Saint-James & Albany Hotel-SpaIn

Saint-James & Albany Hotel-SpaIn the heart of Paris, member of Great Hotels of the World and the chain Les Hôtels France Patrimoine, the hotel offers 194 rooms and suites in a 17th century building.Most of the rooms overlook the hotel’s lovely inside garden and numerous courtyards. Saint James & Albany Hotel-Spa is a real haven of peace in the centre of the French capital, and it features 750m² of adjustable meeting rooms, and an eco-friendly spa.Situated opposite the Tuileries Gardens, a few minutes from the Louvre and Orsay Museums, and the Opéra Garnier and Champs Élysées, the hotel also boasts a privileged location near many of the most famous luxury and designers shops of the French capital.Hotel FacilitiesGeneralRestaurant, Bar, 24-Hour Front Desk, Newspapers, Garden, Terrace, Non-Smoking Rooms, Family Rooms, Elevator, Safety Deposit Box, Soundproofed Rooms, Heating, Luggage Storage, Gay Friendly.ActivitiesFitness Centre, Spa & Wellness Centre, Massage, Hiking, Hammam, Indoor Swimming Pool.ServicesRoom Service, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Airport Shuttle, Business Centre, Babysitting/Child Services, Laundry, Dry Cleaning, Breakfast in the Room, Ironing Service, Bridal Suite, Currency Exchange, Car Rental, Tour Desk, Fax/Photocopying, Ticket Service.InternetWireless internet is available in the entire hotel and costs EUR 19.00 per hour.Guest ParkingPrivate parking is possible on site (reservation is needed) and costs EUR 26.00 per day.Hotel PoliciesThese are general hotel policies. As they may vary per room type; please also check the room description.Check-In15:00 hoursCheck-Out12:00 hoursCancellationIf cancelled or modified up to 1 day before the date of arrival, no fee will be charged.If cancelled or modified later or in case of no-show, the first night will be charged.Children and extra bedsAll children under 3 years stay free of charge when using existing bedding.All children under 2 years stay free of charge for cots.All older children or adults are charged EUR 60.00 per night and person for extra beds.Maximum capacity of extra beds/babycots in a room is 1.Extra beds and baby cots are upon request and need to be confirmed by the hotel.Supplements will not be calculated automatically in the total costs and have to be paid separately in the hotel.PetsPets are allowed on request. Charges may be applicable.Accepted credit cardsAmerican Express, Visa, Euro/Mastercard, Diners Club, JCBThe hotel reserves the right to pre-authorise credit cards prior to arrival.Food & beverageThe gourmet restaurant, Le Noailles, serves refined and creative cuisine for both business lunches or romantic dinners.The restaurant is open from 12:00 to 14:30 and 19:30 to 22:00. It is closed for lunch on Saturdays, and closed all day on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays.The terrace is open for alfresco dining from mid-April to the end of September.The lounge bar, Bar Saint James, offers breakfast, lunch, snacks, and cocktails in a very cosy atmosphere. There is a pianist every evening from 19:00, and a jazz band every Friday from 19:00 as well.It is open from 08:00 to 01:00 Monday to Friday and from 10:00 to 01:00 on weekends and bank holidays.Room informationMost of the 194 rooms and suites look out onto a peaceful private garden and a series of inside courtyards. They are all fully-equipped and offer free access to the spa.Area informationThe Louvre Museum (0.3 km) - See the extensive collections, including the famous Mona Lisa, of the most visited art museum in the world.Musée d'Orsay (0.3 km) - Next to the Seine river in the city centre, this museum (which is a former railway station) holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914 (including paintings, sculptures, etc) and an extensive collection of Impressionist masterpieces.Latin Quarter (2 km) - A bustling, popular area with many bistros, shops and bookstores.Notre Dame Cathedral (1.5 km) - A must-see in Paris. This building boasts an impressive Gothic architecture.Important informationThe Hotel is under refurbishment from 19 May 2008 to 14 February 2009. During this time, there is no easy access for the disabled and the reception is located at 6 Rue du 29 Juillet.Terms & ConditionsYour reservation is absolutely secure. All personal data is encrypted and will be processed in a secure way.Booking.com takes the privacy of your personal data very seriously. Your personal information will only be used to process your booking. For more information, read our privacy statement.Booking.com will not charge you any reservation fees for making this booking, nor charge your credit card. You will simply pay for your stay at the hotel.Cancellation is free of charge provided you adhere to the notification period stated in the hotel cancellation policy (see "Hotel Policies").More information can be found in our terms and conditions.
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FOREX EDUCATION I FOREX TRAINING
Kategori: FİNANS
9/2/2009 ·

Do you have what it takes to become a successful Forex Trader?
Forex trading, or any trading for that matter, is an occupation that requires experience and the accumulation of proficiency not unlike any other highly skilled profession. Whether you are a leading executive at a major publically traded company, a professional golfer or trading from your kitchen table, there are 5 key ingredients that one must possess in order to become successful.

1. You must be Passionate about what you do.

As Forex traders we all face one unique set of circumstances that does not exist in any other profession. We get rewarded for when we succeed and equally punished when we don’t! Could you image a corporate worker one quarter receiving a significant accomplishment bonus and the next quarter actually getting money taken from their paycheck for missing performance targets? Not on your life!

We do as Forex traders and that is why passion for what you do will carry you through the tough times that are part of your trading business. Asked yourself why you trade currencies and would you still do it if Forex were not potentially lucrative? Your answers will be quite revealing. You’ve got to feel your passion for trading!

2. You have to Apply Yourself and work hard at it.

I talk to so many people that enter into Forex trading with the aspiration of getting rich quick. Without putting the time and energy into really getting good at trading I see them jump from strategy to strategy looking for the goose that will lay the golden egg and eventually quitting while blaming everything else, except the true cause.

I got news for you – you are the goose and your Forex education is the golden egg. The magic has always resided with the magician and not some strategy. Work hard at trading and the rewards will eventually come your way. Remember what Tiger Woods said, “Funny, the harder I work the luckier I get.” Apply yourself as a trader and it will be no accident when your account begins to blossom.

3. You must Focus to really get good at what you do.

Now here is the hurdle most Forex traders struggle to get over. You have the passion and you are applying yourself to your trade, now focus and really get good at just at what you are doing. Be the expert to the experts at just that one thing. Become the master of a strategy or risk management methodologies. Really focus on getting good at it.

Stop jumping around or getting pulled from the last “latest and greatest” into the next “latest and greatest” and focus on one aspect of Forex trading and know it inside out. Know it strengths and weakness. Set your sights on becoming expert on just one aspect of trading and watch it spill over in all other aspects for your currency trading. This is the time to fail forward fast, use every setback as a learning opportunity that will propel you 3-steps ahead!

4. You must Push Yourself beyond the point everyone else might have quite.

In Forex Trading this is simple. Assume there is someone on the other side of your trade that is pushing themselves and sharpening their edge. To be successful you must you must do the same thing. Now is the time to examine your mental edge. Do you know the single most critical factor in any currency trade? It is you, the trader! Sharpening you mental edge is the most difficult aspect of trading, but also the most rewarding.

Start with your Forex education and gain the self-awareness necessary to maximize your strengths and suppress your weaknesses. Any expert will tell you that trading is 80% mental. It’s time to sharpen your trading to the razor’s edge and you do this through Forex education. A constant and never ending process that will become the cornerstone of your Forex experience.

5. You must, without wavering, be Determined and Persist to your objective.

You will fail. I can state that emphatically. However, you will not be defeated unless you allow your failures to control your trading. It is the old adage; failure is not falling of your horse, failure is refusing to get back on. Your success depends on your ability to dismiss the criticism, rejection, self-doubt and pressures associated with Forex trading.

Defining what is a winning trade, losing trade and bad trade will go a long way into developing you as a successful trader. Without the determination and persistence in all aspects of your trading life, obstacle will definitely appear closer and larger than they actually are.

Take a moment and assess yourself and your trading. Do you have the key elements to succeed? Which areas are presents development opportunities? When conducting a self-evaluation it is critical to be totally upfront and honest with yourself. After all, you will only be dishonest with yourself. One of the most interesting observations you can make is that all key success factors are interwoven. One factor supports the other. This is why your Forex education is a continuous journey of forex strategy, money management and self-mastery. Set these factors as your Forex education goals and take your currency trading to new heights.
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contrAA®
Kategori: TEKNOLOJİ
Analytik Jena brings an innovation on the market — the contrAA® series — which exceeds the performance of conventional AA spectrometers in all parameters.
This new technology — High-Resolution Continuum Source AAS — represents previously unattained effectiveness
and quality of measurement results. Following decades of experience in the development of spectrometers and graphite furnaces and in cooperation with partners from leading research institutes, a vision becomes reality — the start of a new generation in AAS, with the contrAA® series, which finally closes the gap between ICP OES and AAS.

High-Resolution Continuum Source AAS (HR-CS AAS) covers the complete spectral range from the near vacuum-UV to the near infrared with a single continuum source, providing innovative capabilities. For the first time, genuine sequential multi-element analysis is implemented in AAS without the need for a multitude of different light sources.


At first glance:

Maximum versatility and flexibility
Guaranteed stability
Improved accuracy
Maximum information content
Speed for higher efficiency
New level of performance
Fast sequential multi-element determination for flame AAS
Simultaneous background correction
Full post processing of measurement (FPP)


Unique Flexibility
The xenon short-arc lamp as a continuum source is ideal for any element to be analyzed. No matter how frequently or seldom you have to determine an element, the HR-CS AAS instrument is immediately ready for measurement. You have every freedom for line selection, as the source covers the entire continuous wavelength range. All absorbing atom lines are immediately available, irrespective of the emission properties of the HCL (such as windows transmissive to UV or visible radiation). In addition, several new types of lines can be used for analysis.

Immediate Readiness for Measurement
The immediate readiness for measurement provided by HR-CS AAS is due to the fact that the lamp needs no fixed warm-up time to avoid output drift. Innovative correction algorithms continuously compensate any drift or fluctuation of the spectrometer including the source.

Improved Performance
HR-CS AAS features an improved signal-to-noise ratio and markedly better detection limits. This is due to the higher radiation density of the Xe continuum source compared to HCLs, and the enormously increased quantum efficiency of a CCD semiconductor detector compared to the photomultiplier tube commonly used in line-source AAS (LS AAS). HR-CS AAS is the first technique that c an efficiently correct spectral interferences in flame AAS by structured flames or molecule structures. This provides improved simultaneous background correction, and capabilities to correct spectral interferences to increase the accuracy of analytical results