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"Stick to acting."??!
|Aaron Alexander
|posted 6 Aug 2009, 03:20 PM / edited 6 Aug 2009, 06:26 PM
Alright, I have to vent, rant, whatever you want to call it. And I'm aware I'm preaching to the choir here, but never mind.
I'm also aware that this is hardly a new problem. Were there ever times and places where performance was respected as a profession? Possibly Bali? I suspect even Ancient Greek actors were looked down on by feta salesmen even if the playwrights were exalted.
But I digress...
Here's my issue: John Key goes out of his way to mention Keisha Castle-Hughes in a speech in Australia to businesspeople. He refers to her taking part in the 'Sign On' Greenpeace emission reduction campaign. His punchline - as his only possible purpose is some comic relief to an audience that he suspects shares his values - is "My advice to Keisha is this: stick to acting."
Cue guffaws from Queensland bigwigs.
The implication is that Keisha's profession (my profession) somehow renders her unfit to actively participate in the politics of her country, hell, in this case, her planet. I now get the impression that our PM's reductive world-view sees me and many of you, as clearly either stupid or hopelessly ill-informed as to utterly invalidate our opinions.
And you know what? That's fine. I didn't vote for the guy. I'd've preferred he stuck to money-changing or whatever the f*** he did before he heard the call.
WHat gets to me is that this is basically an acceptable attitude in our society. Compare the reaction to this comment to what you'd get if he'd said:
"My advice to Keisha is this: Stick to mothering."
He'd have trouble keeping his job!
Or even if he'd been talking about one of the many 'ordinary Kiwis' who choose to participate in the same campaign -
"My advice to Steve Smith is this: Stick to plumbing."
How dare he belittle a taxpayer that way?
The notion that a citizen is a) nothing but their job and b) if that job is of a certain kind they have no business speaking out on politics is repulsive. But sadly a popular perception seems to be that actors are all vain, self-centered, vacuous idiots who jump on political bandwagons without thought or consideration because they want to be cool.
Don't get me wrong, some of us are those things. But actors hardly have a monoploy on that.
Plus, there was an article in a leading local paper a while back questioning the very validity of 'celebrities' (99% of those mentioned being actors) engaging politically in a public way at all. Robyn Malcolm's name was mentioned, referring to her fronting for th Green Party at the election, and the implication was she was probably just trying to boost her profile to get more work. Disregarding the hideous slur on her character this implies, the fact is coming out in that way was more likely to cost her work than the other way around. I suspect people do these things despite their job, not because of it.
This all comes hard on the heels of almost all media in NZ referring to Mr. Rob Mokoraka exclusively as an 'actor' rather than a 'man'. He was essentially characterised as somehow less deserving of public sympathy, because, as an 'actor' he was surely just an attention seeking personality being 'out there' for his own amusement, rather than a man suffering a shocking personal tragedy. (I don't mean to exploit his pain simply to advance my own argument, my deepest sympathies and respect are with all those effected by what happened. I mention it because I found it a distressing injustice, and expressed as much to TVNZ, who have not replied.)
Well, that's my spleen pretty much vented I suppose. If anyone else has thoughts about it, I'd like to hear them.
I don't expect much will change around this issue. Many people will continue to see us as unimportant, frivolous, stupid and immature because of the job we do. I think it's bred into Western culture. I guess it's just worth remembering that it's out there. Also, I'd encourage us all to not live up to the stereotype, and to applaud and support any mebers of our community who care about issues in our society, and who are prepared to speak out, in any medium, intelligently, confidently, and with the innate understanding that, as citizens and taxpayers like everyone else in this democracy, they are inalienably entitled to do so.
No matter what anyone else says or thinks, it is our right, and some might say our duty.
Get well, Rob.
|Aaron Alexander
|posted 6 Aug 2009, 03:24 PM / edited 6 Aug 2009, 06:29 PM
BTW, here's an article on the Key/Keisha thing, in case anyone missed it:
My advice to John Key is this: Stick to being an A-hole.
|John Smythe
|posted 6 Aug 2009, 06:40 PM / edited 6 Aug 2009, 07:02 PM
And here is a link to the Close Up piece last night, where Keisha gets to respond: http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/keisha-vs-key-2889415/video (you have to wait for the advert to play).
By the way, did anyone tell Joanna Lumley to stick to acting / comedy / being a blonde when she got active on behalf of the Gurkhas?
|Dane 1 Giraud
|posted 8 Aug 2009, 02:30 PM / edited 8 Aug 2009, 03:58 PM
I think most actors should stick to making coffee...
But seriously, if some organisation/cause needs an actor rather than an expert in a said field/issue or their own enquiry to get them to start thinking about the worlds problems - what does that say about society in general? I cannot see why you would use a celeb unless your campaign was targeting the lowest common denominator... and if it was targeting such... what positive change are you expecting from attempting to mobilise a bunch of slugs?? I have to admit, a character from Outrageous Fortune telling me to think about this or do that has me running for the remote... It's an insult to thinking people.
But, I do agree, Aaron, there is a general distrust of creative types... I find it ironic that the NZFC needs a producer to speak for and collect monies on behalf of writers and directors for instance... why? Most practitioners I know are pretty astute and run their concerns fine, keeping their heads well above water considering the tough climate they work in. Becoming a half way decent accountant is part of the job (acting/film making)! This kind of stereotyping of creative types only serves to keep money in the hands of non-creatives.
|John Smythe
|posted 8 Aug 2009, 03:06 PM
Most intelligent people, Dane, understand the difference between a character in Outrageous Fortune and the actor playing the role. And many good actors are very tuned into the wider world and its concerns; that's partly what drives their passion.
Keisha was brilliant in her interview with Mark Sainsbury. She, Robyn, Lucy et al are intelligent, articulate and to be commended for endorsing campaigns they back sincerely. In today's political climate, as ever, sincerity is in short supply.
Good actors bring authenticity to everything they do, and if they come on to the same screens that carry the suspect utterances of Key et all, we can all gain from the comparison.
|Dane 1 Giraud
|posted 8 Aug 2009, 03:45 PM / edited 8 Aug 2009, 03:58 PM
Yeah, John... cause it's hard to look intelligent being interviewed by Mark Sainsbury...
You miss my point entirely, John. An actor can support any cause they want but they are only used by organisations to make causes either cool or accessible to the unenlightened... Now, there's no doubt they all do their homework once they decide to go public on something, but surely an expert in the field would be better value... the fact that a perception exists that the public couldn't absorb or tolerate the discourse of a leader in their field who could be, G-d forbid, percieved as talking down to them, is pretty sad.
|Michael Smythe
|posted 9 Aug 2009, 11:05 AM / edited 9 Aug 2009, 11:07 AM
"... only used by organisations to make causes either cool or accessible to the unenlightened..."
Well why would you only want to access the enlightened?
The global cult of celebrity does have the whiff of manufacturing mass movements about it, especially in the hands of PR people. But I detect a different tinge to the Kiwi version. My take on it is that New Zealand actors are uncomfortable with fame, but if they are to be lumbered with it they might as well make good use of it.
And isn't raising the profile and reaching a wider audience than those who are already enlightened (and pompous with it?) of scientifically validated climate change issues more worthwhile than, for instance, fronting ads for dodgy finance companies?
|Dane 1 Giraud
|posted 9 Aug 2009, 11:42 AM / edited 9 Aug 2009, 12:02 PM
Reaching a wider audience is fine, but my argument is that the use of celebs in campaigns is more to reach an uninformed, unquestioning and therefore more maleable crowd. Believe it or not some people would back a campaign because the celeb fronting it seemed nice in a recent Womans Weekly article they read. And hands up whos grandmother voted for Rodney Hide as a consolation for his missing out on a deserved win in Dancing with the Stars? Is this good? I guess the argument becomes that the means justify the ends, but this type of exploitation is just that... exploitation.
The more I ponder your post Aaron the more I think you have gotten the wrong end of the stick. Firstly I wouln't read too much into Mr. Keys joke... It's the standard ice-breaker for a basically unimaginative speaker almost certain to get a robotic titter. Secondly, I find it ironic, considering your vent, that Keisha will now get a meeting soley because she IS an actor, where as jo-shmo (Panel beater... Owner of Jim's Lawn Mowing Franchise) could never expect to demand a PM's precious time to repeat to him arguments he would have been taken through by advisers etc thousands of times.
I detect that some feel this meeting is going to be nothing short of historic, in the realms of Nixon's famous reaching out to China...
|Michael Smythe
|posted 10 Aug 2009, 02:12 AM
So Dane, did it really take this episode to reveal the truth about charisma? The masses have been influenced by personalities since our first paleolithic ancestor made others aquience to her /his demands by choice.
And what's with the Key apologist routine? (Pardon the vernacular - I'm in New York.) This is the man who won power for his party precicely by being a pleasant personality. Is it not blindingly obvious to all that Key's Keisha quip was a momentary laspe that allowed us a glimpse of the true blue nasty Nat that lies behind the Mr Nice Guy facade?
|Dane 1 Giraud
|posted 10 Aug 2009, 07:02 AM / edited 10 Aug 2009, 07:52 AM
Michael... the guy is not a Bond villan! All that quip tells me is that he's not a very effective comedian. That said, he'll probably be up for a Billy T. award this year. To give him credit, at least it wasn't one of those artless anti-gags and he wasn't wearing, say, an ironic headband or fake moustache... Sorry, I take all that back. He's a comic genius!


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Later in the weekend, I get another chance to take the G.T. 350 out for a more leisurely drive. Looking out past the tach and over the Le Mans-striped hood, your mind drifts and you can easily imagine that you're on your way to a race track in the 1960s. I find myself getting really comfortable with the car – it runs good, drives good, starts every time, never overheats, and doesn't make strange noises. Who cares that the radio doesn't work? Like Wicks said in the beginning, it's truly a "good, old G.T. 350."

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Section 1
Mapping the Local Environment
Learning Outcomes
|By the end of this section, you will have:
|Most pupils have some understanding of the area in which they live. They know the quickest way to their friends' houses or the local market. When developing their understanding of place and, in particular, their mapping skills, it is always important to start with what pupils know before you move on to what they don't know. This gives pupils confidence, because you are using what they already understand. Building on what your pupils know about the physical features of their home and school environments, ensure you move on to more formal mapping of their local surroundings. This provides a meaningful context to explore the symbols used in mapping. The activities in this section will help you encourage your pupils' skills in observation and help transfer their knowledge into formal symbolic representations. You will also develop your skills in using group work in your classroom.
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|Most pupils know a lot about their local environment and may be able to map their understanding of where things are in their own way. First, it is important to develop your pupils' abilities to observe their local environment and to make these activities meaningful for them .Explain that noticing the features in their surroundings enables them to locate places in relation to each other and to describe places clearly. Having a sense of direction helps pupils to find their way around. Once they understand their own environment, and their way around it, your pupils can begin to explore the wider world. One way to start observing the local environment is to encourage your pupils to keep a notebook with them and to draw or write down any interesting things they see as they move around the local area. Another way is to work with your pupils to produce a class mural or picture on the classroom wall. Each day, a small number of pupils could add pictures (and words from older pupils) of things in the local environment. In Case Study 1, one teacher shows how she organised a large class. Read this before you try Activity 1.
Case Study 1: A map of school and its surroundings
|Mrs Kazimoto, a teacher at Dabanga Primary School in Tanzania, wants to develop her Grade 3 pupils' skills at observing and identifying important features in the local area. She will then progress to drawing maps. Mrs Kazimoto has a large class and so she divides them into eight groups of ten pupils. She knows that using group work will help her manage the class and ensure that all pupils participate. It will also develop their cooperative learning skills. (See Key Resource: Using group work in your classroom.) She asks each group to list all the features of the school grounds that they see as they come to school, such as trees, buildings etc. She asks one person in each group to write down all the important information. After a few minutes, she stops the class and asks each group to read out one feature from their list, which she writes on the board. She keeps going round the class until they have read out all the features. Next, Mrs Kazimoto hands out large pieces of paper to each group and asks them to mark in the middle a square for the school. Each pupil is then asked to place a feature on the paper in the correct place. When each group has finished, Mrs Kazimoto sends them outside to see what they had in the right place and what they need to move or add. Their plans are modified and then displayed in the classroom. Mrs Kazimoto sees that two groups have managed very well. The other groups have had to modify quite a few features and she plans to take these pupils out in groups to do some more simple mapping of the school ground and its features.
Activity 1: The journey to school – signs and signals
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|Observing the features of an environment is a first step to producing a map. To help your pupils understand a map, you need to introduce them to the idea of symbols. Case Study 2 shows how one teacher uses a game to help pupils learn about using symbols. By planning and devising a game around a topic of interest to the pupils, this teacher has made it much more likely that they will engage in the activity and therefore learn more. The use of a game will involve your pupils in active learning; it will be fun for them and will help them remember more. Read Case Study 2 before you plan and try Activity 2.
Case Study 2: Symbol treasure hunt
|Miss Yaa Nsiah, a teacher of Class 5 pupils in Cape Coast, Central Region, wanted to build on pupils' knowledge of direction and the local environment to introduce the idea of using symbols to represent physical features. She decided to hold a treasure hunt. Before the lesson, she observed six physical features of the school, including the gates, the large tree and the head teacher's office. She found six pieces of cardboard and drew one symbol on each to represent one feature (e.g. a desk for the head teacher's office). She then numbered the card and added directions to the next symbol on each card. She placed the pieces of card at their specific locations. In class, the pupils were divided into 'search parties' and given their first clues. They had to go outside the classroom, and turn in an easterly direction – the teacher helped by telling them this to get started. When they found the card at the feature this gave them the next direction to move in, and another symbol to find, and so on. The pupils found this game very exciting. They were very involved in trying to work out what the symbols meant and move in the right direction. Miss Nsiah followed the groups around and was on hand to help any that were struggling with what the symbols meant or which direction to follow. Everyone reached the final card. Miss Nsiah was pleased because she knew they had managed to interpret all the symbols and understand direction better.
Activity 2: Using symbols
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|Developing knowledge and understanding of the standard symbols that are used on maps worldwide will help your pupils explore physical features of any area in the world. It will also help them understand the way maps are constructed and their value in daily life, especially as they grow and travel to new areas. However, it is important to use ways of working that involve pupils actively in exploring their surroundings and thinking deeply about the problem they are trying to solve. Using local resources and experts helps pupils understand more as the context has meaning for them. It may be possible for you to find someone who is knowledgeable about maps to come and speak to the pupils about how maps of their local area were drawn and explain the meaning of the symbols that depict local physical features. Case Study 3 shows how one teacher worked with his pupils to understand local maps. Read this before you start the Key Activity.
Case Study 3: Analysing a map of the local urban area
|Mr Chukwu is a teacher in an urban primary school in Western Region. He wanted his pupils to be able to study a map and recognise the physical features in any area. Mr Chukwu decided to use a real map of the city of Takoradi and so, two weeks before he planned to do the work, he visited the geological survey department to obtain a number of topo sheets of the area. He drew up a worksheet for his pupils to use based on the topo sheets. Because this work would involve symbols, he also drew up a chart of symbols, which he planned to display in the classroom. As the geological survey department was only able to give him five topo sheets, he divided his class into five groups. Mr Chukwu showed his pupils the chart that identifies the symbols, and handed out a map and one of his prepared worksheets to each group. He had identified a number of roads, major buildings, some bus stations, a market and a hospital, all of which the groups had to find on the map. Next, he asked the pupils to work out the scale. He explained that map scales compare the size of the map with the real size of a place. Mr Chukwu showed his pupils how to read the information shown on the scale statement and the scale bar. When the groups had finished analysing the maps and completed the worksheets, they swapped their worksheets with other groups, and checked to see whether they had found the same answers. Where there were inconsistencies, Mr Chukwu asked the groups to confer and agree on an answer. At the end of the lesson, he went through the symbols with the whole class. Where groups had come up with different answers, they discussed the reasons and agreed on a final answer. Resource 2: Sample map and Resource 3: Questions for maps give examples of the types of resources that can be used.
Key Activity: Creating a big picture of the local area


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BERLIN -- A former labor activist from the Solidarity trade union appeared to have come in first in Poland's hotly contested presidential election yesterday, but exit polls indicated that he would not win the majority he would need to avoid a runoff in two weeks.
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Date posted: March 21, 2013
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears are parting ways with veteran linebacker Brian Urlacher after 13 years.
General manager Phil Emery said Wednesday that the team couldn't reach a contract agreement with Urlacher.
He has, for years, been the heart and face of the franchise. He is now a free agent after missing the last four games of the season with a hamstring injury.
The eight-time Pro Bowler started 180 games from 2000 through 2012, recording a team-record 1,779 tackles.
The ninth overall selection in the 2000 draft has 41.5 sacks, 22 interceptions, 16 fumble recoveries and 11 forced fumbles.
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Top 10 Villa Rental Companies
By Suzanne Bopp
We travel for many reasons, not the least of which is to experience a new way of life. Whether shopping for groceries at La Boqueria in Barcelona, or taking an evening stroll through Puerto Rico's Old San Juan neighborhood, it's thrilling to blend in with the crowd and live like a local—if even for a moment. And there's no better way to immerse oneself in a destination than by renting a private villa or apartment.
A villa rental or house swap offers three major advantages over a hotel: space, privacy, and value, says Stiles Bennet, president and COO of villa rental agency Wimco. Consider a family of four in a hotel: parents in one room, kids in another. "They meet in the hallway, or hang out by the crowded pool," he says. "They're not really having a family experience."
Whether you're looking for a self-service rental company or a full-service booking agent that can arrange every detail, these are some of the top rental providers in the industry. You'll also get the best villa with our tips on how to rent a villa.
This full-service company specializes in the Caribbean, where they offer about 800 villas on 14 islands. Wimco regularly inspects all the properties it lists.
Properties: About 1,450 in the Caribbean, Europe, and Nantucket
Weekly Rates: From about $3,000
Book It: Wimco.com
Villas of Distinction
The properties in this full-service collection range in size from one to 20 bedrooms (and include Necker Island, Richard Branson's private island); most come with butlers, maids and chefs. The company will arrange everything from your car rental to pre-stocking your villa with groceries.
Properties: More than 2,500 in the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, and the U.S.
Weekly Rates: From about $3,000
Book It: VillasofDistinction.com
Only Provence
This full-service company was founded by an American family who lived for several years in Provence and knows the villa owners personally. The website offers extensive regional information, from suggested travel itineraries to the resumes of local private chefs for hire.
Properties: About 100 in Provence, France
Weekly Rates: From about $2,000
Book It: FranceVacationVilla.com
Villas of the World
This full-service collection features inspected and rated properties—based on amenities and services—from two to five stars. The site's search function allows you to search villas by parameters including price, which is handy if you know your budget but not where you want to go.
Properties: More than 3,000 worldwide
Weekly Rates: From about $2,000
Book It: VillasoftheWorld.com
Villas International
This full-service vacation rental company has been in operation for nearly 30 years. The website allows searches not only by location but also by number of bedrooms, or the presence of a swimming pool or a piano, or other popular keywords.
Properties: Over 25,000 worldwide
Weekly Rates: From about $750
Book It: VillasIntl.com
Villa Europe
This award-winning, full-service booking agency is known for its deep range of rental properties and extensive local knowledge, and offers personal consultations to match a renter with the appropriate rental.
Properties: About 550 in Italy and England
Weekly Rates: From about $800
Book It: VillaEurope.com
Villa Luxe
This full-service company specializes in luxury beach vacations and provides local contacts at every destination. Villa Luxe donates a portion of its proceeds to charities that support the local communities.
Properties: About 500 in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Costa Rica
Weekly Rates: From about $1,500
Book It: VillaLuxe.com
Italian Vacation Villas
This full-service company is owned by an American couple who have been traveling around and living in Italy for over 30 years. They have visited every property and can offer advice on local restaurants, cooking schools, and wine tours.
Properties: More than 450 across Italy
Weekly Rates: From about $600
Book It: VillasItalia.com
HomeAway Vacation Rentals
The self-service website allows you to view available properties, then puts you in touch with the owner to work out the details. After your vacation, you can post a review of the property to help other renters.
Properties: More than 260,000 worldwide
Weekly Rates: From about $500
Book It: HomeAway.com
TripAdvisor Vacation Rentals
The self-service rentals website has acquired or partnered with existing companies like FlipKey.com to offer a worldwide rental stock. The site features reviews from renters, and connects potential renters with property owners or management companies.
Properties: More than 100,000
Weekly Rates: From about $500
Book It: TripAdvisor.com
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Great! Thanks for the post!
I would like to also recommend a platform to rent villas, in Ibiza: www.ibifast.com.
I have used them a couple of times and they are simply amazing, with all the facilities you might need. I like this company because they also offer you different services as car renting, transfer from/to the airport, catering, etc.
Hope it may help someone!
Thanks for this. I also think West Coast Vilas in Barbados could have been a nice addition.
Hello Suzane,
I would like to suggest Ibiza as a destination with amazing luxury villas for rent.
As an agency we usually use Luxury Holiday Villas Ibiza http://luxuryholidayvillasibiza.com .They are autochthonous island specialists with many years of experience in luxury rental and bespoke services.
Hi Suzanne, what a good list of villa rental companies.
Our company Holiday Home Nation specialize in Europe and we have quality villas in Mallorca and Portugal, we are ABTA registered and manage the booking from start to finish, we are not just a listing site.
Perhaps any of the readers planing a trip to Europe would like to look at our Mallorca or Portugal pages.
http://holidayhomenation.com/Mallorca and http://holidayhomenation.com/Portugal
keep up the good work.
Discovered just now this article, I would like to add our company, VacaVilla http://www.vacavilla.com we are not just a listing company, but we know the properties and we mange your booking from the beginning to the end. Actually we have more than 400 villas and apartments in Italy.
I concur with gary2012 do not use TOP VILLAS if you are staying in Orlando. After they have your money good luck ever getting any kind of response from them or receipt for your money. Loads of complaints on the Central Florida BBB and TripAdvisor.
Suzanne Bopp (author of this article) you should be ashamed of yourself. How have you arrived at the list? You give no indication/justification for your selection which removes any credibility or journalistic integrity from your work immediately.
I wasted my valuable time checking each and everyone of the sites you listed and each and everyone one is a awful. Terrible user experience (I am an Account Director in a digital agency so I know a good website when I see one) and awful search functionality.
From an organisation with a strapline of 'Travel intelligence' I expect better. While I'm at it your own website also offers a very poor user experience - you wanna get someone to call me about that.
I had to register just to get this comment on here...I will promptly be deleting my account.
Terrible waste of peoples time, thanks for nothing.
...and TOP VILLAS did not care either. All they had to say was they would look into it. Sharon from Jeeves told us because of the delays they had no time to have the owners (which is a local investment company)stay there to test the place out. We were "gunea pigs". Well for $11,000.00 we should not be that. The dryer for example was not conected properly. The exaust hose had a cap on it and we could not dry cloths or towels (which we did not have enough and were told oh well) for 15 people 2 towels each and with no working dryer, well you can figure out the rest. Use any other company but do plenty of research before you do. But do not use TOP VILLAS!!
If your going to stay in Orlando, Fl in the Reunion Resort DO NOT USE TOP VILLAS.COM they mislead you and do not return phone calls and the management company that runs the property is in partners with them. We stayed at one of their properties the was new. We were the first to stay and the day after we called Jeeves Management the company that runs it and we had problems with the dryer, lights, water, celing fans and nothing was ever done the whole week until Friday when we called because the lighting fixture in our master bath shower fell out and smashed on the floor with glass all over the shower. The manager came out named Sharon and had an I don't care attitude. We showed all the problems we had and she said that construction was behind and was just completed a few days before we got there. Which also explained why TOP VILLAS did not even get us pictures of the actual home we were staying in untill the day before we got there. We even called TOP VILLAS
Hi Suzanne. You've put together a great list here. I've found that some of the most impressive and luxurious villas can be found at Reunion Resort in Orlando, Florida. There's a fantastic selection available to view here: http://www.thetopvillas.com/reunion-resort-rentals/
Best wishes, Alex
This list is very good. Unfortuantely most of the agents do not have Croatia as destination in their offer. For Croatia we used domestic agency www.orvas-hotels.com
The websites mentioned in this article are beautiful, not sure why people are saying they dot work very well. Not sure why Fodor's didn't list LifeandStyle.com. My wife and I used LifeandStyle.com last November to book our villa rental in St. Martin and we couldn't have been any more happier! We looked at many other sites, including a few mentioned in this article before finding them and we'll only use them in the future. We will be booking our next villa rental in St Barts with them next!
Important for potential renters to know difference between villa listing company and villa management company. Managers are there 24/7 and offer services and assistance before, during, and after you travel. We've rented from http://beautiful-places.com 2 times in 2 diff locations and are planninig a third visit this summer. Big not necessarily better in this biz.
I am slightly gutted that we are not on there! how ever very pleased for these sites and one day http://www.vip5star.com will be up there with them.


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"Really nothing new as far as injury-wise. We came out clean [Wednesday]. Thought we had another solid practice. Defensively, I really like where we're at right now. We've got an outstanding pressure package that the guys have really honed in (on) and very, very few mental mistakes in that part of the game for us right now, which is very good. Offensively, I think we're continuing to make progress. I'm pleased with where we're at. Anxious to see us in a ballgame."
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Was he surprised by Jake Ballard's retirement announcement
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How is John Brown and his hamstring
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We may have difficulty reconciling the image of a brokenhearted God Who wants to restore the nations with One Who sends a flood to destroy the earth and rains down fire on cities like Sodom and Gomorrah. How do we explain the many passages of Scripture which refer to God's judgment on the nations and His wrath towards sinners? Does the Bible contradict itself, or have we simply failed to interpret it correctly?
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Outward signs of Lapham's corruption are evident throughout the novel. His attempts to buy his social position with a costly house and his attempt to buy his way out of moral responsibility with a loan to Rogers are both comments on Lapham's low moral condition as well as a reflection upon the society in which he lives. Bromfield Corey recognizes the quandary of Silas' position, for it is caused by the society which Corey represents. His elegant but sterile society must make room for the progressive, rising business — man but it can only admit these people on the basis of their material fortunes. Bromfield condemns his society for not helping morally isolated people like Silas with the struggle of good and evil. Lapham, uneducated and unrefined, must struggle with the temptation to maintain his social position by wealth or to lose it and return to his crude beginnings.
Lapham's moral rise and business failure, however, help him to make a social adjustment, even though it is a step back. Silas, at least, realizes that there are social differences between himself and the educated Coreys. Before his fall, he believes himself to be their equal, if not superior, in dollars. Later, he sees that without his money be is nothing, while the Coreys can survive socially without it.
His step back into the land of his origins re-establishes stronger roots for his family and gives them the dignity of a tradition not entirely based on quickly earned money. In his moral rise, Silas' pride is stifled; he denies the temptation to seize every possible opportunity of trampling on others to gain material prosperity for himself. Bound again to his society, he learns to live for others. He outdoes even the Coreys as civilized man, for he triumphs over barbaric isolation. He learns to face the new set of values of the modern age by conforming to the old, basic rule of morality: Love Thy Neighbor. This humanitarian act of devotion is the only way to conceive of an all-loving God, bringing Lapham into contact with the spiritual world.
The moral rise of Silas Lapham, sparked with its elements of comedy and tragedy, told romantically and realistically, is made more pointed by Howells' use of symbols, which will be considered next.
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What guys like you and Shadow forget is that this is not a sporting event where we're cheering for teams.
Why would any sane persons ego be hurt? Why would any sane person think "ATi has been kicking their ass"?
Heh- if anything ATi is HELPING my ass. If NVIDIA didn't have any competition, I doubt they'd have bother with a focus group, and I wouldn't get the review samples to give my impression of. They'd just sell whatever they make, and we'd all have to buy it, because there would be nothing else.
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feel bad when NVIDIA has the fastest card on the market? Have you ever given any thought to whether that is mature or "normal"? Seems to me you must think it's a normal state of affairs to have one's ego hurt by these events that are beyond your control and largely shouldn't matter to anyone but employees of either firm, if you're assuming we would react in this way.
Something to think about Kapt- and maybe speak to a psychiatrist about. Help is available.
Funny stuff Rollo, but don't lose your day job.
My point is this. Everytime someone in here posts something positive about ATI, the fanboys here all get their pantines in a wad. Oh ATI sucks.....oh thier drivers suck..........oh thier cards suck. Give me a friggin' break people. It is like thier egos are bruised or something. It's the old FORD vs. CHEVY metality. An absolutley rediculous argument. Some model years ARE BETTER than others. You win some, you lose some. All I'm saying is that ATI is winning right now, and their cards are the best RIGHT NOW....period. Just like Nvidia's 8800 series cards were THE BEST at one point. And there is no assuming here, just look at all the negative posts here in response to giving ATI some some well deserved credit. And sorry, no psychiatrist neccessary.....just calling it like I see it here.
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