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These Are The Cities We Have Visited Since 1988.
Thought we would share it with you because the blog I was planning to post never materialized. The number next to the year represents the month. Love to see your list. It doesn’t matter how large or small it is. You went to places we didn’t. Till we fly again. Stay safe, stay strong.
1988-8–Athens
Corfu
Crete/Chania
Katakolon
Mykonos
Rhodes
Santorini
1990-8-Rome
Milan
Florence
Venice
2006-1 – SINGAPORE
– CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH
– THAILAND
BANGKOK
PATTAYA
– SOUTH VIETNAM
HO CHI MINH CITY
– NORTH VIETNAM
HALONG BAY
HANOI
– CHINA
CANTON
– HONG KONG
2007-5 – POLAND
WARSAW
KRAKOW
– HUNGRY
BUDAPEST
– AUSTRIA
VIENNA
– CZECH REPUBLIC
PRAGUE
– FINLAND
HELSINKI
2008-2 – CHILE
SANTIAGO
PUERTO VARAS
PUERTO MONTT
– ARGENTINA –
BUENOS AIRES
BARILOCHE
IGUASSU FALLS
– BRAZIL –
RIO de JANEIRO
2009-5 – ISRAEL
TEL AVIV
CAESAREA
HAIFA
NAZARETH
GALILEE
JERUSALEM
MASADA – DEAD SEA
EILAT
– JORDAN, PETRA
2010-8 – PERU
CUZCO
SACRED VALLEY
MACHU PICCHU
LAKE TITICACA
LIMA
2011-3 – INDIA
NEW DELHI
JAIPUR
AGRA
KHAJURAHO
VARANASI
– NEPAL
KATHMANDU
2011-7 – FRANCE
PARIS
– LUXEMBOURG
REMICH
– GERMANY
BERNKASTEL
COCHEM-KOBLENZ
8 – MAINZ
HEIDELBERG
RUDESHEIM
COLOGNE
– AMSTERDAM
– BRUGGE
– BRUSSELS
2012-6 – CROATIA
ZAGREB
OPATIJA-PULA-ROVINJ
ZADAR-TROGIR-SPLIT
PLITVICE LAKES
DUBROVNIK
– SLOVENIA
LJUBLJANA
BLED
POSTOJNA CAVE
– MONTENEGRO
2013-8 – PORTUGAL
LISBON
LAMEGO-BARCA D’ALVA
CASTELO-RODRIGO
PINHAO
REGUA-BITETOS
PORTO
– SPAIN
SALAMANCA
MADRID
2013-10 – HAVANA, CUBA
2014-2 – LONDON
2014-8 – COLUMBIA
CARTAGENA
2014-10 – MOROCCO
CASABLANCA
MARRAKESH
ESSOUIRA
OURZAZATE
ERFOUD
SAHARA DESERT
FEZ – RABAT
2015-2 – PANAMA
PANAMA CITY – COLON
SAN BLAS ISLANDS
PANAMA CANAL
DARIEN PROVINCE —
EMBERA TRIBE
COIBA
– COSTA RICA
MARENCO
PUERTO CALDERA
SAN JOSE
2015-3 – MAUI
2015-7 – SPAIN
BARCELONA
– FRANCE
ARLES
AVIGNON – VIVIERS
GRIGNAN – TOURNON
LYON – VIENNE
MARSEILLE
CAP D’AIL
BEAULIEU SUR MER
ST. JEAN CAP FERRAT
EZE – NICE
– ITALY
CINQUE TERRE
– MONTE CARLO
2015-9 – COLUMBIA
BOGOTA
ZIPAQUIRA
COFFEE TRIANGLE
COCORA VALLEY
FILANDIA – SALENTO
MEDELLIN
GUATAPE
PENOL ROCK
CARTAGENA
2017-5 – JAPAN
TOKYO
MT. FUJI – HAKONE
NIKKO WORLD
HERITAGE SITE
TAKAYAMA
SHIRAKAWAGO
KANAZAWA
KYOTO
2017-8 – SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM
– NORWAY
BERGEN
FLAM-LOFTHUS
HARDANGERFJORD
OSLO
– DENMARK
COPENHAGEN
– FINLAND
HELSINKI
– RUSSIA
ST. PETERSBURG
2017-10 – FRANCE
PARIS
2018-4 – ECUADOR
QUITO
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
2018-5 – FRANCE
PARIS
LES ANDELYS
ETRETAT
HONFLEUR
NORMANDY BEACHES
ROUEN
GIVERNY
MALMAISON
2018-8 – IRELAND
DUBLIN
BELFAST
DERRY
SLIGO
GALWAY
CONNEMARA
KILLARNEY
KERRY
DINGLE PENINSULA
LIMERICK
2018-10 – EGYPT
CAIRO
ASWAN
ABU SIMBEL
KOM OMBO
EDFU
LUXOR
2019-2 – MEXICO CITY
2019-4 – CUBA
HAVANA
2019-6 – GERMANY
BERLIN
POTSDAM
NUREMBERG
ROTHENBURG
BAMBERG
MUNICH
REGENSBURG
2019-9 – ICELAND/GREENLAND
2020-2 – MEXICO
QUADALAJARA
2021-5 – BENTONVILLE, AK
CRYSTAL BRIDGES
2021-8 – PROVINCETOWN, MA
2021-10 – NEW ORLEANS, LA
For Your Next Life
Thank you Jayda Knight for sharing.
1 * Accept the fact that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue
2 *Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
3 * Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
4 * Drive carefully. It’s not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker.
5 *If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
6 * If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
7 * It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
8 * Never buy a car you can’t push.
9 *Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won’t have a leg to stand on.
10 * Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
11 * Since it’s the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
12 * The second mouse gets the cheese.
13 * When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
14 * Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
15 * Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
16 * We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
17 * A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
18 * Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY
19 *Save the earth. It’s the only planet with chocolate!*
The Future Of The Physical Clothing Store
Amazon to open its first-ever physical clothing store. Amazon’s latest store concept is designed to combine the personalization of e-commerce with the immediacy of brick-and-mortar shopping
Thank you Chain Store Age for alerting us.
Amazon to open its first-ever physical clothing store – in a California lifestyle center
Amazon’s latest store concept is designed to combine the personalization of e-commerce with the immediacy of brick-and-mortar shopping.
The first Amazon Style store will open later this year, year at The Americana at Brand, a lifestyle center in Glendale, Calif. The approximate 30,000-sq.-ft. store, designed to offer a high-tech shopping experience, will feature women’s and men’s apparel, shoes and accessories. The assortment will feature “hundreds of brands” chosen by fashion creators and “feedback provided by millions of customers shopping on Amazon.com,” according to Amazon.
How Amazon Style will work
Not surprisingly, Amazon Style will distinguish itself from traditional clothing stores with high-tech flourishes. Most of the clothing will be out of sight and kept in the back of the store, with only one sample of each item displayed on the sales floor. The format will allow Amazon Style to offer more than double the number of products offered for sale in a fashion store of its size.
Using the Amazon Shopping app, customers will scan an item’s QR code to see sizes, colors, overall customer ratings and additional product details. With the tap of a button, shoppers can have the item brought to a fitting room. If the customer doesn’t want to try it on, the item can be sent directly to the pickup counter.
Customers can continue shopping in the fitting rooms, which have touchscreens where they can browse more options, rate items, and request more sizes or styles to be delivered directly to the room within minutes. As customers browse the store and scan items, Amazon will leverage its machine learning algorithms to recommend tailored, real-time suggestions regarding other items they be interested in buying.
For a more tailored experience, customers can share preferences like style and fit to receive more refined recommendations. Shoppers can also view deals in-store that match their preferences, right in the Amazon Shopping app.
Amazon Style will feature automated technologies and processes used in Amazon fulfillment centers for fast delivery of requested items to fitting rooms. Store associates will provide customer service, deliver items to fitting room closets, merchandise the store, help customers at checkout and manage back-of-house operations.
Items scanned at Amazon Style are saved in a customer’s Amazon Shopping app, enabling them to purchase at a later time or find more items online from new brands discovered in the store. Customers can shop millions of apparel items on Amazon.com, request delivery to Amazon Style and then try on items in the fitting room when they get to the store. Items can also be returned in the store.
In-store prices will be the same as on Amazon.com. Customers can view deals in store that match their preferences in the Amazon Shopping app. The stores will also feature new complex inventory management systems, new technology to support customer service, and Amazon One palm recognition-based payment. Select customers will be invited to preview the store’s shopping experience before it opens to the public.
Amazon Style will join Amazon’s other existing brick-and-mortar banners – Amazon Go, Whole Foods Market, Amazon Books, Amazon 4-star, Amazon Fresh, and Amazon Pop Up stores. By combining app-based shopping with automated micro-fulfillment technology and endless aisle inventory, the retailer is attempting to truly duplicate the online shopping experience in a physical store. Amazon Style stores could also easily serve as pickup and return points for online purchases, as well as provide ship-from-store capability for fashion purchases.
“We obsessed over designing a shopping experience focused on helping customers find great looks, and it led us to create Amazon Style,” said Simoina Vasen, managing director, Amazon Style, in a corporate blog post. “We’re so excited to offer a shopping experience that inspires discovery and combines the best of shopping on Amazon.com with the benefit of touching and trying on items to ensure a great fit.
The Weekend Posse
It all started out when friends Cris Sweeny and Claire Lardner invited six pals to join them, and their humungous RV, at a dude ranch called Westgate in River Ranch, Florida. It’s about an hour south of Orlando.
Cris and Claire, owners of Frameworks, live in Miami and go on road trips all the time. They invited us, (Gail Williams and Dawn McCall, Randy Bridges and Ron Moorman, and Eliot and yours truly) to this outing because the ranch guest accommodations suited our individual needs. As big as the RV is, we all couldn’t sleep together. Westgate has lodges, townhomes, teepees, tents, and a huge RV park.
We spent most of the time hanging out in Claire and Cris’ RV, the general store, the saloon, the western store, the BBQ Smokehouse restaurant, and the rodeo. There were so many cowboy outdoor activities, but we loved just spending time together and telling stories around the campfire Claire and Cris built.
The 1,700 acre Westgate River Ranch has horseback riding, swimming, golf, petting farm, nature hikes, trap and skeet shooting, hayrides, cookouts and a full-service marina complete with boating, fishing, and airboat and swamp buggy rides. Westgate River Ranch also features a 5,000-foot paved and lighted runway, the award-winning Smokehouse Grill, River Ranch Saloon and the longest-running Saturday night championship rodeo in the United States that offers trick riding, bull riding, calf roping and barrel racing at the 1,200-seat rodeo arena. A herd of grazing Watusi cattle (known for their long, distinctive horns) makes its home at Westgate River Ranch. New additions to Westgate River Ranch include an 18-hole miniature golf course, rock climbing wall, zip line, mechanical bull, and a bungee jumper.
The River Ranch was originally built in the 1960s by Gulf American Corp. (GAC), then one of the largest land developers in the state, as the centerpiece of a huge proposed development in the area called “River Ranch Acres.” By 1971, the property featured a large motel, Western-style saloon and café, swimming pool, airstrip, rodeo and trap & skeet range. In 1976, the All-American Corp. purchased River Ranch from GAC and sold the development to a group of Ohio developers in 1980. In 1986, that group sold River Ranch Resort to Outdoor Resorts. In 2001, Westgate Resorts purchased River Ranch and Westgate River Ranch reopened its doors the following year.
Westgate River Ranch, which has evolved into the largest dude ranch East of the Mississippi, is surrounded on all sides by approximately 400,000 acres of state and federally protected wetlands.
We all had an amazing time. If you want to experience something different, this is the place for you. We all loved it.
Westgate River Ranch Rodeo cowgirl falls from horse
The redo start of the festivities
An uncooperative bull make the cowboys flex their muscle
Bull kicks cowboy down. Ouch!
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Do You Think They Resemble Each Other? Part 2.
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Two Client Stories
Our PR company, HWH PR, was the first agency to handle super star hair colorist Joel Warren. The name of his salon was Parallel and it was located in the same building as the Vertical Club on 61st Street. Abe Hirschfeld, the parking garage magnate, was the owner/builder. Every celeb worked out at the Vertical Club and went to Joel to get their hair done. This went on for years. Joel then formed the Warren Tricomi partnership with Edward Tricomi and Roxana Pintilie. Joel is one amazing guy. If he said he got screwed, he got screwed. Sak’s pay up.
Saks sued by hair salon for $75M over alleged co-working plan at flagship
If you have any interest in this topic, contact me. We are looking for print, broadcast, internet coverage everywhere. Podcast link below.
Dr. Arthur Bregman, MD, a Psychiatry Specialist in Coral Gables, FL, wants to talk about the fact that there has been a 25-33% increase in domestic violence since the start of the pandemic. “The American Journal of Emergency Medicine reported a 25-33% increase while other sources have placed the numbers between 25-80%.
“I’ve seen it at my own practice. The problems of covid have created a lot of mental friction in and between people. Domestic violence can include violence between a romantic couple, elder abuse, and child abuse. While there are other ways domestic violence occurs these are the three big ones. First social isolation and distancing took away peoples’ usual social support systems. Whereas a victim might have had friends and distant relatives to go to for comfort and help, they were suddenly thrust into a closed off habitation with abusers.
“Even with vaccines and the re-starting of public life, families still face financial troubles, new stressors they’ve never seen before, and almost as much uncertainty as there was last year.All of this Covid strife has led to the exacerbation of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and skyrocketing levels of substance abuse. These together create a fertile environment for domestic violence.
“Abusers essentially use the pandemic’s consequences to victimize. Domestic violence often often occurs in settings where one individual has authoritative power over the others like a parent, overbearing partner, or nefarious caretaker. Over the past two years they’ve had more chances for violence as people isolate and fear/stress pervades their mindset. It causes regression to intemperate behaviors many might have been suppressing, and mixed with substance abuse or a serious mental disorder it can wreak havoc in close quarters.”
And sometimes, victims are too ashamed to speak up. Dr Bregman also points out, “Because of the shame, only recently in our society have we talked about this happening. We live in a culture where image is important and shame goes a long way to silencing things.” But now the culture of silence is starting to change.
“Police reports, domestic abuse hotlines calls, and even at our psychiatry practice there’s been a marked increase in domestic violence victims seeking support since early 2020.This uptick is jarring but luckily these avenues are exactly where domestic violence sufferers need to go for professional help.One can not stress enough the importance of seeking professional help in these situations. It’s the best solution because it gets the ball rolling on change.Expert guidance can provide the confidence needed to break free. It can be through a hotline, a support group, a mental health professional, or of course the authorities if it comes to that.”
However sometimes it’s hard to gain access to resources in an emergency, so 3 general tips from Dr. Bregman for safety in a domestic violence situation are:
– Stay away from weapons and if they’re at your household, keep them safely locked away at all times.
– Confide in a trusted friend or loved one so they can go to the authorities if you can’t.
– Be as prepared as possible to make an escape in case of danger: keep a packed bag hidden if you can, have a safe destination in mind, etc.
A thoroughly detailed list of ways to prepare for leaving can be found at https://asafeplaceforhelp.org/get-help/domestic-violence-safety-tips/
“We can also raise awareness. This serves to further empower sufferers of domestic violence and bring attention to the cause so we can work together to stop this pandemic within a pandemic, and support the victims.”
Dr. Arthur Bregman, MD, is a Psychiatry Specialist in Coral Gables, FL, with over 47 years of expertise treating illnesses including ADHD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and various other problems
Listening to “Domestic Abuse is on the Rise” at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1686676/9861805-domestic-abuse-is-on-the-rise
The Miami Real Estate Market By Zack Belil
This is my friend Zack. The reason I posted his talk is because so many people ask me about the Miami real estate market. He sums it up. One of the best.
Yvette Mimieux, Who Found Fame With ‘The Time Machine,’ Dies at 80
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Every day I create an Andy Warhol happy birthday picture for friends on Facebook. I have been doing this for years. Here are some of my recent ones.
