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Microsoft Dynamics GP Tables Overview: Advises to Reports Designer

Each Corporate ERP application should be exposed to Crystal, SSRS, or another reporting tool designer via ODBC or native database driver connectors.  In generic case, where you are report programmer and you are trying to get the initial help, check if your Corporate ERP or Accounting application has Software Development Kit (SDK), where its technology layer should be documented for Software Developers, Coders and Reports Designers.  In our small publication we will concentrate on Microsoft Dynamics GP tables structure, fields, tables groups and how to get further information in reports design.  The most typical reports, as we heard from Dynamics GP, Great Plains Dynamics customers are Sales Commission, Sales by Product/Item Class/Region, Product Profitability (where you link Sales Order and Purchase Order Processing modules data for specific item class or item group), Item Barcode printout report (especially in Retail or Warehouse Management operations, where customers prefer to have Dynamics GP as initial barcoding source, versus having it in such applications as Microsoft Retail Management System), Project Profitability Report, etc.  As bonus topics, we will also touch some international business Corporate ERP issues, especially when your corporation is planning to expand to Russia or Brazil.   If your case is not listed here, feel free to contact us directly.  Let’s begin:

1. Dynamics GP SDK.  As current version of GP 10.0 as well as earlier versions: 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5 is or were distributed on CDs, you can install SDK from CD #2.  We expect version 11.0 to be distributed on DVD (it should be released in May or in first half of 2010).  Microsoft Dynamics GP SDK has complete tables diagram, which you could print out or review on your screen.  This method is very good for profound analysis (when you expect really complex report, combining several GP modules in one report).  Dynamics GP SDK sometimes is confused and referred as GP eConnect (this SDK is initially dedicated to ecommerce Dynamics GP developers, currently eConnect covers majority of Dynamics GP modules and functionality.  For version 10.0 eConnect SQL stored procedures are installed automatically, as they are required by 10.0 version technology)

2. Shortcut to get quicker to the info about GP table, field or form.  If you think that there is no need for you to invest your time in Dynamics GP SDK tables structure diagram, you can simply log in Great Plains and then click on Dynamics GP -> Tools -> Resource Description -> Tables (fields, or windows).  Feel free to do self discovery – as typical example we would like to give you Sales Order Processing Work Transaction Tables Group:  Select Tables, product name Microsoft Dynamics GP, Series Sales, sort by Table Group Technical Name, and then locate Sales Work.  You should be able to find SOP10100 (Sales Transaction Work – this is your SOP document header table) and SOP10200 (Sales Transaction Amounts Work – this is SOP Document line table).  These tables are very popular in eCommerce reporting and integration scenarios for Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains

3. Additional advises on Crystal Report, SSRS design.  In our Dynamics GP consulting practice we saw multiple cases, when Crystal Reports designer failed completely in report delivery.  Typical mistake was to try CR wizard in linking GP tables on the report level.  We strongly suggest you to consider separation of reports presentation and data pulling logics.  Crystal Reports, SSRS – these are very good reporting tools, but they do not have to be perfect in reports base SQL query programming.  If you like to enjoy flexibility and total control on the report results, consider separating report SQL pulling login in MS SQL Server, Union, View or Stored Procedure.  If you follow this advice, such issues as rows duplication (this bug is very difficult to catch, as CR doesn’t allow debugging service, and usually you are blamed for duplication when report is already in production)

4. Reports design for older versions of Great Plains Dynamics, eEnterprise or Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows or Mac.  Here you have to deploy ODBC connections to Pervasive SQL 2000 (or Btrieve, however large number of Great Plains Accounting installations were ported to Pervasive SQL 2000 SP3 or 4).  If you are on Pervasive SQL 2000, you should review DDF files generation (for GPA and Great Plains Dynamics on Pervasive SQL/Btrieve) or Ctree ODBC driver connection methods.  You can also consider building reports in Microsoft Access, where you have robust linked table option, or MS SQL Server 2000/2005 linked server construction (this method is highly recommended as it allows you to combine cross-platform data on the same report, for example from Oracle base Sales Order Processing external application and Great Plains Dynamics on Pervasive SQL 2000)

5. Crystal Reports for SAP Business One.  SB1 is recommended if you are relatively small multinational corporation with headquarters in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa with Microsoft Dynamics GP Corporate ERP application and you are expanding to such regions as Brazil, China, Russia, Germany, Japan, Korea, where Dynamics GP is not available in its localized version.  Please, review SAP B1 SDK in order to understand SBO tables structure and interrelations.  There is also the option to review table and field names if you log in SAP Business One, select File -> View System Information and then place your cursor over the form and field – technical info (table and field names) will be shown in the left down corner status bar.  SAP B1 was initially designed with International Business considerations and we know examples when major multinational corporation decided to switch completely from Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) to SAP Business One in its headquarters after implementing SAP Business One for Brazilian subsidiary.  SAP Business One crosses the borders of ASCII table and it support Unicode and hieroglyphs: Chinese, Japanese, Korean (which is very limited or almost not possible in Dynamics GP – you can try limited Crystal Reports for Great Plains with Chinese language support, if you consider NJ Star extensions)

6. Dynamics GP/SAP Business One puzzle if you are moving to Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh market as multinational company.  Technically Russian language is compliant to ASCII standard.  However Russian Federation has very complex accounting reporting and compliance legislation.  Microsoft Dynamics GP is not localized for Russian market (you can consider Axapta or Navision, if your foreign subsidiary Corporate ERP budget permits).  SAP Business One is available and certified in Russia (where it has tough competition with local Accounting packages, such as 1S Bukhgalteria).  We plan to publish special cycle of articles, dedicated to Russian Corporate ERP market, where we will be discussing SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and local packages pluses and minuses, FAQ in 2010

7. Dynamics GP / SAP B1 combination for Brazilian Subsidiary.  Here you might face the situation, similar to described above for Russia.  In Brazil you also have Microsoft Dynamics AX and NAV localized (with some restrictions) and SAP Business One is very advanced, but facing tough competition from local Corporate ERP packages, such as Microsiga

8. Please, give us a call 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com http://www.albaspectrum.com  We speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian.  Our consulting rates are very competitive and we should be able to cover your domestic and Worldwide Corporate ERP consulting and support needs.  We support all the versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP, Great Plains Dynamics, eEnterprise, Great Plains Accounting, SAP Business One

About the Author

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Early life

Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6, 1921, at Manhattan’s Sloane Hospital for Women in New York, the only child of car salesman Kenneth Seymour Robbins (18941972) and his actress wife, Edith Luckett (18881987). Her godmother was silent-film-star Alla Nazimova. She lived for her first two years in Flushing, Queens, in New York. While her parents divorced soon after her birth, they had already been separated for some time. As her mother traveled the country to pursue acting jobs, Nancy was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, for the next six years by her aunt Virginia and uncle Audley Gailbraith. Nancy describes longing for her mother during those years: “My favorite times were when Mother had a job in New York, and Aunt Virgie would take me by train to stay with her.”

In 1929, her mother married Loyal Davis (18961982), a prominent, politically conservative neurosurgeon who moved the family to Chicago. Nancy and her stepfather got along very well; she would later write that he was “a man of great integrity who exemplified old-fashioned values”. He formally adopted her in 1935, and she would always refer to him as her father. At the time of the adoption, her name was legally changed to Nancy Davis (since birth, she had commonly been called Nancy). She attended the Girls’ Latin School of Chicago (describing herself as an average student), graduated in 1939, and later attended Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in English and drama and graduated in 1943.

Acting career

Nancy Davis poses for a publicity photo, 1950

Following her graduation, Davis held jobs in Chicago as a sales clerk in Marshall Field’s department store and as a nurse’s aide. With the help of her mother’s colleagues in theatre, including Zasu Pitts, Walter Huston, and Spencer Tracy, she pursued a career as a professional actress. She first gained a part in Pitts’ 1945 road tour of Ramshackle Inn, moving to New York City. She landed the role of Si-Tchun, a lady-in-waiting, in the 1946 Broadway musical about the Orient, Lute Song, starring Mary Martin and a pre-stardom Yul Brynner. The show’s producer told her, “You look like you could be Chinese.”

After passing a screen test, she moved to California and signed a seven-year contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) in 1949; she later remarked, “Joining Metro was like walking into a dream world.” Davis appeared in 11 feature films, usually typecast as a “loyal housewife”, “responsible young mother”, or “the steady woman”. She kept her professional name as Nancy Davis even after marrying. Her film career began with minor roles in 1949’s The Doctor and the Girl with Glenn Ford, and followed with East Side, West Side starring Barbara Stanwyck. She played a child psychiatrist in the film noir Shadow on the Wall (1950) with Ann Sothern and Zachary Scott; her performance was called “beautiful and convincing” by New York Times critic A. H. Weiler. She co-starred in 1950’s The Next Voice You Hear…, playing a pregnant housewife who hears the voice of God from her radio. Influential reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that “Nancy Davis [is] delightful as [a] gentle, plain, and understanding wife.” A later critic admired the film’s effort to convincingly portray Davis as pregnantany other films from the time neglected to do so. In 1951, Davis appeared in her favorite screen role, Night Into Morning, a study of bereavement starring Ray Milland. Crowther said that Davis “does nicely as the fiance who is widowed herself and knows the loneliness of grief,” while another noted critic, The Washington Post’s Richard L. Coe, said Davis “is splendid as the understanding widow.” Davis left MGM in 1952, seeking a broader range of parts. She soon starred in the 1953 science fiction film Donovan’s Brain; Crowther said that Davis, playing the role of a possessed scientist’s “sadly baffled wife”, “walked through it all in stark confusion” in an “utterly silly” film. In her last movie, Hellcats of the Navy (1957), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair and shared the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called “a housewife who came along for the ride”. Another reviewer, however, stated that Davis plays her part well, and “does well with what she has to work with”.

Noted author Garry Wills believes that Davis was underrated as an actress overall, because her constrained part in Hellcats was her most widely seen performance. In addition, Davis downplayed her Hollywood goals: MGM promotional material in 1949 said that her “greatest ambition” was to have a “successful happy marriage”; decades later, in 1975, she would say, “I was never really a career woman but [became one] only because I hadn’t found the man I wanted to marry. I couldn’t sit around and do nothing, so I became an actress.” Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon nevertheless characterized her as a “reliable” and “solid” performer who held her own in performances with better-known actors. After her final film, she appeared for a brief time in television dramas Wagon Train and The Tall Man until 1962, when she retired as an actress. During her career, she served on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild for nearly 10 years. Decades later, Albert Brooks attempted to coax Reagan out of acting retirement by offering her the title role opposite himself in his 1996 film Mother. Reagan declined in order to care for her husband, and Debbie Reynolds played the part.

Marriage and family

Newlyweds Ronald and Nancy Reagan, March 4, 1952

During her career as an actress, Nancy Davis dated actors in Hollywood; she later called Clark Gable, whom she dated briefly, the nicest of the stars she had met. On November 15, 1949, she met Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild. Nancy had noticed that her name had appeared on the Hollywood blacklist and sought Reagan’s help to maintain her employment as a guild actress in Hollywood, and for assistance in having her name removed from the list. Reagan informed her that she had been confused with another actress of the same name. The two began dating and their relationship was the subject of many gossip columns; one Hollywood press account described their nightclub-free times together as “the romance of a couple who have no vices”. Ronald Reagan was skeptical about marriage, however, following his painful 1948 divorce from Jane Wyman, and he still saw other women. After three years of dating, he eventually proposed to Davis in the couple’s favorite booth at the Beverly Hills restaurant Chasen’s. They married on March 4, 1952 in a simple ceremony designed to avoid the press at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The only people in attendance were actor William Holden, the best man, and his wife, the matron of honor. The couple’s first child, Patricia Ann Reagan (better known by her professional name, Patti Davis), was born on October 21, 1952. Their son, Ronald Prescott Reagan, was born six years later on May 20. Nancy Reagan also became stepmother to Maureen Reagan (19412001) and Michael Reagan (born 1945), the children of her husband’s first marriage to Jane Wyman.

Nancy and Ronald Reagan on a boat in 1964

The Reagan family in 1967, shortly after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as Governor of California

Observers described Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s relationship as intimate. As president and first lady, the Reagans were reported to display their affection frequently, with one press secretary noting, “They never took each other for granted. They never stopped courting.” Ronald often called Nancy “Mommy”; she called him “Ronnie”. While the President was recuperating in the hospital after the 1981 assassination attempt, Nancy Reagan wrote in her diary, “Nothing can happen to my Ronnie. My life would be over.” In a letter to Nancy, Ronald wrote, “whatever I treasure and enjoy  all would be without meaning if I didn have you.” In 1998, while her husband was afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, Nancy told Vanity Fair, “Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it’s true. It did. I can’t imagine life without him.” Nancy was known for the focused and attentive look, termed “the Gaze”, that she fastened upon her husband during his speeches and appearances. President Reagan’s death in June 2004 ended what Charlton Heston called “the greatest love affair in the history of the American Presidency.”

Nancy’s relationship with her children was not always as close as that with her husband; she frequently quarreled with her biological children and her stepchildren. Her relationship with Patti was the most contentious; Patti flouted American conservatism and rebelled against her parents by joining the nuclear freeze movement and authoring many anti-Reagan books. The nearly 20 years of family feuding left her very much estranged from both her mother and father. Soon after her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Patti and her mother reconciled and began to speak on a daily basis. Nancy’s disagreements with Michael were also public matters; in 1984, she was quoted as saying that the two were in an “estrangement right now”. Michael responded that Nancy was trying to cover up for the fact she had not met his daughter, Ashley, who had been born nearly a year earlier. They too eventually made peace. Nancy was thought to be closest to her stepdaughter Maureen during the White House years, but each of the Reagan children experienced periods of estrangement from their parents.

First Lady of California, 19671975

Nancy as the First Lady of California

Reagan was First Lady of California during her husband’s two terms as governor. She disliked living in Sacramento, which lacked the excitement, social life, and mild climate to which she was accustomed in Los Angeles. She first attracted controversy early in 1967, when, after four months’ residence in the California Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento, she moved her family into a wealthy suburb because fire officials had labeled the mansion as a “firetrap”. Though the Reagans leased the new house at their expense, the move was viewed by many as snobbish. Nancy defended her actions as being for the good of her family, a judgment with which her husband readily agreed. Friends of the family later helped support the cost of the leased house, while Nancy Reagan supervised construction of a new ranch-style governor’s residence in nearby Carmichael. The new residence was finished just as Ronald Reagan left office in 1975, but his successor, Jerry Brown, refused to live there. It was sold in 1982, and California governors have been living in improvised arrangements ever since.

In 1967 Nancy Reagan was appointed by her husband to the California Arts Commission, and a year later was named Los Angeles Times’ Woman of the Year; in its profile, the Times labeled her “A Model First Lady”. Her glamour, style, and youthfulness made her a frequent subject for press photographers. As first lady, Reagan visited veterans, the elderly, and the handicapped, and worked with a number of charities. She became quite involved with the Foster Grandparents Program, helping to popularize it in the United States, then in Australia. She later expanded her work with the organization after arriving in Washington, and wrote about her experiences in her 1982 book To Love a Child. The Reagans held dinners for former POWs and Vietnam War veterans while governor and first lady.

Role in 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns

Main articles: United States presidential election, 1976 and United States presidential election, 1980

Governor Reagan’s term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford. Reagan still needed to convince a reluctant Nancy before running, however. She feared for her husband’s health and his career as a whole, though she felt that he was the right man for the job and eventually approved. Nancy took on a more traditional role in the campaign, holding coffees, luncheons, and talks with senior citizens. With that, she oversaw personnel, monitored her husband’s schedule, and occasionally provided press conferences. The 1976 campaign included the so-called “battle of the queens”, contrasting Nancy with First Lady Betty Ford. They both spoke out over the course of the campaign on similar issues, but with different approaches. Nancy was particularly upset by the warmonger image that the Ford campaign had drawn of her husband.

Though he lost the 1976 Republican nomination, Reagan ran again for the presidency in 1980 and succeeded in winning the nomination and election. During this second campaign, Nancy played a very prominent role and her management of staff became more apparent. She arranged a meeting among feuding campaign managers John Sears and Michael Deaver and her husband, which resulted in Deaver leaving the campaign and Sears being given full control. After the Reagan camp lost the Iowa caucus and fell behind in New Hampshire polls, Nancy organized a second meeting and decided it was time to fire Sears and his associates; she gave Sears a copy of the press release announcing his dismissal. Her influence on her husband became particularly notable; her presence at rallies, luncheons, and receptions increased his confidence.

First Lady of the United States, 19811989

First Lady Nancy Reagan and President Reagan during the inaugural parade, 1981

White House glamour

Renovation

Nancy Reagan became the First Lady of the United States when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as president in January 1981. Early in her husband’s presidency, Reagan stated her desire to create a more suitable “first home” in the White House, as the building had fallen into a state of disrepair following years of neglect. White House aide Michael Deaver described the second and third floor family residence as having “cracked plaster walls, chipped paint [and] beaten up floors;” rather than use government funds to renovate and redecorate, she sought private donations. Nancy directed a major renovation of several White House rooms, including all of the second and third floors and rooms adjacent to the Oval Office, including the press briefing room. The renovation included repainting walls, refinishing floors, repairing fireplaces, and replacing antique pipes, windows, and wires. The closet in the master bedroom was converted into a beauty parlor and dressing room, and the West bedroom was made into a small gymnasium.

The first lady secured the assistance of renowned interior designer Ted Graber, popular with affluent West Coast social figures, to redecorate the family living quarters. A Chinese-pattern, handpainted wallpaper was added to the master bedroom. Family furniture was placed in the president’s private study. The first lady and her designer retrieved a number of White House antiques, which had been in storage, and placed them throughout the mansion.

The extensive redecoration was paid for by private donations. Many significant and long-lasting changes occurred as a result of the renovation and refurbishment, of which Nancy Reagan said, “This house belongs to all Americans, and I want it to be something of which they can be proud.”

Fashion

The new first lady in her inaugural attire, 1981

Another of Nancy Reagan’s trademarks was her interest in fashion. While her husband was still president-elect, press reports speculated about Nancy’s social life and interest in fashion. In many press accounts, Nancy’s sense of style was favorably compared to that of previous First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Friends and those close to her remarked that, while fashionable like Kennedy, she would be different than other first ladies; close friend Harriet Deutsch was quoted as saying, “Nancy has her own imprint.”

Nancy Reagan’s wardrobe consisted of dresses, gowns, and suits made by luxury designers, including James Galanos, Bill Blass, Adolfo, and Oscar de la Renta. Her white, hand-beaded, one shoulder Galanos 1981 inaugural gown was estimated to cost $10,000 while the overall price of her inaugural wardrobe was said to cost $25,000. She favored the color red, calling it “a picker-upper”, and wore it accordingly. Her wardrobe included red so often, that the fire-engine shade became known as “Reagan red”. She employed two private hairdressers that would style her hair on a regular basis in the White House.

Reagan models for Vogue magazine in the Red Room, 1981

Fashion designers were pleased with the emphasis Nancy Reagan placed on clothing. Adolfo said the first lady embodied an “elegant, affluent, well-bred, chic American look,” while Bill Blass commented, “I don’t think there’s been anyone in the White House since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who has her flair.” William Fine, president of cosmetic company Frances Denney, noted that she “stays in style, but she doesn’t become trendy.”

Though her elegant fashions and wardrobe were hailed as a “glamourous paragon of chic”, they were also controversial subjects. In 1982, she revealed that she had accepted thousands of dollars in clothing, jewelry, and other gifts, but defended her actions by stating that she had borrowed the clothes and that they would either be returned or donated to museums, and that she was promoting the American fashion industry. Facing criticism, she soon said she would no longer accept such loans. While often buying her clothes, she continued to borrow and sometimes keep designer clothes throughout her time as first lady, which came to light in 1988. None of this had been included on financial disclosure forms; the non-reporting of loans under $10,000 in liability was in violation of a voluntary agreement the White House had made in 1982, while not reporting more valuable loans or clothes not returned was a possible violation of the Ethics in Government Act. Nancy expressed through her press secretary “regrets that she failed to heed counsel’s advice” on disclosing them.

Despite the controversy, many designers who allowed her to borrow clothing noted that the arrangement was good for their businesses as well as for the American fashion industry overall. In 1989, Nancy was honored at the annual gala awards dinner of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, during which she received the council’s lifetime achievement award. Barbara Walters said of her, “She has served every day for eight long years the word ’style.’”

Elegance and formality

Approximately a year into her husband’s first term, Nancy Reagan explored the idea of ordering new state china service for the White House. A full china service had not been purchased since the Truman administration in the 1940s, as only a partial service was ordered in the Johnson administration. She was quoted as saying, “The White House really badly, badly needs china.” Working with Lenox, the primary porcelain manufacturer in America, the first lady chose a design scheme of a red with etched gold band, bordering the scarlet and cream colored ivory plates with a raised presidential seal etched in gold in the center. The full service comprised 4,370 pieces, with 19 pieces per individual set. The service totaled $209,508. Although it was paid for by private donations, some from the private Knapp Foundation, the purchase generated quite a controversy, for it was ordered at a time when the nation was undergoing an economic recession.

The new china, White House renovations, expensive clothing, and her attendance at the wedding of Charles and Diana, Prince and Princess of Wales, gave her an aura of being “out of touch” with the American people during an economic recession. This and her taste for splendor inspired the derogatory nickname “Queen Nancy”. While Jacqueline Kennedy had also faced some press criticism for her spending habits, Reagan’s treatment was much more consistent and negative. In an attempt to deflect the criticism, she self-deprecatingly donned a baglady costume at the 1982 Gridiron Dinner and sang “Second-Hand Clothes”, mimicking the song “Second-Hand Rose”. The skit helped to restore her reputation.

Reagan and her husband with her predecessor as First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, widow of President Kennedy, in 1985. Nancy and Jackie were often compared due to their glamour, in contrast to the intervening First Ladies.

Nancy Reagan reflected on the criticisms in her 1989 autobiography, My Turn. Reagan describes lunching with former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss, wherein Strauss said to her, “When you first came to town, Nancy, I didn’t like you at all. But after I got to know you, I changed my mind and said, ‘She’s some broad!’” Nancy responded, “Bob, based on the press reports I read then, I wouldn’t have liked me either!”

After the presidencies of Gerald Ford (who favored the Michigan fight song over “Hail to the Chief”) and Jimmy Carter (who dramatically reduced the formality of presidential functions), Nancy brought a Kennedy-esque glamour back into the White House. She hosted 56 state dinners over eight years, compared to six by George and Laura Bush. She remarked that hosting the dinners is “the easiest thing in the world. You don’t have to do anything. Just have a good time and do a little business. And that’s the way Washington works.” In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit Washington, D.C. since Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, and Nancy Reagan was in charge of planning and hosting the important and highly anticipated state dinner. After the meal, Nancy recruited pianist Van Cliburn to sing a rendition of “Moscow Nights” for the Soviet delegation, to which Mikhail and Raisa broke out into song. Former Secretary of State George Shultz commented on the evening, saying “We felt the ice of the Cold War crumbling.” Nancy concluded, “It was a perfect ending for one of the great evenings of my husband’s presidency.”

Just Say No

Main article: Just Say No

Nancy Reagan launched the “Just Say No” drug awareness campaign in 1982, which was her primary project and major initiative as first lady. Nancy first became aware of the need to educate young people about drugs during a 1980 campaign stop in Daytop Village, New York. She remarked in 1981 that “Understanding what drugs can do to your children, understanding peer pressure and understanding why they turn to drugs is… the first step in solving the problem.” Her campaign focused on drug education and informing the youth of the danger of drug abuse.

Reagan gives a speech at a Just Say No rally in Los Angeles, 1987

In 1982, Nancy Reagan was asked by a schoolgirl what to do when offered drugs; Nancy responded “Just say no.” The phrase proliferated in the popular culture of the 1980s and was eventually adopted as the name of club organizations and school anti-drug programs. Reagan became actively involved by traveling more than 250,000 miles (400,000 km) throughout the United States and several nations, visiting drug abuse prevention programs and drug rehabilitation centers. She also appeared on television talk shows, recorded public service announcements, and wrote guest articles. She appeared in an episode of the hit television drama Dynasty to underscore support for the anti-drug campaign. As she continued to promote “Just Say No”, she appeared in an episode of the popular 1980s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes and in a 1985 rock music video, “Stop the Madness”. When asked about her campaign, the first lady remarked, “If you can save just one child, it’s worth it.”

In 1985, Nancy expanded the campaign to an international level by inviting the First Ladies of various nations to the White House for a conference on drug abuse. On October 27, 1986, President Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill into law, which granted $1.7 billion in funding to fight the crisis and ensured a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses. Although the bill was criticized by some, Nancy Reagan considered it a personal victory. In 1988, she became the first First Lady invited to address the United Nations General Assembly, where she spoke on international drug interdiction and trafficking laws.

Reagan hosts the First Ladies Conference on Drug Abuse at the White House, 1985.

Critics of Reagan’s efforts questioned their purpose and argued that the program did not go far enough in addressing many social issues, including unemployment, poverty, and family dissolution; Nancy’s approach to promoting drug awareness was labeled as simplistic by liberal critics. Nonetheless, a number of “Just Say No” clubs and organizations remain in operation around the country, and they aim to educate children and teenagers about the effects of drugs.

Her husband’s protector

Nancy Reagan assumed the role of unofficial “protector” for her husband after the attempted assassination on his life in 1981. On March 30 of that year, President Reagan and three others were shot as they left the Washington Hilton Hotel. Nancy was alerted and arrived at George Washington University Hospital, where the President was hospitalized. She recalled having seen “emergency rooms before, but I had never seen one like thisith my husband in it.” She was escorted into a waiting room, and when granted access to see her husband, he quipped to her, “Honey, I forgot to duck”, borrowing the defeated boxer Jack Dempsey’s jest to his wife.

An early example of her protective nature occurred when Senator Strom Thurmond entered the President’s hospital room that day in March, passing the Secret Service detail by claiming he was the President’s “close friend”, presumably to acquire media attention. Nancy was outraged and demanded he leave. While the president recuperated in the hospital, the first lady slept with one of his shirts to be comforted by the scent. When Reagan was released from the hospital on April 12, she escorted him back to the White House.

Press accounts framed Nancy as her husband’s “chief protector”, an extension of their general initial framing of her as a helpmate and a Cold War domestic ideal.

Influence in the White House

“The Gaze”: Nancy watches as her husband is sworn in for a second term by Chief Justice Warren Burger, on January 20, 1985.

Nancy stated in her memoirs, “I felt panicky every time [Ronald] left the White House” following the assassination attempt, and made it her concern to know her husband’s schedule: the events he would be attending, and with whom. Eventually, this protectiveness led to her consulting an astrologer, Joan Quigley, who offered insight on which days were “good”, “neutral”, or should be avoided, which influenced her husband’s White House schedule. Days were color-coded according to the astrologer’s advice to discern precisely which days and times would be optimal for the president’s safety and success. The White House Chief of Staff, Donald Regan, grew frustrated with this regimen, which created friction between him and the First Lady. This escalated with the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair, an administration scandal, in which the First Lady felt Regan was damaging the president. She thought he should resign, and expressed this to her husband although he did not share her view. Regan wanted President Reagan to address the Iran-Contra matter in early 1987 by means of a press conference, though Nancy refused to allow Reagan to overexert himself due to a recent prostate surgery and astrological warnings. Regan became so angry with Nancy that he hung up on her during a 1987 telephone conversation. According to former ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, when the President heard of this treatment, he demandednd eventually receivedegan’s resignation. In his 1988 memoirs, Regan wrote about Nancy’s consultations with the astrologer, the first public mention of them, which resulted in embarrassment for the First Lady. Nancy later wrote, “Astrology was simply one of the ways I coped with the fear I felt after my husband almost died… Was astrology one of the reasons [further attempts did not occur]? I don’t really believe it was, but I don’t really believe it wasn’t.”

The Reagans talk in the Oval Office, 1985

Nancy Reagan wielded a powerful influence over President Reagan. Again stemming from the assassination attempt, she strictly controlled access to the president and even occasionally attempted to influence her husband’s decision making.

Beginning in 1985, Nancy strongly encouraged her husband to hold “summit” conferences with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev, and suggested they form a personal relationship beforehand. Both Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had developed a productive relationship through their summit negotiations. The relationship between Nancy Reagan and Raisa Gorbachev was anything but the friendly, diplomatic one between their husbands; Nancy found Raisa hard to converse with and their relationship was described as “frosty”. The two women usually had tea, and discussed differences between the USSR and the United States. Visiting the U.S. for the first time in 1987, Raisa irked Reagan with lectures on subjects ranging from architecture to socialism, reportedly prompting the American President’s wife to quip, “Who does that dame think she is?”

Press framing of Nancy changed from that of just helpmate and protector to someone with hidden power. As the image of her as a political interloper grew, she sought to explicitly deny that she was the power behind the throne. At the end of her time as First Lady, however, she said that her husband had not been well-served by his staff. She acknowledged her role in reaction in influencing him on personnel decisions, saying “In no way do I apologize for it.” She wrote in her memoirs, “I don’t think I was as bad, or as extreme in my power or my weakness, as I was depicted,” but went on, “[H]owever the first lady fits in, she has a unique and important role to play in looking after her husband. And it’s only natural that she’ll let him know what she thinks. I always did that for Ronnie, and I always will.”

Breast cancer

In October 1987, a mammogram detected a lesion in Nancy Reagan’s left breast and she was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. She chose to undergo a mastectomy rather than a lumpectomy and the breast was removed on October 17, 1987. Not long after the operation, her mother, Edith Luckett Davis, died in Phoenix, Arizona, leading Nancy to dub the period “a terrible month”.

After the surgery, more women across the country had mammograms, an example of the influence the first lady possesses.

Later life

Though Nancy was a controversial First Lady, 56 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of her when her husband left office on January 20, 1989, with 18 percent having an unfavorable opinion and the balance not giving an opinion. Compared to fellow First Ladies when their husbands left office, Reagan’s approval was higher than those of Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Rodham Clinton, however she was less popular than Barbara Bush and her disapproval rating was double that of Carter’s.

Nancy Reagan’s official White House portrait hangs in the Vermeil Room.

Upon leaving the White House, the couple returned to California, where they purchased a home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, dividing their time between Bel Air and the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California; Ronald and Nancy regularly attended Bel Air Presbyterian Church as well. After leaving Washington, Nancy made numerous public appearances, many on behalf of her husband. She continues to reside at the Bel Air home, where she lived with her husband until his death on June 5, 2004.

Early post-White House activities

In late 1989, the former First Lady established the Nancy Reagan Foundation, which aimed to continue to educate people about the dangers of substance abuse. The Foundation teamed with the BEST Foundation For A Drug-Free Tomorrow in 1994, and developed the Nancy Reagan Afterschool Program. She continued to travel around the nation, speaking out against drug and alcohol abuse. After President Reagan revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1994, she made herself his primary caregiver and became actively involved with the National Alzheimer’s Association and its affiliate, the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

Ronnie’s long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him.

ancy Reagan, May 2004

Also in 1989 she published My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, which gives an account of her life in the White House, speaking openly about her influence within the Reagan administration and discussing the myths and controversies that surrounded the couple. In 1991, the controversial author Kitty Kelley wrote an unauthorized and largely uncited biography about Nancy Reagan, repeating accounts of a poor relationship with her children and introducing rumors of alleged sexual relations with singer Frank Sinatra. A wide range of sources commented that Kelley’s largely unsupported claims are most likely false.

In 1989 the Internal Revenue Service began investigating the Reagans for whether they owed additional tax on the gifts and loans of high-fashion clothes and jewelry to Nancy during their time in the White House (recipients benefiting from the display of such items recognize taxable income even if they are returned). In 1992 the IRS determined the Reagans had failed to include some $3 million worth of fashion items between 1983 and 1988 on their tax returns; they were billed for a large amount of back taxes and interest, which was subsequently paid.

Nancy Reagan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush on July 9, 2002. President Reagan received his own Presidential Medal of Freedom in January 1993. Nancy and her husband were jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on May 16, 2002 at the Capitol, and were only the third President and First Lady to receive it; she accepted the medal on behalf of both of them.

Ronald Reagan’s funeral

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan says her last goodbye to President Ronald Reagan on June 11, 2004, prior to the interment and concluding a week-long state funeral for the president.

Further information: Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan died in their Bel Air home on June 5, 2004. During the seven-day state funeral, Nancy, accompanied by her children and military escort, led the nation in mourning by keeping a strong composure, traveling from her home to the Reagan Library for a memorial service, then to Washington, D.C., where her husband’s body lay in state for 34 hours prior to a national funeral service in the Washington National Cathedral. She returned to the library in California for a sunset memorial service and interment, where, overcome with emotion, she lost her composure, crying in public for the first time during the week. After accepting the folded flag, she kissed the casket and mouthed “I love you” before leaving. Journalist Wolf Blitzer said of Reagan during the week, “She’s a very, very strong woman, even though she looks frail.”

She had directed the detailed planning of the funeral, including ordering all the major events and asking former President George H. W. Bush as well as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to speak during the National Cathedral Service. She paid very close attention to the details, something she had always done in her husband’s life. Betsy Bloomingdale, one of Reagan’s closest friends, stated, “She looks a little frail. But she is very strong inside. She is. She has the strength. She is doing her last thing for Ronnie. And she is going to get it right.” The funeral marked Reagan’s first major public appearance since delivering a speech to the 1996 Republican National Convention on her husband’s behalf.

The funeral had a great impact on Reagan’s public image. Following substantial criticism during her tenure as first lady, she was seen somewhat as a national heroine, praised by many for supporting and caring for her husband while he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. U.S. News & World Report opined, “after a decade in the shadows, a different, softer Nancy Reagan emerged.”

Life after Ronald

Reagan has remained active in politics, particularly relating to stem cell research. Beginning in 2004, she favored what many consider to be the Democratic Party’s position, and urged President George W. Bush to support federally funded embryonic stem cell research in the hope that this science could lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Although she failed to change the president’s position, she did support his campaign for a second term.

In 2005, Reagan was honored at a gala dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. where guests included Dick Cheney, Harry Reid and Condoleezza Rice. It was her first major public appearance since the funeral. Asked what her future plans were, Reagan shook her head and responded, “I don’t know. I’ll know when I’ll know. But the [Reagan] library is Ronnie, so that’s where I spend my time.”

Nancy Reagan dedicates the Air Force One Pavilion at the Reagan Library with President and Laura Bush, October 2005

In 2007, she attended the national funeral service for Gerald Ford in the Washington National Cathedral. Nancy Reagan hosted two 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Debates at the Reagan Presidential Library, the first in May 2007 and the second in January 2008. While she did not participate in the discussions, she sat in the front row and listened as the men vying to become the nation’s 44th president claimed to be a rightful successor to her husband. Though some speculation arose as to whether Reagan might support New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a presidential bid, nothing came of it. She formally endorsed Senator John McCain, then the presumptive Republican party nominee, for president on March 25.

Nancy Reagan, center, receives an honorary degree from Eureka College, March 31, 2009

Nancy Reagan and one of her successors, Michelle Obama, at a luncheon, June 3, 2009

She attended the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas on July 14, 2007 and three days later accepted the highest Polish distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, on behalf of Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library. The Reagan Library opened the temporary exhibit “Nancy Reagan: A First Lady’s Style”, which displayed over eighty designer dresses belonging to the first lady.

Nancy Reagan’s health and well being became a prominent concern in 2008. In February she suffered a fall at her Bel Air home and was taken to St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Doctors reported that she did not break a hip as feared and she was released from the hospital two days later. News commentators noted that Reagan’s step had slowed significantly, as the following month she walked in very slow strides with John McCain. NBC’s Brian Williams, who attended a dinner with Reagan in mid-2008, recalled, “Mrs. Reagan’s vision isn’t what it always was so she was taking very halting steps as a lot of folks her age do… [I]t is so important for folks in her age bracket and in her bracket of life to remain upright and captain of their own ship. She very much is captain of her own ship.” As for her mental ability, Williams remarked, “She’s as sharp as ever and enjoys a robust life with her friends in California, but [falling] is always a danger of course. She’s a very stoic, hardy person full of joy and excitement for life… She is not without opinions on politics and political types these days… She is, as most of her friends described her, a pistol.”

In October 2008, Reagan was admitted to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after having fallen at home; doctors determined that the 87-year-old had fractured her pelvis and sacrum and could recuperate at home with a regimen of physical therapy. As a result of her mishap, medical articles were published containing information on how to prevent falls. In January 2009, Reagan was said to be “improving every day and starting to get out more and more.”

In March 2009 she praised President Barack Obama for reversing the ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research. She traveled to Washington, D.C. in June 2009 to unveil a statue of her late husband in the Capitol Rotunda. She was also on hand as President Obama signed the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act and lunched privately with Michelle Obama. Nancy revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair that Michelle Obama had telephoned her for advice on living and entertaining in the White House. Following the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, she said she was “terribly saddened … Given our political differences, people are sometimes surprised how close Ronnie and I have been to the Kennedy family. … I will miss him.”

Filmography

The Doctor and the Girl (1949)

East Side, West Side (1949)

Shadow on the Wall (1950)

The Next Voice You Hear… (1950)

Night Into Morning (1951)

It’s a Big Country (1951)

Talk About a Stranger (1952)

Shadow in the Sky (1952)

Donovan’s Brain (1953)

Rescue at Sea (also known as Crash Landing1955)

The Dark Wave (1956)

Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

Footnotes

^ a b Edith Luckett at Internet Movie Database

^ a b Edith Luckett at Internet Broadway Database

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^ When Nancy Davis signed with MGM, she gave her birthdate as July 6, 1923, shaving two years off her age, a common practice in Hollywood (see Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 75). This caused subsequent confusion as some sources would continue to use the incorrect birth year.

^ Powling, Anne; John O’Connor, Geoff Barton (1997). New Oxford English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198311923.  p. 79

^ Some sources and websites erroneously list her as either being born in Flushing or being raised in Manhattan.

^ Reagan, Nancy (1989), p. 66

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New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated major city in North America. The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the world’s major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. The city is also home to the United Nations, along with all of the international missions associated with it.

History

Long before the arrival of European settlers, the New York City area was inhabited by the Lenape people, including such tribes as the Manahattoes, Canarsies and Raritan. Major events in New York history include¢ In 1524 the first European explorer enters New York Harbor¢ European settlement begins with the following the 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson¢ Founding of the Dutch fur trading settlement in Lower Manhattan in 1613 later called New Amsterdam¢ English ships captured the city without struggle in 1664¢ The Dutch formally ceded New York to the English in the Treaty of Breda at the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667¢ The city was renamed New York, after James, Duke of York, and became a royal colony in 1685¢ After the Civil War, the rate of immigration from Europe grew steeply, and New York became the first stop for millions seeking a new and better life in the United States, a role acknowledged by the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886¢ In two separate actions in 1874 and 1895, New York City (and New York County) annexed sections of southern Westchester County known as the Bronx¢ In 1898, New York City took the political form in which it exists to this day.¢ 9/11 changed the political map of the worldPlace of interest

Tourism is a major local industry, with hundreds of attractions and 39 million tourists visiting the city each year on average. Many visitors make it a point to visit Ground Zero, the Empire State Building, Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street, United Nations Headquarters, the American Museum of Natural History, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, and the Brooklyn Bridge, among other attractions. There are over 28,000 acres (113 km²) of parkland found throughout New York City, comprising over 1,700 separate parks and playgrounds. The best known of these is Central Park, which is one of the finest examples of landscape architecture in the world, as well as a major source of recreation for New Yorkers and tourists alike. Other major parks in the city include Riverside Park, Battery Park, Bryant Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, Washington Square Park, and Forest Park.

Museums & Art Galleries

New York is a city of great museums with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s assemblage of historic art, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum’s 20th century collection, and the American Museum of Natural History and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on the sciences. There are also many smaller specialty museums, from El Museo del Barrio with a focus on Latin American cultures to the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design. A number of the city’s museums are located along the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue.

In addition to these museums, the city is also home to a vast array of spaces for opera, symphony, and dance performances. The largest of these is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is actually a complex of buildings housing 12 separate companies, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Other notable performance halls include Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. New York City boasts a highly active and influential theater district, which is centered around Times Square in Manhattan. It serves both as the center of the American theater industry, and as a major attraction for visitors from around the world. Broadway theaters are considered to be of the highest quality in the world.

Shopping

Shopping is popular with many visitors, with Fifth Avenue being a famous shopping corridor for luxury items. Macy’s, the nation’s largest department store, and the surrounding area of Herald Square are a major destination for more moderately-priced goods. In recent years 23rd Street has become a major location for “big-box” retailers. In southern Manhattan, Greenwich Village is home to hundreds of independent music and book stores, while the East Village continues to prevail as purveyors of all things “strange” and unusual which you can’t find anywhere else. The “diamond district” (located on 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) is the city’s main location for jewelry shopping, and SoHo, formerly the center of the New York art scene, is now famous for high-priced clothing boutiques, and the art galleries are now concentrated in Chelsea. There are also large shopping districts found in Downtown Brooklyn and along Queens Boulevard in Queens.

Food & Drink

New York is the best restaurant town in USA and one of the finest in the world. New York has literally thousands of restaurants to choose from (more than 25,000, in fact), encompassing nearly every cuisine in the world. Some of the big names are Eleven Madison Park, The River Café, Boat Basin Café, Veritas. Like restaurants, thousands of bars and cafes are there in the city. A few old noteworthy among those are: McSorleys Old Ale House, Revival, Push Café and White Horse Tavern.

Universities

New York City is served by the publicly run City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university in the United States, which has a number of campuses throughout the five boroughs. The city is also home to a number of other institutions of higher learning, some of national or even international reputation, including Columbia University, Fordham University, Manhattan College, New York University, the Juilliard School, The Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan College and The New School. New York City is also a major center of academic medicine. Manhattan contains the campuses of the world-class Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well as Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and NYU Medical Center and their medical schools. New York City is home to several of the nation’s top schools of art and design, including Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Parsons School of Design

Sports

Although in much of the rest of the country American football has become the most popular professional sport, in New York City baseball arguably still stirs the most passion and interest. A “Subway Series” between city teams is a time of great excitement, and any World Series championship by either the New York Yankees or the New York Mets is considered to be worthy of the highest celebration, including a ticker-tape parade for the victorious team.

Hotels & Accommodation

The City of New York is known as the “city that never sleeps”, but its visitors have to. The city hosts a large number of accommodations options.

Luxury Hotels

New York has many “grand dames,” classic elegant hotels that have been around for years and endured majestically. The St. Regis, the Waldorf, Tribeca Grand Hotel, Ritz-Carlton New York, Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers – are some to mention about.

Budget Hotels

Besides all those luxury hotels, a large number of budget hotels are available in New York City. They are comfortable, homely and light weight for the pocket. Some of them to mention are – The Whitehouse Hotel of New York, The Pioneer, Chelsea Center, Guesthouse and Harlem YMCA. Except these hotels and guesthouses, Skyline Hotel and Travel Inn are rare exception among affordable hotels for their services and facilities.

Tours and Sightseeing

To know and see the New York City with no tension way, a number of tour operators are there for travelers help. These tours contain city and outskirt of the city sightseeing. Tours may vary from its contents or theme. It may be a helicopter tour of Big Apple or may be a double-decker bus tour. Some fair tour agencies are there in the city. Tours can be booked from tour agencies or some hotels arrange them for its patrons. Another easy way to book any of these tours is online tour ticket booking. Some helpful websites for this purpose are:
http://www.newyork.com
http://www.allnewyorktours.com
http://www.thereservationcenter.com

Transport

The airport authority owns and operates the four major airports in the New York City area, John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in Jamaica, Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, La Guardia Airport in Flushing, and Teeterboard Airport in Teeterboard, New Jersey.Taxicabs are operated by private companies and licensed by the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission. Other than cabs, New York City has a mass transit system. Unlike most of America’s car-oriented urban areas, public transportation is the common mode of travel for the majority of New York City residents. The city is served by an extensive network of parkways and expressways, including four primary Interstate Highways enter the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. The world-famous New York City Subway is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It is the most extensive subway system in the world. The subway system connects all boroughs except Staten Island, which is served by the Staten Island Railway via the free Staten Island Ferry. In addition to these, city residents rely on hundreds of bus lines, both publicly and privately operated. Many private ferries are run by NY Waterway, which provides several lines across the Hudson River, New York Water Taxi, with lines connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, and other operators

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Playa del Carmen Real Estate Benefits from Luxury Tourism

Playa del Carmen Real Estate can boast some of the most beautiful beaches in the world; until very recently these beaches had gone largely unnoticed. Now the area has grown to offer a luxury lifestyle in the place most suitable for it. High class spas, golf courses, and international restaurants and shopping have become a part of the way of life for condo owners with patios overlooking the Caribbean sea, or a beautiful homes, built with modern elegance. The nearby Tulum Real Estate area is currently also in the process of growing as luxury beach front property destination, with new developments and high-end land options for real estate buyers looking for comfort and class. In the case of Playa del Carmen, Tulum and the Riviera Maya (the stretch between the two, extending towards Cancun) the luxury of the real estate available is reflected by, and tied into the level of luxury the area’s hotel industry offers.

The high class component of the areas tourism was recently given extra attention; from December 1 to 3 Playa del Carmen, Tulum and the Riviera Maya participated in the Luxury Travel Expo (LTE) which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event gathered representatives from prime international tourist destinations such as Australia, Spain, Greece, Aruba, Peru, Hawaii, Japan, Egypt, Puerto Rico, Jordan, UAE, Thailand, Israel and Vietnam. It is the only American travel event dedicated to the luxury level of the industry, and a forum where suppliers and travel agents could identify the best services for travelers used to luxury.

This year’s event was attended by about 3 thousand 500 travel agents specializing in the luxury services, who had the opportunity to get information from and get to know the variety offered by the luxury tourism industry in various countries. The service suppliers included hotels, airlines, specialist tour operators, and a many other companies dedicated to serving tourists with high buying power.

Playa del Carmen, Tulum and the Riviera Maya participated in the Luxury Travel Expo, represented by Royal Hideaway Playacar, Hacienda Tres Rios, Banyan Tree, Grand Velas All Suites, Mandarin Oriental, Royal Resort, Iberostar Hotels, Barceló Hotels & Resorts, Fairmont and AM Resorts. These hotels and resorts are internationally recognized, and include some of the the largest and most luxurious spas, and the most prestigious golf courses, not to mention that some of its beaches are among the most beautiful world. Of course, these luxuries likewise benefit real estate buyers in the area who prefer this level of lifestyle.

Numerous high end real estate developments in the Playa del Carmen and Tulum area are combined with resort developments, offering the same luxury level services to both visitors and residents. Examples are the new Marina condominiums in Puerto Aventuras, which will perhaps be the most luxurious condos not only in the area but in the entire Caribbean, and enjoy the full set of upper end services offered by Puerto Aventuras (including a golf course, a mall, and numerous boutique shops); also the “Villas Tranquilidad,” which is a community of six villas included in the “El Cielo” beachfront resort development; and Aldea Zama in Tulum, a development offering lots in a contemporary, rustic village community, enjoying the benefits of the larger MayaZama development next door, with luxury shopping and Venice-like canals for water taxis. These are only a few of the options that Tulum and Playa del Carmen Real Estate offer real estate buyers looking for something classy; in all cases property owners will enjoy the benefits of the area’s well-developed high-end tourism infrastructure and services.

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Because it isn’t nearly as busy as some of the other international hubs, customs at SFO is usually fast and painless. It has never taken me more than 20 minutes to clear customs. And that’s only because the luggage carousel was slow. The lines are usually very short.

I encounter the most problems at JFK, LAX, and especially the “pre-clearance” airports in Canada. It seems the American customs people in Canada – because they are not actually on U.S. soil – are operating outside the jurisdiction of the federal courts. So, they feel it is perfectly fine for them to behave in a difficult and, well, thuggish manner.

Once you have cleared customs, SFO’s user friendly layout is easy to grasp. It has four terminals and a unique, circular design. If you look at it as if it were a watch, the International Terminal is located at 6 O’Clock. No matter which way you walk though, you’ll end up right back where you started.