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St. Paul >Food & Dining > Happy Gnome
498 Selby Ave, St Paul, MN | Directions 5510244.946408 -93.120937
Mon. - Sun. 11:30am - 1am
Neighborhoods: Summit - University
Patio on a Sunday – Behold and enjoy the brunch on Sunday. It is sinful and the best food on the Avenue. It is quiet and surrounded by many tress. True fun.
Don't waste your money – I just had dinner there. This is one of those places that has a wonderful sounding menu, but doesn't carry through on the quality.
The 6 ounce $35 NY Strip entree was over priced and substandard. Two of them were ordered. One of the plates had decent qualtiy meat. The other was an extremely grisly cut of meat. It should not have been served. Did the cooks not see the difference in what they put on two plates side by side?
We had to tell the waitress two times about the grisle, pointing it out piece by piece before she offered to replace it or give us a free dessert. Frankly, the dinner should have been comped. We chose the free dessert and found it to be mediocre as well.
For a $100 bill we had two entrees, one appetizer, one coke and one glass of wine.
Good food, great beer – The focal point of the Happy Gnome, of course, is the beer list. It is extensive, and its rotating tap selection has just as much breadth. From local Summits to authentic Trappist ales, it's all there.
While I wasn't expecting anything special about the food, I was pleasantly surprised. The entrée menu is expensive, but be sure to check out the bar menu. Recently, I've become a huge fan of their sweet potato burrito, but they have many other great options.
After visiting the Happy Gnome a half-dozen times, I'm a little surprised at the reviews about its lackluster service. Each time I've visited my server has been exceptionally friendly and helpful; definitely above average. I will return here again and again!
Don't waste your money or time – Three strikes you are out! I had banned the Happy Gnome over a year ago due to the horrible service, but some friends had made plans to go for some drinks on their patio and I decided to give it another chance. My friends had left before I even got there to meet them! They had asked for a patio table that was open, and the hostess said that section wasn't open. My friend said he'd be fine going up to the bar to get drinks as that was all we were having. She said she'd have to check with the manager. The manager said no also as that section was closed. How can a section be closed on one of the nicest days so far this year? AND, we were willing to go to the bar and get our own drinks?! It was one open table and nobody was waiting for it. We left and went to Fern's where we got good service. Our large group of friends eat and drink out a lot, so their loss I guess.
Great Place! – The building was once an old firehouse and they turned it into a cute little restaurant. They have a huge beer selection and excellent food! I recommend this to anyone who likes to eat and drink! Don't forget the ice cream! It is from Izzy's on Marshall.
A sophisticated edge for a typical neighborhood joint. – The Happy Gnome brings a hip, classy edge to this burgeoning St. Paul neighborhood. Sleek and elegant without being alienating or overwhelming, the Happy Gnome brings a sophisticated edge to the typical neighborhood joint. The bar side offers soft lighting, bulbous and comfy booths, a dark-wood bar and a fireplace that dances with warm flames in the corner of the room. And the Gnome classes up the dining side, too, without going overboard on stuffy style. Sure, there are a few modern chandeliers and a fireplace, but the Happy Gnome is all about good food, great drinks and a chat-over-a-brew welcoming vibe.
Price verses quality – Ambitious menu with inconsistent delivery. Huge kitchen and enormous number of staff, but not polished considering the premium beverage and food prices. Prices align with top restaurants, but the setting and service devalues the experience. Beer prices pay the overhead so avoid entrees.
Great Food, Great Beer – The food was spectacular, the beer selection is great, the service was attentive and helpful. The Happy Gnome is a great neighborhood bar.
The Happy Gnome needs HELP!!! – I have been to the Happy Gnome probably 20 times over the past couple years. Since the first time I began my patron relationship with the Gnome, I have been increasingly dissappointed.
The service is average once in a blue moon. Overall, the servers need to learn how to be a good server. You should smile, check in with your tables regularly, offer water, the basics. They are never happy. I have sat for at minimum 20 minutes before anyone even brought menus, waited for a beer for 30...
The menu and price of the food always tricks me into thinking I am going to get a well cooked, nicely prepared, delicious meal. I usually get something slopped together, with gross ingredients, prepared with little culinary knowledge. I think their cooks might be toddlers. The only thing ever worth ordering is a burger, the most basic of bar food. They seriously need to hire some decent cooks back there and a real chef who knows how to make a pasta dish that is worth $14. Don't even get me started on the desserts. They're an abomination. The Gnome also stinks and has fruit flies.
I continually give the Gnome a second chance to reimpress me with service and dining, and this past visit was the last straw. I ordered "Spicy Babaganough", which ended up being canned eggplant with Siracha. They didn't even add Tahini! It was seriously gross and disappointing. The server seemed completely unaware of how to handle a return on food.
The only thing worthwhile about the Gnome is the beer. And really, you can get beer anywhere. It is also a dollar higher than most bars of the same caliber.
I would love to see some new managment and a revamp of the kitchen, rehiring of servers, before I could ever consider giving them my money again. If they want to keep their undeserved title of a nice bar/restaurant, they need a lot of help.
My favorite bar in the cities – I just moved into the Gnome's neighborhood, but I was in love with it even before I moved to Cathedral Hill. Every time I've been there I've had great beer, delicious/inventive food, and friendly/knowledgeable service. It's also a great destination for single-malt scotch lovers, since the selection is 4 pages long. The atmosphere is lovely - I'm especially fond of the booths at the front of the bar. And there's usually interesting, if not always good, music. I try to take all my friends here, and it's a must when I've got company in from out of town. The weekend brunch is delightful too. I have yet to be there in the spring/summer when it's warm enough to sit outside, but I can't wait to try the outdoor seating area.
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I think this should be discontinued because this is just something to print because there isn't anything else interesting in this town. It should not be at the expense of peoples privacy. Yes, these are public record, but, public records are there on a need to know kind of thing and printing peoples private business is not a "need to know". If someone wants to know these things, they should be required to go and look them up. That way, people won't get embarrassed by what the newspaper prints for all to see.
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Does Your Brand Have Personality?
Originally published: 08.01.08 by Guy Kawasaki
Make sure customers see you as more than just a faceless entity.
In this interview, Rohit Bhargava explains the role of personality in branding. Rohit is a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide and publishes the Influential Marketing Blog (www.influentialmarketingblog.com). Before joining Ogilvy, he worked in several small businesses including a service to build restaurant Web sites way back in 1998. He recently published a book called "Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get It Back."
1 Question: Should a company design and craft a personality or simply let one develop naturally?
Answer: Many companies are focusing too much on branding/messaging and too little on personality. There is a difference. Personality is what brings a brand to life. To a degree, this does need to happen naturally, but there is a set of techniques and ideas that any company can follow to use the power of personality to help their company stand out.
Dyson vacuums stand out not just for the design of their products and great customer reviews but because the personality of the brand is all about invention and people respond to that. I may love the way my vacuum sucks—pun intended, but what I'm likely to tell people about is how James Dyson went through thousands of prototypes before getting the design right. That's what people remember and talk about.
2 Question: Is it better to have too much or too little brand personality?
Answer: The way I describe personality is a bit different from how you think of personality in relation to people. Personality for an organization is all about sharing a more human connection with your brand so that your customers see you as more than just a faceless entity. In that description, you can never really have "too much" personality. The more of an authentic connection you are able to offer, the better.
3 Question: If a brand personality isn't sticking, how do you know when to try another one versus sticking it out?
Answer: Having a personality for your brand cannot help you if you don't have a good product or service to sell. It can't replace having something worthwhile. So if you find yourself trying to have a personality, and it's not sticking, it's likely because people don't see the authentic connection between how you are interacting and your brand. Authenticity is about truth, and the best way of knowing if you need to change course is by actually asking your customers.
4 Question: Which brand personalities do you admire?
Answer: One great example of a brand that lives its personality and uses it to connect with customers is Innocent Drinks, a smoothie maker out of the UK. Every interaction they have demonstrates their personality, from their recent "Annual Grown Up Meeting" to their product packaging and "The Big Knit" promotion they run every winter to get senior citizens to knit little hats for their bottles of smoothies to support a charity in the UK. As a result, their customer loyalty is off the charts.
Another brand that I think is doing a great job of using its personality to connect with audiences is Virgin America because of how they use their irreverent heritage as part of Virgin to shake up the stagnant domestic U.S. airline industry.
5 Question: Which brand personalities do you think suck?
Answer: Since I ended the last response with an airline, I think I'll have to start this one with another airline: American Airlines. With their recent decisions to charge for checked baggage and the steadily declining service and cancelled flights, they could really use a more human approach to dealing with their customers. This is a problem that plagues most airlines in the U.S.
The reason why people respond to Southwest or JetBlue or other newer airlines is in part because they inject more humanity and personality into their process. In the B2B category, thereare many brands that put themselves in the same position for one simple reason: they focus on "featurespeak." When you do this, often your brand personality sucks because every communication is focused on what your product can do. No one wants to talk to or hear from that guy who's always pitching his stuff.
6 Question: What are the first steps in creating a brand personality?
Answer: One thing that many people are talking about is the role of social media in creating a brand personality. Though it may be tempting to launch an online social network, or a brand new shiny blog, personality is not just about social media.
The real first step is to focus on what I call the three core elements of personality: being unique, authentic, and talkable. This means making it OK for your employees and customers to talk about you. It also means crafting a backstory and taking advantage of your "personality moments."
What is the error message users get on your Web site when they reach a broken page? When you send your customers products, what message does the packaging provide? Focusing on the details is what personality really means. And it is the way to go from having something decent to having something that people can't help spreading the word about. For an example of this phenomenon, check out Amit Gupta from Photojojo's contribution to The Personality Project about how he dealt with a major ordering screw up last Mother's Day (www.thepersonalityproject.com/amitgupta).
7 Question: What are the most important tools for creating a brand personality?
Answer: The word "tools" is not the right one to use; the best way to spread a brand personality—not surprisingly—is through people. Employees and customers are the messengers of this personality and ideally the way that it will come to life. There are also methods such as crafting a good "backstory" for your brand to demonstrate the heritage of where you come from and what you believe—similar to how the TV show Lost uses backstories to take you inside the lives of characters.
Ultimately it is the combination of using techniques to help your employees and customers share their experiences and belief in your brand more vocally so that it travels as far as possible. A big part of this is based on the key principles of word-of-mouth marketing.
8 Question: What is the role of the agency in creating a brand personality?
Answer: Others may not agree with this, but I have never liked the idea of using an agency as an outsourced group to develop the vision for your product or service. I'm a longtime agency guy and as a result have worked on lots of different campaigns and brands in many different agencies.
The thing that makes a great agency-client partnership is when a business already has a good sense for what they do, and the help they need is in strategically figuring out how to communicate that value and stand out among their competitors. A key part of the value that an agency can add at this stage is helping a brand to bring that personality out of the organization.
9 Question: What do you do if your CEO just doesn't have an interesting personality?
Answer: A common mistaken perception about brand personality is that it is dependent on having a charismatic and pronounced CEO or talking head. In some cases, that can certainly help ... but the idea of personality for a brand is that it is something that is brought to life by ALL customers and employees.
People are responding in droves to the fact that NASA has created a Twitter account for the mars rover (@marsphoenix).It's not because the head of NASA is exhibiting an interesting personality, but because someone within is offering a real human connection to the work that the agency does. This is the idea of the accidental spokesperson: someone who is becoming a spokesperson without being formally trained in that role. If you look around the world of business, you'll see this happening with increasing frequency as social media tools become more and more available and widespread.
10 Question: What are the steps to fixing a broken brand personality?
Answer: There is one common factor that nearly every company which has a broken brand personality will share, and that is that they have an "employee silencing policy." When you keep your biggest potential evangelists from talking about your product or service, you are stifling your personality. To get past this, you need to let them share their voices.
In case you're not the boss—or even if you are, this means convincing your organization to focus on fixing the brand personality. You can visit www.personalitynotincluded.com/sellpersonality to see an exclusive list of ways you can convince your boss to focus on personality. Ultimately it just comes down to building a more human and authentic connection with your customers. That's a universal principle that just about every brand\ should be focusing on.
Articles by Guy Kawasaki
The Art of Schmoozing
Relationships can pay off in sales and partnerships. The key is to establish a relationship before you need it. Here is Guy Kawasaki's guide to tactful schmoozing.
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5 Ways To Be More Persuasive
Guy Kawasaki share 5 scientifically proven ways to increase your influence and persuasion.
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Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
Guy Kawasaki offers four reasons why smart, famous, powerful, and rich people who should obviously know better end up crashing and burning and how to mature.
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The Art of Driving Your Competition Crazy
Companies go astray when defeating the competition becomes more important than taking care of customers. When companies become obsessed with the pursuit of excellence, by contrast, they often reach new levels of greatness.
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The Art Of Remaining Sane
Guy Kawasaki tells you how to avoid being driven crazy by your competition.
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Aug 30, 2013
This week's Kickstarter quintet gets two tentacles up for quirkiness. We've become enamored with an octopus city simulator; a zombie survival game with an abundance of "cool it" dialogue choices; and a crime-solving, fedora-wearing feline. To round things out, our final two games exist entirely in the imagination, but on completely different ends of the horror-to-cute spectrum.
Aug 23, 2013
The pre-release months of a new console cycle are a great time to look back on gaming's rich history, and this week's Kickstarter Picks are fully on board. Whether you want to play through the progression of platformers, revive a classic psychological horror adventure, or support the update of a Nintendo 64 masterpiece, we've got you covered.
Aug 16, 2013
This week's set of Kickstarter Picks has a definite musical theme running through it, including music to enjoy, learn, and use to control budding civilizations. We all know dwarves love singing, so that just leaves one odd-man-out puzzle-platformer—which is so mysterious and hush-hush about its theme, we'll just assume it's entirely about music as well. Five for five! Time to celebrate with some great gaming projects.
Aug 9, 2013
There's a lot of death in this week's Kickstarter picks, and a lot of love. With two roguelikes and a stealth horror game on dock, there are plenty of ways to face your own mortality over and over again. When you need a break from sweating pixelated bullets, we have a community content-based fan book to remind you of the beautiful things in life, like Metroidvanias—we have one of those, too.
Aug 2, 2013
We love seeing projects successfully meet their Kickstarter goals, even if it means we didn't get a chance to write about them. This week, League of Legends-inspired Project Ward was on our radar, but met its funding goal only 12 hours after launch. (It's still worth supporting if you need to reveal the fog of war in your home.) Luckily, there's no shortage of worthwhile and in-need projects to talk about: this week includes a Power Rangers-style sim, a top-notch documentary, and a CRPG that could be the second coming of Ultima Online.
Jul 26, 2013
After last week's double Sierra happy hour, I think we need a break on adventure games. Luckily, there are a lot of underrepresented genres to swoon over this week, including roguelike, stealth action, and the can't-go-wrong-with Metroidvania. Also, I lied: there is an adventure game.
Jul 19, 2013
Only three weeks into our new penta-pick format for Kickstarter, and I already can't remember how we ever got by with only one. There are simply too many amazing projects worth sharing, and sometimes doubling up just makes sense. Case in point: Sierra receives two shout-outs this week, making this your one-stop destination for adventure game nostalgia, among other great projects.
Jul 12, 2013
Like a gamer bride getting ready for the big day, this week's Kickstarter Picks has something old, something new, something borrowed, and something BOO. It also has exactly one terrible play-on-words, and you're already past that. Now we're free to focus on five very deserving, pun-free projects.
Jul 5, 2013
TOO MANY GAMES. It's a problem we all face, whether we're talking about a massive summer sale, a slew of holiday titles, or just a backlog of purchases that number in the thousands. In our case, "TOO MANY GAMES" is how we're describing the selection of worthwhile project on Kickstarter. That's why our Kickstarter Picks series is going to be taking a slightly different approach than it has in the past.
Jun 13, 2013
Having your own minion sounds pretty sweet, doesn't it? After all, most of us can barely manage to make coffee within an hour of rolling out of bed, so possessing a thrall who can do it for you without scalding themselves (or you) isn't the worst idea. However, possessing and controlling minions is serious business in Minions & Immortals, an action role-playing/city-building hybrid for iOS. There's treasure to find and glory to reclaim. Coffee will have to wait.
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We bought a used real leather recliner for DH.It's a light brown but not tan.It's in great shape,just a little dirty.Really cant tell from the color thou.
Wondering who has tried and true way to clean this chair.DH wiped it down with Lysol mixed with water.I know I can buy car leather cleaner-polisher.Thought about getting some Oxyclean and mix it up too.
Any ideas??This message has been edited. Last edited by: jackierenette,
I have never used heavy detergent of any kind on our leather, and it all still looks great. (Some is 18+ years old) We have a bone leather furniture set, leather van/car seat covers and a pecan colored leather furniture set. A tiny bit of Dawn dish soap, in a pan of warm water, and a microfiber cloth dampened in it, to wipe down and clean areas. Rinse the area with another dampened clear water microfiber. Wipe dry with a towel.
With the car I also use Meguirar's cleaner and conditioner to clean and help prevent sun damage. If my indoor leather was also exposed to a lot of UV, I might use it there too.This message has been edited. Last edited by: conrad,
Thank you Conrad.
DH used Lysol to k*ll germs from other owners.I will get some leather cleaner-moisture protecter tomorrow.It wont get much sun.Out livingroom does get alot of heat from the sun.But I keep blinds closed at the hottest time of day.I did think of using dawn soapy water.I was thinking the oxyclean might be good too.That way I can use it around the house.
Try a farm store, an ag store.
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If you are looking for it, Auto supply stores are where you can commonly find Meguirar's leather products.
Doing research several years ago that brand was rated above the others by auto restorers/collectors, that is why I chose it. Still using the original container, it lasts a long, long time.
Hope you don't mind a comment from someone who usually doesn't post in this category. Shaving cream! Yep, that's what you use to clean leather. Rub it in a circular pattern, then wipe off with dry cloth.
Hope that helps.
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Drywatergirl,very interesting idea.I will try this sometime this week.I dont see it hurting to try it.
That way I wont have to shave my legs.
Thank you for chimming in.Anyone is always welcome to give advice or an idea.
There is no need to buy those expensive leather cleaners in store. You can actually use your facial soap or body soap as long as they are the mild ones(such as cream soaps) and distilled water. Tap water maybe acidic or alkaline so it's safer to use distilled.
Start by vacuuming all dirt from furniture. Use the soft brush attachment. Combine soap and distilled water in a pale and test it in a small area of the furniture. Then dip a rag in the soapy water and wipe the surface of the furniture. Afterwards, wipe the furniture with a rag dipped in distilled water to remove soap residue. Dry it with another rag and shine it off with a fourth rag. You may also wipe some leather protector to safeguard your furniture. OneThis message has been edited. Last edited by: onelyn,
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For years, Clean Water Action in Pittsburgh has been working to clean up air pollution coming from the Shenango coke works on Neville Island. The facility is located on a heavily industrialized piece of land less than one mile from densely populated residential communities and only five miles from downtown Pittsburgh.
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Check out mvagusta.net. The guy that's doing the eproms is merc07. He has a post with the software available to download.
I would think the cool thing for your Tambo would be to put the Microtec on it. The UK guy that has a direct plug-n-play unit is X81, and is a site sponsor with a business called X-Bikes. I guess you can do anything with it. Micah could tune it on his dyno and adjust any parameter you would need.
Arrow makes a cat delete mid pipe they seem to need, and an aftermarket air filter such as MWR helps too. Putting the bike back to stock would be a simple matter of swapping back these three parts.
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Please list your events here and on the main calendar page. I will try to keep a monthly summary updated.
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January 2013
6 January First Sunday Fly WOW at the Washington Monument Grounds
Richmond Air Force at Dorey Park near the Richmond Airport
16th Board of Directors Meeting (Telephone Conference) Please watch your e-mail for call-in instructions.
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February 2013
3 Feb. First Sunday Fly RAF and WOW
Maryland Kite Society 2013 Retreat
The MKS Kitemaker's Retreat will once again be located at the beautiful Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City, Maryland on Friday through Monday, February 10 - 13, 2012. Visiting us from the Netherlands will be Bas Vreeswijk who will be teaching both a classic Edo and a kite with his novel origami appliqué. There will be other cool projects as well. Go to the MKS Website for details.
The retreat is limited to 40 attendees, each with his or her own 8-foot work table. A special prize will be given to the first 20 registrants. Registration counts when MKS Treasurer Jon Burkhardt receives your check made out to the Maryland Kite Society and sent to Jon at 10113 Lloyd Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854. Cost per person is $135.
Rooms at the Resort are $94 per night ($109 per night with golf course view) plus 11% taxes. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel at 410-465-1500 or 888-833-8873 and using our Group Code: 27Q7T9. The cut-off date for reservations at this price is January 20, 2012.
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OOps that's last year's information. This year promises to be just as good but different.
Friday February 8 thru Monday February 11, 2013
Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, Maryland
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David Ashworth, McLean, Virginia [an indoor kite]
Karl Longbottom, Herefordshire, England
I understand that these will be the kites Karl Longbottom is presenting. Text and pictures directly from his website - not specifically addressing MKS.
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Designed in October 2007; became a workshop favourite in 2008. It is a steady flier in low winds; an attractive and unusual white kite with orange/yellow and black detailing. 2.08m span, 1.22m high
Based on the traditional Brazilian fighter, made from Icarex and Carbon. It flies with precise turns and arrow straight tracking. 0.9m high
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A popular high flying classic English design developed by Alick Pearson. These are made in ripstop and carbon fibre giving an improved wind range. 1.2 m or 1.5m
It sounds like there will be materials from the Kite Studio but maybe not pre-cut kits. Karl advertises the Swan as an available pre-cut kit for sale on his website so if anyone wants to tackle that one as a kit it may be good to order it directly - I did that for a swan.
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In November, Atlanta unveiled its new aquarium, and in Charleston, S.C., dust is flying at the convention center complex to build two new retail centers and two museums. The Charlotte (N.C.) Regional Visitors Authority came up with $500,000 in new business development funds — $300,000 of which will be used to lure conventions — and reveled in the announcement that the first Ritz-Carlton in North Carolina is slated for Charlotte. As this issue went to press, Atlanta and Charlotte were in a race with Daytona Beach, Fla., for the honor of becoming the site of the NASCAR Hall of Fame and Museum, a decision that should be made early this year. If Charlotte's bid succeeds, a 2 percent hotel tax increase will go into effect in that city.
Raleigh, N.C., is deep into cement and sawdust creating the new 510,000-square-foot convention center, projected to open in spring 2008. With 150,000 square feet of exhibit space, it will have 19 meeting rooms of varied sizes and a huge ballroom. Its neighbor, a new 400-room Marriott headquarters hotel, will synchronize its opening with the center in 2008 and have its own 15,000 square feet of function and meeting space.
In the Raleigh area, newly approved projects also include the 265-room Westin at the Soleil Center near Crabtree Valley Mall, the 229-room Renaissance Hotel at North Hills, and the 150-room Umstead Hotel in the nearby town of Cary.
Atlanta's downtown hotel market is seeing its first new construction in several years, adding about 600 new rooms.
Myrtle Beach (S.C.) International Airport is in the midst of a $200 million expansion that will enable wide-bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 747 to land.
Facility Updates
Starwood will build a 26-story, 150-room St. Regis Buckhead luxury hotel with 50 residences. Scheduled to open in the first half of 2008, the hotel will have a spa and a 9,200-square-foot ballroom.
SpringHill Suites Atlanta Buckhead opened in September with 220 suites and 2,600 square feet of function space.
The Stanbury Hotel in Atlanta's Alpharetta suburb is slated to open in late 2007 as a 144-room boutique hotel with a spa and meeting and banquet facilities.
At the 760-room Sheraton Atlanta, a new 33,000-square-foot conference center joins a 45,000-square-foot convention center and ballroom to accommodate up to 800 guests.
Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain has broken ground on The Lodge and Spa, a 150-room hotel with a spa and health club that is expected to open next fall.
The 126-room Mansion on Forsyth Park opened in Savannah in April 2005 with 8,000 square feet of meeting space.
North Carolina
Greensboro will get a 190-room Crowne Plaza Hotel and 13 luxury condos on Hornaday Road off Wendover Avenue. In 2002, the hotel on the site was to be a Holiday Inn Select, but the developer says the market has changed and there is more demand now for an upscale, full-service hotel that can cater to meetings and conventions. The $18 million hotel should open in late 2006 or early 2007.
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. and Bank of America will develop the Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte at Bank of America's corporate headquarters. The $60 million project, to open in 2008, will include 120 rooms and 30 suites and a total 13,600 square feet of meeting space.
This year the Hilton North Raleigh will renovate its lobby, restaurant, and all 339 guest rooms with MP3 player plug-ins, and new furniture, fixtures, and decorations. In 2007, 30,500 square feet of meeting room space will get an update.
The Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley has already upgraded its restaurant with new lighting and furniture, and more than $5 million will be invested in 2006 in improvements to all 375 guest rooms.
In October 2005, the Homewood Suites by Hilton Asheville opened with 94 studio, one- and two-bedroom suites.
John Q. Hammons Hotels will develop the Mooresville Marriott Hotel and Convention Center on Lake Norman. The proposed 12-story property will have more than 250 rooms, as well as 45,000 square feet of meeting space in an adjoining convention center. Construction is expected to begin late in 2006. I-77 will provide a direct connection to the Charlotte Douglas International Airport and to the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro.
The Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in 2005 added an additional 100 English Country — style rooms to its original 145. Also new: a grand ballroom, an executive conference center, and an enclosed pool and fitness center.
A 147-room Courtyard by Marriott opened in Chapel Hill in October 2005.
In the mountain town of Highlands, The Lodge at Old Edwards Inn debuted a new look in December after renovations to the 26 guest rooms, main lodge, and grounds along with other enhancements. It can accommodate up to 60 guests.
South Carolina
The newest addition to Myrtle Beach's Grand Strand area is the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel, which opened September 30, 2005, attached to the 249,000-square-foot Myrtle Beach Convention Center. The 402-room hotel has its own ballroom and meeting space, plus Vidalia's restaurant, a pool, and a fitness center. The hotel and convention center share an enviable location, within walking distance to the beach and Broadway at the Beach, a 350-acre area of shopping, dining, entertainment, and nightlife.
Last year, Avista Resort added 185 additional suites, making a total of 378 one-, two-, and three-bedroom accommodations at the North Myrtle Beach resort that opened its doors barely a year ago. The resort's convention facilities can accommodate as many as 250 people.
The Landmark Resort, on South Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, has undergone a $1.2 million upgrade and has 20,000 square feet of meeting space.
Pine Lakes International Country Club, built in 1927 and listed on the National Historic Registry, recently completed renovations and reopened its ballrooms, which have been closed since 1970.
A 10,000-square-foot conference center, Sweetgrass Pavilion, will be available this fall at the Wild Dunes Resort, on the Isle of Palms.
Ask the CVB
Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau
(404) 521-6600
www.atlanta.net; Total Hotel Tax: 14%
Brunswick and the Golden Isles CVB
(800) 809-1790, (912) 265-0620
www.bgivb.com; www.jekyllisland.com
Total Hotel Tax: 12%
Savannah Area CVB
(877) 728-2662; Total Hotel Tax: 12%
www.savcvb.com; www.savannah-visit.com
North Carolina
Asheville CVB
(800) 257-5583, (828) 258-6102
Total Hotel Tax: 9%
Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority
(800) 722-1994, (704) 334-2282
Total Hotel Tax: 12.5%
Greensboro Area CVB
(800) 344-2282, (336) 274-2282
Total Hotel Tax: 9%
Greenville-Pitt County CVB
(800) 537-5564, (252) 329-4200
Total Hotel Tax: 9%
Greater Raleigh CVB
(800) 849-8499, (919) 834-5900
Total Hotel Tax: 10% to 12%
South Carolina
Charleston Area CVB
(800) 868-8118, (843) 853-8000
Total Hotel Tax: 12%
Hilton Head Island/Bluffton Visitor & Convention Bureau
(843) 785-3673
Total Hotel Tax: 10%
Myrtle Beach Area Convention Bureau
(800) 488-8998, (843) 448-1629
Total Hotel Tax: 10%
Phantom Planner
The coastlines of Georgia and the Carolinas are a network of shoals and barrier islands from St. Simons to Cape Hatteras. They offer sunny windswept beaches and unsurpassed golf, but are fragile and vulnerable to hurricanes from midsummer to late fall. This doesn't mean groups shouldn't go, but planners should map out an exit strategy upfront with hotel and travel partners, just in case.
The "New South" of gleaming office towers and modern hotels and convention centers is in place from Atlanta and Raleigh to Charlotte and Columbia. But the "Old South" of plantation homes, old-fashioned manners, and hanging Spanish moss remains in cities such as Savannah and Charleston.
In the past year, Atlanta lost two of its biggest conventions, reportedly canceled after an association saw an ACVB e-mail suggesting hoteliers charge more for rooms to recoup the $2 million incentive offered by the ACVB to keep the conventions in Atlanta. The ACVB brought in top-level talent to investigate the matter and took steps to see it won't happen again, but the incident reminds us that negotiations need to be aboveboard.
Special Venues
Here's a Southern alternative to a beach or golf incentive. This spring, American Orient Express begins taking groups on week-long Antebellum South excursions traveling between Washington, D.C., and Savannah, Ga. Onboard, vintage Pullman accommodations and fine dining combine with history and architectural lectures and commentary. Off-train, visits to Civil War — era plantation homes and sculptured gardens alternate with trips to the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Va.; and tours of Monticello, the CSS H.L. Hunley, Charleston by horse-drawn carriage (left), and Savannah's historic district. (800) 320-4206; www.AmericanOrientExpress.net
The View is a new loft-style event facility located at Atlanta's King Plow Arts Center in a former 1950s boiler room. With 20-foot ceilings, a contemporary look, and an upper deck for skyline-viewing, the View can host as many as 400 people. (404) 541-9060, www.Theviewatkingplow.com
The Bar at the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead has disappeared and in its place the Gallery emerged on September 1 as a 3,000-square-foot function space for 200 banquet-style or 300 for receptions. (404) 240.7062, www.ritzcarlton.com/hotels/atlanta_buckhead
Drayton Hall's 1742 Georgian-Palladian architecture represents the oldest surviving example of primitive plantations in the American South. On the Ashley River outside of Charleston, the hall survived the Revolutionary and Civil wars intact. The main house, which remains in nearly original condition, and the lawn areas of this National Historic Landmark are available for group tours and events. www.draytonhall.org


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To create this eerie embellishment, you'll need about eight dozen glow-in-the-dark rubber eyeballs ($7.99 for 12; amazon.com) and a 12-inch foam wreath form ($2.59 for three; createforless.com). Wrap the form in black crepe streamers and secure with straight pins. Poke a hole in the back of one eyeball with the sharp end of a flatheaded pin; then insert the pin's flat end into the hole. Using a thimble to protect your finger, press the pin halfway in. Push the sharp end of the pin into the form. Repeat until the wreath is full and hang as desired.
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Major anion and nutrient analyses are performed either colorimetrically, titrimetrically, or potentiometrically. The laboratory is equipped with a Bran + Luebbe dual channel TRAACS 800 AutoAnalyzer for fully automated measurement of ammonia and nitrate/nitrite. The AutoAnalyzer is run using a 486PC with TAOS software for instrument control, data processing, quality control data summary, and analytical reports. Other instruments available for the determination of nutrients and major ions include a Perkin Elmer Lambda 2 UV/ VIS scanning spectrophotometer, Orion and Fisher pH meters, and Orion specific ion meters, as well as associated balances, centrifuges, filtration apparatus, and glassware.
Ion chromatographic techniques are used for the determination of fluoride, chloride, nitrite, nitrate, bromide, phosphate, and sulfate in the parts per million range. The Dionex Model DX-600 ion chromotograph with PeakNet 6 Workstation provides analytical capabilities that conform to EPA Method 300.0 and ASTM Method D4327-84. The ion chromatograph is also used to analyze for inorganic disinfection by-products such as chlorite, chlorate, and bromate.
A Spectrex PC-2000 Laser Particle Counter is available for particle size analysis of particulate matter in water using a focused laser beam. It is rapid and non-destructive. Limits of detection are 1-10 microns in diameter and 0-999 particles per milliliter.


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Does President Obama get credit for killing Osama bin Laden?Monday, September 10th, 2012
This year will be the second 9/11 anniversary without Osama bin Laden in the world. Navy SEALs killed him in May 2011 in a raid approved by President Obama.
Vice President Joe Biden, among other administration supporters, is fond of reminding voters that "General Motors is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead."
Some administration critics seem determined to deny Mr. Obama credit for killing the terrorist leader. John Bolton, an undersecretary of state and United Nations ambassador in the George W. Bush administration, told Palm Beach Post reporters:
"Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was president but not because of it. This was a long effort that really our military and intelligence can take credit for. Killing Osama bin Laden, I like comparing to Aldrin and Armstrong landing on the moon. It was the summer of '69, six months into Richard Nixon's presidency. It's like him taking credit when John Kennedy started a program in 1961 of landing a man safely on the moon and returning to earth."
Of course, there's no doubt that if the mission had been botched, President Obama – as commander in chief – would have been blamed, just as President Carter was blamed for the failed 1980 raid to free U.S. hostages in Iran.
What do you think? Does President Obama get credit for killing Osama bin Laden? Take our poll and/or leave a comment.
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Friday on Mayhem:
Super Bowl-winning coach Dick Vermeil joined us live from Radio Row in New Orleans and he marvelled at the job both Harbaugh brothers have done this season and told us that their parents should be applauded as well.
Hall-of-Famer and Super Bowl champion Rod Woodson also joined us to talk about his career with the Raiders, Steelers and Ravens and he told the Mayhem boys about the transition from Pittsburgh to their hated rivals in Baltimore.
We also visited with New York Giants Super Bowl hero David Tyree, who gave us an in-depth description of his gamewinning catch that spoiled a perfect season for the New England Patriots.


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Aggregation app targets niche content
March 19, 2012
Popular aggregation apps such as Flipboard and Zite are based on the ability to customize news and other general-interest categories, pulling in articles from a broad mix of sources. Publishers Press is hoping to carve out a niche in this space - literally - with a new aggregation app featuring niche magazine content.
The Magazine Channel (TMC), which Publishers Press is introducing this week at the Publishing Business Expo in New York, aggregates licensed content from a variety of the company's print customers in special-interest categories such as landscaping, travel, hunting/fishing and healthcare.
The TMC app, which will be available in web and native versions, will enable users to build personalized collections of articles within each interest category. TMC will include a recommendation and personalization engine being developed through a partnership with K-NFB Reading Technology. TMC will also leverage text mining technology from MarkLogic and Temis.
Publishers Press will sell targeted advertising for TMC, with revenues shared among content licensees.
Publishers Press is showing a prototype of TMC this week at Publishing Business Expo. General availability is expected in the second half of the year.
The news aggregation space is getting more crowded as the genre's popularity grows. Flipboard said last September that its app had been downloaded more than 3.5 million times. Another popular aggregation app, Zite, was purchased by CNN last August, reportedly for between $20-$25 million. A startup called News.me earlier this month launched its social news reader for the iPhone that aggregates and prioritizes the most-shared articles among a user's social networking contacts.
Those apps have caused some hand-wringing among publishers because they scrape and repackage existing web content. The Magazine Channel won't face any fair-use issues, as the content is licensed from individual publishers.