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Fragments of the frieze of the Temple of Artemis Leukophryene at Magnesia ad Maeandrum @musée du Louvre
Temple of Artemis Leukophryene, Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Turkey)
Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Asia Minor (Turkey)
Early second century BC
High relief and bas-relief, marble
Since 1843, the Louvre has housed one of the most important groups of architectural sculptures in the world.
The forty-three panels of the Ionic frieze of the Temple of Artemis Leukophryene ("with white eyebrows") at Magnesia ad Maeandrum make up the largest group of architectural sculptures in the Louvre.
Forty-three panels and fragments in the Louvre's collections which, along with numerous other sculpted panels, decorated the frieze of the Temple of Artemis at Magnesia ad Maeanderum, southeast of Ephesus.
The temple was built in the early second century BC and consecrated to a local deity, Artemis Leukophryene, known only to the Magnesians.
Some people consider her to be the descendant of an ancient Phrygian mother goddess. Others compare her with the Artemis honored at Ephesus. She probably had the general features of Artemis (huntress, mistress and protector of animals, etc.) but was also considered the founder and benefactress of the town.
The reliefs depict an amazonomachy, or battle between Greek warriors and Amazons. The edifice was mentioned by Vitruvius as being the work of the architect Hermogenes who developed certain innovations circa 200-190 BC.
The amazonomachy is conventional and repetitive, with groups of Greek warriors and Amazons fighting on foot and on horseback. The iconography is still very similar to the patterns devised in the fourth century BC, as on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, although the proportions of the figures are less massive in the Magnesia frieze. The violence of the fighting is rendered by oblique lines giving rhythm to the composition - rearing horses, the positions of duelists, and wounded fighters collapsed on the ground.
The building was designed by the architect Hermogenes. Hermogenes favored eustyle, that is to say columns two and a quarter diameters apart. The pediment of the temple had openings to allow the goddess to appear. Finally, a continuous frieze nearly 175 meters long, whose reliefs are now in Paris, Istanbul, and Berlin, ran around the building - a feature hitherto unknown in Ionic temples in Asia Minor.
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At the opening of a debate with the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, on the future of Europe today in Strasbourg, President Antonio Tajani expressed his sorrow for the victims of yesterday’s terror attack on the city of Strasbourg - the seat of the European Parliament.
“I express all my sorrow for the victims and loved ones of the attacks in Strasbourg, a city that is a symbol of peace and reconciliation. Yesterday’s criminal act was an attack on our way of life. Nevertheless, we must continue to work to demonstrate that the strength that we draw from freedom and democracy will always win over violence, crime and terror”, said the President of the European Parliament.
A minute of silence is held today at 12.30 in the plenary chamber.
Terrorism: MEPs propose new measure to tackle the threat
Parliament's terrorism committee is proposing a range of new measures to tackle the threat, from addressing radicalisation, to tracking terrorist financing and helping victims.
The special committee on terrorism was set up in July 2017 and started its work in September 2017 to evaluate how to better fight terrorism. Its findings and recommendations were adopted by MEPs during the December plenary in Strasbourg on 12 December.
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Captain Charles Fitzgerald, born Kilkee 1791 (the son of a country gentleman of the old Irish school. (Fathers name Robert) was Governor of Gambia 1844 to 1847 also Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855. He is buried at Killfearagh graveyard on the Carrighaholt Rd. Outside of Kilkee. (Protestant side)
Captain Charles Fitzgerald spent his retirement years in Kilkee and was noted in the press for attendance at meetings in support of establishing the West Clare Railway.
In 1857 Captain FitzGerald was appointed C.B., and retired to his home, Geraldine House. Geraldine place. Kilkee, where he died aged 96 on 29 December 1887.
Twice married: first on the 5/5/1837 to Lucy (died 18 NOV 1843), youngest daughter of Dr Austin, and second in 1848 to Eleanora Caroline, (ELVES ELONORA CAROLINE ARABELLA) known as Ellen, eldest daughter of Charles Carey Elwes, of Billing Hall and sister of Valentine Dudley Henry Cary-Elwes Esq. The Elwes were a prominent Northamptonshire family. (The actor Cary Elwes is a descendent of Valentine Cary-Elwes)
ELEANOR CAROLINE ARABELLA FITZGERALD DIED EARLY 1890 AGED 62.
Captain Charles Fitzgerald had two children, neither married.
I recently found a book signed by Eleanora FitzGerald (nee Elwes) from Geraldine House Kilkee. The name of the book was The Modern housewife by Alexis Soyer dated 1849.
Captain Charles’s father was Robert Fitzgerald who died in Kilkee in 1806 aged 63. Robert is buried in Kiltinnaun Bansha near Kilkee (I think his wife was Lucy who died in 1836 at Kilkee house Kilrush)
Roberts father was Edmund Fitzgerald of Abbeyfeale, county Limerick who married Margaret Keane(Her father was Charles Keane of Kildimo: son of "Robert of Ross/near Kilkee)
Captain Charles Fitzgerald’s ancestors can be traced back to Ballymaloe Imokilly Cloyne County cork in the 15 Cent. He was a distant relative of the Duke of Leinster.
Capt Charles had two brothers Robert Fitzgerald Esq. of Kilkee and George Fitzgerald of Kilkee. Robert Fitzgerald's grandson Henry Boyd Fitzgerald was last recorded living in Brighton Square Dublin in 1919. I found very little evidence recorded of Roberts other grandsons James Charles and William of Castleblaney.
Capt Charles fitzgerald's Sister Alicia married a Frank Leyden of liverpool in 1841.
This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (MUP), 1966
Charles FitzGerald (1791-1887), governor, was the son of Robert FitzGerald of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland, and a cadet of the ducal house of Leinster. He entered the navy in March 1809, passed his examination in 1815, and was first commissioned in March 1826. He served for a time as a lieutenant in the coastguard, and in 1833-36 commanded first the Cruiser and then theBelvidera on the North American and West Indian Stations. In 1838 he was sent in command of the Buzzard to the west coast of Africa to help suppress the slave trade, and served there with distinction. He was invalided home in 1840, promoted commander, and placed on half pay.
In 1844 FitzGerald was appointed lieutenant-governor of the British settlements on the Gambia. It was a comparatively quiet post, and the only significant event during his administration was an imbroglio in the higher public service, during which the governor suspended his chief justice,(Sir) Richard Graves MacDonnell, who later succeeded him as governor, and still later served as governor of South Australia. FitzGerald returned to England in 1847 and in July was appointed governor of Western Australia in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke. However, FitzGerald insisted on taking the leave accruing to him from his Gambia appointment, and thus did not arrive in Western Australia until 12 August 1848. He was then 57, and twice married: first in 1837 to Lucy, youngest daughter of Dr Austin, and second in 1848 to Eleanora Caroline, daughter of Charles Elwes, of Great Billing, Northamptonshire.
On arrival in the colony FitzGerald found the local Treasury almost empty and a general despondency hanging over the pastoralists and farmers, nearly all of whom were thoroughly dissatisfied with the high price of crown land, the lack of labour and the interim administration of Colonel Frederick Irwin and his colonial secretary, George Moore. There were fewer than 5000 people in the whole colony. Neither workmen nor capitalists had been attracted to it for many years, and the colonists had already petitioned for convicts to be sent from Britain. FitzGerald was instructed to inquire whether the colonists would accept a small number of well-behaved convicts from Pentonville; after confirming that they would be welcome, he informed Earl Grey in London, who quickly instigated an Order in Council in May 1849 to convert Western Australia into a penal colony. The British government promised to send out as many free immigrants as convicts.
The first two ships carrying convicts arrived at Fremantle in 1850, and thereafter the colony received about three shiploads of felons a year, though their arrival was very irregular and no advance notice of either dates or numbers was given to the colonial authorities. The result was an alternation of surfeits and deficits in the supply of labour. By the end of 1855, the year in which FitzGerald retired, 3668 convicts had arrived in Western Australia, nearly half of them already holding tickets-of-leave entitling them to seek private employment and to be paid wages; if employers were not prepared to take them, they were employed by the government on public works at below-market wages. During these five years FitzGerald was not responsible for the day-to-day administration of the convict system, which was in the competent hands of Captain E. Y. W. Henderson, R.E., and his subordinate officers. However, inasmuch as FitzGerald was responsible for general policy, he had some control over the methods used to employ and to discipline the men, and he acquired the reputation of being at once autocratic, kind-hearted and humane. With more interest in the quick and efficient dispersal of convicts throughout the colony's rural districts than in the construction of a plethora of cheap public works, he adopted a country depot system to help private employers to engage the men. The remaining convicts were employed in building the Fremantle gaol and on other ancillary works. Although the labour supply for public works was never high, FitzGerald was able to claim credit for several notable improvements, especially the new roads from Perth to Fremantle, Guildford and Albany; he also used Aboriginal prisoners on the Perth-Albany project. Other notable improvements around Perth included the draining of several swamps and the erection of the first buildings specifically for use as a hospital and government schools.
During FitzGerald's administration the population of Western Australia nearly trebled, reaching 12,000, of whom about 3000 were convicts under sentence. Although the British government honoured its promise to send out assisted free immigrants, the colonists were not especially pleased with the quality of the English paupers and single Irish girls who were dispatched to counter an alarming decrease in the proportion of women in the colony. Furthermore, most free migrants to the Australian colonies had by-passed Albany and other western ports on their way to the Victorian and New South Wales goldfields. However, there had been little serious crime among the convicts, while the free immigrants had been readily absorbed into the community and the Irish girls showed no reluctance to marry the ex-convicts.
At the same time the economy of the colony benefited greatly from the increased imperial expenditure and the rising population. The fertile lands north of the Moore River in the vicinity of Champion Bay were settled by pastoralists taking advantage of the increased local market for meat and agricultural produce. After his arrival FitzGerald had strongly supported exploration of this district; on a tour of inspection in 1848 he was speared in the leg by Aboriginals and was fortunate to escape with his life. Wool production also improved in the early 1850s, pearl fishing began at Shark Bay, and a little lead was mined at Geraldine on the Murchison north of Geraldton, both place-names commemorating the governor. On the whole, therefore, the colony had recovered from its twenty years of economic depression, and the changing temper of the settlers, as well as the improvements in trade and commerce, confirmed the permanency of the colony.
FitzGerald's autocratic quarter-deck manner did not endear him to the leading settlers, who had been soured by long years of stagnation and were bent on gaining the greatest possible representation and power in the Legislative Council, as well as the quickest possible benefit from convict labour. They had always found Downing Street control of their public finances and land policy extremely galling, and orders from London were not at all palatable when coming from a salty ship's captain, who had been turned into a sort of schoolmaster, and who was more acquainted with giving orders than with receiving advice, especially from a highly critical and frequently intemperate local press.
FitzGerald appeased the opposition a little by appointing non-officials to the Council but by the very nature of the colony he had to remain an autocratic dispenser of his employer's policies. He was also a little unfortunate in his subordinates. With the important post of colonial secretary filled by three different men during his administration, FitzGerald had to intrude into too many petty affairs of government. Nor was he well served in the matter of government finance, which was also unfortunate because he had little business acumen. Any judgment on his abilities as an administrator and on his rather modest and unostentatious achievements must also be tempered by the fact that he governed the most insignificant Australian colony at the time of its greatest depression, and when its acceptance of convict labour was totally at variance with the policies of the other colonies. The critics of Western Australia were legion.
While FitzGerald performed with credit and social aplomb the many minor duties of his office, his young and attractive wife conducted a vigorous social programme revolving around Government House. She excelled at the opening of charity bazaars. She superintended an Anglican Sunday school, and she helped to organize a school for immigrant children. Her stay in Western Australia was probably the highlight of her life. Early in 1854 her husband was informed that his term of office was drawing to a close; in November his successor was appointed, and the FitzGeralds left Western Australia in July 1855.
Captain FitzGerald was probably thankful to be relieved of responsibility for governing a colony which daily became more penal, because he had always maintained that although the immediate economic effects of convict transportation were beneficial, its continuance would keep out the men and capital who alone could make it prosper. Such, indeed, was the tenor of his evidence to a select committee of the House of Lords, which in June 1856 examined him on his administration. In 1857 Captain FitzGerald was appointed C.B., and retired to his home, Geraldine House, Kilkee, where he died on 29 December 1887.
Science and Technology Connection
Pencil Code
Block Coding for Children
This program is like the Logo programming language. The turtle, by default, goes around and around in squares.
Shown in Photo
Jenga blocks
Mrs. Grossman's Music Notes Sparkle Stickers
Sponges cut into cubes (Dollar Tree)
Holographic Paper (gift bag from Dollar Tree)
Variegated Yarn (Red Heart "Sunshine Print")
References
"Joshua and the Battle of Jericho" by Jill kemp & Richard Gunther
www.lambsongs.co.nz/Bible%20Story%20Books/Joshua%20And%20...
Friends and Heroes: False Heroes (Episode 4)
www.friendsandheroes.tv/episode4.html
Psalm 133 (Eastgate, Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland)
NR29-9304-9303 power's through Donnybrook with the 1WX2 PN Steel from Port Kembla.
17-12-2012.
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Poppies at night
The Turkish poppy (Papaver orientale) is a plant from the family of poppy family (Papaveraceae). He is also known under the name of Oriental poppy, Oriental poppy, poppy garden, perennial poppy and poppy-fire. This plant with large red flowers is located in Iran, Turkey and the Caucasus. Worldwide there is a popular ornamental plant in the garden and use for this purpose is a whole series of further breedings. It is significantly larger than the native poppies in Central Europe.
Der Türkische Mohn (Papaver orientale) ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Mohngewächse (Papaveraceae). Er ist auch unter den Namen Morgenländischer Mohn, Orientalischer Mohn, Garten-Mohn, Stauden-Mohn und Feuer-Mohn bekannt. Diese Pflanzenart mit den großen roten Blüten ist im Iran, in der Türkei und im Kaukasus beheimatet. Weltweit ist sie als beliebte Gartenzierpflanze im Gebrauch und für diesen Zweck gibt es eine ganze Reihe von Weiterzüchtungen. Sie ist deutlich größer als der in Mitteleuropa heimische Klatschmohn.
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Maybe not the best place to see the sunrise at this time of year ... it was challenging to get some interesting photos of the Sacré Coeur as she was totally unlit herself (apart from that light at the top) and the lamp posts really confused the white balance .... and there was so much rubbish on the steps ... the street cleaners arrived as the sun rose ... and actually we did see the best of the day. It's cold, grey and windy now!
C'était peut-être pas le meilleur endroit pour voir le lever du soleil en août. Le Sacré Coeur n'a pas de lumière pour lui à cette heure-là (à part le petit éclairage en haut) et la lumière des lampadaires trompaient la balance des blancs ... et les déchets du samedi soir étaient bien visibles sur les marches.... les nettoyeurs sont venus quand le soleil se levait ... et en effet nous avons vu la meilleur partie de la journée .. maintenant il fait gris et il y a du vent.
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Prise en balade matinale avec ... Eloy, Benoit, Henry, Christine et Zakia
Pergola at Hill Garden, Hampstead.
On 28 July 2013, Hertfordshire GOC repeated its 9 February 2013 walk in Hampstead, London, for the summer. I took the opportunity to fill in some of the sights I missed last time. It was also interesting to see all the gardens in flower, and the route also changed somewhat to include more grass and less hardstanding. The original walk set is here, and the rest of this walk is here. Alternatively, to see my collections, go here: www.flickr.com/photos/anemoneprojectors/collections/.
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report hosts Corinne Henneberry and Keetin Marchi were on the red carpet talking to the talent and creators at this summer's NBCUniversal Press Tour over two days at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to learn more about for their upcoming Fall and Winter programs.
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2016 NBCUniversal’s Summer Press Tour
We saw and spoke with the following actors from these NBCUniversal Networks and cable shows. For more info, please visit www.NBC.com
William Shatner - NBC’s “Better Late Than Never”
Jeff Dye - NBC’s “Better Late Than Never”
Jesse Lee Soffer - NBC’s “Chicago P.D.”
Jesse Spencer - NBC’s “Chicago Fire”
Harry Connick Jr. - TVD’s “Harry”
D’Arcy Carden & William Jackson Harper - NBC’s “The Good Place”
Brian Tee - NBC’s “Chicago Med”
JR Lemon & Robert Bailey Jr - NBC’s “The Night Shift”
Susan Kelechi Watson - NBC’s “This Is Us"
Mandy Moore - NBC’s “This is Us”
Milo Ventigmilia - NBC’s “This Is Us”
Gerina Piller - US Olympic Women's Golf Team
Lauren Ash & Mark McKinney - NBC’s “Superstore”
Matt Iseman, Kristine Leahy & Akbar Gbajabiamila - NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior”
Malcolm Barrett - NBC’s “Timeless”
Justin Hartley - NBC’s “This is Us”
Ron Cephas Jones - NBC’s “This Is Us"
Colton Dunn, Nico Santos & Nichole Bloom - NBC’s “Superstore”
Bonin Bough - CNBC's "Cleveland Hustles"
Melanie Collins - The Golf Channel's "Driver Vs Driver” -
Margaret Cho, Brad Goreski & Melissa Rivers - E!'s "Fashion Police”
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Spa gardens Oberlaa
The spa gardens Oberlaa is a park in the 10th district of Vienna Favoriten, on the southeast slope of the Laa mountain at Oberlaa. Its area is 860,000 square meters.
Horticulture monuments, path systems and artificial soil formations are listed buildings.
History
WIG 74 in the year of the opening
Monorail 1974
After the great success with the "Vienna International Garden Show 1964" (WIG 64) in the Danube Park in the 22nd district of Vienna (Danube City), the Vienna city council wanted another carrying out of an international horticultural show in Vienna. The former brick area on the southeastern slope of Laa Hill, which had also served as the location of monumental films of the silent era, was rounded off by buying gardening grounds and vineyards. It proved to be an ideal location for the project and the associated construction of a large green area. Already since 1969 there is a spa operation at the Oberlaa sulfur springs. After a competition that was tendered internationally and the Frankfurt landscape architect Erich Hanke 1969 could win, were formed working groups of landscape architects from different states. When planning and implementing the best designs of all projects were combined.
The "Vienna International Garden Show 1974" (WIG 74) became with 2.6 million visitors like its predecessor in the Danube Park a great success with the public. The press coverage but was partially extremely critical. A circulating in the park monorail proved to be a bad investment and had to be dismantled after a few years, an adjacent to it amusement park was from the beginning on loss-making. The rest of the park furniture proved, as in the case of the Danube Park, to have only a limited durability. In late 1974, the area of the garden show was eventually converted into a public park which receives wide acclaim. Other international horticultural shows, however, were not organized in Vienna, and the trend of the following years went rather away from the maintenance (and cost) intense show green toward the nature-oriented design, such as in the zone of recreational area Wienerberg.
Topics
Plan of the spa park
The spa gardens Oberlaa is divided into various subject areas to offer visitors a variety of recreational facilities.
Allergy garden
On an "Allergy Info Mile" one can learn on the display boards mounted in front of the respective plants the different pollen flights, the distribution spaces and other botanical information.
Baroque fountain garden
This fountain garden is actually the former "German Garden of Nations", it was reactivated 2001/2002 and equipped with many partly historical fountains, a brook, perennial beds and opportunities for seating.
Flower Labyrinth
The in diameter 18 m large flower maze was created in 2004. It was modeled after that one at Hellbrunn Palace (Salzburg), however, offers only one way and does not allow decision possibilities. In Vienna, there are still similar facilities, such as a maze in the park of Schönbrunn Palace and the butterfly maze in Florarium.
Film City
In the Film City were in 1920s well known silent films of the film studio Sascha-Film shot, including the epic film Sodom and Gomorrah and the Sklavenkönigin (queen of slaves). In summer, every year these productions are staged in an open-air cinema in the spa gardens.
Stone bridge in Takasakipark
Japanese Garden
The Takasakipark was the Japanese National contribution on the occasion of the TIG 1974. It was laid out by architect Kunsaku Nakame. After the TIG many National contributions were removed, however, the city of Takasaki campaigned for reconstituting of this contribution and in the 1990s it was reconstructed under the direction of architect Tadashi Ikeda.
Garden of Love
The Garden of Love was also built on the occasion of the TIG and equipped with romantic benches, swings and arbors. All originally used metals were painted in 2001 and the garden was equipped with only white flowering summer flowers, perennials, roses and shrubs. Many wedding couples have photographed themselves here.
The Skateland
In the vicinity of the playground, the beach volleyball court and the giant swing, was built an 1800-square-meter skate area. Originally, during the TIG in 1974 and in subsequent years, this area was known as the "Moon playground".
Sculpture at Rose hill 2011
Perennial garden
The perennial garden was first built for the TIG in 1974 and refurbished in 2000. Now you can find there more than 11,500 plants from 90 different genera.
Spa park in the southern part of the area (2008)
Playground
The vast playground, inter alia, offers the ability to operate a sand digger, to drive with a child car, to roll over and over in a net, to drive over inclined bridges and to slide yourself. It was opened in 2001 as the first barrier-free playground for also offer disabled children the opportunity to be able to play like everyone else.
Petting zoo
The 2,000 m² large petting zoo is home to goats, sheep, geese, chickens, peacocks and numerous pigeons in the dovecote. Over a low fence also small children touching and petting the animals is possible.
iPod's finally went on sale at 7/11 convenience stores throughout Japan. Pretty wild stuff to see digital audio players being sold at a place generally looked at for food, drinks and alcohol.
Update: The boxes on display are actually empty. You merely take the one of your choice up to the cashier and they will hand you a standard iPod box in completion of your purchase.
Allan Brown presents dependency injection (DI) at the Microsoft Store in Oakbrook
October 2011 Software Development Community (SDC) Meeting
Overview of what dependency injection is and the motivations for applying it to existing and new projects.
Increased decoupling to enable maintainability and test-ability.
DI Containers
Different forms of dependency injection and their uses
Constructor injection
Property injection
Method injection
Object composition
Object lifetime
DI pitfalls
I will try to include examples, probably using Unity and at least one of the Unity extensions.
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These cute little South African Penguins were shot at the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. I came upon them on a kind of gray day when the sunlight had faded completely, but they started doing some sort of mating dance and kept making these parallel shapes--it was cool to watch! I shot this with a 70-300mm Nikkor Zoom (it's not an expensive lens, maybe $300) and shot a ton of photos. Thankfully when I was shooting it I had my monopod because I really needed something to steady that long lens (equivalent to a 450mm lens with the cropping factor when fully zoomed). I used a shot of them swimming (it's on Flickr) in my new book "Exposure Photo Workshop," but I didn't think this file was good enough and really couldn't find a use for it. Copyright 2008 www.jeffwignall.com Visit the site for a bunch of free tutorials (more coming) and a good camera buying guide.
Russell "Rusty" Lyon Jr., Chairman of Westcor Inc. was a principal developer of the Boulders Resort which was valued at $200 million when it opened in 1984. Boulders gets its name, logo and theme from the gigantic granite rocks deposited on this desert land millions of years ago. Westcor also operated the Hotel Westcourt at Metrocenter and Westcourt in the Buttes resort in Tempe. Westcor also developed the Arrowhead Towne Center at Bell and 83rd. Rusty Lyon was the visionary for Scottsdale Fashion Square, Chandler Fashion Square, Biltmore Fashion Park. Rusty Lyon, passed away in 2016.
Bennie Gonzales was the original architect of the Boulders. Gonzales was known for his adobe-style architecture. He also designed the Scottsdale Civic Plaza and the Scottsdale Conference Center. Scottsdale based Allen + Philip Architects completed the design work. The adobe look was achieved with synthetic stucco over masonry and viga and latilla framing. Guy Bussell was the project manager.
Laurence Rockefeller's Rockresorts was the management company chosen to operate the Boulders. A Rockresort company goal is to go to the frontiers of natural beauty and create resorts that lend themselves to the environment. Laurence Rockefeller wanted nature be the star. Rockresorts managed the Boulders from 1984 to 1988. In 1988 Westcor actually placed an unsuccessful bid to buy all of Rockresorts properties.
Walter Blum, who was chef for many years at the Arizona Biltmore, Grand Teton Lodge Company and the Muana Kea Beach Hotel, was the Rockresort's Executive Director of Food at the opening of the Boulders. He designed the menus and hired the opening chefs, who were Duncan Slater and Robert Walton. A Blum quote "It takes longer to become an executive chef than a physician." Some entre's from 1984 included pheasant with plum sauce, chateaubriand, snails with chopped mushrooms and duck breast with papaya sauce. The Boulder's restaurants were The Latilla, The Palo Verde and The Club. The Latilla was permanently shuttered in 2015 and its space converted to a meeting room.
Richard E. Holtzman, president of Rockresorts, appointed his son Richard A. Holtzman Jr. to the General Manager position.
In 1988 The Boulders had a 78% occupancy rate at its 120 casitas during the 9 1/2 months it is open each year.
A Boulders Resort advertisement stated "and on the seventh day, God built a golf course." There are two 18-hole golf courses designed by Jay Morrish built in to the natural rock outcroppings. In 1983 Morrish began putting the North and South Courses together - nine holes at a time. First came the Boulders Nine, followed by the Saguaro Nine. Eventually the Lake Nine was added, and that’s the way things were - 27 holes - until Morrish came back in 1992 to add nine more holes.
By 1994 Rusty Lyon and his partners had formed Carefree Resorts. Partners in Carefree Resorts were Richard Holtzman Jr., William Nassikas, Michael Surguine, David Beckham, Scott Lyon and Del Goehring. Resorts acquired were The Peaks at Telluride in Colorado; Carmel Valley Ranch Resort in California; and The Lodge at Ventana Canyon in Tucson, Arizona.
In 1996 Patriot American Hospitality Inc. bought Carefree Resorts for $210 million. Included in the sale were The Boulders, The Peaks at Telluride in Colorado; Carmel Valley Ranch Resort in California; and The Lodge at Ventana Canyon in Tucson, Arizona.
In January 1998 The Boulders was established as the flagship of the Wyndham International - luxury properties.
Blackstone Real estate Advisors bought the Boulders in 2005 and became a member of the LXR Luxury Resorts Collection. Michael Hoffmann was appointed Managing Director. He served from 2005 to 2013. A graduate of Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne and native of Switzerland, Hoffmann came from Claridge's in London. In 2006 Blackstone gutted and redesigned the interiors of all the guest rooms.
On April 23, 2015 Columbia Sussex acquired The Boulders for a reported $83.3 million and switched the resort's Hilton brand from the Waldorf Astoria to the Curio Collection. General Manager is Howard Harris (former gm at Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa). The resort renovated all 160 of its Casitas by the end of 2015. The bedrooms’ wood-burning fireplaces received an adobe update and each room included a wood-inlay headboard in a traditional Hohokam design. The majority owner of Columbia-Sussex, Bill Yung, is well known in the hotel industry for his scorched-earth tactics.
compiled by Dick Johnson / July, 2016
at House of Mandarin Noodle.
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