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Standard Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Standard Twin RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Standard Triple RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 2 infants)
Hotel with a restaurant, in Manchester (Gorton)
This hotel is located in Manchester (Gorton), close to Belle Vue Greyhound Stadium, City of Manchester Stadium, and Whitworth Art Gallery. Also nearby are The Monastery and Victoria Baths.
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In addition to a restaurant, Diamond Lodge Hotel Manchester features a bar/lounge. Other amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access and free self parking.
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In addition to complimentary wireless Internet access and coffee/tea makers, guestrooms feature desks along with hair dryers and private bathrooms.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Wired high-speed Internet access is complimentary.
This Manchester hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance and coffee/tea in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Total number of rooms - 85
- Number of floors - 3
- Free self parking
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- One meeting room
- Restaurant
- Year Built 2002
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free wired high-speed Internet
Park your car
Free self parking
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- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Pay movies
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Television
- Desk
Eat and drink
Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast each morning.
The Olde Lake Brasserie - This brasserie serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Open select days.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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Do Violet and Her Baby Live on Private Practice?by Steve Marsi at . Comments
On the Season 2 finale of Private Practice, Violet (Amy Brenneman) was given a paralyzing drug by a mentally unstable patient, who planned to cut Violet's baby out of her womb.
So does the Private Practice shrink survive?
Brenneman is back to work, but that didn't stop executive producer / creator Shonda Rhimes from joking, "Maybe she's a ghost," but the real answer is a resounding, "Yes."
"We are going to pick up about 20 minutes from where we left off," Rhimes said.
"The most interesting thing about putting someone in that position is to watch them get out of it. So, we are reintroduced to the [Private Practice] world in a high-stakes way."
That said, ET asked Amy who is Violet's baby daddy?
Could it be Pete (Tim Daly) or Sheldon (Brian Benben)?
Brenneman teases, "I just found out and I am not saying."
As for the real-life case where a baby was allegedly cut out of its mom's womb in Massachusetts in July, Brenneman says, "That copycat stuff freaks me out."
"I knew of another case that predated our show. I think people were very affected by the season finale. It was a very powerful mojo to put out there."
In other Private Practice news, Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) will cross over from Grey's Anatomy, visiting the Oceanside Wellness Center to learn a new medical procedure.
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Private Practice returns for its third season on Thursday, October 1 at 10 p.m.
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violet survives and the baby is given to violet after both of them have surgery. when violet wakes up and asks for the baby it made me really happy to know that she gets to keep her son. as to who is the father I hope its Pete.
Who died? Whose funeral were they at?
It wasn't revealed who is the father. But I guess it will be Sheldon, to provide even more drama.
Both of them survive and Sheldon is the father. It has been revealed already.
OH SNAP! That is a scary picture...I feel bad for Vi! She is so awesome and stuff and now she suffers!!!
because "the Crazy" (is how I call Katie) hit her!
haven't you saw the latest episode?
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The band that created The Wall album in the 80's, Pink Floyd formed in 1965 in Cambridge, England. The group is one of rock music's most successful acts, believed to have sold over 200 million albums worldwide.
The release of Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon, was a watershed moment in the band's popularity. The Dark Side of the Moon featured a U.S. Top 20 single ("Money"). The critically-acclaimed album stayed on the Billboard Top 200 for an unprecedented 741 weeks (including 591 consecutive weeks from 1976 to 1988), making it one of the top-selling albums of all time.
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Despite never hitting #1 in the UK, Pink Floyd's "The Wall" topped the U.S. charts for 15 weeks during 1980. The Wall sold well over 30 million copies worldwide and is often regarded as the best-selling double album ever.
Essentially a music video for the entire album, a film entitled Pink Floyd: The Wall was released in 1982. The film, written by Waters and directed by Alan Parker, starred Boomtown Rats founder Bob Geldof and featured striking animation by noted British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. It grossed over US$ 14 million at the North American box office.
After The Final Cut, Pink Floyd's members went their separate ways, each releasing solo albums. Waters announced in December of 1985 that he was departing Pink Floyd describing the band as "a spent force creatively". A legal dispute ensued with Waters claiming that the name "Pink Floyd" should have been put to rest. High Court proceedings went in favour of Gilmour and Mason, much to the annoyance of Waters.
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2013 Hall of Fame : Frank Defino Sr. - Printing's Heavy HitterSeptember 2013 By Erik Cagle, Senior Editor
A True Entrepreneur
Working tirelessly at three jobs, Frank Defino had longed to be his own boss. He learned the previous owner had passed away after not being in business very long, and had started the company in order to provide work for his son. In fact, the company's name of Tu-kaiz Studio played off "two Ks," in this case, Kirchner and Kirchner.
Defino would co-opt the elder Kirchner's goal and build Tukaiz into a Midwestern prepress and printing powerhouse. "I wanted to keep the name and the dream alive," he says. "Today, I have my sons—Frank Jr., John and Dan—son-in-law Christopher and daughter Maryann as my partners."
Print and graphics have long been an influence in Frank Defino's Sr.'s life. He started out by doing typesetting in high school and graduated, both figuratively and literally, to letterpress shop Monarch Printing in Chicago. His first day there was the evening of high school graduation. After Monarch, Defino landed at Alco & Gravure, then at Segerdahl Halford, which was his first lithography job. He has vivid memories of working for Joe Halford and Gil Segerdahl, and recalls the somber day when he arrived at work to learn that Halford had passed away.
At Rand McNally, he worked the step-and-repeat machine and would have to pick up many 30x40 chases each day, weighing upwards of 100 pounds because they were glass negatives. "One day, I said to myself, 'I won't be doing this when I'm older,' " he recalls.
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As a trade shop, Tukaiz quickly latched on to cutting-edge technology for scans, retouching, film assembly and digital printing. He was able to jump on with the Crosfield Studio system, and was one of the first to purchase computer Light Speed software and a Quantel Paintbox. The Paintbox evolved from its use by the motion picture industry to litho applications such as performing cloning or retouching in real-time.
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"I love technology," he admits. "If I think a development will have a bearing on the industry, I want to check into it. That's what an entrepreneur likes to do. But it can also present a lot of risk. Being someone who is ready to jump into something new, ready to be on the bleeding edge and sometimes disregard the risks...that may be the best entrepreneurial value I bring to the company."
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"Frank Defino is a true pioneer," Landa says. "...not only because he was one of my first Indigo customers 19 years ago, but because Frank has been at the forefront of the digital printing revolution ever since. He and his super-creative team at Tukaiz were at the cutting edge of personalized printing and were the very first to produce many of the individually-targeted, digitally printed products that have become commonplace today.
"I recently visited Tukaiz and was surprised, though I shouldn't have been, to find that nothing has changed, by which I mean of course that everything has changed," Landa adds. "Frank is still the first to try the newest thing—today Scodix, tomorrow...who knows? But Frank Defino's pioneering legacy goes far beyond technology. Tukaiz itself is a testament to Frank's avant-garde management philosophy: people first, second and third. That's why employees at Tukaiz talk about themselves belonging to the Tukaiz family. As do I. And what a privilege."
Barbara Pellow, group director for InfoTrends, adds that true visionaries are few and far between, and notes that Defino exemplifies a person with phenomenal market insight and vision. "His entire career has been one of always being the person with the big idea that would transform his business," she notes. "Whether it was being the first company to get into digital color, adding large-format, providing cross-media and mobile apps or blending in video, Frank was always ahead of the curve. Clearly, he has been a driving force in making Tukaiz into one of the leading marketing services companies in our industry."
Tukaiz implemented a multimedia division and began adding six-color UV in-line commercial sheetfed presses from Heidelberg in the mid-to-late '90s. After the turn of the millennium, the company began populating its floor with wide-format digital flatbed and rollfed devices for generating point-of-sale and point-of-purchase printing. In recent years, Tukaiz developed its own proprietary Web-to-print software, called Backstage, and now employs a crew of 30 solely for the purpose of database management and software development.
Maintaining competitiveness has presented a formidable challenge for Defino, as many of his contemporaries cut prices, unwittingly commoditized their offerings and faded without a true value proposition.
Defino has kept busy on the association front, garnering affiliations with a host of organizations past and present, including the Printing Industry of Illinois, the Chicago Print Production Club, Litho Club of Illinois, Digital Indigo Customer Exchange (DICE), Digital Solutions Cooperative (Dscoop), Print on Demand Initiative (PODi), Direct Marketing Association (DMA), International Prepress Association (IPA) and the IDEAlliance.
Aside from spending time with his children and grandchildren, Defino still enjoys a round of golf. He was honored recently as the Sportsman of the Year by the National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame for his support and philanthropy.
Sadly, Lilly Defino wasn't around to share in the moment. She passed away three years ago after having bravely, and valiantly, battled cancer.
"She was my best friend and soul mate," he says. "She showed me what courage is all about. And we had a great 50-year run." PI


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Roy Hodgson admits Wayne Rooney failed to live up to the hype as England crashed out of Euro 2012 but insists the fitness of the striker was not an issue.
Head coach Hodgson was aware of the pressure on Rooney to perform at his best after returning from a two-match ban for his sending off against Montenegro in a qualifying game last October.
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Hodgson said: "I think we put a lot of expectations on Wayne. When he missed the first two games, we were all believing that what we needed to do was to get to the third game and Wayne Rooney will win us the championships.
"That maybe was too much to ask of him. Wayne certainly tried very hard, but he didn't have his best game. I think he would admit that."
But Hodgson conceded it was natural for the onus to be on the top players to perform on the biggest stages. He said: "Do we put too much expectation on Rooney? Well we do, but so do other teams with their players, don't they?
"I think had (Andrea) Pirlo played poorly on Sunday night, it might have affected the Italians' performance. I think in all top international teams, you're looking at one, two, possibly three individuals that everyone recognises as being exceptional world-class talents.
"When you get to the big stage, you're hoping those players perform and show they're world-class talents, like the Maradonas that win Argentina a World Cup."
Rooney, whose only worthwhile contribution in the tournament was a close-range headed winner against Ukraine, went on holiday in Las Vegas at the end of the domestic season and was pictured at a nightclub until the early hours.
But Hodgson was adamant he was fit and up to speed in training sessions even though his only action in six weeks before returning against Ukraine was as a second half substitute against Belgium.
When asked if the Las Vegas trip was ideal, Hodgson said: "Well, we haven't noticed anything with his fitness levels. We've monitored him and in training he' looked very fit.
"Against Ukraine he didn't show any particular signs of lacking any fitness and he played 120 minutes on Sunday. I think what you might be saying is that you're a bit disappointed with his performance and maybe thought he could have played better.
"It's not necessarily related to this. You could put fitness down to anything. That was the classic Italian trick. Every time an Italian team loses a game, you hear they're not fit. There was no reason for us to doubt his fitness. His running stats in the training sessions and the games were actually very good."
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David Julian - A Different Light
Drawing from multiple disciplines and deep imagination, David Julian's reality is in the eye of the beholder
DPP: Your range of work includes fine-art, editorial and commissioned commercial images. How do you decide which David Julian to present to a potential corporate client?
Julian: My clients choose the look. They've seen the work from my Website or in print and they know who they're getting. Commercial and editorial art buyers are almost always looking at my illustrations, but if they wander into the fine-art area of my Website, they often change directions. It's both a blessing and curse to be divided this way because it does make me hard to market at times. I try to keep my commercial work away from the fine-art community to present a clearer message of intent. Right now, the diversity works well, but in years to come, I may aim toward a more overall cohesive look.
DPP: Your commercial and editorial photo illustration is perhaps some of your wildest work. Do you struggle with the confines of a commissioned piece, or do you like the challenge of working within a set of predetermined boundaries?
Julian: The only predetermined boundary I like is a deadline. What I really prefer is a collaborative client who's not only willing, but wants a dialogue of possibilities at the outset, which we refine until we have a clear direction for the project. I want them to go through a part of the creative process with me whenever possible. One such client is an art director for filmmaker George Lucas, who really understands the collaborative process and loves my diverse abilities.
DPP: Do you have a preference for one body of your work over another?
Julian: Well, that's my problem. I've never been able to decide which part of my work to take away to ease my burden. Some nights I think, Which projects could I live without, so I could focus on just one or two things? I've exposed myself to a variety of pursuits and now I can't give up any of them. They all mean something to me. They all help me know myself and show what I care about to the world. I want to use my life to be present and creative. It's all part of my personal process of evolution.
DPP: How do you approach your personal work compared to commissioned images? Can you take us through the mental process?
Julian: I look at my personal work as a safe haven. I do some creative exercises to help me identify my thoughts and reactions, and prepare my intuition for photography or for my conceptual composite works. It's similar in effect to what athletes do before a game. They stretch, focus and sharpen their reactions.
DPP: Your Dreams series of toned black-and-white photography could be viewed as directly opposed to your photo illustration. Where the latter is typically bold, colorful and active, there's a quiet, almost isolated feeling in the Dreams series. Was this an intentional departure or a natural evolution?
Julian: It's definitely an intentional departure. The Dreams series is an ongoing body of work—a place wherein I can be totally intuitive with my eye and respond to what's in front of me rather than preconceive. It's a very meditative way of working, and creating the work evokes for me what you're seeing into it. Some of the visual language is from images in my own dreams, which I've then subsequently found symbolized in the real world and tried to capture in photographs. I tend toward the dark side of beauty, and as much as my early teachers tried to squelch it, I can't be who I'm not.
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