe fries and zucchini which were also very good. The only thing that we didn't care for was the BBQ pork sliders - it was way too salty - the waitress blamed the onion bun. Portions were ample. Fun place for a happy hour. We also like lunch and dinner there, too."
Dined on 10/25/2013
There's not play in the Bay Area
I've been that serves a Caipirinha, that special drink from Brazil. It was a very tasty treat. My special meal of the evening was the Prime Rab, which was delicious. The potatoes au gratin we okay as was the wedy salad. It needed more dressing and bacon bits. The wine list was good and enjoyed all we had. When we got attention the service was good. I think this was affected because we had some guests join us late due to traffic."
Dined on 10/19/2013
We have have been very
dissapointed the last three times we've been here, once in July for a birthday dinner, the first night of the Jazz festival and last week. The service and quality of food has changed dramatically. This used to be a favorite place to meet friends for any occasion over the years. Unfortunately, 3 strikes means you are out."
Dined on 10/18/2013
Good burger. Kind of a local feel.
Not much of a beer selection."
Dined on 10/10/2013
Nothing wrong with this place.
Waiters were attentive and food was good."
Dined on 10/5/2013
Met some friends from LA, that
were passing through on their way to Sonoma, there for lunch. My friend is gluten, dairy and grain free. The waitress helped my friend select an entree' that fit her needs. We all ended up having salads. I had the chicken tostada salad. It was good, but nothing special. I had been there for the first time a couple of weeks ago for dinner and had the salmon and it was delicious! I'll definitely go back!"
Dined on 10/1/2013
Nine times out of 10 I'm guided by
OpenTable reviews. Is it a place where I'd like to dine? Or not? If a restaurant gets too many one or two star reviews, I skip it. Once in a while I buck the trend and take the plunge just because the vibe sounds good, or the place has a historic location. I did that tonight with Billy Berks, and boy am I sorry. Our server was a disaster. She blew my wife's drink order. She blew my food order. She took forever to deliver two simple drinks. Et cetera. Plus the food was distinctly average. We finally just got up, went to the front, asked for the check and the manager. I told her in blunt terms how bad the night was. Won't be back. Believe the bad reviews!"
Dined on 9/28/2013
My wife and I were looking for a
new place to eat dinner at in the San Jose area and I came across this restaurant using the Yelp app on my smart phone. I live about 1 hour from San Jose and have to say the drive was worth it! We enjoyed the food and atmosphere. My 4 year old daughter came with us and loved the Vermont Mac & Cheese. Our waiter could have been a little more attentive but overall I was pleasantly surprised. I would recommend this restaurant for more a group of friends but a romantic dinner for two works as well."
Dined on 9/28/2013
While the good was good, I had the
crusted salmon that was very good. I don't know if this is always the case but the service was extremely slow.I believe our waitress had a big dinner party in the back that keep her quite busy. meanwhile this kept us high and dry in the front."
Dined on 9/21/2013
A great casual place to meet with
friends or to grab a bite before an event. Food is much better than most casual dining restaurants. Excellent variety on the menu."
Dined on 9/20/2013
Very diverse in cuisine styles.
Everyone in the group enjoyed their selections."
Dined on 9/19/2013
We googled places to eat before
the San Jose Rep and found Billy Berk's menu. It sounded good and we went just from that, no recommendation. The Ahi Nicoise salad was great and the sweet potato fries were also tasty. I had the Ahi stack appetizer and it was just a little bland, but there was a generous helping of Taro chips. We didn't need the fried with the chips and the waitress didn't tell us that, so that's a minus. The bar drinks were great, it was happy hour and the drinks were $2.00 off and the appetizer was also discounted. I would come back with friends, especially during happy hour, and just do the drinks and appetizers. Although, the salad was good, too."
Dined on 9/18/2013
Something changed in the past
several months since I used to frequent this place; the burger seemed smaller, the bun was boring, and the fries were pale and limp. I might try it again, but I won't be in a hurry to go back soon."
Dined on 9/14/2013
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It's summer blockbuster season! We asked the Patch Moms Council if they let their children younger than 13 watch PG-13 movies? It's a tough choice for some, especially since all the exciting super hero and adventure movies—such as X-Men: First Class and Transformers: Darkside of the Moon--are PG-13. We also asked the moms if they thought Hollywood was making movies too violent for children.
Tracy: My family loves movies. It's a relatively inexpensive form of fun when compared to the price of an amusement park or major sports event.
A little recap: the ages of my children are 17, 15, 13, 12, 10, and 7. Obviously, the 17-year-old is going to be able to watch movies the 7-year-old won't. I am still very cautious of what they see. Yes, even the 17-year-old has not been allowed to see some PG-13 movies.
I do not make a blanket statement that they can not see any movie that is PG-13. I take the time to investigate each movie. If I still have a question whether it is appropriate, I see the movie first. This is how it has always been, so my kids don't even question it. It is my job as a parent to watch over my kids. It is not up to school, or Hollywood or the government ... So I take the time and do my job right.
So far, my oldest is the only child who has been allowed to go to the movies, the mall, the park, etc. without a parent—either hers or one of her friends. It's not that my kids or their friends are looking to get into trouble. Let's face it though, kids will sometimes get caught in a moment with friends and not always make the best decisions (my husband is guilty of this, and he is 40). I feel it is my responsibility to help them with those kinds of things until they have matured. It is another thing you can not make a blanket statement about. You have to look at each child individually.
Wendy: I let my son watch PG-13 movies--he is 12. I have been letting him for about two years.
It seems like we have been going to the theater a lot more often, especially because of this heat wave we are having. We even went twice a couple of weekends ago.
He has been going to the movies with just his friends for about a year. I think it depends on the maturity of the kid. You will know when they are ready to go by themselves.
Laura: We do let our 7-year-old see some PG-13 movies, but only after we've seen them first and know exactly what he's watching. Usually, we wait until they come out on DVD, so we can skip through any parts we've decided are inappropriate. We don't go to the theatre very often, because it's so expensive, and so far, the kids seem to prefer to watch at home. As for violence in cartoons ... it is what it is. We can't change it, obviously, so we just try to be careful about what the kids watch and make sure they understand that what they're seeing isn't OK behavior for them or anybody else. I'm interested to see how the summer goes with movies, because my oldest seems to be beyond Cars 2 but also seems to have gotten out of his Transformers phase ... so we'll see!
Emily: I have rarely gone to a theater to see movies since my teens. I was pretty young when I realized that the unjustifiable expense of making a movie that is passed on to common patrons and families were something I would avoid participation to a great extent. Later on, this issue was only one of many I have for patronizing this form of popular entertainment. If anyone catches me or my family going to a movie, it will be at a reduced-cost theater, or at a reduced-cost time.
I do not ban my family from seeing movies. My husband does not share the level of disgust I have for some forms of our society's entertainment, and I am letting my kids grow up to form their own opinions. I do not really watch today's cartoons or cartoon movies, so I have no idea if I would see them as "too violent."
I would find it hard to believe they could be much more violent than cartoons and entertainment programs from generations past.
I do not care about the marketing or the ratings of movies. I am pretty offended that our society has allowed ourselves to be manipulated into thinking we all need to be told what is appropriate or not for ourselves and our families with the subjective G, PG, PG-13 and R system.
I am not sure how anyone can rationally complain about the marketing techniques, yet still be willing to allow a ratings system to dictate your family's age appropriateness for any given film. Our society is a consumer society, and kids are marketed to every day. It does not begin and end with the movie industry.
This is another time when parents can begin a real meaningful dialogue with their kids, as appropriate to their age and capacity, which should be determined by the parents--and not a movie theater. Any given modern movie is going to have gratuitous violence, gratuitous sexually suggestive scenes or dialogue that many families do not like. So why not talk to the whole family about what goes into making movies and how to critically think about entertainment and the various media we all consume? Watch a variety of movies. Watch foreign films, movies with subtitles, classic films. If you do not like the latest Transformers, show your kids the traditional versions. The way our society is designed, the only way things will change is when people stop giving money and time to mediocre (at best) entertainment they don't even like. There are so many creative alternatives.
Michelle: Yes, my child, who is 12, gets to watch PG-13 and some R-rated movies. It really depends on each child as to what they can handle. As far as dropping off a 12-year-old with a friend to see a movie by themselves … luckily he hasn't asked yet!
Denise: We've been extremely permissive with allowing my oldest watch PG-13 movies. He's 12 now, but I know he was around 4 or 5 when we started letting him watch some PG-13 films, mainly at home on DVD. We mostly only bar movies on their "skin" content—if a movie is rated PG-13 for superhero-style violence or mild language, we've let him watch it with us. Typically, we've been making exceptions only for movies that kids ought to be able to see, like Harry Potter, Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings films—most of which we've seen as a family in the theater. Yes, I took a 5-year-old to see Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, orcs and all. We never took him to see a romantic comedy or anything "sexy."
The kinds of films we want to see are rated PG-13 because they slip in a curse word or kill some bad guys—there's a huge difference between seeing Pirates of the Caribbean and Kill Bill. We don't see R-rated films or horror movies with him.
When he was younger, I carefully vetted films I wanted to see at parent review sites, or even went to the trouble of watching a questionable DVD first. Now that he's 12, I consider him my movie-going buddy, and we'll drop the youngest off with Grandpa to catch a few summer blockbusters that my husband isn't interested in seeing with us.
But before you think I'm completely off my rocker, my oldest kid has always been extremely mature and responsible. He knew not to repeat any bad language and not to try any violent moves on his friends. He was also able to watch a movie quietly and not bother other people in the seats around us.
Personally, I think the movie-rating system is ridiculous. You know that filmmakers nudge action films into PG-13 with an extra curse word or two just so teens won't think the movies are for "babies." It pretty obvious that most of society agrees with me, seeing how every PG-13 action hero movie that comes along gets turned into toys and Happy Meal fodder.
My second child came really hampered our ability to see movies in the theater. We watched most of our movies on DVD at home and only arranged for a babysitter for must-see movies, like Harry Potter. However, when the little guy was 2, we discovered the Skyview Drive-In at Belleville—the last drive-in theater in the metro area. We'll see as many movies as we can there, with the boys nestled in the back of the SUV on pillows. The Skyview is cheap fun, and I don't have to worry about my preschooler bothering anyone else if he wants to chatter or play with his popcorn instead. And yes, we've seen PG-13 films with him.


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ABB displays military robotic automation concepts, capabilities
Military Vehicle Exhibition, Aug. 11-12 in Detroit, MI, look at ways to apply industrial robotic technology to automate military supply chain, logistics and field operations.
Military Vehicle Exhibition and Conference August 11-12, 2010, at the Cobo Convention Center in Detroit, Michigan. The event, sponsored by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA) is the largest stand-alone military vehicles exhibition in the United States, displaying the latest vehicles, components, and after-market products in the light, medium, and heavy categories. Participants and attendees include personnel from the U.S. Department of Defense, Military OEMs, component manufacturers, service providers and academia. ABB Robotics, a supplier of industrial robots, is among exhibitors. Exhibits and demonstrations feature a wide variety of existing and emerging vehicle technology with the potential to support military and defense operations.
ABB Robotics says its core business is automating traditional supply chain material handling applications such as packaging and palletizing, and manufacturing applications such as arc welding, assembly and machine tending. Inspired by the improved productivity, quality and workplace safety that ABB robots have provided to a wide variety of industries, ABB said it has recently been working with military organizations in the U.S. and abroad to determine if robotic technology could automate any of the military's supply chain and logistics operations.
ABB is also working with the Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to develop unique mobile robot-equipped vehicles that could be used for field applications, possibly including IED (improvised explosive devices) inspection and hazardous material handling.
Because these tasks are repetitive, and in many cases dangerous, the prospect for industrial robots and robot-equipped vehicles to help the military is gaining increasing interest and support. "The military's interest in robots for dull, dirty and dangerous tasks is supported by the breadth of productivity gains and improved quality the use of our robots has provided to the automotive industry and a wide variety of other industrial applications," said Erwin DiMalanta, business development manager, ABB Robotics, North America. "In many instances the introduction of robotic automation has also allowed industrial organizations to remove human labor from repetitive or hazardous activities, into safer, more rewarding jobs."
The ABB exhibit (Booth #539) includes:
- The Gladiator – a four-wheel, unmanned concept vehicle with an ABB IRB 140 robot mounted to a front end bracket. Developed in conjunction with TARDEC, the Gladiator features a multi-functional end-of-arm tool that can grasp or act on certain objects. It demonstrates ABB's superior path performance and motion control, and represents the combination of innovation and proven commercial technology that ABB Robotics can provide for military and defense applications.
- A ABB Welding FlexTrainer – a portable, fully equipped and operational robotic arc welding cell specifically designed for robotic training purposes. It will feature an IRB 140 robot equipped with an IRC 5 panel mount controller, robotic welding torch and welding power supply.
As part of developing potential mobile robotic-equipped concepts ABB has also collaborated on the development of end-effectors and payload sensors. For military applications mobile robots would require a collection of interchangeable tools to be readily available on moving platforms much the same way manufacturing robot systems exchange tools for various work cell tasks. Payload sensors developed in industrial applications help robots easily adjust the path and force to use when handling objects that vary in size, shape, weight and location.
"Adapting the use of reliable, proven industrial robotic technology has the potential to support the military's operational needs and troops in the field," added Joe Campbell, vice president sales and marketing for ABB Robotics, North America. "While our primary interest is to bring continuing innovation to the industrial sector, we recognize the vast potential robots have for many non-industrial applications."
In August 2009 ABB participated in the US Army's first "Robotics Rodeo," which brought together robotics experts and companies from across the country to review and test innovative robotic solutions, and encourage the development of autonomous systems to support the military. ABB featured the Robotic Retrieval and Transport (RAT) concept vehicle, an IRB 6620 industrial robot mounted to the flat bed of a specially equipped Ford F250 pick-up truck.
Also read: ABB Robotics: 10 reasons to buy a robot now; see photos, videos.
- Edited by Mark T. Hoske, Control Engineering, www.controleng.com
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by Charles Lemos, Fri May 28, 2010 at 02:45:41 PM EDT
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post has the scoop:
Senior White House advisers asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about whether he was serious about running for Senate, and to feel out whether he'd be open to other alternatives, according to sources familiar with the situation.
But the White House maintains that the Clinton-Sestak discussions were informal, according to the sources. The White House, under pressure to divulge the specifics of its interactions with Sestak, will release a formal statement later today outlining their version of events, including Clinton's involvement.
According to the sources, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel asked Clinton and his longtime adviser, lawyer Doug Band, to talk to Sestak about the race. It's unclear right now whether the White House will say that Clinton was asked to suggest specific administration positions for Sestak, whether Clinton floated positions on his own, whether Clinton discussed other options not related to the adminstration, or whether employment even came up at all in the talks.
But the news that Clinton is at the center of this whole story is noteworthy on its own because of the former president's stature, and underscores how heavily invested the White House was in dissuading Sestak from running. The White House sent Clinton to talk to Sestak because Arlen Specter, constituting the 60th Dem vote in the Senate, was viewed as key to enacting Obama's agenda.
The White House maintains that Clinton's overtures to Sestak merely constituted an effort to gauge his seriousness about the race, the sources say, adding that Clinton was informally discussing the range of options open to Sestak as part of a larger conversation meant to ascertain Sestak's thinking.
Geez, they wanted to know what Sestak was thinking. The horror.
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Faculty and Staff Directory
Ozar, Lorraine A.
Title/s: Associate Professor;
Director, Center for Catholic School Effectiveness (CCSE)
Specialty Area: Curriculum and Instruction, Instructional Leadership
Office #: Lewis Towers 601G, WTC
Phone: 312.915.6915
E-mail: email@example.com
CV Link: Ozar-CV-Fall11.pdf
Ph.D., Fordham University, New York, NY
Program Areas
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Instructional Leadership
Research Interests
- Assessment
- Curriculum
- Instructional design
- Instructional leadership
- Professional learning communities
- School effectiveness
Professional & Community Affiliations
- Association of Catholic Leadership Programs (ACLP)
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
- National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA)
- Governing Board member, Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice.
- Outside reviewer, School Improvement Visiting Teams for Chicago Catholic Schools
Courses Taught
- CIEP 442 Curriculum Development and Implementation
- CIEP 562 Practicum in Curriculum and Instruction
- Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership, University of San Francisco, CA. Award for Distinguished Service to Catholic Education (2005)
- Distinguished Alumna Award (2005), Marygrove College, Detroit, MI.


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Thread: The New Nameberry
May 14th, 2013 07:43 AM #166
I have an old LG Enlighten and I noticed last night that the site was working better.** The opinions expressed above are not meant to be reflective of Nameberry as a whole but are my opinion and mine alone. **
Mommy to:
Henry Nathaniel (3) and Julia Paige (1)
Current favorites:
Bennett - Emmett - Felix - Oliver - Owen - Preston - Samuel
Abigail - Claire - Clara - Hope - Lydia - Maude - Molly
May 14th, 2013 11:01 AM #168Senior Member
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One problem. On my old laptop, if I am the one who write last, my name doesn't show under last reply by. I see everyone elsess names.Sorry for bad English, I am from other country
May 14th, 2013 04:48 PM #170** The opinions expressed above are not meant to be reflective of Nameberry as a whole but are my opinion and mine alone. **
Mommy to:
Henry Nathaniel (3) and Julia Paige (1)
Current favorites:
Bennett - Emmett - Felix - Oliver - Owen - Preston - Samuel
Abigail - Claire - Clara - Hope - Lydia - Maude - Molly
May 14th, 2013 10:29 PM #172
I came here to post a few problems that I was having, but one JUST got fixed! It had been a week since the cloud changed for me, which was SUPER disappointing since it's a fave feature and where I get off on the best of tangents. (: Nice to see it's working again!
I've been having the problem on my iPad that I can't visit further pages in a forum thread and the "jump to" tab makes it crash. I don't have my iPad with me now, so I will have to amend later if it has been fixed or not.
If I revisit a forum thread and click "last thread viewed" it automatically takes me to the very last post submitted. Slightly disappointing.
As for the colors, I don't see the white-on-white that everyone has mentioned, but have a light green and shaded grey background for forums. I do wish there was more color. I can't help missing the dots, even if they made things load slower.
Can I ask a question about the vote boxes on each name entry? If you rate a name with thumb up or down (or stars in the old version) does it go into an overall impression of the name or is that in our own profile somewhere? If it generates a tally for the name, I don't see it. If it goes onto my lists or something, where do I find it later?
I won't just complain, I l-o-v-e the bonus blog and would even love links to other name blogs (since many contribute regularly anyway). I also like the extended search options so far. I like the disappearance of the random links that used to be on the right w/ pictures and titles that never matched (in my humble opinion) with their destination. I thought I did not like the wasted space as someone mentioned earlier, but I prefer space to everything being crowded together. I am still enjoying that you can see the "names being searched right now" from both the blog and the forums in the new version! So far I haven't seen any slideshows that everyone used to complain about loading poorly. That's all for now.若兰
I'm just a third-culture girl with an affinity for names.
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Thanks for fixing the iPhone navigation problem!!
The olive is growing on me. I'm telling myself it's "green tea icecream." Still feels like a lot of khaki though.


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Seeed consists of eleven band members, including three singers, a horn section and a DJ. Seeed is recognized for their unusual use of horns. They have worked with Cee-Lo Green, Anthony B, Tanya Stephens, General Degree as well as other Jamaican artists and producers. Almost all of their music releases feature a popular guest experience. Seeed's lyrics are in German, English and Patois. Their biggest hits in the German Sprachraum were "Dickes B", "Aufstehn", "Ding" and "Music Monks". Although their lyrics are in English and German, most of the songs in German were completely translated into English for the international releases of the Albums Next! and Music Monks.
Their first smash hit was "Dickes B", an ode to Berlin. They won three ECHO Awards. With the international versions of Music Monks and Next!, they found broader success in Germany's neighboring countries, especially France.
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Israeli Ambassador: Palestinian Concerns Over West Bank Settlement are Baseless
E1 development plans are in response to U.N. vote, Oren says.
Israel is well within its rights to create a new settlement, and concerns that it could bisect a Palestinian state are completely groundless, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. said Tuesday.
The projected E1 settlement seeks to connect Jerusalem with the Ma'ale Adumim settlement to the east via "a strip of highway, less than 2 miles long that goes through a barren desert," Ambassador Michael Oren told reporters at a lunch meeting in Washington.
Palestinians and their allies argue the settlement would drive a wedge between the north and south flanks of the West Bank and separate it from East Jerusalem — which Palestine hopes to make its capital.
"All of that is just simply a canard," Oren says. "It does not cut off, it does not bisect a future Palestinian state. Far from it."
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The ambassador also offered alternatives for bypassing the settlement.
"The strip of land can either be overpassed by a bridge, by a cloverleaf, or by a very short tunnel," he says.
"It has been the intent of every Israeli government, going back to Yitzhak Rabin in the 1970s, to build along E1 in order to ensure the contiguity between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim, so it was not cut off and could not be cut off," he adds.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to move forward with the settlement, which will hold thousands of homes, was in response to Palestinian petitions in the U.N. for its newly granted non-member observer "state" status, Oren says, as well as the recent fighting between Israel and Hamas.
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Netanyahu was under pressure from the Israeli electorate to respond to Palestinians, Oren says, adding a majority of Israelis opposed the late November ceasefire with Hamas.
"If the Palestinians were taking unilateral actions in the U.N…. we had to send a message that we also could take unilateral actions," the ambassador says. "[Netanyahu] wanted to send a calibrated message that we could also take unilateral measures, but we would take them in areas that would, in any case, be a part of the state of Israel."
The prime minister also announced the plans preliminarily, allowing Palestinians "several years" to participate in the negotiation process.
"But it sent a message," Oren says.
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When asked about the E1 settlement last Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, "we want to see both sides step back from unilateral action so that we can pause, look at the road ahead, where we need to be, and move towards peace away from unconstructive actions."
A reporter had asked Toner about Palestinian claims that the U.S. would block the Israelis from building E1 in exchange for their omitting from membership to U.N. agencies, such as the International Criminal Court. He declined to comment further.
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Did third-party candidates nix Romney's presidency?
And where were the Christians? Why was there such ambivalence about this election? Why did evangelicals seemingly sit this one out?
BY: Rob Kerby, Senior Editor
In 2000, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader catapulted George W. Bush into the Oval Office by siphoning off 97,488 Florida votes that otherwise would have gone to Al Gore. As a result, Bush — heavily supported by evangelical Christians – won Florida and the Presidency by the slimmest of margins – 537 votes.
Back in 1992, H. Ross Perot gave the White House to Bill Clinton, drawing away enough discontented conservatives and Christians that George H.W. Bush lost and Clinton became President with only 43 percent of the popular vote. Almost a century before, Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party candidacy is credited with electing Woodrow Wilson.
Perot, if you remember, was a multi-billionaire who spent millions on his own candidacy. That didn't work out very well for him nor in 2012 did it work for pro-wrestling tycoon Linda McMahon who spent $97 million of her personal fortune trying to become Connecticut's junior U.S. Senator.
Maybe campaign-spending laws should change, says economist Glen Weyl, a professor at the University of Chicago. He says there are plenty of people who so vehemently want to see their candidate elected that they'd cast more than one ballot if they could. So why not let them? He has proposed a plan that would allow people to put their money where their mouths are by paying to vote as many times as they'd like. His system would require a
"So doubling or even tripling your weight at the polls would be relatively inexpensive," writes Ross Kenneth Urken for Daily Finance. "Go much beyond that and it starts to add up faster than you'd expect: For five votes, you'd pay a total of $55. For 10, a total of $385. Want to swing a small local election all by yourself? The hundredth vote, in this scenario, would cost you $10,000, but the 100 votes in total would run you a staggering $338,350. (Still, that's easily within reach for men with names like Koch, Trump, or Buffet.)"
Obama and Romney spent around $1 billion each on advertising — much of it in the "battleground states," appealing to swing voters — who waited until the last minute to decide
In the end, did a wealth of third-party choices cause them to vote the equivalent of "None of the Above" by supporting neither Obama nor Romney — but instead some obscure third-party candidate? In Florida, an absence of third-party candidates could have made a dramatic difference for Romney. There Obama beat him by only 46,061. If all everyone who supported a third-party candidate had instead voted for Romney, the Republican candidate would have
That would have gained Romney 29 votes in the Electoral College for a total of 235 – still 35 short of the 270 needed to win.
Could he have picked up more Electoral College votes in other battleground states had there been no third-party candidates? In Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia and Illinois, third-party candidates were active — campaigning on a variety of issues, including the legalization of marijuana, which was approved by Colorado and Washington State voters.
However, third-party candidates drew only small percentages of the vote in those states.
In Virginia, it had been feared that former U.S. Senator Virgil Goode's Constitutional Party candidacy would leach off enough conservative votes to give the state's Electoral College votes to Obama. However, Obama won the state's 13 Electoral College ballots by 54,924 votes.
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In a crumbling UC Berkeley research lab, Jed Macosko is looking for God. Macosko is a molecular biology researcher who holds chemistry degrees from Cal and MIT. As a Christian, he believes that God is everywhere. As a scientist, he thinks that God might live in bacteria.
Macosko's research peers deep into E. coli, a bacterium best known for the virulent strain that has caused fast-food restaurant panics, though it's normally harmless (it's swimming in your intestines right now). It's a seductive subject for a biochemist: The inner life of E. coli -- indeed, any microscopic organism -- is a sophisticated dance of proteins and amino acids interlocking and working together. Many molecular biologists find it utterly dazzling that something so small yet so amazingly complex could have evolved in nature.
But Macosko's interpretation makes a radical break from the overwhelming majority of his colleagues: He believes that the work going on inside those bacteria isn't just amazingly complex -- it's so incredibly complex that it couldn't conceivably have formed through evolution. The only reasonable explanation, he says, is that these systems and their processes were deliberately created by an "intelligent designer."
Macosko, a young, genial, and well-spoken scientist who has co-authored a handful of published scientific papers, calls that designer God, though he says you could call it anything you're comfortable with. If you like, he says, call it space aliens. He is inspired by what he claims is growing evidence that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution -- the very bedrock of biology -- has collapsed on the molecular level, and his career as a scientist and his research at UC Berkeley are geared toward supporting that theory. Looking at the E. coli bacterium, he says, "your natural assumption is that there must be another intelligence out there, whether it's an alien life form or some deity or something from outside our universe, or from a higher dimension that we can't observe."
The mainstream scientific community's response to that kind of statement ranges from howls of laughter to raw fury. Yet Macosko is not alone in his beliefs, and the proponents of "intelligent design" theory have gradually coalesced into a bona fide movement. Until recently, attacks on evolution have usually come from the pulpit. For decades, "creation science" tried to debunk Darwin by using the Bible to explain the origins of life. An oxymoron by definition, creation science was easily dismissed by the scientific world. Intelligent design theory, however, uses science itself to undercut evolution, and many of its adherents are scholars from leading universities like UC Berkeley. Cal, in fact, has produced several vocal proponents of intelligent design. Besides Macosko, they include a former criminal law professor who has become the self-acknowledged leader of the intelligent design movement, and another Berkeley scientist who is getting attention for a book that calls for a freeze on government funding of evolution research and warning labels on biology textbooks.
With those kinds of credentials, intelligent design has gathered steam in a way that creation science never did. Its arguments have begun to creep into public school board meetings. The Oakland-based National Center for Science Education, which polices attempts to insert religion into school curricula, has seen the largest flare-up of legislation in its 20-year history, much of it thanks to the efforts of intelligent design promoters.
In the minds of most scientists, however, intelligent design is simply a more insidious way of packaging creation science; intelligent design theory, they argue, is little more than the latest twist in an ongoing attempt to wedge religion into public schools, and besides, it's not much of a theory at all. It's just bad science, they say, which makes specious, deceptive, and unprovable claims about the nature of the universe.
Indeed, intelligent design theories are fascinating at first glance -- who wouldn't want to at least hear out a scientific proof for God? -- but they would be more intriguing if they weren't premised on so much wishful thinking. Intelligent design boosters, above all else, merely have a righteous beef with Darwinists and a supposition -- a faith, you might say -- that a designer of some sort created certain parts of nature. Their scientific arguments would be more respectable if they weren't befriending creation science proponents, exploiting scientific loopholes by appealing to the general public instead of submitting their research for peer review, or pointing to areas of science where the research is incomplete or contradictory as proof of Darwin's imminent collapse.
Macosko disagrees, though he sympathizes with the scientists who are so resistant to his ideas. Darwin's theory of evolution, after all, evicted God from the laboratory; it built a wall dividing scientific truth and spiritual truth. Tearing down that wall, Macosko says, will require enlisting both the masses and the scientists in ivory towers like Cal. "The problem with [Darwin] is that it's so entrenched in our culture," he says. "Newtonian physics never made policy, but Darwinism has made policy. So there's got to be two fights: one at the grass roots, one academic. And I think both fights have to go on at the same time."


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This week brought good news for people who would rather take the train than battle traffic on 1-95 to and from New York on summer weekends. The state Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to expand service on Shore Line East to include weekend trains to New London as soon as this spring.
State Senator Andrea L. Stillman, vice-chair of the legislature's Transportation Committee, said the announcement was part of an oversight hearing held on January 28. Although details are sketchy at this point about exactly when DOT would start offering this service, how many trains would run and what the schedule would be, Stillman welcomed the news as a big step in the right direction.
"For many years now all of us along Connecticut's shoreline have been waiting patiently for more options with regard to rail service so riding the train to New Haven and New York will become a more and more viable option," Senator Stillman said in a press release. "Today's announcement is a welcome acknowledgement that more frequent rail service to and from southeastern Connecticut must become a regular part of the landscape for a host of environmental and very practical reasons."
"News of this planned Shore Line East service expansion with weekend trains to New London will be welcomed by prospective passengers throughout southeastern Connecticut, particularly as the I-95 corridor becomes more congested during the warmer weather," she added.
According to the DOT, Shore Line East ridership increased by more than two percent in 2012, despite significant disruption caused by Superstorm Sandy, Stillman reported.
"Ridership statistics support the notion that people will use mass transit if and when it is made available to them so I'm delighted to know this initiative is in the works," she said.


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Influenza vaccines save millions of lives across the globe each year, but even heroes have their faults. A live attenuated flu vaccine, which contains weakened versions of the influenza virus, makes mice more prone to bacterial infections in their nasal passages. The vaccine used in the study is similar to FluMist, of which 13 million doses were distributed in the United States this year. The work helps explain why runny noses were an occasional aftereffect of FluMist in clinical trials.
"A study like this is an easy target for the antivaccine movement, but our findings shouldn't make a concerned parent less inclined to vaccinate their kid," says Michael Mina, a virologist at Emory University in Atlanta, who led the research.
Within the first few days of catching the flu, a person becomes susceptible to opportunistic bacteria. Microbes like Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus, which cause strep throat and staph infections, respectively, pounce on the exhausted immune system, causing secondary disease.
Mina wondered if attenuated flu vaccines could do the same. Some clinical trials of FluMist, for example, recorded an uptick in runny noses in children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years a week or so after they got the vaccine. But no study had attempted to figure out what might be causing the side effect by studying it in an animal model.
Mina and his colleagues mutated the H3N2 influenza virus to mimic the weakened strain included in the FluMist vaccine. Mice were then given this mock vaccine or a placebo either before or after they were exposed to S. pneumoniae or S. aureus.
Both bacteria flourished after mice were vaccinated, but only in their nasal passages and upper respiratory tracts, Mina's team reported last month in the American Society for Microbiology journal mBio. Although similar infections can cause runny noses in humans, they are much less dangerous than staph and strep infections in the lungs and lower respiratory tract. In fact, no infections at all transpired in the vaccinated mice's lower respiratory tracts, which explains why zero rodents experienced severe disease or died after bacterial exposure.
Even if the findings hold true in humans, a slight increase in the risk of a runny nose shouldn't prevent anyone from getting a flu shot, Mina says. Overall, getting vaccinated actually reduces your risk of bacterial infection by preventing influenza and, therefore, its host of possible secondary infections.
And at the end of the day, this is only a mouse model, says Vincent Racaniello, a microbiologist at Columbia University. Still, he says, it raises a mystifying question about this vaccine: "When you misdirect the immune response towards a virus, why do the bacteria take over?"
Next, Mina will search for human trends by heading to Bangladesh, where large-scale FluMist trials in children are ongoing. He will collect nasal swabs from vaccinated children to ascertain whether the patterns in his mouse model hold true. A city with the population density of Dhaka may witness an uptick in bacterial infections during mass vaccinations, he says.
According to Mina, some scientists in the field thought his study shouldn't be published because it casts a negative light on vaccines, but this research ultimately benefits the public, says Peter Palese, chair of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. "Vaccines are still the best ways of combating flu and many other diseases. Mice are not men, but it's important to learn about possible complications."
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You've got a rash. You quickly rule out the usual suspects: You haven't been gardening or hiking or even picnicking, so it's probably not a plant irritant such as poison ivy or wild parsnip; likewise, it's probably not chiggers or ticks carrying Lyme disease; and you haven't been swimming in a pond, which can harbor the parasite that causes swimmer's itch.
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Missouri U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill joined a bipartisan group of senators Wednesday to announce legislation that aims to reduce the number of sexual assaults on college campuses.
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If the media is to be believed, America is facing a major crisis. "Kids," some age 25, 26, or even 30 years old, are living out of their childhood bedrooms and basements at alarmingly high numbers. The hand-wringing overlooks one problem: It's all overblown.
Malaysians wonder 'Why us?' after second loss of airline jet
It was all too familiar. Grieving families rushing to airport. The flashing television graphics of a plane's last radar appearance. The uncomfortable officials before a heavy thicket of microphones.
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What's your favorite flight?
Most of my posts on the Let's Go Flying blog have been, up to this point, about professional pilot paths. I want to take a pause from this theme however, to share with you a recently re-discovered reason for wanting to learn how to fly: to find your own personal favorite flight (as a pilot of course).
This reason-for-flying occurred to me while at dinner with some friends this past Saturday. My friends, who I enjoyed a splendid evening with, are quite unique in the fact that both the husband and the wife are former USAF pilots. He used to fly the U-2 and she, the A-10. Talk about some interesting dinner conversation! During the course of our conversation, we began to share our most memorable, favorite flights with one another. Each story was unique and at the same time, shared similar threads and highlights.
My favorite flight took place between Yuma, Arizona and Colorado Springs, Colorado in a battered old Cessna 404 (a big lumbering twin-engine aircraft). This took place while I was working as an aerial survey pilot. My camera operator and I were assigned to leave our current project in Yuma and fly to Colorado Springs for some "reflights" before heading home to Dayton, Ohio. We left Yuma and flew northeastward across Arizona, cut across the upper northwestern corner of New Mexico, into Colorado and the Rockies until reaching Colorado Springs. If you are familiar with this corner of the United States at all, you already know that my route encompassed a beautiful swath of barren desert, ragged canyons, and breath taking mountain scenery. It was a beautiful day with unlimited visibility which allowed for spectacular views of places like, Meteor Crater, Shiprock, Wolf Creek Pass, and the Royal Gorge Bridge. The sun was beginning to set as I passed over most of these locations and that only served to enhance already incredible views. It is also important to note that it is one thing to cross this area at 40,000 feet, as I have many times since in a jet, but another thing altogether to fly over these places at 11,000 - 15,000 feet. At that altitude, you feel that you could literally touch the tops of many of those natural monuments (it was all legal though....don't worry).
My friend's story from dinner was similar. Of course his story included skimming peaks at 500 + knots and at a legal 500 feet off the ground but still, we had a strong aviation connection. Because each of us had vivid memories from a special flight and those memories will last us each for a lifetime.
I ask and encourage you, what will your favorite flight be? What story will you answer with when someone asks you? It'll be hard to answer that question unless you do TODAY what it takes to make your dream of flying a reality. So...Let's Go Flying!


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Todd Szegedy (2 Chevrolet) dove underneath Donny Lia for the lead heading into Turn 3 of the white-flag lap and emerged with the victory Saturday afternoon in the F.W. Webb 100 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Austin Dillon will race chassis No. 475 this week. This car last saw action in the Quicken Loans 400 in which he finished 30th.
Matt Kenseth has finished fourth in his last three attempts on unrestricted, intermediate speedways. He started 14th at Kentucky, 15th at New Hampshire, and 13th at Indy en route to those results.
Brad Keselowski will pilot chassis PRS-912 as his primary this week in Pocono. It was last raced at Charlotte this May where it finished 10th.
Alex Kennedy has become the go-to driver for No. 33 Joe Falk team at Pocono and on road courses. He will make his third start on this track in the GoBowling.com 400.
Travis Kvapil is the active driver with the greatest improvement in race trim during the most recent six races. On average he qualifies just shy of the 34th-place position and finishes slightly better than 25th.
Brian Vickers needs a little more seat time at Pocono before fantasy owners decide what to do with him. He has started only three of the last nine races on this track.
After finishing 40th in the Pocono 400 and again in the Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire, Joey Logano rebounded to finish fifth at Indy last week. That was his fourth top-five on a flat track in six races this year.
Ryan Truex has finished in the top 30 only one time in six races this season. His 30th-place finished came on the short track of Martinsville.
After departing from Roush-Fenway Racing, Ragan suffered through three Pocono races without a lead lap finish. His two most recent efforts have not been stellar, but at least he finished on the lead lap last August and this June.
Kevin Harvick has shown a lot of strength on some of NASCAR's flat tracks, but Pocono Raceway is often an exception. He has not finished among the top five on this track since spring 2011.
Carl Edwards has been a solid contender on flat tracks this year. He finished in the top 10 at Phoenix and Richmond, as well as among the top 15 at Martinsville, New Hampshire, and Indy.