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When you have half the population density of fargo north dakota all over the earth, and calculate how much farmland is needed, how much available arable land is available, and whatnot, and how much you could produce with the amount of water and fertilizer in the world, and including ranchland and cows n stuff, you get about oh 60 billion or so.
Metabolic efficiency is lower at low population densities, sprawl is bad for ecosystem health, and so is monoculture farming. You are never going to support 60B people on a Western diet with geoponic monocultures, we are already destroying the ecosystem with less than 10% of that population acting in the way you've described.
With recycling and the awesome size of the earth there's not much of a problem with natural resources like iron and silicon.
It depends how often you are recycling them. There is such a thing as "entropy" for materials, they cannot be recycled infinitely.
Since energy can be alleviated with Thorium, and in the future hopefully graphene solar panels, we'll be fine.
Uh, I think you have that a little backwards. Solar energy is what we can do now. Thorium is not. We already have the facilities to produce high-efficiency CIGS cells, and some people I know at a Dutch hackerspace called Labitat are building a 3D printer-like device that can produce CIGS cells with powder metallurgy in a small workshop. It's feasible that it could even produce the latest development in solar tech, which is a micropatterned metal screen on the surface of the panel that reduces its reflectivity by 're-capturing' light.
Energy is your biggest concern since resources are abundant and what we need is transformation, say into cars or ammonia, instead of say, nitrogen and oxygen.
Not true. Solar energy will eventually reach a point where there is a surplus of energy for most of the day, with capacity only being reached at a modal or bimodal time each day. That surplus energy is going to have to be stored or used, or else it's going to waste. And since it's already falling from the sky, there is no reason not to store or use it, because the other possibilities for it are producing heat or being metabolized by autotrophs. At that point, we have a few choices:
1. Use the stored energy to gradually reduce the amount of solar energy captured
2. Build increasing amounts of storage and have ever-larger amounts of reserve energy
3. Use the excess generated energy for an "idle process", to do things like recycling, refining, computation, or scientific research.
Energy seems like it's scarce because fossil fuels are scarce. Fossil fuels are based on the same energy source as photovoltaic technology, which is the sun. But fossil fuels have a much lower conversion efficiency than PV, a very low replenishment rate, and by using them we are gradually reducing the effectiveness of all other forms of energy including fossil energy itself. The faster you extract and use it, the lower its efficiency.
Thorium has similar problems, except that it is created by thermonuclear processes that only occur near the end of a star's life, so it has an even lower replenishment rate than fossil fuels. It is a high-quality energy now, but anyone who studies energy, economics, or anything of the like knows that under the existing social paradigm, higher extraction efficiency (in this case, extraction of energy from the ground) just leads to higher consumption. Thus, the most likely outcome, if we switch the thorium energy, is that the economy will continue to be based on money flows decoupled from most observable measurements, and energy use will increase until thorium becomes a low-quality energy. Then, the people of the future will be having the exact same discussion we are having now, which is that solar energy will never be as efficient as thorium.
In reality, it's materials that are scarce, at least while we're confined to this planet. Energy falls on our heads daily, and will continue to do so for billions of years. Materials take billions of years to create, and cannot be recycled infinitely. Building long-lasting physical products that can be divided into small/standardized modules so their design can evolve over time, as opposed to being replaced completely, should be a very high priority for civilization, after the switch to ecologically/economically sustainable energy/agricultural technologies.
Graphene is somewhere around 40,000 dollars per pound. Most of that is in energy costs. By reducing energy costs, we can produce graphene cheaply, which would allow us to say, coat the poles of the earth in graphene solar panels, and get enormous amounts of electricity.
But that's not possible until we have cheap graphene solar panels. As far as "3-D printers" go, it's really not that amazing of technology. You can say, make a 3-D plastic mold from a computer model; they've been doing this for quite some time.
But producing graphene still present a great deal of difficulty due to it's costs. The best, highest quality methods require craploads of electricity.
Thorium, also is available. There are already small reactors and liquid salt designs available. All you would have to do is scale it up. Since uranium already powers 20.9% of the U.S.'s electricity with 104 reactors, and thorium could be just as powerful, up to 200 times more powerful, and there's no chance of a melt down, it's relatively safe etc. there aren't many issues.
As far as the earth can never support 60 billion people?
Perhaps ironically, you're already suggesting we can produce an infinite amount of energy from solar panels, right now?!?! So if that's true, we can feed enormous amounts of people. With aquaponics, we can grow fish and crops without fertilizer and without producing nitrate rich polluting water (the fish waste feeds the plant, the plants clean the fish water). Since fish food can be made from spirulina, which basically can grow in water and with sunlight, you can have an ultra efficient process that doesn't require fertilizer at all, that is traditional fertilizer. So with a bunch of properly designed greenhouses, and with enough energy, we can feed however many people we want.
As far as being a moron and using a less efficient method because you're afraid people will actually benefit from it?
There's always ways to increase the cost arbitrarily if people go over their limit or use too much, or just increase it arbitrarily with say, a tax. Using a less efficient design when power can be scarce is a very silly thing to do. Considering that 90% of electricity goes to industry and business, I'm not sure raising the price for your average person would really help much.


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Aerosmith Dream On Lyrics
Last updated: 11/03/2013 04:37:07 AM
Every time I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It went by, like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay
Yeah, I know nobody knows
where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Half my life's
in books' written pages
Lived and learned from fools and
from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away
Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dream comes true
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dream comes through
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream On Dream On
Dream On Dream On, AHHHHHHH
Sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
sing with me just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away......
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Brilliant | Reviewer: Debbie | 11/2/13
I have been listening to this song since I can remember. About 35 years now. It never gets old and it resonates even with my own children. The lyrics are brilliant, the music is phenomenally beautiful. Steven and Aerosmith keeps on rockin even while the lead singer is pushing 70 years old! You are an inspiration!
unicorn.... | Reviewer: weeniefaggot | 1/30/13
Its justta breadth tkin words from aeros which remind me my pastnpresent times .. its more then enythin specially.. Steven Tyler... awesome n heartmumlin lyrics..m a feelin like another time every time i do listenin to him ..god bless them and hopin for better for their future....321...123...waerein'm...
Dream | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/12/12
Steven Tyler wrote this at age 17 over 40 years ago sitting at his fathers piano.....legend,legendary,Awesome talent..Glad they all survived the drugs..been a fan since their first album, first concert I ever saw and one of 18 over the years..Rock on buy the new album its pretty damn good
Dream, live | Reviewer: Ujwal | 9/9/12
I think the song is an abstract motivation to one's life. The person has gone through numerous goods n bads but eventually the bad lines fade away. He then realises everyone has the right to laugh n dream. He wants everyone to acknowledge this as noone knows wat'll hapen tomorow.
about the song | Reviewer: ujwal | 9/8/12
i think the song has an abstract motivation to one's life. The person has gone through several goods and bads, but eventually the bad lines fade and the hope of light is there for everybody. So, everybody has the right to dream, learn and enjoy. The person warns everybody must laugh since noone knows what'l happen tomrow.
A Haunting but Rocking Aerosmith Song | Reviewer: Dawn | 6/10/12
I think this was the first song that introduced me to Aerosmith. They are one of the best groups that have lasted through out the years and I wish I could see them perform in my area (every time they try either we have a Hurricane or something like that or one of the band-members gets ill or injured I'm not kidding!)but I digress I was so glad to see them burst back onto the see with Run DMC with the re-make of Walk this way have them be re-introduced to a whole new generation. I hope that they continue to rock and put out new music for all to enjoy for a long time.
Dream On? Yeah right. | Reviewer: I haz Confusion | 11/10/11
This song takes me back to those long nights spent as an intern in west LA. So many mixed emotions, because as much as the song provided an escape for me, my boss would always mumble along to it as he comped on a cheeseburger, simultaneously attempting to kiss me. So I was just wondering- did Steven Tyler write this song for me?
Dream On by Aerosmith | Reviewer: sugees69 | 9/13/11
"Dream On" is a beautiful song. The song is played beasutifully. The lyrics are awsome, and how it is sung is perfect, the singer ties it all together beautifly. Which is why everythig about the song is so right on. Which is what they would have said back when it first came out. Anyone that thinks this song is anything but beautiful needs there head examined. Clearly they don't know good songs or good music when they hear it.
I get wer ur commen | Reviewer: Rocker chick | 8/5/11
EXACLY!!!!! I hate it when ppl say rock and roll givs u bad thoughts or its devil music( this has actually been said to me about Aerosmiths music b4... Turns out friend tht said tht is a total bitch and is NOT my friend anymor) or tht it ruins ur mind wtf!? And im lik u think all pop and rap songs r all ranbows and freaken unicorns!? God ill scream if any1 els says tht! If ther aint another aero-freak in my new school ima blow!!!!!! God rock keeps me sain without it id b depressed a WHOLE lot more! Dnt go tellen me its devils music! U gotta b kidden me!! ther are a trillion rock songs I no tht r prob mor soulfull than any song most ppl hav ever hered b4. O wel I luv rock I no otha ppl do to so im fine
Rock On! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/2/11
Amazing! The words of this song reflect the truth of God's Word...check this out!
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get (win), and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace." Ecc 3:1
This is a good song. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/31/11
I'm glad to say that I'm an Aerosmith fan and I love their works.
Okay, so many people say that we shouldn't listen to Rock 'N Roll because they give you negative thoughts.
Then if you're one of those people, read this: This song tells you to just dream on. So you want people to stop dreaming and just stop believing?
I understand that some songs cause negative thoughts, but I'm sure that this one doesn't. It's sad, seeing some people hate Rock 'N Roll because they think that most famous bands are satanists.
Because if they are, why would Steve Tyler go to rehab and stop doing drugs? Are you thinking he just did it for fun?
I'm sorry if this comment offended any of you, but I just really needed to say (OR TYPE!) this.
Want to know what the lyrics mean | Reviewer: Kim | 5/25/11
My Ex left this song on my voicemail awhile back after he left me for a 65 year old married lady, he is also an alcoholic. I don't know exactly what the song is suppose to symbolize, could somebody tell me?
Dream On! | Reviewer: KiKi | 5/3/11
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away
This is one of Aerosmith's greatest songs! I love this song so much I used it as one of my favorite quotations on Facebook!
One Of The Best! | Reviewer: CaStarchild | 10/3/09
I have been an Aerosmith Fan for oh... so may years and I have to say... This is one of the best songs i've ever heard! Aerosmith has got to be the best band of our century! Steven Tyler is just so Hot! I Love this Band!
Simply Magnificent | Reviewer: AzCullen | 6/18/09
A truely magnificent song from Aerosmith once again they have done it!! I gotta hand to the toxic twins (Steven Tyler and Joe Perry) for writing this Awesome song, especially Joe Perry (who I think is very smexy by the way)I love his licks that he puts into this song! Cant wait for your next record Aerosmith I love YOU!!

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Bill would allow liquor sales at grocery stores
Updated On: Apr 07 2014 06:31:51 PM EDT
You can grab a beer at the grocery store but have to go elsewhere for a bottle of liquor. Some lawmakers say that needs to change.
A proposed repealer law looks to break down walls that the state mandates grocery stores to have between their stores and liquor stores.
"So if you walk into Publix you can get wine and beer, but then you got to walk outside and go into a separate entrance for liquor," said Rep. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota. "To me it just doesn't make sense. It's harder on consumers that have to go through two lines."
Steube's proposal would eliminate the separate entrance requirement currently on the books. Former Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco Director John Harris said there's no longer any need to separate the apple schnapps from the apple sauce.
"A law that passed immediately after prohibition, it's been in effect for about 100 years," said Harris. "It probably was a very good law when it was made based on the model of the liquor stores. That's changed today."
With more than half of the legislative session already gone, the bills have yet to be placed on an agenda for any committee.
Florida's Independent Spirit Association has spoken out against the proposal. The group said allowing liquor sales in grocery stores or Walmart increases access to minors. Steube shrugs off the claim.
"They could walk in the liquor store right now but they still have to get carded and ID'd in order to purchase alcohol. So access to minors, in my opinion, isn't going to change at all," said Steube.
ABC Liquors has come out in opposition of the bill. Walmart is for it, saying the business model operates just fine in the other states that allow it.
Supporters said that change looks unlikely this year, but they're hoping for a possible last-minute push to get the law repealed.
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|Daleth Orbital
Sadalmelik - Data Panel
|Alpha Aquarius
|Stellar Type:
|G0 (temporarily) stable yellow giant luminosity 3000xSol
Sadalmelic is one of three coeval yellow giants, now widely separated. The other two are Sadalsuud and Enif- all have been artificially stabilised since the Enif superflare incident in 6909.
|Mutual Progress Association middle Region, 720 ly from Sol
|Asterix 8 AU Cinderworld: Thermophile station and extensive amat farms - no volatiles
Obelix 12 AU Cinderworld: Thermophile and aioid domes- no volatiles
Smaller Bodies: from 20AU to 100AU orbit: 2X10^4 planetoids and asteroids - many converted to O'Neill, Hamilton, or Bernal habitats
Volatile rich KBOs commence at 80 AU
|AI Overseers:
|Karoo - 5 Burning Hunger Bishop Rings - the microwormhole connections as each ring is separated by 40 AU.
Daleth Overseer - Daleth Banks Orbital
|Name: Sadelmelic Alliance
Symbol: five linked rings inside a larger ring
Affiliation: Mutual Progress Association
Colonized: 4101
Major Orbitals: All orbitals in 70AU orbit
Burning Hunger (5x2000km Bishop Rings) - a reconstruction of the Central African Biome, Earth, approximately 3000 b.c.e.
Daleth Orbital (14,000,000 diameter Banks Orbital) - High tech and agricultural temperate orbital, many conurbations and pendant substructures.
|Psyche, Art, Culture:
|Metapsychology: Burning Hunger: rings are Rianth Bishop ring cultures (More information here). Daleth: Augmented posthuman cyber cities and recreational agriculture or wilderness areas; some cities are semi-concerted mind hives, others materialist free zones
Metaethics: Most rianths on Burning Hunger habitats are connected to life retrieval technology, however some Animist or Zarathrustan clades prefer to die completely when the time comes. On Daleth the Neoedenist collective Ai/symbionts of some cybercities are uncomfortably evangelistic, but the Orbital AI is laissez-faire in relation to culture change-(e is mostly concerned with safety issues since the sabotage of the original ring in 7311 (see Bluesky Bio).
Universal Splice and Provolve Church
MPA Materialism
Omegism (open and closed)
Asteroid Habitats:
MPA Materialism
Universal Church
Abundance Anarchism
Kya Observance
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|Burning Hunger Rianth culture occurs mostly via the local and Known Net - Despite their atavistic lifestyle, some herbivorous and carnivorous clades are intellectually involved in the Terragen Noosphere, while others are abandoning language altogether. Extreme tourism, hunting (both as predator and prey) and voluntary termination are commonplace on these rings.
Daleth culture is polarised between posthuman individualist ranging from turingrade to S>1, and the networked cyberpolities, with the most positive product being competition in the virtual and concrete arts, particularly architecture.
Asteroid Habitat culture is cosmopolitan, with each habitat widely spaced (Average distance to neighbour 10 AU)- As well as MPA sponsored independent microworlds, some NoCoZo-(ex Penglai or Terranovan), Nanloon, Terran Fed, Sophic League (Umma and others), and Ula(f) habitats have been established- and some few Version Tree Autofacs- many relativistic stopover stations in closer orbits esp Laylaron Amat stores
|Anglish, Galanglic, Yerkish, Ameslan, Brev, Solresol, Academic Coronese, Terranovan, Nanloon,
|Territory and Population
|Population: Bishop rings: 500 million Rianth (many billions of natural or lazurogened baseline mammals)
Daleth Orbital: 6 Billion individualist posthumans
12 Billion partially or totally collective posthumans
5 billion near baseline humans
4 billion aioid
15 billion virtual
Asteroid habitats: 20 billion near baseline and mild heteromorph
15 billion tweak and moderate to strong heteromorph
5 billion splice
2 billion provolve
2 billion vec
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Outward: 200 million per annum to Sagittarius and Aquila expansion directions
|Government and Administration:
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Orbital and Rings subject to oversight by responsible AI powers
Otherwise local political structures range from prides, herds and packs to unity mindmelding concert on Daleth
Asteroid habitats all free zone, subject to nanoimmune systems only
National holidays: Arrival Day, Bluesky Copyday, Orbital Memorial Destruction Day, others
Constitution: Conforms to Eden Declaration of Sapient Rights
Legal system: Local legal systems (overseen by responsible AI Powers)
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Major Industries: Amat production (supplies relativistic stopovers for hundreds of cubic ly) posthuman Art, sentient programs, tourism especially from NoCoZo homicideophiles
Angelnetting: (in 70 AU orbit only) Total
Savanna Dawn (To Djed)
Pumba (To Sadalsuud)
Don't Ask Me I Only Work Here (to Eden II)
Major Spaceports: Daleth Hub, Obelix Amat Combine
Hazard Rating: Burning Hunger 1.5 with due precautions
Daleth 0.5 (beware evangelical unification)
Visa Restrictions: Limited duration to Hunger Rings for Provolves at present
Freedom of Movement: Caution advised near Laylaron and Metasoft Habitats and near Unity City, Daleth
Environmental Requirements: Obligatory Heat shielding/Neutrino cooling near central region
Sites of Interest: New Serengeti, Soda Lake, Azania plains, Emerald City (Daleth), Ur of the Cyborgs (Daleth), Nanloon guest biohabitats
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Cayo Santa Maria, Caibarien, Villa Clara
"beautiful place but not very accomadating"
Posted by: cory on Oct 25, 2014
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Memories Paraíso Beach Resort was inspired by the colonial town of Remedios (The oldest city founded by the Spanish in the province of Villa Clara), the decoration of the place used construction elements of Cuban architecture typical of the era, such as stained glass, furniture floats and the use of wood precious and imitation of the classic clay roofs and photographic atmosphere of this city.
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"beautiful place but not very accomadating"
Posted by: cory
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1 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Oct, 2014 | Leisure | Family and Kids
8 people found this review helpful
Well we arrived at night but of what we could see it was gorgeous we went to are room nice then in the morning waking up me my 2 brothers and dad had red bits all over are body so we dint think much of it till it happens the next 2 nights so we told the front desk they did not move us but sprayed the room but that still didn't help we were still getting bit another thing was my brother and dad are handicapped they walk with canes well we were on the top floor we tried to get a bottom room and they refused not just that but other travelers had the nits on them too... and we went to go eat at la grill at night and there was a cat on the table eating the cold cuts and we told the guy and he came over and hit the table and the cat ran and he just left the meat even those the cat was eating it I couldn't believe it and the day we left are room card got shut off at 1 and we weren't leaving till 5 a lot of things were not great but food was good and it was very beautiful plus the beach were awesome crystal clear water
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5475 &5477
Room Block:
Tuesday September 23rd 9.45pm we didn't get to the resort till Wednesday September 24th at 12:10am
Building 54 rooms 5475 & 5477
Very nice but bedbugs
Restaurants and Bars:
Good food
Beautiful beach nice pools and very well kept grounds
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Don't know
"expect everything good"
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camino on Aug 5, 2014 >
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Visited on: Jun, 2014 | Business | Solo
19 people found this review helpful
It is a good hotel where you should expect all the good things of life, I am not even exaggerating. I have not seen a better hotel in Cuba than this and I can gladly say that this will not be my last visit. I checked in at the front desk on arrival, everything was done quickly. A bell boy was shown to me who carried my luggage and that of other guests that were there as at the time I entered the place. The bellboy put everything in other in the room as soon as we got in The room was very clean and very spacious, the room is huge and you need to see it, there was a king size bed and clean sheets to go with it. He put on everything that was supposed to be on and went on his merry way after a little tip from me. The staff was smiling throughout my stay, they were kind and genuine and I love their guest approach, it was soothing. I love the pina coladas served at this hotel and the grill also had nice things to offer. The food cooked in this hotel is excellent and they have cold drinks to go with the snacks and foods as well. They have an amazing buffet which I use for breakfast and lunch. I had a nice stay at this hotel and hope to come back again if given the opportunity as I was here on a business trip.
"lovely place"
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ballad on Jul 6, 2014 >
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Visited on: May, 2014 | Leisure | Family and Kids
23 people found this review helpful
It is not the first time of me and my family to visit this beautiful and magical island Cayo Santa Maria so it was not hard for us to find a beautiful hotel that will accommodate us with good service. The staffs at this hotel were very courteous, helpful and made sure I and my family had the best time of our lives at this hotel during our holiday. When we arrived in the evening, the staff was there to welcome us and gave us drinks to welcome us to the hotel and it was a great move because we were already tired from the trip to this place. Immediately, check in began and it didnt even take time and before you know it, we were already in our rooms and it was so impressive of them. The rooms we had been close to most of the hotel facilities and stuff so it was great. The grounds of the hotel looked well cared for, it was neat and everything was in the right place. The rooms didnt smell of moulds or anything like that, it smelled nice and it was clean and was cleaned daily. Breakfast here was the deal, they serve the nicest coffee I have taken in a while and the food was also fresh and delicious. The beach staff was nice, the beach itself was gorgeous and it was clean and relaxing. There was chairs at the beach to sit all the time as the beach guys made sure of that.
"Would no go back."
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sarah on Feb 16, 2014 >
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Visited on: Jan, 2014 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
62 people found this review helpful
Large noisy resort. Dining room, bar always crowded - often difficult to find seat. Theater sound system dreadful. Deafening volume.
Lovely shaded outdoor bars with excellent service.
If you like crowds and noise this is the resort for you.
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Confusing as told on bus not to leave luggage unattended. At hotel told to leave it and it would be delivered.
No welcome cocktail.
Check in speedy as all done in advance. No need to line up.
Cleaning (by a male -first time) haphazard. Floors wiped with the dirtiest cloth I've ever seen. No bathmat for 3 days. Towels not replaced; face cloths on and off. Spills on counter top remained for the entire stay.
Extra pillows dirty - we were told no cases available that day.
Air conditioning sporadic, TV died second day but guest services reacted promptly.
Had ocean view but this was no suite - just an average sized room.
Water, beer, pop replaced regularly.
Restaurants and Bars:
Noisiest restaurant we've ever encountered. Dreaded going there. Set up poor - people looking for seats had to walk in and around buffet area.
Lots of food of varying quality.
Fruit and veggies disappointing.
Good omelets and fried eggs made to order.
Fish restaurant dreadful; Italian wonderful;
Excellent beach -one of the best we've seen. Lots of lounges,etc.
Pool very shallow everywhere - probably because the resort catered to families.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Nice spa in market area with terrific massages.
Souvenirs the usual Cuban stuff.
12-hour excursion to Trinidad and Sancti Spiritus -not worth the effort.
Other Comments:
Would not go there again. However, families seemed to enjoy it very much.
"Fun in The Sun"
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Joe on Apr 18, 2013 >
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Visited on: Apr, 2013 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
130 people found this review helpful
My wife and I just got back from our 1 week trip to this resort and I must say it was a great vacation.
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The flight down was very good no problems, when we arrived at the airport the check through customs was no problems and fast, we then boarded a bus to go to the resort which is a long 1 hour and half drive, which was not fun when we then had to stop on the side of the road and wait for a couple and thier kids because customs had retained them at the Airport. The tour operator on the bus tried explaining somethings but he must have been tired because we had a difficult time understanding anything he said. When we finally arrived at the Resort we had been give our key's on the bus and resort information our package had no map which made it very difficult to find our room, we also where told leave the luggage it would be deliverd to our room in 5 min. it finally arrive 2 hours later.
The room was very nice, very clean, lots of hot water, only problem was our Toilet didn't flush we had to keep calling front desk to fix it, finally on the 4th day they got it fixed.
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We enjoyed the food we had no problem with any restaurant we ate at, only thing we found was that they ran out of food, if you went a hour later from when they opened you would walk around and everything was empty (trays) even the bread was gone, I don't know if they didn't expect that many people or they just simply couldn't keep up, but when this would happen we would simply go t another restaurant and find food.
There is no doubt this a a Beautiful Beach the best I have ever seen, my wife and I would walk for ever it seemed and never run out of beach, we could walk out about 100 feet in the water and it was still just up to our necks, If beach is what you want most of all this is the one.
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We have been to Cuba before so we did no activities as we have done all of them before.
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This is a Resort that for the price we paid I would go back no problem, the grounds are beautiful, clean, beach amazing, there was a small Market close by which was nice to walk through, all in all I defanetly reccomend this Resort.
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Seasoned cuban traveller. Over 100 times in cuba since 1979. This is a luxurious cuban 5 star resort and along with the Azul side a huge place.I found the price verses quality ratio excellent.Well worth a visit!!! No major negative issues. Beautiful rooms,grounds,pools and a fantastic world class beach.Well maintained grounds with lots of landscaped scenery,flowers and lush foliage. About 90 minutes from the airport but transportation was fast,professional and seamless.Remember this is Cuba and PLEASE do not compare to other prime caribbean destinations. There is a U.S. embargo and food production is not up to international standards found in other five star resort buffets and a la cartes. That being said we found the food variety and quality excellent for cuba and would return to this resort.
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Seamless,rapid clearance at Santa Clara airport. great transportation bus and good guide enroute. The 90 minute drive allows you to see the 'true' cuba countryside including several small towns. Once at the resort you are greeted warmly with musicians and great glass of champagne. Our experience at the lobby was great check in and service. No delays.Room keys given quickly. Tip:
Mostly you do not need to wait for a bellhop to deliver your luggage since most buildings are up to 6-8 minute walk away.
Really nice modern new cuban junior suites with plenty of storage,a separate sink and vanity area,large deep soaking tub with plenty of hot water. Everything for us worked great. water hot and pressure good. Room very clean.excellent maid service. Pop,beer and water restocked daily but usually not before 5PM.Great 27" television with more channels via satellite then I have ever seen in cuba. Approximately 45 channels with several movie channels,disney channel and more. Excellent electronic air conditioning either moderately or super cool.Once a day we did average a brief early evening power outage but no more than 5 minutes long.beds firm but for use provided good sleep quality.
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great pizza oven also on azul beach side.
Two beautiful lagoon pools on both sides. A centre baby/kid's lagoon pool with a great kid's club.Firsyt time I have seen playstation3 and X-box consules in a baby club in cuba.Magnificent grounds and foliage.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Must try snorkelling in 600 Foot patch of grass 100 feet off beach a far end of azul side of beach. Water shallow and 5 varieties of fish up to 25,000 fish
in amazing concentration. Be careful of the 2 to 6 foot monster barracudas circling these fish. Up to 100 on certain afternoons.
Catamaran and snorkel tour with interactive dolphinarium visit great.
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- The Ranger Jul 2, 2008 04:19 PM
I have the following Kitchenaid roasting pan:
I have repeatedly burned the bottom of the vegetables (carrots, onions, fennel, potatoes [new or russet], turnips, and beets) when roasting them.
Any ideas or tips _would_ be most appreciated.
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425°F in a GE Profile. I do not use the "Convection" setting but rather the regular "Bake" setting. I tend to melt butter and coat the bottom of the pan first and then toss in the assorted vegetables I'm going to roast, tossing them about to coat in the butter. If I'm substituting EVOO, then I do similar and then add a touch more. This last round I used EVOO. The first time I burned the batch, I tried the same method I use in my Pyrex glass casseroles. This last time I waited for the tops of the vegetables to brown but that was too late too.
the dark, nonstick surface is likely one of the problems - that type of finish on sheet pans is often the culprit with burned cookie bottoms as well.
use sufficient oil, turn frequently, and move the pan to a slightly higher rack in the oven so the bottom is farther away from the heating element.
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Interesting; thanks for the note on darker cookie sheets doing the same. I'd actually noticed this but had never put 2-and-2 together. Go figure.
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Why don't you use the convection feature? I have a GE convection oven and especially like it for roasting meats and veggies at 375-400 degrees, depending on what I'm cooking. I do turn the veggies over a couple of times because they roast darker on the pan side than on the top. I've never used butter, only an olive oil/canola oil mix, which I think is less prone to burning.
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Interesting; I rarely use the convection oven so tend to not use it. I'll have to give it a try and see if things improve.
Since you are coating the bottom of your pan with butter and using the 'bake' feature on your oven where the heat is coming from the bottom of your oven, it is probably acting like a fry pan. It is almost searing your veggies on the bottom. I usually toss my veggies in oil first and none on the pan.
I use my 'convection roast' option on my oven. That way, the heat is coming from every direction onto your veggies.
Good Luck,
As other posters have pointed out, butter burns at high heat. Use olive oil (I use EVOO), use a shiny pan, like aluminum, not non-stick and not with a dark surface. I also think 425 degrees is too hot, try 375 to 400 degrees. And, turn the vegetables once during cooking (or just give the pan a few good shakes to rotate the vegetables). Also, what position is your oven rack? Use the middle or the lower-middle rack placement.
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Tallahassee police are saying the death of a legislative intern appears to be accidental.
The body of 23-year-old Ryan Uhre was discovered last week in a downtown building. Uhre disappeared on Feb. 2.
The Tallahassee Police Department reported Monday that after consulting with a medical examiner, it appears Uhre died as a result of a fall.
The police said Uhre appeared to have climbed through a second-story window of the building, but then fell all the way to the ground since the building did not have an actual second floor.
Uhre graduated from FSU in December and had just started an internship in the office of Rep. Richard Stark, D-Weston.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla.- A Lehigh Acres woman came to the Cape Coral Police Department to make a report of child abuse on April 20. The woman told officers that her 5-year-old daughter was at the child's father's home in Cape Coral April 15-April 20.
When the child returned home with her mother, she told her mother that her father had beaten her with a metal coat hanger and a belt the previous evening. The mother took the little girl's pants down to inspect her buttocks and discovered bruises and lacerations covering her buttocks. She immediately contacted the police and reported the crime.
In an interview with child protective investigators, the little girl stated that she had been sleeping in her bed and woke up to find that no one was home. She became scared and used her father's girlfriend's cell phone to call for help. A woman answered the phone and told the girl that someone would be right over. The girl went back to sleep.
A little while later the girl was awakened by her father, Rickey Anthony Washington. Washington was angry and asked the girl if she had called anyone. The girl told investigators that she was scared and answered no. Washington struck her across the face with an open hand several times. He then retrieved a metal coat hanger from the closet and spanked her buttocks. The girl told investigators that Washington also used a belt to spank her. She described the beating as so painful that she had difficulty breathing as it was happening. Washington reportedly asked the girl "who's the boss" as he was spanking her.
DCF Investigators as well as Cape Police Detectives attempted to contact Washington for an interview; however, he would not answer the door or respond to phone calls.
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In an interview with Cape Coral Police Detective Kurt Grau, Washington admitted to spanking the girl with his belt for lying but denied using a coat hanger. Washington stated that he felt bad that he left marks on the child but maintained that he only struck her five times even after Detective Grau produced photos of the girl's injuries that showed many more marks on her.
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"Wowee! What a ride!"
I just finished listening to Freaky Deaky, and there is a smile on my face as wide as the room I'm in. You just cannot have a better combination than Frank Muller and Elmore Leonard. Both artists with immense gifts, extraordinary skills and so prolific that we are honored to be able to listen to so much of their work. This book is set in Detroit, as many of Leonard's books have been. Both he and Mr. Muller know their territory back and forth. Our hero is Chris Mankowski, a suspended Detroit PD bomb expert. Our criminals are three; a man named Donell, a woman named Robin and a guy named Skip. Chris also meets and falls for an actress named Greta. The potential patsy of the piece is a pathetic multi-millionaire named Woody. Mr. Leonard takes his usual time setting the stage, but by the last five or six chapters the thing picks up speed and literally races to the finish. There is no way on earth that you can predict any part of the end, even if you've read dozens of Mr. Leonard's books. He is so inventive that words sorta fail me (sorta). It is hard to imagine having a whole lot more fun listening to an audio book than you get from listening to one of the Leonard-Muller collaborations. The twists and turns, Frank's absolute mastery of what he does, the quick pieces of dialogue with which Mr. Leonard creates these characters: what a pleasure! I can't guarantee that you will love this, which is too bad. I'd like to. These two guys are on top of the heap.
"Good, not great, but worth your time."
In the top third.
No. There is too much repetition. The book has many things to recommend it but it's not all that suspenseful. I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to Dennis Lehane, but now I think I know. Mystic River was an amazing start, the movie truly one of the best I saw in the last century. The Kenzie-Gennaro partnership is good. Witty, plenty of sexual tension (which you know will never be resolved), but the other characters tend to be one-dimensional and kind of cartoonish within this genre. There's way too much of Patrick's macho swagger with the other tough guys. This is the kind of book that Elmore Leonard would cut down to about 100 pages; although, in truth, he would never write it. Too much padding. A very good sense of Boston, though. The same neighborhoods that Spenser hangs out in. Spenser, though, is terse where Lehane overwrites for no apparent reason other than to have as many pages as he can crank out, I am sorry to say.
I have listened to him before, although I can't remember specific books. He is great. He gives both Patrick and Angie very memorable voices. He actually is better than the material he is narrating, IMHO.
I am not really good at witty tag lines or eye-catching teases. I have much more fun casting actors for the roles. However, that was not the question.
I will definitely read more of the series, even though I have distinctly mixed feelings. Mr. Lehane can write up a storm, although he doesn't know when the storm should blow over. His sense of place is almost as good as James Lee Burke's, which is quite a compliment, I modestly say. There is a lot of wit here. The plot so far is actually the weakest aspect of the book. Kenzie and Gennaro are an interesting duo, and I would enjoy learning how they work as time goes on. Speaking of time, I hope these two do not get frozen in it. Some successful writers feel that their characters should never age. I dearly hope that Mr. Lehane does not fall into that trap. Mr. Lehane is no Thomas Perry, but he certainly write.
There is absolutely nothing which would do that.
This is a book which should never have been published. Mr. Vonnegut's successes were well known in the last century, and so, being a celebrity of the publishing world, he must have thought that simply anything that he put on paper, no matter how preposterous, was worth reading. In the case of this book, he was wrong.
Actually, I love Stanley Tucci. I have watched him in a number of movies, and have been seriously impressed by his acting chops (don't you just love these words?). However, there is no narrator, not even Frank Muller or Edoardo Ballerini, who could have transformed this hogwash into something worth reading. You can put lipstick on a pig...
Not a one.
"Really lukewarm. Tepid, in fact."
No. There are so many other police procedurals, murder mysteries, detective stories, etc. that are so much better than this. The first two books in this series are way better than this.
Probably not. I think he has gone to this well enough times. Although of course I know nothing about the author's life, but the book really sounds autobiographical to me. There is an awful lot of talk and almost no action. The life of a police reporter on the crime beat has no real dramatic value.
Yes. Both are slow. The narrator does what sounds to me like a valid Rhode Island accent (although I am no authority on this). However, what little plot there is is drowned by detail that may have journalistic value but is a poor cousin of good fiction. Mr. De Silva should read a little Thomas Perry. Then, he should go back to being a journalist.
Absolutely nothing.
"Burke and Patton: what a pleasure."
Yes. In fact, I have been doing so for about twenty five years now. Mr. Burke's sense of place is magnificent. He describes Iberia Parish and New Orleans so perfectly that you can almost see, feel, smell and taste them. Further, he addresses moral, ethical and personal areas, particularly around issues of conscience, that few other writers would ever even attempt to discuss.
Although you always know that Dave Robicheaux will eventually come out on top, his road there is strewn with vicious characters who put him into very dangerous plights. His buud, Clete Purcell, is a walking hand grenade, ready to explode at any moment with his own brand of hurt from his time in Viet Nam. Dave is also hurt and vulnerable to depression, particularly when he feels the racist big shots running the towns. Dave's sense of morality is a complicated, developing thing. Everything about his life is interesting to the reader. I may not have read all of his books, but it is hard to imagine Mr. Burke writing anything below truly extraordinary prowess and sensitivity. He puts most other thriller writers to shame.
I have. I can't name them right here, but his voice is quite distinct. His portrayal of Southern accents is awesome. At times there is some overlap between the voices of Dave and Clete, but this is a quibble. He holds my interest almost as well as Mr. Burke's content does.
I can't possibly do that, for reasons I am not really sure about. Twelve hours is a long time, and I can't think of anything I do without stopping for that long. I find it nice to read several hours, and then in a few days come back to the book, as the talents of these two men are things to savor, and I like to make them last for a long time.
"Starts very well...and then bores."
The opening, as above, was promising. The setting, the ice caps around the Arctic Ocean, is rendered quite vividly, and the characters are introduced in a way that promises good things to come. They really never do.
I don't think so. I don't believe he has the talent to keep the reader's attention for that long. When I put this down after about four hours, I listened to "Strip," by Thomas Perry. Very quickly I felt amused, entertained and completely enjoying the talents of a truly great writer. Some got it, and some don't.
I think the performance is OK. It's the material that gets scientifically as stiff and boring as a corpse. We get small doses of interesting ideas to whet our appetite, and then we are completely overwhelmed by science which is stupefyingly boring.
I don't think I could answer this question, other than to say that you would improve the book by cutting it in half. I was reminded by a quote from Elmore Leonard, a truly masterful and prolific writer. When someone asked him why his books were so entertaining, he said, "I leave out the parts that people don't read."
"A truly remarkable achievement."
Thrilling, ingenious and moving.
The scene in the river where our hero, Matthew Corbett, and several others confront the most profound perils in nature: crocodiles. This scene alone will keep you on the edge of your chair, and is worth the price of the book alone.
I have listened to almost all of his audiobooks, with only a few missing. Mr. Ballerini has taken on the mantel of Frank Muller, which is the highest possible praise. I would say that the entire Robert McCammon series might be a favorite, but there are so many: Beautiful Ruins, We live in Water, Malevita: the mind boggles. Mr. Ballerini is a unique talent, and I really hope he never stops narrating audiobooks.
I can't do that. Seven or eight hours of sitting is much too much for me physically. Plus, when you stretch out your favorite books, you get the pleasures of anticipating what happens next, trying to hold in your mind the main characters and plot developments...I am very happy to stretch out this book for several weeks, if possible. And then I wait a year or two, and do it again!
Mr. McCammon has taken on a truly daunting project. Matthew Corbett can be called the first of the modern detectives...in the year 1700. Matthew works with his mind and with very few external tools. His plots are the fruit of an astounding fount of creativity. I do at times wish that Matthew would marry the lovely Berry. They could have around-the-world adventures together. But, whatever. I will snap up every single book that comes from the fertile mind of Mr. McCammon and the interpretive mastery of Mr. Ballerini. I loved this book.
"Once again, waaay too much."
He could have cut it in half. Although his readers have come to expect lengthy tomes from him, chock full of rambling detail, I find myself losing interest. So much expostulation, so much narrative, such story-telling gifts immersed in books that are like whales...I think I'll step off this train. Just too much.
Not Mr. King. Probably something read by Edoardo Ballerini. I'm hoping desperately for some humor, which seems to be utterly lacking these days. Maybe Thomas Perry has something up his sleeve. Quite possibly Tim Hallinan's sixth Poke Rafferty outing. Tim has so much fun writing his books, and the humor is just extraordinary. Tell his editors to Leave the Jokes In!
Not really. Will Patton has a very nice voice, very "lived-in," gravelly; in this instance, I think the narration is better than the material itself, although this can be an invidious comparison.
The story has some "push." You do get involved in the lives of some of the characters.
"When I want to watch TV..."
First, if Edoardo Ballerini narrated the whole thing. Second, if the plot were not so cookie-cutter, with simplistic characters like brave cop Zach and stunningly beautiful and of course fabulously intelligent Kylie McDonald. Also, if Mr. Patterson would step aside (which he may already have done) and let a younger writer with new ideas do the heavy lifting.
Just about everything, as above. I think Mr. Patterson is on the downhill slide of his truly amazing career, and I am betting that he is a mighty fat cash cow for his publishers, agents, etc. who are thus pressuring him to push out a book a year. Is everybody happy? Uh, not me. Even as a "beach read," this book has little other than Mr. Ballerini to recommend it.
Mr. Ballerini only adds. He never subtracts. This, IMHO, is a dumb question.
Again, I love Mr. Ballerini narrating almost everything except the historical novels about Venice, and so forth. I am just not a history buff. But you give him a good story to read, and he magically transforms it into a great book.
There still could be good books coming out of this setup. The sexuakl energy between Zach and Kylie is enjoyable. New York is an endlessly fascinating city (no, really). Murder mysteries are fun to read, at least the good ones are. Keep trying, Mr. Patterson, Maybe you should work for two years on a book rather than one, in spite of the intense financial pressures on you. Be brave. You're already a gazillionaire.
"Early Stuart Woods; early Southern Gothic."
A lot. The plot meanders all over the place, even though the book is set in a small lakeside town. Also, the science fiction, woo woo, voodoo aspects of the story. There are unknowable mysterious happenings all over the place, and seers who conduct seances, and lots of twists and turns which serve mainly to lose the reader, and thus eventually bore him; that is to say, me.
The least interesting is the above. The most interesting, I think, is the main character, John Howell, who leaves his upscale, wealthy wife and life to hide out in this tiny town in Georgia. I liked him enough to almost finish the entire book, and I may actually do that at some point. Also, the narrator, Tom Stechshulte. He is easy to listen to and handles the Southern accents very nicely.
Calm. Soothing. Genuine.
I am not at all wild about this restructuring of the reviews. in fact, I really hate it. As it was, the narrative structure allowed me to say what I needed to say, rather than forcing me into these arbitrary Q and As.This style is not an improvement. Bring back the old school, please! Let me be me! And various other perorations.
"Laukkenan and Ballerini: what a combo!"
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes thrillers, and particularly to fans of Edoardo Ballerini, who is the best narrator alive, IMHO. This is the third book in the carla Windemere-Kirk Stevens series, and I think Mr. Laukkenan can continue to draw from this well for quite a while.
The ending, Im think, is just right. Often authors cannot create excellent endings for their books, but here the author keeps the reader on the edge of his/her seat, and wraps the novel in a very satisfying conclusion. We know that Carla and Kirk are never going to cross over the line, but Laukkenan tantalizes us with just enough buzz to keep that going.
I like absolutely everything this man does. At one point I thought that no one would ever surpass Frank Muller, but now I think the case is closed. Listening to Mr. Ballerini's narration is soothing in the best possible way, even when he is reading a thriller. He is a unique talent, and we are lucky to have him reading for a long (I hope) and illustrious career. He is just the best.
I think that the pathos of the young men who return from Iraq and are trained to become murderers for hire; this concept may have been done by others, but it rings particularly true here. These young men have been ruined, and then the villain brainwashes them into consciousless killers.
The book is quite long. 250 chapters is way too many, even if many of them are very brief. I didn't feel that there was much wasted narrative, even so. If you haven't read the first two books in this series, I recommend them very highly. There is talent in abundance here.
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Audy-Marchessault named Player of the Month
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ... The American Hockey League announced today that Springfield Falcons left wing Jonathan Audy-Marchessault has been selected as the CCM/AHL Player of the Month for January.
In 12 games, Audy-Marchessault tallied eight goals and nine assists for 17 points as the Falcons opened up a 12-point lead atop the Northeast Division.
Audy-Marchessault began the month by notching a goal and an assist in a 5-4 win over Bridgeport on Jan. 4. He then scored twice and added an assist to match a career high with three points in a 4-1 win at Providence on Jan. 6. That effort began a seven-game scoring streak for Audy-Marchessault, totaling 14 points during the run that included another three-point outing (2g, 1a) vs. Providence on Jan. 12 and his first career hat trick in a 7-5 win at Manchester on Jan. 15.
A second-year pro from Quebec City, Que., Audy-Marchessault capped the month by appearing in his second consecutive AHL All-Star Classic and then making his National Hockey League debut with Columbus on Jan. 31.
The 22-year-old Audy-Marchessault ranks third in the AHL in scoring with 45 points (16 goals, 29 assists) and is tied for the team lead with a plus-15 rating in 42 games for Springfield this season after signing with the Blue Jackets on July 1, 2012. Last season, Audy-Marchessault finished third among all AHL rookies with 64 points (24 goals, 40 assists) while appearing in all 76 games for Connecticut.
In recognition of his achievement, Audy-Marchessault will be presented with an etched crystal award prior to an upcoming Falcons home game.
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