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Parrot Resorts
Parrot Resorts gives momentum to the Sustainable Movement by developing ecologically sound luxury resorts. Parrot Resorts, the Sustainable Movement, focuses as much on people and planet as on profits and with Eco Wellness Resort Granada, Nicaragua, the Management and Development company is initiating the first sustainable , zero pollution, all clean energy, all natural, luxury resort of its kind. With Eco Wellness Resort Granada, located on the flanks of the Mombacho volcano near the city of Granada in Nicaragua, we want to set a new benchmark for luxury resorts in particular and for the hospitality industry in general.
Parrot Resorts’ Sustainability Concept
We operate according to a sustainability concept, which includes all-clean energy and no-pollution policies and sustainability programmes and knowledge exchange in cooperation with the local indigenous communities. This concept, the basis of the Sustainable Movement, is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Eco Wellness Resort Granada, Nicaragua is a zero pollution, all-clear energy and all-natural resort, that supports and promotes the culture and economy of the local indigenous communities. This means that in addition to availability of luxury services and products, the Resort offers facilities constructed with natural and sustainable materials and methods. The cuisine is besides original, organic and predominately locally sourced. Parrot Resorts has partnerships with the local indigenous communities to support and promote their culture and economy. Eco Wellness Resort Granada houses a wellness centre, that offers therapies and treatments based on more indigenous knowledge and sustainable practices. In addition to a wellness centre, the Resort has an exchange centre, where we run sustainability programmes. Guest can learn about both modern sustainable technologies as well older indigenous practices. At Eco Resort Granada, guests are invited to lead a more wholesome lifestyle. Parrot Resorts reserves 25 percent of the profits to be invested in commercially viable indigenous and sustainability programmes.
The Team
Parrot Resorts Management and Development company S.A. is run by a team of highly motivated, knowledgeable and dedicated individuals, who want to make their contribution to a more sustainable world in general and more sustainable business practices in particular. Our aim is to create a perfect symbiosis between economy, culture and nature; we want to be good to people and planet, while making a healthy profit.
More than just One Resort
Parrot Resorts aims to create a chain of luxury eco resorts, that all run according to the same concept. 25 percent of Eco Wellness Resort’s profits will be invested in the development of additional resorts. In addition to our own resorts Parrot Resorts manages resorts with a similar concept owned by others. These resorts are part of our chain of luxury eco resorts. See the Parrot Resorts Organisation Chart for more information.
Partnerships with Indigenous Communities
The indigenous people of Nicaragua have been living more harmoniously with nature for century and in terms of sustainability we believe we have a lot to learn from the knowledge and practices of these communities. In addition to treatments at the Resort’s health and wellness centre and educational programmes at our exchange centre, Eco Wellness Resort Granada invest in sustainability programmes. These programmes are developed in partnership with the indigenous communities to promote the local economy and culture.
Be part of the change to a more sustainable world and support Parrot Resorts, the Sustainable Movement.
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About us
Parrot Resorts The Sustainable Movement , we start as a responsible resort operator that offers a turn-key resort management model based on the principles of a zero pollution, all clean energy, all natural luxury resort concept.
The purpose is to grow and create a sustainable movement in Nicaragua, a country that is by far one of the most natural and healthy countries in this world. Parrot Resorts will add sustainable resorts, starting with Eco wellness resort Granada, and a sustainable economy for indigenous and in rural areas with respect for culture and nature, by our programmes. Parrot Resorts will manage resorts that come near to our concept and with a few changes will be 100% covered by our concept.
The Paris Agreements show that governments get it finally but we the people have to make that sustainable change. Many are conscious that this world needs a change and we will add to that by our Parrot Resorts businesses and our indigenous and rural programs which will compensate Carbon Foot print.
Our concept is built on People - Planet - Profit and this you will find in natural design, natural construction and with our operations. Our restaurants are completely natural, no factory food or ingredients in our meals and a wellness center with health and life coaches at your service. Parrot Resorts showcases social, environmental, economic sustainable best practice.
The holistic approach used by Parrot Resorts offers natural outdoor living style, added indigenous knowledge, quality services, luxury and sustainability. “At Parrot Resorts, we are passionate and committed to our journey towards growing a portfolio of luxury Eco Resorts in Latin America to make a change. Join us in developing the most eco-friendly resorts in the world, our first one Eco wellness resort Granada in Nicaragua
Gerardus Dirks
Initiator/ CEO
Parrot Resorts Management & Development
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Retreat In Review ???? Luxury Nicaragua Yoga & Hoop Retreat ????
This past November/December TL Travel headed South to Nicaragua with an amazing group of Travelers from both Canada & the USA to hit the beaches & explore our favorite parts of this stunning Country!
From kayaking on Lake Nicaragua to luxury jungle tree-house accommodations, our travelers experienced 1 week (or in some cases more) of a completely unique way of traveling that we look at as luxury backpacking.
Check out this highlight video from our time together in Nicaragua & be sure to join us next time!
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Yoga in Nicaragua
I've been looking for the perfect Yoga retreat in Nicaragua. Well..I finally found it. It's Apoyo Lodge, honestly the best place to practice yoga in Nicaragua. This retreat is all about physical and spiritual Wellness.
What I love most about Apoyo Lodge is that it's located in a remote part of Apoyo Lagoon. Apoyo Lagoon is truly an amazing site to behold. It's a crater in an inactive volcano that erupted 23,000 years ago.
Through the years, it has been filled with rain water and sub terrain water making the water so clean and warm.
This is what sets Apoyo lodge apart from many other Yoga Retreats in Nicaragua.
Along with its world class accommodation. I was truly blown away by this raw/vegan yoga retreat.
I cannot wait until my next trip to Apoyo Lodge. It is my favorite place to practice yoga in Nicaragua
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The Refresh Retreat 2018 - Santa Rosa Beach, FL
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The purpose of The Refresh Retreat is to bring business women of faith together to strategically position themselves for success, while also taking time to relax. It's a Retreat that is just as much about gaining new information as it is about enjoying life through self-care.
City Spa Escapes - Located at the Old Granada Studios
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From before-work massages to lunch-time beauty fixes to late-evening pampering...we promise to take you away from it all, without taking too long out of your busy schedule.
At our peaceful, soothing premises located a stone's throw away from Deansgate at ‘The Old Granada Studios’, we offer a range of spa, beauty and wellness treatments for women and men, using 100% natural and organic products. Results-driven treatments you'll love.
The Vietnam War: Reasons for Failure - Why the U.S. Lost
In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention. About the book:
As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted, First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought that we were going into another Korean War, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies... And we knew less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this kind of dirty business. It's very dangerous.
Some have suggested that the responsibility for the ultimate failure of this policy [America's withdrawal from Vietnam] lies not with the men who fought, but with those in Congress... Alternatively, the official history of the United States Army noted that tactics have often seemed to exist apart from larger issues, strategies, and objectives. Yet in Vietnam the Army experienced tactical success and strategic failure... The...Vietnam War...legacy may be the lesson that unique historical, political, cultural, and social factors always impinge on the military...Success rests not only on military progress but on correctly analyzing the nature of the particular conflict, understanding the enemy's strategy, and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of allies. A new humility and a new sophistication may form the best parts of a complex heritage left to the Army by the long, bitter war in Vietnam.
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in a secret memo to President Gerald Ford that in terms of military tactics, we cannot help draw the conclusion that our armed forces are not suited to this kind of war. Even the Special Forces who had been designed for it could not prevail. Even Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara concluded that the achievement of a military victory by U.S. forces in Vietnam was indeed a dangerous illusion.
Doubts surfaced as to the effectiveness of large-scale, sustained bombing. As Army Chief of Staff Harold Keith Johnson noted, if anything came out of Vietnam, it was that air power couldn't do the job. Even General William Westmoreland admitted that the bombing had been ineffective. As he remarked, I still doubt that the North Vietnamese would have relented.
The inability to bomb Hanoi to the bargaining table also illustrated another U.S. miscalculation. The North's leadership was composed of hardened communists who had been fighting for independence for thirty years. They had defeated the French, and their tenacity as both nationalists and communists was formidable. Ho Chi Minh is quoted as saying, You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours...But even at these odds you will lose and I will win.
The Vietnam War called into question the U.S. Army doctrine. Marine Corps General Victor H. Krulak heavily criticised Westmoreland's attrition strategy, calling it wasteful of American lives... with small likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, doubts surfaced about the ability of the military to train foreign forces.
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam. James E. Westheider wrote that At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, there were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops. Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the President since World War II, but ended in 1973.
By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled. According to Dale Kueter, Sixty-one percent of those killed were age 21 or younger. Of those killed in combat, 86.3 percent were white, 12.5 percent were black and the remainder from other races. The youngest American KIA in the war was PFC Dan Bullock, who had falsified his birth certificate and enlisted in the US Marines at age 14 and who was killed in combat at age 15. Approximately 830,000 Vietnam veterans suffered symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, and approximately 50,000 American servicemen deserted. In 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter granted a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers. The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion.
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Panama | Wikipedia audio article
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Panama
00:01:53 1 Etymology
00:03:54 2 History
00:04:17 2.1 Pre-Columbian period
00:06:24 2.2 Conquest to 1799
00:12:26 2.2.1 1800s
00:14:42 2.3 Post-colonial Panama
00:18:52 2.3.1 Post-1970
00:24:37 2.3.2 US invasion (1989)
00:27:21 2.4 Post-intervention era
00:30:56 3 Geography
00:33:06 3.1 Waterways
00:34:29 3.2 Harbors
00:36:39 3.3 Climate
00:39:00 4 Politics
00:40:09 4.1 Political culture
00:40:56 4.2 Foreign relations
00:41:24 4.3 Military
00:41:55 4.4 Administrative divisions
00:42:34 5 Economy
00:43:55 5.1 Economic sectors
00:45:03 5.2 Panama as an IFC
00:46:41 5.3 Transportation
00:47:53 5.4 Tourism
00:49:53 5.5 Currency
00:51:03 5.6 International trade
00:52:24 6 Society
00:52:33 6.1 Demographics
00:53:19 6.2 Ethnic groups
00:54:58 6.3 Languages
00:55:45 6.4 Largest cities
00:56:03 6.5 Religion
00:57:07 6.6 Education
00:58:45 7 Culture
00:59:34 7.1 Handicraft
01:00:33 7.2 Holidays and festivities
01:01:14 7.3 Traditional cuisine
01:02:30 7.4 Traditional clothing
01:04:45 7.5 Literature
01:05:03 7.6 Sports
01:08:29 8 See also
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Panama ( (listen) PAN-ə-mah; Spanish: Panamá [panaˈma]), officially the Republic of Panama (Spanish: República de Panamá), is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half the country's 4 million people.Panama was inhabited by indigenous tribes before Spanish colonists arrived in the 16th century. It broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia, a union of Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela. After Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada eventually became the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the construction of the Panama Canal to be completed by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914. The 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties led to the transfer of the Canal from the United States to Panama on December 31, 1999.Revenue from canal tolls continues to represent a significant portion of Panama's GDP, although commerce, banking, and tourism are major and growing sectors. In 2015 Panama ranked 60th in the world in terms of the Human Development Index. Since 2010, Panama has been the second-most competitive economy in Latin America, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index. Covering around 40 percent of its land area, Panama's jungles are home to an abundance of tropical plants and animals – some of them found nowhere else on the planet. Panama is a founding member of the United Nations and other international organizations such as OAS, LAIA, G77, WHO and NAM.
National Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:42 1 History
00:05:28 1.1 National period
00:12:14 2 Doctrine
00:13:01 2.1 Mission statement
00:13:31 3 Organization and structure
00:14:06 3.1 Ministry of Defense
00:14:58 3.2 High Command Authorities and National Armed Forces Council
00:16:24 3.3 Other decentralised directorates
00:16:34 3.4 Operational Strategic Command
00:18:05 3.5 Military regions
00:19:09 4 Service branches
00:19:53 4.1 Main branches
00:24:36 4.2 Other branches
00:31:14 5 Budget
00:32:06 6 Military justice
00:32:53 7 Personnel
00:33:13 7.1 Requirements for military service
00:33:50 7.2 Military education
00:34:44 7.2.1 Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela
00:38:46 7.2.2 National Experimental University of the Armed Forces
00:39:50 7.3 Modernization and capability building projects for the Armed Forces
00:40:02 7.3.1 Mission Miranda
00:42:10 7.3.2 Mission Negro Primero
00:42:48 7.4 Women in the Armed Forces
00:46:46 8 Ranks, uniforms and insignia
00:46:57 8.1 Military ranks
00:48:48 8.1.1 Three-sun ranking
00:49:54 8.1.2 Four-sun ranking
00:50:55 8.1.3 Commander-in-Chief rank and insignia
00:51:45 8.2 Berets
00:52:03 9 Modernization program
00:52:44 9.1 Surveillance radars, AK-103s and helicopters: Mi-17, Mi-26 and Mi-35
00:53:45 9.2 Su-30s and missiles
00:54:33 9.3 Night vision equipment, sniper rifles and submarines
00:56:24 9.4 Russian loans and the Chinese K-8W light jet
00:59:25 9.5 Contract with China for modernization of the Venezuelan Marine Corps
01:00:12 9.6 The Russian Federation gives new credit and interest in the Su-35
01:01:06 10 Controversy with the United States
01:03:16 10.1 U.S. military embargo
01:05:22 10.2 The Russian Federation has broken the U.S. embargo
01:05:53 10.3 Caracas acknowledges problems with Iran by U.S. embargo
01:06:17 10.4 Spanish Defense Minister, defends arms sales to Venezuela
01:07:06 10.5 Pre-military education controversy
01:07:59 11 Role of the military in Venezuelan politics
01:10:16 11.1 Venezuelan military coup d'états
01:11:37 11.2 Criticism
01:11:55 12 Role in Venezuelan society
01:12:05 12.1 Humanitarian relief
01:13:18 13 Military industry
01:19:29 14 Military corporations of the Ministry of Defense
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The National Bolivarian Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana) are controlled by the Commander-in-Chief (the President) and a civilian Minister of Defense. In addition to the army, navy, and air force there is also a national guard and national militia primarily focused on internal security.
The armed forces primary purpose is to defend Venezuelan territory from attack, combat drug trafficking, provide search and rescue capabilities, aid the civilian population in case of natural disasters protection, as well as numerous internal security assignments. As of 2018, the armed forces have 515,000 personnel. .