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Evans' Ninth-Inning Homer Helps Wilmington Avoid Sweep In Myrtle Beach
Catcher's First Home Run Of Season Comes In Huge Spot
By Seth Bernstein / Wilmington Blue Rocks | June 22, 2014 12:26 AM ET
Myrtle Beach, SC - With Wilmington trailing by a run and down to its final out in the top of the ninth inning, Zane Evans stepped to the plate and ripped a two-run homer to left, helping the Blue Rocks to a come-from-behind 8-7 victory Saturday over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. With the win, Wilmington avoided a sweep at the hands of the Pelicans and improved to 34-37 on the season and 1-2 in the second half.
Evans' ninth-inning homer was his first of the season and came with Raul Mondesi, the tying run, standing 90 feet away at third base. Mondesi singled to lead off the inning, then stole second base and advanced to third on a wild pitch. Evans gave the Blue Crew an 8-7 lead by drilling a 2-and-1 pitch from reliever Jose Monegro out of the ballpark to left.
Wilmington scored first in this back-and-forth affair, and took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Raul Mondesi led off the frame with a triple and then scored on an RBI single by Bubba Starling. A Jared Schlehuber groundout advanced Starling to second for Zane Evans and Cody Stubbs. Evans flew out to right, but Stubbs singled to left to plate Starling.
The Pelicans answered back in the bottom of the first inning with a run of their own to draw within 2-1. Chris Garia singled to lead off the inning and then stole second. He moved to third on a groundout by Hanser Alberto and then scored on Jorge Alfaro's RBI single.
In the bottom of the third inning, Myrtle Beach scored a pair of runs to take its first lead, 3-2. Kevin Torres singled with one out in the inning and moved to second on a groundout by Garia. Alberto then delivered a base hit to right, putting runners at the corners with two outs for Preston Beck. Torres scored from third on a balk by Glenn Sparkman; the balk also moved Alberto to second. Beck then ripped a double to right, driving home Alberto.
Myrtle Beach tacked on additional runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings while the Blue Rocks scored three times in the fifth, making the score 6-5 Pelicans after six. Wilmington's fifth-inning rally came in large part due to Mondesi, Starling and Schlehuber hitting three consecutive doubles to start the frame. Starling's two-bagger drove home Mondesi while Schlehuber's scored Starling. Stubbs followed with a groundout, moving Schlehuber to third. Michael Antonio then tripled, plating Schlehuber.
The teams traded eighth-inning runs, leaving Myrtle Beach ahead, 7-6, entering the ninth. Daniel Rockett slugged his first homer of the year in the top half of the eighth for Wilmington. Myrtle Beach answered in the home half of the eighth by scoring on a squeeze bunt by Christopher Bostick.
Kyle Bartsch (5-3, 3.20) earned his fifth win of the season for the Blue Rocks while Monegro (2-1, 1.80) suffered his first defeat for Myrtle Beach. Mark Peterson tossed two-thirds of a scoreless inning to pick up his Carolina League-leading 14th save.
Wilmington returns to action Sunday night at Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick. The Blue Rocks will send southpaw Jonathan Dziedzic (5-4, 2.80) to the mound, while the Keys will counter with righty Parker Bridwell (4-6, 4.38). First pitch is slated for 6:00 p.m. and fans can listen to the broadcast on 89.7 WGLS-FM. The Blue Rocks return home on Wednesday, June 25, to open up a three-game homestand against the Lynchburg Hillcats. For tickets, call 302-888-BLUE or visit BlueRocks.com.
Both Daniel Rockett and Zane Evans hit their first home runs of the season Saturday for the Blue Rocks. Rockett hit 11 homers last season for the Rookie-Level Idaho Falls Chukars and his most recent long ball was on September 2 against the Orem Owlz. Evans launched four homers for the Chukars a year ago and his most recent dinger was on August 14 against the Billings Mustangs. The two blasts were also Wilmington's first homers as a team in the second half. The Blue Rocks are last in the Carolina League in home runs. Collectively, they have hit only 27 this season. Each of the other seven Carolina League teams has hit at least 35.
Bubba Starling stayed hot Saturday night in Myrtle Beach and went 2-for-5 with two runs, a double and two RBIs. In the first three games of the second half, Starling is a combined 7-for-14 with a triple, two doubles, four runs and three RBIs. The outfielder endured a rough close to the opening half of his season and entered the All-Star break mired in an 8-for-57 slump. Starling has had moments of brilliance this season, though. His defense in center field has proved to be the best in the Carolina League. He also strung together a 15-game hitting streak between May 12 and May 26. The highlight of Starling's season may be the grand slam he hit off of Washington Nationals star Gio Gonzalez on June 6. Gonzalez was on a rehab assignment with the Potomac Nationals at the time. Overall this season, Starling is batting .202 with 15 doubles, three triples, three homers, 38 runs and 33 RBIs in 68 games.
Glenn Sparkman struggled Saturday for the first time as a starting pitcher. Entering play, Sparkman had yielded just one run on 14 hits and five walks in 23.2 innings since moving to the rotation in May. Last time out, he saw a streak of 21.2 scoreless innings as a starter snapped. Saturday, he let up three runs on five hits and one walk over three frames of work. On the season, Sparkman has posted a 3-1 record and a 1.79 ERA in 17 games (six starts). He has punched out 48 and walked 13 in 50.1 innings pitched.
Wilmington Blue Rocks manager Darryl Kennedy was ejected in the third inning for arguing a balk call that forced in the tying run at the time. The balk also moved the go-ahead run into scoring position. It was Kennedy's third ejection of the campaign and his first of the second half. On June 4, he was ejected between the sixth and the seventh innings by home plate umpire Chase Eade after he came out to argue following a Zane Evans strikeout. Kennedy's first ejection of 2014, also in Myrtle Beach, was on April 19. In that game, both Kennedy and Raul Mondesi were thrown out in the fourth inning after arguing a strike call by home plate umpire Ryan Wills. Mondesi was hit in the foot by a Cody Ege pitch, but Wills called it a strike, ruling that the 18-year-old prospect had swung at it. Mondesi and Kennedy argued their case, but were both quickly thrown out.
Saturday night's win in Myrtle Beach was the Blue Crew's first win at TicketReturn.Com Field this season and it improved the Rocks' record against the Pelicans this year to 3-10. Still, though, Wilmington has been outmatched both at home and on the road this season against Myrtle Beach. The Rocks are 2-4 at Frawley Stadium against the Pelicans and they are now 1-6 at TicketReturn.Com Field. Wilmington's numbers against Myrtle Beach this year are not pretty. As a team, the Rocks are batting just .207 with 45 runs scored and three home runs in 13 games against the Pelicans. The pitching staff has posted a 5.64 ERA against the Pelicans, who are collectively batting .272 against Blue Rocks hurlers. Myrtle Beach has also slugged 10 home runs against the Blue Crew, far and away the most allowed to any team by Wilmington. No other team in the league has hit more than four dingers off of the Rocks' pitching staff. Pelican pitchers have a 2.58 ERA in the head-to-head series, but they have walked 57 Rocks in 111.2 innings.
Manager Darryl Kennedy:
"I'll tell you what. I'm extremely proud of the way they battled tonight. Time after time, getting some clutch base hits. I'm just very proud of the way they kept fighting. They fought tonight. I knew they had it in them. I was just hoping we'd get that one game, and maybe this is that one game, that we needed to start believing a little bit in ourselves. They did it tonight. Zane [Evans], you know, has been looking for that home run all year, especially since the one that was called foul. It was fun to watch, sitting here watching the TV, him connect with that. As soon as he swung the bat and hit it, I knew it was gone. It was fun, a very fun game to watch. I'm just extremely proud of the guys."
"We're three games into the second half and I really liked what I saw tonight from those guys. Especially from the guys who struggled in the first half, the guys coming from rookie ball [like Zane Evans and Daniel Rockett], who have started to settle in. Hopefully we can get those two guys going and continue [with] our other guys getting it going; [Raul] Mondesi tonight with three hits [for example]. He and Bubba [Starling] are a big part of our lineup and you look tonight and, between the two of them, they had five hits and scored five runs. If those two guys can contribute on a nightly basis, I think we should be all right."
Catcher Zane Evans:
"I'd been seeing a bunch of off-speed pitches all day…I was getting all off-speed. I got two sliders to start and then I chased those. Then I got two changeups and fouled them off. Then I knew he was coming back with a slider and it was right where I was looking for it. I was really trying to battle right there and I just put the bat on the ball and things went my way, so it was nice."
"[Raul Mondesi's stolen base] kind of changes my at-bat. Now I can kind of just get the ball out to the outfield somewhere and I know he's going to score because he's so fast."
"To start the season, [Daniel Rockett and I] had a bet going, where the first person to hit a home run would get 20 bucks. As you can tell, in the first half, we both hit zero. We were walking back the other night to the hotel after our first game and he was like, 'we need to take the bet off because it might be a little jinx on us.' So we took the bet off and we both came through tonight and got a home run. It was difficult in the first half. I got some different pitches I wasn't used to seeing. I got a lot more off-speed and had to make a nice adjustment. Hopefully I can continue off of tonight."
Right-Fielder Daniel Rockett:
"We always, for some reason, have a tough time for Myrtle Beach. We'll go up early and then they'll just come right back. And then it just kind of takes a breath out of us, just playing them. It was just long and luckily we came out with a win."
"[This was big], especially since earlier in the season we were getting torn up by them. They were stroking our pitchers and their pitchers were striking us out. It felt really good to get the win."
"I kind of have to give some credit [for the home run] to [Michael] Antonio, because he saw a bunch of pitches and I saw pretty much every pitch that he had even though I wasn't at the plate yet. He was throwing a lot of [off-speed pitches], even when he was down in the count. Whenever I got down, I was just kind of, I don't want to necessarily say looking off-speed, but I was just looking for it."
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Wauwatosan recalls life, achievements, family
Former radio personality Betty Mosher champions theatre in Wauwatosa
A slice of radio and theater history lives in Wauwatosa and goes by the name of Betty Mosher.
Mosher, who married her high school sweetheart, has a storied history which includes working in the 1940s as a radio personality, raising four daughters (two of which move on to work in Broadway musicals), being a founding member of Wauwatosa Children's Theatre and the Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa and working as a Docent in the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Although she has accomplished much and touched many lives, eventually earning Citizen of the Year award alongside Theo Baier in 1995 for her theater involvement, she is modest about her work.
"I felt that there were many more people worthy of that honor," she said of winning Citizen of the Year, "but I was honored to be chosen."
A Milwaukee native, Mosher was active in theater as a child. She was cast in many lead roles in high school and moved to Los Angeles and Chicago to chase her dream of becoming a movie star.
It wasn't a lack of opportunity that brought her back to Milwaukee, as she was offered a few leads in LA. It was her family and her high school sweetheart - captain of the football team Rick Mosher - that called her back. She abandoned her big screen dreams to marry him, start a family and invest in her community.
Shortly after moving back, she landed a radio gig on WMLO, 1290 AM, as a host for Schuster's Musical Kitchen. She would serve up recipes and household advice in the show, with a dash of music thrown in for flavor. Guests would call in and mail suggestions to her for recipes or musical suggestions.
"It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it," Mosher said. "It was my notoriety for the world."
An American love story
Mosher's time in the radio, and Milwaukee, were short lived. Her husband served in the air force in World War II, flying cargo between bases and transporting celebrities to USO shows. He stayed in the U.S. until he was called to fly in the Berlin Airlift, where he flew food and supplies to beleaguered Germans.
Betty Mosher wasn't about to leave his side. While her husband was in the U.S., she traveled the country with him while raising two daughters.
When he came back to the states in the early 50s, the two decided to make a home for themselves in Wauwatosa.
"A story about Betty would be incomplete without mentioning Rick," her daughter Laurie Mosher said. "My dad just completely adored her and worshipped her. They had an incredible love story and were married for 69 years. He would always open a door for her and stand up when she walked into a room. She was his princess."
When Rick Mosher passed away a few years ago, Laurie Mosher recalled receiving letters and stories about her parent's blossoming love throughout high school and their lives.
While in Wauwatosa, Rick and Betty Mosher had four daughters, three of which were deeply involved in theater. Their involvement, plus Betty Mosher's deep roots in theater, forced Rick Mosher into participating, a role he was happy to serve. He even ended up acting in a few performances.
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Wauwatosa theater was in a much different state than it is now when Betty Mosher moved to Wauwatosa. There were no theater groups outside of school productions in the 1950s when she came, but that was about to change.
Mosher worked with a group of theatrically-minded Wauwatosans including Norma Muth, who founded the Children's Theatre of Wauwatosa, and Byrll Hoelke, who founded the Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa.
The groups worked feverishly to extend the reach of theater beyond the schools, hosting plays mainly at Hawthorne and Longfellow middle schools. They were met with what Mosher describes as open arms from the Wauwatosa community.
On the importance of community theater, Mosher said she could write a long dissertation on the subject.
"It helps young people express themselves," she said. "It gives another area for young people to enter into if they so desire and have talent and direction. A whole new world opens up for them when they express themselves. Many young people don't know they're good performers until they are on stage."
A family tradition
When Mosher wasn't busy helping start, direct and find talent for two theater groups in Wauwatosa, she was raising her four daughters.
Times where at least one of her daughters wasn't involved in a play were few and far between.
Debra Pyzyk, Laurie Mosher's older daughter, was involved in Wauwatosa Trailer Theater, a troop that would act from a trailer hauled from playground to playground. Trailer Theater is no more in Wauwatosa, but Laurie Mosher remembers watching her older sister perform with the troop.
While Betty Mosher is described as encouraging and uplifting by her daughters, she was never overbearing and shuns the term stage mother.
"I worked with so many pushy mothers," Betty Mosher said. "I never wanted to be a pushy mother. I think the kids gravitated in that direction because they enjoyed it and they were good at it I must say, as a mother."
Two of her daughters were so good at it they landed shows on Broadway. Her daughter Christine Mosher was in the original cast of "Nunsense" and Laurie Mosher acted in Broadway's "Annie" and "Grease." Pyzyk, while landing several lead roles in high school productions, moved to St. Louis to start a business with her husband.
Betty Mosher continued to be supportive of her daughters, making several trips to New York to see them perform.
"That's a thrill for a parent to have a child in something they've done and loved," she said. "It was a source of much happiness for me, you bet. And pride. I was very proud of them. I'm still proud of them."
While retaining her love for theater, Betty Mosher had to withdraw from active work for the Wauwatosa Children's Theatre and the Village Playhouse at the age of 80. She found a way to keep her theatrical flair alive by working as a docent for the Milwaukee Public Museum. She would speak with a cockney accent for some exhibits, or act as a character on the Titanic for the 2008 exhibit.
Laurie Mosher currently drives her mother to movies and productions. One of their more recent forays took them to Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," a slave-revenge shoot-em-up. Laurie Mosher said that her mother was absolutely delighted to see the movie and picked up on all the nuances of the film.
On theater in Wauwatosa, Betty Mosher shared some words of wisdom: "Look into what Wauwatosa has to offer and encourage your children. I think theater is a wonderful avenue for children to express themselves."
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Perfect kid friendly environment with lots of activities for children. Childcare services Food was average. Not enough selections. My husband and I stayed out late 2 nights and could not find any food or drinks anywhere on the location when we got back. We were told that it is non-existent after 1am which diminishes the whole point of being all-inclusive. No mini bar in the room. Not even complimentary soda or bottled water in the refrigerator.
The rooms were nice the staff was great overall 5 star
The food was very good, rooms and view were excellent. The only complaint is the music went on a bit later in the night. Not terrible, but since I was there for business, I didn't get as much sleep as I would have liked.
Loved the restaurants and food..staff was excellent and very friendly.. hotel was very clean. I am very happy we chose the Hyatt Ziva. We can't wait to get back.
The hotel is wonderful and the staff is great - food and drinks were top notch also! Highly recommend -
Adults only and the staff was amazing! The staff was so kind went out of their way for you and always so sweet. They remember you after only meeting you once! It was mostly couples which isn't a bad thing but could be annoying for some. It's a long way from most excursions. It's not a 5 Star compared to American Standards but for sure a 4-4.5!
My girlfriend and I were extremely comfortable from start to finish. Impeccably friendly staff and delicious food and drinks included in the purchase. BEWARE: the Romantic Dinner, wine, and Spa options are deceptively not included in the "all inclusive" purchase, and prices aren't available until you express interest to the concierge. Awkward to find out when you're there.
Those were the nicest people I have ever met on a vacation! The place was just dreamy and yet fun and the food was outstanding. Didn't get to go to the club but I enjoyed the shows. Some were a little hokey, but they tried to give a little something for the adult and the children. Very good with the kids! Exercise programs were great...I did a power walk which was really a power walk through half of the golf course and a spinning class class and water aerobics....which taught me some lessons to use use in other places. Even the servers were entertaining (Omelet man and stir fry grill.) in my room I got te sunrises everyday. And from various location you could see spectacular sunsets as well. I am definitely coming back and telling everyone. I also believe the stay to be a great deal for all that is included. I loved the water slide and lazy river too. The beach was very nice too! they are expanding the beach area and adding to the facility. Now the beach was nice to me! But we went to Doctor's Cave beach too and OMG! That was the clearest water I have ever seen! It was spectacular. The Hilton's beach cannot compare to this one. I believe the Doctors Cave is a natural beach, while the Hilton is man made.....the difference is clear. They were doing some construction while we were on the beach. That was noisy, but didn't take away my enjoyment. The one of the elevators was broken most of the time we were there which was to me the most annoying thing because it took a longer than normal time to go upstairs and get back down.
The staff was friendly and accommodating. The rooms were clean and comfortable and housekeeping was great. The beach on the east side of the resort doesn't have as many kids, which was a plus since we were a couple only. Not enough food options. The buffet restaurant was ok for breakfast, but not for dinner. Very odd combinations of food. They need at least another restaurant for more variation. The beach is not huge and the sand is really odd. It's very firm and the beach has a lot of seaweed, which is not the hotel's problem, just a data point.
Staff was untrained and rude, amenities were not as stated on website, food was limited selection and not good, room had mold so had to be transferred to another. Overall there for 3 nights and was not pleased
The staff was nice and the beds were comfy The best beach area costs an additional $100/day for a Cabana and the Moonstone restaurant took 4 hours from waiting till receiving food. We also learned a Jamaican minute means about 30-60 mins.
I loved the location , the view and the staff were very friendly. The food and drinks were excellent. I didn't like how close the rooms were to each other. Every night my boyfriend and I heard Baby crying all night. Also I would have like to seen more tours available.
This was our second vacation at the Hilton Rose Hall and we were pleasantly surprised to see all the improvements to the facilities. Within the last 6 months they added new balconies to all the rooms, a new beachside restaurant, approximately half mile of additional beach, and appear extending 100 feet into the ocean with a beautiful view of the hotel. Our first trip was with our two children but we decided to return alone for our second trip. Due to the recent expansion, the resort never appeared to be crowded. Since most of the families stayed close to v lazy river pool, the other pool always seemed very quiet and relaxing. We even had a chance to speak to the manager within the next year or two. Can't wait to return with my children.
Hot tub with falls was quite interesting There was no freezer in mini fridge. Ackee and saltfish should be available for breakfast daily
The beach and pool were beautiful, and that's about it. The staff were terrible. The female staff HATE the female guests and treat them horribly, and the male staff stare at you with an air of perversion. Additionally, the food, compared to other all-inclusive resorts (like in the Dominican) was absolutely disgusting. We will not be returning.
Fantastic services staff and the food and entertainment was excellent. Saff, food, service
-quiet, don't have to deal with drunk people -friendly staff -modern room -nice clean private beach -not too far from all the main attractions (walking distance to the great house in rose hall, about 1.5 hours away from negril and about an hour away from dunns river and blue hole) -only 3 a la carte restaurants and overall, the food was just ok -good if you request for a non adjoining room. otherwise you are separated from the other room by a door -did not get too much of a luxurious all inclusive vibe (compared to my other all inclusive experience in mayan riviera at the princess resort grand sunset) -wifi is extremely unreliable if your room is not close to the main lobby area
Staff was wonderful and concerned about our comfort. Meals and grounds were excellent. Bed was very comfortable and the use of a shuttle was a plus. Carpet in hallways could use a bit of upgrade. While bed was comfortable, room was not particularly welcoming. Very bare - one or two pictures on wall might help. Did not like the fact that so much of the dining areas were open.
This all inclusive, was top rate. The food, room, and butler service were all top notch. My wife and I, attended a wedding on the resort, and the staff did a great job.
This was our 3rd visit to the Iberostar Grand and it was equally as successful as the last two. The hotel strives to make your stay as pleasurable as possible and they definitely succeed. The rooms are spacious and comfortable with plenty of closet and drawer space. The bathroom set up with the 2 sinks also a bonus. Our butlers worked hard to exceed our expectations! The selections at the breakfast and lunch buffets are extensive and delicious and the staff will accommodate any request if possible. The staff is friendly, professional, and truly interested in making your holiday as perfect as possible. We hated to leave but will definitely be back next year! The chair situation remains a bit of a problem. Many guests do save their spots at both the pool and the beach and then never use them. This is selfish rude behavior with no regard to the other guests but it's hard to find a solution to eliminate this behavior. It is more of a problem when the hotel is extremely busy. In a perfect world (!) i would prefer an additional dining option for dinner.
My husband and I stayed at the Rose Hall Suites April 25- May 1, 2012. We have been to Cancun several times, and other parts of Mexico. This was by far our favorite trip!! Other than 1 flight delay and a little bit of rain- we had NO PROBLEMS at all. The resort was excellent, beautiful grounds, great food, great people, the beach was beautiful. We had a great time and really enjoyed every minute of our vacation. We will definitely go back!! Take advantage of the free snorkeling at the resort- we went every day and saw a TON of fish, lobsters, rays, crabs, etc. The free snorkeling gear is only good for an hour a day :(- we would have gone for much longer, if available, but next time we will take our own. We reserved the shuttle for the hotel from the airport before our departure and it all ran smoothly, and very affordable! We had a great time and I would recommend this resort to anyone.
Loved staying at the Iberostar. The staff was super nice, the rooms were fairly large and very clean, food was good, there was a lot of entertainment and things to do. Our brother in law went to Montevideo Bay last summer and stayed at the Sandles and paid a lot more than we did for the same ammenities and same star rating. We can't wait to go back!!
This resort certainly fits the criteria of 'paradise'. I found it to be just as beautiful in real life as any picture would have made it seem. Both the architecture and landscaping are a sight to see as well as the layout of the pool and restaurants. Most of the staff, as expected, were kind, helpful, and sincerely friendly/hospitable. The service was excellent, which was a relief, because you certainly pay for it! However, for the type of food selection, music, and entertainment that are offered, the price is very reasonable. We stayed at the Beach resort, the most economical resort of the three, with a 3 month old baby, and the setting of the hotel was conducive to our needs as well as the needs of our baby. Everyone made us feel right at home. I truly recommend anyone and everyone to visit Iberostar Resort for an experience that you will never forget nor regret!!!!
My husband and I visited Iberostar Rose Hall Suites for a friend's wedding. We had a great time. The resort is beautiful. It is very clean and the rooms are very nice. The balcony is a nice size and we had a beautiful view of the pool and ocean. The food was ok. The Cajun restaurant was good. The buffet was good if you go during the first few hours but if you go towards the last hour there is hardly any food left and whatever is left tastes like its been sitting out all day. The beach is beautiful and very clean. The resort offers free snorkeling, catamarans and kayaking. I missed my children very much but there is free wifi in the lobby so I was able to Skype with them from my iPad everyday.
The staff was very helpful and tried to do whatever you asked. The a la carte restuarants need improvement. The service was slow and they are only partial a la carte. The Japanese restuarant rushed our group out before we could get dessert.
This resort was everything we expected from a fine hotel. Everyone on their staff was courteous and helpful, they couldn't do enough for you. Excellent room, clean, non-smoking, and all the amenities you would expect. Great food, lots of activities during the day if you wish to participate, live shows every night in the theater. We will definitely be going back.
my wife and I like hotel hopping we visit the Riu in ocho rios , and the jamaica grand only the riu came closed the Iberostar suite is the best.
beautifull hotel, pleasant staff would definately go back
This all inclusive vacation package was by far the best trip ever. The booking was very easy to do over the internet and all we had to do was pack and wait till departure day. After a great flight it was refreshing to find the hotel was only a short distance from the airport and with the expidated check in we were relaxing and on the beach in no time. Our room left nothing to be desired: well appointed, clean, very comfortable bed and pillows, stocked mini bar with an awesome ocean view. By the second day we already knew we were headed for putting on a few extra pounds due to fact that the food was wonderful. Aside from the nightly filet mignon and lobster I enjoyed the selection of local fare which was unique and quite tasty. The staff was so accomodating, always smiling and asking if we were enjoying ourselves or needed anything. We would book this same vacation again and are already planning it.
Lots of water activities at the hotel, great beach. The buffet was amazing in its variety - lots of fresh fruits, fruit drinks, great vegetable dishes, seafood and desserts. Enjoyed the beach, pool and pool bar. Make your dinner reservations the day you arrive as there always seemed to be people waiting to make theirs. The good news is that they spend lots of time helping you, the bad news is when you are waiting to make yours! Not sure why this takes so long? The beach and pool had plenty of chairs. Watched several weddings on the beach. Water was clear and calm - enjoyed seeing 2 rays in the water which I think is not too common. No peddlers on the beach which I appreciated. The staff were friendly and helpful; however, there was often a wait to talk to someone at the front desk. Was told they would get with me in about 5 minutes to check in; meanwhile, others kept walking up with questions - took a lot longer for them to get me checked in. Need to be patient in Jamaica! Wish they ...
The staff was always friendly and attentive, but the quality of the food and drink was erratic. If four people in our group ordered the same entree, two of them would be acceptable and two might be completely inedible. Drinks at the bars would range from completely watered down to so strong that my wife couldn't drink them. This was the theme for our entire stay. Even at the 'gourmet' restaurant, the food was just 'good'when it was executed well and quite bad when it wasn't. Another down side is that there's not much to do if you want to get off the resort property. Just a couple of tourist-oriented restaurants (Margarittaville) and some high-end shops a very expensive cab-ride away.
The hotel was absolutely amazing! The food on the other hand was not excellent, but it wasn't disgusting either.
This motel had wonder staff from the front desk to the maid service ! The food was excellent So much to choose from! There were many activities to choose from, pools, beach areas, and fun shows in the evenings. We had a great time!
There were not enough fitness classes
The name of the hotel was Sunset Beach Resort and Water Spa and not the name aforementioned The staff and workers were polite, the meals good, scenery exellent. The rooms clean, the entire hotel and ground properly kept. Safety was paramount and those made the stay enjoyable.
The manager Ms. Maxwell is the best. If there was an issue, she personally address it ito your satisfaction.. It took some time before our rooms were ready. However, the manager took care of the issue. We were 200 percent satisfied and the entire stay was
We traveled with our twelve year old daughter and spent our first leg of our trip in Negril and extended our stay a couple of days and picked what looked like something that would be a good spot for her age, well it was exactly that, the water park and all-inclusive amenities were a perfect way to end the vacation. We are not all inclusive travelers but this resort was comfortable, relaxed and very family friendly!
While we were staying at this resort our room was cleaned every day. Food, drink, gym, games, entertainments with live music were excellent, super Oceanview from our room. I recommend this place to everyone.
The walls are THIN. You can hear everything that happens in neighboring rooms. You pay extra to have an oceanfront view but, the oceanfront views are on top of the loudest parts of the resort.
The courtesy of the staff. Seems very natural and not staged or rehearsed. From the heart.
Everything picky eatter BUT i enjoyed the food nice restaurants
Sleeping in hammocks poolside, food, bartenders, lifeguards, everyone was extremely friendly & helpful. No partition between shower/wash basins & sleeping quarters (friends trip).
All good we had Jacuzzi on the deck oceanfront.only way to stay.oceanview not good spend the extra special restaurant over rated still perfect but buffet has everything plus some.room service none.like 3 things u can order.hot tub in living room never use cause we had jacuzzi on patio deck.party life ends @11 after that nothing really to do on resort. Do ur research on jamaica history its so sad the country get rob left and right.first off I went to the mountains not just the resort to see for my self.no WATER no where dought over 2 years .mean while hotels and resorts dont pay taxes the airports are run by Canada. So jamaica get no money for resorts or hotels and no money from airports the 2 most major things they have to offer they get cut out...America robs them of they red clay dirt you should see the land where they dug out the clay dirt all over the mountains. (To make cars and metals with the dirt) All they want you to see is the resorts and water...
I went on a a Bussines trip, the place was ok for a Hotel at that price, good location, can get on the hip strip real fast, But it need a renovation so badly it seem Stuck in the Mid 90's. My room was one the one facing the street and noise of the cars at day time is very high, but at night it get calm. No TV in the room, and the TV that was on the living room was the one that Cristhoper Columbus Used in his first trip to the americas. Overall a Ok Hotel, if they renewd it can be great.
Location Lousy air condition... didn't sleep well thru out entire stay
This hotel was ok. The staff was very nice and friendly, and the customer service was very good. The rooms were average, nothing fancy. The restaurant and bar onsite is convenient, and the free conventional breakfast was above average. The dinner was about average. For the price, the hotel was not bad. If you're on a tight budget, then this is the place to be. Also, it's right across the street from Doctor's cave beach, which was a big plus. The hotel gives you free daily passes since that beach is not free. My main complaint was that there's only AC in the bedrooms, so it was very hot in the living room. Also, there is no ocean view from any of the rooms, but the view from the bar/restaurant was gorgeous.
the food and the service of staff the maintaince ac not working, fridge stop working and old tv , ac only in the bedroom, and the other areas the celing fans did not work
I like the easy access to the beach and Hip Strip No air conditioning in the suite area. Very hot.
F Revocation, the place look the same from when I stay there in 2004 .
The opportunity to cook my own meals. Fiod is very expensive in the heart of mobay soo cooking make it cheaper and easier.Secondly , you have acess to both roads making travelling a breeze. The bell guy Chris is awesome. Make you want to returned. He gives 100%hospitality . House keeping, she was very lazy.
The staff was great and the food was amazing. The location to the airport can't be beat. The wifi and air conditioning could do with an overhaul, but those were the only main concerns I had.
the hotel staff was well above friendly they all worked hard never stopped working always wanted to help you in any way the best resort i ever stayed at the best assocates ever they had a sewage leak at spa every day you had to walk by it to get to everthing at resort the smell was very bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you walk by to go eat 5 times aday smell bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! all 6 days and nights jerry barron stayed 8 -28 to 9-3
The fresh fruit juices, jerk chicken on the beach, the water aerobics The lack of available restaurant reservations, by the time we checked in they were all taken for the entire duration of our flight. The food was full of MSG, the buffet was like a shark tank feeding frenzy, dangerous at times with people running every direction and trying to get their food before you. The bar line was always a 10-15 minute wait, even after we tipped the bartenders generously. The pool chairs were completely reserved before 8am, reserved with towels but people were not there the entire day. We never once had a chair at the pool and there were 60+ each time just sitting there reserves but their "owners" we're no where near the pool area. The staff should not allow chairs to be reserved all day long whenever people are not using them. We paid the same amount for the all inclusive and did not enjoy a chair at the pool, a meal in the speciality restaurant!!!! The shops across the street were a rip off and the locals demanded tips for everything. They were not helpful, just wanted our money and were not shy in asking for it. I will never travel to Jamacia or any Riu properties again, this was my second Riu and was worst than the first sub par property.
Jamaica has fantastic weather compared to snow and cold! The beaches were nice and clean. Pool was fantastic. There are many opportunities (+$) available with buses/taxis always ready within minutes to get you anywhere (+$). The food is pretty good but don't expect high quality. You should think ordinary buffet in the US. The only specialty restaurant that you should go to is the steak place. Unfortunately, like the other places, you won't be able to get a reservation even though the place WILL be empty when you walk by repeatedly. So, just go 15 mins after seating and then you can jump right in (done). Except for the steak place, the Italian and Asian food can all be obtained in the regular buffet line so it isn't very special. If you have food allergies/issues, you are on your own. Service everywhere is hit or miss. You'll be amazed by the service and then let down the next hour. I think training would go a long way. The amazing service is pretty much just the attitude of the employee. If you are looking for fun only, this place is great. If you are looking for luxury/quality/food/etc, go elsewhere.
I was very relax in this hotel the staff was nice and friendly
The staff were all very polite. Very engaging
Very friendly staff, good food. New Jamaican smoking laws prohibit smoking on most of the property except designated areas, of which there are only two.
Great service; the staff was very friendly and responsive. The shower was great (poor water pressure is a deal breaker for me). Balconies off every room make great places to watch the amazing sunrise and sunset. I got an ocean view room which was totally worth the extra money. The room furnishings are dated and the mattress felt like it was made of concrete. The food in Rose Hall left a great deal to be desired, especially at dinner; I was expecting a more expansive selection of Jamaican food.
the stairs to the rooms in the back could use some number plate on the walls showning directions to them. Security could be more visible in the back areas or use outdoor camers to monitor. overall , excellent value for the price n great location for the beaches.
Staff was great!!! Nice view, breakfast was very good, wifi in the lobby was great. Hotel rooms could use updating, but were still in ok condition-just nothing fancy or new.
Doctors Cave beach was a walk away, and the Pork Pit. EVERYTHING. THE BEDS ARE HARD AS ROCKS, PILLOWS HARD AS ROCKS, TV BARELY WORKS, A/C WORKS BARELY, NOISEY AT NIGHT, NOT SAFE AT NIGHT, SECURITY LETS LOCALS HANG OUT IN HOTEL LOBBY SEEMINGLY TO USE FREE WI-FI, I WILL NEVER STAY HERE AGAIN. I HAD A TEN DAY TRIP SCHEDULED AND LEFT 5 DAYS EARLY BECAUSE I DID NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE OR SAFE HERE.


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This centerpiece of CIRQUE-A-PALOOZA takes place on The Playhouse mainstage for select evenings of the CIRQUE-A-PALOOZA festival. Starring artists who have starred in Cirque du Soleil shows from around the world, mixed with local luminaries, comics, magicians, jugglers, acrobats, singers and surprise guests. Conceived and directed by Stefan Haves, ROAD TO PALOOZA: A CIRQUE VARIETY SPECTACULAR will also feature the swinging Palooza Band and Singers with original music by Emmy-nominated composer Philip Giffin. An immersive, in-your-face cavalcade of comedy and the sublime, the ROAD TO PALOOZA variety shows will surprise you every night with a different lineup of new acts you'll not want to miss. All roads lead to Palooza - a place of wonder, whimsy and eccentric oddities. Arrive early and revel in the pre-show festivities with street performers roving The Playhouse courtyard greeting you and inviting you into this modern day vaudeville event! Then stay afterwards for our late-night burlesque and off-beat acts in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre, hosted by pancake juggler Scot Nery.
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McCain 2 Ready Baked Jackets Frozen 400g
Product Description
At McCain we take real, simple ingredients and prepare them with care. No artificial colours or flavours, no hydrogenated fats... just real and convenient food that you can trust and enjoy.
Potato Jackets Story
...Cross Cut
Slow Bake...
Product Information
- Brands: McCain
- Dietary & Lifestyle: Kosher, Vegetarian, Gluten Free
Keep frozen at -18°C or below.
If thawed do not refreeze.
Cooking Instructions - General. The following cooking instructions are for 1 or 2 McCain Ready Baked Jackets. For smaller quantities reduce the cooking time accordingly. For best results cook from frozen. Do Not overcook!; Microwave - From Frozen. Remove from carton and place your McCain Ready Baked Jackets in the microwave oven. Cook on full power. Allow to stand for 2 minutes before serving. Ensure potato is piping hot throughout before eating.
1 Potato: Cat B / 650W 5 mins 10 secs, Cat D / 750W 5 mins, Cat E / 850W 4 mins 30 secs.
2 Potatoes: Cat B / 650W 8 mins 10 secs, Cat D / 750W 7 mins 40 secs, Cat E / 850W 7 mins.
Leave to stand for 2 minutes after cooking.
Please take care: After cooking the potato will be very hot!
Please note: all microwave ovens vary - you may need to adjust cooking times to suit your own model. Do not leave microwave oven unattended while cooking. Do not use this product after the best before date.; Oven cook - From Frozen. Preheat the oven to 220°C / 430°F / Gas Mark 7.
For fan assisted ovens that's 210°C / 425°F.
Place your McCain Ready Baked Jackets onto a baking tray and pop them into the middle of the oven. Bake for 45 - 55 minutes, until they're lovely and crisp.
McCain Foods (GB) Ltd,
Freepost NEA 11518,
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Full Product Name:
Ready baked jacket potatoes cross and drizzled with sunflower oil
Keep frozen
Star Marked Frozen Food Compartment *** Or Food Freezer† Until best before end date
Star Marked Frozen Food Compartment ** One month
Star Marked Frozen Food Compartment * One week
†Should be -18°C or below
If thawed do not refreeze
2 Servings
Additional Information:
On the front of our packs, we show the amount of fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt in our products and have colour coded it to help you choose a healthier diet. Green indicates a low content, amber a medium content and red a high content as defined by the Department of Health. We also show the percentage a serving contributes to an adult's daily Reference Intake. For more information visit our website www.mccain.co.uk
Allergen Information
Allergens can be found in the ingredients list
Free From Gluten
Allergy Advice: For allergens see highlighted ingredients
Potatoes, Sunflower Oil
Dietary Information
Free From Artificial Colours
Free From Artificial Flavours
Nutritional Data
|Typical Values
|Per 100g Frozen
|Per Potato Oven Baked
|Per Potato Microwaved
|Energy kJ
|Fat g
|of which saturates g
|Carbohydrate g
|of which sugars g
|Fibre g
|Protein g
|Salt g
Customer Reviews
03 April 2017
good price and convenient. British specialist hubbie approved. We always have it in the freezer to use when needed. Delicious with prawn cocktail.
21 March 2017
Much better than I expected
I only like Maris Piper potatoes to bake. Normally I would go to M&S because the Ocado ones were dreadful but with a broken leg this isn't an option so I bought these to use up some hummus and was very pleasantly surprised.
28 November 2016
Something brown and hard inside
I bought a pack of these and to my disgust there was something large hard and brown inside, sent a picture to McCain's twitter account and saw there were many more!!- I usually buy the banisters farm baked potatoes as they are lovely, but they were out of stock.Suffice to say I will never buy these again as a substitute!!
07 November 2016
0 of 3 found this review helpful.
I just don't understand this product. If you're short on time and want a quick after-work meal, DON'T CHOOSE A JACKET POTATO. Jacket potatoes do take time, so save them for when you can shove a potato in the oven for an hour while you do something else. It takes less effort to bake a potato than it did to reheat this weird frozen baked potato and dispose of the packaging. Why waste your freezer space on this? I just don't understand.
09 May 2016
1 of 1 found this review helpful.
Talk about a Spud Missile!
I was pleasantly surprised. All the taste of a real oven baked jacket, the gteat health benefits, and a small fraction of the time and effort! also no chance of it sitting in your veg basket going off as it lives in the freezer. Evenly soft inside and though the outside was not super crispy, it still had that great potatoey taste and i found it easier to chew than an oven baked one. Would recommend as a quick convenient base for a meal, could even be taken to work for lunch!
Steamed Mackerel, Spring Onion & Creme Fraiche McCain Ready Baked Jackets
When you want a delicious and satisfying lunch that's ready in a flash, you can't beat a McCain Ready Baked Jacket – slow-baked by us in the oven so that you can simply heat them up in just 5 minutes. Why not try your McCain Jacket with this quick and yummy mackerel, spring onion and crème fraiche topping?
9 mins
Chunky Chorizo & Juicy Tomato McCain Ready Baked Jackets
When you want a delicious and satisfying lunch that's ready in a flash, you can't beat a McCain Ready Baked Jacket – slow-baked by us in the oven so that you can simply heat them up in just 5 minutes. Why not try your McCain Jacket with this quick and yummy chorizo and tomato topping?
9 mins
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"We had a family-style dinner service with Texas BBQ – baked beans, cornbread, pulled pork, blackened fish and grilled chicken," says Nancy. "We also had Texas-inspired cocktails including The Mexican Martini, the famous drink from one of our favorite Austin bars."
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Romance Languages and Literatures
As a faculty member, can I access the journal Gestus: The Electronic Journal of Brechtian Studies, ISSN 0749-7644.
This title is not owned by Falvey in either print or electronic format. This journal is indexed in MLA so specific articles can be found and then requested via ILL. It is held by a number of other institutions so an ILL request can be completed by clicking on the "Request Forms" > "Requesting a Book / Journal Article from Another Library (Inter-Library Loan)" https://villanova.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html link on the library homepage.
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Furniture Meets the Digital Age
As technology rapidly remakes most parts of our lives, the furniture industry remains largely slow-moving and low-tech. For many retailers, midcentury furniture designed 60 years ago still qualifies as "modern."
Even so, in recent years a number of furniture designers have been struggling to adapt – in ways big and small, subtle and not so subtle – to new forms of technology and the proliferation of devices like the iPad e-readers and ever-thinner flat-screen TVs.
In a way, they have no choice.
"The rate of technological change has gotten so fast
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Since writing the recent ALA article about my experiences with the latest dot-com deaths and the current industry crisis, I have been asking myself a more interesting question: Why? Why exactly is this happening... most critics are quick to point fingers at the stock market and the over-hyped media/news coverage... I disagree. A recent article in eCompany Now magazine answered the question for me. Michael Newman writes perhaps the most thought-provoking article about why the Dotcom's are dieing off so fast in his article "Dotcom Inferno: Money to Burn." I know this is the answer because I have been in the bowels of a web design agency, not unlike the ones he mentions in his article, and I have seen the problems he mentions first-hand. I know this is a long article to read, but please trust me when I say; your job may depend on it.


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When Philadelphia's bike-share program hits the streets in 2014 it will face a hurdle that other bike-share programs before it have yet to overcome: getting large numbers of low-income residents involved.
A 2012 study from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) found that bike-share programs continue to face challenges in reaching low-income and minority populations, despite innovative attempts to do so. Furthermore, the report noted that the long-term success of these programs depends on being able to show they serve everyone.
At a bike-share forum hosted by the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities in Philadelphia last week, the three panelists from Boston, Denver and Washington, D.C., admitted that their programs are not as inclusive as they would've hoped.
"Our demographic profile is very much like everybody else's — we have a long way to go to serve everybody in our city. Some of that's a function of station location, some of it is a function of our business model, some of it has to do with culture," Parry Burnap, executive director of Denver Bike Sharing, the nonprofit that owns and operates Denver B-Cycle, told attendees.
Currently 90 percent of B-Cycle riders are white. But whites make up only 52 percent of Denver's population, Burnap said. "We have a really diverse population in Denver and our ridership isn't representing it," she said. "31 percent of Denverites are Hispanic and only 5.4 percent of them are riding our bikes."
Denver works with local housing authorities to make memberships available to residents of public housing.
When Boston's Hubway bike-share program was in the early planning stages, "we got a lot of questions about equity of bike share, there was the assumption that cities wouldn't do a good job with equity," executive director of Boston Bikes Nicole Freedman said in an interview.
In response Boston launched a subsidized membership program available to low-income residents and those receiving public assistance. The membership costs just $5 a year in comparison to the normal $85 annual membership. The members also receive a free helmet. Freedman said the program has sold around 600 subsidized memberships to date. This makes up about 5 percent of Hubway's riders. Planners also made sure to place stations in all level areas—tourist areas, college areas and low-income areas.
Marketing and outreach was key in selling the subsidized memberships. Hubway representatives spent considerable time visiting social service agencies in low-income neighborhoods to raise awareness about the memberships. More recently, the program has extended its window for usage charges for subsidized members. Usually after 30 minutes a member is charged usage fees. Subsidized members can ride for an hour without being charged. Freedman said this is because many of Boston's low-income neighborhoods are located at the edge of Hubway's system, where density is not as great, "so there was more of a need for longer trips."
FHWA's report found that bike sharing can be an affordable transportation option for low-income and minority communities. But use of these systems by these populations has been limited despite their "increased reliance on public transit and historically low rates of auto ownership." The report suggests one reason for the low access is that a credit card is required to use bike-share systems.
In Boston this wasn't a huge issue. Freedman said the vast majority of low-income residents in Boston have a credit card so the program decided to tackle this population by focusing on subsidized memberships.
Washington's Capital Bikeshare has a partnership with Bank on DC, and other banking agencies, to provide a reduced membership fee with credit card access to "unbanked individuals."
Still, financial access is something Philadelphia will have to address during its planning process.
Kristin Gavin, executive director of Gearing Up, a non-profit that works with women in transition from abuse, addiction and incarceration to integrate biking into their lifestyle, said many of the women who she works with don't have a credit card. Gavin said she's interested to see future outreach efforts, "because from our perspective it'd be really great to be able to direct women in our program to bike share and they could get some sort of account set up and have access to that. I think that would require an awful lot of effort and outreach on behalf of the bike-share program, and I don't know if that's realistic in their business model."
"Our business plan is considering a range of issues around making sure that Philadelphians can access the system regardless of income level, including addressing how those who don't use traditional financial institutions can access the system," said Andrew Stober, MOTU's chief of staff. That plan will be released later in May.
FHWA's report suggested that future bike-share programs should consider minority and low-income populations early on, and tailor their strategies accordingly
According to Susan Dannenberg, policy fellow at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, African Americans bike at 20 percent the rate of Caucasians in Philadelphia. She noted that Hispanics also bike at a lower rate but that Asians bike at a higher rate.
"When you're dealing with equity issues what we've found is that it's not necessarily low-income," Dannenberg said. "Across the board minorities bike less, so how do you address that?"
While other cities have addressed the issue from a purely economic standpoint, Dannenberg said cultural barriers in many ways are bigger. "So it's going to be education and outreach and in some ways it's marketing," she said.
Stober said MOTU has been thinking a lot about inclusivity. "I believe Philadelphia has a real opportunity to be the most economically and socially inclusive bike-share program in the nation," he said. "That is principally because, unlike other cities, Philadelphia has neighborhoods with substantial African-American, Hispanic, Asian populations and low-income residents of all racial and ethnic backgrounds who live with in three miles of major commercial, work and education hubs." Stober identified trips between one and three miles as ideal for bike-share trips.
That last mile is especially ideal in neighborhoods that aren't well accessible by public transportation, said Nicholas Mirra, communications coordinator for the BCGP. "There's a lot of people who either work within a mile of their train stop or live within a mile of their train stop, being able to bike from where you get on or off your train to your first or last destination is a nice spot that the bike share can fill." Bike share, Mirra added, also complements Philadelphia's public transportation system since it takes advantage of "the whole grid."
Bike share is also seen as a way to reduce public transportation costs. In that respect the women of Gearing Up are a perfect model, Gavin said, "the population of women that we're working with, they have to be at a thousand places at any given day. They have to be at probation and parole and then over to welfare and then to a group [meeting]. This is a way to eliminate the cost and the time that public transportation takes."
The current plan for Philadelphia's system features two zones. The first zone, defined as the core of the system, would encompass the core of Center City and University City from around Federal Street to the Temple University area and from the Delaware River to West Philadelphia. The second zone would begin to bring in the neighborhoods around the core area from Point Breeze to central North Philadelphia and Brewerytown to Mantua. Zone I is expected to include 100-120 biking stations and 1,000-1,500 bikes, for an area of about 8 square miles. Zone II would be less dense with 50-80 stations and 500-1,000 bikes, for an area around 14 square miles.
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photo san francisco 2002 (July 25-28, 2002)
photo san francisco, the third annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition will be held July 25-28, 2002 at the Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center.
75 galleries and private dealers from the U.S and Europe will present the finest photographic art dating from 19th century to the most cutting edge contemporary photography. Last year´s event attracted nearly 4000 visitors and more are expected this year.
Collectors, curators, and photographers will have an extraordinary opportunity to view thousands of images. The fair is organized by Stephen Cohen, organizer of photo l.a., the Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition which celebrated it´s eleventh year in January.
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston and many others will be exhibited for sale. The earliest professional images of Marilyn Monroe taken by photographer Andre de Dienes will be showcased, as will the photographs of Marilyn taken by Douglas Kirkland shortly before her death. The photographic work of Andy Summers, guitar player for the seminal rock band The Police will also be a special exhibit.
The opening night reception will be held Thursday, July 25th from 6-9pm for the benefit of The Fort Mason Center´s Historic Preservation Fund. Fort Mason Center is one of San Francisco´s most recognizable destinations. Previously an active military facility, Fort Mason Center is now a thriving cultural center within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The proceeds will go towards enabling The Fort Mason Foundation to maintain and preserve this national historic landmark. Noted photographer Michael Kenna will produce a limited edition print taken at Fort Mason. Proceeds from the sale of the Kenna photograph will benefit The Fort Mason Center´s Historic Preservation Fund. For information on purchasing this print please call Karen Watt at 415-345-7550.Tickets for the benefit are forty dollars and can be purchased at the door the evening of the event, or at The Fort Mason Center Box Office prior to the event. The box office phone number is 415-345-7575.
Noted photographer Michael Kenna will deliver a lecture on Saturday July 27th at 10 a.m. in the Golden Gate Room, of the Conference Center in Landmark Building A. Advance reservations are recommended. The lecture is $5/person. Call 323 937 5525 for reservations.
On-site Collecting Seminars will be held with W.M. Hunt, collector, curator and director of photographs at the Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York; and with Daile Kaplan, Department of Photographs, Swann Auction Galleries in New York.
Exhibition hours are: Friday, July 26th & Saturday, July 27th, noon-7pm. Sunday, July 28th, noon - 6pm. Tickets are $15 for one day and $25 for a 3-day pass. Tickets can be bought at the door or through the Stephen Cohen Gallery. For more information call 323-937-5525 or visit the website.
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When looking for new kitchen supplies it is best to look at what you make most, what you like to make, or what you would like to make but cannot because you do not have the right tools. Several tools are versatile and can be used for several things. From immersion blenders, food processors, stand mixers, or pasta sheet rollers, you can find almost anything for your culinary needs in restaurants equipment stores.
One item I suggest investing in as soon as possible is a KitchenAid stand mixer. This can take the place of several other kitchen appliances because it has so many attachments that you can buy. Ice cream attachment, pasta sheet attachment, grinder attachment and the list goes on and on. These attachments can get pricey though. If you need to multitask you either need multiple mixers or just invest in these other appliances. Overall though, the stand mixer can do anything, mix anything you need. The only thing I can think of that wouldn't work in the standard mixer without the use of special attachments is a sauce.
If you are looking to make a sauce though a food processor is the way to go. A Food processor is good for making sauces, dips, some types of dough, and breadcrumbs. The blades of the food processor are better for harder items that need sharp edge than the basic attachments a stand mixer would provide. If you don't have stand mixer, and can't afford one a food processor can do some of the things a stand mixer but it is more limited. The good thing about a food mixer is you can leave ingredients whole as long as they fit in the processor and the food processor will do its thing to break it down.
No worrying about smashing garlic cloves or chopping them up just pop in there and let the blade do the work. The processor is also good for shredding cheese or vegetables. Just put the shredder attachment in, cut the vegetables down to a size it will fit in the mouth of the processor and press the button. I should note that when shredding soft cheese putting it in the freezer to get hard helps it shred better. Its good for pie crust, and biscuit dough, but I wouldn't go trying to mix ingredients for a cake in a food processor; leave that to the hand mixer. But what if you want to make bread dough?
A bread machine isn't as popular these days because a stand mixer can do almost all the job of a bread machine. But that doesn't mean it isn't useful, especially when you don't have a stand mixer. A bread machine will mix the dough, let it rise, and bake it all you have to do is set it to what you want and let it go. Most if not all even have a just dough setting if you don't want to bake it in the bread machine. The great thing about bread machines is even when the dough is rising it warms up to the perfect temperature the yeast like and will help it rise better.


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Nearly half of the 285 U.S. small business owners surveyed in a poll (pdf) released this week by the New York Stock Exchange say they have marginal or no access to the capital they need to expand their businesses. As a consequence, two-thirds of them do not expect to add jobs in 2013. The findings jibe with a recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey showing that only 13 percent of small business owners who applied for credit got the full amount they requested.
How should entrepreneurs approach capital requests in this environment and what can they do to increase their chances of success? I put those questions to James R. Coughlin, who draws on two decades of commercial banking experience, including portfolio risk management for FleetBoston Financial, and in his current position as chief underwriting officer at Asterisk Financial, a Middletown (Conn.) provider of personal guarantee insurance to small and midsize companies. Edited excerpts of our conversation follow.
How are you telling clients to change their borrowing strategy in light of an ongoing credit crunch?
The thing to do is foster relationships with multiple lenders in advance, not just one. Research various lenders, understand who they are in your market, meet them, and find out which is best for you. Sequential applications and waiting periods don't help a small business owner at this stage, and there's no cost involved in doing the research, other than time.
Aren't small business owners typically told to establish a close relationship with one financial institution and stick with it?
It's true you will get a better audience [with a lender] if you have an established relationship, and that's the best place to start. You don't want to spread your borrowing out too much, but having flexibility in this market would have been an advantage to a small business owner if [he or she] had multiple lending sources going into this crisis. You might have a deposit relationship with one bank and do your borrowing at another. If one relationship runs into trouble, you can easily go to the other one and you're not stranded with one lender.
In my personal opinion, it's a bit short-sighted [to have just one banker]. Competitive pressure always helps the business owner, so you may be able to bounce two offers off each other. As a small business owner, you need to have as many aces in your hand as possible.
What kind of research do you recommend?
Read the paper, talk to people who've done business with them in the past, ask for business borrower references. Of course, just like on your résumé, they're going to give you their best references, but still ask about their positive and negative experiences, how [the lenders] perform at simple services such as processing payments. Ask whether the business owner feels the bank is flexible if you run into difficulties and aren't able to meet your obligations.
Talk to local attorneys and financial advisers, accountants, loan brokers who've done business in that market. No one's going to bash the lender publicly, but most will be candid about your best source for funding.
How can a small business present itself in the best light?
Carefully communicate your business plan, clearly and thoroughly. Articulating it well shows strong management capability, which can reduce the bank's uncertainty about your level of risk. If you have high-quality financials and you explain in advance any blemish or circumstance that might be an issue, that also helps you mitigate the risk.
If you get rejected, should you move on?
First, ask why you were rejected. It wastes time if you go to the next lender and end up having the exact same conversation. Talk to the lender about what the issues were with your application and what you can learn from the experience. Then figure out how to communicate your plan better to avoid or remedy the weakness for the next guy.
That's another reason to have multiple lenders going: You can pick up and have that conversation with the next lender quickly, you don't have to start the ball all over again four or five months down the line. Start by looking at three to five lending sources, narrow those down to two or three that you're going to borrow from, and pursue them like you would a job search.
What if you have more than a blemish—is there still a chance if you had a big problem with your business in the past?
Yes, but don't whitewash it. Identify the problem up front, and if your company is still functioning today and you have restored the value lost over the past few years, present that as a success story, not a failure. "I did what it took to get us through this, now we're able to grow some, and we're looking for a financial partner to share in the success we're going to have together."
The other thing to keep in mind is that little things matter and you need to make sure they're buttoned up. For instance, anticipate a site visit from your lender like a guest coming to your house. Is the business neat and tidy, or are you stockpiling excess parts or throwing away waste in a manner that's not appropriate? Are your relationships and your financials clean? Social media sites are a great resource, but they're like a front door to your business—a tool for others to evaluate you. If your Twitter and Facebook accounts don't have good things reflecting on you or your business, you can bet lenders will find that, so be prepared.


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Plants in new growth can be badly ravaged by April gales. A temporary screen may be necessary to protect new foliage on precious specimens.
If you still have bare-rooted trees to plant, soak them in a bucket for an hour before putting them in the ground. Plants in pots can soak in a tray overnight.
Continue to plant vegetables when conditions seem tolerable. Chitted potatoes such as 'Catriona' can go in along with early carrots such as 'Nantes 2 Early' (Marshalls £1.45). 'Amsterdam Forcing 3 – Sprint' (Mr Fothergill's £1.89) came top in Mr Fothergill's taste test.
When daffodil clumps become congested, the bulbs flower less. Mark any barren clumps now to remind you to separate and replant the bulbs between July and September – before the new season's growth starts again.
Weeds are growing fast. Keep on top of bittercress and groundsel. Both are in flower already.
What to buy
Grow Bag Frames from The Organic Catalogue (01932 253666, organiccatalogue.com) cost £19.95 and solve some of the practical problems of growing tomatoes. They provide both support and stability. Liquid Comfrey Tonic (£9.95) is rich in potassium and can be used on all fruit and vegetables. Mix 25ml in a litre of water. Biodegradable paper plant trays cost £6.95 for five. Each tray is made up of 24 modules, 50mm square.
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Or should I say Beunos Dias Amigos!! I�ve finally kicked off the 2nd leg of this trip by landing into Chile. However what a strange experience it was to have flown across the date line.
Somewhere in the Pacific zigzaging its way down the map is the date line which is like a time warp. I was stuck on a 15 hour plane journey out of Sydney with an charming old lady who was trying to bore the knees of me (I�m sure). I tried all tactics including sighing, sneezing over myself and falling asleep when not even tired, and I still got prodded and woken up for more �chit-chat�.
Well thank GOD for the date line, cause when I arrived in Santiago, rather than thinking I�d wasted the best part of an entire day listening to her crack on, I managed to somehow (though I�m not too sure how) get the whole day back again!
Ok so what�s Chile like?? Well, on first impressions its full of Chileans. And, its no place for non spanish speaking gringo�s like me. Honestly, if anyone�s got any plans for coming over here with just the queens english - sour news matey, think again. I�ve had to cram some hardcore no nonsense �Spanish for Begginers� into the last 3 days and now am competent in getting myself completely lost overseas, catching buses, trains, cabs, querying timetables and buying a new fleet of underpants (very handy you will agree).
Santiago is a charming city, as Chile�s capital it boasts over 5 million people who love their Samba, Salsa, Easter Island fish and cervesa. The city is bulging with nightlife too has a surprisingly European feel to it. Its also nestled between the Andes to the East and smaller range of mountains to the west before Valparaiso, and the views are simply stunning. However one thing that Santiago doesn�t do very well are tourist offices (la oficina de tourismo) and information points. I�m personally staying in the party capital of the city in a town called Bellavista and it has stray dogs, stray old men and plenty of bars to choose on a warm night out in town.
So the last few days has definately been a struggle getting to grips with Espa�ol however things are looking better. Tomorrow (miercoles - wednesday) I�ll be hiking through mountains in the El Morado nature reserve plus on thursday I am now booked to travel through the Andes through to Mendoza (Argentina) and onto Buenos Aires by bus.
Hasta Luego Amigos. Will keep you posted.


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HAMPSTEAD – Before Michael Hall took over as facilities director for the Hampstead School District, the maintenance and repair budget was typically $150,000 to $160,000. The net result was that the infrastructures of both schools were reaching serious levels of disrepair. The Turner Report outlined what immediately needed to be done and laid out a five-year plan to get caught up on the items needing repair, renovation, or replacement. This was several years ago and the items on the Turner Report are still being picked away at.
Hall upped the repair and maintenance budget to $270,000 and has diligently been trying to repair, renovate, or replace the various elements of the schools' infrastructure and return the buildings to as good a condition as is reasonable given their age and use. This past budget season saw the School Board carve $100,000 off of Hall's budget forcing him to make some very difficult choices and to postpone some projects that need immediate attention for another year. Hall came before the School Board Tuesday evening after receiving encouragement to do so from the Facilities Committee to see if the board would approve his request for an additional $30,000 to address three of those projects that now really need attention. Hall requested the board approve transferring the money from the surplus account in the current budget to his repair and maintenance budget.
The most expensive of the three projects for which he is requesting additional funding is partitioning storage rooms at Central School. Storage, as already noted by the Space Utilization Report given to the board earlier, is one of the deficiencies at the school. The cost of this project, Hall said, would be around $20,000. Hall said he was hoping for additional bids but he felt comfortable that this was an appropriate price for the work.
The second project at Central School involves removing removal and infill of the south wing corridor window, which Hall estimates will cost about $7,000. Again, he is hoping for additional bids but he feels this is the appropriate figure for this project.
The third project, and least expensive, is repairing and replacing the restroom flooring in Rooms 118 and 222 as needed. He estimates the cost of this at about $1,000. The total cost of the three projects, based on received bids and his own research, is estimated to be $29,000, slightly less than the $30,000 for which he asked from the board. When pressed by board member Jim Stewart for a figure that would cover all eventualities, Hall said he thought a swing of $3,000 either way would be probably what one could expect. Stewart then made a motion to approve transferring an amount not to exceed $35,000 from this current surplus budget to Hall's repair and maintenance budget. The board approved the motion unanimously.