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Not passing judgment, just curious.
|Thu, 06-05-2003 - 12:55am
But there are some rare exceptions.
I read an article several years ago written by a devoutly Catholic couple who supported a group called Catholics for Choice or some such thing. They'd not previously supported abortion, but their view had changed. They had a planned pregnancy, but learned very late that the baby was anencephalic - it had no brain. They had a few choices:
continue the pregnancy and delivery naturally - more risk for mom to continue the pregnancy, emotionally devastating to go through childbirth knowing what was ahead, and the inhumane and again emotionally devastating experience of watching the baby wither away and die.
or they could have a c-section - way more risk to mom, could lead to problems with future pregnancies, and again watch the child be born live only to watch it die.
or they could have a late-term abortion - least risky of all their options, and (they felt) the most humane option for their child.
They wrote a very compelling and emotional piece about it, and speak regularly on the subject. They talked about how the medical staff brought the baby out with a cap on its head for them to hold and say goodbye to....very sad, but they felt the best option for their family.
I wouldn't support the procedure for just anyone if it were me making the call...but its for exceptions like these that I think making it illegal would be detrimental in rare circumstances.
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As Everett C. Koop put it, "It's just bad medicine"
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In the situation of an much wanted anacephalic baby, I would think the mother would want to hold her child, name it and hold services for it. No heroic lifesaving measures needed. A warm blanket and a pr of loving arms. It just is a more dignified end, but then again, your asking for respect for the fetus.
Now, if the woman is either A- having the head delivered, collapsing the head, and then pushing the rest of the fetus out, or B delivering the body and then collapsing the head prior to delivery of the head (both ways I have read this is done) it seems it wouldn't be harder to just deliver baby, say hello's and goodbyes, bury child. I mean, the woman would have given birth had the baby been OK. Why does giving birth (a natural process) become more risky with a dying fetus? The mother could induce immeditaly following confirmation of the disorder, no need to wait.
But then again, if you consider the fetus, you are dissing the mother(or something like that...)
|Thu, 06-05-2003 - 1:21am
I, personally, would be more traumatized knowing I chose to end my baby's life before nature (or God, whichever you choose) was ready for it to end.
Medical advances and technology are incredible. Sometimes I wonder if there are some things we just were not meant to know in advance.
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You really should learn more about this procedure so you can discuss this.
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|Thu, 06-05-2003 - 1:17pm
Whether or not the baby is going to survive is not the point, in my view. If the baby is viable enough for the mother to go into labor and delivery, then why kill the baby when it's half-way out of the birth canal?
And I have no idea why someone would decide to have this procedure done in the first place, and I sure would hope it's not because they just 'changed their mind'. But from everything I've read, there has not been any medical necessity to perform this particular procedure, so why?
Oh, and where did you hear that a lethal injection is given before this procedure so the baby can't feel? If the baby's already dead, why continue with this procedure? That doesn't make any sense at all.
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Oh, oh, and my favorite: well, she's not dead so it's all ok.
Yeparooney, PC is all about not wanting the woman to be "dissed"
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"In the third quarter, Network Equipment revenue grew 8% sequentially and we added 39 new customers. Our optical communications solutions are gaining momentum and in the quarter we won two large international Carrier Ethernet deployments with our OptiSwitch® solution, reflecting the strength of our technology. We are well positioned in the optical transport and carrier Ethernet markets and specifically in the rapidly growing mobile backhaul, data center and cloud computing verticals. We intend to leverage our strengths and continue investing in our optical communications systems to bring innovative products to the high growth segments of our market," concluded Gorsun.
Third Quarter 2012 Results
MRV reported third quarter 2012 revenue of $51.6 million, compared with revenue of $55.0 million in the second quarter of 2012 and $54.2 million in the third quarter of 2011. Sequentially, MRV's third quarter revenue was impacted by a 17% decline in Network Integration revenue that was primarily attributable to decreases in local currencies combined with lower product revenue and partially offset by 8% sequential growth in Network Equipment, which is substantially comprised of our optical communications systems business. The year-over-year decline in revenue was due to an 11% decline in Network Integration revenue related to lower product sales, delayed recognition upon acceptance of previously installed equipment and continued economic weakness in Europe. This decline was offset by 1% year-over-year growth in Network Equipment revenue driven by increased sales for the OptiSwitch and related network optical communications components.
Gross margin for the third quarter of 2012 improved to 37.3%, compared with 34.4% in the second quarter of 2012, and 37.1% in the third quarter of 2011. Increased sales of higher gross margin products in the Company's Network Equipment group primarily contributed to the year-over-year gross margin improvement, and to a lesser extent a reclassification of engineering labor to an expense. In the Network Integration group, margins declined due to highly competitive European markets that are driving increased pricing pressure, and a change in product and service revenue mix.
Operating expenses in the third quarter of 2012 were $20.3 million, or 39% of revenue, and included a $1.1 million goodwill impairment charge related to the Company's subsidiary in Italy. Excluding this charge, operating expenses in the third quarter were $19.2 million or 37% of revenue, compared with $17.9 million, or 33% of revenue in the third quarter of 2011, and excluding a $3.7 million impairment charge related to the Company's Swedish subsidiary, $18.6 million or 33% of revenue in the second quarter of 2012. The year-over-year increase in operating expenses was primarily due to an increase in corporate operating expenses of $1.2 million attributable to legal fees associated with derivative litigation, and professional fees related to the sale of the Company's Swedish and French Network Integration subsidiaries. Excluding the impairment charges in the second and third quarters of 2012, operating expenses increased sequentially also due to the aforementioned legal and professional fees.
Operating loss for the third quarter of 2012 was $1.0 million, and included a $1.1 million goodwill impairment charge related to the Company's subsidiary in Italy. Excluding this charge, the operating profit in the third quarter was $0.1 million, compared with an operating profit of $2.2 million in the third quarter of 2011. Operating income included share-based compensation expense of $0.3 million and $0.4 million in the third quarter of 2012 and 2011, respectively. Operating income for MRV's Network Equipment group was $2.2 million, a 69% increase compared with $1.3 million in the third quarter of 2011.
A more detailed discussion of MRV's 2012 third quarter financial results, including an analysis by business segment, is included in the Management Discussion and Analysis section of the Company's Form 10-Q filed today.
Recent Highlights
- MRV's OptiSwitch solution was selected by CyC S.A., the telecommunications subsidiary for Argentina's largest electricity company, to launch a Carrier Ethernet network capable of supporting wholesale mobile backhaul and other revenue-generating data services.
- MRV's OptiSwitch and ProVision® products were selected for an international metro-Ethernet deployment in Asia.
- MRV expanded the award-winning OptiSwitch Carrier Ethernet Access portfolio with the introduction of a complete demarcation-to-aggregation solution, which comprises of the OptiSwitch 906G and OptiSwitch 9244-1210G models.
- MRV's Fiber Driver® High Density 10G Transport Solution was recognized by TMC, a global, integrated media company, for exceptional innovation in advancing communications.
- MRV successfully completed the stockholder-approved divestitures of MRV's Network Integration subsidiaries Alcadon-MRV AB and Interdata.
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading global provider of carrier Ethernet, wavelength division multiplexing optical transport, infrastructure management equipment and solutions, as well as network integration and managed services. MRV's solutions enable the delivery and provisioning of next-generation optical transport and carrier Ethernet services over any fiber infrastructure. MRV provides equipment and services worldwide to telecommunications service providers, enterprises and governments, enabling network evolution and increasing efficiency, while reducing complexity and costs. Through its subsidiaries, MRV operates development centers in North America and Europe, along with support centers and sales offices around the world. For more information about MRV, visit http://www.mrv.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release may contain statements regarding future financial and operating results of MRV, management's assessment of business trends, and other statements about management's future expectations, beliefs, goals, plans or prospects and those of the market segments in which MRV is engaged that are based on management's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about MRV and its consolidated businesses and the respective market segments in which MRV's businesses operate, in addition to management's assumptions. Statements in this press release regarding MRV's future financial and operating results, which are not statements of historical facts, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "envisions," "estimates," "targets," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "should," "could," "forecasts," "projects," variations of such words and similar expressions, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements which are not statements of historical facts. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance nor guarantees that the events anticipated will occur or expected conditions will remain the same or improve. These statements involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the likelihood of which are difficult to assess and may not occur, including risks that each of its business segments may not make the expected progress in its respective market, or that management's long-term strategy may not achieve the expected results. Therefore, actual outcomes, performance and results may differ from what is expressed or forecast in such forward-looking statements, and such differences may vary materially from current expectations.
For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with MRV's businesses, please refer to the "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition" and "Risk Factors" sections of MRV's SEC filings, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, copies of which may be obtained by contacting MRV's investor relations department or by visiting MRV's website at http://www.mrv-corporate.com or the SEC's EDGAR website at http://www.sec.gov.
All information in this release is as of September 30, 2012 unless otherwise stated. MRV undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in MRV's expectations.
MRV Communications, Inc Statement of Operations (In thousands, except per share data) Three Months Ended Nine months ended September 30, September 30, ------------------------ ------------------------ 2012 2011 2012 2011 (unaudited) (unaudited) (unaudited) (unaudited) ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Revenue $ 51,613 $ 54,193 $ 155,004 $ 166,596 Cost of goods sold 32,387 34,081 99,665 103,124 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Gross profit 19,226 20,112 55,339 63,472 Operating expenses: Product development and engineering 4,052 3,325 11,226 10,766 Selling, general and administrative 15,169 14,583 47,453 49,011 Impairment of goodwill 1,055 - 4,689 - ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Total operating expenses 20,276 17,908 63,368 59,777 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Operating income (loss) (1,050) 2,204 (8,029) 3,695 Interest Expense (82) (216) (540) (653) Gain from settlement of deferred Consideration obligation - - 2,314 - Other income (loss), net 57 (48) 24 (260) ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Income (loss) from continuing operations before taxes (1,075) 1,939 (6,231) 2,781 Provision (benefit) for income taxes 1,252 (295) 2,573 2,217 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Net income (loss) of continuing operations (2,327) 2,234 (8,804) 565 Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income taxes of $0 in 2012 and $841 in 2011 - (153) 7,975 (894) ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Net income (loss) (2,327) 2,081 (829) (329) =========== =========== =========== =========== Net income (loss) per share - basic: From continuing operations: $ (0.01) $ 0.01 $ (0.06) $ 0.00 From discontinued operations: $ - $ (0.00) $ 0.05 $ 0.01 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Net income (loss) per share - basic (1) $ (0.01) $ 0.01 $ (0.01) $ 0.01 Net income (loss) per share - diluted: From continuing operations: $ (0.01) $ 0.01 $ (0.06) $ 0.00 From discontinued operations: $ - $ (0.00) $ 0.05 $ 0.01 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Net income (loss) per share - diluted (1) $ (0.01) $ 0.01 $ (0.01) $ 0.01 Weighted average number of shares: Basic 155,314 157,535 156,939 157,518 Diluted 155,314 158,601 156,939 157,518 (1) Amounts may not add due to rounding. MRV Communications, Inc Balance Sheet (In thousands) September 30, December 31, 2012 2011 ------------- ------------- Assets (unaudited) Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 39,036 $ 71,352 Short-term marketable securities - - Restricted time deposits 326 380 Accounts receivable, net 50,057 55,654 Other recievables 9,040 11,604 Inventories 30,873 28,134 Deferred income taxes 1,662 1,660 Other current assets 7,657 5,168 Current assets from discontinued operations held for sale - 24,810 ------------- ------------- Total current assets 138,651 198,762 Property and equipment, net 6,442 6,789 Goodwill 324 5,156 Deferred income taxes, net of current portion 3,732 4,113 Intangibles, net 400 0 Other assets 749 574 Noncurrent assets from discontinued operations - 15,295 ------------- ------------- Total assets $ 150,298 $ 230,689 ============= ============= Liabilities and stockholders' equity Current liabilities: Short-term debt $ 7,227 $ 8,987 Deferred consideration payable 233 4,615 Accounts payable 21,900 31,359 Accrued liabilities 22,341 20,924 Deferred revenue 11,741 10,985 Other current liabilities 236 1,693 Current liabilities from discontinued operations held for sale - 3,236 ------------- ------------- Total current liabilities 63,678 81,799 Other long-term liabilities 6,230 6,209 Long-term liabilities from discontinued operations - 467 Commitments and contingencies Stockholders' equity: Issued - 161,285 shares in 2012 and 160,609 shares in 2011 Outstanding - 151,925 shares in 2012 and 157,704 in 2011 271 270 Additional paid-in capital 1,291,450 1,337,935 Accumulated deficit (1,208,008) (1,207,178) Treasury stock - 8,535 shares in 2012 and 2,692 shares in 2011 (6,076) (3,271) Accumulated other comprehensive income 2,753 14,458 ------------- ------------- Total stockholders' equity 80,390 142,214 ------------- ------------- Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 150,298 $ 230,689 ============= =============
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The insightful, rueful, intensely self-critical and self-aware Williams delivers a harsh look at his own accomplishments, as well as at Kessler's process. Unwilling both to feign obliviousness and to play to the camera, Williams calls the project the "Steve and Paulie show" and makes their tensely artificial relationship the core of the story.
-- Richard Brody, The New Yorker
The oft-hilarious push-and-pull between director and subject ... effectively hacks away at the celebrity-enthusiast divide. By the end of this perceptive dual portrait, both men are content to merely be human.
-- Keith Ulrich, Time Out New York
Watching is like going through an old scrapbook with the singer. There's great footage of his highs, and his highs... drugs and alcohol derailed his career. Williams' agenda sometimes clashes with the filmmaker's but the friction only makes it better.
-- Betsy Sharkey, L.A. Times
Filmmaker Stephen Kessler has made a thoroughly satisfying, always engaging and unusually perceptive doc almost in spite of himself -- and in the face no little resistance on the part of his subject, which would be the once very famous singer/songwriter/actor/entertainer Paul Williams.
-- Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
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"What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day."
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Pit: So are humans able to use them?
Viridi: No, but they miss out on a lot of stuff. You know the saying about humans.
Pit and Viridi: Born crying, soon they're dying.
Pit: That's kind of mean, isn't it?
Viridi: Well, I've always liked the saying about the gods better.
Pit and Viridi: Powerful and frightening, spite everything with lightning!
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When announcing Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope, Mark Shuttleworth had hoped to make this next Ubuntu Linux release perform better and to boot "blindingly quick", in particular with Ubuntu beginning to appear on more mobile devices. Well, with Alpha 4 have been released earlier this month, are Canonical developers and the community in the right direction with making Ubuntu 9.04 boot quickly? We have boot-time benchmarks of the latest Ubuntu 9.04 work along with Linux desktop benchmarks comparing it to its predecessor, Ubuntu 8.10.
16 February 2009 - 10 Comments
Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and gOS Benchmarks
gOS and Linux Mint are two of the many Linux distributions based upon Ubuntu, but they provide their own spin of things. gOS, for instance, ships with WINE and Google Gears by default and focuses upon providing an easy and rich experienced catered around Web 2.0 services. Linux Mint ships with its own set of customizations and its focus is on providing an easy-to-use Linux desktop by having a distinct user interface, its own set of system, and shipping with various proprietary drivers, plug-ins, media codecs, and other packages. We had a question though from a reader asking whether the performance of these Ubuntu derivatives is vastly different from Ubuntu itself. With that inquiry, we have run a couple benchmarks comparing the performance of Ubuntu 8.10, gOS 3.1, and Linux Mint 6.
7 February 2009 - 5 Comments
Ubuntu 9.04 Receives EXT4 Support
With the EXT4 file-system having been stabilized with the Linux 2.6.28 kernel, the Ubuntu developers are preparing to adopt this evolutionary Linux file-system update. EXT4 will not replace EXT3 as the default file-system until at least Ubuntu 9.10, but as of yesterday, Ubuntu 9.04 now has install-time support for EXT4. In this article we are looking at the EXT4 support within Ubuntu as well as providing a few Linux file-system benchmarks from a netbook-embedded solid-state drive. In this article we have published Ubuntu benchmarks of EXT4, EXT3, XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS file-systems.
11 January 2009 - 25 Comments
Ubuntu 9.04 Home Encryption Performance
One of the exciting features that is being worked on for Ubuntu 9.04 is encrypted home directories. What this means is that at install-time for either the LiveCD or server installation (or at a point later on when creating additional user accounts), the administrator can opt to have the user's home directory encrypted. This is a step-down from the Ubuntu 7.10 install-time encryption that would encrypt the entire hard drive and just not the user's home directory, but alas, that comes with performance consequences. At the request of Canonical, we have carried out a few benchmarks showing what effect the Ubuntu 9.04 home encryption feature has on the system's overall performance.
7 December 2008 - 21 Comments
OpenSolaris 2008.05 vs. OpenSolaris 2008.11 Benchmarks
Seven months after the release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 (a.k.a. Project Indiana) its successor was finally released earlier this week. OpenSolaris 2008.11 was released on Tuesday with many updated packages and new features. To see how this new work has affected the performance of Sun's OpenSolaris operating system, we have benchmarked both releases through some different tests.
5 December 2008
Fedora 10 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks
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28 November 2008 - 14 Comments
Fedora 10 Cambridge Released
Following several months in development, Red Hat has just released Fedora 10 (codenamed Cambridge). A number of new Red Hat innovations can be found in this release, such as Plymouth, and there are many updated packages such as those from X.Org and the Linux kernel. In this article are some screenshots from Fedora 10 final along with some of the other features that make up the tenth release of this very popular Linux distribution.
25 November 2008 - 14 Comments
Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks
Over the past few weeks we have been providing several in-depth articles looking at the performance of Ubuntu Linux. We had begun by providing Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 benchmarks and had found the performance of this popular Linux distribution to become slower with time and that article was followed up with Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 benchmarks and other articles looking at the state of Ubuntu's performance. In this article, we are now comparing the 64-bit performance of Ubuntu 8.10 against the latest test releases of OpenSolaris 2008.11 and FreeBSD 7.1.
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Vegetarian in San Diego..
- Beach Chick Jan 11, 2009 08:44 PM
Besides eating a Patty Melt with extra thousand and a double double that I crave a couple times a year, I have been a semi-vegetarian (love fish/cheese) since 1973 and I remember a place back in the 70's on El Cajon blvd that rocked and wish I could remember the name but I love and crave great creative vegan dishes..besides Indian or Thai.
Any places or dishes that are some of your fav's?
The best vegetarian place for us in SD is Spread, close to corner University/30th. Very often changing (depending on what they got at the market) menu with creative dishes. (We recently had an excellent night at Ubuntu in Napa (highly recommended if you look for an outstanding vegetarian restaurant) which is often named as one of the best new restaurants in the US and even though their dishes are much more refined than those as Spread it made us at the same time realize that the level of creativity and quality at Spread is surprisingly high).
re: honkman
honkman..this is exactly what I was looking for..
We tried to get into Ubuntu in Sept. but was booked and went to Redd instead.
Spread..is it new?
re: Beach Chick
No, Spread is around for some time. Call them before you go. They are sometimes closed for catering. It is a very small restaurant with some unusual furnitures but very good food.
re: honkman
where the hell have I been..living in that cave has its drawbacks.. ; )
re: honkman
Funny you should mention the furniture. We ate there once and won't be back because of how uncomfortable the suspended chairs are. If you are not super tall or super short, you might be comfortable. My wife and I are extremes in height however.
Some of the food was quite good however, some of it missed the mark.
Are you craving vegetarian or vegan dishes?
re: Ewilensky
i've been in this neighborhood a ton, and can't remember seeing this place (spread). the menu on their website sounds good- but omits prices... can anyone tell me the approximate prices? like enough food for two people?
One of my favorites is a meal of sides (polenta, white beans and grilled tomatoes w/goat cheese) at Piatti in La Jolla.
Ranchos Cocina, in OB and North Park, has some good vegetarian Mexican stuff. Blue corn avocado enchiladas, enfrijoladas with mole, tempeh fajitas, etc. Definitely worth checking out. They make a fresh ginger/honey lemonade that's really delicious, too.
re: normalheightsfoodie
Sipz is very very tasty.
re: Ewilensky
A number of posts debating the use of mock meat in vegetarian cooking were split and moved to here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/587800
re: maggersmagoo
Longtime vegetarians -- we eat at Cafe Athena (on Garnet, Pacific Beach) a lot. Great menu, very varied with dishes to please the meat-eaters in your party as well. Nice casual friendly atmosphere. They have this one appie that's really good -- spanokilemonato - spinach, garlic, lemon, cilantro. Simple yet delicious.
re: maggersmagoo
I second Jyoti Bihanga. I'm a carnivore, but I actually find myself craving that Neatloaf sandwich.
re: stevewag23
Is it still the Zone or is it something else now? I think half of it was a bakery. When it was the Zone it was only mediocre but haven't eaten there in at least 2-3 or more years.
re: stevewag23
It's called Nature's Express, it's vegan, and while I'm a dedicated omnivore I've had some pretty tasty food there. There's a drive through/ walk up window serving veggie burgers, fries and such, and also a dining room with cafeteria type service. Good vegan chili and soups. Some of the staff and recipes from Kung Food remain. Worth a try if you're looking for a tasty plant based meal.
I really enjoy Veg-N-Out in No Park. They have a great selection of salads, sandwiches and traditional meat substitutes.
re: P Macias
Count me a vote for Fairouz as well. A lot of veggie and vegan choices.
Kim's in Encinitas (in The Lumberyard) has a really extensive veg section in its menu--more than a page. And it's actually quite good, at least most of what I've tried (curries, soups, pho). It bills itself as Chinese-Vietnamese, but it's really mostly Vietnamese. I'd shy away from anything that sounds like gringo Chinese food, but then I'd do that anywhere. And if you have the $$, treat yourself to a fresh coconut for your beverage.
Veg-N-Out has amazing burgers that come with really good fries [or salad], nothing is less than $8 but it's worth the price. Pokez in downtown also has some veg options for super cheap.
Hey there SD hounds, an LA hound here swinging by for the weekend with a mixed crowd -- 50% omnivores and 50% vegetarians.
Some great ideas here already (Spread and Sipz sound great, and I also am thankful that a Tender Greens opened down there too.) but wanted to see if there are more eateries that please both veggie and omni palates a like (i.e. an omni restaurant that has a good variety of vegetarian options, or vegetarian joints that won't leave the omnis feeling like they're eating rabbit food all day long.)
Also, a place that serves SD beers is a HUGE plus.
Thanks in advance!
Sipz Cafe
5501 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92117
Tender Greens
2400 Historic Decatur Rd, San Diego, CA 92106
re: AquaW
Although I'm personally not a fan, the Linkery might fit your bill - around the corner from Spread. I find the place expensive, the beer overpriced, the service spotty (at best) and often leave hungry. It's a love it or hate it place but fits your criteria. Primarily meat, but with some extensive vegi options.
The Toronado (beer-vana) also has some vegi options but this is a beer bar with food and not the other way around (also around the corner from Spread).
Blind Lady Ale House might be a good bet. Good selection of beers and nice vegi options. This is a pizza joint.
Stone Brewery has some wonderful veggie options (and Stone beer).
3794 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104
Blind Lady Ale House
3416 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA
re: AquaW
I'm vegetarian, and I've listed some places that could fit your bill. All of these fall into the mid/high range pricewise (approximately $25-35 per person) and the cuisine falls in the spectrum of Californian/New American.
Ritual Tavern (North Park)
The Linkery (North Park)
Blind Lady Ale House (Normal Heights)
Cucina Urbana (Hillcrest)
Bite (Hillcrest)
WhisknLadle/Prepkitchen (both in La Jolla)
3794 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104
Blind Lady Ale House
3416 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA
Ritual Tavern
4095 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104
re: AquaW
Thanks for the fast responses, forgot to note that Stone World Bistro is a definite on my itinerary too (hopefully they won't be TOO crazy on Easter for brunching)
I've heard about BLAH and the Linkery too from a whiles back so thank you for reminding me, the menu for the latter looks interesting and I love how they cite where they source their foods. But yeah, the beer/wine lists looks on the pricey side . . .
3794 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104
re: AquaW
I agree that stone is great, I enjoyed the tempeh sandwich. I also love the fact that there is always a new veggie dish every time I visit Starlite Lounge. I'm currently looking for somewhere new to try, so please keep the suggestions coming!!
3175 India Street, San Diego, CA 92103
re: jennywenny
Jenny - George's California Modern has an all vegetarian menu on the back of the regular menu. Definitely worth checking out next time you fine dine. Olivier at Farmhouse is also very good at creating vegan and vegetarian dishes on the spot!
re: Alice Q
Are you sure ? I know they have sometimes very unregular hours when they cater for events but we saw it open about 4-5 weeks ago.
re: honkman
We saw it open just two weeks ago, as well. And, ironic you should mention how often they're closed, honkman, because we tried several times to dine there but it was always closed for a special event.
re: mjsp1
they do have a pretty good veggie burger - homemade patty and everything, but it tends to crumble after a bite or two, which makes it hard to eat!
I find the veggie burger at Rockbottom Brewery surprisingly good! Personally I like the black bean based veggie patties more than the quinoa/soy/rice patties, largely because they dont crumble.
I highly recommend Tao on Adams. Their entire back page of the menu is all vegetarian or vegan using their made-daily tofu of mock meats which does not have a site...yet. It's one of San Diego's BEST for vegetarian options. Another spot is the Loving Hut on El Cajon Blvd: http://lovinghut.us/sandiego/
Let me know what you think if you do try them.
re: wahlri
One of the best veggie burgers I've had was at Gourmet Bagger on Rosecrans and Midway:
Gourmet Bagger Restaurant
3357 Rosecrans St Ste B, San Diego, CA 92110
re: wahlri
The nice thing about Burger Lounge is that they make their own burgers and they use whole food ingredients. Hand crafted, locally produced with pride. They don't have all that processed soy, preservatives and other nasty gunk.
The texture is too soft to eat in their excellent buns, in my opinion, so I always get a half vegetable salad and have them add a burger patty on top. I don't generally order salads in restaurants as I find the ingredients sub-par and often limp and less then at the peak of freshness but I go to Burger Lounge just for this, my favorite salad.
Nearly all of our local restaurants (including the above-mentioned Rock Bottom, Gourmet Bagger) and ALL chain places, including meat-free establishments Evolution, Veg-N-Out except the vegan burger use Morningstar black bean burgers (gross - full of bad stuff), Boca burgers, or Gardenburgers. I think it's lame that they don't have to say that you're paying upwards of $10 for a burger using a frozen, mass-produced patty......steps down from soapbox.


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Telling the Truth
Coming to University I had the idea in my head that I could start afresh. No one would know me from the days of first school and middle school, when I had been a chubby frizzy haired child. Or the days of high school where I had gone through various hair cuts and colours, gone from introvert, to extrovert and back round again. And then there was there was my health, no one would even know I had been sick; no one would know about my illness.
But I had never really considered what it would be like living with people, trying to get to know them whilst keeping such a huge part of my life a secret. I couldn't think of what to say if people had asked where I had been, when the real answer was 'At the doctors'. Telling someone you have been to the docotrs once is fine, but when someone asks you and it is the third time that week, what do you say? I had never truley thought about the amount of secrets I would have to keep, or how hard it would be to pretend I was ok, when all I felt like doing was sliding down onto the floor and staying there.
So I told my flat, I openly told them I was going to the doctors, that I had mental health problems and that sometimes I was just not ok. And they were great about it, for people I had only known a few weeks they were kind and supportive, and most importantly, they still treat me exactly the same. I have never been so grateful, or so releived. I had built up this horrible scenario in my head when really if I had just been honest, things would have been a lot better.
But there are still people I don't know how to act around, what to say and what to do when I am feeling so god damn awful. I worry that people from my course just think I am aloof and stand offish, head down, not talking, trying desperately to fight with my feelings when to the outside world I look like I just don't care. When infact more than anything I care; I am desperate to make friends, and to know people so well that they won't care if I get sad sometimes, or will help me with work when I have been too sick to understand it myself. But currently terror has stopped me from making friends, people on my course barely remember my name, let alone talk to me on a regular basis. I can pretend that I just haven't met the right people yet, and that it is their fault for not wanting to be friends with me, but deep down I know that my own fears and anxiety are holding me back.
Then there are times when you start to know someone a little better than all the rest. You hang out more and more, and talk about anything and everything, except one thing. People aren't generally taught how to react to or help someone who suffers from mental health problems, and when it comes down to that one person who you really want to like you for you, all of you, it becomes so much harder to tell them the truth.
Part of me wants to just take the plunge, to say no when someone asks me if everything is ok. To say how I am feeling and feel comfortable and safe in doing it. But part of me is still so afriad, afraid of what people will think or say, afraid that they then won't want to be my friend anymore, spend time with me, or even date me. I am so terrified of people knowing the real me, all of me, that I am making myself all the more miserable. And quite frankly, I still don't know whether I will tell people when I am not ok, instead of smiling and faking a laugh. I am still not sure whether my pride will let anyone, even my flat mates, watch me burst into tears and crumple onto the floor. That's just not how I want my new life to be defined, and try as I might, it will always be what people remember.
Finding Myself
I never thought I would be one of those cliche people, who when they got to University would begin questioning who they really were, and who they were really meant to be.
I have been at University for just over a month now, and already I have made some big mistakes, that have got me questioning what kind of person I really am. I never thought I would make the mistakes I have; I never thought I would be the girl I see myself becoming, and it terrifies me.
My Mum used to always say to me that Univeristy was a time for change, a time for growing and discovery. I always used to laugh it off as one of those cliche sayings every parent tells their child before they go off to University, but now I am wondering whether may be she was right.
Confusion is something I am feeling constantly, something that swirls around inside me and makes me feel nauseous and stops me from eating. I keep wondering when things will fall into place, or even how to make them fall into place. I can't go on feeling like I am forever, I feel as if that were to happen I would just wither away. I don't know whether I am supposed to be riding it out, or actively grabbing life by the balls and screaming 'To fuck with it!!'
They say that with adulthood comes responsibility, but what if I am not ready? What if I want to turn back the clocks and go back to much simpler times, where I knew where I was going, who I was, and who I wanted to be. I always wanted to be a hero, and I used to beleive that one day a would be; someone brave, kind and honest, who everyone looked up to in awe. But now I feel that I can never be the hero, I feel rotten, rotten to my core, and more like Hades than Hercules. And the thing about heroes, is yeh, they have a rough time, but they always pull through in the end, where as the Hades of this world sink into oblivion.
I feel trapped, I feel alone, and I feel so terribly confused. I feel as if not knowing who I am or who I want to be is like going through life in denial. Trying to avoid the inevitable, trying to hide from life itself. I never thought University would make me question myself so much. I knew it would change me, I knew it would be tough, but I never knew it would make me doubt myself. Make me question everything I was and everything I had come to be. And until I figure out who I am, until I untaggle the webs of confusion that seem to spread throughout my entire body, I will continue to free fall.
And that's the problem. Although the falling is nerve wracking and confusing, it is the landing that hurts. The realisation once you hit the ground. And that is what I am truely afraid of. That when I land, I won't recognise myself, I won't know who I have become, or be what I once was. And it is that, that truely hurts.
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York, York and some more York
I love York, and have visited quite a few times. It is about two hours drive from my home, whilst only being an hours drive from my Grandparents, so I can nip over for a Sunday Roast whenever I have a craving!
Currently my living room and bedroom are piled high with boxes, clothes and books, whilst I try to pack and decide what take. I can't wait to explore York's medival and cobbled streets more, and become an honorary Yorkian (not sure that is even a word...). Yet at the same time, I'm terrified, as I am such a home body, and suffering from anxiety makes going to clubs and parties all the harder.
But I am hoping that for the most part University will help with my anxiety issues, and to grow as a person, and if anyone has any reccomendations on great places to eat/drink/shop in York, then let me know!
Hummingbird Bakery Chocolate Brownies
Hummingbird Bakery.
- 200g of Dark Chocolate
- 175g of Unsalted Butter
- 325g of Caster Sugar
- 130g of Plain Flour
- 3 Eggs
- Icing Sugar to sprinkle on top
- Line a large square baking tray with greaseproof paper, and preheat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas Mark 3.
- Melt the chocolate and the butter together over the hob in a heat proof bowl.
- Once the chocolate and butter is smooth and glossy, add to the sugar and stir well.
- Sieve the flour into the chocolate and sugar mixture slowly, making sure it remains smooth.
- Add the eggs one at a time, incorporating fully each time until thick.
- Tip the mixture into your lined baking tray, making sure to not over fill, and pop into the oven for 30-35 minutes until browned but still slightly squidgy inside.
A Trip to Lincoln
One of the things I love about visiting Lincoln, is that all my responsibilities don't matter. I can spend my days lying in, cooking dinner with my boyfriend and playing Monopoly for four hours straight. There is a small moor/park a few minutes walk from Andrew's house, where ponies roam around next to guys playing football, and dogs playing fetch.
Moving to York means I am one hour closer to Lincoln, and have a whole lot more opportunities to visit and explore the city more. Just as I was walking to catch the train I spotted a whole hoard of home interior stores, so more exploring is definitely needed!!
I have found recently that people have different ways of dealing with their grief. For some, like my father, who go about their daily lives as normal, coping with their feelings of loss by keeping themselves busy and living their lives is the best way. Then there are those among us who vocalise their feelings, talk about them, cry about them, wear them on their face becasue the pain of loss is too much for them to hide. Then there are those like myself, who throw themselves into caring for the people whose loss is the greatest. I never feel as if I can grieve, for someone elses loss is greater than my own, it happens everytime, it was their mother, their father, their only parent, my sister only had my grandmother for 11 years, as opposed to my 17 years.
On Thursday we lost my Uncle suddenly, a middle aged man who just dropped down dead. The shock of it shook all of us, but my first thoughts were of my cousins, who had lost their father, and of my Aunt, who had lost her husband. And as we travelled down to take care of them, to console them and help them in any way they desired, I panicked. For how do you console someone whose loss is that great, is that sudden and all consuming. Then there was the guilt I felt for my fear, they had lost their father, their husband, and yet I was panicking on how to act and behave. But on arrival I learnt, all people need is someone to talk to, they do need your sympathys, but more than anything they do not want your pity. They do not want you to don black, stop everything and enter that all consuming grief they are feeling: that is what funerals are for. I learnt that the best way to help someone is to just be normal, don't treat them differently than you ever would just because they have lost someone. Yes, allow them to break down and cry and feel grief when they need to, but most of the time they need somone there to distract them from themselves and their thoughts. If they allow themselves to be eaten away by their own grief, then they too will fall into darkness.
Maybe one day, hopefully a long way down the road, it will be my turn to grieve and let other people help me, teach me that life can go on, not in the same way, but a new and different way. God forbid I ever loose a husband, and parent or a soul mate, then it will be my turn to grieve, and that is what family are for. But for now I am going to be here for my family, for my cousins who lost a father, my Aunt who lost her husband, and for my cousins Grandmother who lost her only child. That is where I am needed, and that is where I shall be.
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