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This beautiful & historic hotel is located in the heart of the very popular & trendy Glenelg Beach. It is a great place to catch up with friends & enjoy the atmosphere Jetty Rd has to offer. We are legendary for our popular bars providing live entertainment & supporting local artists, great drink specials, private function room, spacious bistro, Jackpot Club 33 machine gaming room & boutique bottleshop.
Lounge Bar - Best place to Lounge at the Bay- has live entertainment Wed to Sun incl. chilled acoustics, dj's & karaoke. Our All Day dining menu & happy hours incl. Oyster Happy Hour are great value with our Alfresco area being a great place to relax.
Front Bar (Jetty Bar) - has it all with FOX sports, Full TAB facilities, Real Pub Fare, jukebox & drink specials incl. Beer of the Month plus LIVE ORIGINAL BANDS every SAT night.
Happy Hours - Mon to Thurs 4-6pm, Fri 4-7pm, Sat & Sun 3-4pm
Bistro - We're out the back & do fabulous food w Modern Dining Menu & great Salad Bar. Tues Schnitzel Day $9.90, Wed Steak Day $13 & Thurs Roast Day $9.90. Large Group Booking Welcome.
Function Room - Our private function room has taken the bay by storm- it's ambient with all the trimmings specializing in 21st's, reunions, hens nights, conferences, birthdays or any occasion- no request is too big or small w our attention to detail.
Located on the near north side to the city, the Hampstead Hotel has redefined the meaning of 'the local pub'! The inside is comfortable 'state of the art' while the outside is monumental. The service is first class - so come on down ! A Sports Bar with 5 plasma screens and a Bistro with an atrium that soars like a cathedral. Chefs on display in a kitchen showpiece. The Club Bar features an ice mountain. Latest pokies, great music and even a kid's corner. From wok to roast complete with salad and vegetable bar. This is 21st Century Australian cuisine at its best. The kitchen is in full view so why not add the chefs' input when making your selection. Imagine a sports bar with 20 screens. With good company, icy cold beer and other favourite wines and spirits and you've got a front row seat to the world.
MON to WED 8am to midnight
THURS to SAT 8am to 2am the following day
SUN 11am to midnight
Monday to Saturday 12:00-2pm
Sunday 12:00 to 2:30pm
Monday & Tuesday 5:30 to 8pm
Wednesday, Thursday & Sunday 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Friday & Saturday 5:30pm to 9pm
Monday to Saturday 10am to late ( earliest close 10pm)
Sunday 11am to Late ( earliest close 10pm)
TEN for $10 menu available 12pm to 8pm 7 days
The British Hotel in North Adelaide is renowned for its tantalising cuisine, friendly service and great atmosphere. The British opened its doors to the public back in 1838 and now holds one of the oldest hotel licences in South Australia. Things were a little different back then, but the old nostalgia and charm of the British remains today. Situated amongst the leafy streets of North Adelaide, the British Hotel offers a wide variety of culinary services, ranging from dinners in our private function rooms, to tasty snacks at one of the bars. The British Hotel also boasts a fine selection of wines and beers to cater for every thirst. Whether it be for a function, casual dinner or just a couple of drinks, the British Hotel is the ideal venue, so come and visit us today.
The Avoca Hotel is the perfect combination of indoor and outdoor. You can relax with friends over a few a drinks at the bar, enjoy a casual meal on the hardwood decks in the courtyard or go indoors and savour the tastes of the Avoca menu in Toco's Restaurant. The Avoca Hotel is a perfect meeting place for lazy days and relaxed nights.
Our Liars' Bar breathes a life of it's own within the Hotel. Plenty of timber, interesting and amusing decor additions, and the absence of pokie machines in this area, make for a congenial ambiance. Liars' Bar also offers an extensive bar menu, with the best bar meals in Adelaide to choose from, including our famous large, top quality schnitzels and sort after Salt & Pepper Squid! The dishes offered are outstanding in quality and value. Our dedicated team of Chef's will present you with meals to die for! An extensive bottled wine list is available,or you may choose to peruse our selections in the wine bar, conveniently located adjacent to the restaurant.
The Lockleys is the perfect place for food, fun and entertainment. Offering a friendly, comfortable atmosphere in the bar, delicious food and alfresco dining.
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The gem of the western suburbs, the Seaton Hotel is a quality family bistro with a modern feel. Set in beautiful landscaped gardens with a water feature, its the perfect venue for your next night out. The Seaton Hotel has a reputation not only in the western suburbs, but all over Adelaide as a Family Bistro that provides value for money and a quality that is unsurpassed in the Hotel/Bistro Market. With 12 different Beers & 2 Ciders on tap and a wine list that consists of 41 different selections of bottled champagne and wine & entertainment, the Seaton Hotel provides quality, service and the complete package for all our customers looking for a good night out.
Come in and experience the Goody today! We've got plenty on offer and pride ourselves on great value, attentive service plus affordable and tasty meals. Under the McEntee family, the Goody has something for everyone, including entertainment five nights a week, plus great function facilities. Please look through our website and discover the unique facilities of the Goody. The Goody Bar has a great atmosphere, whether it's for a drink with friends, some great entertainment or a meal. We've got plenty of TV's to check out the latest sport and video clips from our video jukebox. Our friendly staff look forward to making your visit an enjoyable one. Come and meet our friendly staff in our bistro where you can enjoy some of our chefs fantastic creations and tantalising wine menu.
The Holdfast Hotel is a leading Venue in the Glenelg area specializing in live entertainment, fine dinning, gaming room and bottle shop facilities. Situated on Brighton Road opposite the Glenelg Football Club, The "Holdy" is steeped in tradition and has something to offer to all ages and tastes. Our "Brewpub" offers live entertainment 5 nights a week as well as an award winning micro-brewery. Or why not stop by and sample our fantastic a'la carte menu prepared by 5 star executive chef Peter Roennfeldt. Or perhaps relax in our gaming room with 33 of the latest machines and a great loyalty program.
The Lounge Bar oversees the Lounge/Dining and rear large Beer Garden. From Monday to Saturday this bar caters for the adult Entertainment Enthusiast but is still available for buck shows, parties and dining. Buck show packages are available upon enquiry. Extended happy hours apply to soccer fans before Adelaide United games! There are six beers available on fourteen taps servicing the front, lounge and beer garden bar. The newly renovated beer garden with water features and trendy verticle gardens is available for hire Sat - Wed.
The Maid as it's now called is one of Adelaide's oldest and most historic hotels. The Maid has been a mainstay of the Adelaide hotel scene since it was first built in 1848. The Maid brings with its renovation unprecedented style and prestige.
The maid a landmark pub is reaping the benefits of a very smart $3.6 million redevelopment that took over two years to complete and saw the hotel pick up numerous awards.
Friday's has always been that special day. It's the end of the week, the weekends bearing ever so near and your best mates have invited you out for a drink. With no early meetings, no deadlines and no pressure what so ever you accept. The inevitable question draws near, 'Where to?" Well why not be where everyone's at…The Maid! After all, it was Maid for Fridays.
Come in and visit us and enjoy a drink in one of our bars.
The Oxford Hotel is one of the state's most iconic pubs and stands proudly on the corner of Tynte and O'Connell Street in the cool and cosmopolitan North Adelaide.
With inside and alfresco areas, the bistro has a relaxed, casual feel combined with excellent presentation and consistency of food. The menu has great contemporized pub classics as well as gourmet specials and lighter options.
To complete the package, The Oxford has a dynamic upstairs function room known as the Spirit Room. Next door to The Oxford is The Banque which is also available for functions. Its chic appearance and modern features make it the perfect venue for product launches, engagements, 21st birthday parties, corporate events and any other special occasion that seeks a little class without breaking the budget.
By day, natural light streams through the glass roof and as the sun goes down, the glass bar glows a topaz blue. The courtyard beckons with plush couches and a soothing water feature. The courtyard with heated giant umbrellas can be appreciated all year round for that function with style. Sink into a comfy couch, sip a carefully crafted cocktail and soak up the relaxing resort style atmosphere of Topaz. On Friday nights enjoy the groovy sounds of our great live duos like Zkye High and Karma from 7pm. Enjoy the music anytime with our nightlife music system, with film clips on plasma screens. Whether it's for business, pleasure or both, the Topaz a la carte restaurant is chic and comfortable with friendly and attentive table service. The menu offers an excellent choice of seafood and char-grill dishes, with a pasta and wood fire pizza selection and tempting daily specials.
You'll always have a memorable night at the Alma - we've got great entertainment Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights plus regular special events.
Entry is free to all nights! We're known for our great food, and our new menus feature a selection to tantalise all taste buds! You can choose from casual relaxed dining in the Bar and Skybar areas or full service dining in our Bistro. Each area now features a different menu.
The Alma is perfect to host your next business or social function. We've got different areas to choose from, depending on your requirements, plenty of free carparking, private areas if you require, extensive wines, food and beverages available and a professional staff who know how to deliver a great event for you.
Our ALL NEW gaming room is open 7 days a week and features 32 of the latest machines in a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.
From Adelaide's largest and best Balcony, to our magnificent Cocktail bar, to the understated elegance of the drawing Room, to the opulence of the exclusive Library, the upstairs experience at the Archer Hotel is as good as it gets.
Pop into Avenues for a drink. You'll find our friendly staff are always waiting to take your order and pour your next drink.
One of the few hotels around still retaining its character. Dining facilities in front bar, gaming lounge bar and restaurant. Good prices and quality meals. Daily lunch specials from $11.00 including salad and vegetable bar. Happy hours in the front bar daily. TAB, Keno fascilities. 32 Gaming machines. DJ Wed, Fri and Sat. night Live acoustic Thurs nights and Sunday afternoons.
The Brompton is South Australia's award-winning heritage-listed hotel hidden in the north-west suburbs less than 10 minutes from the city. At The Brompton we're passionate about seamlessly weaving quality food, drink and experience. When you sit down at The Brasserie, the Courtyard or the café, you can start a conversation, start a meal, start a business deal or start a celebration. Upstairs in the Loft you can hold a seminar, luncheon, product release, private dinner or the perfect cocktail party. A short walk from both Coopers Stadium and The Adelaide Entertainment Centre, it is a popular pre-event venue for all.
It encompasses a lounge area with a large central ski lodge fireplace, a pool table area and a balcony overlooking beautiful O'Connell Street.
We specialise in open bar functions with your personal choice of wines and spirits on offer and at no charge, audio and visual equipment with eight large screens. We are also pleased to say we serve genuine glass mixers including the new mini Coke range.
Cambridge Balcony Bar's intimate atmosphere offers you privacy for your function or party with personalised and customised function party planning for your complete satisfaction.
The Cathedral hotel is a beautiful heritage listed venue at the southern end of North Adelaide. It is conveniently located just a short stroll from the Women's and Children's and Memorial Hospitals and the historic Adelaide Oval.
The hotel was established in 1860 and has recently been renovated to modernise facilities whilst maintaining its historical features. There are two separate and beautiful bars and a large dining room.
The cosy Kermode Street bar now boasts a salad and sandwich bar with a large selection of icecreams and a premium coffee machine serving only Vittoria coffee.
The very well stocked main bar and it's adjacent lounge are very popular during our daily happy hour (4-6pm).
The dining room is large and spacious and our bistro menu is available for lunch and dinner Monday to Saturday.
The hotel is very busy with functions ranging from dinner meetings and corporate cocktail events to 21st birthdays, other 'special age' birthdays and engagement parties. You can choose anyone of our three smart bars/lounges or our dining room to book exclusively for your event.
The Colonist Tavern was built way back in 1851 and has been subjected to so many dodgy renos throughout the decades. The best way to describe the interior now is cool, quirky, grunge & glitter. What we've done now is peeled back the layers to expose the interior in some of its original and raw form (the grunge). Then we have added some fantastic artwork, vintage lighting & furniture (the glitter). The stand out features are the Klimt, "Tree Of Life" replica hand painted mural by Sandra Anderson in the intimate formal dining room & the Ice Chandelier (yes real ice) by Nick Folland in the main bar.
Whether it's a 3 course sit down meal or stylish cocktail party. We cater for Alacarte Dining and Set Menus in our restuarant, as well as providing various finger food options for a cocktail style party in our bar.
For all function details click on the links to the right or contact us to discuss your needs, keeping in mind that flexibility and consistency is our recipe for success.
The main bar provides a relaxed environment with its comfortable booth seating and dry bars. We have a fabulous outdoor area equipped with a 3 metre wide LED Screen lots of seating and heating & cooling.
The sports bar comes to life with TAB and SA Lotteries facilities, Fox Sports & tons of TVs. Catch all of this years AFL action on our new 103inch HD Plasma.
Our main bar provides a relaxed environment with a spacious lounge area , booths and dry bars. We have an extensive variety of local and imported craft beer , a huge
Range of tap beers , the finest wine and all your favourite spirits to enjoy by the fireplace in our Heineken sports area. Our large beer garden is renowned for its atmosphere with a giant screen to watch sporting events .Enjoy our large selection of share plates on a warm summers night. Perfect for cocktails and daily drink specials. If you're a bit of a punter and enjoy the racing , our TAB and sports bar is for you with multiple screens and terminals.
Opening Times:
Mon – Wed 9am – 12am
Thurs 9am – 1am
Fri – Sat 9am – 2am
Sun - 10am - 11pm
Restaurant Times:
Mon 12- 2:30 pm 6pm – 8:30pm
Tue - thurs 12-2:30 6pm – 9pm
Fri - Sat 12- 3pm 6pm – 9:30pm
Sun 12pm - 3pm
All day Grazing Friday and Saturday 3pm -6pm
Looking for a place for all occasions? Then look no further, you've found it right here! You will always be welcomed with a warm smile as you enter the historic bar at The Dan which has been lovingly recreated into the Theme of the Victorian Dublin Pub.
The theme of The Peppertree Restaurant is that of a Victorian Dublin Pub. Born of painstaking attention to detail and insistence on craftsmanship, the restaurant recalls the day when it was as vital to please the eye as the palate. The interior is lavish with the bar made of mighty slabs of timber exquisitely French polished and elaborately carved. These timbers encompass the gilded mirrors and filigreed glass that serve to make the fully-imported bar a visual splendour.
Whether you choose to look out over the historic Peppertree Courtyard or gaze into the rafters where Daniel O'Connell's bicycle can be found, the Peppertree Restaurant possesses an abundance of character and a beautiful ambience in which to dine.
The food is the quality you would find in a fine restaurant but served in a relaxed and attentive manner by our friendly staff. Check out our massive menu on the menu page and you will see why you need to book in advance to secure a table in the restaurant. The theme of quality extends from the food to the bar, with extensive wine and cocktail lists with a few old favorites and a few deviations from the norm. The bar is amazingly well equipped with premium spirits, liqueurs and 16 tap beers to satisfy any mood. We have menus to cater for everyone (vegetarian and coeliac included) so come on in and check out our new summer menus.
Whether it's for business, pleasure or both, the Topaz a la carte restaurant is chic and comfortable with friendly and attentive table service. The menu offers an excellent choice of seafood and char-grill dishes, with a pasta and wood fire pizza selection and tempting daily specials. A fresh salad and vegetable bar is included with all main meals. Whether it's a light snack, a quick lunch or the full dining experience, Topaz restaurant suits any occasion. Children are welcome and a Kids menu is available.
Travelling to the CIty? Travelling to the beach? Why not stop "Halfway" and enjoy our friendly, relaxed environment, ice cold beer on tap, popular gaming room, bottleshop and bistro. Nestled off Port Road The Halfway Hotel is your favourite local hotel, coupled with ample parking the Halfway has all day entertainment with gaming, TAB & Keno facilities. Come in and play in a relaxed, fun filled, friendly environment at the Halfway Hotel.
DAILY HAPPY HOURS, All day dining in Mybar and relaxed atmosphere in Fedora's restaurant. There is always something special at the Hilton Hotel. Perhaps a pre-lunch or dinner drink at the bar, or settle back and catch up with friends in the comfy lounges. The delightful alfresco area is fantastic for a long and lazy Sunday lunch, or try your luck in the exciting new games room. After extensive redevelopment of the Hilton Hotel, Fedoras Restaurant has emerged with vengeance, offering a sleek and alluring dining venue. This stylish restaurant provides a variety of dining areas with sultry lighting, luxurious decor & cosmo laidback lounge area.
Pop in to the Hope Inn Hotel, theres plenty to do at the Hope Inn Hotel. have a beer with your mates or catch up with others. Bring in the girls for a rexing drink outside or stay for a meal, its good tucker from our bistro.
Situated on the ground floor, Horizons Cocktail Lounge is the ideal location to enjoy great company while admiring the panoramic ocean views. Enjoy our large range of cocktails, premium wines and beers in a laid back atmosphere. The ideal venue for pre or post dinner drinks, Horizons Cocktail Lounge also offers an extensive range of single malt whiskeys, cognacs and cigars.
Since being purchased by the Hurley group on the 10th December 1979 the hotel has undergone many changes.
With an established reputation for excellence the hotel offers the very best in liquor service, dining, a stunning private self-contained function room upstairs, gaming, and a SipnSave Drive Thru and browse bottle shop facilities.
Conveniently located in the heart of Torrensville on Henley Beach Road, less than 4km from both the Adelaide Airport and the city Centre. Ample car parking provided at the rear of the hotel.
The Jervois Room is the ideal function room for your special event. Its quiet upstairs location makes it the perfect place for any event. The room and private bar area have been tastefully decorated and ready for our staff to transform into your perfect function venue.
Whatever your needs, our Hotel Manager Shane will happily assist in ensuring your function meets all of your requirements.
The newly renovated Kensi is the perfect place to enjoy your favourite cold beer on tap or one of our regular drink specials in our inviting and contemporary bar. Don't miss any of the action with your favourite footy matches and major sporting events on our big screens.
Sample a meal or snack from our lunch and dinner menu while trying your luck having a flutter on the TAB and place your weekly tips on SportsPick.
Mingle with your friends to your own choice of music from our Nightlife Video Jukebox, setting the atmosphere for every occasion.
Recently renovated under the new name of The Kent Town Hotel, the former Tap Inn is a pub that really needs to be seen to be believed. The Crafty Monkey Bar & Babble On Beer Garden complete with swings and a huge tree through the centre. The Kent Town Hotel is great for casual after work or weekend drinks & meals. Unlike its predecessor The Kent Town Hotel has taken a more boutique approach with a new Churrasco Grill Restaurant "The Jungle"
complete with tree-houses and n expanded selection of drinks including craft beers. Dining available 7 days 12 noon to 9 pm.
The Kent Town Hotel also features the Rooftop On Rundle boasting a fantastic view towards the east of the city and beyond. With Jungle inspired theme, outdoor & indoor seating and 30 craft beers & ciders on tap. Rooftop On Rundle provides an alternative for a Sunday sesh or a balmy summers night complete with Adelaide's only Dunk Tank! Open 12 noon till late Friday to Sunday. Casual dining menu available
Lady daly Hotel, a great place for a cold beer and nice meal. Relax and unwind in our all weather beer garden, featuring live entertainment and regular events. Our beer garden is also available for private hire.
The Links Hotel is a great place to stay, close to football park, beach, city and airport. Have a meal in the bistro or a drink in the bar with an open beer garden you can sit back and relax. With a warm, friendly atmosphere to welcome you, you will enjoy the latest and most popular machines with staff that will happily assist you at all times. Refreshments are abundant, with tea and coffee available all day and light refreshments served several times daily. The lounge bar offers a relaxed setting, with a pool table, and attached beer garden. It is the ideal place too catch up with friends.
The Sports Bar has many features including Big Screen TV, TAB, Pool table and a wide selection of sporting events both here and overseas .
Sit back relax and enjoy the serenity at the Lord melbourne Hotel. Bring in the family for a nice meal or come with your mates and hang out with the lovely bar staff.
Located on South road in the heart of Edwardstown, just minutes from the city/Glenelg & Morphettville Racecourse. First licenced in 1851, the Maid is a locals pub. Renovated utilising original framework of the hotel. A family owned & operated pub, not a kitchen, or a bar, or a gaming venue, but a pub with traditional pub values and proudly so.
A traditional Adelaide front bar located where the original saloon bar once stood. The saloon bar is a sports lovers delight with large screens showing the best in local, national and international sports. TAB, KENO and sportsbet facilities are all available, as well as a large selection of tap beers and counter meals all day. You will enjoy the friendly service and with promotions and happy hours always running your sure to find yourself amongst the action.
The parlour bar services our maid's parlour dining room, gaming room and all-weather courtyard. It is here you will receive the very best in table service. Sample the winelist, enjoy the snacks, or have a flutter on the pokies. Relax and enjoy the parlour bar with a drink on the sofa's.
Recognised for its first-class facilities and outstanding service.
Located at the gateway to internationally acclaimed southern wineries, beaches and tourism attractions, the Marion Hotel offers a diverse array of options for any social occasion.
Close proximity to Marion Shopping Centre, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University, Flinders Private & Repatriation Hospitals and the State Aquatic Centre
11Km from Adelaide City and just 10km from Adelaide Airport and only 30km from McLaren Vale - conveniently located for business or leisure.
From Conferences and Exhibitions to cocktail parties, launches, breakfasts, banquets, board meetings and more.
The Mitchell Room for functions with style and flexibility - somewhere to hold that special occasion, or to launch that special product.
State of the art audio-visual equipment and facilities for laptop presentations.
Food and beverage packages are very reasonable, as are our accommodation rates.
A traditional suburban art deco style hotel, only 5 minutes from the City with TAB, front & lounge bars and accommodation rooms upstairs. Situated off the lounge bar is a private dining room ideal for meetings and functions. An up-to-date gaming room is also located off the lounge bar.
Being only 20 minutes from the CBD and 30 minutes to the Sea & Vines wine district McLaren Vale, means that the Morphett Arms is in an ideal position for travellers visiting Adelaide.
The Morphett Arms Hotel is approximately 5 minutes walk to South Australia's major Horse Racing Facility, the Morphettville Racecourse and has established a name with Racegoers and the Race Establishment alike.
Adelaide's most popular Seaside Beach with Precinct - Glenelg is approximately 2 kilometres away and the famous Adelaide Tram runs from Glenelg to the CBD every 20 minutes.
The Hotel is close to public transport local shops as well as Adelaide's largest Westfield Shopping Centre, Marion, 5 minutes down the road.
The Adelaide Airport is approximately a 15 minute drive from the hotel.
Thursday night in New York is Adelaide's NUMBER ONE Thursday night out. MC VIP and DJ David James take your requests all night long... No 'professional' dancers in skimpy clothing (that usually doesn't quite fit right...) on stage... The stage is for YOU! (and the New York crowd is far too sexy not to let YOU take over the main stage) Fun, games and prizes every week. Get you photo on the BIGSCREEN to be in the running for a $50 Drink Card the following Thursday night... So if you're looking for the best Thursday night anywhere in Adelaide... Then look no further my friends... You've found it in New York! But wait... there's more... Thursdays are great in New York because you have a CHOICE... Our mates at Shennanigans and Charltons put on a great Thursday night as well... So you have 3 great choices within walking distance with heaps of parking, lots of food outlets, and thousands of people like YOU looking for a great night out! Thursdays... New York... UNBEATABLE!
In an attempt to improve the Club's existing website in 1999, it was discovered that the Club's holdings of historical photographs and other memorabilia were not properly stored or catalogued. To address this issue, it was suggested that the Club set up a committee to undertake this work.
The Norwood Hotel offers great value with its half price meals and has the quality to back it up. And at those prices you can afford to spend $8 on a pint. Very enjoyable. The Heritage listed Norwood Hotel is situated in the heart of cosmopolitan Norwood located just minutes from the CBD. Located on the corner of the Parade & Osmond Terrace and just meters from the Norwood Football Oval, the Norwood Hotel is a landmark property
The Norwood Hotel incorporates Finn Mac Cool's Irish Pub and the Osmond Terrace Function Centre, we've been serving the people of Adelaide for over 100 years. Open from 11am until late seven days a week and with ample parking available at the rear of the hotel.
The Queens Head Hotel offers a function facility catering for numbers as small as 15 and up to 100. We are happy to tailor functions to suit your specific requirements. We have various areas available throughout the hotel I am sure we have an area to suit your needs.
Suitable for sit down of 30, cocktail and stand up function for 75. This Area is for exclusive hire. You have the use of 2 TV's available for DVDs, a comfortable fixed couch area, private bar and personal ipod connection.
Available until midnight Monday to Saturday. 8pm on Sunday. Suitable for sit down of 55, cocktail and stand up function for 75. This area is for exclusive hire. The courtyard is a open air area with its own private bar. A TV available for use with DVD, personal ipod use and an open gas fireplace.
Available until 8pm daily (Due to licensing in the area) and catering for up to 100 guests. Suitable for sit down for 55, cocktail and stand up function for 100. This is an open air landscaped area with its own separate bar. No music is available in this area due to residential area.
The Rat n Parrot serves delicious food at resonable prices in a friendly and relaxed environment.
The Reepham Hotel is a landmark in historical Prospect. Situated on the corner of Regency and Churchill Rd, The Reepham Hotel has been a long-standing icon in the area for it's friendly staff and quality service. Boasting a large recently renovated dining room, spacious gaming room with 38 of the latest gaming machines. Front-bar featuring Pub T.A.B., pool table and digital jukebox. Also our well-stocked Sip'n'Save bottle shop and plenty of secure parking will ensure an enjoyable experience time and time again.
The Rex offers a huge sports bar, a modern bistro, function facillities, gaming room, bottle shop and comfortable rooms for an overnight stay. With great meals, entertainment and promotions every day and night of the week there is always something happening at the multi award winning Rex Hotel. Good tasty food, hearty meals and fine wines. The fare you'd expect from an award winner. It's the perfect choice for lunch or dinner, business or pleasure, for families, friends or formal occasions. We even have a "Kids Korner" where children can play free video games, all in sight of the dining room. Chats is always ahead of the game when it comes to fabulous food and functions.
Set within the beautiful leafy eastern suburbs of Adelaide, the Robin Hood Hotel continues to stand alone as one of the best Hotels around.
The Hotel boasts a fantastic beer garden, fitted with exterior projection screens, heating and cooling, creating an enjoyable outdoor dining experience all year round.
The ambient atmosphere of the Hotel and excellent service, all reflect the essence of what the Robin Hood Hotel is about, however, the fantastic menu is what brings everyone back religiously.
The Hotel Royal Torrensville is fast becoming the venue everyone would love to call their local pub. Located just 5 minutes from the city, just on the brink of Adelaide's popular Western Suburbs. The food on offer in the Bistro is always fresh and full of flavour while the atmosphere and service continue to live up to their reputation. The hotel features a warm, friendly environment throughout and a modern and open interior. Sports fans are catered for in The Front bar as well as live entertainment on the weekends on offer in two different bars. This pub truly does offer everything under one roof and does so with a commitment to quality and friendly service.
The Royal Hotel has its very own fine dining-style eatery. With its rich cream-coloured walls, dark timber furnishings and impressive park views from the balcony, this restaurant hasn't forgotten its roots as a pub eatery. The menu focuses on seafood and chargrilled steaks, and includes the ubiquitous T-bones and surf and turf plates that we all know and love. The friendly atmosphere and pub favourites take off the edge of unnecessary formality, leaving diners with a comfortable and quality eating experience.


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Google is pushing a new feature and it finally gives you good reason to set up alerts about yourself.
The Mountain View-based search giant introducted its "Me on the Web" service, which allows users to track what others are saying about them on the Internet and easily track it through Google Dashboard.
The feature is suppose to make it easier for Google users to set up alerts with their personal information and if a breach -- or some indicent virtual graffiti -- does show up, Google will also connect you to services to deal with the potential problem.
Like most Google products, the alert system is free.

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Soon after hearing about Big Oil's numerous challenges to the Renewable Fuel Standard, attendees of the Fuel Ethanol Workshop this summer, heard from producers forging ahead to commercialize cellulosic ethanol. The placement of these sessions was apropos as challenges to the RFS are heating up in almost direct proportion to the progress of cellulosic ethanol plant construction.
"The single most important reason why the oil industry is fighting the RFS is that it is seeing cellulosic ethanol on the cusp of commercialization," Bob Dinneen, president and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association, told the audience. The oil industry has already lost 10% of the barrel to ethanol, and could lose 30% of the market to cellulosic ethanol and other advanced biofuels in the not-too-distant future, he adds.
Technological advances have enabled cellulosic ethanol to be made from many feedstocks, such as corn stover and cobs; wheat straw; sorghum; grasses like switchgrass and miscanthus; woody biomass; municipal solid waste; and more. "This broadens the strength and depth of our industry," says Brian Jennings, executive vice president, American Coalition for Ethanol.
As the cellulosic ethanol industry goes deep, so will its impact on Capitol Hill. More states outside the traditional corn ethanol belt will be able to participate in converting feedstocks to biofuels as well as for electrical generation. This will likely translate into more political clout and votes for renewable energy policies, says Tom Buis, CEO, Growth Energy. Even within the Corn Belt, there will be new opportunities.
Plants make progress
POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels, for example, expects to begin producing cellulosic ethanol from corn stover early next year at its Project Liberty plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Adjacent to POET-DSM's corn ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, the new facility will initially be able to produce 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year. It will eventually ramp up to 25 million gallons or more. By co-locating with the corn ethanol plant, the company can combine some operations and reduce costs. In addition, the cellulosic ethanol plant will generate steam and biogas that can be used by the corn ethanol facility.
The Project Liberty plant collected 75,000 tons of crop residue in 2012 from more than 100 growers primarily within a 35-mile radius of Emmetsburg, and is projected to collect 120,000 tons this year. POET-DSM expects to annually purchase about $20 million worth of corn stover for Project Liberty. Please see the accompanying sidebar for more on corn crop residue business models.
DuPont Industrial Biosciences is also expected to begin cellulosic ethanol production next year. Located next to the Lincolnway Energy corn ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa, it will be capable of producing 30 million gallons of ethanol, requiring about 190,000 acres of corn stover collected from a 30-mile radius of the plant.
Abengoa Bioenergy aims to have its 25 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, KS, in operation by January 2014. The company, headquartered in Spain, chose Hugoton because of the diversity of crops produced in the area. It will begin using corn stover, but could also use wheat straw, grain sorghum and prairie grasses. In addition, Abengoa will be able to produce up to 20 megawatts of electricity from biomass.
These companies acknowledge that the existence of the RFS is important to continued investment in the cellulosic ethanol industry as a whole. The RFS also opens up market access. Prior to enactment of the RFS, ethanol had limited access to consumers, Growth Energy's Buis pointed out.
But, these companies also have confidence in the economics of their technologies. POET-DSM and DuPont Industrial Biosciences, for example, plan to broadly license their technologies and expertise in the various facets of production, from biomass collection to the enzymes, equipment and processes used in biofuel production. Steve Hartig, general manager, licensing, POET-DSM, said, "If we didn't believe in this, we wouldn't be making this kind of investment."
Corn crop residue model - pros and cons of different collection models
Corn crop residue for use as a feedstock could provide corn growers a new source of income in Iowa, where POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels and DuPont Industrial Biosciences are expected to begin producing cellulosic ethanol next year. As the cellulosic ethanol industry develops and expands, more growers will be able to participate. In fact, both POET-DSM and DuPont Industrial Biosciences have announced plans to license their technologies.
Both companies have conducted multi-year harvest, storage and soil sustainability research with organizations, including Iowa State University and USDA. POET-DSM's methods seek to maximize cob content and minimize stalk content in its feedstock.
Questions about collection and transportation and profitability for the grower remain, but the following models discussed at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop held in St. Louis, Mo., over the summer, offer a look at their approaches. We also take a look at the pros and cons of different collection systems to help growers in their decision-making process.
POET-DSM Model
- Collect and transport the biomass for the ethanol plant yourself; or
- Engage the services of an aggregator (such as a custom harvesting crew that might also transport your crop residue to the ethanol plant); or
- Contract with POET-DSM to handle the entire biomass collection, staging, storage and transport process
DuPont Industrial Biosciences Model
- Contract with a cellulosic ethanol producer to handle the entire stover collection/transport process
Exploring different collection models
Do-it-Yourself (DIY):
Pros: At $60-76 per dry ton, growers capture as much of the crop residue's value as possible. This is also the option for growers who do not want anyone else touching their fields.
Cons: Collection, loading/unloading and transportation equipment (and associated operating capital) needed.
Aggregator Services:
Pros: Aggregators (such as a customer harvester; farmer group; or ag retail outlet) would have the necessary collection, loading/unloading and transportation equipment, eliminating the need for the grower to purchase such equipment or spend the time for biomass harvest.
Aggregator would establish contracts with farmers to collect and haul biomass as well as establish delivery contracts with the ethanol producer. POET-DSM also engages with professional aggregators to perform the entire process of baling, staging, storing and transporting biomass.
Cons: Grower must share part of the value of corn stover collection with third-party aggregator.
Ethanol Producer Handles Entire Collection, Transportation Process:
Pros: Ethanol producers, like those above, have worked with other organizations to manage many of the challenges. Studies on the impact of crop residue removal on soil are ongoing.
Cons: Grower must share part of the value of corn stover collection with ethanol producer.
In the future, other cellulosic ethanol producers would unlikely take this route as they would be more focused on ethanol plant capital/operating costs and obtaining additional financing, says Wally Tyner, agricultural economist, Purdue University, who has conducted several corn stover economic studies. For cost estimates on corn stover for bioenergy production, see Purdue Extension publications RE-3-W and RE-6-W.


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100 posts, 23,000 views from 119 countries!?! Wow! One year ends, another year begins. This time always comes every year when we look back on all that made us feel happy, sad, and like jumping up and down in sheer joy and excitement. Believe it or not, SonoSpot started just a meer 7 months ago, and it has been a place where we can share, highlight, and illustrate all aspects of bedside ultrasound – through our blog, twitter newsfeed, and facebook posts. With every post, comment, debate, and communication you should picture me jumping up and down because I get to do what I love – work with amazing people, educate and learn from others (and that includes all of you who post/tweet/blog/podcast/hangout/etc – thanks for making me smarter), and spread the gospel of 'sound to the masses! It has been a true pleasure, and I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for the support.
2012 annual report for SonoSpot. These numbers are huge to me – blows my mind, actually. Now, I know others are in the millions, as they should be – they are incredibly amazing – they are all like mama and papa bears to me (the brown-haired step child), but starting with this kind of support makes me giggle and shake in excitement! And, it wouldn't be possible without you. Thank you so much! – for reading, for sharing, for wanting to learn bedside ultrasound – and a huge thanks to all those who educate/research/share their cases/experiences with it as well. i will continue to highlight your work always.
"You complete me." – Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
In just a short 7 months:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 23,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 5 Film Festivals.
In 2012, there were 100 new posts, not bad for the first year! The busiest day of the year was August 15th with 352 views. The most popular post that day was SonoStudies: Ultrasound First for Appendicitis, the gift that keeps on giving…..
119 countries in all! Most visitors came from The United States. Australia & Canada were not far behind.
Attractions in 2012
These are the posts that got the most views in 2012.
- 1 SonoCase: Pediatric lower abdominal bulge? What the…? May 2012
- 2 SonoCase: 25 yr old positional, pleuritic, chest pain. "It's just pericarditis" Really? June 2012
- 3 SonoApp: Lung Ultrasound – The down low of pneumo…with the help of Lichtenstein, of course June 2012
- 4 SonoProcedures: Review of ultrasound-guided procedures, technique, and videos December 2012
- 5 SonoCase: 60 yr old male, lethargic, respiratory distress, shock – "RUSH" to bedside August 2012
In 2013 SonoSpot hopes to bring you even more:
– Complete SonoTutorials on all applications for bedside ultrasound
– SonoReference lists linking back to the research study
– SonoLectures – a 5 minute review of each application
– Advance and enhance the SonoMedStudent and SonoGlobalHealth sections
– and more SonoCases, SonoStudies, SonoTips&Tricks that show how bedside ultrasound can quicken diagnoses, change management, and save a life.


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The Senate passed immigration reform. Here's what's next and what it means for you.
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Why Wendy Davis "Filibuster" matters to Latinas.
There are condoms for shoes, and a Latina designer is the genius behind them.
The Tuscon school district will finally restore its cut Mexican-American studies classes.
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The third consecutive cool and late growing season of 2012 was perfect for Petite Sirah. Our dry winter ended with moderate rainfall in March, giving us a long growing season and also led to richer flavor development. We opened the vine canopies to ensure sunlight, warmth and good air circulation around the grape clusters. The night-harvested grapes retained their enticing aromas and naturally pleasing acidity all the way to the bottle.
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The nose starts off with boysenberry with a hint of cola. The palate texture is soft and fruity, with just enough acidity to enhance fruitiness without throwing the tannins off balance to dryness. The berry patch characteristics are most pronounced in the finish in which the last impression is berry fruit esters. That last impression of freshness and floral/berry synergy invites another sip. Enjoy now. – Ashley Heisey
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Choosing appropriate flame-resistant apparel
How do facility managers assess potential arc flash risks and select the appropriate flame-resistant apparel?
Responding is Randy Kaminsky, director of procurement, Ameri-Pride Services Inc., Minnetonka, MN.
Flame-resistant personal protective apparel is designed for continuous wear in designated areas where intermittent exposure to flame or heat is possible. However, to properly protect employees from arc flash hazards, facility managers must understand the individual risks present within each work environment. By knowing the standards that regulate workplace fire safety and taking appropriate steps, facility managers can properly protect their employees.
Arc flashes – an explosive blast of flame, debris, sound and force of up to 35,000° F – are responsible for 80 percent of all electrical injuries. By completing an assessment using the National Fire Protection Association 70E electrical workplace safety guidelines, employers can identify current arc flash risks and ascertain the corresponding safety solutions. NFPA 70E contains detailed instructions on electrical safety-related work practices and procedures for safeguarding employees during activities such as operation, maintenance and demolition of exposed energized electrical conductors or circuit parts.
NFPA 70E states, "Employees shall wear arc rated/flame resistant clothing wherever there is a possible exposure to an electric arc flash." NFPA further explains safety requirements by presenting outlined risk categories and defining the type of protective clothing required to correspond with each risk level.
- HRC 1: Minimum Arc Rating: 4 cal/cm2: Requires arc-rated shirt and pants or arc-rated/flame-resistant coveralls
- HRC 2: Minimum Arc Rating: 8 cal/cm2: Requires arc-rated shirt and pants or arc-rated/flame-resistant coveralls
- HRC 3: Minimum Arc Rating: 25 cal/cm2: Requires arc-rated shirt and pants or arc-rated/flame-resistant coveralls and arc flash suit
- HRC 4: Minimum Arc Rating: 40 cal/cm2: Requires arc-rated shirt and pants or arc-rated/flame-resistant coveralls and arc flash suit
Additional equipment, such as gloves, masks and boots, may be required depending on the application and the risk.
Once employers know the type of personal protective equipment necessary, they must select the correct fabric. ASTM F1506, "Specification for Flame Resistant Textile Materials for Wearing Apparel for Use by Electrical Workers Exposed to Momentary Electrical Arc and Related Thermal Hazards," covers performance properties of textile materials for electrical workers exposed to electric arcs. This includes a requirement that thread, findings and closures used in garment construction do not exacerbate the severity of injuries in the event of an electric arc exposure. To comply with ASTM F1506, knit or woven fabrics must not melt, drip, or have more than two seconds afterflame or 6 inches char length when tested as received and after 25 cleanings. FR fabrics of any type cannot have more than five seconds afterflame in an electric arc exposure test.
Facility managers also must know the difference between inherent and treated FR fabrics to properly care for the apparel to preserve its protective characteristics. Inherently FR fabrics are permanently resistant to combustion and will not wear or wash out. Alternatively, treated fabrics require chemical enhancement for flame resistance and need specific laundering procedures to remain effective. Uniform rental companies are one solution to provide the necessary FR apparel and ensure proper laundering practices are followed to maintain the flame resistance of the garments.
By understanding the NFPA 70E guidelines and the properties of FR apparel, facility and safety managers can minimize risks to employees by specifying the correct apparel for each potential risk.
Editor's Note: This article represents the independent views of the author and should not be construed as National Safety Council endorsements.


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A website is a vital component of a business today, where a high quality site attracts more prospects to be converted into successful healthy customers. To have a quality website developed for your business, you must hire the services of the best web design company to have a competitive advantage. The designer must be willing to offer you with a high quality of services to design and develop a website according to the industry standards, so as to meet the objectives of your business. A professional company offers you with a complete package of services starting from the development to deployment and then the maintenance of the site at regular intervals. There are a number of qualities that a professional website design company must acquire to help you promote your online business.
This is the first and the main quality of a website design company, where a professional firm offers the best of its services strictly adhering to the standards. To offer you professional services, the company must have employed a skilled and talented staff to carry on all its operations and must have a significant experience of serving several businesses. Another factor that accounts for the professionalism of a professional designer is that the projects shouldn't be delayed and meet the demands of the clients.
Track Record
A professional best web design company must be able to produce evidence of a good track record. As the company might have served a number of clients in the past, past buyers should be willing to provide an attestation for the quality of its services. You can verify this by directly communicating with the clients or through their testimonials, reviews and feedback posted over the web. Hiring a reputed firm offers you an access to the best services available according to your needs.
Another vital component of a professional design company is the honesty of its employees, who must ensure that they are providing factual and truthful information to their clients. This trait of a company is essential to have an estimate of the time taken for the development of your website along with any unwanted delays added to the deadline. A company that offers periodic updates regarding the progress of your project along with sticking to client's instructions and deadlines is a better choice for your emerging business.
This is another vital trait of a professional designer that is essential for every business. Spending all the resources to get a website for the business isn't a good idea, so you must compare the services of multiple companies along with their service cost to select the best value for your money. Also, stick to your budget, while making a selection, so as to avoid any financial hindrance in any other part of your business. Also, make sure to check with the payment options, so that you can easily pay for the services of the company.
So, to choose the best web design company for getting a professional website developed for your business, you must make sure that the company possesses all the above mentioned traits.


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Rugby shorts are traditionally made from cotton, designed to take the strains of rugby union.
Second row forwards now use special line-out shorts which have reinforced stitching to help them to get lifted in the line out.
Again, shorts should be comfortable - tight shorts are not only embarrassing, but also increase the chances of sustaining a serious injury.
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The show must go on.
That was the mantra for the cast of "On Your Feet!" Tuesday night, when technical difficulties with the musical's set almost stopped their performance from continuing at the Marriott Marquis Theatre.
The cast powered through the rest of show, which tells the story of Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan's life, love, and music.
"Major shoutout to our @OnYourFeetBway audience!" star Ana Villafañe — who plays Gloria — tweeted afterwards. "Tonight was eventful and that is the magic of live theatre! We love you and thank you for the love."
"No set, no problem — we kill it anyway!" company member Genny Lis Padilla wrote. "I had a blast tonight."
Show spokesperson Whitney Holden Gore explained the details of the evening to Playbill.com.
"The company rallied together when the deck automation console crashed before the show began," Gore said. "After a brief meeting to go over staging adjustments and quick changes, [the cast] went on to perform the show without sets!"
The console was repaired during intermission, Gore added — and was fully operational for Wednesday's matinee.
The lack of scenery didn't seem to offset the performance for theatergoers either. "The audience was incredibly supportive of the cast and crew throughout the performance," Gore confessed, "and was quick to give them the standing ovation they earned at the end of it all!"
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Virtualization has a credibility problem
Although virtualization has found its way into some corners of enterprise computing, storage managers are not rushing to implement it. Here's why.
- Michael Desmond, MSDN Magazine
As head of storage management for insurance giant Aetna, Hartford, CT, Steve Pomposi has plenty of reasons to be excited about storage virtualization. After all, he manages a large, heterogeneous storage infrastructure at Aetna that contains well in excess of 100TB of data. Managing that complex infrastructure is an expensive task that demands the attention of senior technicians every time storage is added or reallocated within the environment.
Virtualized storage solutions are supposed to resolve these kinds of thorny issues. By placing a layer between the storage subsystem and the systems accessing it, virtualization should allow IT managers to add, configure and manage multivendor disk arrays with ease, letting applications and systems access a unified pool of storage. Adding a disk array in this environment doesn't require making infrastructure components aware of the new hardware. Rather, the virtual pool of storage grows incrementally and immediately becomes available to all devices on the other side of the abstraction.
There's just one problem: Most IT and storage managers at large enterprises aren't convinced that storage virtualization is ready for implementation. They cite a litany of obstacles, including a lack of standards, spotty interoperability, watered-down management functionality and the potential for show-stopping support conflicts.
For Pomposi, those concerns are so great Aetna won't consider deploying the technology for at least another 18 months. "Basically, none of it is real," he says. "The solutions we see emerging tend to be very point solutions, which may or may not be appropriate for small-scale enterprises. But I've seen nothing that comes close to meeting a heterogeneous environment like Aetna."
Pomposi's experience reflects that of many IT managers who are excited about the potential of storage virtualization, but see an emerging technology that's still nascent.
Reaping confusion
Few things define the state of the market like the confusion that has arisen around the phrase storage virtualization. Traditional storage vendors and upstarts apply varying degrees of virtualization in the switch, controller, host, storage subsystem or dedicated appliance, depending on the specific solution. The way these companies define the concept can vary just as widely.
"Storage virtualization is such a broad term that it's almost impossible to use it to describe any particular product feature," says Harald Skardal, senior consulting engineer at Sunnyvale, CA-based Network Appliance and a member of the technical council of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
Fred van den Bosch, executive vice president of product strategy and new product initiatives for Veritas Software, Mountain View, CA, echoes Skardal's view that virtualization has become an overused, confusing term. "Two years ago, I told our marketing folks they should stop using the word virtualization," he says.
However, storage vendors still toss the word around like baseballs at spring training. Dan Tanner, senior analyst of storage and storage management at Aberdeen Group, isn't surprised vendors latched onto the virtualization term.
"If you are a marketer, you will use the latest buzzword to get attention," Tanner says. "Virtualization is any abstraction; there is no legal definition of the term."
As it turns it out, SNIA has crafted a formal definition for the term storage virtualization, although their wording leaves a lot of room for vendor interpretation:
- The act of abstracting, hiding or isolating the internal function of a storage (sub) system or service from applications, compute servers or general network resources for the purpose of enabling application and network independent management of storage or data.
- The application of virtualization to storage services or devices for the purpose of aggregating, hiding complexity or adding new capabilities to lower level storage resources. Storage can be virtualized simultaneously in multiple layers of a system, for instance to create HSM-like systems.
"For me it is a little bit frustrating," Skardal says. "Various companies have products in different corners of the storage infrastructure, and they are very eager to make sure they can reap some of the marketing benefits of doing virtualization." (For a rundown of virtualization products, see "Types of Virtualization")
Nearly every IT manager talked to in the course of this piece offered a similar opinion. Ken Horner, vice president of marketing for storage appliance maker DataCore, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, argues that some storage vendors, buying time for their own belated efforts, are poisoning the well.
"I don't think that the poisoning effect is at all unintentional - it's very intentional," says Horner. "Other companies that don't have products and have an installed base of customers they want to protect - they don't want to see this market move quickly. The paralysis and the confusion we've seen is classic FUD."
Compatibility and standards
Bruce Jacobs, director of information services at direct mail and database marketing firm ChoicePoint Direct, Alpharetta, GA, isn't so quick to criticize vendor marketing efforts. But he's wary of solutions that he feels will lock his shop into a single platform or vendor. "EMC and Compaq are implementing virtual technology at the controller level. That's a logical level to do it," Jacobs says. "What I don't like about the Compaq and EMC solutions is that I'm locked into a single vendor for my storage."
Jacobs manages a 9TB storage area network (SAN) built on EMC Clariion and Dell Power Vault boxes, sharing identical architecture for worry-free interoperability. He says EMC has been "knocking my door down for two years now," but he opted to test a solution from StoreAge Networking Technologies. StoreAge offered him a cost-effective solution, compatible with as many as 20 other vendors.
"I think virtualization is a very proprietary thing," SNIA's Skardal says. "Companies say they do virtualization and do some level of integration or hiding, but the solutions are still very proprietary. "The next leg is to start using the existing standards more and more," he says.
In fact, interoperability is one of the most pressing issues facing storage virtualization firms today, says Anders Lofgren, senior industry analyst at Giga Information Group. "There has to be a whole lot of cooperation with a lot of different vendors for it to work flawlessly."
One IT manager, who wanted to remain nameless, oversees a significant storage virtualization build-out for a U.S. government research facility, and says anything less than flawless invites disaster. "It all comes down to product maturity and interoperability. Especially when you are booting from the SAN, absolutely any hiccup or error on the Fibre Channel [FC] connection will have serious consequences. Resetting a FC switch or virtualization server to clear an error, port or other issue can have far-ranging and significant effects."
The challenge for managers is that storage virtualization solutions can present a single point of failure. The government IT manager complains virtualization solutions lack maturity for such a mission critical role, making it difficult to set up, for example, redundant servers in an active-active configuration for instant failover.
One way to achieve that interoperability is through standards. Today, solutions supporting multiple vendor storage subsystems do so only because the developer has written code specific to each product. An established standard would allow companies to source storage from multiple vendors and be assured of interoperability with their virtualization solution.
The SNIA has attempted to rally a standard around the Common Information Model (CIM), but Skardal says those efforts have failed to gain much traction until recently.
"There's been considerable effort at the SNIA to get CIM going and it has petered out several times. The main reason for the lack of success is that CIM encourages vendors to model their solution down to the finest detail," Skardal says. "There's been some excitement about CIM, but I keep seeing so much complexity coming up. It becomes very difficult to reconcile [vendor] models into a standard model that you can write interoperable software against."
Still, Skardal and Tanner agree that the CIM standards effort is gaining speed. While that momentum should allow IT managers to adopt virtualization with greater confidence, questions still remain.
Aenta's Pomposi isn't that optimistic. "You have all these standards where the protocol is well defined, but the manufacturers of components that plug into these protocols many times will not support other vendors' equipment within that framework," he says. "What an organization like Aetna runs into is that the minute you plug disparate devices into that network - I'm talking Fibre Channel - the support structure goes out the window. In other words, if I throw a product in there, does that mean EMC will no longer support their solution?"
Diminishing management
Another issue that concerns IT managers is storage management. Bob MacDougal of Canada Tire is looking closely at moving to a virtualized storage solution. As senior team leader of storage management, MacDougal worries that any virtualization solution his team adopts might end up hurting management capabilities.
"My concern is that even with virtualization, there is going to be some software tools that each vendor are going to have that are proprietary and they won't share with other vendors. They are not going to give away the proprietary stuff," MacDougal says. "When you want to really drill down at the disk level and the different software levels, I think there is still going to be some dedicated software out there."
ChoicePoint's Jacobs has similar concerns. While physical changes to hardware are rare in his infrastructure, the StoreAge software offers no ability to manage hardware directly.
Akhbar Tajudeen, Director of IT at Alloy Inc., New York, NY, a demographic marketing firm, says he'd like to see management software moved up the list of priorities by vendors. His experience with a FalconStor IPStore appliance-based virtualization has been positive, enabling him to streamline access to a 1.2TB data store. But it's clear that the management component of the solution needs honing.
"Hardware vendors know RAID technology and Fibre Channel and those sorts of things, but they are not dealing with the issues that an IT manager might be more concerned with," Tajudeen says.
Tajudeen brings up a serious issue that critical storage management capabilities such as replication, mirroring, time mark and snapshot are currently implemented at the array level. IT managers who move to virtualization solutions in heterogeneous environments find they are giving away functionality to achieve the convenience of unifying storage devices. The trade-off - both in terms of capability and integration challenges - is significant.
Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA, a leading maker of engineering software, deployed Veritas software to help reign in 100TB of data spread across both a SAN and network-attached storage (NAS) device. Mike Forman, director of IT, North American Operations, says Veritas was one of the only solutions that could unify both types of storage. Today, their Veritas software runs on clustered Sun servers and acts as a gateway to NAS- and a SAN-based on an IBM ESS disk array.
Forman says the solution has worked well after an intensive deployment period, but that his team would like to see better management tools.
"I think there are some OK [SAN management] products out there, but they are not quite there yet. In our assessment, we think it is going to be another six months to a year before we have some really good SAN and storage management products out there," Forman says.
In fact, Forman's software-based approach offers access to one of the more mature management solutions on the virtualization market. Veritas' clustering and volume management software, for instance, are widely deployed solutions. But are managers ready to ditch their existing solution set and accept the prospect of introducing a performance bottleneck?
Pomposi believes that's a decision each manager has to make. "In a heterogeneous environment there are going to be some trade-offs," he says. "The big question, of course, is how many of those trade-offs are you willing to take? For myself, I'm willing to take a whole lot of trade-offs."
Taking the plunge
Like many IT managers, MacDougal says his company won't deploy a storage virtualization solution until it has seen other similar outfits make the transition. Nonetheless, he's busy preparing his infrastructure for the transition. Canada Tire currently runs an EMC-based SAN with a McData switch, but MacDougal hopes that will change.
"Our intent is to have a virtualized storage concept, so if we do put a Hitachi box in there, nothing is going to change," MacDougal says. "When we first started talking about SANs two or three years ago, we always knew virtualization would come. There's no doubt in my mind this is going to go and it's just a matter of how quickly and how well it is going to get accepted."
Other companies are making the move ahead. At Cadence, storage virtualization has enabled the company to unify both SAN- and NAS-based storage to let the company keep up with storage demands that double yearly. Demographic marketing firm Alloy also took the plunge, deploying FalconStor IPStore appliance-based virtualization for its 1.2TB build-out. "The solution helped cut the time to assign storage from several days to several hours," says Tajudeen.
Clearly, companies are successfully deploying storage virtualization solutions. But for most IT managers, the question remains open: Is storage virtualization a reality?
"If you had asked that question nine months ago, I would have said that it was all fluff," says Pomposi. But looking ahead, he adds, "During the next 18 months there's going to be an emergence of products and technologies that will make this technology real for more and more companies."


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Round Towns
Round towns are incorporated towns in which the boundaries are fixed at a certain distance from a central landmark, forming a circle. In North Carolina round towns first arose in the early nineteenth century, when many new towns were incorporated. The state had 34 "true" round towns in 1968, along with several other former round towns that had altered their circular shapes by annexation; the number in 1990 had fallen to 27. In 1990 Cleveland County was home to the largest number of round towns in one county, with seven: Waco, Lattimore, Earl, Mooresboro, Polkville, Casar, and Belwood, the last of which is shared with Lincoln County.
The boundaries of each round town are detailed in town charters in the various volumes of North Carolina laws. For instance, the boundaries of the Chatham County town of Goldston, incorporated in 1907, were "a radius of one-half mile from the depot of the Southern Railway Company at Goldston." The town limits of Newland, incorporated in 1913, were "120 rods" from the Avery County Courthouse. The Northampton County town of Milwaukee, incorporated in 1915, fixed its town limits at a one-mile radius from the center of the crossroads in the town.
Other landmarks used by round towns to set boundaries include a railroad bridge (Waco, incorporated in 1907) and the center of the local high school building (Boiling Springs, in Cleveland County, incorporated in 1911 but no longer a round town). The town limits of Bear Grass, incorporated in Martin County in 1909, were "all that territory within a radius of five hundred yards from a certain white oak on the east side of the public road, near a well at the stores of Rogers Brothers and Cowing Brothers."
One of North Carolina's early round towns was the Cleveland County seat of Shelby, incorporated by an act of the General Assembly in 1843. The original town boundary formed a circle with a quarter-mile radius, beginning at the courthouse. In 1901 the town limits were increased to a radius of three-quarters of a mile from the courthouse and in 1928 increased again to a radius of a mile and a half. Shelby remained a round town until the annexation of a development in 1957, which altered its circular shape. Several later annexations added more "bumps" to the town limits. By 1976 the city council had begun changing the town limits to conform with property lines, but Shelby's boundaries still contained traces of its days as a round town.
Round towns are also found in Indiana, Georgia, and Mississippi, states to which many North Carolinians emigrated in antebellum times.
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The company that owns Penthouse magazine, FriendFinder Networks Inc., upped the ante in its bid to acquire the struggling Playboy Enterprises when it offered $210 million for the company.
That's $25 million more than Hugh Hefner offered earlier this week to buy out the magazine and take it private.
But size isn't everything in this bidding war.
Hef owns 69.5 percent of the company's Class A stock (and 27.7 percent of the Class B stock.) The Class A shares give him voting control over the company and the board does not have the power to force him to sell.
"If he doesn't want to sell, there's no deal," RBC Capital Markets analyst David Bank said.
Hefner tweeted Tuesday about the smut showdown.
"Playboy isn't in play. I'm buying not selling."
Playboy's stock price has tumbled since hitting a peak in 1999 of more than $32. It traded between $2.30 and $5.22 over the past year before jumping on news of Hefner's offer. It was up 21 cents, or nearly 4 percent, to $5.72 in afternoon trading Thursday.
The company's namesake magazine has struggled with competition from the Web, losing readers and advertisers. It has tried to make up for a declining print business by licensing its brand and the iconic bunny ears for consumer products.
Marc Bell, FriendFinder's CEO, believes his company can help build Playboy's brand online by directing traffic to it from the company's other websites.
In a letter to Playboy's board, Bell said he wants to keep Hefner in charge of the magazine. "We would propose an arrangement where we would partner with Mr. Hefner in our efforts to drive shareholder value," he said.
It's not clear why Hefner wants to buy the remaining shares and take the company private. In a letter to Playboy's board, Hefner said he worries about the editorial direction of the magazine and its legacy. At 84, he still serves as creative director and editor-in-chief.
Hefner said his potential partner in the offer, private equity firm Rizvi Traverse Management LLC, is confident it can get the necessary financing. It would cost them about $123 million to buy the stake Hefner doesn't own.
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California state and federal officials unveiled a final environmental analysis for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan on Monday to dig massive tunnels to divert imported water supplies in the state past an ecologically sensitive river delta. But the $25 billion project faces intense opposition, WSJ's Jim Carlton reports.
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Ever wanted to whirl around the city in a metallic gnat's head while consuming zero gasoline? Then your weird dreams have come true, via the Hiriko smart car that folds like an envelope to squeeze into impossible parking spots.
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(Top image courtesy of the Hiriko press room.)
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The "Obama phone" debate is still ringing in Washington — as is a bad connection with some of the facts.
Lifeline, the controversial phone subsidy program that snagged attention during the first Obama administration, has landed back in the spotlight. Critics then accused the White House of dishing out free cellphones to the poor. Now they're questioning whether reforms put in place by the Federal Communications Commission to tackle rampant misuse will actually work.
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The false rumors that started circling nearly four years ago continue to haunt the program as opponents push a welfare state narrative along the lines of Obamacare.
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A Republican-led House bill with 42 co-sponsors would nearly gut the federal program. An amendment in the recent Senate budget debate tried to eliminate funding entirely. And a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing Thursday will dissect its worth.
Lifeline gives telecommunications providers a subsidy to offset the cost of phone service for customers with low income. The program ensures everyone has access to emergency services and jobs.
Only it doesn't always work that way. The FCC implemented the reforms in 2012 to tackle a history of abuses and lax oversight. Even some Democrats are hesitant about the program. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) joined Republicans to back the Senate amendment ending a "mobile phone welfare program." Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), the Commerce Internet subcommittee chairman, has suggested a cap on annual Lifeline support. And California Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman, Doris Matsui and Anna Eshoo — all Energy and Commerce members — unveiled a bill Tuesday that would codify reforms.
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