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Found a Really Nice Little House
I have just now got my stuff here, but I have not unpacked yet. This came up suddenly and it was a really good deal. The seller never even posted the house for sale and I sort of made a bit of it under the table. I do not have to explain that as it is something the IRS would not like much, but we worked out a deal where he ended up okay and I got a great deal. It needs a good deal of work and right now I am trying to find the high speed internet deals in this area. I could get wireless internet in the pace I was staying at. It was thirty bucks a month and I liked it okay, but it does not seem to be available right here. It seems odd, since I am about ten miles from where I was when I had it, but I am in a much more rural area.
The place is great for me. It is the perfect size and even though the yard is big, there is not that much to take care. I would guess that I could mow it in about forty five minutes and do the weed eating in around ten to twenty minutes at most. Of course in the Fall it is going to be another story, because the trees are every place and there are not a lot of evergreen type trees that would not be shedding leaves in the fall. So it is going to be a big pain to keep the leaves up. In fact I might get a riding mower just so I can rig it up to pick up leaves quickly. It is a sure thing that I will get tired of the leaves covering the yard right after I finish.
Working on Getting My First House
I am just doing the homework at the moment, because I know that I will have a lot of stuff to learn before I am ready to buy the place. For now I have to pay down some debts and then work on the down payment that I need to save. After that you have to think about the incidental expenses that are added on to the cost of the house. For instance I am learning about home insurance at homeinsurance-deals.com and I know that it is one of the things that you need. In fact it seems as though you need that before you can have the house. It seems like that putting the horse before the cart thing, but it has to do with the fact that you are going to be borrowing a big pile of money from a bank and that bank is not really going to wanting to take any chances on you paying them back. The insurance is supposed to do that even if you are not able to do it.
Of course the big thing is to have the down payment and then to look like a good bet to pay off the mortgage. The two things are related obviously. Being able to save up that kind of money shows that you have a sufficient income for home ownership. In my case it would actually reduce my expenses on a monthly basis if I could get in the sort of house that I am looking at. The rent on the apartment that I have now is pretty outrageous when you look at what I am getting and how much I dislike the loud neighbors to each side and up above me. A house payment is going to be a great deal less than it is.
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I am going to look around the internet and see what I can do to lower the total amount of money that I am spending on the stuff that is possible to dicker about with. Obviously there are a lot of things that are not really negotiable. You can not tell the landlord that you do not want to pay the full rent, or in my case it is the full mortgage payment. I am still getting used to that and I am looking to build back up a reserve. I think maybe I can switch to direct tv and save a good bit of money, at least in the short term. They always give you a good deal on one of those introductory offers, because you are only of use to them if they can get their foot in the door. Then that deal expires and they start trying to hit you up for a lot of costs exactly like the cable company would do to you.
Of course I could probably get the cable company to give me a better deal if I cried to them about their prices and made it look as though I would switch to another competing service. It is the same thing with them, they want to charge you two hundred dollars per month and they will do that if you let them, but they want to keep you on the hook for something. So if you cry a little or scream about the bill and convince them that you are giving them up, then they will sweeten the deal for you to retain your business. It is not like they can jack the prices back up on you if you have left them for a less expensive option. They want the ability to sneak some charge on you later.
Moving out to the Waterfront
I would not have thought about this before, but I found a somewhat odd place to live. It is a barge that has been converted into a home. It is tied up in a very calm little cove in between two docks it barely fits between. The thing is not perfect by any means, but for the price it is quite nice. I need to find some direct tv deals before football season, but that is about the only thing it lacks right now. The internet works just fine now. I already have a wireless internet service and I tested it down there, not a problem. So all I need is to get the TV hooked up to a satellite tv programming source. In fact it has to be direct tv, at least that is what is already there. The dish actually needs to be moved, because it is in the way where it is. That is the best place for laying in the sun, or to be specific it is in the way of two people laying in the sun and I have a girlfriend.
That is what makes this place really perfect. My girlfriend and I are not living together and right now she lives in a rather inconvenient part of town. It is not near either my office or the apartment I am living at. This barge is tied up about fifteen minutes from her place and about five minutes from the office if the traffic is good. Of course the traffic is not usually good at the time I am going to the office or leaving it, but of course that is not going to change no matter where I am driving from. That is about half the time for the trip to Mary's and a quarter of the time to work.
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I will do all that I can to ensure that the same will not happen to me. Already I have begun to look at the mistakes she made and how they came about. I look at my parents lives, the choices that they made with their own finances and compare it to both of their own parents. I try to find the success, the failures and the hardships that defined those moments in their lives in order to better understand the possibilities and consequences that I myself may one day face as well. This is wisdom, those lessons learned from the past that remain with us in the present so we might gain insight from them. Not just insight but also foresight. I do think that knowing uncertainty exists allows for the ability to plan for it.
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The Internet has become the reservoir the keeping of old information and the creation of the new. It is both an archive and the generator for content. I have long been fascinated by this relationship of the web and to see it culminate to where it is now is a fascinating moment to witness. With so much data now being made widely available for all to use, someone could just as easily look up obscure, esoteric Japanese pop culture as they could an electric company in hutto, Texas. Truly, this is a wonder of the world. No one thing that human kind has ever created has been able to offer all people so much hope, so much potential, so much raw information that we can utilize within the context of our lives however we might wish. Something like this is beyond value – can you imagine how much an individual would have to pay an educational institution for access to some of this information that is now freely available?
This capability is going to lead human culture to a new place as we fashion a new way of thinking that is going to slowly emerge with every successive generation that has access to this digital sea of data. It is surely going to change the world for future generations with the same ferocity as it has changed out own. I can remember the world of the 90′s when the web was only a handful of a few million users accessing it with little to no actual content to speak of. It was a desolate wasteland of potential where budding communities were beginning to congregate and build upon the substrate of HTML and CSS. Now we have a flourishing garden of content ready to be harvested for whatever ends we may think of.
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Finding yourself a utility company is easier now than ever before, especially here for those of us who call the Lone Star State their home. You know, as a recent transplant from Indiana, I was rather taken with some of these utility websites that I have come across in my search for an electric company in spring before I even moved here. I was just casually browsing like I usually do and I found a website (energyproviderstexas.com) which is one handy tool if I don't say so myself! From here you can input your address which will harvest some data regarding the utility companies that serve the area as well as, get this, compare prices between those companies for you. Whoa! I was blown away by this innovative approach to an industry that I have long considered to be mundane and behind the times. Not that I demand much from my utility company but this has certainly been a helpful tool for me.
I found it especially helpful because it gave me insights into how I might want to craft my budget before I even moved. To be able to know ahead of time what my potential projected electric bill may cost me gave me just enough information that I could go ahead and input that into the forecast. It's the little things such as this that make a difference in a customer's perception as it certainly was enough to impress me! I certainly now believe that this sort of website should be made available across the entire spectrum for every industry, for every utility, as it would no doubt encourage some competition between if they realize that customers are beginning to choose the company who is offering them the lowest price because of that website specifically. This would really help mitigate some of the control that Time Warner and Comcast have.
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I read the paper before going to work the other day and saw that there had been another burglary in the neighborhood. I had noticed two police cars in the driveway of a house a block away. I did not know who lived in that house since it was a rental property, and people move in and out a lot. The paper said that it may be the same thief that has been breaking into other homes in the neighborhood. I took some time during my lunch hour to look for a local home security company that could install a monitored alarm system on our home. I was hoping to get fire and burglary protection. I also was interested in having a couple of surveillance cameras added. One of the incidents in our neighborhood was actually a home invasion. The crooks broke in while the family was home. They were injured as well as having things stolen. I am afraid for my family, and I worry about our cat and dog while we are gone form the house during the day. I wanted a good home security system to help protect us. There are all kinds of alarm systems out there, but unless they connect to a real person at a monitoring agency, they are about as useful as a car alarm. How many times have you checked out why a car alarm was going off in the store parking lot? Exactly! You need someone who will respond to the alarm and call the police, fire department or emergency medical personnel. This is why a monitored home alarm system is the best option for homeowners. I signed up with a company that provides state-of-the-art alarm equipment and great monitoring service for a low monthly fee. They also had the video surveillance option where I could use my smartphone to see what the cameras were seeing any time I wanted to.
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When I moved into my house a few years ago, I didn't have any cable, Internet or phone packages. I have a smartphone, and I knew that I would be able to use it if I needed to access anything on the Internet. My finances improved not long ago, and I knew that I was finally ready to get these services. The first thing I wanted to do was find the most affordable internet service, because I knew I would be able to continue using my smartphone if I couldn't afford to get a landline also. I also wasn't too worried about getting cable, since I would be able to watch programming on my computer at home once the Internet was hooked up. I was surprised at the number of options that I had just for my Internet connection. I didn't even know dialup was still available nowadays, but that was even something that was being offered at a really low rate. I knew that I wanted something else though, because I wanted to be able to watch streaming video on my computer without having to wait for it to buffer several times even for one that is just a few minutes in length. I looked at the other options, and I knew as soon as I saw the DSL packages that it was the option I was going to use. The company offering it had a really great deal not only for the Internet pricing but also if I bundled other services with it. Since I had considered getting a home phone also, I knew it was the deal for me. I am not home enough to watch TV a lot anyway, so I decided to just go with these two services. I am still paying less than what I had budgeted just for my Internet service alone!
Moving Let Me Choose to Get Cable Internet
I had only moved down the road about a half mile from where I lived in the country. I did not notice it for the first few days of living there, but right there up on that telephone pole was that big silver wire. The wire is like an aluminum pipe with foam inside and a copper wire running down the middle. It is the main access for the Cable TV company that provides service. It is important because I did not have it where I used to live. I started looking for cable internet providers as soon as I got back in the house. I did not have everything hooked up yet at the new place. Seeing that cable wire was actually a bit of a surprise for me. I thought the cable only came out to the beginning of this road I live on. I had no idea it came halfway, or right to where I live now. Just a few more houses down is where the service ends. I could hardly wait to sign up for cable Internet service. I had been using one of those things you plug into a USB port that connects you to your cellular carrier. It was so awfully slow I barely used it. A few days later the cable guy came out and hooked up the TV service with a DVR and the cable Internet. Wow, is the word that comes to mind. It is so fast. I liked it so much that I bought a new computer and got my first game console. Now I am up at night playing video games against opponents around the world. It is so cool to have such fast Internet service. Unless you are used to the slow stuff, you just have no idea.
Exploring Singapore in a Rental Car
When I had the opportunity to go to Singapore for business, I was pretty excited mainly because I knew I would have some downtime there. Normally, I only stay somewhere for a couple of days, but this trip would last for nearly 10 days. I love to explore new areas, so I was anticipating this trip a lot because I had never been there before. After I made my hotel reservations, I did an online search for car rental in singapore. I had considered using a cab since I didn't know my way around, but I knew that could get very costly, especially if I decided to explore all day long on my days off there.
I wasn't too worried about learning the terrain there, so I knew it would be the best economical choice to rent a vehicle. I figured if I got lost, then it would be fun getting back to the hotel anyway. No matter what, I was planning on enjoying this trip. I looked at several car rental agencies, but only one had both the vehicles that I liked at prices that were more than reasonable. I ended up getting a Toyota Wish 1.8L because it is a bit bigger.
I know most people driving in strange areas probably prefer a small vehicle since they navigate better, but I have never been one to get the smallest for that reason. I am nearly 6 foot 3 inches, so I feel very cramped in a small car. The Toyota Wish was perfect for me though. I did not feel cramped whatsoever in it, and I was able to navigate the strange streets just fine. It didn't take too long to learn my way around, and I ended up having a blast there. I hope that I am able to return to explore even more of this beautiful country soon.
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Iwould just get a multi B-all the B vitamins are important.
- This multi b vit is yeast free, gluten free – very pure. It has also been stored in the fridge and is within date. The headache borders on migraine and I feel nauseous as well.
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You may be getting too much of one of the different vitamin B's and that is causing your headache. Quit taking the vitamins and see if the headache goes away. It may be that or it may be that you just have a headache unrelated to the vitamins.
- I was wonder, for the violin, the first note is a B flat on the G string for B flat major scale. To play a B flat is the first and second finger close together in a half step or a whole step?
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To play a B flat the first and second finger are close together in a half step and Eb on the D string and the final Bb on the A string are played with low first fingers.
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Roger William Mikeworth, 77, of Mt. Vernon and formerly of Paxton, died at 6:40 a.m. Friday, March 8, 2013, at Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mt. Vernon.
He was born on Aug. 15, 1935, in Melvin, to Frank and Mamie (Mickens) Mikeworth. He married Patricia Lorraine Doyle on June 9, 1955, and she preceded him in death in January 1989. He later married Beverly Ann Badgett Messiha in Mt. Vernon on June 15, 1991.
He graduated from Melvin-Sibley High School class of 1953 and later attended Eureka College in Eureka, Ill. He worked for United Parcel Service for three years and then 40 plus years as an agent and manager for Bankers Life & Casualty Co. where he was a member of the Presidents Club and a recipient of numerous President's Honor Circle awards for sales excellence. He was the Agent of the Year award recipient in 1992, 1994, 1995, and 1996. He also received the Quarterback Award for outstanding leadership as a Branch Sales Manager. He retired from Bankers Life and became an independent insurance broker for the past seven years.
He attended the First Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon and sang in the church choir. He was a past president of the Paxton High School Sports Booster Club and was active in the leadership of Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in Paxton. He was a Boy Scout Troop Leader for Pack 35.
His life goal was to support and encourage others including his children and grandchildren to excel in their endeavors. He enjoyed spending time working in his yard.
Roger is survived by his wife, Beverly Mikeworth; two daughters, Peggy Mikeworth-Jordan and husband Michael of Maiden, N.C. and Julie Messiha-Watson and husband Mark of Wheaton; four sons, Kevin Mikeworth and wife Laurie of Huntersville, N.C., Brian Mikeworth and wife Terry of Forsyth, Doug Mikeworth of Naperville and Mark Messiha and wife Kristi of Carol Stream; one sister, Virginia DeFries of New Harmony, Ind.; two brothers, Vincent Lloyd Mikeworth of Onarga and George "Homer" Mikeworth of Ashkum; nine grandchildren, Amanda Jordan-Malone and husband Patrick, Christina Jordan-Johnston and husband Christopher, Ryan Jordan, Brian Mikeworth, Sean Mikeworth, Laura Mikeworth, Tim Mikeworth, Tyler Mikeworth, and Justin Mikeworth.
He was preceded in death by his parents; first wife Patricia Mikeworth; two sisters, Beth Kutenbach Holferty of Chatsworth and Mary Mikeworth of Onarga; and four brothers, Wesley Mikeworth, Dennis Mikeworth, Raymond Mikeworth and Elvin Mikeworth, all of Onarga.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon with Dr. Ryan Burge officiating.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Hughey Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon.
Graveside interment services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at the Lyman Township Cemetery in Roberts, Ill.

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Medication During Pregnancy Shown to Cause Fetal Damage
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in FDA, Health, News on July 28, 2012
via: NaturalSociety
by: Alicia Martin
July 28, 2012
About two-thirds of women in the United States take one or more prescription medications during pregnancy, many of which the potential effects on a fetus are unclear. In developed countries, birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality. The complex melange of factors that contribute to a healthy pregnancy make it very difficult to specifically identify causal factors, but it is widely agreed upon that taking medication during pregnancy can result in fetal damage.
Use of Medication During Pregnancy a Dangerous Decision
In 1979, the United States Food and Drug Administration introduced a system to classify pharmaceuticals based on fetal risks. The two highest categories of risk in this system are 'Category X,' where fetal abnormalities could occur, and/or there is positive evidence of human fetal risk based on adverse reaction data, and the risks involved in the use of medication during pregnancy clearly outweigh potential benefits. Then there is 'Category D,' where it is claimed that the use of the drug will provide more benefits than risks, despite positive evidence of human fetal risk based on adverse reaction data from investigational or marketing experience or studies in humans. Needless to say, pharmaceutical drugs should be avoided, especially while pregnant.
An analysis of almost 13,000 doctor visits made by women of childbearing age between 1998-2000 showed that one out of every thirteen was on a class D or X medication, and given the steep and steady increase in prescriptions for psychotropic drugs in the past decades, it's likely that this number is also increasing.
In addition to these medications which are known to pose a risk, the data on many other prescription drugs is limited at best. According to Dr. Cheryl Broussard, Epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most medications have not been adequately evaluated for use during pregnancy, and one study showed that more than 90% of medications approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 1980 to 2000 had insufficient data to determine the risk in human pregnancy.
Hey, Mr. Obama: Big P[HARM]A Prescription drugs kill 6200% more Americans than homicidal shootings
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Big Pharma & Medical Mafia, False Flags & 9/11, FDA, GMOs, Health, News, Right To Bear Arms on July 26, 2012
via: NaturalNews
Thursday, July 26, 2012
by: Mike Adams
[NaturalNews] In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooting, President Obama chimed in on the gun control debate yesterday, saying, "Every day, the number of young people we lose to violence is about the same as the number of people we lost in that movie theater. For every Columbine or Virginia Tech, there are dozens gunned down on the streets of Chicago or Atlanta…" (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/25/obama-calls-measures-…)
What he didn't say, however, is that every day 290 people are killed by FDA-approved prescription drugs, and that's the conservative number published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
As no one seems to believe these numbers are real, I'll quote the source: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000, authored by Dr Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
That study, which is twelve years old — and drug deaths have risen considerably since then — documents 106,000 deaths per year from the "adverse effects" of FDA-approved prescription medications.
To reach this number from outbreaks of violent shootings, you'd have to see an Aurora Colorado Batman movie massacre take place every HOUR of every day, 365 days a year.
If a massacre of people using slugs of lead is bad, why is a massacre of people using deadly chemicals perfectly acceptable?
A medical massacre that dwarfs the number of deaths from shootings
No one in Washington talks about prescription drug deaths. There are no sobbing victims shown on the evening news. This "chemical massacre" happens quietly, behind closed doors. Yet to achieve this level of mass death in the world of plane crashes, for example, you'd have to see a jumbo jet airliner crashing into the ground once a day, every day of the year.
But that's only the beginning of the mass death caused by modern medicine, where greed-driven doctors are routinely bribed by the drug giants (http://www.naturalnews.com/036510_doctors_bribes_drug_companies.html) and thereby make the "Joker" James Holmes look like a boy scout by comparison. As NaturalNews previously revealed, just one company — GlaxoSmithKline — had a bribery network of 49,000 doctors who received financial kickbacks to prescribe more Glaxo pharmaceuticals to patients.
According to the report Death by Medicine, by Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith, the medical establishment kills 783,936 people in the United States every year. (http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_02.htm)
Those deaths include:
• 106,000 Americans killed from drug side effects
• 115,000 Americans killed from bedsores
• 98,000 Americans killed from medical error
• 88,000 Americans killed from infections
• 32,000 Americans killed from surgery
• 37,000 Americans killed from unnecessary procedures
… and so on. See the source link, above, for the rest of the numbers.
The bottom line total comes to 783,936 deaths every year from "conventional" medicine (drugs and surgery medicine).
You are 6200% more likely to be killed by your doctor than by a shooter
According to the CDC's numbers from 2007, the total number of homicide shooting deaths in the United States each year is roughly 12,600 (Xu, Jiaquan; Kenneth D. Kochanek, Sherry L. Murphy, Betzaida Tejada-Vera (2010-05-20). "Deaths: Final Data for 2007″ (PDF). National Vital Statistics Reports (CDC) 58(19): 11. Retrieved 2011-04-07.)
This means that your risk of being killed by your doctor is 62 times higher than the risk of being killed by a shooter. Put another way, that's a 6200% higher risk.
It seems that before we even think about the issue of gun control, we need a national debate on DOCTOR control.
After all, when doctors inadvertently kill people by prescribing deadly chemotherapy cocktails or deadly prescription drugs, they don't even get arrested for it! But they do get financial kickbacks, exotic vacations paid by drug companies, free travel, free meals and other perks of being a Big Pharma whore. Plus, they're free to go on killing other people, over and over again. While doctors obviously don't intend to kill people, they nonetheless keep doing so as long as they get their bribes, kickbacks and perks. (http://www.naturalnews.com/036417_Glaxo_Merck_fraud.html)
If Obama really wanted to protect Americans from being killed, he'd call for restrictions on the prescribing of deadly pharmaceuticals. But don't hold your breath on that one, because when it comes to actually protecting the American people from medical massacres, or GMOs, or toxic fluoride in the water supply, the real Joker is Obama himself.
War On Health – Gary Null's Documentary Exposing The FDA
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Documentaries & Interviews, FDA, News, Red Pills on July 25, 2012
July 25, 2012
The Documentary below by Gary Null exposes many of the tyrannical ways in which the FDA has carried out its attack on the populace's food rights. It leaves no doubt as to how incisive, dangerous & purely controlling this agency has become over time. The fact that the FDA has carried out an all-out assault on many beneficial foods & supplements that would aid people's health is beyond disturbing.
As an adjunct to the documentary below, for those seeking additional information regarding the nefarious ways of the TSA please read:
Health Freedom and Freedom of Speech
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in FDA, Health, News, War On Food & Supplements on July 25, 2012
via: CorbettReport
July 25, 2012
Pharmaceutical Drugs are 62,000 Times More Likely to Kill You than Supplements
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Control Grid, FDA, Health, News, War On Food & Supplements on July 24, 2012
via: Mercola
by: Dr. Mercola
July 24, 2012
According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition, 69 percent of American adults take supplements. But are supplements dangerous? The UK-based, international campaign group, the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) recently revealed data1showing that compared to supplements, an individual is:
- Around 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning
- Nearly 300,000 times more likely to die from a preventable medical injury during a UK hospital stay, which is comparable to the individual risk of dying that active military face in Iraq or Afghanistan
Additionally, the data shows that adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs are:
- 62,000 times more likely to kill you than food supplements
- 7,750 times more likely to kill you than herbal remedies
The data, which was collected from official sources in the UK and EU, demonstrate that both food supplements and herbal remedies are in the 'super-safe' category of individual risk – meaning risk of death from their consumption is less than 1 in 10 million. The group has created an excellent graphic2 showing your relative risk of death from a variety of activities. Besides drugs and hospital injuries, you're also more likely to die from being struck by lightning or drowning in your bathtub than having a lethal reaction to herbs or supplements…
According to the featured article on NewHope360.com3:
"ANH-Intl executive and scientific director, Robert Verkerk PhD, hailed the figures as shedding new light on the vexed question of natural healthcare's safety. "These figures tell us not only what activities an individual is most or least likely to die from, but also what the relative risks of various activities are to society as a whole. It puts some real perspective on the actual risk of death posed by food supplements and herbal remedies at a time when governments are clamping down because they tell us they're dangerous.
… According to Dr Verkerk, the new figures should help to pressure UK and European authorities to reduce regulatory burdens on natural health products."
With a Super-Safe Track Record, Why are Supplements Under Attack?
Vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements have a tremendously safe track record, yet they are often singled out as being potentially dangerous by government agencies like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This – the notion that dietary supplements are unsafe — was the premise behind the FDA's Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI), which would have required the supplement industry to prove the safety of natural ingredients that, in many cases, have been on the market and used safely for decades!
Fortunately, public outcry made the agency agree to take another look at their proposed guidance and to issue a revised draft4. It's still not known when the revisions might be completed.
The original NDI draft essentially claimed dietary supplements are unsafe and must be carefully tested in order to "protect consumers." The proposed safety thresholds even exceeded those required by pharmaceutical drugs — despite extensive toxicological data showing supplements are FAR safer than drugs. As detailed above, drugs are 62,000 times more likely to kill you than supplements! Why on earth would supplements need more stringent safety thresholds than drugs?
It's an obvious attempt to eliminate competition for the drug industry.
Data from the United States fully corroborates the featured UK data. For example, according to the latest data from the US National Poison Data System (2010 report)5, NO deaths were attributable to vitamin and mineral supplements that year. And, as noted byOrthomolecular Medicine News Service last year6, Americans easily take more than 60 billion doses of nutritional supplements every year, and with zero related deaths this is an outstanding safety record:
"Well over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 165,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 60 billion doses annually. Since many persons take far more than just one single vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.Over 60 billion doses of vitamin and mineral supplemnts per year in the USA, and not a single fatality. Not one. If vitamin and mineral supplements are allegedly so 'dangerous,' as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?"
The Drug Industry is the Real Health Threat
In striking contrast, drugs are known to cause well over 125,000 deaths per year in the US when taken correctly as prescribed – yet the FDA allows fast-track approvals and countless new additions of poorly tested drugs to the marketplace that must later be withdrawn due to their lethal consequences.
It is simply incomprehensible that any rational approach would seek to vilify supplements over drugs when the data in no way, shape or form supports it. The most likely motive for this position is financial greed that can put your life in jeopardy. According to the US National Poison Data System7 the following drug categories are among the most lethal:
- Analgesics, sedatives, hypnotics, and antipsychotics
- Cardiovascular drugs
- Opioids
- Acetaminophen combinations
- Antidepressants
Slightly lower down on the list you find drugs like muscle relaxants, anti-inflammatory drugs, hormones, antacids, anticoagulants, and antihistamines.
Crude Awakening: Mineral Oil Contaminates Everyone's Bodies
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in FDA, Health, News on July 24, 2012
via: GreenMedInfo
by: Sayer Ji, Founder
July 23, 2012
The scientific literature indicates that there are at least two dozen adverse health effects linked to exposure to mineral oil, a crude oil derivative. New research indicates these fat-soluble hydrocarbons are accumulating to disturbing levels in our bodies, and affecting newborns by contaminating breast milk.
How did they get there? Mineral oil is legally allowed to be added to our foods, drugs and cosmetics, where they accumulate in our bodies over time, with the highest concentrations found in our fat deposits. One autopsy study performed in 1985, revealed that 48% of the livers and 46% of the spleens of the 465 autopsies analyzed showed signs of mineral-oil induced lipogranuloma (a nodule of necrotic, fatty tissue associated with granulomatous inflammation or a foreign-body reaction around a deposit of an oily substance), indicating just how widespread pathological tissue changes associated with exposure really are.
In the United States, the FDA has approved mineral for use in cosmetic products, as well as a food additive up to 10 mg/kg a day. For a 150 lb adult (68.03 kilograms) this is the equivalent of 680 milligrams a day, or 248 grams (over half a pound!) a year.
Glass particles found in injectable cancer drugs; massive FDA recall issued
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Big Pharma & Medical Mafia, Cancer, FDA, Health, News on July 20, 2012
via: NaturalNews
Friday, July 20, 2012
By: J. D. Heyes
[NaturalNews] Having to deal with the mental and physical pains of cancer is bad enough, but it's worse when you have to fear the medicine used to treat it.
Hospira, the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, announced in June that it will recall four of its cancer drugs and other medications both in the United States and from around the world – the fourth month in a row the company has had to warn the healthcare industry of issues related to its products.
In a joint release with the Food and Drug Administration, Hospira blamed the glass supplier for the injectables in recalling 19 lots of carboplatin, cytarabine, paclitaxel and methotrexate, which were shipped between September 2011 and April of this year. According to the release, vials of these drugs have been discovered with "visible particles embedded in the glass located at the neck of the vial."
Glass particles in the medicine, in other words.
"In the event in which particulate matter could be injected into a patient, there may be the potential for patient injury where medical intervention may be required. Signs and symptoms might include bleeding, bruising, inflammation, itching, rash, chest pain and respiratory symptoms," said the joint statement.
Drugs in U.S., abroad recalled
Daniel Rosenberg, a spokesman for Hospira, told the Pharma Web site FiercePharmaManufacturing, in an email: "Hospira has not received any reports of adverse events related to these lots. The root cause is a supplier glass defect, and we have taken corrective action to prevent this from occurring again. For U.S. customers, replacement product from other lots is available and no drug shortages are expected as a result of this recall."
In addition, the company has said recently it was recalling drugs from a number of other nations ranging from Canada to Norway, Australia and Vietnam, reports said. Those global recalls don't include cytarabine; however, but do include other drugs such as heparin, desferrioxamine, oxaliplatin, fluorouracil and epirubicin.
In his email, Rosenberg said it's possible that some countries could experience temporary shortages of the drugs but added, "In most cases, we will have replacement stock available, and we don't anticipate major disruptions for the majority of our overseas customers."
The Pharma Web site noted that shortages stemming from drug-maker manufacturing problems have been a major issue over the past couple of years, particularly at Hospira, which the site says "has found itself in the middle of it." The company is one of four other generic medication producers named in a House committee report recently that are linked to grave shortages of drugs in the United States, due to FDA actions requiring each to correct quality control issues on their production lines.
Hospira has also borne the brunt of a new legal strategy: Patients or their families filing suit against drug makers who say a shortage of medications they were taking worsened their medical conditions and, in some cases, even led to death.
FDA Approved HIV Preventative Pill Marketed to Uninfected Public
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Big Pharma & Medical Mafia, FDA, Health, News, Vaccines on July 20, 2012
via: OccupyCorporatism
by: Susanne Posel
July 20, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Gilead Sciences' Truvada, the first pharmaceutical drug to prevent the virus that causes AIDS.
Some of the senior members of Gilead Sciences include:
- John C. Martin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, who served on the Centers for Disease Control/Health Resources and Services Administrations Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment and was a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and worked for competitors Bristol-Myers Squibb and Syntex Corporation
- Robin L. Washington, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer who was a former accounting analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Kevin Young, Executive Vice President, Commercial Operations, who was appointed Commander of The British Empire for his service to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
Margaret Hamburg, FDA commissioner, released a statement saying that the approval by the FDA "marks an important milestone in our fight against HIV."
Marketed as a preventative for people who at high risk of contracting HIV through sexual activies, Turvada is supported by public health advocates that believe this pill will slow down the spread of HIV. In America it is estimated that 1.2 million people have HIV. With this new antiviral drug, it is proposed that 240,000 HIV carriers will not be able to continue to spread the disease.
Gilead Sciences combined two separate drugs to create Truvada. The genetically engineering of the preventative is praised by the FDA to answer the assumption that condoms are not effective. The pharmaceutical corporations are working hard to convince the general public that their drugs are the only answer to our problems; whether with regard to healthcare or psychology or simply controlling social behavior as with addiction vaccines .
The inception of HIV/AIDS began in the late 1970's when the World Health Organization (WHO) went into Africa under a small pox vaccine initiative . Suddenly, in 1981, the first recorded incident of HIV was "discovered" in the same places where WHO had conducted the small pox vaccine campaigns.
Why a Decline in Mammography Rates is Really GOOD News
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Big Pharma & Medical Mafia, Cancer, FDA, Health, News, Whistleblowers on July 18, 2012
via: Mercola
by: Dr. Mercola
July 18, 2012
The "C" word; probably the most feared word there is in healthcare. Just the mere mention of cancer conjures up images of death and despair. Cancer screening like annual mammograms is the conventional go-to "prevention" strategy. But researchers increasingly agree that mammography is ineffective at best, and harmful at worst…
In November of 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federal advisory board, revised their cancer screening recommendations, saying annual mammograms weren't necessary for women under age 50 and that screenings were recommended only every two years after that1.
The panel based the new guidelines on data indicating that mammography does more harm than good when used on younger women.
Besides the fact that the ionizing radiation delivered during mammography can cause cancer in and of itself, overdiagnosis of cancer, as well as misdiagnosis, has been shown to be a significant problem plaguing this form of cancer screening.
According to a Norwegian study, published in April of this year2, as many as 1 in 4 women are consistently overdiagnosed with breast cancer that, if left alone, would never have caused them any harm.
Whistleblowers Claim FDA Approved Dangerous Mammography Equipment
On July 15, the New York Times revealed that the FDA has engaged in an intense spying campaign against five whistleblowers within the organization3, as well as "FDA opponents" deemed to be in collaboration with the whistleblowers.
According to the NYT:
"What began as a narrow investigation into the possible leaking of confidential agency information by five scientists quickly grew in mid-2010 into a much broader campaign to counter outside critics of the agency's medical review process, according to the cache of more than 80,000 pages of computer documents generated by the surveillance effort.
Moving to quell what one memorandum called the "collaboration" of the F.D.A.'s opponents, the surveillance operation identified 21 agency employees, Congressional officials, outside medical researchers and journalists thought to be working together to put out negative and "defamatory" information about the agency.
… The extraordinary surveillance effort grew out of a bitter dispute lasting years between the scientists and their bosses at the FDA over the scientists' claims that faulty review procedures at the agency had led to the approval of medical imaging devices for mammograms and colonoscopies that exposed patients to dangerous levels of radiation."
As a longtime critic of mammograms, I'm familiar with the kind of harassment the FDA can dish out, so it does not surprise me the agency would stoop so low as to spy on their critics.
How can the FDA justify spying on and harassing their own scientists—professionals hired to assess the safety of devices such as mammograms—just because these employees found serious health threats that the agency would rather continue to ignore in order to protect their industry clients? It's completely unconscionable and there's no good defense.
Good News: Fewer Younger Women are Getting Mammograms
While U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new guidelines initially ignited fierce protests from cancer advocacy groups, mammography rates for women in their 40s are declining4.
According to recent findings by the Mayo Clinic5:
"Presented last week at an annual research meeting, the study analyzed data from 100 health plans across the U.S. Looking specifically at the number of mammograms performed from January 2006 to December of 2010, researchers found a drop of nearly 6 percent among women ages 40 to 49.
Meanwhile, the number of mammograms among women ages 50 to 64 remained steady, despite the same panel's recommendation that women need only be screened every two years.
"We applaud this news," says ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. She notes that, while too many people still believe there's no harm in getting a mammogram, the task force study demonstrated that this is clearly not the case. "We now have reason to hope that the influence of the USPSTF guidelines will only increase, meaning that we'll see a decrease in the number of women who unnecessarily undergo procedures such as radiation, mastectomy, or lumpectomy."
Cancer Overdiagnosis, Still a Serious Concern
According to Dr. Otis Webb Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, the term "overdiagnosis" in cancer medicine refers to6:
"… a tumor that fulfills all laboratory criteria to be called cancer but, if left alone, would never cause harm. This is a tumor that will not continue to grow, spread and kill. It is a tumor that can be cured with treatment but does not need to be treated and/or cured."
The problem, according to a report by CNN published back in April, is related to advances in technology7. As mammograms are able to detect tinier and tinier spots in the diagnostic films, the possibility overtreatment increases exponentially when overzealous clinicians insist that more tests, including invasive MRIs with dye and painful biopsies, be done on women who have the misfortune of having a tiny spot in their X-ray.
Concerns about overdiagnosis of both breast- and prostate cancer have increased over the years. (According to Dr. Webb Brawley, an estimated 60 percent of prostate cancers are also harmless tumors that do not need treatment.)
The findings from Norway support several previous studies, such as the Cochrane Database review from 20098, which found that breast cancer screening led to a 30 percent rate of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, which actually increased the absolute risk of developing cancer by 0.5 percent. The review concluded that for every 2,000 women invited for screening throughout a 10 year period, the life of just ONE woman was prolonged, while 10 healthy women were treated unnecessarily. Another 200 women undergo psychological stress and trauma for several months due to false positives.


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3055 Olin Avenue, Suite 1000
Suite 1000
San Jose, CA 95128
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Maggiano's - San Jose Details
Dining Style:
Casual Dining
(408) 423-8973
Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Friday: 11:00am - 3:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm - 3:00pm Dinner: Sunday - Thursday: 3:00pm - 10:00pm, Friday - Saturday: 3:00pm - 11:00pm Please be advised that we do not accept reservations for patio/outdoor seating.
Payment Options:
AMEX, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Italian, American
Executive Chef:
Daniel Grice
Dress Code:
Casual Dress
Accepts Walk-Ins:
Additional Details:
Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Delivery, Full Bar, Happy Hour, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine
Maggiano's delivers! Just place your order, and we'll take care of the rest. All delivery orders include: table coverings, plates & utensils, a complete setup to keep the food warm throughout your event, party-sized pans providing generous portions for all of your guests. Please call 408-423-9476 to schedule your delivery. Orders must be placed by 7 p.m. for next-day delivery. Minimum order required. Delivery fee applies.
Getting there
Public Transit:
Bus stops in front of restaurant & local taxis
Public Lot
Parking Details:
Public lots in surrounding area. Valet available with Hotel Valencia.
A word from Maggiano's - San Jose
Welcome to Maggiano's in San Jose, located at Santana Row, San Jose's newly opened European-style shopping, dining & entertainment destination. Maggiano's 16,000 square-foot, 220-seat restaurant is ideal for group lunches, festive gatherings & romantic dinners for two. We specialize in serving
lavish portions of authentic Italian-American cuisine served family-style. Our menu is large & varied, offering an extensive selection of homemade pastas, signature salads, prime steaks, fresh fish & memorable desserts.
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Diner Reviews
We made reservations ahead of time
through open table, got to the restaurant 15 minutes early and ended up waiting 40 minutes, which is 25 minutes behind the reservation time. This is at 8:15 p.m. on a Wednesday. While waiting for our table, various people walked up to ask about wait time without reservations, they were told 45 minutes wait. I suppose that the reservation saved us 20 minutes, but still much longer than expected. The staff keeps telling us they have some tables ready but they are cleaning them up, but several groups were called up before us so this must be a common practice with the restaurant. 25 minutes beyond the reservation time and they never offered even a glass of water or acknowledged us during the wait."
Dined on 8/19/2014
Went here with my family. Great
service, plenty of good food with moderate price."
Dined on 8/19/2014
Everyone enjoyed the pasta. Of
course the now and later promo was a hit too. Great value."
Dined on 8/17/2014
We made a reservation for 6:30.
Once arriving promptly and checking in the host said we'd have to wait for a table to clear. We expected 5 minutes. 20 minutes later there was no communication from anyone. My wife and I decided to leave. The line for the host was now out the door, it would have been another 10 minutes to tell them we were leaving. I received an unexpected text from the restaurant 30+minutes after our reservation time saying our table was ready. Very disapoinring."
Dined on 8/16/2014
Went to celebrate Mom's bday.
Staff was very helpful and attentive. Food tasted great as always."
Dined on 8/15/2014
Overall it was a great dinner. The
only drawback was that we were given a small table. I did mention kids and a highchair and because of the limited space there was a lot of knocking down water cups and limited placement for food. Waiter was great, but felt rushed."
Dined on 8/15/2014
Made a reservation for 14 a couple
of weeks in advance. The day of, I stopped by a few hours prior to our time and was able to pre order our disshes etc. Price was fair for what we ordered. Dinner went off without issues but no real fireworks either. I would do it over again."
Dined on 8/15/2014
We arrived 10 minutes early for
our reservation and were seated 35 minutes late. Totally ignored by hostesses - had to check in repeatedly. At the table the waiter was rushed, gave me the wrong wine, my friend's wine didn't come til halfway through dinner - poor service all around"
Dined on 8/14/2014
I hadn't been here in many years.
The ambiance is very nice. The food is very good and it exceeded my expectations. That doesn't happen often. And the price is very reasonable. We ate off the Classics menu and got a second order to take home. What a deal."
Dined on 8/14/2014
Maggiano's accommodated my party
of 12 very easily. Our waiter was very attentive, and as always, the food was great! Always dependable. Love Maggiano's!"
Dined on 8/11/2014
The service was quite slow.I was
with my daughter and we know that kids are not so willing to wait but It took something around 50 minutes from the order until the food to come."
Dined on 8/10/2014
We waited for more than 15 minutes
before our server came to our table. She did not even know she was our server. A few more minutes and I would have walked out of the restaurant."
Dined on 8/10/2014
I went here for my first date and
even though we had reservations at 7pm, we weren't seated until 8pm. Very awkward for a first date...."
Dined on 8/9/2014
I took my friend to Maggiano's for
her birthday. Our waiter was so attentive and made her feel very special. The food is always good, especially the pasta. We will return for my birthday."
Dined on 8/8/2014
Been there many times and food and
service are always good."
Dined on 8/7/2014
It worked for a first date....but
that is all I can really say. Nothing stood out."
Dined on 8/7/2014
My party and I arrived at
Maggiano's at 6:40pm for our 6:45 dinner reservation. Somehow they had our reservation down for 6:15, so our time had passed. I was disappointed, and showed them my 6:45 Open Table reservation confirmation on my iPhone. They asked us to wait. About 6:55 they showed us to a table. Other than that experience, the rest of the evening went well. Our calamari, chopped salad, chicken marsala, angel hair pasta with prawns were delicious. We even tried the strawberry peach spritzer which was good. Also, the service was superb. All in all, it was a good experience, and will return to Maggiano's in the near future."
Dined on 8/7/2014
For a chain restaurant this is
reliable and convenient. The service is good for a chain. The quality is decent. Volumes of food are on the high side, but family style serving allows one to order appropriately."
Dined on 8/2/2014
As usual Maggiano's does not
disappoint. Our waiter was very attentive despite the very busy evening. Food was great and plentiful. I love Maggiano's!"
Dined on 8/2/2014
Our waitress was friendly
knowledgable and helpful. They sent someone over specially to accommodate my gluten issues (celiac disease). I had a great salmon and no issues so they must be careful in the kitchen. My husband LOVED the beef medallions and almost ordered a second to take home"
Dined on 8/2/2014
I went here with my husband for my
birthday dinner and had the best time. We've been here multiple times for occasions great and small - even having our engagement lunch here! Saturday night was wonderful and by far the best experience we've had here. Warren, our waiter, was so personable and very friendly. The manager, Shanji (I apologize for completely misspelling that), was very nice as well and kept checking on us. The kitchen had gotten a little backed up but we didn't notice as we were having fun just being out at dinner together."
Dined on 8/2/2014
We have eaten at Maggiano's many
times, but this will probably be the last. One hour wait for our main course! Luckily we ordered an appetizer, but that didn't come in a timely manner either. The waiter kept telling us that the kitchen was behind. I ordered the pasta with meat sauce and meatball. My order came with no meat sauce, but I did get a meatball. We noticed that the restaurant wasn't as packed with people waiting to get in as it used to be. And what happened to the music!!! Used to listen to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra. That must be a thing of the past. Eating there was not a good experience. The waiter did have a clue as we got 20% off of our bill (without us saying a word to him). Would not recommend Maggiano's."
Dined on 8/2/2014
My expirience at Maggiano's was
top notch. We were a party of 10 and we did the family dining for 28$ per person and it was more than worth it. The service, food, atmosphere were excellent. Your cup will most definitly run over at Maggiano's!"
Dined on 8/2/2014
Typically like this place but sat
night was awful... Got there at 545 and didn't receive our drinks 650 and our food till 740. We had somewhere to be at 755 and had to cancel :-( I made special plans for my husbands birthday and couldn't go through with them. I was very sad."
Dined on 8/2/2014
Made reservations for a group of
10 for a "thank you" dinner for friends that have been helping us with a project. We had a great family style dinner - food was good, well paced and plentiful. The place was totally packed on a Friday evening so be sure to make a reservation and be prepared for crowds, however our table was in a semi-private dining room that was very pleasant. Our guests had a great time and felt "thanked" by us after dinner."
Dined on 8/1/2014
I had an award to give to my
customer and his team. We were seated a large round table that was perfect for the occasion. Friendly fast and attentive service."
Dined on 8/1/2014
The food was good but lacking in
sauce and sauce ingredients. Very little bleu cheese in salad, not enough sauce or capers in picatta sauce. Plenty of clams in sauce and desserts were amazing."
Dined on 7/30/2014
Maggiano's is a great place for
lunch or dinner. It is especially nice for groups with family style dining, but also very nice for smaller parties, too. Very nice clubby atmosphere inside with a lovely outside patio to enjoy people watching. Wonderful fresh food and service."
Dined on 7/30/2014
The review is for the food not our
server "Chuck" who was great. Started with the calamari which was soft rather than crispy. To follow I had the lobster carbonara and the Maggiano's side salad. The bacon on the salad was so hard it was crunchy and at one point I thought there must be a piece of plastic in my food which, when I spat it out, turned out to be bacon. My carbonara was a mound of creamy pasta with lobster only on top of it and not mixed through and my husband's sausage pasta dish didn't really have any kind of sauce and was all watery. When I made the reservation I said it was for our anniversary but no one said anything until they saw us opening our cards, then they brought us some lemon cookies. The gesture was appreciated."
Dined on 7/27/2014
Tomato soup is very salty. the
script scampi didn't have much favor and the shrimp was mushy. Even the chucks of garlic didn't have much favor - must of have been canned garlic."
Dined on 7/27/2014
This would be my 4th time at
Maggiano's all I can say is that if you want good Italian food this it but you may need to be patient for a table I do recommend making reservations ahead of time! Unfortunately for me the hostess not soo friendly idk maybe too much pressure to welcome me as a guest and others & accomadate on a busy evening or my luck of receiving their mood swings day of. However what makes up for that would be the wait staff: very friendly, hospital welcoming and attentive on point every single time I have been here! Our waiter was very attentive, infomative and cheerful despite the busy over booked dinner accomdations. He made sure he didn't forget about us made us feel at home."
Dined on 7/26/2014
Maggiano's has turned into a
"Go-to" option for any occasion. They have never failed us yet. The Santana Row location is a lot of fun with the vibrant surroundings, but every location delivers the same delicious menu."
Dined on 7/26/2014
We had reservation and still had
to wait to be seated for an hour!!! Got appetizers after another hour of waiting. Spent there 4 hours - it was way over our expectation. The longest "dinner" each of us ever had. We will have to look for another place next time, sorry guys- you need to speed up!"
Dined on 7/26/2014
We were there on Saturday, with
reservations at 6:45, did not get seated until 7:20, 35 mins later. The bar area was crowded with people even eating dinners in that area. They ran out of pagers and had to call you on your cell phone. Luckily I went to desk to get an update, I missed my call, due to noise level. Tables too close together, booths ok, waiter apologetic for wait times, not his fault. They need a better system."
Dined on 7/26/2014
My daughter and son-in-law took
the family to Maggiano's to celebrate our Anniversary. We got the family style meal. It was hard to choose what we wanted because everything sounded so good. We loved everything we had. You can't make a bad choice. Our waitress was wonderful. She always made sure we had everything we needed."
Dined on 7/26/2014
Excellent pasta choices and
bruchetta was excellent."
Dined on 7/25/2014
Jillian was exceptional and made
the experience superb!"
Dined on 7/25/2014
very good food. Tasty drinks. Very
crowded restaurant very narrow pass throughs for walking.overall a good place to eat for a regular dinner out a little bit pricey but very tasty. A little too crowded and noisy for special occasions or romantic date."
Dined on 7/24/2014
This place has excellent italian
food, but I would want a little more variety in menu and some more sea food choice. We had a reservation for 8 PM on a weekday but didn't get table until 8:25 PM so that was little frustrating else the was OK."
Dined on 7/23/2014
Always return to Maggiano's even
though I live out of the area. This time, however, not up to it's usual quality. The flower arrangements were spectacular. I ordered the buy one pasta and take one home. I only received my pasta that was left on my plate that the busboy asked if I wanted my leftovers boxed but not the special take one home offer. I did not realize this until I was home! Our waitress was outstanding and her name was Sheryl."
Dined on 7/23/2014
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