20 August, 2015

PARADISE REVISITED AND REBORN IN MAURITIUS: SHANGRI-LA’S LE TOUESSROK RESORT & SPA TO DEBUT 1 NOVEMBER


Mauritius’s most iconic resort introduces “Open for Imagination” island dream package

18 August 2015 – The countdown to the unveiling of Shangri-La’s Le Touessrok Resort & Spa, Mauritius on 1 November is underway, with the extensive six-month renovation of the legendary Le Touessrok nearly complete and pop-up events being held in London, Paris and Dubai in late September and early October set to showcase the resort’s experiential offerings and provide a taste of paradise with Mauritian musicians, artists and flavours flown in for the occasion.

Located on the east coast of Mauritius in the stunning Trou d’Eau Douce Bay, the 200-room Shangri-La’s Le Touessrok Resort offers #nofilter required Indian Ocean views from all guestrooms, suites and villas; talcum-white sand beaches; and Ilot Mangénie, a secluded private island reserved exclusively for guests that features 3.5 kilometres of pristine beach, a stylish beach club and on-island butlers.

For over 40 years, cosmopolitan jet-setters from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas have revelled in this paradise day and night. Now, after significant investment, the resort has been re-imaged, bringing together the renowned hospitality of Shangri-La with the legendary Mauritian island chic of Le Touessrok Resort.

“Our vision is to create a private hideaway that can be our guests’ own personal paradise,” said Gabriele Lombardo, general manager of Shangri-La’s Le Touessrok Resort & Spa. “In an always-on world, our senses are constantly barraged. We want to give guests space for imagination and serendipitous discovery.”
As part of the major renovation, the resort’s tropical bohemian chic has been revitalized and enhanced by vibrant contemporary styling referencing Mauritius’s diverse cultures and dramatic landscape of volcanic mountains, lush rainforests and blue lagoons, as well as Shangri-La’s Asian sophistication and heritage.

The use of organic and natural materials and touches of European glamour enrich the intimate ambiance of the resort, which has the feel of a Mediterranean-style village. Five new dining and bar concepts – such as Republik Beach Club & Grill, which features Mediterranean cuisine and barbecue specialties and a lively bohemian beach lounge, and Sega, a rum and Tiki bar where exciting local talents play reggae, seggae, jazz and the blues – burnish fan favourites such as Safran, the resort’s acclaimed Indian restaurant.

In addition to its two pools and extensive aquatic and land-based activities, there is the T-Club for children aged between 4 and 11 and an Active T-Club for those 12 to 17 years old. Guests also have access to the 18-hole, par 72 championship golf course designed by Bernhard Langer that is located a few minutes away by boat on Ile aux Cerfs.

Open for Imagination
The guest experience at Shangri-La’s Le Touessrok Resort & Spa is entirely personal, with on-island Shangri-La Specialists available to custom-design activities to meet guests’ interests.

To celebrate the launch of the resort, Shangri-La’s Le Touessrok Resort & Spa is offering an “Open for Imagination” package, which can be further personalised by the Shangri-La Specialist. The five-night “Open for Imagination” package is for two people and includes:

·        Five-nights’ stay in one of the resort’s six 126-square-metre deluxe suites, each of which offers a separate lounge area, a private dining room, two secluded terraces, complimentary bar and champagne on arrival.
·        Roundtrip airport transfers and island tour by helicopter, along with exclusive use of the resort’s Yu airport lounge for fast-track immigration and personalised service.
·        Daily Dom Pérignon champagne breakfast in the suite.
·        A “Dine by Design” dinner under the stars on Ilot Mangénie with a private Sega dance performance; an entire area of the private island will be exclusively reserved for the couple's use.
·        Daily in-suite couple's CHI, The Spa experience featuring treatments based on holistic and Ayurvedic wellness traditions using organic and locally sourced ingredients.
·        Private romantic sunset cruise on a luxury yacht.

The “Open for Imagination” package is priced from €11,000 nett. Additional bespoke experiences curated by the resort’s Shangri-La Specialist are at the add-on cost. For information or to book, the Shangri-La Specialist can be reached at tel. 00 230 402 7400 or by email on reservations.sltr@shangri-la.com.

Special room-only introductory opening rates for Shangri-La’s Le Touessrok Resort & Spa start from €265 plus 15% VAT for stays 1 November through 19 December 2015. Rates start from €425 plus 15% VAT from 6 January 2016 onwards.


بو أفنيو تقدم مجموعة لانجري وملابس نوم خريف شتاء 2015 التي تتميز بتشكيلة من الألوان الغنية والأناقة والفخامة

NEW PALO ALTO NETWORKS PA-7080 DELIVERS NEXT-GENERATION SECURITY AT UNRIVALED SCALE FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS AND LARGE ENTERPRISES












Dubai U.A.E. August 20, 2015 – Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the next-generation security company, announced availability of the PA-7080, the newest and most powerful addition to its family of next-generation firewalls.

According to Saeed Agha, General Manager Palo Alto Networks Middle East the PA-7080 offers prevention capabilities, intelligence and simplicity for the large and the fast growing organizations in the Middle East.

Large enterprises and telecommunications service providers are constant targets of cyberattacks. Cybercriminals seek to steal customer information from their data centers, disrupt services and leverage service provider networks as vectors for attacks on businesses and consumers.  As data centers and networks grow in capacity, speed, and complexity, a security offering that delivers prevention against cyberattacks at scale is needed.

Palo Alto Networks addresses this challenge head-on with the Palo Alto Networks security platform that consists of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall, Threat Intelligence Cloud, and Advanced Endpoint Protection.  The platform eliminates the security, performance, and operational shortcomings of legacy products and siloed security architectures. It is designed to prevent successful cyberattacks while delivering scalable performance, policy automation, and orchestration. 

The new PA-7080 next-generation firewall provides the power, intelligent scalability, and management simplicity that is ideally suited for implementing the platform in large enterprise and service provider environments to secure their assets and services.

Quote:
·         “By providing industry-leading performance with the full set of Palo Alto Networks security capabilities enabled, the PA-7080 is architected to deliver safe application enablement and to prevent against cyberattacks at the scale needed by service providers and the largest enterprises; it is an integral component of a prevention-minded, integrated platform approach to securing these organizations’ networks.” 
-- Lee Klarich, Senior Vice President of Product Management

The PA-7080: Prevention at Scale
The PA-7080 delivers the computing power and software architecture required to prevent today’s cyberattacks across all applications in even the largest networks and data centers. Based on a proven architecture that blends ultra-efficient software with nearly 700 function-specific processors for networking, security, content inspection, and management, the PA-7080 can deliver up to 200Gbps throughput and 100Gbps with all security capabilities enabled.

Because of the combination of power, intelligence, and simplicity, the PA-7080 is ideally and equally suited to deliver prevention at scale for:
  • Internal data centers, where service providers and enterprises secure their business infrastructure;
  • Service delivery infrastructure, where speed and scale are of utmost importance and threat prevention at scale is critical; and
  • Internet gateways, where safe enablement of all applications and protection from known and unknown threats are critical.

The PA-7080 is designed for non-disruptive integration into large networks and minimal ongoing operational expense.  It supports virtual wire, L2 and L3 networking, high availability modes combined with simplified management, simplified licensing, and intelligent traffic management. The PA-7080 is NEBS compliant, has front-to-back cooling, and AC/DC power supply options as standard features.

The PA-7080 is joined by the PA-7050 to comprise the PA-7000 Series, which redefines high-performance network security and offers the perfect blend of power, intelligence, and simplicity that service providers and enterprises need to achieve prevention at scale.

As performance and capacity are needed, the PA-7000 Series devices will intelligently scale by automatically allocating new computing resources as they are made available when new processing cards are added. To simplify system administration and costs, the devices are managed and licensed as single unified systems. 


The French family company Simar Design Stands Out Internationally by Showing Extraordinary Innovative Lights for Hotels and Hospitals


United Arab Emirates; August 2015 – Simar Design the French Family company, manufactures impressive lights. The company based near Aix-en-Provence – a town know for its beauty- , is looking to distribute its products in the Middle East.
Simar Design is continuously drawn by this challenge : imitate day's light, and more generally, simulate nature inside. The purpose is to make you look at the sky when you look at the ceiling. In addition to it, Simar Design are focused on quality, with 5 years guarantee.
That idea of bringing skies inside has been made by the simple statement that it is necessary for humans to have a light which is the closest to nature. Many studies have shown the influence of nature on relaxation. It has been also proved that productivity can be increased through wellness. It is similar in the medical field : the healing process goes faster when patients are exposed to nature. In hotels, these lights will really create wonders and admiration and will bring a positive image of you building.
Simar Design has a large quantity of images available achieved by talented photographers, once an image is installed on a product, it can be easily exchanged. The size of our products can be varied in different dimensions, but they always have to be multiples of 60 cm (120x120 cm, 60x60 cm, 120x60 cm, ect...). Our light panels only work with LED technology, which imitates day's light with a white light of 6500 K. Our panels are suitable to suspended ceilings. The expected lifetime of our panels is from 50 000 hours up to 100 000 hours, which means 20 to 40 years of use, with a daily use of 7 hours. We can create images on demand, with for example themes for kids, or any other theme that you like. 
Simar-Design is new in the Middle East, we are looking for dealers. We've been participating in European fairs such as Medica. Our products will be adapted to the Middle East as they don't retain the dust. 
Mr Andrew SIMAR, CEO of Simar Design said: “We started Simar-Design just 2 years ago. Lots of people have shown a great interest in our products and we are absolutely satisfied about it.” He added: “Most of the time, clients really appreciate our reactivity. We are really trying to fit client's wishes as we can. We are very proud to bring high quality panels, in opposition of many Chinese manufactured panels that you can find on the market. Buying here is really safe.” Finally he says: “We really think that the future of buildings and is to get closer to nature, so we are “: Convinced that "sky lights" will play an important role in the lighting industry. In addition to it, we are progressively switching of technology from fluorescent / halogen / incandescent lights to LED lights. We hope to make each building more lively and beautiful, and to bring smile and admiration to each and every of your visitors.”  



الشركة الفرنسية العائلية «سيمار ديزاين"
 تبرز على الصعيد الدولي من خلال عرض أنظمة إضاءة مبتكرة واستثنائية للفنادق والمستشفيات


الإمارات العربية المُتحدة – أغسطس ٢٠١٥ – تقوم الشركة الفرنسية العائلية "سيمار ديزاين" بتصنيع أنظمة إضاءة مثيرة للإعجاب.  يقع مقر الشركة بالقرب من مدينة إكس أن بروفانس  Aix-en-provence الشهيرة بجمالها ، وتتطلع الشركة إلى توزيع منتجاتها في الشرق الأوسط .

إن التحدي الذي يواجه "سيمار ديزاين" بإستمرار هو تقليد ضوء النهار وبشكل أعم محاكاة الطبيعة في الداخل  بهدف رؤية السماء عند النظر إلى السقف. بالإضافة إلى ذلك  يأتي تركيز الشركة على جودة منتجاتها وضمانها لمدة خمس سنوات.

ظهرت فكرة جلب السموات إلى الداخل من تصريح بسيط يؤكد على إنه من الضروري للإنسان أن يحيا في الضوء الأقرب إلى الطبيعة. وأظهرت دراسات عدة تأثير الطبيعة على الاسترخاء، كما ثبت أن التمتع بصحة جيدة يساعد علي زيادة الإنتاج. في المجال الطبي، تتم عملية الشفاء بصورة أسرع عندما يتعرض المرضى للطبيعة. في الفنادق ، تثير هذه الإضاءة الدهشة والإعجاب وتعطي صورة إيجابية للمبنى.

لدى "سيمار ديزاين" مجموعة كبيرة من الصور قام بها مصورون مهرة، و يمكن استبدال الصورة بسهولة بعد تثبيتها علي المنتج . تأتي أحجام منتجاتنا بأبعاد مختلفة ولكن يجب أن تكون دائما بمضاعفات الــ٦٠سم (١٢٠x١٢٠سم ، ٦٠ x ٦٠سم ، ١٢٠ ٦٠xسم ،... إلخ). تعمل ألواح الإضاءة بتكنولوجيا الليدLED فقط ، مما يقلد نور النهار بنور أبيض ٦٥٠٠k. تناسب ألواحنا الأسقف المعلقة، ويتراوح العمر الافتراضي للألواح بين ٥٠٠٠٠ و ١٠٠٠٠٠ ساعة تشغيل مما يعني من ٢٠ إلى ٤٠ سنة استخدام لمدة٧ ساعات يوميا. يمكننا تثبيت الصور طبقا لرغبة العميل ، مثل الموضوعات الخاصة بغرف الأطفال أو أي موضوع آخر يحلو له.

“سيمار ديزاين" جديدة في الشرق الأوسط وتبحث عن بائعين . شاركت الشركة في معارض أوروبية مثل معرض "ميديكا" Medica . وسوف تناسب منتجاتها الشرق الأوسط حيث أنها لا تحتفظ بالغبار.

صرح السيد/أندرو سيمار – المدير التنفيذي للشركة – أن الشركة بدأت نشاطها منذ عامين فقط ولاقت منتجاتها إهتماماَ كبيراَ والشركة راضية بذلك تماما. وأضاف أنه في أغلب الأحيان يُظهر العملاء إعجابهم بنشاط الشركة التي تبذل قصاري جهدها لتناسب منتجاتها رغبات العميل.  إن الشركة فخورة بجودة الألواح التي تستخدمها مقارنة بألواح أخرى صينية متوافرة بالأسواق ، ومنتجات الشركة آمنة تماماَ. تعتقد الشركة حقاَ أن مستقبل المباني هو في التقرب إلى الطبيعة وتقوم الشركة بذلك مقتنعة أن "أضواء السماء" ستلعب دوراَ هاماَ في عالم الإضاءة. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، تتحول الشركة تدريجياَ من إستخدام النيون والهالوجين والمُصباح المتوهج إلى إستخدام الليد LED . تأمل الشركة في أن تجعل كل بناء أكثر حيوية  وجمالا وأن تحصل على الإبتسامة والإعجاب من كل زائر من زوار المعرض.


Escape the Heat Summer Package


All GCC Residents: Escape the Heat
Alila Jabal Akhdar is offering all GCC residents an exclusive Escape the Heat package available until the 15 September 2015.

Pamper your loved ones with a secluded mountaintop getaway high up in the cool Jabal Akhdar – ‘Green Mountain’ – and treat yourselves to rejuvenating spa treatments, gentle excursions, refreshing and light dishes and dramatic views overlooking one of the world’s most spectacular canyons.

Offer includes:
•    Breakfast at Juniper Restaurant
•    30% spa discount
•    Complimentary WiFi
•    Rates starting at OMR 75 (AED 716) per night for the Mountain View Suite

Terms & Conditions:
•    Rates subject to 17% GST
•    Offer is valid from Sunday till Wednesday
•    Rate subject per day, per room till 15th September 2015 


 
الهروب من الحرارة باقة الصيف
 
باقة المقيمين في دول الخليج العربي: الهروب من الحرارة
أليلا الجبل الأخضر يقدم لكل المقيمين فيدولالخليجالعربي باقة "الهروب من الحرارة" الحصرية والمتوفرة حتى الـ 15 من سبتمبر 2015.

دلل أحبائك برحلة أعلى سلسلة الجبال المنعزلةفوق قمة"الجبل الأخضر" الباردة، ومتعوا أنفسكم بأنشطة المنتجع الصحي العلاجية، والجولات السياحية اللطيفة، والأطباق الطازجة والخفيفة، والمشهد الدراماتيكي الرائع المُطل على واحد من أكثر وديان العالم إثارةً وروعة.

العرض يشمل:
•    إفطار في مطعم جونيبر
•    خصم 30% على خدمات المنتجع الصحي
•    خدمة WiFi انترنت مجانية
•    الأسعار تبدأ من 75 ريال عماني (716 درهم اماراتي) في الليلة للأجنحة المطلة على الجبل

الشروط والأحكام:
•    الأسعار تخضع لضريبة 17%
•    العرض ساري من الأحد حتى الأربعاء
•    الأسعار الموضحة أعلاه للجناح الواحد في اليوم،وسارية حتى الـ 15 من سبتمبر 2015

 

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