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A veteran Manitoba Crown attorney has been fired after he dropped charges against a Winnipeg company involved in a workplace accident -- only to have the company make a substantial financial donation to a charity he oversees.
The provincial government recently notified Sean Brennan he was being dismissed with cause following an investigation into his handling of a file. They determined Brennan committed a serious breach of the code of conduct and ethics governing lawyers.
"This was, allegedly, a self-interested exercise in prosecutorial discretion," a justice source told the Free Press Wednesday.
Brennan, who began his career with Manitoba Justice in October 2000, did not return several email requests for comment Wednesday. A spokesman for the Manitoba Association of Crown Attorneys said they are aware of the case but "unable to comment at this time." Several legal sources said Brennan is weighing whether to file a formal grievance, which could ultimately end up before an arbitrator.
The Free Press has uncovered and confirmed the following facts surrounding Brennan's dismissal:
Bristol Aerospace was charged in 2010 under the Workplace Safety and Health Act after one of its employees was injured on the job in 2008. Sources told the Free Press the wounds were minor but the company was accused of failing to follow required safety guidelines following an investigation by the province.
Brennan was assigned to prosecute Bristol and the matter dragged through the courts until he entered a stay of proceedings in late 2011, meaning the company was in the clear and would face no sanctions. No explanation was provided to the court.
Around the same time, Bristol made a $65,000 donation to Agape Table, a charitable organization that provides community programming and nutrition to hundreds of clients daily. Brennan has served as Agape's chairman of the board of directors since March 2000.
Multiple sources told the Free Press Manitoba Justice only recently learned of Bristol's donation and its link to the dropped workplace-safety case -- from Brennan.
"He self-reported it," said one source. Sources said Brennan is taking the position he never directed Bristol to donate to Agape, and the company made its own decision to choose the charity he was connected to.
They say Brennan made this clear to justice officials, but the decision to fire him was still made.
Allan Fineblit, CEO of the Law Society of Manitoba, told the Free Press Wednesday his agency is monitoring developments in what he called a unique case.
The law society hasn't sanctioned Brennan.
"Crown attorneys, like every lawyer, are subject to the code of professional conduct. There is no question we would have jurisdiction here," Fineblit said.
Sources said the case is unique for several reasons, including the fact Brennan is not accused of personally benefiting in any way. Some have referred to it as a "Robin Hood" type of situation, with those most in need reaping the benefits.
A provincial justice spokeswoman said they are "unable to comment on personnel issues for confidentiality reasons."
Bristol officials didn't return calls Wednesday seeking information about the dropped charges or their donation to Agape.
Curtis Unfried, the Winnipeg lawyer who represented Bristol in the workplace-safety case that was stayed, declined to comment until he could get the go-ahead from company officials.
Other board members at Agape told the Free Press Wednesday they are stunned by Brennan's firing and the alleged link to the work he has done on their behalf.
"This has caught us a little off guard," said Laurel Martin, a volunteer director with the charity. "We don't want to speculate. We are going to look into this. This is serious."
Agape has often raved about Brennan's contributions. He was the community-service recipient at the 2011 Manitoba Service Excellence Awards.
"Sean was instrumental in transforming Agape Table from a soup kitchen that served approximately 300 people daily into a community nutrition centre. In spearheading this transformation, Sean has been a role model, mentor, coach and leader to the board, staff and clients of Agape Table," the organization's website reads.
"Sean has very much been a force for change and innovation in his time at Agape Table. Sean was not content with being a Band-Aid or the boy with his finger in the dam.
Agape has improved as a direct result of Sean's breadth of involvement, tireless enthusiasm, commitment of many hours and keen intellect challenging the status quo and societal preconceptions."
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In 1966, Dr. Otis D. Simmons was invited by then President Levi Watkins to serve as chairperson of the Department of Music. With that appointment Dr. Simmons also filled duties as Professor of Choral/Vocal Music. In addition, Dr. Simmons was later asked to become the first Dean of the School of Music at Alabama State University.
Dr. Otis D. Simmons earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Kansas in 1953. He continued his education by earning a teaching certificate in 1956 and taking a Master of Music Education degree also from the University of Kansas in 1957, and in 1965, he reached the capstone of his educational career at the University of Kansas when he was awarded the Ph.D. degree.
In his first placement out of college in 1953, Dr. Simmons became the choir director, and voice instructor at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. During his tenure in Arkansas, Simmons prepared the choir for a performance on ABC television during a nationwide broadcast of the United Negro College Fund series.
In 1958, Dr. Simmons became an assistant professor of Music at Texas Southern University. There he also conducted the University Choir, taught voice and taught voice methods classes. During this time Dr. Simmons sang with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. He also directed the eighty-four piece Houston Symphony Orchestra before a crowd of 2,000.
The pinnacle of Dr. Simmons' teaching career came at Alabama State University. At ASU, Dr. Simmons spearheaded the associate accreditations of the Department of Music in 1972, and led the full accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Music in 1974. He also played a key role in designing the ASU music building.
Dr. Simmons has authored nine publications, ranging from Neurophysiology and Muscular Functions of the Vocal Mechanism to Teaching Music in the Urban Schools. Dr. Simmons has also authored a manuscript entitled, "Singing with Confidence through research and technique Coupling."
Since retiring Dr. Simmons serves as an adjunct professor of Music at Troy State University in Montgomery.
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Quality Overreach
As February enters into its final week, so, too, does my blog enter into its last opportunity to gratuitously disagree with my other ProjectManagement.com columnists and bloggers about the whole quality management thing. But it's this very realization, that I'm coming up against a limit to my contrarianism (well, about this topic, anyway) that helps highlight my overall objection to the quality management guys: they don't know when to quit! Consider this definition of quality management from Investopedia: The act of overseeing all activities and tasks needed to maintain a desired level of excellence.[i] For those who are not themselves quality consultants and did not blanch upon reading the three-word term "overseeing all activities," go back and read it again, please. The added "…needed to maintain a desired level of excellence" is somewhat perfunctory. Seriously, what aspect of the management world isn't part of "maintaining a desired level of excellence"? This definition of quality management, all by itself, has outed the quality aficionados as either (a) being unable or unwilling to state the epistemological limits of their discipline, or (b) really intending to take over the management science world. In these two respects, the QC guys are eerily similar to one of my other favorite management science overreaching targets, the risk managers. Also like the risk managers, the QC guys rely heavily on statistical analysis to support their conclusions and recommendations. However, unlike the risk management-types, the quality gurus not only attempt to capture the impacts of their recommended changes, they often insist on it – which brings me to another disagreement I have with them. It's really impossible to completely quantify the overall economic impact of altering the quality of a given product or service. Again as with the risk managers, there are simply too many factors to capture, much less evaluate. But let's return to the overreaching part. Suppose you, dear reader, hire me as a quality control consultant for, say, your yacht company. My first day there, I notice that the machine that your company is using to mold ship parts is set slightly below the recommended temperature for the type of plastic resin being supplied. I ask you about it, and you tell me that, due to the price of energy in California, your accountant ("Melvin") performed an analysis that showed that a lowering of the molding furnaces by 10 degrees Fahrenheit would save $21,258.52 per month. However, a cursory reading of the supplier's material data sheet indicates that, if the molding machine is not kept above the recommended temperatures, the resulting parts will experience a cohesion degradation of 24%, and that, when the $21,258.52 per month "savings" are spread out over the number of vessels being constructed, it ends up being a mere 1.2% savings per ship. Because I'm aware Melvin was opposed to your hiring a quality consultant in the first place, I'll put the question to you this way: Are you sure you want to sacrifice hull integrity by 24% for the savings of 1.2% of the cost? When you reply with the obvious answer, I continue: Why did you hire Melvin in the first place?" Surprised at my audacity, you politely invite me to confine my analysis to matters of quality. My response: the very definition of quality management is to oversee all activities needed to maintain a desired level of excellence, and your company's ships have suffered from a significant drop in quality because somebody hired Melvin here. Clearly, your human resource activities fall within my purview. Also, I have some questions about how you raise your kids… Okay, that last bit is clearly out of bounds. But that's my point – so was the challenging of the decision to hire Melvin, even though, based on the definition quality management, the challenge was perfectly within the quality management consultant's purview. Without a clearly articulable upper limit on which decisions may be challenged or overturned under the guise of what's "needed to maintain a desired level of excellence," overreach is virtually guaranteed. It's analogous to ProjectManagement.com bloggers telling their readers how to raise their kids. [i] Retrieved from Investopedia, http://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quality-management.asp, February 21, 2015, 13:25 MST. |
Death By Quality
There's a story that at the onset of Operation Desert Shield, the United States' and her allies' effort to kick Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, that the Pentagon had sent out a clue that something big was about to happen by inundating the nearby pizza delivery restaurants with so many orders that it was clear that the employees were going to be there through at least dinner time. As I've discussed previously, project management information systems that deal with actual project performance – Earned Value and Critical Path methodologies-based, all others being fake – have two overarching functions: (1) to put into the hands of the project teams' decision-makers the information they need to select the best strategies, and (2) to provide a narrative after-the-fact as to what happened, and why, as the project pursued its objectives. The first of these functions can be established relatively quickly and easily since (as I have also discussed before) both Earned Value and Critical Path can provide essential performance information without many of the formalities often associated with them, such as highly detailed cost estimates or intricately linked schedule baselines. The providing-the-narrative function, however, does need this level of formality and detail. But, like the Pentagon swamping local area pizza restaurants, there are going to be times that the prescient project manager does not want the particulars of her project's narrative known to others, even if they do assert a claim to being a "stakeholder." The reasons for this are many. The particular project may have national security issues, or may involve the use of techniques or technologies that represent trade secrets. It may be as simple as the project team's organization not wanting to share its insights on how to execute projects with its competitors. Whatever the reason, the very project management information systems that constitute the life-blood of informed decision-making can also be used against the owning organization and, in my humble opinion, this represents a quality issue. So what we have with respect to assessing the quality of project management information systems are two essential, but potentially overlooked, components: the level of difficulty involved in establishing the information stream, and the potential for mis-use of that very information once it becomes available. In each instance, quality control plays a central role, and it's not always positive. For example, the notion that a project's cost baseline must be considered to be of poor quality if it does not take into account the most recent rates for labor, equipment, or any other line-item in the basis of estimate (BoE), is simply false. Perfectly usable and effective cost baselines can be (and are) created with budget estimates rather than detailed estimates, and those insisting that only detailed estimates will do are misguided. Depending on the project's size and complexity, putting in the extra effort to create a detailed estimate (and it's not cheap) will often lead to the attempt to derive other, irrelevant information from the cost baseline, such as the difference in price between the individual elements from the BoE and the same-time period actual costs. The fact that comparing budgets to actuals is useless is axiomatic among the better cost engineers, and this fact does not change simply because the comparison is occurring at a far more detailed level. I'm sure many (if not most) of my readers have recognized a surge in the demand for schedulers who are adept at performing – not the creation and maintenance of Critical Path networks, but forensic analyses of projects that are either nearing completion or are complete, and some sort of claim/counterclaim is going on. This gets back to the narrative-building aspect of these information systems, and needlessly-detailed baselines are a gold mine to plaintiffs in these challenges. Any deviation from the original plan, no matter how innocent or appropriate, can be mis-interpreted as a quasi-breach of contract, essentially leading to the excusing of poor performance from subcontractors due to the collection and placement of irrelevant data in the project's baselines. But, hey! At least those who insist that quality baselines are synonymous with extremely detailed baselines are happy! |
The Case Against Quality
I can hear my critics now – "Does Michael always have to play the contrarian?" Well, not always … only around 68.3% of the time. But it's my perception that around 99.7% of the articles and blogs on the topic of quality council the same thing: you gotta do it if you're not, and, if you are, you need to do more of it (quality analysts: We see what you're doing there! Those percentages are one and two standard deviations from the mean on a nominal curve! You're not that clever, Hatfield!). With this prevailing narrative so entrenched, it virtually invites charlatanism masquerading as legitimate management insight. And, just for the record, management science charlatanism doesn't need much of an invitation to take root and spawn multiple business pathologies. Take one of the more common tools used by the quality managers, the Causality Analysis. If your organization is producing sub-standard products or services, the first, most obvious question is "Why?" The typical Six Sigma analyst will begin here, by taking the recognized fault and tracing it back to its origins. They do this by interviewing the members of the project team who were involved in producing the sub-standard output in order to construct the narrative of the products'/services' journey from its beginning to the end-user, who found it unacceptable. Common sense, right? Here's my problem with that: outside of the quality control meme, few people have a clear grasp of the difference between proximate cause and material cause, rendering their proffered narratives on what happened during the delivery of the substandard product/service entirely subject to their own, biased perceptions. Without a clear philosophical understanding of this and other differences, it's not long before causality links are being created, connecting events that have nothing more to do with each other than having occurred sequentially, leading to things like sports fans wearing specific clothing on game day, or the observance (or even celebration) of Groundhog Day. There's also the issue of what represents an appropriate level of quality. A Rolex® Submariner sells for between $7000 and $10000 (USD), and is accurate to within 6 seconds per day. There are $30 (USD) digital watches that would need years to be off by 6 seconds. Obviously, people are paying for more than the ability to tell time accurately when they purchase the Submariner – but to the tune of 99.7% of the watch's price? (Quality analysts: stop with the precise alignment with the standard deviations, already!) And this is my point – should outside Six Sigma "black belts" be brought in to Rolex's plant in order to search out a problem, my guess is that the first investigation on their agenda would be to discover ways that their watches could be more accurate, since that is the nominal job of a timepiece, after all. Such an analysis would clearly miss the point. However, should a certain blogger with iconoclastic tendencies who writes for ProjectManagement.com actually assert that (a) sometimes what the quality gurus are bringing to the table isn't appropriate to the product or service, and (b) even when standard QC techniques are called for, it's easy for all sorts of biases to enter in to the narrative of causality, then the accusations of being "against quality" become fairly easy. Look, I'm not "against" quality per se. I want my devices functioning properly for long periods of time, and fully expect the manufacturers of those devices to perform whatever quality control or quality management they need to do in order to fulfill that expectation – or else I'm taking my business elsewhere. But that's my final point: the free marketplace will signal your company or project team when its quality of output has become a problem, not the quality gurus who are ever on about how we should be observing ISO 9000 or else we're poor managers, yada yada yada. Now, if my readers will excuse me, I've got to re-read this blog 99.7 times to make sure I haven't made any syntax errors… |
What happens when the Quality Police come to call?
Standing right behind the risk managers on the list of management specialties that would love to slap me upside the head with a two-by-four are the quality guys, and for similar reasons. I believe each discipline asserts the efficacy of their techniques well beyond their true effectiveness, often pushing all the way to irrelevancy. Whereas I've characterized what the risk analysts do as little more than institutional-wide worrying, I'm going to call what the quality experts do when they go too far as eat-your-peas-style hectoring. Don't get me wrong – when your organization has a genuine problem with the level of quality being put out in goods and services, management simply has to call in a quality specialist, even if their predilection for assigning rank among themselves is irksomely similar to the way martial artists do. They'll create their process maps and fishbone diagrams, failure mode assessments and Total Quality Management award applications, and eventually come up with a usable answer to how to improve the companies' goods and services. It's what happens in the meantime, and afterwards, that has me irritated. Consider the story of Christian Frederick Martin. Martin was a guitar maker in Germany in 1833, when the Defenders of Quality were the guilds. To advance in any industry dominated by these 19th-century TQM enforcers, one had to serve time as an apprentice before even being considered a candidate to move up in the ranks, to an acknowledged craftsman, or master of the trade. Martin and his family belonged to the (gasp!) cabinet-makers guild, and were opposed in their guitar-making by the local violin-makers' guild. Of course, freed from the fetters of the guilds, your nominal 19th-century Elvis Presley would have had the consumer's option of deciding if he wanted to gyrate around the stages of Europe with a guitar slung down low that had been manufactured by a cabinet-maker, or a violin-maker, and that would be that. But, nooooooo…. In 1833, the cabinet-makers issued a statement, which read, in part, "The violin makers belong to a class of musical instrument makers and therefore to the class of artists whose work not only shows finish, but gives evidence of a certain understanding of cultured taste. The cabinet makers, by contrast, are nothing more than mechanics whose products consist of all kinds of articles known as furniture." Slandering the work of the cabinet makers, the Violin Guild added: "Who is so stupid that he cannot see at a glance that an armchair or a stool is no guitar and such an article appearing among our instruments must look like Saul among the prophets."[i] Realizing that he would never be completely free to manufacture guitars the way he wanted, Martin left Germany and came to the United States, where he founded a guitar company whose name today is virtually synonymous with exceptional quality. And, when the real Elvis Presley burst on to the scene in the 20th century, he had one of Christian Frederick Martin's company's guitars slung low as he gyrated across the stages of the American Midwest. But note how the guild went after the non-violin guild's guitar-makers – it was purely on quality grounds. The violin guild had set themselves up as some sort of quality police force, bravely saving the people of Germany from having to endure bad guitar music (if only they could have been around for the onset of "grunge rock"). In the long run, it was the free market that drove the quality of the guitars upwards, not the harrumphing of the violin guild. For those quality managers who are not impressed by this blog, and still wish to slap me upside the head with a two-by-four, I have this question: are you aware that two-by-fours are, in fact, one and one-half inches by three and one-half? [i] Retrieved from http://www.martinguitar.com/about-martin/the-martin-story.html?id=170, 14:10 p.m. MST on 31 January, 2015. |
Project Review Agenda Template – Sort Of
As I alluded to in last week's blog, the formal project review is perhaps the most important thing that the program manager does. Here, each of the projects in the program have a representative discuss the projects' performance, concerns and issues. Members of ProjectManagement.com have access to a variety of templates that help with the basics of project management, ranging from risk management checklists to baseline change proposal forms, and these forms are very useful. I don't recall seeing a template for aiding the program manager with conducting these project reviews, so I thought I'd take a stab at it. Who knows? If Cameron likes this form, he may invite me to submit others! Just for the record, though, neither Cameron nor anybody else from ProjectManagement.com has invited me to roll out the following project Review Agenda Template (RAT) – this is entirely on my own. Back when I received my PMP® (and it wasn't recent – my PMP® number is 1004) the PMBOK Guide® had the following major chapters: · Scope · Cost · Schedule · Risk · Quality · Communications · Human Resources · Acquisition / Procurement I have long contended that some of these areas are more important to project (and, by extension, program) management than others, but these chapter headings did provide me with the foundation for my proffered template. If we assume that a given major program has twelve projects within its purview, and that the program manager doesn't want to drag the reviews out for more than ½ day, then we'll structure the RAT so that each project's representative has 15 minutes to get everybody up-to-date. I've adjusted the agenda headings to reflect my take on the value of the PMBOK Guide® chapters. So, with no further ado, here's my RAT. Review Agenda Template (RAT) Project Reviews for Program _____________ Held on (date, time) at (place)________ Each project will provide updates for the following PM areas: Scope: (30 seconds. I mean, c'mon, if the program manager doesn't even know what your project is about, you could probably ditch this meeting altogether.) Cost: (5 minutes [less, if you're verifiably on-time, on-budget]. It's appropriate that this subject and the next one take up the lion's share of the review. All anybody really wants to know is, if you're having a problem, how much it will cost to fix it.) Schedule: (5 minutes [again, less if you are on a pace to finish early]. If you just got done reporting a Schedule Performance Index [SPI] of less than 1.00, and your critical path schedule is indicating an on-time finish, you've constrained too many milestones.) Risk: (12 seconds, just long enough to have the project rep blurt out "After the baseline is approved, risk management is largely irrelevant." Besides, a risk analysis of this review indicates that you'll need to set aside 3 minutes as Contingency.) Quality: (1 minute firm. Over-wrought statistical investigation does not a valid quantitative analysis make. Besides, this is more of a personnel/process issue than specific-project related.) Communications: (18 seconds, unless you really want another lecture on the alleged importance of "involving stakeholders.") Human Resources, Procurement: Whoops! Look at that – we're out of time! We'll let you guys report on your goings-on at the next review. Feel free to reproduce this form for your project reviews – just don't attach my name to it. I'm busy enough ducking risk, procurement, communications, quality, and procurement managers as-is. |


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All children under 6 years stay free of charge when using existing beds.
One child under 2 years stays free of charge in a crib.
One child from 7 to 12 years is charged 20 % of the room stay per night in an extra bed.
The maximum number of extra beds/cribs in a room is 1.
Any type of extra bed or crib is upon request and needs to be confirmed by management.
Additional fees are not calculated automatically in the total cost and will have to be paid for separately during your stay.
Pets are not allowed.
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Very nice, comfort, clean and wonderfully decorated rooms. Perfect location, great staff. Very good breakfast (different than the usual), plus it lasted until noon. Free Wi-Fi.
Fantastic breakfast. Friendly and helpful staff. Very stylish, something different! Excellent location. Too bad we only stayed for 1 night, i hope to visit it again soon!
The staff were excellent The rooms are tastefully and uniquely designed in classic themes. The minor details and the warm friendly staff made this an excellent place to stay for New Years Eve! and I would recommend this to any travelers in the area.
Loved the traditional Greek breakfast. Also, the small details: slippers, shaving kit, toothbrush in case you forgot. There were also DVD movies you could rent for free. Great location, very friendly staff.
Very central Breakfast extremely well layer out
Room tiny - not as per website on booking. Room overlooked cafe which partied till 2am. Walls paper thin - could hear everything on our floor & floors above & below. Felt we'd been put in the "younger" accommodation.
Fun sense of design in rooms, incredibly friendly staff, delicious homemade breakfast, luxury touches.
Nothing not to like.
Το καταλυμα αυτο ειναι κατι ξεχωριστο απο τα διαφορα γνωστα ξενοδοχεια και λοιπα καταλυματα, εχει κατι το διαφορετικο μια αλλη αποψη πολυ cool στυλατο! Θυμιζει κατι απο 80s αλλα μονο 80s δεν ειναι οι εγκαταστασεις. Ολα τελεια πεντακαθαρο, απιστευτο πρωινο αλλα λιγο τσιμπημενη η τιμη, μπορουσε να ηταν και πιο κατω. Αξιζει να το επισκεφτητε ειναι μεσα στην πολη στα στενα κλπ.
The rooms was wonderful. Spacious, clean, and we furnished. Very homey. The tub was perfect for a soak. Fresh oj and coffee at breakfast was great.
Breakfast was mostly bread and cakes.
Very friendly staff, breakfast without deadline, excellent location
Very elegant boutique hotel. High level services.
It is amazing and a beautiful hotel it's in a very good area easy to reach and easy to go shopping if you want to go shopping Great couples hotel if you are in a new relationship and there's nice .breakfast in bed in the morning on top of that
Absolutely 100‰. Well deserves it's review rating.
We spent a lovely week in Nafplio, Greece & Amymone was the perfect pension to base our stay. We began with an very FRESH breakfast each morning that still makes my mouth water remembering the homemade cheeses, yogurts, pastries, coffees, etc. Each evening we returned to a scrupulously clean room with every need met: slippers, robes, bathroom products, umbrellas, etc. The location is in the heart of the old city & close to the harbor & square; thus, we walked to EVERYTHING! There is NOTHING negative we have to say about our week at the Amymone; the staff was always helpful & kind & the rooms were artistically unique & memorable!
Everything was perfect. The rooms were very clean and they had everything we needed. The owner was polite and friendly and the location is as good as it gets!
If I really had to complain about something then that would be the pillows... Too hard for our taste.
Best location in Nafplio. Unique stylish and charming little hotel. Very friendly staff, Amazing bearkfast!!! Generous amenities.
There's no space in the room to open the suitcases. The high stairs and lack of elevator makes this hotel unsuitable for older people.
Located right in the old town only a minute's walk from the water, this quaint old hotel has been renovated to make it a fresh and very individual place to stay. Definitely worth noting was the home made breakfast which my wife and I thought was the best we saw on four weeks of travelling in Greece. This place is definitely a must for those who would like something a little different but memorable. Car access and parking is not possible in the very narrow streets but is available at the sea front only a very shower walk away. Best to park first then walk to the hotel. Highly recommended.
This property is absolutely fantastic. We happened to stay here as a 'stop-over' between Athens and the Peleponese and ended up staying a second night. The ambiance in the hotel, as well as the city, can't be beat. If you go to this city, and you should, you must stay in this hotel. The breakfast was by far the best we had in the country and the people that work at the hotel are some of the nicest we met in the entire country. Overall...fantastic!
Absolutely nothing.
Comfortable,welcoming Breakfast best on our travels,variety of food exceptional and fresh every am
Slightly noisy in early nighttime. Found a cigarette butt on carpet
You feel at home on arrival. The very friendly owners produce much of the breakfast menu themselves. The place is very artistic. It is centrally located 5 minutes walk from everywhere. This is not an impersonal hotel place. Rooms have much character. You will enjoy.
Not anything we did not like!
-Location:Perfect! in the center of the old city. -Decoration: Excellent! The small hotel is in an old traditional building,which is recently fully renovated. The decoration of the rooms and the bar/restaurant is just perfect. Modern and retro at the same time. -Cleanness: Also perfect! Rooms are excellent cleaned. -Staff: Great. The hotel is operated by the owners, who are very helpful and friendly. -Breakfast: Really great. Especially the cheese and spinach pies.Fresh orange juice and coffee of your choise. All in all: A great place to stay in Nafplio city.
-There is no really a negative thing. Everything was perfect. Small remark is that sometimes there is some noise either from the street (it is in the citycenter) or from the corridor.
The room was decorated great, breakfast was perfect and the workers were helpful and nice. Location is perfect.
Beautiful room with all facilities needed, very good breakfast and nice setting, close to the sea, highly recommended place to stay
We received a warm and friendly welcome to this boutique hotel in two houses in the pedestrianised old streets of Nafplion. We loved the quirky decor and our balcony overlooking the street. Our standard double room was small but had everything we needed and the small bathroom had a fantastic shower.
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4.12 / 5.00 4,611 ViewsThis is my first shot at trying hand-drawn animation. I wanted to try a short video to test out something I saw before. It's basically the "illusion" of movement with very little real animated movement. I think it came out alright.
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These Championships were played, in a small village, Saint Vulbas, in central France – the home of the top French senior team and the French national coaching hero, Vedrin, over the 29th October till the 1st November 2011.
The team of Kelly Sperne, Alec Ganeo and Declan Fedele, contestants in last year's World Championship, were again under the experienced eye of the National Junior Coach, Frank Fava.
In the first Singles, Kelly Sperne lost to Monaco, 9-13. It was a close encounter with the lead changing numerous times, but it was Monaco's day and they won the game. Then it was a great start for Kelly in the second game against Tunisia. Kelly got off to a flying start with a 5-0 score, but the talented Tunisian crawled back to gain an 11-5 lead. With 15 minutes in the game time, Kelly won the end by a point and it was game-on, as the Tunisian panicked and made some basic bowling mistakes. Kelly was fantastic with her throwing, having hit the jack twice, one swap and hitting everything the opponent could bowl. With a greater than 60% hit rate and with the game in the balance Kelly managed to edge back to be within 1 point, and now the pressure was on the Tunisian player. It was a 'bowl-hit- bowl' tussle, as Kelly was on fire. With every bowl the Tunisian bowled, Kelly was on target and hit away the opponents bowl. Kelly won the end and with the score now at Australia 10 to 11, she landed a fantastic point to level the score. With game time ended, Kelly had the game in her palm especially after 2 poor bowls by the Tunisian. After some tense moments and deep thought, the Tunisian nominated the jack which was behind his bowls and difficult to see. He lined up and threw, and with an all mighty roar of jubilation he jumped in the air as he had hit the jack out of the court, killing the end and winning 11 to 10 points. What was a fantastic game of Bocce! Australia missed out by 1 point to qualify for the Doubles Quarter Finals.
It was the last game on the first day that Australia broke through and won a close tough Doubles encounter against Peru. The lead changed 5 times and on the last end, with only 4 minutes to go, both teams were on 9 points all. The Doubles team of Kelly Sperne and Alec Ganeo placed a top bowl next to the jack and Peru could not break and having played all their bowls and with game time completed, Australia won 10 to Peru 9. It was a magic moment as it was the first Doubles win for the Australian Under 23 team for 2 years and it was a celebration for all, as the applause resounded around the boccedrome for the victorious Australian team. The win had given Australia a second change as it qualified for the 'Barrage' against Monaco.
The Barrage match against Monaco was exciting. After being down 0 to 10 against Monaco, the team of Kelly Sperne and Alec Ganeo fought back, winning 4 ends straight with 3, 3, 3 and 1 to level the score at 10 all. Monaco took the next end making the score 11 to 10. With time running out fast, Australia again leveled the score at 11 all. Monaco threw, missed and then with their last ball, bowled to retake the point. Unfortunately, Australia could not retake the advantage. Kelly with her last bowl, bowled but could not gain the advantage. With the game time ended and scores level, a supplementary end was played.
Alec Ganeo placed the bowl near the jack, bur Monaco hit it away. Again, Australia placed another bowl, but Monaco took the point with their two remaining bowls.
Australia Sperne threw, missed. Her second throw slipped out of her hand and was fouled. In the last play, Sperne threw but failed to take the point. Ganeo with his last bowl and hope for Australia to qualify, bowled, but at the end of it's travel the bowl turned to the right instead of left, leaving the point in Monaco's favour. So Monaco won the game and ended Australia's hope to qualify. Australia missed out by 1 point to qualify for the Doubles Quarter Finals.
In the Bowl Throw event Declan Fedele had a slow start, but regained composure getting 4 points, starting mid way through the match and challenging the Serbian player. In the end it was a competitive Sarac from Serbia who won the game, Serbia 24 to Australia 13 points.
In the second round, Declan Fedele played against the Bosnia Herzegovina player. Declan was very competitive with a swap, for 2 points and some precision bowling managing to put pressure on the Bosnian player. But after all ends were played, the score was in favour of Bosnia Herzegovina, 23 points to Australia 15 points.
In the Precision Throwing event, Declan Fedele failed to qualify, with a score of 3 points.
In the Progressive Throw, Alec Ganeo was less fortunate with a score of 9 hits at targets, from 39 throws and did not proceed.
In the Rapid Throw Relay, Alec Ganeo and Declan Fedele were outclassed in this event. They successfully scored 12 target hits from their combined 46 throws.
Overall it was a good performance by the team Australia (Sperne, Fedele and Ganeo) who after only their second time at the World Juniors, did Australia proud in the way they played and were competitive in every event. This year's BFA training program orchestrated by National Coach Tony Biancacci along with the players previous years experience, produced the improvements that were realised on the courts at St Vulbas.
Some clever coaching by Frank Fava helped keep the team focused and the much improved Kelly Sperne was the stand out player for Australia, with her great poise and precision throwing.
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