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Get an overview of this hotel3-star Calvia hotel in Magaluf with full-service spa
Located in Magaluf, this spa hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Katmandu Park, Sol Wave House, and Palma Nova Beach. Lollipops Childrens Party Venue and Adventure Play Area and Golf Fantasia are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features a full-service spa, a restaurant, and an indoor pool. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge.
Room Amenities
All 176 rooms have free WiFi and feature kitchens with refrigerators, stovetops, and microwaves. Guests will also find furnished balconies, sofa beds, and living rooms. Limited housekeeping is available.
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- Swimming pool
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Vistasol Aptos & Spa features an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
This 3-star property offers access to a business center and a meeting room. This business-friendly hotel also offers a children's pool, a fitness center, and a sauna. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge).
- 24-hour front desk
- Full-service spa
- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Shopping on site
- Total number of rooms - 176
- Bar/lounge
- Snack bar/deli
- Luggage storage
- Library
- Number of floors - 7
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Terrace
- Restaurant
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Steam room
- Outdoor pool
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Pool umbrellas
- Billiards or pool table
- Grocery/convenience store
- Laundry facilities
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Poolside bar
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1981
- Sauna
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Children's pool
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Children's pool
- Separate living room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchen
- Grocery/convenience store
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Separate dining area
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Microwave
- Coffee/tea maker
- Kitchen
- Limited housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Television
- In-room safe (surcharge)
- Furnished balcony
- Refrigerator
- Free WiFi
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Sofa bed
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Separate dining area
- Stovetop
- Separate living room
- Down comforter
- Sofa bed size
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 8 AM and 10:30 AM.
Jackie Wilson - This restaurant is located by the pool. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Open daily.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, fitness facility, or spa tub without adult supervision.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Beach volleyball on site
- Boat tours nearby
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, vistasol. Services include massages. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, and Turkish bath/hammam.
The spa is open daily. Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
- Cash Breakage deposit: EUR 30.00 for guests under 30 years old
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.10 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 16 years of age.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 8 for adults and EUR 4 for children (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 5 per day
- Late check-out fee: EUR 40
- In-room safe fee: EUR 5 per day
Hotel Name
- Vistasol Hotel Aptos
- Vistasol Hotel Aptos Calvia
- Blue Sea Vistasol Hotel Aptos Calvia
- Blue Sea Vistasol Hotel Aptos
- Blue Sea Vistasol Aptos Calvia
- Blue Sea Vistasol Aptos
We should mention
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. Set meals are served in guestrooms only (no menus or public dining).


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Born | Toby Neale Buckland 11 October 1969 Exeter, Devon, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Broadcaster, Gardener, Author |
Years active | 1996–present |
Spouse(s) | Lisa Buckland |
Children | 3 - Henry, Eddie and Emma |
Website | www.tobybuckland.com |
Toby Neale Buckland (born 11 October 1969) is an English gardener, TV presenter and author, best known for being the main presenter from 2008-10 of BBC's long running flagship gardening programme Gardeners' World.[1]
In 2008 Toby won RHS Gold and Best in show for his Ethical Garden at Gardeners' World Live. In 2009 he won the Environmental Award from the Garden Media Guild for a Gardeners' World Special on peat in gardening.
In October 2011, Toby launched an online plant nursery, Toby Buckland Nurseries, based at Powderham Castle in Devon.
Biography and education[edit]
Born in Exeter, Devon, Toby was brought up in the coastal towns of Dawlish and Kingswear. He trained as a nurseryman at Blyth's Devon Nursery and later Whetman's in Devon before studying horticulture, first at Bicton College, Budleigh Salterton, Devon and later Hadlow College of Horticulture and Agriculture, Hadlow, Kent where he trained in Landscape and Amenity management. During that time he spent a year as a horticultural trainee at the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden as a woodland supervisor.
He also worked as a gardener for the author Tom Sharpe and built a garden for the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.
Toby is married to Lisa, a gardening writer, and has three children, Henry, Eddie and Emma. They live in Dawlish where he gardens on a sloping site the size of two tennis courts and has an allotment nearby.
Toby has now opened a nursery at Powderham Castle, located in Devon.[2]
Toby's first job in TV was in 1996 as a horticultural researcher for Brian Lapping Associates working on Channel 4's Garden Party. In 1998 he then joined the Granada Breeze channel as a gardening presenter which led to TV roles designing and building gardens on shows including Home Front in the Garden, Real Wrecks, Carol Vorderman's Better Homes on ITV and BBC1's Garden Magic.
He took over from Monty Don as the main presenter on the BBC flagship gardening programme Gardeners' World in August 2008. The format of the programme changed in various respects and was criticised by some viewers for what they regarded as "dumbing down".[3] In December 2010, the BBC announced that they would not be renewing Toby's contract. Three years after recovering from a stroke, Monty Don returned as lead presenter of the show in March 2011.[4]
On 31 December 2010 he appeared on BBC One's Celebrity Mastermind answering questions on Father Ted (scoring 12 with 1 Pass) and 22 overall with 2 more Passes, coming fourth. He donated his fee to the memorial garden which he designed for 45 Commando Royal Marines.
In May 2011 he appeared as a presenter of the BBC's coverage of the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show. In 2013, he presented two episodes of Great British Garden Revival.
Other projects[edit]
Toby has supported a variety of charities including Perennial, Greenfingers, Thrive and Hospiscare. He has recently designed a memorial garden for 45 Commando Royal Marines.
Toby Buckland has written a number of books, including:
- BBC Gardeners' World Flowers: Planning and Planting for Continuous Colour April 2011 BBC Books | ISBN 978-1-84607-865-1
- "Gardeners' World" Practical Gardening Handbook. BBC Books. 4 March 2010. ISBN 978-1-84607-854-5.
- How to Make Your Garden Grow. Mitchell Beazley. 2 March 2009. ISBN 978-1-84533-505-2.
- 50 Weekend Garden Projects. Cassell Illustrated. 13 February 2003. ISBN 978-1-84403-062-0.
- Garden Boundaries. Laurel Glen Publishing. January 2003. ISBN 978-1-57145-823-0.
- The Garden Makeover Book. Cassell Illustrated. 8 March 2001. ISBN 978-0-304-35894-6.
- ^ http://www.best4plants.co.uk/TobyBuckland.aspx/ Toby Buckland to present Gardeners' World
- ^ Toby Buckland
- ^ "'Humiliated' Gardener's World presenter Toby Buckland speaks of his pain at being given chop from the BBC2 show". Daily Mail. London.
- ^ BBC - Gardeners' World - Presenters

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Breed evolution: A mule is the result of crossing two species, the horse and the donkey. Top gaited-mule breeder Bill Moore of Shelbyville, Tennessee, has a photograph of his mother on a gaited mule that his grandfather bred in the 1940s, using a Tennessee Walking Horse crossed on a jack (donkey stallion) of Old Grey John stock.
For scores of years, farmers have been breeding gaited horses to jacks in the hopes of producing a gaited mule that would be strong and reliable working in the fields, as well as provide a smooth ride under saddle.
Since 1990, Moore and his wife, Jane, have been breeding gaited mules at their Stepping Out Farms, where they welcome more than 10,000 visitors annually. Today, the majority of Moore's gaited-mule clients are avid trail riders. There's a high probability that a gaited mule will result when one of his two gaited jacks is bred to a gaited mare.
"We use Tennessee Walking Horse mares, because I like a big reach with the back feet," Moore says. "But many of our clients use Fox Trotters or Paso Finos or other gaited mares with great success. Baby boomers are ringing my phone off the wall - there are just not enough gaited mules to go around!"
In 1993, Moore was elected the first president of the American Gaited Mule Association. The following year, the North American Saddle Mule Association added a section on gaited mules to its rulebook; in 1995, the first gaited-mule classes were held. With an increasing interest in gaited mules, the AGMA looks forward to a bright future.
According to Marie Lanier, owner of R&M Gaited Mules located in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, a gaited mule is any mule that has a smooth gait (other than a walk) that's distinct from a trot. Examples include the single-foot, fox-trot, rack, running walk, stepping pace, and paso fino. The gaited mule's size and color will depend on that of its parents.
Owners tell us: Lanier stands a gaited jack named Lonesome. "Before we had a gaited jack, breeding for a gaited mule was hit-and-miss," she says. "But now, when we breed a gaited mare to the gaited jack, we have virtually a 100 percent chance the [resulting] mule will gait."
Moore says a good mule's personality "is like your puppy. Mules have a tendency to bond with people better than horses."
One client of Moore's is The Trail Rider contributor Dan Aadland, who recently bought a gaited jack. "We've been raising mountain-oriented horses since 1980," says Aadland, owner of Absaroka Tennessee Walking Horses in Absarokee, Montana. "We have an outstanding market, and a gaited jack adds another dimension. Several customers expressed an interest in gaited mules, and it'll be fun to raise gaited mules to pack into mountain camps and to pull our wagon."
On the trail: "Riding a gaited mule is like having a Jeep in the mountains and a Cadillac on the straightaway," Lanier says. "The Bitterroot Valley has lots of trails. A well-trained gaited mule can tackle the most challenging. One trail involves a climb over slate rock, frequently with water running over it. There's a dizzying drop on one side, but at the top, your reward is a pristine mountain lake and bountiful grass for grazing.
"I'm so proud of my gaited mules! Sometimes, happiness just overtakes me. Without warning, it strikes - and I marvel at how lucky I am to be in such a beautiful place with my animals."
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According to data released by US Patent and Trademark office, IBM once again topped the list of organizations that received the most patents within the one year. The company leads the list with 3248 patents, down from 3415 in 2003. Matsushita (Panasonic) follows with 1934 patents (2003 : 1774) in second place. Canon came in third registering 1805 patents (2003 : 1992).
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The first app is an Augmented Reality game called Pokémon AR Searcher. This app allows you to use the camera on the Nintendo 3DS to search around and capture Pokémon that can be transferred over to Black and White 2. This will be released alongside Black and White 2 for approximately $3.50.
The second new is Pokedex Pro and is an updated version of the existing Pokedex app for the 3DS. It will include new features and be released on July 14 in Japan for 1500 yen or approximately $18.
Who's that Pokémon?
Set two years after Pokémon Black and White, Black and White 2 features a Pokédex with about three hundred Pocket Monsters. The game begins in a new location called Hougi City. It's still located in Unova. The game will follow two new trainers, with a new rival and new gyms.
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September 3, 2009
The Exploding Floors of 9-11
This newly released footage of the demolitions of WTC 7 and WTC 1 (North Tower) is very significant. There are several important aspects of the demolitions of 9-11 that are proven by these videos. The first is the incredible amount of pulverization of the concrete in WTC 7, which can be seen in the billowing pyroclastic clouds of dust rolling down the streets during its unexplained collapse at 5:25 p.m. on 9-11. Pyroclastic clouds are usually associated with volcanoes and are composed chiefly of rock fragments of explosive origin.
The pyroclastic clouds of dust were primarily composed of the concrete floors of the towers - and everything on them. This dust was not caused by a collapse but by a layer of super-thermite that had been applied directly to the floors, most likely on their undersides that were hidden from view - on the steel pans that held the lightweight concrete. The floor pans were exploded on 9-11 with most of the force of the blast directed downwards. There was no collapse. If the towers had collapsed or pancaked as the official report claims, there should have been a stack of 100 floor pans in the rubble, yet none were to be seen.
The dust clouds seen flowing down the street following the collapse of the 47-story Salomon Building, built and owned by Larry Silverstein, are identical to the pyroclastic clouds that accompanied the demolition and collapses of the Twin Towers, WTC 1 and 2. These dust clouds were caused by a super-explosive, a nano-composite form of thermite, fragments of which were found in the dust and identified by Dr. Steven E. Jones of Brigham Young University and others.
Chips of the super-thermite that pulverized the World Trade Center.(Steven E. Jones et al, 2009)
This is the incredibly powerful explosive that evidently pulverized the 110 four-inch thick light-weight concrete floors of each tower. Besides reducing these concrete layers to pyroclastic dust, this super-thermite also destroyed everything on each floor and blew everything to smithereens and propelled the huge dust clouds of pulverized debris down the streets of lower Manhattan. The floors of the Twin Towers were exploded in a way that indicates that the super-thermite must have been in direct contact with the four-inch thick concrete floors or the metal pans the concrete was poured into. This is fairly obvious because these structures were primarily steel and glass towers with concrete floors. The only other surfaces would have been the temporary dry wall constructions on each floor, the suspended ceilings, plumbing, and elevator shafts. There was not much else in the way of surfaces that could have been applied with super-thermite. This is why the newly-released video of the demolition of the North Tower is so important. It clearly shows that the floors and exterior walls were exploded first and that the crucial weight-bearing core columns of the tower were still standing! (NIST, please explain that and the absence of 110 floor pans stacked up in the rubble. How did 220 steel floor pans disappear?)
This is crucial evidence that helps explain how the towers were demolished. The floors and structures around the core were evidently exploded first - and then the core columns were cut with steel-cutting thermite charges, explosions that were shrouded by the dust and noise of the exploding floors. This is quite unlike the logical progression of a normal collapse even in the case of demolition. This is to say that the 47 weight-bearing core columns were not cut first leading to the collapses. The destruction of the Twin Towers were not really collapses although the demolition of WTC 7 resulted in a collapse that resembled a normal controlled demolition.
The 110 floors of each tower were simply exploded before, blowing downwards and away from the cores in a way that was designed to look like a collapse. There was one problem: the "collapses" fell faster than an object in free fall. This was the first solid piece of evidence that the towers had been demolished with explosives. The "collapses" occurred faster than the laws of physics allow -- because they were not natural collapses. If they had been natural collapses there would have been layers of concrete pancaked on top of each other in the rubble pile, which is what often happens to multi-level buildings in strong earthquakes. We would expect to find 110 slabs of concrete and their steel pans stacked on top of each other, yet there is no evidence that any of these floor pans were found in the rubble, much less 110 of them stacked up. Where did these 220 steel floor pans go? How could they have simply disappeared? The fact that they were not found stacked up in the rubble clearly disproves the official version (NIST) of the "collapses" of the Twin Towers.
Many tons of steel from the Twin Towers were melted instantly by the super-thermite bi-layered explosive material found by Dr. Steven E. Jones in the dust. This is proven by the iron spheres found in the dust, as this image from the USGS survey clearly shows. This sphere is a solidified droplet of molten iron, the product of a thermitic reaction. This is evidently what happened to the 220 steel floor pans. In the wink of an eye they were melted by the detonation of the layer of super-thermite, which had probably been sprayed on their undersides, and then pulverized by the layer of organic material which had been added to the nano-thermite to create the gas pressure and explosive effect.
As we know there were no such solid remains of floor pans or the concrete floors of the Twin Towers -- absolutely everything was reduced to dust, except for the structural steel that remained, although some of that was also vaporized. This is what the super-thermite did on 9-11. It exploded the concrete floors and everything on them. There was no so-called pancake collapse. This is certainly obvious to anyone who views these videos. Why have NIST and the media lied to the public that the demolitions were collapses caused by steel structures weakened by fire? This is pure rubbish. Why is this video footage of the demolition of the North Tower so important? Because it suggests that the pulverizing super-thermite (a sol gel energetic bi-layer film) was applied directly to the acre-sized concrete floors surrounding the 47 core columns. That is to say that the super-thermite layer was evidently in direct contact with the floors in areas occupied by tenants, and not in the core area, which we can see remained standing for several seconds after the floors around it had been exploded away. So, how was this thermitic material applied to the floors? Was it sprayed to the undersides of the floor pans or was it applied to the floors themselves, perhaps disguised as a floor covering or as a layer beneath the floor covering? Perhaps it was applied to the floors in several ways. One reader wrote to me after the show with Kevin Barrett with this interesting comment:
During the interview, you speculated that the nano thermite may have been sprayed on the floor during the asbestos abatement process while removing linoleum. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the asbestos abatement process would be removing the fireproofing from the floor trusses by accessing the trusses through the suspended ceiling located below. In other words, the sol jell could have been sprayed on the floor pans (which is 15-20 ga steel decking supported by the trusses that the concrete is poured in) and hidden by the ceiling tiles in the same day. No problem. Other areas of sol jell application would include the core columns located within the elevator shafts Ace Elevator was working on. If you think about it, as energetic as nano thermite is, relatively little sol jell would be needed for the exterior columns, and it would explain the shearing occurring at convenient truck size lengths.
It seems most likely that the undersides of the steel floor pans is where the super-thermite was applied. If the pans were sprayed with a layer of super-thermite disguised as a coating of rust-proofing for example, the force of the blast would be directed downwards. The steel pan and the concrete of the floor would be pulverized but the direction of the explosions would be downwards and outwards, which is what we see in the video. As each floor was detonated, the blast would be forced downwards by the steel and concrete above it. The blast would hit the floor below it and hasten the collapse. This is what seems to have occurred judging by the video evidence.
In my article, "Who Put Super-Thermite in the Twin Towers?" of July 20, 2009, I discuss how the super-thermite might have been put in the towers. One of the possible disguises for applying the thin layer of super-thermite could have been as a coating sprayed during asbestos abatement work in the towers, as the reader said in the comment above. As I wrote in this article:
We do know that a million-dollar contract for asbestos abatement in the twin towers had been put up for bids by contractors in the fall of 2000, exactly one year before 9-11:Contract WTC-115.310 - The World Trade Center Removal and Disposal of Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tiles and Other Incidental Asbestos-Containing Building Materials Via Work Order Estimate Range: $1,000,000 annually Bids due Tuesday, October 17, 2000. (advertised by the PA on September 12, 2000)
Kevin Barrett asked me how I can say that the super-thermite was produced by the Zionists who I allege are behind 9-11? As I said in the interview, at this point I cannot say with absolute certainty that the nano-composite was made by Israeli scientists in the nuclear bomb factory near Dimona, but I suspect it was. It is a deduction I have made in the same way one solves an algebra problem. If we know the result of the equation and all of the factors except one we can determine the missing factor. This is what I have done. Every other aspect of this false-flag terror atrocity was done by Israelis or Zionists committed to Israel so I would conclude that Israelis were involved in the manufacture and application of the super-thermite in the World Trade Center towers that were demolished on 9-11, all three of them.What we really need to find at this point is the names of the people who were responsible for placing the super-thermite in the towers and how it was done. When we have that information we will be able to determine who made the material and provided it. Then we will have the true culprits of 9-11. As we already know, this material was certainly not made by Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida or the Taliban. We can safely say that no Muslim or Arab state or entity was responsible for loading the Twin Towers and WTC 7 with this advanced form of super-thermite. The government and media interpretation of 9-11 is, therefore, nothing but a pack of lies. This means that the war in Afghanistan has nothing whatsoever to do with 9-11 -- except that it is being done on behalf of those who carried out the false-flag terror attacks.We must remember that we really have nothing to fear but fear itself. The ones who are truly afraid are those who carried out 9-11 and those who have assisted in this massive hoax and cover-up. They, the real terrorists of 9-11, are trembling with fear and unable to sleep. We need to be dedicated, determined, and tenacious in finding the guilty parties and exposing them.


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This book brings together a very special collection of pictures. "Planet Earth" is now regarded as the ultimate wildlife TV series, and its magic lies in its photography.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
British Beer Prices
Look at this list of beers from the Burton Bridge Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent and you'll notice that the price varies by ABV. This is something you almost never see in the US unless it is a huge 10+ percent beer. But why not, after all, higher ABV beers are more expensive to make?
One reason is that customers in the US would be confused, they are not used to thinking about beer this way. But the British are used to it, thanks to a large excise tax that is levied on the final alcohol content of the beer itself. Below you can see the current excise rate. Note that lower strength beer (up to 2.8%) is taxed at half the rate, which is why you'll often see breweries brew a low strength beer in the UK so that they can sell it for much less money (I had a great one at Greene King).
Here is the current excise rate for beer in the UK (the current tax is the last column):
This is big, by the way, there is a VAT tax as well, but the excise tax for a pint of 5% beer is about 50p if my back-of-the-envelope calculation is correct. So for the festival ale at Burton Bridge, about 50p out of the £3 price is for the excise tax alone.
In fact this is such a part of British brewing that apparently the Bass brewery in Burton used to have an entire floor filed with excise agents who tested the beer and levied the tax on each and every barrel that left the brewery.
The Burton Bridge Brewery is exceptional, by the way. You won't find their beers here in the US, so you'll have to go to Burton-upon-Trent to try (which, sadly, is not a big draw - it is a charmless town) but if you are ever in the area, make a point of stopping in, you won't be disappointed. Then, after, you can do as we did and head over to the excellent Coopers Tavern (in the shadow of the enormous Coors plant).
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- Steve Lamond said...
Burton has more going for it than you make out. Average beer price is now around £1 in taxes
- December 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- Patrick Emerson said...
I am happy to be disabused, but I have to say I spent a fair amount of time wandering in Burton and it seemed like 70s and 80s urban renewal all gone awry: huge parking lots and malls in the center of town and by 6pm on Saturday the town center was dead.
I watched the England-Spain game in a huge pub with about 8 people in it.
On the other hand there was a lot of good beer to be had and the area around Burton was quite lovely. - December 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- Unknown said...
Jeff from Beervana posted a link to this in a comments thread to
this post, unfortunately the blogger wasn't happy with me questioning his pronouncements, and edited/deleted my last post.
I am genuinely interested in a conversation about the economics of session beers and differences in the British and American pricing models, so I thought maybe I'd take that conversation up here instead.
My last post which was edited out centered around the implications Alan had made that the pricing stucture in the States is something the breweries have control over.
If a £5 pint is £1 in taxes, 20%, then the tax makes up more of the cost than the ingredients, even for a small brewery which would have higher costs. Standards COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) in the States for craft breweries is 8-14%. This information isn't easy to succinctly back up, as it is proprietary financial information, but soundbrew.com, JVNW, and probrewer.com all have a lot of related information. The math seems relatively clear that the price of grain in a standard ale is a small percentage of what makes up the cost it takes to get to the consumer. 3-5% is a reasonable range to assume for the purpose of conversation.
In the case of British ales with different gravity-based prices within the same tax bracket: are British publicans simply taking lower mark-ups on session beers? Are breweries taking lower margins? Both?
It seems likely that the historical British tax system had a genuine effect on the pricing of the pints. Did that create a consumer culture which expected and reinforced it? In the States we have no such tax system, so pricing is based on operating costs of the brewery and then usually marked up a blanket percentage by the pub. Some localities suffer inflated pint prices due to taxes, but not on a national level.
No American bar owners that I've talked to lower their margins on lower alcohol beers. I'm not sure if that's always the case. The most interesting question to me is whether publicans taking lower margins on sessions beers would promote craft beer drinkers to purchase them, and whether that in turn would affect overall sales. This gets complicated when calculating table turns/day and looking at pub capacity - for example, if a pub is full, then lower margins drinks are making the pub less money, but if a pub is not at capacity and a consumer stays longer and drinks more pints of a session beer, the profit for the pub could possibly be equal or greater for a lower margin session beer than a higher margin, higher abv beer. - December 13, 2011 at 6:24 PM
- Adam P said...
The comment above was me, blogger didn't grab my profile for some reason.
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff The U.S. sailors and coast guardsmen on duty catching drug shipments will have to have shore leave somewhere else. The Asamblea Nacional Wednesday night rejected requests by the United States and the Ministerio de Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública to let the ships dock on Costa Rican soil. Some 20 ships are believed to be involved, and the Costa Rican Constitution requires assembly approval of a foreign military presence. The assembly also rejected the landing of a Colombian military aircraft. Some said the lawmakers were irked at having to work late hours. The assembly decision, which might be revisited, is a blow to tourism in Gofito and Puntarenas, two communities that cater to U.S. servicemen. The vessels are also believed to spend money in supplies and fuel. Dollar declines
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U.S. financial service suppliers have full rights to establish subsidiaries, joint ventures or branches for banks and insurance companies. The Central American Free Trade Treaty will build momentum toward hemispheric free trade. The U.S. will begin work in January 2004 to integrate the Dominican Republic into the Central American Free Trade Treaty. Removes most local residency requirements, which had imposed significant barriers to U.S. professionals. Central America will allow U.S.-based firms to supply insurance on a cross-border basis, including reinsurance; reinsurance brokerage; marine, aviation and transport (MAT) insurance; and other insurance services. Central America will allow U.S.-based firms to offer services cross-border to Central Americans in areas such as financial information and data processing, and financial advisory services. In addition, Central American mutual funds will be able to use foreign-based portfolio managers. The commitments in services cover both cross-border supply of services (such as services supplied through electronic means, or through the travel of nationals) as well as the right to invest and establish a local services presence. Market access to services is supplemented by requirements for regulatory transparency. Regulatory authorities must use open and transparent administrative procedures, consult with interested parties before issuing regulations, provide advance notice and comment periods for proposed rules, and publish all regulations. The financial services chapter includes core obligations of non-discrimination, most-favored nation treatment, and additional market access obligations. It also includes additional provisions on transparency of domestic regulatory regimes. E-Commerce: Free Trade in the Digital Age Central America and the United States agreed to provisions on e-commerce that reflect the issue's importance in global trade and the importance of supplying services by electronic means as a key part of a vibrant e-commerce environment. -- All parties committed to non-discriminatory treatment of digital products; agreed not to impose customs duties on such products and to cooperate in numerous policy areas related to e-commerce. Important New Protections for U.S. Investors in the Region -- The agreement will establish a secure, predictable legal framework for U.S. investors operating in the Central American countries. All forms of investment are protected under the agreement, including enterprises, debt, concessions, contracts and intellectual property. U.S. investors enjoy in almost all circumstances the right to establish, acquire and operate investments in the Central American countries on an equal footing with local investors, and with investors of other countries, unless specifically stated otherwise. Pursuant to U.S. Trade Promotion Authority, the agreement draws from U.S. legal principles and practices to provide U.S. investors in the Central American countries a basic set of substantive protections that Central American investors currently enjoy under the U.S. legal system. Among the rights afforded to U.S. investors (consistent with those found in U.S. law) are due process protections and the right to receive a fair market value for property in the event of an expropriation. Investor rights are backed by an effective, impartial procedure for dispute settlement that is fully transparent. Submissions to dispute panels and panel hearings will be open to the public, and interested parties will have the opportunity to submit their views. State-of-the-Art Protection for U.S. Trademarks Requires a system to resolve disputes about trademarks used in Internet domain names, which is important to prevent "cyber-squatting" with respect to high-value domain names. Applies principle of "first-in-time, first-in-right" to trademarks and geographical indications, so that the first person who acquires a right to a trademark or geographical indication is the person who has the right to use it. Encourages the development of an on-line system for the registration and maintenance of trademarks, as well as a searchable database. Requires transparent procedures for the registration of trademarks, including geographical indications. Protection for Copyrighted Works in a Digital Economy Copyright owners maintain rights over temporary copies of their works on computers, which is important in protecting music, videos, software and text from widespread unauthorized sharing via the Internet. Establishes that only authors, composers and other copyright owners have the right to make their work available on-line. Ensures extended terms of protection for copyrighted works, including phonograms, consistent with emerging international trends. Establishes strong anti-circumvention provisions to prohibit tampering with technologies (like embedded codes on discs) that are designed to prevent piracy and unauthorized distribution over the Internet. Ensures that governments use only legitimate computer software, thus setting a positive example for private users. Requires rules to prohibit the unauthorized receipt or distribution of encrypted satellite signals, thus preventing piracy of satellite television programming. Provides rules for the liability of Internet service providers for copyright infringement, reflecting the balance struck in the U.S. Millennium Copyright Act between legitimate Internet service provider activity and the infringement of copyrights. In all categories of intellectual property rights, U.S. companies will be treated at least as well as Central American companies, and the agreement makes a number of important improvements to intellectual property rights protections. Patents & Trade Secrets: Stronger Protections Provides for the extension of patent terms to compensate for delays in granting the original patent, consistent with U.S. practice. Limits the grounds for revoking a patent, thus |
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Clarifies that test data and trade secrets submitted to a government for the purpose of product approval will be protected against unfair commercial use for a period of five years for pharmaceuticals and 10 years for agricultural chemicals. Closes potential loopholes to these provisions. Requires a system to prevent the marketing of pharmaceutical products that infringe patents. Provides protection for newly developed plant varieties. Tough Penalties for Piracy and Counterfeiting Criminalizes end-user piracy, providing strong deterrence against piracy and counterfeiting. Requires all parties to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them. Also provides for enforcement against goods-in-transit, to deter violators from using ports or free trade zones to traffic in pirated products. Ex officio action may be taken in border and criminal cases, thus providing more effective enforcement. Mandates both statutory and actual damages for copyright infringement and trademark piracy. This serves as a deterrent against piracy, and ensures that monetary damages can be awarded even when it is difficult to assign a monetary value to the violation. New Access to Government Procurement Contracts U.S. suppliers are granted non-discriminatory rights to bid on contracts from Central American government ministries, agencies and departments. Low-value contracts are excluded. Covers the purchases of most Central American central government entities, including key ministries and state-owned enterprises. Requires fair and transparent procurement procedures, such as advance notice of purchases and timely and effective bid review procedures. Ensures that bribery in government procurement is specified as a criminal offense under Central America and U.S. laws. The Central American Free Trade Treaty will lock in economic reforms, strengthen the rule of law, promote good governance and strengthen democratic institutions in Central America. Groundbreaking Customs Procedures and Rules of Origin Comprehensive rules of origin will ensure that only U.S. and Central American goods benefit from the agreement. Rules are designed to be easier to administer. Agreement requires transparency and efficiency in administering customs procedures, including the Central American Free Trade Treaty rules of origin. Central American countries commit to publish laws and regulations on the Internet, and will ensure procedural certainty and fairness. Both parties agree to share information to combat illegal trans-shipment of goods. In addition, the agreement contains language designed to facilitate the rapid clearance through customs of express delivery shipments. Protection and Promotion of Worker Rights The Central American Free Trade Treaty fully meets the labor objectives set out by Congress in the Trade Promotion Act of 2002 and makes labor obligations a part of the core text of the trade agreement. Includes unprecedented provisions that commit Central American Free Trade Treaty countries to provide workers with improved access to procedures that protect their rights. The Central American Free Trade Treaty goes beyond Chile and Singapore free trade agreements through a three-part cooperative approach to improve working conditions by: 1. Ensuring effective enforcement of existing labor laws. Agreement requires that all parties shall effectively enforce their own domestic labor laws, and this obligation is enforceable through the Agreement's dispute settlement procedures. 2. Working with the International Labor Organization to improve existing labor laws and enforcement. International Labor Organization found that Central American nations have laws on the books that are largely consistent with International Labor Organization core labor standards. Central American governments are now working to address gaps between existing laws and International Labor Organization recommendations. For example, in response to the recent International Labor Organization report, several Central American countries have already drafted new legislation and regulations, dramatically increased funding for their labor ministries, expanded the number of labor inspectors, and streamlined procedures for creating unions. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua have each carried out major revisions of their labor codes over the last decade. All parties reaffirm their obligations as members of the International Labor Organization, and shall strive to ensure that their domestic laws provide for labor standards consistent with internationally recognized labor principles. Agreement clearly states that it is inappropriate to weaken or reduce domestic labor protections to encourage trade or investment. A comprehensive three-part strategy to improve worker rights in Central America. 3. Building local capacity to improve worker rights. The Central American Free Trade Treaty includes a groundbreaking cooperation mechanism to promote labor rights through specialized consultations and targeted training programs in the areas of child labor, public awareness of worker rights, and labor inspection systems. Public participation, including the input of worker and employer organizations, is called for in the design and implementation of technical cooperation activities. As part of the Central American Free Trade Treaty process, the U.S. Department of Labor has allocated $6.7 million to educate Central Americans on core labor standards and to improve the administrative capacity of the Central American Free Trade Treaty countries in labor matters. The U.S. Department of Labor will also support efforts aimed at reducing exploitative child labor. Through the International Labor Organization's program to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, U.S.-funded projects will remove children from hazardous and exploitative work and provide them with educational opportunities. Commitments and Cooperation to Protect the Environment -- Agreement fully meets the environmental objectives set out by Congress in TPA. Environmental obligations are part of the core text of the trade agreement. The Central American Free Trade Treaty goes beyond Chile and Singapore free trade agreements in seeking to develop groundbreaking new provisions that would: -- Develop a robust public submissions process to ensure that views of civil society are appropriately considered. -- Envision benchmarking of environmental cooperation activities and input from international organizations in evaluating progress. -- Enhance the mutual supportiveness of multilateral environmental agreements and the free trade agreement. Agreement commits parties to effectively enforce their own domestic environmental laws, and this obligation is enforceable through the Agreement's dispute settlement procedures. There is also an environmental cooperation agreement that provides a framework for undertaking environmental capacity building in the Central American Free Trade Treaty countries and establishes an Environmental Cooperation Commission. This is the first time that the cooperation agreement has been concluded at the time of the free trade agreements. The Chile and Singapore cooperation packages were negotiated after those trade agreements were concluded. The parties will now work on developing a work plan for cooperative activities. The environmental cooperation agreement identifies a number of priorities: -- Strengthening the capacity to develop, implement and enforce environmental
Both parties commit to establish high levels of environmental protection, and to not weaken or reduce environmental laws to attract trade and investment. Agreement also promotes a comprehensive approach to environmental protection, procedural guarantees that ensure fair, equitable and transparent proceedings for the administration and enforcement of environmental laws are married for the first time with provisions that promote voluntary, market-based mechanisms to protect the environment. Dispute Settlement: Tools to Enforce the Central American Free Trade Treaty Core obligations of the agreement, including labor and environment provisions, are subject to the dispute settlement provisions of the Agreement. Dispute panel procedures set high standards of openness and transparency: -- Open public hearings;
Emphasis is on promoting compliance through consultation, joint action plans and trade-enhancing remedies. An innovative enforcement mechanism includes monetary penalties to enforce commercial, labor and environmental obligations of the trade agreement. Trade Capacity-Building: Development and Trade Together In a first for any free trade agreement, the Central American Free Trade Treaty will include a Committee on Trade Capacity Building, in recognition of the importance of such assistance in promoting economic growth, reducing poverty, and adjusting to liberalized trade. The trade capacity building committee will build on work done during the negotiations to enhance partnerships with international institutions (Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, Organization of American States, ECLAC, and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration), non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. This year, in response to the needs identified by the Central American countries, the U.S. Government provided more than $61 million in trade capacity building assistance. Since the launch of negotiations, the Inter-American Development Bank has approved more than $320 million in Central American Free Trade Treaty-related operations. Private and non-government organizations joined in the effort on trade capacity building. The Humane Society of the United States developed "The Central American Free Trade Treaty Alliance" partnership to promote environmentally sustainable and humane agricultural programs, as well as the protection of wildlife and habitat. The City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana worked with local universities and entrepreneurs to establish "Idea Village International," an institute to train entrepreneurs in Central America. The U S. government provided more than $61 million in trade capacity building assistance in 2003. |
WASHINGTON, D.C. President Geroge Bush signed into law last April 30 the Protect Act aimed at strengthening U.S. law enforcement's ability to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish violent crimes committed against children. Many of the provisions of the Protect Act focus on protecting children within the United States, but the new law also reaches well beyond U.S. borders to help protect young people and combat child sex tourism. Since the law was enacted, eight U.S. residents have been placed in federal custody on charges of child sex tourism. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, conducted the investigations leading to these arrests. Formed in 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has the lead in investigating cases related to child sex tourism and pornography, alien smuggling, human trafficking and other crimes affecting young people. "In addition to the indictments brought under the new provisions, there are many more investigations in the works," Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Dean Boyd said this week. With investigators based in 25 major offices throughout the United States and Immigration and Customs Enforcement attaches based in 32 U.S. embassies around the world, the agency draws on a full spectrum of cyber, intelligence, investigative, and detention and removal functions to target those who exploit children, said Boyd. Under the Protect Act, conviction would result in a mandatory 30-year imprisonment for each offense related to the sexual exploitation of children, double the previous penalty. In addition, U.S. investigators have enhanced authority and resources to identify and prosecute U.S residents who prey on minors anywhere. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in cooperation with the Department of State and non-governmental organizations, is expected to launch a public service campaign in the near future, including the distribution of informational material on international flights, to educate U.S. residents about their responsibilities under the Protect Act. A brief look at current indictments points to the key provisions of the new law and illustrates U.S. efforts to work with foreign governments to curb the exploitation of their children and citizens: The cases: On Sept. 24, Michael Lewis Clark, a 69-year-old U.S. citizen, was indicted in U.S. federal court on charges of engaging in sexual conduct with two young males, approximately 10 and 13 years old, while visiting Phnom Penh, Cambodia. According to court documents, Clark flew to Cambodia from Seattle in May 2003 and was arrested in June by the Cambodian National Police for alleged debauchery. Subsequent investigations revealed Clark had spent considerable time in Cambodia since 1998, allegedly soliciting sex with boys along a riverfront area of Phnom Penh. Clark may have molested as many as 50 children over the past several years, according to a Sept. 24 Immigration and Customs Enforcement press release. Clark was returned to the United States and remains in federal custody pending trial. Boyd said the investigation leading to Clark's arrest reflected the joint efforts of Cambodian law enforcement officials; Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators in Seattle, Washington, and Bangkok Thailand; the U.S. embassy; the Australian federal police; and a non-profit agency in Cambodia dedicated to assisting children in need. Similar joint efforts led to a second indictment in November 2003. Gary
Evans Jackson, a resident of Seattle, was charged with three counts of
traveling abroad and engaging in illegal sexual conduct with minors. The
charges stemmed from allegations that he engaged in sex with three Cambodian
boys, again one boy as young as 10 years old. He is alleged to have taken
digital photos of the activity, prompting a U.S. government agent in Phnom
frequented by Jackson where materials
containing images of illicit sexual contact with Cambodian children were
The Protect Act was also cited in the indictment of John W. Seljan, arrested in October 2003 as he was preparing to board an international flight to the Philippines. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement press statements, Seljan, 85, was allegedly en route to engage in sex with two Philippine girls, ages 9 and 12. "Some pedophiles are motivated to commit child sex crimes overseas because they believe foreign child sex laws are less strict than ours," said Lorain Brown, special agent-in-charge for Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations in Los Angeles. "ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are working around the clock to identify these people and hold them accountable wherever they seek to commit these heinous crimes." Spokesman Boyd underscored the seriousness of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement teams in pursing the kinds of tips that point to criminal activities that harm children. He praised the partnerships that are developing between the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and international law enforcement officials, particularly in Mexico, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines, and also with the grassroots non-profit agencies concerned with ending the exploitation of children in their communities. The changes: The Protect Act enhances law enforcement efforts to combat child sex tourism in several new ways, according to Perry Woo, senior special agent at the Cybercrimes Center of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement here. -- U.S. prosecutors no longer have to prove the accused traveled abroad with the intent of having sex with minors. Showing intent is no longer necessary. The accused is subject to the full force of U.S. law if they attempted to or engaged in sexual conduct with children under age 18 in foreign places. -- Individuals legally residing in the United States as well as U.S. citizens can face federal charges under the Protect Act. This means international students, Green Card holders, trainees and other legitimate guests of the United States may be charged in U.S. federal courts for illicit sexual conduct with minors. -- The law goes after child sex tour operators and their co-conspirators. Prior to April 2003, only the actual sex exploiters and the principals involved in organizing the illicit business were held accountable. Under the Protect Act, anyone involved in furthering the illicit acts is accountable. For example, a business that hosts a child sex tourism Web site or advertises or facilitates the activity in other ways can be prosecuted. -- Those indicted under the Protect Act face a maximum sentence of 30 years for each offense, double the previous penalty. The U.S. government estimates 800,000 to 900,000 human beings are bought, sold or trafficked throughout the world each year. Among them are hundreds of thousands of teenagers, and others as young as 5 years old, who fall victim to the sex trade. More information on the domestic and international work of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is available at www.ice.gov Information on efforts to combat child sex tourism under the Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiative "Operation Predator" is available here. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement maintains an international, toll-free telephone number to report suspected child exploitation perpetrated by U.S. residents. The hotline number is 1-866-347-2423. Information can also be e-mailed to investigators at firstname.lastname@example.com A Department of Justice fact sheet on the provisions of the Protect Act is available here. The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the Department of State coordinates interagency efforts to combat trafficking; the annual trafficking in persons report is found here. |
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In the 1990s the Alaska Department of Fish and Game expanded its sonar tool kit with the introduction of split-beam sonar. Split-beam sonar is technically complex to operate, but biologists can use it to collect information about a fish's three-dimensional position and travel direction to distinguish upstream-migrating fish from downstream-moving fish and debris. Biologists can use split-beam sonar to detect fish swimming far from shore.
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Today biologists can more easily and accurately collect information about fish position, travel direction and size using DIDSON technology. But split-beam sonar is still the best tool available for detecting fish at long ranges. While biologists can use DIDSON technology to detect fish out to about 150 feet from the transducer, they can use split-beam sonar to detect fish out to about 1,000 feet from the transducer. Two ADF&G sonar projects require long-range detection of fish and use split-beam sonar — the Pilot Station sonar site and Eagle sonar site, both located on the Yukon River.
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