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Teaser Poster #22 for Season 4 of my Insurgency series! This is the final teaser before the promotional poster is released on Monday, followed by the teaser trailer on Thursday!
One of my favorite things to do is to rotate around my subject. This is the partner's statue at Disneyland. Just keep rotating.
A quick portrait of Flickr chums "Silson Roadrunner" & "Jim the Joker" at Elford.
I'd probably said something funny.........
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Partners in the Florida Python Challenge speak at the Commission Meeting.
FWC photo by Avery Bristol
Featuring:
- Torsten Grede, Spokesman of the Board of Management, Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
- Jörg Rocholl, President, ESMT Berlin
- Ahmet Peker, Director, Head of Institutional Clients Germany, FERI Trust GmbH
- Giovanna Maag, Partner, Altor Equity Partners AG
in 2024 Stellantis has facelifted its fleet of small vans. It started in 2018 with the models from Citroën and Peugeot. Later models for Opel, Toyota and Fiat were added. This is the facelifted Peugeot Partner. Most of these are now sold with an electric motor.
The 'Park of Honour of Those Who Were Shot'
Memorial and graves of resistance heroes and martyrs - brave Jews, brave Christians, dissidents, anti-fascists, socialists, rebels, samizdat journalists and organisers - those who dared to question and fight oppression, and the evil Powers That Be.
Here you see the faces of my brothers, my own dear family, my partners in fighting sheer political evil - resting in their graves here, in perhaps the most poignant place in all of Brussels, Belgium. Here lie those in Belgium who were shot fighting the Nazis of the 1940s - as I myself have nearly been killed fighting the more recent fascists, some of the 'new Nazis' of the 21st century.
Shortly after I arrived in Brussels as a political refugee from the US, under threat of murder by far-right political figures, this is one of the first places I visited. I came here to weep some tears amid the companionship of my anti-fascist comrades, who also looked death in the eye as they tried to speak and act for what is right.
The camera used here, and the chance to make these photos, are gifts of the brave dissident US Jewish physician, Dr Moshe 'Moss' David Posner, who risked and gambled his own life, to support me and help keep me alive in the face of threats by neo-Nazi assassins.
These are photos from the daily life of writer and political refugee from the US, Dr Les (Leslie) Sachs - photos documenting my new beloved home city of Brussels, Belgium, my life among the people and Kingdom who have given me safety in the face of the threats to destroy me. Brussels has a noble history of providing a safe haven to other dissident refugee writers, such as Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Charles Baudelaire, and Alexandre Dumas, and I shall forever be grateful that Brussels and Belgium have helped to protect my own life as well.
(To read about the efforts to silence me and my journalism, the attacks on me, the smears and the threats, see the website by European journalists "About Les Sachs" linked in my Flickr profile, and press articles such as "Two EU Writers Under Threat of Murder: Roberto Saviano and Dr Les Sachs".)
This extremely moving memorial and gravesite, is known locally as the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusillerden (Brussels is bi-lingual French- and Dutch-speaking, so place names are given in both languages here.) - In English, the name is perhaps best rendered as the "Park of Honour of Those Who Were Shot".
The Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden includes many martyrs of the Belgian resistance of World War II, being both their gravesite and also the place where many of them were shot to death by a Nazi firing squad. - And it is also a memorial and the place of death, of other heroic figures who were shot to death in the previous German occupation of Belgium during World War I. One heroine from the First World War who was shot by the Germans and is now commemorated here, is the famous British nurse Edith Cavell.
The reason that this was a convenient place of execution by firing squad, is that it was originally part of a Belgian military training area and rifle range that existed here once upon a time, and you still see here the tall hillside that served as an earthen 'backstop' to safely absorb high-powered rifle bullets. The hillside was thus ready-made for the German commandants who occupied Brussels in both wars, to carry out their firing-squad executions.
Nowadays, the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden appears quite 'central' in urban Brussels, as it lies in the Schaerbeek - Schaarbeek commune, directly in the path from the EU institution area toward the roads that lead to the airport, and very near to the 90-metre high VRT-RTBF communications tower that has long been a major Brussels landmark.
The Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden is walking distance from the eastern Brussels 'prémétro', which is a grouping of tram lines that run underground for several stops on both the eastern and western sides of the Brussels city centre, supplementing the regular métro underground system with a similarly high frequency of service and also underground. If you continue along the prémétro lines south from the Diamant stop which is near the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden, you shortly arrive at the elaborate 19th-century military barracks buildings which once housed the soldiers who used the rifle range and parade grounds, which later become the place of martyrdom for members of the anti-Nazi resistance.
This is a place of great emotion for me personally, because the resistance martyrs who lie in these graves - a number of them socialists, journalists and with Jewish-heritage, critics of corruption just like myself - are my comrades in my own ordeal. I barely escaped alive out of the USA, nearly murdered by neo-Nazi-linked thugs, who themselves spoke favourably of Hitler as they moved toward killing me, as well as trying to ban my ability to write and speak.
It is sad that this place, Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden, is very little visited nowadays. Most of the time when I come here to contemplate and shed a few tears amid my comrades, and also to gain strength from their brave spirits, I am alone. Many of the family members and children of those who died or are buried here, have now themselves often passed away.
But on occasion there are people visiting, and on one day I was privileged to meet the daughter of one of the resistance martyrs who is buried here. She spoke to me of being a little girl, and seeing the Nazis arrest her father inside their home. She spoke about how they tied his hands behind his back, and yet how bravely he looked at her one last time. - She never saw her father alive again, and she is now in her seventies. - But when she spoke of her father, her voice grew energised and strong. She said she remembered the day of her father's arrest like if it was yesterday. And as she spoke, I could feel it and almost see it, as if I had been there myself.
The heroes in these graves are quite alive for me still. I am a religious man, a person of faith, and I believe in the life hereafter. - Many people have been afraid to help me, abandoning me to be murdered by the powerful forces of the American government - people too frightened to dare oppose the deadly US power of global assassination, the vicious US global media slandering of a dissident's reputation - Yet when I walk here at the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden, I feel myself amid a powerful throng of comrades, among brave people who understand me, people who know what it is like to be menaced with murder and to look death straight in the eye. - I feel the spirits in these graves support me and sustain me, that they welcome me as one among themselves.
It is my privilege now to honour these brave companions of mine, giving their memory some further renown and support. And I have wanted very much to do so, as the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden still is in need of expanded documentation on the Web, before some of what can be seen here fades away much further.
One of the most powerful aspects of visiting this tree-lined and grassy cemetery and memorial, is that you see on a number of the grave markers, not only names and comments from loved ones, but in some cases actual pictures of these brave people, pictures rendered into sepia-type photos on porcelain. Though efforts were made to make these photographs permanent, the elements and the years and decades have taken their toll. Many of the pictures are now faded, or cracked, or broken, or fallen on the ground from their mountings. In one case I held a cracked porcelain image together with one hand, while taking the photo with the other hand. The years are passing, and I have wanted to document the faces of these brave heroes before they disappear, before time takes a greater toll on this place of sacred honour.
You look into the eyes of these brave people, and you see and feel the spirit of true bravery, of genuine resistance of oppression, resistance to the point of death, their hope that sacrificing one's own life in the fight, will yet do some good for others in the world. Look into their eyes, and you see their faces, faces of real people, quite like anyone in some ways, but in other ways very special, with a light in them that carries far beyond their own death - people who yet had the fire of faith in that Greater than mere earthly existence.
In this hillside that you see in the photos - the hillside in front of which many of these heroes stood in the moment as they were shot to death - in that hillside is a large memorial marker to the heroes of World War I who died here. On that marker it says:
Ici tomberent
sous les balles allemandes
35 héros victimes de leur
attachement à la patrie
Hier vielen
onder de duitse kogels
35 helden ten offer
aan hun liefde voor het vaderland
Here fell 35 heroes
who offered their lives
for their country
shot by the Germans
You'll notice that the 4th name down on the marker is that of Edith Louisa Cavell (1865-1915), with just her initial and last name and the date of her death here, on 12 October 1915:
Cavell E. 12-10-1915
The banners that you see here, in the colours of red, yellow, and black, are in the three colours of the national flag of Belgium
There are 17 rows of graves here at the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden, 12 on the upper level closer to the hillside, and then five on the lower level below. Between the upper and lower levels is an obelisk serving as a kind of centre for the memorial as a whole. On the obelisk it says, on one side in Dutch, on the other side in French:
Opgericht door de Verbroedering van de Vriendenkringen der Nazikampenen Gevangenissen
XXVe Verjaring
April 1970
Erigé par le Fraternelle des Amicales de Camps et Prisons Nazis
XXVe Anniversaire
April 1970
In English this would be:
Constructed by the Association of Friends of Those in the Nazi Camps and Prisons
25th Anniversary
April 1970
Around this obelisk lay some faded but still visibly grand wreaths, placed here by the highest figures of Belgian public life. One great wreath at the centre, placed here by the King of the Belgians, Albert II, and his wife Paola, whose royal household has very quietly but effectively supplied some of the protection for me in Belgium, that has so far prevented me from being murdered here by foreign powers. - You see the ribbon say simply 'Albert - Paola'.
And another large wreath has a ribbon saying 'la Gouvernement - de Regering', from the government of Belgium.
Though many of the resistance martyrs buried here, were shot by firing squad right on this spot, a number of these martyrs died in other places, most especially in the Belgian concentration camp at Breendonk (Breendonck), which due to its stone structure is one of the best-preserved Nazi concentration camps. Breendonk can be visited today, about 40 kilometres north of Brussels in the direction of Antwerp, very near the Willebroek train station.
Among the graves here, a number are of heroes of the anti-Nazi resistance whose names are unknown: 'Inconnu - Onbekend' say the grave markers in French and in Dutch. In one row, there are six unknowns side-by-side; and then the entire final last row of the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden, is all the resting place of unknown heroes, 21 altogether.
In any struggle against oppressive government, there are often unknown heroes. - And as I myself am a victim of brutal deceptive media smear campaigns, as well as the US regime ordering search engines to suppress my own websites, I can testify as to how hard the evil powers work, to try to see that those who fight the system, remain unknown, or else smeared and slandered with propaganda and lies.
There are perhaps yet other heroes of the World War II resistance, whose anonymous graves somewhere, may yet one day be found. One of the photos here is of a maintenance area by the side, where fresh grave markers are ready, some with crosses, some with a star of David, awaiting use for some other hero whose remains are yet to be discovered.
In addition to the photographs on the grave markers, which speak for themselves, a number of the graves are also marked with heartfelt statements by those who loved and honoured them. Most are in French, and with photos where there are such engraved statements, there are transcriptions of what you find, along with a translation.
Many of these resistance martyrs to the Nazis who lie here, are of course Jewish. The majority are Christians of Belgium, but a significant proportion of the heroes who lie here, are Jewish resistance martyrs of the Holocaust. And even more than one from the same family - the Livchitz brothers who lie here. Moreover, some of the Christians who are buried here, are of Jewish heritage as well - as I am myself, a unitarian Christian.
My own heritage on my mother's side is Jewish, and it was my commitment to honour the memory of relatives and other Jews who died in the Holocaust, that led to my being forced to become a political refugee from the United States. - Back when living in the US, I received a letter threatening the book-burning of the books of this Jewish-heritage writer, and I responded strongly. A few weeks later my freedom to speak and write was banned, and threats to extort and murder me were put in motion. This story has been told in other places (see link to press articles in my profile), but suffice it to say here, that it was my honouring the memory of murdered Jews, which led me to be a Jewish-heritage political refugee today in Brussels.
Though I am unitarian Christian by faith, the old Jewish sites of Brussels and Belgium strike deep chords within me, as I very much feel the spirit of the Jews who suffered and died under the kind of racist threats I have also suffered.
One of the things I am often-asked, as a Jewish-heritage political refugee, is why the Jewish groups and Jewish leaders, do not say or do more to defend me, against the threats to have me murdered, against the lies and hoaxes spread about me, against the blocking of my own journalism sites from the internet search engines. - For example, in my efforts to stay alive these last few years, I have received much more comfort and assistance and support from brave Muslims, than from the Jewish people who share my own heritage.
There are two main reasons for this kind of neglect of someone like myself by Jewish leaders. One is that I am not a political Zionist - I favour peace and justice for all the residents of the ancient holy lands of Palestine. - A second reason, is that there is a sad heritage among Jewish people, to stand by and do nothing while other Jews are attacked by the dominant power of the day. - It was that way in the old pogroms of Eastern Europe, it was that way under the Nazi-era exterminations, and it is that way today regarding the case of the United States. - Since it is the US regime which has been attacking me and forcing me to be a refugee here, Jewish 'leadership' simply does not want to confront the USA. Given that I am a non-Zionist, and a unitarian Christian in faith, well, that settles it as far as Jewish leaders are concerned, and they turn away and say nothing.
There are still some brave Jews, however, like one brave Orthodox Jewish physician in America, a friend who has helped me to be able to be here now, supplying these photographs of the Jewish and other martyrs of anti-Nazi resistance.
And the Jewish heritage is there in me, and I am glad I honoured the memory of the Holocaust dead, even though it led me into terrible sufferings at the hands of US political figures and the US regime.
There is a sense of profound spiritual achievement that I have, as I place on-line this historical record of the martyrs of the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden. It is perhaps only by the grace of God that I was able to escape the US alive, from the clutches of the people menacing to illegally jail me and murder me in a US jail cell. - My now being able to honour the memory of my fellow anti-fascist figures in Belgium, who were shot dead by the Nazis of an earlier era, feels to me to be one of the important purposes, for which I was kept alive by divine hands.
To visit the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden, you can walk about 600 metres from the Diamant 'prémétro' or underground tram stop which includes tram lines 23, 24, and 25. If you wish to get even closer by bus, you can take buses number 12, 21, or 79 the two stops from Diamant to the Colonel Bourg - Kolonel Bourg bus shelter sign. Alternatively, if you are in the EU area, you can take these same buses 12, 21 or 79 directly from the Schuman métro station by the EU's main Berlaymont building. Another route is that bus 80 from the Mérode metro station will also take you directly to the Colonel Bourg - Kolonel Bourg stop. A few tens of metres west of where the bus halts, along the rue Colonel Bourg - Kolonel Bourgstraat, you see the sign directing to the entrance of the Enclos des Fusillés - Ereperk der Gefusilleerden.
Partners with there newly built still. Excited and proud of there accomplishments. It was then time to do what they do best. Might I add it was better than all the rest.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and partners are raising awareness of the rules around advanced stop lines (ASLs) at traffic lights.
The work forms part of Operation Considerate, GMP’s ongoing campaign to encourage all road users to show each other consideration.
ASLs are designed to help motorists and cyclists by providing an area for cyclists to wait in front of traffic when the lights are red.
Cyclists in this area are more easily visible to motorists, and have space to move off when the lights turn green.
Police are reminding motorists that they must not enter ASL boxes when the lights are on red, as this space is reserved for cyclists.
Motorists crossing the first stop line when the lights are red are liable for a £100 fine and three points on their licence. However, if the traffic light changes from green to amber and they cannot safely stop before the first line, then they may cross it, but must ensure they stop before the second line.
The message to cyclists is very simple – do not cross the second stop line while the traffic signal is red, as doing so is illegal and could result in a £50 fine.
Superintendent Craig Thompson of GMP’s Specialist Operations Branch said: “The main aim of Operation Considerate is to ensure that all road users share the road responsibly, and knowledge of the rules around ASLs is a key part of that.
“During the first two weeks of the campaign we will be educating motorists and cyclists on ASLs at certain junctions around the city centre, and then in the following two weeks we shall be carrying out enforcement work where people may face fines for failing to observe the rules.
“When using the roads we would advise motorists to leave at least 1.5m when passing cyclists, and cyclists need to have fixed lights on their bikes, both front and back.”
Operation Considerate, which will be promoted on Twitter under #OpConsiderate, is fully endorsed by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).
Greater Manchester’s Deputy PCC Jim Battle said: “Everyone has a right to feel safe on the road – pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists. We all share the road and we all need to obey the rules that help us get safely from A to B.
“Advanced stop lines provide an area of high visibility for cyclists and visibility is critical to cycling safety. GMP will be urging motorists to obey the rules of ASLs and reminding cyclists to maximise their visibility using bikelights and bright clothing – especially now the nights are getting darker.”
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Adolphus Hotel / Dallas, Texas
*** Adolphus Busch, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch ***
Adolphus Busch aimed to grow his Missouri brewing company to Texas and Dallas would be the Texas hub. He and St Louis business partners already owned the Oriental Hotel on the SE corner of Commerce and Akard. For years, The Oriental Hotel was considered the finest hotel in Dallas. It was torn down in 1924 to make way for the Baker Hotel. Dallas Mayor Stephen Hay and other city officials traveled to St. Louis in May 1910 to lobby Adolphus Busch to build a huge additon to the Oriental hotel. Busch agreed, but he desired the site opposite the Oriental Hotel - which was the Dallas City Hall. The committee agreed to the sell the lot on the spot to Busch. City offices were relocated to 411 Commerce Street. Demolition began and the site for the "New Oriental Hotel," as it was first named, was ready by January 1911. The Dallas chamber of commerce telegrahed Busch in March 1911 suggesting that the new hotel be named the Adolphus in his honor. Busch responded "I shall cheerfully acquiesce and be proud of it".
The hotel was designed by the St. Louis architect Tom P. Barnett, of the firm Barnett, Haynes, and Barnett. The architects used a strong familiarity with the design of the Astor Hotel in New York City which had elaborately decorated public rooms, a roof garden, an exterior faced with a combination of stone and brick and capped with a Mansard roof. The architects previously designed the 425-room Hotel Jefferson (1904) in St. Louis. Construction began in 1911 on the site by Louis J. Haenni of the Gilsonite Construction Company. Busch would spent $1.8 million (about $45 million today) to build a 20 story hotel befitting Dallas’ aspirations, aiming for world-class status. Adolphus Busch died in 1913, but members of the family, including his son August, continued the hotel operation.
The New Oriental's monumental facade is of the Louis XIV period. The buildings architectural ornamentation was unheard of this side of the Mississippi. Its exterior was Parisian Beaux Arts style, with a tapestry of red velvet brick, trimmed with Bedford stone, and gargoyles flanked by the colossal, helmeted heads of Greek gods. The building is topped with a handcrafted Turret in the shape of a beer bottle. The exterior included stone figures of Apollo, Ceres and Mercury. The gargoyles symbolized barley, malt, hops and other brewing motifs. The opulent interior was unlike anything Dallas had ever known — vaulted ceilings, sculptured panels in bas-relief, fixtures of brass, ormolu (gilding with gold paste), alabaster carved ornaments decorated with silk and velvet draperies. Busch commissioned two identical Chandeliers. One hangs in the hotel lobby. It is a gilded chandelier, with eagles hovering wingtip to wingtip. The other hangs at the Clydesdale stables in St. Louis.
In 1917, the Busch heirs elected to enlarge the hotel with the West Annex, which brought the total number of rooms to 482 when the new section opened in January 1918. The architects Otto Lang and Frank Witchell designed the West Annex, called the "Junior Aolphus", which added 229 hotel rooms. With a roof top restaurant the Adolphus was a hot spot during the Roaring '20s. A third addition was made in 1926.
Otto Schubert was the Adolphus general manager from 1922 to 1946. National Hotel Management, headed by Ralph Hitz, served as the hotel management company. NHM also managed the New Yorker, the Lexington and the Belmont Plaza hotels (New York); the Congress Hotel(Chicago); the Netherland Plaza(Cincinnati) and the Book-Cadillac (Detroit).
The Century Room on the 19th floor, was the hotel's popular and classy nightclub. It even went Hawaiian for a brief period in 1938 to help showcase a Hawaiian band that was in town. But the Century Room's big attraction was the ice shows. The Century Room had a retractable 20’ X 24’ ice rink used for touring ice revues. When not in use it was retracted and the area used as a dance floor. In the early ’40s, retired speedskater and Olympic gold medalist Dot Graney brought her Broadway-on-ice show to Dallas for a month. Franey ended up staying at the Adolphus for 14 years, where she directed, produced, and choreographed her own shows in the Century Room. Century Room Entertainment included the likes of Phil Harris and Orchestra, Bill Bardo's Band, Art Jarrett and Orchestra with singer Eleanor Holm, Fiddler Joe Venuti, Andrews Sisters, Rudy Vallee, Ben Berne, Ozzie Nelson and Harriett Hilliard, Jack Benny and Phyllis Diller. During the 1950's Liberace broke all Century Room attendance records. In the 1970's The Century Room went Tiki Hawaiian for awhile with such acts as singer "Meteliko" accompanied by five Hula Girls, and fire/knife drummer named Enoka Fetui with the Johnny Scat Davis Band.
The Busch family owned the Adolphus hotel for 37 years until 1949 when Dallas investor Leo F. Corrigan Sr purchased the 825 room property for $2,977,000. Under Corrigan's ownership the facility was again expanded to include an additional hotel tower (the Adolphus Tower), an adjoining office tower, and parking garage. Corrigan claims the 1,350 room Adolphus was the largest totaly air conditioned hotel in the world. Corrigan's hotel portfolio included the Biltmore in Los Angeles and Emerald Beach in Nassau. Corrigan made unsuccesful attempts to buy the Empire State Building in NYC and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. In Dallas Corrigan had previously bought the Stoneleigh Hotel (owned for over 50 years) and Maple Terrace hotel. H.H. Andy Anerson was Managing Director from 1956 to 1967 and again in 1977.
In 1980 the Adolphus had its third owner - a California investment group lead by Patrick R. Colee, president of the Westgroup Parnters. With finacning from New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, Colee purchased the commercial block of improved real estate in downtown Dallas which consisted of office buildings and the well-known but poorly maintained hotel known as the Adolphus Hotel. In disrepair and subjected to mismanagement for years, the Adolphus was initially considered a liability to the viability of the purchased block. Colee lead a charge to fully renovate the hotel and create his own hotel ownership and management organization. For the next twenty-five years under the auspices of Colee, the Adolphus thrived in its tradition of elegance, charm and excellence. On February 3, 1980 after 68 years of continuous service, Westgroup closed The Adolphus for restoration and refurnishing.
By 1981 the Adolphus re-opened after a $45 million facelift. The hotel was again a showplace, with $25 million in "new" antiques and art. The work on the original structure was confined to restoration of existing elements on the exterior, with a major redecorating campaign on the interior. The room count was reduced from 850 to 437 - creating one guest room from two. The hotel received new plumbing and individually controlled air conditionand heating and an advanced emergency alert system. Rooms and halls have sprinklers and smoke alarms. The stairways have been pressurized to prevent the entrance of smoke. The French Room opened as the finest restaurant in Dallas. In the early 80's Jean Banchet, the owner and chef of Le Francais in Wheeling IL. was rated as the America's best restaurant, was the food consultant for the French Room. Westgroup selected Amfac, the Hawaiian sugar, real estate and resort company, to manage the hotel. John Kirk was Amfac's first general manager at the Adolphus. After the $45 million renovation the once great but greatly deteriorated property staged a comeback as one of the world's finest hotels and in a short time earned the AAA Five Diamond Rating. Amfac's 1981 annual meeting was held at the Adolphus. Westgroup also bought in 1985 the Biltmore in Los Angeles for $45 million and the Newporter Resort for $25 million.
In 2012 Adolphus Associates/Met Life sold the Adolphus to a company set up by RockBridge Cabital for $33.5 million. Cresent Hotels was retained as manager. Rockbridge is a Columbus Ohio based private equity firm.
Rockbridge and Crescent Hotels & Resorts commenced a multi-million dollar renovation to Dallas’ historic Adolphus Hotel in 2013. The legendary hotel (currently at 407 rooms) will receive a comprehensive, property-wide renovation that will modernize and vitalize the property while preserving its history, elegance and charm. The scope of the renovation includes the complete refurbishment of all guest rooms, public spaces and meeting spaces; the addition of a new 19th floor ballroom; construction of a 7th floor rooftop pool and bar; introduction of a new luxury spa and fitness center; refreshment of the acclaimed French Room Restaurant (restored the ceiling of the storied French Room to its original white, a move that pained fans of the rococo cherub frescoes, a relic of eighties excess); and the development of new dining and retails outlets. Rockbridge President and CEO Jim Merkel said the renovation is led by RB Hotel Development and design firm Duncan Miller Ullmann. Merkel is the co-founder of Rockbridge and helped grow it to over $2.0 billion in managed assets. The Adolphus remained open throughout the project. Other Rockbridge properties include Cliff House in Cape Neddick, ME and The Lay Low, Honolulu (formerly the Coral Reef Hotel). Merkel says "We fix broken hotels. We reinvent them and make them relevant to the market and to today's customers".
With renovations completed in 2017, The Adolphus, shed its independence and become part of the Marriott brand's "Autograph Collection" of hotels.
Compiled by Dick Johnson / October, 2018
Partners, Disneyland
I once heard a cast member say, "I was asked what Walt may have been saying to Mickey and I responded, 'Look what we've created' ".
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Supanova Expo, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia (Saturday 17 June 2017)
Ammunition is organized, May 22, while soldiers from the Georgia Nations Guard and soldiers from the Georgian military train together on mid-range weapons and machine guns at Exercise Noble Partner 16. The day consisted of the partner nations working together at the range to enhance battlefield interoperability of each other’s weapon systems, which include U.S. and Georgian mid-range rifles and the U.S. 240B machine gun. Exercise Noble Partner 16 is a Georgian and U.S. military training exercise taking place at Vaziani Training Area, Georgia, May 11 to 26, 2016. This exercise is a critical part of Georgia’s training for its contribution of a light infantry company to the NATO Response Force (NRF) and enhances Georgian territorial self-defense capability. (Photo by Sgt. Daniel Cole, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)
How embarrasing: I like this lady, I love her tales of dealing with the mad people at the BBC (in both senses of that phrase), yet I cannot remember her name. The photo shows it all - a happy person with a good soul.
Pompeu Fabra University had the chance to deepen and strengthen ties with its international partners and university networks, as well as working on new collaboration and mobility agreements, taking advantage of the European Association of International Education (EAIE) conference, which took place from 13th-16th September at Barcelona's Gran Via Fira venue. UPF Partner Day was the 13th of September and included presentations and itineraries so they can get to know the university's academic and cultural mission, talks with mobility coordinators and different centre directors, and guided tours of the three campuses.