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WW3 Is Here - US Government Is Preparing the World For WAR and US Financial Expert Says Economy Collapse Imminent! Don't Believe It? Watch This! (Videos)
Is the United States of America preparing for war, or are we already in it? Watch these videos… Is it possible both of these videos are true? Or, is it one or the other? What is going on in the USA? Wasn't it once said it was the home of the free and the land of the brave? Funny, that line has a haunting, eerie ring to it as I think of it now.
This is not the same USA that I grew up in. It is not the same USA of the 1980′s, a time when people still had 'some' amount of morals, and valued God and family. No! These are the end times, the very days that were foretold in the Bible. If there is any doubt in your mind whatsoever, take a look in the Bible itself, and then sort through the various news over the past few years alone. Watch the videos below and think about it. You will see that time is not on our side.
One thing is for certain, there is definitely a hellish and relentless spiritual battle taking place in this world, each and every day.
Face of Satan Has Arrived In USA-the Most Traumatic, Gut Wrenching Report-It's Just About To Happen!
WW3 – US Government Is Preparing The World For WAR
URGENT WARNING: ISIS Coming to America – The "Gate of Hell" has been opened
Financial Expert US Economic Collapse imminent!
Understand the signs of time:
What is popping up first?
-Global recession?
-the mark of the beast?
-the Third World War
or the Antichrist?
Satan, judgment day? Stop with the religious past tense and future malarkey. Let's deal with Facts:
The U.S. government makes money on drug trade, human marketing/and child trade and of course occupying other countries for their assets which include again… Drugs, marketing humans (children) manipulating third world countries for their assets(all the above). Now there's a second level… The powerful elite which control the assets, money flow and corporate military complex which assists in acquiring (all the above). Now you have your third level puppets…aka Bill Gates of hell (in charge of the vaccination/human eugenics program), "barry soetoro"/barak ebola the illegitimate dictator and thief (George Soros puppet). My apologies… I forgot to address the question… "War?" is inevitable, it is a precursor to our past and our future…the corporate industrial complex which is the current cabal in power the ability to justify all the above. One can only look back to a point in time where are human genetics were altered as an experiment, we are nothing more than slaves to entities we have yet to define. Any questions?
What, you got some?
The USA has tried starting wars to defend the fiat $$$ they keep printing but its not working as the national debt just keeps going up to fill the pockets of bankers
We in Europe are sick of the USA, its double standards, blackmail and acts of war and China/Iran/Russia are now telling the USA to put up or shut up as they too are tired of all this might is right thinking thats coming out of the USA.
Just like Rome the USA will implode and become little more than a back water or the people can decide that they don't want that and go for the option of glowing in the dark
These mega big US corporations are going to get you all killed in the name of profit if you let them and when you go after those responsible then watch out for the race wars they will start to thow you off the path
Gee….as an American, pretty much agree with you on the US's position around the world. Time to either do the deed, or get off the pot
On the other hand, Europe's indifference to the plight of the it's own integrity and selfishness, really puts Americans in the positions of thinking, "who the heck really cares what Europe thinks?". As far as the rest of the world, Europe is still in the dark ages….so they can go down the road with the Eastern Europeans and Asian continents.
Agree. For all its faults, America is hardly alone in the category of evil deeds. There is a good case to be made for the US being a corporation owned by the British Crown as its "enforcement" arm, and the moral and societal decay in the EU is deep and pervasive. For any western nation to point fingers at another is quite hypocritical. Yes, the US is bad… but so is the EU. In fact, the "three-legged stool" of nation-states (Corp. of London, Wash. DC, the Vatican) is all one big monster, a gang with rival factions but all one entity.
Well yes apart from Germany who exports as much or more than the USA all on its own.
I could reverse the question and ask who cares what the USA thinks given that its in just as much debt as we are and has a productivity level no better than our.
The thing is we don't have all our military bases over your land and take it from me, you have a lot of your all over Europe.
Thanks for coming late to WWII but would you agree thats its time you all went home and left us to deal with our own trouble whilst you deal with yours and that should include a saving on taxes but it won't.
We have dirty water on both sides of the pond me thinks
Sorry pressed the wrong button the replay to HumanBeing was for you and this one is for him.
Some say Britain still calls the shoots in the USA and few people knew that the USA had plans to seize Candia using force from the British at the end of WWII two which says to me that the queen does not rule the roost.
On the othe hand Israel seems to be the tail wagging the dog when it comes to banking and the USA plus they were most likly behind the 9/11 attack.
Zionists corporations run the USA and some have also leached over to Europe too and everyone is little more than cattle to these people but the days of clever accounting by these bankers are coming to an end and it will be there necks on the end of a rope or ours regardless of which countries are involved.
Hi Lyn,
There is a lot of confusion about what is to happen and when. America is about to go through tribulation but not the "Great" tribulation. America is experiencing Lev. 26 judgements. These began in 1996, which was the 119th Jubilee cycle. We are currently in the Pestilence Cycle. The last two cycles are the sword (7 years) and Captivity (7 years). Here is the part everyone misses and that is 2300 days of Daniel. After the 2300 days of Daniel then all the things associated with the "GREAT" tribulation then begin. America will cease to be a political entity by 2023.
If you are interested you can find it here: http://codgerville.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/why-i-was-wrong-about-americas-destiny-part-one-the-curse/
and here: http://codgerville.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/why-i-was-wrong-about-americas-destiny-part-two-the-sin/
and here: http://codgerville.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/why-i-was-wrong-about-americas-destiny-part-iii-the-timeline/
God bless and keep up the great work.
Get something straight morons. "GOD" is a generic name for ALL deities invented by men to give the inexplicable environment a "human face" when it flooded they said we have upset the god the sea, when it rained torrentially they said we have upset the sky god. ALL these "gods" are called GOD. It is much easier on the brain than dealing with evolutionary theory and believing in a god means you dont have to be responsible for anything. It makes life much simpler if you put everything down to a god. Now then, the small minded religious types will scream and shout that I will go to "Hell" but I wont be worried about that and the tiny minded religious types will be fuming and beating their keyboards and I find that hilarious. War is as man made as gods, money is as man made as religion and the vast majority of sheep like types will just pray to a god that doesnt exist and will burn in large numbers in churches seeking protection that isnt there. WAR is going to happen because very rich men will pay very poor men to fight each other whilst they sit back and enjoy the show AND make money from it.
Sounds like you got all the answers. Who or what created atoms, cells, souls, nature, everything that we can (and cannot) see?
God is real, however "organized religion" is fake and was put into practice thousands of years ago to belittle humans and make us believe that we are powerless. You are obviously out of touch with the world around you and possibly even yourself, learn how to open your pineal gland and you'll discover the truth.
Nope. Everyone born before Jesus went straight to hell.
"Everyone born before Jesus went straight to hell."
Not true:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
—Luke 16:20-25
Well said! Morning Star? That is the planet VENUS! Worshipped in the Vatican as LUCIFER!
Lucifer comes from Luc-ius, who in the Bible is called LUKE!
Abraham's name was changed from Abram. Why? Because his real name is IBRUM! IBRUM of Ham. The JESUIT Universities & the SMITHSONIAN (same Society of Jesus logo) have changed the name of HAMMURABI.
It should be IBARUM of HAM (spelt backwards), just like "modern Hebrew" reads backwards & is a ZIONist invention of 1880-1920!
YHWH(YaHWeH)? JHVH(JeHoVaH)? More lies & "hidden" symbols! Just like "AMEN" was the "hidden" name of the SUN/son god RA of Egypt> AMEN-RA……..
YHWH in "Biblical Hebrew" translates as IES'E, pronounced ie sh er, aa sh ar.
This is why god said "ehyeh asher ehyeh" or "I am ASHER I am" on Mt SINai…….
This is why Jews are confused > YaHu*w*aH, Yo He *sh*uah(Joshuah)………yI Eh *sh* eH
This is why Greeks who transliterated the texts called him IhES-us (Iesuos/Jesus)……
This is why the Society of Jesus(JESUITS) use the logo IHS…………..
This is why the Jesus College at OXFORD(Jesuit Uni) is called " Collegium Ihesus"………
Was their a SUN god in the Levant(Levi tribe/priests) in BIBLICAL TIMES? called Asher?
ASHUR, The tribe of ASHER, Asher(Jacob/Israels son), The Book of J asher, the city of ASHUR, Dashur in Egypt. OSIRis(AS'AR), the country of ASSYRia(Syria) the 50 names of Marduk of Babylonia(the 50 Jubilees)> ASARlui, ASARluhi,ASAR………….
am123? I am? I am ASHER……………YHWH(tetragrammaton.the Hidden name of God/Jesus)
It doesn't take a financial expert to read the writing on the wall regarding the coming collapse.
That's correct, isis is here and they're in white house right now….. organizing our demise…. the American people needed to arrest those communist punks, fight or be murdered, we American's had a small chance of survival years ago, but now it's too late because we waited too long and for what I don't know…. cowardliness, time to wake up… you filthy collaborating cointelpro traitors, you've been had too. All non muslims are slated for extermination. The filthy scumbag muslims are winning so far and when they make their move… they will usher in one world communist u.n. centralized muslim government…. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/10/mass-murderer-jeb-crime-family-bush-is-running-for-president-and-they-called-me-3052222.html…. you won't see it coming, STS camouflage…. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/01/dekalb-county-georgia-local-police-used-sts-cloaking-technology-in-an-attempted-murder-plot-of-a-dissident-2547748.html…. if you as an American think isis is a fallible enemy with just AK-47′s…. then they fooled you real well…. again. The isis muslim scumbags will attack America with the most sophisticated high tech weapons available today.
STS camouflage has been a known reality for 15 years, but every other year they claim it's just now maybe possible for complete invisibility and or cloaking. DeKalb County Georgia Local Police used this same type STS technology under the direction of the GBI, FBI, and CIA in a stop and check on a run out of gas…. under 24 hour surveillance…. 9/11 truth-er, dissenter, government and police corruption knowledgeable "as in…. they claim a subject" at gun point…. basically blatantly committing the overt acts of assault with a deadly weapon. The subject had the most severe eye astigmatism ever known…. doctors were unable to record it because…. it was off the scale. Read more…. /alternative/2013/01/dekalb-county-georgia-local-police-used-sts-cloaking-technology-in-an-attempted-murder-plot-of-a-dissident-2547748.html
It's more than obvious; that the blatant cointelpro preacher is to splinter and marginalize those of us that tell the truth about isis capabilities. Their evangelist job is to cloud the truth. Like how isis will and has enter America. The reason I say so is because isis owns all the ports in America…. so why would they enter through Mexico? That's a pretty tough travel…. when they don't have to go that route. I have dreams too and not a single one of them ever came true. You're about as slick as snot….? Smiles
Firstly, this "sophisticated evil organization/enemy called IS/ISIS/ISIL is an upgraded Al CIAda formerly known as the CIA's Mujahideen. This evil organization was created and is handled by the CIA/MOSSAD/MI5 and financed by the Saudi's who also recruit and radicalize duped Muslim's. Why? There is a rogue element within the de facto United States Corporation of the District of Columbia (who do not represent the American people or take direction from the American people) who take their orders from a fascist international cabal that include Zionists, Jesuits, Illuminati, The Vatican and numerous mega wealthy and politically powerful "elites", Euro-Royals, who are A.) Psychopaths. B.) Intend to reduce the world population by 6.5 billion humans. C.) Build a "new world order" or one world government. To this end, they intend to start every manner of death including pandemic, social violence, WW III thermal nuclear war etc etc. They are confident that they will survive to inherit the new world and will become "transhumans" in the aftermath. We the people of the world and especially America must become informed to this plan and resist it in every way possible. We are the jews on the trains to the camps right now, thinking that we are just being moved East to a new beginning in a nice peaceful city for safety sake. . .dupes to the slaughter. A grand deception. So IS/ISIS/ISIL is designed to terrorize us in the West to give up our sovereignty and freedom by our own government apparatus, albeit rogue. This organization is only successful because they are backed by our rogue governments, rogue media and equipment otherwise they would have been wiped out long ago. They are not invincible on the battlefield just blood thirsty and immoral when they have the upper hand.
They have taken control of Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has handed the Country over to them lock, stock, and barrel. He is calling the latest false flag in Ottawa, a terrorist attack. When I talk to the average Canadian, none seem to have a clue what is really happening. They still believe the Satanist controlled media, they are like frogs in boiling water, eventually it will be too late to jump out. It is not my job to warn them, so screw the people, they get what they deserve.
Wow pretty harsh words spewing from your mouth, not all of us up in Canada have there heads buried in the sand, so don't think your superior in anyway. Just because we are a quiet country where you think all of us live in igloos and don't have running water, there is many who believe that what goes on in the media is bullshit.
Rickards goes on to tell us about the history of muslim terrorism meanwhile he thinks it was guys in caves with boxcutters who did 9 11 and wtc 7. Can we say gatekeeper shill.
I see nothing here to advance the idea that WW3 is any further on.
The psychopaths running the US asylum have been at it for years.
They just give it different names, DEFENCE-TERRORISM- confirming the first principle of PC thinking.
Bring it on and let's pick up the pieces afterwards there are always a few survivors to be found.
The good ol' boys running the show assisted by a supine population have overstepped the mark this time.
They thought they were capable of taking on Russia-bad mistake.
It was Bismarck who said 'Every war in Europe throughout history has been started in the Balkans.
After every dustup the Russians have been the ones left with the task of restoring a balance.
With only a couple of hundred years of any history behind them the US should have known better.
They did not even know Ukraine is slap in the middle of the Balkans.
It is no surprise they know nothing of European history since their education system shut down after Vietnam.
Starting a war is easy, stopping a war is near impossible especially if you come second.
The US has a get-out even at this late stage-get out,go home and stay home
You have been duped America.
Ask the Khazar.
How will you explain that to the next generation-if any.
god, you are a waste of skin, lyn.
I have to get use to reading her stories again without the word SHOCKING in them. Oh well….
We're not in collapse. Walmart is still in business.
While once unthinkable, America is teetering on the brink of economic collapse. Our economic ship hit a gigantic iceberg of derivative debt and is taking on water. And the captain of our economic ship (Obama) addresses the problem by repeatedly slamming the ship into the iceberg (as if to intentionally sink the ship). And America has no economic engine to deal with it. Other than iphones and ipads and ipods, we don't produce things any more. And the Fed has kicked our cans down the road, making the problem bigger and bigger. It is overwhelming. The only arrow left in the quiver of the Fed is the printing press. They have been reduced to rearranging the furniture on the deck of the Titanic. Inflation is already baked into the cake because of the monopoly money the Fed has already printed. And the more funny money they print, the more it dilutes everyone's cash and the end result is inflation. The dilemma the Fed has is either face civil unrest and riots because the banks are broke or print money to pacify the masses. They are taking the later alternative. So considering that the more money they print the more worthless everyone's money becomes, Weimar Republic here we come!
America and the world is upon the cusp of the Great Depression 2, wider and deeper and vaster in scope and scale than the Great Depression 1 because we are drowning in a vast sea of debt a deluge of derivatives on a scale and scope that dwarfs all else. Ready or not, here comes your new financial reality America. Hear that cracking sound? Get ready to stand back and say "timber" our Babylonian economic system is coming crashing down! This should not be a surprise however. For we have been given the script ahead of time (see REV 18:10,17).
America is in need of God's help more than ever before. But we have leaders that do not know the LORD nor how to entreat His favor. The only thing they know how to do is thumb their noses at God by doing things like championing gay rights, and by trumpeting that stench in the Father's nostrils known as Islam, and by promoting the killing of babies, and so forth. And so this nation will reap what it has sown. The best thing you can do for yourself and your family right now is start preparing for economic collapse. It's time to batten down the hatches. If you haven't drawn near to God yet, this would be a good time to start. God knows how to take care of those that belong to Him during times of famine. The most important commodity to see you through it all is something called grace. Draw near now to the Lord now while you still can! See my profile for the way.
See your profile for the way?
NO. Study the scriptures.
1.One must hear the gospel, for "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Rom.10:17).
2.One must believe, "for without faith it is impossible to please God" (Heb.11:6)
3.One must repent of past sins and turn their life to Jesus Christ, for God "commands all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30).
4.One must confess Jesus as Lord, for the Lord has said, "Whosoever confess me before men , him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven (Matthew 10:32).
5.And one must be baptize for remission of sins, Peter stated in the Acts chapter 2, "Repent and be baptize for remission of your sins…"(Acts 2:38).
You are correct, one must hear the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God,
One must repent of transgressing the Commandments of God
One must be baptized into the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ
BUT you did not include the most important step;
One must by the laying on of hands receive the Holy Spirit of God the Father.
If the Spirit of the Father is not dwelling in a person that person is none of His. Romans 8:9
Either you didn't read my profile or you are just nipping at my heels because of your injured ego from the other thread on the topic of judging.
No offense…..but I believe those gifts died with the disciples.
No offense am……just encouraging readers to go to the source. And my ego is fully intact…..as I took no harm from our 'discussions' although you tried your hand at calling the 'event' like a prize fight.
I also still apparently have not gotten my point over to you that biblical 'speak' among believers can often be misunderstood by nonbelievers……..some words denote very unsavory behaviors, and if you insist that "Christians" must participate in those unsavory actions you will keep others from approaching or listening to the Word.
When speaking in an area where many thousands will read…..I am mindful that those words that are attributed to Christians be loving, eager to forgive those who will change sinful behavior and quick to forget past sins.
No gifts died with the disciples. All gifts are available to believers today. Your view on that is surprising given your stance on being mindful of using certain words in front of nonbelievers because nonbelievers are hungry for the things of the Spirit and if the Church doesn't provide teachings on such things, they will look to the world for such things.
And for the record, this is not what TS was talking about, but I can tell you from first-hand experience that receiving the Holy Spirit and the gift of speaking/praying in tongues as Paul told us about is very real.
It is obvious that there are any here who are from different belief sets.
I respect your right to believe as you will……and I will not engage in any further 'discussions' with you on the differences between them, as it only leads to contentious behaviors.
These differences should be discussed IN PERSON……because 90% of communication is body language.
If you follow through with your logic and YET believe Romans 8:9 then there can be no converted Saints of God on earth to day
It is very clear through out the Word of God, if the Spirit of the Father in not dwelling in a person then that person is not a Saint, not of God, not in the salvation process.
But you are right regarding the Gifts of the Spirit, there are very few that have the gifts of healing, discerning spirits, teaching etc.
I have an article on BIN right now you may want to read, it is about the false doctrine of the trinity but goes into what the Holy Spirit is and what it does.
The title is THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF A TRINITY IS A 4TH CENTURY FABRICATION OF ROME.
Why me,
I have not insulted you.
Please be respectful toward me and do not insult my beliefs.
If you continue to speak to me this way……I will have to discontinue our conversations.
I am ready now. Do not hesitate on my part.
No one needs to go to haven or a better place if they will not fight against evil here on earth. SIC.
My bad. All it is, is Good with the vacuum of evil. But that does' not fit, here.
Many declare that the United States will crumble and fall in economic collapse to be no more a superpower. But that is a direct denial of Christian prophecy. It will have economic problems like all others, yes. But it will never lose it's global power. In fact, it will become THE power that helps the Antichrist enforce the mark of the beast all around the world. Below is a study in the Scriptures verifying this as fact.
Satan, judgment day? Stop with the religious past tense and future malarkey. Let's deal with Facts:
U.S. government makes money on drug trade, human marketing/and child trade and of course occupying other countries for their assets which include again… Drugs, marketing humans (children) manipulating third world countries for their assets(all the above). Now there's a second level… The powerful elite which control the assets, money flow and corporate military complex which assists in acquiring (all the above). Now you have your third level puppets…aka Bill Gates of hell (in charge of the vaccination/human eugenics program), "barry soetoro"/barak ebola the illegitimate dictator and thief (George Soros puppet).
Any questions?
The demise of USA, closely followed by the demise of the rest of the world, is a well planned and EXTREMELY WELL MANAGED event that will be played out over a period of several Tribulation years.
The EMP event, followed by US Dollar hyperinflation, followed by world wide famines, followed by introduction of NWO, followed by WW3 and epidemics, and finally followed by the arrival and destruction of Nibiru.
All of it WELL PLANNED AND EXTREMELY WELL CAMOUFLAGED behind all the BS rhetoric in the Middle East.
Obama or anyone else in the White House will not stop Nibiru.
Stop the political BS blaming and start looking for a cave if you want to survive.
I am 90 years old and will certainly not look forward to survive; but there are a few bright minds here on BIN that should think very hard about their own survival.
We are not only components in a machine, existing so that the machine can keep on renewing itself. We have to resolve the riddle, and not only interpret convenient aspects, but try to understand the greater picture.
Extracts from THE DEAFENING SILENCE see: http://africa—911-to-flight-825.co
With that insight I realised that presently the change of government or of a money system would be like rearranging furniture in the same room – limited and with few options. And is that not exactly what international financial manipulators are aiming for?
Capitalism for the few to control the many is a dangerous system that could lead to a new global 'French' revolution.
I see society's control systems as genes with peaceful interaction and adaptation potential, but as in genetic material, diversity is essential for long-term survival. Lack of diversity can lead to a monstrous system with no ability to transform = WAR.
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are on the horizon~~The Middle East is in full disaster mode~~Our dollar is fiat currency about to be dumped as the reserve currency~~Every day the New World Order sprays Toxic Geo-Engineering Chemtrails on us to impair our immune system and destroy food production~~poisoning the soil , air and water so when they put Ebola into the witches brew it'll have a 95% kill ratio~~!
I don't even read your submissions anymore – looks like you are very very confused?
The criminals are in Washington DC. Most are suppose to be representatives of the people. The Federal Reserve is a private corporation that has taken over the US government controlled out of the city of London. They are more evil than most can imagine. ISIS is a CIA operation. The CIA has been overthrowing governments since the 50′s. All wars are banker wars.
its comin n im tired of waiting. can the powers that be speed this up. tired of reading about. just do it
Because Reagan lied. The "Cold War" never ended and WWIII has been here for decades. Castro's covert war is now overt and Congress has placed a foreign King on the American throne in a pathetic attempt to cover their own ASSets. AIDS has been "curable" since the early 80′s if not sooner, folks.
You make me laugh!
In the last year, your article titles included
"Shocking" 83 times
"Stunning" 23 times
"Chilling" 19 times
"jaw-dropping" 13 times
'startling" 12 times
When will I really be shocked, stunned, chilled, or startled?


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This was really a no-brainer as a purchase for me; first, I love Kenneth Hite's work, and second, I love HPL (faithfully playing Call of Cthulhu since it first came out back in the day). This really ought to be titled "Tour de Force," given Mr. Hite's discussion of virtually every story HPL ever published (certainly those under his own name). His comments are insightful, and he clearly loves his work. I found it to be illuminating, though being a major fan of HPL's, I was already aware of some of the more broadly accepted critiques and commentaries. If you enjoy HPL's stories, if you play Call of Cthulhu, if you even like campy B-Movies (a surprising number of which are based at least loosely on Lovecraft's work), this is a book you'll enjoy very much.
The price is great, and the content is well worth it. As usual with RPGNow, the quality of reproduction was outstanding. All in all, I'm very pleased with this one. Thanks Kenneth!
I also liked the license plate on the bus! :-)
I was first introduced to writer and role-playing game designer Kenneth Hite thanks to the excellent HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast. Gamers out there are probably familiar with Hite from his work on GURPS and the superb Trail Of Cthulhu RPG.
Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales is a collection of Hite's thoughts on each and every tale by weird fiction author and father of the Cthulhu Mythos HP Lovecraft. And it is damn good! Fans of Lovecraft will find, well, a lot to love here. Hite offers wit and true insight on many of our favorite weird tales. For the "noob", Tour de Lovecraft is a perfect guide for the literary fan looking to explore Lovecraft's often obtuse work.
A must buy!
Not a whole lot to be said here. IF you've read Mr. Hite before you know he loves to use his $2 words and at times tends to ramble a paragraph too long, but if you like Lovecraft, this is a can't miss book. Well worth the purchase price.


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Bath fly-half Mike Catt will captain England in Saturday's A international against France in Perpignan.
Catt, who played a key role for England in the World Cup quarter-final victory over Wales, leads a side containing several experienced players.
His Bath and World Cup colleague Mike Tindall features in the centre, where he will be partnered by Gloucester star Henry Paul.
Tindall recently made his comeback after two months out nursing a serious ankle injury, but a strong performance this weekend could yet put him back into Sir Clive Woodward's RBS Six Nations thinking.
Powergen Cup semi-finalists Leeds provides three members of the A side - full-back Dan Scarbrough, wing Phil Christophers and lock Tom Palmer - while Gloucester back-row prospects Andy Hazell and James Forrester are also included.
Of the young players that Woodward will have a particular eye on are Leicester scrum-half Harry Ellis and Saracens' wing Richard Haughton.
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Credit card debt can can turn into a vicious cycle. Landing in debt is often unplanned, and once you're in over your head, getting out can feel impossible. With interest rates as high as 30%, paying the minimum means taking years or longer to wipe out all the charges.
If you end up in credit card debt, paying it off is going to take effort and dedication. Here are steps you should take to find your way out of debt.
1. Stop Using Credit Cards
Trying to keep using credit cards while your aim is to pay them all off is a misguided plan. Whether you're having trouble managing your spending or your income isn't sufficient to pay your balances, continuing to spend on credit cards will never make the situation better.
No matter what you believe about the benefits of credit cards, you must consider giving them up for your plan to succeed. There's no need to close your credit accounts and risk credit score damage, though. Instead, take the credit cards out of your wallet and store them out of sight. If that's not enough, cut them up to literally make them impossible to use.
2. Adopt a Plan
When you're attempting to pay off all your credit card debt, having a plan to follow is the best place to start. Yes, planning is a pain and might not be your "thing." But don't forget: lack of planning might be the reason you're in this mess to begin with. Don't let your past failures continue into the future by failing to correct them. Creating a system that works means there's less room for error or second-guessing.
Creating a plan doesn't even have to be hard. There are already models out there that are proven to be effective.
For actually paying the debt, the Debt Snowball method works wonders for many. It's easy to follow: just line up your debts from lowest to highest balance. Then pay off the entire smallest balance first before moving on to the next account. Focusing on just the one account at a time, and make minimum payments on the other cards as you work to pay them all off.
You can also try using free software like Ready for Zero. You'll be able to import account information and get calculated advice on how to most effectively pay down accounts and save the most money.
3. List Your Motivations
If you've been thinking about working your way out of credit card debt, there's likely a reason behind wanting to do so. Are you sick of feeling broke all the time? Are you stressed out by the constant letters and calls you're getting regarding your debt, and it's keeping you up at night?
Think and reflect about what your "why" is for getting yourself out of debt. Write your reasons down and post reminders on your refrigerator and in your wallet. Nothing will be more motivating that finding real, personal reasons to get serious about paying off debt.
4. Get Serious About Making Payments
Remember that part about creating a system? Making regular payments is an important piece to that.
The easiest way to pay down debt is to set up automatic payments online that deduct after each of your paychecks is deposited. This means linking a bank account directly to your credit account online and setting up auto-payments so you don't have to remember to do it manually.
Whether you're paid weekly or biweekly, set up the payments to coincide with your paydays. This forces you to do pay your debt first rather than waiting until the end of the month and hoping you still have enough in the bank to cover all your payments.
5. Transfer Balances to Zero Interest Cards
If you're able to find a credit card offer that will allow you to transfer balances and pay no interest, doing so can save you some cash and help you achieve your debt-free goal much faster.
Zero-interest offers are often readily available, especially if your credit score is excellent. Basic credit card research should turn up several options that you can compare.
Just remember that you'll likely pay a fee to transfer balances, so it's not something you want to do continually. Watch out on your credit card terms sheet for expiring zero interest periods since you'll likely be facing a fairly high interest rate on your debt once it starts accruing.
6. Increase Income
While overspending can be a problem for people at any income level, if you're not able to cover the cost of your credit card debt with your regular income, it's time to think about earning more. Remember, we're talking about taking serious steps here to pay off debt and leaving nothing off the table.
That said, look at taking on a another job and increasing your income while you're working hard to pay off your debt. Don't worry – it can just be temporary for as long as you're still in debt.
7. Consider Additional Help
If your debt is a serious problem and you can't shake it on your own, there is help available. However, these options have downsides, too, so don't assume this is the easy way out.
You may want to consider trying to consolidate your debt. This could mean working with a credit counselor on a debt management plan that will spread out your payments to all your creditors.
If you aren't eligible for such a plan, another option is settling your debts for less than the balances. This will ease the burden, but you will suffer damage to your credit. Black marks will stay with you for years and may cause you to be rejected for a loan in the future.
Bankruptcy is an option, too, but you'll face the worst consequences on your credit history.
You'll certainly want to talk to an expert when considering any of these options, and they, too, may encourage you to exhaust all other plans first.


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A changing hotel business has forced management companies to follow suit by carving out new roles for themselves beyond their traditional duties. As owners are looking for better results and lower fees, management companies are finding new ways to stay alive.
If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium for Clement J. Barter, senior vice president of Conrad International Hotels, the rapidly growing division of Hilton Hotels Corp. The well-respected hotelier travels every few days to identify properties the Beverly Hills-based company could manage, or maybe even contribute equity to, as Conrad seeks to add two dozen new properties to its portfolio by the end of the century.
The Ireland native visited London, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Egypt and Barcelona for Conrad last week. He takes off for three more cities this week. "You have to go where the opportunities are," says Barter, who is also managing director of the Conrad International Brussels, considered the city's premier hotel. "You have to be relatively quick these days. If you're not, your competition will get there before you do."
Conrad International has identified key markets in Europe, the Far East and Africa and has created a rapid response team to go after the business. "We've made a list of where we want to be and have updated it, but we're flexible," Barter says. "Because of the intense competition, some companies are willing to sacrifice standards to get a contract in a city they want to be in. We won't lower our standards." Barter and Conrad are not alone. Across the country and throughout the world, hotel management firms are on the prowl for new opportunities.
A changing business
Aggressively pursuing new business while holding on to current clients, companies are discovering that the hotel business has changed and are adapting accordingly. Today's hotel owners are demanding better bottom line results and reduced fees. Management companies are seeking stability and a bigger share of the pie. Hotel landlords continue to put the squeeze on management companies, with some forming close relationships with certain managing entities. At the same time, the management industry itself is consolidating, while increasing numbers of properties are adapting to the current economic times.
"I think the hotel management business has experienced a large increase in the number providing management services," says John A. Lambert, senior vice president of operations at Englewood, Colo.-based Richfield Hospitality Services Inc. "It's an easy business to get into really."
However, Lambert says, the reason for the consolidation of the management industry stems from the fact that as clients are becoming more sophisticated, they expect more out of their management providers. And that's good news for large companies like Richfield. "The exciting thing is that it is becoming more sophisticated forcing organizations such as ourselves to become more specialized."
For some used to a magic carpet ride, it's a whole new world. "I think pure fee management contracts by now are pretty much dead, replaced by joint ventures and equity contributions, along with other types of alliances," says J. William Sharman Jr., president of the Lancaster Group, a hospitality firm that operates hotels in Los Angeles; Washington, D. C.; Chicago; Houston; and Great Neck, Long Island. "Institutional owners know they can require management companies -- particularly the bigger, more capitalized ones -- to actually make contributions to a property, whether it is equity, a loan, an investment in a joint venture or a contribution of furniture, fixtures and equipment."
Sharman adds that it's even possible down the road that the concept of hotel management could change further. "We may even see more of the triple net lease situation, where a hotel management company becomes the lessee and bears the risk of generating income for lease payments, which are guaranteed to owners," Sharman says.
Ken Mason, president of Alexandria, Va.-based Mason Hospitality, agrees the industry is not like it was five years ago -- the difference being that many owners now look at a management fee as an expense instead of an investment.
"I think the reason is that for a lot of years, in the heyday of management contracts, people just sat back collecting fees," he says. "They weren't really involved in the management of the hotel. They had long-term contracts; they were protected; they didn't have to produce. So they just hired a manager and put them in place and sat back and collected fees."
Mason recently talked to a general manager who was bemoaning the fact that the management company he previously worked for hired him, put him on location and then became almost invisible. The only time he saw or heard from the management company executives was when they had a meeting with owners.
"They gave him no back-up support in sales and marketing and no other assistance in helping him manage the property," says Mason. "When the owner became unhappy with the property's progress, the management contract company let the GM go so they could keep the management contract."
In these competitive times, that's the wrong approach, Mason says. Most of the properties Mason Hospitality is currently associated with have been with the company for some five years, he says, and each of the properties have shown significant growth each year in ADR, occupancy and profit. "We manage for a group of owners willing to reinvest in the hotels and make our job somewhat easier," he continues. "The key today is for the management company to be involved on a day-to-day basis, and I think in our instance, we're doing that successfully. We manage hotels instead of just monitoring the activity of the on-site general manager."
Niche markets find strengths
There is no substitute for hands on experience, says Jack Giacomini, chairman and CEO of Santa Fe Management in Carlsbad, Calif., and no replacement for bottom line results. "We're highly incentive-ized, we only make money when the owner is making money," he says. "We've developed a niche market. Santa Fe works for passive investors who require a good amount of involvement. The secret of our success is that we limit ourselves to only 16 properties. We want to be small. If an asset manager wants to pick up the phone and ask a question of a large management company, he may have to talk to the GM who has to go to the regional manager who contracts the vice president of the division and then maybe to the president of company; it could be a week or longer. At Santa Fe, our owners talk directly to me."
Santa Fe Management is extremely busy nowadays, Giacomini says, with a number of projects in the pipeline like hotels throughout inter-mountain and West Coast areas. "We try to channel the hotels we identify as good acquisitions and management contracts to our parent company or to our investor clients for consideration as an acquisition candidate," he says.
"Typically, what we're looking at is 12 to 24 months turnaround. We would take over the property via management or client acquisition and spend six to 12 months performing deferred maintenance, initiating the marketing and management acquisition, then creating a turnaround," Giacomini says. "Typically, it takes 12 to 18 months for a hotel to improve in value for new owners and produce a return on investment."
In the West, Giacomini says, prices for hotels are remaining stable and are beginning to increase as occupancies and daily rates rise. "In the inter-mountain areas where we do business, we're seeing a lot of renovations going on at older hotels where they are correcting a lot of deferred maintenance," he says. "Older hotels are being sold, but not at fire sale prices."
Down the road, Giacomini feels there are some serious decisions for management companies. "I see big management companies going toward equity, becoming owner-operators and keeping the management contracts.
"Our philosophy is we are not owner-operators, but third parties. We eliminate any conflict of interest on a client property. I think there will be room for a regional management company such as ours, which manages only a limited number of properties and spends time and resources on those properties as a fiduciary manager, working those properties as an actual owner would."
Incentive fees gain importance
Kirby D. Payne, CHA, who is president of American Hospitality Management Co. in Minneapolis and chairman of the International Council of Hotel-Motel Management Cos., points out that incentive fees are becoming more important and are more closely tied to exceeding the owner's anticipated return.
"We have a deal where the investors were promised a 12% cash on cash return every year, not counting appreciation of the hotel," Payne says.
"We don't get our incentive fee until investors get their 12%. You're going to see more of that because one, the competition, and two, investors and owners are going to demand it. There are a lot less management companies today than there were two to three years ago. Some of the big management companies are smaller."
Over the past several years, management contracts have changed dramatically, particularly in the area of performance-based compensation, says Karen Johnson, a vice president in the Los Angeles office of PKF Consulting. "Even the payout of historically fixed `base' fees is now being linked to the achievement of minimum performance levels," she says. "A portion of the base fee is now driven by one of three factors: a certain value of net income, dollar improvement of specified revenue or expense line items or the attainment of an agreed-upon net operating income percentage."
According to a study by PKF Consulting, variable "incentive fees" are usually subordinated to a specified amount of debt service, as well as to the owner's preferred return. Generally, base fees and corporate office charges are lower for independent management companies than for the chain management/franchisors. When faced with the prospect of paying both a franchise fee and management fee, owners find that the combined fees of a total manager/franchisor package to be more economical, she adds.
Business becomes more competitive
Because of their willingness to manage hotels in REO portfolios and those pending sale, independent companies predominate in short-term contracts, charging a premium to take on properties in this predicament unless their contract is with an established client.
Johnson believes there will be a continuation of such trends as performance-driven base fees, the reduction or elimination of corporate office charges and relatively short terms for management contracts.
For such reasons, the hotel management business is becoming much more competitive than it's ever been, says Morris Lasky, CEO of Lodging Unlimited in West Chester, Pa., who has been in the business 41 years and has had over 250 management contracts. New hotel owners are more in the way of owner/operators, he continues, with the number of contracts available to independent management companies becoming more limited.
In the 1980s, when the hospitality business began to experience problems, Lasky says many of the people who were fired on the executive level began to operate management companies from their homes. "You had a guy in his basement with his wife as his secretary who could charge a 1% or 2% management fee, while the guys with a support staff had to get 4%, 5% or 6%," he says. "During that time the industry went from 400 or 500 management companies to 1,700. But the pie began shrinking. Now you have a lot of owner/operators, who purchase a hotel with the intention of operating themselves. The supply of potential clients is getting smaller. Competition is becoming so fierce, management contracts are becoming less and less profitable."
For independent management companies, there are fewer contracts available for a smaller amount of money. "We've survived because we diversified," he says. "We started doing consulting, turning around sick properties and conducting audits."
Still Lasky predicts that in three or four years, a number of today's hotel deals are "going to waffle." "There'll be a lot of weakness in certain markets and we'll see some areas soften," he says. "Just look at Orlando. Every hotel inside Disney World is profitable but, outside the gates, that's different story. The same for Atlanta. Once the Olympics are over, I think you'll see lots of problems -- and lots of opportunities for management companies such as ours."
A number of hotel firms have become more aggressive in the past few years.
C. A. Anderson, vice president/development for Red Lion Hotels Inc. on Vancouver, Wash., says his company is enhancing its relationships with current owners as well as eyeing joint ventures and limited liability partnerships to assist Red Lion's growth.
"We're putting in on the equity side, as well as providing our expertise," he continues. "In the old days, you went out and got a pure management contract, but we haven't found a lot of those. So we go shoulder to shoulder with owners, risking our capital."
Red Lion is pursuing growth in a number of ways, he says, including management agreements, in the form of joint ventures, future opportunities in franchising and even leasing some assets from insurance and pension fund investors. A recent joint venture undertaken by Red Lion involved the former Sheraton in Spokane, now the Red Lion City Center. The partnership that had the asset was in need of additional capital; the hotel continued to lose market share.
"We offered to underwrite the current loan, recapitalize the joint venture and bring an additional $7 million in renovation capital," Anderson says.
"In exchange, we received a 25% equity position with an option to buy an additional 30%, and we received long-term management for the hotel and another flag. Already the hotel is beating its plan, half-way through renovation."
Red Lion has a number of similar types of joint ventures, he adds, and the company feels very aggressive about its management abilities so it is willing to contribute capital. "Owners are more sophisticated now than in the early 1980s, and they are expecting significant returns," Anderson says. "They want other capital at risk, and more and more major (management) companies, will do that. We're going to see more consolidation of management companies, and we're going to see more management companies become equity players."
Hotel sales rebound
Currently, one of the closely watched sectors in the hospitality industry is hotel sales. William J. Hoffman, president of Trigild Corp. in Del Mar, Calif., notes that the hotel business in the Golden State, which was so distressed for the last few years, is rebounding nicely. Sales prices are moving up very quickly, attributable not only to a feeding frenzy for bargains, but also to a tremendous interest in buyers looking for hotels in California. Thanks to an upswing in visitors and business opportunities in California, occupancy and earnings are improving too.
"Our office gets many calls every day from people who say, `We have cash, we're anxious to buy hotels, do you know of any that are available'," Hoffman says. "What we get is a sense that some people are afraid they are getting left out. Hotels have been a bargain for the last few years, but some investors were frightened off until now. But now the bargains are running out. There are fewer hotels with a large discount to replacement costs."
A few years ago, investors were buying hotels at $0.20 to $0.30 on the dollar in California, but then there were not as many buyers willing to gamble. "Today, you can get hotels for $0.75 and $0.80 on the dollar but there is competition for those properties," he says.
Trigild took over a property from the RTC a number of years ago, Hoffman notes. It was on the market three years before it was sold and the sales price declined steadily. In contrast, Hoffman continues, Trigild was given a five hotel portfolio for a lender last fall. Those properties sold in short order at a price 30% above that the owners thought they would receive six months ago.
Owners are still changing flags, with management companies like Trigild being sought out to manage more properties. The difference from five years ago is that management is for a shorter period, with terms usually more attractive to the owner. "Fees tend to be lower, and there is more demand," Hoffman says. "Smaller management companies have disappeared, as profit margins have narrowed."
Industry remains strong
Continuing to whet the appetite of management companies is the continued strength of the hotel industry -- nationally and internationally. Craig Schafer, president of Colliers International Hotel Realty, a hotel brokerage company in Seattle, adds there is still a great deal of investor demand for hotels, particularly for full-service products that can be purchased for less than replacement value. But there are less of those assets on market as the supply and demand scenario continues to shift.
"It's a seller's market, although there is still a significant number of assets expected to trade over the next few years, particularly from the Japanese owners," Schafer says. "There have been a number of properties in the pipeline. It depends on the market region. There are many regions where we're starting to see a peaking of occupancy and, therefore, fewer assets available. We're starting to see a cycle of new supply that will, in turn, loosen up a number of assets that are not distressed, because owners think it's a good time to take their profits."
Basically, buyers today continue to be opportunity funds as well as REITs and hotel management companies that have aligned themselves with capital sources. "You're talking Capstar and Equistar as well as Interstate with Blackstone, HEI with Prudential -- a core group of about 10 hotel management companies that are either going public, are public or who have aligned themselves with capital sources to acquire properties."
Yet the sales may slow in the future, particularly where the costs of acquisition effectively gets closer to replacement costs. Such a scenario will eventually result in a new supply of rooms. An imbalance could be created, Schafer says, but that will depend on how much new construction occurs.
"It's going to take time for new construction to impact the marketplace, so we don't see a distressed period until 2000 or beyond," Schafer says. "As far as management companies, we're in for more consolidation. There will be a strengthening of the fee base as there are fewer management companies and the market firms up. The pendulum has swung in favor of the owner, and it's still in favor of the owner, but we see that position softening a bit, with more of an equilibrium. The management companies who have survived over the past two to three years and produced results will thrive."
Craig R. Mueller, senior manager at the Atlanta office of Deloitte & Touche, says there's still a lot of buyers and a good number of sellers in the hotel marketplace, but the business has become more competitive. "A good chunk of buyers are bringing in their own management teams," he says.
"It's become more competitive," Mueller says. "All the bank and government related workouts are pretty much gone. Insurance companies have unloaded their hotels and are starting to lend as well. Values are coming up, and profitability has improved as the markets have improved, but competitiveness is driving caps down a little and pushing values up."
Says Kirby Payne of American Hospitality Management. "I think the wise investors are laughing when people are trying to say you can still buy hotels for less than replacement cost. That may be true, but with some of those hotels, would you have replaced it in the first place?"
And with all the strength that the hotel industry is experiencing right now, Richfield's Lambert says that cannot take away from the importance of good management. "Strength (of the hotel business) won't hurt the management business -- it's emphasizing the importance of it."
Industry turns to new construction
Still acquisitions are out there, Payne says, and he sees some management companies doing them on their own, particularly with joint ventures. "You're going to see management companies doing more construction with more institutional investors loaning money, so the next step is investing," he says.
Paul Novak, president and CEO of Dallas-based Bedrock Partners, adds that hotel management companies are still being affected by the real estate whirlwind.
"There's just so much capital chasing those few hotels that are available," he says. "That tends to drive prices up, and you spend a lot of time working pretty hard and don't have real good odds to secure the deal."
Novak agrees that new construction is occurring, primarily in the limited-service sector as well as a new niche, the extended-stay product. The limited-service area has received a lot of attention, Novak says, but there is a some concern in the industry that the niche is headed for a significant overbuilding in the next 12 to 24 months. The other area of development that has created tremendous interest in the last six months is the budget or moderate priced extended-stay products. "Studio Plus and Homestead Village have had that market to themselves until recently, but there's been an incredible jump into that segment," Novak says. "In my over 25 years in this industry, I've never seen so many products announced within such a short period of time. We're talking about building 200 or 300 properties. If anywhere near the numbers of extended-stay properties get built that are being discussed and proposed, the sector could have a problem. It's hard to imagine the writing isn't on the wall."
Management companies should have some favorable opportunities with all this new construction, says Novak, but the unknown factor is who the developers of the new products will be. "If it's investors and they don't have operating expertise, it should be a terrific opportunity for hotel management companies," he says. "If it's developers who are operators, it won't be that lucrative. There could be a whole lot of hotels to manage in maybe another six to eight months."
Not content to wait around for possible hotel industry growth has been Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Hostmark Management Group, which is embarking on its own expansion plans. "We've been trying and working very hard to continue to add new product to our portfolio," says company president and COO Robert J. Cataldo. "We're working on some new Wingates, which is a cross between a Hampton and a Courtyard, and we're also looking at doing a couple of conversions -- retrofitting older properties, changing them, adding a new flag and bringing them back."
Cataldo, whose firm has been in the hotel management business for 25 years and currently manages or has equity interests in 41 properties, adds that there are quite a few opportunities for new development as well as for turning properties around. "It's just a matter of being able to team up with the right project," he says. "As the market gets tighter, it's going to require an investment or possible purchase of property so you can have continued growth."
Hostmark is renovating the Oxford in down-town Chicago and will build a new, all-suite property in Atlantic City. "Basically, the Oxford is an older property, and we're going to close it down and do a total gutting, then bring in a national flag," Cataldo says. "The market in the area is very strong, and we believe it's only going to get stronger."
Hostmark has signed up for a Wingate franchise in Champagne, Ill., Cataldo says, and is working on a project in the Chicago O'Hare area as well as one in Las Vegas.
"We're just in the embryonic stage of doing something internationally, and we've had contact with Middle East as well as Pacific Rim companies who we might joint venture with," he says. "One company doesn't feel they have the expertise to expand and wants to get an American firm in there. We'd be doing new construction in the Pacific Rim. And we'd be growing."


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Service and Reputation Go Hand in Hand: Tech Suppliers and Hotels Need to Work Together
July 11, 2017 1:11pm
By Jos Schaap, CEO and Co-Founder, StayNTouch
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." Warren Buffett
"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit." James Russell Lowell
We now live in a world where service, technology, and reputation are on a collision course - and this affects the hotel industry more than most other industry segments. According to a recent Hospitality Technology study, 85% of guests consider positive reviews and high ratings very important when making a hotel selection.
When thinking about a hotel's reputation, TripAdvisor, Google and the companies that supply reputation management solutions come first to mind. However, the reputation of a hotel goes much deeper when you intersect service and technology. Looking at a hotel's reputation from the outside, the top factors that affect reviews, and thus reputation, are cleanliness, Wi-Fi, service, food, amenities and believe it or not, the pool. All of these issues are directly related to the guest stay and the most prominent areas that the guest sees or uses. These areas are critical however with certain tweaks here and there, the reputation scores for each area can be increased by implementing better procedures, monitoring and delivering quick and effective resolutions.
Things that cannot be seen by the guest but that can complicate their visit immensely is when the technology that drives the hotel has issues. The issues can be as minor as a clock radio not working properly or the TV malfunctioning to a full system collapse where the hotel can niether check guests in or out, take reservations, or the door locks will not work making for a very uncomfortable service environment.
The service shift happens here. The technology provider must have exemplary service and deliver on their agreed upon service level agreement with the hotel to ensure that any system issue is dealt with expeditiously and with positive results. Also, shifting the primary systems, your PMS, out of the property and into the cloud helps immensely. While writing this article, I found a thread online where an IT person stated the following about their hotel PMS, "I'd rather burn my server room to the ground and get everyone to use construction paper, and crayons than ever let XXXXX into my environment again."
When a primary system goes down or has integration issues, it impacts every aspect of your business and ultimately affects every guest. Will they post online about this specific experience? Probably no, but they will post a derogatory review about the long wait at the front desk or not being able to check-out or order room service. The technology behind the scene can create havoc if it is not working at its optimal rate.
A strong and mutually beneficial relationship between the hotel and its software provider is incredibly important. A relationship of mutual trust must be achieved to deal with problems that arise that may impact hotel operations and thus the service delivery side of the business. Many technology companies tout themselves as partners but are viewed by the hotel as a vendor. If a technology company can escalate the relationship with the hotel by providing responsive service and support of their products, they can be seen as a true partner rather than just a vendor - and all stakeholders should be driving towards this goal.
Finally, when discussing service and support related to your technology providers, it is critical to ensure they are on the same page in regards to your expectations. Hotels can easily have over thirty different technology providers - and many of them need to interface their solutions. Too often, tech providers lay the blame and point fingers at each other when it comes to interface or integration issues. Hold each partner to the highest standard and commit to developing long-lasting relationships with them with a focus on service. The delivery of great service by technology providers to the hotel will ultimately enable the hotel to deliver on their guest service promises.
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Jos has a 20+ year track record in hotel software technology. He began StayNTouch with the vision of re-inventing the hotel PMS technology; making it simple, mobile and transitioning the software to the cloud. Prior to StayNTouch, Jos spent 17 years at MICROS Systems Inc. (Now Oracle Hospitality), as a Senior Vice President in charge of global product development and strategy for the Lodging and eCommerce divisions. During his tenure, MICROS' hospitality products became the global market leader growing the company's revenues from less than $300 million to $1.1 billion. Jos was responsible for introducing a number of new products enabling MICROS to enter all hospitality segments from limited to full-service hotels. Connect with Jos on linkedin.com/in/josschaap.
StayNTouch is a "Software as a Service" hotel property management systems (PMS) company focused on developing solutions that help hotels raise service levels, drive revenues, reduce costs, and ultimately change the way hotels can captivate their guests. Developed with mobility in mind, the pioneering platform enables hotels to create long lasting relationships with their guests by delivering personalized service levels that today's guests require. StayNTouch operates on tablets and smartphones, empowering hotel employees to go above and beyond in exceeding guest expectations at every touch point.
Powering over 75,000 rooms globally, our game-changing solution frees hotels from the constraints of legacy or premise systems, dramatically streamlines operations, increases margins, and revolutionizes how front-line staff connect with guests. StayNTouch is a trusted partner to many of the most forward thinking hotels, resorts, casinos and chains in the industry, including Yotel, Zoku Amsterdam, Valencia Hotels, The Freehand Hotels, Modus hotels and the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
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Coconuts sold in stores have a hard, brown exterior that remains once the outer husk has been hacked off. Removing the brown shell and reaching the white meat of a coconut requires some practice and skill with a heavy knife. Alternatively, you can peel the coconut by baking it for a short time until the shell is cracked.Continue Reading
Gather a screwdriver or a strong metal skewer, a large plastic bag, a heavy knife or hammer, and a smaller paring knife.
The top of the coconut shell has small holes. Poke the holes with the metal skewer or screwdriver, and turn the coconut over onto a large glass to drain. If the coconut juice tastes rancid, then the coconut is not fresh and may be unsuitable for cooking.
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Put the coconut on a baking sheet and keep an eye on it for 10 minutes, at which point a crack forms on the surface of the shell. Once this happens, pull the sheet out .
After the coconut has cooled down, put it in a large plastic bag. Place a large knife flat against the surface of the bag. Using your fist or a hammer, hit the coconut several times until it breaks. Finally, use a smaller knife to separate the shell from the coconut meat.


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issue 9 (print)
Welcome to another bumper edition of Blogosphere. Issue 9 has 164 pages filled with inspiration, tips and tricks and essential blogging advice.
Our cover interview is with the wonderful Ella Grace Denton, who reveals the challenges she's faced with the online world, what feminism means to her and the positive impact converting to veganism has had on her life.
We also have interviews with Emma Gannon, who talks openly about her multi-faceted career and the changes – both positive and negative – in the blogosphere, and Hannah Gale, who discusses rose-tinted Instagram feeds and the importance of balancing your online and real life.
Features include an investigation into the blogger vs journalist debate, a look at the emerging male blogger style scene, a handy guide to using Periscope, advice on how to improve your blog photography on a budget, and a reflective piece on the dangerous effects of social media on self-esteem. Plus many more…
Our staple sections of Food, Fashion, Lifestyle, Travel, Beauty, Photography, Parenting and Arts & Crafts return with a bounty of brilliant blog recommendations, which are worth bookmarking.
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The Government has published updated guidance on the Childhood Obesity Plan.We have picked out the key points for Primary Schools below, or to read the guidance in full read 'Childhood obesity: a plan for action' here.Key points;
- Today nearly 1/3 of children aged 2-15 are overweight or obese.
- Clear links between obesity and mental health problems.
- The economic cost was £5.1 billion in 2014/15, more than we spend on the Police, Fire Service and Judicial System combined.
- Soft Drinks Industry Levy confirmed to provide additional funding to reduce obesity by encouraging physical activity and balanced diets for school aged children - including a doubling of the Primary PE & Sport Premium in 2017.
- A further £10 million a year will be put into school healthy breakfast clubs.
- Every primary school child should get at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a day. At least 30 minutes should be delivered in school every day through active break times, PE, extra-curricular clubs, active lessons, or other sport and physical activity events, with the remaining 30 minutes supported by parents and carers outside of school time.
- During inspections, Ofsted will assess how effectively leaders use the Primary PE and Sport Premium and measure its impact on outcomes for pupils, and how effectively governors hold them to account for this. Physical activity will be a key part of the new healthy schools rating scheme, and so schools will have an opportunity to demonstrate what they are doing to make their pupils more physically active.
- County Sports Partnerships will work with National Governing Bodies of sport, the Youth Sport Trust and other national and local providers to ensure that from September 2017, every primary school in England has access to a co-ordinated offer of high quality sport and physical activity programmes, both local and national.


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World of Goo available for Nintendo Switch
World of Goo is now available for the Nintendo Switch console. Official trailer below:
Along with World of Goo, Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine can now also be played on the Switch.
World of Goo is now available for the Nintendo Switch console. Official trailer below:
Along with World of Goo, Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine can now also be played on the Switch.
Both Ron and Kyle are releasing new games next week, albeit with other collaborators and not each other.
Ron Carmel (together with Noel Llopis) is launching a mobile game combat game based diplomacy and subterfuge named, appropriately, Subterfuge. More information and a video on their website.
I've resurrected the old 2D Boy forum and put a read-only version online. If you're curious about the development of World of Goo or in any of the discussions that took place from 2008-2010, you can check it out here.
Soultaker has written to let me know that the World of Goo translation wiki will be closing soon. With the game out for more than four years, and the last major translations updated in 2010, I think one can say it has fulfilled its purpose!
Little Inferno officially launched today on Wii U and PC. And to mark the occasion, we've also launched InfernoFans.com - head over there for information and news about the game going forward (and let me know if you're able to help out with the content!)
The leaderboards are back! All the profile parsing and tower drawing has been rewritten in PHP, as the functions the original Python version required are no longer available.
Because of this there may be bugs - let me know if you spot any. However I've also taken the opportunity to add some new features, such as showing fan level achievements.
A lot of the data is now much easier to access, so ideas for improvement are welcome.
Here on GooFans I, along with the help of MOM4Evr and Albino Pokey, have put together a few rules for the forums. There haven't really been too many problems, but the forums are pretty active so this is an effort to keep them clean and organized. You don't have to check them every time you post, but it would be appreciated if you could take the time to read them over them and get a basic grip of how to keep the forums healthy
Little Inferno's first teaser and info on the beta program just appeared over here! Congrats to Kyle, Kyle, and Allan on getting this far, and we look forward to seeing the gameplay in the beta program.
I just heard word through the mysterious depths of the interwebs known only as "twitterverse" that there's been a blog update about Little Inferno, and it may come as soon as this winter! Check it out! http://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/building-little-inferno
Hey, look at that! Seems that our moderators have finally put together the long-awaited chapter tutorial! Check it out here: http://goofans.com/developers/resources/chapter-addin-development
Hopefully this will mean some awesome new chapter addins from our community members in the near-term future!


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Twitter Q1 2015 Advertising Developments
April 23, 2015
Current And Future Opportunities
Major Q1 2015 Twitter advertising developments included live streaming, new offline purchase behavior targeting and syndicated Tweets outside of the platform.
This intelligence brief provides an in-depth look at the key developments and their implications for advertisers.
Key Developments
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Monday, 18 November 2013 by Lauren Dils
We know people love their energy bars and supplements, heck we do too (when appropriate). But, all to often it seems like a guilt free way to get a candy bar in without calling it a candy bar. We have picked a fairly wide range of bars from well known brands, to some not so
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Cleaning a filthy mattress is hard. The level of problems dealt with depends on the type of dirt, but mattress cleaning is a difficult job comparable to carpet cleaning. If it is stained with water you can dry it up, but not when it is stained with urine, vomit or blood. It is much better to utilise mattress cleaning services rather than trying to clean the mattress without any success.
You can use the following ideas to clean the mattress successfully. Mattress cleaning is a hard job, and cleaning services are the best option to clean it, still you must be mindful of these ideas, guaranteeing you can clean up take care of your best mattress when needed.
Water, juice, blood, vomit, urine or other materials that can ruin your mattress need to be urgently drawn up using the vacuum. It does not enable the damage to spread out. You ought to not use the vacuum excessively, or else it will ruin your mattress.
There are some great wash-up options, and you can use any among them to clean the mattress. You can try your luck with common shampoo and cleaning options; however, it is much better to use great quality option. Once you have cleaned it, the leading surface of the mattress is cleaned up. In its layers, the dirt continues to be caught. You need to use some other type of cleaning options that are based on citrus concentrate.
Once the mattress is clean, it has to be appropriately dried. If you leave it damp for long, and after that, germs can grow in it. You have to take appropriate care of drying it totally. Use of vacuum is extremely suggested in cleaning procedure. If you do not desire to take such problem of vacuuming, cleaning, and drying the mattress, you had much better use services of mattress and carpet cleaning in
The cleaning company has experts for different kinds of cleaning needs and you do not have to take the pain of cleaning your mattress all on your own. The procedure used by them to clean the mattress is also different and hence offer a high level of tidiness.
The active ingredients, cleaning options and strategy used by them also make lots of distinctions. When you use cleaning services for the job of mattress cleaning or carpet cleaning, it also ensures that you do not have to take out time from your hectic schedule for such jobs.


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We're keeping it out of the landfills and on our sets!
By appointment only.
Winner of the 2014 Environmental Quality Award For Protecting and Enhancing Environmental Quality.
The only nonprofit prop house on the East Coast, Radke is making an ambitious—and groundbreaking—effort to tackle one of the entertainment industry's best-kept secrets: its epic waste problem.
Today the charitable and environmental aspects are equally important to the organization.
At Film Biz Recycling in Brooklyn, the detritus of New York's entertainment industry — from films and TV, music videos, advertisements and stage productions — has a home as it waits to be rented out, bought by the public or given to charity.
More than 60% of salvaged materials are donated to worthy causes


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Number of Pages: 120
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Publication Date: 2018
Series: Genesis to Revelation
Study the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, beginning with Joshua's story, then moving through Judges, and ending with the story of Ruth. Some of the major ideas explored are: sanctity and wonders, mercy in the face of judgment, judging the motive rather than the act, rest as an active state, God's positive and negative promises, putting our deeds in perspective, vengeance destroys the avenger, the visitor in our midst, and God's providence.Leader Guide includes:
More than 3.5 million copies of the series have been sold.
This revision of the Abingdon classic Genesis to Revelation Series is a comprehensive, verse-by-verse, book-by-book study of the Bible based on the NIV. These studies help readers strengthen their understanding and appreciation of the Bible by enabling them to engage the Scripture on three levels:
The meaning of the selected passages are made clear by considering such aspects as ancient customs, locations of places, and the meanings of words. The simple format makes the study easy to use.Updates will include:
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I received the same rifle about a month ago.Weather has not been real good lately.Might shoot it tomorrow.
My suspicion:A Criterion barrel is probably at least as good as a new original It is a subdiidiary of Kreiger,and,while its not a Kreiger,I suppose they know how to make a barrel.At least,as a new barrel,you do not have to wonder what the segmented steel cleaning rod and muzzle cleaning have done.
I'm not a Garand expert,you have two,I just got one.I suspect the stock straightness and stability,the finer points of fitting,the trigger group clamp up,etc are going to have more influence on final accuracy than a fancier barrel'
In any case,its not a benchrest gun.It will be a good day if I get to be skilled enough at position shooting that I believe the accuracy of my rifle is a limiting factor.I'll worry about it then!
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What Your Customers Won't Tell You: Help Desk Secrets For Success #2
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One of the first rules of help desk (or service desk) efficiency is to plan in advance for certain tickets to come up.
1. Prioritize.
Customers can't give you feedback in the area of prioritizing in the most meaningful way. This is because every customer feels that his or her issue is the most critical one on your list. After all, the customer's work has ground to a halt and he or she is typically already in a state of urgency by the time you hear from them.
But you as the help desk or service desk provider need to know exactly how to prioritize all tickets. From tackling a computer virus to simply re-setting a password, you need to have a clear procedure in place to know which issue to address, and when. Read More…
What Your Customers Won't Tell You: Help Desk Secrets For Success #1
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When you improve your customers' Do It Yourself capabilities, everyone wins.
"Do It Yourself" (DIY) customers are a growing phenomenon. Customers of your help desk or service desk often want the power to solve their own tech problems quickly, rather than having to:
- Call you,
- Get you to understand their issues over the phone,
- Or even potentially wait on hold for a service desk representative to become available.
One rule of Customer Satisfaction is to Give the Customer What He or She Wants.
Therefore, your Help Desk Secret #1 for success is:
Help Customers Help Themselves.
In a language that laypeople can understand, set up a self-service portal where customers can find solutions and workarounds posted in your knowledge base.
In addition, make sure you offer robust community forums where your customers can engage with each other — and with you when necessary. Read More…
Wealthiest Woman: If You Quit Being Lazy, You'd Be Rich Too
Australian mining heiress Gina Rinehart is worth $19 billion from her father's company. In her column in Australian Resources and Investment magazine, she says the non-rich should stop complaining about unfair financial practices of the rich. Why don't the less-privileged just get a job? She wonders…
"There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire," she writes. "If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself." She seems to feel she knows why some people are not rich, advising: "Spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working."
The mining baroness says environmental rules should be reduced and the minimum wage should be lowered. (The Australian minimum wage is AUS $15.06 an hour or $606 a week, about the same in U.S. dollars). Read More…


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Often called the City of Nawabs, Lucknow,is situated in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Fit to serve a king, one dish in particular that stands out in Lucknow are the kebabs.
Here we talk about a few of the must-taste kebabs in Lucknow.
Seekh Kebabs
Known as the original kebab, this popular variety features minced hand-blendedmutton with a secret recipe of spices and shaped into long rolls. These are then fried until they are melt-in-your-mouth soft and served piping hot with mint chutney and onion.
Shami Kebab
Blending dal with meat may seem like an odd combination, but in the case of the Shami Kebab it works like magic. A unique preparation made with a batter of 20% Bengal gram and 80% lamb kheema (mince). Add a blend of spices to the mix and this delectable mixture is then flattened into cutlet like shapes and fried for a delicious kebab unique to Lucknow.
Boti Kebab
While the other kebabs mentioned make use of minced meat, carnivorous eaters who enjoy meat pieces will love the Boti kebab. Usually made from the meat of a lamb leg, this delicious recipe features the muscle meat being marinated in a blend of yogurt and spices and then being roasted over an open charcoal fire.
A city rich in cuisine, the kebabs of Lucknow are reason enough to visit this city. Meat-lovers will enjoy the varied and delectable kebabs of Lucknow.


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