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Meath Food Trail
07 September 2012
The Headfort Guarantees Irish …
The Headfort Arms Hotel in Kells was one of only 26 hotels in Ireland to be awarded the 'Guaranteed Irish' brand earlier this year as a member of Irish Country Hotels, the first hotel group in the country to be awarded the coveted brand. Following on from this and the outstanding success of the inaugural 'Meath Food Showcase' held in Kells in May, the Headfort has teamed up with local producers to concentrate on the opportunistic area of Food Tourism and create a ' Meath Food Trail Package' for visitors, domestic and international to the area
Olivia Duff from the Headfort who is driving the project stated ' the same idea is thriving in the West of Ireland in areas such as Westport and with the incredibly high standard of artisan producers in Meath there is no reason why the area can't become a 'Food Hub' for visitors. Ireland is renownd worldwide for the standard of food produce and this is an exciting way for the visitor to get behind the scenes and experience the Meath food scene from farm to fork!'
So far there are four producers on board whom have agreed to giving visitors a tour of their production, an insight to their food and of course some true Irish Hospitality for good measure!
Examples below;
- Ryan's Farm – A tour of the farm with Jim Ryan, a talk on production of dry aged Beef and lamb, sausage making and farmers markets with Tea/Scones (10 mins from hotel)
- Burkes Farm Homemade Ice creams - A tour of the herd with Bernie Burke, a talk on the production of her premium ice creams, with Tea/Scones (20 mins from hotel beside Hill of Tara)
- Kilbeg Dairy Delights - A tour of the farm and production of full range of products from Crème Fraiche, Cheesecakes to award winning Buttermilks, with Tea/Scones (10 minutes from Hotel)
- Boyne Valley Goats Cheese – A tour of the Herd of goats, a talk on the production of the Award Winning Cheese and Tea/Scones (20 minutes from hotel)
All of the above producers have between them won several accolades and awards and feature in farmers markets to retail giants. To enhance the visitor experience, on return the visitor can enjoy the 'Meath Menu' which features food produced from the rich sources of the Boyne Valley alone, a true foodies heaven! As a member of Irish Country Hotels, the Headfort along with other members of the 26 strong marketing organization are marketing this iniative internationally and have already signed up a major tour operator covering Holland and Germany for next year, so exciting times lie ahead. The trail has been commended by Minister Shane Mc Entee who is working with stakeholders on developing Meath as a 'Food Hub' and along with Meath Tourism hope to see other producers join with the Headfort in growing the area of Food tourism for the region and beyond.
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Jane Cassidy, Kilbeg Dairy Delights, Jim Ryan, Ryan Farm, Micheal Finnegan, Boyne Valley Blue,
Minister Shane Mc Entee, Department of Agriculture with responsibility for Food, Horticulture & Food Safety, Bernie Burke, Burkes Farm, Olivia Duff, Headfort Arms and John V.Farrelly Chairperson of Meath Tourism.
For further information please call Olivia Duff 087.6167546
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• 9:30 a.m. — Registration for the Teddy Bear Picnic (to be held inside on the second floor of the Eagles, across from Barclay Square).
Categories include Get Well Bear; Graduation Bear; Occupational Bear; All-American Bear; and My Bear and I (dressed alike);
• 10 a.m. — Teddy Bear Picnic begins (sponsored by Punxsutawney Career
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The Career Women's Club recently named Diane Neal its 2012-13 Woman of the Year.
Pictured here after the award presentation are (from left) Stacy Volchko, 2011-12 Woman of the Year; Neal; Dana Taggart, Neal's daughter; and Mary Troise, Neal's granddaughter.
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Sara D. Fox, 75, of Big Run, died Monday, July 1, 2013, at Hamot Medical Center, Erie.
She was born Sept. 5, 1937, in Rossiter, a daughter of the late Hiriam and Mary Rebecca (Cressley) White.
On June 1, 1957, she married Charles Leroy Fox. He survives.
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Joseph Anthony Cianciotti, 67, of Punxsutawney, died Sunday, June 30, 2013 at home.
He was born Dec. 20, 1945, in Yonkers, N.Y., a son of Nicholas Cianciotti of Cape Coral, Fla., and the late Olga (Valesquez) Cianciotti.
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He was a member of Saints Cosmas and Damian Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus.
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Doug Clay Horne, Jr., 40, of Punxsutawney, died Sunday, June 30, 2013, at home.
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Mr. Horne worked as a rock truck driver for Amfire Coal Company.
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Behind a four-run fifth inning, the Punxsy squad sneaked past St. Marys 9-8 to earn the title and a trip to Sectionals.
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• Jr. Baton: New Horizons, 1st place; Commodores, 2nd place.
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Redskins Release First Regular Season Depth Chart The Washington Redskins released their first depth chart of the 2014-15 regular season on Tuesday. No big surprises on either side of the ball, but it should be noted that cornerback Tracy Porter is listed third on the depth chart at left corner. Porter has been injured most [...]
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Gettysburg National Military Park Mid-Winter Lecture Series 2015
Today's Program: "It was indeed a scene of unsurpassed grandeur and majesty." An Audio-Visual Presentation of the National Park Service's Coverage of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, with Jason Martz, Media Specialist, Northeast Region
Over the past four years, the National Park Service has covered the commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War through extensive photography and video projects. From behind the camera, Jason's team of passionate and dedicated staff and volunteers have spent countless hours capturing these once-in-a-lifetime events. They have been used for immediate use on web and social media sites for a worldwide audience and have been saved and cataloged for ages to come. Beginning with the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) in July, 2011, Jason will highlight some of the most remarkable and stunning pictures and videos from the past four years. - Jason Martz, Media Specialist, Northeast Region, NPS
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Unnecessary compromise
If Nevada didn't have the numbers to unbind, okay. But if it was done for strategy it sounds pretty weak. It's not breaking the rules to unbind as it's the state party's decision as embodied by the convention. The media is already portraying Maine as "chaos, insane", etc. so no matter what we did in Nevada it would be portrayed as a hijacking. The RNC and Romney campaign will undermine or disqualify the delegation however they can whatever Nevada decided. And the RNC convention chairman will likely ignore any abstentions of bound delegates and count them as they were pledged (as some state party rules explicitly require).
In short it makes little sense to offer the establishment an olive branch that ties up one hand while they are getting ready to sucker punch us.
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Is it possible to change the time on freeview, as the time on mine seems to be wrong?
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these things tend to get the time from the aerial signal
how far out is it? 1 hour?
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Only by a few minutes
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As Fruit Bat /\0/\ has stated, STBs and the like set their clocks from transmitted signals. It is possibble, however, that once set the clock is updated from an internal oscillator which will depart from true time over a period. If that applies and if you keep your box permanently on standby or supplied with mains power, it might be worth disconnecting from the mains for a while. On reconnecting the clock should then be updated from transmitted time. I assume that a factory reset would do the same.
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On my Panasonic DVD recorder, when you retune (eg when the analogue signal is switched off) for some reason the auto detect of time switches off. In the menu - one of the sub folders of the set up menu - there is the option to turn on the auto detect of time. Not sure if this applies to your machine.I only found this out when it recorded the wrong programme after a retune (we have had 3 of these in my area recently)
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2009 Revenue: $11.2 million
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Paul moved from India to Indianapolis with his parents at age eight but he adapted quickly, cutting his teeth as an entrepreneur by mowing lawns and working a paper route. He spoke of the stereotype of Indian parents pushing their children into the fields of law or medicine, but says his folks were supportive when he joined the Army straight out of high school. His 14 years in the service taught him to handle clients at KPaul. "Just give them the facts, don't sugarcoat anything," he says.
Mountain View, California
No. 12
2009 Revenue: $15.3 million
Three-Year Growth: 9,969.89%
Kumar's grandfather started one of India's major movie studios and by the time Kumar was a child, his relatives had expanded into other parts of the industry, operating theaters, producing movies, and distributing them. He says at home, he could have found an uncle to fund his venture, TheFind easier than sneezing, but he wanted to strike out on his own. If he had stayed in India and "worked for somebody else it would be an insult to the family."
Octo Consulting
Vienna, Virginia
No. 23
2009 Revenue: $13.7 million
Three-Year Growth: 7,224.3%
Sanghani's first lessons in business came at the age of 13 when his father left his job as a civil engineer to open a motel in Blacksburg, Virginia. His parents came to the U.S. from India in 1979 when Sanghani was only three, and both his mother and father had worked their way up from juggling shifts at McDonalds and 7-11. "My parents didn't have an MBA, and they had no formal business training. The one thing they did know how to do is to work their ass off," Sanghani says. He feels he definitely absorbed a great deal of their work ethic. At the motel, "me and my parents were the night clerks, the desk clerks, the maids, we did the laundry, [we] did the toilets, we did everything." Now Sanghani runs
Octo Consulting, an IT management consulting firm.
New York City
No. 50
2009 Revenue: $5.7 million
Three-Year Growth: 4,423.54%
Pahade was a hair's breadth away from becoming Dr. Pahade when he started his first company as an undergrad at the University of Michigan. Pahade, who is now CEO of Traffiq, an online marketplace for display advertising, had already been accepted to a few medical schools when he deferred for a year to kick start the ad agency Beyond Interactive with some friends. Despite his departure from the med school track, Pahade's parents were very supportive. "My dad was the original and only investor in Beyond," he says. "It was pretty much a tax write off for him at the time [but] it's probably the best investment he's made to date." Pahade's parents can also take solace in his younger brother, who is a radiologist.
MMC Systems
Herndon, Virginia
No. 63
2009 Revenue: $3.8 million
Three-Year Growth: 3,529.04%
Sharma describes himself as "a techie from the get-go," but the CEO of MMC Systems' also has a knack for business. At the age of 12, he started a Web design company in his native Hyderabad. A mere five years later, he picked up and came to the United States all by himself to attend college. MMC, which he became the new owner of in October 2009, provides consulting and IT services to the government and big corporations and the fact that he does subcontracting on the Indian subcontinent gives him an excuse to make biannual trips home to see friends and family. "As long as you're dedicated and understand what you're doing, and have that focus, success will come," he counsels.
Columbia, Maryland
No. 78
2009 Revenue: $8.2 million
Three-Year Growth: 3,107.48%
Kankanhalli came to the U.S. from Bangalore at the age of 26 to study computer science at West Virginia and Fairmont State Universities. She leveraged her work experience at other technology companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation to launch the IT company clearAvenue with her husband Srini in 2002. Since then the company has grown by leaps and bounds but it hasn't been easy. "There is no work-life balance when you're running a small business. Your business is kind of entangled with your life," says Kankanhalli.
Link Solutions
Reston, Virginia
No. 170
2009 Revenue: $3.7 million
Three-Year Growth: 1,651.36%
Wadhawan's parents came to the U.S. in the early 80's in search of opportunity for their family. "My dad was an architecture engineer and when he came to the states, the only job he could find was as a parking lot attendant," Wadhawan says. But his folks' work ethic definitely rubbed off on the CEO of Link Solutions, a company that provides IT and management consulting to the public and private sectors. He attributes his business success to valuable experience working for similar firms before he struck out on his own and the strength of the team he's assembled. And of course he owes it to "hard work, honest work and a little bit of luck."
Global Wedge
Riverside, California
No. 172
2009 Revenue: $14.3 million
Three-Year Growth: 1,643.39%
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Marella didn't come to the U.S. for a degree. Rather, at the age of 45, he was put in charge of the U.S. branch of an Indian company that did importing and exporting. However, soon after Marella arrived, the company folded. "That was like a blessing in disguise," he says, because "in the U.S. there is a good entrepreneurial environment." He started Global Wedge with his wife Sarada in 2001 and the solar panel materials company has grown with alacrity thanks to increased interest in alternative energy sources.
Triad Web Design
Raleigh, North Carolina
No. 196
2009 Revenue: $2.4 million
Three-Year Growth: 1,484.57%
While attending Sardar Patel College of Engineering in Mumbai in the early days of the Internet, Narvekar thought he would build a website for the school to impress his professors. What he discovered was that there were almost no local hosting companies in the area, and he promptly founded one of his own, called Bombay Biz, to rectify the problem. Soon afterward, at age 23, he moved to the U.S. for grad school and founded Triad Web Design. He says the hardest part of running a company has been differences in American and Indian business culture. "I don't want to push my Indian style into the U.S. business," he says. His secret sauce for fast growth is all about SEO and SEM: Triad Web Design spent $2 million on Google AdWords in the last 3 years.
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If you're actually going to try this, you're going to need to be capable of doing some customization. I have done everything I can to make this thing work for every bash prompt out there, but that dream has pushed me through a dozen or more (I'm not kidding!) iterations. You are about to see a serious hack. If you find yourself thinking, "why didn't he do it this way? It would have been so much simpler." It's because I did try it that way and one configuration or another puked on it. UPDATE 20130214: As a rule, I don't make major content edits to blog entries after they've been up for a while. I'm making an exception in this case, because the content is technical, rather than political. If you want to see the "original" text, I have stashed it here. I spend a lot of time in bash. At first blush, it's no more than a command-line interface, and therefore off the radar of most users who see such things as an anachronism they'd rather forget, but I do nearly everything in bash. Until 2009, I read my email in a terminal, which is why I eschew marked-up email. I navigate directories, edit files, engage in my daily source code checkout and delivery, search for files, search inside files, reboot my machine, and even occasionally browse web pages from the command line. bash is the heart of my digital existence. The trouble is that I tend to have a plethora ("Do you know what..." never mind) of bash windows open at a time. On one machine today, I had one terminal running a web server, another fiddling with my database, a third, fourth, and fifth editing different files, while a sixth was grinding away through my machine trying to record the names of every file on the system. When I do this, I end up with lots of windows in my start bar (or whatever) named simply, "bash." This is fine if I only have one of them, but its agony when there are many, many more. I have three computers, each with their own monitor, under the simultaneous command of one keyboard/mouse pair and I still feel the need for more. Each of those windows has several bash terminals open, so it is not at all unusual to have 15 instances of "bash" going at the same time. When a terminal runs in a window, we refer to the title of the window as the status line. From within the terminal, within bash, you can control the string that is written in this space. Windows and OS X will quickly update the start bar (or whatever) to associate this new string with the window, making it easy to choose the correct bash instance, assuming that you've titled them in ways that make them easy to distinguish. If you echo "\[\e]0;SOME STRING HERE\a\]" in bash, the status bar takes up the value, "SOME STRING HERE." I started by simply setting the hostname into this space, but when you have 6 local terminals, that's not much help. My first change was to have the PS1 environment variable, which is used to generate your prompt, print the hostname and the current working directory: export PS1="\[\e]0;\$HOSTNAME:\$CWD\a\]\$CWD> " This sets the status bar and prints the current working directory as the prompt. However, I wanted the currently-running command in there, as well. Initially, I went down a rabbit hole of using supporting perl scripts. It worked, but had issues of its own. I have now reduced the whole thing down to a few lines that go in your .bashrc. My total list of requirements were: * The command prompt, and the basic state of the status line should be: $HOSTNAME: $CWD $CWD must be stripped down to it's last 37 (feel free to choose your own value) characters, and must indicate that it has been truncated by prepending an elipsis. * When a command is typed, the status line must update to include the currently-running command. * When a command completes execution, the status line must remove the command that was executing and revert back to its basic state. * The system must prevent the status line from being updated if the terminal doesn't support it. * To make it easier for me to find the previous command prompt, and to make it easy to visually distinguish hosts, the hostname in the command prompt must be colored. (And I do set a different color on each machine.) To have the status include the user's command, I took advantage of the bash debug trap. If you want to have something executed every time a user enters a command (or an empty command) you can use the trap like this: trap 'echo Please do not press that button again' DEBUG All I have to do is get the user's command from their history and echo it out in a way that it will be sent to the status line. There's a warning at the top of this blog post that you should read now before you start asking stupid questions like, "Why didn't you just use the HOSTNAME environment variable via @ENV?" Simple: Because that doesn't work for all the systems I tried it on. #Lots of colors for you to use. You can delete anything you're not using. ESC_BLACK='\\[\\033[0;30m\\]' ESC_RED='\\[\\033[0;31m\\]' ESC_GREEN='\\[\\033[0;32m\\]' ESC_BROWN='\\[\\033[0;33m\\]' ESC_BLUE='\\[\\033[0;34m\\]' ESC_PURPLE='\\[\\033[0;35m\\]' ESC_CYAN='\\[\\033[0;36m\\]' ESC_LT_GRAY='\\[\\033[0;37m\\]' ESC_DK_GRAY='\\[\\033[1;30m\\]' ESC_LT_RED='\\[\\033[1;31m\\]' ESC_LT_GREEN='\\[\\033[1;32m\\]' ESC_YELLOW='\\[\\033[1;33m\\]' ESC_LT_BLUE='\\[\\033[1;34m\\]' ESC_LT_PURPLE='\\[\\033[1;35m\\]' ESC_LT_CYAN='\\[\\033[1;36m\\]' ESC_WHITE='\\[\\033[1;37m\\]' ESC_UNDERLINE='\\[\\033[4m\\]' ESC_NO_UNDERLINE='\\[\\033[24m\\]' ESC_END='\\[\\033[0m\\]' PC_BLACK='\[\033[0;30m\]' PC_RED='\[\033[0;31m\]' PC_GREEN='\[\033[0;32m\]' PC_BROWN='\[\033[0;33m\]' PC_BLUE='\[\033[0;34m\]' PC_PURPLE='\[\033[0;35m\]' PC_CYAN='\[\033[0;36m\]' PC_LT_GRAY='\[\033[0;37m\]' PC_DK_GRAY='\[\033[1;30m\]' PC_LT_RED='\[\033[1;31m\]' PC_LT_GREEN='\[\033[1;32m\]' PC_YELLOW='\[\033[1;33m\]' PC_LT_BLUE='\[\033[1;34m\]' PC_LT_PURPLE='\[\033[1;35m\]' PC_LT_CYAN='\[\033[1;36m\]' PC_WHITE='\[\033[1;37m\]' PC_UNDERLINE='\[\033[4m\]' PC_NO_UNDERLINE='\[\033[24m\]' PC_END='\[\033[0m\]' #If you put slashes in here, make SURE they are escaped with a backslash!!! replace_substrings() { if [ $BASE == $PWD ]; then BACKREF=$1 CRUFT=$2 SUB=$3 SUB_BNW=$4 BASE=`echo $PWD|sed -e "s/^$CRUFT.*/$SUB/g"` BASE_BNW=`echo $PWD|sed -e "s/^$CRUFT.*/$SUB_BNW/g"` TRIM=`echo $PWD|sed -e "s/^$CRUFT\(.*\)/$BACKREF/g"` fi } gen_prompt_text() { LAST_RETURN_VAL=$? #echo $LAST_RETURN_VAL >> $LOGFILE #date >> "$LOGFILE" #echo >> "$LOGFILE" if [ $LAST_RETURN_VAL == 0 ]; then PC_BASE_COL=$PC_END ESC_BASE_COL=$ESC_END else PC_BASE_COL=$PC_LT_RED ESC_BASE_COL=$ESC_LT_RED fi HOST_SHORT=`hostname | cut -f1 -d.` BASE=$PWD TRIM=$PWD #replace_substrings takes; # * This is the worst bit, and I'll try to figure it out later. You # have to provide the regular expression backreference ONE BEYOND the # last one you use. If you don't use any (or you don't know what I'm # talking about, use "\1". If you use one backreference in the # second argument, use "\2". Etc. It's used to extract the last # portion of your current working directory. # * a regular expression match for the bit you want to chop off at the # beginning # * the string to replace the regex with in colorized prompts. You don't # have to use color. If you don't this argument and the next will be # the same. # * the string to replace the regex with in colorless prompts. replace_substrings "\1" ".home.foodini" \ "${ESC_LT_GREEN}~${ESC_BASE_COL}" "~" replace_substrings "\2" ".home.foodini.blog.([^\/]*)" \ "${ESC_LT_GREEN}{\\1}${ESC_BASE_COL} "{\\1}" # If none of the above clauses have matched, TRIM is all we're going to # display after the hostname, so clear BASE and BASE_BNW if [ $BASE == $PWD ]; then BASE="" BASE_BNW="" fi if [ ${#TRIM} -gt 37 ]; then #TRIM=`echo $TRIM|sed -e "s/^.*\(.\{37\}\)$/\\1/"` #TRIM="...$TRIM" TRIM=`echo $TRIM|sed -e "s/^.*\(.\{37\}\)$/...\\1/"` fi PROMPT_COL="$PC_BASE_COL$TRIM>$PC_END " export PROMPT_BNW="$HOST_SHORT: $BASE_BNW$TRIM> " export PROMPT_COL="$PC_LT_GRAY$HOST_SHORT$PC_BASE_COL: $BASE$PROMPT_COL" if [ $SUPPORTS_STATUS_LINE == "true" ]; then export PS1="\[\e]0;$PROMPT_BNW\a\]$PROMPT_COL" else export PS1=$PROMPT_COL fi } export PROMPT_COMMAND='gen_prompt_text' case $TERM in xterm|screen) export SUPPORTS_STATUS_LINE="true" ;; *) export SUPPORTS_STATUS_LINE="false" ;; esac #TODO: The trap fires a number of times in the execution of a command. # How can I trim it down so the trap is turned off until the end of # next prompt generation phase AND use $BASH_COMMAND instead of this # ugly history | sed thing? ($BASH_COMMAND, during the execution of # gen_prompt_text is "gen_prompt_text" if [ $SUPPORTS_STATUS_LINE == "true" ]; then TRAPCMD1='if [ "$BASH_COMMAND" == "gen_prompt_text" ]; then CMD=""; ' TRAPCMD2='else CMD=`history 1|sed -e "s/^[ ]*[0-9]*[ ]*//g"`;fi;echo ' TRAPCMD3='-en "\e]0;$PROMPT_BNW $CMD\007"' trap "$TRAPCMD1$TRAPCMD2$TRAPCMD3" DEBUG fi So now, I have a bazillion windows going and they say things like: castro: /home/ronb blog Ron-D630: /C/ronb/rails/depot script/server Ron-D630: /C/ronb/rails/depot mysql -u ron -p Ron-D630: /C/ronb/rails/depot find . > /C/ronb/system.map Ron-D630: /C/ronb/rails/depot vi app/views/cart.html.erb Ron-D630: /C/perforce/depot/ p4 protect Ron-D630: /C/perforce/depot/ p4 sync -f Ron-D630: /C/perforce/depot/ From the start bar (or whatever) at the bottom of the screen, I can now tell which is which at a glance. 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Islanders present and future now looking bright
Updated: April 29, 2013, 7:44 PM ETAssociated Press
SYOSSET, N.Y. -- Mark Streit is a rarity for the New York Islanders. The veteran defenseman is one of the few players, who when given the chance to go anywhere, actually chose to play on Long Island.
Nearly five years after he signed his free-agent contract, Streit is about to wear the team's orange and blue sweater in a playoff game for the first time.
"It's amazing," the Islanders captain said Monday after practice. "It's a great feeling. The past was some rough years, definitely."
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The staff of the New York Times, as you may have (repeatedly) heard, is not entirely enamored of the paper's shiny new building, across Eighth Avenue from the Port Authority Bus Terminal. (This probably says more about the sorts of conversations we have than about anything else, but we've been finding it profoundly odd for the last month or so to no longer be able to use the phrase "43rd Street" to refer to the paper's headquarters. "Eighth Avenue" just doesn't work the same way.) People don't like the elevators, they don't like the toilets, they don't like the automated window-shade system, and they don't like the lights, which sometimes turn off on their own. (They also don't like the leaks, mice, and maggots, though that displeasure would not be unique to Timespeople.) In today's new New Yorker, that magazine's architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, an alumnus of 43rd Street who presumably has listened to his old friends kvetch about their new tower, passes along yet another dissatisfaction with the new workplace:
In a nice, democratic gesture, most of the building's perimeter has been left open, bringing in lots of natural light, and the private offices for editors all have glass walls facing into the newsroom. One member of the editorial board, who gave up a large, enclosed office in the old building for one of these small fishbowls, growled to me, "There's no place I can change into a tuxedo."
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A method of filling, sealing and sterilizing a pharmaceutical package including a polypropylene bottle containing a balanced salt solution includes the steps of filling each bottle to maximum capacity to exclude residual air, the introduction of a silicone rubber gasket into the bottle cap to absorb pressure and prevent leakage during a steam sterilization procedure, and the enclosure of the filled bottles in a blister pack before steam sterilizing. The blister packs have Tyvek™ lids and are placed blister-side-up during the sterilization process to eliminate deformation of the blister during sterilization. Maximum filling of the bottle with liquid and the substantial elimination of air prevents dimpling of the bottle.
1. A sterile pharmaceutical package comprising:
a) a translucent, resilient polymeric bottle formed of a material capable of withstanding sterilization temperatures without vapor leakage through the walls thereof;
b) a cap and means for securing said cap to the open top of said bottle;
c) sealing means positioned between the inner surface of the top wall of said cap and the rim of said bottle, said sealing means serving to absorb pressures developed by expansion of said bottle and prevent deformation of said cap during sterilization thus eliminating leakage therebetween; and
d) a blister pack formed of a prescribed polymeric material suitable for use in a sterilization procedure without melting, a closure lid placed along the open side of said blister pack and formed from a non-woven textile material having the characteristics of being permeable, said closure lid being sealed to said polymeric material around the open side thereof, and capable of remaining sealed during said sterilization procedure.
2. The sterile pharmaceutical package according to claim 1 wherein said polymeric bottle is formed of a translucent material.
3. The sterile pharmaceutical package according to claim 1 wherein said bottle is formed of polypropylene.
4. The sterile pharmaceutical package according to claim 1 wherein said cap is formed of the same material as said bottle.
5. The sterile pharmaceutical package according to claim 1 wherein said cap is formed of polypropylene.
6. The sterile pharmaceutical package according to claim 1 wherein said sealing means is a washer formed of silicone rubber.
7. The sterile pharmaceutical package according to claim 1 wherein the prescribed polymeric material used to form said blister pack is polycarbonate.
8. The sterile pharmaceutical package according to claim 1 and further including a polyester label affixed to the surface of said bottle and extending no more than two-thirds around the circumference thereof.
9. The sterile pharmaceutical package according to claim 1 and further including a plug-type cannula adapter in the neck of the bottle.
This application is a continuation application of my co-pending application Ser. No. 07/488,259, filed on Mar. 23, 1990, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,962,856, which is a divisional application of Ser. No. 273,605, filed Nov. 21, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,947,620, which, in turn, is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/137,436, filed on Dec. 23, 1987, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,805,377.
The current state of the art in the provision of balanced salt solutions and saline solutions of the type used in surgical procedures is generally to package the solution in a polyethylene squeeze bottle which includes an adapter that receives an irrigation cannula. The bottles must be sterilized internally and externally and are packed individually in a preformed blister pack which is sealed with a Tyvek™ lid. Because low-density polyethylene melts at approximately 100� C. it cannot be heat sterilized (heat sterilization requires a minimum of 121� C.). Therefore, the common practice is to aseptically fill the polyethylene bottles with a sterile solution, pack and seal the filled bottles in the blister packages, and expose each package to sterilization by ethylene oxide gas. Polyethylene is permeable to ethylene oxide and the above process results in some build-up of the gas in the sterile saline solution. When there is such a build-up, a chemical reaction takes place which results in the formation of ethylene glycol and ethylene chlorhydrin, both of which are potentially dangerous irritants that are highly undesirable in eye or other surgical irrigation solutions.
There have been some attempts to create a steam-sterilized package for saline solutions, but most of the known attempts have been commercially unsuccessful. One of the attempts which did receive some commercial recognition was a steam-sterilized process, but because of the special handling required by steam-sterilization the resulting product was a package that did not resemble the preferred squeeze bottle.
The present invention is a method of filling and sterilizing an improved squeeze-type bottle which is packaged in a blister pack sealed with a Tyvek™ lid before being subjected to a steam-sterilizing procedure. The bottle is improved in that it is formed of a polypropylene material of a grade selected for its clarity. Polypropylene was the chosen material because it is known that polypropylene lessens the transport of ethylene oxide into the sterile solution. Additionally, although the polypropylene does expand and contract during the sterilization process and is known to soften to some extent at 121� C., applicant has found that by using certain novel procedures in the filling and sterilization stages, a highly improved package and product which overcomes substantially all of the shortcomings and disadvantages to known processes is obtained.
In addition to the use of polypropylene for the bottle and the cap, one of the novel steps in the present process is the introduction of a silicone gasket or washer which is inserted into the threaded screw-type cap such that the gasket is positioned between the cap and the bottle top to absorb pressures which develop by expansion of the bottle and/or the cap. The silicone gasket prevents any deformation of the cap, of the cannula adapter, or the bottle, and substantially eliminates any leakage of the sterile fluid from the bottle during sterilizing. Although other rubber products might be used to form the gaskets, silicone is preferred because it is a pharmaceutically and medically accepted material known to be non-toxic.
Another novel step in the process includes the use of a preprinted, self-adhesive backed polyester label that is applied to the bottle approximately twenty-four or more hours prior to the filling and sterilizing processes. The labels are designed such that they extend no more than two-thirds of the circumference of the bottle because it has been found that wrapping the label any further around the bottle results in creasing and crinkling of the label. Further, it has been found that when the labels are placed on the bottles at least twenty-four hours prior to filling and sterilizing, the labels demonstrate a marked improvement in adhesion to the bottle.
With regard to the use of the polycarbonate blister pack sealed to a Tyvek™ lid, the use of these products in a package which is going to be subjected to steam-sterilization required certain modifications to the sterilization operation. Polycarbonate is known to soften during application of heat and it has been found that the weight of the filled bottle is sufficient to cause the polycarbonate blister to deform and on occasion to cause the Tyvek™ seal to pop open. However, applicant discovered that by placing the packages blister-side-up in the sterilization trays, the weight of the bottle was eliminated from the blister and thereby avoided damaging to the blister while the package is in the sterilization tray. The trays which are used during the sterilizing process are preferred to be a stainless steel wire mesh. The wire mesh is desirable in order to drain away as much of the condensed water as possible and stainless steel is preferred because of the ease of sterilizing the non-corrodable trays. When water does not drain away the Tyvek™ seals do not tolerate long immersion and break away from the polycarbonate blister. Further treatment to the Tyvek™ involves the "zone-coating" of adhesive in the area where the Tyvek™ is in contact with the polycarbonate blister. By eliminating adhesive coating from the entire Tyvek™ surface, the porosity of the Tyvek™ is not damaged and steam and air can flow into and out of the blister pack during the sterilization procedure.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view, with parts broken away, of the pharmaceutical package described herein;
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the bottle shown in FIG. 1.
The preferred method of preparing and sterilizing the pharmaceutical package 10 described above is comprised generally of the following steps. The bottles 20 which are being filled are preferably of a semi-rigid squeeze-type nature and are preferably made of a polypropylene material. The lids or caps 22 are also preferably formed of polypropylene, although it is recognized that there are other polymeric materials which might be suitable for the bottles and the caps. It is also recognized that while the present application is generally directed to the preparation of a sterile saline solution package, the process described herein might be found suitable for use in preparing other types of pharmaceutical packages. Where other pharmaceuticals and solutions are contained, bottles formed of materials other than the herein described polypropylene might be preferable if the materials are more compatible with the product contained therein.
The initial step in the preferred process is preparing a plurality of polypropylene bottles, or bottles 20 compatible with the product being contained therein, by applying labels 24 to each of the bottles. It is prefered that the chosen labels be applied to the bottles a minimum of twenty-four hours prior to the filling and sterilization process. Application of the labels 24 many hours in advance improves the adhesion of the label to the bottle before it is exposed to the steam-sterilization process. The preferred label 24 is a self-adhesive-backed polyester label of a width sufficient to extend approximately two-thirds around the outer circumference of the bottle. When the label extends more than two-thirds around the bottle, it has been found that the label is subject to wrinkling and creasing of the label when the steam-sterilization is applied. While it is possible that the label might extend less than two-thirds around the circumference of the bottle, it is preferred that it extend no more than two-thirds. Polyester labels are of the type preprinted with the required identifying information thereon, according to conventional method.
The next step in the process is the preparation of the polypropylene caps for each of the bottles. The caps are preferably of a threaded (as at 26a,26b) screw-type in an appropriate size. Preparation is carried out by the insertion of a silicone rubber gasket or washer into the top of the cap. While it is possible to place the washer on the bottle and screw the cap down onto the bottle and the washer, this approach has found to result in a higher rate of defective packages. As mentioned above, other rubber or polymeric materials might be used to form the washer or the gasket 30, but it is known that silicone is an acceptable material in medical and pharmaceutical products because silicone is non-toxic. It is critical that any other material which might be selected for use be non-toxic and nondegradable during a steam-sterilization procedure.
In processes that have been used previously, it was found that polypropylene undergoes significant expansion and contraction during the sterilization process. This increased the likelihood of loose caps and leakage of material out of the bottle at the end of the processing.
The introduction of the rubber gasket between the screw-cap and the bottle absorbs pressures developed by expansion and contraction and prevents deformation of the cap 22, the cannula adapter 40, or the bottle 30 and substantially eliminates any problems with leakage. After the bottles are labeled and the caps prepared, the uncapped bottles are placed in an upright position in a tray preparatory for filling. In the average packaging operation, as many as several hundred of the bottles are placed in each of the trays and moved from the labeling area to the filling area. At that point each of the bottles is individually filled to the maximum point--even to the creation of a slight overflow. Filling to a maximum degree eliminates air being trapped in the bottle. Where air is retained in the bottle after filling and capping, which is a problem typical with prior art processes, the trapped air will expand and can produce a pressure greater than the over pressure created during the steam-sterilization cycle. This pressure causes an expansion of the softened polyproplene bottle. After the bottle cools, the expanded areas form dimples to a degree which is directly related to the amount of air in the bottle. In the present process the elimination of trapped air in the bottle eliminates the dimpling factor.
After filling, the trays of bottles are moved to a location where a plug-type adapter 40 is inserted into the neck of each bottle. Insertion of the adapter 40 (used for receiving a cannula) forces out excess liquid but leaves the bottle totally full. After the adapters are inserted, one of the prepared caps with the silicone washer therein is placed on each of the bottles and tightened by conventional method. The bottles are then externally rinsed and dried and inspected for defects.
The filled and capped bottles are then placed in a polycarbonate blister 50 of a conventional type, and the blister is sealed with a non-woven textile material lid 60 such as Tyvek™. The lids or seals 60 are placed on the blisters by use of a "zed" lidding machine of a conventional type. However, the non-woven textile material, Tyvek™, forming the lids 60 is not coated all over with an adhesive to seal it to the blister pack. Rather, the adhesive, or coating material illustrated at 70, is applied only to the area of the lid 60 which will be in contact with the polycarbonate blister. The uncoated portion of the lid is necessary to allow permeation of the lid by steam and air during the steam-sterilization. To further improve the movement of steam and air into and out of the packages, the sealed packages are placed in stainless steel, wire mesh sterilizing trays. The wire mesh permits the condensed water from the steam cycle to drain away and thereby improve the drying time of the packages and protect the seal from opening due to excess moisture. When the packages are placed in the sterilizing trays, they are placed blister-side-up in order to eliminate the weight of the bottle from the polycarbonate blister. When the packages are placed with the blister down and the weight of the bottle on the blister, the weight of the bottle is sufficient to deform the softened blister, frequently to the point where the seal opens. A further problem with placing the blister downward is the fact that as the air cools in the package the cooler air does not diffuse upwardly through the Tyvek™ lid. The use of the present process, however, allows the water to flow through the wire mesh tray and area 65 of the cooler air within the package to diffuse through the non-woven material which is not coated beyond the area of contact to the polycarbonate blister.
After the packages are arranged in the wire mesh trays, the trays are inserted in the autoclave where they are sterilized by use of an overpressure, steam-sterilization technique. An overpressure feature in a sterilization cycle is a technique wherein compressed air is introduced into the autoclave system at a level of approximately twenty-five psi to thirty psi while maintaining the steam temperature at approximately 121� C. A fan is also used in the autoclave to ensure total mixing of air and steam. While this system has been used for sterilization of other types of packages, it is previously unknown for use with semi-rigid, squeeze-type bottles. The sterilization process is continued on an automatically controlled basis for a predetermined time period. After sterilization is complete, the trays of packaged bottles are withdrawn and placed in a drying room for several hours. At the end of the drying period the individual packages are inspected for defects and are then stamped with lot numbers and expiration dates. Packages are then packed into crates or cartons and are ready for shipping and distribution. Obviously, samples are taken throughout the process and the sample materials subjected to full analyses for sterility and pyrogen tests to ensure that quality and F.D.A. standards are complied with. While a preferred embodiment of the process has been described above, it is not intended to limit the invention which is defined in the claims below.
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I felt the Kansas City meeting was one of our better BACE meetings. First the there "The Bible and Missional Change" was a call to help us ground the church's missional challenges in solid biblical theology. Dr. George Guthrie's presentation was especially focused and insightful. I was also impressed by the cultural dimensions of the meeting, from the multi-lingual program booklet to the worship service involving the Korean choir and later a rabbi for a service in Hebrew/English which engaged us in a recitation of the Shema. The participation of Christian education students made the conference a welcome multi-generational experience. The pre-conference mission tours were also a plus. I chose to visit the City Union Rescue Mission of Kansas City and was deeply touched by both the needs of the people they serve and the quality of ministry provided. As a result of this meeting, I returned home with a deeper commitment to the cause of Christian education in our churches.
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Once again, it's been some time since I've written a blog. For that matter it had been some time since I'd gotten out to railfan. Life, the loss of my old computer, and work updating my newest site, CLASS III Shortlines, have kept me away for a bit. No worries, the stuff I lost on that pc is totally recoverable and much will make up future Foothill Rails updates when I get
Updated September 20th, 2014 at 01:40 AM by John Barnhill
Thursday, 08 August 2013 21:01
All aboard, Historic Ione Train Depot rides the rails
On Thursday, on or about the noon hour, August 8, 2013, the City of Ione will be moving history. After living at its current location for just over 135-years, the historic Ione Depot departs from its old home to start a new life. Preservation of the historic icon started May 2010 with the exchange of $1 between Union Pacific Railroad and the City of Ione. It continues tomorrow with
Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:49 Martell Amador Central Railroad Depot sees the end of the line with demolition by owner SPI
Amador County Amador County Historical Society president Thornton Consolo said it was the end of the line starting Friday for the 107-year-old Amador Central Railroad Depot in Martell.
Consolo said the demolition began the morning of Friday, Aug. 8 with five workers disassembling the building so as to salvage as much lumber from
Engines fire up for this weekend's Railroad Days
Martha Garcia, Colfax Record Editor
Colfax Record, 10-04-12
Colfax continues to observe its railroad heritage this weekend when the community celebrates Union Pacifics 150th anniversary during the annual Colfax Railroad Days, presented by the Colfax Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with local service organizations and businesses.
Railroad Days, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct.
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AUBURN CA - Things are going to get eerily historic soon on the Mountain Quarries Railroad Bridge.
Plans are to use some temporary railroad tracks to position a 30,000-pound, oil-fired steam engine on the span over the American River in the canyon near Auburn something that hasnt been seen since the early part of the last century.
But this particular steam engine isnt just any old steam engine. Its the last surviving locomotive from the days
As part of the 100th Anniversary of the Mountain Quarries RR, the sole survining locomotive will be returning to Auburn for display at a couple of the events lined up. Transportation, storage, and repairs/painting are basically nailed down. Hopefully we will have her ready for showing at the Confluence Festival in June at the American River Overlook in Auburn. The major goal is to have her on display on the Mountain Quarries Bridge for the Grand Finale celebration in September. All we need
Iconic Auburn-area bridge turns 100
Gus Thomson/Auburn Journal
AUBURN CA - Whatever you may want to call it, Placer County loves its Mountain Quarries Railroad Bridge.
Painted, photographed and just plain admired, the span that some dare to call No Hands Bridge has reached the spry old age of 100, with plenty of structural stability left in its concrete-arch frame.
To celebrate the centennial of Mountain Quarries Railroad Bridge (thats the official name, although no
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the Mountain Quarries RR near Auburn,CA. Several events are in the planning stages or being finalized. This will hopefully culminate in having the single remaining locomotive posed on the "No Hands" Bridge in September. Alot of work is to still to be done to make this happen and eventually many volunteers may be needed to get'r done. I will be posting updates and event schedules as we go.
As for now, for starters, there is an Art
Train museum facing derailment?
City officials say they dont intend to displace rail group
By Don Chaddock Telegraph Managing Editor
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Bill Anderson, president of the Folsom, El Dorado, Sacramento Historic Railroad Association, walks through the Folsom Railroad Museum he helps staff. The museum, housed in a passenger car, is slated to be moved from
Up first this morning was a trip to Nevada City. Dave Braun recently passed away and his ex West Side/Swayne Lumber caboose is now at the railroad museum. Definately gonna take some work but plans are to restore her to the as built Swayne Lumber condition. Also caught the guys having some fun in the shop building a soapbox derby car.
The Nevada Co Traction hasn't run in awhile and while visiting the area, I was able to give it a onceover as well. Re-shot all the motive power. Seems
Historic Folsom Station project is slowly coming together
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In recent years, Folsom has seen development of river crossings, a light-rail extension, a new high school, a regional performing arts center and shopping venues galore.
Despite that passel of projects, Patrick Maxfield is most excited about what is still largely a hole in
Crane deposits locomotive
WORK CREWS steady a 22 ton Plymouth diesel locomotive as it is being lifted from a trailer onto the railroad tracks in the town of El Dorado Friday afternoon. Democrat photo by Pat Dollins
It wasnt wrapped, but the train engine that arrived in El Dorado on Friday, Dec. 17, might as well have had a big red ribbon on it.
The 22-ton
Preservation groups buy historic Amador Central Railroad
By Matt Weiser
Published: Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1B
The historic Amador Central Railroad, recently threatened with bulldozing, will remain open to recreational train travel following a sale to preservation groups.
Sierra Pacific Industries, a privately held logging company, agreed to sell the railroad to the Amador County Historical Society
Mark your calenders.
Survival of the historic SP Placerville Branch
July 07, 2010 04:50PM
The Placerville Branch from Folsom is owned by a JPA under rail banking legislation. Fedshra (Folsom, El Dorado Sacramento Historical Railroad Association) are trying to develop excursions and the El Dorado Western are developing a narrow gauge logging center on the upper part of the track to demonstrate its 3ft gauge Shay among other things.
Trails interests
May 19, 2010
Owner hopes to re-open shuttered train ride
By Kyle Magin
Staff Writer
A train ride through Nevada City history is stuck in the depot while its owner strives to attain state-required certification.
In November 2008, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health notified owners of the Nevada County Traction Co. they had to stop running a historically themed train operating on the grounds of Nevada City's Northern Queen


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L'Andana occupies a particularly auspicious parcel of land near western Tuscany's Tyrrhenian coast — Tenuta La Badiola was once the summer residence of the Grand Duke Leopold II, and today is as picturesque a collection of vineyards and sun-drenched foothills as one is likely to find anywhere in Italy. Despite this well-bred heritage, the estate's aristocratic connection is traded on rather lightly, trumped by an association with a more current name, that of its owner, the French star chef Alain Ducasse.
A seasoned hotel chef and auberge operator, Ducasse once vowed to stay out of Italy, only to be tempted by the sheer magic of this location, a few miles inland from the seaside town of Castiglione della Pescaia. Here you're remote enough to hide out for a while, if that's your style, yet equally well placed to see the sights, near enough to places like Siena and Lucca and the scenic Maremma coast to make for easy day-tripping.
It's not only about convenience, of course: this is the storybook Tuscan landscape, where the sun hangs low over the foothills, casting its golden light over rows of grapevines and olive trees. And it's apparent upon arrival that you're on to something special — the half-mile driveway, lined with cypresses and umbrella pines, makes for a stunning first impression.
The hotel itself amply delivers on this promise, with its rooms and suites spread across the duke's old villa and the connected farmhouse. Interiors by the Italian editor of Architectural Digest, Ettore Mochetti, are sophisticated, eschewing faux-rustic country clichés in favor of a more urbane and opulent look. After all, the mock unpretentiousness of the first-class country inn is no less a carefully considered pose than any other, and there's something refreshingly honest these days about a rural luxury hotel that dares to look luxurious.
Gone, then, are the crumbling, unpainted surfaces and the slightly mis-matched antique furnishings you might expect to see in a more typical farmhouse hotel. These pieces, though designed in an antique style, are custom-built and as new as the morning paper, set against a backdrop of sponge-painted pastel walls and shining new hardwood floors. Sofas are impossibly decadent and even the chaise in the bathroom (that's right) is comfortable enough to sleep on, should the urge to nap take you by surprise on your way to or from the oversized bath.
As for the atmosphere, it's a slightly odd blend of professional hospitality and guest-house intimacy, with breakfast ordered in the kitchen, right over the cook's shoulder, and served in the drawing rooms or out on the patio. For dinner it's over to the restaurant, a hundred-yard walk across the grounds to the old granary building, where a simple Tuscan cuisine is delivered with flourishes of Ducassian wit, accompanied by wines from L'Andana co-owner Vittorio Moretti's vineyards. Ingredients are fresh and unmediated, as is the current vogue, many, like the olive oil, produced on the grounds.
The old estate boasts some thousand-plus acres to explore at your leisure, and closer to home is the pool, where it's not uncommon to find your fellow guests passing entire afternoons soaking in the sunshine. There's an under-used outdoor squash court and a new nine-hole golf course. Despite the estate's aristocratic heritage, the sporting life, it seems, is less popular an attraction than the epicurean charms and quiet restfulness of the place. And if, as is likely, you'd like to take a bit of the dining experience home with you, the hotel's kitchen offers courses in Italian cooking, training would-be Ducasses on the finer points of Tuscany's culinary traditions.
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- Karen and Michael
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- Stayed August 2006
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Great place - we will return.
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- Stayed July 2006
- Rating: Excellent
A beautiful hotel. The rooms are spacious and beautifully decorated. The staff are wonderful; courteous but not obtrusive. The facilities, and spa in particular, are delightful. The one disadvantage is the location - there is a limited amount to see and do in the immediate area.