Recommendation Letter

April 19, 2012

Recommendation for our food options before Prom.

To: Jenny Shepard and Melissa Noble

From: Malainie Bender

Subject: Recommendation to Bucca di Beppo

I have researched many possible locations available for our group dinner before heading over to prom. After examining these locations I have narrowed it down to two locations: Bucca di Beppo and The Cheese Cake Factory. I have developed the following standards for an ideal eating spot for dinner.

1) Cost

2) Food Quality

3) Location

Recommendation

I recommend that we eat at Bucca di Beppo for our dinner before prom. This location meets all the above criteria with acceptable costs for big groups, great food quality and a close location to where prom is located.

Discussion

COST

Bucca di Beppo: This nice Italian restaurant offers an easy way to save money and order food as a group. They offer their lager group plates that feed multiple people. With the option of sharing our meals it will be easier to get more for our money.

Cheese Cake Factory: Even though The Cheese Cake Factory has some reasonably fair prices, it doesn't give the option of group plates. With everyone paying for separate plates it adds up and will eventually cost us all more money.

Conclusion: With the easier option of group plates and sharing the food our costs will be way cheaper. The Cheese Cake Factory is a good option but Bucca di Beppo would be the better choice for a large group.

FOOD QUALITY:

Bucca di Beppo: This well known Italian restaurant has many great reviews on their family style food. I have personally visited this restaurant and tried the food, its quite excellent. 

Cheese Cake Factory: I am sure the food would be alright, but I don't think it would be imaginative or quite appealing. I have also been to the Cheese Cake Factory and they are good but nothing to rave about.

Conclusion: I think its best if we eat at Bucca di beppo to experience good home made Italian style food.

LOCATION:

Bucca di Beppo: Bucca is located downtown in the Gaslamp district. With being downtown it is close to The Hyatt Manchester hotel where prom is being held.

Cheese Cake Factory:  The Cheese Cake Factory is located in Linda Visa which is farther away from the hotel. Which means a longer drive resulting in having to pay more for the limo.

Conclusion: With Bucca di Beppo being closer to our final destination, i think its the obvious choice to choose it over the Cheese Cake Factory which is farther away.

Overall I think Bucca di Beppo would be the more practical choice to go out to dinner before prom.

Ol' Blue Eyes

Birth date & Place 

Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12,1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Sinatra was an only child born to Natalie and Anthony Sinatra. 

Family

His mother Natalie was from Genoa and his father Anthony arrived as a child from Argrigento, Sicily. In 1939 at age twenty three he married his first wife Nancy. They had three children Nancy, Frank jr, and Christina "Tina" Sinatra. In 1951 at age thirty-five Frank Sinatra then married his second wife Ava Gardner, they were married for six years but had no children. Then in 1966 at age fifty he married Maria Farrow. And finally, in 1976 till his death he was married to Barbara Marx. 

Childhood & Interests

Sinatra didn't finish high school because he wanted to pursue his singing career. He worked may jobs to get experience. Most jobs didn't pay anything, he just sang for cigarettes. Frank's main interests since he was a child was singing. Once he started to find his voice he began to practice all the time. Early in his years Frank would sing at the social clubs and roadhouses sometimes for nothing or just even a meal.

Anecdotes

The more he practiced the better he became. He borrowed some money from his parents to buy some equipment which gave him an edge over some other vocalists. Soon he stated working more regularly and started getting paid and more gigs started coming his way. 

Career & Reason For Fame

Sinatra's career took off when he was young. He grew up listening to artists like Bing Crosby. He knew from the start that if he wanted to get big he would have to be different. Frank worked his way up from the bottom from doing shows for free to doing shows everyday of the week for a hefty paycheck. His music, voice and his good looking appearance made him stand out and shaped him into an amazing performer. 

Later Life

Even in his old age he still loved to perform. He even kept up on t.v. shows. By the time Frank Sinatra was way in his life he had accomplished more than most celebrities could ever dream of. He had numerous number one hits, he had stared in movies and had won many awards. The man even had six grammy nominations, many performers never even get one! 

Death

Francis Sinatra passed May 14, 1998 in Los Angeles at the age of 83.

Cause of death: Heart Attack.

PALM CAFE MENU

Celebrities And Their Baby Names              

Like Gwyneth Paltrow with daughter Apple, Alicia Keys and her son Egypt, and even Pilot Inspektor son of Jason Lee, celebrities these days have decided to give their kids odd names, but why? 

          

 It seems expert Laura Wattenberg, the author of the name guide “The Baby Name Wizard” (Broadway 2005) and founder of babynamewizard.com (lifeslittlemysteries.com), usual baby names are likely to emerge from popular people. When obsessive fans see their favorite celebrities choosing unique names for their children its likely that they will name their child the same name. So with Celebs trading in standard names for more out of the box stuff it pumps up headlines and increases their ratings. With different names out their it gets the average day people to rethink what they might name their children. So names from just five years ago may seem old fashioned because name keep expanding and getting more abstract. So either its their favorite vacation spot, movie, song, food or even state it looks like the baby names may just get more abstract as the years go on.

"9"

Shane Acker

  The movie 9, written and directed by Shane Acker, is an action packed thriller filled with suspense and drama where, "9 explores the will to live, the power of community, and how one soul can change the world."

  The world is in total destruction after a scientist (Alan Oppenheimer, "The Never-ending Story") who was asked to make a machine, later called the B.R.A.I.N. The machine was originally built to create a artifically intelligent machine but a dictator abuses the creation and uses the machine as a weapon in war. The machines turn against man kind and destroy any living organisms on earth. As a final attempt to save man kind, the scientist creates 9 burlap rag dolls, each containing a characteristic of his personality, to save the world from becoming permanently destroyed.

Elijah Wood

  The film opens with 9 (Elijah Wood, "The Lord of the Rings"), a scared little doll who doesn't know what to do. Eventually, he comes upon another who insists he is there to help him. 2 (Martin Landau,"Mission Impossible"), then gets kidnapped by a machine and 9 tries to save him, but ends up awakening the machine B.R.A.I.N., the scientist's original design. 9 puts all his new found friends in danger, and they embark on a crazy journey and its a race against time to save the world.

 Trying to find a way to shut down the machine, 9 must go back to the room where it all began. He finds a 3D hologram from the scientist that was left just for him. He explains how he must defeat the machine to save his lost friends. Once he finds and defeats the machine his friends souls are returned and put to rest.

  In my opinion this was a good action packed movie exploring how one's brave actions can change the world. Also, showing that one should speak their mind and give their opinions to work through a problem.

Five-O Force

Hawaii Five-O Review

   Where we last left the Five-O team, Steve McGarrett, (Alex O'Loughlin, "The Back-Up Plan") was just arressted for the govenor of Hawaii's murder. His partner Danny "Danno" Williams, (Scott Caan, "Oceans 11,12,13") may have got his ex wife pregnant and the rest of the team was broken up.

Alex O'Loughlin

   Now apart, the team must find a way to prove McGarrett was framed by his longtime rival Wo Fat,( Mark Dacascos, "The Next Iron Chef ") , linked to many previous crimes, a man who McGarrett and the Five-O team have been after for some time. A now distant member of Five-O, who joined the Hawaii police force after the split of the team, Chin Ho Kelly( Daniel Dae kim, "Avatar: The last Airbender") is at the governor's funeral when he spots Wo Fat, but without enough evidence he has to let him go.

   While McGarrett sits in the Halawa Correction facility with procecuters trying to do their best to push up his trial, Steve doesn't have much time to clear his name. While in prison, he runs into the last man he ever expects to see. (You'll have to watch to see who, i don't wanna ruin it). He attacks Steve and stabs him in the abdomin, the man was sent from Wo Fat to get rid of Steve forever. But McGarrett doesn't go down without a fight, he uses the ride to the hospital as his diversion to escape.

   McGarrett's long time friend and trainer is back to bring justice for Steve, and finds a man who was once very close to Steve's dad, a former Hawaii cop. The man says Jack (McGarrett's dad) also had evidence that could prove the govenor was dirty. Once the Five-O team finds the proof they've been waiting for, the new govenor has no choice but to drop the charges against McGarrett and put the team back together, but there's one catch, a new member maybe?

   So what should we expect next? With a new member. Possible leaks in the force. And one key member is still not allowed back on the team (Kono kalakaua), Chin Ho Kelly's cousin. I can tell its going to be the best season yet.

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