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Del Destino

Del Destino

Hotel Villa Padierna, Marbella: ahora con tres magníficos campos y una academia de golf

Durante la Semana Santa de 2010 se inauguró el campo de golf Tramores en el exclusivo hotel de Marbella, Hotel Villa Padierna, Marbella (http://www.hotelvillapadierna.com), que pasa así a tener tres campos de golf de 18 hoyos. Su también recientemente inaugurada American Golf Academy permite a los huéspedes del hotel beneficiarse de la amplia experiencia de golfistas profesionales, convirtiendo al Hotel Villa Padierna, Marbella en el destino de golf más prestigioso de la región.

 

El hotel cuenta ahora con los campos Los Flamingos, Alferini y Tramores, tan bellos como interesantes para el juego. Los Flamingos es un campo de 18 hoyos, par 71, que ocupa 5.906 metros. Diseñado por el respetado arquitecto Antonio García Garrido, el campo cuenta con magníficas vistas al Mediterráneo y ha sido elegido para acoger la final del torneo European Seniors y el campeonato The Daily Telegraph European Senior durante tres años consecutivos. El campo de 18 hoyos, par 73, Alferini, de 6.600 metros fue diseñado por el experto arquitecto Cristóbal Guerrero. Su situación en un remoto valle alejado de edificios y construcciones ofrece una tranquilidad que ningún otro campo en la Costa del Sol puede igualar. El recientemente inaugurado campo Tramores, también de 18 hoyos y par 65, es un campo técnico que sin embargo se disfruta muchísimo durante el juego, y su situación en un pintoresco prado ofrece un juego rápido y emocionante en un entorno de ensueño. Además, ahora los huéspedes pueden no sólo jugar sino también mejorar su juego en este exclusivo hotel de Marbella gracias a la apertura de la American Golf Academy.

 

De mayo a diciembre de 2010 este prestigioso hotel de golf en Marbella celebra un importante número de torneos tanto para profesionales como para aficionados, la manera perfecta de comprobar las excelentes novedades que este hotel ha incorporado en torno al golf. Para consultar el calendario completo visite http://www.hotelvillapadierna.com.

 

Hotel Villa Padierna, Marbella

El hotel exclusivo en Marbella Hotel Villa Padierna, Marbella ofrece una atención personalizada y los mejores servicios de la Costa del Sol. Situado en el complejo Flamingos Golf, sus tres campos de 18 hoyos lo convierten en uno de los principales hoteles de golf en Marbella, y su impresionante Thermae Spa está considerado uno de los mejores y más exclusivos spas de la Costa del Sol.

 

Este hotel es además un lugar ideal para la celebración de conferencias en Marbella, perfecto para eventos corporativos y celebraciones especiales, siendo referente en la organización de bodas en Marbella, Costa del Sol, aniversarios, viajes de incentivo, presentaciones de producto en la Costa del Sol, y uno de los más prestigiosos y lujosos hoteles de conferencias en Marbella, con sus más de 2000 metros cuadrados de salones y terrazas y su deslumbrante anfiteatro Romano.

Hotel Villa Padierna, Ctra. de Cádiz Km. 166, Urbanización Flamingos Golf, 29679 Marbella, España

T +34 952 88 9150 | F +34 952 88 9160

 

 

"LA FORZA DEL DESTINO" OVERTURE, FROM VERDI

Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Party Buses In Los Angeles – No Ways To Save Money

With party buses Los Angeles, one thing is a point taken – They just don't allow individuals to save any money, if that is a thought doing headlines in people's minds. Basically, with party buses Los Angeles, irrespective of the time an individual books them, the charges are going to be sky high for most part of the day and eventually, people may pay 30-40% more than what they would have paid, if they would have arranged for another bus to ferry their guests.

But then, the feel of travelling in party buses Los Angeles is probably much more different than traveling in any other bus. This is probably due to the luxury, style and comfort provided to them in the luxury bus, which is not something provided to them in any regular bus. The point is – Are these party buses Los Angeles, worth paying the sky high charges? Are there any cheaper alternatives to them at all? The bad news is – The more you try to hunt down an answer to this question, the more disappointed you would be, because of the fact that these party buses Los Angeles do have a standard pricing margin.

Fleet management companies wouldn't want to go overboard with the costing of these party buses Los Angeles, and thus would do their best to price the rentals for party buses Los Angeles in a normal cost range. The only times when this cost could skip high would be when you are trying to book them last minute for travel coming up in a day or two.. Or, for weekend bookings too, because the charges for weekend bookings could be abnormally higher too.

The point here is simple – If you wish to book for party buses in Los Angeles or party buses Orange County, don't worry about the cost, because the luxury, style and the pamper offered to you by the buses would take care of this in a simple manner.

Tempers Flare at Protest Outside Lakers Game

Los Lonely

Los Lonely

It's Lonely at the Top

I recently went to a self improvement workshop in Los Angeles, California, which was one of the most insightful and enlightening experiences that I've ever had.On the very first day I was partnered with a 50 year old woman named Diana. Our challenge was to climb a 60-foot tall rope ladder, working as a pair. We were connected at the hip with a four-foot long rope and each fitted with a body harness to catch us if we fell off the ladder during the climb.

At first glance I thought that I would be able to make the climb on my own, seeing that I'm pretty active and physically fit. When I realized that I would be partnered with Diana, the voice in my head started to buzz with disempowering thoughts like: ‘How the hell are we going to do this?' and ‘I hope Diana doesn't have a heart attack!' Well, seeing that the whole point here was for us to learn something about our own limitations as people, I made a choice to turn things around and take on this challenge head on and began to ask myself more supportive questions like: ‘How can I motivate and inspire Diana? What are our strengths as a team? ‘

Before starting our climb, I looked Diana in the eye and I said: ‘I believe in you, just give me your 100%'. At the beginning of the climb, things went pretty well and we eventually reached the first rung on the ladder. Then it started to get tougher. I was up on the second rung and Diana was still on the first rung and our connecting rope was stretched to full length. I heard someone yell to me from down below, ‘You've got to go down and help her up!' That was the first time I realized that even though I knew I could do the climb on my own, it wasn't just about me. It was about both of us making it to the top as a team. So I climbed back down to the first rung and bent down on my knees to support Diana and using all my strength, pushed her up to the second rung. The whole time we were doing this, the ladder was swinging back and forth with a 40-foot drop below us.

As soon as Diana got settled on the second rung I screamed up to her in support of this massive accomplishment. We were making the impossible possible.

Diana and I continued this way up the rope ladder until we reached the top and we gave each other a big hug - we were both exhausted but hugely delighted. After we got back down to the ground, Diana said to me: ‘I didn't think we were going to make it to the top.' I thought to myself, I didn't think we would do it either. It was at this moment I really understood what I learned from the exercise - that in fact this was not about climbing at all. I realized that in my entire life I had always done things for myself in order to feel that sense of achievement and purpose. When I heard Diana say those words to me it created an entire paradigm shift as I realized that it's very lonely at the top when you do things only for yourself. I learned that life is a lot more fulfilling when you take other people along for the climb. I now know I will never again feel lonely at the top.

Los Lonely Boys "Heaven" Live in Austin

Skid Row

Skid Row

WHO IS REALLY LYING ABOUT HEALTH CARE?

NOTE: Information in numbered items in bold below comes from Republican Party literature handed out at a health care rally in Nashville on August 13, 2009; the information following each numbered item is a response to the false non-documented propaganda contained in the Republican Party-endorsed handout. 

1. We need to reform health care.  It costs too much.

Republicans under Bush did nothing to reform the health care industry.  There is no historical track record of Republican health care reform.  Thus, current proposals reek of partisan political charades and complete and total dishonesty.

2. Make health insurance portable so Americans can keep their coverage when they change jobs.

This does nothing to reduce dramatically rising health care costs, eliminate high deductibles and co-payments, help the uninsured or people with pre-existing conditions or, prevent insurers from refusing to cover the sickest among us.  And, this wasn't proposed by Republicans prior to the 2008 campaign.

3. Provide tax credits to make health care more affordable and accessible.

In addition to solving none of the things noted previously, this was first proposed by John McCain while running for president.  Prior to that, there is no record of Republican tax credit proposals.  On the contrary, Republicans in Congress under Bush pushed to reduce federal funding, including opposing helping uninsured children.

4. President Obama and Democrats are conducting a dangerous 1.6 trillion dollar experiment with our health care.

When cost savings are factored in, the actual cost would be about 100 billion per year.  This is less than 1/30th of the estimated cost for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Apparently, Republicans believe pretending to protect us from harm in foreign lands is more important than protecting Americans against contagious diseases and death from lack of health care here at home.  Tax cuts for the wealthy under Bush alone would cover this cost and, provide a home for every homeless veteran as well.  Annual losses in national productivity, due to the spread of common contagious diseases easily preventable if everyone had access to health care, cost Americans far more than proposed reforms. 

5. Raise taxes by 800 billion, mostly on small business.

President Obama has proposed raising taxes on personal net income over 250K to help pay for health care reform.  Republican opposition is a continuation of the ongoing "Joe the Plumber" lie never dissected properly by the media; almost no plumbers or owners of small independently-owned companies earn over 250K annually after deductions.  Also, businesses employing less than 50 people will not be required to pay for health care under proposed reforms.

6. Create a national set of one-size-fits-all regulations, making health care more expensive for everyone.

This is not at all what Obama and the Democrats are proposing but even if it was, it would serve to greatly reduce the cost for everyone, if the health care industry was forced to bid against the entire U.S. population base. 

7. Impose new regulations for existing plans that would make your employer drop your plan or make your current insurance carrier stop offering your plan.

Proposed regulations would actually have the opposite effect than what is pretended in Republican propaganda.  They include requiring employers to insure employees or else, pay a penalty to offset the costs of a government option.  New regulations would force insurers to accept all people, regardless of pre-existing conditions and, require them to cease dropping patients who are deemed "too expensive" for profit margins.

8. Create a government run insurance option that would unfairly drive out competitors to become a monopoly.

Since deregulation began under Ronald Reagan, major insurance corporations have essentially become a monopoly, unfairly driving out smaller competitors and, insurers who attempted to provide honest coverage.  Predominately supported by Republicans, deregulation eliminated rules that once prevented the industry from refusing to pay for expensive treatments and, protected poor and elderly patients from being literally dumped out the backs of ambulances onto Skid Row, as was famously video taped and revealed on national television.

It's true the Democrats are grossly in error regarding health care, bowing to corporate pressure and pretending that we can expect to survive as a modern nation, while leaving insurance industry profits in the way of achieving quality affordable health care for us all.  History has over and over again proven this to be a complete and total lie.  But. . .  Who is really, really, really lying about health care?  You decide.

Link to documentation, notes and other information
http://freedomtracks.com/500/healthcare.html

Skid Row - I Remember You

Los Lobos

Los Lobos

Argentina Tours: Ushuaia And The Tierra Del Fuego

Ushuaia is a city that not many people will have heard of, but many people know where it is. It is the city that is at the end of the world. The most southern city before you reach the Antarctic, it sounds like a baron place but the nestled frontier city adds to the landscape and makes for a very interesting gateway to the region.

The site of the city Ushuaia was first settled in 1870 by an English missionary Wasti H. Stirling before it became a base for the Argentinean navy. It was declared as a city in 1893 after the region was split between Argentina and Chile.

The city has a range of attractions that are worth a visit. One of the unique features of the city is that much of the development of the city was down to the forced labor of prisoners at the turn of the 20th century. This makes the old Ushuaia ex-penitentiary of particular interest. The ex-penitentiary building is also home to the Police Museum, the Antarctic Museum, the Maritime Museum, and the Penitentiary Museum and Prisons of the World, again all shedding light on the intriguing past of the southernmost city in the world. There are also other attractions and services for visitors to the region. Ushuaia hotels are of good quality but can be expensive given the remoteness of the region.

Before the colonial settlements of Ushuaia the Tierra del Fuego archipelago was first inhabited by the Yaghan people, who were amongst the first of those to migrate from the north by foot more than 10,000 years ago. At this time many of the islands were still connected to Patagonia by land bridges, allowing the first peoples here to survive on hunting and gathering for survival in the often harsh cold climate.

Outside of the city you have easy access to the Tierra del Fuego National Park, located 12km from Ushuaia over the border with Chile. Which is home to the ‘Train to End of the World' which departs from ‘End of the World Station', you will notice if you do visit that many of the attractions have an ‘end of the world' theme, in the geographical and not the destructive sense.

The city also sits on the Beagle Channel which you can take a boat tour of from the pier of Ushuaia. The tours typically cover the Bay of Ushuaia which gives you a panoramic view of the city as well as pass the famous Les Eclaireurs lighthouse and the Islands of De los Lobos and De los Pajaros. From the tour you are able to see the diverse marine wildlife that lines the ocean area around the bay as see the fantastic views that exist in this rugged and varied terrain.

From the city you also have options for many other tours. It is possible to arrange to go trekking and canoeing in the national park for a day, which also enables you to see some historical Yamana settlements, the original inhabitants of the region. Other trips include tours to go beaver watching, to farm estancias, the local penguin rockey.

Getting to the city of Ushuaia is best by flight. Flights go from Santiago and Buenos Aires as well as other smaller airports in the region. It is also possible to get to the region by Bus from either Chile or Argentina, but the distances are vast so be prepared for long journeys. Increasingly cruise liners stop by the city on their way to the Antarctic.

Los Lobos - Chuco's Cumbia at Austin City Limits 2006