Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Reading Is Fundamental Launches “Book People Unite,”
Reading Is Fundamental Launches “Book People Unite,”
A National Campaign Sparking a Movement for Children’s Literacy
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Today Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the largest children’s literacy nonprofit in the country, is launching “Book People Unite,” a bold awareness campaign to focus a spotlight on children’s literacy nationwide. The campaign, anchored by a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) with beloved book characters and a star-studded soundtrack, aims to spark a movement to put books in the hands of children who need them most. The PSA is a collaboration among RIF, the Library of Congress and the Ad Council and was created by Mother New York.
In 2011, RIF provided 14 million books to 4 million children to keep as their own. Access to books continues to be one of the single most important factors in a student’s success, but far too many of America’s children do not have this most basic resource for learning.
There are 16 million children living in poverty in the United States, the highest number in two decades. Consider this:
In low-income neighborhoods, there is only 1 book for every 300 children.
By the time children from low-income families start kindergarten, they are a year behind their more affluent peers in literacy skills.
Children who enter kindergarten behind their peers are three to four times more likely to drop out of school long-term.
Only 32 percent of 4th graders read at a proficient level and 34 percent can’t even read at the most basic.
Less than half of all families read to their kindergarteners every day.
“While many children are falling further and further behind, so are their chances for a successful future. It is clear we don’t just have an issue to solve, we have a movement to ignite,” said Carol Rasco, president and CEO of RIF. “One book can spark a lifetime of ambition and we are asking the nation to join us in building a literate America where all kids can explore, dream and achieve. Together, we can realize our vision of a literate America.”
Star Power for the Love of Reading
The PSA makes history by showcasing all at once several of America’s most beloved book—Curious George, Clifford, Madeline, and Babar, to name a few. They travel beyond their storybook pages to the beat of a new, original song, “Book People Unite,” featuring donated talent and produced by Grammy award-winning band The Roots. Celebrity vocalists Jack Black, Chris Martin (Coldplay), John Legend, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Jason Schwartzman, Consequence, Regina Spektor, Nate Ruess (fun.), Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia) and Melanie Fiona lend their voices to the anthem. And Emmy award-winning actor, LeVar Burton, makes a special cameo.
“I have witnessed time and again the transformative power of books. Whether it’s a bound book or an e-book, reading helps children overcome obstacles—opening doors to a wider world of experiences,” said Burton, host and producer of the beloved children’s program Reading Rainbow.
The PSA was directed by Rafael Fernandez with Green Dot Films and features specially-crafted puppets by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and animated characters brought to life by Curious Pictures. Per the Ad Council’s model, the PSA will run and air in advertising time and space that is donated by the media.
“The montage of book characters come alive in these heartwarming PSAs to motivate parents to establish positive reading practices with their children,” said Peggy Conlon, president and CEO of the Ad Council.
“We hope this entertaining campaign—combining beloved children’s book characters and world-renowned musical talent—inspires families to establish a lifelong love of reading,” said Gayle Osterberg, director of communications at the Library of Congress.
Additional components of the campaign include online banner ads, radio spots, print and outdoor ads asking viewers to visit BookPeopleUnite.org to join the movement by declaring themselves a “book person” through an online pledge. Each person who takes the pledge will receive a free download of the “Book People Unite” anthem and action tools to ignite a reading renaissance in their own backyard.
A Bold New Commitment to Building a Literate America
The multi-channel campaign, developed by Mother New York, is part of a comprehensive rebranding strategy to catapult RIF and its mission back into the public spotlight.
As RIF celebrates its 45th anniversary, it is a critical time in the organization’s history. RIF lost its federal funding—$24.8 million, representing 80 percent of its operating budget—in the last budget cycle. Despite this funding loss, RIF is not wavering in its commitment to put books in the hands of kids who need them most. Through a corps of 450,000 volunteers and thousands of generous supporters, as well as a longtime partnership with publishers and book distributors, RIF has a highly effective and efficient model distributing books to children across the nation. Macy’s, the largest retail brand of Macy’s Inc., has raised more than $21 million for RIF since 2004. Their support provided 3.6 million books to more than 1.2 million children last year alone and helped launch RIF’s rebranding initiative along with the Book People Unite campaign.
“RIF has a long history of inspiring children to read and achieve, and we’re thrilled to see their reenergized image and this bold campaign take off to get more people connected to this critical cause,” said Martine Reardon, Chief Marketing Officer at Macy’s. “We’ve declared ourselves ‘Book People’ and encourage our customers and readers of all ages to do the same.”
For more information on Book People Unite and to take the pledge, visit BookPeopleUnite.org.
About Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) delivers free books and literacy resources to children and families in underserved communities in the United States. By giving children the opportunity to own a book, RIF inspires them to become lifelong readers and achieve their full potential. As the nation’s largest children’s literacy nonprofit, RIF has placed 400 million books in the hands of more than 35 million children since it was established in 1966. Learn more and help RIF provide books to kids who need them most, visit RIF.org.
About the Library of Congress
Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions. The largest library in the world, the Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site, in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill, and through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov. The Library of Congress is the home of the Center for the Book, a major national force for reading and literacy promotion and sponsor of the award-winning Read.gov website and National Book Festival each September in Washington, D.C.
The Advertising Council
The Ad Council is a non-profit organization with a rich history of marshalling volunteer talent from the advertising and media industries to deliver critical messages to the American public. Having produced literally thousands of PSA campaigns addressing the most pressing social issues of the day, the Ad Council has effected, and continues to effect, tremendous positive change by raising awareness, inspiring action, and saving lives. To learn more about the Ad Council and its campaigns, visit www.adcouncil.org.
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Media Contact:
Ashley Lengen
Weber Shandwick for Reading Is Fundamental
469.375.0207
alengen@webershandwick.com
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President Obama May Lose To Romney by Historic Standards
According to Zeke Miller, incumbent President Barack Obama may lose to Mitt Romney the leading candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.
Modern presidents who got re-elected were all leading in the polls at this point in their presidencies — as were some who lost anyway. Obama is in a statistical tie with Romney in the first Gallup daily tracking poll of the general election, and that might not be enough
Click here to see more on how Obama may lose to Romney.
COMING SOON TO THE THEATER NEAR YOU THIS SUMMER!
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Cyber Criminals Are Targeting Android Users
Photo Credit: Android Mag.
Trend Micro issues new security roundup report for Q1 2012
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --This quarter saw a significant shift in the way the security industry approaches targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats, which are now viewed more as a long-term, ongoing campaign versus the typical "smash-and-grab incidents" favored by cybercriminals in the past, according to the Trend Micro (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) Q1 2012 Security Roundup Report.
According to the report, Q1's visible events – Linsanity, Whitney Houston's death, and sociopolitical upheavals around the world – gave cybercriminals new social-engineering campaign material, equipping them to penetrate and infect users and networks in order to access victim's data.
The report also noted that cybercriminals who launch APTs will often keep track of the different attacks within a campaign in order to determine which individual attack compromised a specific victim's network. The Luckycat campaign, in particular, attacked a diverse set of targets using a variety of malware, some of which have been linked to other cyber-espionage campaigns.
Photo Credit: Mobile Attack.
Notable trends in Q1 2012:
- Cybercriminals are capitalizing on the growth of Android users who use their smartphones to gain Internet access. In fact, Trend Micro identified approximately 5000 new malicious Android apps in the first quarter.
- Apple surpassed Oracle, Google and Microsoft in reported vulnerabilities, with a total of 91. Oracle came in second, with 78; Google, 73; Microsoft, 43. Apart from posting the highest number of reported vulnerabilities, Apple also issued a record-breaking number of patches last March.
- New social networking site, Pinterest, gained not just popularity but also notoriety. Site users were drawn into "re-pinning" a Starbucks logo to get supposed gift cards but instead got malware.
- This quarter's top spam-sending countries included: India (20 percent), Indonesia (13 percent), South Korea (12 percent), and Russia (10 percent).
- During this quarter, the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, a cloud computing infrastructure, protected Trend Micro customers against a total of: 15.3 billion spam, 338.4 thousand malware, and 1.3 billion malicious URLs.
Supporting assets:
- The full round-up report can be found here.
- Download the Trend Micro Whitepaper: Luckycat Redux.
- Download the Trend Micro Whitepaper: Trends in Targeted Attacks.
- Download the Trend Micro Whitepaper: Enterprise Readiness of Consumer Mobile Platforms.
- Visit the award-winning TrendLabs Malware Blog for the latest threat research news.
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704;TSE: 4704), a global cloud security leader , creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers. A pioneer in server security with over 20 years' experience, we deliver top-ranked client, server and cloud-based security that fits our customers' and partners' needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ cloud computing security infrastructure, our products and services stop threats where they emerge – from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe.
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Increase the Impact of your Marketing Campaigns with Online Video
Increase the Impact of your Marketing Campaigns with Online Video
PR Newswire’s latest white paper, Building Brand Engagement through Online Video, offers tactics to enrich your company stories through video
NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Consumer usage of online video has soared over the past year and organizations are taking note of this powerful medium to interact with their audiences – as indicated by the fact that ninety percent of Fortune 500 companies used online video in 2011.¹
PR Newswire’s latest white paper, Building Brand Engagement through Online Video, is comprised of market research, interviews and case study examples of how marketers are humanizing their brands and adding personality to their messages through the use of engaging video. The white paper offers online video marketing best practices including tips to align the style of video with the content, how to craft videos that spark interaction and ways to quickly and effectively distribute video through social and other digital channels.
To read the complete white paper, click here.
As an industry thought leader, PR Newswire regularly produces original, relevant content aimed at offering public relations, investor relations and marketing professionals advice and strategies necessary to reach their communications goals. To access additional information and content, visit PR Newswire’s Knowledge Center.
About PR Newswire
PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 58 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content – from rich media to online video to multimedia – and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.
Source: PR Newswire Association LLC
¹ http://www.webvideomarketing.org/index.php/video-industry-news/5493-new-social-media-tools-rule
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One Man, One Camera, One Dollar and Two Deaths
17 Apr 2012 08:00 Africa/Lagos
One Man, One Camera, One Dollar and Two Deaths
Garianno Lorenzo and Jordan Nichols are producers of the new UFC documentary entitled "FIGHT SPIRIT PRIDE" featuring the real life Karate Kid, Mark Hominick
LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mixed Martial Arts is the fastest growing sport in the world, because of its Gladiator combat appeal. It's also practiced as a form of self-defense with civilians, police and military. Surprisingly, there are still people that believe this sport is human cockfighting, yet there are more and more MMA schools opening up teaching self-defense. Mark Hominick, who's from a small town of 2500 people, dispels the idea of professional MMA fighters being illiterate backyard brawlers. He is one example of the quality of athletes that populate this emerging sport, to the credit of UFC President Dana White.
Mark Hominick is the real life Karate Kid. He's a small-town boy next-door good kid; who is very polite, well mannered, with a high education. Mark graduated with a degree in business, top 5 (not top 5%) Cum Laude with honors from the most prestigious business school in Ontario, Canada. This film is a document about his life, and the deaths that surround it.
Garianno Lorenzo, a filmmaker, and industry veteran, six years ago was sitting on his couch in Red Bank, NJ watching an uninteresting boxing match, and the decision he made to change the channel, gave birth to this film. He switched to a channel showing an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight between Mark Hominick and Yves Edwards. Hominick defeated Edwards in an outstanding victory. While giving his post victory interview with Fear Factor's Joe Rogan, Mark pushed back tears talking about his father dying of cancer. Lorenzo saw this and was moved into action. With a camera, and a dollar, Garianno Lorenzo decided to set out on a six-year journey of filming the story of Mark Hominick. Garianno started filming at the time Mark was trying to train for his rematch to regain the title that he had previously defended nine times prior to his father's condition taking a turn for the worse. Lorenzo left his home in NJ, shut down his life and moved into London, ON Canada to film every waking moment of Mark's fight for his family and his career. As a labor of love Lorenzo filmed for three years consistently and three years periodically. He now has more than three Terabytes of footage stored on hard-drives.
Mark's father lost his fight with cancer and Mark lost his rematch to regain his title. Then, Mark was dropped from the UFC and WEC fighting organizations.
While his father was the most important male figure in Mark's life. The second most important male figure in Mark's life is his best friend, manager, mentor and trainer Shawn Tompkins. Just as Mark is coming to terms with the devastating loss of his dad, at his career low point, Mark suffered another blow with the untimely death of Shawn Tompkins late last year. Shawn passed away of a massive heart attack at the young age of 37 years old. In a very short period of time, Mark lost the two most important men in his life at the lowest point in his life, and career. The film captures how Mark fights his way back with the courage of a warrior.
By the time the movie ends, Mark is welcomed back into the UFC; he has a title fight on the horizon with the UFC, marries the girl of his dreams, builds a home, starts a successful business, and has a child. Although, Mark lost his father and his mentor, it's really a story about perseverance, internal strength, passion and heart, and that does take fight, spirit and pride.
The documentary features the most recognizable names in the sport including UFC president Dana White, actor Kevin James, Fear Factor's Joe Rogan, MMA legend Bas Rutten, UFC middle weight champion Georges St-Pierre, Sam Stout, Eddie Bravo and many others.
The film has quite a bit of traction and appreciation for the story in social media. Based on the buzz around the film within MMA and UFC fan sites; fans are eagerly waiting for the film's release. The film is currently wrapping up post-production
Demonstrated by his commitment, for six years Lorenzo funded the movie alone. And now has placed the film on the popular funding site Kickstarter.com. Anyone interested in knowing more about this project should visit: http://kck.st/HNY6Jr.
Directed By Garianno Lorenzo
Produced by Garianno Lorenzo and Jordan Nichols for Tyrant Entertainment
In association with Nichols Entertainment
PR Media Contact: David Wasserman: FightSpiritPride(at)gmail(dot)com, 323-643-9428
Related Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2304633
http://www.Facebook.com/FightSpiritPride
Sirius Satellite Radio
http://www.FightSpiritPrideTheMovie.com
http://www.Twitter.com/FightMovie
http://www.YouTube.com/FightSpiritPride
SOURCE Garianno Lorenzo
Web Site: http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/fightspiritpride
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Congratulations to Jim Yong Kim, New World Bank President
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, new President of the World Bank.
Press Release No:2012/395/SEC
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2012 - The Executive Directors met today to select a new President of the World Bank Group. The Board expressed its deep gratitude for Mr. Robert B. Zoellick’s outstanding leadership and his dedication to reducing poverty in its member countries, the core mandate of the World Bank Group.
The Executive Directors followed the new selection process agreed in 2011 which, for the first time in the Bank’s history, yielded multiple nominees. This process included an open nomination where any national of the Bank’s membership could be proposed by any Executive Director or Governor, publication of the names of the candidates, interviews of the candidates by the Executive Directors, and final selection of the President.
The Executive Directors selected Dr. Jim Yong Kim as President for a five-year term beginning on July 1, 2012. The President is Chair of the Boards of Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). The President is also ex officio Chair of the Boards of Directors of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the Administrative Council of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
We, the Executive Directors, wish to express our deep appreciation to all the nominees, Jim Yong Kim, José Antonio Ocampo and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Their candidacies enriched the discussion of the role of the President and of the World Bank Group’s future direction. The final nominees received support from different member countries, which reflected the high caliber of the candidates. We all look forward to working with Dr. Kim when he assumes his responsibilities.
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is currently President of Dartmouth College. A U.S. national, Dr. Kim is a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization (WHO). Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, Dr. Kim held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He also served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Kim was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2003), was named one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by US News & World Report (2005), and was selected as one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” (2006). He was elected in 2004 to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences—one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine—for his professional achievements and commitment to service. He has published widely over the past two decades, authoring or co-authoring articles for leading academic and scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Science.
Born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Kim moved with his family to the United States at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. Dr. Kim graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned a medical doctorate from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993. He is married to Dr. Younsook Lim, a pediatrician. The couple has two young sons.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Nigerian Hotels Not Among the Best Hotels in the World
Hotels in Nigeria are missing from the hot list of 121 Top New Hotels of the Year in the world as Conde Nast Traveler unveils 16th Annual Hot List: The Best New Hotels and Resorts, Spas, and Restaurants in the World.
I wonder why Nigerian hotels were excluded when hotels in Kenya, South Africa and other countries in Africa made the hot list?
Argentina
- Hotel Pulitzer, Buenos Aires
- Mio Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Austria
- 25hours Hotel, Vienna
Botswana
- Abu Camp, Okavango Delta
Brazil
- Fasano Boa Vista, Porto Feliz
Cambodia
- The Plantation, Phnom Penh
Canada
- Ritz Carlton, Toronto
- Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Vancouver
Caribbean
- Hotel Chocolat, St. Lucia
- Petit St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Chile
- Singular Patagonia, Puerto Bories
- Puma Lodge, near Reserva Nacional Río de Los Cipreses
- Lastarria Boutique Hotel, Santiago
- Noi Vitacura, Santiago
- Tierra Patagonia Hotel & Spa, Torres del Paine
China
- Ritz Carlton Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Naked Stables Private Reserve, Paitou Town
- St. Regis Sanya Yalong Bay Resort, Sanya
- Andaz Shanghai, Shanghai
- Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel, Shanghai
- Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai
- Songtsam Tacheng Hotel, Tacheng
Colombia
- Karmairi, Cartagena
- The Charlee, Medellín
Croatia
- Hotel Lone, Istria
Czech Republic
- Miura, Moravian Silesia
Ecuador
- Casa Gangotena, Quito
Egypt
England
- The Pig, Hampshire
- Corinthia Hotel, London
- Eccleston Square Hotel, London
- 45 Park Lane, London
- St. Ermin's Hotel, London
- St. Pancras Renaissance, London
- Zetter Townhouse, London
France
- Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes
- Les Avisés, Avize
- Château Les Carrasses, Capestang
- La Belle Juliette, Paris
- La Maison Champs-Élysées, Paris
- Mandarin Oriental Paris, Paris
- Saint James Paris, Paris
- Altapura, Val Thorens
Greece
- New Hotel, Athens
- Old Markets, Symi
India
- Alila Hotel and Residence, Whitefield, Bangalore
- Grand Hyatt Goa, Goa
- Oberoi, Gurgaon, Gurgaon
- Leela Place, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
Indonesia
- W Retreat & Spa, Seminyak, Bali
Ireland
- Ballyfin, County Laois
Israel
- Beresheet Hotel, Negev Desert
Italy
- Villa della Pergola, Alassio
- Nun Assisi Relais & Spa, Assisi
- St. Regis Florence, Florence
- Armani Hotel Milano, Milan
- Castello di Velona, Montalcino
- First Hotel, Rome
- Villa Mosca, Alghero, Sardinia
Kenya
- Kicheche Valley Camp, Naboisho Conservancy
- Hogmead, Nairobi
Kuwait
- Hotel Missoni Kuwait, Salmiya
Luxembourg
- Le Place d'Armes, Luxembourg City
Maldives
- Anantara Kihavah Villas, Baa Atoll
- Jumeirah Dhevanafushi, Gaafu Alifu Atoll
- Six Senses Laamu, Laamu Atoll
Mauritius
- Long Beach, Belle Mare
Montenegro
- Aman Sveti Stefan, Sveti Stefan
Morocco
- Four Seasons Resort, Marrakech
- Riad Joya, Marrakech
The Netherlands
- Hotel de l'Europe, Amsterdam
New Zealand
- Bishop's Suites, Nelson
- Hilton Queenstown, Kawarau Village, Queenstown
Panama
- Manrey, Panama City
Peru
- The Westin, Lima
- Hacienda Concepcion, Puerto Maldonado
Portugal
- L'And Vineyards Resort, Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo
- Imani Country House, Quinta de Montemuro, Alentejo
- Hotel Bela Vista, Portimão
- InterContinental Porto-Palacio das Cardosas, Porto
Russia
Serbia
- Square Nine, Belgrade
Seycehelles
- Raffles Praslin, Seychelles
Slovenia
- Antiq Palace, Ljubljana
- Hotel Cubo, Ljubljana
South Africa
- Alphen Boutique Hotel, Cape Town
- Queen Victoria Hotel, Cape Town
Spain
- Mirror Barcelona, Barcelona
- Ohla Hotel, Barcelona
- Balcón de Cordóba, Córdoba
- Sant Pere del Bosc Hotel, Lloret de Mar
- Hotel Can Cera, Palma de Mallorca
- Le Domaine, Sardón de Duero
Switzerland
- Hotel Schweizerhof, Bern
- Nira Alpina, Surlej
- Backstage Hotel Vernissage, Zermatt
Tanzania
- Lamai Serengeti, Serengeti Nat'l. Park
- Residence Zanzibar, Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
- Emerson Spice, Stone Town, Zanzibar
Thailand
- Hansar, Bangkok
- St. Regis, Bangkok
- Casa de la Flora, Khao Lak
Turkey
- Amanruya, Bodrum
- House Hotel Bosphorus, Istanbul
Uganda
- Kyambura Gorge Lodge, Queen Elizabeth Nat'l. Park
United Arab Emirates
- Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi
- Park Hyatt, Abu Dhabi
- Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Dubai
United States
- The Saguaro, Scottsdale, Arizona
- Hotel Lautner, Desert Hot Springs, California
- Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California
- Mr. C Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
- Aulani, Oahu, Hawaii
- Public, Chicago, Illinois
- Hotel Modern, New Orleans, Louisiana
- The Saint, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Four Seasons Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland
- Ruschmeyer's, Montauk, New York
- Hôtel Americano, New York, New York
- The Prairie by Rachel Ashwell, Round Top, Texas
Zambia
- Sanctuary Zebra Plains, South Luangwa Nat'l. Park
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