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Bath City is located at Somerset south west of England 100 miles from London. A UNESCO World Heritage Site (since 1987), the grandeur Georgian architecture and the historical scenery of the city are perfect to create a cinematic effect on movies. It is no wonder that the Inventor of Cinematography, William Friese-Greene, begun his development of motion picture works at Bath.

Through the years, it has been a favorite film location for some Hollywood films such as Dracula, Duchess, and Vanity Fair to name a few. Other celebrities had been attracted with the beauty of Bath City either working on a project or for a personal tour. Some homegrown personalities are Jane Austen (Historic Writer), Jamie Cullum (Music Artist), John Oliver (Inventor).

Roman Baths and the Temple of Aquae Sulis

Bath is considered as the “Spa City” and the home of ancient Romans in Britain during 1st Century AD with remains of the Temple of Aquae Sulis (“the waters of Sulis”) whom they identified to the Greek goddess Minerva, and the Roman Baths with hot springs beneath the city.

The Great Bath is the  Romans main bath with 1.6 meters deep hot spa water leading to all sides of the building.

The Circular Bath or “Frigidarium” is a cold swimming pool for the Romans. After going through the “Caldarium” a hot plunge bath with hot floors and “Tepidarium” warm rooms, Roman bathers would complete their visit with an invigorating cold plunge to close the pores of the skin.

Collections at the Roman Temple Courtyard

Temple courtyard is a sacred place for worshippers of goddess Sulis Minerva. This is where they gather to pray and offer great sacrifices at the altar. Inscriptions and tombstones remains are can also be found here.

The golden bronze head from the cult statue of goddess Sulis Minerva was found in 1727 displayed at the sacred Temple courtyard.

The Great Altar at the center of the Temple courtyard is a sacred cornerstone used by Romans for worship.

Aside from the Roman baths, the city offers variety of activities for tourists such as enjoying films and Shakepearean plays on theaters, various museums, parks, superb restaurants, luxurious hotels and events for couples or for the whole family. With almost 4 million visitors a year, the city continues to draw tourists around the globe.

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Restaurant City for Facebook is an entrepreneur game that allows players to design and operate a sucessful restaurant. One of the most fun parts of game is the design feature. This allows you to completely customize your space however you like. While there are many other aspects of the game, the way you design your Restaurant City establishment can also greatly affect your customer satisfaction rating. Here is a complete guide to designing the coolest restaurant on Facebook.

The first step before making any visual changes to your restaurant is determining your final vision. Decorating can be very expensive, but remodeling over and over can be even more expensive. Do you want to build a trendy burger joint? a luxurious steakhouse? pirate or haunted house theme? The possibilities are practically endless. Once you have established your goals, stick to it until you have pieced together your perfect restaurant.

The first thing that your Restaurant City customer sees is the exterior of your establishment. To design your building’s exterior, go to the street and click on the decorate the building button. The first tab lets you pick the size of your building. The following tabs allow your to change the building roof, install new doors and windows, adjust the paint and brick style, and accessorize with wall hangings, trees, and fountains. Just drag and drop the items where you want them to purchase. You can also change the style and wording on your restaurant’s sign.

Tip – The exterior has practically no benefit to game play other than ratings from other Restaurant City players. You should put off any exterior design projects until you are well established and have a good cash flow.

Tip – It is important to note that the foundation size can be changed at any time while keeping your other exterior modifications intact. It also has absolutely no effect on the actual interior size of your establishment.

The interior of your restaurant is where you will spend most of your time while playing Restaurant City. It is also where you will interact with your customers. When designing the interior of your space, be sure to keep your theme in mind. To make adjustments to the interior, enter your restaurant and click on the decorate button. There are many items from tables and chairs to wall paper and flooring. Take your time to explore all of the items before making your selection. You don’t want to purchase an item and find out later that you like another one better.

Tip – Make sure that you select your purchases wisely. For example, there are several stoves available in Restaurant City. Unfortunately, they all cook at the same speed. For this reason, there is no sense in forking out ,000 dollars for a stove that performs the same as the 0 model. Also, a drink dispenser is available for purchase. However, this is completely useless until you unlock drinks at level 15.

Tip – You can sell back some items by dragging and dropping them on the cash register. While this can be a good way to recoup money that you spent on the item, you will never get a full refund. Never make a habit of this. Its better to choose wisely the first time around.

Since your customers are your best asset, your restaurant should be designed to streamline and maximize employee performance and customer satisfaction. Here are several ways to design your restaurant to perform better.

Reduce time wasters – Time is money, right? Your employees can only take on so much work at a time. The goal is to eliminate time killers. Consider the time that it takes your waiter to walk from the stove to a customer’s table to deliver a meal. If the table is on the opposite side of the restaurant, you have just wasted all of the time it took to cross the distance. Try placing your tables as close together as possible. I have found that the best layout is to create a small half circle of tables around your stoves. If done right, it will look just like a single countertop surrounding the kitchen area. This will enable your waiters to complete more task in a shorter amount of time.

Get more time to clean tables – When a customer enters the restaurant, they will immediately make their way to the first open table. If the table is dirty, they will wait a moment and then leave dissatisfied. Since the waiters are responsible for cleaning the tables as the previous customer leaves, you want to give them as much time as possible to tidy up. The help reduce the occurrence of this issue, position your tables as far from the restaurant entrance as possible. The extra time that it takes your customer to walk to their table should give your server a better chance of getting to the table cleaned in time. This can also apply to getting extra time for the cook to prepare the meal

Create a waiting area – If your customer does not see an open table when they enter the restaurant, they will wait a moment and then leave if nothing becomes available. To reduce walk-outs create a waiting area by setting several chairs along the wall. While this will only hold them for a short while, this may be just enough time for a table to become available.

Use obstacles to your benefit – Your goal is the keep customers in the restaurant as long as possible. This will reduce the chance of them leaving because a table was not available or the service was too slow. Use interior items as obstacles to slow down their procession toward the nearest table. This will give you more time serve other customers, clean tables, and cook meals. A great way to do this is to create a winding path of wall pieces that customers have to navigate before reaching their table.

Tip – While obstacles can be a great ally, they can also hinder your progress if not positions properly. In my restaurant, I found that no one would sit at this certain table. I soon discovered that the path to the chair was being blocked by another chair.

Designing your restaurant in Restaurant City can be fun and exciting. While adjusting the aesthetics of your restaurant is guaranteed to make you proud, maximizing the performance and use of the space is even more rewarding. This guide should give you good direction on how to best design the restaurant of your dreams.

City of Heroes is not as loot-dominated as other mmorpgs, but rewards called enhancements are sometimes given as rewards for missions, quests, or received as loot given by non-player character enemies. These enhancements boost a players powers and are most effective within a five level range.

Gettintg enhancements is easy, all a player has to know is the store his character needs to shop at. If he has enough enhancements, they can be combined to provide even larger boosts to a character’s super powers.

The system for combining enhancements is simple, but before a player can combine the enhancements for his comic-book styled superhero, he must know where to get them. Where players can buy their enhancements is one affects that the choice of a character’s origin has in game.

Where to Buy City of Heroes Enhancements

Now, a hero who uses technical gadgets cannot enhance their powers the same way that a highly trained human, magician, or mutant can. Shops that can be found around Paragon city cater to each of the particular origins. Below is a list where the origins can go to buy new enhancements, taken from the City of Heroes Information site:

Mutant Origin – Penny Preston
Technology Origin – Mark IV
Magic Origin – Serafina
Natural Origin – Agent Six
Science Origin – Holsten Armitage
Epic Level – Ghost Flacon

In addition, there are training enhancements that are given to fledgling superheros. Enhancements cannot be traded after they are equipped (although this information might be outdated or incorrect – author), but they may be sold back to enhancement stores. The non-player characters that run these stores will pay the highest influence for enhancements of the origin type that they carry.

Combining Enhancements

Power boosts that aren’t short term as are inspirations are good by themselves, but they can be made even better when the enhancements are combined to add an even higher boost to their powers. There are limits to how much a power can be improved and the more a single enhancement is improved, the less likely the player will be successful. All that has to be done is for the player to us the combining tool that the game provides it is fairly straight forward. This also serves as the closest thing to a trade skill in City of Heroes and City of Villains. The process of adding one enhancement on top of another is called combining.

Players can put more than one enhancement of the same type in different slots. This process of adding power boosts of the same type ind different slots is known as stacking. Stacking is usually more effective, but it is possible to stack and combine multiple enhancements.Just remember to visit the store or villains that drop the appropriate ways to enhance your powers every five levels or so to get new City of Heroes loot.

What is a Hotel Weekend

A hotel weekend is when you stay at an hotel for one or two nights, two to three days. You don’t necessarily have to level the city or town or state to do a hotel weekend, consider it a quick little get away from home. An don’t wait until the last minute to start planning or booking hotel, like the first of the weekend, for you want to get the most for your money, and most hotels cost between 100 something or more, if your paying 150 something for a room, get your one night and two days out of it, so book your weekend on Monday and not Friday or Saturday, so when your weekend come you’ll be spending at the hotel, and not spending time booking a room. Hotel weekend are a nice way to relax and get away, here are some hotels that might want checkout if your ever in Kansas City:

The Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel

The Hyatt Regency Crown Center is really nice an unique hotel. It has a very beautiful lobby and beautiful suites to stay in for a night or two, it has Wifi or wireless internet access I business center with computer( but I think you have stay there, for you internet hopper).

The Hyatt Regency Crown Center has quite a few restaurants, like The Peppercorn Duck Club which is more of nice upscale restaurant that serve rotisserie duckling, grilled veal chops, oven roasted rack of lamb and more. Then there is Milano it’s also upscale Italian restaurant with an casual feel to it, an it serves homemade pasta, pizza, fish, chicken and steak selection. Then if you want a club feel experience then there is the Skies and the Spectator’s Bar & Grille, and if you just want to be the pool for dining there is Poolside Dining, and in the morning go to the Terrace for breakfast, and there is also something for the children like Crayola Cafe which serve what the children like, like entree salads, pasta dish, chicken selection, and much more. Then there is room serve that run from 6:00am to midnight Sunday through Thursday and 6:00am to 1:00am Friday and Saturday.

Other thing that the Hyatt has is a 24 hours, daily fitness gym that has Life Fitness treadmill and cross trainer, Lifecycle upright exercise bike and more that you can expect from a gym. Than there is also YogaAway for those who choose to workout in the privacy of their spaces room can do so with YogaAway. YogaAway is a innovative system allows you to order a complete yoga workout from your in-room entertainment unit and there a variety of programs available from fitness, stress reduction and mental focus. Then there is the all-season pool and sundeck which you can come and relax free from the outdoors, and also a whirlpool and sauna to relax in and shopping near by too. So the Hyatt Regency Crown Center seem like a nice place to spend a weekend in if your in Kansas City, but you can also find Hyatt Regency in other state to, so check this hotel out for a hotel weekend.

Westin Crown Center Hotel

The Westin Crown Center Hotel also has a beautiful lobby with water falls in it, and beautiful spaces suites, and guest rooms, it also has Wifi or wireless internet in the lobby. It also is a very unique modern looking lobby and the way it looks on the outside very unique and different, very modern.

The Westin Crown Center has three place to dine at like Benton’s Steak and Chop House which serves mostly steak, for the more club feel The Brasserie Bar and Lounge which most cocktails, and when you eat and party all night and you want some coffee there’s The Brasserie which serve French inspired and American cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Other things to do at the Westin like go to the gym and workout, go jogging around the jogging track. Checkout their indoor whirlpool, and outdoor heated pool, and outdoor tennis court, get a tan on their tanning beds, and go shopping at the Crown Center which is connected to the hotel, and get your hair done, and much more to do at the Westin. Which makes it another great place to spend a hotel weekend.

Kansas City Marriott Downtown Hotel

The Kansas City Marriott Downtown Hotel is very beautiful and unique hotel with a beautiful atrium lobby and barney allis lobby, and it also beautiful guest room and suite with lot of amenities like cable and satellite TV, wireless internet, movies and more.

The Marriott Downtown Hotel has five great restaurants to choose from like the 12th Street Lounge which serve cocktails and light dinner, Lilly’s Restaurant which is fine dining and open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Pam-Pam Restaurant which is a casual atmosphere and serve breakfast and lunch, Coffee Kiosk which serve coffee and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, and Lobby Bar Muehlebach Tower serve only cocktails an open for dinner.

The thing you can do at the Marriott Downtown Hotel are take a swimming in their indoor lap pool or workout at their on-site fitness center were you can work your cardiovascular system and work though muscle and if you want to relax though muscle after a long an hard workout you can get a massage or tan. It seem like another great place to relax and unwind for a hotel weekend.

What to bring on a hotel weekend

When packing for a hotel weekend you want pack lite, enough for two to three day, anymore than that would be like packing for a vacation, and this is not that. You don’t necessarily have to leave the hotel stay in and explore the hotel. I know in this article I talk a lot about Kansas City hotels, because is where I live, but I tried to choose hotel that you can find in any city, with the about the same kind of amenities, but if your ever in Kansas City come an check these hotel out. So pick a hotel close home and spend a weekend there and relax with friend or with family or by yourself just don’t tell anyone.

The easiest way to know a little bit more about the city is to get a city guide or map. This will give you all the information you need about restaurants, night life, places of interest and modes of transportation.

 If you are in a smaller city then you can walk around and explore it. Don’t be afraid to try the local delicacies and indulge in the local coffee shop in order to get a taste of the culture. If you are in a larger city driving around will help you to get easy access. Else you could hire a cycle and explore. If you are in the mood to explore then you could use public transport. This is an easy way to get in touch with the locals; they will also inform you about what you need to see and do in the city. Most large cities have bus tours and guides to help you enjoy the history and culture of the place.

 Look for monuments, churches and museums in the city. These places will give you a bird’s eye view of the history of the city. If you are on a planned vacation then you must research the place before hand so that you do not miss out on any of the tourist attractions.

 Purchase a keep sake of the city that you visit. Make a collection of all the cities that you visit. My personal favorite is a map from all the cities while my mother prefers to keep photographs. The choice is yours. Happy Exploring!