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There is a town of Sleepy Hollow in upstate New York, a historic village whose main claim to fame is the legend immortalized in the Washington Irving story. But for Tim Burton, director of the upcoming film Sleepy Hollow, the title town, circa 1799, is not so much a real spot as another place in his imagination, perhaps just over the hill from the Gotham of the Batman movies, or down the road from Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Therefore, when cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki was approached to work on the film, he was surprised to hear that the plan was to shoot it on location in the Hudson Valley.
"The first thing that came to my mind was that doing this movie in locations was not the right approach," says Lubezki, the Mexican-born, Oscar-nomin ated DP of Like Water for Chocolate, A Little Princess, The Birdcage, and Meet Joe Black. "I talked about it with Tim, and he said, 'Yeah, I have that feeling about it, but I want to go to New York to do some research.' When he came back, he called me and said, 'Chivo, you're right.' " (It should be noted right off the bat that everyone, from his family to his coworkers to a reporter that calls him up for an interview, refers to the cinematographer as Chivo--it means "the goat," and it was bestowed on him at age 5.) The DP continues, "The movie is not a historical reconstruction at all, it's not The Crucible; it's a fantasy. We decided to build the exteriors inside a stage, because then we would have all this control."
Burton's models for Sleepy Hollow, which Paramount Pictures is releasing November 19, included the studio-bound Hammer horror films of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, along with Italian shockers like Mario Bava's Black Sunday. "I've seen these movies, and I've never really loved them," Lubezki says. "But I appreciate the way they are made, how synthetic they are. They didn't have a lot of money, and they had so many limitations that they really synthesized things into one image, using symbols and iconography. They have a lot of visual impact." When New York was dismissed as a primary location for the movie, everyone's eyes turned to England, to studio environments like the ones that produced the Hammer films. Yet Lubezki adds, "I don't think Sleepy Hollow has much to do with the Hammer movies. Only that we used some of the same actors, we shot on stages, and it's this mix of fantasy, horror, and romance."
For one thing, the Sleepy Hollow palette is markedly muted, quite unlike the lurid color schemes of The Curse of Frankenstein or Dracula Has Risen From the Grave. For another, Burton's sensibility is wholly his own. Lubezki had never before worked with the director, but he was a major fan. "When [producer] Scott Rudin said he wanted me to meet Tim, it was incredible, because he is one of my favorite American directors alive," says the DP. "There are very few directors who work in mainstream Hollywood movies who are authors, who have their own voices. Tim is an author. And we connected almost immediately." Fortunately, Lubezki also felt right at home with other Sleepy Hollow crew members, many of whom, including production designer Rick Heinrichs and costume designer Colleen Atwood, had been working with Burton for years. "They don't need to talk much to know how to make it Tim's vision," he says. "And for some reason I fell into place very well--maybe because I love his movies."
During preproduction on the film, the DP made himself uncharacteristically scarce. "Usually, I get involved really early, and I'm bothering the production designer about windows or places to hide lights," he says. "But in this movie, I felt the team was so strong, I didn't want to bother them. All of Tim's movies have sets that are so hard to light, teeny rooms with no windows, and he uses very wide lenses, you see three or even four walls at a time. So I knew it was going to be hard," and--in a way like the experience of the Hammer filmmakers, "I knew the limitations were going to tell me what to do." The DP knew he wanted to light simply. "I didn't want to make the movie even more baroque, more packed with elements. And I didn't want to light with hard light. I wanted the light to be almost invisible, though not naturalistic--more pictorial, like an old book of illustrations."
One matter that did need to be addressed before principal photography was how best to achieve Burton's desired monochromatic look, just this side of black and white. "Tim is drawing all the time, and his characters always have dark circles around the eyes, and their skin is very white," says Lubezki. The movie's pale-skinned stars--Johnny Depp, cast as New York constable Ichabod Crane, sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders allegedly committed by a Headless Horseman, and Christina Ricci, who plays his lady fair, Katrina Van Tassel--certainly fit the visual bill. But more desaturation was required. Lubezki ordered a series of tests, and here he did need to "bother" the designers.
"We tested what everyone's doing now, the ENR and CCE processes, and Tim liked the most brutal of them, the CCE process," says Lubezki of Deluxe Labs' Color Contrast Enhancement, a silver retention technique. "It gives really muted colors, but an incredible amount of contrast. So much so that it even affected the skin of the actors, made it too harsh. Colleen found out that the blacks were going almost without detail, so she changed some things. Johnny Depp's basic wardrobe was a black police uniform, and after seeing the tests, she added little lines of shiny material to outline it. We tested every single color Rick was going to use in the movie, and with the special effects guys, we tested the blood, because Tim wanted it very saturated. They had to come up with an orange, almost radioactive color to look red on film.
"The other thing we learned from the tests," he continues, "was that smoke was the best thing to use to balance the contrasts. We didn't like flashing, and I didn't want to use any filtration. But with a lot of smoke, it killed some of that harshness. You can't see the smoke in the movie, because the CCE process made things so contrasty. But every scene has an incredible amount--if you had gone on the set, you would have said, 'What the hell is this?' But it looks great onscreen."
The smoke served another purpose. Though many of the Sleepy Hollow exteriors were shot on soundstages at Leavesden and Shepperton Studios, the village itself was too big to fit on a stage. Built on a private preserve north of London, the town comprises 11 full-sized structures. "We didn't want to just do it in miniature, because we had a lot of action there," says Lubezki. "We had a lot of scenes outside on the location that we had to match with the stage exteriors, and it had to be seamless. The smoke helped us to camouflage the difference between set and location. We would shoot the scene first on the stage with a certain amount of smoke, and then on location we would put in as much smoke as we needed to match."
Outdoors, smoke--along with the cloudy English winter--also helped achieve the "dusk-type" atmosphere Lubezki wanted to maintain in the film. "There is not really night and not really day in the movie," he says. "There are scenes that are darker and scenes that are lighter, but everything takes place in dusk." The look was carried over to the soundstage exteriors, which included fields of corn or harvested wheat, various woodlands, a graveyard, and a windmill in a series of scale miniature sizes, with traditional canvas backings. The largest studio set was the Western Woods, containing the imposing Tree of Dead, built on a large stage at Shepperton; all of the rest were installed at Leavesden, a former aircraft factory.
"When we went to England, I thought we would shoot in Pinewood or one of the other famous places," says Lubezki. "Then we arrived to shoot at this big warehouse with ceilings as low as 17' [5m]. My first lighting approach didn't work at all, especially with the lenses Tim used in the movie--17mm to 40mm, with 21mm our basic lens. Every time we put that on, we saw the ceiling. So we put hundreds of space lights in the top of the stage, really close to each other." Gaffer John Higgins, affectionately referred to as Biggles, says, "Each space light consisted of six 800W lamps arranged as spokes from a central hub to which dimmer connections were made. They were suspended above a silk cylinder on the bottom of which Lee 250 diffusion was attached." The effect, says Lubezki, is "of a huge chinese lantern, very soft." A final touch--once again, smoke--effectively turned the lighting grid into a grayish dusky sky. "The effects supervisor rigged it so the smoke would stay at the top of the set, and erase the equipment and the greenbeds," says Lubezki. "In a very realistic movie, it would look like something weird, but in this movie it looks beautiful."
The setup was copied at Shepperton on the Western Woods stage. Higgins says, "The set at Shepperton needed in excess of 500 space lights, and there was not enough time to move the equipment from Leavesden, so the rigs had to be duplicated. This required 800 space lights to be manufactured by Lee Lighting, and the extent of their manufacturing and logistics was certainly tested; I know they had people working for weeks making space lights." Everything was on dimmer systems controlled by Strand DMX boards, and separate systems were needed for the two stages. "I would say I'm almost addicted to dimmers," says Lubezki. "A movie this size you just have to have them. I could turn off pieces of the stage to create more contrast, and it was really fast. We could just grab a walkie-talkie, and Biggles would tell the dimmer operator, 'Turn off this piece of the set.' Everything was basically ready. Also, sometimes you don't want to use the lights at 100%."
Frequently, the DP would use the space lights without augmentation. "I would turn on the lights far away in the set, and keep the lights near the camera dark to create more depth," he says. "Or I would do the opposite, light near the camera where the actor is walking, and then keep the background dark to give the sense that you can't see through the forest and maybe something is going to come out of there. Sometimes with close-ups, we would augment--it depends. But everything was so complicated. The Headless Horseman is already a big problem, with a blue condom on his face, and two guys from ILM checking the shots. We had to have the right amount of smoke low and high. There were so many elements that I didn't want the light to be distracting or complicated. It looked complicated, though: The producers said, 'Why so many units?' The answer was, 'If we use less, we leave holes in the stage, and it doesn't look like a sky, it looks like light through the smoke.' "
If simplicity was one mantra of Lubezki's, an aura of mystery was another. The guiding force for the lighting style in every scene was mood, often inspired by the storyboards Burton so scrupulously made and then discarded for greater intuitive freedom on the set. Particularly on the film's interiors, such as the Van Tassel Estate and other Dutch Colonial residences and businesses, that meant fidelity to lighting sources was not an issue. "The sets are lit, but you don't know where the light is coming from," says the DP. "I didn't want it to look like an English period film, where the light is coming from the candles or from the fireplace. When there are candles, the light won't be coming from them, but from who knows where. I was just following my instincts, rather than being scientific about it. For purists, it will be bad lighting. Most of the time, it's based on the blocking of the scenes, or on the feeling that's most correct for the moment. Since it's almost film noir, with Johnny Depp as the detective trying to find the killer, for some of the meetings between the people of the town and him, the light is placed low, to make it eerie in a theatrical sense--whatever I thought was appropriate."
Paintings with some degree of expressionism were in the back of everyone's mind; in Lubezki's case, it was a work by German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach, picturing a woman carrying a man's decapitated head on a dish. "The light is very flat, but the blacks are really black, and everything is painted in muted colors, especially different shades of green. The light is soft, and it's not realistic; it's not coming from anywhere but the painter's brain." The idea of a painterly frame was such an influence that Burton and Lubezki briefly discussed shooting Sleepy Hollow in the old 1:1.33 format, until they discovered that would render the film nearly impossible to distribute. So they went with today's flat standard, 1:1.85.
Generally, interior lighting was kept soft, with scrimmed 10kW and 20kW fresnels used for most close-ups. "Because the CCE process isso contrasty, it doesn't look that soft," says the cinematographer. "And because the walls are so dark, it doesn't look that bright either." Since there is such a stylistic throughline from interior to exterior scenes in the movie, Kodak's 200ASA Vision stock was used throughout. "I didn't want to use the faster film, because with the CCE it was just too grainy," says Lubezki. "I didn't want an element that you are aware of all the time."
The film's palette was strictly controlled at all times. "Most of the sets are almost black and white," the DP says. "Katrina's room is red, but because of the process, it looks really dark. The only accents are in the wardrobe, a little blue or very dark green." For the most part, there were no gels on the lights, and no filters on the camera. Color tones were varied throughout, but all of this work was done in the lab. "The lab coordinator, Ian Robinson at Deluxe London, was amazing," Lubezki says, adding that the participation of Beverly Woods at Deluxe in Hollywood was also valuable. "In tests, we decided on a neutral skin tone, and then I asked him to print the same shots three different ways towards blue--slightly cool, cool, and very cool--and three different ways towards red and yellow--slightly warm, warm, and very warm. So when I would shoot a scene, I put in the slate 'print this slightly cool,' and he knew what I meant. Sometimes the movie is bluish, and sometimes it's almost amber. I thought it was better to do it in postproduction, to have more latitude."
Though Lubezki primarily employed tungsten light, HMIs were sometimes used on the village exteriors for balancing late in the day. For Higgins, this sprawling outdoor set was the most problematic. "Access to the location was not ideal," says the chief lighting technician. "The scheme we devised was to suspend very large soft sources on rotating bases which could be positioned at any point above the set while remaining hidden." A scale model of the village aided Higgins in determining that there were three likely points for the rigs, and after locating three cranes with a reach of 75m (248'), the art department made working scale models of those as well. "We positioned them around the model and confirmed that the only way to reach all points on the set was to use the three cranes," says the gaffer. "To install them required roads to be built to support the weight; it was an enormous effort from all departments and rental companies."
The finished rigs consisted of a 20'x20' (6x6m) base surrounded by 12'-high (4m) scaffolding. Six wide-angle 24-light Maxi Brutes were mounted in the roof of each rig for toplight, and three nine-light Maxi Brutes were positioned through the sides, for an output of 252kW from each spot. "We had 50m [165'] black ropes on the corners to fix and control the rotation of the rigs," says Higgins. In addition, 70kW Lightning Strikes units were installed at the bases of the rigs, with control cable fed to Burton's monitor, so he could cue the lightning. "The power for all this was provided by twin 200kW generators, two generators mounted on one truck used mainly to service live TV," the gaffer says. "We ran both simultaneously."
Chivo and Biggles got on famously. "He would have 30 different ways to achieve the same thing," says Lubezki of his gaffer. "He was completely into the movie, watching every shot. It was hard for me to go to England, because I didn't know anybody, but he made it so simple."
In fact, the DP says, the division of lighting labor in the UK bears some similarity to Mexico, in that the gaffer and his crew handle grip. But Lubezki, who helped start an independent Mexican film industry with movies like A Long Way to Tijuana and Bandidos, hasn't worked in his native country since the international release of Like Water for Chocolate and Love in the Time of Hysteria caused Hollywood to beckon.
"I miss working in Mexico," says the cinematographer, "but a lot of the young directors there have their own friends that are DPs. I think that's the best way." He has joined his two most famous Mexican collaborators, directors Alfonso Arau and Alfonso Cuaron, on their American filmmaking forays: Arau's A Walk in the Clouds, and Cuaron's A Little Princess and Great Expectations. And he has worked more consistently than he could have in Mexico, and on such gratifying projects as Sleepy Hollow. Still, Lubezki's head is not completely turned by blockbuster productions. "After Tim's movie I did Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her," he says. "The entire budget was less than the money we spent on tests for Sleepy Hollow. People in Mexico may think I'm too expensive, but I did it with less equipment than I had on Love in the Time of Hysteria. The more you learn, the easier it is to do it with more limitations."


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Cultures 3
The Vikings are back!
Loki, known from the Nordic sagas as a versatile god of lies and weaver of many intrigues against his divine "colleagues", has been banned from Asgard by Odin as a punishment for the trouble caused by the Midgard serpent. Now Loki is plotting revenge and searching for a possibility to sneak back into Asgard and pay Odin back. Out of spite, he abuses our four human heroes--Sigurd, the Frank, Hatschi, the brave Saracen, Bjami, and Crya--with his intrigues and traps. Embark on adventures and quests to help your allies wrest free from Loki's insidious machinations, whether it's a plague of serpents or the demon wolf Fenris dropping by for a rather unexpected visit. Ensure the health and safety of your people as you start with but a humble town and work your way up to a large city. Cultures 3 offers the best combination of strategy and adventure!
Cultures 4
Cultures 4 takes place some years after the end of Cultures 3. The renowned hero Bjarni and his friends, retired after their last adventure and enjoyed their day-to-day lives. This peace was not meant to last as one day the powers of darkness and evil slowly began spreading all over the world. The greatest heroes of the past were summoned. The people cried out to our friend Bjarni, who immediately set out to save mankind from the clutches of doom and misfortune once again. The destiny of Bjarni's people, and with them the destiny of all humanity, now lies in your hands. You must solve the mystery surrounding the 8th Wonder of the World with your heroes and banish evil from the Earth!
Age requirements: ESRB Rating: TEEN with Animated Blood, Mild Violence., PEGI Rating: 12+
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8, 1.4 GHz Processor (2 GHz recommended), 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.
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I already purchased these from a different website unfortunately but this would be an instant buy. If you adjust the resolution you will see that the game has aged very well, the cartoonish graphics are still very nice to look at, the music is relaxing and the mix of deep gameplay and the cast of character that doesnt take itself seriously makes this a a perfect stress-free managementread more game. I haven`t played the hardest difficulty but so from what I tried, don`t play this game for the management challenge, more for the fun of watching your community grow. Definite buy.
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My absolute favorite! Better that Anno or Settlers or any other games of this genre. Interesting gameplay with heroes and nice story lines, lovely humour etc. All in all, I enjoyed it many many hours
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Glad I am getting a chance to play 3 & 4 of this series, as I was a huge fan of Cultures 1&2. However, since playing, there seems to be a glitch in Northland, Fog of Horrors Free Game...cannot get my ships to trade mead for Gold. It just won't work. :{ Second game I have found glitches on now.
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Spotlight: Oculart
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Geoffrey Lillemon (1981 USA) brings a classic romantic painting and drawing style to technology to reinterpret artistic practice. As one of the leading artists of the Net Art Movement, Lillemon has consistently foregrounded the interplay between the digital and physical world in his work, blending the traditional mediums with interactive animation that responds to human touch, brainwaves, and even heartbeats. Using various art forms, from mixed and moving media to literature and soundscapes to classic portraiture, he creates works of hallucinatory poetry that reach into the infinite depths of the subconscious where the real and the imaginary interact. Lillemon has exhibited internationally as Oculart, including being the Invite d'Honneur at the Centre Pompidou, was a founding member of studio Champagne Valentine, and is currently an artist in residence at Random, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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M0us310n.net is an independent initiative to promote and support Net.Art & Digital Art.
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Net Criticism Juke Box
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Vuk Cosic work for the 'Beauty and the east' conference. The work pokes fun at the endless stream of serious discourse circulating online and adresses these tensions. Put together by Vuk Cosic with material from interviews by Josephine Bosma and Geert Lovink, the work uses a very simple interface to remodel and redistribute art discourse (Rachel Green).
Thanx to Josephine Bosma, Michail Langer and Geert Lovink that gave us the tapes.
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Pages in the middle of nowhere (former First and only real net art gallery
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Art Teleportacia, a web gallery of the works of Olia Lialina, which also features links to remakes of her most famous work "My boyfriend came back from the war"
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noplace locates numerous utopian inputs from the Internet and uses these data feeds to create virtual architectures. Photo and audio streams of opposing utopias are played side-by-side; the text descriptions of the content used to synchronize divergent paradises to create a narrative flow.
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Nobody here
A blog reconfigured as an interactive experience, Nobody Here. The viewer is invited to play, though the goofy fun of the interactive elements is balanced by the emotional weight of the writing. Visitors can also choose an insect icon to represent themselves, then leave comments on individual pages. If you encounter Herman the hermit crab, try shaking him out of his shell.
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Currently you are developing a concept to contextualise Internet-based Art by recording users in front of their screens as they interact with the artwork, which is then documented. This seems to offer a brilliant way to shift the focus from the technological condition of Internet-based Art to its use in everyday culture—can you explain the aims of this project more in detail? Read more »
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net-art on temporarystedelijk.com
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Temporary Stedelijk (7) is the last exhibition of temporary stedelijk. Since February 2012, Kalle Mattsson and Amber van den Eeden, have organized four online exhibitions on temporarystedelijk.com and temporarystedelijk.nl. They bought these domain names when they found out the Stedelijk Museum had neglected to do so.
In the first three exhibitions 'Temporary Stedelijk (4), (5) and (6)' the works of young, well known and less well known artists from Amsterdam were shown. Artists who are connected to the city of Amsterdam.
In this last virtual exhibition they have chosen to show net art: They thought this was a fitting way to end our online initiative. Net art is a field in which the Netherlands has played a significant role on an international level since the beginning of the 90's. Yet, within the Netherlands it keeps escaping the attention of most curators, museums and therefore the audience.
They have put together a collection of works by the very early pioneers and the young generations of net artists of today. It gives an overview of what has happened in the field of net art over the last 17 years. Read more »
Cyberzoo is a virtual zoo where it is possible to experience the wildest expressions of the artificial life in the security of your computer.
The mission of CyberZoo promotes the conservation of endangered species and the habitats in which they live. CyberZoo is involved in international programs of protection of threatened species, and participates in different projects from recovery and reintroducción of artificial life.
Conservation of the biodiversity
The mission of CyberZoo promotes the conservation of endangered species and the habitats in which they live. CyberZoo is involved in international programs of protection of threatened species, and participates in different projects from recovery and reintroducción of artificial life.
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The commodification of net-art
Slides for a short lecture presentation Jennifer Chan gave on selling internet art (both commercial and alternative economies). Salon 1 "The Art of Success" with co-presenters Jeff Stark and Zach Blas, Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK on August 30, 2012.
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transmediale 2012: web video – the new net art?
transmediale 2012: web video – the new net art?
transmediale 2k12 | 31 January – 5 February 2012
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
transmediale 2012 |http://www.transmediale.de/content/webvideo-new-netart
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
15:00 – 17:00
25 years of transmediale | web video – the new net art? | panel with Robert Sakrowski, Constant Dullaart, Petra Cortright, Igor Štromajer
If net art is cashing in on the utopian promise of video art, what dream does net art have left for itself? Has it come full circle? Is net.art now at its end? And is it true what the net art veteran Mark Amerika proclaims via Twitter, that "video is the new net art"? Read more »
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Visual arts have entered a new era. It's a place where immediacy rules, where visual arts becomes virtual, a place that links the world together. A new era for artists who have invented new concepts, using digital medias, from video to graphism, static, animated or even computer-programmed. They have created a flamboyant design for a super-society created in the Web's image. Read more »


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Boss Hog - Lancaster Brewing Company
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North Carolina
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
08-01-2014 00:37:13 | More by carolinared
3.5/5 rDev -7.9%
07-27-2014 21:29:06 | More by DrBier
New York
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
07-24-2014 22:05:02 | More by smithj4
3.5/5 rDev -7.9%
07-02-2014 00:37:44 | More by calimo
4.03/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
22 oz bottle. no date, but I just visited the brewpub and it was released this week, and bought from the fridge at the brewpub, so super fresh.
appears a crystal clear copper color, with bright white head. good head retention and rings of lacing cling to the glass as I drink. very nice bright hop aroma - a bit earthy, a little piney. taste starts a little sweet, ends slightly bitter, lingering aftertaste of hops. a bit piney, resinous. good flavor, just enough malt to balance. medium body, but a bit sticky tasting. coats the mouth.
overall - compared to most of Lancaster's offerings, this stands out
Serving type: bottle
06-17-2014 03:58:12 | More by jmdrpi
New York
4/5 rDev +5.3%
06-07-2014 21:15:52 | More by ArsMoriendiOU818
New Jersey
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
05-17-2014 12:59:30 | More by InspectorBob
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
05-12-2014 19:42:14 | More by oriolesfan4
3.91/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured from bottle into a snifter
Appearance – The beer pours quite hazy copper color with a small one inter white head. The head fades very fast leaving only a trace of lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the beer is quite nice with it being heavy of a tropical fruit smell of mango, pineapple and tangerine. Other aromas of a slightly bready nature mixed with a bit of caramel follow behind the fruit in intensity. Along with the sweet tropics and malt are some lighter grapefruit hop smells as well as a little bit of an herbal aroma.
Taste – The taste begins with a doughy flavor that has a moderate level of caramel and some fruits of a tangerine and mango nature. Some hop flavors of a grapefruit nature are present upfront, with these getting more potent to the end. The sweeter flavors are certainly not that overpowering though and are only of a moderate flavor upfront, with them fading as the taste moves on more toward the end. The doughy flavors also transitions with them becoming slightly more bready and cracker like in nature at the end of the taste. With the increase in the grapefruit hop, some other hop flavors also come to the tongue. Around the middle of the taste, a resinous pine and earthy hop make their presence known and last to the end. With the mix of hops, lighter fruits/caramel, and more crackery/bready flavors one is left with a non-overpowering but crisp slightly resinous and lingering bitter taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the average to slightly below average side in terms of thickness and creaminess for a brew of 9.4 % abv. with it having a carbonation level that is a bit on the lower side. The mouthfeel was overall fairly nice as the slightly thinner body accentuated the crispness of the brew all while the lower carbonation did not take away much of the potency of the hop flavors.
Overall – A fairly easy drinking and flavorfully crisper, big IPA. Rather tasty overall.
Serving type: bottle
05-12-2014 01:23:36 | More by Darkmagus82
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
04-26-2014 03:58:58 | More by NORM4
4/5 rDev +5.3%
03-23-2014 05:44:16 | More by curmudgeon236
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
03-03-2014 01:50:11 | More by buzzy
West Virginia
3.5/5 rDev -7.9%
02-04-2014 22:38:56 | More by WVbeergeek
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
01-25-2014 15:04:19 | More by Drknight
4.5/5 rDev +18.4%
01-19-2014 20:54:10 | More by Lehighace06
3.71/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Look: Dark golden approaching bronze. A sheet of lacing left on the glass.
Smell: Floral, fruity, strong.
Taste: Has a big sugary malt body akin to many barleywines, but somewhat hoppy. Good bitterness and lingering floral notes.
Feel: Medium to full bodied. Easy drinkable.
Overall: A nice barleywine or imperial IPA. This would be a triple ipa.
Serving type: on-tap
01-14-2014 00:46:37 | More by Stinkypuss
District of Columbia
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
01-12-2014 01:48:32 | More by scottDC
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
01-08-2014 01:07:40 | More by beermeister9
New Jersey
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
12-20-2013 16:11:18 | More by Varkias41
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
11-17-2013 22:24:34 | More by duceswild
3/5 rDev -21.1%
11-12-2013 00:40:42 | More by Amerikon
3.25/5 rDev -14.5%
10-16-2013 15:14:56 | More by HRamz3
New Jersey
3.13/5 rDev -17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
$7.50 bomber from Abe's.
Rich copper amber body, chill haze, super dense three finger off-white foam in concentric circles. Minimal lace.
Enormous and inviting orange and pine aroma.
Malt beginning needs more depth. Doesn't form a foundation. Just slides on by. Fruitiness. A bit of bread. Nip of bitterness. Sense of alcohol without a taste or burn.
Big chewy mouthfeel.
It's a big beer, but it doesn't necessarily come across as a big IPA. Disappointing in the end.
Serving type: bottle
10-06-2013 03:12:41 | More by RonfromJersey
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
10-05-2013 23:37:32 | More by Brasso
3.75/5 rDev -1.3%
09-07-2013 16:45:42 | More by JeffTheJuice
Boss Hog from Lancaster Brewing Company
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|Sinai and Jerusalem; or, Scenes from Bible Lands: Illustrated by Twelve Colored Photographic Views, Including a Panorama of Jerusalem, With Descriptive Letterpress.
|JERUSALEM. Pillar (1). It is recorded in 2 Samuel xviii. 18, that Absalom in his lifetime reared up for himself in the King's dale a pillar, which he called after his own name, to keep his name in remembrance, because he had no son. The shape of this tomb probably suggested the idea that it was the Pillar of Absalom, but the architecture of it proves at once that this is impossible. Earther up the valley, on the western slope of the Mount of Olives, is a spot, the name of which at once attracts our attention—the Garden of Gethsemane (7). Can this, indeed, be the very garden where our Saviour endured that terrible agony before His betrayal, when " His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground " ? If not here, the very spot cannot have been far distant; and tradition of many hundred years' age has stamped this garden with a sanctity which cannot fail to impress the minds of all who visit it. The square enclosure, surrounded by high white walls, contains a little garden, neatly kept by the Latin monks, to whom it belongs. The spreading branches of eight venerable olive-trees, whose decayed trunks attest their great age, overhang the roses and other flowers which adorn the borders. The monks, of course, are ready here, as elsewhere, to point out the exact spot where each special incident connected with our Saviour's agony took place. But the contemplation of the simple garden, with its aged trees, is to us far more impressive than the sight of this or that holy place, the situation of which is often based on traditions of no authority whatever. Such a holy place is the Tomb of the Virgin (15), which is marked in the picture, a short distance to the right of the Garden of Gethsemane, close by the Bridge of the Kidron (16), over which runs the road that leads down from Jerusalem to Bethany and Jericho. As we ascend the "Valley of Jehoshaphat," it becomes broader and less deep. To the north of the city it sweeps round in a westerly direction, and near its head are situated the so-called " Tombs of the Kings " (30). In these tombs, which consist of several chambers, each containing recesses for the dead, some richly-sculptured marble sarcophagi were found; and these, together with the care with which the vaults had evidently been hewn out of the rock, and the beauty of the sculptured frieze and cornice which extend over the front of the vestibule, led to the supposition that they were the Royal tombs of the Kings of Judah. This supposition, however, is now generally believed to be erroneous; and it appears to be
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3/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pours out golden straw color with about two fingers of white foam head that lasts for about two minutes and no lacing at all. Lighter body and carbonation levels, a touch watery and thin.
Smells and tastes vaguely floral and biscuity with a touch of diacetyl that didn't blend well with the malt profile like some of the better English Bitters do. It's pretty average all around, the hopping seems a bit too murky and the texture isn't as sharp and crisp as it could have been. If these issues were addressed, it could be a really nice beer.
Serving type: bottle
10-15-2012 23:45:48 | More by WastingFreetime
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4/5 rDev +16.6%
07-17-2014 21:02:50 | More by tgraven
3.8/5 rDev +10.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Soft grainy character and nicely blended and balanced earthy English hops. Bit of a watery character representative of a light ale.
Cloudy golden amber and nicely dense whitish head with good lacing.
Again with a lighter presentation representative of a session beer style. Less grainy malt than compared to the aroma. Very soft bittering, but a more evident hop flavor. Flavors are less distinct than the aroma and much more blended. There is a prickliness in the carbonation that lends a sharpness to the hop flavors in particular. Also a bigger feel than one would expect from a smaller beer.
I like this beer. A nice afternoon beer and probably since it is so balanced a good beer for most foods.
Serving type: bottle
02-14-2014 19:13:47 | More by garymuchow
3/5 rDev -12.5%
12-27-2013 17:52:12 | More by Kaveman
3.76/5 rDev +9.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a perfect, translucent amber color with plenty of sediment hanging in suspension. A thin, white ring around the glass was all that remained after a few minutes of pouring. Carbonation is light,
Nice malty base with pecans and praline playing the lead roles. Light sweetness that reminds me of brown sugar. There is also a light mustiness that adds a bit of character and I like it quite a bit.
Nothing special, but enjoyable - reminds me of a loaf of nut bread. Simple caramel cues. Faint orange on the tail end.
Easy to drink, medium-bodied beer. Carbonation is hardly noticeable. Finish is semi-dry.
This one easy to drink beer. It's not heavy and it's not complex but it has character, making it a fantastic session beer.
Serving type: bottle
12-13-2013 02:32:09 | More by alphagnome
2.75/5 rDev -19.8%
12-07-2013 20:21:08 | More by Rihup
3.58/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Fresh bottle from the Beer Temple.
Bottom of the bottle is dated "3057", not sure if it's a relevant Julian date.
Dark saturated orange with a finger or so of dense foam, arcs of spindly lace in the glass, lasting skim across the surface. A closer inspection reveals suspended microparticles in the bottom of the glass.
Estery dried fruit aroma, some minor nutty malt sweetness.
Lightly fruity and nutty, sweet maltiness, dry finish with minimal bitterness. Medium bodied, light spritzy carbonation. Slight astringency from the CO2, but pretty clean and easy drinking. Not bad.
Serving type: bottle
09-19-2013 00:48:38 | More by emerge077
3.5/5 rDev +2%
09-05-2013 03:32:00 | More by martyl1000
3/5 rDev -12.5%
08-29-2013 00:01:30 | More by ejimhof
3.5/5 rDev +2%
08-07-2013 03:20:03 | More by TheBattousai
4/5 rDev +16.6%
07-27-2013 23:14:14 | More by Ross_Haddow
3.5/5 rDev +2%
07-17-2013 22:39:51 | More by enelson
3.69/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a nice, soapy, white head. A yeasty, sweet aroma that has notes of floral hops. Golden-raw sienna color. Starts with a nice crisp, floral hoppiness, peaks in this as the sweeter malt comes in, a wonderful nuttiness comes out before hop bitterness lingers in the finish.
This is very nice. The mouthfeel is fantastic! It's frothy, smooth, and perfectly carbonated.
It drink similar to a brown ale. I love the nuttiness balanced against the slight sweetness and floral hops, and I even like that little caramel aspect to it.
I probably won't go out and buy a sixer of this, but I would definitely consider it if I wanted a nice session ale, or if it were on tap.
Serving type: bottle
06-26-2013 22:54:06 | More by TheSSG
3.75/5 rDev +9.3%
05-25-2013 23:03:05 | More by Slatetank
3.78/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
12oz bottle, deep golden-amber colored ale topped with a frothy, white head that sticks around for awhile leaving thick lacing at the top of the glass. Aromas are malty, bready, earthy, caramely, spicy yeast. Tastes earthy, fruity, bready, caramel, spicy, slightly dry finish. Medium-full body, perfect carbonation, floats on the palate - really nice mouth-feel. Overall, very good and recommendable EPA; definitely sessionable as well.
Serving type: bottle
05-17-2013 11:25:19 | More by barnzy78
3.5/5 rDev +2%
04-25-2013 13:51:11 | More by cnbrown313
3.25/5 rDev -5.2%
04-24-2013 02:11:57 | More by mkennedy119
1.5/5 rDev -56.3%
02-22-2013 02:49:08 | More by dsuedbeck
2.75/5 rDev -19.8%
01-31-2013 15:27:17 | More by TheNakedStiletto
3.75/5 rDev +9.3%
11-17-2012 15:46:27 | More by Kunstman
4.25/5 rDev +23.9%
09-30-2012 00:56:11 | More by WhatAlesMe
3.4/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
English Pale Ale? Say what? This seems nowhere near it, in my opinion. There are a lot of things going on; none of which fit to style. Fruity tone reminds me slightly of Magic Hat #9. Soft liquid feel with a carbonation to match. It's an easy drinker, but this is not an EPA at all.
Serving type: bottle
08-15-2012 08:47:59 | More by RblWthACoz
3.25/5 rDev -5.2%
08-08-2012 00:43:10 | More by npendres
3.5/5 rDev +2%
03-26-2012 04:02:59 | More by ChrisPratz
3.88/5 rDev +13.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hazy off orange with a nice lacy off white head. Lasts a bit.
Nose is malty, not much of a hop presence. Deep bready with nutty notes.
Taste is bready malt and notes of caramel, balanced nicely but no sign of hops, a lovely drinker.
Good carbonation with a medium mouthfeel, right for the style. This is a good fresh example of what a good midwest brewer can do with this English style. I'd take this over most imports available.
Sessionable at that, a good all around beer.
Serving type: bottle
03-14-2012 17:41:36 | More by robbyc1
Proper from Furthermore Beer
79 out of 100 based on 89 ratings.


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The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Valet parking fee: USD 20 per night (in/out privileges)
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This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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Las Vegas NABC July 17-27, 2014
The summer NABC will be held at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino, previously the Las Vegas Hilton. Join us at the Opening Reception on Friday July 18 which will feature "Elvis" as ACBL welcomes you to the Summer NABC beginning after the evening game until 1:00 am. Don't miss this event of fun, food, drinks, and dancing with the "King"!
To brush up on your game, Mathew Kidd, President of Unit 526 in La Jolla, has provided a list of suggested readings and books at the Unit website suggested books
He also provides an excellent review of "The Rodwell Files",one of the best books that has been published in recent years Rodwell Files


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This section explains how to generate, build, and run a complete Apache CXF example as a bundle in the OSGi container, where the starting point code is generated with the help of a Maven archetype.
In order to generate a project using a Fuse ESB Enterprise Maven archetype, you must have the following prerequisites:
Maven installation—Maven is an open source build tool from Apache. You can download the latest version from http://maven.apache.org/download.html (minimum is 2.0.9).
Internet connection—whilst performing a build, Maven dynamically searches external repositories and downloads the required artifacts on the fly. In order for this to work, your build machine must be connected to the Internet.
fusesource Maven repository is configured—in order to locate the archetypes, Maven's
settings.xmlfile must be configured with the location of the
fusesourceMaven repository. For details of how to set this up, see Adding the FuseSource repository.
servicemix-cxf-code-first-osgi-bundle archetype creates a project
for building a Java-first JAX-WS application that can be deployed into the OSGi
container. To generate a Maven project with the coordinates,
org.fusesource.example:cxf-code-first-bundle, enter the following
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.servicemix.tooling -DarchetypeArtifactId=servicemix-cxf-code-first-osgi-bundle -DarchetypeVersion=2012.01.0.fuse-70-097 -DgroupId=org.fusesource.example -DartifactId=cxf-code-first-bundle
The result of this command is a directory,
containing the files for the generated bundle project.
Typically, you will need to modify the instructions for the Maven bundle plug-in
in the POM file. In particular, the default
Import-Package element
generated by the
servicemix-cxf-code-first-osgi-bundle archetype is not
configured to scan the project's Java source files. In most cases, however, you
would want the Maven bundle plug-in to perform this automatic scanning in order to
ensure that the bundle imports all of the packages needed by your code.
To enable the
Import-Package scanning feature, simply add the
*, as the last item in the comma-separated list inside the
Import-Package element, as shown in the following example:
<project ... > ... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId> <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId> <extensions>true</extensions> <configuration> <instructions> ... <Import-Package> javax.jws, javax.wsdl, javax.xml.bind, javax.xml.bind.annotation, javax.xml.namespace, javax.xml.ws, META-INF.cxf, META-INF.cxf.osgi, org.apache.cxf.bus, org.apache.cxf.bus.spring, org.apache.cxf.bus.resource, org.apache.cxf.configuration.spring, org.apache.cxf.resource, org.apache.cxf.jaxws, org.apache.cxf.transport.http_osgi, org.springframework.beans.factory.config, * </Import-Package> ... </instructions> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> ... </project>
To install and run the generated
cxf-code-first-bundle project,
perform the following steps:
Build the project—open a command prompt and change directory to
. Use Maven to build the demonstration by entering the following command:
mvn install
If this command runs successfully, the
directory should contain the bundle file,
Install and start the cxf-code-first-bundle bundle—at the Fuse ESB Enterprise console, enter the following command:
karaf@root> osgi:install -s file:
ProjectDiris the directory containing your Maven projects and the
-sflag directs the container to start the bundle right away. For example, if your project directory is
C:\Projectson a Windows machine, you would enter the following command:
karaf@root> osgi:install -s file:C:/Projects/cxf-code-first-bundle/target/cxf-code-first-bundle-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
On Windows machines, be careful how you format the
fileURL—for details of the syntax understood by the
fileURL handler, see File URL Handler.
Alternatively, you could install the bundle from your local Maven repository, using the following PAX
karaf@root> osgi:install -s mvn:org.fusesource.example/cxf-code-first-bundle/1.0-SNAPSHOT
Test the Web serivce—to test the Web service deployed in the previous step, you can use a web browser to query the service's WSDL. Open your favorite web browser and navigate to the following URL:
When the web service receives the query,
?wsdl, it returns a WSDL description of the running service.
Stop the cxf-code-first-bundle bundle—to stop the
cxf-code-first-bundlebundle, you first need to discover the relevant bundle number. To find the bundle number, enter the following console command:
karaf@root> osgi:list
At the end of the listing, you should see an entry like the following:
[ 191] [Active ] [ ] [ ] [ 60] A CXF Code First OSGi Project (1.0.0.SNAPSHOT)
Where, in this example, the bundle number is 191. To stop this bundle, enter the following console command:
karaf@root> osgi:stop 191


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How do you stop an Expired Cow from ruining your baked goods? Everyone knows it's with a Jenga duel. Fred should really stop drinking expired milk.
Expired milk? Right, what does that come from, an expired cow? It's totally safe to drink...right?
Fred and Bertha (mostly Bertha) bake a beautiful cake for home economics...mmm.
Steve's awesome 30-second training montage continues as Fred tries to punch through a plank! Can he do it?! Hint: Not really.
Giant talking cookie Steve takes a 'do as I say, not as I do!' approach to training Fred for battle!
There's only one way to recover from a long day of baking: milk 'n cookies, fresh out of the box!
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Ever since Fred packed his gear and went off to camp, his summer's been filled with crazy stories and fun adventures! Though Camp IWannaPeePee wasn't his first choice, he's quickly learned that being there has been way more than worthwhile. Catch all the pics from his amazing campy summer, right here!
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Gahhh! Everyone knows that Kevin is the meanest boy who ever lived. But what happens when Fred turns just as evil as his neighboring nemesis?! See for yourself in these "Evil Fred" pics from Fred: The Show!
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Availability: Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall All Inclusive
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Adults-only paradise in Jamaica
Located in Montego Bay (Rose Hall), Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall All Inclusive is close to Greenwood Great House and Cinnamon Hill Golf Course.
This 5-star resort is within the vicinity of Rose Hall Great House and The Shoppes at Rose Hall.
Make yourself at home in one of the 295 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Rooms have private balconies. Satellite programming and iPod docking stations are provided for your entertainment, while wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature jetted bathtubs and rainfall showerheads.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. You can take advantage of recreational amenities such as a nightclub, a health club, and an outdoor pool. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and gift shops/newsstands.
This resort is all inclusive. Rates include meals and beverages at onsite dining establishments. Charges may be applied for dining at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, some beverages, and other amenities.
Take advantage of the resort's 24-hour room service. Thirsty? Quench your thirst at a beach bar, a poolside bar, or a swim-up bar.
Featured amenities include a business center, a computer station, and a 24-hour front desk. Event facilities at this resort consist of a conference center and small meeting rooms. Free self parking is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall All Inclusive Amenities
- All-Inclusive Details
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities and taxes are included.
Food and beverages
- All buffet and à la carte meals, snacks, and beverages included
- 24-hour room service
- In-room minibar (all beverages included)
- In-room liquor dispensers
- Meals and beverages at companion properties
Activities and facilities/equipment
All non-motorized water sports are included.
Water activities
- Kayaking
- Sailing
- Snorkeling
- Windsurfing
Land activities
- Fitness facilities
- Soccer
- Tennis
- Aerobics
- Dancing
- Water fitness
- Yoga
Not included
- Airport transfers
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Motorized water sports
- Scuba-diving certification
- Scuba-diving excursions
- Spa/beauty facilities and services
- Activities and services offered by independent operators
- General
If you're looking for a truly relaxing vacation in the lap of luxury, this exclusive hotel for adults-only has it all.
The complex overlooks an extensive white sandy beach and turquoise waters. You'll never run out of things to do here: Take a boat ride along the coast of Montego Bay, go horseback riding through the picturesque Hamlet of Sandy Bay, or visit the stores at the Shoppes shopping center.
Built in an elegant colonial style, the hotel offers luxurious accommodations in deluxe suites with steward and concierge service.
The hotel's amenities include an outdoor swimming pool and Jacuzzi surrounded by gardens, sundecks, an activity center, a convention center, game rooms, Internet hot spot, a spa, discotheque for adolescents and adults and a diving center.
There are six restaurants and various bars offering guests a variety of dining options each day: Japanese teppanyaki, Italian, gourmet, casual lunches on the beach, surf & turf or a complete buffet.
Guests can also enjoy cocktails and mixed drinks in the lobby bar, smokers' bar, water bar, and musical bar as well as live performances and music for your entertainment.
During the day, choose from a variety of sporting activities including workouts at the gym, aerobics, basketball, catamaran rentals, kayaks, windsurfing, tennis classes, diving, snorkeling and parasailing. You can also participate in the entertaining activities organized by our staff for your enjoyment.
If you're looking for rest and relaxation, you'll surely find it at our fully-equipped Spa & Wellness Center offering massages, manicures, pedicures, and hairdressing.
Luxury, rest & relaxation and good times by day and by night await you on your next vacation at this exclusive hotel.
- Conference center
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Hair salon
- Total number of rooms - 295
- ATM/banking
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Full-service spa
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Billiards or pool table
- Free Wi-Fi
- Number of floors - 5
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Nightclub
- Poolside bar
- Beach bar
- Luggage storage
- Room service (24 hours)
- Beach cabanas (complimentary)
- Pool cabanas (complimentary)
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Free self parking
- Tennis on site
- Shopping on site
- Spa tub
- Outdoor pool
- Business center
- Swim-up bar
- Wedding services
- Concierge services
- Health club
- Beach/pool umbrellas
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Sauna
- Garden
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Free self parking
- Room Amenities
- Refrigerator
- Air conditioning
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Climate control
- Separate sitting area
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Rainfall showerhead
- Down comforter
- Turndown service
- Complimentary bottled water
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Premium TV channels
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- DVD player
- Video-game console
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Jetted bathtub
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Balcony
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Daily housekeeping
- Pillow menu
- iPod docking station
- Dining
Grand Hotel Rose Hall's culinary offerings include four specialty restaurants and two buffets. Taste a wide variety of international food, such as regional Jamaican recipes, Japanese teppanyaki, Italian cuisine, and gourmet fare, or relax with an informal lunch at the beach.
Enjoy domestic and international liquors, wines, and cocktails in any of the six bars, each with a different ambiance perfect for any occasion.
Kiniro Japanese Restaurant, Es Palau Gourmet Restaurant, Galleon Surf & Turf Grill & Steak House, La Toscana Italian Restaurant.
- Recreation
The Grand Hotel Rose Hall provides you the opportunity to fill every waking moment with sports and leisure. Choose from the outdoor pool with swim-up bar; gym with innovative cardio equipment and facilities for fitness, yoga, pilates, or tai-chi; dance lessons; basketball; pool volleyball; tennis; and watersports such as catamarans, kayaking, snorkeling, and windsurfing, all free of charge.
Furthermore, there is a large assortment of recreational and sporting activities available for an additional fee such as tennis classes, scuba diving, snorkeling excursions, and parasailing.
The Best Golf at Grand Hotel Rose Hall Iberostar provides golf lovers access to the Rose Hall Golf Association and the Cinnamon Hill Golf Course, an amazing 18-hole course perched on Jamaica's northern coast, designed by famed golf course architects Hagge and Baril. Aside from the greens, tees, and fairways of the golf course, no visitor should miss the world-renowned sites and monuments scattered along seaside. Places of interest include the Rose Hall Great House, an 18th century mansion; hundred-year-old aqueducts; Johnny Cash's home; and other distinct locations used to shoot scenes in the James Bond movie "Live and Let Die."
- Golfing nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Basketball on site
- Kayaking on site
- Parasailing on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Tennis on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Beach volleyball on site
- Spa
Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall features two-story, exclusive world-class spa with private, couples-oriented spa treatments, on-site or beachfront massage, Turkish & Roman baths, Jacuzzis, and Thalasotherapy pools.
- Minimum age to access spa is 18
- Number of treatment rooms 19
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Couples treatment rooms
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Massages on beach
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Thalassotherapy treatments
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall All Inclusive Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, MasterCard, Visa
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Minimum guest age is 18
Caters to adults only
- Additional Details
Guests under 18 years old are not permitted at this adults-only property. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
- Details
Free Round of Golf Offer
Book a minimum 3-night stay or longer, and receive the following, based on length of stay:
- 1 free round of golf per room/stay with a minimum 3 or 4-night stay
- 2 free rounds of golf per room/stay with a minimum 5-night or more stay
Grand Star Service!
Book a stay in a Junior Suite, 1 King Bed, Oceanfront room category, for travel anytime, and receive the following:
- Butler and concierge service
- Personalized in-room check-in with a cold towel and sparkling wine
- Luggage unpacking & packing
- Nightly pressing service
- Private resort complex transportation
- Breakfast in bed
- Personalized check-out service


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Cara (Befus) Brown '05 and Clay Brown '05
There were no sparks of attraction the day they were casually introduced in front of McCormick dormitory in September of 2001.
Cara and Clay were carpooling with a mutual friend to their first year seminar play in downtown Portland. Both still only 18, they never knew their future soul mate was sitting beside them on that ride to Portland.
The initial attraction didn't exist because Cara was still holding on to her high school sweetheart and Clay was keeping his options open.
As the year progressed they started to spend more and more time together in Mac. Whether it was studying Biology, watching a movie, or just chatting with each other on AOL Instant Messenger, they began to enjoy each other's friendship and were truly able to be themselves.
Finally, the last day of freshman year, before Clay went home for the summer, Cara worked up the courage to tell Clay how much she liked him. This was no easy feat!
She had broken it off with her boyfriend and banking on a favorable response. Clay was dumbfounded by this confession and didn't know how to react. He pretended not to be interested, and told her that a long distance relationship was not something he was looking for and that he didn't want to ruin their great friendship. They never spoke once over the summer, Clay in Alaska, Cara in Oregon.
At the start of their sophomore year they both returned to Forest Grove. Clay called Cara to see if she wanted to go with some friends to the Tillamook county fair. When Clay first saw her his heart almost skipped a beat. He was amazed at how beautiful this tan and blonde Oregon girl was.
Clay realized he had been a fool and was instantly attracted to Cara and hoping the summer hadn't changed her feelings. It was time to tell Cara the truth -- he really did like her.
After a trip to the beach with Cara's family over labor day weekend, the two decided to call it official- they were finally a couple.
This summer will be their five year wedding anniversary and mark ten years since they started their courtship at Pacific. The couple has lived in Dillingham, Alaska since August 2008 where they work at a critical access hospital. Cara works as a registered nurse and Clay has his Doctorate in Physical Therapy. They feel so blessed to have found each other at Pacific University where they have many great memories of their early years together.
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The controversial 'parklets' are again up for discussion before the Belmont Shore Parking and Business Improvement Area Commission, this time at 8 a.m. Thursday, when the City of Long Beach Traffic Engineer is appearing to "learn any concerns."
It remains unclear why the use of public street parking for restaurant dining has been reintroduced before the advisory commission. It is not clear from the agenda who is proposing or pursuing the idea; the public parking is within the coastal zone, and there has been no discussion of where customers and residents would park rather than in parking spaces that would effectively be privatized.
The agenda reads as if the City of Long Beach is exploring the possibility, but the meeting has received no publicity.
City of Long Beach Traffic Engineer Dave Roseman was not immediately reachable when Patch called at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday for details about parklets in Belmont Shore.
Terry Enderson, vice president of the Belmont Shore Residents Association, strongly opposes the idea and stated his reasons in a Patch piece earlier this year:
"Parklets on 2nd Street would eliminate existing parking spaces and would ignore existing parking requirements for businesses," Enderson said. "Each parklet would possibly add 20 seats. Where are these additional patrons to park in this parking impacted neighborhood?"
Originally designed to add landscaping and greenery to the streets of San Francisco--where streets and public rights-of-ways comprise more area than public parks--the "Pavement to Parks" program has already been adopted in Long Beach and altered to increase restaurant seating, making it the first Southern California city to do so.
That location on Fourth Street's Retro Row at Lola's Mexican Cuisine and in the East Village at Berlin by Portfolio, where the parklets are expected to provide increased business, are not parking-impacted like Belmont Shore. On Second Street, about 250 businesses are crammed snugly into a thoroughfare and the 15 side streets that intersect it.
While it's unclear how enthusiastic Second Street business owners are about removing any of the already scarce parking, not all are opposed to the idea.
Earlier this year, at a meeting of the Belmont Shore Business Association, Demetrios "Jimmy" Loizidesone, one of the owners of George's Greek Cafe located at 5316 E. Second St., expressed interest in installing a parklet, sparking a "heated debate," according to the Gazettes.com.
This month's parking commission meeting will be held at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Bay Shore Library, 195 Bay Shore Avenue.
The parking commission's role is to "[recommend] to the Mayor and City Council solutions to parking problems in Belmont Shore and the best utilization of funds obtained from the parking meters in Belmont Shore," according to the Commission's web pages, quoted in a previous Patch article How the Belmont Shore Parking and Business Improvement Commission Works.
On the commission's agenda for Thursday, it reads as follows:
RECOMMENDATION: Recommendation to receive and file a discussion with City of Long
Beach Public Works Department staff regarding "parklets".
On November 1, 2011 the City Council approved a request by Lola's Mexican Cuisine restaurant
(2030 E. Fourth Street) for a permit to construct a "parklet" for the purpose of providing additional
outdoor dining space. A "parklet" is the temporary use of a curbside parking space for outdoor
landscape and seating. This is done by constructing a raised platform in the parking space at the
same elevation as the adjoining sidewalk, thereby essentially extending the sidewalk area into
the street. The City of San Francisco has been permitting these uses for sometime, and Lola's
"parklet" was completed on January 20, 2012, making it the first "parklet" in Southern California.
Subsequent to the "parklet" constructed at Lola's, another one has been installed at Berlin by
Portfolio, located at 420 E. Fourth Street. A third "parklet" location has been installed at the
restaurant Number Nine, which is located at 2118 E. Fourth Street.
In attendance at the November 15, 2012 BSPBIAAC meeting will be the City of Long Beach
Traffic Engineer to discuss City policy regarding "parklets". The City of Long Beach would
respectfully appreciate learning from the commission any concerns regarding "parklets" that
would be specific to the Belmont Shore business district.
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Frank Heller turns 90 Frank Heller celebrated his 90th birthday on January 4th at the family farm in Kendall with a dinner party hosted by his wife, Gertrude, and his immediate family. Frank is retired from the Columbia Cement Quarry along with the Kendall Fire Department. One of his favorite activities is fishing and he looks forward to ongoing fishing trips to Nimpo Lake in British Columbia with family and friends. Frank's children include Joe Heller(Charlene) of Kendall, Ray Heller(Nancy Waligory) of Seattle, Tom Heller(Kim) of McCleary, Ron Heller(Debbie) of Bothell, Mary Lou Vincent (Bruce) of Shoreline, and Mike(Joye) of San Diego. He is blessed with nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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July 31, 2014
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Even though winter is far from over, repair crews are already flooded with reports of thousands of potholes in city streets.
This time of year, city streets have potholes like the moon has craters. Near 23rd Street and Grove, we found a street crew filling in two of them. And if you didn't know, the city has full-time crews year round—dedicated to nothing but filling in potholes.
Many of us are familiar with that nasty little thing called a pothole. Wichita Public Works Director Alan King says the rule is, if a car is damaged by a pothole after the city gets a report of it, the city will pay for the repairs. But if it hasn't been reported yet, you get the cost.
"That drives our approach that once a pothole has been reported, that's why we want to get out there within a reasonable amount of time," King said. "For us, reasonable is 24 hours."
But that's for cars. What about bike riders? For that, we found none other than Mike Potts.
"I think the cracks in the road are the worst part," he said. "Potholes usually you can anticipate. We see a lot of them. Some areas of Wichita are a lot better than others.
"I've hit a few of them," said bike rider Dick Siemer. "Thought I was gonna lose my front wheel on one of them. I didn't even realize it was there.
Back on the street, Thursday has actually been slow. But if it rains and the temperature dips below freezing, there could be just two out of as many as 30 city workers out at any given time.
The city does have a pothole hotline. That number is (316) 268-4013. You can also venture over to the city's website, wichita.gov, to report a pothole.


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The News Courier
The funeral for Lina Lorene Kimbrough, 82, of Athens will be at 2 p.m. today at Spry Funeral Home with Ken Grant officiating. Burial will be in Bottom Cemetery.
Visitation was from 6-9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Kimbrough died Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, at Hillside Hospital in Pulaski, Tenn.
Lina Kimbrough was born Nov. 19, 1929, in Limestone County. She retired from Ardmore Cheese Plant. She was well known at McKinney's Corner Restaurant as "Granny." Mrs. Kimbrough was of the Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by her son, Lawrence Kimbrough; and a daughter, Annette Kimbrough.
Survivors include daughters, Ruth McKinney and husband Richard of Ardmore, Tenn., and Dianne Grant and husband Don of Prospect, Tenn.; grandchildren, Deaunn Ratley and husband Joel of Ardmore, Melissa Hayes and husband Bobby of Minor Hill, Tenn., Richie McKinney and wife Marie of Athens, Ken Grant and wife Amber of Pinedale, Wyo., and Josh Grant and wife Retika of Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; 10 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers are Richie McKinney, Josh Grant, Corey Hayes, Derrick Broadway, Tim McKinney and Barry "Pee Wee" Miller.
Sign the online guestbook at http://spryfuneralhome.com.


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4 Create a customizable BLUMOXY MOXYBOOK by curating pictures, status updates, comments, wall posts, and tweets from your social-networking sites. $1 per page; blumoxy.com
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6 KEEPSY converts your Instagram, Facebook, and Flickr feeds into pocket books, albums, or calendars. Starting at $15; keepsy.com


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Taking Control of Reactivity, Inputs, and Outputs
This article by Chris Beeley, the author of Web Application Development with R Using Shiny, enables us to extend our toolkit by learning about advanced Shiny functions. These allow us to take control of the fine details of our application, including the interface, reactivity, data, and graphics.
In order to do this, we're going to go back to the Google Analytics application and totally upgrade it, making it much smoother, more intuitive, and well-featured. The finished code and data for this advanced GA application can be found at https://github.com/ChrisBeeley/GoogleAnalyticsAdvanced.
In this article we will do the following:
- Learn how to show and hide parts of the interface
- Change the interface reactively
- Finely control reactivity so functions and outputs run at the appropriate time
- Use URLs and reactive Shiny functions to populate and alter the selections within an interface
- Upload and download data to and from a Shiny application
- Use custom graphics and animations in Shiny
Working with Audio
In this article by Claire Broadley and Mathew Dixon, authors of Camtasia Studio 8 – Advanced Editing and Publishing Techniques, we will look at preparing and recording audio, adding background tracks, applying editing techniques, and choosing the right tools to enhance the audio in our projects.Read Working with Audio in full
Installation and Deployment of Citrix Systems®' CPSM
This article, created by Puthiyavan Udayakumar, the author of Getting Started with Citrix® CloudPortal™, focuses on the measures to verify system readiness before getting CPSM up and running. This article covers the metrics to verify before CPSM deployment and the method to install CPSM using GUI.Read Installation and Deployment of Citrix Systems®' CPSM in full
Basic Concepts
This article by Krishna Kumar, the author of book Learning Physics Modeling with PhysX, provides an overview of the concepts that we use in PhysX. It will familiarize you with terms such as scene, actor, material, shape, and so on.
The topics covered in this article are as follows:
- Initializing PhysX and creating the scene and actors
- Creating shapes and materials and then assigning them to actors
- Simulating and then shutting down PhysX
Setting Up Slick2D
In this article by Jacob Bevilacqua, the author of Slick2D Game Development, we will look into:
- What is Slick2D?
- Downloading the Slick2D and LWJGL files
- Setting up an eclipse project
- Native files
- What if I want my game to be platform-specific?
Installing MariaDB on Windows and Mac OS X
In this article by Daniel Bartholomew, author of the book Getting Started with MariaDB, we will learn how to install MariaDB on Windows and Mac OS X.Read Installing MariaDB on Windows and Mac OS X in full
State of Play of BuddyPress Themes
In this article by Tammie Lister, author of the book BuddyPress Theme Development, we will get to know about the basics of BuddyPress themes. We're going to start our journey with BuddyPress themes. This is going to be a foundation, setting the scene for the road ahead.
In this article, we're going to cover the following:
- What is BuddyPress?
- What is a theme?
- Theme compatibility
- What is a community?
- A brief look at responsive design, adaptive design, and mobile first
- A look at some existing BuddyPress sites and existing themes
- What are your options when creating a theme?
At the end of this article you will have an overview of the past and present state of BuddyPress themes along with a grasp of some of the topics anyone creating a theme should know about.Read State of Play of BuddyPress Themes in full
Integrating Accumulo into Various Cloud Platforms
In this article by Guðmundur Jón Halldórsson, the author of Apache Accumulo for Developers we will learn how to integrate Accumulo into various cloud platforms, both as a single-node and as a pseudo-distributed mode, and then expand it to a multi-node.
The following example will show you how to create an Accumulo cluster on various cloud platforms. The steps needed to complete the task of setting up the cluster are similar for those cloud platforms. The difference is in the tools and scripts used to accomplish the task of creating the cluster.
These are the topics that will be covered in this article:
- Amazon EC2
- Google Cloud Platform
- Rackspace
- Windows Azure
Building Events
In this article by Chris Dickinson, author of Learning Game Physics with Bullet Physics and OpenGL, we will learn how to build a collision event system and manage them.Read Building Events in full
Interacting with your Visualization
In this article by Nick Qi Zhu, author of the book Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook we will focus on D3 human visualization interaction support, or in other words how to add computational steering capability to your visualization.
In this article we will cover:
- Interacting with the mouse
- Interacting with a multi-touch device
- Implementing zoom and pan behavior
- Implementing the drag behavior
In this article by Swizec Teller, the author of the book Data Visualization with d3.js, we will have a look at the dragging behavior module of d3.Read Drag in full
Using OpenShift
The article by Adam Miller, the author of Implementing OpenShift, covers all the different ways for WebDevs to consume OpenShift using different approaches. We will explore the command-line utilities, the OpenShift web console (including an overview of what OpenShift calls "Quickstart Applications"), as well as IDE integrations, where we walk through using JBoss dev tools that is based on the very popular Eclipse IDE (http://www.eclipse.org/).
The following are the three common ways in which we can utilize OpenShift as a user:
- Command-line utilities
- Web Console
- IDE integration
Network Virtualization and vSphere
In this article created by Daniel Langenhan, the author of the article VMware vCloud Director Cookbook, you will get an idea of different VMware concepts that will help you improve your productivity. We will present recipes that not only deal with the daily tasks but also present you with new ideas and concepts that you may not have thought of before, as well as give you some great tips and shortcuts.Read Network Virtualization and vSphere in full
The Spotfire Architecture Overview
In this article, by Manuel Xavier, the author of TIBCO Spotfire for Developers, we will introduce the Spotfire Platform products, defining their independent roles in the platform's architecture. The platform's main features are also described in this article.Read The Spotfire Architecture Overview in full
Setting Your Preferences and Customization
In this article by Gil Robles, author of SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials, we will discus the customization of software for optimal performance and ease of use.Read Setting Your Preferences and Customization in full