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L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
205 Chemin Des Névons, 84800 L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France – Show map
Excellent location – rated 9.1/10! (score from 627 reviews)
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Outdoor Pool, Grounds, Sun Deck
Golf Course (within 2 miles), Hiking, Cycling, Solarium, Bicycle Rental, Library
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Bar, Breakfast in the Room
WiFi is available in the hotel rooms and is free of charge.
Free private parking is available on site (reservation is not needed).
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All children are welcome.
All children under 2 years stay free of charge when using existing beds.
All children under 2 years stay free of charge in a crib.
Extra beds are not available.
The maximum number of cribs in a room is 1.
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Comfortable room, good breakfast, good location
I was here with my sister, we found the staff very polite and helpful. The hotel is quiet and very well situated. Will definitely return!
The hotel is two minutes walk from the town centre. Off street parking was useful especially on market days. The staff were very obliging. The rooms are functional & clean. The wifi worked beautifully & was free.
It was a nuisance to have to get out of the car each time you wanted to get in or out of the parking space to phone reception to lift the barrier. Building works are occurring on the other side of the parking space and there was a horrendous noise around 8am every morning which quickly stopped but woke us up.
Nice vibe and location. Pleasant terrace on which to enjoy a wine or two. Good price. Friendly staff.
View from room wasn't great as it looked on to car park.
Location to the township was fantastic.
Of the two room I had booked, both had very noisy air conditioning. One of the rooms had a terrible smell and the outside door to the balcony was unable to be locked. The breakfast seemed overpriced for what you got.
Nice breakfast, clean rooms and excellent customer service T desk
Position was perfect for us. Everything within walking distance. Free parking a definite bonus.
no coffee facilities in room
The hotel just outside the centre of town in a quiet location but a minute's walk from cafés, bars, and restaurants. It has a waterside garden and a swimming pool and sun deck on the roof. The rooms have air conditioning, although it is a bit noisy. There is ample parking and the staff are efficient, friendly, and helpful. Given the area the price is very reasonable.
There was nothing I didn't like but a potential guest needs to be aware of certain things. 1)There is no restaurant but there are plenty nearby and it does have a bar and serves breakfast. 2)The comfort rooms with balcony overlook the car park, the next grade up overlook the garden. 3)There can be noise from nearby balconies.
I booked a room for 6 nights for 888 euros($1152). Then cancelled it and booked a room for 4 nights for 315 euros ($400). Apparently the cancellation didn't go through so Jean, the manager, made the decision to charge me for the entire 888 euros even though we called the next day and came for our second reservation. We tried to compromise and offered to pay 1 night penalty but he said NO,NO,NO. He said booking.com was making him and they said not true. PLUS he REBOOKED the room so made almost double the money. No customer service, no public relations, no consideration of hotel guest. Why would Jean, the man in charge, be so unable to see our point of view and not consider a compromise. Ruined my trip to France and Provence spending $1152 for nothing. Then they asked if wanted to buy breakfast!!!
Big room, ac, location, staff
. Getting into hotel with car. Need to get out if car to press gate button and speak to reception,
Close to town Staff very helpful
Very noisy airconditioning
Comfortable, clean and spacious room. Nice terrace with view over garden and stream. Roof top pool and sunbathing area. Plentiful parking.
Nothing to dislike.
Bar shut at 21:00hrs
location , sun terrace and swimming pool, garden area
room overlooked car park and not very big
Quiet room
The receptionist was not very friendly on my arrival.
Garden outside the room, overlooking the small river. Hotel is 5 minutes walk to the old town
Location - great to explore the town and the restaurants. Room good. Small pool on roof. Good breakfast.Free WiFi. Plenty of free parking.
The room was a good size, very clean and comfortable. The terrace was very nice and spacious.
Proximity to town centre, good off-street parking, and comfortable bedroom. Wireless facility was appreciated.
Some aspects of the bedroom and toilet were a little "tired", and in need of repair/renovation.
It's a great location, a 2 minute walk into the middle of the town (if you go right, then right again). It's clean and the beds are comfortable. The free on-site parking is perfect. Breakfast looked nice, but we didn't have it as I like going 'into town'. The garden would be nice to sit in if you had time. The pool & area is quite 'basic' but perfectly adequate. The staff are all lovely & were especially brilliant when we needed medical assistance in the middle of the night. This was our second stay there and I would definitely stay again.
It would be nice to have a fridge (for the wine!!) and tea/coffee making facilities in the room. The second thing was my own fault really - I booked what I thought was the same type of room as last time, but it wasn't - there's a big difference between the 'balcony' and 'terrace' rooms. The 'balcony' room overlooked the car park (not the garden & pretty stream) and the balcony was tiny. The room was also very noisy (people meeting and talking in the carpark & it was over the dining terrace which they were tidying at midnight then setting up in the early hours - very noisy!) so we ended up closing the doors and using the air-con - which was fine, but not as good as last time we stayed as the rooms over the garden were quite quiet. Not really a negative, just one to watch out for.
Great location with adequate Parking.
Breakfast was okay; not fabulous
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Brossoit won ECHL goaltender of the week.
From the ECHL's press release:
The 20-year-old went 2-0-0 with one shutout, a 1.50 goals-against average and a save percentage of .935 last week.
Brossoit made 20 saves in the (Bakersfield) Condors' 4-3 win against Las Vegas last Thursday and followed that up with his league-leading fourth shutout of the season with 23 saves in a 3-0 victory over Idaho on Sunday.
A native of Surrey, British Columbia, Brossoit has five shutouts in seven starts split between Alaska and Bakersfield. Overall in eight appearances, he is 6-1-0 with a 0.70 goals-against average and a save percentage of .967.
Rimmer, who is signed by the Oklahoma City Barons to an AHL contract, won CHL's rookie of the month.
From the CHL's press release:
Rimmer won three of his five starts in the month, all on the road, allowing just three total goals during his trio of victories. He finished December with a 2.01 goals against average and a .938 save percentage. The Edmonton native also earned his first American Hockey League call-up early in the month being summoned by the Oklahoma City Barons (the top affiliate of the Edmonton Oilers).
The 21-year-old's best showing came in his (first) pro shutout when he stopped 48 shots in a 2-0 win in Rapid City, the league's top team. On the season, Rimmer is 7-5-2 with a 2.76 goals against average.
Oilers prospect Anton Slepyshev picked up three assists to help lead his Russian squad to a 5-3 win over USA in the quarterfinals on Thursday at the World Junior Hockey Championships.
Slepyshev assisted on the opening goal for the Russians by Grigorenko. Then in the second period, with Russia down 3-2, he assisted on a pair of goals by Nikita Zadorov while on the power play. The goals were 1:01 apart.
Bogdan Yakimov was -1 on the day with no points.
Through five games, Slepyshev is tied for his team lead with seven points (2 goals, 5 assists). He also leads the team with a +7 rating and is third with 13 shots on goal.
On a day when the U.S. Olympic team was announced, Taylor Hall was asked about what he thought about his chances of making the Canadian squad which will be announced next week. He did not feel like he would be named.
|Taylor Hall is interviewed at the Canadian Olympic Selection Camp
"I think I've been playing well lately for sure but there's a lot of really good players on that team," said Hall when asked about his chances. "You always look to reasons why you want to play well and just like we talked about last night, it's your job to go out and produce every night. Certainly, reasons like that definitely give you hope and you want to play well for that. We just want to win games and go from there."
Coach Eakins felt that Hall deserved to merit consideration.
"I don't pay a whole lot of attention to the process but I'm sure if you go compare him to the left wingers that he's up against, I'm not sure how you don't take him."
Building on his words from about a week ago, Eakins felt that Hall has improved on both sides of the game and perhaps even more so defensively.
"If you were to go defensively on a most improved player this year -- and we've had some guys improve -- I'd put Taylor right at the top of the list. The way he competes every night has been a breath of fresh air on a lot of difficult nights. Last night I thought we saw it again where after a real tough first period for our team, he put us on his shoulders and started to carry. And he rubs off on guys. You can see it in Nuge's game and Ebs and Perron. And we want that to continue."
Last game, Hall was a +2 with three assists as his line controlled the play whenever they were on the ice.
"It was a game where Perron, myself and Nuge seemed to connect pretty well on a few opportunities. We started off by playing a simple game and then it extrapolated from there. When we're playing well, we're playing a hard, heavy game, getting in on the forecheck and making plays when we have the puck and not forcing things. That was the case last night."
Hall has 15 goals and 38 points in 35 games this season. That puts him in a tie for 16th in the NHL in points and 23rd in goals. He is tied for 11th in points among Canadians and third among Canadian left wingers (his linemate David Perron is fourth according to NHL.com, though he plays right wing on the Oilers).
"I feel pretty good with my game. My game seems to go in hills and valleys sometimes. You've just got to ride the momentum and keep doing the things you need to do to be successful and right now that's playing a simple game, a good defensive game with my linemates and trying to produce with them."
|Photo by Jeff Nash / Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club
With Roman Horak assigned to AHL Oklahoma City prior to practice, Nail Yakupov found himself in Horak's spot on the second line, skating with Jordan Eberle and Sam Gagner on the left side.
Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins said that this was the next step in the plan that he and Nail were talking about in their 40-minute discussion on Monday.
"Just adhering to the plan," Eakins said about Nail Yakupov. "Not trying to do things by himself, not trying to adlib, not trying to play like he did last year. We want him to play the system and the way we're trying to get our whole group to play. And that's his challenge. He fully understands it. And he fully understands that there's a little bit of heat on him to play and play well. He's with two good players, two experienced players, he's going to get some looks on one of our power plays where we've put him right back to where he's been before."
It appears that Yakupov's minutes will increase and from what Eakins saw at practice, he was doing well on the power play in his usual spot.
"By this morning's practice, he was having some success over there. But the important thing is to get him up and going and get him back into the rhythm of playing a little bit more minutes."
Oilers goaltender Ilya Brzygalov had another performance versus a former team where he made a large number of saves and got his side into overtime but the Edmonton squad was unable to come away with two points.
"We were so close to the win again in this game. But it slipped away from us," said Brzygalov after practice in San Jose on Wednesday. He added that he feels, and has always felt, that he could improve with his play.
|Ilya Bryzgalov faces a shootout attempt last Saturday (photo by Marko Ditkun / EOHC)
"You always have room to grow and work. You never stop, you always have to ask the question how can I be better and what can I do to make myself better?
"You should always think you can do better."
After the tying goal went in with 1:10 left, Brzygalov showed some frustration on the ice. It was similar to the game against the Flyers where he threw his stick in the air after Philly tied it late.
"It was a home game against Philly where he tossed his stick and I asked him what his frustration was, and his frustration was that he had let in a goal that he thought he should have had. He wanted to beat his old team and he was frustrated with himself," Eakins began.
The bench boss was asked about the outward emotion and he had an interesting take on the situation.
"I don't mind showing emotion. I think it's great probably once or twice a year in an 82-game schedule where the goalie smashes his stick over the crossbar in great frustration. I'm fairly certain that Bryz was probably more frustrated with the situation. But you're right, you have to watch your body language on the ice. And it's not so much about your team, body language to me is 'what are you selling? What are you telling everyone?' as soon as your body language goes south, if it's a consistent thing, you're certainly selling something to the other team."
Following practice, Dallas Eakins gave an update on the status of centre Mark Arcobello and winger Ryan Jones.
"We're going to get them back in the mix. I think we're going to give them another day of conditioning and that's the challenge when you've got so many extra forwards. I think they're both ready to play. We're going to stick with that group that you saw out there today."
Arcobello has been out for six games and Jones has been out for five. It remains a strong possibility that both could return to the lineup on Friday against Anaheim.
The lines, according to jersey colour, are:
Hall - RNH - Perron (dark blue)
Yakupov - Gagner - Eberle (light blue)
Smyth - Gordon - Hemsky (white)
Gazdic - Lander - Joensuu (black)
Arcobello - Jones (grey/extras)
Roman Horak is not skating as he was just assigned to the AHL's Oklahoma City Barons.
It's the old dress and drive for Edmonton. Dressed at HP Pavilion and then bus to practice rink.Happy New Year to all pic.twitter.com/AynUmt1I2T
— Gene Principe (@GenePrincipe) January 1, 2014
Oilers just walked into SJ Sharks practice facility. Based on colours: 4-93-57, 64-89-14, 94-27-83, 20-51-6
— Bob Stauffer (@Bob_Stauffer) January 1, 2014
The Oilers have assigned Roman Horak to the Oklahoma City Barons of the AHL. Horak played in one game, last night in Phoenix. He was minus one with a shot in goal in 12:58 of icetime.
#Oilers assign forward Roman Horak to @OKCBarons.
— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) January 1, 2014
In between the first and second period, Dallas Eakins spoke with his team. The squad was lucky to come out of the period tied after having been outshot 21-6.
"After the first, I went in and had a one sided conversation with them, and the simple message was this, I don't want you to work hard, this isn't work, your parents go to work, the people that get up and drive in rush hour traffic and spend 10, 12 hours at their job, that's work… This is play, and I want you to play hard, and there were some other messages in there as well but, I thought once we came back out for the second (period) we were much better."
Taylor Hall also felt that the team turned it around but was unhappy with how the team finished the game.
"The first period wasn't great at all but we managed to find our game and get a 3-1 lead and even though it was 3-2 for the last little while we played them pretty well. I thought it was just a breakdown on the last goal, I mean Bryz (Bryzgalov) played so well for us tonight and for us to kind of let him down like that, it isn't great, so we need to rebound next game and make sure that when a goalie plays like that for us he ends up getting the win."


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text: DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> Heckler&Koch OCT AUG JUL 28 2007 2008 2011 7 captures 22 Feb 07 - 10 Feb 12 Close Help civilian & law enforcement SITEMAP | LEGAL NOTICES home new from HK company History Location FAQ civilian products le products dealer locator forum contacts history 1949-1950 The history of HECKLER & KOCH began during the difficult postwar period. The three engineers, Theodor Koch, Edmund Hecklers, and Alex Seidel jointly opened an engineering office. Influenced by the events of World War II, they first concentrated on the manufacturing of goods that were most needed at that time, including spare parts for the bicycle and sewing machine. In the aftermath of World War II, the new firm would eventually help rebuild a nation destroyed by war. Founded in an engineering office of the former air-raid protection of the Fire Brigade warehouse, the firm opened in January 1950, under the name HECKLER & KOCH GmbH. 1955 With the incorporation of the Federal Republic of Germany into the Western Defence Alliance, the Federal German Armed Forces was set up as a modern army with the correspondening equipment requirement. Since 1956 HECKLER & KOCH decided to participate in a bid for the new Federal German Armed Forces Infantry rifle. HECKLER & KOCH won the rifle development called the G3, which was a milestone in weapon development. The G3 was the standard issue assault rifle for all German forces by the Bundeswehr of the Federal Republic of Germany. The G3 used the unique delayed roller locked bolt system, an operating system widely hailed today for its strength, reliability and low recoil. It is used by the militaryin more than fifty nations and some three million G3's have been produced to date. In the mid-1960s, HECKLER & KOCH gained international prominence with the design and the manufacture of the 9mm Machinenpistole 5 (MP5), soon to become the world's most popular submachine gun, embraced by special operations forces worldwide. A variety of models have been added over the past thirty years but the MP5 remains the preeminent arm of its class. During this time, HECKLER & KOCH also perfected the polygonal profile barrel. Deemed superior to conventional "lands-and-grooves" rifling, the polygonal bore profile effectively seals propellant gases behind the bullet—increasing bullet velocity. An added advantage to the polygonal profile barrel is that it will outlast a "lands-and-grooves barrel" by thousands of rounds. In 1969, due to the increased need for handgun development, a reworking of the delayed roller locked bolt system was introduced in a pistol—the P9S. Acclaimed for its accuracy, the P9S was officially embraced by several elite military units, including the US navy SEALS. The most radical feature of the P9S was its design. The receiver was designed using a newly developed high-tech plastic composite called polymer, which molded around a steel frame. With the development of another polymer HECKLER & KOCH handgun, the futuristic VP70, these models predated by more than fifteen years the introduction of polymer framed handguns by competing firms. Also during this time, HECKLER & KOCH proved excellent competence, not only in weapons manufacturing, but also in other fields. There are numerous examples of this including, the development of the first automobile airbag, free of harmful materials. This was accomplished with technologically new machining centers and machining centers of new design in the metal working industry. Also, complex electronic control units and handling systems were used for problem materials. Starting from 1970 In the 70s, numerous states equipped their police and military forces with weapons from HECKLER & KOCH. In order not to depend on suppliers from other countries for army equipment, many countries signed licensing contracts in cooperation with the Federal Government. The HECKLER & KOCH Industrial Plants Department, which at the time operated under the title "Manufacturing under licence", was in charge of planning and the implementation of complete manufacturing plants. At the international level, manufacturing shops were set up. These shops equipped soldiers in their countries as licensors, independent of HECKLER & KOCH. In the mid-1970s, HECKLER & KOCH received an order from the Federal Republic of Germany, Ministry of Defense to develop a weapon system utilizing "caseless ammunition" technology. The breakthrough technology pioneered by HECKLER & KOCH on the G11 and Advanced Combat Rifle was successfully tested throughout the 1980's and 1990's but not adopted for reasons related to the end of the Cold War. HECKLER & KOCH innovation continued and, in the late 1970's, the HK P7 was introduced into the U.S. and international markets. The P7 was considered quite radical in design and technology, and today it remains the fastest and most accurate production handgun manufactured. Starting from 1980 The 80s with HECKLER & KOCH were marked with diversification. Due to internal requirements, the various corporate departments had developed in the course of time. An example of this is the department in charge of design of special tooling, or the mechanical engineering department. Until that time, both of these departments had successfully worked towards the HECKLER & KOCH Manufacturing Shop. Restructuring takes place to place the firm into a wider foundation and make it a little less dependent on the defense material market. HECKLER & KOCH affiliate firms, the HECKLER & KOCH Machinen and Electronic GmbH. HECKLER & KOCH Machines, with their mechanical engineering and industrial plants department, act as a machine tool manufacturer with the added scope of the Industrial plants department. HECKLER & KOCH Electronic GmbH designs and manufacturers electronic control units for the HECKLER & KOCH Machine tools and for other machine tool manufacturers. HECKLER & KOCH GmbH is divided into the defense technology sector, precision technology (formerly the special tooling design department), and the automation department. During the 1980's, the precision accuracy found on the HK91 and its related variants, the SR9T, the SR9T and PSG1 enabled target shooters to achieve performance unmatched in semi-automatic rifles. 1989/1990 Research and development personnel worked on the development of a new caseless rifle system for the Federal German Armed Forces and other NATO countries. However, the technical success of this development did not translate into economic success. The overall economic circumstances and the surprising non-procurement of the G11 for the Federal German Armed Forces placed HECKLER & KOCH in a difficult situation. In early 1990, the renowned Universal Self-loading Pistol (USP) debuted. This was considered Heckler & Koch's first pistol designed especially for American shooters, the USP incorporates many traditional handgun design elements with advanced materials and engineering technology. 1991 HECKLER & KOCH GmbH became part of the international British Aerospace/Royal Ordinance technology concern. Within the scope of management buy-outs, the affiliate companies, Machanical Engineering and Electronics, as well as the Precision technology department, were separated from HECKLER & KOCH GmbH. The Industrial Plants Department again became a HECKLER & KOCH department. 1994/95 Upon exhaustive testing within the scope of their competition for the adoption of a new standard armament, the Federal German Armed Forces decided in favour of the two HECKLER & KOCH products. The P8 Service Pistol and the G36 infantry rifle were the latest security contributions "made in Oberndorf". 2002 HECKLER & KOCH GMBH is taken over by private investors, but the former management is maintained. 2003 Within the scope of new structures, the Board of Shareholders of the new owners resolves to consistently divide the economic activities of Heckler & Koch into civilian sector and a defense/authorities sector. The HECKLER & KOCH Jagd and Hunting and Target weapons was founded and began its business activities on July 1, 2003.


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The first time I entered the tournament I got to just over a thousand glory before the software crashed (the full screen window just disappeared) and my glory dropped to 0. I figured the gold they wanted you to pay was to keep your glory. That was just before I wrote my rant.
Either the game changed or, more likely, it was a once-off bug, either way when I lost a match recently the glory remained and the reason for my rant is therefore non-existent.
As to the save game feature:
The game constantly pings the server anyway, so why not save the current match at every round? It would only take a couple of bytes each time.
A Warlords Battlecry 2 feature would be most appropriate, where you can do nothing until you choose to either continue where you left off or accept the loss and admit defeat. That would be so you can't change your deck or upgrade cards in the middle of a match.
If you did it on a sunday, then you've probably had the arena reset reset your progress.


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text: profiles "We are undergoing a very serious, radical change of the entire business model of the company" Valery Okulov, General Director, Aeroflot describes the ongoing transformation from a production company to a service company What are the challenges of running would like to have two complementary fleet. The most serious challenge, which a company which has one foot in the schemes, one international, and one is quite hidden, is to transform Aeroflot state sector and one in the private domestic. Now, in the situation of soar- from a production company to a service sector? ing fuel prices, we have to have a fleet company with a focus on people. This business now is living through which is less energy dependent. That is very hard times. But the more complex one of our priorities. Have you learned from other interna- the situation, the more it is of interest In order to ensure stable flights be- tional airlines? to the international community. Our tween Europe and the Far East, we have Of course, we carefully watch our col- business is operating in a rather shifty to set up a very good hub at Shereme- leagues and competitors. The most dra- environment. To be successful, one has tyevo. matic experience which I have seen was to adjust quickly to the situation. That is That is why there is the project for a the PanAm story. Like Aeroflot, at one why we are undergoing a very serious, new terminal at Sheremetyevo – which time, it was focused entirely on inter- radical change. I mean a radical change will combine domestic and internation- national business. The crisis in interna- of the entire business model of the com- al flights. tional flights brought about the end of pany. Previously, Aeroflot was not a In order to be attractive to the passen- the company. That influenced me when commercial entity at all. And in order to gers, we are re-branding the Aeroflot we decided to move towards domestic become commercial, we had to radically brand and we aim to change, positively, flights – so that we could have two feet: change the model and flights. Then we the Aeroflot image. It is a very serious one in the international business, one in had to undergo a rather painful change undertaking. It has been going on for the domestic business. We learned a lot in the management system. We had to two years already. from Quantas in terms of security and re- get rid of some of Aeroflot's traditional We now have a new product for liability of the flights. Asian experiences routes. We also focused Aeroflot on the mid- and long-range routes. It is based are also very important for organising the internal market – on the former Soviet on three values: 'from Russia', 'Rus- service for the passengers – Singapore Union countries. Just two years ago, we sian hospitality' and 'reliability'. All Airlines, and Emirates in particular. We had only two flights to St Petersburg, these three values are equal – there is are also watching carefully the low-cost now we have about 25. Our internal no number one value. Also, there are airline experience. But this experience routes are our first priority. That is the new uniforms for the attendants, a new is well known to the big Soviet Aeroflot reason why we have two grades – we menu, new chairs and a renewed air – because it was one big budget airline! 10 • Russian Investment Review • profiles How does the business break down in additional guarantee of financial stabili- 16%. But it is quite difficult to make a terms of profits and revenues between ty. In our leasing contracts, with our loan reliable forecast because all the experts domestic and international fights? agreements, there is a clause which says produce different figures. There is one Over 80% are international revenues. that if the relationship with the govern- sure thing: the prices are not going to go The share of domestic revenues is going ment changes, this could be a cause to down. up gradually. Our plan is to have 30% review the contract. from domestic sales by 2010. National Reserve Corporation owns How important are your Moscow- part of Aeroflot. It has been a dream of How do you overcome initial negative London routes? Alexander Lebedev to revive the air- perceptions about Aeroflot to get pas- There is obviously a shortage in our craft manufacturing industry in Rus- sengers on to the flights? flights to London. At the moment we sia. Is this possible? We have to use various channels of com- have 17 a week, which is short of what We shall not try and proceed in this busi- munication to bring this idea to the peo- we would like. This is not just because of ness. We shall proceed with our hard, ple. First, we have to demonstrate the the number of Russians travelling; it is complex job and the plans of building a positive changes and the results of the a fact of life that London is the business joint aircraft corporation are good. This changes which we have made in pre- capital of the world. Quite a number of corporation and aircraft building in vious years. Last year we had a rather meetings and conferences, including general are aiming at two areas: First of aggressive advertising campaign. This those focused on aviation, are being held all the production of a competitive air- year, we have less money for advertis- in London. And, if a meeting is held in craft for the international market. This ing. But this is not the most effective London, I know it is important. is our chief project which is a regional channel of communication. All the aircraft. Then there will be joint coop- means that we deploy, the re-branding eration with the producers in the area etc, are all vehicles to bring the informa- where we can not put forward some- tion to the people. I think that we have We, at Aeroflot, thing competitive. found a very good slogan for the people: have a unique 'sincerely yours'. In Russian, this has a Have you had to implement extra secu- very good connotation in the national security product: it rity measures in the last couple of years? tradition. It is very interesting that the How has this impacted on costs? idea was put forward not by our market is a bio detector for Traditionally, our security measures experts, but by questions asked of our finding explosives were tighter than in the United States employees and passengers. prior to September 11. Our doors to and drugs. We the cabins have always been steel. The Are there plans to expand on the number of Airbuses and Boeings? produced security checks have become more se- rious and detailed. This produced an Or will you keep a large number of a unique breed of effect on the costs of the company. First Russian planes? of all, this was related to increasing the There is no alternative to the modern husky and jackal staff. Then we had to organise addition- western made aircraft at the moment. al training. As for additional security The winner will be the company that can equipment, it is bought by the airports switch quickly to a new, energy saving and it doesn't effect our costs. fleet. All companies, even if the econom- Will there be a time when Aeroflot will At Aeroflot, we have a unique security ic situation is very serious and money is be wholly privately owned? product: it is a bio detector for finding tight, will try to modernise their fleets as There are no such plans at the moment. I explosives and drugs. In the '90s we quickly as possible. think that in the short to mid term, there produced a unique breed of husky and will be nothing done about this. The jackal. Later the government stopped How many planes can you replace each most important issue is not privatisation providing funds to the laboratory, so we year? but the most efficient use of the govern- took it under our wing. The results are About 12 – that is our plan. ment share. I think that the French gov- amazing. The sensitivity of these dogs ernment used its share very effectively, is much higher than any other breed. At As a semi-nationalised industry, is especially when they bought KLM. The the moment there is no device, which there pressure to keep open unprofit- share of the French government in Air- can detect plastic explosives, but these able routes? France was reduced from 57% to 40%, dogs can. The only shortcoming is that This is not exactly the case. Our short and they used the proceeds to buy KLM. they can't work around the clock – they range routes are in fact helping the long After the deal, the value of the 40% be- have to have a rest after two hours. range routes. We get a number of tran- came more than the 57% because of the sit passengers. Our model envisages not increasing capitalisation. Have you introduced them to other only bringing people to Moscow, but a airlines? focus on transit. As to the government What oil price are you using to base There is a huge lobby in the world which has a majority share in the company, I your model for next year? is pushing for very expensive, cumber- should say that investors and banks con- It is a crazy situation. In our economic some, detectors and they block the way sider it an advantage. Because this an model we see the rise of fuel prices by to other technology. rir • Russian Investment Review • 11


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Deathbed requests - would/do you honour them?
Started by Wineandchocolate , Jan 07 2013 08:37 PM
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Posted 07 January 2013 - 08:37 PM
I'm not even sure why I'm thinking about this... but I am!
Would you (or have you) NOT honoured the dying wishes of someone who has since passed away, because it was something you didn't want to do or agree with even though you promised the dying person you would do it? Obviously there are relatively easy things to comply with (e.g. having certain flowers at the funeral, etc.)... but what about other things like:
- promising a grandparent you'd do a certain thing for your kids (e.g. send them to a religious school when you're not religious)
- patching a relationship with someone you don't like and want nothing more to do with, particularly if it's another family member
- marrying (or not marrying) someone
- having kids (or not having kids)
So pretty important stuff, not trivial things? And if so, how did you feel about making such promises to the dying person, knowing you had no intention of carrying the request out?
No real basis for asking, was just curious
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Posted 07 January 2013 - 08:42 PM
My parents promised my nonna as one of her last requests, that I would do my holy communion. I was 16 when she died. To be frank, I don't feel it was their place to make such a promise and it's not something I have any interest in doing.
Posted 07 January 2013 - 08:46 PM
I wouldn't make those type of commitments, but no, I wouldn't feel guilty about breaking them, it is not like they are there to notice.
Posted 07 January 2013 - 08:47 PM
I would make promises to a dying person that I didn't intend to keep, just to make the last of their time happy.
Posted 07 January 2013 - 08:55 PM
This was a call-back topic on radio once... and a woman said that her grandmother wanted someone to push pins into her eyes to make sure she was actually dead. And the granddaughter did it.
Also I think if you promise to do something, you should follow through. If you know you won't do it, maybe try and get another family member who will?
Posted 07 January 2013 - 09:13 PM
I wouldn't make those promises I didn't want to keep. If I was planning on sending my child to one school but a dying relative said send them to this school here is the money, and it was going to be a better school, then I would have no problem making that promise. If I had to break it because of an outside reason ie my child being bullied or something that would be ok. But I couldn't take the money and then not at least try to fulfil the promise.
Posted 07 January 2013 - 09:14 PM
I wouldn't make a promise i had no intention of keeping but if they were really insisting on something and i really disagreed but knew it would make their last few days/moments happy ones if i went along with it i might just nod and smile but not actually AGREE if that makes sense...
Posted 07 January 2013 - 09:45 PM
I would have no problem making such promises and no problem breaking them either. I pretty much put requests like that in the "smile and nod" category. But then I don't believe for a minute that the dead know what goes on after they're gone.
I've never been in a position to do it but I don't think it would bother me.
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Posted 07 January 2013 - 11:17 PM
Yes I have made a promise to a dying person and I will make sure I fulfill that promise!
Posted 08 January 2013 - 04:39 AM
I would just make the promises but not keep them. No real harm done.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 05:31 AM
Nope, they will be dead and wont know.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 06:08 AM
I'm a smile and nod person.
I remember when my aunty was dying, there were a lot of things she was saying, some things we really did take on board, things about the funeral, make sure you enjoy your life and make the most out of it and so on.
There were other things, like specifically she wanted me to promise that if I had a daughter to name her Amira, because she always loved that name and never got to have children, I wasn't going to argue with her about it, I just smiled and nodded. Am I going to do it? No.
Simply put, many times when you get that opportunity to say goodbye to someone who you know you will not see again, it is usually in a hospital and they usually have a fair bit of medication in their systems, some of which can effect their thinking, not to mention that one does not tend to think the most rational thoughts as they are dying and are more likely to make very odd requests that they probably don't exactly mean, however there is no harm in making them happy for what little time they have left.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 06:24 AM
It depends. My grandmother has made clear that she doesn't want any eulogies at her funeral and doesn't want people wearing black. I'll be doing my best to honour that even though I don't really believe in an afterlife. It's not technically a deathbed request, but it is a final wish if that makes sense.
An actual situation like you're describing OP I think it would very much depend on what they were asking. I'm pretty forthright in life and I would imagine anyone whose dying wishes I'd be privy to would know what sort of things I'd say yes or no to. I wouldn't feel right agreeing to something I had no intention of honouring (christening our son comes to mind), but I also wouldn't want to get into an argument with someone in their final days. I'd likely go for the good old non-committal smile and nod
Posted 08 January 2013 - 06:38 AM
I'm in the smile and nod category. I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't believe there will be wringing of hands in some parallel universe. And I do believe that making someone happy when they know they're dying is a good thing to do.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 07:41 AM
My dad made me promise I wouldn't marry my partner. It wasn't because he didn't like him he just didn't want me to be tied down. At the end of the day I get to decide who I am with so no I won't be honouring my promise. He also asked me to do something else which I have tried to do but I'm coming to the conclusion that while I respect my dads wishes at the end of the day it is my life. Also dad had severe liver failure when he died and was probably not thinking to clearly.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 07:50 AM
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I'm in the smile and nod category. (......................)
And I do believe that making someone happy when they know they're dying is a good thing to do.
When my Dad was very ill in hospital the year before last I agreed with all kinds of craziness.. just to try and calm and soothe him.
In spite of holding his hand and looking deep into his eyes while I said it I had no intention of acting on the demands - they were the confused ramblings of a very frightened and very ill person.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 09:34 AM
I had a distant relative once mention to me that her husband's dying wish was that she keep, and love, his two dogs. These dogs were apparently quite vicious towards the wife and had bitten her several times. Needless to say, she despised them. She agreed but 'one week later, I took them to the vet'.
I've also known a young widow whose husband had passed away giving her unreasonable requests about how she raise their daughter (i.e. $20k a year primary school when she was in catchment for an amazing public school). She was struggling under the weight of his demands, but carried around immense guilt she couldn't fulfill them.
Me - I like to think I wouldn't make a promise to someone who I felt was using their impending death to manipulate me, but guilt would get the better of me and I'd probably smile and nod.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 09:41 AM
Yes I'm in the smile, nod keep them happy category.....I wouldn't pick a fight with a dying person, and I don't believe in an after life so they will never know.....having said that, if it was something like "put white lilies on my grave every birthday" or something, well, I think I would do that, but that's more about me, honouring their memory and me feeling good about it.....
Posted 08 January 2013 - 09:49 AM
No. I'm on team "smile and nod", I wouldn't argue, I would try to honour the do-able things, but certainly not make any major, life-altering decisions based on a deathbed request alone.
My aunties (dad's sisters) honoured their mother's (i.e. my late grandma's) wish and never got married. Strange wish, but they did it. It didn't make for happy lives for them. One of them had a long-term partner and would have loved to be married to him. He died about 10 years ago, and I think she's going to regret not having spent her life with him for the rest of her days now.
My dad ignored the wish, which is a good thing or I likely wouldn't have been born.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 10:28 AM
In spite of holding his hand and looking deep into his eyes while I said it I had no intention of acting on the demands - they were the confused ramblings of a very frightened and very ill person.
I think agreeeing to confused and rambling requests (or to agreeing with someone who has dementia etc) isnt something I would even try to keep - the person didnt understand what they were asking, after all.
But for a lucid person, I would either not agree or would try to keep promise if I did agree - smiling and nodding non-comittally is one thing, you didnt actually agree - but if I clearly did promise something I would keep it as much as possible.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 11:46 AM
It would depend on so many things. I know someone who was the ex of a dying woman and promised to take in and care for the teenager they had had together, and then didn't. That really stank, because she could have arranged it with another person instead. She needed to die in peace knowing her son would be ok, and he just lied to her... And the son wasn't ok. There was then an argument among relatives about who should take him in, whereas if she had asked someone in particular and they had agreed, the family would have respected that as her final wishes. I think that was wrong of the ex.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 02:13 PM
I wouldn't give a dying person any more consideration than I would a living one, in regards to how I run my life. They're dying, but that doesn't make them an expert on the best way my life can be run.
I'd comply with simple wishes that wouldn't have much of an impact on me, but I would never, ever comply with wishes about who I do or do not marry, whether or not my children are baptised, etc. They'd get absolutely no say in that as a healthy person, and get no more say just because they're dying.
I might agree to let them die in peace, but I'd never have any intention of following through.
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Posted 08 January 2013 - 02:18 PM
When dying of cancer 21 years ago, my uncle mand my aunt promise that she would not leave their acreage and move into town until their beloved 10 year old horse died. That bloody horse lived another 20 years. My aunt is now 78, failing fast and despite all of us being willing to drop everything to help her move into a town unit, the idea is now too overwhelming for her and she will no doubt stay put until a fall or illness forces her into hospital and slow decline. It is very sad and I am always cross about that deathbed promise.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 02:26 PM
Hmmm DH's fathers father was a Freemason and his request was along the lines of DH's father becoming one. And he did. DH has a funny feeling the same thing will happen, and he has absolutely no intention of honoring this as he has no interest and also feels that it is an outdated mysoginistic boys club. I think they do some stuff for the community of course, but its the "No chicks allowed" sort of stuff that gets up his nose.
Anyway, in that instance, I would fully stand by him. I also would not honor a parent or grandparent telling me to raise my child in any particular faith unless I was already that way inclined. I would probably say "ok, no worries, Ill do that" to make their last days/hours/minutes peaceful, but I wouldn't compromise what I believe in.
There would be exceptions to this I'm sure, but I cant think of any specifically, other than what they wanted done with their body and at the funeral etc, or memorial type stuff.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 05:37 PM
Dad wasn't on his death bed but he got me to promise to have my (non existent as yet) children christened. Dad was very easy going and never made any demands or put any pressure on me in anyway so when he pleaded with me to do it 'for him' I agreed. It was so out of character for him. He didn't give a rats which denomination as long as they were 'protected'. Then the bugger went and died before I could sort it out so I followed through but I talked to the priest in both cases and explained that I was a 'non believer' and that I was doing it to fulfill a promise. We had DD christened my families faith and DS done in DH's faith.
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