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Bahia Brasilito, Playa Conchal, Costa Rica
"Truly a 3-star hotel for the price of a 4-star resort"
Posted by: Norm on Apr 14, 2011
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Nestled in the green forests of Costa Rica's magnificent North-Pacific Riviera.
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"Poor experience... Not worth it!!!"
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Mauricio on Feb 14, 2011 >
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Visited on: Dec, 2010 | Leisure | Family and Kids
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Our group consisted of 17 people and we occupied 9 rooms between December 25th and January 2nd/ 2011.
Overall our experience was like a three star hotel for the price of a five star hotel... it felt like a Carnival Cruise.
Upon our arrival to this isolated locale, we encountered a "bait and switch" (as did other guests we later found out) of selling an upgrade for a considerable amount of money to change rooms so we could all be together near the pool with oceanfront rooms and better service. The oceanfront rooms had no open balconies and with good reason. They were facing the public beach (dirty) with all sorts of vendors, a road and a parking lot where people slept and barbecued all week long, as well as vomiting and other things within 15 feet from the rooms. The hotel website does not say the beach is private but the pictures and descriptions are most definitely deceiving. Meanwhile, the oceanfront rooms and bathrooms were old with toilets and water pipes not working properly.
Although the upgrade included family concierge services, we never received most of the services stated on the website.
Two rooms were moved to the Royal Service, where at least there were balconies and the rooms were relatively new, although the big suite had no outdoor furniture except for a picnic table! In the Royal Service pool area the furniture was old and in bad condition while the regular pool had new and superior furnishings not to mention an overall better appearance.
The menus at the different restaurants (which were not really eight as stated on the website) never changed during the week and the food was average to say the least. Liquor was of mediocre quality. I have traveled quite a bit and have eaten food in many places and in different situations and again I feel that I have to compare the resort to a Carnival Cruise. Wine was only served by the glass although we had a table of 17 people every night. On New Year's Eve we had two bottles of the House Sparkling Wine for the table and we were charged because they were not served by the glass!
There was no bar service (although the website claims there are 5 premium bars and lounges) for cocktail hour except by the pool where you had a barman working and no waiters to serve drinks. We ended up setting up some tables at the royal service pool and getting our own drinks every night before dinner and having to ask for glass instead of plastic glasses.
The only positive aspect of our experience at Paradisus Playa Conchal was the excellent staff that went out of their way to accommodate us which made our vacation bearable.
If you have traveled the world and eaten at the greatest restaurants then this is not the place for you. If you are content with 3 star cruises then this is the place for you.
"Truly a 3-star hotel for the price of a 4-star resort"
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Norm on Apr 14, 2011 >
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Visited on: Apr, 2011 | Business | Family and Kids
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The staff is very friendly and certainly personifies the Costa Rican hospitality. The dinners in most of the restaurants is very good to excellent with good to very good service. Rooms are adequate, well designed, but miss with details that I would expect with this pricing.
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Reception was well done and really encouraging since we arrived relatively late and it was dark. Staff explained the facilities well and what was and non-inclusive. The big up truck with rows of bench seating will remind you of something out of Disneyland, but is a walking path road hog. The vehicles are load, too big, smelly and are road hogs that should be discontinued. For Eco-friendly place like Costa Rica, I could not believe that they don't use extended length with extra horse power golf carts. This would work better to for sharing walking paths with pedestrians. The drivers roar around the resort too fast and I can't tell you how often we had to dive out of the way for safety. Don't let grandma, the handicap or small children an arms length away on the paths, otherwise they might get hit by these huge mack tracks that race these paths.
"Things to Do at Playa Conchal Paradissus"
Posted by: George
on Oct 7, 2010 >
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Visited on: Oct, 2010 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
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Before signing up to any offical tours via Swiss travel go down to the Beach gate and just ask for Alex Rabbit. Once you have found him do a deal for the ATV Tour up to the canopy (zip wire)ride. It is a blast.
The boat - fishing and snorkelling - excursion is also great.
If you play golf - take your own clubs with you. The course - which is RTJ designed is a test especially when wet. It plays every inch of the 7,000+ yds. If you play early (tee off at 06.30) you can be finished and back for breakfast with the bride for 10am. Voila - everyone is happy.
All in all a good trip and good value.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
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Great trip, great venue.
"The food was wonderful!"
Posted by:
Lynne from Indiana on May 1, 2009 >
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Visited on: May, 2009
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Arrival: May 19-26:
We were in Costa Rica for our son's wedding. Some of the wedding guests preceeded us to the resort, we arrived on Tuesday. We were met at the airport by two limo-buses for our group of 8. Enroute we were given a 'tour' of the Costa Rican countryside, including a stop at a local liquor store to buy beers and 199 Viejo calling cards -- very tasty, the beers that is!
Costa Rica was very humid in May - don't know if this is usual year-round, but air-conditioning was #1 on our list of 'must finds'. Our group had a variety of styles of rooms -- one room had a completely air-conditioned enclosed veranda, while the others were not. Some had two queen beds, or a king, or two queen beds together. All rooms were very clean and completely air-conditioned. One of our group even got upgraded to Royal Service -- VERY nice! We didn't opt for this service due to the size of our group and financial situations. However, we could not have had as much fun if part of our group was in RS and the rest at the main pool. All amenities seemed to be the same for each class -- at least we didn't notice any difference in treatment. We have had up-graded service at many other resort hotels in the past, but didn't seem to miss it this trip. Perhaps this was due to the large size of the group and the many places to go on the resort properties.
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The food was wonderful! We were expecting some bland Costa Rican fare, but were very pleasantly surprized by the tasty food served for breakfast and lunch. They seem to have Americanized the entrees, but still managed to put a tropical twist on things. The wait staff was wonderful and very attentive. We only had one surly waiter (Gabi's restaurant) and he might just have had a bad day. The Hostesses were gracious and the bartenders were outstanding -- especially at the swim-up bar, which was generally crowded, but we didn't experience any delay in getting service. Some employees that gave us exceptional service were Carolina, Roberto, Minor, and Kenneth. I don't remember the names of the other wait-staff employees at Mitra, but they were great in the morning with coffee and water for us. Several of the restaurants were not air-conditioned (Mitra, 19th Hole, Snack Shack and the lunch area near the pool) but the other restaurants were (italian, japanese, mexican, Gabi ). The Italian restaurant was very good - we ate there twice. The Mexican restaurant was not air-conditioned when we arrived for our reservations, but it was soon fixed. Had a nice experience at the Spices Restaurant (Japanese-style food) - they serve a variety of sushi appetizers so you don't have to pick and choose -- very helpful for those of us who were unfamiliar with sushi, etc. It was a dining experience for some of our group -- but at least they tried some of the foods. The entrees were delicious - for all - and the Flaming Coffee was great. The desserts at all the restaurants were excellent and should not be missed. Every night there was a show at Mitra and most of our group tried to make an appearance there. After the show, it was on to the Disco or the casino. Plenty of things to do at night!
The pool was very warm (to my liking) - probably due to the extreme heat and humidity encountered in May. The grounds were kept up nicely, with very little interruption of our peace and quiet. The groundskeepers even would come to the pool to tell us that the monkeys were in trees near us, just in case we would like to watch them. The beach was a little disappointing -- it was small and there didn't seem to be any service out there, i.e., chairs, blankets, etc. We stayed in the pool most of the time, but would have enjoyed being on the beach if there were accommodations. The beach vendors were entertaining!
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
We had a bad experience with an attempted bachelorette party - the hired driver refused to take us where we wanted to go - only taking us to the disco he recommended -- we ended up going back to the hotel and trying to continue our party there. Suggest you get something in writing when dealing with the drivers - they may be getting 'kick-backs' from the different bars/restaurants in Tamarindo. We did end up getting back our $120 - but it took some talking. Our group went ATVing several times and each time got a different view of the countryside. The men golfed - the course looked beautiful, but it was just too hot/humid to attempt golfing -- they quit after only 13 holes and opted for the swim-up bar in the pool. Some of the group went to the rainforest and others went zip-lining. Some also used the spa facilities and seemed pleased with them. The major activity of our large party was "The Wedding" which was held on Friday. The Romance Director didn't have a pleasant attitude toward the event and after many 'hiccups' in the planning stages, the wedding went off as planned. The 'reception' was held in the disco and the food served was amazing. We all had a great time eating and dancing. The bride and groom then honeymooned in the Arenal area of Costa Rica -- with a view of the volcano.
Other Comments:
Be careful using the phone in the room to call the United States - make sure you get and use the 199 card -- it seemed to be the easiest and most efficient way to stay in touch with the States. I took my laptop and got great signals -- there are wi-fi stations at all the restaurants and at the pool. You can also get wi-fi in the villa near these areas - unfortunately our room was not one of these villa, so we carted the laptop to breakfast every morning and logged on there. No problem. There was a slight fee for wireless, but some in the group with laptops got wi-fi without having to pay for the service. Suggest you try before you buy! We had some problems with Swiss Travel (our travel agents at the hotel) - especially due to language barriers. The majority of the employees that dealt with the public spoke moderate English, which made it easy to communicate. Our stay at Paradisus was great - but don't know if I would go back to Costa Rica again -- perhaps if the humidity wasn't as high in other months -- like when the whales visit offshore, or the turtles make their trip up onto the beaches.
"go for the weather"
Posted by: steve
on Feb 24, 2011 >
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Visited on: Feb, 2011 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
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flew Canjet...never again, 737 aircraft very narrow seats, we booked "select" seating but they still tried to charge us for wine...12 hour delay on return flight because Canjet forgot Liberia airport does not open until 6.00 AM
...Costa Rica is beautiful but full of challenges...very friendly, polite people & tipping is not even expected ( unlike Mexico)...weather was 35 C every day & 27C at night with little humidity...on the Pacific side they have had no rain since the first of December...there are no private beaches in Costa Rica, so the resort ended at a public road bordering the beach where vendors set up their wares...the beach sand is coarse ( crushed sea shells) & the drop off @ the Paradisus was 3 feet with a tremendous undertow ..poor swimmers should not swim there...
...Paradisus offers tours ...we took the Arenal volcano / hot springs tour...be prepared for a 10 hour day @ $336 US per couple...the bus ride through the rainforest to the interior is 3 hours, we took a boat to within one kilometer of the active volcano , picture taking was poor due to clouds etc...the grounds of the Hot Springs is beautiful however beware , sunburns & hot water do not mix well, also beware bar drinks...one beer ( Imperial ) & a diet coke was $11 US.Buffet lunch at the Hot Springs was tolerable but supper at the open air restaurant on the way home was not.
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Liberia airport is an open air structure with few amenities & surrounded by fields of sugarcane.The bus to the resort was comfortable & the ride was 75 minutes
Rooms were very nice,& clean...bathrooms need some work , old style tubs with shower that you have to get in the tub to turn the shower on...you need a room key to turn on the electricity...which died twice during our weeks stay... our room 123 bordered the 18 th fairway of the Reserve Private Golf Course...a round of golf will cost you: $150 for 18 holes. $20 for my wife to drive the cart, $44 for rental clubs, $26 eco fee & $62 for one dozen golf balls...sorry I love to golf but I could not justify the expense
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Four a la carte restaurants...all good, you need reservations ( or so they say) we never had a problem getting a seat ( with or without a reservation)...Gabi's you have to pay $10 per person extra to dine...the rack of lamb is fabulous...but surf & turf was an additional $18 per person...they have a dress code for these restaurants ( no shorts or sleeveless shirts or sandals allowed) but no one enforced the dress code so we wore shorts & sandals the rest of the week...there is one International Buffet , not air conditioned & the food was just OK...all the wine comes from Chile so is quite good...there is one swim up bar at the one pool...the swim up stools were always busy but the opposite side of the bar was not...drinks are quite week not sure whether they had any alcohol in them...
one pool , OK ...
Grounds ...well maintained but they have a trolley service ( the resort is not that big, I don't know why they needed one)...these are not golf carts but 1/2 ton trucks pulling small trailers for luggage...you had to get off the walkways to allow these trolleys to pass...
...there is lots of wildlife...birds, iguanas ( big ones) , pizote, a curious blend of raccoon, monkey & skunk...monkeys, Howler & White Faced...all plentiful on the grounds
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Other than the Arenal Volcano tour ( after one 10 hour day) we did not to spend another tour on a bus...we spent lounging around the pool ...we took a taxi to Tamarindo ( the surf capital of Costa Rica)...but be prepared for over priced souvenirs & poor restaurant food & service
Even at the pool you will have the noise of vehicles from the public beach, the smell of smoke from campfires on the public beach etc...there is no service at the pool...
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Costa Rica is absolutely beautiful but expensive. They pay as much for gas as we do in Canada so anything vehicle related is very expensive...the people are charming and very friendly...it is virtually an agrarian country...they farm pineapple, mangoes, coffee,sugarcane, teak & rosewood trees...
...would I return...not to the Paradisus Resort, to Costa Rica...probably not
"Go for the Royal Service, it's very much worth it"
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Melissa from Houston, TX on Jul 1, 2009 >
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Visited on: Jul, 2009
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Arrival: July 2009:
I must start by telling you we are from Houston, so the humidity and mosquitos at dusk that some people mentioned in their reviews were non-existent to us. The weather was actually cooler than what we left in Houston and we never once got bitten by a mosquito! We did spray ourselves with bug spray before going on the zip-line tour in the rain forest but other than that, never needed it.
We got the Royal Service, and our room was great, our balcony looked out over the pool, where the bar and the Gabi restaurant are. We filled out a request for mini-fridge items to be removed and some to be added and that same day our butler had stocked it with our request! Fresh fruit in the room is very good - try the pitaya, we'd never had it and it is sooo delicious - yellow bumpy looking fruit.
Restaurants and Bars:
We tried Gabi our first night - SKIP GABI. it was a waste of a dinner for us and we talked to another couple who had the same opinion. It is however, excellent for breakfast, they have a big buffet with plenty of different items to choose from. We had breakfast here every morning. The Mexican restaurant is excellent - we actually ate there 2 times because we loved it so much. We had the enchiladas, I had them with green sauce, and my husband had the red sauce and we both loved the enchiladas but the red is very spicy. If you go there one night, you should definitely try the enchiladas! We never tried the Italian restaurant, we were going to but then booked a sunset cruise in our time slot, so we went back to the mexican place instead, but we heard very good things about the Italian restaurant, so worth trying I think!
Pools are beautiful, we hung out at the royal service pool and it was just sooooo relaxing to sit and read a book and when you get hot, you just take a little dip into the pool , swim on over to the pool bar, get a drink and wade back to your lounge chair. There was a man who was supposed to be walking around serving drinks and food but he didn't come around very often so i suppose that service could have been better. The weather when we were there in July is such that it rains every afternoon, so if you really want to get some great poolside time in, go in the morning. Around 1-2 pm every afternoon it clouds over and would rain, sometimes not a lot, sometimes a drizzle off/on but every afternoon there would be some kind of precipitation so keep that in mind when planning excursions or poolside time! The beach is very shelly, not the soft sandy kind , and when the tide is coming in, it's a very small beach area, just be aware of the tides when you set up your chair/stuff, if you plan on hanging out at the beach. we just walked down by the beach a little, we didn't spend a lot of time there. The vendors at the beach area are very nice and friendly, not pushy.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
We did the sunset tour and it is really great, very very beautiful and just so nice to be out on the water. It is BYOB, they don't provide any beverages, so grab a few beers from your fridge if you'd like those while on the boat. We also did the ATV/zip line tour and that was a blast! Definitely recommend that! Rode ATVs for about 30 min to the zip lining, zip lines for an hour or so and then rode ATVs for 2 hrs, we rode some pretty rough terrain (it really stormed the day before so lots of mud puddles to go through) and then we rode to the beach, out on the beach - that was so cool - this area of the beach was secluded, nobody there at all, as we'd rode through the jungle practically to get there! this was a fabulous way to see Costa Rica off the resort. it was my first time on a 4 wheeler , so it's very easy to do, the guy gave me a mini-lesson before we set off. We booked ours through the desk that is downstairs from the main entrance, by the golf pro shop - we just went to the first guy and booked it. it was $110 a person , we thought that was a great rate for 4 hrs of fun! all of our guides were excellent. At the Royal Service desk they have High Tide for their tours, but it's so overpriced compared to the others.
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If you are going without kids, go for the Royal Service, it's very much worth it. We were taking an anniversary trip without our 2 yr old and especially when it's a mini getaway from the parenting life, you don't want to be surrounded by kids! That said, when we walked around the resort and saw all the kid things to do that is on the other side, away from the Royal Service area, we thought how fun it would be to come back with him when he is older. When you're on the Royal service side of the resort it's so quiet and peaceful and just perfect. We would have loved to stay a little longer to enjoy more tours and more of the resort, but 3 days is all we had.
"Can't go wrong with this all-inclusive"
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Crissy on Mar 10, 2010 >
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Visited on: Feb, 2010 | Leisure | Family and Kids
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We traveled with two children 9 & 6 yrs old. This resort was the second half of our week after coming from the Tabacon Grand Spa Resort at the Arenal Volcano. (Which by the way we highly recommend for every traveler to Costa Rica.)
So after doing the rainforest/volcano thing we wanted an all-inclusive family friendly resort at the beach. A beautiful resort where we could relax and have the choice to do any number of activities from the various costa rican tourist activities to the various water sports that most beach resorts offer. ...And lucky for us we did in fact find what we were looking for at the Paradisus playa conchal.
We stayed in a family concierge suite and it was well worth the small increase in price. We were treated like kings. The kids get spoiled with goodies likes t-shirts and cookies but the real benefit is the concierge service that you have all day long! They are practically by your side when you are at the pool (beautiful) serving you drinks, food, discussing dinner reservations, giving suggestions for activites, and they will pretty much drop everything to get you what you need immediately. Whether you are at the pool, in your room or anywhere in the resort. You don't have to lift a finger (except to take care of your own kids ;).
The only small downside was the beach. The beach is beautiful however it's not private to only the resort. So you walk out of the resort gate and you have to wade through local vendors selling you their goods and services. So you kind of lose that luxury resort feel while you are at the beach section. But overall, there any many good things at the beach which is that it is close to the pool area, you have the choice to do many different water activities and many that are included in the all-inclusive price, and that the beach is nice with fairly soft sand and some waves for body surfing.
So if you are looking for a good all-inclusive resort you will be happy with this choice.
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Deborah & Bill on Feb 28, 2010 >
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Visited on: Feb, 2010 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
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Deborah & Bill would like to share this with anyone wondering about travelling to Costa Rica and staying at either the Paradisus or the Riu. We both felt this resort particularly,... is a real gem, a true paradise! The landscape of and surrounding this paradise, is absolutely beautiful, extremely well laid out and has been designed for people to easily get around, due to such an efficient shuttle service. The whiter beach here is very lovely verses the darker beaches in Costa Rica,... and all of the natural vegetation surrounding the beach makes it so picturesque. We have travelled many places and found this to be as good as it gets from our perspective. Having said that, albeit the food was very good, it is a bit of an adjustment in comparison to the, perhaps more refined North American diet. We indulged in the Royal Service package and it was well worth the extra. All of the staff are there to please and this they do very well. They are extremely accommodating, obliging and so willing to please. Our compliments to all staff and just to mention a few names from Carlos the Manager, to Irene, Oscar, Johnathan, Charlie, Luis, Jose, and I apologize for so many others we cannot remember their names. Just know that each and every one of you that work there and make a point of doing the best job you can to make it such a pleasure for your clientele, deserve high accolades and a big thank you from many. In Cost Rica "pura vida" is their motto, which is spanish for "pure life". This expression is used there in many forms, from a greeting, to a synonym for "excellent";...also a synonym of "hakuna matata", translated...life is wonderful, enjoy it! This pure life, relaxed lifestyle of ticos (the self appointed slang term Costaricans chose for themselves), is much to be admired. We truly now have a very genuine appreciation for the Costarican culture and the very beautiful race of people they are. They are educated and charming and very down to earth and make foreigner's feel very welcome on their turf. We had a wonderful 2 weeks in Costa Rica at the Paradisus and then spent the 3rd week at the Riu, which felt like a step down in comparison. See "Other Comments" for a further review of the Riu.
Other Comments:
The Riu was a very different establishment. The food was adequate, similar to any resort such as this. The pools were definitely not as nice, nor was the beach compared to the Paradisus. This was the darker beach sand, hotter to walk on with a lot more rocks and tougher surf to get in and out of. The night life here would be to some, perhaps a little more entertaining, but we would say that overall, it was not nearly as relaxing or as conveniently laid out to the bar, the beach etc.,...as was the Paradisus. On another note, the staff at the Riu would be well served to take notice and mimic the way in which customer service is executed at the Paradisus and the professionalism displayed by all the staff. Kuddos to management at the Paradisus, as they very obviously work hard at trying to ensure good customer relations. Not to sell others short, many staff at the Riu were wonderful however, the establishment just seemed to overall lack the same consistency and polish that was displayed at the Paradisus. I hope our comments will help others travelling to either of the resorts; perhaps make a more informed decision on their choices. In summary, Costa Rica is a very beautiful place with its own uniqueness, perfect weather and lovely people. We will definitely look forward to returning and appreciating all that it has to offer.
"In a word, the resort was INCREDIBLE"
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Michael on Sep 1, 2008 >
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Visited on: Sep, 2008
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My wife and I spent our honeymoon at the Paradisus Playa Conchal from September 7 to September 14, 2008.
This is apparently the rainy season in CR... but we did not have one day of rain... it was sunny and hot the whole time!!
In a word, the resort was INCREDIBLE.
We absolutely loved most everything about this resort.
I'll try and break down a few things about the resort to try and help you out if you are considering this as a vacation option.
Royal Service:
Some people on this site seem to be opposed to Royal Service and suggest it is not worth your money. Let me disagree wholeheartedly: GET IT. With Royal Service you get access to the private pool (no kids allowed -- which, trust me, when you walk past the gong-show that is the main pool, you'll come to appreciate), you have guaranteed shuttles everywhere (they have Royal Service golf carts that are available exclusively for the RS guests), your rooms are gorgeous and overlooking the garden or pool, and the concierges and butlers bend over backwards to make your life easy. As a shout-out, let me say that Andrey, Ivanna, Ivan and Hector were amazing and we were grateful for all they did. They score you reservations, they take care of your laundry, they refill your bar fridge with whatever you want... trust me,spend the money if you can and do it. And, love every minute of it.
Royal Service Lounge:
For Royal Service guests, every night they serve hors d'oeuvres. This is a great time (between 6 and 8pm) to go and check your email and relax. They have all sorts of alcohol to drink... we made it our routine to have Baileys on the rocks while checking our email and having some appys. Worth it. Plus, hardly any guests go -- which is too bad because it is a real gem in there.
All Inclusive... and then some!:
Everything, and I mean everything, was included. If you want to order 10 bottles of wine to your room, you got it. Room service, 24 hours. Drinks aplenty. Food at the restaurants non-stop. Like my wife said, all the staff there just want you to have an amazing time -- they urge you to have dessert, encourage you to try everything on the menu, drink more, party more... honestly, it is terrific and you want for nothing.
The only thing I would give a pass to is room service... not that great.
Gabi: Right by the Royal Service pool. Food is quite good. The buffet in the morning is for Royal Service guests only. The lunch is a la carte, but also only for RS guests as well. The restaurant opens in the evening for all guests -- but make your reservations. The food and the restaurant's location next to the gorgeous RS pool make it a hot commodity.
Spices: This is the Asian restaurant. Food is not bad, but I would probably skip it if I had to do it over again.
19th Hole Restaurant - Right off the main lobby of the resort, overlooking the golf course. It is open only for lunch. GO HERE every single day if you can. We didn't realize this restaurant existed until our final 2 days... awesome food. Get the stuff potatoes with chicken and jalapenos. So good.
Faisenella: The Italian restaurant. AWESOME. Make reservations though as it books up fast. Have the chicken breast with the gorgonzola/spinach rice dish. So good. They also have a sketch artist that goes table-to-table to draw your picture, as well as a piano player to set the mood. Very good.
Mitra: Out of all the restaurants, this one just did nothing for us. Service was poor, salad and dessert bar were unappetizing (too many flies) and it just seemed too much like some crappy buffet chains. I'd give it a pass.
We didn't get to go to the Mexican place as it was closed until our final night there. People we met at the resort said it was quite good.
Alex on the beach:
Give "Hightide" a pass -- they are the resort's in-house or contracted tour guides. Mark-up is high.
Instead go and talk to Alex Rabbit (yep, that's his name) on the beach. He has a baseball cap and a black ponytail and is a great guy.
He set us and many people that we met on the trip up for sea-dooing, sport fishing and ATV/Canopy Tour and it was all incredible.
Here's what we got:
ATV/Canopy Tour ($110.00/pp): We were picked up from the main lobby by a local from Brazilito (the neighbouring town) and driven about 5 minutes from the resort. There waiting for us were 6 ATVS (there were six of us) and our guide. All the ATVs were new. The guide even had a cooler to put cold drinks in (raid your bar fridge in the a.m. so you don't have to buy anything). Then from that point you ATV about 1.5 hours up into the mountains/countryside all the way to the canopy tour. This is where you get suited up and go ziplining... awesome... what an experience and the guys who run the ziplining company (Congo Trail) are awesome. Lots of fun. Then after a couple hours ziplining, you get back on your ATVs, go all the way down the mountain again and they cruise you along the beach back to Alex. It was terrific. GO!!
Sea-Dooing ($80-$100pp): Sea-doo was nice and new, worked like a breeze and was TOTALLY worth it.
Sport Fishing ($350 per boat which holds 5): We didn't do it but another couple and some friends of theirs did... they loved it... mahi-mahi jumping, tuna... they even had fresh sushi on the boat.
Alex Rabbit is amazing and will swing you a good deal. Do yourself the favor, get to know him and his team... he's a good guy and just wants to make an honest living.
Seabird Sailing ($85pp):
This had to be one of my most favorite things to do. Go to the Royal Service lounge and ask to book a catamaran day-trip with Seabird Sailing. You will not regret it.
You are picked up and driven to Flamingo Beach where you are picked up by a little motorboat and taken to a beautiful catamaran.
On-board: open-bar and beautiful food. And, it is exclusive versus some massive party boat.
They take you to a deserted island and cove where you can go snorkelling and lay on the beach... it is honestly like something out of Survivor. Just amazing.
On our way to the island, they served us fresh pineapple and watermelon. When we were done snorkelling, they had a lunch of fresh guacomole, meat, cheese, fresh banana bread and vegetables for us to eat. It was delicious.
If you do nothing else, do this.
Trip to Tamarindo ($50 roundtrip):
Go to the main lobby (or if you are Royal Service, have them book for you) and book a cab to take you into Tamarindo. The cab will take you there and then they give you a voucher to give to any shop or restaurant there and they will call and then come back to get you.
Lots of shopping... bit overpriced... beach at sunset is beautiful... surfing is apparently amazing... but I liked staying closer to the resort... Tamarindo was a bit sketchy.
BRAZILITO (about 15 min walk from the resort): Rough-looking little town with a good restaurant. "The Happy Snapper". Go.
It is honestly beautiful -- a bit rough in terms of sand and the way the waves come in and pull-back out mean you often get a mammoth load of shells and sand in your suit, but the water is super warm and it is a blast to have the waves crash into you.
Be forewarned though: The riptides are strong. So if you get caught in one, don't panic. Turn your body parallel to the shore and the waves will carry you back in.
Lots of little vendors on the beach but they weren't pushy at all.
Overall, this was a great vacation and I would go back in a minute. Honestly, if you have a week or two to spare, go and enjoy everything the resort has to offer.


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Coconut Chicken Salad with Warm Honey Mustard Vinaigrette Recipe
Warm oven-fried coconut chicken over a bed of baby greens, cucumber, tomato, shredded carrots topped with a hot honey mustard vinaigrette. It's the perfect mix of salty and sweet, warm and cold.
I'm not sure what it is about spring, maybe the thought of having to get into a bathing suit in just a few more months, or maybe it's just the sunshine that switches my brain to want less soups and stews to large main dish salads. This salad has plenty of protein to keep you satisfied and the warmth of the chicken doesn't leave me feel like I'm missing something. Serve this for lunch or dinner; use any combination of salad fixins' and dig in!
For the chicken I found the cornflake crumbs gave this a nice crispy texture, but unseasoned breadcrumbs would work just as well in their place. This would also be great with shrimp, enjoy!!
Coconut Chicken Salad with Warm Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 3 • Serving Size: salad with 2 chicken tenders • Points +: 8 pts • Smart Points: 9
Calories: 397.6 • Fat: 11.0 g • Protein: 26.8 g • Carb: 32.5 g • Fiber: 4.4 g • Sugar: 10
6 (about 12 oz) chicken tenderloins
6 tbsp shredded coconut
1/4 cup panko crumbs
2 tbsp crushed cornflake crumbs
1/3 cup egg substitute or egg whites
pinch salt
olive oil spray
6 cups mixed baby greens
3/4 cup shredded carrots
1 large tomato, sliced
1 small cucumber, sliced
For the Vinaigrette:
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp white vinegar (balsamic would work too)
2 tsp dijon mustard
Whisk all vinaigrette ingredients; set aside.
Preheat oven to 375°.
Combine coconut flakes, panko, cornflake crumbs and salt in a bowl. Put egg whites or egg beaters in another bowl.
Lightly season chicken with salt. Dip the chicken in the egg, then in the coconut crumb mixture. Place chicken on a cookie sheet lined with parchment for easy cleanup. Lightly spray with olive oil spray and bake for 30 minutes turning halfway, or until chicken is cooked through.
Place 2 cups baby greens on each plate. Divide carrots, cucumber, tomato evenly between each plate. When chicken is ready slice on the diagonal and place on top of greens. Heat dressing in the microwave a few seconds and divide equally between each salad; a little over 1 tbsp each.
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Lone Wolf Sighted Near Blue Mountain Recreation Area [AUDIO]
Residents near the Blue Mountain Recreation Area spotted a lone white wolf early this week and contacted Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
Wolf Specialist Liz Bradley said wolf sightings are common at this time of year because much of the game they hunt is still down closer to the valley floors.
"There is still quite a bit of snow in the high country," Bradley said. "That means there's game in the lower elevations, and predators such as wolves will follow the game. As the season progresses, we expect them to move up to higher elevations. We do have two packs in the Blue Mountain area. One pack of about four wolves is in the Lolo Creek drainage just west of Lolo, and there's another pack west of Blue Mountain that consists of about five wolves."
Bradley said wolves are shy around people, but could attack a dog off leash from its owner.
"Most of the time, when wolves see people, they're going to run away," Bradley said. "It's important, though, if you do see a wolf and you have a dog with you, to make sure you get the dog on leash as quickly as possible. That's going to be the main threat for you, is trying to protect your dog. Wolves will be aggressive towards dogs, but very rarely will they be aggressive towards people."
Anyone who spots a wolf or a wolf pack near a residential area is asked to contact Bradley at Montana Fish, Wildlife and parks at 542-5500.


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Quote:Jeet Kune Do was one man's concept of taking what is effective to each individual martial artist and learning to wash out the rest that does not work for them in order to fight for real.
Quote: However, I HATE the sport MMA scene. There's nothing JKD about it IMO. It's too much dog and pony show - a tough guy masturbation fest.
Quote:However, I HATE the sport MMA scene. There's nothing JKD about it IMO. It's too much dog and pony show - a tough guy masturbation fest.
Quote:...need I go on?
Quote:maybe because lots of people dont really spend time to develop a strong base? GSP trained in different MAs before jumping into MMA, Same with Lyoto Machida, BJ Penn, etc etc.they spend time training "basics" before combining them into MMA training. MMA training that you find is just way too generic imo. People seem to specialize AFTER they go MMA rather than before
Quote: In fact, it could be argued that one doesn't even need mixed martial arts for self-defense. If one has a good clinch game, that's all he or she needs.
Quote:I can see that, except for one situation - when your opponent is much bigger than you. It's really hard to get to a clinch on someone who is taller and broader than you (especially if you're short and skinny like me), unless they've initiated the clinch.
Quote:I personally like WC for just that type of situation, but how would you adjust a clinch game to take on goliath?
Quote:Also, I gotta say I'm impressed with how MMA skills stick with you, even after devoting all my training time to a completely different style. I recently joined an MMA school that focuses more on self defense (and sparring ) and I found that after four years of not training it, it's still there. Now that's cool!
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You might have looked at your data while the data collection was still in progress, and have been tempted to stop the study because the result was already significant. Alternatively, you might have analyzed your data, only to find the result was not yet significant, and decided to collect additional data. There are good ethical arguments to do this. You should spend tax money in the most efficient manner, and if adding some data makes your study more informative, that's better than running a completely new and bigger study. Similarly, asking 200 people to spend 5 minutes thinking about their death in a mortality salience manipulation when you only needed 100 participants to do this depressing task is not desirable. However, if you peek at your data but don't control the Type 1 error rate when deciding to terminate or continue the data collection, you are p-hacking.
No worries: There's an easy way to peek at data the right way, and decide whether to continue the data collection or call it a day while controlling the Type 1 error rate. It's called sequential analyses, has been used extensively in large medical trials, and the math to control the false positives level is worked out pretty well (and there's easy to use software to perform the required calculations). If you've been reading this blog, you might have realized I think it's important to point out what's wrong, but even more important to prevent people from doing the wrong thing by explaining how to do the right thing.
Last week, Ryne Sherman posted a very cool R function to examine the effects of repeatedly analyzing data, and adding participants when the result is not yet significant. It allows you to specifiy how often you will collect additional samples, and gives the inflated alpha level and effect size. Here, I'm going to use his function to show how easy it is to prevent p-hacking while still being able to repeatedly analyze results while the data collection is in progress. I should point out that Bayesian analyses have no problem with repeated testing, so if you want to abandon NHST, that's also an option.
I've modified his original code slightly as follows:
res <- phack(initialN=50, hackrate=50, grp1M=0, grp2M=0, grp1SD=1, grp2SD=1, maxN=150, alpha=.0221, alternative="two.sided", graph=TRUE, sims=100000)
I've set the initial sample size (per condition) to 50, and the 'hackrate' (or the number of participants that are collected, if the original sample is not significant) to 50 additional participants in each group. I've set MaxN, the maximum sample size you are willing to collect, to 150. This means that you get three tries: After 50, after 100, and after 150 participants per condition. That's not a p-hacking rampage (Ryne simulates results of checking after every 5 participants), but as we'll see below, it's enough to substantially inflate the Type 1 error rate. I also use 'two-sided' tests in this simulation, and increased the number of simulations from 1000 to 100000 for more stable results.
Most importantly, I have adjusted the alpha-level. Instead of the typical .05 level, I've lowered it to .0221. Before I explain why I adjusted the alpha level, let's see if it works.
Running The Code
Make sure to have first installed and loaded the 'psych' package, and read in the p-hack function Ryne made:
install.packages("psych") # load psych package
source("http://rynesherman.com/phack.r") # read in the p-hack function
res <- phack(initialN=50, hackrate=50, grp1M=0, grp2M=0, grp1SD=1, grp2SD=1, maxN=150, alpha=.0221, alternative="two.sided", graph=TRUE, sims=100000)
The output you get will tell you a lot of different things, but here I'm mainly interested in:
Proportion of Original Samples Statistically Significant = 0.02205
Proportion of Samples Statistically Significant After Hacking = 0.04947
This means that if we look at the data after the first 50 participants are in, only 0.02205% of the studies reveal a statistically significant result. That's pretty close to the significance level of 0.0221 (as it should be, when there is no true effect to be found). Now for the nice part: We see that after 'p-hacking' (looking at the data multiple times) the overall alpha level is approximately 0.04947%. It stays nicely below the 0.05% significance level that we would adhere to if we had performed only a single statistical test.
What I have done here is formally called 'sequential analyses'. I've applied Pocock's (1977) boundary for three sequential analyses, and not surprisingly, it works very nicely. It lowers the alpha level for each analyses in a way such that the overall alpha level for three looks at the data stays below 0.05%. If we hadn't lowered the significance level (which you can try out by re-running the analysis, changing the alpha=.0221 to alpha=.05, we would have found an overall Type 1 error rate of 10.7% - which is an inflated alpha-level due to flexibility in the data analysis that can be quite problematic (see also Lakens & Evers, 2014).
On page 7 of Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2011), the authors discuss correcting alpha levels (as we've done above), where they even refer to Pocock (1977). The paragraph reads a little bit like a reviewer made them write it, but in it, they say: "unless there is an explicit rule about exactly how to adjust alphas for each degree of freedom […] the additional ambiguity may make things worse by introducing new degrees of freedom." I think there are good explicit rules that can be used in the specific case of repeatedly analyzing data and adding participants. Nevertheless, they are right that in sequential analyses, researchers need to determine the number of looks at the data, and the alpha correction function. All this could be additional sources of flexibility, and therefore I think sequential analyses need to be pre-registered. But for a pre-registered rule to determine the sample size, it allows for surprising flexibility in the data collection, while controlling the Type 1 error rate.
Note that Pocock's rule is actually not the one I would recommend, and it isn't even the rule Pocock would recommend (!), but it's the only one that has the same alpha level for each intermittent test, and thus the only one I could demonstrate in the function Ryne Sherman wrote. I won't go in too much detail about which adjustments to the alpha-level you should make, because I've written a practical primer on sequential analyses in which this, and a lot more, is discussed.
Note that another adjustment of Ryne's code nicely reproduces the 'Situation B' in Simmons et al's False Positive Psychology paper of collecting 20 participants, and adding 10 if the test is not significant (for a significance level of .05):
res <- phack(initialN=20, hackrate=10, grp1M=0, grp2M=0, grp1SD=1, grp2SD=1, maxN=30, alpha=.05, alternative="two.sided", graph=TRUE, sims=100000)
When there is an effect to be found
I want to end by showing why sequential analyses can be very beneficial if there is a true effect to be found. Run the following code, where the grp1M (mean in group 1) is 0.4.
res <- phack(initialN=50, hackrate=50, grp1M=0.4, grp2M=0, grp1SD=1, grp2SD=1, maxN=150, alpha=.0221, alternative="two.sided", graph=TRUE, sims=100000)
This study has an effect size of d=0.4. Remember that in real life, the true effect size is not known, so you might have just chosen to collect a number of participants based on some convention (e.g., 50 participants in each condition) which would lead to an underpowered study. In situations when the true effect is uncertain, sequential analyses can have a real benefit. After running the script above, we get:
Proportion of Original Samples Statistically Significant = 0.37624
Proportion of Samples Statistically Significant After Hacking = 0.89686
Now that there is a true effect of d=0.4 these numbers mean that in 37.6% of the studies, we got lucky and already observe a statistical difference after collecting only 50 participants in each condition. That's efficient, and you can take an extra week off, because even though single studies are never enough to accurately estimate the true effect size, the data give an indication something might be going on. Note this power is quite a lot lower than if we only look at the data once - other corrections for the alpha level than Pocock's correction have a lower cost in power.
The data also tell us that after collecting 150 participants, we will have observed and effect in approximately 90% of the studies. If the difference happens not to be significant after running 100 participants, and you deem a significant difference to be important, you can continue collecting participants – without it being p-hacking - and improve your chances of observing a significant result.
If, after 50 participants in each condition, you observe a Cohen's d of 0.001 (and you don't have access to thousands and thousands of people on Facebook) you might decide you are not interested in pursuing this specific effect any further, or choose to increase the strength of your manipulation in a new study. That's also more efficient than collecting 100 participants in each condition without looking at the data until you are done, and hoping for the best.
It was because of these efficiency benefits that Wald (1945), who published an early paper on sequential analyses, was kept from publically sharing his results during war time. These insights were judged to be sufficiently useful for the war effort to keep them out of the hands of the enemy:
Given how much more efficient sequential analyses are, it's very surprising people don't use them more often. If you want to get started, check out my practical primer on sequential analyses, which is in press in The European Journal of Social Psychology in a special issue on methodological improvements. If you want to listen to me explain it in person (or see how I look like when wearing a tie), you can listen to my talk about this at European Association of Social Psychology conference (EASP 2014) in Amsterdam, Wednesday July 9th, 09:40 AM in room OMHP F0.02. But I would suggest you just read the paper. There's an easy step-by-step instruction (also for calculations in R), and the time it takes is easily worth it, since your data collection will be much more efficient in the future, while you will be able to aim for well-powered studies at a lower cost. I call that a win-win situation.
Thanks to Ryne Sherman for his very useful function (which can be used to examine the effects of peeking at data, even when it's not p-hacking!). This was his first post, and if future ones will be as useful, you will want to follow his blog or twitter account.
Lakens, D. (in press). Performing high-powered studies efficiently with sequential analyses. European Journal of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2023. Pre-print available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2333729
Lakens, D. (in press). Performing high-powered studies efficiently with sequential analyses. European Journal of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2023. Pre-print available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2333729
Pocock, S. J. (1977). Group sequential methods in the design and analysis of clinical trials. Biometrika, 64(2), 191-199.
Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-positive psychology undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science, 22(11), 1359-1366.
Wald, A. (1945). Sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 16(2), 117-186.


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A Nigerian, Tinuade Okoro, has emerged. the best graduating medical student in Ghana and scooping, in the process, 16 prizes at the University of Ghana, Legon. Some of the prizes won by Okoro include the Ghana Medical Association prize for the best overall student in the MB ch.B final part 11 examination; prize for all round best student, sponsored by Ghana Health Service and the Society of Obstetrics and Gynecologists of Ghana prize for the best student in gynacology as well as the R.K Obeng prize for the best student in clinical pharmacology.
Others prizes won by the Nigerian are the Nana Preko Ampem 11 prize for the best student in clinical obstetrics and gynecology; Archampong prize in surgery and Harry Sawyerr prize in medicine and therapeutics among others. In a letter dated February 28, 2013 and signed by Mrs. Selie Ama Baiden of the office of the Ag. Executive Secretary, office of the Dean, College of Health Sciences of the University of Ghana Medical School, it invited her to its congregation/swearing-in-ceremony of newly qualified medical doctors scheduled for March 23 at the Athletic
Oval, University of Ghana, Legon.
Born and brought up in Jos, Okoro's parents are from Ondo State. Her father, Mr. Benjamin Oyedele Okoro, is a retired
civil servant while her mother, Mrs. Omotayo Yetunde Okoro, was a nurse till her death in 2004.
Tinuade began her primary school education in 1993 in Plateau Private School, Jos, continued in Rantya Model School, Jos and ended in Camp David Nursery and Primary School, Lagos.
Tinuade attended Federal Government Girls' College, Akure from 1998-2004, following which she completed some
computer training while awaiting admission into university. She enrolled at the University of Ghana, Legon in 2006 and was admitted into the University of Ghana Medical School
(UGMS), Accra in 2007.
Attributing her feat to God's mercy and hard work, she said: "Structured learning also helped. You cannot just keep reading without a map, hoping to one day finish the material, you never will if you do not plan to.
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Latest from Orlando: Athletes First in spotlight
ORLANDO - Things began to wind down on Saturday at the 17 and under Super Showcase, and at the same time the 16 and under national tournament started to get going in full force. With so much action going on there were numerous intriguing games, including a pair that didn't even count and were just set up for television.
The way things were set up in Orlando on Saturday, Athletes First was positioned to have a day full of big time games. First they faced up with BABC in the quarter finals of the Super Showcase. Arguably that quarterfinal match up pitted the two best teams against each other.
Early on it was all Athletes First. The combination of Kyle Hardrick and Daniel Orton got Alex Oriakhi in foul trouble. Oriakhi actually picked up his fourth foul before halftime, and that limited him in every way imaginable.
With Oriakhi on the bench with fouls, BABC really needed Phil Pressey to step up, but he struggled mightily. Usually Pressey's game is to get into the lane and create for others with the pass or score himself with a floater, but everything Pressey threw up, he missed. Without the ability to score and control the game the bigger Athletes First team was able to take control for much of the first half.
Even with their stars struggling, BABC managed to rally at the end of the second quarter, and then really took control in the third. At one point BABC pulled to a five-point lead, and with Xavier Henry missing from the outside, it looked like they might pull the upset.
That is of course until Orton decided to be a man-child. In the fourth quarter Orton was far and away the best player on the floor. Oriakhi wasn't playing, and without him BABC had no chance to stop Orton. He was sealing his man and dunking on the offensive end, cleaning the glass, and also swatting shots away with regularity on defense. Orton's strong play lifted Athletes First to the win. For his part Orton finished with 23 points and 18 rebounds. Much of that production came in the second half.
Only a few hours after that tough and emotional game, the New York Gauchos came calling for Athletes First. Behind the strong athletic plays from Terrence Boyd, and the shooting of Henry, Athletes first gained some control early, but the kids from New York definitely weren't ready to give in.
Specifically it was Durand Scott who kept the Gauchos in the game. He had his three point jump shot working, and when he is hitting from deep, Scott can be nearly impossible to defend. Outside of Scott, Doron Lamb, Russ Smith, Tyreak Johnson, and several other Gaucho role players chipped in to keep things a ball game.
Trailing at the half, the Gauchos hit Athletes First with pressure in the second, and outside of Boyd they really didn't respond well. The Gauchos were able to take a lead in the third that extended all the way to the two minute mark of the fourth quarter.
At that point Athletes First gave the Gauchos a taste of their own medicine and unleashed the dogs defensively. A few turnovers led directly to buckets, and just like that Athletes First took the lead back. Some clutch foul shooting, and a missed jumper by Scott sealed a 54-49 win for Athletes First and a trip to the finals to face the Illinois Warriors.
As if that wasn't a busy enough day, Athletes First also participated in a made for TV exhibition game against Rising Stars Gold out of Chicago.
Because the game meant nothing, Henry, Orton, and company didn't see a whole lot of action, but when they were in they were very impressive. In that game however, the story was Nik Garcia and Marcus Jordan. Garcia got hot with his three-point jump shot to finish with 20 points, and Jordan continued his strong play from the Peach Jam with 17 points of his own.
Rising Stars won the game, but in the second half they were going mostly against reserves from Athletes First.
Like the Athletes First v. Rising Stars Gold contest, the Boo Williams v. BABC game didn't mean much in terms of the tournament, but it was a good chance to see two of the top teams in the country play against each other with a national TV audience looking on.
As fate would have it, the two players that did the most work were Gerald Coleman of BABC and Marshawn Powell of Boo Williams.
Coleman used his freaky long arms, impressive athleticism, and ability to hit deep jumpers to befuddle the Boo Williams defense. With players keying on Pressey and Oriakhi, it was Coleman that stole the show. He scored in every way imaginable, and looked the part of a big time 2010 prospect.
When Boo needed an offensive rebound and bucket, Powell got it. When they needed a jumper, he made it. When they needed a defensive stop, he helped get it done. The next step for him is to get his body into shape, but at least on Saturday he was one of the best players on the floor.
In the anticipated match up between Pressey and Kendall Marshall, neither player really stood out, but both proved their worth. Marshall showed a feel for the game that is nearly unmatched. When he gets the opportunity to push the ball in space, Marshall always makes the right decision and sets his teammate up for a wide open jumper. Even when he doesn't get the direct assist, often times it is his pass that can lead to another pass to a wide open teammate.
Pressey struggled with his shot again, but got it going a little bit in the second half, and also showed some solid decision making skills. Neither Pressey nor Marshall played great against each other, but both showed flashes of why they are rated so highly.
Another player who really stood out for Boo Williams was Tristan Spurlock. Spurlock showed an ability to hit the outside jumper, and also he was able to score off the bounce. With coaches looking on intently, Spurlock showed versatility and the ability to score in many different ways.
The Expressions Sophomores have a good looking player in Rod Odom. Odom is originally from New York, but attends prep school at Middlesex. He is every bit of 6-foot-6 with good athleticism and a nice jump shot. In a game against the Detroit Fire Odom had 13 points on a pair of threes and several nice moves off the bounce. If he gains strength he could surprise some people.
The Birmingham Ice were definitely one of the favorites coming into the Super Showcase Silver Bracket, and a huge reason is Eric Bledsoe. The scrappy point guard is one of the best defenders in the class and a more than capable scorer. On Saturday he helped the Ice rally to beat the Spiece Gym Rats. Bledsoe is simply a winner, and the consummate floor leader.
In their loss to the Birmingham Ice, Spiece Gym Rats star and Purdue commitment Jeff Robinson had his moments. Unfortunately those moments were surrounded by a lot of unmotivated play. If he can learn to play hard all the time, than Robinson has the tools to be very good.
In the 16 and under Nationals Allen Payne played well for the Queen City Prophets. The wing needs to be more aggressive, he only took seven shots, but finished with 16 points because of his ability to get to the foul line.
Playing well for Team Nashville was Terrence Clemmons. Though he battled foul trouble, Clemmons showed off some impressive athleticism to go along with a good frame for a wing player. If he plays more under control, Clemmons will be very difficult to handle.
Indiana guard Jesse Berry was the talk of the town last week after he got the best of Marquis Teague in a one-on-one match up, but he didn't continue that play on Saturday. Berry was off with his shot, and didn't attack much at all. He passes the look test no doubt, but Saturday was not one of his best.
Eric Bledsoe mentioned South Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi State, UAB, South Carolina, and Chattanooga.
Highly athletic Edward Daniel is getting attention from Tulsa, UAB, Chattanooga, Georgia State, Murray State, and Ball State.
Allen Payne says his list is West Virginia, Dayton, Tennessee, Wake Forest, Xavier, Georgetown, Cincinnati, and Penn State.
After an impressive day overall Terrance Boyd mentioned USC, Connecticut, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Tennessee, Pittsburgh, Kentucky, and Western Kentucky.
Nik Garcia shot the lights out and then rattled off a long list of schools. He said Alabama, Miami, Providence, Wake Forest, Florida State, Maryland, Southern Illinois, Nebraska, and Kansas State have all been calling. Garcia made sure to mention that more schools were recruiting him, but those were the only ones he could remember off hand.


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But my intention is different. Is there any application that monitors a log file and updates as it is updated in real time?
Platform: Windows XP/2003/2008 server
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With a background in American theater, Vic Janusz was offered a nightly 6-month run as a pianist in 1998 by the Seattle Sheraton Towers; He formed a trio and immediately booked venues from the historic Showbox Theater to The Paramount lobby lounge. His many cabaret hits include the popular "Phoenicia & Vic" shows with Wade Madsen ("Pinkaboo!" enjoyed a month-long run at Seattle's ACT Theatre in 2008). Vic has accompanied and sung alongside singers as diverse as jazz great Greta Matassa, Sarah Rudinoff, and "El Vez", among others. One of the Northwest's most in-demand piano men –either as front man or soloist, Janusz has headlined (with the VJ Combo) at CANLIS For six New Years Eve Galas, at the Fairmont Hotel, and –for four years–, each weekend at Seattle's favorite waterfront landmark: Saltys On Alki. Victor was selected from a nationwide audition to attend the 6th Annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University in August 2008; He studied and performed for 10 days with masters of the art form, including Julie Wilson, Jason Graae, and Laurel Masse of "Manahattan Transfer". VICTOR JANUSZ Recordings include the instrumental "Hands Solo" (2002) and "Cosmo Street" (2005) spotlighting Vic as singer/songwriter with his band.


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Burleigh Arland Grimes (August 18 1893 – December 6 1985) was an American professional baseball player, and the last pitcher officially permitted to throw the spitball.
Nicknamed "Ol' Stubblebeard", Grimes was born in Emerald, Wisconsin. Burleigh made his professional debut in 1913 in Ottumwa, IA for the Ottumwa Packers in the Central Association. He made his major league debut on September 10, 1916 for the Pittsburgh Pirates and in 1920, when the spitball was banned, he was named as one of the 17 established pitchers who would be allowed to continue to throw the pitch. The 26 year old Grimes made the most of this advantage, and over the course of his 19-year career, won 270 games and pitched in four World Series. At the time of his retirement, he was the last of the 17 spitballers left in the league.
He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1916 - 1917), the Brooklyn Dodgers (1918-1926), the New York Giants (1927), the Pirates again (1928-1929), the Boston Braves (1930), the St. Louis Cardinals (the rest of 1930 and 1931), the Chicago Cubs (1932 and part of 1933), the Cardinals again (the rest of 1933 and part of 1934), the Pirates again (1934), and the New York Yankees (the last part of 1934).
According to Baseball Digest, the Phillies were able to hit him because they knew when he was throwing the spitter. The Dodgers were mystified about this; first they thought the relative newcomer of a catcher, Hank DeBerry, was unwittingly giving away his signals to the pitcher, so they substituted veteran Zack Taylor, to no avail. They suggested that a spy with binoculars was concealed in the scoreboard in old Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, reading the signals from a distance, but the Phils hit Grimes just as well in Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. A batboy solved the mystery by pointing out that Burleigh's cap was too tight. It sounded silly, but he was right. The tighter cap would wiggle when Grimes flexed his facial muscles to prepare the spitter. He got a cap a half-size larger and the Phillies were on their own after that.[citation needed]
He was the manager of the Dodgers in 1937-38, compiling a two-year record of 131-171 (.434), with his teams finishing sixth and seventh respectively in the National League. His most memorable moment managing the Dodgers occurred when he refused a suggestion by Owner Larry Macphail to activate Babe Ruth (hired as a coach in June, 1938) as a pinch-hitter for the month of September (disliked Ruth and fearful of Babe's eyesight problems). He then remained in baseball for many years as a minor league manager and a scout. He managed the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League from 1942 to 1944, and again in 1952 and 1953, winning the pennant in 1943.
Grimes acquired a lasting field reputation for his temperament. He is listed in the Baseball Hall of Shame series for the act of throwing a ball at the batter in the on-deck circle.[1] His friends and supporters note that he was consistently a kind man when off the diamond. Others claim he showed a greedy attittude to many people that 'got on his bad side.' He would mainly speak to only his best friend Ivy Olsen in the dugout, and would only pitch to a man named Mathias Schroeder before games. Schroeder's identity was not well known among many Dodger players, as many say he was just 'a nice guy from the neighborhood.'
Burleigh Grimes was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.
He died in Clear Lake, Wisconsin at age of 92.
See also Edit
- List of Major League Baseball leaders in career wins
- List of Major League Baseball strikeout champions
- List of Major League Baseball wins champions
- MLB All-Time Hit Batsmen List
References Edit
- ↑ Bruce Nash, The Baseball Hall of Shame 2
External linksEdit
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
- baseballhalloffame.org – Hall of Fame biography page
- cmgworldwide.com Official website
|Awards and achievements
|Preceded by:
Grover Cleveland Alexander
|National League Strikeout Champion
|Succeeded by:
Dazzy Vance
|Preceded by:
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Charley Root
|National League Wins Champion
1921 (with Wilbur Cooper)
1928 (with Larry Benton)
|Succeeded by:
Eppa Rixey
Pat Malone
|Preceded by:
Casey Stengel
|Brooklyn Dodgers Manager
|Succeeded by:
Leo Durocher
Template:Los Angeles Dodgers Template:Los Angeles Dodgers managers Template:1931 St. Louis Cardinals Template:1964 Baseball HOF Template:Pitchers in the Baseball Hall of Fame


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Packers are facing a critical off-season
Many changes expected for disappointing defensive unit
Green Bay - Inside Green Bay Packers headquarters Sunday, the defense was nowhere to be found, just like the night before in a 45-31 divisional playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
As the offense, special teams and injured players made their final locker room appearance in front of reporters Sunday, defensive players were conspicuous by their absence. Not a single starter was around to assess the future of a unit that for the third time in four years failed the team in the playoffs.
Maybe it was appropriate that the whereabouts of roughly half the team was uncertain because so is its future. When the Packers convene for organized team activities after the April draft, a whole bunch of introductions might be in order.
The task in front of general manager Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy following the 579-yard beating the Packers' defense took Saturday night is to figure out whether they can go forward with the same coaches and same personnel philosophy.
Under defensive coordinator Dom Capers the past four seasons, the defense has at times been unable to stop the run, unable to communicate consistently in the secondary and unable to stand up to hot quarterbacks. Its saving grace other times has been creating turnovers and getting sacks, but too often the season has ended on a disappointing note.
As the week goes on, McCarthy is going to have to decide whether Capers has lost his touch and no longer has the ability to keep up with the NFL's increasingly diverse offensive attacks or is a victim of Thompson's draft-only philosophy and neglect in acquiring the bruising linebackers and safeties it takes to compete with the physical offenses of NFC contenders San Francisco and the New York Giants.
As players are wont to do, the Packers defend Capers and his staff to reporters, refusing publicly to turn on the same guys who helped them win Super Bowl rings. But it was also clear after the loss what players were speaking of when they said they were out-schemed and underprepared against 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the read-option plays he used en route to breaking the NFL record for quarterback rushing yards with 181.
"Coach Capers is a great coach," said linebacker Desmond Bishop, who spent the season on injured reserve. "You can't have a great defense and win the Super Bowl one year and then be kicked out the next year, or a year or two later. I don't think it should work like that at all.
"I think Dom Capers is a great coach. It's just something I think we have to look at internally as a team and not really worry about going outside of the team. It's something we have to look at within ourselves. I think we will address that and be fine."
Should he decide to part ways with Capers, McCarthy wouldn't necessarily have to scrap the Steelers 3-4 system the Packers are currently using. Defensive line coach Mike Trgovac and safeties coach Darren Perry would be options if McCarthy chose to promote from within and keep the same system.
There are plenty of 3-4 practitioners so it wouldn't necessarily mean McCarthy would have to start from scratch on defense if he hired from somewhere else. The Packers have invested a lot into 3-4-type players and McCarthy likes the attacking style of that scheme.
But before McCarthy decides a coaching change is necessary, Thompson needs to examine his philosophy for stocking the roster with talent. Thompson devoted his first six draft choices last spring to defensive players, but did not sign a veteran free agent and made Capers and his staff make do this season with a bunch of rookies.
It's hard to have a successful defense when the roster is continually turning over and isn't allowed to mature. Whether that has been the case with the Packers is up for debate.
But what isn't is that Thompson has leaned away from acquiring big, physical players like Bishop in favor of more agile players like A.J. Hawk, Morgan Burnett, Brad Jones, D.J. Smith, M.D. Jennings, Sam Shields, Frank Zombo, Casey Hayward and Mike Daniels.
First-round pick Nick Perry was more in the Bishop style of physical player but was tentative in his transition from college end to pro outside linebacker and was lost for the season halfway through with a wrist injury. Rookie inside linebacker Terrell Manning might be able to add some pop to the lineup next year, but after battling a training camp illness the best he could do was contribute on special teams.
Safety Jerron McMillian, another physical type played like a rookie and the jury is still out on his future. His height will always be an issue. Cornerback Davon House looked like he might add some muscle to the defense, but he dislocated his shoulder in training camp and was not the same the rest of the season.
The combination of Ryan Pickett and B.J. Raji has been solid in the middle, but when C.J. Wilson got hurt Capers had no one who could serve as the third run-stuffer in his base defense. Mike Neal, Jerel Worthy and Daniels were poor substitutes for the double-team-eating ends necessary to stop the run in the 3-4 defense.
As safety Charles Woodson said after the loss to the 49ers, "Maybe we have to get bigger and faster."
It will be up to Thompson to decide whether to go on with Hawk and his $5.45 million salary cap number or use a top pick to find a complement to Bishop, who is coming off a torn hamstring and has a lot of hurdles to clear before proving he's the player he once was.
Thompson also probably will part ways with Woodson, who with a $10 million salary cap number is way too expensive to keep around for a 14-year veteran that has suffered two broken collarbones.
Thompson is not one open to change, but he did commit to rebuilding the defense last spring with the six draft picks and he might need to break his resistance to free agency to turn this defense around. Salary cap space would be available if he dumps Hawk and Woodson.
As for the rest of the roster, receivers Donald Driver and Greg Jennings are all but gone, which will mean salary cap money can be spent elsewhere. Tight end Jermichael Finley came around enough at the end that his $8.25 million cap number is worth carrying, but decisions have to be made on whether to keep running backs James Starks ($1.3 million) and John Kuhn ($1.9 million).
There will be change around 1265 Lombardi Ave. How much is a question only Thompson and McCarthy can answer.


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By making key observations to untangle and model the many sources and strengths of Earth's continuously changing magnetic field, the Swarm mission is set to advance many areas of Earth science.
Swarm's highly accurate and frequent measurements will provide new insight into our planet's formation, dynamics and environment stretching from Earth's core to the Sun.
In short, no other single quantity can be used for such a variety of studies related to the planet.
One of the very few ways of probing Earth's liquid core is to measure the magnetic field it creates and how it changes over time. Since variations in the field directly reflect the flow of fluid in the outermost core, new information from Swarm will further our understanding of the physics and dynamics of Earth's stormy heart.
The continuous changes in the core field that result in motion of the magnetic poles and reversals are important for the study of Earth's lithosphere, also known as the 'crustal' field, which has induced and remnant magnetised parts. The latter depend on the magnetic properties of the sub-surface rock and the history of Earth's core field.
We can therefore learn more about the history of the magnetic field and geological activity by studying magnetism in Earth's crust. As new oceanic crust is created through volcanic activity, iron-rich minerals in the upwelling magma are oriented to magnetic north at the time.
These magnetic stripes are evidence of pole reversals so analysing the magnetic imprints of the ocean floor allows past core field changes to be reconstructed and also helps to investigate tectonic plate motion.
Magnetic signals from the crust need to be determined from space in much higher resolution than currently available.
By complementing the spatial scales observed by Swarm with magnetic surveys from aircraft, gaps in our knowledge about Earth's crust will be filled. The crust also holds clues about how the field may have affected climate in the past through the escape of atmospheric gases to space.
Other induced sources of magnetism can be found between the thin crust and the outer core and in the ocean. Variations of electrical conductivity in silicate in the mantle generate minute signals that can be detected in space when electrical currents in the magnetosphere vary with time. These variations can be related to mantle composition, such as temperature and water content.
The constellation of Swarm satellites will produce, for the first time, global 3D images of electrical conductivity in the mantle, yielding new insight into the properties of the mantle.
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Microphone/Mic FM Wireless is basically an FM transmitter to low power. FM Wireless Mic circuit you can use it to replace the wireless mic is usually quite expensive price. If you are a fan of electronics, then the series is worth your trying, but its component prices cheaper tool is also very useful. Here is a picture of his series:
List Component of Microphone/Mic Wireless
1 = 10K (brown-black-orange)
R2,R3 = 100K (brown-black-yellow)
R4 = 470 ohm (yellow-violet-brown)
C1,C3 = 4.7pF (4p7), ceramic
C2,C4 = 4.7uF-16V, electrolytic
C5 = 0.001uF (1nF), ceramic
C6 = 470pF, ceramic
Q1,Q2 = 2N2222, NPN transistor
L1 = 1uH, variable inductor
Mic = Electret mike, 2 wires
Q1 amplifies the input signal via C4 from the electret microphone. Q2 acts as an oscillator and the signal coming off C2 is fed onto the base of Q2. L1/C1 is a so called 'tank' circuit and operates in the 88-105MHz band on your regular AM/FM radio dial.
L1 is a 1uH variable inductor coil to be able to tune it a little bit, and the range of 1uH is approximate. The antenna can be as simple as a 8″ (21cm) piece of wire of any kind.


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WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit fell to the lowest level in nearly six years in December as the recession depressed demand for imports. The trade deficit in 2008 fell for a second straight year and economists expect an even bigger decline this year.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that the deficit in December fell 4 percent to $39.9 billion, from $41.6 billion in November. It was slightly higher than the $36 billion deficit economists expected.
For the year, the deficit shrank by 3.3 percent to $677.1 billion. It was the second straight annual decline after five straight years of record deficits.
The 2008 imbalance was the lowest annual total since 2004, and many economists believe the deficit for 2009 will be half the size of last year's gap. However, the improvement is due to a painful recession that is cutting demand for imports of oil, autos and other foreign-made products.
The politically sensitive deficit with China continued rising in 2008, hitting an all-time high of $266.3 billion, the highest imbalance ever recorded with any country. The deficit with China has set records throughout the decade, triggering a political backlash with growing calls for trade sanctions against Beijing for what critics contend are unfair trade practices that have cost American manufacturing jobs.
Still, Chinese exports are not immune to the effects of recession. China's exports plunged in January amid collapsing global demand, according to customs data released Tuesday. Exports fell 17.5 percent last month compared with the year-ago period, and a sharper drop than December's 2.8 percent.
The Bush administration resisted pressure in Congress to brand China a currency manipulator, a designation that could lead to trade sanctions. However, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress last month that President Barack Obama believes China is manipulating its currency, raising the possibility that the new administration will take a harder line.
During the presidential campaign, Obama pledged to do a better job than Republicans at protecting American workers from unfair trade practices. There are concerns the U.S. recession and downturns in many other countries could lead to rising protectionism worldwide that will make the global recession worse.
The back-to-back annual declines in the U.S. trade deficit were the first time that has occurred since it fell for four straight years in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The $39.9 billion December imbalance was the smallest deficit since the gap totaled $39.7 billion in February 2003.
Exports of U.S. goods and services in December dropped 6 percent to $133.8 billion, the fifth straight monthly decline. Sales of farm products, domestic cars, medical equipment and computers all fell.
Exports of commercial aircraft rose in December, reflecting a rebound after the end of a strike at Boeing Co. But economists believe exports will continue to fall in coming months as the recession that began in the U.S. spreads to more countries, crimping demand for American products.
Imports dropped 5.5 percent in December to $173.7 billion. Imports of petroleum products fell 6.7 percent to $22.3 billion, the lowest level in 22 months, as the average price of an imported barrel of crude oil dropped to $49.93, the lowest point since December 2005.
Imports of autos and auto parts dropped to $14.9 billion, the lowest level since May 1999.
The deficit with Canada dropped 17.6 percent to $2.8 billion in December, the lowest level since June 1999. The imbalance with the European Union rose by 24.5 percent to $7 billion, and the imbalance with Mexico was up 16.1 percent to $4.1 billion.
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|Suphanburi, is one of the most famous historical
towns in Thailand. It is well known as the birthplace of Khun Chang
- Khun Phaen in the Thai literature.
Khum Suphan Hotel provides
you with luxurious accommodations and a warm welcome.
You will feel comfortable with our friendly reception and impressive
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Suphanburi is rich in historical and Buddhist sight seeing places such as the Don Chedi Monument, the Banharn-Chaemsai Tower, Wat Palelai, Wat Phai Rong Wua, Tha Sadet Bird Park. You may like to take a tour to Pu Toey Pine Garden or to visit and pay respect to the City Pillar Shrine which has the largest dragon sculpture in the country.
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I've heard a lot of good things about Facial Care Center, most especially from my good friend Phoebe, who confessed getting addicted to their services like her Mother Goose. So when I was invited and given a chance to give them a try at their newly opened branch in Eastwood, I immediately said Yes!
I was greeted with a warm welcome by NJ Torres, PR Manager and Bea Chua, PR Associate for MFBI Group of Companies. After a few minutes of chit chat, it was then my turn for a consultation with their in-house consultant, Ms. Aivee Crawley. She checked on my skin and seeing that I am breaking out that time, she suggested the Purifying Indulgence that consists of Facial Treatment with Collagen and Advanced Lasertone.
I was then escorted to a private treatment room which I prefer whenever I go for facial treatments. I was also told that this Eastwood branch even has a couples room!
a personalized bath robe for yours truly:
the room is cozy and clean:
check out the view:
and just because I want to camwhore with my new robe:
the room has this Call button just beside the bed in case you want to call for assistance. pretty neat, huh!
meet my therapist, Nette.
And there's Nette preparing the Repechage stuff while I continue to camwhore, LOL!
She started cleansing my face to remove my makeup and other facial dirt:
After rinsing and toning, she then applied the scrub:
She then gave me the most relaxing and soothing facial massage I've ever experienced after. I almost fell asleep with all those gentle strokes on my face.
(yes, I was breaking out terribly then...)
time for some steam:
and some pricking to get those nasty whiteheads and blackheads off my face:
red all over, as expected. but it's just normal in my case, so no worries! definitely not my therapist's fault!
time for the Advanced Lasertone!
I was told that this would help soothe and heal those marks caused by pricking. It also stimulates collagen and elastin production, to help diminish fine lines and wrinkles.
and lastly, the collagen mask:
and lastly, the collagen mask:
I was then left for 30 minutes with the mask on. It was too relaxing that I fell asleep.
and then,
and then,
still red, but face now unclogged from all that deep-seated dirt
And after almost two hours, I got back in the reception area to meet Phoebe and Trixie for some food:
fruit bouquet that's too cute to eat:
Trixie, Phoebe and Me with the beautiful PR people of Facial Care Center
Now I understand why Phoebe and her mom loves Facial Care Center. It aint cheap, she says but it's definitely worth it. And looking at her and her mom, I totally agree!
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Bagumbayan Quezon City
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