Read through some of the reviews by previous De Ville Apartments guests.
One week on the 25th floor!
We had a 3 bedroom and the view was stunning.
One bedroom corner apartment (16) with great views over The Broadwater, to the south and glimpses of waves through the trees. The kitchen was well equipped with a generous living/dining area; king size bed, walk-in robe, the bathroom a little dated, a good size, with shower over bath. Balconies off living and bedroom. Laundry with dryer and washing machine.
It is well situated within walking distance of Southport Yacht Club, Tedder Avenue restaurants and opposite the Southport Surf Club which served a good variety of meals. Park adjoins for family fun.
Transport handy with the bus stop just down the street and the light rail/tram within walking distance.
The spa was nice and warm, pool, gardens and tennis court all well maintained.
Great apartments. Fully equipped. Beds very comfortable and lots of room to move around. We were on the 23rd floor. The most amazing view of the city and the beach - if you are on he right side. Pool was ok and there was a sauna to use too. Spa was cold.
Reception staff very nice and helpful. Tennis court and BBQ's available to use too.
Approx 20 minute walk to surfers paradise shopping precinct. Beautiful walk along the beach or paths. Lovely area and pretty quiet. We went as kids returned to school - perfect timing.
We have just returned home from a weekend here and let me tell you,its the best apartment we have stayed in. 2bdrm superior room #41 was Amazing. The view to the beach was just beautiful. The kids loved the pool and spa. The staff were lovely and even the residents that live there are so welcoming . We are coming back for sure. The only downfall was no wifi.
Wow!! - we lucked in on this one. never sure what to expect when photos are often not true to actual apartments. Attending a conference in the GC and wanted to stay in an apartment for more space and amenities as staying on for the weekend.
We had amazing views in a spectacular apartment that I would love to live in. Clean, spacious easy access and wonderful amenities in the pool area. We will definitely be back to stay here again.
Enjoyed morning walk along the beach and shopping and eateries in Tedder Avenue never disapoint. hosts were friendly, welcoming and helpful.. Nothing was too much trouble.
No power points worked on Sunday. No reception available to address the issue. Manager's pager stated the number is not connected. Waited for lift for 20minutes - on 19th floor. Then had to walk down fire exit to carpark. Met many dissatisfied guests during the walk. In short, if anything goes wrong on as unsay - too bad!
Good things were, 2 bedroom accommodation was satisfactory, it had everything in it, abit out dated but beautiful views, quiet and convenient to amenities. Plenty of space and very private, great family accommodation. Pool and spa pool was mediocre.
Bad things were, we paid for 5 people but we had to sleep one on the couch plus we weren't supplied a towel for that person. Had no one to speak to as it was right after boxing day so the office was closed. Light in the spare bedroom wasn't working and the soap dispenser broke off. Unfortunately it wasn't spotless as the furniture needed a clean, it was covered in an oily substance. That is the only let down.
Compared to other accommodation in the G.C that we have stayed at, 5 out of 10.
Has a lovely stay in the 3 Bedroom overlooking the pool. The location was perfect, close to beach, lovely pool and staff very helpful. We will definitely be back.
We enjoyed a fabulous holiday at De Ville in July. Our family of six stayed in a 3 bedroom superior apartment. The view was spectacular, position perfect and the apartment extremely sunny,spacious and comfortable. De Ville is excellent value for money accommodation and we will definitely be returning.
Just Brilliant. We stayed in a 2BR apartment facing east and south on the 19th floor. The apartment was huge, and nice and clean. Fantastic views of the ocean and the gold coast. Easy walk to Tedder Ave with all the restaurants and shops. Surf Club opposite has great food. Loved it.
"My wife, daughter and I regularly stay at De Ville Apartments. We always have a wonderful time there.
The view of the Gold Coast and beaches are beautiful. The rooms are spacious and very comfortable.
Stayed in Apartment 37 Floor 9 with my wife and son This apartment faces the beach and has great views of the beach (only 50-80 metres away) and down to the south. I was running the Gold Coast marathon, which is usually a busy weekend at all accomodation spots at that time of year, yet the hotel was super quiet therefore it was very relaxing.
Have just spent a very enjoyable, relaxing fortnight on level 14 apt.57 overlooking the ocean. Can't speak too highly of the high standard apartments, friendly. helpful management, A1 location and facilities. Added bonus was free access to the Golden Door Gym 10 minutes walk away. Loved the beach (although the De Ville pool and spa got more use), the board walk to Broadwater one way and into Surfers Paradise the other (far enough away not to interfere with the local charm of Main Beach).
This is the third time I have stayed at De Ville apartments. They are in a great location, close to Southport, Seaworld, Restaurants, across from Main Beach Surf Lifesavers Club & Southport Yacht Club. Have stayed in both 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. They are very large. Superior rooms are very modern. The managers, Glenn & Pamela, are very friendly and helpful. Will definitely stay again.
Great unit with all amenities very clean, modern and spacious. We had a great week the place is situated within walking distance of the beach, shops and restaurants and a short distance to Cavill Ave. The staff were very helpful and friendly and it had a beautiful outdoor pool/spa and bbq area. Will definitely come again in the near future!!!
This was our second visit and we had a wonderful time. Great apartment (clean, large and well furnished) and Pamela and Glenn are very helpful. We had no outdoor furniture when we got there and this was rectified within an hour of checking in. They were extremely helpful and friendly at all times. I love the heated pool and spa and the whole BBQ outdoor area. Great location too - close to excellent restaurants/cafes.
We stayed for 4 great nights. Even though our apartment was on the ground level and we had no views, it was a beautifully decorated apartment. We had easy access to the well kept gardens, BBQ, pool and spa areas. Hopefully our next stay we will book earlier and possibly get a great view of the ocean. Can't wait to go again!
Absolutly beautiful room, so clean, modern and spacious, the views were amazing aswell. I was also very impressed with the location only a short taxi ride or walk to Cavill and right across from the beach. The stand out feauture for me was unlike other hotels the gardens and grounds were beautiful, i spent many days of my stay in the beautiful pool and spa. I would reccomend this hotel over many others i have stayed at in main beach, the staff were lovely and all in all it was a very beautiful place to stay. Great value for money!!!
very nice appartment, great view from all angles. Very clean and well presented though it was very unfortunate the bed was extremley uncomfortable. Great facilities and the pool was pleasant. If the mattress is updated I'd certainly return!
Had 2 nights at De Ville 1 bedroom apartment. View was great and the apartment was very nice. Modern,comfortable,clean,fresh looking and quiet. The staff at De Ville were only too happy to help in any way they could. The allocated underground parking was very handy.The location of De Ville apartments was a walk across the street to the beautiful beach and close to restaurants,casino and night life. I would recommend De Ville apartments to anyone.
My husband and I had a wonderful stay at De Ville over the New Year week. De Ville is ideally located close to the beach and within walking distance to many first class restaurants. Our appartment was very clean and nicely appointed with everything we needed. It was great to sit with a glass of wine and enjoy the views late afternoon, with the sunset one way and the waves rolling onto the beach the other. What more could we have asked for? We particularly found the staff Ruben and Pamela very friendly and helpfull. We would be happy to recommend a De Ville holiday to anyone. Thank you for making our holiday most enjoyable.
We have been returning to de Ville Apartments for the past twelve years, as we love the view and facilities. Over the years the apartments have been renovated providing our family with just about all we need. Any request has always been dealt with promptly and happily by Pamela, Glen or Reuben. Our most recent stay was the most enjoyable, thanks to this wonderful, hard-working management team.
Our family enjoyed a lovely relaxed week at Deville Apartments over the New Year break. We really appreciated the helpfulness of staff in meeting our requests and needs. I would certainly recommend Deville as a great place to holiday.
Fantastic apartment, amazing views. Strongly recommend.
It's a great place to stay and close to the beach.
We stayed with our Grandchildren prior to Christmas, we loved the accomodation, and found Reuben to be particulary friendly and hospitablle to our needs.....Our apartment was very well equipped and a fabulous location, to all facilities.
Wonderful ocean view apratment in quiet area close to SeaWorld.
The unit is extremely clean and fully equiped.
I had a lovely stay. Fantastic views, great location and so close to Tedder Avenue. I would definitely recommend it to my friends.
Fantastic! great location for a perfect family holiday. Our room was amazing, total luzury with views you could only say WOW. Excellent service through reception and price. Heated pool was a bonus and the spa great after a day at Dreamworld. Thank you for providing the perfect location for our family holiday.
We stayed three nights at de ville and were blown away by the service & professionalism of the staff. When we return & we will, we will most definitly take you up on your offer. It was a pleasure to stay at De Ville thanks again Cheers Greg & Diane.
We loved staying there. Was only 2 nights but had the most amazing view & didn't want to leave.
Many thanks Glenn & Pam for a fabulous stay. Clean,spacious apartment on the 18th floor. WOW, what a view. Our friends were so impressed when they visited us, they didn't want to leave! We had to check all the cupboards to make sure they had left! We can recommend without hesitation.
Spent 3 nights at the De Ville Apartments, Glenn and Pamela were fantastic, perfect hosts. Apartments are well maintained and clean. Kids loved the pool, we loved the location, close to Sea World, opposite Southport Surf club, where the breakfasts are great. We will definately be back, and would recomend the apartments to anyone.
We love Deville apartments. It's a great place to stay and the facilities are really great.
We look forward to coming back in December !!!
The De Ville was our first choice based on the available view, location and value for money. Our room had an amazing view and was spotlessly clean! We were so pleased the two bedrooms were very large and nicely appointed. The staff was friendly and very professional; they attended to our every want and need. The apartments had free underground parking and was easily accessible to dining and shopping by foot. Staying by the beach and having access to laundry facilities was so convenient - what a treat. The grounds of the apartment complex were immaculate and very upscale....needless to say, when visiting the Gold Coast and Main Beach, we will be staying at the De Ville. Many thanks!
We really enjoyed our stay at Deville apartments on Main Beach. Our relatives from the sunshine coast and ourselves appreciated the huge 3 bedrooms apartment, the pool, the spa and the beautiful beach accross the road. It was quiet too. We will recommand this place to family and friends.


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European Union wine regulations are common legislation related to wine existing within the European Union (EU), the member states of which account for almost two-thirds of the world's wine production. These regulations form a part of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of EU, and regulate such things as the maximum vineyard surface allowed to individual EU member states, allowed winemaking practices and principles for wine classification and labelling. The wine regulations exist to regulate total production in order to combat overproduction of wine and to provide an underpinning to Protected designations of origin (PDOs), among other things. In a sense, the wine regulations therefore try to protect both the producer and the consumer.
The EU wine regulations, as a part of CAP, do not include regulations on age limits for buying or drinking alcohol, regulations on wine advertising or retailing and other aspects of national social or public health policies of the individual EU member states.
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The European Union (EU) is a politico-economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. It covers an area of 4,324,782 km2, with an estimated population of over 508 million. The EU operates through a system of supranational institutions and intergovernmental-negotiated decisions by the member states. The institutions are: the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the Court of Auditors. The European Parliament is elected every five years by EU citizens.
The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states. Within the Schengen Area, passport controls have been abolished. EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital, enact legislation in justice and home affairs, and maintain common policies on trade,agriculture,fisheries, and regional development. The monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002. It is currently composed of 19 member states that use the euro as their legal tender.
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The original European Union (German: Europäische Union) was an antifascist resistance group during Germany's Nazi era, which formed around Anneliese and Georg Groscurth and Robert Havemann. Other important members were Herbert Richter and Paul Rentsch.
Activity and purpose
The Berlin-based resistance group was founded in 1939. Founding members, Robert Havemann, a chemist and Georg Groscurth, a doctor, met each other at the beginning of the 1930s. Rentsch, a dentist, met Groscurth in 1934. Richter, an architect, was Richter's neighbor. They became friends not because of politics, but because of common interests. They were intellectual, free spirits and came to their political views independently.
Three of the four core members of the EU had direct contact with high-level Nazis. When war broke out, both Havemann and Groscurth tried to extend their work in such a way that they wouldn't be called upon to serve in the military. They took on projects from the Heereswaffenamt, biochemical research that was to put Germany in position to use chemical weapons, but neither they nor other scientists were terribly ambitious about the nominal goal. The architect, Richter, received contracts from the Reichshandwerkskammer and got to know and win the trust of Hermann Göring. He was already interested in the Communist Party and the information he learned from his personal contact with Göring filled him with hate for the Nazis and only pushed him further toward the idea of resistance. Groscurth, a doctor, had both Rudolph Hess and Wilhelm Keppler as his patients.
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The EU three (or EU-3) refers to an informal troika consisting of the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom who collectively wield most influence within the European Union.
The group is most noted for negotiations started in 2003 attempting to limit the Iranian nuclear program, which led to the Tehran Declaration of 21 October 2003 and the voluntary Paris Agreement of 15 November 2004.
"EU 3 + 3" (also referred to as the "E3+3" or "E3/EU+3") refers to a grouping which includes the EU-3 and China, Russia, and the United States. It was coined when these states joined the EU diplomatic efforts with Iran in 2006. In the United States and Russia, it is more commonly known as P5+1, which refers to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.
Following the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, the EU-3 group had a declining influence in the European Union, and has acted more often within the G6.
Current Ministers
Laurent Fabius,
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development
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The Grace Food Pantry is a ministry of Grace Church for those living in Warren, Ohio. The Food Pantry is for anyone in need: single parents, unemployed individuals, families, young adults or college students, the elderly, or anyone else in need.
If you are in need of assistance, please call before Tuesday of the third week of the month, to request monthly food distributions. Boxes or bags of food are based on the size of the unit requesting food and are distributed on the third Thursday of each month.
The pantry is run by volunteers, and the food provided is donated by members of Grace Church. You can support the Food Pantry by donating food to Grace Church, donating items to be sold in our annual Rummage Sale in August, purchasing items at our Rummage Sale, or by donating clothing to the Clothing Shed located in our parking lot.


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Q: Extensions Method trying to call protected methods / wrong exhibition of dynamic parameters I have a class named NIFERepository. It contains a SaveObject method, which returns nothing and performs an operation on a database.
public class NIFERepository<E>
{
    protected void SaveObject(object saveObject)
    {
        if (saveObject is E)
            this.RepositorySession.Merge(saveObject);
    }
}

1 . I wish to create a public extension method who calls this SaveObject() method, like this:
    public static class NIFERepositoryExtensions
    {
        public static T Save<T, E>(this T self, E saveObject) where T : NIFERepository<E>
        {
            self.SaveObject(saveObject);
            return self;
        }
    }

But the protected scope doesn't allow my extensions method to recognize it.
Is there a way for me to get a method of this form to work?
2 . I created my extension method with 2 types: T and E. T is the instance who called it, and E is the defined type into my ProductRepository<Product>, for example. When I call this method, the defined type is not shown.

Is there a way for me to get this to work?

A: *

*You cannot use extension methods to violate encapsulation.
If the class does not expose the method, you can't call it (except with Reflection).
The method is (hopefully) protected for a reason; you're probably doing something wrong.

A: Protected method are visible inside inherited classes.
So do inheritance and create a public method that calls the base protected method like
public class BaseClass
{
  protected void SomeMethod()
   {

   }
}

public class ChildClass:BaseClass
{
  public void SomeMethodPublic()
        {
          base.SomeMethod()
        }
}


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Q: Internal Definitions without Access to Enclosing Scope
Can access to lexical variables be stripped for internal definitions?

Maybe this is a non-problem, but sometimes I wish I could define internal procedures without access to enclosing scope. Consider this example:
(define (usual-racket n)
  (define (hi a)
    (displayln n))
  (hi 'hi)
  n)

Here I "accidentally" typed n instead of a in the internally-defined procedure hi. Because n is visible at the point of definition, racket rightly doesn't complain. Is there some way to make a special form like define-free which would drop this enclosing context? I thought using strip-context would work but obviously I'm not thinking correctly as this didn't work:
(define-syntax (define-free stx)
  (let ((s (strip-context stx)))
    (syntax-case s ()
      ((_ (name args ...) body ...)
       #'(define (name args ...) body ...)))))

If I have a new kind of outer define then it does work:
(define-syntax (define/free stx)
  (syntax-case stx (define-free)
    ((_ (N A ...) (define-free (n a ...) b ...) B ...)
     #'(define N
         (let ((n (lambda (a ...) b ...)))
           (lambda (A ...) B ...))))))

(define/free (definitely-works n)
  (define-free (hi a)
    (displayln n)) ; n: unbound identifier in module in: n
  (hi 'hi)
  n)

...But I was hoping there was a solution that didn't require redefining the base define syntax and trying to manage all the places internal definitions could possibly show their heads.
Clarification edit
My motivation is not to solve the problem above, that was just a scope example. My motivation is mostly to manage scope in such a way that helps the reader of my code (mainly: me) understand what sort of place this procedure has within its enclosing scope. Many internal definitions I use are helper procedures to make the body of the code easier to write and understand. Such helpers do not need access to any scope—they might as well be top level definitions. But putting a procedure at the top level, for good or for ill, often suggests that it is there because to understand various procedures you have to keep this procedure's definition in mind. So the "surface" of the module would become larger if such internal definitions were lifted to the top level when written.
Consider fibs:
(define (fib n)
  (define (f index n-2 n-1)
    (if (< index 1)
        n-1
        (f (sub1 index) n-1 (+ n-2 n-1))))
  (f n 0 1))

The internal procedure f is there only to manage the additional state needed to calculate fib. It doesn't need any additional context that fib may have. It could just be at the top level. But if it were at the top level, the implication—for good or for ill—is that it's used more than once by multiple procedures and that's why it has the top-level scope it has. It's not a problem if it were at the top level—it just shouldn't look like it, because of the way we (or less presumptuously "I") think about scope.
I am reasonably certain that the standard practice is not to put a procedure higher up the scope chain than it needs to be precisely because of this clutter, but in fact scope size only tends to increase, which means at the level of internal definitions (say three levels deep) the reader of the code (me) needs to think about the whole scope this procedure sees, even if the procedure doesn't need it. Wouldn't it be nice to say so? "Ah, this is an unlocal block, it has all the information it needs from top-level requires and its own arguments."

A: This is a really cool and interesting case for why #%lambda-begin should exist. (I have been pushing for it for a while.)
Anyway, the way I've dealt with this so far is to instead define the element outside of the function, but inside of the define. Taking the fact example from above:
(define fib
  (let ()
    (define (f index n-2 n-1)
      (if (< index 1)
          n-1
          (f (sub1 index) n-1 (+ n-2 n-1))))
    (lambda (n)
      (f n 0 1)))

This does still have the issue that you had to type (define fib ...) rather than (define (fib ...) ...), but it does make it very clear what you are doing, and its a little more robust than your define/free macro.
Another thing you can do is use syntax-local-lift-expression to lift the function to the module scope, using the hygiene system to ensure that you can use the same name multiple times.  The overall macro would look something like:
(require (for-syntax syntax/parse
                     syntax/parse/lib/function-header
                     racket/syntax))

(define-syntax (define/free stx)
  (syntax-parse stx
    [(_ f:function-header body ...)
     (define f*
       (syntax-local-lift-expression
        #'(let ()
            (define f body ...)
            f.name)))
     #`(define f.name #,f*)]))

Now, f has been lifted out of the current context altogether and given a unique name. Then, the original binding of f simply maps to the new name of f.
Thus, you're fib example works:
(define (fib n)
  (define/free (f index n-2 n-1)
    (if (< index 1)
        n-1
        (f (sub1 index) n-1 (+ n-2 n-1))))
  (f n 0 1))

But if you try to use n within f, you will get an unbound identifier error:
> (define (fib n)
    (define/free (f index n-2 n-1)
      (displayln n)
      (if (< index 1)
          n-1
          (f (sub1 index) n-1 (+ n-2 n-1))))
    (f n 0 1))

n: identifier used out of context
context...:
matching binding...: in: n

(You could also catch the error and raise a nicer one with raise-syntax-error, with-handlers, and exn:fail:syntax?, but that is a different question altogether.)


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A comb which may have been placed under the floorboards to protect Stoke-on-Trent's oldest house from evil influences was found during a £91,000 restoration project.
The fine-toothed comb was discovered, along with pegs and a clay pipe, at Ford Green Hall, in Smallthorne, during work to replace a water-damaged huge oak beam at the Grade II*-listed property earlier this year.
Staff believe it could be an apotropaic item - believed to protect against evil or bad luck - although they will never know whether it was placed there deliberately or was dropped accidentally.
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"We were thinking about whether to put it back under the floorboards and display a replica," says Chris Bell, one of the museum supervisors.
"But in the meantime, the workmen replaced the floorboards. So we do have the original on display now, but it hasn't left the house. It could have belonged to anybody and may have been dropped accidentally. We will never know."
There are also marks of protection carved on a panel on the chimney breast in the parlour, although these were originally carved elsewhere and were brought to the hall in the 17th century.
Museum team member Chris Bell outside the property (Image: Pete Stonier / Stoke Sentinel)
And the team are currently putting together a small exhibit about superstitions that will be housed in the upstairs buttery parlour, which is already home to a creepy-looking model of a plaque doctor that delights and terrifies young visitors in equal measure.
Built in 1624, the black and white farmhouse was bought by Stoke-on-Trent City Council in 1946 and opened as a museum in 1952. It is still owned by the council but, since 2014, it has been run by Ford Green Hall Ltd, a charitable organisation led by volunteers and members of the local community.
It was lived in by the Ford family for around 200 years and was then occupied by a succession of people, including local potter Jacob Warburton. By the early 20th century, it had been split into four cottages for miners working at Chatterley Whitfield colliery.
34 photos of 17th century Ford Green Hall in Smallthorne
Chris, who lives in Norton Green, said: "It wasn't in very good condition. The walls had been plastered over and it was only when the plaster started coming off the outside walls that they realised it was timbered.
"We want it to look like the Ford family have just left the house. With it being quite a small house, you have to have a lot of things to look at. We're trying to represent the whole 200 years that the Fords lived here rather than one specific period."
(Image: Pete Stonier / Stoke Sentinel)
Chris started out as a volunteer at the early Stuart period hall before becoming a casual worker and is now one of the museum supervisors.
"I love history", says the 48-year-old, who can often be found leading tours and welcoming visitors dressed as a 17th century working man.
"I remember visiting the hall as a child - and looking through the window as a teenager at the furniture floating around inside during the 1987 flood - but I never expected to end up helping to run the place.
"I absolutely love it. We treat it like it's our own house and keep spotting things that need doing. But thankfully, I don't have to pay for it. It can wake me up in the night, thinking about what needs sorting."
The hall plays host to popular events all year round, as well as welcoming regular groups such as Knit and Natter and the Threaders group, who have made all the embroidery in the hall over the past 30 to 40 years.
A team of 20 to 30 dedicated volunteers - who were honoured with the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in 2018 - keep the place running smoothly, doing everything from working in the garden, vacuuming and polishing to giving guided tours and telling stories at atmospheric candlelight evenings.
Most visitors to the hall come on the school trips which have been visiting for decades and are booked months in advance. Popular workshops include a look at life in Tudor times and a session on Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London, which tie in with school curriculum topics.
"We couldn't survive without the schools," says Chris. "The kids are amazed when they come in. You would think that they might not be these days, but they go mad for the plague doctor upstairs and the table with all the food on.
"I don't think people generally realise we are here. Every week, people come in and say they have lived in Stoke-on-Trent all their lives but never been before. We get more visitors from outside the area, people who have come to do the pottery museums and factory shops and want to see something different as well while they are here."
All visits ceased during lockdown but the enforced closure ended up working in the hall's favour, as it meant that the vital repair work could take place uninterrupted.
"It wasn't going to fall down but we couldn't leave it any longer," says Chris. "Once they got the scaffolding up, the damage was found to be worse than we expected. They found the whole beam had gone rotten and water had been coming in for years without us knowing."
Working closely with Historic England, a team from Hanley-based conservation specialists Alliance Technical Services had to jack up the upper floor of the building by two inches to enable the beam to be replaced.
A replacement beam, which will eventually weather to a silver-grey colour, was carved out of a huge piece of English oak from a tree which had fallen at Woburn Abbey and the mouldings had to be cut by hand as the machine wasn't big enough to cope.
The £91,000 project - funded by Historic England, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Ford Green Hall Ltd - began in October 2020 and was completed in May this year. It left a month to clean up before the hall reopened to visitors in June.
The hall will be celebrating its 400th anniversary in 2024 and Chris says that residents from past centuries are still making their presence felt.
"When you are here on your own, you do hear footsteps walking along what used to be a corridor in the hall chamber," he says. "People might say it's just the floorboards creaking, but it's definitely the sound of boots.
"I once saw what I assume was the ghost of a black and brown long-haired tabby cat. I was carrying boxes of guidebooks and it ran under my feet out of my room, and was nowhere to be found.
"We all agree there is stuff going on here, although there's no particularly story of a grey lady or anything like that, but there are definitely people around because you hear things.
"People sometimes report that they feel troubled in the buttery chamber and one visitor had to come out because they didn't like it. People, usually women, feel like they are being pushed and prodded.
"But I like being here on my own and don't find it scary. I love having the keys and being able to come in when we're closed and enjoy the quiet."
Ford Green Hall is now closed for the Christmas break and will reopen on January 3. For more information, visit the website.
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"Mogambo Khush Hua" became such a hit that the dialogue stuck to him throughout his career. Released in the year 1987, the character of Mogambo was much more than the ordinary and yet had very little screen time. He was a baddie but he was charming, he was powerful yet he had a bit of funny ways of doing and saying things, but it never went into the caricature zone.
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Figure 1. Map of the most common asbestos exposure worksites in the State of Arizona.
Abitibi Snowflake Power Plant (Snowflake, AZ)
American Smelting & Refining Company (Hayden, AZ)
Anaconda Copper Mining Company (Miami, AZ)
Apache Generating Station (Cochise, AZ)
Aqua Fria Powerhouse (Glendale, AZ)
Arizona Copper Company Ltd. (Clifton, AZ)
Arizona Eastern Railroad Company (Globe, AZ)
Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (Cochise, AZ)
Arizona Public Service Company (Page, AZ)
Arizona Public Service Plant (Tempe, AZ)
Arizona Railroad Company (San Manuel, AZ)
Asarco (Pinal County, AZ)
Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Base (Phoenix, AZ)
BHP Cooper (San Manuel, AZ)
Calumet & Arizona Mining Company (Douglas, AZ)
Camp Navajo – U.S. Army (Flagstaff, AZ)
Chandler Power Plant (Chandler, AZ)
Childs-Irving Power Plant (Fossil Creek, AZ)
Chochise Powerhouse (Cochise, AZ)
Cholla Power Plant (Holbrook, AZ)
Coronado Power Plant (St. John, AZ)
Cypress Mines (Globe, AZ)
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (Tucson, AZ)
Douglas Improvement Company (Doughlas, AZ)
Flagstaff Electric Light Company (Flagstaff, AZ)
General Electric (Chandler, AZ)
Gibson Copper Company (Globe, AZ)
Gilbert Engineering (Phoenix, AZ)
Globe Light & Power Company (Globe, AZ)
Good Samaritan Hospital (Phoenix, AZ)
HP Copper (San Manuel, AZ)
Indian Hospital (Ajo, AZ)
Inspiration Copper Mine (Globe, AZ)
Kennecott Copper Company (Hayden, AZ)
Kryrene Powerhouse (Tempe, AZ)
Luke Air Force Base (Glendale, AZ)
Magma Copper Company (San Manuel, AZ)
Mercury Mines of America (Globe, AZ)
Miami Copper Company (Miami, AZ)
Navajo Generating Station (Page, AZ)
New Cornelia Copper Company (Ajo, AZ)
Ocotillo Power Plant (Tempe, AZ)
Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Company (Globe, AZ)
Page Arizona Power Plant (Page, AZ)
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Plant (Clarkdale, AZ)
Phelps-Doge Corporation (Ajo, AZ)
Phoenix Cement Company (Clarkdale, AZ)
Phoenix Civic Plaza (Phoenix, AZ)
Phoenix Sky Harbor International (Phoenix, AZ)
Ponderosa Paper Products Company (Flagstaff, AZ)
Ray Consolidated Copper Company (Hayden, AZ)
Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company (Flagstaff, AZ)
Salt River Project (Phoenix, AZ)
San Manuel Copper Refinery (San Manuel, AZ)
Shannon Copper Company (Clifton, AZ)
Smurfit Stone Corporation (Snowflake, AZ)
Snowflake Paper Mill (Snowflake, AZ)
South Western Nitrochemical Company (Chandler, AZ)
Southwest Forest Industries (Flagstaff, AZ)
Southwest Lumber Mills (Flagstaff, AZ)
Southern Pacific Railway (Tucson, AZ)
Spreckels Sugar Company (Chandler, AZ)
St. John Electric Company (St. John, AZ)
Superior & Boston Copper Company (Globe, AZ)
Tucson Gas & Electric Company (Tucson, AZ)
United Verde Copper Company (Clarkdale, AZ)
University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
U.S. Inspection Station (Douglas, AZ)
West Phoenix Power Plant (Phoenix, AZ)
Williams Air Force Base (Chandler-Mesa, AZ)
Wisconsin Tissue (Flagstaff, AZ)
Yucca Power Plant (Yuma, AZ)
Yuma Marine Corps Base (Yuma, AZ)
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1/15/2013 Huffington Post/ Headline: How Can Big Businesses Build Trust in Today's Environment?
Why do you suppose it might be hard for businesses to establish trust?
Shoppers are mostly ambivalent on the subject of branding but I think it's a matter of familiarity. On one hand, we respond to slick advertising campaigns with a mostly jaded perspective. If every product we're sold on TV was really as great as the ad agencies tell us they are, the brand teams wouldn't have to try so hard to convince us to 'try and buy'! On the other hand, most of us shop in branded stores and restaurants and buy branded products and services. Even if we don't exactly embrace the slogans and promises, in time we learn what to expect from these brands (consistency is key to branding) and the familiarity makes us feel safer. In contrast, I actually think that many small business owners stand a much better chance to engender trust but simply lack the training and experience to help unfamiliar customers trust us more readily.
That's too bad – because I think that small companies might actually have an opportunity that big brands don't. Big brands can only create fictional relationships with their consumers. Even in today's world of social media and customer relationship marketing, do we really have a relationship with Coca-Cola (or any other big brand)? Ever try and have a heart to heart with AT&T?
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I recently had the opportunity to work with a local children's art school called Art Steps. They'd never done any branding before although they've been in business for over fifteen years. Their enrollments were sluggish despite the fact that the enrolled families were thrilled with the results their children were achieving. We showed them that communicating their uniqueness with more clarity could help them achieve their growth ambitions.
In essence, our work at Art Steps followed pretty traditional branding tactics. We led an in-house workshop that included their management and art teachers. In this work-shop we focused on how the team consistently delivers results for their customers. We also led some informal focus groups with Art Steps parents so we could hear about why they love Art Steps. These two activities helped us understand how the owner and employees saw themselves and also what their customers valued about them. We used the results to create a branding strategy that eventually made its way out to Art Steps' target market – and the results were pretty exciting! These days, Art Steps is working from this stronger foundation which they're using to increase their program enrollments so they can open new school locations!
Great branding mines available sources to distill the truth about a business and then tells the story in a meaningful and memorable way that touches potential customers and helps them understand you in a new way. Speaking with clarity about who you are and how you're different goes a long way to build trust. It's one of the things I do best. Authenticity is essential. Creating a brand strategy that lacks authenticity is quickly apparent and any short-term gains in trust are quickly replaced with disappointment. Trust is easier to earn the first time and much harder to re-build later.


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EHS has new principal, Adriana Lepe-Ramirez
By admin | on July 01, 2017
Adriana Lepe-Ramirez
At the June 13 meeting of the Escondido Union High School District's Board of Education, Mrs. Adriana Lepe-Ramirez was confirmed as the new principal for Escondido High School.
Mrs. Lepe-Ramirez has over 20 years of experience as an educator, having served as an administrator for the last nine years with the Perris Union High School District. Most recently, she was the assistant principal of Paloma Valley High School (three years) and the assistant principal at Perris High School (six years). She was the lead on "Kick Off to College" day for students and parents, as well as coordinated the school safety and crisis intervention team.
Previously, she worked as both administrator and teacher in the Los Angeles area. Lepe-Ramirez was the administrator of the College Ready Academy High School #7 of Watts. She also taught history at Soledad Enrichment Action Charter School in South Gate for six years.
Mrs. Lepe-Ramirez attended California State University Los Angeles, earning a Bachelor's degree in social science with an option in history. She also completed her single subject teaching credential at this college. Subsequently, Mrs. Lepe-Ramirez attended California State University Sacramento, attaining her administrative credential, as well as a Master's degree in Educational Leadership with a focus on Urban Leadership.
She is currently working on her Doctorate in Educational Leadership through a joint doctoral program with University of California San Diego and California State University San Marcos. Her research and dissertation is focused on the implementation and effectiveness of Professional Learning Communities in high schools. She will finish her program in the coming year.
Throughout her teaching and administrative experience, Mrs. Lepe-Ramirez has been a champion and advocate for all students, as well as students underrepresented in higher education. She believes in establishing relationships with all stakeholders to build a foundation of trust, respect, and a caring environment. Her goal is to ensure the focus of the school is preparing students for college, career, and beyond.
Adriana Lepe-Ramirez will begin her new positon on July 1, 2017 following the move of Rich Watkins, former EHS principal, to the district-level position of Director of Interventions.


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Q: A mathematical idea "abstract enough to be useless for physics" Grothendieck (if it was him) said somewhere :

This XXX, at least, is an idea that will not be used in physics.

Q1 : Is XXX an n-groupoid? a stack?  Can someone supply the precise quote, either in French or in English?
Q2: Predecessors of this quote in the same vein would also be of interest.
Thank you.

A: Dear Jérôme, I doubt that Grothendieck ever said that.
However, in an analogous vein, Jean Leray, a brilliant French mathematician, was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940 and sent to Oflag XVIIA ("Offizierslager", officers' prison camp) in Edelsbach (Austria), where he remained for five years till the end of WW2.
He managed to hide from his captors that he was an expert in fluid dynamics and mechanics, lest they would force him to contribute to their war effort (submarines, planes).
Instead, he organized a course, attended by his fellow prisoners, on the foundations of Algebraic Topology, a harmless subject for applications in his eyes. It is in these courses that he introduced sheaves, cohomology of sheaves and spectral sequences.
His strategy worked out fine since these discoveries didn't play any role in the construction of weapons by the German enemy, who never cared about Leray's courses and findings. On the other hand, these theoretical tools have had a non entirely negligible role in pure mathematics since.


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All Reviews, Fiction, Horror, Monthly Book Selection, Selected By: BillMo
Gretel (Gretel #1)
Posted by Gigglemug Book Club on July 28, 2018 October 28, 2018
End Date: August 25th
Author: Christopher Coleman
"There is an ancient evil in the Back Country, dormant for centuries but now hungry and lurking. When it sets its sights on an unsuspecting mother one routine morning along an isolated stretch of highway, a quiet farming family is suddenly thrust into a world of unspeakable terror, and a young girl must learn to be a hero."
That's right. One lonely loner of a teacup. This book was pretty awful – it was, in fact, the longest 295 pages I have ever read; it took me three weeks to power through this thing. But I picked it, so I should suffer for it, I guess.
I saw a lot of good reviews, and this book was classified as a horror, so I thought, "Let's give this a go." I wish I'd gone somewhere else, and now I can't help but think that some of the good reviews had to have been bribed or bought or from people who were related to the author – I mean, I recall seeing quite a few that said what a great heroine Gretel is, and… No. Absolutely not. You know who's a great heroine? Mercy Thompson. But Gretel? Gretel is a self-centered fourteen-year-old child, and while I know that most teenagers are self-centered, this one also happens to do almost nothing in this story. Well, I mean, she does go steal a bunch of apples from her elderly neighbors, so I guess that's something, but apart from that, she didn't do a damn thing. I thought for sure it had to be leading to something, that she would run away from home to search for her missing mother and run into trouble and adventure along the way, but…
*****SPOILER ALERT*****→ She works in a damn orchard. That's what she does. She was stealing from those nice old people, and they gave her a damn job, and tra la effin' la. And she rows a boat. And she goes to school. And by that reckoning, I guess I'm a bloody hero, too, then. ←*****END SPOILER*****
I also never really understood why she was being mean to the young love interest, Petr. She seemed to think extremely highly of herself, and apparently she and her mother possess some sort of super-duper power of intuition that makes it nearly impossible to surprise them (except that, though they can intuit everything throughout the story, it's never really explained how it was that the witch was able to catch Gretel's mom to begin with – probably would've been a good time for those superpowers to kick in right about then). So they're just bopping along, and then suddenly, blam, there's the thought, "Oh, I don't know why I feel this way, but I do, and I'm gonna go with it, and everything will be alright." And gosh, golly, lookee here, I was right, ya'll!
What the what, man. What the what.
I don't know that there's anything else left in me to even squeeze out about this book. I'm sorry if you read it on my recommendation and it left you feeling as if you'd wasted your time. If you liked it, I'm not going to apologize for this review at all – you do you. But I will not, cannot, shall not recommend it, and if you have the money to buy it, I would not spend it; it wasn't worth it, it hurt my brain, and it left me feeling a little more insane.
I had quotes, but I don't want to ride this ride anymore.
BillMo's Favorite Character(s): None. None at all.
BillMo read the Amazon Kindle version of this selection.
This is going to be very brief. I cannot say that I outright hated this novel. Although the author did his best to try to modernize the story, I can say it was very painful to get through. In all honesty, all of the filler did not move the story along, nor did it add any value to it. In fact, I was constantly asking, "why are you doing this to us?" I also thought, maybe this is a translation, no joy, folks. Plain ole English speaker who had a glimmer of an idea that was executed so poorly, the horror was we had to endure it.
The book was deceiving, because at the start, it appeared promising. We now have a motive for the witch, vice her just eating children. Her desperate situation becomes apparent rather quickly, though I couldn't really empathize when she had survived centuries. How much is too much? You've lived a good long life and in solitude. Was it really worth it? If you become batshit insane, I would say not.
To go hand in hand with her greed, we then add in the male characters. *****SPOILER ALERT*****→ The dominate patriarchal characters in this book, Deda, Heinrich and Officer Stenson are utterly useless. Each man has a serious character flaw individually. Heinrich is weak minded, Officer Stenson is underhanded, and all three are greedy men. Rather than stand on their own two feet and take the lot given to them in life, they keep reaching beyond, just like the witch. While this was meant to be the twist (I suppose), I was less than impressed, stunned or verklempt as the author would have liked. ←*****END SPOILER*****
Anika and Gretel were scarcely better. I could barely empathize with Anika. What idiot wanders away from the main road into the forest to find assistance? One who deserves to be murdered. Yes, I said it. Survival of the fittest. I would have preferred that she was knocked unconscious during her vehicle accident and discovered by the witch. I would have had a bit more empathy for her if that was the case. Her survival instincts upon capture is much better and I could actually relate to that portion of her character. We can say that because she was being fattened up, she should not be mentally slow at this point. However, there are a couple of scenes, that while she has every right to be confused, it just dragged on too long.
Gretel, is possibly the most judgmental fourteen-year-old ever. She judges her father, Officer Stenson, Petr, Hansel and Odalinde. While I can see that she would be a bit frustrated at having to run the household while her mother was away, and her father was bedridden, but the amount of judgement rolling of this kid is insane. She should be a forty-year-old jaded woman vice a fourteen-year-old. She takes matters into her own hands when Hansel and she seem to be destined to starve in their own home. I like that she threw herself into her work for the sake of her family and her betterment. However, her attitude left a lot to be desired.
As for Hansel, he was almost a useless periphery character. He's an eight-year-old who is pretty well sheltered and helpless for the most part. His innocence is believable, but something still bothered me. No, I still haven't put my finger on it, but there were times when I wanted to choke him.
I didn't particularly care for Odalinde initially and I was suspicious of her. However, the author turns on a dime to endear her to us. I go from, "who is this heifer" to "no, don't let her die". Not because the author effected a great transition in explaining her position and status, but how she reacted in attempting to help the children in the final confrontation.
Petr as a pawn. That was the gist of his role. He was a pawn of his fathers. He was a pawn from Gretel's behavior. He's a likeable kid, but his presence was superfluous to me. Does his appearance in the book move the story along? Absolutely not, but hey, why not have a girl meets boy element in the novel? He is an unknowing herald of the ill-intent of his father, call it intuition. However, in general him being a beautiful dark curly-haired, brilliant blue-eyed boy does very little for me.
Finally, the Khlars. They are the characters that make the most sense to me. They are a safe haven for Gretel. While they had no dealings with the Morgan family, they took pity on the teen to make sure that she could provide for herself and her brother. They are upstanding citizens who only intervene when absolutely necessary and are primed to hold your confidence if you so choose.
All in all, there were a few, very few, bright spots in this novel. It could have been one hundred fifty pages vice the two hundred and ninety-six. So much filler that added very little substance to the novel killed me. At best, this should have been a short story that left you wanting more, versus begging for it to end. I didn't think I'd make it to the end, but finally!!!
Lady Esbe's Favorite Character(s): Mr. & Mrs. Khlar.
Lady Esbe read the Amazon Kindle version of this selection.
No. No and no and no, no, no.
The only thing that saved this book from owing me cups of tea instead of gaining one tepid, bitter cup of cheap, dusty-bagged Lipton's is Chapter One. That's it. The introduction to the batty old witch alone in the woods bemoaning the steady, unstoppable march of time while plotting her next strategy got me.
And then the whole story leapt wholeheartedly onto the express-elevator to hell.
To echo BillMo, this is the longest damn three-hundred-something pages I have ever read. Ever. In my life. If this story had to be told – and I mean like had to be, as in the author was tied up in a basement somewhere and armed kidnappers were screaming at him to make up a story and this was the best he could do under such duress – a lot of the fat could have been trimmed to condense it down to a much more palatable 50 pages: get rid of the wandering in the woods, cut out all the useless orchard crap and the unnecessary young man added in (presumably but ineffectively) to throw the reader off the trail of the real villainous mastermind behind this so-called plot, whittle down the bits with the dad wandering about dazedly and Hansel begging for his sister's attention, scrape away the chapters wherein the two primary baddies each take a few moments to tell their victims how they came to this arrangement, why they've decided this to be the best course of action, how they planned it out, and what they plan to do next.
Mwaha. Mwahaha. Mwahahahahahaaaaaaeeeggggghhhhhh.
The entire story is kicked into motion when a local woman's vehicle craps out on her while she's traversing the winding road that leads back through the woods to her humble home, where her spouse and two children anxiously await her return… and for some reason, rather than following the road home or waiting to see if anyone comes by, she decides that bumbling and stumbling through said woods through the night seems like a swell idea.
Our protagonist, who I believe we are supposed to think by the end is a heroic, independent, courageous girl is a high-strung, bratty, bossy, pushy teenager who, like her mother, is full to the brim with some sort of inherited ultra-intuitive gene that, as with her mother, seems to fail her at every moment (except those in which it seems our plucky ladies are about to meet their inevitable dooms, and then, of course, they – gasp – narrowly miss the danger): her dad walks into a room – she screams in surprise; a book falls from its shelf – she screams in surprise; she sees her mom – everyone starts screaming in surprise. The only real heroes in my mind were the elderly neighbors who lived next door to Gretel's parents' home: they gave that brat a job after she stole from them, they gave her would-be boyfriend a job when his father wanted to use his connections for his own moustache-twirling evil purposes, they willingly offered Gretel and Hansel sanctuary and protection knowing it might cost them their lives, and, almost more importantly than all the rest, they gave that sulky little dingus a place to ground herself and find her way when she was flailing about lost and confused and alone in the world.
And they did it all without screaming in surprise.
I didn't even know this was marketed as horror until BillMo said so at our bookclub meeting – I thought it was just a young adult novel of some sort, a sort of contemporary retelling of Hansel & Gretel. To be honest, the scariest part of the whole thing for me was around the 80% mark, when an exchange takes place between two primary characters, and suddenly it becomes clear that during the writing of that particular scene, the damn author forgot the order in which those two characters are supposed to be talking to one another. (Character One is now responding to Character One? And I screamed in surprise.)
I have no quotes. I have no characters I liked. I will not be reading this series or anything else from this author. And this is the part where you scream in surprise.
Elle's Favorite Character(s): None.
Elle Tea read the Amazon Kindle version of this selection.
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Lady Esbe says:
I know it's been a while since I commented on our reviews. This was a painful read, and I must say ladies, your witty rejoinders had me chuckling throughout. I think we can all agree that if an author says that their novel is "a gripping horror", then that book needs to be discounted immediately. That is for a reviewer to say, not the author himself. You're thinking a lot of yourself to say such a thing. (yep, I forgot to add that into my review.