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Don't listen to your friends, they're losers!
I read a handful of blogs each day. I was about to write that I read a handful of travel blogs each day, but really I read a handful of credit card blogs each day, and those credit card blogs will sometimes talk about using the points from those cards to go on a plane and sit in business class. I've been reading these blogs for years, and over time they're starting to morph together into a stream of mantras repeated over and over until the next credit card deal comes along: "I OPENED 7 CREDIT CARDS AND I GOT A FLIGHT WORTH $37,275!…LOOK AT ME, I'M ON VACATION!"
Which made me think about Tom Vu. Tom Vu, you may remember, ran infomercials in the 1980s and 1990s touting a plan for buying and selling real estate. But his M.O. was to make you feel like crap when you saw the amazing ("amazing") lifestyle he led, filled with beautiful women ("beautiful women") and gigantic houses with waterfalls in the front yard.
As he said, "I hope you enjoy seeing my waterfall as much as I do. I built this water fountain right in front of my estate, so I feel good about it. I feel successful every time I come home. Speaking of waterfall, that remind me of a secret that made me to become very wealthy…" And so forth.
He would then tell you that if you weren't interested in that lifestyle, in taking risks on real estate, that you were "a loser." Or perhaps it was your friends telling you not to go to his seminars who were, in fact, losers. "I had to keep telling these people every time, I kept saying, 'You a loser! Get out of my way! I make it somehow!'" The key point: If you were satisfied with your non-slutty wife and waterfall-less house you were a loser. (And please, get out of his way.)
After reading the 372nd blog post about someone getting points through credit card signups and now they fly business class and if you don't fly business class you a loser, I was feeling just a bit beaten down. 275 ways to use 60,000 Ultimate Rewards points. If you miss this added bonus you a loser. It's exhausting.
So for all of us losers, I wanted to share a few thoughts:
– You are not a loser for flying coach on points. At some point this game will be up, and manufacturing points will slow to a drizzle (already happening), and you will be able to take more trips than if you flew in business class. It's OK to make that tradeoff. Really, it is.
– If you fly coach on an award ticket and still want to feel really special, Carmel Car charges about $50 for a Mercedes to take you to LaGuardia. Zabar's will sell you good caviar for $99, and you get a bottle of Dom Perignon for $169.99. I look forward to seeing 300 pictures of that.
– It's not sexy, but for 90% of you a cash back card is your best bet. Sure – you should feel free to get cards for their signup bonuses. But putting $40,000 on the Hilton credit card to earn Diamond status is, for almost everyone, completely nuts. Get the Fidelity Amex (no annual fee) or the Barclays Arrival ($89 annual fee), and enjoy your 2% cash back. You're probably better off with that. More on that here.
– You are not a loser for thinking that for many people, AirBnB is a better option for you when traveling to a city internationally than the $1,000/night Hyatt that you got for free. In many cases you should save those free nights for when there are no better options. A $150/night 1-bedroom apartment in Paris is probably a better choice for you if you don't care about a small, schmancy room at the Hyatt. Save the Hyatt nights for when you don't have a $150 alternate option, that's a much, much better value.
– You are not a loser for trading down to coach to take your family along. Teaching kids about how wonderful travel is far outweighs the benefits of sitting up front. Sure, people would rather see a photo of a plate of business class chicken than a photo of your kid playing on an ipad in coach. Their loss. Or not.
– You can probably get 8-10 cards per churn. But you are not a loser if you're only comfortable getting 1 or 2 cards a year. The Internet makes it easy for people who take things to the extreme to make it seem like they are normal and you are a loser for not taking part. Sleeping comfortably and not worrying about credit cards and manufacturing spend makes you sane, not a loser.
Traveling – whether it's in first class on Singapore Airlines or in coach on Icelandair, is amazing. Whatever choices you make about how to spend whatever points you choose to generate are completely OK. I promise – if you haven't flown business class internationally you really, truly are not missing that much. As I keep writing – a shitty version of a bed, even if it's on an airplane, is still a shitty version of a bed. It's better than coach, absolutely. But if you've ever sat on a couch, you've been more comfortable. Be thrilled that we live in an age – the only age in the history of humans – where we can pretty much roam around the world for next to nothing. That's fantastic.
I'm not sure why it's been bothering me so much lately – maybe because for years it felt like the good content outweighed the you-a-loser content. But the scales seem to have tipped the other way lately, and I think it's good to remember that, devaluations and all, we have it really good. And for those of us who are open to coach and alternate lodging, it's almost as good as it's ever been…
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Sin, Confession and Redemption
59 Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save,
nor his ear too dull to hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are stained with blood,
your fingers with guilt.
Your lips have spoken falsely,
and your tongue mutters wicked things.
4 No one calls for justice;
no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies;
they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
5 They hatch the eggs of vipers
and spin a spider's web.
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
6 Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;
they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are evil deeds,
and acts of violence are in their hands.
7 Their feet rush into sin;
they are swift to shed innocent blood.
They pursue evil schemes;
acts of violence mark their ways.
8 The way of peace they do not know;
there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;
no one who walks along them will know peace.
9 So justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
10 Like the blind we grope along the wall,
feeling our way like people without eyes.
At midday we stumble as if it were twilight;
among the strong, we are like the dead.
11 We all growl like bears;
we moan mournfully like doves.
We look for justice, but find none;
for deliverance, but it is far away.
12 For our offenses are many in your sight,
and our sins testify against us.
Our offenses are ever with us,
and we acknowledge our iniquities:
13 rebellion and treachery against the Lord,
turning our backs on our God,
inciting revolt and oppression,
uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
14 So justice is driven back,
and righteousness stands at a distance;
truth has stumbled in the streets,
honesty cannot enter.
15 Truth is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.
The Lord looked and was displeased
that there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no one,
he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;
so his own arm achieved salvation for him,
and his own righteousness sustained him.
17 He put on righteousness as his breastplate,
and the helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on the garments of vengeance
and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.
18 According to what they have done,
so will he repay
wrath to his enemies
and retribution to his foes;
he will repay the islands their due.
19 From the west, people will fear the name of the Lord,
and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory.
For he will come like a pent-up flood
that the breath of the Lord drives along.[a]
20 "The Redeemer will come to Zion,
to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,"
declares the Lord.
21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the Lord. "My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever," says the Lord.
The Glory of Zion
60 "Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
2 See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.
3 Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
4 "Lift up your eyes and look about you:
All assemble and come to you;
your sons come from afar,
and your daughters are carried on the hip.
5 Then you will look and be radiant,
your heart will throb and swell with joy;
the wealth on the seas will be brought to you,
to you the riches of the nations will come.
6 Herds of camels will cover your land,
young camels of Midian and Ephah.
And all from Sheba will come,
bearing gold and incense
and proclaiming the praise of the Lord.
7 All Kedar's flocks will be gathered to you,
the rams of Nebaioth will serve you;
they will be accepted as offerings on my altar,
and I will adorn my glorious temple.
8 "Who are these that fly along like clouds,
like doves to their nests?
9 Surely the islands look to me;
in the lead are the ships of Tarshish,[b]
bringing your children from afar,
with their silver and gold,
to the honor of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.
10 "Foreigners will rebuild your walls,
and their kings will serve you.
Though in anger I struck you,
in favor I will show you compassion.
11 Your gates will always stand open,
they will never be shut, day or night,
so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations—
their kings led in triumphal procession.
12 For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish;
it will be utterly ruined.
13 "The glory of Lebanon will come to you,
the juniper, the fir and the cypress together,
to adorn my sanctuary;
and I will glorify the place for my feet.
14 The children of your oppressors will come bowing before you;
all who despise you will bow down at your feet
and will call you the City of the Lord,
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 "Although you have been forsaken and hated,
with no one traveling through,
I will make you the everlasting pride
and the joy of all generations.
16 You will drink the milk of nations
and be nursed at royal breasts.
Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior,
your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
17 Instead of bronze I will bring you gold,
and silver in place of iron.
Instead of wood I will bring you bronze,
and iron in place of stones.
I will make peace your governor
and well-being your ruler.
18 No longer will violence be heard in your land,
nor ruin or destruction within your borders,
but you will call your walls Salvation
and your gates Praise.
19 The sun will no more be your light by day,
nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you,
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.
20 Your sun will never set again,
and your moon will wane no more;
the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your days of sorrow will end.
21 Then all your people will be righteous
and they will possess the land forever.
They are the shoot I have planted,
the work of my hands,
for the display of my splendor.
22 The least of you will become a thousand,
the smallest a mighty nation.
I am the Lord;
in its time I will do this swiftly."
The Year of the Lord's Favor
61 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,[c]
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,
3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of joy
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting of the Lord
for the display of his splendor.
4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.
5 Strangers will shepherd your flocks;
foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
6 And you will be called priests of the Lord,
you will be named ministers of our God.
You will feed on the wealth of nations,
and in their riches you will boast.
7 Instead of your shame
you will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours.
8 "For I, the Lord, love justice;
I hate robbery and wrongdoing.
In my faithfulness I will reward my people
and make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 Their descendants will be known among the nations
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
that they are a people the Lord has blessed."
10 I delight greatly in the Lord;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the soil makes the sprout come up
and a garden causes seeds to grow,
so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness
and praise spring up before all nations.
- Isaiah 59:19 Or When enemies come in like a flood, / the Spirit of the Lord will put them to flight
- Isaiah 60:9 Or the trading ships
- Isaiah 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind
Request for Prayer
3 As for other matters, brothers and sisters, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you. 2 And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil people, for not everyone has faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. 4 We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we command. 5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.
Warning Against Idleness
6 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching[a] you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone's food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9 We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. 10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."
11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. 13 And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
14 Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel ashamed. 15 Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as you would a fellow believer.
Final Greetings
16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.
17 I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand, which is the distinguishing mark in all my letters. This is how I write.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:6 Or tradition
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Lincoln Christian University's
Christian Women's Conference, scheduled for April 30, will feature
Dr. Ruth Graham, daughter of famed and cherished evangelist Dr.
Billy Graham, and acclaimed worship leader and author Gwen Smith.
"I didn't always live up to what my
parents wanted for me," she said in a 2009 interview in Tampa, "But
they gave me unconditional love when I needed it most."
Graham is the third child of parents Ruth —
whose name she shares —
and Billy Graham, who has been named in the USA Today/Gallup poll's
"Top 10 Most Admired Men in the World" 56 times since 1955.
Gwen Smith is one of three co-founders of "Girlfriends in God," a
nondenominational ministry that crosses generational and racial
boundaries to bring the body of Christ together as believers. The
ministry currently has more than 500,000 subscribers to its online
Smith is also a speaker, author, concert artist, songwriter and
worship leader. Her enthusiastic, relatable communication style puts
audiences at ease and bridges generational, denominational and
racial divides. She has shared her stories and songs on many
television programs, including "LIFE Today," "The 700 Club," "The
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The annual conference at LCU's Earl C Hargrove Chapel Auditorium is
an opportunity for Christian women from Illinois and neighboring
states to be inspired and renewed by world-class speakers and each
other. This year's event will also have an interpreter for the deaf
"We want to make a lasting difference in the lives of Christian
women," said Sue Rogers, event organizer and administrative
assistant to the associate vice-president of alumni services at LCU.
"It is an ongoing goal to provide a day that will plow deep and wide
and bring growth into their spiritual walk with Christ. We want
women to walk away feeling spiritually, emotionally and
intellectually refreshed."
Registration is required and includes
all four conference sessions and lunch. Cost is $35 before April 23
or $40 thereafter. Seating is limited and advance registration is
strongly encouraged. Online
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1 Make card from cardstock.
2 Trim patterned paper; triple mat with cardstock and adhere.
3 Punch circles from cardstock; layer and adhere (use foam tape for one layer).
4 Stamp wheel twice on cardstock. Trim valentine wedge and adhere.
5 Attach spinner with brad. Adhere wheel.
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Social media recruiting: No more 'post and pray,' recruiters use social networking to fill jobs
In the war for talent, it's no longer enough for recruiters to be online.
Now they have to be social, as in social networks, where savvy recruiters are scooping potential candidates even when those candidates had no thought of looking for a new job.
Chad MacRae's Vancouver start-up Recruiting Social is taking a new tack on traditional recruiting. It's an approach that's attracting fans, most recently earning MacRae a spot with five other recruiters chosen from 8,000 who applied to be on Top Recruiter, a Miami-based online reality show.
Here is a podcast of my interview with MacRae.
And in this edited version of our interview, MacRae talks about new ways to find talent and offers tips for job seekers.
Q: What is Recruiting Social?
A: We are a recruitment company. What we do is we focus on a service called talent pipelining so we work as hourly consultants to our clients here in Vancouver and across North America. We get to know the company's cultures, we get to know what kind of talent fits within the companies and essentially what we do is we act as an extension to a company's internal recruiting team … and eat, breathe and live their culture.
Q: How do you find the talent where other recruiting agencies may not?
A: We can dive into social media … we can build our own search engine to find the hidden resumes. We have developers that build their own (resume) website and their wives or husbands say: 'Why do you build that website, nobody's ever going to see it.' We find that website, it's a good ego boost for the talent we find. We tweet out our jobs but we can also do a boolean search string. We pull together some terms to search the Internet, to find the talent based on keyword search.
Q: How do you become a social recruiter as opposed to an ordinary recruiter?
A: Most recruiters will post the jobs — we call it in recruiting, post and pray. So you post the job and you pray that people are going to apply. With the war for talent here in Vancouver you can't really do that. You have to go out there and find the people and find the talent.
Q: I know a lot of HR people use LinkedIn, use social media. How exactly do you use it? Walk me through a search.
A: What people don't know is the average LinkedIn user is probably on about 17 minutes a month so you're not always getting them right away and getting the responses. We had to find key other areas, ways to find the talent. Yes we do use LinkedIn. We also search Twitter. We type into Google the key words we're looking for — when we go to a client we take the key companies they are looking to hire from — the key skills they are looking for. We research, research, research and hopefully convert those people that we find into resumes.
Q: The people you find, they're not necessarily looking for work, right?
A: No, it's our job to sell it. I talk to a lot of the developers in the companies I recruit for and ask: 'How are you finding the market?' They tell me 'Chad, I get five or six LinkedIn messages a week from people trying to headhunt me and recruit me for other jobs.' A lot of these messages are just going in the void. The developers aren't reading them, the talent isn't reading the messages so they are not responding.
Q: What do you do that gets your LinkedIn message or your message read?
A: A generic message I see come out: 'I have come across you on LinkedIn and I am impressed by your experience. 'If you get that five times a week, it doesn't really matter. What you have to do is just be somebody worth knowing, be a subject-matter expert in your area. If you are recruiting in a certain area, share articles with the talent out there and just open that conversation. Recruitment now isn't talent going to a job board, it's a conversation, it's a two-way street.
Q: What advice do you have for job seekers?
A: Update your LinkedIn. Try to be active a little bit on social media. Recruiters are looking more and more at people's Twitter accounts. What do they (prospective recruits) do outside work — are they blogging? Update your Facebook photo to a professional photo.
Q: You have mentioned community is very important to you.
A: Yes, it's very important to me. We've teamed up with a foundation called the Stand Foundation. What they do is they create scholarships for marginalized youth in Vancouver. We donate 10 per cent of all our fees to this foundation, off the top before we pay ourselves. We have donated $22,000 so far to the foundation and there have been some awesome success stories for the students who are getting grants. We have another $35,000 we'll be doing this fall as well.


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Mark Webber finally left Formula One this year for a sweet gig racing at Porsche's factory Le Mans effort. And now fellow F1 driver Jean-Eric Vergne is saying it's because he "got tired" of losing to that damn Sebastian Vettel kid all the time.
While it seems readily apparent to most people that he probably left due to an increasingly antagonistic relationship with his own Red Bull Racing team and the fact that he's getting on in years and he had such a sweet job offer lined up, Vergne said that it's because he's just jealous, according to SPEED:
"He would not even be happy if his team continued to win everything — you have the same car but you're beaten every weekend by your teammate. You would get tired of that," he added, "even when you are on the podium."
No, it had nothing to do at all with a completely crappy team situation. Mark Webber was just too slow for F1. Nevermind that damn near everybody was slower than Sebastan Vettel this past year, and they didn't quit. Nope. It's just Mark Webber being slow. And jealous. And maybe slowly jealous.
It's worth noting that Jean-Eric Vergne still drives for Red Bull's B-team, Scuderia Toro Rosso, and lost out to teammate Daniel Ricciardo for Webber's old seat for next year. Jean-Eric Vergne was slower than Daniel Ricciardo last year, especially in the latter half of the season.
Jean-Eric Vergne did not quit F1.
Just saying. Maybe his hypothesis needs work.
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The UN has recently upped the pressure on militias and entities that use child soldiers. Armen Georgian asks the UN Special Representative for Children and Conflict whether these sanctions have had any effect. Leila Zerrougui explains that the biggest challenge is stopping non-state armed groups from using child soldiers, since they are much less vulnerable to outside pressure than governments.


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Two companies are warning state regulators that they will collectively be laying off about 150 employees, the state said Monday.
Capital One Financial Corp. told the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation that it planned to cut 54 jobs from its information technology department in Laurel, with layoffs starting in October and continuing into January. The company is based in McLean, Va.
Separately, federal contractor Omni Corp., which provides property maintenance, repair and other services, said it would lay off 97 employees in the Frederick County community of Emmitsburg Oct. 1.
New Mexico-based Omni told the state that its contract to provide services at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg would not be renewed because the work is moving in-house.
Omni could not be reached for comment. A Capital One spokesman said laid-off employees would receive "extensive" career transition services, while those who are full-time workers would also be eligible for severance and retraining assistance.


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Creative and Colorful Bookworm for Book Lovers
The Dutch design studio, Atelier 010, has completed a creatively ingenious bookshelf for people who like "sinking" into the universe of reading. Instead of going to a library, to feel that particularly beautiful feeling of belonging to that universe, entirely articulated with books or escape to the countryside, in search of tranquility, you can now create a smooth reading ambience, in the intimacy of your home. With a modern look and ready to offer a unique experience, the Bookworm is not only keeping your favorite reading items together, but also a warm sitting place.
The Bookworm is a fun piece of furniture. The super splash of orange and fresh green enhance the reading experience. Orange is the color that suggests the acceleration of the creative process, while green is the color of forever lasting freshness (and of everlasting spring). The shelf does not require additional support. It stands by itself, thanks to its steel base. The interesting curvy shape reveals the sitting area, embedded in the center of it. It even has a light bulb incorporated for your late night readings. Without being too pretentious, the functional and creative Bookworm fits modern environments, enriching your reading experience by making it more pleasant and cozy.


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I love to participate in NaNoWriMo, but this year for the first time I'll have a full-time job during November. Is it feasible to write less on weekdays and "make up" for it on the weekend? Should I try to squish in extra time during my lunch break, or do all my writing in the evening and risk not getting to bed on time? Should I do extra prep work to try and combat writer's block? I usually "pants" my writing because if I plan overmuch my brain starts to trick itself into thinking "You already wrote that, this is boring" and refuses to actually flesh out the details. Any advice?
1Does [this post] (writers.stackexchange.com/questions/221/…) help? – Elizabeth Oct 11 '11 at 20:11
Do not put pressure on yourself by saying "Oh, I can write more at the weekend to compensate what I've missed during the week." You will throttle your motivation, you will strangle your creativity. You will get, what you fear most: writer's block.
Should you write in the evening and risk to get not enough sleep? Well, why do you think they call it "Thirty day and nights of literary abandon"? They mean it.
Don't do prep work, just write. That's what it is all about. Write when you find time. Learn to say "no" to people who want to interrupt. If there is no emergency (fire, injury), write!
How can you achieve your daily goal? First you have to define one. You have 30 days, 50,000 words to write. With a rough estimate of 220 words per page you have to write 7 to 8 pages per day.
Do that. Sit down in the evening and if you haven't written enough during lunch break, write till you have 8 pages. It doesn't matter what. If you think it does not make sense, keep writing. If you think it does not fit to what you wrote yesterday, keep writing. If you know for sure, that the world will laugh at you for this moronic nonsense you are producing, keep writing.
If you cannot make 8 pages for what reason soever, don't sweat it. Try to write 8 pages the next day. Do not try to add the missing pages to the work goal of the next day. The worst thing that can happen is, that you have on December 1st only 40,000 words written. Then you missed the goal, yes, but you have 40,000 words you would not have written otherwise.
Keep writing.
The way Nanowrimo is designed, you are supposed to write by the seat of your pants. The idea is you just write, without analysing or thinking much. You can create a short 1-2 page plot summary, but plotting the whole story and all the characters will take too much time.
The reason for this is- most people fail at writing not because of poor plotting / characterisation, but because they fail to complete their book.
I used to write at lunch, but it attracts too much attention (especially if you bang on the keyboard like me :) ). Unless you are willing to answer a lot of questions, I suggest you get a laptop, and find a quiet place.
If you get writer's block, just write about not being able to write! Regards it getting boring- just add variety. Add humour, even if your book is serious, add romance, even if you are writing a zombie novel, add kung fu fighting to a literary novel. Since the goal is just to write, it doesn't matter if the story doesn't make sense.
I work in CompSci, it's a security risk for me to bring in my own laptop. But I could grab a notebook and type the entry up later I suppose. – Yamikuronue Oct 12 '11 at 12:32
1@Yamikuronue, the laptop doesn't have to be connected to the corporate network, or even to the web. All you need is Ms Word or equivalent. – Shantnu Tiwari Oct 12 '11 at 14:31
Sounds like you shouldn't try to plan tho story since that tends to block you.
I've won Nano twice. Both times I wrote by hand in whatever scrap of time I had--not typing it up until the month was over. (You'll want to type up a page or two to figure out how many words you write per page, though.) Don't worry about messy handwriting or misspelled words or editing your handwritten stuff. Just keep going.
Unlike one of the previous responses, I think you should add missing pages to the next day--or better, keep track of how many words you have to write each day to finish on time. You start at 1,667, and if you miss too many days, you'll soon find yourself having to do 3,000 a day. That's a good motivation to not miss.
I actually did NanoWriMo during July and it wasn't that hard. Thinking it over via Mathematics, a person would have to write 560 words, 3 times a day for the whole month of November. It usually took me about an hour to write 560 words and whenever I felt stuck, I usually type what I have written on paper to the computer, also to save my hand from cramping. Making NaNoWriMo into small chunks makes it easy, now its just up to the person to decide if they are will to stay committed.


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This '69 Road Runner Screams, "Class In Session!"
Road Warriors
You're at a stoplight and a 5.0 Mustang pulls up along side of you. That guy behind the wheel…maybe he's just a kid; maybe he didn't live through the musclecar era. Whatever, he probably doesn't know half what he thinks he knows about real horsepower. The kid sees you looking at his NOS sticker on the side window and blips his throttle a few times.
Now it's your turn.
What do you want to be driving?
You want to teach this kid something, don't you? Let him know what real street racing is all about and show him what the bow-tie and the blue-oval crowd have been trying to figure out for years. Let him realize it's not who looks the prettiest crossing the line, but in what order that line is crossed. Show him that there are certain performance modifications not sold in catalogs, and that all of the money in daddy's wallet won't buy what a few quality hours under the hood can teach.
Now what do you want to be driving? Is it something along the lines of what you see here?
Who wouldn't get a little nervous lining up next to this beefy Road Runner? The profile alone is enough to send shivers down the spine of most wannabe street warriors. Add to that the roar of a 440 and you've got rolling intimidation. And, unlike some show-stealers, when the light goes green, this sleek beast doesn't fall short of the hype.
Stan McGuire has been dishing out lessons to know-nothing street racers in his no-nonsense '69 Road Runner since July 2000. Although he bought the car in the spring of '96, it took Stan three years to complete the modifications, doing all the work himself. In 1999, Stan took the car for a test drive, and, after only 23 miles, another driver ran a red light and took off the front end of Stan's freshly built bruiser. After spending another year getting things back in order, Stan has certainly earned his stripes on the street. Now Stan tells us the Road Runner has over 900 miles on the clock and he drives it nearly every weekend.
The B-Body is powered by a 440+6 that's been bored .060-over with forged Sealed Power pistons. Combined with 906 ported and polished heads, the big-block delivers a whopping 12.5:1 squeeze. The 440 inhales through a set of Tri-power Holleys, while Hedman adjustable 2 1/8-inch Jet Hot Coated headers deliver the exhale. A Lunati cam featuring a .690 lift and 312-degree duration manages the timing duties through Harlan Sharp roller rockers and solid lifters. Power is then channeled to a Chrysler A833 Hemi four-speed transmission and selected via a Hurst/Mr. Gasket Vertical Gate shifter.
The Road Runner's ride and handling has seen significant upgrading thanks to a transplanted E-Body disc brake front suspension and a rear ladder bar/coil-over setup. This all comes together with the help of a Dana 60 rear, 5.38:1 Strange spool, Competition Engineering three-way adjustable front shocks, and Alden coil-over Double Eagle rear shocks. Rolling stock consists of 15×6 and 15×14 Stockton steel wheels front and back, respectively, and Coker P205/75R15 redlines up front with matching S445/50-15 redlined tires in back.
Stan got a little help in the looks category with an exterior base coat/clearcoat applied by Ace Body and Motor in Des Moines, Iowa. Stan, however, did install the 15-gallon Triangle Engineering fuel cell himself. And yes, that is a factory hood. Inside the cockpit, Stan did his own upholstery work, as well as fabricate the custom dash and ignition panel mounted in the passenger compartment.
Despite all the performance modifications, Stan tells us the Road Runner still cruises like a dream, and even in the dead of summer the engine stays fairly cool and guzzles a reasonable amount of fuel…unless he opens up the throttle. But when he does that, fuel consumption rates aren't an issue. To educate the driver in the next lane, Stan believes the lessons he teaches on the asphalt are worth it.
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Square 1:21 is a new product offering specifically targetting the church community. The product allows churches to stream their live services in real time. Unlike streaming video that isolates watchers alone on the Internet, Square 1:21 combines live moderated chat, sermon notes, closed captioning, a global map of attendees, dynamic "ads" and many other community oriented features to create a shared place of worship.
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Pronounced "Square One Twenty-One"
Christian Meaning - Churches often refer and talk highly of the 1st Century Christian church (the church structure and family that formed right after Jesus' resurrection). 1 symbolizes both the idea of sharing the message of Jesus as the disciples and early Christian church did in the 1st century. Square 1 is the idea of returning or reconsidering the fundamentals or starting point for what it means to be a «church» (e.g. the famous saying/idiom «start from square one». The 21 is in reference to using 21st century techniques (e.g. an online streaming live, interactive web-based church service) to accomplish the 1st century goals in the 21st century.
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Our primary target clients are the largest 400 churches in the US. Within these churches, we will be targeting individuals with titles such as Online Director, Online Pastor, Webmaster, IT titles, and Senior Pastors and key assistants. Our secondary and longer term clients are nonprofits, trade associations, educational institutions, and corporate entities.
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Optimal Oral Health Reduces Degenerative DiseasesJuly 2009
By Julius Goepp, MD
Despite regular brushing, flossing, and professional cleaning, it is challenging to optimally suppress plaque buildup.
In an intriguing development, researchers have discovered two unique strains of bacteria that can prevent the buildup of plaque and biofilm on our teeth.
As we have come to learn, plaque-induced gum disease causes more than just halitosis (bad breath). Chronically inflamed gums lead to a host of degenerative disorders including atherosclerosis, diabetes, and cancer.
After years of study, a new oral probiotic lozenge may change how millions can achieve optimal oral health.
Poor Oral Health Increases Disease Risk
The human mouth is teeming with all kinds of bacteria. Many of those bacteria are harmless or even beneficial, but a sizable handful can cause diseases such as dental caries (cavities) and the much more serious gingivitis and periodontitis.
These conditions tend to be chronic and produce a steady elevation of inflammation in a part of the body that receives a very high blood flow (the mouth). The result of this bacterial "seeding" is the promotion of a host of destructive cytokines.1 These circulating cytokines produce inflammatory responses in tissues far distant from the mouth, including the vascular lining known as the endothelium, and dramatically increase the risk of atherosclerosis, heart attack, and stroke.2,3 Sadly, there is strong evidence that gum disease can also increase the risk of pre-term births and low birth weight.4 Periodontitis has also been linked with diabetes,2,5,6 and periodontal treatment may improve blood sugar control in diabetic patients.7 In short, the mouth is a dangerous place if not kept clean through meticulous hygiene.
The cardiovascular health impact of periodontitis is particularly troubling; people with chronic periodontitis may face an increased risk of heart attacks8 as well as kidney dysfunction related to atherosclerosis.9 Disturbingly, there is direct evidence that some pathogenic oral microbes make it into the bloodstream of people with gum inflammation, and even wind up forming part of the atherosclerotic plaque that causes vascular disease.10-12 Other mouth germs make platelets more sensitive to factors that increase the risk for abnormal blood clot formation.13 The good news is that we may be able to prevent or at least control the growth of those dangerous microorganisms in the first place through the use of a probiotic lozenge in the oral cavity.
Scientists have recently discovered two complementary probiotics that are producing dramatic benefits for oral and periodontal health. By optimizing the health of the oral cavity, these new oral probiotics may provide protection against a broad spectrum of disease issues, ranging from cardiovascular disease to diabetes.
Traditional Oral Health Care: Flossing, Brushing, and Rinsing
Dentists despair that most people fail to engage in the proper daily oral hygiene practices such as brushing, flossing, and mouth rinsing that are currently recommended for the prevention of so many conditions.14,15 Thanks to the work of pioneering scientists, probiotics can now make the mouth itself a contributor to health rather than disease.16-21
Probiotics Fight Plaque, Gingivitis
Probiotics have been defined as "living microorganisms which upon ingestion in certain numbers exert health benefits beyond inherent general nutrition."22 Scientists have been interested in the makeup of the microbes that live in the mouth (the "oral flora") for decades, seeking to identify factors that promote the growth of healthy organisms and reduce the growth of those implicated in disease and inflammation.23-26 Probiotics not only improve oral health but can help to change the stubborn composition of dental biofilm and plaque.27,28 While reducing the total amount of plaque through tooth brushing is always a desirable goal, its complete elimination is not possible. Therefore, changing the actual composition of plaque from an inflammatory cytokine-rich environment into a more benign environment dominated by neutral or even helpful organisms can contribute to overall systemic health.29-31
It was a leap of scientific imagination that allowed researchers to realize that the simple use of pro-biotics could make a significant difference in protecting oral health. A powerful demonstration of probiotics' oral benefits came in 2001, with the publication of a study on tooth decay in children aged one to six.32 The researchers supplemented the children's milk with a common probiotic bacterium, comparing their rate of cavities with those of kids given normal milk. Researchers examined the children's oral health status at the beginning and end of a seven-month period. The probiotic group had fewer cavities and lower counts of a hostile bacterium implicated in dental cavities, compared with the control subjects.
In a more compelling study, Swedish scientists showed in 2006 that they could reverse symptoms of gingivitis through the use of another probiotic species in adults with moderate-to-severe inflammation.33 After just two weeks, subjects who received pro-biotics demonstrated a reduced amount of plaque and inflammation, compared with the placebo group.
Numerous clinical and laboratory studies have confirmed and clarified the ways in which probiotic organisms contribute to a reduction in plaque and hostile organism colonization.34-38
Discovering Advanced Forms of Probiotics
A microbiologist from New Zealand, Dr. John R. Tagg, is credited with advancing the science of using probiotics to enhance oral health. Dr. Tagg began his work with the 1981 publication of a paper on the role of mysterious compounds called bacteriocins on the formation of dental plaque.39 Dr. Tagg and his colleagues found that certain "friendly" oral bacteria were producing substances that inhibit the growth of other microbes. Because these microbes had no known use as drugs in humans they were given the name bacteriocins.40
What was remarkable about Tagg's work was that the species of friendly Streptococcus salivarius bacteria that produced the bacteriocins can also be found to occur naturally in the mouth. Unlike other probiotic species, these strep organisms lived in benign symbiosis with the human oral cavity.18 Even more remarkable, the bacteriocin produced by Streptococcus salivarius (S. salivarius) bacteria had powerful inhibitory actions against other strep species, most notably those that cause dental cavities as well as serious human infections such as strep throat, deep tissue infections, and even rheumatic fever.18,19,41,42 By the end of the 1980s, Tagg's group knew enough about their molecules to name them bacteriocin-like inhibitory substances, or BLIS.20,43
Dr. Tagg and his investigative team studied these bacteriocins intensively over the subsequent decade, determining their structures, mechanisms of action, and the means by which the S. salivarius germs were controlling bacteriocin production.44-47 Their work culminated in the 2003 publication of a landmark paper entitled "Bacterial replacement therapy: adapting 'germ warfare' to infection prevention."17
In this article, Tagg and colleague Karen P. Dierksen review what they describe as an "ongoing battle" between oral microbes, some of which may pose an infectious threat to the host, and others of which confer protection. They propose further exploration of the use of probiotic organisms to colonize human tissues with health-promoting effector strains of beneficial bacteria that can out-compete disease-causing germs. Finally, they focus on recent progress in application of so-called avirulent (non-dangerous) S. salivarius species in the control of dental cavities, strep throats, and even childhood ear infections. Let's take our own look at the evidence for these oral probiotics.
Dental Health
Beneficial microorganisms such as those studied by Dr. Tagg may contribute to improved dental health. In laboratory studies, the probiotic S. salivarius helped inhibit the formation of the sticky biofilm that can contribute to oral disease.41 Building on these results, a study in animals showed that the S. salivarius probiotic helped displace biofilm from the teeth, displacing cavity-causing bacteria and inhibiting tooth decay.42
Another in vitro experiment demonstrates how effectively a second oral probiotic protects oral health.48 In this experiment, a form of Bacillus coagulans (known as GanedenBC30™) was shown to competitively inhibit the cariogenic (cavity-inducing) bacterium Streptococcus mutans, which contributes to significant tooth decay. The photo below shows a Petri dish that was incubated at body temperature for two days after the left side was streaked with GanedenBC30 and the right side with S. mutans. You can see a large zone of inhibition between the two cultures, indicating that the S. mutans culture died as it approached the GanedenBC30 culture. This is indicated by the solid red line at the edge of the GanedenBC30 growth. The final zone of inhibition was 6 mm, which showed GanedenBC30 to be effective at inhibiting the growth of S. mutans.
Together, these findings suggest that both S. salivarius and B. coagulans probiotics can help prevent harmful bacteria from colonizing teeth and contributing to dental cavities.


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Marina1 needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 74 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
VIVO Coffee
VIVO Coffee is a small boutique coffee company. VIVO is Italian for "alive" and that's how you feel as you sip on a brew from our fabulous beans. We have been established for a little over a year and our focus has been wholesaling coffee to cafes and restaurants. Opportunity has presented itself to offer a unique fresh coffee in supermarkets and gourmet delis and we require a packaging design to stand a part from the crowded shelves of coffee products. Our difference lies in our quest for fresh quality beans; being roasted locally, offering coffee beans as well as ground espresso specific to your style of making coffee eg: espresso machine, stovetop, plunger or drip filter.
VIVO see's itself as a fun brand serious about coffee but not itself. Its not scared to take risks and show off its personality. VIVO is also comfortable with being a little cheeky.
Our target audience is primarily convenience supermarket shoppers who want to get the best quality available at a supermarket. They will be impressed that the coffee is available at cafes and they can take this quality of coffee home (while pricing is still being completed it will sit in the top 30% of pricing). The product will appeal to serious coffee drinkers with an innovative flair, ready to try something new. The non-traditional colours attracts them and the audience is slightly skewed to females but must appeal to both males and females. Bullseye for this product will be 30+ professionals that want convenience. They enjoy entertaining and having a daily coffee at home.
The secondary but harder to get market will be coffee lovers who do not consider buying coffee from supermarkets as they perceive the quality as lower than buying their beans from a roasting house, local cafe or away from the mainstream.
VIVO Coffee branding has been done and was was designed to stand out, being non-traditional red (PMS 193),pink (PMS 204) & white. The packaging of the 1kg wholesale bag is attached (flat artwork). Please note this bag was never intended for retail. We are seeking a design that retains the logo but is developed with more excitement and personality to attract consumers. Creativity with stong packaging design will win.
The packaged range will include 4 varieties available in soft-pack foil bags for consumers in the sizing of 250gms, 500gms and 1kg.
The range will include the hero blend VIVO Espresso, a stronger blend "Senor Gusto" (Mr Flavour), a mild blend "Bacioni" (little kiss) as well as VIVO Decaf. So representation of how VIVO Coffee could work across the four blends is required.
The bags will be "block bottomed". The 250g bag specs are provided and will be the use – please note the sizing uses metic system in millimeters. Only one size needs to be created the competition.
Demonstrate an 'alive' personality
Standout on the shelf
Be bold but remain stylish - If this product had a starsign it would be Leo
Its not childish or weird
Its cheeky but not wacky
While the packaging specs are attached products should be presented as they would appear finished - front, side and back as necessary. Final artwork will need to be provided flat as an EPS file


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Rotherhithe Invicta FC
I have a very old photo of my great great grandads brothers in the Rotherhithe Invicta Football Team. Their family name is Hunt. I've tried to find out about the football team, but can't find any records of the old club at all. The photo is just pre WW1 I think. They have black and white striped kit. It may have been set up by or for dockers. As the brothers were fostered to their aunt and a deal porter called Osborne. Has anyone ever heard of Rotherhithe Invicta? I notice the local Rotherhithe FC is called Fishers now and not Rotherhithe Invicta. Thanks AWall
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FIVB acts to help development in Mozambique, Chad and Cape Verde
The first stage is to assist Mozambique, Chad and Cape Verde for the qualification phase of the 2014 World Championship.
Three instructors have been appointed to assist in this project:
• Mozambique (Mr. Amilton Barros/BRA)
• Chad (Mr. Kamel Imeloul/ALG)
• Cape Verde (Mr. Luca Privitera/ITA)
Chad is currently preparing their men's national team for the second round of the CAVB Zone IV qualification. The team will be competing in Congo from November 6 to 10.
The FIVB is currently working with a new development concept in order to increase the number of projects in Africa.


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By Brian Womack
Shares fell 9.1 percent to $20.79 at the close in New York, the biggest drop since July 27. The stock has slumped 45 percent since its May initial public offering, and hasn't traded above its $38 IPO price since the day after the share sale.
Facebook also slipped today after Barron's said the company is overvalued and may drop to $15 a share or lower. The stock had been gaining since Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg touted prospects for mobile growth at a conference earlier this month. Still, investors are concerned about the pace at which the company is making money from its ad services on wireless devices, where members are increasingly accessing the site.
"We do not believe success in mobile for Facebook can come without some collateral damage in the near-term to the larger, more profitable desktop platform," Jordan Rohan, analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. in New York. "We assume that revenue upside from mobile is a bit further off than Zuckerberg was signaling."
In a Sept. 11 interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Zuckerberg said the company was addressing the missteps that had made it tough for Facebook to reap the benefits of mobile advertising and was building its search capabilities. Shares rose 7.7 percent the next day.
Advertising Market
Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, is struggling to keep pace with rivals in mobile advertising. The company may claim only 2.8 percent of the $2.61 billion U.S. mobile-ad market this year, ranking it sixth, behind No. 1 Google Inc. (GOOG), which is expected to have 55 percent of the market, according to EMarketer Inc.
Pandora Media Inc. is second, with 8.7 percent, and Twitter Inc. nabs the No. 3 spot, claiming 5 percent.
In addition, Facebook is projected to lose its lead in the larger display-advertising market in the U.S., according to EMarketer. Facebook is estimated to take in $2.16 billion in display ad revenue this year, while Google may have $2.31 billion, giving it the No. 1 position. Facebook took the top spot from Yahoo! Inc. last year.
Facebook, whose price-to-earnings ratio is higher than rivals such as Google and Yahoo, is also grappling with questions about the stock's valuation. Barron's said Facebook is overvalued and the shares may drop as it falls behind in capitalizing on the growing number of mobile-device users. Richard Greenfield, at analyst at BTIG Research, said Facebook's mobile strategy makes him concerned, according to the newspaper.
The expiration of lockup periods for some employees to be able to sell 234 million shares by Oct. 29 and 777 million on Nov. 14 may keep the stock depressed, Barron's said, without citing anyone.
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Shared Scrape (sometimes referred to as Single Scrape)
When multiple subscriptions are running in a single instance, it is usually advantageous to utilize a shared scrape mechanism. If you don't use a shared scrape, and you have 'n' subscriptions, CDC would read the log 'n' times. If you utilize shared scrape, CDC will only read the log once which will utilize fewer system resources.
- On by default for InfoSphere CDC LUW
- You must configure the log cache for InfoSphere CDC z
- Not available on InfoSphere CDC i or CDC Informix
You need to size the shared scrape cache appropriately for optimal performance:
- If the cache is too small the following will occur:
- LUW – A private scraper will be launched which will consume additional resources
- Set staging_store_disk_quota_gb system parameter appropriately to avoid
- Z - With the log cache, each subscription attempts to read its data from the cache – it will read directly from the IFI if the data is no longer available from the cache
- Use the following to configure CACHELEVEL1SIZE, CACHEBLOCKSIZE, CACHELEVEL1RESERVED
- LUW – A private scraper will be launched which will consume additional resources


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Travel Agents & Tour Operators Need To Focus On Authentic Local Experiences To Stay Competitive, Why?
The main elements including the generic destination competitiveness model helps you to find out the key success factors of destination marketing. One of many approximate group of indicators accustomed to determine destination competitiveness, local encounters is among the tips. Elaborate empirical in addition to conceptual research highlights the relative weaknesses and strengths of various tourism destinations, which could then be employed to read the impact of local encounters around the travelers and the other way around.
The discerning travelers of today's world love exploring unique encounters each destination provides and go much beyond remaining within the top suite of hotels. Selecting the very best dining options and spas has otherwise become passe. No online portal may take you to definitely the hidden nuggets from the destination except the native folks. So, to match using the millennials' meaning of travel, you have to indulge using the locals that is way beyond any packaged holiday or cookie-cutter options.
Blurring the borders of traditional meaning of travel
It is important for Travel Specialists to understand that selling travel is really selling happiness. Imbuing travel goals according to interaction with residents makes travel more significant than ever before. Authenticity, simplicity, and culture would be the new watchwords driving the development from the travel tourism sector worldwide. The evolution from the totally new travel genre relies positioned on involving in local encounters. It's not concerning the best luxury experience however the intrinsic local touch will certainly add magic towards the holiday memory. Keep in mind that probably the most valued luxury is experience.
Present-day culture travelers have moved past the familiar environs and luxuriate in the knowledge by itself. Clearly enough, vacationers that they like to interrupt the mold tend to be more interactive with local residents. This paradigm shift hasn't however, completely swept up with everybody yet. The main focus of investments still remains around the traditional tourism-related components.
To produce a layered travel experience, the hospitality market is progressively promoting themselves because the portals for the local people. Although that may not be essential but local experience will certainly provide a competitive advantage.
Blending national culture and heritage into luxury travel tours need meticulous planning and is likely to enhance tourist's experience. Getting certified in the government tourism policies including inter-cultural education policy helps you to helps make the travel agents' start better.
Counter homogenization from the travel experience may be the new clause from the tourism government bodies. Embracing local cultural tourism may have a remarkable lasting effect on travelers with like-minded outlook. Traditional vertical distribution chains one of the travel providers has provided method to complex value chains and therefore within this more and more competitive marketplace, providers have to seize every chance for competitive advantage. Collaborative advantage through local and government partnership is thus a brand new norm. Local culture and society is becoming a crucial part of tourism value chain. The integrated inter-relationships between travel along with other socio-economic sectors are actually created like a 'value network'.
Promoting Local Cuisine
Sustainable tourism, that is tantamount to responsible tourism, is a major concern within the travel industry within the last few years. Experiencing and enjoying the local culture largely contours round the traditional gourmet industry. Trying traditional food completes the cultural experience with the area. Speaking from the economic aspect, if you're eating at Burger king, rather of benefiting the local people, a significant slice of it leaves the neighborhood socio-economic circle. The worldwide traveler's gang consist majorly the Western vacationers and with little doubt, the requirement for Western meals are always greater compared to local recipes.
On a trip for any single night's stay, people may think it-not important enough to connect with the neighborhood traditions. However, pennies within the pocket from the local cuisine industry assistance to uplift the neighborhood tourism industry on the bigger picture. Entering a Burger king or perhaps a KFC might fill your tummy and can neither increase the local tourism sector nor increase your experience. For example, Vietnamese pho has become a large pull for travelers in Vietnam so when in Panama And Nicaragua ,, don't miss gallo pinto. Building connections using the local folks isn't necessarily the only real token you receive in exchange however, you really assistance to develop a perception regarding your nationality in general. A country's heritage is strongly rooted inside the recollections from the residents and because the old folks say, the best way to your heart is thru his stomach!
Experiential travel – developing a much deeper connect
The interest in 'experiential travel' is perhaps the most important in addition to systematic trend in worldwide tourism. The word typically defines immersive, authentic, local, and much more active travel trend. Although some travel enthusiasts want to reason that travel is inherently 'experiential' naturally which the word is overused, the concept is to really make it more mainstream. Travel consumer attitude has varied extremely with regards to local tourism which is its amount of definition varies broadly the way the overall trend is contacted.
On the much deeper emotional and much more personal level, people wish to travel better in the finish during the day. Growing figures of travelers shying from the traditional packaged travel sales brochure is certainly a legitimate proof of how local encounters matter for that modern travelers.
Going Social
Counting on technology and global systems of small , individual travel providers, travel brands are providing more connected encounters. Almost infinite online matrix of social networking systems stop us connected wherever we travel. But ironically enough these social systems are progressively isolating individuals real existence than helping them make nearer to human connections. The internet discussing portal pair travelers using the local citizen network and provide experience to visit like local.
With packaged tourism losing its appeal among present day travelers digs the issue of what is authentic travel. Consumer data might reveal a piece of those solutions but tracking social networking can give a natural result. For travel brands targeting specific niches, evaluating and adjusting to the altering travel behavior is a lot important.
Tech tools
Unquestionably, probably the most influential and dependable tech tool for millennials may be the smartphone. Cell phone location technologies have made connection right. On niche apps, review-stuffed maps by Google etc. make planning set-piece occasions simpler than in the past. The transparency of peer-to-peer accommodation and transportation services like Airbnb and BlaBlaCar increase the authenticity from the travel encounters as well as their reviews. The underbelly of the place are only able to be provided through the natives from the place and therefore creates improvement in the authenticity from the travel experience.
Large industry players also have selected to visit lower to local level. The Instagrammable ideas and pictures from the less explored destinations is fun by itself. With a number of themed guides and commissioned travel advice by savvy locals finds intense recognition among the brand new age travelers. The goal is perfect for travelers to obtain a genuine local experience with the destination. Travel Companies can perform well to follow along with the adage – Think global, act local!
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Innovative SanDisk USB Gaming Flash Drive Integration Helps Players Solve Murder Cases Faster
MILPITAS, CA, JUNE 8, 2006 - SanDisk ® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that its Cruzer ® Crossfire ™ USB flash drive for gaming has been seamlessly integrated into Ubisoft's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ™ 3 Dimensions of Murder video game for the PC. Players of CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder use the Cruzer Crossfire as the primary detection and collection tool for digital evidence, including e-mails and computer files. This unique integration of a flash drive with a video game simulates the technology used by real forensic investigators.
Ubisoft's video game challenges players to solve murder mysteries by piecing together bits of evidence, such as a bloody shoe, a strand of hair and a hotel room key. The game presents five cases, and normally a player must solve one case before moving to the next. But by connecting the appropriate SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire -- a USB drive that is designed specifically for gaming -- players get to solve the cases in random order.
"This is our second partnership with Ubisoft, but the CSI game is the first time that we have put interactive gaming content on a USB flash drive," said Wes Brewer, SanDisk's vice president of consumer products marketing. The SanDisk special edition Cruzer Crossfire with the CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder content is shipping to retailers this month. It is offered in capacities ranging from 1 gigabyte (GB)* to 4 gigabytes. Suggested list prices are $59.99 for 1GB, $99.99 for 2GB and $189.99 for 4GB, and the drives are sold separately from the game. Apart from the game content, there is plenty of storage space on the drive for videos, music, images and other files.
CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder was released by Ubisoft in mid-March as part of a series of games based on the top-rated television series. Featuring the voices and likenesses of the cast from the CBS show, the Ubisoft game, like the series, emphasizes the use of high-tech equipment in crime scene investigations. This ranges from a camera to a "mobile analysis unit" to gather and evaluate forensic evidence. The game itself specifically refers to a branded SanDisk USB "data drive."
Further to the integration between the game and the SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire flash drive, players need to store evidence on the drive, within the game itself, to help solve the cases.
In addition to its new line of Cruzer Crossfire flash drives, which were announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, SanDisk also manufactures a line of gaming flash cards aimed at users of the PSP ™ (PlayStation ® Portable) system.
About SanDisk
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
About CBS Consumer Products
CBS Consumer Products, a unit of CBS Enterprises, manages the worldwide licensing, merchandising and video activities for a diverse slate of properties owned or controlled by the CBS Corporation. Additional information is available by visiting www.CBS.com.
About Ubisoft
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through its strong and diversified lineup of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has offices in 21 countries and sales in more than 50 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers. Ubisoft generated revenue of 547 million Euros for the 2005-2006 fiscal year, an increase of 3 percent over the previous fiscal year at constant exchange rates. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com.
* 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes; 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes.
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CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION and elements and characters thereof © 2000-2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc. and Alliance Atlantis Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION is a trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. and outside USA is a trademark of Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. ALLIANCE ATLANTIS with the stylized "A" design TM Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. CBS and the CBS Eye Design TM CBS Broadcasting Inc. Software © 2006 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Company logos are trademarks of their respective owners. No celebrity endorsements implied. Game engine © 2006 Telltale Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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