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Suddenly Marius de Vries sounded almost indignant. For most of the interview he had been airing his opinions in a soft and friendly manner, but the issue at hand clearly stirred him up. The question was one which is central to the territory that SOS covers, and to Marius de Vries's work: is a programmer a musician?
Fifteen years ago, when sampling and sequencing still demanded expensive and monolithic machines like the Fairlight or the Synclavier, those who specialised in operating them became known as 'programmers' -- and some, like the Art Of Noise's JJ Jeczalik, were quite happy to declare themselves 'non-musicians'. Since then, programmers have become more and more involved in arranging and writing music, but many people would argue that there is still a big difference between their role and that of a 'real' musician. They would, however, get short shrift from de Vries, who is in no doubt that programmers are musicians: "Of course they are! Pete Davis, who programs for me at the moment, is both a consummate musician and a programmer, as are all the best programmers that I know and have worked with. Programmers who know the technology well, but who aren't very good musicians and don't get on with people in the studio, don't become successful. And there is a shortage of people who can work the technology, and who also have the right musical sensibilities and the right social skills... If you want to carve yourself a career as a musician in the record industry today, then the thing to do is to get right on top of the technology and learn how to capably run a good audio editing and sequencing system, and really master a few synthesizers."
One of the reasons why de Vries feels so strongly about this issue is probably because he started out as a musician, rather than an engineer or technologist. He was born in London in 1961, sang as head chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir and received a piano and violin education there as well ("a wonderful general music education"). From 1984 to 1987 he worked both as a freelance music journalist (testing keyboards for International Musician & Recording World) and as a session musician, and played with The Blow Monkeys. He recalls: "I started out playing keyboards around the time when MIDI first came into the world. I remember going to a music shop in Denmark Street and seeing somebody play a DX7 which was connected to a Roland JX3P. There was this miracle of a cable allowing one keyboard to talk to another. It's something that seems so primitive now, but at the time it was a magical and exciting thing. When I was working with The Blow Monkeys, I met a technical assistant called Axel Kroll, who was the first person I saw who was what we would now call a programmer. He worked with a Linn 9000 and what he was doing crystallised for me the direction in which I wanted to go. So I became a programmer at a time when we were still very much regarded as kind of the magicians of the session world, because not many people understood what was going on under the hood".
It wasn't long before de Vries could dump his journalistic distractions to concentrate fully on a blossoming music career that would not only see him work with many household names, but also be instrumental in the creation of some of the hippest and most cutting-edge music made in the last 10 years. As a programmer and keyboard player he has worked on all of Björk's three solo albums to date, Madonna's album Bedtime Stories and the single 'Frozen' from her last album, Eno and U2's Passengers album, U2's Pop, Annie Lennox's Medusa and Diva albums, Massive Attack's Protection, and Bono's and Madonna/Massive Attack's tracks on the Marvin Gaye tribute album, respectively 'Save The Children' and 'I Want You'.
On top of this, de Vries has a notable production career. It started with modest co-production credits for the 25th of May, The Soup Dragons and the Sugarcubes in the late '80s and early '90s. He then went through a spell when he was too busy programming for the greats, with only incidental co-production work here and there. Recently, however, his production career re-ignited with a string of prestigious co-production credits: five tracks on Robbie Robertson's Contact From The Underworld of Redboy, three tracks on Craig Armstrong's The Space Between Us, three tracks on Madonna's Ray Of Light, and seven tracks on Neil Finn's first solo album, Try Whistling This. What's more, all these albums were released in 1998! As if this was not enough he also co-wrote, programmed and co-produced the BAFTA-winning score and soundtrack CD for the movie Romeo & Juliet (1997, together with Nellee Hooper and Craig Armstrong), was music supervisor, executive producer and album producer for the forthcoming The Avengers film soundtrack album (featuring Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Sinead O'Connor, Stereo MC's and others), and also did additional production and mixes for PJ Harvey's forthcoming album.
When I met up with him in the idyllic surroundings of the residential Hook End Studios in Berkshire, he was spending more time in his role of the 'definitive '90s musician', producing and programming the debut album of The Lucy Nation, a new signing to Madonna's Maverick label. De Vries first cut his programming teeth on an Roland MSQ700, and then moved on to the Atari, initially running Hybrid Arts' Midi Track software, and then C-Lab's Notator. A few years ago he finally switched to Macintosh and Digidesign, on which he still runs C-Lab/Emagic software, namely Logic Audio: "I was quite slow switching from the Atari to the Mac, because I had experiences of working alongside people with Macs that appeared to be crashing all the time. But things are a lot better now, and I am really happy with my Macintosh, although admittedly the timing could be better on it. The timing of the Atari was probably more stable, but then, are you going to spend your whole life worrying about the fact that there is a millisecond delay on the bass drum, or are you going to listen to the music and try to make that sound good? The '80s ethic seemed very much to make sure that everything was very precise and glued to a grid, but there's room for things to be much sloppier now, and better for it."
De Vries explains that he learnt 'sloppiness' as an approach to programming from working with Nellee Hooper, initially on Björk's first album: "He has a real intuition for how space and untidiness can be a better approach to making music than trying to nail everything down." This, again, appears to touch on the dichotomy at the heart of de Vries's approach to music making; although throughout our conversation he de-emphasises the role of technology whenever we speak about things from a musical perspective, he clearly trips out on it when talking from a purely technological angle. A few weeks after our first interview at Hook End I visited him in his own studio near Cambridge, Blue Barn Studios, and when he showed me around the impressive hardware that he has collected there, he was as proud and excited as the proverbial kid in a toy shop. But he remarks that even though he did extensive programming when producing Robbie Robertson and Madonna, he now tries to take "less of a hands-on approach when I am producing. It's definitely possible to use technology to stamp the life out of musical performances. When you're programming you can spend a day comping and pitch-shifting various vocal takes and after having gone through every syllable you sit back and listen to it, and it is totally flat. In the beginning you often won't admit this to yourself, because you cannot believe that you just wasted a day making something worse. But the fact is there, you have taken all the life out of it. And the only remedy is to keep walking out of the room, and keep walking back in again once you have a clear head."
These days, therefore, De Vries leaves a lot of the detailed work to programmer Pete Davis: "Programming is all about going in and dealing with the details of the track, whereas producing is about being able to step back and hear what is going on and deciding whether something is good or not. Those are two very different dynamics. But programming is in my blood, and so I can't keep totally away from the computer. We had three Pro Tools systems up and running in Hook End, and I still get my hands dirty. During pre-production it is often just me and the artist working and sketching out ideas in the computer, and once I have a clear idea of what the song is going to sound like, I'll give it to Pete who will develop it, label things properly and organise everything for me. He also does a lot of archiving for me. I tend to rely on prayer for backup." De Vries laughs. "I sort of think, if God wants the data, he can have it."
This is another sign of the apparent dichotomy between de Vries's total fascination with music technology on the one hand, and something between healthy disrespect and reckless disdain on the other. The same thing shows through when he enters the debate about the merits of 24-bit digital recording: "It has to be said that basically most people won't hear the difference -- it's too subtle. Though personally I find that 24-bit has a better dynamic range, and crudely speaking there'll be less hiss on very quiet bits of an orchestra. So there are all these arguments whether to use 16-bit or 24-bit, or Neve or an SSL, or to mix to tape or DAT. There may be incremental differences in each case, but they are so marginal. When you have a great piece of music and a fantastic performance it doesn't matter what medium you're using. Though all credit to Digidesign for pushing the boundaries forward. And what's really great is that I can plug my new 24-bit TC Fireworks effects unit digitally into my 888, and that gives me a nice warm feeling because you know it's all talking in 24-bit, and so of course it sounds better, because when you feel better, things sound better." He laughs again.
These lines are obviously spoken by the technologist in de Vries, the man who loves state-of-the-art gear purely for its own sake. But he does not follow this philosophy to the exclusion of all other approaches. Answering the question 'how do you get the same sense of life and excitement when programming as musicians do feeding off each other?' de Vries offers "By getting musicians to play! Either guest musicians, or you get the people you're working with to play live. We started the Lucy Nation record by recording musicians live, and a lot of those recordings survived intact, and then some were chopped up, and some were mangled to such a degree that you wouldn't recognise the original performances. There are no rules about how to achieve a 'live' feel, but generally it is a good idea to get 'real' musicians in at some stage. The best ideas come from good musicians. But it can go either way, because sometimes you're lucky enough to program something that works perfectly, and may not be improvable. That's why you need to be a good musician as a programmer, because sometimes you'll be the main musician on a track."
This is exemplified by de Vries's work on Robbie Robertson's excellent Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy. On this album Robertson has again gone back to his American Indian roots, following in the footsteps of his previous album, Music For The Native Americans (1994), which was a soundtrack. With his hands free to make a regular studio album, Robertson wanted to explore how to put native American music in a contemporary context, whilst avoiding the New Age pitfalls that have marred many other such attempts, like the abysmal Sacred Spirits. So Robertson enlisted the production assistance of a range of people with experience with technology, dance music, and hip-hop, such as Howie B., de Vries, Tim Gordine and Jim Wilson -- the latter three all being keyboard players and programmers. De Vries was involved as a co-producer on five of the album's 10 tracks, co-wrote the music on two tracks with Robertson, and did programming on six. In several cases the only thing played by a 'real' musician is Robertson's electric guitar, and the rest of the material is programmed and/or treated in a computer. De Vries & Co nevertheless get some excellent grooves and feels going -- and several of the tracks again highlight the issue of the blurring boundaries between technology and music.
De Vries: 'It's becoming harder and harder to distinguish between when something is a performance and when it's programmed, and so accreditation is becoming harder too. Robbie arrived at my studio here with a suitcase full of DATs, containing performances that he had collected over the last two decades and said: 'let's make a record out of this'. I spent two months just listening and cataloguing and narrowing it down to one DAT with what I thought were the most promising bits. It was a big learning curve, because I knew little of American Indian music, and I had been in the first instance a little wary of the project anyway, because I was not aware of any records that had successfully put American Indian music in a contemporary context. So the whole thing was a real challenge. Then I threw the DAT compilation into Pro Tools and started experimenting with treatments. In some cases we did very little to the original recordings, like the vocals in the track 'Peyote Healing' (which were recorded specifically for the album at an actual peyote ceremony in Santa Fe). In other cases they were heavily treated and re-worked. Like on the track 'Sacrifice', everything on that was me and my Macintosh, apart from the guitar and vocals. There, flute and drum credits were samples that I had taken and manipulated and incorporated into the framework."
There are many great grooves on Contact, and with no 'real' musicians in the rhythm section, the simple question (that de Vries is reluctant to answer) is: 'how do you do it?' De Vries: "There are so many methods involved. It is very difficult to pinpoint a particular way. How do you program a good feel? It's impossible to describe. People have written many articles about drum programming, and with all respect for the thoroughness of their approach, I have not resonated with a single one of them. It all seems a bit academic to me. It runs counter to my whole approach to music."
Further prodding elicits a slightly more specific response: "OK then, probably about 80% of the backdrops that you hear on the records I've programmed are constructed of samples of one kind or another. I try to avoid using very obvious samples, partly for legal reasons, partly to try to keep things fresh. I sample from the same places that everyone else does, mostly records and previous sessions. I'm not too keen on sample CDs. I own about 10 that I think are worthwhile, amongst them A Poke In The Ear With A Sharp Stick, Diffusion Of Useful Noise, the two Cuckooland ones, Fred Frith's Etymology, and a Gamelan CD.
True to his assertion that there are too many methods to list, however, de Vries does not always work by using samples to create soundscapes and hip-hop grooves. On Neil Finn's Try Whistling This he stayed miles away from any hip-hop feel, instead helping the former Crowded House frontman to expand on the "multiple-chord tricks that are so easy for him to do, being one of the finest songwriters on the planet. To create something that justified him having become a solo artist we tried to make him sound a little darker and make the song structures a little bit more simple without losing his sense of melody. It was interesting to sit down with Neil and run a loop for five minutes and get him to write something on top. That's how the track which we co-wrote, 'Sinner', came into being. One of the seeds for that you hear at the beginning of the song: it's a sample from the wonderful very early Mellotron that Neil owns, one of those Rolls-Royce-like Chamberlains with the complete original tape collection, from the days when they recorded rhythm sections in the studio to create a collection of rhythm tapes to accompany the melody sounds, just like with modern home keyboards."
The rhythm of the Chamberlain sample is rather at odds with the rhythm of the rest of the track. When queried, de Vries explains that this was "another rhythm trick" developed in hip-hop, namely to superimpose samples with different rhythmic feels and get a kind of polyrhythm going, which results in things that are "much more interesting than you could ever get by working things out mathematically." Another trick that he divulges is the use of filtering -- applying a strong low-pass on a sampled rhythm -- and using the rumble that you get as a kind of bass line. Conversely, he might apply a high-pass filter, or sweep between the two. According to de Vries, Massive Attack applied this method to much effect on the track 'Exchange' on their new Mezzanine album. Finally, the fact that de Vries doesn't rely only on samples to create rhythm magic is demonstrated by his work on Madonna's Ray Of Light album, especially on the track 'Little Star' on which -- with rhythm programmer Steve Sidelnyk -- he did some masterful drum and keyboard programming. He was called in to the project at a late stage, when William Orbit and Madonna had already finished much of the album, and ended up co-producing 'Skin' and 'Nothing Really Matters' with Madonna and Orbit, and 'Lit
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De Vries: "I had to be very sensitive with what I did, because the aesthetic of the album was already well established by William and Madonna. So I had to work within a well-defined framework. 'Nothing Really Matters' was almost like an older-style Madonna tune, and my work was to help keep the appeal of something that she might have done five years ago, and at the same time updating it and keeping it in sympathy with the stuff William had been doing. I did most of the handiwork on that track, though William was there with his ears and suggestions. 'Skin' was really a true multi-programmer situation, with both of us having our rigs in the studio and battling it out. The biggest challenge was 'Little Star' because it was a song that could easily have become sentimental. I wanted to keep the delicacy of the track above everything, but I also knew that it needed some energy for it not to be too fey. So what I decided to do was to create a fairly energetic double-time drum arrangement, but using very soft sounds. There were no loops on that track, instead Steve and I programmed everything by hand, using jazz brushes and brushed ride cymbals, ie. softly hit things, so that the whole track would have this gossamer, fluttery energy running through it. It was a fine balance. Whenever it got too heavy, it sounded like the track was weighed down by overproduction, and whenever it was too light, it just sounded sentimental. I orchestrated that track mainly with noises rather than keyboards, chasing the idea of things drifting in and out of focus to achieve a dreamy quality. I actually used a lot of the Waldorf Wave on the Madonna tracks. I borrowed one from Björk, and spent a couple of days generating hundreds of sounds which I fed into a sampler, and used one way or another for the backdrop for the songs."
De Vries's programming on 'Little Star' is a brilliant -- OK, let's call it 'performance' -- that would make any 'real' musician proud. It shows what modern technology, used in the right way, is capable of. According to de Vries, the trick is to create and maintain a core to your system that is simple and consistent enough for you to work it totally intuitively. "The issue of complexity is very important, because together with simple technical failures it is one of the most distracting things when working with music technology. The way seems to be to have a central working space that is essentially simple and focussed and where there is a limited amount of things going on. For me that is when I sit in front of my computer screen with Logic Audio on it, with my Pro Tools hardware and Akai samplers close at hand. Add a master keyboard and that's it. That is where 95% of my work happens, and handling it is totally second nature."
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Nautilus is like one of my favorite champs, and he looks even more cute here!
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Vegetables like baingan (Eggplant), Bhindi (Lady's Finger/Okra), Arbi (Coco Asia), Kachalu (Cesculent Roots). All vegetables which contain edible seeds. Tomato (Unripened), Raspberry and Massor Ki Dal (Egyptian Lentil). These kind of foods adversely affect the blood/impurity the blood and should be avoided.
Try to avoid Products that are hot by nature and increase Pitta (fire).
Light diet containing Rice, Green Gram Soup, Bitter Gourd, Green Leafy Vegetables, Papaya, Drum Stick, Pomegranate, Amla, Cucumber.
Precautions: Pregnant or breast feeding women should take under the guidance of your health care provider.
High quality extracts of wild crafted herbs from its natural habitat. Free from gluten, soya, dairy, binder, preservatives or artificial colors.
Neem (Azadirachta Indica) Leaf, Manjistha (Rubia Cordifolia) Root, Turmeric (Curcuma Longa) Rhizome, Kaliziri (Centratherum Anthelminiticum) Seeds, Babchi (Psoralea Corylifolia) Seed, Pittapapra (Fumaria Officinalis) Plant, Mundi (Sphaeranthus Hirtus) Flower, Anantmool (Hemidesmus Indicus) Root, Giloy (Tinospora Cardifolia) Stem, Asana (Pterocarpus Marsupium) Heart Wood, Karanja (Pongamia Pinnata) Seed, Amla (Emblica Officinalis) Fruit, Harar (Terminalia Chebula) Fruit, Bahera (Terminalia Bellirica) Fruit & Rind, Patola (Trichosanthesdioca) Leaf, Shatvari (Asparagus Racemosus) Root, Chitrak (Plumbago Zeylanica) Root, Babul (Acacia Arabica) Bark, Bringraj (Eclipta Alba) Plant, Vasaka (Adhatoda Vasika) Leaves, Unnab (Zizyphusvulgarisis) Fruit, Nagamothan (Cyperus Rotundus) Tuber, Kutza (Hollorhina Antidysentrica) Seed, Bhadangi (Clerrodendrum Serratum) Root, Nishoth (Ipomoea Turpethum) Root, Pipli (Piper Longum) Fruit, Kantkari (Solanum Viginiana) Plant, Indervaruni (Citrullus Colcynthis) Root, Nagkesar (Mesua Ferrea) Flower, Varuna (Crateava Religiosa) Stem, Calcium Calcined (Natural Source).
Vedaliving is proud to carry on the tradition of our founders. We are a team of herbalists, biochemists, pharmacists and microbiologists to bring you safe and high quality traditional Ayurvedic products.
Wild crafted herbs from their natural habitat without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides or preservatives.
Our naturally grown wild crafted herbs come from their natural habitat. Aborigine also plays its role in the efficacy of the herb. The properties of herb may differ from region to region. Vedaliving makes every effort to collect the herbs from their aborigines. Natural habitat plays a key role in the potency of herbs, which is why we use wild crafted herbs, as opposed cultivated ones. Every herb is collected from its natural habitat as Naturally grown herbs are assumed to be more potent.
Proper harvest time for higher potency is another key factor.
We highly advocate the harvesting of herbs at the most appropriate time of ripening. No immature plants, no over ripped plants are selected. Herbs at their youth possess the maximum potency and we try our best to procure the herbs at that particular time period. There are guidelines for collection of different herbs at different times and there is a particular span of time for collecting herbs.
Using Purified Water: Water used also stands out as a major role player. Water is processed under DM plant, RO plant then converted into steam. That steam water is used in the processing of herbs to avoid any chance of heavy metal contamination.
Authentic and Unfeigned Herb: Every herb is collected, tested for its genuineness and strength of its active constituents. Naturally-grown herbs are preferable to cultivated herbs. Ancient Ayurveda has suggested many methods for analyzing the various herbs, but at that time herbs were used in their original form to powder, pills or juice of fresh herbs or distillate of herbs. All the suggestions and methods for identifying a particular herb were physical and taste based. Now, since a lot of work has been done, chemical tests are available for identification of true herbs and quantity of active constituents. We are equipped with a modern plant, machinery and quality assurance system and the herbs are tested for their complete strength, efficacy and safety. Good manufacturing practices are applied with a neat, clean and sanitary environment. Herbs are procured in season and stored in extract form. All the requirements regarding purity, quality and efficacy are totally complied with and given top priority from the time of procurement till ready for consumption.
Extraction of Herbs: Extracts are prepared either with water or according to the solubility of active principle of the herb. We extract each herb according to its own unique physical and biochemical characteristics. While drying these extract forms of the herb, we go one step ahead and we dry most of the extracts with the micronized powder of the same herb. This increases the strength of the extract and the extracts get easier to dry. Less chances to take moisture from air.
We do not add any additive, any color, any preservative, filler or any other external or foreign agent or any other material except the HERB itself.
Our belief and practice means only the HERB and its extracts.
This attention to detail produces a finished extract that optimally represents the herb from which it is made. Our extracts are absolute rich in terms of aroma and taste and contain bioactive compounds of the original herbs themselves. They are easily and optimally absorbed and assimilated by the body, and therefore their health-promoting effects are promptly felt.
Vegetarian capsules are cellulose based capsule shells that are used to encapsulate the material. Vegetarian capsules are made from a substance called HPMC, which stands for hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (often shortened to hypromellose). This contains no animal matter (unlike gelatin capsules) and is suitable for all.
One of the benefits of having capsules is that capsules have a consistent disintegration time, typically less than 30 minutes i.e. the capsule shell takes about 30 minutes to disintegrate once it has been eaten. Another benefit of taking capsules is that the capsule shell offers excellent protection for oxygen sensitive ingredients so capsulated supplements will stay fresher longer.
Note: We do not add gluten, soy, milk, wheat, peanuts, shellfish, preservatives, colors, artificial ingredients, artificial binders, flavours, lactose, malt, dextrin, stearates, titanium dioxide etc. in capsules.
Quality and Purity is assured.
Vedaliving maintains the quality standards like purity, potency and freshness of its herbal dietary products by storing them in climate controlled, light controlled and atmosphere regulated storages. Thus, no chances of outside vermin and pests infestation.
GMP & ISO Certified Manufacturing Facility: Laboratory tested for quality purity and heavy metal standards.
No preservatives or artificial colors.
Note: Color, Taste, Aroma of the product may change from batch to batch.
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This Marsa Alam resort is on the beach, 2.3 mi (3.6 km) from Blue Lagoon Beach, and within 9 mi (15 km) of Turtle Bay Beach and Port Ghalib International Marina. Marsa Shuna Beach and Bedouin Mosque are also within 12 mi (20 km).
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All-inclusive room rates at Resta Grand Resort are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).
Hotel Amenities
Some rates at Resta Grand Resort are all-inclusive. These rates include onsite meals and beverages, and may include taxes and gratuities. Additional charges may apply for meals at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, certain beverages, and other amenities.
Simply walk outside to feel the sun on your face at the sand beach. Lie back and work on your tan with relaxing beach amenities like umbrellas and sun loungers. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at Resta Grand Resort like a children's club and an outdoor pool.
The resort offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include 2 beach bars, a swim-up bar, and a bar/lounge. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This luxury resort also offers a children's pool, a health club, and a garden.
Resta Grand Resort has designated areas for smoking.
- Total number of rooms - 396
- Bar/lounge
- Number of beach bars - 2
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Concierge services
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Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 0.00 ), Wired internet access (USD 7 per 30 minutes surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Wired high-speed internet ( USD 0.00 )
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The Space - This buffet restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Zeit Zaitoun - This restaurant specializes in Middle Eastern cuisine and serves dinner only.
Plateau - This beach restaurant specializes in seafood and serves lunch and dinner.
Marsas Club House - This bar specializes in Asian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Room service is available.
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A private beach and a health club are featured at the resort. An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snorkeling nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Playground on site
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Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the resort's full-service spa. Services include massages, facials, and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a sauna. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
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- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: USD 50 (from 3 to 13 years old)
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Wenatchee Metro by age group. In Wenatchee Metro, the male-to-female ratio is 57,578:57,516, which is 0% higher than the ratio of Washington, which is 3,543,231:3,553,591. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Washington, has 30% more property crime than the national average, and has 24% less personal crime than the national average
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Household income distribution represents the distribution of Wenatchee Metro income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for Wenatchee Metro is $50,755, which is 14% lower than that of Washington ($58,748). Income data for Wenatchee Metro is sourced from census, 2015.
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In a hospital setting, there are many individuals seeking a quick and satisfying snack or meal every day. From hospital employees to the changing stream of visitors, it's imperative to retain satisfaction in order to collect steady revenue from this captive audience. Let's take a look at how to plan successful grab and go food retail section that will keep everyone coming back for more.
Before you can start to work on the display, you should focus on the retail food and beverage items offered in your hospital's café. It is important to provide a variety of options from healthy to comfort foods as you are feeding employees regular meals and snacks as well as feeding and nurturing visitors that may be in high stress situations. The selection of food should include fresh and perishable food that needs refrigeration as well as pre-packaged and freshly made dry food options.
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- Fresh packaged salads
- Fresh fruit and packaged fruit
- Yogurt and granola cups
- Protein drinks
- String cheese
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- Juice
- Soda
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Begin by creating a retail-like atmosphere to attract employees and hospital guests to remain on campus for all meal times. The key is to showcase your products in a well-lit, clean and easy-to-access area.
Display your food retail items in multiple locations. This increases the chance for added purchasing options and spreads the same options around the café area to minimize crowding. Consider displaying food in the following areas: buffet counters, near the register, in designated refrigerated and pantry sections and in vending machines outside of the main café area.
In order to create the best retail atmosphere for your hospital café, you will need the right equipment. Use a combination of refrigerated merchandising units and display supplies to keep your grab-and-go retail area inviting and easily accessible.
Open air merchandisers are available in a variety of sizes and can be installed next to registers, pantry sections or side-by-side in a large refrigerated section. These merchandisers provide easy access as they have no doors to open or close. Horizontal models are ideal for wide spaces and also provide the best access for those in wheelchairs or with limited mobility. Vertical models are perfect for narrow spaces and small cafes. Both units have ample shelving options, so be sure to select one that can accommodate your inventory.
Dual zone display merchandisers provide the same self-serve refrigerated display as open air merchandisers, but with the added benefit of an upper compartment that can be refrigerated or kept at room temperature. This commercial display merchandiser is ideal for hospital cafes looking to showcase both refrigerated and dry goods in one easy-to-access location.
Display refrigerators are different from merchandising units in that they have a door to open and close. These units are available as countertop refrigerators, floor model refrigerators and 25" refrigeration models that can be used on countertop surfaces or on the floor. Display refrigerators have two types of door options: swing open and slide open. With these two options, it is important to consider your overall available space and the type of population your café serves. Swinging doors can restrict pathways and cause a disruption to the overall flow of customer traffic. Sliding doors can be difficult for those with limited mobility and reach.
Display baskets are perfect for showcasing fresh produce, slices of toasted or untoasted bread, muffins, scones or small bagged or boxed foods.
Display stands include cake stands, tiered display stands, display risers and stands for holding and raising plates and bowls above countertop areas.
Food jars are perfect for displaying bagels, cookies and dessert bars on countertops and near check-out areas.
Be sure to provide clean serving tongs for any displayed retail food item that is not packaged.
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If the world has any chance of providing enough energy to meet expected future demand from the developing world, then Peru is one of many places that must be explored and developed. The oil and gas industry has started to direct capital here and has recently started up production from a large onshore discovery.
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One of Peru's biggest areas for oil and gas is the Camisea Field, located in the southeastern part of the country. The government recently revised its estimates of natural gas reserves here to 13.8 Tcf. This was the third time in two years that the estimates were revised upward. Some politics may be behind this revision as the opposition party in Peru claimed that too much natural gas was earmarked for export, leaving too little for domestic use.
In 2000, a consortium led by Hunt Oil, a private oil and gas company, was awarded the rights to develop the natural gas reserves at the Camisea Field. Several years later, construction was begun on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility to export excess natural gas to world markets. Production at this field is currently coming from blocks 56 and 88.
This LNG facility recently started up and began exporting natural gas. The first shipment of natural gas arrived in the United States in September 2010.
Other Players
Repsol (NYSE:REP), a Spanish oil and gas company, is also a partner in this consortium, along with several other companies. Repsol is active in other areas of Peru, with interests in more than a dozen blocks. Besides Camisea, Repsol is involved with the Kinteroni Field, where the company expects first production in 2012.
Talisman Energy (NYSE:TLM) is also active in Peru, where the company has interests in 4.5 million acres in five onshore blocks. The company spent $70 million in capital in Peru in 2009, acquiring seismic and setting up future development plans.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) also has exploratory properties in Peru, in both the onshore and offshore area. The company has interests in several onshore blocks with Talisman Energy and Petrobras (NYSE:PBR). The company has been acquiring seismic and has the goal of drilling an exploratory well in Peru in 2010.
In the offshore area of Peru, Ecopetrol has interests in eleven offshore blocks. The company is in a joint venture called Savia Perú S.A., with a Korean oil company. The joint venture plans to spend $2.5 billion over the next seven years to explore and develop various Peruvian properties. If the joint venture is successful, production is expected to reach 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) per day - a significant increase from the 13,000 BOE per day produced in 2009.
Bottom Line
Peru is attracting capital from the oil and gas industry as it looks for sources of growth for the next few decades. The country has already started up one main project and have more coming up, so prospects look promising for this South American nation. (For more, see Oil And Gas Industry Primer.)
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Living in Chicago, the ride is flat and not the same challenge as before.
This week I began interval training. I'm using a 1 mile length of MUP that has very little traffic. After a 2 mile warm-up, I sprint the 1 mile section in ~2.5 minutes. I then slowly return to the beginning of the section, taking about 5 minutes.
I'll repeat this 3 to 5 times. My total miles equal 12 to 15 over about 45 minutes.
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Marion, Miss. Saturday marked the very first block party in the Town of Marion.
There was plenty of fun and games and even music at Marion United Methodist Church. Organizers say there were two purposes behind hosting the block party. One to provide a fun and inexpensive family event. The other to raise money for overseas ministries.
"And it'll grow because this is the first time we've done the event," George Pugh says. "And so we learned from this and we'll see what works and what doesn't work. And we'll move forward to next year."
The Marion Police Department and Marion Fire Department also assisted with the block party.
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A new study by top global fisheries experts presents an alarming assessment of several economically important fish populations. The analysis of 61 species of "scombrids," which include tunas, bonitos, mackerels and Spanish mackerels, and billfishes, which include swordfish and marlins, classified seven as threatened with extinction and four as "near threatened" for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The Wildlife Conservation Society has discovered a surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards living in the mountainous reaches of northeastern Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor, according to a new study.
A federal judge upheld a May 2008 decision that polar bears throughout their range should be protected as a "threatened" species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Development of disease resistance among Chesapeake Bay oysters calls for a shift in oyster-restoration strategies within the Bay and its tributaries.
A new survey conducted by WCS scientists, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, reveals that large mammals, including Asiatic black bears, gray wolves, markhor goats, and leopard cats, are surviving in parts of Afghanistan after years of conflict.
The designation encompasses the 92,665 square miles of the country's exclusive economic zone on its Pacific and Caribbean coasts.
The study found that, overall, composition of a plant community is a weak predictor of the composition of a bee community, which may seem counterintuitive at first, said USGS scientist and study lead Ralph Grundel
Melinda Daniels, associate professor of geography, and Keith Gido, associate professor of biology, are collaborating on a project that involves habitat and fish sampling on the Kansas River, which stretches across northeast Kansas.
Mitigating damage from environmental problems is a daunting task, especially considering the scope of the project. Despite the great size of the problems facing the environment, the sheer size of these issues can leave those in a position to do a little something about it feeling paralyzed. But for those used to taking on the Earth's biggest challenges – literally oceans and mountains – pursuing relief after such disasters is all in a day's work.
Barred owls may be more abundant in coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest than previously recognized, according to research published in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
An international team of scientists has used DNA to determine that groups of dusky sharks and copper sharks living in different coastal regions across the globe are separate populations of each species.
Tina and Jewel, two Asian elephants owned by the circus, are protected by the Endangered Species Act.
The aggressive wolverine may not be powerful enough to survive climate change in the contiguous United States, according to new research by the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
We need more data, the American Bird Conservancy said, adding that environmental oversight or assessment can help developers be certain that significant numbers of birds will not be harmed.
A new study provides evidence that cultivating coca bushes, the source of cocaine, is speeding up destruction of rain forests in Colombia.
Two year's into his term, Obama gets good grades for greenhouse gas endangerment finding but poor ones for endangered species from the Center for Biological Diversity.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network claim that the agency has failed to properly protect more than 200 endangered and threatened species from harmful pesticides.
Over the last 25 years, federal agencies have worked to bring the plant's population from seven to 163,000.
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NBA Finals: Kevin Durant plays through foul trouble
Less than two minutes into the fourth quarter, Kevin Durant picked up his fifth foul.
He stayed in the game and scored 16 of his 32 points after that point, but it changed the Thunder's defense as James Harden primarily defended LeBron James in the fourth.
Durant nearly picked up his sixth foul about midway through the quarter. He was in the middle of a fight for the ball, before finding Russell Westbrook for a basket that cut the Heat's lead to five points, the closest the game had been since the first five minutes of the game.
"It's tough to play with five, play with four in the third," Durant said. "It's tough but I've got to stay aggressive. I tried to keep my team in it. They believed in me, and we had a chance. It's tough. It's tough to lose that one."
After being held without a block for the first time in the playoffs and just the fourth time all year, it didn't take Serge Ibaka long to start making up for it.
Just more than four minutes into the game, Ibaka blocked a Dwyane Wade shot.
By the end of the first half, Ibaka had four blocks, all on Miami's "Big Three."
He finished with five blocks and nearly had another in the second quarter but was instead called for goaltending on a Chris Bosh shot.
"It's something we can't control," Ibaka said of some of the calls that went against the Thunder. "We need to do better to play our basketball."
Kendrick Perkins normally is the last player to leave the Thunder locker room, and it's usually at least an hour after the game.
Roughly 15 minutes after Game 2, a dapper-looking Perkins was spotted walking briskly down the hallway outside the OKC locker room.
Perkins presumably was still angry about a no-call in the closing seconds when Durant appeared to be fouled by James.
A man in a wheelchair said, "Hey, Perk."
Perkins smiled at the fan and said, "How you doin'?"
The fan quickly pulled out a cellphone and asked Perkins if he could pose for a photo.
Perkins obliged, with a smile.
The National Basketball Association's vice-president of development in Africa, Amadou Gallo Fall arrived in Oklahoma City in time for Game 2.
Fall, a former director of player personnel and vice president of international affairs for the Dallas Mavericks, works from the NBA offices on Johannesburg, South Africa.
With players like Ibaka, who is from the Congo, and Thabo Sefolosha, whose father is from South Africa, playing in the NBA Finals, Fall said interest in basketball in Africa is at a high point.
Three Thunder players — Ibaka, Sefolosha and Cole Aldridge — will be in South Africa for the 2012 Basketball Without Borders camp.
Sefolosha attended the 2009 camp there.
"When they come in and talk to these kids and (Ibaka) can say six years ago, he was sitting right there, I think it just makes our job even easier," Fall said. "I could point to kids in Congo or wherever and say, 'Hey, look at Serge. He was disciplined, he worked hard and he's on his way.'
"You've got to have role models these kids can look up to."
When Durant was preparing to enter the 2007 NBA Draft, his college coach, Texas' Rick Barnes, made a bold prediction.
He said Durant would be the best player in the world by the time he was 25.
Today, Durant is 23 and already is in that conversation.
"That's my fault, because I underestimated him," Barnes said.
Westbrook shot 26 times to Durant's 22, dropping the Thunder's record to 25-6, including 7-3 in the playoffs this season, when Westbrook takes more shots than Durant. ... The Thunder didn't score a fast break point until less than four minutes remained in the third and scored the final 10 fast break points of the game. The Thunder outscored Miami 24-4 on the fast break in Game 1. ... The Thunder scored 24 fewer points in the paint than they did in Game 1.


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Man admits to trespassing on school groundsJuly 09,2013BENNINGTON A Benmont Avenue man will spend a year on probation after admitting Monday to being at the Southwest Vermont Career Development Center on May 8 in violation of a no trespass order.
Brandon T. Billings, 21, pleaded guilty on Monday in Bennington criminal court to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful trespass. Billings was sentenced by Judge Cortland Corsones to serve 45 to 60 days in jail, but all of that time was suspended.
In an affidavit, Deputy Roscoe Harrington of the Bennington County Sheriffs Department said he was notified that Billings was at the career development center, which shares a campus with Mount Anthony Union High School, by the high schools head of security.
Harrington said several students had reported that Billings was sitting on the steps outside the career development center.
Billings had been served with a court order on June 14, 2011, that said he was not to be at the career development center or the high school.
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Measures sought repeal of historic autonomy
SACRAMENTO – A controversial move to give state lawmakers direct authority for the first time over the University of California has been quietly shelved by the Legislature's Democratic leaders and appears to be all but dead.
"I just don't think it's a good idea," said Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, a UC alumnus and the most powerful Democrat in a Legislature controlled by Democrats. "The state government has enough trouble, enough challenge managing what we are required now to manage."
The change, sought in two bills, would seek to repeal the university's historic constitutional autonomy, giving the Legislature unspecified control over the 10-campus system. Its backers in the Legislature have portrayed the UC as an arrogant bureaucracy that continued to boost six-figure salaries and spend lavishly on other expenses while subjecting its 225,000 students to steady increases in fees.
But late last month, Steinberg had Senate Constitutional Amendment 21 pulled back from the Senate Education Committee and returned to the Rules Committee, which he chairs and where it will remain indefinitely.
"I don't think this is the time for us to consider taking over the policy-making function of the University of California," Steinberg said in an interview.
He added that he is "committed to allowing any ideas to be heard at some point," but said he did not know when the measure might be released from the Rules Committee.
In the Assembly, the largely identical Assembly Constitutional Amendment 24 has been held in the Assembly Rules Committee since it was introduced six weeks ago.
"I guess the (UC) Regents have pretty powerful friends, that's all I can say," said Sen. Leland Yee, a San Francisco Democrat and co-author of SCA 21.
"There's obviously an effort to keep it from moving forward," said Assemblyman Brian Nestande, a Palm Desert Republican who co-authored ACA 24.
At the UC, officials were not yet ready to celebrate the measures' apparent demise.
"We remain opposed to the idea, but we're not engaged in the day-to-day navigation of the thing through legislative channels," UC spokesman Peter King said.
Since its inception 141 years ago, the University of California has been governed by a Board of Regents, most of whom are gubernatorial appointees. The Legislature can and has urged UC to take certain actions with the implicit threat that defiance could jeopardize more than $3 billion in state funding.
The pending amendments, which would go before state voters if passed by a two-thirds vote in each house, were introduced with bipartisan backing at a news conference in May.
The measures would subject the university "to legislative control as may be provided by statute."
University officials dismissed Yee's legislation as "absurd." They blame the Legislature for the relentless run-up in student fees. Since 1990, per-student funding from the state – adjusted for inflation and enrollment growth – has fallen 40 percent and the university faces another round of unprecedented cuts, UC President Mark Yudof has said.
To turn the nation's most prestigious public university over to a Legislature widely considered dysfunctional "should be a non-starter," the university argued.
In recent weeks, some of the state's most powerful business leaders embellished that position in a pointed, three-page letter to legislators.
"We harbor grave concerns about the many unintended consequences that could stem from Sen. Yee's ill-conceived bill," stated the letter signed by former UC Regents Chairman William Coblentz, former BankAmerica Chairman Richard Rosenberg, former Oakland A's owner Walter Haas, former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, among others.
Legislative control could chill private research funding and contributions from philanthropists who might have reservations about giving to an "institution controlled by politicians," the letter warned.


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