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HOW TO NEGOTIATE THE BEST DEAL ON THE HOTEL ROOM

It's important to talk to the right person when trying to get a great deal, that means someone who has the authority to negotiate with you. You can ask to speak to the Sales Manager or if they have a dedicated staff for meeting and event coordinating, speak to the manager of that department. Remember to research comparable room prices in the area online so that you'll have a good point of reference to bring to the negotiation table. It does take some advanced planning to get the best deals, but ...
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No Hotel Loan for You!

html> Meeting the requirements to get a decent hotel loan from your local lender can be difficult but not impossible. Let's face it, what lender wants to put money up for a roach infested dump in downtown Detroit? You'd have to get a separate loan just for the insurance. Most lenders will only finance hotel properties that are "flagged". In other words, most banks, public and private lenders will only provide hotel loans to individuals who are starting a franchise under certain ...
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Easy Water Color Painting With Nine Tools

Water color painting is challenging and tends to frustrate many beginners. This article will highlight some of the essential tools to help you overcome that challenge. Soft sponge: Keep plenty of small, soft sponges to erase water color painting mistakes. The removal process consists of warm water and a sponge. Gently pat the affected area until the mistake disappears. Paper: It's best not to start off with a cheap paper grade. There are perfectly adequate rag-content papers you can use ...
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How To Start Your Own Business and Travel First Class For Free

Have you always dreamed of owning your own business, having the time and money to visit exotic locations and being able to fly first class? If you love traveling, live in or near a city with a large national or international airport, and you have the kind of lifestyle that lets you pick up and go on a moment's notice, then you might want to think about starting your own business as an "air courier". What is an air courier? It's a person who is hired to transport a specific item from one ...
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Aquatic Fitness The Move To Water Exercise

At the Canyon Ranch Health Resort in Tucson, Ariz., guests find healing in the water. The resort's 11,000- square-foot Aquatic Center features three Watsu pools, a cross-training pool with conditioning equipment, two aquatic therapy pools and a whirlpool. There is also a complete Water Workout Station and it is making a big splash with guests. "Water is the wave of the future," said Karma Kientzler, an aquatic therapy expert and outside consultant for Canyon Ranch in Tucson. "People are using ...
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50th Anniversary Gift Idea - Photo Montage DVD Video Scrapbook

You are faced with one of the biggest gift giving dilemmas in your life, what to give your parents for their 50th wedding anniversary. Every year your siblings have always trumped your expensive and practial gifts for your parents birthday, christmas, and anniversary. This time, for their 50th anniversary, you want to give them the gift they will never forget. The Gift Idea Challenge Every year your brothers and sisters always seem to give your parents that perfect gift. You have tried ...
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The Latest Media Trend - Movie Downloads

Movie Download websites are becoming more and more popular for anyone who enjoys watching movies. Think about this. You go to your local media store and pay $19.95 for a movie. If you really want to expand your movie collection, this can get expensive. Why not sign up for a membership to a movie download site and pay the same price to get unlimited movie downloads directly onto your computer. The software pays for itself after one download. Buy one movie, get life time movies for free. You ...
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River Birch Trees

River Birch Trees When I was in the 8th grade I would go fishing along the Delaware River at night. I would camp along the river bank and fish into the wee hours of the night. I am always drifting back to those childhood memories when I pass a river birch tree that is highlighted by lights at night. The nightime interest that this tree expresses can help capture moments for you. The main feature of this medium sized spreading tree is its colorful peeling bark. This builds up on the stem and ...
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What Would Be Your Idea of a Fun Day?

Remember that email quiz making the rounds last year and maybe still is? You're asked to fill out some questions such as your favorite color, and what your living arrangements are and then send them back to the sender. One of the questions is 'What would be your idea of a fun day?' If you're like me, this question would send you daydreaming. Oh, this, or maybe that. Going to a ballgame, eating at Los Patios. Laughing with Adam, or going to the park with Billy. I outlined a whole day ' sleeping ...
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The Westin Chicago River North Opens Health Club to Local

CHICAGO (July 2005) ' The Westin Chicago River North, located on the bank of the Chicago River in the heart of the business and theater district, announced that it is now offering local memberships to its WestinWORKOUT Powered by Reebok® health club. Featuring a comprehensive selection of state-of-the-art Life Fitness cardiovascular and strength-training equipment, the fitness center also provides personal training service, which is included in the price of membership, according to ...
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A revolution in video production?

With the advent of new technologies in DVD and digital video production, corporate production houses are poised to start creating much higher quality videos at a much lower cost. Recent HDV model releases from both Sony (HVR-Z1P) and JVC (GY-HD101) has seen high definition video production become available to smaller production companies. As a result we are now able to produce videos at full 1080i HD resolution, and with the release of Canon's hugely anticipated XL H1 get full HD-SDI ...
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Shopping search engine

Sortprice is a free shopping search search engine that allows shoppers to find millions of products from hundreds of merchants. They also give you the option to compare prices and search within a price range for a product. Many top quality merchants listed at great prices. An up and coming player in the search engine industry continues to take the spotlight and grow at a brisk pace. SortPrice.com will be the next industry giant and is on its way to revolutionize the market. They are a product ...
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Online shopping is an emotional experience

/p> This short essay explores the history of online shopping from the author's perspective. The essay concludes with a list of e-commerce features that should meet the needs of emotional shoppers. A few years ago, someone prophesised that workplace offices wouldn't need paper in the future. The prophecy didn't 'come to pass' though, largely because it overlooked some significant human emotions. One such, was the emotional need for safety and security, which was undermined apparently by new ...
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Trip, trip, trip.....here is your night visitor again

/h1>Night Visits From Your Child In the middle of the night you hear, trip, trip, trip and your bedroom door opens. It's not hard to imagine who it is and when you feel your little one climbing into your bed, you are sure. Rest assured, this behavior is both common and healthy. Your toddler or preschooler is searching for comfort and security and you are the one in his or her mind that provides for it. Plus, nature has a built in mechanism that, almost automatically, causes you to provide for ...
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Businesses Cut Travel in Katrina's Wake

While Hurricane Katrina wreaked devastating damage and massive suffering in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, the economic impact of the storm is being felt far beyond the Gulf Coast region. With the price of a gallon of gasoline hovering near three dollars and airlines compensating for rising fuel costs by increasing round-trip fares by as much as thirty dollars, the travel budgets of companies across the U.S. are straining at the seams. Increasing travel costs, combined with general ...
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Backyard Camping Trip

Are your kids begging you to take them camping, but you just can't find the time to take them on a camping trip? Or would you like to introduce your kids to the fun of camping for the first time, but aren't sure if they will enjoy it, or might get scared? Either way, camping out in your backyard will be a fun way to spend the evening and night with your kids. Get the kids involved in setting up camp in your backyard. Have them help you set up the tent. Put them in charge of getting their ...
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A Mindful Road Trip

It's the beginning of spring break, and we're heading south. That's all we know. Our family is greatly anticipating what may be our last road trip for a long, long time. There's a lot of excitement in our house right now as we are shifting into a whole new phase for each of us. My husband is launching a new business. I am writing a book. Our 17-year-old daughter is preparing for college in Nova Scotia in September. Our 16-year-old daughter is heading to Brazil for a year-long Rotary Exchange in ...
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A $2.95 Road Trip, Complete With Souvenirs

"Hey, I didn't know you were a writer, I thought you were a Virtual Assistant." No matter how many times I hear this comment it still surprises me. I learned early on that writing was one of the most lucrative services that I could offer in my virtual assistance business, not to mention an incredible means of free marketing. I have discovered a valuable resource for writing assignments and other types of work. The Freelance Work Exchange is an innovative web site that incorporates nearly every ...
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Coastal Vacations' Largest Travel Package Marketer Pays Out Over

The fast paced growth continues at the Coastal Vacations Sales Center. The original Coastal Vacations call center quickly became the largest marketer of Coastal Vacations travel products in both volume and revenue in just a few months. Operated by Clear Business Solutions, they provide support to Coastal Vacations home based business owners with their Sales Center system and staff of sales professionals. Coastal associates, who are unable or unwilling to follow up and close sales themselves are ...
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Travel business opportunity seekers are smart people!

Some people that like to go in business trips use to be travel business opportunity seekers. You notice that you have been assigned to go on a business trip. If you're one of the travel business opportunity seekers you will feel very lucky. If you have been lucky enough to go in the business trip on a Friday you have really scored. This is the "ultimate goal" for travel business opportunity seekers. Whether you go in the trip alone or with your family, go beyond the boundaries of the business ...
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'The Last of the American Hoboes' Movie Reviews-Commentary

I worked closely with Titus Moody in the making of the movie 'The Last of the American Hoboes'. Recently I have found a few reviews of the movie on the internet. I was excited to see favorable mention of some my early work in the music business in some, others were not as flattering. There was a couple of misspellings and an error in fact in that the movie wasn't released in the late '1970's' rather around 1971 or 1972. Below is a composite-example of a couple of them. I corrected ...
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Advertising in Video Games Hit a Speed Bump

The publishers of the popular video game 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' are feeling the heat from the Federal Trade Commission as of late. A probe has been launched into the popular video game and this comes on the heels of New York Senator Hilary Clinton and Michigan Congressman Fred Upton urging the US House of Representatives to investigate whether video game publisher 'Take Two Interactive Software' intentionally deceived the ratings board to avoid an 'Adult Only' rating. According to ...
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Phishing is bad, very bad in this digital river...

Phishing is bad, very bad in this digital river... If someone has not explained it to you or you haven't heard about phishing (identity theft) and it's horrors then please pay close attention. A very astonished client found out way too late that their teenage daughter had received an email that claimed to want to verify her parents credit card information and that they were an authorized Mastercard representative. She had used mommy's card before and new where it was so she clicked on the ...
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MY SON-IN-LAW GETS LOST ON THE RIVER

Matthew 18 verse 11 "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost." On Sunday night, April 10th, 2005, I received a phone call from my daughter, Eva. She was very distraught. Her husband, Jack, was missing and she had no idea where he was. She is a nurse, and had been working at the nursing home that day. She had came home, and Jack wasn't there so she thought that he had run to Walmart's or somewhere else. Then she noticed that their canoe was missing. A couple of days earlier, I had ...
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Water, Water Everywhere on the Waterfront!

Waterfront living is among the most desirable of locations in our area. The views and vistas are fantastic, not to mention the ability to walk out one's door to drop a line to fish or untie a line to enjoy boating. However, all this joy is not without some special concerns. The most common fear heard from waterfront homebuyers is their concern that the river may rise and roll into their home. While it is not an impossible scenario, it is truly rare. More often than not, the water that posses ...
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How To Make Business Travel Easier on Your Family

Women in business who need to travel as part of their work face the problem of staying connected with their children when they are on the road. Most business women try to fit in a phone call coupled with a long distance bedtime kiss and a few even return home with presents each time. Here are some strategies that will make that "phone home" even better and are less likely to break the bank. Home Away From Home Sometimes business travel means visiting the same locations regularly. If that's the ...
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