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Our Mission: To provide consumers with life-enriching experiences by offering houseware products and services which surpass traditional functionality and value, with special emphasis on value engineering.
Our Vision: In an industry driven by constant change and by exchanging quality for lower cost, we believe a set of core principles is essential to maintaining our standards and providing our customers with products that are innovative, unique, and valuable. Our ultimate goal is not just to provide our customers with products, but with life enriching experiences which consequently bring greater harmony to the world we share. We aspire to make Aroma an organization with a unique character and a true sense of mission.
Our Values:
Full partnership with our customers
Open minded creativity
Spirited pursuit of professionalism
Whole-hearted dedication to people and society
Unyielding reliability in delivering our commitments
We create designs that are simple, sensible, and beautiful. We endeavor to improve the lives of our customers in ways that go beyond function to include aesthetics and great kitchen experiences.
We manufacture products that are safe, ergonomic, durable, easy to use, performance-oriented, and practical. We work to ensure that our products are the best products for our customers.
We design a pricing structure for our products and services that reflects the best possible value.
We offer products that make work easier, improve the quality of life, bring friends and families closer together, and to foster love, joy, and beauty in life.
Racing BeatRacing Beat's founding duo, Jim Mederer and Takayuki Oku, began modifying and building rotary engines for racing applications back in 1972. It was a classic case of the American automotive engineer meeting the Japanese racer that brought these two unlikely partners together. Together, many early successes came while building engines for dirt track midget cars, IMSA R/S class RX-2's , Car and Driver Magazine's Bonneville RX-4, and Racing Beat's RX-3 NHRA drag car.
Needing a way to finance these projects, newly formed Racing Beat developed and offered a new line of rotary engine performance products. Not all engine development projects were racing applications, some of the more interesting projects in the next few years included a mechanically supercharged rotary engine, a single-rotor experimental engine for NASA, a 4-rotor prototype racing engine, a turbocharged self-contained industrial engine for seismic drilling, and a government-sponsored 1000HP aircraft engine for use in short airstrip takeoffs.
Racing Beat built several RX-7s for land speed record attempts both at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed in CA, and the Bonneville Speedway in Utah, Nevada. Three different Racing Beat RX-7s set new land speed records over a 25-year span. An ill-fated attempt in 1993 resulted in a harrowing airborne ride for car designer/driver Jim Mederer at speeds approaching 220mph! The car was repaired and in 1995 returned to the salt flats and established a new land speed record of 242.005 MPH. As a testament to the extraordinary accomplishments of the Racing Beat RX-7 race vehicles, these land speed records have stood the test of time for over 25 years!
Good-Win-Racing
Good-Win Racing is your premier Mazda auto part supply for high performance Mazda Miata, Mazda MX5,
Mazda RX7, Mazda RX8, Mazda 3, and Mazda 6 performance parts and racing parts. From spec racing Mazda
Miata wheels to street shock absorbers, replacement convertible tops, and shift knobs, we can help
you select the right combination of Mazda auto parts. When our competition goes home for the weekend,
we go racing in our Mazda's! Using what we sell under both street performance, and race conditions,
gives us a unique experience on what works, and what does not work on a Mazda so we can share our
experiences with our customers.
YES Watches
The Ultimate Men's Wrist Watch. The YES watch combines the daily and seasonal cycles
of the sun and the moon with the steady ticking of hours, minutes and seconds.
At a glance you see times for sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, lunar phase,
analog time, military time and digital time for wherever you are on the planet.
It also alerts you to solstices and equinoxes, new and full moons through the year 2099.
YES is pre-programmed for nearly 600 cities worldwide, automatically adjusts for daylight savings time
and keeps time in AM/PM or 2400 format. In a class of their own we present the YES time keepers.
OSCommerce Sites:
Life By Chocolate
Mark and Kim LaPolla own the Greenville Arms 1889 Inn, the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops and the Hudson River Valley Fiber Art Workshops.
During the art workshops, Mark LaPolla, who is chef and pastry chef, decided to start making chocolates for his diners and then later for his inn guests.
Chocolates were put in the room for the inn guests and served at dinner for the artists. And like his cooking, the unique and tasty gourmet chocolates
were met with immediate applause and delight.
Alexa Spa
Alexa Spa specializes in helping our customers select the very best in imported French Suncare, Skincare, Haircare and Cosmetic products to meet their needs. "I couldn't be happier with the products and customer service at AlexaSpa. For the two products I've ordered from them, they have been incredibly responsive. The level of customer service matches one of a high-end boutique store or a company known for their personalized assistance, like Nordstrom. I had one question about the shipping date for my first product, and they responded to my email immediately, letting me know it's on its way. The products come extremely fast, shipping time is amazing and they provided me with excellent information on the phone."
Some exemplary small business sites:
Fior d'Italia -- America's Oldest Italian Restaurant
Fior d'Italia, America's oldest Italian restaurant, has proudly
served the citizens of and visitors to San Francisco since 1886. Located in the heart of North
Beach on beautiful Washington Square, "The Fior" specializes in
traditional Northern Italian cuisine and old world hospitality.
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Greenville Arms 1899 Inn
Welcome to Greenville Arms 1889 Inn, an historic Upstate New York bed and
breakfast inn in Greene County. Whether you come for a romantic getaway, or to
visit the Catskill Mountain region and historic Hudson Valley, an atmosphere of
warmth and relaxed comfort awaits you. Fifteen guest rooms
with private baths evoke the past while assuring your comfort in the best
tradition of Hudson Valley hospitality. At Greenville Arms 1889 Inn, antiques
and gardens set the mood while original artwork reflects the natural beauty of
the Catskill Mountains. A memorable, delicious breakfast
is included in your room rate.
Hudson River Valley Art Workshops
Since 1982 we have offered creative workshops in watercolor painting,
oil painting, acrylic painting, pastel, drawing and collage at our
scenic location in upstate New York's Hudson Valley, Catskill Mountains
region. Here you can learn about our program and upcoming classes, and request information.
Hudson River Valley Fiber Art Workshops
The Greenville Arms 1889 Inn
has been home to a program of creative art workshops since 1982 at our
scenic location in upstate New York's Hudson Valley, Catskill Mountains
region. And starting in 2006 we are introducting a series of quilt art
workshops. Kim LaPolla, Director of the Art Workshops Program, and Mark
LaPolla, Chef de Cuisine, are excited about these new Fiber Art and Art
Quilt Workshops.
Community Insurance Agency
Founded in 1972 Community Insurance Agency is a leader in providing quality protection for hundreds of individuals, families and businesses throughout California, Arizona and Nevada.
Providing superior customer service and low rates along with our ability to understand our customer's coverage needs drives the success of our agency. The companies we represent consistently earn the highest ratings from AM Best, which is the leading independent insurance industry rating authority.
Some exemplary MoveableType and Wordpress blogs:
The Fabulous Fior -- Over 100 Years in an Italian Kitchen
A lively tale of cookery and passion illuminating the lives of immigrant families
who created the Fior d'Italia, America's oldest Italian restaurant.
The book chronicles the shenanigans of operating a San Francisco Italian
restaurant during
Prohibition,
the complexities of serving an upstairs brothel and the requirements of
pleasing VIPs such as Richard M. Nixon and Luciano Pavarotti. It offers
a tapestry of American history, witnessed by Italian-American immigrants
in San Francisco from the Gold Rush through the 1906 Earthquake and Fire
and World War II to the 21st century.
Margarita's Beads
Adventures in Beading: The first kind of bead work I did was a vast number of African Helix stitch bracelets. The instructions came from a book I took out of the local library,
and the African Helix stitch seemed the most approachable out of that book, which was not beginner level. Everything else seemed too complicated.
Still, having no experience in beading or even stringing at all, it took me the better part of the day to figure it out. It also took my husband helping me,
mostly where I tried to skim over the instructions, omit steps that I judged unnecessary. Follow the instructions to a T! Even when they don't make sense.
Henry Miller
Few products of the self-styled "Revolution of the Word" of the 1920s and 1930s have proved more disturbing to our sense of what is or ought to be valued art
than Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Other modernist novels, more radical and more conventional, move in
and out of critical and public view, but for half a century Henry Miller's expatriate narratives have visibly marked the contentious boundary between "good"
and "bad" art, "serious literature" and "popular fiction," "aesthetic creation" and "pornographic exploitation."
Sisters of the Forsaken - A World of Warcraft Pacifist Guild
Sisters of the Forsaken is an avowedly pacifist guild, pursuing ideals of non-violence in a world that crys for war and striving for peace between Horde and Alliance, outside the honorable pas d'armes of
battlefields or any other less formal duel or tournament à plaisance that time and the mutual respect of players across faction might accomplish.