...Hotels I Love: Rosewood Mayakoba, Mexico Larry Olmsted , CONTRIBUTOR I travel to learn, eat, golf and ski, but mostly for travel’s sake Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I firmly believe that Mexico’s Riviera Maya (or Mayan Riviera), is one of the world’s great travel destinations. I have been to the region many times, and stayed in a lot of different resorts, and I think the best luxury hotel is the Rosewood Mayakoba. For readers unfamiliar with this recurring column, here is the three sentence lowdown: I travel a great deal and stay in many exceptional hotels worldwide, but only the very best make the cut for Hotels I Love. In almost every case these are properties I have visited multiple times over a period of years, so I know great service was not a fluke. It’s not “Hotels I Like,” or even “Hotels I Really Like,” and I only manage to find a few each year that qualify – they have to be that good. With most of the country caught in an exceptionally bitter winter of much lower than normal temperatures and storm after storm, sunny Mexico has never looked better. But the Riviera Maya, on the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, is especially appealing, and truly offers something for every taste. This 80-mile stretch of gorgeous coastline is situated immediately south of the excellent and easy to reach Cancun airport, away from often tacky Cancun itself, stretching south to the world famous ancient ruins of Tulum – the only Mayan city built on...
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...Questions for Pritz 1. If the 15th falls on the weekend, do we need to turn in the CFSR/CPR before or after the weekend? 2. D1522 Travel; Does this need to be EV? 3. Monte Carlo every quarter; is this SEAKR requirement or will Customer be handling this? 4. The SDRL document indicated that our deliverables are due 10 working days after accounting month close (not calendar days) 5. For EV methods, can we use 50/50 or are more appropriate X/Y EV needed. 1. If the 15th falls on the weekend, do we need to turn in the CFSR/CPR before or after the weekend? 2. D1522 Travel; Does this need to be EV? 3. Monte Carlo every quarter; is this SEAKR requirement or will Customer be handling this? 4. The SDRL document indicated that our deliverables are due 10 working days after accounting month close (not calendar days) 5. For EV methods, can we use 50/50 or are more appropriate X/Y EV needed. 1. If the 15th falls on the weekend, do we need to turn in the CFSR/CPR before or after the weekend? 2. D1522 Travel; Does this need to be EV? 3. Monte Carlo every quarter; is this SEAKR requirement or will Customer be handling this? 4. The SDRL document indicated that our deliverables are due 10 working days after accounting month close (not calendar days) 5. For EV methods, can we use 50/50 or are more appropriate X/Y EV needed. 1. If the 15th falls on the weekend, do we need to turn in the CFSR/CPR before or after the weekend? 2. D1522 Travel; Does this need to be EV? 3. Monte Carlo...
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...“What Happened to the Monte-Carlo?” Ruth Grey ENC 1101 – Composition 1 February 10, 2010 What Happened to the Monte-Carlo? It was a sunny; warmth summer day, the sky was baby blue with the features of creamy white soft clouds. With the cool breeze blowing softly, the day was innocently inviting, so I went out for a ride. Father and dominant brothers were in the drive-way, worked strenuously on father’s broken red truck. “Oh shoot! What am I going to do now?” I silently questioned myself with one eyebrow slightly upwards. “How am I going to get to the Monte Carlo.?” I kept talking to myself as I tried to think of some tactic, to get pass father and brothers, to get to the monte carlo, parked on the street. “Where do you think, you’re going young lady?” My father asked as I was too focused on getting into the shining brown Monte Carlo. “Ahhhh! I’m getting Mama some ice cream.” The voice belonged to me as I hopped into the interior of the Monte carol and made my way to the store. That day, I was going north on Atlantic Ave in Long Beach, through a heavy street traffic. With music blasting as I yelled sang my lungs out, it was another typical short ride to the store. To ignore the fear of my father’s voice, when I cruised off the house, I went fast, too fast passing numerous cars, despite of the busy traffic as I drove down on Atlantic Ave towards my destination. One quick second, that’s all it takes for everything to go right or wrong. My dark brown eyes opened...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a great American novel, which criticizes wealth in the American dream. Nick Carraway is the narrator who observes characters such as Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom primarily. Jay Gatsby wants the perfect American dream. He has worked most of his life to get the fame and wealth that will impress Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is his love. In Gatsby’s mind, she is the only girl for him. He is so in love with everything about her. Daisy, however, refuses to accept her love for Gatsby and ultimately chooses Tom in the end. Tom Buchanan is an arrogant jerk who cannot seem to relive his glory days as an elite football player. He tries to feel this void with mistresses, one being Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle wants the life that Daisy has. She wants Tom and the wealth and everything that comes with that lifestyle. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald criticizes his characters Daisy, Myrtle, and Gatsby, who all allow wealth to corrupt their dream because they think money can grant them anything their hearts desire. Fitzgerald criticizes the aspect of the American dream that having security in which money can provide does not compensate for the character’s life choices. In the novel, Gatsby desires unrealistic dreams of having the house, the car, and the children with Daisy. He has always wanted her ever since he saw her house. This house plays a big role in his fantasy of the real reason why he loves Daisy. He loves her house and her money and her life, but not so much her...
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...It is undeniable that for hundreds of years now, men all around the world have been using the services of hotels. For leisure or business, with family or friends, for a night or two weeks, it is getting more and more common to stay at a hotel and the hospitality industry is constantly expanding. New concepts are invented, new target markets are exploited… there are always new ways to achieve guest satisfaction while making money. However, these hotels do not all offer the same level of service and to differentiate their level of luxury, the star rating has been put in place. Stars vary from 1 to 5 and there are standards to respect to have a certain number of stars. The market of the luxury hotel business has been largely developed in France to answer an important demand. France is a tourist destination very appreciated worldwide by people who admired its culture, monuments and history. This is why a higher distinction was created almost four yours ago. Since November 8th 2010, a Palace distinction has been put in place to acknowledge hotels that present exceptional characteristics. This document will introduce the history of Palace, then it will present what the palace distinction means, the reason for this upper class name to be implemented and which standards a hotel needs to respect to become a Palace, finally we will study the different French Palace. History of Palaces The history of Palaces dates back to the 18th century. Nice, Pau, Cannes, Hyeres and...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby in 1922. This novel tells the story of Jay Gatsby in Nick Carraway point of view. Fitzgerald used the green light as a symbolism of dreams and hopes to show its significance in the novel. The green light is important in the novel, for it is used as the American Dream for Jay Gatsby. For example, the text states, “he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward — and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. k. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.” In these quotes, Jay Gatsby is standing on his lawn with his arms stretched out toward the dark water;” however, as soon as Gatsby disappears, Nick is alone in “darkness.” Later on in the story, the readers find out that the green light Nick saw Gatsby gazing at marks the end of Daisy's dock. Gatsby is in love with Daisy and has done things to try to win her heart such as buying a mansion near her. Therefore, this “green light” represents his dream of meeting Daisy once again and having a future together. The green light is only a green light to others such as Nick, but to Gatsby, it calls him in the night to remind him of his dreams. This light is always there for Gatsby, for he is constantly pursuing this dream. Conversely, Nick only sees...
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...At a young age, Gatsby separates himself from his family and dedicates his life towards becoming wealthy and gaining social status. To erase his history as the poor son of farmers, seventeen-year-old Gatsby changes his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. Following the changing of his name, Gatsby disassociates himself from every aspect of his past and later attempts to convince other people that he inherited his money and went to a prestigious school, and “to this conception he was faithful to the end” (98). In reality, Gatsby attends “a small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota,” where he has to work as a janitor to pay his tuition. He begins doing various jobs for a millionaire man named Dan Cody, who becomes Gatsby’s mentor. Seeing Dan Cody on his yacht inspires Gatsby to consider the possibility of becoming a member of high society. The yacht “represented all the beauty and glamour in the world” (100) to Gatsby. Through Dan Cody, Gatsby experiences the life of the upper class, and he decides that he wants to have a life exactly like that. When Dan Cody dies, he leaves Gatsby an inheritance, but Gatsby never receives it. Determined to acquire money another way, Gatsby takes part in illegal business. His natural ambition allows him to quickly become successful. With his money, Gatsby buys a house in West Egg and hosts extravagant parties in an attempt to gain popularity. Gatsby also adopts “an elaborate formality of speech that just missed being absurd” (48) in...
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...HAS 534 Case Study Riviera Medical Center Through the 1980’ and 1990’ Riviera Medical Center (RMC) become technological leader in the region. RMC had top of the line Cardiac, and Women and Children’s center. The whole workforce was highly trained. RMC was also at his top financial era. At that moment they had only one competitor in their region-Northern Valley Medial Center (NVMC). NVMC new approach was focusing on building base model medical group practice as groundwork to expand referral base. NVMC reinvested money in their new strategy plan instead updating and developing new facilities. While RMC strategy plan was focused on independent physicians attracted by the high tech authority provided by RMC. At that time RMC signed contract with Riviera County to acquire and close the old County Hospital, which stopped the county from selling the hospital to different investor, and the same time boost RMC’s census. Significant number of old County Hospital was uninsured and underinsured population, which created risk of changing demographics. Administration had concluded that the profit of additional volume would prevail demographics change over the next years. In this particular case, there is one major problem and all other problems seemed to have stemmed off this one. Unfortunately administration miscalculated profits and undervalued effects and pace of patient demographics changes. First immediate outcome of the contract was increase in number of emergency room...
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...LEARNING MODULE Computer College Effectivity: SY 2014-2015 Document Reference: QR-AAD-013 Life and Works of Jose Rizal (SSCI 111) Revision No: 00 Issue No: 01 Date Issued: LEARNING MODULE TITLE The Historical Background of the Rizal Law and 19th Century Philippines LEARNING MODULE RATIONALE In this module, we will discuss the historical context of the Rizal Law. Before we tackle Jose Rizal’s life and works, it is important discuss its legal basis and the issues surrounding it for us to understand why we need to study this course and what we must achieve in studying it. Historians agree that every historical actor is a product of his time, therefore it is equally important and beneficial for our study to learn the historical context of Jose Rizal – the social, economic and political milieu of his time in order to contextualize our study of his life and works. Doing away with historical context, might mislead us from a genuine reading and understanding of Jose Rizal’s life and works. In order to achieve this, we will start our study by having a glimpse of the 19th century Philippines or the last century of Spanish colonial regime in the Philippine. LEARNING OUTCOMES The following are the learning outcomes we are expected to achieve at the end of the lesson: Understand the historical background and rationale of the Rizal Law and the Historical context of 19th Century Philippines • Explain the rationale of the Rizal Law • Discuss the historical context of the Rizal Law...
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...1 .STUDY OF VEGETABLE OIL SECTOR 1.1 Introduction Food sector takes its source from the beginning of the human life so it has an agelong past, and it keeps its existance. The acceleration of food consumption rises in connection with the growing world population and that threats the adricultural activities and the foodstuff potentials. To get one step forward in this market; while the searches for new technologies and new methods have been developed to increase the productivity, some of them are trying to be seperated from this competition by different alternatives like organic agriculture. With the fluctuation in the market, especially in raw materials the challenge is getting tougher. One of these raw materials are the oilseeds that contains sunflower, corn, olive, soybean. In vegetable oil business even the variations don’t be observed, the comsumption is growing up. In the world market the vegetable oils are seperated into three groups as olive and nut, sunflower and corn, and cotton. The agriculture characteristics and production types change from one country to another. For example in USA and Italy soybean is the major vegetable oil but in Turkey and Spain sunflower takes the first place. Besides; USA, Brasil and China are leading the oilseed production in all over the world. In Turkey the oils that has produced are mostly from the sunflower(nearly 50%). Nearly 35% of the vegetable oils are produced from the cottonseed and remains are produced...
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...Riviera Radio, that is a one of the successful station in Monaco, is not smoothly from the beginning. It established by Princess Grace’s ideal and her friends from 1950’s. They want to offer a radio place for the Anglophone community. In the initial period, it provided to transmit music, and permanent residents, and advertisements to the Anglophone community in the initial Riviera. Nevertheless, it had met several problems. At first, a variety of people, jobs, and lifestyle: The signal from Italian across Monaco to French and there are over 120 nationalities in there, how can it cater for everyone's flavors? Another problem is advertisers: for RR(Riviera Radio), the most important part of money is for advertisers. It needed to find ways to disinter more clients and advertisers. Paul Kavanagh was given this mission in 2003. Besides, he thought the core value of RR is “Anglo”. In addition, he went to RR to be best friend of their clients. In order to fulfill his mission, he offers three orientations for RR. First, the female listeners were decreasing to 40% of total listeners in 2006, so he decided to add one woman, Elizabeth Lewis, with Peter and Rob who are hosts too in the noontime. Furthermore, he provided both female voices to the prime time slot in order to retrieve their female clients. Another orientation is that he tried to increase the listeners of Russian because he found that Russian consumption is a huge part of the industry's revenue Monaco. The last is about the...
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...Restoration is an expensive proposition. Even if you can perform most of the work yourself, it's still going to cost you a tidy five-figure sum to buy the necessary parts, materials and paint supplies needed to transform an old car from a worn-out relic to a dazzling show beauty. If you've decided to restore a particular old car because you have a longstanding attachment to that model and are not concerned about its value or whether parts can be easily found, then we applaud you--that mindset should be the primary focus of this great hobby of ours. However, if you enjoy old car restoration but prefer your projects to be easy and relatively cheap to do--with, perhaps, the added bonus of making a few dollars on it when it's done--then these are the cars you should consider for your next venture. Of course, the majority of these cars won't make you stand apart from the crowd at a show or cruise-in, but you will be able to complete their restoration far faster and a whole lot cheaper than if you chose a car that was rare, or had only been made for a few years. Another factor to consider is the actual purchase price of the car. While some of the cars listed here can be bought for around $5,000, others will cost four times as much even if they're basket cases--but keep in mind that those higher-priced cars will also bring four times the money when sold, so it kind of equals out. But the one common feature enjoyed by most of these cars--and the main reason why they...
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...1 Tour Routes of Mexico: Trip Planning Tool OVERVIEW TRIP HIGHLIGHTS STATES INCLUDED INT’L AIRPORTS USED IDEAL CLIENTS (beyond the obvious) TRANSPORTATION CONSIDERATIONS 1. WINE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD’S AQUARIUM This Route travels along our Baja California Peninsula and its two coasts, which attract different visitors in search of contrasting experiences. On the Pacific side, expect whales, the Guadalupe Valley vineyards, golf courses, marinas and pristine beaches. On the Sea of Cortés side you’ll find more than 230 individual islands, protected areas, a marine sanctuary, Jesuit missions and the Old Baja ambiance. In between: desert, mountains, cacti and oases. A trio of popular destinations (Loreto, La Paz, and Los Cabos) provides comfort, diverse dining opportunities, world-class golf, easy air access and varied resort amenities. Wine Country, Sea of Cortés, Protected Islands, Desert Oasis, Beaches, Golf, Water Sports, Hiking, Luxury Accommodations, Gastronomy, Whale and Wildlife Viewing Baja California, Baja California Sur Tijuana (TIJ), Loreto (LTO), La Paz (LAP), Los Cabos (SJD) Wine lovers, golfers, eco-enthusiasts, conservationists, divers, explorers, wanderers, free-spirits This route is easily accessed at either its northern or southern end (Tijuana or Los Cabos). The entire route requires long surface travel between cities along the 1,000 km. long Baja Peninsula. Consider doing a circle day-trip from Los Cabos to La Paz and then back along the Pacific Coast (Todos...
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...Palazzotto Orta “A fil di lago, proprio davanti all’isola inquadrata da un filare di ippocastani, si spalanca una sorta di campiello goldoniano, circondato da bassi porticati fra cui spicca un rustico e armonioso palazzotto cinquecentesco posato su quattro pilastri angolari inframmezzati da colonne di granito, coronato da un campaniletto, la facciata ingentilita da blasoni affrescati: la sede dell’antica Comunità della Riviera”. “Hortus Conclusus”,Guadalupi Giovanni, Franco Maria Ricci editore, 1996 Edificato nel 1582, posto nel lato nord dell’attuale Piazza Motta di Orta, il Palazzo della Comunità, detto anche Broletto ebbe diverse funzioni: fu la sede del potere legislativo, esercitato dal Consiglio Generale, e del potere esecutivo. Nei secoli venne definito come il fulcro del potere della Riviera. Struttura architettonica Il piano terra del Palazzotto presenta un porticato con lati di due e tre arcate. Una scaletta esterna, situata in un angolo del porticato, conduce al piano sovrastante, dove trova luogo una grande sala con finestre affacciate sulla piazza: qui si riuniva il Consiglio Generale costituito da deputati eletti nai vari paesi. Questo organo esercitava il potere legislativo ed esecutivo, comprese le importanti decisioni sulle condanne capitali. I membri del Consiglio seguivano un “modus operandi” sorprendentemente democratico: dopo aver formulato e ascoltato le varie proposte avanzate nel corso delle riunioni, riferivano alle loro Comunità di provenienza...
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