Golly!
Blog News...travels lightning fast! "Good Riddance Day" in Times Square!
Golly!
Palace of Versailles Annex...Hotel accommodations! Travel & Leisure!
Regular visitors to the Tattler site are keen to the fact that the Palace of Versailles has been a noteworthy link on the web site for the past year or so!
One of my favorite haunts.
Now, jet setters - and those who savor the good life - will be able to book a room at the Versailles on the historic property in France next year!
The Hotel du Grand Controle - an Annex building at the edge of the Versailles estate - will be transformed into a 23-room Hotel (it has just been announced by public administrators).
The restoration and modernization of the 17th Century Palace will be overseen by a Belgian Company known as Ivy International, which has taken a 30-year lease on the estate.
To facilitate the transformation, the property is going through a rare property transfer - from that of a French Public Heritage site - to one under the auspices of Ivy in the private sector.
According to the master-planners of the illustrious project, the Hotel plans amount to a pioneer initiative.
"The building was given to us in a dilapidated state, so my concern was to save it," enthused Jean Jacques Aillagon (Chairman of the Versailles Palace).
The Versailles "Hotel" will be inaugurated at the end of 2011, and is expected to wow guests with awesome views of the Orangerie (the Greenhouse) and the Swiss Ornamental Lake.
The Palace was built by Louis XIV and was designed by his favorite architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
The Hotel du Controle served as the Official treasury for awhile - and then later - as part of the Officer's mess until 2006.
The exquisite building became part of the Versailles Estate in 2008.
The visionary plans have been orchestrated in recent days to boost the French economy.
Librarians...not all sweetness & light! LA TIMES article lacked ethics in journalism!
Nasty Librarians preside over computer lab at Riordan showpiece!
I chortled out loud when I read the article in today's LA Times which blamed the "homeless" for disrupting the otherwise serene environs of a handful of the local libraries in LA LA LAND.
Granted, a few of the hapless individuals referred to have distinctive offensive body odors - and the desperate are inclined to haul their worldly possessions into the hallowed halls of the world of catalogued literature - for want of a place to stow 'em.
For the most part, though, the outcry is unfounded - an unjust promulgation by a posse of snotty library personnel who are too ignorant to fathom (make intelligent sense of) the root of the problem.
In the films of yesteryear (one old classic - "The Music Man" - springs to mind) librarians were oft singled out - as a handful of classy women - who epitomized all that was sweetness and light!
The old hags who preside over the City-run premises - in this era - leave a lot to be desired in the personality department (for starters).
In fact, a couple of the Latino staff - short, fat, crawling with nasty eruptions on the skin (who haughtily preside over the computer lab in the downtown Library with an old evil-eye in all directions) - give credence to critics' arguments that the so-called "caretakers" should never be granted too much power in respect to the decision-making process (especially when it comes to determining who is entitled to avail themselves of the services therein).
Indeed!
To become a full-fledged librarian an individual is required to painstakingly toil over books and earn a degree or two.
And, if the system had its druthers - also be required to display a modicum of personality, wit, knowledge of literature, semblance of intelligence (even a tad bit of charm) - you name it!
However, the losers at the libraries in town - who boast a GED or a course or two at the local community college (egads, what a joke!) - fall short in that regard quite honestly.
Hands down, Mr. Mayor!
In fact, it shocks the sensibilities.
Most of the losers I am referring to are under the mistaken impression that because they hold down a job on the counter (or at a lowly desk next to the loo) that they have the right to be called a bona fide custodian of books!
Go figure.
From my experience (based on an occasion-or-two when I have trekked in to the Beverly Hills Library or the fancy-schmancey facility in Santa Monica to seek assistance at the desk) few, if any, appear to be overly anxious to get off their fat butts and offer up any worthwhile assistance to the patrons!
And, that is the crux of the problem, really.
As the old saying goes:
"There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians!"
Due to budget constraints, libraries are currently being forced to limit services - and, in some cases - close their doors a day or two a week to make ends meet.
Part of the reason for the "financial crunch" is obvious to anyone with half-a-brain or an ounce of reasoning power.
Let's face the ugly truth!
The library is overstaffed with low-life employees - "lay-abouts" - and "do-nothings".
The City should turf out half-of these jerk-offs and demand that the remaining few on payroll earn their salaries!
Shame on the Los Angeles Times for its lack of fairness and ethics in journalism - and the eyebrow-raising report on a set of distorted circumstances - they have concluded has reeked havoc of late at the local libraries.
For those who missed the misguided poorly-written article?
It was a one-sided account of things - penned by a reporter - who didn't even bother to interview any of the individuals (the homeless) cited as the disruptive force that now threatens a once-sacred refuge of the past:
The Public library!
Nuff said!
http://www.thetattler.biz/
Marian the Librarian
(The Music Man)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
