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Prospera's Tempest
Posted on January 4, 2011 by keyanbowes
Julie Taymor's Tempest isn't showing anywhere in San Francisco at the moment. but I've been keen to see it since I heard about it. I'm a sucker for Shakespeare, The Tempest, and Helen Mirren. So off I went to the only theater I could find, the not-for-profit Rafael in San Rafael. For those who haven't been keeping tabs on this particular film, it's the Tempest with very few alterations… except that Prospero is played by Helen Mirren as Prospera, a sorceress instead of a sorceror.
So, what did I think?
The gender-change does wonderful things to the film. It felt so right that — and I found this weird — it's the Shakespeare version that felt contrived.
But it also changes the story in unexpected ways. Instead of being a story essentially about revenge and forgiveness, it's about a dying, powerful, mother making provisions for her sweet but rather dim daughter. Oh, sure, Prospera gets in her revenge, but it's a very modified one. Why? Well, these are people who her daughter will be allied with after her time. She doesn't have the luxury of chopping them into small pieces of begging near-corpses. It may be the goodness of her heart, but she's proven capable of being pretty tough not just with Caliban, a reluctant slave, but Ariel, whom she loves. But they're her network, the only people of power she still knows. And she has her darling dim child to take care of. (It reminded me a bit of Mama Mia, the movie. Same dynamic between a Mom who's competent and a star, and a daughter who's young, cute, and in love.)
Why do I feel Miranda's not very bright? Well, she shows no signs of having any power herself. In the original, that was easily explained — she's female, she doesn't get to learn all this arcane stuff. But in this version? Her mother is in no position to leave her her ducal heritage; but she can give her a wizardly one. She's got the books. She has the staff. It's what she does, and what she could teach her daughter to do. Any smart kid would *want* to learn all that — but this one doesn't. Instead, she bounds around the island doing, apparently, nothing much. (Unless the sandcastle in hand in the opening credits was some evidence of magical ability — but if so, the point wasn't pursued any further.)
Miranda has no future here, and Prospera's dying. So, working with the material at hand, Prospera grabs an opportunity and betroths Miranda to Ferdinand, the son of the King of Naples. The very King who conspired with her brother to exile her and 3-year-old Miranda, but she confronts him just enough to create a feeling of regret and obligation, not of revenge. She' takes back her dukedom from her rascally brother, but not for herself — her every 3rd thought is of the grave, which sounds like she's knows she has something that will kill her in a few months or years. What that does is makes Miranda into a princess again, a sole heir to Milan. It gives her clout with her new in-laws, cementing the alliance. This is pretty important because once they get back to the mainland, the King of Naples will be the bigger shot. Milan's been paying him tribute, after all. I'm pretty sure dear brother has a very short life-span. Shorter than his sister's. He may, regrettably, never make it back to Milan, poor chap.
Theoretically, Prospera could just have taken Miranda back to Milan with her. But the kid hasn't been trained as a lady of the court. She hasn't been trained as a magician. She's pretty much been running wild on the island. The only way Prospera can secure her future is a good marriage, and there's no time like the present to achieve it.
THE MOVIE REVIEW
As for the movie itself: Helen Mirren was pitch perfect as Prospera. She owned the role. I thought Djimon Hounsou did a great job with a difficult part; his Caliban was more than a nasty stupid monster. Everyone else was okay. Ariel looked rather too manly for the role; when Prospera calls him "my delicate Ariel" it's a hard sell. So also the sleeping in cowslips.
The costumes were brilliant, all black leather and zips for the formal court costumes, and rustic cottons and linens for what they wear on the island. Caliban's "costume" — make-up, actually — was also superb. The setting was beautifully done, too; and I think Prospera's cave was marvelous with long floating staircases cantilevered from the wall. But the pine (in which Ariel is supposed to be trapped by Sycorax) was actually a banyan tree (ficus bengalensis). Which I wouldn't have minded if she hadn't clearly referred to a pine and then threatened to shut him into an oak.
The special effects… not so much. Ariel had this sort of Tinkerbell glow going on, which made him difficult to take seriously. He's naked (or in a body suit, I don't know) and in the first few scenes adopts these very contorted positions so we don't get full frontal nudity. (I read somewhere they digitally removed anything that showed, so I don't know the contortions were necessary. They reminded me uncomfortably of early girlie magazines in which models adopted strange poses to convey nudity without actually showing anything the censors would block.) It made me wonder if they auditioned for the ability to twist one's body into pretzels.
The sky scene — where Prospera makes amazing images in the sky to entertain the two youngsters — just wasn't amazing. It didn't have much impact, a missed opportunity to do something mind-blowing.
All in all, though, Prospera more than carries the film. It's worth seeing.
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Without our federal science body the world wouldn't have WiFi. Looking back at 100 years of the CSIRO, and into its future.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS ago today, Prime Minister Billy Hughes changed the future of Australia when he established the Advisory Council of Science and Industry, a body we recognise today as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
On 16 March 1916 Hughes issued an official gazette that announced the formation of the Council. It followed several attempts to gain moment on the issue, including an impassioned speech at a Melbourne conference in January 1916 where Hughes spoke of the need for a government-funded, national scientific organisation that would "solve problems that seemed insoluble" and lead to "healthier and better lives" for all Australians.
Despite some heated debate about the federal government overstepping its bounds, the Council was formed.
It proved to be the first step in much of Australia's continuous and 'big picture' science and research. In the coming years, the CSIRO would develop technologies that would change the way people live the world over, including developing WiFi and radar technologies, and even the software that handles most airports' plane traffic around the world, and plastic money.
Dr Anita Hill, executive director of the CSIRO's Future Industries division, says the CSIRO's role is often to fill the gaps that the commercial world cannot or will not. "We do a lot of substantiation," she says. Often they check and prove or disprove the validity of products on the market. Anita says this may soon be important for buzzword-happy developments such as 'DNA diets', which may be an exciting development that will look at how you respond to food via your DNA.
One of the other things the CSIRO does particularly well is bringing multidisciplinary teams together, says Anita. The prime example of this is when electrical engineer John O'Sullivan discovered some of the fundamental properties of WiFi while working on a radio astronomy project looking for black holes in space.
Five CSIRO scientists – Dr John O'Sullivan, Dr Terry Percival, Mr Diet Ostry, Mr Graham Daniels and Mr John Deane – invented wireless LAN technology, these days known as WiFi.
It earned the CSIRO more than $220 million after they launched a series of lawsuits to recoup money made on the technology without a licensing agreement.
Total Airspace and Airport Modelling (TAAM) simulation software was first developed within CSIRO and spun-off into The Preston Group; later acquired by Boeing.
TAAM is in operation across the globe, including AirServices Australia, and at Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane airports; reducing airspace congestion, airport disruption and conflict avoidance and ensuring safer skies in Australia and worldwide. Every airport operator has multiple licences for TAMM.
CSIRO invented plastic (polymer) banknotes, a world-first at the time, which are now exported to 25 countries with more than 3 billion notes currently in circulation.
In addition to securing currency against forgery, this solution is also more durable, more environmentally friendly and less likely to carry dirt and disease than previous types of notes.
The world's first effective influenza treatment, called Relenza, was invented by CSIRO in 1987.
Relenza has been approved in over 50 countries for the treatment of influenza.
In the 90s there was significant consumer demand for contact lenses they could be left in for much longer periods of time, however attempts by manufacturing companies to find a solution had been unsuccessful.
As part of an international collaboration CSIRO developed extended-wear soft contact lenses which could be worn up to 30 continuous nights – called CIBA Vision's Focus Night Day.
The same oxygen permeability in these lenses has since been used by CIBA Vision in other short-term wear lenses to provide greater safety to consumers.
In 1957 a damaging claim was made against woollen blankets that were used in hospitals throughout the world. It was claimed that because woollen blankets could not be laundered at the high temperatures (80C) used for other hospital textiles, they would harbour infectious agents which could be carried through the wards on fibres shed by the blankets.
This report led hospitals to question using woollen blankets, and change to cotton instead.
This change would have had serious implications for the Australian wool industry.
In the period 1958-68, CSIRO Scientists Tom Pressley showed that the claim was without foundation, then went on to develop a shrink-proofing process that enabled woollen blankets to be washed at elevated temperatures. After repeated washing, however, the blankets became stiff and rough, so a special neutral detergent for washing woollen fabrics was developed – now known as Unliver's Softly®.
Softly is still available on supermarket shelves today and is widely recommended to gently clean and soften wool, washable silks, fine cotton, linen and fine synthetics.
Concerned by the threat of attack from the sea and air in World War II, CSIRO sent Australia's most qualified scientist, David Martyn, to Britain on a secret mission to be given the entire details of a radar project.
He returned in 1940 with the materials to develop the technology in Australia and efforts were focused on building the first shore defence system. By 1941 it was further developed to scan the skies for planes.
Equipment was sent to Darwin in early 1942 and was still being installed, only days from completion, when Darwin was bombed by Japanese planes. The radar system was operating three days later and detected subsequent raids on the city early enough for them to be intercepted before they reached the coast.
A major breakthrough for the textiles industry, the CSIRO invention of self-twisting yarn led to new machines that could spin at speeds 10-16 percent faster than previous processes to rapidly increase productivity, keeping the production of wool in strong competition with synthetics.
The process of wool spinning was unchanged for nearly 200 years. It produced about 15m of yarn a minute – and it takes 20,000m to make an average two-piece suit. If a spindle went faster than this, centrifugal forces became too high and the yarn broke.
CSIRO scientist David Henshaw invented a new twisting process that matched the strength of the existing wool however could be spun at virtually limitless speeds.
The requirement for a process for permanent pleating of wool fabrics arose in the 1950s when the wool industry was under considerable pressure from synthetics, particularly polyester, that could be heat-set to give permanent creases and pleats.
Durable pleating and creasing of wool, called the SiroSet process, was invented in 1957 and was rapidly adopted worldwide, with some 10 million units of production treated in the first six years. It is a process still being used some 50 years later – in 2000 Japan alone exceeded 4 million SiroSet-treated garments.
Initially invented as part of research for protecting troops from malaria in the 1940s, CSIRO's insect repellent shot to fame when it was used to help keep flies off Queen Elizabeth II on a visit to Australia in 1963.
Mortein called and got the formula off CSIRO following that famous event.
In 1994 there was a deadly outbreak of acute respitory disease in a Brisbane horse stable. Twenty-one horses were infected, 13 of them fatally. Alarmingly, the disease also spread to humans and killed one person.
CSIRO isolated and identified the virus within two weeks of it being reported.
Similar outbreaks have occurred subsequently elsewhere in Australia, as well as in Malaysia, Bangladesh and India, transmitted by bats, infecting animals and humans. The tests developed for Hendra virus were instrumental in the rapid identification of the closely related virus in those countries.
In May 2011, CSIRO announced a prototype vaccine and, along with collaborators, launched the Equivac HeV vaccine in November 2012. By March 2013 it was confirmed that horses were immune to a lethal exposure of the Hendra virus six months post vaccination.
By protecting horses from the disease, the vaccine is saving human lives by breaking the only known Hendra virus transmission pathway from bats to humans.
Chronic diseases are a heavy burden on Australia's economy and wellbeing. Obesity, heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes and cancer are the leading causes of preventable death. Obesity alone cost Australian society and governments over $58 billion in 2008.
Developed by CSIRO scientists, BarleyMax wholegrains represent the next evolution of superfoods, an enhanced wholegrain that has the potential for lowering rates of chronic diseases.
It's an ingredient that's now found in many Australian supermarket products such as bread, cereals and smoothie supplements.


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Marlene Dumas, "Under Construction," 2009, oil on linen, 70 7/8 x 118 1/8 x 1″
Marlene Dumas, "Wall Wailing," 2009, oil on linen, 70 7/8 x 118 1/8 x 1″
Marlene Dumas, "The Sleep of Reason," 2009, oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 35 1/2 x 1″
In Time Out, Howard Halle reviews the Dumas show at Zwirner. "In spite of its considerable reputation, I've never been particularly enamored of the work of Marlene Dumas. She demonstrates a marked propensity for marrying lugubrious themes (like portraits of drowning victims) to a thin, Neo-Expressionistic paint-handling that seems extraneous to the images involved; meanwhile, her palette tends to fall in the spectrum between bruised flesh and dried blood, urine stains and sour milk. The trouble with this package is not that it's unlovely, but that ultimately, it is unconvincing. Dumas lays claim to a gravitas that feels more assumed than earned, as she often confuses self-importance for a deep unpacking of the human condition. The result is a mannered muddle that hits you over the head with significance.
"Still, I find it hard to shake off the effects of 'Against the Wall,' her current show at David Zwirner. All of her weaknesses as an artist remain amply on display, but this time, they don't seem to get in the way of her main subject, which is the Middle East, specifically Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Considering the topic, and how easily Dumas could have gone off the rails dealing with it, it's nothing short of a miracle that these canvases work as well as they do. Yet their impact is undeniable."
"Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall," David Zwirner, New York, NY. Through
Author Sharon ButlerPosted on March 31, 2010 June 25, 2016
4 thoughts on "Like "bruised flesh and dried blood, urine stains and sour milk""
Well if she's so bad, why is this show so good?
This show has 'undeniable impact' because the politics appeal to Halle?
'All of her weaknesses as an artist remain amply on display, but this time, they don't seem to get in the way of her main subject, which is the Middle East, specifically Israel's treatment of the Palestinians'
Are we to assume the artist's lamo technique and pretentiousness, are somehow at home with her political sympathies here?
Quite what Halle finds unconvincing about Dumas' work is by no means clear, much less convincing. Why should a theme of drowning, dealt with by marked solvency of means be in any way lugubrious? Surely the contrary. She is, if anything, fleeting and wishy washy. Nor is it in any way adequate to describe her style as simply 'Neo-Expressionistic'. Does Halle really find striking affinity between Dumas and Schnabel, Kiefer, Clemente or Penck? Dumas shares none of their interest in allegory or metaphor, extended medium or grand scale. Her drawing at best owes allegiance to Munch and an Art Nouveau arabesque. Her themes have for the most part been the vulnerability of the young and marginalised. Where is all this 'self-importance' Halle detects? Her self-portraits are not that numerous or imposing, her scale and means hardly flag prestige or pomp.
Halle's condescension, insensitivity and ignorance hardly stand as a recommendation for the show. But then, New York critics generally give Dumas a hard time.
And from here, for what look like strictly parochial reasons.
You're a bloody nuisance, CAP – you stick the pigs at the very heart of their squealing.
Of course Dumas' work won't touch sensibilities who, for the part, need the message (and the paint) rubbed in their faces.
She walks a fine line, does Madame Dumas & sometimes she falls off but it's a wonder that she can hold it all & that deserves respect.
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Stats: At the New England meet she was second in the long jump (18-5.75) and fifth in the 200 (25.42), at the State Open she won the long jump (18-1.75) and was third in the 200 (24.85), at the Class MM meet she won the 200 (24.92) and won the long jump (18-4.5), at the SCC meet she was second in the 200 (25.12) and second in the long jump (16-11).
Honors: All-SCC, All-State, also All-Area in indoor track.
Off the track: She sings in the school choir.
Stats: Thanks to depth and experience, the Academics won the Class M team title (105 points) and won the SCC meet team title (103 points). The Hillhouse boys also won the SCC meet team title (75 points) and the Class MM team title (81.5 points). Moore has coached at Hillhouse for 25 years. He also started the Connecticut Hawks youth track club.
Honors: SCC girls outdoor track Coach of the Year, CHSCA Coach of the Year, New Balnace Armory High School Coaches Hall of Fame, multiple Area Coach of the Year for track.
Stats: At the New England meet she was sixth in the 3200 (11:08.75), at the State Open she was fifth in the 3200 (11:02.38), she was third in the 3200 (11:16.65) at Class L, and at the SCC meet she won the 3200 (11:58.71) and was second in the 1600 (5:21.98).
Honors: All-SCC, two-time All-Area outdoor and indoor track selection, three-time All-New England (cross country, indoor track, outdoor track).
Off the track: National Honor Society, 2019 Class President, National Spanish Honor Society, member of the school's jazz ensemble, wind ensemble, symphony orchestra.
Stats: At the CIAC State Open she was eighth in the 400 (58.48), at Class M she was second in the 400 (57.02) and ran a leg of the winning 4×400 relay (3:55.70, meet record), at the SCC meet she was second in the 400 (57.99).
Honors: Four-time All-State, three-time Register All-Area, All-American in mixed 4×400 relay.
Off the track: Honor roll, volunteers with Connecticut Hawks youth track team.
Stats: At the New England meet she was fifth in the discus (125-4, school record), at the State Open she was fourth in the discus (115 feet), at Class S she won the discus (119-0), won the javelin (107-6) and was third in the shot put (35-6), and at the Shoreline Conference meet she won the discus (112-5), won the shot put (36-2.5, school record) and won the javelin (109-8).
Honors: All-SCC, All-State, All-New England selection.
Off the track: National Honor Society, SADD Club, Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk.
Up next: Will compete in track and field at Central Connecticut State.
Stats: At the New England meet she was second in the pole vault (11 feet, 3 inches), at the State Open she was second in the pole vault (11-6, school record), at Class S she won the pole vault (11-0) and did the same at the Shoreline Conference meet (11-0).
Honors: All-SCC, All-State, two-time All-Area in outdoor and indoor track.
Off the track: Did an internship at a local dentist office.
Up next: Will pole vault at Belmont next season.
Stats: At the New England meet she won the triple jump (38 feet, 11.5 inches) and did the same at the State Open (38-4.75) and in Class S (38-2.75) where she was also fitfh in the long jump (16-10.75). At the NVL meet won the triple jump (37-1.5, meet record) and the long jump (16-4.5).
Honors: All-New England, All-State, All-NVL, NVL meet Outstanding Female Performer.
Up next: Will compete on the track team at Southern Connecticut State.
Stats: At the New England meet she was sixth in the 200 (25.62) and ran a leg of the 4×400 relay that was second (4:00.08), at the State Open she won the 300 (39.56) and was second in the 55 (7.26), at Class LL she won the 300 (40.25, meet record) and was third in the 55 (7.38), at the SCC meet she won the 55 (7.39) and the 300 (40.42).
Honors: All-SCC, All-State, two-time All-Area selection in indoor and outdoor track, 2018 All-Area indoor track MVP and 2017 All-Area outdoor track MVP, SCC MVP and SCC girls outdoor track Player of the year.
Up next: Will compete in track at Quinnipiac next season.
Stats: At the State Open she was third in the 1600 (5:02.31, school record), at Class L she won the 1600 (5:12.94), and at the SCC meet she won the 1600 (5:20.22) and was second in the 3200 (11:58.90). Holds the school record in the 2K steeplechase (7:16.97).
Honors: All-SCC, two-time All-State, two-time All-Area selection.
Stats: At the national meet, she won the 400 in a meet record 51.21 seconds. The time ranked as the nation's No. 1 performance among competitors in 2018 and No. 7 in U.S. high school history. She was seventh in the 200 (25.25). She set meet records at the New England Prep School Track Association Division III championship meet in the 100 (12.63), the 400 (53.95) and the 200 (24.86). She has a personal best/school record of 23.46 in the 200.
Honors: All-American, also All-Area in volleyball, Gatorade Connecticut Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
Off the track: Volunteers locally in clothing donation drives and at a food pantry. Has a 3.16 GPA in the classroom.
Up next: Will compete on the track team at Penn State, where she will study biobehavioral health.
Stats: At Class M she won the shot put (37-9.75) and was third in the discus (102-1), at the SCC meet she was second in the shot put (37-11.5). Also competes in the hammer throw. Led Hillhouse to Class M and SCC team titles.
Off the track: Honor student, volunteers for youth track team.
Stats: At the State Open she was fifth in the 100 hurdles (15.33) and eighth in the 100 (12.80), at Class M she was second in the 300 hurdles (45.96), fourth in the 100 (12.74) and fifth in the 100 hurdles (15.49), at the SCC meet she won the 100 (12.38), won the 300 hurdles (47.34) and second in the 100 hurdles (15.55). Led Hillhouse to Class M and SCC team titles.
Honors: All-State, two-time Register All-Area selection.
Stats: At the New England meet she was seventh in the shot put (39 feet, 4.5 inches) and 11th in the discus (117-9), at the State Open she was fifth in the shot put (37-2.25) and sixth in the discus (114-2), at Class LL she was third in the shot put (38-9.5) and third in the discus (109-0), and at the SCC meet she won the shot put (38-5.5).
Honors: All-SCC, also All-Area for indoor track.
Off the track: National Honor Society, Principal's Advisory Committee, Student Government, Model UN Club, Yale Pathways to Science, PEER leader.
Stats: At the State Open she was fourth in the pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches), at Class MM she won the pole vault (10-6), and at the SCC meet she won the pole vault (10-6). She holds the school record at 11-0.
Honors: All-SCC, All-State, two-time All-Area selection in indoor track.
Off the track: She also plays field hockey.
Up next: Will pole vault at Franklin Pierce.
Stats: At the New England meet she was eighth in the javelin (119 feet, 4 inches), at the State Open she was second in the javelin (111-11), at Class L she was third in the javelin (113-5). Also competed in sprint events.
Honors: All-SCC Scholar Athlete, All-State pick.
Off the track: National Honor Society, also plays softball and competes in competitive horseback riding (show jumping).
Up next: Will compete on the track team at Sacred Heart.
Stats: At the New England meet she was fifth in the triple jump (36 feet, 11 inches), at the State Open she was second in the triple jump (37-5.75), at Class M she won the triple jump (36-5.50) and was sixth in the long jump (16-10.25), at the SCC meet she won the triple jump (35-4.5) and won the long jump (17-0.5). Led Hillhouse to Class M and SCC team titles.
Honors: Four-time All-State, three-time Register All-Area selection.
Off the track: High Honor roll, New Haven Academy Scholar Award, New Haven Academy Scholar Athlete Award.
Up next: Will attend the University of New Haven.
What happened to the girl from Cromwell?
She is not in the New Haven Register circulation area. This team is a joint venture between GametimeCT and the New Haven Register.


On Wednesday, November 20th, 18-year-old Hayward Hulse appeared in Magistrate's Court to answer to charges of wounding upon his 17-year-old girlfriend. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and bail of ,000.00 was offered to him which he met. He is to reappear in court on December 2nd.
According to the 17-year-old girl, she and Hulse were socializing at the Baron Bliss Grave on Sunday, November 17th, when they got into an argument where she alleges that he became violent with her when he punched her in her face.
The minor was given a medical legal form where she was examined by a doctor at a local hospital and her injuries were classified as wounding.


In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is a procedure first successfully utilized in 1978 in which a woman's ovaries are stimulated with fertility drugs to produce multiple mature eggs, which are then removed from her body and are fertilized in the laboratory with her partner's (or donor) sperm. The resulting embryos are cultured for three to five days, at which point the best 1 or 2 embryos are then transferred back into her uterus.
Natural Cycle IVF is a no-stimulation approach used to eliminate the use of fertility drugs. In a natural cycle of IVF, the woman is monitored closely as she approaches ovulation. She may be given an hCG "trigger" shot to induce ovulation and "ripen" her egg(s). The egg is then retrieved and the cycle proceeds as a conventional IVF cycle, other than the fact that if the egg does not fertilize, or arrests in its development, the cycle will be cancelled at that point.
When you schedule your IVF procedure, you will be given a calendar by your clinical coordinator that will highlight all of the key components of your cycle, including medications, appointments, ultrasounds, tentative egg retrieval, embryo transfer and pregnancy test dates.


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I booked here as we were spending the weekend at the V8s at Barbagello. I wanted something close to the track so we didn't have to spend the 1hr + travelling from and too the city. So this was perfect! Beautiful house, room was nice and tidy. Great set-up. Continental breakfast included perfect to kick start the day. Graham and Kath were ever so welcoming and happy to help with anything that was needed. Thanks again for our great stay guys. See you again soon.
Ideally located for beach and ocean access. Staff / owners were always happy to talk, advise and help out when and where needed. The room was excellent, spacious & clean with the most comfortable bed - just what's needed after along tiring journey. Altogether excellent.
Stayed here previously at it felt like a home-don't know what's happened but didn't get the same feeling this time round.
The best bed and breakfast I've ever stayed at. The home overall is fantastic, in terms of both cleanliness and quality, which when combined with unbeatable hospitality, made it a truly memorable experience.
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It's the third time my partner and I have stayed at Burns Beach B&B. The place is immaculate with excellent and clean facilities. Prue and Glenn are so warm and welcoming. The breakfast is quite frankly the best breakfast I have ever had travelling - amazing! We will certainly be back to relax again.
Pure white, pure blue, clean room, nice Breakfast fast and kindness of Prue and Glenn. This is one of my best trip and can feel relax in my experience.
Was amazing, the service was next level. The house itself and the rooms were incredible.
Wonderful stay. The hosts were very nice and friendly.
very clean,with warm feel of a home. beautiful and the ocean theme is really nice. it is the best B&B I ever visited,very nice owner and comfortable place!
It was fantastic! Prue and Glenn were very professional and supportive, great experience, highly recommend!
this B&B is well managed by an old couple who are very meticulous about providing a cozy experience for its visitors. The house is very new and well renovated. The room comes with private bathroom which is clean and modern. Breakfast is provided every morning. It is right next to the beach and a good 30 min drive to Perth city. The only downside is that the west side room and South side room are next to the dining area. It is a little bit noisy in the morning when people starts having breakfast while you are still in bed.
Great service, nice bed and fantastic breakfast !!


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US Army arrives at Zeebrugge
U.S. Army Black Hawk, Apache and Chinook helicopters from Fort Stewart, Georgia, arrived on October 15th, 2019 at the port facilities of Zeebrugge, Belgium, by ship to take over the Atlantic Resolve mission. This was the third time the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium was chosen by the US Army for aviation rotations. Based at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia the soldiers brought 10 CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters, 50 UH-60 and HH-60 Black Hawks and 20 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters by ship to Europe. At the Port of Zeebrugge, the helicopters are prepared for flying, after which they are deployed to various places in Europe. In addition to helicopters, more than 1,700 soldiers and more than 2,000 vehicles were brought to Europe for the next Atlantic Resolve mission. As part of Atlantic Resolve, U.S. based units deploy to Europe for nine month heel-to-toe rotations. Rotational units conduct bilateral, joint and multinational training events across 17 countries in the Atlantic Resolve area of operations.
A Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter of the US Army.
Boeing UH-60 Black Hawk
A Boeing UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter of the US Army.
Boeing AH-64 Apache
A Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter os the US Army.
Since April 2014, U.S. Army Europe has led the Department of Defense's Atlantic Resolve land efforts by bringing units based in the U.S. to Europe for nine months at a time. Atlantic Resolve provides these rotational units with the ability to build readiness, increase interoperability and enhances the bond between ally and partner militaries through multinational training events. There are three types of Atlantic Resolve rotations – armored, aviation and sustainment task force. These rotations are overseen by the 1st Infantry Division (Forward), a regionally aligned headquarters based in Poznan, Poland. There are approximately 6,000 Soldiers participating in Atlantic Resolve at any given time, conducting operations and exercises across 17 countries. These deployments of ready, combat-credible U.S. forces to Europe in support of Atlantic Resolve is evidence of the strong and unremitting U.S. commitment to NATO and Europe.
Logo of the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade on a Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.
A missile pod of a Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.
Inside a Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter of the US Army.
Text & photos: Kris Christiaens & US Army
Location: Port of Zeebrugge, Belgium
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Since the World Summit of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) was held in 2016, in Bogotá, local and regional leaders have been making it clear that the global agenda must take account of the realities of each territory. Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has become a priority for cities and territories. Localizing to build capacity and provide local and regional governments with measures tailored to each territory, each culture and each community.
Local and regional governments have responsibilities related to each and every one of the 17 SDGs. Furthermore, the New Urban Agenda is directly linked to the daily work of city leaders and their administrations. With the aim of supporting local and regional governments, and other relevant local actors, in localizing the SDGs, UCLG (together with UNDP and UN-HABITAT) has launched a global movement for localizing the SDGs, which extends beyond implementation. The challenge is to ensure that there are forums for the exchange of experiences and ideas, to support and to achieve genuine decentralized cooperation and real changes at the local and regional levels.
It is an unprecedented opportunity to renew institutional models of governance because one of the elements required to localize the SDGs successfully is co-creating cities and territories, with the active participation of citizens and learning from the implementation of the experiences of a wide range of social actors.
Through the inter-municipal partnership that this movement for localizing the SDGs is creating, new capacities and leadership models are being developed, together with various municipal associations and networks. Thanks to the initiatives and the involvement of our members in building bridges and dialogue on the SDGs, UCLG is holding many meetings which provide an opportunity to exchange tools and learning opportunities involving all levels of government, as well as civil society, the private sector and academia. For example, the different learning workshops on localizing the SDGs, which are being held on all continents.
Each meeting enables a commitment, which began with a working session held in the framework of the Executive Bureau, in Madrid in April 2017, to flourish. It was the first time that representatives of local and regional governments, and associations, from Africa, Latin America, North America and the Middle East had shared their experiences and views on localizing the SDGs.
From this moment on, there was a flurry of other meetings from May to June 2017, which took place in cities such as Barcelona (Spain), Brussels (Belgium) and Cordoba (Spain), organized together with organizations including UCLG-MEWA, M.I.L.E, UCLG-ASPAC, FAMSI, FLACMA, Mercociudades, Metropolis, and the CIB working group.
and Ougadougou (Burkina Faso), where SDG 17 was set as a priority with work dynamics in which local cities drew on their own experiences.
The month of July, and the months ahead, have started enthusiastically on the same path with several workshops organized under the umbrella of UCLG-MEWA and UCLG-ASPAC.
Training sessions are also planned for Autumn 2017 led by institutions or networks, including FEMP, Barcelona Provincial Council, the CIB working group, M.I.L.E, UCCI, Guipúzcoa Provincial Council and the province of Santa Fe.


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PMA Foundation Raises $3 Million
The Produce Marketing Association's Foundation for Industry Talent reached a fund-raising milestone recently, raising more than $3 million for its efforts to attract top recruits into the produce industry workforce. We are pleased to have reached this milestone to help fund the foundation's vital work to recruit, retain and develop the skilled workforce we all need, Steve Barnard, chairman
NEWARK, Del. — The Produce Marketing Association's Foundation for Industry Talent reached a fund-raising milestone recently, raising more than $3 million for its efforts to attract top recruits into the produce industry workforce.


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Silicone Implant Illness: Science Versus Myth?
Rod J. Rohrich, M.D.; Jordan Kaplan, M.D.; Erez Dayan, M.D.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2019;144(1):98-109.
Neurologic Disease
Offspring Effects
The purpose of this Special Topic article is to present the current state of scientific evidence related to the safety of silicone breast implants. There is presently overwhelming evidence to support the safety of silicone breast implants. Ultimately, the decision to obtain, keep, or remove breast implants is the choice of the patient. If a patient chooses to have her breast implants removed, it is important to find a board-certified plastic surgeon with expertise in breast surgery. Ongoing studies are strongly encouraged in all areas, from cancer detection to autoimmune disease, as we strive for improved patient safety, patient awareness, and patient education. To the best of our body of scientific knowledge to date, there have not been any concrete or evidence-based studies or peer-reviewed data concerning the formation of a new syndrome: "silicone implant illness." Silicone breast implants are used in nearly 300,000 breast augmentation and 100,000 breast reconstruction operations annually in the United States.[1] Silicone gel–filled implants were first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1962. Since that time, few medical devices have been studied as closely for their safety and associated adverse outcomes. Despite multiple generations of implant shells and gel fillers, the basic components remain as originally designed.[2,3]
In the 1980s, as consumer concern regarding silicone breast implant safety grew, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new surveillance system began to identify local complications associated with silicone implants in addition to several published case reports that described an association between cancer and connective tissue disorders in patients with these devices.[4] For more than 60 years, there has been controversy as to the safety of these devices, with more than 400 reports on various health conditions in association with breast implants.[5]
Ultimately, in 1992, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration determined that silicone implant manufacturers had not provided enough data to adequately address consumer concerns, and silicone implants were removed from the market. On their return, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration required all major breast implant manufacturers to conduct core studies to assess overall implant safety profiles.[6–10] Seven years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration moratorium on silicone implants, the Institute of Medicine released a detailed report of the current literature entitled Safety of Silicone Breast Implants, which ultimately concluded that local complications were of primary concern and that, to definitively comment on systemic disease such as cancer or autoimmune disorders, further studies were needed, as there was currently a paucity of significant, well-controlled studies.[4]
The Institute of Medicine report was the first step toward the return of silicone breast implants and was instrumental in clarifying the scientific evidence and identifying information gaps on the safety of these devices. Since their return, there has been ongoing extensive research concerning their safety, which is in part attributable to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's stipulation that the two manufacturers of silicone breast implants at that time, Allergan plc (Dublin, Ireland) and Mentor Corp. (Minneapolis, Minn.),[11] conduct large postapproval studies to guarantee that these potential long-term risks did not go unmonitored.[12]
The extent of our knowledge on prior safety concerns has expanded since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to remove silicone breast implants from the market.[4,13] It is our responsibility as plastic surgeons to hold industry and one another accountable for the care of our patients by increasing awareness of evidence-based practices.[12,14,15] This Special Topic article reviews the current literature regarding the safety of silicone breast implants and the concerns that remain about these devices in light of recent consumer and social media about the possible existence of a "silicone implant illness" syndrome, an entity that currently has no clear definition but has been popularized by both health care providers and the media.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2019;144(1):98-109. © 2019 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Table 1. Studies Investigating the Potential Association between Breast Implants and Malignancy
Article Classification
Conclusion on Silicone Implants
Independent vs. Industry-Funded
Gabriel et al., 1994 United States Retrospective cohort 749 Average, 7.8 yr No association with CTD or other sys- Independent
Bryant et al., 1995 Canada Retrospective cohort Not stated Not stated Risk of breast cancer not higher or lower than the general population Independent
Brinton et al., 1996 United States Case control 2,174 Not stated Are not associated with breast cancer and do not delay breast cancer detection Independent
Deapen et al., 1997 United States Retrospective cohort 3182 Average, 14.4 yr Breast cancer risk at or below the expected rate Industry-funded
Kern et al., 1997 United States Retrospective cohort 680 Average, 4.6 yr Not associated with increased risk of breast or nonbreast cancer Industry-funded
McLaughlin et al., 1998 Sweden Retrospective cohort 3473 Average, 10 yr No increased risk of cancer Independent
Brinton et al., 2000 United States Retrospective cohort 1 ,488 Not stated Do not alter risk of breast cancer Independent
Mellemkjaer, 2000 Denmark Retrospective cohort 1653 Not stated Cancer risk not increased Information not found
Brinton et al., 2001 United States Retrospective cohort 13,488 Average, 12 yr Increased risk of cancers of the stomach, cervix, vulva, brain, and leukemia Independent
Pukkala et al., 2002 Finland Retrospective cohort 2171 Maximum, 29 yr Are not a cause of cancer and do not delay breast cancer detection Information not found
Breiting et al., 2004 Denmark Retrospective cohort 190 Average, 19 yr Associated with local complications but no systemic illness Industry-funded
Friis et al., 2006 Denmark Retrospective cohort 2763 Maximum, 30 yr Are not carcinogenic Industry-funded
McLaughlin et al., 2007 Sweden Retrospective cohort 3486 Average, 18.4 yr No increased risk of any cancer type Industry-funded
Brisson et al., 2006 Canada Retrospective cohort 24,558 Not stated No increased long-term risk of developing cancer Independent
Balk and Raman, 2016 United States Systematic review 32 studies Not stated Statistical associations for increased risk of lung cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren syndrome, and Raynaud phenomenon compared with general population Independent
Coroneos et al., 2018 United States Prospective cohort 55,000 Allergan; 44,997 Mentor 7 yr Both companies independently found an association with CTD Independent
CTD, connective tissue disease.
Table 2. Studies Investigating the Potential Association between Breast Implants and Connective Tissue Disease
Hennekens et al., 1996 United States Retrospective Cohort 10,830 N/A Statistically significant increased risk of "other connective tissue disease" and borderline statistical significance for rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren, dermatomyositis or polymyositis, or scleroderma Independent
Tugwell et al., 2001 United States Systematic review N/A N/A No evidence to support association between silicone implants and CTD Independent
Holmich et al., 2003 Denmark Retrospective cohort 238 Not stated No association between implant rupture and CTD Information not found
Fryzek et al., 2007 Denmark Retrospective cohort 2761 Not stated Unrelated to the development of CTD Independent
Holmich et al., 2007 Denmark Literature review N/A N/A No association between implant rupture and CTD Authors were paid consultants to Allergan
Lipworth et al., 2011 United States Editorial N/A N/A Slightly elevated risk of self-reported combined CTD Independent
Balk and Raman, 2016 United States Systematic review 32 Studies Not stated Statistical associations for increased risk of lung cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren syndrome, and Raynaud phenomenon compared to general population Independent
Singh et al., 2017 United States Retrospective cohort 55,279 5 yr No increased risk of systemic disease Industry-funded
Coroneos et al., 2018 United States Prospective cohort 99,993 7 yr Associated with increased risk of Sjögren syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma Independent
Watad et al., 2018 Israel Cross-sectional study 123,255 10 yr Statistical association with any autoimmune/rheumatic disorders, Sjögren, systemic sclerosis, sarcoidosis Independent
N/A, not applicable; CTD, connective tissue disease.
Table 3. Studies Investigating the Potential Association between Health Outcomes in Offspring of Implant Recipients
Kjøller et al., 1998 Denmark Retrospective cohort 939 children Not stated No increased risk of esophageal disorders or other illness in offspring Industry-funded
Kjøller et al., 2002 Denmark Retrospective cohort 2854 children Not stated Risk of malformations not significantly higher for women with breast implants Industry-funded
Signorello et al., 2001 Sweden Retrospective cohort 5874 children Not stated Rates of adverse birth outcomes no different to children born before or after implant surgery Industry-funded
Hemminki et al., 2004 Finland Retrospective cohort Not stated Not stated Pregnancy and infant health are considerations for mothers with implants; methodologically flawed study Information not found
Rod J. Rohrich, M.D., Jordan Kaplan, M.D. and Erez Dayan, M.D.
Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute.
Rod J. Rohrich, M.D., Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute, 9101 North Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas 75231
Dr. Rohrich receives instrument royalties from Eriem Surgical, Inc., and book royalties from Thieme Medical Publishing; he is a clinical and research study expert for Allergan, Inc., Galderma, and MTF Biologics, and the owner of Medical Seminars of Texas, LLC. No funding was received for this article. Dr. Dayan is a consultant for InMode Aesthetic Solutions and owner/developer of wikiplasticsurgery.com. Dr. Kaplan has no financial interests to report.
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Q: Operator "|" cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'string' Hello everyone so I'm having the problem that its on the title ( Operator "|" cannot be applied to operands of type string and string)
Here is the code that I'm running at the moment
if ( (tb_id.Text="") | (tbnome.Text = "") | (tbpreco.Text = "") | (tbquant.Text = "") )
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I really don't know why its happening, I already searched around stackoverflow and other websites and forums but still couldn't see the error.

A: You want to be using the equality operator == not the assignment operator =.
The assignment operator returns the value that was assigned to the string, and assigns the value to the string.  The equality operators return a boolean indicating if the two strings are equal.
On a side note, you almost certainly want to be using the short circuiting OR operator || instead of the non-short circuiting OR operator |, so that if any of the checks pass it doesn't need to bother performing the rest.

A: Change your code to this
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    MessageBox.Show("Erro, Voce não inseriu algo");
}

This == is the the equal to operator.
= is an assignment operator.
and for or operator || not |
You might want to read http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6a71f45d.aspx

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Native Americans called the lake Smokiam, which means "healing waters". Settlers later changed the name to Soap Lake in an effort to characterize the soapy texture of the water.
Soap Lake has mineral content thought to be of therapeutic value. The water is made up of seventeen minerals. By bathing in the water, these mineral salts affect the body in such a way as to relieve many rheumatic and skin conditions such as psoriasis, arthritis, muscular pains and nervousness.
The lake water is piped into many of the town's hotels and motels. Public beaches and swimming in Soap Lake is convenient to the public.
Soap Lake is in Grant County, northeast of Ephrata. Highway 17 goes south to Moses Lake and north along the Lower Grand Coulee to Highway 2, Coulee City and Banks Lake.
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Police departments turning to Pinterest to return lost and found items
August 8, 2015 09:38 BST
Police departments are turning to Pinterest in a bid to piggyback on social networking and return lost and found items.
The scrapbook website, more popular among youth and housewives, is stepping in to help spread the word where police find the going tough, especially in tracking down people.
The Dover Police Department in Delaware is the latest to launch a Pinterest page early this week.
In four days the force had photographed and uploaded 33 pictures of lost and found items.
The page already has 333 followers.
"One user followed our Facebook account. She went to our Pinterest page from our post, and spotted something her friend had lost. She then went back to the Facebook page and tagged her friend in a comment on the post saying 'Hey, I think they found your bag!'" Corporal Mark Hoffman, the public information officer at Dover, told CNN Money.
Pinterest was chosen for its ease of use and neat layout that allows easy pinning and unpinning of items, said Hoffman.
All that a claimant has to produce to take away the lost item is a government issued ID, or proof of residency and proof of purchase of the item.
For electronic items, people may have to log in to the device in front of a witness.
The recovered items are displayed on the page after blurring out any personal information.
Other police departments are also using Pinterest to advertise lost and found items.
Community policing calls for an effective partnership with the community and for this the police needs to talk and listen, writes CSM.
With surveys showing that 95% police agencies use social media like Facebook and Twitter for investigations, it is easy for community members to contribute not only in item recovery, but in criminal investigations as well.
"The promise of social media for policing is not to transform or add to the work of law enforcement but to emphasize the deep connection with the community that has always been the focus of good police work," wrote the authors of a 2014 Harvard Kennedy School study when looking at the Boston police social media response to the bombings.
The trust levels between public and police were already good then, unlike the present scenario following police brutality against blacks.
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Anastasija Sevastova won her first WTA title since 2010 when she defeated Julia Goerges 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Sunday in the championship match of the Mallorca Open in Spain.
The 27-year-old from Latvia was a finalist in Mallorca last year before falling to Caroline Garcia, but she was able to outplay Goerges in a two-hour, 14-minute match.
"I won, but it was a tough match," the second-seeded Sevastova said afterward. "I hope the tournament will be back here next year."
Sevastova is reviving her career after injuries helped her lose the love for tennis in 2013, leading to leaving the tour for 1 1/2 years. She returned in 2015, citing that she missed the big stages and had learned perspective about how there is life outside of tennis.
Now she is displaying that she is having fun on the court and her play at Mallorca backed that up.
"I've known you a long time, and there were some years when you told me you didn't want to play tennis anymore, and now here we are," Goerges told Sevastova during the trophy ceremony. "I'm so glad I was able to play this final against you because I think you're a great player. I'm so happy you're back in tennis, but hopefully you'll let me win next time, and play many more finals together."
Goerges, from Germany, played well in the second set to even the match but Sevastova controlled the final set with her serve. Goerges hit 32 winners but was plagued by 25 unforced errors.
Sevastova had 17 winners against just 10 unforced errors while winning her second career title. She is projected to rise to No. 13 when the new world rankings are released on Monday.


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The Royal Palace
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Bygdø
Skaugum
Kongsseteren
Prinsehytta
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Stiftsgården
Gamlehaugen
Ledaal
The Royal Yacht
Stiftsgården is the King's official residence in Trondheim. It is centrally situated on the city's most important thoroughfare, Munkegaten, north of the main square. The palace was built in the 18th century and is one of the largest wooden buildings in Scandinavia.
Owned by the state and managed by the central Norway regional office of the Directorate of Public Construction and Property, the building is at the disposal of the King. When Princess Märtha Louise was married in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim in 2002, the wedding celebrations were held at Stiftsgården.
Stiftsgården was built by Privy Councillor Schøller's widow Cecilie Christine von Schøller between 1774 and 1778. It was designed as a private home, and both its central location and its size indicated the family's wealth and influential position. The opulent building had over 100 rooms. In 1800 it was sold to the state for 10,000 rix-dollars.
The house was the residence of the stiftamtmannen, the Lord Lieutenant, and the name means "house of the Lord Lieutenant". It was used to house the king when he visited Trondheim, and on those occasions the Lord Lieutenant had to move out.
During the 19th century Stiftsgården was chiefly used in connection with the royal coronations, since it was traditional for Norwegian kings to be crowned in Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral. It was used for this purpose in 1818, for the coronation of Carl Johan, in 1860 when King Carl IV was crowned, and in 1873 for King Oscar II's coronation. A coronation was planned for King Oscar I in 1844-45, but was ultimately cancelled because the Bishop of Trondheim refused to crown the new queen, who was a Catholic.
In 1906 Haakon VII was crowned in Trondheim and both King Olav V and King Harald V were consecrated in Nidaros Cathedral. Stiftsgården has been used for the festivities held on these occasions and the processions to and from the cathedral start and end here. Stiftsgården was established as the king's official residence in Trondheim in connection with the coronation of King Haakon.
Stiftsgården is one of the best examples of Norwegian architecture. The style reflects the transition from Rococo to Neo-Classicism; the facade has the simple, disciplined lines of Neo-Classicism, and the details are Rococo. The building consists of a main wing and two side wings, and is built of notched logs clad in weatherboarding. The interior reflects the redecorations carried out for the coronations during the 19th century and in 1906.
The palace looks onto the Rococo garden.
Later renovations
Subsequently Stiftsgården has been renovated a number of times, for example in connection with the consecration of King Olav in 1958. When the present king succeeded his father in 1991, plans were drawn up for a total rehabilitation of Stiftsgården, which was completed in 1997.
Stiftsgården is open to the public during the summer. For details see the National Museum of Decorative Arts.
Stiftsgården: Fasade
Kongeflagget vaier over Stiftsgården under markeringa av Kongeparet sitt 25-årsjubileum i 2016. Foto: Ole Martin Wold / NTB scanpix
Stiftsgården in Trondheim (Photo: Torstein Dalemark. From the book "Stiftsgården", Andrimne Publishes, Oslo)
Stiftsgården: Throne room
The Throne Room (Photo: Jiri Havran. From the book "Stiftsgården", Andrimne Publishers, Oslo)
Stiftsgården: Queen's salon
The Queen's salon (Photo: Jiri Havran. From the book "Stiftsgården", Andrimne Publishers, Oslo)
Stiftsgården: Dining room
The Dining room (Photo: Jiri Havran. From the book "Stiftsgården", Andrimne Publishers, Oslo)
Stiftsgården: The Chinese Cabinet
The Chinese Cabinet (Photo: Studio Lasse Berre. From the book "Stiftsgården", Andrimne Publishers, Oslo)
The garden fasade (Photo: Jiri Havran. From the book "Stiftsgården", Andrimne Publishers, Oslo)
Stiftsgården: Orangerie
The Orangerie (Photo: Åge Hojem. From the book "Stiftsgården", Andrimne Publishers, Oslo)


As the Cluster Director of Sales you are the ambassador of the upscale hotel brands NH Collection and the nhow brand within Amsterdam area concerning hotel corporate and convention sales. Your extensive network within the Amsterdam area will help you in client acquisition and to identify potential sales. Your sound knowledge of the local market will enable you to be up to date on competitor, client, and market trends. Furthermore, you will manage and support the NH Collection and nhow Amsterdam RAI Sales Team, existing of 2 Sales Manager and 1 Sales Executive.
Through a result driven approach you are able to secure target results in the primarily B2B segment (BGR, M&E, COR and High End Leisure) and have a significant contribution to achieve the NH Collection Hotels' and nhow sales objectives, booking goals, and property revenues in rooms and food & beverage.
You Represent the upscale NH Collection and nhow brand in main strategic (Inter) national sales activities in the regional and local market, in line with the commercial plan. You have a solid network and will work closely together with your Sales team, National and International Sales Team and will manage a proper action plan and will have a customer centric approach.
- Responsible for the correct handing of banquet bookings and ensure revenues are optimized.
We are looking for a strong Cluster Director of Sales with 5+ years' experience in Sales in the hospitality industry with a preference in the high end segment. You are an excellent leader, team player and enjoy working with people. You are enthusiastic about innovative marketing ideas. You have working knowledge of Microsoft office and hotel management systems. Besides this, you have very strong presentation and communication skills. Pre-opening experience is an advantage. You are a real entrepreneur, results-driven person and have a strong network in the Amsterdam market. You are fluent in English verbal and written communication.


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EurECCA: a new breath for European Cabin Crew
EurECCA represents, protects and enforces the rights and needs of Cabin Crew all over Europe
EurECCA: proximity and reactivity for European Cabin Crew
EurECCA: a dynamic, autonomous and independent European Cabin Crew Association
EurECCA: Together we are stronger
EUROPEAN CABIN CREW ASSOCIATION
EurECCA's first steps towards joining European Commission's Sectoral Social Dialogue of Civil Aviation
On 21 June 2019, EurECCA presented itself, and its 35,000 affiliates from 35 airlines, to the European Commission's Sectoral Social Dialogue of Civil Aviation in Brussels. The aim of the meeting was to explain who EurECCA is, our areas of expertise and the issues we face as cabin crew, with the aim of joining this institution and ensuring our interests are properly represented.
Welcome to the website of EurECCA
At this moment EurECCA represents more than 35.000 cabin crew affiliated to 9 European unions in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and Ireland. As we represent 70% of all organised cabin crew in Europe, we are a representative stakeholder at all tables that concern themselves with cabin and passenger safety, cabin crew health and cabin crew working time limitations and social aspects.
We are rooted in the airline industry, not politically aligned, independent and the experts on cabin crew matters. EurECCA welcomes cabin crew unions from all over Europe, who share the vision of a democratic, solidary and prosperous Europe, to work together on these matters on a European level.
We are legally based in Belgium with an office in Brussels.
Read also: A European Cabin Crew Association -EurECCA- has taken off
EurECCA fully supports the recent study on aerotoxic syndrome
Brussels, 28 April 2019 –EurECCA fully supports the recent study on aerotoxic syndrome published by the Association of Toxicology-Chemistry of Paris (Association Toxicologie-Chimie - http://www.atctoxicologie.fr/) in June 2018 and revised in March this year.
The study is an important first step in demonstrating the link between cabin air contamination and the health of crew and passengers; and therefore EurECCA aims to work closely with the academic world of medicine at European level on this important issue.
As far as EurECCA is concerned there are two options:
EurECCA supports growing campaign to reduce cabin crew's exposure to the physical and mental strains of their profession
Cabin crew unions, united in EurECCA, call on their national authorities, and on the European institutions, to recognise and re-label the profession of cabin crew as an arduous profession. Unions throughout Europe are demanding a lower retirement age, the recognition of the most common health issues as occupational diseases and the right to work in part time contracts.
Freedoms Of The Air Explained
The freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation rights granting a country's airline the privilege to enter and land in another country's airspace, formulated as a result of disagreements over the extent of aviation liberalization in the Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944, known as the Chicago Convention.
Brussels, 19 March 2019 – EurECCA expresses its concerns over the Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement (CATA) reached between the EU and Qatar after two and a half years of negotiations. The agreement, which provides increased access to each other's markets, is in line with the EU's quest for further liberalisation in aviation and its ambition to reach agreements with other 3rd countries in order to increase commercial opportunities for the European civil aviation sector.
EurECCA calls for tighter legislation to ensure that crew and passenger safety is not in danger
Brussels, 6 March 2019 – EurECCA, the association representing European cabin crew, calls for stricter legislation in civil aviation following the release of a new EU Commission and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) study, 'Effectiveness of Flight Time Limitations'. The study, based on real-life operations of 24 airlines involving almost 16,000 pilots and cabin crew, confirms several previous scientific assessments and shows that night flights and 'disruptive schedules' of air crew, currently permitted under the Flight Time Limitations (FTL) regulation, result in exceptionally high levels of fatigue, which have the potential of adversely affecting safety on board.
Scientific evaluation of the long-term impacts of working conditions on cabin crew's health
EurECCA wishes to review the latest scientific evidence regarding the relationships between working conditions and health. This report analyses the long-term effects of a number of risk factors, with a focus on cabin crews' specific risk factors and work conditions.
read the report (PDF file)
The long-overdue "Social Agenda" acknowledges the unacceptable social reality in civil aviation
EurECCA urges the EU Commission for more concrete action
Brussels, 1 March 2019 – EurECCA, the association representing European cabin crew, while it welcomes the EU Commission's new report unveiled today for the 'Social Agenda' for air transport, believes it falls short in several areas that need to be addressed in order to eliminate social abuse and anti-competitive practices in aviation and to achieve 'socially responsible air transport' in Europe.
All flight attendants count
At the core of EurECCA´s values is the single cabin crew member and its promotion. All we do, we do with a clear focus on the improvement of the living and working conditions of cabin crew in Europe. Through its independence and its open, inclusive policy, EurECCA gives a voice to those interests of cabin crew which are not heard in the European policy making process and politics in general. EurECCA gives these people and their interests a voice because every single cabin crew member counts.
Connecting Europe
EurECCA has been founded to articulate and develop the interest of affiliated national cabin crew unions on the European level. Therefore EurECCA tries to reduce the gap between independent unions in the EU and decision makers and policymakers in Brussels. As the European Union policy has become more important than nations policy, EurECCA is essential to influence European politics beyond national boundaries. By always respecting the different national frames and challenges in the respective countries, EurECCA connects between national and European policy by exchanging information and different experiences.
Furthermore EurECCA connects cabin crews already represented and those working under unfair conditions in numerous European countries.
EurECCA policy areas
EurECCA concentrates on different policies such as Flight Time Limitation (FTL), European cabin crew license, working contracts as well as occupational health and safety matters.
EurECCA also offers a platform for exchanging information and for coordinating transnational tasks on working and pay conditions.
GREECE: a small country with big plan - R.A.C.U.
When R.A.C.U, the Greek union for Ryanair cabin crew in Greece was founded last year, no one could ever have imagined such impressive progress in such a short period! But they have made great steps forward for their members! On the 17th October last year Ryanair and its recruitment agency Crewlink recognized R.A.C.U as the cabin crew Union for Greece. They immediately started working to improve the current working conditions of their colleagues and began to negotiate a new Collective Labor Agreement (CLA). R.A.C.U representatives said "This also happened with the strong support of our European family EurECCA and its Union's members, and we thank them for that".
You can find EurECCA partner unions in following airlines:
Aer Arann Islands
Air Calédonie
Aircalin
Air Caraïbes
Airlinair
Air Méditerranée
Air Saint-Pierre
ASL Airlines
Britair
Chalair Aviation
EuroAtlantic
Europe Airpost
French Bee
Iberia Express
KLM Cityhopper
Lufthansa CityLine
openskies
Small Planet Airlines
XL Airways France


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Oued Fragha est une commune de la wilaya de Guelma en Algérie.

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Ancien nom Oued Frarah, situé dans le sud de Guelma à environ 50 km, se trouve sur la route nationale RN16 dans le centre entre les wilayas de Annaba, Guelma, et Souk-Ahras.

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Commune dans la wilaya de Guelma

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Usain Bolt: Exactly who is that fast man?
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Finding out where Usain Bolt might be on any given day on his home island of Jamaica in advance of his trip to the London Olympics — that's not so difficult.
Finding out who Bolt really is — that's a trickier task.
Of course, he's the defending Olympic champion and world-record holder in the 100-, 200- and 400-meter relay.
Almost everything else is open for interpretation.
Self-effacing everyman or pretentious star? Ultra-driven freak of nature or fundamentally laid-back fellow? Meticulous or reckless? Man of the people or a prima donna better appreciated from afar?
These are the type of questions coursing through the Caribbean island since The Honorable Usain St. Leo Bolt pronounced his noble goal: winning three gold medals again and returning home from London as nothing less than a "living legend."
The search for answers might begin at the University of the West Indies, in a neighborhood on the northwest part of Kingston called Mona Heights.
"He comes here almost every day and, usually, you don't even know he's here," says Denzel Gordon, who is posted at the entrance to the swimming pool across the street from the track where Bolt trains.
Gordon points to a bunch of coconuts sitting on a table behind him: "He comes over when he's done running. Cracks it open himself. Drinks the water right out of the shell. Just like anyone else. You wouldn't even know it's Bolt."
Across the street from the pool, it's not uncommon to catch a glimpse of Bolt warming up or running sprints on the blue polyurethane track, one of the nicer ovals in a country that loves its sports but has precious little money to finance them. There's a 30-foot-high fence with a padlocked gate that keeps uninvited guests from getting too close.
If word filters out that Bolt is there, a few dozen people, mostly students, may wander over to see what the World's Fastest Man is up to. If one of those people offers the security guard behind the fence a cigarette or two, the guard might point out a spot a little farther down the fence line where there's a particularly good view.
"He has the hope of a nation in his hands," one of the onlookers, Alan Martin, said recently, before the nation's Olympic trials began. "I was hoping I'd get a chance to talk to him. He represents us very well. We all just want him to be very careful."
Martin was so unnerved after Bolt's latest car accident that he sent him a letter.
"Just want him to know that he's a voice around the world," Martin said. "He's not just doing this for himself. Something like that happens and it's very concerning."
While track enthusiasts around the world talk about whether Bolt can run the 100 in 9.4 seconds or finish the 200 in less than 19 (the current records are 9.58 and 19.19), it's the car accident during the wee hours of June 10 that starts many of the conversations on the island these days.
His handlers called it a minor fender-bender and there's no indication it was anything more. But, given Bolt's history — three previous accidents, including one in 2009 that left him scrambling out of his totaled car in the bottom of a ditch — nobody's quite sure what to make of it except: What was he doing out at 5 in the morning?
"Many people believe he's trying to follow Asafa (Powell), who is more adept at cars," says track fan Junior Anthony Clarke, referring to another of Jamaica's famous sprinters. "He wants to prove that he's not only fast on the track; he's fast on the road. But Jamaicans would feel hurt if he does something to hurt himself. Because we feel like he and us are one."
It was Powell's 100-meter world record of 9.74 seconds that Bolt broke for the first time in May 2008 and has since lowered twice more. Bolt has eclipsed Powell on the track but Powell is viewed by many in Jamaica as the down-to-earth guy who's more like them. Or, as some like to say, the world loves Bolt; Jamaica loves Asafa.
"People say Bob Marley is the most famous person to come out of Jamaica but then they'll say Usain's name in the same breath," says Bolt's agent, Ricky Simms. "He's a great ambassador for the country. But people are always quick to criticize, too. And this country, they like the underdog, so some of that can work against Bolt. You can't keep all the people happy all the time."
Bolt, however, claims to try.
In his autobiography, he goes on at length about the responsibility of signing every autograph, of trying to fit in, at least as much as a 6-foot-5 superstar can in a society that adores him yet wants a piece of him at almost every turn.
"I have to relax and enjoy life to get the best out of myself," Bolt wrote in his autobiography, in which he concedes he would have won many gold medals if they were handed out for partying. "If I did everything by the book, I'd be a very dull boy and I'm sure it would have a negative effect on my running."
He likes cool cars and says he has two Hondas (involved in the minor wrecks), a BMW (besides the one he totaled), a Nissan GTR Skyline (he calls it his "Batmobile"), a Toyota Tundra (the prize for breaking the world record the first time) and an Audi Q7 (black, like all the other cars).
Stories about his diet? All true. Setting three world records on a strict intake of Chicken McNuggets. Happened. He's good about staying hydrated though, at times, he's as likely to fill up with a pint of Guinness. "It supposedly does you good because of the nutrients," he wrote in his book — as the endless supply of Gatorade that stocks his refrigerator thanks to a sponsorship deal.
One of his favorite dishes is his Aunt Lilly's pork, served with dumplings, banana and yam. As a kid growing up in Sherwood Content, across the island from Kingston in the rural parish of Trelawney, Bolt used to go to Lilly's house for the good food and maybe a break from his father, Wellesley, who was known as quite a taskmaster. "Bolt," his dad would yell, and the youngster knew he was in trouble.
The people who grew up with him in Trelawney still call Bolt "VJ" and he says he still goes back home when the stress of Kingston starts wearing on him.
He credits his upbringing in Trelawney and, most notably, his father's influence, with instilling in him the work ethic that helped turn him into a champion.
Like so many kids in Jamaica, Bolt played soccer and cricket and ran a little. By the time he was 12, though, it was undeniable: He was not an average kid.
So, off to William Knibb High School he went, a top school in Trelawney where he received a sports scholarship but had to work hard in the classroom to maintain it. As he neared college age, he attended the High Performance Training Center in Kingston to become a full-time athlete.
The high performance center is located within the University of Technology in Kingston, a 45-acre campus with about two dozen two- and three-story buildings and a rather unimpressive track that was overgrown with grass on a recent day in late June.
With success has come newfound wealth, which allowed Bolt to buy a house on Long Mountain, Kingston's most exclusive neighborhood.
From the outside, it looks like a South Florida mansion. Inside, based on pictures in his book, it looks like, well, where any 25-year-old would live: flat-screen TV and video games in the living room, a refrigerator stuffed with Gatorade and not much else, a few framed pictures, newspaper clippings on the walls and a table where he and his closest friends play dominoes before they go out at night.
"He's a down-to-earth guy," says 400-meter Olympian Jermaine Gonzalez, who trains with Bolt and became friends with him shortly after the move to Kingston. "Jovial. A people's person. Yeah, he could be a bit more serious but that doesn't mean he's not serious. He's just never going to be the kind of guy who does nothing but track. He enjoys himself."
At the recent Olympic trials, Bolt finished a surprising second to his training partner, Yohan Blake, in both the 100 and 200. A few days later, he pulled out of a tuneup race in Monaco because of an injury he deemed "minor" — something he suffered at trials, where a trainer worked on his right hamstring moments after his second-place finish in the 200.
"I don't want to get into that," Bolt said that night, when asked about the leg. "I'm not far off. I can get it done."
After his performance at National Stadium, there were questions about whether Bolt has fully grasped the challenge, and the challenger, for these Olympics.
"I never train for one person," Bolt said. "Everyone is talking about Yohan Blake and he is proving himself as one of the greatest. But, for me, it's going back to training, getting back to work and getting done what I've got to get done."
Those who can't get to the fence near the training track will have to wait until Aug. 4 to see where Bolt really stands. That's the night of preliminary heats in the Olympic 100 meters. The next night, if everything goes according to plan, he'll have the rematch with Blake. Americans Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin should also be there to challenge.
Until then, the story in track — as it has been for the last four years — is Usain Bolt.
Photo: from left, Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake
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