It's Queenstown, New Zealand, known as an adventure sport capital, but increasingly garnering a reputation as a food and wine travel destination.

Now that Air New Zealand has introduced direct flights, it is three hours from Sydney, two-and-a-half from Melbourne and a hassle-free arrival into a tiny airport.

Once in the town, it is part ski resort, part fjord-like scenery with a set of mountains called the Remarkables and the rest is a party town, with restaurants bars, and even a strip club.

And if you try very hard, some travel tips and restaurants are needed for you to able to understand what the locals are saying.

Located in New Zealand's Southern Alps on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown claims to be "the premier four season lake and alpine resort in the Southern Hemisphere".

Queenstown's origins are as a source for greenstone, or nephrite jade, of cultural and artistic significance to the Maori population.

Maoris continued expeditions to the area well into the 19th century.

Then, around the same time as the gold rush in Australia at Ballarat and Bendigo, gold was discovered in the Arrow and Shotover rivers and the area boomed.

Today, Queenstown's action and adventure options include bushwalking, gondola rides, lake cruises, kayaking, scenic flights, hot air ballooning, parasailing and bungee jumping.

But there are also wine tours, to taste the world famous Central Otago pinot noir and, increasingly, white and sparkling wines from nearby Cromwell, Bannockburn and Alexandra.

Notable vineyards include Amisfield, where you can lunch practically amid the grapes, Akarua and Peregrine and Carrick wineries whose picturesque settings are reminiscent of Italy's Tuscany region.

For high end dining try Rata, which has a Michelin star chef, but if you've been out on the town and fancy a late night feed, you can't go past a famous Fergburger, which is open until the early hours of the morning.

Queenstown is famous for its boutique hotels, such as The Spire, which has large, beautiful rooms and Eichardts, a five-star hotel with a great bar for meeting up with friends.

News.com.au travelled to Queenstown as a guest of Air New Zealand and Destination Queenstown.

Customer Boiler Cleaners, Inc. of Brooklyn, New York, offers boiler repair and maintenance services to ensure that you get the most of your boiler throughout the entire winter.

Boiler Repair

If your boiler breaks down in the middle of the winter, you are not going to be very comfortable. While it is not recommended that you tackle the job yourself, our boiler repair services can have your system back up and running in no time. Whatever your problem may be, we have the parts and skills to ensure a quality repair and provide for your comfort during harsh Northern winters. Professionally trained, in-house technicians perform all of our work. We provide:

• Tube Replacement

• Welding Repairs 

• Boiler Controls

• Installation 

• Section Replacement

• Coil Replacement 

• Refractory Work

• Boiler Related Plumbing 

• Breeching

• Violation Removal

Boiler Maintenance

Our boiler service also offers professional maintenance to help ensure that your boiler operates at peak efficiency throughout the winter - keeping your home or business warmer for less money. Our thorough services ensure that your boiler and boiler room remain free of soot and debris, allowing your boiler to operate at maximum efficiency. Services include:

• Boiler Tubes Brushed

• Combustion Chamber Brushed

• Boiler Doors Brushed 

• Inside Walls Brushed

• Chimney Base and

  Breeching Cleaned

• Soot, Scale, and Foreign 

  Particles Vacuumed Using

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Effective governance is key to a successful organisation.

For Westward as a business, this means having:

·  a streamlined board structure;

·  board members with diverse skills and experience;

·  leadership and direction to achieve our vision and values;

·  the highest degree of integrity across the organisation;

·  focussing on our priorities - see How well are we doing?;

·  clear accountability and transparency - follow this link  to find out about how we spend our money and what we are doing to drive performance and efficiency.

Proposal regarding Westward

The boards who manage Westward’s three housing associations (Tarka Housing, Westcountry Housing and Westward) all agree that we should now go ahead and bring these organisations and their boards together formally.  This will allow us to work more efficiently and provide even better value for money. 

Our service to customers will not change as a result of this and councillors will still be able to raise issues with us. We want to continue to create great homes and neighbourhoods where people want to live and work. The staff who deliver our services will continue to do so. Our customer Scrutiny Group will continue to check, monitor and challenge the board and staff.

Our governance structure is shown here:  Westward governance structure chart and includes:

·  a common purpose board which governs Westward and Westcountry - CPB membership biographies 2013;

·  a separate board at Tarka - see biographies of Tarka membership 2013.

·  Customers work in the Scrutiny Group to review our services in line with our commitment to co-regulation.

The Tarka Board is made up of:

·  4 residents;

·  4 independent members;

·  4 nominees of Torridge District Council

The common purpose board has two specialist sub-committees:

·  an Audit and Risk Committee which operate on these terms of reference.pdf  and

a Governance Committee following these terms of reference pdf

·  The residents' Scrutiny Panel links into the governance structure via the Audit and Risk Committee.

The boards provide leadership, direction, support and challenge and our senior management team is responsible for delivering services.

Westward has adopted the National Housing Federation’s codes of governance and standards.  We regularly assess compliance with these standards and report the outcomes in our Annual Financial Statements.

The government’s Homes and Communities Agency regulates social housing and we comply with their regulatory standards.

Aggressively Defending All Fraud Charges

White collar crimes are complicated offenses and the government has unlimited resources to investigate and prosecute them. Prosecutors will often spend more money than the crime is worth just to prove a point. Contact a lawyer who knows what prosecutors are looking for when charging you.

Call me, Bradley John Haddy, Attorney at Law, in Eagan, Minnesota. I know how government regulatory agencies operate and how they prosecute suspects. I will work directly with you and keep you informed through every phase of the process. Contact me for a free initial consultation in confidence.

Fraud and White Collar Crime

I effectively represented clients accused of:

- Securities fraud - Any type of manipulation including insider trading, "parking," "front-running," and cases where stock options were backdated to a lower price and then sold at a higher price

- Social Security fraud - Lying about your health or a disability in order to receive benefits

- Corporate fraud - Corporate officers stealing from the company

- Theft by deception - Taking assets by means of telephone scams and pyramid schemes I also defend people accused of insurance fraud, Medicare fraud, tax fraud and bank fraud. You are open to hefty fines and federal incarceration if convicted. Because these cases are often won or lost in the investigation phase, you should contact me right away.

Contact my Twin Cites office for a free consultation. I accept all major credit cards and offer competitive rates. Spanish, sign language and Somali speaking translation services are available. I am available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

In the last 20 years, Canada's major surges both in population and economic activity have translated into exponential growth in all aspects of real estate, whether in municipal infrastructure and institutional requirements, commercial and consumer needs in homebuilding, industrial development or community, commercial and retail services. From development, construction and land-use planning to commercial leasing and property management, ourproperty development and real estate lawyers are proactive, deal-oriented advisors who understand the cyclical nature of the business and can anticipate and respond to the market and its players.

Our clients include public sector clients such as cities, municipal districts and provincial and federal ministries as well as developers, investors, portfolio managers, landlords, tenants, retailers, real estate professionals and financial institutions. According to need, we have negotiated and advised on land use assemblies and properties of virtually every type, including office properties, resort facilities, residential developments, retail and mixed-use commercial centres, industrial and manufacturing sites, gaming complexes, and other leisure and recreational buildings. We also bring particular expertise to energy-related land use, providing zoning, environmental and construction-related advice to multi-year, multi-phase projects ranging from oil sands extraction facilities to refining and upgrading sites.

One of our hallmark practices is our work with real estate portfolio managers, pension funds and real estate investment trusts (REITs). We have structured and led the financing of REITs and have advised owners and fund managers on complex commercial real estate developments, acquisitions, syndications, financings and dispositions. Working with our restructuring counsel, we have also been involved in significant national realization proceedings and Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act restructurings of large real estate loans and credit facilities.

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"If you intend something to happen, it happens, if you intend it to happen. Verbalization* is not the intention. The intention is the carrier wave which takes the verbalization along with it." -- L. Ron Hubbard(*verbalization: expressing oneself in words.)

When you use the correct level of intention in your communication, people pay attention to you.

For example, you are in a busy clothing store and need a clerk's help. With poor intention, you might wait all day. But with strong intention, you look at the clerk, his head whips around and he asks if he can help you.

When you add firm intention to your communication, you get better results.

For example, if you tell your children to clean up their rooms with weak intention, they continue to play around. If you tell them to clean their rooms with strong intention, they clean their rooms.

Intention at Work

Your job is easier when you use the correct amount of intention.

For example, a coworker named Chris likes to complain to you. Chris says, "I hate this crappy chair." "This weather is horrible." "Oh no, here comes Mr. Big again."

Tolerating or avoiding Chris resolves nothing. Your workplace remains stressful.

Yet if you look Chris in the eye and say, "Chris, stop complaining," you enjoy some wonderful results - if your intention is strong enough. It does not matter how loudly or softly you speak as verbalization has nothing to do with it. Your intention powers your statement.

A salesperson, with a strong intention to sell, gets more sales. A service representative, with a strong intention to make customers happy, makes customers happy. A job applicant, with a strong intention to land the job, gets the job.

A manager with poor intention gets little cooperation and eventually fails. However, a manager with strong intention, finds that his or her employees usually do what they were hired to do.

 Exercise

1. Write down something that is difficult for you to get someone to do.

For example, your coworker Joe borrows your stapler and always forgets to bring it back. You need your stapler back, but it's always a hassle.

2. Practice asking for the thing you wrote in step #1. You can use a coach or friend, or even just talk to an object.

For our example, pretend to ask Joe to return your stapler, but use little or no intention. Really be weak.

You say, "Joe, return my stapler when you are done with it." However, in your mind, say, "Hi Joe, hey if you don't mind could you please return my stapler if you have nothing else to do please?"

Even though this seems silly, practice using very weak intention until you can do it easily.

3. Now practice use more intention than is necessary!

In this exercise step, you verbally say, "Joe, return my stapler when you are done with it" as you did in the step above, but now your intention is "JOE, BRING BACK MY STAPLER RIGHT NOW!"

Do this step a few times until you can do it easily.

 For More Exercise 

1. Next, use the correct amount of intention.

You still say, "Joe, return my stapler when you are done with it," and your intention is very clear: "Joe, return my stapler when you are done with it."

Your intention is not too weak and it is not too strong. It is just right.

Repeat this step a few times until it is comfortable for you.

2. When you are ready, go use your intention to get what you want. Get someone to do something that has been difficult for you to ask in the past. Get them to do what you ask.

If you use the correct amount of intention, the results will be amazing!

3. Repeat with anything that is difficult for you to get others to do.

You now have more power.

me A Genius in Business at July 6th-7th SeminarFont size:  Carla Granato  June 24, 2013 Meir Ezra, International Business GeniusChicagoland Real Estate Connections Club, Mokena, is bringing international businessman Meir Ezra to the the Chicago area to teach proven strategies to help business owners build their companies into a Perfect Business Model

(NewsWire.Net -- June 24, 2013) Mokena, IL -- The Chicagoland Real Estate Connections Club (located in Mokena) is bringing international businessmanMeir Ezra to the Chicagoland area! Meir will teach proven strategies to help business owners build their companies into a Perfect Business Model which will allow them to have the freedom and quality of life they want AND deserve.

Roger Salam, of Guaranteed Prosperity, LLC and co-sponsor of the event states: “What Tony Robbins is to Personal Development, Meir Ezra is to Business Development.”

Become a Genius in Business is a two-day seminar that will be held on the 6th and 7th of July at the Hyatt Rosemont.  This event is suitable for business owners of all kinds; owners of multi-million dollar companies or entrepreneurs with a strong desire to succeed.  Attendees will experience two full days packed with rock-solid content to help take their business, income, and lifestyle to the next level!

Ezra is not a guru or a motivational speaker, he is a businessman who will show attendees how to build their businesses by improving themselves first and then by applying proven methods of logic and organization to all areas of life.  He is an entrepreneur with many years of experience and is the creator of Time Maker Leadership Software; the most advanced management software on the market. Ezra also owns and has turned multiple businesses into multi-million dollar companies and has consulted clients in the U.S., Canada, Israel, Italy, Colombia, and many more!

Discouragement and frustration from not making your goals quickly enough are resolved through orderly progress.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed? If so, orderly progress becomes even more important. Confronting huge amounts of work is not overwhelming when you see yourself making orderly progress, even in small amounts, toward your goals.

Do you ever feel like you are losing ground or failing? If you map out your actual goal and move one inch closer on a regular basis, you have new power.

Do you ever feel like you are treading water and going nowhere? It is time for you to focus on some orderly progress.

How do you eat an elephant? How do you move a mountain? How to you reach huge goals? One mouthful, one rock and one step at a time.

Examples: giving a positive impression to one more person; learning one more new skill; lessening one bad habit, investing a few more dollars in savings. Daily progress in a specific direction creates long-term power when the progress is constant and orderly.

If you have been dissatisfied with your progress in life, or if you feel discouraged, overwhelmed or frustrated, make a list of orderly steps you can take every day and every week. Calm, direct, orderly steps.

Once you have your strategy worked out there is no need to worry about the past or the future—just concentrate on the present; on the steps of this plan. By putting order into your progress, nothing and nobody can stop you.

A mountain creek is more powerful than a granite boulder when the creek slowly and surely wears the boulder down. Orderly progress toward your goals starts with small, positive steps.

You can generate new power from this week forward. Deciding to have orderly progress is the first step.

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​Social responsibility represents an important commitment for Mossack Fonseca and our affiliates. It is also a daily reminder about our responsibility towards society.

Every year we donate to various organizations that share our values and in so doing, we stretch out Mossack Fonseca’s helping hand. Through our Corporate Social Responsibility Program, we actively and voluntarily contribute to the positive development of human beings, especially those in dire need.

Learn about our work and share in our cause. The lens of the camera captures a fair image of what we do, but the impact of our work goes far beyond. Stretching out a helping hand and coming together to enhance the lives of other people is what motivates us to do more.

Mossack Fonseca is committed to helping communities, which is why our legal experts have provided legal assistance to many organizations, including:

• Rotary Club of Boquete (Panama)
• The British Aid Society
• Aero Club of Panama
• Kennel Club Foundation
• Fundacion Confederation Canofila Panama
• The World Bank

MOSSACK FONSECA HELPING HAND

Mossack Fonseca has a strong commitment to foster change where it is needed most. It is a way to remind ourselves daily about the responsibility we have towards society.

PIERO Rafael Martinez de la Hoz FOUNDATION

This organization provides emotional support to people and families who have lost loved ones through caregiving and educational programs. The Foundation seeks to create consciousness about the internal processes that take place, but are not always properly channeled, when people endure loss.

Its main purpose is to offer companionship, educate the community by disseminating information on how to confront grief, and offer training to different professionals to help them manage bereavement.

TOMATIS THERAPY AND STIMULATION FOUNDATION (fundet-TOMATIS)

The TOMATIS method owes its name to Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis, a French physician and researcher born in 1920. He was also a psychologist, speech language pathologist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

For him, listening was not the same as hearing because listening is affected by motivation and functional elements that depend on the will of the individual. Listening is far more than the passive act of registering sounds randomly.

In Panama, the Tomatis Therapy and Stimulation Foundation (FUNDET-TOMATIS) offers a wide range of programs for children and adults. The donations they receive enable them to offer free speech scholarships for Panamanian children who would not otherwise receive the timely and necessary help they require.

ART IN THE PARK FOUNDATION

Fundación Arte en el Parque is the first foundation from the city of Penonomé to promote artistic and cultural values in the province of Coclé and to create spaces and activities that also have an impact on cultural tourism. The VII Art in the Park Festival will serve as a forum for art in general and offer provincial artists an opportunity to make their talent known and present their works, thereby motivating emerging artists who also wish to participate. The Foundation is currently offering local Fine Arts scholarships and also conducts seminars and courses for the social and humanistic/liberal arts formation of artists and the general public.

SAINT JOSEPH PARISH FOUNDATION OF VALLE DE ANTÓN

Mossack Fonseca is pleased to cooperate with the work carried out by Fundación San Jose located in the Anton Valley, which responds to the basic needs of the local church and the neediest in the region, especially children. The projects being developed are focused primarily on social interest issues, education, health and cultural activities for children.

Foundation benefits include a library open to the public with more than 5000 volumes on diverse themes, as well as 30 computers with Internet access and open spaces for children and adolescents. The Foundation has also opened a Pastoral Health Home for the elderly which has its own grove to help feed them.

I am able FOUNDATION ("I AM CAPABLE" FOUNDATION)

From its inception, the Foundation’s mission has been to support individuals with autism. It also offers guidance to the public and to the families of those with this condition because if these individuals receive special care from an early age, they are capable of becoming a part of society.

Recent statistics show that 1 in every 88 children is affected by this condition and that 1 in every 54 is a boy. More than 50,000 people are stricken by autism in Panama, which is an alarming number for our society.

PANAMANIAN INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY EDUCATION – IPEF

The Panamanian Institute for Family Education is an organization accredited by the Ministry of Education which seeks to enrich the quality of life of the family, through meeting and dialogue spaces that encourage the exchange of knowledge and ideas. This organization seeks to provide each member of the family with the tools that will help them strengthen their relationships and develop their life projects.

Last June, the IPEF conducted the conference "Challenges of the XXI Century Family" and presented topics such as: Keys to Preventing Failure in the Educational Project and How to Strengthen the Self-Esteem and Identity of our Children.

• Lead efforts across Fraud Intelligence teams (card, banking, data automation) to expand the teams' intelligence collection, optimize reporting to internal stakeholders, and assist in managing expanding metrics production efforts specific to the Asia Pacific and South American geographic areas
• Act as the Fraud Intelligence lead representative in a multi-disciplinary security operations center (SOC)
• Act as liaison between Corporate Cyber Security Operations-Fraud Intelligence and the various JPMC lines of business (LOBs)
• Work closely with Cyber Security Operations teams to collaborate on a first in class intelligence program.
• Maintain and advance knowledge of industry fraud trends
• Conduct and manage detailed analysis and risk assessments on all issues affecting the Firm
• Engage in problem solving, process improvement, and strategic planning initiatives
• Continually identify and evaluate 3 rd party solutions to fraud problems facing the Firm
• Author and edit intelligence reports and contribute to metrics production

• 3+ years of experience collecting and analyzing intelligence, conducting financial investigations, and writing professional reports
• Experience with large volumes of transactional data, conducting deep-dive analysis, and financial services industry products and services
• Experience serving business stakeholders, managing cross collaboration, and leading teams
• Strong knowledge of banking terms, phrases, and concepts
• Prior cyber security and/or cyber threat experience a plus
• The ability to work in a fast paced environment to include the translation of complex concepts and issues into messaging easily understood by senior leadership
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Prior threat intelligence/SOC experience a plus

• Excellent people, time management, and organization skills
• An ability to work with minimal direction and supervision-independently or in leadership role
• Experience managing aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to coordinate, work with, and gain the trust of business stakeholders to achieve a desired objective

• Strong attention to detail in conducting analysis combined with ability to accurately record full supporting documentation
• An ability to leverage the efforts of multiple teams into a cohesive product/service
• An ability to mitigate a vulnerability or issue by leveraging support from internal stakeholders in a collaborative approach
• An ability to conduct critical analysis, form a hypothesis, and make recommendations to senior management
• An ability to mitigate a vulnerability or issue by leveraging support from internal stakeholders in a collaborative approach

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
• Able to articulate and visually present complex analysis results
• Ability to communicate effectively with business representatives in explaining findings clearly and where necessary, in layman's terms

• Annual turnover is £6.5 million or less
• The balance sheet total is £ 3.26 million or less
• Employs 50 or less employees
• Company is exempt from audit