Savoy Hotel to open alongside Resorts World Manila this Friday
Travellers International Hotel Group sets tender price for shares in privatization push Megaworld insists POGO exposure “small and manageable” as license moratorium sees share price tumble Philippine property giant Megaworld will launch its second Savoy Hotel at Newport City near Resorts World Manila (RWM) this Friday, adding further accommodation within touching distance of the integrated resort as it continues to rebound from the devastating lone gunman attack that saw 37 people lose their lives last June.The new Savoy Hotel, coming at a cost of Php5 billion (US$93.5 million), houses 684 hotel rooms ranging from between 23 and 27 square meters for standard rooms and 35 to 50 square meters for suites. Travellers aiming to delist from Philippine Stock Exchange on 21 October Load More Located directly across from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3, it boasts a unique co-working area called the Squares on several floors described as being suitable for “casual group hangouts, intimate chats and meetings.”The property also has three food and beverage outlets: the Savoy Café for buffet style dining, Zabana Bar for cocktails and drinks plus The Poolside for a more luxurious dining experience.Inside Asian Gaming revealed last week that RWM is set to become home to the Philippines’ first Ritz-Carlton in the coming months as part of the integrated resort’s multi-million dollar makeover. The Ritz-Carlton will be located at the current Maxims hotel where the attacker who tragically killed 36 people when he stormed the property in June 2017 took his own life.RWM has already converted its former Remington Hotel to Holiday Inn Express, while the 191-room Okura Hotel – another newcomer to the Philippines market – will occupy space once earmarked for the expansion of Maxims.MegaWorld is the property firm of Andrew Tan – the Chairman of RWM co-owner Alliance Global Group Co. RelatedPosts
KEY WEST, FLA. (WSVN) – Monroe County’s Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting unit responded to a call about a jet fuel leak at a Key West airport, Tuesday.According to officials, a truck rolled over and spilled gallons of jet fuel at the Key West International Airport, just before 7 p.m.About 4,000 gallons of fuel were believed to have been on board, although the amount of fuel leaked remains unknown.The general aviation ramp was closed as crews used foam to soak up the fuel.General aviation flights were still able to land, and commercial flights were unaffected.The truck driver suffered minor injuries.Copyright 2019 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
More From Roadshow Subaru Lexus 45 Photos 2020 Subaru Outback first drive: Tech and trail mix Now playing: Watch this: 0 Car Industry Tags Roadshow’s long-term 2019 Subaru Ascent is a big, comfy family-hauler 2019 Subaru Ascent review Enlarge ImageHere’s the full breakdown, split between mass-market and luxury brands. J.D. Power Loyalty is a great thing for automakers. Not only does it mean a person is more likely to come back and spend even more money with that OEM, it means that repeat buyer is also likely a cheerleader that introduces other people to the brand. For that reason, J.D. Power has started tracking automotive brand loyalty, and the results of its first study have just been published.J.D. Power this week unveiled the results of its first Automotive Brand Loyalty Study. The group calculated the percentages in its study based on transactions from June 2018 to May 2019, including all model years of trade-in vehicles. The resulting value represents the percentage of buyers who bought or leased a new vehicle from an automaker after trading in an existing car. What’s interesting is the massive disparity in loyalty between mass-market and luxury brands. Subaru holds the top spot both in the mass market and overall, with 61.5% of buyers sticking around for another car. Toyota is hot on its heels at 59.5%, followed by Honda with 57.7%. Ram and Ford round out the mass-market top five with 56.2% and 54.0%, respectively. The lowest mass-market loyalty belongs to Smart (14.3%), but Chrysler (14.4%) and Fiat (16.5%) aren’t far behind.While Lexus might have the top loyalty for luxury automakers, its 47.6% loyalty rate would put it in eighth place if all OEMs were bunched together. Mercedes-Benz takes second place in luxury vehicles with 44.2% loyalty. BMW, Porsche and Audi were practically on top of one another with loyalty percentages of 43.6%, 43.5% and 43.3%, respectively. Jaguar takes the bottom luxury slot at 20.6%, followed by Infiniti (32.1%) and Volvo (33.3%).Since this is J.D. Power’s first year running this study, there’s no insight to be found based on results from years past. But as we creep into 2020 and beyond, it will be interesting to see how things will inevitably shift. Lexus has strong positioning in just about every J.D. Power study, so we’ll see if it can hold onto this crown, as well. 2020 Subaru Legacy first drive: It’s what’s inside that counts Long-term 2019 Subaru Ascent is ready for the long haul Post a comment Lexus 4:06 Share your voice
Maybe you recall another media campaign last fall intended to encourage young people’s participation in the midterm elections. In pursuit of this laudable goal, marketers invoked every negative stereotype of old people — selfish, addled, unconcerned about the future — to scare their juniors into voting. Adweek called it “comically savage.” I’d drop the “comically.” And such jabs constitute mere microaggressions compared to the forms ageism often takes: pervasive employment discrimination, biased health care, media caricatures or invisibility. When internalized by older adults themselves, ageist views can lead to poorer mental and physical health. After a bunch of us squawked about the ad on social media, the company apologized for what it called attempted humor and what I’d call ageism.
It happened about a year ago. I stepped off the subway and spotted an ad on the station wall for a food delivery service. It read: “When you want a whole cake to yourself because you’re turning 30, which is basically 50, which is basically dead.” “It’s an incredibly prevalent and insidious problem,” said Alana Officer, who leads the World Health Organization’s global campaign against ageism, which it defines as “stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination” based on age. “It affects not only individuals, but how we think about policies.” Read the whole story: The New York Times
The Vintage Affaire charity sale was first launched three years ago, establishing it’s base on a simple concept: re-selling donated fashion and accessories at extremely affordable prices to raise funds for charity; one person’s fashion discard becoming another’s bounty. However, the question then begged if there was a market for used apparel among fashion consumers in India, which was quickly answered when their entire stock of over 7,000 fashion apparel and accessories was sold out over one weekend. Also Read – Add new books to your shelf”What started as a great idea quickly grew into something really big. We realised that people had a lot of clothes to donate, from barely used to brand new. The challenge at first was motivating the donors to drop off their contributions, however, once we started offering pick-ups, the scale grew quickly. From planning the sale in one of our living rooms, we ended up having to host it in a large restaurant space in Defence Colony that was also donated,” explains Mandavi Sharma, co-creator, The Vintage Affaire. Also Read – Over 2 hours screen time daily will make your kids impulsiveGarnering immense support and publicity following the success of the first sale, the stock increased to 10,000 pre-sorted fashion apparels in addition to branded accessories last year to over 15,000 pieces of apparel, as well as accessories and the new addition of household items this year – with everything being sold out every year.What attributed to the success of the sale was the buzz across the social networks as well as media publicity, where not a penny was spent as promotional charges. Not only were two billboards donated, but also radio advertising, columns in the local paper, graphic designers and PR experts contributed their time towards the cause. This year’s sale was kicked off with a fashion show where celebrities, bloggers and designers themselves walked the ramp in clothes donated by Indian design houses, where guests and mall shoppers covered over three floors to watch the show. The show was followed by a preview sale, which also sold out.The Vintage Affaire is powered by The Angels Network, a small Delhi-based group with a huge heart and is run entirely by volunteers. Every element of the sale is run by the volunteers themselves, from donation pick-ups to event management and promotions. The proceeds of the sale will go entirely to three charities: Dukh Bhanjan Trust, a medical overflow facility; Bouquet Of Sight, a vision care ‘gifting’ and Saksham Bal Vikas Sanstha, a non-profit school. Plans for the next Vintage Affaire (VA4) are already underway. Based on the scale and turnout of this year’s sale, the group will be arranging for a much larger space next time.
Barbers have been a fixture in society for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians were possibly the first civilization to regularly shave and trim their hair as part of a daily grooming routine. In fact, they were quite obsessed with personal hygiene. Most men kept their heads, as well as their faces, neatly shaved. Priests went one step further, removing all hair on their bodies in the belief that it was shameful and unclean.Barbers were held in high regard, and the most wealthy in society even kept a barber as part of their household staff. The would use a combination of razors and pumice stones to remove unwanted fuzz.Franz Anton Maulbertsch’s The Quack (c. 1785) shows barber surgeons at work.The ancient Greeks were fond of barbers as well and it is here that the first barber shops emerged, as places for men to go and have their hair trimmed and styled while they discussed matters of philosophy, politics, and current events.Originally, the job of barbers in Greece was to care for the often extravagant and fantastic beards of the Greek men, but, during the campaigns of Alexander the Great against the Persians, it was found that beards were a detriment in battle.Older barber-dentist.The Persians had a habit of pulling men from the backs of their horses by the beard, leaving the soldiers open for a killing blow.According to The Barber’s History, when Alexander the Great observed this, he decreed that all men should be clean shaven to avoid a grisly end.Alexander the Great.This news traveled swiftly back to the civilian population of Greece and the style caught on. Barbers were put to work making sure the men of Greece were clean shaven and fashionable.Greek influence and trade would bring the idea of the barber to every shore they touched. The Romans kept their faces clean and their hair short as well — but, unlike the Egyptians, they viewed body hair as an attractive quality.Through the conquests of the Roman Empire, the idea would spread to all the civilized world. But when the Germanic tribes, Visigoths, and Franks brought about the end of the Roman Empire, the beards and long hair they sported were brought back into fashion. This changed how the barber operated, but it would not be a simple transformation.Interior of a barber’s shop, c. 1920.The fall of the Roman Empire, in 476, left a power vacuum across Europe. This would soon be filled by the Roman Catholic Church, which began to heavily impact the lives of every person in Europe. The duty of clergymen was not only to care for the souls of their congregations, but also for their bodies.Often, monks would administer practices such as bloodletting and tooth extraction to attempt to fight diseases. This changed in the 1100s, when the papacy outlawed such practices by priests.Bloodletting set of a Barber Surgeon, beginning of the 19th century, Märkisches Museum Berlin. Photo by Anagoria CC BY 3.0Many surgeons believed that bloodletting was required, but the task was beneath them. So barbers took up the mantle and started to provide these services.Take a closer look with this video:This is where the barber’s pole comes in. In barber shops during the later part of the Middle Ages, barbers would place bowls of blood in the windows of the shop so that the mostly illiterate population would understand that bloodletting was a service that the barber provided.A classic white, red and blue barber shop pole.The practice of setting bowls of blood out is very unhygienic and thoroughly disgusting, however, and in 1307 laws were passed to stop the practice altogether. The barbers needed to find some way to advertise and the solution was incredibly clever.The base of the iconic barber pole is the rod. When practicing bloodletting, the person receiving the treatment would take a wooden rod in their hand and squeeze it.This would allow the veins to pop out of the arm, making it easy to find where to make an incision. That’s why the pole became the hallmark of the barber shop.Read another story from us: Why Men Started Shaving Their Beards for Health ReasonsIn The History of the Barber Pole, it states that “The red in a barber pole represents bloodletting, while the white was meant to signify the bandages used to wrap the wounds. The blue is said to represent the non-oxygenated blood in the veins. The downward spiral of the modern pole signifies the direction of the aortic flow of blood in the body.”That’s why barbers have this on the outside of their shops — as a nod to the history of the profession.
Stockroom restaurant and grill in Sydney’s Double Bay has launched a new dining experience on Sundays, combining a fresh produce-driven buffet with Perrier-Jouët Champagne.Delicacies on offer include fresh salads, seasonal hot dishes from the grill, fresh seafood from Sydney Rock Oysters and lobster to sashimi and sushi, freshly-sliced cured meats and cheeses, and a selection of desserts, from rich chocolate tarts to frozen yoghurt ice-cream.Perrier-Jouët Sunday Soirée is available each Sunday, 12:00pm-3:00pm, for $85 per person including full buffet lunch experience with a glass of Perrier-Jouët Champagne on arrival. Recieve two hours of endless pour Perrier-Jouët Champagne for an additional $60 per person.Guests aged 12-18 years can enjoy buffet lunch including soft drinks for $75 per person, with children aged 5-12 years for $35, and up to 5 years’ old dine complimentary.For more information and reservations, contact +61 2 8388 8372, stockroom.doublebay@ihg.com or visit www.stockroomdoublebay.com.au.
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