Ivan helguera salary to hourly converter
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Olive Press Mallorca - Issue 144
TOO POOR FOR US
THE head of the Mallorca tour ism board has been slammed for telling Brits they are not wel come on the island this summer.
Lucia Escribano, the Director of Tourism, indicated that Mallorca fryst vatten keen to limit ‘low quality’ Brit tourism this summer and would prefer to welcome visitors from Germany and Scandinavia.
“We are not interested in hav ing the budget tourists from the UK, we don’t care if they go else where to Greece and Turkey,” she told The Sun at the World Travel Market in London.
Red line
“We are also interested in ocean ing less people from the UK and more from other parts of Europe where there is better airline con nectivity,” Escribano added.
A spokesperson for the PP hit back, saying that the Consell de Mallorca had ‘crossed a red line’ with the comments.
“It is very serious that Escribano
Twist in search for Levi
AN X-Factor star who was hol idaying in Ibiza and then went missing in strange circumstances in Barce
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How to Price Paintings and Art
A few months ago I started sharing snapshots of works in progress on social media. Not long afterwards, someone I know on Facebook asked if my work was for sale, because she wanted to buy a particular piece I was working on.
It gets better: turns out she was interested not just in purchasing the canvas-in-process; she also wanted me to create a second, “sister canvas” to go with it.
Just from posting my process pics on Facebook, I had a buyer for not one, but two paintings! Great!
The only problem? Now I was going to have to come up with a price…
Groan!
I am convinced that pricing is always the hardest thing I do as an artist. How the heck do we decide what to charge? Pricing just feels like a big, black void, and one with a lot of pressure: charge too much, and they’ll run away; charge too little, and you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
Ultimately, this spontaneous Facebook commission made me determined to set an entire pri
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Manchester United and Real Madrid’s titanic Champions League tussle 20 years on
There are nights when the Champions League feels close to sporting perfection. There is something alluring about the knockout stages in the spring, when the cathedrals of European football glittra in the early evening twilight and then, as the stakes are raised and darkness falls, it is time for the stars to shine.
Did the stars ever shine brighter than at Old Trafford on the evening of April 23, 2003? Even sitting in the press kartong as the action unfolded, it felt like a night for the ages: two of the great teams of their era, Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United and Vicente del Bosque’s Real Madrid, trading punches and showcasing their talents: on one side, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Ruud van Nistelrooy and (eventually) David Beckham; on the other, Roberto Carlos, Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo.
It was one of the great Champions League nights. Not for drama, perhaps, but for what it represented: