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Experience Unlimited Connectivity: Free Wi- Fi and free international calling*, now part of your Unlimited- Luxury stay. Guests at Secrets Puerto Los Cabos can stay connected for free! Download the free Secrets Resorts and Spas app on your smartphone, tablet, or mobile device to place calls and send messages over the hotels Wi- Fi network without incurring international cell phone roaming charges. Plus, create user profiles, keep up with social media, use your room phone remotely, contact staff directly, tailor personal deal preferences, book spa appointments, reserve excursions and much, much more. No reservations are required. All restaurant openings rotate throughout the week. Number of restaurants open for each meal is dependent upon occupancy levels. Open for breakfast and dinner. El Patio: Savor Mexican la carte cuisine in a traditional authentic ambience. Open for dinner only. Himits: Specializing in a fusion of Pan- Asian la carte specialties. Teppanyaki tables available (must request in advance). Open for dinner only. Seaside Grill: Open for Lunch and Dinner. Located by the pool with an ocean view presenting a delicious international menu for lunch and grilled specialties for dinner. Open for lunch and dinner. Oceana: Open for Lunch and Dinner Fresh seafood presented in a stunning seaside setting. Portofino: Open for Dinner. Enjoy delectable Italian a la carte cuisine; featuring a wine cellar. Barefoot Grill: Enjoy light lunch specialties in a casual and relaxed outdoor setting. Open for lunch. Coco Cafe: Enjoy premium coffee and snacks in a casual and relaxed atmosphere. Open throughout the day. Bars: Offering five chic bars and lounges serving premium brand domestic and international brand beverages and top- shelf spirits, ranging from swim- up to a music lounge. Rendezvou: Lobby bar featuring chic furniture for lounging with a refreshing cocktail. 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Rafaela Tijerina first met la se. They were both there for a school board meeting, and the superintendent had failed to show up. Tijerina, a 7. 4- year- old former cotton picker and veteran school board member, apologized for the superintendent—he must have had another important meeting—and for the fact that her own voice was faint; she had cancer. Lynda Resnick and her husband, Stewart, also own a few other things: Teleflora, the nation's largest flower delivery service; Fiji Water, the best- selling brand of premium bottled water; Pom Wonderful, the iconic pomegranate juice brand; Halos, the insanely popular brand of mandarin oranges formerly known as Cuties; and Wonderful Pistachios, with its . The Resnicks are the world's biggest producers of pistachios and almonds, and they also hold vast groves of lemons, grapefruit, and navel oranges. All told, they claim to own America's second- largest produce company, worth an estimated $4. The Resnicks have amassed this empire by following a simple agricultural precept: Crops need water. Having shrewdly maneuvered the backroom politics of California's byzantine water rules, they are now thought to consume more of the state's water than any other family, farm, or company. They control more of it in some years than what's used by the residents of Los Angeles and the entire San Francisco Bay Area combined. Such an incredible stockpiling of the state's most precious natural resource might have attracted more criticism were it not for the Resnicks' progressive bona fides. Last year, the couple's political and charitable donations topped $4. They've spent $1. Lost Hills—roughly 6. Having shrewdly maneuvered the backroom politics of California's byzantine water rules, they are now thought to consume more of the state's water than any other family, farm, or company. Last year, the Resnicks rebranded all their holdings as the Wonderful Company to highlight their focus on healthy products and philanthropy. We are deeply committed to doing our part to build a better world and inspiring others to do the same. They claim the Resnicks' influence among politicians and liberal celebrities is quietly warping California's water policies away from the interests of the state's residents, wildlife, and even most farmers. She brushes off any notion that Resnick is in the business of charity for the sake of publicity. But is their philanthropy just a marketing ploy, or a sincere effort to reform California's lowest- wage industry? Its cavernous reception hall is bedecked with blown- glass chandeliers, its windows draped with Fortuny curtains, and its drawing room adorned with a life- size statue of Napoleon so heavy that the basement ceiling had to be reinforced to bear its weight. The Resnicks purchased and tore down three adjacent houses to make room for a 2. The estate employs at least seven full- time attendants. Visitors have included Hollywood A- listers like David Geffen, Steve Martin, and Warren Beatty—or writers like Thomas Friedman, Jared Diamond, and Joan Didion. In conversation, she reminded me of my own charming and crafty Jewish grandmother, a woman adept at calling bluffs at the poker table while bluffing you back. Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1. Lynda performed on a TV variety show sponsored by an automat. Her father, Jack Harris, produced the cult hit The Blob and later moved the family to California. Though wealthy enough to afford two Rolls- Royces and a 9. Lynda to attend art school, so she found work in a dress shop, where she tried her hand at creating ads for the store. By the time she was 2. Lynda Limited, given birth to three children, and gotten divorced. She was struggling to keep things afloat. Around that time, Lynda started dating Anthony Russo, who worked at a think tank with military analyst Daniel Ellsberg. The Edward Snowden of his day, Ellsberg was later prosecuted for leaking Pentagon documents about the Vietnam War to the press. The trial revealed that he and Russo had spent two weeks in all- night sessions photocopying the Pentagon Papers in Lynda's office on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. She even helped, scissoring the . Streisand and Brolin: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images; Hanks: Stefanie Keenan/Wire Images/Getty Images. A few years later, Lynda met Stewart Resnick. Born in Highland Park, New Jersey, the son of a Yiddish- speaking Ukrainian bartender, Stewart paid his way through UCLA by working as a janitor and went on to found White Glove Building Maintenance, which quickly grew to 1,0. When he needed some advertising work, a friend recommended Lynda's agency. Their first big purchase as a couple, in 1. Teleflora, a flower delivery company that Lynda revitalized by pioneering the . In 1. 98. 5, they acquired the Franklin Mint, which at the time mainly sold commemorative coins and medallions. Lynda expanded into jewelry, dolls, and precision model cars. She was ridiculed for spending $2. Jacqueline Kennedy's fake pearl necklace at auction, but she then sold more than 1. The Resnicks expanded into agriculture in 1. They purchased 2,5. California's Kern County citrus belt. Ten years later, during the state's last great drought, they snatched up tens of thousands of acres of almond, pistachio, and citrus groves for bargain prices. By 1. 99. 6, their agricultural company, Paramount Farms, had become the world's largest producer and packager of pistachios and almonds, with sales of about $1. Along the way, Paramount acquired 1. After the Resnicks' family physician mentioned the fruit's key role in Mediterranean folk medicine, Lynda commissioned scientific studies and found that pomegranate juice had more antioxidant properties than red wine. By 2. 00. 1 she had created Pom and soon was selling juice in little hourglass bottles under the label P. Less subtle was the national marketing campaign, which showed a Pom bottle with a broken noose around its neck, under the slogan . Last year, an appeals judge sided with a Federal Trade Commission ruling saying the company's ads had overhyped Pom's ability to prevent heart disease, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction. As previously reported in Mother Jones, she marketed Fiji's . Pistachio sales more than doubled in just three months and steadily increased over the following year to reach $1. With all this newfound wealth, the Resnicks have ratcheted up their philanthropic profile. At first, it was classic civic gifts: $1. UCLA's Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital; $3. Los Angeles County Museum of Art for an exhibition space designed by Renzo Piano and dubbed the Resnick Pavilion; $2. Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech, which focuses on making . Harvard professor Michael Sandel, the ethicist known for his provocative questions, asked the assembled guests if they would be happy living in a town that was perfect in every possible way except for one terrible secret: . What are you doing about it? Her interviewer, former CNN chairman and author Walter Isaacson, didn't press her on the matter. Nor would she elaborate when I asked her about it. By then she had certainly seen the negative stories, such as the one in the Los Angeles Times that described Lost Hills' jarring . That would be the most meaningful. She had just been confronted while watering her lawn in Santa Monica by one of the amateur videographers behind last summer's hottest new California film genre: the drought- . The You. Tube clip shows her being taunted repeatedly before turning to douse the camera- wielding scold with her hose. The woman's anger at being called out and her eagerness to redirect blame reflect common sentiments in an increasingly dry state. The Resnicks, who've been anticipating the drought for decades, seem shocked that it has taken everyone else so long to wake up. No one cared about water. And now that people have to cut back on their water, all of a sudden it has become important. Assumed or forgotten is that some 8. Sacramento- . Delta water has transformed the arid Southland into the state's population center and the nation's produce aisle. But it has done so at the cost of pushing the West Coast's largest estuary to the brink of collapse; last year the drought finally prompted regulators to eliminate most Central Valley water deliveries. And now that people have to cut back on their water, all of a sudden it has become important. The Central Valley is in some respects the ideal place to grow fruit and nut trees, with its Mediterranean combination of cool winters and hot summers perfectly promoting flowering, fruit setting, and ripening. But there's a reason why few trees of any sort grow naturally in the Valley: It averages only 5 to 1. One season without water piped in from the Delta can kill an orchard that took five years to mature. Few farmers are more at risk from the cutbacks than the Resnicks, whose 1. So like other farmers, the Resnicks have turned to the state's dwindling reserve of groundwater, sinking wells hundreds of feet deep on their land. Farmers are the main reason that California now pumps nearly seven cubic kilometers of groundwater a year, or about as much total water as what's used by all the homes in Texas. Sucking water from deep underground has caused the surrounding land to settle as the pockets of air between layers of soil collapse, wreaking havoc with bridges and even gravity- fed canals. Though California passed its first- ever groundwater regulations in 2. Historically, farmers pumped just enough groundwater to survive, but in the middle of California's now five- year drought, nut growers have also used it to expand. Over the last decade, California's almond acreage has increased by 4. Resnicks' advertising genius. Pistachios are now among the top 1. United States, and the Resnicks' Lost Hills pistachio factory is the world's largest. To meet robust demand from Europe and Asia, Stewart Resnick last year announced that he wanted to expand nut acreage another 4.
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