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Saturday, January 16, 7:00 pm Radisson RTP Ballroom
THE BANQUET PAYMENT BUTTON IS NOW LIVE (CLICK HERE).
(Advance apologies for referring to my blog but I couldn’t get the button to render here.)
A post-session banquet will be held at the Radisson RTP headquarters hotel following the Saturday, January 16 session beginning at 7 pm.
The dinner was a great success last year with about 135 of the registrants attending and was a great way to unwind and continue some of the discussions we began.
This year, the supper will be followed by the Ignite session (see the main Program page for the line-up of speakers).
Banquet Menu
The banquet will be served buffet-style, allowing multiple trips such that even Bora should be able to put on a few pounds:
- Garden Greens with assortment of dressings
- Marinated Vegetables
- Pasta Salad
- Fruit Salad
- New Potato Salad
- Roast New York Strip, sliced and topped with Mushroom Marsala
- Boneless Breast of Chicken with White Wine Sauce
- Cashew Salmon with Orange Basil Beurre Blanc
- Penne Pasta with Marinara Sauce
- Oven-Roasted Rosemary Potatoes
- Fresh Seasonal Vegetables
- Rolls and Butter
Desserts Station
- Assorted Cakes, Fruit Pie, and Pastries
- Coffee, Tea, Milk
The negotiated base price is $28/person but the hotel adds a 22% service charge and 6.75% NC state sales tax.
Therefore, the cost is $36/person including tips and taxes. PayPal adds another $1.50 charge for advance payments (details below).
Beer and mixed drinks will be available at your cost in the adjacent hotel bar.
The best wine we can offer at $20/bottle
We’ve again negotiated with the hotel to serve a better quality wine than their $20/bottle mass-produced proletariat swill.
We hate drinking swill, especially with our friends who have traveled great distances to be with us.
The hotel permits us to bring in some fine wine that is selected by David in collaboration with local, estate-grown wine merchants, Wine Authorities. Of course, the hotel charges us a $10/bottle corkage fee but the Wine Authorities gives us one red and one white for $10/bottle at cost. Last year’s selections even garnered compliments from our European colleagues. So, we get you the best we can for $20.
I tried to argue with the hotel that we are UN-corking the wine and they should therefore be paying us $10 each. You know how that turned out.
This year, we are setting up PayPal for advance payment of dinner to keep David from having a myocardial infarction when he has to give a cashier’s check 5 days prior to the banquet. Using PayPal will also allow you to pay in advance with a credit card and generate a receipt for those of you who can file for institutional reimbursement. PayPal charges a fee of about $1.50 so the total charge will be $37.50 USD.
We’ll still take cash at the door for bottles of wine but we’d ask you to prepay wherever possible for your banquet ticket.
CLICK HERE TO PAY FOR THE BANQUET
Once I get your payment, I’ll mark you “PAID“ next time I log-in.
(Note: I just learned that some folks outside the US don’t have good functionality on PayPal so it’s fine to just pay when you get to the conference; however, please do sign up below so we can give the hotel the best estimate of attendees.)
If any of this isn’t clear, please e-mail David at abelpharmboy via Teh Googly One.
(Note added 5 January: Just so you feel secure in paying with PayPal, I just received a call from them asking if I really was me, whether the pay buttons were really on this wiki or my blog, and whether I hold the contract for the banquet – they just earned their $1.50 in my mind)
Saturday Banquet Sign-Up List
1. David Kroll (1 person) PAID
2. Bora Zivkovic (multiple personality, at least appetite-wise) PAID, but just for one personality
3. Catharine Zivkovic PAID
4. Joanne Manaster
5. Fabiana Kubke
6. Miriam Goldstein PAID
7. Christina Pikas PAID
8. Bill Hooker PAID
9. Stephanie Willen Brown PAID
10. Deepak Singh PAID
11. Cameron Neylon PAID
12. Karen Edler (with CN) PAID
13. Arikia Millikan PAID
14. Nate Silver PAID
15. Scicurious
16. Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic PAID
17. PZ Myers PAID
18. Val Jones PAID
19. Rebecca Skloot PAID
20. Hope Leman PAID
21. Steve Koch (drinking beer or cheap wine) PAID
22. Anton Zuiker PAID
23. Jason Robertshaw PAID CASH
24. Hilary Maybaum (hoping for dancing afterwards to burn up the calories) PAID
25. Kirsten Sanford gonna use PayPal
26. Janet Stemwedel PAID
27. Tamara Krinsky PAID
28. Julie Kelsey PAID
29. Pawe? Szcz?sny (alcohol-free) PAID
30. Mary Spiro (dancing with Hilary) PAID
31. Pete Binfield PAID
32. Walter Jessen PAID
33. John Timmer
34. Dorothea Salo PAID
35. Dave Munger
36. Greta Munger
37. Anne Jefferson PAID
38. Chris Rowan PAID
39. John Dupuis PAID
40. Samuel Dupuis PAID
41. Elle Cayabyab Gitlin PAID
42. Jonathan Gitlin PAID
43. Tricia Kenny PAID
44. Helene Andrews-Polymenis PAID
45. Tara Richerson PAID
46. Greg Gbur PAID
47. Beth Szabo (Gbur)
48. Annie Crawley PAID
49. Jennifer Williams PAID
50. Sol Lederman PAID
51. Marie-Claire Shanahan PAID
52. Suzanne Franks PAID
53. Glendon Mellow PAID
54. Danica Radovanovic
55. Greg Laden PAID
56. Peter Lipson PAID
57. Brian Switek PAID
58. Tracey Switek PAID
59. James Hrynyshyn PAID
60. Nancy Shepherd PAID
61. Andrew Farke PAID
62. Jayme Corbell (+ one guest) PAID both
63. John Logsdon
64. Alla Katsnelson PayPal
65. Kelly Rae Chi PayPal
66. Stephanie Zvan PAID
67. Ed Yong PAID
68. Sarah Crespi PAID
69. Carmen Drahl PAID
70. Austin Luton PAID
71. Desiree Schell PAID
72. Ben Young Landis PAID
73. Sonia Stephens PAID
74. Tom Levenson PAID
75. Carl Zimmer PAID
76. Enrico Balli PAID
77. Andrew Thayler PAID
78. Donna Krupa PAID
79. Nancy Rodnan PAID
80. Jennifer Montague PAID
81. Amy Freitag PAID
82. Kerstin Hoppenhaus PAID
83. Corie Lok
84. Travis Saunders PAID
85. Peter Janiszewski
86. Lenore Ramm PAID
87. Maria Jose Vinas Garcia PAID
88. Jeremy Yoder PAID
89. Jason Hoyt PAID
90. Rick MacPherson PAID William Saleu
91. Antony Williams, ChemSpiderman (but not wearing a superhero outfit..promise) PAID
92. Steve Pogonowski PAID
93. Simon Frantz
94. Andrea Novicki PAID
95. Francis Shepherd (guest of Nancy Shepherd, #60) PAID
96. Felice Frankel PAID
97. Kevin Emamy PAID
98. Elsa Youngsteadt PAID
99. Natalie Villalobos
100. Rabiah Mayas
101. Kevin Zelnio PAID
102. Patty Gainer PAID
103. Kim Gainer PAID
104. Lydia Anderson PAID
105. Nancy Shute PAID
106. Beatrice Lugger PAID
107. Jonathan Eisen PAID
108. Rhituparna Chatterjee PAID
109. Eric Roston PAID
110. Rebecca Weinberg PAID
111. Evelyn Lynge
112. A Krewson PAID
113. Jessica Ricc
