is Arpita Badami of Essex Junction, Vermont. Congratulations Arpita! Enjoy your vacation!

Anyone else interested in a surfing adventure - check out Pura Vida’s schedule and reserve now!

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Carlson Hotels Worldwide today introduced a comprehensive new "green guide" outlining sustainability strategies and practical steps for environmental responsibility, that can be applied across all of Carlson's five hotel brands. Entitled "Practical Guide to Greening Your Hotel," the green guide is part of Carlson Hotels' global initiative to develop programs, policies and partnerships based on responsible business practices.

The new guide and strategy were announced at the American Hotel & Lodging Association Fall Conference taking place here this week. Carlson Hotel brands include Regent Hotels & Resorts; Radisson Hotels & Resorts; Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts' Country Inns & Suites By Carlson and Park Inn.

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The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) launched its green strategy at its board of directors meeting on Sunday, November 9. The strategy focuses largely on minimum environmental guidelines, which are culled from a total of 88 overall guidelines targeting effective energy, water and waste management. The guidelines will be continuously added and built upon, with the next set focusing on design and construction, materials and resources, chemicals and cleaning, and indoor air quality.

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November 18th, 2008 by Sean - NWA WorldVacations

In continuing my series of posts and as you follow me on my Jamaica vacation, here is my post, as promised, about packing for a warm weather vacation …

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Book ‘The Ascent of Mount Hum’ - A Croatian Cricketing Odyssey, written by Steven Haslemere is the eventful and often hilarious story of how Vis’ quiet Adriatic idyll was rudely shattered by the arrival of a rag-tag team of pub cricketers from Cambridge, who went intending to play the first cricket match on Vis in nearly two hundred years.

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November 18th, 2008 by Sean - NWA WorldVacations

In continuing my series of posts and as you follow me on my Jamaica vacation, here is my post, as promised, about packing for a warm weather vacation …

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Argentine poet Juan Gelman, born and raised in the Villa Crespo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, was honored yesterday by the Cervantes Institute in Austria.  Gelman was an activist and writer before being exiled from Argentina after the coup in 1976.  He fled to Europe, where he translated and penned many pieces against the government in relative safety.  Last year, he was awarded the Cervantes prize and this year the enormous reference library was named for him.  It contains over 30,000 volumes of spanish literature.  The 80 year old writer described the distinction as “the ultimate honor I have known.”

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