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It's the season of twinkling lights and overindulgent feasts, and this year for Christmas — next Wednesday — bring along the gifts and snag a smooch under the mistletoe on your way over to these San Diego restaurants celebrating the special holiday.
Humphreys Restaurant
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $59.95 per adult; $19.95 per child ages 4-12. 2241 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island. (619) 224-3577 or humphreysbythebay.com
How sweet the holidays are when spent near sweeping views of the San Diego Harbor. At Humphreys Restaurant, pair the backdrop with your buffet brunch on Christmas Day. The morning meal features a range of options, from Creekstone prime natural beef, Mary's free range organic turkey and Hormel pit ham to chilled shrimp, sea bass ceviche, smoked salmon pizza, chicken Florentine, baby back ribs, pumpkin pies and more. Plus, relish in the free-flowing bubbly and mimosas.
Bertrand at Mister A's
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; 4:30 to 9 p.m. $59.50 per person. 2550 Fifth Ave., Bankers Hill. (619) 239-1379 or bertrandatmisteras.com
Dining out is not just an opportunity to feast on something new, but also a chance to see San Diego like never before. The iconic Bertrand at Mister A's is celebrated for an unparalleled view of the city, making this Christmas morning and evening bright. Their three-course prix fixe menu features a few light items to start such as traditional lobster bisque and wild mushroom with asparagus risotto. Entree selections range from pan sautéed diver sea scallops to a filet of Broken Arrow Ranch venison loin. Just save room for the pumpkin bread pudding, salted caramel chocolate bar, Julian apple crumble and more.
Avant at Rancho Bernardo Inn
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. $65 per adult; $25 per child ages 4-12. 17550 Bernardo Oaks Drive, Rancho Bernardo. (888) 976-4417 or ranchobernardoinn.com/avant
There's a warmth in the air at Avant, which replaced the old El Bizcocho at Rancho Bernardo Inn to include more comfortable dining room seating and a spacious patio. On Christmas Day, partake in three-courses starting with the Dungeness crab beignet or Avant winter salad, and then dig into rich entrees such as pan roasted halibut, sweet corn risotto or vintage beef tenderloin "Wellington." Finish off the meal with a cranberry-orange spiced bread pudding or chestnut brûlée.
Bice Ristorante
4 to 9 p.m. $59 per adult; $21 per child. 425 Island Ave., downtown. (619) 239-2423 or bicesandiego.com
Chef de Cuisine Francesca Penoncelli brings holiday-inspired dishes to the tables of Bice Ristorante, as guests gather on Christmas evening. Four-courses on this menu includes a choice of family-style appetizers such as soft yellow corn polenta with porcini mushroom, calamari or a kale and farro salad; first course options of homemade gnocchi or leek and barley soup; entrees such as seafood spaghetti, slow braised lamb osso bucco, Mediterranean sea bass or saffron carnaroli risotto; and dessert to share like tiramisu, almond panna cotta and a traditional Christmas bread "Panettone" served with Nutella sauce and caramel ice cream.
Amaya La Jolla
$65 per adult; $95 with wine pairings; $25 per child ages 6-12. 1205 Prospect St., La Jolla. (858) 750-3695 or AmayaLaJolla.com
The first Christmas is always a memorable one. Join Amaya La Jolla for its inaugural holiday season as Executive Chef Camron Woods whips up a three-course prix fixe menu on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Slurp up the butternut squash soup to start, then choose your entree of honey baked pork chop or seared sea bass with winter truffle risotto. Dessert presents a mini yule log with chocolate chartreuse and French macaron. (Amaya is owned by U-T San Diego owner and publisher "Papa" Doug Manchester.)
Island Prime/C Level
1 to 7 p.m. $49.95 per adult; $12.95 per child. 880 Harbor Island Drive. (619) 298-6802 or dinecrg.com
You might not spot Santa surfing here, but you and your family can still savor the stunning views of the San Diego Bay at C Level. Begin the feast with a choice of salad or butternut squash soup as you prep for second course offerings like apple cider glazed organic chicken, prime rib, filet mignon and cedar plank roasted salmon. For dessert, find pumpkin goat cheesecake, Dutch apple pie or a chocolate pistachio torte.
Noon to 8 p.m. $45 per adult; $15 per child 12 and under. 5480 Grand Pacific Drive, Carlsbad. (760) 827-2500 or twenty20grill.com
The weather outside may be a bit chilly, but Twenty/20, the Sheraton Carlsbad Resort & Spa's signature restaurant, has just the thing to warm you up. Start your Christmas meal with a roasted-apple chestnut soup and then dig into an entree choice of Diestel Farms turkey with mashed potatoes, green beans and orange cranberry chutney or the slow roasted prime rib with gratin dauphinois potatoes and pancetta. A gingerbread trifle or caramelized apples topped with whipped cream will finish off your meal.
Baleen at Paradise Point
3 to 8 p.m. $49 per adult; $20 per child. 1404 Vacation Road, San Diego. (858) 490-6363 or paradisepoint.com
While Baleen touts itself as a seafood restaurant, Chef Amy DiBiase presents a prix fixe menu for Christmas with a mix of flavors such as chilled Maine lobster salad, house-made ricotta gnudi and pacific cod brandade crostini to start; braised lamb shank, wood-roasted whole fish, veal Bolognese and bourbon-brined pheasant breast for entrees; and chocolate yule log cake, cranberry upside-down cake and butternut squash crème brûlée for dessert.


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Bargain-Sniffing In The States
Shareholders of GreenPoint Financial Corp. (GPT ) got a pleasant surprise on Feb. 4. That's the day news broke that two British banks -- HSBC Holdings PLC and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC -- were competing to acquire the $22 billion-in-assets savings and loan institution, New York's second-largest. Within hours, GreenPoint's stock had surged more than 10%, to $44.50, as investors bid it up in anticipation of a merger. Two days later the stock of scandal-plagued, San Francisco-based Providian Financial Corp. (PVN ) also jumped after word leaked that it might be swallowed up by Britain's Barclays PLC (BCS ).
North American banks, brace yourselves: The Europeans are coming. Eurobanks last went on a big U.S. commercial-bank buying binge back in the 1980s. Now they're back, driven by the cheap dollar and the fact that mergers in Europe remain difficult. France's BNP Paribas, the Netherlands' ABN Amro (ABN ), and Spain's BBVA are three of the Continental banks said to be seeking purchases stateside. On Feb. 5, BNP Chief Executive Baudouin Prot said the bank is "actively searching for acquisitions" in the U.S., where it already owns Honolulu-headquartered BancWest Corp. "There are numerous possibilities of various sizes," he added.
Mergers-and-acquisitions advisers confirm the growing European appetite for U.S. banks. "Neither British nor Continental bankers have shown this much interest in North America for five years," says the corporate finance chief in the London office of a Wall Street investment bank. "We're at the beginning of a powerful new transatlantic takeover trend."
For some European observers, all of this comes as a great surprise. After all, 2004 was supposed to be the year when European banks merged with each other. Germany's Commerzbank (CRZBY ) and Italy's Capitalia are just two of the Continental banks that analysts predicted would be snapped up by predators from other European countries. Many industry experts also forecast that Citigroup (C ), Bank of America Corp. (BAC ), and other U.S. financial-services giants would be hitting the Continental takeover trail.
CROSS-BORDER BLUES. But would-be acquirers, whether European or American, continue to be put off by rigid labor laws and political problems that traditionally bedevil cross-border mergers. "Our object [in Europe] remains to grow organically," says Emilio Botín, chairman of Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano (STD ). "I still don't believe that cross-border mergers between equals create value."
Nor does RBS, which had been considered a possible suitor for Commerzbank. On Feb. 3, it instead invested $2.6 billion to buy the credit-card business of Bridgeport (Conn.)-based People's Bank (PBCT ). Recent merger talks between Citigroup and Deutsche Bank (DB ) foundered when Deutsche Chief Executive Josef Ackermann concluded it would be too hard politically to institute the staff cuts and other cost savings that Citi wanted. "I don't expect a hostile takeover, and we are not ready for a friendly one," Ackermann said on Feb. 5.
The fact is, it's much easier to cut costs, exploit synergies, and boost shareholder value in the U.S. than in Europe, especially when a bank already has a solid U.S. base. If RBS succeeds in acquiring GreenPoint, for example, it could save millions by integrating it with Citizens Financial Group Inc., the second-largest bank in New England, which it already owns. HSBC put its name on hundreds of U.S. bank branches after acquiring Marine Midland and Republic (HBC ) banks. So absorbing GreenPoint or some other New York bank would be easy. As for Barclays, it doesn't have a big U.S. retail base, but it could use Providian to push its Barclaycard credit cards into the huge U.S. market.
Coming up with the cash isn't a problem for the Old World banks. Many of them have excess capital and are under pressure from shareholders to use it for acquisitions. BNP's Prot says that his bank could easily come up with $6 billion to $8 billion "to invest in creating shareholder value." Analysts calculate that RBS is generating excess capital at the rate of $4.5 billion a year.
Still, the Europeans are thinking small. They have little desire to acquire behemoths like Bank One Corp. (ONE ), which recently agreed to merge with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM ) in a $58 billion deal. "We have managed to improve our capital position, but really huge-scale [acquisitions] are not possible," says ABN Amro Chief Executive Rijkman Groenink. Adds Martin Cross, a banking analyst at Teather & Greenwood, a London stockbroker: "We're mainly expecting small and medium-size deals." Apart from GreenPoint and Providian, analysts say other possible targets in the U.S. include Cleveland-based Charter One Financial, New Jersey's Commerce Bancorp, Comerica of Michigan (CMA ), and South Carolina's South Financial Group.
Even the smaller U.S. banks don't come cheap. Merger mania has helped push the average stock price of mid-cap banks up some 25% over the past six months. But the strength of British sterling and the euro helps. BBVA (BBC ) Chief Executive Francisco González says the strong euro was a factor in the bank's Feb. 2 decision to spend $4.2 billion to buy the 41% of Mexico's Bancomer that it didn't already own. "We wouldn't be able to pay as much if the euro wasn't so high," he says. The weak dollar also makes it easier for European predators to outbid U.S. rivals.
Europeans with long enough memories will manage any U.S. acquisitions carefully. Going back to the 1980s, Euro-American mergers have been plagued with disaster. Only two years ago, Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB ) lost almost $700 million after Allfirst Financial Inc., its Maryland-based subsidiary, was laid low by the illicit deals of a rogue foreign-currency trader.
But some European banks have learned from their mistakes. HSBC, ABN Amro, and RBS are three that analysts say have made a success of their U.S. operations. What's more, they are focusing on businesses like credit cards, mortgages, and consumer lending, where they have the expertise needed to make solid returns in a highly competitive market. "These are the businesses they're most comfortable with," says Teather & Greenwood's Cross. With Europe looking dismal, it looks like transatlantic flights are going to be loaded with a lot of profit- hungry bankers.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Jason Kendall alertly dashed home from third base with the winning run when Los Angeles' miffed closer Francisco Rodriguez flubbed a return throw from his catcher, and the A's took sole possession of first in the AL West with a 5-4 come-from-behind victory on Thursday.
Eric Chavez hit a tying three-run homer in the seventh for the A's, who rallied from a four-run deficit. They took two of three to stand alone in first place for the first time this season -- but not even the freewheeling A's could have predicted this finish.
Chavez was at the plate again in the ninth with two runners on and two out. After Rodriguez's first pitch was called a ball, the right-hander stared in and nonchalantly stuck out his glove for catcher Jose Molina's throw -- but it glanced away.
Kendall sprinted home and beat the throw. The victory capped a surge of 20 wins in 23 games since the A's trailed Los Angeles by 81/2 games on July 18.
Scot Shields (7-8) allowed two singles in the ninth before Rodriguez took over.
All-Star Justin Duchscherer (6-2) pitched two hitless innings to win for the second straight day.
Blue Jays 2, Tigers 1
TORONTO (AP) -- Scott Downs and two relievers combined on a two-hitter and the Blue Jays handed Detroit its sixth loss in seven games.
Frank Catalanotto hit a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, who outhit the Tigers 4-2. Toronto took three of four from Detroit after losing the opener.
Downs (1-2) allowed one run on two hits. He struck out four and didn't walk a batter in seven-plus innings for his first victory since shutting out the Chicago Cubs while he was with Montreal on Sept. 8, 2004.
Starter Jeremy Bonderman (13-8) lost his third straight start despite pitching a four-hitter for his third complete game of the season.
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Happy to help! :) The DXF from OpenSCAD does look a bit sketchy though, and it doesn't render properly on thingiverse, but I hope it's possible to use it.
It's really quite simple, if you know the basics. You can see in the code what I did was just to change cube() for square(), cylinder() for circle() and do a linear_extrude() of the 2D shape. It's still a bit of a hack though.
The provided SCAD crashes OpenSCAD 2011.12.30 upon rendering for both "generate_dxf = true" and "generate_dxf = false". However, OpenSCAD 2012.8.22 renders it fine. Just though I'd point it out in case others have problems. :)
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The Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse will host a tribute to Pete Seeger, the folk music legend who died Jan. 27.
The tribute is at 8 p.m. Monday (Feb. 3) at the Berkeley venue. Admission is free, with access granted on a first come, first served basis.
This "Good night, Pete" memorial is hosted by Holly Near and also will feature Ronnie Gilbert, Barbara Dane, Johnny Harper, Country Joe McDonald, Wavy Gravy, Vicki Randle, Lichi Fuentes, Fernando Feña Torres, Joel Rafael, Evie Ladin, Keith Terry, Erik Pearson, Gerry Tenney, Bill Amanteek, Robin Flower, Barbara Higbie, Shelley Doty, Roy Zimmerman and Blame Sally.
Tenney will host a song circle in the lobby at 7 p.m., which is also when doors open.
A statement posted on the Freight's website provides more details about the event:
"Pete's life has touched us all. We are all acutely saddened by his death and at the same time, deeply grateful for what he has given us. We expect many people will want to come together here at the Freight, to honor this beloved man and folk hero. We'll put out as many chairs as we can, and will accommodate as many people as safely possible. Some may have to stand, but at least we'll be together to say our `goodbyes' to Pete."
For more information, visit www.thefreight.org.
If you can't actually make it out to the show, there are other ways to experience this tribute to Seeger.
The show will stream live on Concert Window (www.concertwindow.com). It costs $1 to view the stream. Also, it will be broadcast live on KRCB (91 FM) and KPFA (94.1 FM and www.kpfa.org). The KPFA broadcast will be archived online for two weeks.
Also, if the Freight reaches capacity, there will be a viewing party of the live stream at the nearby East Bay Media Center.
New to Seeger's music? Here's a look at four of his most timeless songs:
1. "If I Had a Hammer" — Seeger co-wrote the song with Lee Hays in 1949 as an anthem for the Progressive Movement and efforts to improve conditions for the working class. It was originally released as "The Hammer Song" by Seeger's group, the Weavers, and was later recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, among many others.
2. "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)" — Simply put, this is one of the most amazing — and lasting — tunes in popular music history. Seeger drew the verses straight from the Bible, added a chorus and a closing line, and the result was pure folk music gold. The best-known version of this song was delivered by the Byrds, who hit No. 1 with "Turn! Turn! Turn!" in 1965.
3. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" — This mesmerizing number addresses a similar theme as "Turn! Turn! Turn!," yet in much more somber fashion. It's a chilling meditation on life and death, with a heavy emphasis on the latter. It's been covered by everyone from Joan Baez and Harry Belafonte to Olivia Newton-John and Dolly Parton.
4. "We Shall Overcome" — Seeger greatly helped popularize this folk standard, which would become a key anthem for the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The song's roots can reportedly be traced back to the old gospel song "I'll Overcome Someday." Bruce Springsteen delivers a great version on his Seeger tribute album, "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions."
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In the context of the Beijing Platform for Action and Me! on line discussion around progress on gender equality, Ms. Niki Rattle, Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament agreed to share her thoughts on the main progress made in women's political representation and some of the challenges that remain to their full participation in public affairs.
To celebrate the achievements made by Pacific societies towards gender equality, and to come up with strategies to address the remaining gaps, SPC is launching an interactive discussion, which will run from February to July 2015. On the first and third Monday of each month we will share with Pacwin members an interesting finding from the Beijing +20 regional review: a startling statistic, a promising development or an important gap, covering each of the 12 priority areas of the Beijing Platform for Action. We will exchange ideas about successes and setbacks, and collectively imagine ways to address some of the key challenges facing women and girls in the region.
The objective of this discussion is to look at where we stand in the Pacific region on the various dimensions of gender equality, and to put together our ideas about how to create and maintain momentum in achieving gender equality in the region.
The points raised in the discussion will be recorded by SPC, and we will then choose a set of key points that we will then take to a discussion on gender equality at the United Nations Special Summit on Sustainable Development, in September 2015.
How do I join the discussion?
If you are not yet a Pacwin user, send an email to Mereoni Tavakaturaga-Robinson, at
, and she will enrol you. You will receive an email on the first and third Monday of each month during the discussion period, with the discussion topic from one of the 12 priority areas of the Beijing Platform for Action. Any Pacwin user can post a reply. All replies are moderated and then sent back to all users, to create the interactive. You will also be able to amend your settings to receive only daily or weekly discussion updates.
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Bring your perspective, share the story of your organisation - its achievements and its challenges - or share you own personal testimony. How do the statistics and findings from the Pacific Regional Review relate to your own life, hopes and aspirations? What are your strategies for self-empowerment? Have you observed any progress or setbacks in that area?
Schedule of discussions:
2 February 2015: Area A. Women and Poverty
16 February 2015: Area B. Education and Training of Women
2 March 2015: Area C. Women and Health
16 March 2015: Area D. Violence against Women
7 April 2015: Area E. Women and Armed Conflict
10 April 2015: Area F. Women and the Economy
4 May 2015: Area G. Women in Power and Decision-Making
18 May 2015: Area H. Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women
1 June 2015: Area I. Human Rights of Women
15 June 2015: Area J. Women and the Media
6 July 2015: Area K. Women and the Environment
20 July 2015: Area L. The Girl Child
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President Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Friday to share his thoughts on the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, saying it is important to look at the case through the lens of past discrimination.
"Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," Obama said, during extensive and deeply personal remarks that lasted for 18 minutes. "And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that -- that doesn't go away."
Obama continued: "And I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida. And it's inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear."
Obama spoke in a quiet and sometimes halting voice, without notes, touching on both his own experience as a black man and what he sees in his daughters, Sasha and Malia, and their relationship to children of other races. "There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of being followed in a department store. That includes me," he said.
But he also struck a hopeful note, saying, "As difficult and challenging as this episode has been, things are getting better."
The president said that his daughters and their friends are "better than we are, they're better than we were, on these issues. And that's true at every community I've visited across this country."
"We should also have confidence that kids these days, I think, have more sense than we did back then, and certainly more than our parents did or our grandparents did," Obama said. "And along this long journey, we're becoming a more perfect union, not a perfect union, but a more perfect union."
Obama said he and his deputies were considering a few concrete policy options in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict, such as trying to train state and local law enforcement officials how to better deal with issues of racial bias, and exploring whether state laws such as "Stand Your Ground" might "encourage the kinds of altercations and confrontations" rather than defuse them.
More broadly, he said he wanted to pursue a "long-term project" of "thinking about, how do we bolster and reinforce African American boys? And this is something that Michelle and I talk a lot about. There are a lot of kids out there that need help, that are getting a lot of negative reinforcement."
It is important, Obama said, for individual Americans to "do some soul-searching" about their own inherent racial biases, and ask, "Am I wringing as much bias out of myself as I can?"
"That would, I think, be an important exercise in the wake of this tragedy," he said.
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JESUP, Ga. -- As the sixth day of jury selection began, a judge halted the death penalty trial of a Wayne County man charged with killing his former wife and her parents nearly four years ago.
James Ralph "J.R." Spell, 40, of Jesup is charged with murdering Amanda Harrison Spell, 24, and her parents, Jeaney Mason Harrison, 49, and Gary Aldine Harrison, 54. He faces the death penalty or a life sentence if convicted of even one of the killings.
Jury selection began Monday in Jesup, the Wayne County seat, but ended before noon today because too many prospective jurors knew too much about the case.
Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett granted a change of venue because more than 30 percent of the 300 Wayne County residents in the jury pool were related to either the Harrisons or Spell, or already had formed an opinion about the case after hearing about the triple slaying.
Scarlett ordered the trial moved, with Brunswick 40 miles south, among the possible new sites. If the trial is brought to Brunswick, then Glynn County jurors could be selected beginning May 2.


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Bank Transfer Day: Move Cautiously With Angry Bank Customers
Credit unions which may see an unprecedented number of new members moving from banks this month are being cautioned about what they offer them.
The rise in new members is expected as part of publicity surrounding Bank Transfer Day.
Two executives with the consultancies PayFusion and PolicyWorks urge credit unions to be careful about what they describe as free to the new members.
"Truth in Savings regulations state that advertisements cannot refer to or describe an account as 'free' – or even 'no cost' – if any maintenance or activity fee may be imposed on the account. Therefore, it's extremely important for an FI to fully understand the fee structure behind its 'free' checking product when planning to advertise it as such," wrote PayFusion CEO TJ Riha and PolicyWorks Vice President for Compliance Andrea Stritzke in a report titled "Use Caution When Wooing Angry Bank Customers."
The pair warned, for example, that a checking account cannot be sold as free if any fee is imposed for not meeting a minimum balance requirement or if the member exceeds a specified number of transactions. It also cannot carry a monthly service fee or any fees tied to withdrawals or other transactions.
"Because credit unions are member-owned, consumers are likely to be attracted to the idea of belonging. For this reason, credit unions must remember to take a step back before crafting advertising, PR and communication campaigns to bring in the free-checking crowd," the consultants wrote
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Politicians dismiss 'bonkers' plan to move Irish border and build 'Berlin wall' for west Belfast
A secret memo on redrawing the Irish border in the 1980s – including handing over west Belfast to the Republic – has been dismissed as "bonkers" and "madness".
The proposals, contained in an NIO briefing paper sent to Margaret Thatcher, included slicing Northern Ireland in half and cutting its population by 500,000, and ceding Londonderry city.
Officials also discussed the possibility of establishing "a walled ghetto" in west Belfast, and a Berlin-style wall.
The 1984 proposals – which were swiftly scrapped – have been ridiculed by both unionists and nationalists.
Sinn Fein MLA Phil Flanagan, whose Fermanagh/South Tyrone constituency would have been reshaped by a new border, said it was another attempt at gerrymandering – the old unionist practice of artificially creating Protestant majorities by changing boundaries.
"It tells you the mindset which existed – and probably still exists – within the NIO," he said.
"Instead of trying to install a different border in Ireland, they would be far better served removing the one already there.
"They tried gerrymandering before. To do it again in the 1980s wouldn't have made any difference to the viability of a northern state."
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson branded them "silly nonsense".
"This kind of madness on the part of civil servants is just astounding," he said.
"The idea that you could repartition Northern Ireland, not only in terms of our land border with the Irish Republic but also internally, with Belfast divided into different legal jurisdictions similar to a mini Berlin, is just bonkers.
"I have no doubt it would have created massive problems in terms of further political instability and segregation.
"I'm glad wiser counsels prevailed and this type of silly nonsense never saw the light of day."
Proposals to redraw the border emerged in a paper prepared by NIO officials, based on a new partition put forward by Queen's University academic Paul Compton. It was among hundreds of previously secret papers released by the National Archives in London under the 30-year rule yesterday.
NIO officials revisited the frontier question in response to Dr Compton's "most respected analysis" of the Irish border.
Dr Compton had described the partition of 1920 as "necessary and justified", but "flawed by the messy way in which it was executed".
He suggested three options for repartition, including one ceding over half of the geographical area of Northern Ireland to the Republic, reducing its population to one million – 73.5% of it Protestant.
The NIO paper, discussing Dr Compton's suggestions, also referred to a possible partition of Belfast.
NIO officials discussed creating "a wedge-shaped area in west Belfast" running from Twinbrook to the Divis Flats. The briefing paper discusses "difficulties over the Belfast sector", adding that one solution, "a walled ghetto", "would entail physical as well as political difficulties".
Although the proposals were rejected, the fact they reached the Prime Minister's desk shows they were seriously considered.
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BOSTON The highest court in Massachusetts ruled against U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. Friday in a widely watched mortgage foreclosure case that could have serious implications for the nation's largest banks.
The judges clearly accepted that the 'owners' had defaulted, but ruled that the mortgage companies had to PROVE THEY OWNED THE MORTGAGES. Just more regulations, this time by the courts, to make it more expensive to borrow and a higher risk for lending. Yep, sounds like a plan...
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A 13-year-old Palestinian boy died on Sunday in clashes with Israeli troops during protests against the Israeli blitz on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, medics said. Mahmud al-Musalmi was killed in the southern town of Hebron, they said, according to AFP.
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If anybody had stood to benefit from Dwane Casey deciding to bench Andrea Bargnani on Sunday afternoon, it would have been Ed Davis.
Davis, the Raptors' reserve power forward, was having what might have been his best game as a professional: He had 15 points and 14 rebounds in just 22 minutes in a double-overtime loss to the San Antonio Spurs. However, he did not come back on to the floor after being pulled for Bargnani, who had a 2-for-19 shooting night.
Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry just does not play the media game. He is honest, but frequently short. And he has little time for the day-to-day routine of acknowledging what a specific part of the schedule means.
For example, Lowry and the Raptors are playing in Houston Tuesday night. Lowry played more than three seasons with the Rockets. He was traded from Houston to Toronto in July, after the Rockets took away his starting spot following a mysterious illness. So, this game should mean more to him than others.
"It's a business," Lowry said. "I never take anything personal involving trades or anything. This league is a business. You can't get too caught up in what happens when you get traded or moved."
"Anytime a player goes back home or against a former team, it means something. I'm sure he's too prideful to say it," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said of Lowry's situation.
"Maybe he's not [motivated]. It would be different if he says he's not or if he's not excited about going back. We don't make a big deal about it. We hope he produces and plays the way he's capable, whether it's against Houston, Memphis or Phoenix. It doesn't matter. Most players do get excited when they go back and play against their former team."
Lowry was having a career year last season until the all-star break, averaging 15.6 points, 7.6 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game. Lowry played in just four games in March before missing nearly a month because of a bacterial infection. Lowry lost his starting spot to Goran Dragic in the interim. Neither Lowry nor Dragic is back with the Rockets this season. Houston signed Jeremy Lin to start at point guard.
Through eight games with the Raptors, Lowry is averaging 18.3 points, 6.1 assists and 5.9 rebounds per game.
DeMar DeRozan on the Raptors' record: "We are not a 3-11 team at all. Period. I don't just say that. That's our record, but it does not define us. That's not what we are. We lost a good nine games that we should have won. That's the difference right there. Turn things around and things start rolling for us, we'll be fine. I think we've got a little bad luck spell right now. Once we get over that, we'll be fine."


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Wil Haygood, author of The Butler, to speak Nov. 12
Author and prize-winning journalist Wil Haygood will speak and read from his book The Butler: A Witness to History at a special free public event on Tuesday, November 12, at 11:00 a.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom.
The book, which developed from a 2008 Washington Post article by the same name, is a portrait of Eugene Allen's career in the White House
under eight presidents. It's a New York Times bestseller and has already been translated in to six foreign languages.
The book was released in tandem with the award-winning motion picture Lee Daniel's The Butler—for which Haygood served as associate producer. The film spent three weeks as number one at the box office and is already generating Oscar buzz.
After his presentation, Mr. Haygood will sign copies of The Butler. You may bring your own, or copies will be available for sale at the presentation. The event is free, but ticketed to reserve your seat, so please Register Here and bring your ticket with you on November 12!
Veterans' Week Rally is Friday!
Columbus State's Veterans Services department has been hosting a week of events to honor veterans and provide services.
Veterans Services is collecting items for a Troop Care Package Drive until November 9, at the Veterans office in Delaware 156.
The big event is a Support the Troops Rally on Friday, Nov. 8.
From 8:45 to 9:45 a.m. we will gather on the courtyard near the statue to salute our veterans. From there, a group will depart for the Columbus Veterans Day parade that begins in downtown Columbus at 10 a.m. Veterans Day will be observed on campus on Monday, November 11. All campuses and Regional Learning Centers are closed.
Remember to register before the holidays!
Did you start strong this Fall Semester? Keep going! Register for classes early to keep your momentum. Scheduling early helps you get the classes you want for Spring Semester.
Know your dates: Registration is open now; the fee payment deadline is January 8, and classes begin
January 13.
Remember that the Campus Holiday Break is Wednesday, December 25, 2013 through Wednesday, January 1, 2014. There will be no on-campus, in-person, or telephone student services available during the Holiday Break. Online registration and fee payment via CougarWeb will be available. Avoid the holiday rush and register NOW for Spring Semester.
And don't forget to "Go for 15!" For many students, it's time to kick it into high gear to graduate on time. Most students will have to take at least 15 hours per semester in order to graduate in two years. Even part-time students should consider adding another class to save time and money. You can read more here: Go for 15!
Career Chat: Insure your future with a great career
Find out about Columbus State's new Foundations of Insurance certificate.
When: Thursday, November 14, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Nestor Hall Lounge
Learn about the exciting career opportunities that exist in administration, claims, finance, human resources, law and regulation, marketing and communications, operations, sales, technology, customer service, risk management, underwriting and analysis.
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Find out how close you are to earning your Foundations of Insurance Certificate from Columbus State, and get your resume insurance-interview ready!
Lactation room now available
In an effort to support our students who are nursing mothers, the college has secured a lactation room in Nestor Hall, 019B. The room is available upon request for students to express breast milk for their nursing children. We are happy to provide this room to help promote life balance for our campus community.
The room will be available Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Extended room availability beyond 5:00 p.m. is dependent upon availability. To reserve the room, students should contact Sarah Baker, Global Diversity and Inclusion specialist at (614)287-2861.
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"Cougars for the Community" is a community service organization for students at Columbus State. The group has multiple events planned for the near future, including Veteran's Volunteer Day, where they will team up with The Red Cross for "Holiday Mail for Heroes" on November 11 on campus. To learn more about Cougars for the Community, visit the website today!
E-cigarettes are not allowed inside!
Did you know that e-cigarettes are not allowed in any building at Columbus State, or at any of the Regional Learning Centers? You can "smoke" them outside, like regular cigarettes, but you can't use them indoors.
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Join the Departments of Disability Services and the Humanities when they present a lecture titled "Joice Heth and Jim Crow: The Dual Stigma of Race and Disability in Antebellum America," Wednesday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m. in Franklin Hall 110.
The presentation will be made by Dea Boster, Ph.D., instructor in the Humanities, who will discuss the layers of meaning that were ascribed to race and disability, two concepts that were mutually constitutive in the nineteenth-century United States. As the notoriety of Joice Heth and Jim Crow spread throughout the nation, so did discussions and portrayals of disabled slaves. Many nineteenth-century writings associated physical and mental disabilities with weakness and dependence, immorality, dishonor, and the grotesque, and these associations influenced the "dual stigma" of race and disability.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Formative assessment involves evaluating the developing knowledge and skills of an individual throughout the student's program of graduate study. The faculty developed the Team-Managed Assessment of Knowledge and Skills in Speech-Language Pathology (T-MAKS SLP) as its formative assessment tool, which was implemented in 2004. The term "team" was selected purposefully to imply that both students and faculty are working collaboratively to ensure that the learning outcomes are met.
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How to Use Crowdfunding to Finance Your Sustainable Book Project
When Jacob Deva Racusin and Ace McArleton decided to write the essential book on natural building techniques, they knew who the publisher should be, and they knew the subject like the backs of their hands — but they were missing some key research that would help their book stand apart.
So, the two builders harnessed the power of the crowd, raised almost $3000, and the results of their research (how straw bale buildings perform energy-wise in cold climates) became a key component to the design and building processes detailed in The Natural Building Companion, published in 2012, and furthered the needed research into straw bale building designs in cold climates. They also identified where further testing and research should be directed.
Using Kickstarter to fund their research, "forced us to ingratiate ourselves to our community, which turned out to be great networking, and it was incredible to see how much people wanted to support our work," said Racusin. "It compelled us to work on communicating about what we are doing and why. It required a lot of work, not an easy passive process, but was worth it at the end of the day."
Racusin said the research itself was critical to the final book and "turned out to be one of the most legitimizing components to the book, and has opened many doors for us to present at conferences and engage in conversations with a much broader professional community."
As evident with Racusin and McArleton, if harnessed properly, crowdfunding can be a powerful tool in the aspiring author's kit. Reaching out to potential readers before the book is even underway allows you to begin the grassroots process of promotion—a step that often doesn't occur until after a book is published. Crowdfunding also allows an author to activate that waiting audience, by keeping them apprised of the book as it's being written, and possibly learn from readers about what the book should address. And because the crowdfunded book starts off as a community effort, it touches upon the notion of a gift economy, one based on relationships, place, and concern for the earth instead of mere profit margin.
Funders get gifts in return for their support, depending on how much they donate, but in many cases signing up as a funder isn't any more complicated than pre-ordering a copy of the book.
Want to take part in this bottom-up financing revolution? Right now two of our authors are seeking community-based funding for exciting and necessary book projects. Sign up to help today and take a look at what you'll receive in exchange for your help!Farming the Woods is a forthcoming book on agroforestry — or building edible forest gardens. The authors Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel are more than half way to their fundraising goal of $8000. Help them out before May 6th and you'll receive:
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Give $100 and get a signed copy of the book plus free admission to an upcoming mushroom inoculation workshop in New York state (includes a mushroom log to take home);
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Eric Toensmeier, author of Paradise Lot, Perennial Vegetables, and star of the Perennial Vegetables DVD, believes that tree crops are the key to fighting climate change, and he's fundraising to write the book that proves it: Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree Crops and Regenerative Agricultural Practices.
Give $50 and receive a signed copy of the book plus Toensmeier's collected articles from 2010-13;
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Gothic 3 - Review @ GameZilla
The latest review of Gothic 3 is up at GameZilla. The rating is "Not Recommended", with the main complaint being combat:
it is interesting that the majority of the revies rates this title average at best lately…
Man, the game must be really bad. Why then I'm enjoying it so much? I may be strange being with desire to play terrible games…
I thought the guy nailed the combat system.
Mostly its because of the bugs and horrible performance and mostly people don't know they have to go to a tech support forum to find out tweaks to make the game playable.
We only do this becasue we are hardcore fans, I know this may come as a shock. ;)
Jo"Whores Gothic"Wood, doomed Gothic 3 to this treatment instead of the AAA status it deserves.
I don't agree with many of the reviews it's hard not to try to put things in perspective.
Most people like the mass market causal gamers and moderate gamers have proabably never had to edit files.
Honestly I am not sure they should have to edit files, I do but I am a gamer.
Picking up on the general content of members posts regarding G3 immersion and depth of gameplay etc' it looks to be the more the hard-core gamers that are less affected by the bugs and problems we read about, just as Acleacius and Danicek mention, the same goes for me.
I am so much immersed that i can barely leave the game alone, it is running beautifully, i am playing for hours on end because there is definately more depth of storyline than first thought.
This seems to suggest that some G3 reviewers (and some players) just don't get the picture, the game is supposed to be a long hard struggle for the protagonist, the redeemer, the decider to conclude against all odds and obtacles put in his way, to percieve the correct finely woven storyline path that is not very apparent to the average player. There are many not-so apparent hints dropped along the way - ignore them and the game becomes almost meaningless or boring and repetitive as some have mentioned.
It is so hard in places that ive had to double-back quite a few times because the true (dare i say) 'deceptive' storyline is almost hidden.
Now if reviewers are not aware of these G3 in game subtleties then they can hardly know just what they are reviewing in the first place and will perhaps have to play the game several times over (or make many saves) in order to understand the games intentions.
So regarding the reviewers quote….. ["Not only is it difficult to tell if you made contact, but the motion lacks any feel that you hit something solid"]
isn't quite exact. Combat as the levels increase become more definate and refined, at L65 i can hear a squash sounds of the sword striking, blood spatter and cries from opponents, sparks fly from skeletons blades when struck, bodies tumbling through the air as they die complete with sounds is not all that bad to me. :)
I agree, we shouldn't HAVE to tweak files before we can play a game properly. That is something the devs should have been able to get correct, at least for the majority of players!!
Hm, I'm playing with acceptable performance with no crashes and with no ini tweaks on mid-higher setting with 3400+, 6800GS and 1024 RAM. I believe the performance is not that bad. They would have done better if they included some load screen instead of caching the world on the fly (which makes the game performance bit worse when (what I suppose is) higher volume of loading is done on the background).
Gothic 3 was not ready for release and is suffering bad reviews because of it. Whether it will survive and become something respected like Fallout 2 (also horribly buggy at release) or go down in flames like Darklands (ditto) only time will tell.
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You know "Powers" isn't for kids right out of the gate.
In the first six minutes of PlayStation's first original series, you're introduced to sex, drugs, and an unusual homicide.
Based off the graphic novel of the same name, "Powers" is essentially a superhero show for adults.
However, unlike the CW's DC Comics adaptations of "Arrow" and "The Flash," the series doesn't try to put heroes up on a pedestal.
The series is gritty, it's dark, it's a little vulgar, and it's not for the squeamish.
"Powers" takes place in a world where heroes and villains with powers co-exist out in the open with everyone else.
However, instead of following a character with powers, the show revolves around Christian Walker (Sharlto Copley) a former superhero who lost his abilities.
Now, he's a star detective at Powers Division, a group which investigates cases involving people with super abilities.
On the surface level, "Powers" is a cop procedural taking place in a world with heroes and villains.
Take a deeper dive, and the series explores the celebrity status that comes with having abilities, for better or worse. In a culture that has become flooded with superhero TV shows, video games, and films, "Powers" plays out like a behind-the-music look at superheroes and villains.
For Walker, the series also heavily deals with the question of what it means to be powerless.
After viewing the first three episodes of the series, which will premiere on PlayStation Tuesday, "Powers" feels a lot like NBC's former superhero hit "Heroes" meets "CSI." For fans of the former, it's the dirtier, grittier version of "Heroes" you wanted.
While the two shows don't have much in common plotwise, there's one undeniable resemblance between the two.
One character introduced in the pilot of "Powers," a blonde with blue eyes named Calista (Olesya Rulin) looks like a deadringer for then-"Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere, right down to red-and-white cheerleader outfit seen in the premiere. "Heroes" revolved around the phrase, "Save the cheerleader, save the world."
In the same vein, if you've never heard of or have read "Powers," the first few episodes revolve around a number of superheroes becoming obsessed with Calista. The end of the first episode of "Powers" even bears resemblance to a famous scene from the "Heroes" pilot that I won't spoil here.
For fans who can't wait for NBC's reboot of its popular superhero series later this year, "Powers" may be a great alternative.
"Powers" itself has taken a long time to make its way to the small screen. The series has been in development for over a decade. At one point, FX was going to air the series. A pilot was even filmed.
PlayStation has been looking for an original series for the past three years. According to John Koller, vice president of marketing at Sony PlayStation, "Powers" has been in the works there since 2012.
Superhero TV shows are not an easy genre to crack.
Right now, the CW is on a roll with adaptations of "Arrow" and "The Flash." CBS has a "Supergirl" series in the works.
However, previous shows like 2002's "Birds of Prey" and ABC's
2010 dramedy "No Ordinary Family" were quickly
So it will be interesting to see how viewers take to PlayStation's first original TV show, "Powers."
That's something the people over at PlayStation seem well aware of.
"Our entire goal on this is to do what's best for the gaming community," says Koller. "It's why you haven't noticed us talking about multiple series or other types of content or other things. We're very much focused on 'Powers.' We want to see, 'Does this appeal?' 'Does original content appeal?' And does this kind of theme appeal to our community? We think it does. The research shows that it does."
The first three episodes of the series premiere on the PlayStation network Tuesday, March 10.
The entire series will be free to PlayStation Plus members in the U.S. who pay for the system's subscription service which costs $49.99 per year. The series is only currently available in the US for Plus members.
If you don't own a PlayStation or access to the Plus service, you will be able to purchase "Powers" online. Episodes will cost $1.99 for standard viewing and $2.99 for HD.
The first episode will be widely available to stream free on YouTube.
Watch a trailer for "Powers" below.


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Pierluigi Caboni has got the B.S. degree (Bachelor's degree) from 1991 to 1996 in chemistry, University of Cagliari, Italy. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as an Analytical Chemist working on environmental pollution and waste management(industrial laboratory). In addition, from 1998 to 2000, Caboni received the M.S. degree in Chemistry, University of Cagliari, Italy. From 2000 to 2002, he got the Ph.D. degree in pathology and environmental toxicology, University of Cagliari, Italy. The thesis title is "Naturally occurring pesticides." The research project included the development of new analytical methods for the determination of pesticides (carried out at the University of Cagliari under the supervision of Professor P. Cabras) and the study of the toxicology aspects (carried out at the University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Professor J. E. Casida). Furthermore, from 2002 to 2003, he held a Postdoc position at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory under the supervision of Professor J. E. Casida. The research activity is focused on drug metabolism and molecular toxicology. From 2004 till present, he works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy, in the High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Toxicology. The research activity is focused on food analysis, microbiological antimicrobial analysis, pesticide, and drug metabolism. In 2010, he served as an Invited Lecturer at the American Chemical Society in Boston (August) with the title "Cytotoxic tirucallane triterpenoids from Melia azedarach fruits." In 2011, he was an Invited Lecturer at the American Chemical Society in Denver, Colorado (August). His analytical skills are LC-MS-QTOF, LC/MS/MS, HPLC, GC/MS, and GC. Caboni is a Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Italian Forensic Toxicologist.
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The background looks really creepy with those scary faces. I like the way you coloured this, the cluds and the sun in particular. The fire is very well done and the way it shines is very realistic. Sorry about this part but that looks like a rapist xD.
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I don't want to live in Portugal if you have red eyed latino midgets as rapists D'8
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B.E.A UUUUTIFUL, really liked this.
And, the inspiration for the face, it makes me think a bit of jack black's sexy face,
Was he in any way your inspiration for this?
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And nope, sorry :D He's a funny guy though!
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This is really good man. So unique and perfect, I love it. I don't do this often... (yes i do), but this is a 5/5 :] good work.
Thank you 8')
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Welp, there goes my sleep! Anyway, I like the painting over all. The face on the guy holding the...bomb is bothering me a little bit, but that's just nit picking. Good job!
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Awesome GIF: Arsene Wenger fails miserably in Arsene's Supermarket Sweep
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is fast becoming a laughing stock.
Having only signed young injury prone striker Yaya Sanogo, Wenger is angering his own fans with his lack of activity in this summer's transfer market.
Somehow, someone, somewhere, has produced a hilarious GIF in which Wenger takes part in a special Supermarket Sweep episode.
Wenger ends up with nothing, leaving Wenger and Gazidis looking somewhat bemused.
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The Ramona Boys Under 15 soccer team came in third place at the Dave Shelton Memorial Tournament this past weekend.
Defense once again did an outstanding job, having the lowest goals scored against them in their division.
Ramona lost its first game, 0-2, against the Oceanside Breakers, a AA team. The second game against Scripps United, however, proved to be a highlight of the tournament with a 6-0 shutout for Ramona's BU15 boys.
"They were on fire," said coaches Jim Szymanski and Tab Loftis. "They exhibited some of the best passing we witnessed so far this preseason.
Their last game against Poway Vaqueros was a definite challenge against the AA team, but the Ramona team triumphed with a 1-0 shutout.
"The BU15 boys are demonstrating top skills so early in the preseason," said Szymanski and Loftis. "Congratulations, boys."


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… and $3.39 will get a Styrofoam tray loaded with one entrée and a choice of chow mein or fried rice. The fried rice is the better choice.
GARLIC FRIED CHICKEN LEG – really good. The coating is crispy, the chicken is juicy and nicely marinated with garlic and Chinese 5 spice (I'm guessing). . . This is the drumstick and not the thigh, but it is a good-sized, meaty drumstick.
SALT AND PEPPER SHRIMP – large head-on prawn and best if you can get them out of the fryer with a slice of jalepeno. While not the best S&P shrimp I've had, certainly the best at that price and a nice snack.
FRIED FISH – looked good. The fish was fine but the batter was a little limp after sitting in the steam tray
BBQ PORK – This is a large hunk of meat that is 50 cents extra with the combo dinner. Choose your hunk of meat and they hack it up. Like most of the pork there, the meat is chewy but nicely spiced.
EGGPLANT IS SPICY GARLIC SAUCE – Pretty, colorful purple Chinese eggplant. Good but not very spicy.
SPARE RIBS IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE – Very chewy, nicely spiced, but I wouldn't order again.
POT STICKERS – with some dinners or 3 for $1.50. Not even worth it at that price. VERY thick wrapper and forgettable filling.
There has been a Lee's for a long time on San Pablo Dam Road in the Lucky Shopping Center. The second location opened recently in the International Shopping Center.
Both have identical steam table and menu items. The new location, across from San Pablo Market, has more room and is a nicer place to eat-in.
There is a lot of food for the money. The Styrofoam trays are filled to overflowing. They also have the option of ordering a small container of any item ... a scoop ... for $1.50.
Choose with your eyes. If it looks tired, skip it. However during peak times, there is lots of business, lots of wok action in the kitchen and the trays are replenished regularily.
Lee's is a very good friend of MSG.
Keep in mind that most of my Chinese eating experience is broccoli beef and I don't eat steam table food often. It is not great food (except maybe that chicken leg) but it is decent enough and uber-inexpensive steam table food.
Lee's Garden
2415 San Pablo Dam Rd, San Pablo, CA
Lee's Garden #2
2300 El Portal Dr, San Pablo, CA 94806


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Did you know you can fight hunger while getting your groceries at Hy-Vee? This Hy-Vee newsletter article was recently published in the Des Moines Register. It highlights Hy-Vee's One Step brand of cereal, potatoes, water and paper towels. A portion of One Step proceeds benefit various causes throughout the world. One Step Shredded Wheat Cereal proceeds benefit Meals from the Heartland! The whole-grain cereal is an excellent source of fiber, sure to benefit your health and the health of malnourished people right here in the Midwest. Look for the 100% recycled cardboard box the next time you're in the cerealRead more... →
Life's most urgent and persistent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' –Martin Luther King Jr. January 18, 2016 will mark the 33rd celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Reverend King was not only a champion of civil rights, but a teacher of the timeless values by which he lived his life: courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility and service. Meals from the Heartland will be offering packaging opportunities for volunteers all day on January 18, starting at 8:00am. Each shift lasts an hour and a half and can accommodate 60 bodies to package meals for the hungry here inRead more... →
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AFTER EIGHT YEARS in Alameda, an island town with an anchor on its flag, I'm still unacquainted with most things nautical. But two weeks ago, on a sunny Thursday, I circumnavigated the island in a powerboat.
A landlubber at core, I'm oblivious, most of the time, to the salty Bay water and the open windy spaces that surround us. Though when I travel — as I did last week to Boulder for my 20th high school reunion (everyone looks the same, just older) — I delight in describing Alameda as "an island in the San Francisco Bay." So romantic! But living here, I tend to forget that just as the mountains are Boulder's wilderness, the Bay is Alameda's.
"Everyone seems to like to go off and get away from it all," says Alamedan Peter Brand, a project manager for the Coastal Conservancy, who rows his rough water shell three or four times a week on Bay waters. "You can go out on any day of the year and you're going to be virtually alone. You feel as if you're miles from the next human being, right in the middle of the major metropolitan area."
My guide for the trip around the island was school board trustee David Forbes, whose day job is managing Club Nautique, a sailing and powerboat school and boat rental facility in the West End's Ballena Bay. Forbes skippered private boats in the Caribbean and put three Atlantic crossings under his belt before settling in Alameda in 1991.
His own craft, a 26-foot sailboat named Mr. Squigley, gets heavy-use as a teaching boat for new sailors. "Alameda is one of the sailing capitals of the Bay Area and the Bay Area is one of the sailing capitals of the world," says Forbes.
Our boat for the afternoon was named "Majestic," one of the 50 or so that Club Nautique rents. With three TVs and air conditioning, the 44-foot powerboat is a stylish vessel, far fancier than my home.
"You don't need to own the golf course to play golf," Forbes told me, lamenting how little attention is paid to what is arguably Alameda's finest resource.
Once out of the marina, a blue expanse of water lay before us as we set out east, powering along Crown Beach, toward the bridges that link the main island to Bay Farm. It was hot on land, but cool and breezy for us. As we approached the bridges, Forbes radioed ahead. They were promptly raised for our passage.
We slipped under the metal spans and into the San Leandro Bay with its view of McAfee Coliseum. There, we finally passed another craft. The family in the little powerboat oohed and ahhed at Majestic, and we didn't mention that she wasn't ours.
We turned into the estuary that divides the Island from Oakland, and we spotted the back yards of people we know. Farther along, I saw things I'd never noted before: boat yards, multiple huge marinas.
"Look," said Forbes. "There are boats of every kind as far as you can see."
We saw huge ramps left over from the World War II days when Alameda was a shipbuilding hub, and slid past the huge container ships at Oakland's port, and then, of course, around the point, to the massive USS Hornet.
Nearly back to our start, we slipped for a moment into Sea Plane Harbor, and I saw, clear as day, Forbes' vision of a future for the cozy harbor. A bustling boardwalk, restaurants, benches, stores, easy access to the water, and a stunning view of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco's skyline.
"Don't you see it? asked Forbes. And I did.
"Living in the Bay Area," Forbes told me, as he guided the boat back, "and not getting out on the Bay is like living in Vail and not skiing."
Eve Pearlman also writes the Alameda Journal Blog, look for news, impressions and opinion at www.ibabuz.com/alamedajournal


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|1 of 2 adults seen on pig fields at Tarrant Rushton. Photos taken on 13th.
|Juvenile on Lodmoor. Photographed on 25th.
Meanwhile, at Radipole, a couple of extremely confiding juveniles from 18th were a real treat.
|This bird was coming to bread. On size, this bird was thought to be a female.
|First saw this beauty on 26th. Note the new 1st-winter scapular feathers coming through.
Of course, while looking through the gulls, you sometimes come across anomalies like.....
|this Great Black-backed Gull with yellowy legs.
Not much else seen of late, other than the following at Lodmoor.
|Wood Sandpiper.
|And this Garganey.
Back to gulls and can't resist a couple of pics of juvenile Mediterranean Gull.
My most arty farty shot of the month goes to this adult Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit, taken on Lodmoor.


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Sprite spokesman, American Dad! guest star and occasional R&B singer Cee Lo Green has a white Motorola DROID RAZR, and he wants to give it to you. Not you, personally, but at least one of his Twitter followers, now numbered at about half a million. He's hidden it somewhere in Los Angeles, and will be tweeting out clues to its precise location on his official account, @CeeLoGreen. You probably shouldn't check under the big "W" in the Hollywood sign.
For those of us without the inclination to join the madding crowd or the means to go scavenger hunting in LA, Motorola will be giving out another six units via Twitter. Follow @Motorola, do some pimping with the #WhiteRazrXmas tag, cross your fingers, and the company might just pick your for a frosty new smartphone on December 27th. Since the promotion is for a Verizon-branded phone, only residents of the United States can win.
There's been a lot of giveaways in the world of high-end Android phones as of late. Verizon continued its tradition of GPS hunts with the DROID RAZR, and the @GoogleNexus account gave away Galaxy Nexus phones all over the world as part of its Twitter campaign. (Sadly, my haiku – the only submission for which I was qualified – didn't make the cut.) You could even try your luck at some Windows Phone 7 hardware, if you wanted to play turncoat and bash Android for a little swag. But for some really neat stuff, you might just want to stick around Android Community for a while…
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You wouldn't have any idea how good at snowboarding Gigi Rüf is simply by meeting him in person. His stature is not necessarily a reflection of his riding ability, but of his personality. Gigi comes off as quiet, introspective, and a tad sheepish. However, pop in one of his video parts from the past few years and you'll see an alter ego that would make Jekyll and Hyde seem more like Donny and Marie. Gigi exudes power, from AK steeps to European streets. Blessed with an innate ability to find anomalous obstacles to huck himself off of, Gigi's riding is instinctive, elegant, and spectacular, to say the least. Last winter, Gigi traveled the globe, scoping, searching, and shredding in front of Justin Hostynek and the Absinthe Films cameras. His video part is one to anticipate every winter, as he crams style, creativity, and power into a three-minute segment that's sure to procure acclaim the world over. Rüf rules.
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A Plan: To poach the Olympic halfpipe competition.
Your Brain: Make use of it and find inspiration to do shit.
Collecting Something: Really, anything works here.
Time Traveling: Write stuff, like postcards or memoirs; at one point they will be a link to your past.
A Breath Of Fresh Air: Go take a hike, venture out to the boulders, or balance on a curb.
Promises: Meet someone without calling back to reassure them about your meeting.
Leading By Example: It's really you in charge.
Being Pissed Off: Try a different approach.
Riding The Same Old Boring Hill Or Park: Start to posse up for adventures and travels.
Talking About Your Routine: A 1080 is your warm-up trick? C'mon.
One-track Minds: Get a life; don't get hung up on computer games or social networking.
Overloading On Memories: You don't need to take a photo if you don't really mean to.
Going For Broke: Stick with what you imagine being capable of doing.
Being Too Cool To Help Out: Sharpen your senses, you dull fuck.
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