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A visit from the Goon Squad (original 2010; edition 2010)
by Jennifer Egan
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I loved this book. Yes, it's confusing. Yes, it crossed the line between novel and short story collection...but who cares? It's entertaining and there is much to be learned from it. This was seriously one of those books that I read in a couple of sittings simply because I wanted to be friends with the characters.
Yes, I would totally recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good weekend read. I read it quickly and loved it, gave it to my own mom who felt the same way. Give it a try!
What a pretentious wank of a read. Not a fan.
A Visit from the Goon Squad was alright. I get the time metaphor and perhaps how that had something to do with the disjointed way the story was written. Egan is good at writing nice sentences about how people are thinking about themselves. But other than that, there wasn't a whole lot of wow going on here. There were two interesting chapters to me: the African safari and the future chapter. Africa was cool because there was a very interesting safari guide who shoots a lion and saves someone's life. I wanted to read a book about that guy but I only got 10 pages or so. The future chapter is interesting because of how Egan speculates on what young people and technology will be like in 20 years. God, I hope she is wrong because it sounds pathetic and lame, but I think that's her point.
I expected more from a Pulitzer winner but what can you do?
This was not at all what I expected from the title. In fact, even having finished it, I really have no clue as to why it is called this at all, who the Goon Squad might be or who they might be visiting. If it happened in the novel anywhere, I missed it. Hmmmm….
What I did not expect was a kind of series of interconnected stories of people's lives as they aged and looked back on musical relationships they'd started with, lost and, kind of reconnected with… in some kind of future vision of post-apocalypse New York. And if that sounds like a fairly bonkers plot line then you'll realise why it wasn't what I was expecting.
I don't think anyone coming to this novel will expect it. The Chapter 1 kind of starts fine and you meet a character, Sasha. Then Chapter 2 starts and you wonder if you're in a different book. It's only towards the middle of the chapter that you realise this character, Bennie, is somehow (you're not quite sure how loosely) connected with Sasha. Then Chapter 3 begins and we're off again, except this time, the connection, however tenuous or significant, is with Bennie. And so on. One entire chapter is done as PowerPoint slides which I kind of liked actually.
While I enjoyed the read (and it was a pretty easy read), and I could tell you something about the characters and what happened to them, I can't for the life of me do more than guess why Egan might have written it. Wikipedia comes to the rescue here (and for an explanation of the title too), but then Wikipedia also reports Egan as saying she was inspired by Proust. Well, certainly not in terms of style she wasn't.
This is a novel that is fun to read and has interesting characters who you care about. It's probably best related to when you yourself, like the characters, have lost youth, innocence and opportunitites for success to look back on. Should be just about ready for it now then, eh?
Time and music. I had to read this one that's been sitting on the shelves since it has won numerous awards, also won the Tournament of Books ( http://www.themorningnews.org/tob/2011/ ) and will soon be a TV show. I was a little skeptical at the back of the book saying it's one of the smartest books you can find. I wasn't seeing it. But it's the way the characters and themes are intertwined that make the book smart. The book is set up almost like interconnected short stories, with some characters reappearing throughout many of the chapters. One chapter is a magazine article. Another chapter is even a Powerpoint presentation. But I think the last chapter is the smartest one, almost weaving many of the previous chapters together, bringing attention to interesting ideas, like how social media is kind of ruining things (ie: babies have handheld devices and can download music so musicians now target their music strictly to babies.) But social media also brings people together - the main character from the last chapter is running into people he knows at every intersection, on the way to a family concert at the Footprint in NYC, sometime after 2020. Each chapter could have almost been its own book and all of them were equally as interesting and important, though the last chapter gets the edge. Like an album of great songs that has one really great song, the last chapter would be that really great song. I did think some of the character names were a little heavy-handed (ie: Chronos or a lawyer named Atticus). It is amazing that so much fits in such a short book. There is a lot here and I like it a lot. I'm not sure why music is so prominent throughout - maybe because music is universal, like time. Time is a goon!
It is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories, but something in between: a series of chapters featuring interlocking characters at different points in their lives, whose individual voices combine to a create a symphonic work that uses its interconnected form to explore ideas about human interconnectedness. This is a difficult book to summarise, but a delight to read, gradually distilling a medley out of its polyphonic, sometimes deliberately cacophonous voices.
Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful yet wild novel. We begin in contemporaryish New York with kleptomaniac Sasha and her boss, rising music producer Bennie Salazar, before flashing back, with Bennie, to the glory days of Bay Area punk rock, and eventually forward, with Sasha, to a settled life. By then, Egan has accrued tertiary characters, like Scotty Hausmann, Bennie's one-time bandmate who all but dropped out of society, and Alex, who goes on a date with Sasha and later witnesses the future of the music industry. Egan's overarching concerns are about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, and lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn. Or as one character asks, How did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about? Egan answers the question elegantly, though not straight on, as this powerful novel chronicles how and why we change, even as the song stays the same.
Jennifer Egan's new novel is a moving humanistic saga, an enormous nineteenth-century-style epic brilliantly disguised as ironic postmodern pastiche. It has thirteen chapters, each an accomplished short story in its own right; characters who meander in and out of these chapters, brushing up against one another's lives in unexpected ways; a time frame that runs from 1979 to the near, but still sci-fi, future; jolting shifts in time and points of view—first person, second person, third person, Powerpoint person; and a social background of careless and brutal sex, careless and brutal drugs, and carefully brutal punk rock. All of this might be expected to depict the broken, alienated angst of modern life as viewed through the postmodern lens of broken, alienated irony. Instead, Egan gives us a great, gasping, sighing, breathing whole.
Although shredded with loss, "A Visit From the Goon Squad" is often darkly, rippingly funny. Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart.
If Jennifer Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. Her new novel, "A Visit From the Goon Squad," is a medley of voices -- in first, second and third person -- scrambled through time and across the globe with a 70-page PowerPoint presentation reproduced toward the end.
I know that sounds like the headache-inducing, aren't-I-brilliant tedium that sends readers running to nonfiction, but Egan uses all these stylistic and formal shenanigans to produce a deeply humane story about growing up and growing old in a culture corroded by technology and marketing. And what's best, every movement of this symphony of boomer life plays out through the modern music scene, a white-knuckle trajectory of cool, from punk to junk to whatever might lie beyond. My only complaint is that "A Visit From the Goon Squad" doesn't come with a CD.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307477479, Paperback)Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
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Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future.… (more)
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That's the best 1 I herd in a long time
This is the best one I have heard so far. I'm going to use this. Thanks! P. S my friend used this and a guy cried. A lot of people use it at school
I laughing so hard that I almost pissed on my pants and I could not talk
This ain't yo mama jokes you idiot it's insults 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎V25 Comments
Oh this is hot
I'm using this on my dad
I thought that was funny. I'm totally using that diss in a dissing contest
HA HA HA! That is so funny as hell!V30 Comments
HAHA SO FUNNY! THIS IS FAR THE MOST BEST JOKE ever! I SAID IT TO MY BRO AND HE STARTED CRYING LIKE HELL
So funny... Laugh out loud ^____^... (as well as so insulting)... Plus this is the best
I did the same to my bro and he cry out loud
Say something bad but it still funny
That's so funny and mean at the same timeV37 Comments
This is so funny whoever made it up is a friken genius:]
That is so awesome
! Funniest thing I have Heard All Day! Still laughing! Ha Ha!
Top ten for sureV20 Comments
Call the fire department, cause you just got burned
Classic insult, I don't remember who actually said it first..
It is amazingly funny! I totally am gonna share this with my bff! AMAZING! HILARIOUS
Quick! Rush them to the hospital!V28 Comments
Absolute AMAZING one! The lad went walking away like his mothers FAT backside
Oh my gawd! Hilarious, I said this to my little brother and he got really baffled because I don't think he even knows what eBay is! Whew, I'm still cracking up.
I said it to my crush (That I used to hate). All he can said is "stupid hoe". Lmfao! Then I said if he's so stupid that brain surgeon are having a hard time. God damn! He doesn't give any respond. He can't say anything!
I like it, it's good to use in a argumentV34 Comments
That would make someone cry, I'm a hurtful person but this joke makes me seem like a nice person, It's funny and extremely mean
THIS IS so AMAZING. PERFECT, ORIGINAL! CAN PICTURE SOMEONE THAT UGLY, ACTUALLY I KNOW SOMEONE THAT UGLY! BEST EVER!
Ooh I heard this one!V28 Comments
This is a funny insult. DOUBLE HIT! I told this to my ex girlfriend. She was really sexy and she liked me, and now I can't talk to her. IT WAS STILL WORTH IT
WAY TOO EPIC! How did you even invent such a cruel insult? You must be such a d* in real life
This was surprisingly satisfying, not only does it offend them behavior wise but also offends them in a decent manner instead of trying to insult in a rude way..
Oh my god. So hurtV31 Comments
Very good - excellent for people who don't have friends! (we all know someone like that, don't we? )
Wicked I would use that on nearly all my enemys
That was one of the funniest on this page, literally had me on the floor dying. I could use this on my enemies or my cousins or my sister, and I bet they will give me a look, but it'll be worth it
That's hilarious I'm gonna use it on the know it all kid in my class and I'll probably be considered a heroV13 Comments
Laugh out loud THAT WAS HILARIOUS THREE THUMBS UP MAN! BRAVO BRAVO!
Funny ill use it on everyone I know, almost as funny as number fifty eight
Rofl. This one cracked me up. I'll use it for sure
Ooh so funny lol!V17 Comments
I can't get over this... I've been laughing at my laptop for half an hour now
I have an obsession with yo mamma's so fat jokes. Thanks for the mental image. LAWL. Your mamma's not halal if she's related to whales...
Oh my gad this is so... I can even use that to my worst friend I can't get hold of laughters now laugh out loud laugh out loud
She must be very fatV48 Comments
It is so funny it made me fall of my chair because my brother started crying
This is epic - using it tomorrow for sure. Whoever made this is an epic genius
This ones a total puller when you wanna bust the hell outta your opponent in a crisp sentence...
Can't breath... So damn funny!V25 Comments
Genius. Made me laugh so hard
Haha me and my bestie couldn't stop laughing 4 ages
This joke is a better version then the I asked your weight not your phone number who ever thought of this is a legend
I laughed so hard for thisV47 Comments
That is like so mean! Especially if you family were affected by cancer! I would say never to use this! It is one of those things that you should o my ever use on a really really close friend...
I used to have a curable cancer and it was hell. I honestly am okay with cancer jokes though, and I make a few myself. But, to post it online so the world can see it? I'm sorry, I don't horridly dislike this, but people will get offended. You can bet your money on that, some people have actually had family members that got this disease.
Wow that's just the meanest thing I have ever read kick rocks and eat dirt!
Dude that's not even funny bro that is messed up and if cancer is your comedy then you're sickV110 Comments
A feasibly sensible joke about life, death and everything inbetween. Excellent
Nice and snappy! Good to say to a girl that thinks too much of herself
Seriously if someone dies because of this joke ill bury them in my back yard under the old oak tree please the reaction to some of these jokes makes me wonder how smart are you people if I were to tell this coma joke to my narcoleptic friend he would laugh his but off but remember that its how you deliver the joke that changes the way people take them try laughing directly after it makes a lot less room for tension
I laughing my ass of 👌V23 Comments
This one is pretty good, I'm surprised there are no comments!
HAHA, No one ever uses the term "visible fart". Awesome writer!
I cracked up so hard! Never heard anything like that before!V5 Comments
This insult is so cruel that it could make your mother cry. If you ever say this to someone they will either punch you or burst into a weeping ball of nothing. Nobody can say this insult sucks!
Haha did this to some random girl that I liked and she was like I love you
Lolololololol 20 minutes later I'm still laughing. I'm going to see how many of my friends cry with this.
Tried it on girlfriend and she promised to never marry me 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩V17 Comments
Laugh out loud definitely using dis one
I used this on a guy in my class that makes fun of my name. He said "oh yeah, well least I'm not the ugly one here! " Then I used one of the other insults higher on the list and said "I could eat alphabet soup and crap out a better comeback". He cried later that day. Now everyone in class calls me cameback bill
That was the worlds best diss I wish this true to all commenters but me
How is this 38 holy crap I'm so using thisV14 Comments
This is awful... Awfully funny. I'm sorry... This made me laugh so ' hard. I mean, yeah, stop bullying people in general. But, MUAHAHAHA.
THIS MADE ME LMAO SO HARD ITS AWFUL BUT HILARIOUS! IT MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD I NEARLY CHOCKED! LMAO I FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR ONTO THE GROUND! Love this one I'm gonna use it A LOT this is definitely my favourite joke YET :D oahahah if you didn't notice I'm still laughing.
Laugh out loud When I saw this, I cracked up! Best one I've seen here
Whoever created this is a genius. It is so funnyV27 Comments
That... Is beautiful. Even more-so because they person you've said it to would hardly understand.
I love taking the "You're an idiot" grounds on someone with something like that.
Said it to my friend didn't have a clue but my teacher was cracking up!
Hilarious! I can't wait to use this the next time I'm in line somewhere. Wish I could've used this today when the stinky guy behind me at the bank hunched over me like he was about to hump. Lmfao, great one!
My friend was stunned as I said this, she barely understood a single word but still cracked up laughing so thanks for this awesome insult!V27 Comments
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Don't know what is best, but here are a couple of other options that come to mind:
Pull it out of the cassette and wind it back in. (Do it fast so it isn't totally fogged).
Send through a checked luggage scanner at the airport.
Feed it to your dog (or pet goat, if you have one) and use it after you retrieve it.


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Lenovo ThinkPad Twist pictures and hands-on
Sitting in the business class of computers, the Twist offers a powerful Windows 8 laptop, with a twisting screen that allows it to become a tablet - albeit rather a chunky and functional-looking device.
While it lacks the funky Dell screen which flips over, we're fairly sure that the Twist has a more sturdy mechanism and will likely outlast the Dell. And that's important if this machine ends up in the hands of demanding business users, who travel a lot, but are expected by their IT departments to keep computers for as long as five years.
At the Windows 8 launch event, where we got to play with the Twist, the spec sheet read as having a 128GB SSD, and an Intel Core i7 processor. The machine itself had an i5 sticker on, but it's always hard to know from such a brief look if there will be a whole range, or if the i5 is just a prootype, or pre-production sample. However you look at it though, this is a powerful machine, and there's 8GB of RAM in there to keep things running.
We can't see the twist exciting normal consumers, but there are a fair few business users who will probably find it quite a useful machine.
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For all you fatties out there. I present to you your inspiration. Zoe, perfection.
are you serious? and what is your idea of fat huh??
a women with curves who actually looks good and healthy.
Zoe is gorgeous for sure but she has become really really thin and she doesnt look very healthy at all.
Hollywood have so much pressure to be super skinny which i'll never understand.
what is wrong with curvy, beautiful girls like the Kardashians, Jennifer Lawrence, Mila Kunis etc.
id really like to know who in tinseltown you believe to be fat, just so i can see if your ok in that head of yours.
Hollywood's pressure sadly isn't working because most girls are still fat. Don't believe me? Go take a look at any public place at any time in any city. That's just the facts, so don't get mad because somebody pointed out the facts.
name 5 celebs who are fat, girls with curves like Kim K, Jessica Simpson & Aubrey O'Day dont count.
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Sportsman Channel Renews Palin Show
Posted: 07/08/2014 - Sarah Palin is getting another term on television.
Posted: 07/08/2014 - Sarah Palin is getting another term on television.
Posted: 07/08/2014 - A group of shirtless protesters crashed a news conference by Rob Ford, shouting for Toronto's embattled mayor to resign.
Posted: 07/08/2014 - A Republican National Committee panel is recommending Cleveland to host the party's 2016 presidential convention.
Updated: 07/08/2014 - As he tackles what he has called a humanitarian crisis, President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $3.7 billion to deal with the minors from Central American who are illegally crossing the U.S. southern border.
Updated: 10/17/2014 - Sparks Mayor Geno Martini and challenger Gene Newhall answer questions in a sitdown with KOLO 8 News Now's Ed Pearce.
Posted: 07/07/2014 - Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation replacing language in state law that defines marriage as "between a man and a woman."
Posted: 07/07/2014 - At least at the polls in Nevada, state election officials say it's the Democratic, not the Democrat, Party.
Posted: 07/06/2014 - In some of the most crucial races for U.S. Senate in this midterm election, Republicans are all about tying Democrats to Obama - especially a health care law that remains wildly unpopular among conservative voters.
Posted: 07/04/2014 - President Barack Obama says 25 foreign-born service members who became U.S. citizens on the Fourth of July are vivid reminders that America is and always has been a nation of immigrants.
Updated: 07/03/2014 - The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has reached out to nearly 140,000 veterans in the past two months to get them off waiting lists and into clinics for medical appointments.
Posted: 07/03/2014 - Nevada schools are getting another year-long exemption from the tough requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Posted: 07/03/2014 - A Las Vegas Democrat has filed a bill draft request in the Legislature to abolish term limits for state and local candidates like the ones that kept some of the likely front-runners out of this year's race for Reno mayor.
Posted: 07/03/2014 - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he's used "every drug you can probably think of" and blamed substance abuse for the racist and homophonic language he's used.
Updated: 07/02/2014 - A U.S. Army spokeswoman says Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years, is being allowed to venture off the Texas military base where he is receiving care as part of his "reintegration process" into society.
Posted: 07/02/2014 - A federal judge ordered a Libyan militant charged in the 2012 Benghazi attacks to remain in U.S. custody.
Posted: 07/01/2014 - The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding $1.5 million to a Reno nonprofit that helps runaways and homeless youth get back on their feet.
Posted: 06/30/2014 - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has returned to work after a two-month stay in rehab.
Posted: 06/30/2014 - California's minimum wage is rising to $9 per hour, providing workers with the first increase since 2008.
Posted: 06/30/2014 - California's family laws would reflect the legality of same-sex marriage under a bill headed to the governor's desk.
Posted: 06/30/2014 - President Barack Obama says he's done waiting for House Republicans to act on immigration. He says he now plans to act on his own.
Posted: 06/30/2014 - A federal appeals court says it will consider Nevada's gay marriage ban on Sept. 8.
Updated: 06/30/2014 - The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
Updated: 06/30/2014 - President Barack Obama is selecting former Procter and Gamble executive Robert McDonald as his choice to be secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Posted: 06/29/2014 - President Barack Obama sees a rising threat that battle-hardened militants who have spent time in Syria and Iraq will be able to enter the United States on European passports.
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Book your room at Europa City Vilnius Hotel
Standard Double or Twin RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Business Room, 1 Double or 2 Single BedsMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)
Deluxe Room, 1 Double or 2 Single BedsMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)
Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly Vilnius hotel in City Center, near Vilnius Cathedral
This family-friendly hotel is located in the city center, within 1 mi (2 km) of Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania and Vilnius Cathedral. Vilnius University and Vilnius Town Hall are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
A restaurant, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a sauna, a steam room, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 128 soundproofed rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and minibars. Satellite TV, room service, and free newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a sauna, Europa City Vilnius Hotel features a steam room and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business amenities at this 3.5-star property consist of a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. 4 meeting rooms are available. This Art Deco hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Europa City Vilnius Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Fitness facilities
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 6
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Sauna
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Steam room
- Total number of rooms - 128
- Year Built 2003
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Soundproofed rooms
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Climate control
- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Minibar
- Private bathroom
- Room service (limited hours)
- Satellite TV service
- Shower/tub combination
- Soundproofed rooms
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Perfect - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna, a steam room, and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is Noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children under 12 years old stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 21 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available.
Pets allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 7 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 17 per vehicle (one way)
- Pet fees vary based on length of stay
- Early check-in fee: EUR 21
- Late check-out fee: EUR 21
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 21 per night
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We had 3 fantastic nights here recently, it was superb. The rooms are very spacious and give the feeling of being up in the trees as they are on such a steep slope, walking back to the room burnt off a few calories after the great dinners we had there! The staff were very friendly & helpful. I spent a day just reading on our balcony & watching the monkeys and birds while my husband enjoyed walking in the nearby forests. Blissful.
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Globe recognizes Mustangs junior captain Erin Garczynski
Globe Correspondent May 4, 2014
Brianna Benedict , Norwell: In addition to pitching a complete game, the senior captain went 4 for 6 with four RBIs at the plate as the Clippers crushed Hull, 15-4.
Tyler Carey , Bridgewater-Raynham: The senior center fielder kept the Trojans on their perfect trek, clubbing two home runs in a 4-for-4, six-RBI performance in a 21-1 victory over Marshfield.
Erin Garczynski , Norwood: In a 2-1 nonleague win over Brockton, the junior drove in both runs. On Tuesday, she finished a triple shy of the cycle in a 7-1 Bay State Conference victory over Natick.
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There's a bit of change near the top of the rankings this week, as Bellingham and Norwood each make huge jumps to crack the top six.
Norwood moved up to No. 6 from No. 20 and Bellingham broke into the rankings for the first time at No. 5. Admittedly, this was an oversight, but credit where credit is due: both teams are undefeated and have earned the recognition. Norwood has won three one-run games, including two this week, and has allowed one or fewer runs five times this season. Bellingham features fantastic pitching from senior Megan Cook, who had 13- and 15-strikeout games last week.


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Statoil (NYSE:STO) is relying partly on the successful development of the company's oil sands projects in Canada to meet its goal of increasing production by 3% annually through 2020. The company is also counting on exploration and development success in various prospects located offshore of eastern Canada.
TUTORIAL: Financial Concepts
Onshore Canada
Statoil had interests in approximately 273,000 acres of land at the Kai Kos Dehseh project in the oil sands in Alberta, and in November of 2010, it announced a 40% interest of the land will be sold. The $2.3 billion transaction was closed early 2011. The company has leases in four separate areas - Corner, Hangingstone, Thornbury and Leismer, and it is using steam-assisted gravity drainage to develop the oil sands.
Statoil recently started up production from the Leismer Demonstration Project on its lease and over the next two years will ramp up to productive capacity of 18,800 barrels per day, once the company receives approval from the regulatory authorities. The ultimate capacity of this area is 40,000 barrels per day.
Statoil has received approval to move forward on the Corner project and expects this area to have peak production capacity of 40,000 barrels per day. The company expects all of the Kai Kos Dehseh leasehold to support total production of 220,000 barrels per day when fully developed.
Offshore Canada
Statoil has interests in two producing fields in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin located off the coast of Newfoundland. The company has a 5% interest in the Hibernia field, which is operated by Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and first started up production in 1997. The ownership of the field is shared by a number of other oil and gas companies including Chevron (NYSE:CVX), Suncor (NYSE:SU) and Murphy Oil (NYSE:MUR).
The company also has a 15% interest in the Terra Nova field, which started up production in 2002. Terra Nova is also co owned by many of the same oil and gas companies that are involved with Hibernia.
Statoil is involved with two development projects in this basin. The company has a 9.7% interest in the Hebron project, also operated by Exxon Mobil. This development is estimated to have heavy oil recoverable resources between 400 million and 700 million barrels. Statoil expects first oil here by 2017. (Learn more about investing in this area, check out Investing In Oil And Gas UTI's.)
The company also has a 10.5% interest in the Hibernia Southern Extension, which is under development by Exxon Mobil. The company expects this project to have peak production of 50,000 barrel of oil per day, with first oil expected in 2014.
One Statoil-operated discovery is the Mizzen Prospect located in the Flemish Pass basin. The company had a successful discovery well here in 2009 and now holds a Significant Discovery License on this prospect. (Find out how futures can predict energy prices, read Fueling Futures In The Energy Market.)
The Bottom Line
Statoil needs to successfully develop the company's leases in the oil sands of Canada as well as various long-term projects located offshore eastern Canada in order to meet the 3% annual production growth target through 2020.
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Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
Susan M. Johns
Series: Gender in History
Subject Area: History
BIC Category: Medieval history
Published: July 2003
216 x 138 mm
288 pages
Publisher: Manchester University Press
The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. Offers an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. Considers a wide range of literary sources such as chronicles, charters, seals and governmental records to draw out a detailed picture of noblewomen in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm. Asserts the importance of the life-cycle in determining the power of aristocratic women. Demonstrates that the influence of gender on lordship was profound, complex and varied.
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1. Power and portrayal
2. Patronage and power
Noblewomen and power: the charter evidence
3. Countesses
4. Witnessing
5. Countergifts and affidation
6. Seals
7. Women of the lesser nobility
8. Royal inquests and the power of noblewomen: the Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus of 1185
Appendix one: catalogue of seals from the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
Appendix two: noblewomen in the Rotuli de Dominabus
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Jennifer Hudson Gives Birth to David Otunga Jr.!
Jennifer Hudson, whose live has been struck by tragedy this year, welcomed a joyous new addition to her family late Monday when she gave birth to her first child.
The Academy Award winner and American Idol reject and fiancé David Otunga are proud parents of David Otunga, Jr., who weighed in at seven pounds, 14 ounces.


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