Living at the Oasis Aruba luxury condominiums is like living in paradise. The condominiums are located right on prestigious Eagle Beach, one of Aruba’s foremost beaches. You are just a few steps away from enjoying the calm, turquoise waters and the endless variety of activities that Aruba has to offer. If you prefer to stay indoors, you’ll be happy to know that all suites have spectacular views of the Caribbean so you can enjoy the scenery even without leaving your room. You can make your Caribbean dream come true by being a part of the luxury Oasis Aruba residential community.

 Location

 Oasis Aruba is just a few steps away from the powdery white sands of Eagle Beach. Eagle Beach is one of the most popular beaches on the island of Aruba. The beach is close to the main road and is a hub of activity. Whatever your preference, you will always find something to do here. Families and casual beachgoers can enjoy the miles of sand and clear waters for wading. For the adventurous, there are many types of water sports in the area. Just a short drive away you’ll find nightclubs, casual and fine dining restaurants, movie theaters, shopping malls and casinos. If you fancy lounging in the premises, Oasis Aruba has cabanas and a beautiful outdoor swimming pool.

The Property

 Oasis luxury condominiums are built with privacy, luxury and intimacy in mind. The low-density residential complex was built on 8,750 square meters of Eagle Beach land. There are 35 units on five floors, scattered between two low-rise buildings in Mediterranean-Caribbean style. The units are one-, two- and three-bedroom suites with perfect oceanfront views through wide, panoramic windows, floor-to-ceiling glass doors and spacious terraces. The modern interiors are reflected in the marble and natural stone bathrooms, elegant kitchen furnishings, high-tech appliances and sophisticated Caribbean decor.

 A spacious two-bedroom suite occupies 1,452 square feet and features two bedrooms (one master bedroom and one standard bedroom), two bathrooms (one master bath and one standard bath), a living room/dining room, kitchen and terrace. The rental comes fully furnished and fully air-conditioned for your comfort. Whether you plan to stay for a few days or a whole month, the suite is flexible and available to rent weekly as well as daily. The suite rental includes all Oasis Aruba amenities (including gym, laundry facilities, swimming pool and parking space) for your convenience.

 Other Amenities

 Oasis Aruba is a fully-fenced complex with 24-hour security and free parking space. The complex is accessible from the road through an entrance gate. You can enjoy your holidays within the premises if you wish, as the complex has a large swimming pool with lounge chairs and a well-equipped gym. Shopping centers, supermarkets and restaurants are conveniently located just minutes away. Upon your arrival, you will be presented with an activities guide, local maps and a restaurant dining guide to help you plan your stay.

 All rooms are fully-furnished, with alarm clocks, ceiling fans, hair dryer, linens, towels, sunbed, hot water and air-conditioning provided. The kitchen is equipped with a 4-ring stove, stove top burners, blender, oven, refrigerator, freezer, ice maker, microwave, toaster, coffee maker, cooking utensils, dish washer, washing machine, clothes dryer and iron and board. There are two full baths with shower and toilet and two bedrooms with two king beds.

 Satellite/cable TVs are provided for entertainment in all rooms and terrace as well as wireless broadband, Wi-Fi and internet access for communication. Guests can also use onsite services like excursions, tours, restaurant reservations, car rental, vacation vault, massage and housekeeper services (optional). Outside facilities like the outdoor grill, off-street parking and garden chairs are also available. The complex is suitable for families with children and offers wheelchair access and access for the elderly. Pets are allowed and smoking is allowed in some areas.

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 About the Country

Aruba is an island located in the southern Caribbean Sea north of theVenezuela coast. It is a small country, about 19.5 miles long and 6 miles wide. Together with the Netherlands, Saint Maarten and Curacao, Aruba form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The people of Aruba speak Dutch, Spanish, Papiamento and English. The two major religions are Roman Catholic and Protestant. The capital city is Oranjestad. 

 Aruba Beaches

 Arubais famous for its powdery white sand beaches and windblown coasts. Instead of palm trees, you’ll find the stooped and wind-bent Divi-Divi trees dotting the landscape. There are many beaches to choose from. For calm shores and plenty of fun activities, visit the west side of the island. You’ll find the popular Boca Catalina,Eagle Beachand Palm Beachhere. Palm Beachis a busy strip and one of the world’s best beaches, where you can find big hotels, resorts, nightclubs, shopping areas, casinos, movie theaters and ship tours.Eagle Beach is another popular beach for water sports. If you want a bit of privacy, try Rodger’s Beach in San Nicholas. For the more adventurous, head to Dos Playa with its crashing surf or to Hadicurari Beach, the perfect place for kite flying and windsurfing. In fact, the beach holds the annual Hi-Winds Pro Am Windsurfing Competition.                                                             

Aruba Restaurants

 Whatever your budget, you’ll never be hungry inAruba. The restaurant selection is as varied as the selection in major cities. There are fast-food chains like McDonalds and Wendy’s, fine dining restaurants serving traditional native dishes and steak houses serving meat from  Argentina. You’ll also find many places offering seafood, dishes with Dutch influences and dishes from all over the world. For a beautiful sunset view and a laid-back atmosphere, Pinchos is hard to beat. It serves mainly kebabs or “pinchos,” where the restaurant gets its name. Another popular restaurant is Marandi, an open-air seafood place in the capital. For more seafood and fresh catch of the day dishes, head to the Flying Fishbone or The Old Man and the Sea. If you really want to impress someone, take them for dinner to the Papiamento, where the Queen of the Netherlands dines when she visits the country.

 Aruba  Events and Nightlife

 When the sun goes down, revelers flock to many spots onAruba’s beaches. Carlos n’ Charlies is a popular bar with the younger set, while others prefer gambling in the casinos, salsa dancing or having beach barbecues at hotels. Depending on when you visit, you may find certain areas of the island livelier and more packed than usual. The Aruba Carnival that is held from January to February is not an event to miss. There’s also the Aruba Music Festival and the Soul Beach Music Festival for music lovers. For water sports fans, visit in the height of summer to catch the annual windsurfing competition and in November for the Heineken Regatta.

 Aruba  Attractions

 For people looking for something different,Aruba’s interior is the best place to go. Caves, rock formations, reefs and desert areas are some of the natural wonders you can explore. Besides the usual scuba diving, you can go on an ATV tour of the desert or go horseback riding. Children will love visiting the butterfly farm and the ostrich farm. Downtown Oranjestad also has an Archaeology Museum for the history buffs.

Home Coffee Machines

Jura currently has six lines of home coffee machines: the Impressa Z, Impressa S, Impressa J, Impressa F, Impressa C and the ENA series. All machines work more or less the same way, but the more expensive models come with more features, more accessories and better materials.

Impressa Z7 One Touch

The Impressa Z7 makes eleven different kinds of coffee at the touch of a button. It has a rotary switch, a text display, an adjustable milk spout and a coffee preheating mechanism. It even shines a spotlight on your creation, a cool feature if you are entertaining and want to wow your guests.

Impressa S9 One Touch

The Impressa S9 is the S-line model with the most features. Besides one-touch lattes and cappuccinos, it also features an energy saving mode, a stainless steel milk container, a graphic menu, an adjustable coffee spout and a built-in cappuccino cleaning mechanism. The machine also monitors the grinders and alerts you when they need refilling.

IMPRESSA J9 One Touch

The best coffee machine in the Impressa J line is the Impressa J9 One Touch. You don’t have to be a barista to understand the controls either. Just choose what kind of gourmet coffee you want using the rotary selector, press a button and wait for your coffee to brew. The J9 features a clear TFT display, an adjustable spout for different cup sizes, fine foam technology, an aroma grinder that grinds fine beans in less time and an energy saving automatic off switch.

Impressa F50

The Impressa F50 uses a rotary switch for adjusting settings like water volume and temperature. It has a fully customizable cappuccino frother and a simple display that even beginners can understand. The connector system has separate nozzles for hot water and steam.

Impressa C9

The Impressa C9 is a compact machine that produces coffee, cappuccinos and espressos at the touch of a button. All settings (air infusion, brewing temperature, etc.) can be accessed through dials and buttons on the front center panel with a plain text display. The machine saves energy by automatically disconnecting from the mains electrical supply after each coffee preparation, meaning you don’t waste energy between making batches. It also comes with a cappuccino cleaning mechanism and an adjustable spout that can accommodate all cup sizes.

ENA 9 One Touch

Even more compact than the Impressa C9 is the ENA 9 One Touch. It is a sleek brewer designed for small homes. The ENA 9 creates six different products at the touch of a button, including coffee, macchiato, cappuccino and espresso. It features an adjustable spout to accommodate different container sizes, a mechanism that creates very fine foam and a button for shots of extra-strong brew.

Commercial Coffee Machines

Jura commercial coffee machines are designed for offices, function rooms and food service establishments. They work the same way as Jura home coffee machines, but are generally bulkier, heavier and built for high-volume use. They have more programming options, larger containers for coffee beans and larger water reservoirs.

Impressa X9 Platinum

The Impressa X9 makes more than 20 different types of coffee. You can even assign buttons to ten types of coffees or ten of the most frequently requested varieties. The Impressa X9 has two coffee grinders, two spouts for steam and hot water and automatic cappuccino spouts. It also has the usual adjustable spouts, built-in cleaning mechanism, graphics display and bean-level monitoring.

Impressa XS90 One Touch

The Impressa XS90 is the smaller version of the Impressa X9, designed for smaller commercial establishments. It can prepare 12 twelve different types of coffee and can be turned into a vending machine. It also has a separate container for powder coffee. Standard features include bean-level monitoring, energy savings mode and built-in cleaning mechanism.

For more information regarding a Jura Machine contact Edika Montreal – 10118 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC H3L 2M1, Canada 514.374.0683

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Specs
Caliber: Breitling 29
Chronograph: 1/4th second, 30 minutes, 12 hours
Jewel: 38 jewels
Case: 18K red gold, two 25-piece limited series
Crystal: Convex sapphire crystal, glareproofed on both side
Strap/bracelet: Barenia leather or crocodile leather
Movement: Selfwinding, high frequency
Vibration: 28 800 v.p.h
Calendar: Perpetual calendar indicating the date, day, week, month, season, leap-year cycle and moon phases
Water resistance: 5 bars
Diameter: 43,00 mm

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Creation Paul H 6500 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2S 3C6 (514) 273-6681

Founded by the stationer Claus-Johannes Voss, the banker Alfred Nehemias and the engineer August Eberstein in 1908, the company began as the Simplo Filler Pen company producing up-market pens in the Schanzen district of Hamburg. Their first model was the Rouge et Noir in 1909 followed in 1910 by the pen that was later to give the company its new name, Montblanc.

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3035 Boul. Le Carrefour, QC H7T 1C8 (450) 681-4443

Like other Grand Masters of modern art, his attraction to black African tribal art can be explained by an appreciation of its richness, complexity and daring. Eager to commence distribution, Jacques Germain opens his first gallery onLaurier Street. In spite of his noble intentions, he quickly realizes that to carry out this trade efficiently, he will need to roam the world of museums and collectors. He also understands that auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Drouot will teach him to know and recognize art work valued by true connoisseurs. To support this undertaking, he will need to purchase a work tool that is indispensable to understand these civilizations having evolved outside the written word, and this tool is a library with thousands of reference books reflecting the continual advancement of knowledge in this field.

Climbing the ranks with over nearly twenty years of effort and passion, Jacques Germain is now world-renown. He has taken part in numerous exhibitions, including at New York’s Museum for African Arts and the Rietberg in Zurich; he has also been invited to prestigious salons, including Paris’ Parcours des Mondes. In addition to publishing articles in specialized magazines in foreign countries, Jacques Germain has also produced catalogues of artwork at his Montreal gallery.

This impressive résumé has allowed him to accept the role of guest commissioner for the Sacred Africa: Ancient Art from Sub-Saharan Africa exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since June 2006 (the second part of this exhibition is scheduled to start in the fall of 2008). This event is an exceptional opportunity not only to discover artwork from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and McGill University’s Redpath Museum, but most importantly, to raise the curtain on the Cirque du Soleil collection.  This collection reflects the confidence that Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil president and founder, has in Jacques Germain, who for over ten years has been judiciously guiding him in the acquisition of what has become one of the best private collections of African art in Canada.

With the conviction that one does not simply become a collector overnight, Jacques Germain offers solid expertise to anyone wishing to build or expand their collection through the acquisition of irreproachable artwork.

Over the past few years, the art market has experienced a remarkable and constant expansion, notably in the primary arts. And it is in a gallery with a resolutely European cachet that collectors fromCanada, the U.S.and Europe come to admire beautiful, ancient and authentic pieces that Jacques Germain has found and continues to find in his worldly travels.

www.jacquesgermain.com

Galerie Jacques Germain (click for map)  1625 Clark, Montréal, QC H2X 2R4 , (514) 278-6575

The ICAR track design (built to FIA standards) build with the input from professional drivers and well-known instructors. In a stroke of brilliant recycling, the pristine driving surface required was found by reclaiming some of the vast concrete surfaces no longer used by the airport. ICAR’s 3.8-km multi-configuration circuit (which can be altered in well over 100 challenging formations) and 1-km high-performance Karting Circuit are surrounded by 5 km of safety barriers and wide run-off areas. The tracks are brightly lit for night racing and monitored by a race-control centre with remote controlled cameras, as well as complex traffic lighting systems. In case of an accident, AirMédic, the rapid response paramedic helicopter service, (whose permanent home is on site atMirabelAirport) is only minutes away. Firefighters based at the airport are likewise on call for ICAR, offering incomparable protection.

12800 Bd Henri Fabre  Mirabel, QC J7N 3C6 (click to Open Map) (514) 955-4227

At age eleven in 1967, Don was spending his days at Expo 67, where architecture and design exploded in front of him. Otherwise it was tennis and racing sailboats on the St. Lawrence where he watched materials evolve from wood through fibreglass and graphite. At fourteen he was stringing tennis racquets inToronto when his boss took him to the shop where they moulded the racquets.

After five years of experimenting with chairs as sculpture, acquiring the craft of moulding plywood and Informed by both yoga and chiropractic.

Don creates active chairs that support the back ,head and allows the body to relax; as light and flexible as a pair of skis , they will suit the user’s height and weight, and slide easily on any surface.

For inquiries about Don McEwens works of art visit his official website at www.dsm-productions.net

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Hiden away in an underground Tokyo subway station is an unremarkable-looking 10-seat sushi only restaurant called Sukiyabashi Jiro which serves Michelin-starred sushi by 85-year-old Jiro Ono, the first chef in Japan to earn three prestigious Michelin stars.

Sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling at least twelve months in advance for reservations and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar not only to indulge themselves with what is considered to be the best sushi in the world but also to witness the movements of Ono’s hands as he shapes and molds the rice for his sushi and lacquers the fish with gentle brushstrokes.

Sushi and sashimi are presented on black marbles slabs and diners eat in a hushed silence that speaks of their reverence for the ceremonial experience and the master sushi chef.

Jiro has been recognized by the Japanese government as a living national treasure for his contributions to Japanese cuisine.

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