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Please help with London visit
We will be coming to London for a week in early September, staying at the Marylebone Hotel on Welbeck Street.
I would very much appreciate your suggestions for
1) A pleasant restaurant for the evening we arrive. We don't have to stay in the neighborhood of our hotel, we can take a bus or the tube.
2) Places that are close to our hotel or to Wigmore Hall, for the times we finish our event at 6pm.
3) Someplace near the New London Theatre on Drury Lane, for before a 7:30 performance.
4) Someplace for after a matinee at the National Theatre. We can stay in that area, come back across the river, or anywhere else.
5) Anyplace to get a quick meal near Royal Albert Hall.
Are there good places for about or under £20 to £30 per person? A couple of years ago, we found some lovely prix-fixe dinners, but I don't know if they still exist. One was Garvin on Baker Street; I don't know if that is still offered.
I would also appreciate any thoughts on these recommendations: Alloro, Arbutus, L'Escargot, St. Alban, Wild Honey, Incogniko, Maze, J. Sheekey
Prefer not to have Indian or Asian, since we have great places at home for that. We might do one Chinese dinner; I seem to remember a very good restaurant on Baker Street that was walking distance.
Thanks in advance.
Sylvia in Philadelphia
I love Maze. I don't think there's anything quite like it in Phila. except for perhaps Tinto. It's the same tapas idea with small offerings, but in London the food at Maze is French inspired to a certain degree and of course is not the delicious Basque cuisine.
Enjoy the trip!
June (Who grew up in Phila. but now lives near London)
I love Arbutus and Wild Honey - had a great lunch at Arbutus a couple of weeks ago and everything was fantastic - and pretty good value as well. You will find a lot of the top places have very good lunch specials on at the moment, and have a look at Toptable.com for other offers.
If you like a nice steak, Relais de l'entrecote is close by on marylebone lane. Always good value, but you do have to queue for a table.
If Lebanese appeals, then take a short walk to Edgware road, you'll find a multitude of options, the nicest (and most expensive) is Maroush Gardens, but I find any of them to be excellent food, it really only matters on your opinion of the surroundings. (I honestly like Abu Ali the best- but you really have to close your eyes and pretend to be somewhere else, it does not look too good.)
Arbutus and L'escargot I love, however J Sheekey I found overpriced and under tasty!!
I think someone already mentioned toptable, otherwise try 5pm.co.uk which sometimes has interesting offers...
If you are considering Maze - reservations are a must and really should be made as soon as possible. Check out the sample menus on-line (also for Maze Grill). By the way, why not glance at Time Out London for other dining suggestions (by food type,price, location, etc.)
On another note, the play you are going to see at the New London Theatre - "War Horse" is, to say the least, excellent. I attended a performance last month when I was in London and thoroughly enjoyed it. Hopefully you will too!
Thanks so much for your responses. They are really helpful. And Time Out is a good source for ratings, hours, prices, etc.
It looks like both Maze and Wild Honey would be walking distance from Wigmore Hall or our hotel. And I will reserve Arbutus for pre-theatre - a bit of a walk, but should be okay.
Question about Maze: is it very expensive? And is it very noisy? Which should I be reserving, Maze or Maze Grill?
I am asking about noise because lately we have a problem with some of the good places in Philly. The noise level, with loud music in the background, has become impossible; you can't even talk to the person next to you. We have never had that trouble overseas, and I hope London hasn't copied that.
I found one more place that looked interesting. L'Autre Pied, on Blandford Street, has a reasonably priced set menu during the week. Anyone been there?
Again, thanks for your help.
re: sylviag
I don't rememebr Maze being particularly noisy I think they've got a good buzz but you can carry on a conversaion easily.
I would personally book Maze, not the grill.
I think the tasting menu is about 60 a head plus drinks, well worth it.
You hotel is very near Manchester Square, which has the Wallace Collection on it. The atrium restaurant is beautiful and open till 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays (last orders 4.30pm other days). I meet friends there for scones and tea every so often and it's gorgeous place to eat - especially if you're feeling a bit frazzled after a long day. The museum attached isn't bad, either ;)
On the South Bank near the National is a collection of very ordinary chain restaurants. The best of the bunch is probably Canteen, behind the Royal Festival Hall. If you walk along the South Bank towards Blackfriars Bridge (away from Westminster), you'll soon hit the Riverfront Bar and Kitchen. It's attached to the BFI cinema and is directly under Waterloo Bridge. It's pretty casual and the service has mixed reviews, but I've always been treated well and the fish pie and buttered greens were delicious (people ordering the chicken nuggets seem to find them disappointing, but, well, they are chicken nuggets). The apple crumble and custard is one of the tastiest things I've eaten this year. You could go there just for that.
Benugo, inside the BFi itself, is the Riverfront's grown up sister restaurants. It's kind of swish and trendy, although it can get noisy because there is absolutely nothing to soak up the sound (oh, for restaurants with carpets). A bit more sedate is RSJ on Coin Street. They have a £20 fixed price menu and a staggering wine list. I used to work there, so I can vouch for their passion and commitment and the yumminess of the bread.
If you're looking for a pub, btw, the Hole in the Wall on Mepham Street (entrance is opposite the main entrance to Waterloo Station). It has shabby plush red seats, bad art, and a big selection of ales. Sit in the front bar (back bar is not nearly as nice) and you can hear the trains rattle in to the station and watch all the people waiting for trains come in for a pint. I once sat in there with 30 Klingons. Happy memories.
re: ginandcrumpets
On the Southbank, my picks would be Table, Tsuru (for the katsu curry) and Viva Verdi (excellent pasta and cured meats), on or near Canvey Street, just south of the Tate Modern.
Near Waterloo, I like La Barca (Tuscan & Calabrese).
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I've always wondered about La Barca but never got round to trying it. This could be my cue to give it a whirl.


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Amidst a slumping PC market, all four are benefiting from their own tight supplies, as well as new opportunities such as mobile phones and data centers "in the cloud," if you will.
Micron is expected to close on an acquisition of competitor Elpida Memory, which is in bankruptcy. That deal not only removes a player from the PC-oriented DRAM market, but is expected to boost Micron's involvement in memory chips for mobile devices.
As my colleague Alex Eule astutely noted in these pages last month ("Faster, Smaller, and More Energy Efficient," Feb. 2), SanDisk is benefiting both from being designed into Apple's iPhone (with the introduction of the iPhone 5 last fall), and also from a scenario in which manufacturers of flash memory are not building capacity in their factories as rapidly as they did in years past.
Prices for NAND flash are up 35% this year, and two weeks ago, that category of chips had its best week of the year in terms of pricing strength, according to a note put out Friday by RBC Capital Markets' Doug Freedman.
As Freedman explains it, "Industry supply is expected to be far more rational than years past," as the costs of making chips are rising, and to remain profitable, manufacturers have to try to keep prices of NAND high.
For Seagate and Western, the story has been told many times now how the hard-disk-drive industry has consolidated, reducing the risk of disastrous pricing battles.
That saner environment continues to delight Wall Street. A report a week ago from Richard Kugele of Needham made the point yet again: "It is hard not to be impressed with the management discipline currently being exhibited by the leaders of the drive industry." He continued: "Demand, particularly on the notebook side remains very weak, but the industry has responded swiftly by curtailing production and maintaining bare minimum inventory levels."
The product of that more-rational pricing environment for the drive makers is better shareholder returns. Seagate's 4.3% dividend is exemplary and well known at this point. Western is less scintillating, with a mere 2% dividend, but it is committed to paying out half its free cash flow in buyback and dividends. Writes Keith Bachman of BMO Capital Markets in a note to clients last week, Western can be expected to "consistently raise the dividend payout over the longer term."
Then again, the drive makers' stocks' ascendancy may signal that Wall Street finally takes seriously their ability to broaden beyond disk drives to flash-based drives, which are faster and higher in profitability. Western last week announced a $51 million investment in a start-up called Skyera, whose goal is to make the same relatively inexpensive flash memory used in consumer gadgets such as the iPod suitable for use in corporate storage systems.
WILL ALL THIS GOODWILL for memory makers last past the summer? It seems hard to imagine so, given how little good news is in store for the PC market, which still serves as a major source of demand for all four companies.
The buzz about the PC market remains almost universally negative: Pacific Crest's Michael McConnell two weeks ago wrote that his examination of the supply chain for notebook computers suggest sales were down in February by 18% from January's level, worse than the 13% decline he was modeling. The reasons are both sluggish interest in Microsoft's MSFT -1.4784394250513346% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD47.98 -0.72 -1.4784394250513346% /Date(1416607205513-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 42367894 AFTER HOURS USD47.83 -0.15 -0.3126302626094206% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 516901 P/E Ratio 18.5968992248062 Market Cap 395492061050.94 Dividend Yield 2.5844101709045435% Rev. per Employee 714094 More quote details and news » (MSFT) Windows 8 operating system, and, more ominously, "increasing popularity of low-priced white tablets, specifically in China," by which he means the no-name brand machines the industry calls "white boxes."
Research firm IDC last week cut its estimate for this year's PC shipments to a drop of 1.3%, compared with its original forecast for a 2.8% increase. The firm cited a lack of touch-screen hardware to show off the best aspects of Windows 8.
At this point, the only companies trumpeting some magical resurgence of the PC market later this year are Microsoft and Intel INTC -1.0013908205841446% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD35.59 -0.36 -1.0013908205841446% /Date(1416607206907-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 56236039 AFTER HOURS USD35.65 0.06 0.1685866816521495% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 485533 P/E Ratio 16.47685185185185 Market Cap 172077650737.762 Dividend Yield 2.528800224782242% Rev. per Employee 510994 More quote details and news » (INTC). Both say there will be a raft of compelling new computers with touch-screen interfaces and foldable, hybrid forms that do double duty as tablet computers.
But the consumer is not standing still. IDC suggests that in the breach, they are allocating their money to tablets and smartphones, which continue to present ever more enticing bells and whistles. (See Gadget of the Week for a review of Samsung's latest, the Galaxy S4.)
Seagate and Western are echoing Intel and Microsoft's hopeful tone. In an interview with Seagate CFO Pat O'Malley in late February, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty noted the company takes "new design wins" for its wares as evidence of "a calendar 2013 second-half PC demand uptick." But demand for components is not the same thing as actual user demand, and I suspect this is more wishful thinking on the part of the PC industry.
The trading data show Seagate has held up relatively well in the fall months in each of the last three years, while Western had a rough go of it in the latter part of 2010 and 2011 but beat the S&P 500 handily in the back half of last year. Micron has tended to be weak in the latter half of each of the last three years.
SanDisk, while the most expensive of the stocks, at 15 times forward earnings, also has the most interesting prospects in mobile phones, tablets, data centers, and the rest. The company has had decent back-half gains in each of the last three years, and it perhaps stands the best chance of holding up past June.
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|Sun, 09-05-2010 - 5:57pm
DD is 4.5 years old, and petite. Probably 40ish" and ~32 pounds or so fully clothed. She's in a Nautilus for my minivan. It used to reside in my DH's car, but she wanted in mine so we switched. So a Britax Decathalon in is DH's car. The Decathalon was purchased when she was 4-5 months old, and it has gotten the brunt of the use over the years. I was in DH's car the other day, and noticed it was quite difficult to adjust her straps. I know other people have had issues with this, but I never did as long as it was in my car. I am not sure what's going on with it.
Is it time to look for another seat? She doesn't ride much in the Decathalon...maybe 1-2x a month if that. I was thinking about looking into another Nautilus for his car because I like that it would probably be her last seat.
We have anoter daughter who is 6 months old, and she's in a Graco SN35, and will be for a while. I will probably put her in a Graco My Ride 65 when she outgrows her seat. I was thinking that I would put her in the Decathalon, but I don't like that the straps are giving me trouble now. Besides, it would have to be replaced after a year or less anyway.
DH drives a Hyundai Elantra. The car seat goes on the outboard passenger side. What do you recommend me doing? Does it matter about the straps since this car seat is used so little? DH has never mentioned it. He had the Nautilus in his car for a long while before we made the switch, so he knows the difference.
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We just had this issue today with our secondary car and so I'll tell you what we're going to do - and what I'd recommend you do too.
I would start by taking the Decathlon out and seeing if there is an issue with the straps. Maybe rethread it to see if something is catching somewhere and if you can just fix the issue.
If you can't find anything wrong and it's still a problem, call Britax about the problem. See what they say. I know there were some people who had their seat replaced by Britax a few years ago.
If you can fix the seat, I'd just use it for your DD for the next year until it expires. Otherwise, the MyRide would be a good choice. I'd also put the Radian, Complete Air, First Years True Fit, and the Evenflo Triumph 65 on my short recommended list.
If you need to buy a new seat for your ODD, I'd suggest looking at the Evenflo Maestro. It would work as well as the Nautilus, but it's smaller and less expensive. It won't last long as a booster seat since it doesn't have the adjustable headrest like the Nautilus, but you could then just buy a hbb or nbb when your DD outgrows the seat.


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Northwestern State
Strengths: Simply put: The Demons can score. The nation's top-scoring team hit 85 points or more 13 times this season. Four players averaged double figures with 6-foot-7 junior forward DeQuan Hicks leading the way off the bench. The Demons do it with defense and by sharing the ball—they're among the country's leaders in steals and assists. They also have depth—10 players saw at least 12 minutes in the Demons' win against top-seeded Stephen F. Austin in the Southland Conference title game. And in that game, all 10 of those players scored and they committed just six turnovers.
Weaknesses: The Southland Conference tournament proved that the Demons can win games when the score stays in the 50s and 60s, but that's not what they want. Their advantage comes from their depth and getting up and down the floor. Take that away from Northwestern State and you take away what it does best. The Demons scored above their average in just one of their eight losses this season and in their three most lopsided losses—18, 15 and 16 points—they averaged more than 10 points below their average. Opponents that excel in the halfcourt, have size and can control the pace are most likely to give the Demons the most fits.
Bottom line
Don't dismiss the Demons. They have talent and athleticism across the board and go 10 deep with scorers. When Northwestern State made the '01 and '06 NCAAs, it won a game each time, and this is the school's best-ever club. They push the pace and pressure the ball border to border. If the Deacons attack weak point guard Scottie Wilbekin and goad Kenny Boynton and Mike Rosario to chucking quick shots, they can win this game. Should the Gators get only three shots again for center Patric Young (a la the SEC Tournament loss to Ole Miss), they could be one-and-done.
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Mission, Vision, Core Value and Charge
The Mission of the University Diversity Advisory Committee is to advise the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity, to advocate for initiatives that will facilitate the progress of diversity at the university, to challenge practices that hinder the fulfillment of the university's vision for diversity, and to support innovations that stimulate and advance the fulfillment of the university's vision for diversity.
The Vision of the University Diversity Advisory Committee is a university that embraces its stated definition of diversity: Diversity is an inclusive community of people with varied human characteristics, ideas, and world-views and whose interactions both benefit and challenge each other to grow while making the community better.
Core Value
The Core Value of the University Diversity Advisory Committee is to be a university organization that involves members who are individually and collectively, personally and professionally engaged in fulfilling the university's vision for diversity.
Responsibilities of the Committee include the following:
- Work closely with the Vice Provost to provide overall leadership on all diversity matters for the university;
- Advocate for the recruitment and representation of diverse students, faculty and staff and encourage diversity initiatives that enhance retention, advancement and engagement of diverse people throughout the university;
- Translate the university diversity strategic plan into college-specific and division-specific diversity action plans that support and enhance an inclusive and culturally competent university environment;
- Enhance community collaborations that support the intellectual and research interests of the university in the area of diversity and inclusion;
- Evaluate and advise on the campus diversity assessment plan and initiatives to promote campus-wide cooperation and participation;
- Recruit and encourage faculty, staff, students and administrators to participate in the professional development and research opportunities available through OIED; and
- Monitor progress on strategic diversity indicators and standards to ensure responsibility and accountability for achieving diversity, multiculturalism, cultural competency and affirmative action-related goals and objectives
Charge Document Draft July 31, 2013 (updated 9-20-13) Adopted 11-25-13
Operating Principles
Operating Principles
- A Chair and Vice Chair that is also the Chair-elect, will be elected from the appointed membership of the Committee (not an OIED employee). The term of office for the Chair and Chair-elect will be one year for each (a total of two years).
- The Chair and Vice-Chair will collaborate with the OIED Liaison to set the theme for the year, establish the working committees, and set the agenda for all Committee meetings. The Chair will convene and facilitate all Committee meetings. The Vice Chair will stand in the Chair's absence.
- The role of the University Diversity Advisory Committee secretary will be fulfilled by the OIED University Program Associate, who will maintain the membership roster, distribute meeting notices, attend meetings to take attendance and record minutes, and distribute the agenda and previous meeting's minutes a week prior to the next scheduled meeting. Upon approval of the minutes, the Program Associate will post them to the University Diversity Advisory Committee website.
- The OIED Liaison to University Diversity Advisory Committee will be the Vice Provost for OIED or her designee.
- Elections will be held at the first meeting of the academic term (usually in August) from a list of candidates that was created by member nominations in the last meeting of the previous academic term (usually May) and vetted over the summer by the incoming chair.
- Nominees willing and able to serve will provide brief statements of their goals and vision for the University Diversity Advisory Committee and answer questions from the members present prior to a vote being taken.
- The candidate with the majority of votes will be declared Vice-Chair and Chair-Elect.
- University Diversity Advisory Committee meetings will be held monthly, August-May.
- Agendas will be set by the chair, in consultation with the OIED Liaison and will include topics pertinent to the mission of the Committee.
- Ad Hoc committees may be formed as needed.
- Any committees formed will file reports no later than the final meeting of the year, summarizing the outcomes of the committee's work, including any recommendations for future action.
- The committee reports will be posted on the University Diversity Advisory Committee website.
Supporting Diversity-Related Events and Activities
- University Diversity Advisory Committee members will subscribe to the Diversity Digest to be aware of diversity-related events being offered on campus, will attend as many events as possible, and will help promote the events to their colleagues. They will also submit events they are sponsoring to the Diversity Digest for inclusion in the calendar.
- UNIVERSITY DIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE members who are sponsoring diversity-related events that are open to the university will share promotional materials with other members, who will distribute them in their work areas
Updating the University Diversity Advisory Committee Charge document
- This document may be revised as needed by a simple majority vote of Committee members.
- The charge document should undergo formal review every three years by a committee appointed by the Chair, working over the summer and presenting any recommended changes to the full Committee at the first meeting in the fall.
Charge Document Draft July 31, 2013 (updated 9-20-13) Adopted 11-25-13
Members of the University Diversity Advisory Committee will represent a broad cross-section of the university, including all colleges. The list of member units includes those that are focused on diversity as part of their missions, and those that have an impact on diversity efforts as they are infused into their ongoing operations. All members are responsible for bringing issues related to diversity to the attention and possible action of the Committee, as well are they responsible for bringing the mission and actions of the Committee to their respective units.
Member Units: Total = 45
- Faculty Senate (1)
- Associate Deans (1)
- Deans (1)
- Faculty – at – Large (4)
- Faculty Liaisons (4)
- College Diversity Officers (4)
- Student Government Undergraduates (3)
- Graduate Student (1)
- Athletics (1)
- DASA Subdivisions (4)
- Academic Programs and Services, Arts NC State, Campus Life, Student Development, Health and Wellness
- Continuing Education (1)
- Human Resources (1)
- International Affairs (1)
- Legal Affairs (1)
- Libraries (1)
- Finance and Business (1)
- Advancement (1)
- Office of the Chancellor (1)
- Staff Senate (1)
- African American Cultural Center (1)
- Multicultural Student Affairs (1)
- GLBT Center (1)
- Women's Center (1)
- University Communications (1)
- Office for Information Technology (1)
- Graduate School (1)
- Admissions (1)
- Campus Police (1)
- University Planning and Analysis (1)
- Research and Innovation (1)
- Staff –at – Large (1)
- OIED ex officio: Vice Provost, Faculty Diversity, Student Diversity, Staff Diversity
|Faculty Senate representative
|Paola Sztajn
|Associate Deans
|Dan Solomon
|Faculty at Large
|Mehmet Ozturk
|Elec Eng & Comp Eng
|Faculty Liaison
|Jade Berry-James
|Faculty Liaison
|Monica Leach
|Faculty Liaison
|Wendy Krause
|Faculty Liaison
|Susan Faircloth
|College Diversity Office
|Lisa Guion Jones
|College Diversity Office
|Thomas Easley
|College Diversity Office
|Joe Johnson
|College Diversity Office
|Tameka Whitaker
|Student Gov't undergraduate
|Carson Shepherd
|Student Senate President
|Student Gov't undergraduate
|Alex Parker
|Student Body President
|Student Gov't undergraduate
|Guadalupe Arce-Jimenez
|Chief of Staff, Diversity Chair
|Graduate Student
|Veronica Mbaneme
|Vice Pres for Ex Affrs, Graduate Student Assn
|Michelle Lee
|Arts NC State
|Tara Mullins
|Assistant Director of the Dance Program
|Campus Life
|Tim Luckadoo
|Campus Life
|Student Development, Health and Wellness
|Eric Hawkes
|University Recreation
|Academic Programs and Services
|Continuing Education
|Alice Warren
|McKimmon Center
|Human Resources
|Kathy Lambert
|Legal Affairs
|Shawn Troxler
|Office of General Counsel
|Lisa Boxill Ruth
|Finance and Business
|Michelle Trajanovska
|Facilities Human Resources
|Rebecca Askew
|Prospect Management
|Office of the Chancellor
|Sarah Stone
|External Affairs
|Staff Senate
|Ryan Hancock
|Chair of the Staff Senate
|African American Cultural Center
|Darryl Lester
|Multicultural Student Affairs
|Rod Bradley
|GLBT Center
|Justine Hollingshead
|GLBT Center
|Women's Center
|C. Ellen Washington
|Women's Center
|University Communications
|Brad Bohlander
|University Communications
|Office for Information Technology
|Greg Kraus
|University IT Accessibility
|Graduate School
|David Shafer
|Graduate School
|Ronnie Chalmers
|Campus Police
|Jack Moorman
|Environmental Health & Public Safety
|Office of International Affairs
|Caylie Zidwick
|Study Abroad
|University Planning and Analysis
|Nancy Whelchel
|Research and Innovation
|Kelly Sexton
|Staff at Large
|Shawn Colvin
|Marcia Gumpertz
|Faculty Diversity
|Tracey Ray
|Student Diversity
|Joanne Woodard
|Institutional Equity and Diversity
|Deb Luckadoo
|Staff Diversity
2014-15 Meetings
The University Diversity Advisory Committee meetings will be held on the fourth (4th) Monday of each month from 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. unless otherwise notedin Winslow Hall, Winslow Conference Room 100, located on the first floor.
The schedule for 2014-2015 is as follows:
- Monday, August 25, 2014
- Monday, September 22, 2014
- Monday, October 27, 2014
- Monday, November 24, 2014
- Monday, January 26, 2015
- Monday, February 23, 2015
- Monday, March 23, 2015
- Monday, April 27, 2015
- Monday, May 18, 2015*(3rd Monday)
* Indicates a change in the schedule.