The Pink Book, published by VisitEngland, is an essential publication on legislation for small accommodation providers. Among a wide range of subjects it informs business owners of their rights when guests damage property or cancel bookings and the responsibilities owners have towards their guests, for example, what special provisions are needed for disabled guests, who is responsible if there is an injury or the theft of property, copyright law on the playing of music to food hygiene regulations. Copies of the publication will be ordered for the Library but it's also available free of charge to all members of VisitEngland’s Accommodation Quality Assessment scheme. To request your free copy, please contact feedback@visitengland.org. The Pink Book 2012
The Pink Book, published by VisitEngland, is an essential publication on legislation for small accommodation providers. Among a wide range of subjects it informs business owners of their rights when guests damage property or cancel bookings and the responsibilities owners have towards their guests, for example, what special provisions are needed for disabled guests, who is responsible if there is an injury or the theft of property, copyright law on the playing of music to food hygiene regulations. Copies of the publication will be ordered for the Library but it's also available free of charge to all members of VisitEngland’s Accommodation Quality Assessment scheme. To request your free copy, please contact feedback@visitengland.org. City Welcomes Youth Baseball Tournament to Richmond
The city of Richmond and the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League (MJBL) are joining together to sponsor the Inner City Classic tournament in Richmond. The Classic, which is the oldest and longest running inner city baseball tournament in the country, will begin on July 31 and continue through Aug. 5. Games will be held on almost every field in Richmond, including The Diamond, and will include
Help a Child Fall in Love with Tennis
Would you like to engage your child in an activity that will help keep them active and healthy, and that they may enjoy for a lifetime? If so, the City’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities and the Healthy Richmond Campaign has the program for you. And best of all it’s free!
This Saturday, July 28, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the department will teach the exciting
NYC Fitness Gurus Offer Free Workout in Byrd Park
Join New York fitness gurus Lisa and Priest Priestly of WholeLifeStyles Inc. for a free workout in Byrd Park beside Fountain Lake on Saturday, Aug. 4, at 9 a.m. The city’s Healthy Richmond Campaign and the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League are partnering to host this event for fans and the public during the Inner City Classic youth baseball tournament, July 31 through August 5.
Lisa
London becomes the new Venice?
Like postcards from the future, familiar views of the capital have been digitally transformed by illustrators Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones. They bring home the full impact of global warming, food scarcity, rising sea levels"London has become uninhabitable,
as every year the Thames Barrier is overwhelmed by spring tides"
and how all Londoners will need to innovate and adapt to survive.
Discover London
Do you want to know what lies above ground as you wait in the tube at Camden Town? Have you ever asked 'What say the bells of Shoreditch?'
Ok, even if you haven't but are planning a trip to London soon, a timely new iPad app has just been released to give a detailed history of the city.
Working as a guide book/map/encyclopedia in one, “London: A City Through Time” gives almost 2000 years of history - 'on tap'.
Pic taken by Kevin Connors (Morguefile)
Be part of World Tourism Day 2012!
This year, WTD 2012 (27th September) is being held under the theme 'Tourism & Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable Development'. This will aim to highlight tourism’s role in a brighter energy future in which the world’s entire population has access to modern, efficient and affordable energy services.
Find out more and how you can get involved here
Kids Can Eat Free All Summer
The department is working to ensure no child goes hungry this summer with the Summer Meals for Kids program. The program provides hundreds of thousands of free meals for children throughout the Richmond area every summer. All any child between the ages of one and 18 has to do to eat free is walk into any of the more than 125 sites around the city where the meals are served. No advanced
Recreation Ground the book on Amazon and so on
Although it isn't officially published until October, Recreation Ground the book - published by Two Rivers Press - is now available for pre-order from Amazon. That said, of course, orders direct to Two Rivers and purchases from your humble correspondent would be a more than welcome alternative once it has been published. Opportunities to do just that should occur in Bristol and Reading (UK) in September, Prague (Czech Republic) in October and Bristol again (UK) in November. Ongoing comments, tasters and the like are on the book's Facebook page here.
Register for Youth Football, Cheerleading
Children who live in the city, between the ages of 5 and 14, and are not beyond eighth grade in school, can register to play football or become a cheerleader this fall with the Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities. Registration cost just $25 per child and will take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on July 28 and August 18 at the following community centers:
Battery Park,
Conference
Conference announcement & Call for Papers
ACTIVE COUNTRYSIDE TOURISM
23-25 January 2013, Leeds, UK
The Regional Studies Association
Research network on tourism and regional development
In association with
International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality (ICRETH)
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
ACTIVE COUNTRYSIDE TOURISM
23-25 January 2013, Leeds, UK
The Regional Studies Association
Research network on tourism and regional development
In association with
International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality (ICRETH)
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Key Dates:
29 September 2012 – deadline for submission of abstracts.
8 October 2012 – notification of accepted abstracts.
7 January 2013 – deadline for registration.
23-25 January 2013 – research network meeting.
Paper proposals (title and an abstract of not more than 300 words) should be submitted to Dr Kate Dashper – k.dashper@leedsmet.ac.uk
'Samuel Mapping The Dead': The Future Cemetery at Arnos Vale, Bristol
'Samuel Mapping The Dead' is a short piece of theatre I was commissioned to write for The Future Cemetery project at Bristol's Arnos Vale Cemetery - a project to explore ways of bringing heritage to life using performance and technology in various combinations. Four pieces were given a 'test drive' at the cemetery on 30 June: here's film of my contribution as performed by Doug and Alex of Invisible Circus (in between rain showers) that afternoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmC87fcYgqE
Vermosh, Albania
Some YouTube excursions from where we will be in three weeks' time with the Balkans Peace Park Project ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfZrHfO2608 Sorry about the completely inappropriate soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H36xl_zSvIY&feature=related A social gathering followed by footage from the road into the valley - ulp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N6kLkUmzz0&feature=related The Miss Bjeshka competition in Vermosh in 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3iZVmgtIHg&feature=related And now the region in a kind of MTV-friendly format - for some reason this song reminds me of Public Image Limited.
Books again for a change
The Country Where No One Ever Dies Presented as a novel, Albanian writer Ornela Vorpsi's slim tome is probably best described as a collection of short stories. From chapter to chapter, the identity of the narrator seems to shift, while the precise setting of each episode often remains unclear. As a result, it has an uncertain fabulous atmosphere familiar from some of Ismail Kadare's work: each narrative might be archetypal, might be hearsay. A bitingly unsentimental portrait of both communist Albania and traditional patriarchy, it's also a bitter lament for a lost home.
Rules of the Road Mike Manson's hippy road-trip novel set in the Balkans - good fun, with lots of well-turned jokes, mostly at the expense of dim-witted Westerners (which makes a change). One of the few works of fiction (in English) to mention the Han i Hotit border crossing post in northern Albania.
Women Who Become Men Hugely readable anthropological study of the 'sworn virgins' of northern Albania by Antonia Young. I should probably have read this about six years ago.
Slow Winter Alex Hickman pretends to be a 'war correspondent' in Sarajevo before travelling to Albania to organise an international business conference just as Albania's about to plunge into the notorious 'pyramid lending scheme' disaster. He must have been there around the same time as Robert Carver (of The Accursed Mountains), but while he's not averse to the odd Albanianist comment, Hickman does at least give the place and, more importantly, its population the benefit of the doubt.
The Tao of Travel Paul Theroux makes a concerted effort to become the voice of contemporary travel writing with what is, against all expectations, quite an entertaining compendium - although, to be honest, his wants-to-have-his-cake-and-eat-it stance that travel writing doesn't have ethical consequences (in its portrayal of 'others') but is also key to our understanding of the world and ourselves does start to grate after a while. Come on, Theroux, is it a worthwhile genre or not, eh? This kind of dithering is possibly why I can't watch his son Louis's equally want-it-can't-have-it documentaries on TV.
Rules of the Road Mike Manson's hippy road-trip novel set in the Balkans - good fun, with lots of well-turned jokes, mostly at the expense of dim-witted Westerners (which makes a change). One of the few works of fiction (in English) to mention the Han i Hotit border crossing post in northern Albania.
Women Who Become Men Hugely readable anthropological study of the 'sworn virgins' of northern Albania by Antonia Young. I should probably have read this about six years ago.
Slow Winter Alex Hickman pretends to be a 'war correspondent' in Sarajevo before travelling to Albania to organise an international business conference just as Albania's about to plunge into the notorious 'pyramid lending scheme' disaster. He must have been there around the same time as Robert Carver (of The Accursed Mountains), but while he's not averse to the odd Albanianist comment, Hickman does at least give the place and, more importantly, its population the benefit of the doubt.
The Tao of Travel Paul Theroux makes a concerted effort to become the voice of contemporary travel writing with what is, against all expectations, quite an entertaining compendium - although, to be honest, his wants-to-have-his-cake-and-eat-it stance that travel writing doesn't have ethical consequences (in its portrayal of 'others') but is also key to our understanding of the world and ourselves does start to grate after a while. Come on, Theroux, is it a worthwhile genre or not, eh? This kind of dithering is possibly why I can't watch his son Louis's equally want-it-can't-have-it documentaries on TV.
Webinar - Travel & Tourism
Euromonitor will be hosting a free Travel & Tourism webinar:
Angelo Rossini, Travel and Tourism Analyst and Caroline Bremner,
Head of Travel and Tourism Research, will discuss
the impact of the internet on tourism.
July 10 at 3pm GMT
Click here to register (at least a day before the live session).
Once you register, you will receive an email shortly after from
WebEx with your login details.
Veronaville
Summerdream
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 4
Funds: §20,500
"The Summerdreams' kindly nature and zest for life have cast a romantic spell over Veronaville's youth. But will there be any magic left for Puck?"
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Monty (Main)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 4
Funds: §20,500
"Patrizio Monty never forgot Consort Capp's broken promise. But now his grandson Romeo has fallen for the Capp heiress. Will the elders live to see the two families united?"
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Capp (Main)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 4
Funds: §19,500
"Juliette Capp has fallen for Romeo, golden child of the rival Monty clan, Can the Capps aside their grudge and put Juliette's happiness first?"
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Capp (Goneril's Household)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 6
Funds: §22,000
"Goneril's husband Albany wanted a big family, and he got it. Will their offspring carry on the Capp traditions, or smash the establishment to smithereens?"
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Monty (Antonio's Household)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 3
Funds: §18,500
"Recently widowed, Antonio must either give up his job at the family restaurant and use his savings to rasie his twins Beatrice and Benedick, or hire help and keep the job he loves. What will be his role in the family feud that may of cost him his wife?"
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Capp (Regan's Household)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 3
Funds: §20,500
"Regan and her husband Cornwall are preoccupied with their careers, but Bianca Monty's affections for Regan's brother Kent have the household on alert. Will Kent have the courage to break the vendetta?"
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Monty (Bianca)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 1
Funds: §16,500
"Bianca Monty is happy to be out on her own, but can she find someone to make a family with?"
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Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 4
Funds: §20,500
"The Summerdreams' kindly nature and zest for life have cast a romantic spell over Veronaville's youth. But will there be any magic left for Puck?"
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Monty (Main)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 4
Funds: §20,500
"Patrizio Monty never forgot Consort Capp's broken promise. But now his grandson Romeo has fallen for the Capp heiress. Will the elders live to see the two families united?"
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Capp (Main)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 4
Funds: §19,500
"Juliette Capp has fallen for Romeo, golden child of the rival Monty clan, Can the Capps aside their grudge and put Juliette's happiness first?"
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Capp (Goneril's Household)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 6
Funds: §22,000
"Goneril's husband Albany wanted a big family, and he got it. Will their offspring carry on the Capp traditions, or smash the establishment to smithereens?"
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Monty (Antonio's Household)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 3
Funds: §18,500
"Recently widowed, Antonio must either give up his job at the family restaurant and use his savings to rasie his twins Beatrice and Benedick, or hire help and keep the job he loves. What will be his role in the family feud that may of cost him his wife?"
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Capp (Regan's Household)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 3
Funds: §20,500
"Regan and her husband Cornwall are preoccupied with their careers, but Bianca Monty's affections for Regan's brother Kent have the household on alert. Will Kent have the courage to break the vendetta?"
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Monty (Bianca)
Created: 07/05/12
English
Residents: 1
Funds: §16,500
"Bianca Monty is happy to be out on her own, but can she find someone to make a family with?"
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Completion Of PS2 StoryMode Pt1
HMS Amore
Created: 06/21/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 64 x 64
Residents: 3
The HMS Amore is a yacht that the player unlocks by fulfilling Isabella's gold and platinum wants.
The residents are Betty Buttercup, Nelson Longfellow, and Hector Fromagero. The ship is at a dockyard
by the ocean. Even though it is a ship, there is only one floor. It has a love tub; the pictured arcade
was removed before release.
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Sunset Canyon
Created: 06/23/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 50 x 50
Residents: 4
Sunset Canyon is the first lot in Strangetown (or Strangeville). The lot is covered by desert,and there is a graveyard where three premade Sims are buried (Helga Mandrake, Shelia Deadbones & Billy Specter). All Sims have Platinum Wants to become human again. (they are alive on this lot,it took forever for them to visit as ghosts on the lot)
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Tranquility Falls
Created: 06/26/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 64 x 64
Residents: 4
Tranquility Falls is a residential lot in The Sims 2 for consoles. It is inhabited by Chantel Leer,
Larry Liu, Candi and Goopi.
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Alien Crash Site
Created: 06/28/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 64 x 64
Residents: 3
The Alien Crash Site is a lot in the console version of The Sims 2 where XY-XY Smith, XHT-F Smith,
and Jonas Bragg live. The lot is in the desert, and is quite big, since it contains two houses. XY-XY
has a +80 relationship with XHT-F and a +10 with Jonas. Jonas has a -15 with XHT-F.
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Bio Dome
Created: 07/01/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 64 x 64
Residents: 4
Bio Dome is a lot on the Story Mode of The Sims 2 for console and is unlocked after the player completesall the gold wants at the Alien Crash Site. After the player completes the platinum want (Help Noel),the final cutscene plays. Four playable Sims live there, namely Wooster Piggins, Jessica Jones, Noel Howard, and Gilda Geld.
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
pictures of inside of the building and sims are located at Rachy & Her Chitter Chatter
Created: 06/21/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 64 x 64
Residents: 3
The HMS Amore is a yacht that the player unlocks by fulfilling Isabella's gold and platinum wants.
The residents are Betty Buttercup, Nelson Longfellow, and Hector Fromagero. The ship is at a dockyard
by the ocean. Even though it is a ship, there is only one floor. It has a love tub; the pictured arcade
was removed before release.
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Sunset Canyon
Created: 06/23/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 50 x 50
Residents: 4
Sunset Canyon is the first lot in Strangetown (or Strangeville). The lot is covered by desert,and there is a graveyard where three premade Sims are buried (Helga Mandrake, Shelia Deadbones & Billy Specter). All Sims have Platinum Wants to become human again. (they are alive on this lot,it took forever for them to visit as ghosts on the lot)
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Tranquility Falls
Created: 06/26/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 64 x 64
Residents: 4
Tranquility Falls is a residential lot in The Sims 2 for consoles. It is inhabited by Chantel Leer,
Larry Liu, Candi and Goopi.
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Alien Crash Site
Created: 06/28/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 64 x 64
Residents: 3
The Alien Crash Site is a lot in the console version of The Sims 2 where XY-XY Smith, XHT-F Smith,
and Jonas Bragg live. The lot is in the desert, and is quite big, since it contains two houses. XY-XY
has a +80 relationship with XHT-F and a +10 with Jonas. Jonas has a -15 with XHT-F.
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
Bio Dome
Created: 07/01/12
English
Occupied: No
Type: Residential
Lot Size: 64 x 64
Residents: 4
Bio Dome is a lot on the Story Mode of The Sims 2 for console and is unlocked after the player completesall the gold wants at the Alien Crash Site. After the player completes the platinum want (Help Noel),the final cutscene plays. Four playable Sims live there, namely Wooster Piggins, Jessica Jones, Noel Howard, and Gilda Geld.
Sims 3 Exchange Download
MediaFire Download
pictures of inside of the building and sims are located at Rachy & Her Chitter Chatter
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