Job Opportunity for Office Assistant at Cafe' Al Fresco

Cafe' Al Fresco

Job Opportunity

Looking to immediately employ an 'Office Assistant' who is fluent in English and who is familar in basic computing.

Starting Salary: US$ 200.-

Interested Candidates please forward your CV to: a_hashmath@hotmail.com

One&Only Maldives at Reethi Rah by ATOLL PARADISE

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Unparalleled Style and Sophistication.There is a place in a far blue ocean of wonderful beauty. A jewel among a string of coral atolls, lagoons and white sands. The experience is privacy, warmth and moments of magic a promise of utter contentment fulfilled. One&Only experience combines endless white sand coves and turquoise bays, un-spoilt waters and stunning dive spots with exclusive and genuine privacy, lush surroundings and vibrant life, ambiance and energy. Surrounded by the wonders of the crystal blue ocean, this superb all-villa resort offers an unrivalled level of style, choice and personalised exploration. Sleek and spectacular, with unprecedented privacy. One&Only Reethi Rah offers the ultimate holiday experience to those seeking the pinnacle of tropical luxury, and has earned the following recognition.

One&Only Reethi Rah, Maldives was named number one in the world at the Condé Nast Traveller UK Readers Travel Awards held on 3 September, 2007. The resort was chosen by readers of Condé Nast Traveller from among several categories including hotels, destinations, tour operators, airlines and cruise lines.In addition, the resort was named the winner in two other categories: Favourite Overseas Leisure Hotel, Middle East, Africa and the Indian Ocean; and Favourite Overseas Hotel Spa, Worldwide.

Maldives next hot spot for Mandarin Oriental

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Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is expecting to open a new property in the Maldives within the next year set to include 114 stand-alone villas and feature 20 water villas.

Set to launch before March 2010, the new Maldives property is being constructed on its own private island 185 kilometres away from the capital city of Male, or a 45 minute seaplane journey.

“Mandarin Oriental, Maldives will be a unique and extraordinarily private hideaway retreat that offers our guests tranquillity and seclusion in a stunning, natural setting. We look forward to bringing Mandarin Oriental’s renowned levels of service to this important leisure destination,” said Edouard Ettedgui, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group CEO.

Villas will begin at 300m² and go up to 1,750m² for the four Presidential Villas. Each villa will include its own pool, landscaped garden and ocean views.

Developed by local firm Athama Investments, Ibrahim Abdul Latheef Athama Investments Managing Director promises, “On opening, this luxurious retreat will embody Mandarin Oriental’s legendary service philosophy and the unique sense of place inherent to all its hotels.”

Select villas include spa facilities, extends over coral reef and offers sunset and sunrise views.

Seven restaurants and bars will be made available at the property, and includes an all day poolside cafe and bar, a beachfront restaurant, an underwater wine cellar plus dining room, and a Maldivian grill.

A fitness centre, badminton court, tennis courts, squash courts, a soccer field and outdoor lap pool are also incorporated into the Mandarin Oriental, Maldives’ facilities.

Lilypad, a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city

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LILYPAD, A FLOATING ECOPOLIS FOR CLIMATICAL REFUGEES 2100, a large crowd of ecological refugees

Further to the anthropogenic activity, the climate warms up and the ocean level increases. According to the principle of Archimedes and contrary to preconceived notions, the melting of the arctic ice-floe will not change the rising of the water exactly as an ice cube melting in a glass of water does not make its level rise. However, there are two huge ice reservoirs that are not on the water and whose melting will transfer their volume towards the oceans, leading to their rising. It deals with the ice caps of Antarctic and Greenland on the one hand, and the continental glaciers on the other hand. Another reason of the ocean rising, that does not have anything to do with the ice melting is the water dilatation under the effect of the temperature.

According to the less alarming forecasts of the GIEC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century). The international scientific scene assets that a temperature elevation of 1°C will lead to a water rising of 1 meter. This increase of 1 m would bring ground losses emerged of approximately 0.05% in Uruguay, 1% in Egypt, 6% in the Netherlands, 17.5% in Bangladesh and up to 80% approximately in the atoll Majuro in Oceania (Marshall and Kiribati islands and step by step the Maldives islands).

If the first meter is not very funny with more than 50 million of people affected in the developing countries, the situation is worse with the second one. Countries like Vietnam, Egypt, Bangladesh, Guyana or Bahamas will see their most inhabited places swamped at each flood and their most fertile fields devastated by the invasion of salt water damaging the local ecosystems. New York, Bombay, Calcutta, Hô Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Miami, Lagos, Abidjan, Djakarta, Alexandria… not les that 250 million of climatic refugees and 9% of the GDP threatened if we not build protections related to such a threat. It is the demonstration inflicted to reluctant spirits by a climatological study of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and that challenges our imagination of eco-conception!

The water rising being not written in the agenda of the Grenelle agreements on environment in France, it is primordial in terms of environmental crisis and climatic exodus to pass from now on from a strategy of reaction in emergency to a strategy of a adaptation and long-lasting anticipation. It is surprising, whereas some islands prepare their disappearing to see that the management of the rising of the ocean level does not seem to worry the governments beyond measure. More surprising to see that the populations of the developed countries continue to rush on the littoral to build districts over there; houses and buildings dedicated to a certain flood

Lilypad, a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city

Whereas the Netherlands and the United Arabic Emirates « fatten » their beach with billion of euros to build their short-living polders and their protective dams for a decade, the project «Lilypad» deals with a tenable solution to the water rising! Actually, facing the worldwide ecological crisis, this floating Ecopolis has the double objective not only to widen sustainabely in offshore the territories of the most developed countries such as the Monaco principality but above all to grant the housing of future climatic refugees of he next submerged ultra-marine territories such as the Polynesian atolls. New biotechnological prototype of ecologic resilience dedicated to the nomadism and the urban ecology in the sea, Lilypad travels on the water line of the oceans, from the equator to the poles following the marine streams warm ascending of the Gulf Stream or cold descending of the Labrador.

It is a true amphibian half aquatic and half terrestrial city, able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting the biodiversity to develop its fauna and flora around a central lagoon of soft water collecting and purifying the rain waters. This artificial lagoon is entirely immersed ballasting thus the city. It enables to live in the heart of the subaquatic depths. The multifunctional programming is based on three marinas and three mountains dedicated respectively to the work, the shops and the entertainments. The whole set is covered by a stratum of planted housing in suspended gardens and crossed by a network of streets and alleyways with organic outline. The goal is to create a harmonious coexistence of the couple Human / Nature and to explore new modes of living the sea by building with fluidity collective spaces in proximity, overwhelming spaces of social inclusion suitable to the meeting of all the inhabitants – denizen or foreign-born, recent or old, young or aged people.

The floating structure in « branches » of the Ecopolis is directly inspired of the highly ribbed leave of the great lilypad of Amazonia Victoria Regia increased 250 times. Coming from the family of Nympheas, this aquatic plant with exceptional plasticity was discovered by the German botanist Thaddeaus Haenke and dedicated to the Queen Victoria of England in the 19th Century. The double skin is made of polyester fibres covered by a layer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) like an anatase which by reacting to the ultraviolet rays enable to absorb the atmospheric pollution by photocatalytic effect. Entirely autosufficient, Lilypad takes up the four main challenges launched by the OECD in March 2008: climate, biodiversity, water and health. It reached a positive energetic balance with zero carbone emission by the integration of all the renewable energies (solar, thermal and photovoltaic energies, wind energy, hydraulic, tidal power station, osmotic energies, phytopurification, biomass) producing thus durably more energy that it consumes! True biotope entirely recyclable, this floating Ecopolis tends thus towards the positive eco-accountancy of the building in the oceanic ecosystems by producing and softening itself the oxygen and the electricity, by recycling the CO2 and the waste, by purifying and softening biologically the used waters and by integrating ecological niches, aquaculture fields and biotic corridors on and under its body to meet its own food needs.

To reply to the mutation of the migratory flows coming from the hydroclimatic factors, Lilypad join thus on the mode of anticipation particular to the Jules Verne’s literature, the alternative possibility of a multicultural floating Ecopolis whose metabolism would be in perfect symbiosis with the cycles of the nature. It will be one of the major challenges of the 21st Century to create an international convention inventing new special means to accommodate the environmental migrants by recognizing their rights and obligations. Political and social challenge, the urban sustainable development must more than ever enter in resonance worldly with the human sustainable development!

Vincent Callebaut Architectures
119, rue Manin (bâtiment D)
75019 Paris
France

sources:

Vincent Callebaut Architectures , Peris Corner , Pixelab

A Short Guide To MCSE Training Courses

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Training within IT is not as straight forward as one may think. Many who have studied for a degree in Computer Science or Computing will know that completing a degree is not enough. Some have had follow up in further studies or training, such as CISCO, Web Designing, MCAD, MCTS, MCSA, MCITP or MCSE training. At this point the reader must be thinking those are many letters and what do they all mean? This is the problem for many IT graduates as they have trouble deciding on what to do with their degree.

The key is to research different avenues and career paths, find out what you need to do to get to the level you want and how long it will take you to get there. Each course you take will give you an in depth knowledge of that position with possible contacts and work experience. The other side to this is that you will not be paid to do this, so it is always a good idea to save some money beforehand or take up another job whilst training.

Amongst the most reputable and popular courses is the MCSE training (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer). This consists of seven MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) modules, which all amount to one MSCE qualification. The course is Microsoft certified and most people who have completed this training often find themselves employed with most IT companies that use Microsoft for networking day-to-day operating systems.

The MCSE training includes learning specific Microsoft products, general networking, network security, Active directory, computer networking infrastructure, Microsoft Exchange server and Microsoft SQL server. There are seven exams, passing all of them will guarantee in you obtaining a qualification. MCSE courses are also available for XP and Vista users, as well as previous operating systems such as Windows ME or 2000.

This course is useful for analysing the business uses of information systems, major companies and businesses value the skills of an MCSE professional due to their ability to design and implement the infrastructure. This role is more demanding and highly competitive, offering many qualified candidates an attractive salary and more scope to work their way up the ladder quickly.

The MCSA training is another popular course and is often mistaken for the MCSE training course. This training allows the candidate to train as a systems administrator on Microsoft Operating systems. This is much simpler than the MCSE and only requires passing three core exams and one elective exam. This however, offers positions in specific roles and is a stepping-stone towards Other IT qualification.

Many businesses use CISCO programme to help run the network infrastructure of their IT systems. This is another popular programme, which is not Microsoft certified but is CISCO UK certified training. Training for this course will enable you to learn how to run and ensure safe secure connectivity between employees and clients. This is a widely recognised course; people looking to study this course will face detailed study of numerous modules and undergo intense examination.

Persons opting for a career in IT will need to be specific in what field they intend to enter into as it is not as straight forward as one would think. Like many other qualifications, you as the individual must take time to prepare, stay patient and focus on your ultimate goal. Find out what interests you the most and think about how you can develop this interest into a full-time career.

About the Author

Anna Stenning is knowledgable on various IT qualifications, including the MCSE training which she had considered studying in the past.