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The serene atmosphere, gorgeous beaches, and sparkling waters of Glitter Bay - enjoyed for centuries by royal families and other famous personalities - characterise the Royal Glitter Bay Villas. Royalty lives side-by-side with everyday beauty in this extraordinary location.Glitter Bay is certainly a gem, set in a necklace of bays that rests along the west coast of Barbados. This is the "Platinum Coast", so called because of its exceptional accommodations and reputation.Royal Glitter Bay Villas are distinguished by their proximity to Jamestown, where English sailors originally identified a calm and welcoming spot to anchor their ship, the Olive Blossom, in 1625. The exact spot was nick-named, "Holetown" by the sailors because the dark green mangroves shading cool water at Jamestown reminded the sailors of a hole. The nick-name and some of the mangroves have remained, today marking the location of a vibrant area for shopping and sightseeing south of Glitter Bay.An easy walk along the road, or a more adventurous walk (chancing a few splashes of seawater and scrambles over beach rock) takes you from Glitter Bay to Holetown. Walking along the road will probably take about 15 minutes, whereas walking along the beach-side may take a couple of hours - depending upon how many dips you take in the sea, how many photos you take, and how many people you chat with along the way!If you travel in the other direction from Royal Glitter Bay Villas - that is northwards - then you will be on your way to Speightstown. Transport by vehicle is recommended for guests wishing to visit Speightstown, unless you prefer a longish hike to this historic location. Speightstown and the picturesque villages along the way, have an old-time feel that is reminiscent of the days when the stagecoach travelled this road and the schooners from Bridgetown sailed along the corresponding stretch of coast.Once in Speightstown, you will discover some unique places. Climb to the top floor of Arbib House and participate in the fascinating story of sugar, or visit the Caribbean Gallery of Art where you will find artworks from other islands as well as Barbados. Hot, thirsty, and hungry after a day of sightseeing or shopping? Then try the Fisherman's Pub. Ask for Mr. Armstrong the Proprietor. He is a very congenial host and serves some tasty Bajan food (not to mention a great rum punch!)

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Sofitel New York

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45 West 44TH Street
10036 NEW YORK
UNITED STATES 

Votre hôtel

Découvrez le confort absolu du Sofitel New York. Ce magnifique hôtel de 30 étages, à l'architecture contemporaine de calcaire et de verre, se trouve au coeur de Manhattan, à deux pas de la Fifth Avenue. Vous apprécierez les équipements modernes de cet hôtel élégant, d'où l'on peut accéder facilement aux plus célèbres centres d'intérêt, notamment Times Square, les théâtres de Broadway, des restaurants à la réputation mondiale, des musées d'art et les sièges de grandes entreprises.

Ses atouts

Dans cet élégant hôtel au centre de Manhattan, le restaurant Art Déco Gaby vous propose un dîner raffiné, avec cuisine gastronomique française dans un cadre plein de glamour. Venez savourer un cocktail dans l'ambiance intime du Gaby's bar.

Présentation

Vivez le comble du confort au Sofitel New York, situé à proximité du Rockefeller Center, de Times Square, des théâtres de Broadway, des restaurants de renommée mondiale, des musées et des sièges de grandes entreprises.
Profitez des équipements modernes de cet hôtel sophistiqué situé à proximité des plus célèbres attractions de Manhattan. Dînez dans un cadre élégant au restaurant de l'hôtel, le Gaby, pour une soirée inoubliable en plein coeur de New York.Cet élégant hôtel de 30 étages à l'architecture contemporaine mêlant la pierre et le verre est situé au coeur de Midtown Manhattan à seulement quelques pas de la cinquième Avenue .Choisissez l'une de nos 398 chambres spacieuses dont 52 suites et une suite présidentielle. Toutes sont dotées d'un luxueux lit SoBed de Sofitel avec literie et duvet en plume.
Le restaurant de l'hôtel vous invite à venir déguster une délicieuse cuisine contemporaine française ainsi que des saveurs du monde entier dans un cadre raffiné et assurément élégant dans le pur style art déco.
398 chambres dont 52 suites

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Sofitel Agadir Royal Bay Resort

à 0.81 km du centre-ville
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BP 226 Cité Founty P4
Baie des Palmiers
Commune de Bensergao
80007 AGADIR
MOROCCO

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Situé sur une magnifique plage de sable fin doré, le Sofitel Agadir RoyalBay Resort est la définition du luxe contemporain.
 

Votre hôtel

Situé sur une magnifique plage de sable fin doré, le Sofitel Agadir RoyalBay Resort est la définition du luxe contemporain. Son architecture élégante allie tradition et modernité.Cette oasis de luxe et de paix vous offre une qualité de service inégalée. L'hôtel allie style contemporain et influences marocaines, avec ses fontaines et ses riads, pour rendre votre séjour inoubliable. La plage privée, la piscine et le spa sont entièrement dédiés à la relaxation et au bien-être.

Ses atouts

Il dispose de 4 restaurants ou vous pourrez savourer une cuisine fusion d'inspiration marocaine, de 6 bars vous accueillant dans des ambiances feutrées d'une piscine de 1.800 m², et d'une base nautique.

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Center Parcs Limburgse Peel

Le Center Parcs Limburgse Peel est un village vacances doté de courts de tennis et de squash, d'une piscine tropicale ainsi que d'un bain à vapeur dans le sauna. Les maisons de vacances comprennent une cuisine moderne, un grand salon et une terrasse privée.
Vous pourrez profiter de la cuisine équipée avec un four micro-ondes, une cuisinière à gaz et un grille-pain. Le coin repas comprend tous les couverts et ustensiles de cuisine nécessaires.
Les maisons aux couleurs vives possèdent un coin salon aménagé avec des canapés et des fauteuils autour de la cheminée. Elles disposent d'une salle de bains avec douche.
Les parcours de golf du Golfhorst sont à 4,5 km. Les autoroutes A67 et A73 sont toutes deux accessibles en 12 minutes de route depuis le Center Parcs Limburgse Peel.

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Pessimistic prospects for the global currency market in 2014

Centered outlook 2014 on a range of factors that influence the currency market , including the wealth tax in the European Union and the abolition of the Japanese central bank of each religion the government to the effects of " breaches Five Fat Five" for the technology sector and the fall in the price of Brent crude because of the sinking of the market in the oil . There is expected to last that deflation American will happen significantly after the release of the second work on political deadlock for the U.S. Congress in January next year , while likely to take off Germany from its rank as a state superior in the euro zone and the intervention in the recession , according to the expectations of Saxo Bank . According to Al Bayan NewspaperWill look expectations relating to each of Brazil , India and South Africa, Indonesia and Turkey bleak is the other in the event that the resulting quantitative easing in the United States to a rise in the marginal cost of capital from rising interest rates , an exhibition of those who suffer from a deficit in current accounts and causing erosion of the value of their currency . At the same time , Europe could face renewed political and economic turmoil when the alliance over the national anti-EU the largest group in the European Parliament .Commented sixty Jacobsen , chief economist at Saxo Bank , said: "I did not mean those expectations to be pessimistic , but that this is related to the events difficult that can lead to the change we hope to be the best , after all , if we look back through history , we We find that all the changes , whether good or bad has been after a long time of crisis after the failure of a comprehensive way the old of how things work . , as is the nature of things at the present time , the wealth and the global income distribution is still lopsided dramatically, and this also means necessarily also be a significant change is more likely than ever because of the imbalances that can not afford them. The year 2014 can and should - be the year that does not become the mandate to carry out change is not only necessary but also enforceable ." We emphasize that the outlook is not dreadful cries fired on Saxo Bank in 2014 , but they are trained to sense the tremendous risks to maintain the capital , which is designed to encourage investors to prepare for the worst case scenario before you start to trade or investment."While the sector is trading on information technology in the United States in the range of 15 percent less than the current valuation of the index Goldman Sachs Commodities known index S & P 500, a small group of technology stocks trading teams huge between the forward rate and the spot exchange rate is estimated at 700 percent on the estimated market value .

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The smiley face

The smiley face, that symbol of empty-headed cheerfulness, is a visage no New Yorker (or happiness researcher, in fact) could love. So, in the following pages, several New York graphic designers offer their own riffs on the iconThey say you can't really assign a number to happiness, but mine, it turns out, is 2.88. That's not as bad as it sounds. I was being graded on a scale of 1 to 5. My score was below average for my age, education level, gender, and occupation, sure, but at exactly the 50 percent mark for my Zip Code. Liking my job probably helped, being an atheist did not, and neither did my own brain chemistry, which, in spite of my best efforts to improve it, remains more acidic than I'd like. Unhappy thoughts can find surprisingly little resistance up there, as if they've found some wild river to run along, while everything else piles up along the banks.The test I took was something called the Authentic Happiness Inventory, and the man who designed it, Chris Peterson, is one of the first people I meet at the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Unlike many who study happiness for a living, he seems to embody it, though he tells me that's a recent development. He offers me an impromptu tour of the place (walls of salmon and plum and turquoise; tables piled high with complimentary granola bars), then wanders toward his office, absently hugging an orange-juice bottle to his stomach as he drifts, having graciously offered to check, at my request, which Zip Codes are the happiest and the most miserable in his 350,000-person database. At the end of the day, I check in with him.SEE ALSO:Happiness: A User's ManualTwenty strategies adapted from the scientific research and applied to New York living.The happiest, he reports, is Branson, Missouri's."But please appreciate-and this is a formal disclaimer-that these are not representative respondents," he says. "These are just people who logged on to our Website and took our happiness measure." In other words, hundreds of mental patients from Chicago could have decided to take the test, while only fifteen Buddhists in Baja did the same, which would result in a very skewed perception of the well-being of Chicagoans and Bajans. I ask how many people from Branson took the test. "A small number," he warns. "I think it was two or three. And the other happiest Zip Codes are also represented by a very small number of respondents. Nonetheless, I think the results are kind of interesting. Missoula, Montana. Rural Minnesota. Rural Indiana. Rural Alabama. Savannah, Georgia. The Outer Banks. Is there a theme here? There's a theme here. It seems to run through the Bible Belt and go straight up north. And if you want to know the absolutely most miserable Zip Code-and this is based on a very large number of people-it seems to start with 101. "That's the prefix assigned to many of the office buildings in midtown Manhattan. "Staten Island is also miserable," he adds.So what does this say about New York? I ask."I don't know," he says. "Maybe that if you make it there, you can make it anywhere, but you won't be happy doing it."This past spring, the Boston Globe reported that the single most popular course at Harvard was about positive psychology, or the study of well-being. Its immense appeal took everyone by surprise. Just one year before, the instructor, Tal Ben-Shahar, offered the course for the first time, and although it was certainly a hit, with 380 students enrolled, no one could have imagined that the following year the number would have jumped to 855 .
"Smile Moiré" by Omnivore.There's a theme here, too. Back in the mid-1840s, a Scot by the irresistible name of Samuel Smiles was invited to lecture before a class in "mutual improvement" in the north of England-a class, he later noted in a book, that also began with two or three young men but grew so large it took over a former cholera hospital. That book is called Self-Help, published in 1859. It is considered by many to be the first of its genre. Today, it's still in print, and has even come up in Ben-Shahar's Harvard class. He has tremendous respect for it."For many years," says Ben-Shahar, "the people who were writing about happiness were the self-help gurus. It had a bad rap. It was all 'five easy steps,' rather than dignity and hard work. What I 'm trying to do in my class is to regain respectability for the concept of self-help. It's a great thing, if you think about it literally. It's what this country was built on. "The pursuit of happiness was indeed at the heart of America's conception. But the study of happiness-as a science, with random-assignment, placebo-controlled testing-is a far more recent phenomenon. And right now, it's booming. At least two basic positive-psychology textbooks are being published this fall, one written by Peterson, the other by a University of Kansas professor named Shane Lopez, whose publisher estimates that roughly 150 colleges will be offering some kind of positive-psychology course next year . Since 2000, the University of Erasmus at Rotterdam has been publishing the Journal of Happiness Studies (whose editorial board is represented in curious disproportion by Californians and Germans). At Barnes & Noble, there are three excellent books about happiness now sitting on the shelves: the divinely readable Stumbling on Happiness, by Harvard professor Daniel Gilbert, about how hopeless we are at predicting our moods; The Happiness Hypothesis, by University of Virginia professor Jonathan Haidt, about the ways that ancient wisdom about flourishing intersects with the modern; and Happiness: A History, an intellectually elegant work by historian Darrin McMahon, which is exactly as it sounds, but darker.Ellen Langer, a professor at Harvard, ventures that the explosive interest in positive psychology is, like so many cultural curiosities involving self-obsession, a boomer phenomenon. "There's a feeling of, 'I'm not going off to some nursing home,'" she says. (And she should know: During the seventies, she found that the more control nursing-home patients had-over watering their plants, for example-the longer they were apt to live.) And there are undoubtedly other factors at work. Universities, for example, have become more sensitive today to the intense pressures on their students (at Harvard, the chief of mental-health services recently came out with a book called The College of the Overwhelmed). Economics has also started to take the discipline of psychology seriously again-Malcolm Gladwell's books are a sure testimony to this-and the psychology of positivity and productivity were a perfect fit for the ethos of the bubble years. (Recently, I've come to wonder whether positive psychology isn't also the perfect discipline for the era of George Bush, the decider, the man who remains shinily optimistic no matter how many red lights are glowing on his dashboard.

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“The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway. "
- Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

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