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Merile Key (M.K.) Guertin (January 18, 1891 – April 14, 1970) was the founder of Best Western and was known in the hospitality industry as Mr. Motel.
M.K. Guertin was born on January 18, 1891 in Liberty, Texas, northeast of Houston. He worked on the family farm and as an apprentice in the printing trade.
He left Texas for California in 1923 where he began working on marketing efforts for his sister who owned multiple hotels in Long Beach, California.
He was involved in the creation of the Southern California Auto Court Association and the California Auto Court Association in 1925. He purchased the Cherry Motor Court in Long Beach in 1933, and in 1938 purchased the Beach Motel, which would become the first Best Western property. Over time he built or owned 13 motels in the California.
In 1946 he started an association of independently owned hotels to refer business to each other, which was the beginning of Best Western. While taking a trip from his hotel to Tacoma, Washington, Guertin recorded the names and locations of motels less than a gas tank apart from each other. He used the information collected to create a guide provided to the growing number of interstate travelers on trips. Members were initially recruited by Guertin who sought varied hotels from small roadside motor courts to urban hotels as long as the owners agreed to adhere to the association's high standards of quality and service. Over time, this referral program grew into Best Western, the world's largest hotel chain.
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Mo'ed Katan or Mo'edh Qatan (Hebrew: מועד קטן, lit. "little festival") is the eleventh tractate of Seder Moed of the Mishnah and the Talmud. It is concerned with the laws of the days between the first and last days of Passover and Sukkot (as both of these festivals are a week in length). These days are also known as "Chol HaMoed" days. Mo'ed Katan also discusses the laws of Aveilus (Bereavement). Consisting of only three chapters, it has a Gemara ("Completion") from both Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud.
The Mishnah Berurah sums up the important principles that come out of Mo'ed Katan. In Mishnah Berurah 530:1 it lists the activities permitted on Chol HaMoed:
Mākii (マーキー) (born August 23, 1987 in Okinawa, Japan) is a Japanese musician who was formerly the vocalist and songwriter for the Okinawa-based band High and Mighty Color. She was the youngest member of the band. She has an older brother who introduced her to the world of music and anime. When she performed at a concert in Okinawa in 2003, a scout for a record label noticed her and Anti Nobunaga. Mākii refused the offer at first, wanting to pursue her career in Canada as a solo artist and to master the English language, but she ultimately joined the band. In 2007, she debuted in her first film, Anata wo Wasurenai.
On July 1, 2008, it was announced that Mākii had married Dreams Come True bassist & producer Masato Nakamura on June 22 and would be leaving the band by the end of 2008. In her parting message, Mākii thanked her fellow band members and all of their fans for supporting her and the group for such a long time.
She resumed musical activities in 2013 under the stage name MAAKIII with her first single "Chokankakutekichikaku" (超感覚的知覚, "extrasensory perception").
