Vital spa chemicals

Now that the summer is already showing us that it is about time that we introduce some new technology to our hot tubs and spas at home, the truth is that people seem to have no idea of where they should buy the maintenance products that are needed to make our hot tubs and spas work perfectly.

Keeping this in mind, I would like to make a special reference to these amazingly effective spa chemicals which will definitely play an important role when you realize that it is about time that you also do your best to find the most effective chemicals to make your hot tubs and spas provide you with the most relaxing moments possible.

Unemployment and a new concept of gap year

When thinking about the people who tend to take part in the gap year adventures, which age range does normally come to your mind? Would you even consider the possibility of seeing people over 50 years to take part in these adventures? Well, unemployment seems to be changing it all as you may conclude by reading the msnbc.com article below:

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LONDON - Britons who have lost their jobs in the recession are choosing to travel, creating a generation of "grown-up gappers," a survey showed on Tuesday.

Foreign exchange group Travelex interviewed 4,000 people about post-redundancy plans and found 78 percent were planning to use the time to travel, on a grown-up version of the traditional gap year between school and college.

Those aged 30-55 were more than twice as likely as 18-24 year-olds to take time out to travel.

"Unlike the 'year out' typically associated with students, most adult gappers would opt to travel for on average three months," the survey said.

Travelers are still likely to spend big while they are away with 38 percent spending more than 3,000 pounds ($4,963) and 16 percent spending more than 5,000 pounds.

"Grown-up gappers" are more focused on comfort than student backpackers with around two thirds opting to stay in a hotel instead of a hostel.

Canada was the top destination for grown-up gappers, with Japan, Hawaii, Indonesia and the Philippines featured as other essential stops on their travels.

"Our recent research highlights that the 'grown up gap year' is a rapidly growing market, with many people opting for an extended break to destinations they may not have visited in their youth," said Peter Davies, director of Travelex.

Grown-up gappers were least interested in volunteering abroad, with the majority keen to pursue adventure travel and reflect about the future.

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The importance of business cards

With the current financial trends, inexperienced businesses often make a tremendous mistake and start saving as much money as possible, forgetting about the importance of advertising and attracting new customers from new sectors of the industry.

Keeping this in mind and considering all my experience, I would personally like to refer to business cards as the ultimate way of spreading the word about our business while also saving thousands of dollars on other old-fashioned advertising techniques that don’t produce the same great results that business cards do! Moreover, on the website above there are thousands of different designs that you can choose from and match them to the overall concept of your own business! In fact, if you have some business cards with you, you will have the chance to be able to emphasis the possibility of finding some potential investors for your business, right?

So, why don’t you also take some time to have a look at the amazingly wide range of business cards that you may find on the website above?

Hard Rock hotel in Las Vegas is about to expand

Even if you are not born in Las Vegas, the truth is that I am more than sure that absolutely everyone in the US has already heard about hard Rock cafe and Hard Rock hotel, right? Still, people don't seem to know that Hard Rock hotel has a lot to offer us and it is now being expanded so that even more people may enjoy it! Below you may read the msnbc.com article for further details:

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LAS VEGAS - As a 490-room tower opens at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just east of the Las Vegas Strip this week, hotel operators citywide are struggling to fill existing rooms and staggering at the prospect of 10,000 more coming online this year and next.

"It's (the) wrong place, wrong time," said Randy Fine, a former Harrah's Entertainment Inc. vice president and the founder of Fine Point Group, a casino marketing and consulting firm based here. "They want to turn a boutique property into a mega-resort. This is probably not the time to be doing that."

More than 6,000 rooms are planned at the six-tower, $8.5 billion partnership between MGM Mirage and Dubai World known as CityCenter, which is to open in phases starting later this year. And the Cosmopolitan next door expects to add just under 3,000 rooms in 2010.

Industry analyst Bill Lerner said it could take at least five years for the local economy to absorb the rooms now financed or under construction here. Meanwhile, room rates could keep falling in Las Vegas even more than they have nationwide.

"Our view is one more room in Las Vegas right now is too much," said Lerner, the founder of research and advisory firm Union Gaming Group. "I understand someone carving out a niche but it's seemingly impossible to overcome the downward pressure simply from just more supply."

The average room rate in Las Vegas for the first five months of 2009 was $97.23, already 27 percent below the same period last year, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Nationwide, the average room rate slid much more gently — from $108.10 the first half of last year to $98.66 this year, a drop of 8.7 percent — according to Smith Travel Research.

A $55 weeknight August rate available online at the Hard Rock wasn't what officials had in mind when they started building the 17-story Paradise tower, which includes eight pool suites along the resort's 3-acre pool complex and a penthouse with three bedrooms, a full bar and hot tubs.

But president and CEO Randy Kwasniewski of the Hard Rock, owned by Morgans Hotel Group and an equity partner, believes CityCenter and the Hard Rock's expansion will help the overall market grow.

The $750 million expansion includes a new concert venue that has already opened, as well as the Paradise tower and another tower with casino space and 374 rooms to open in December, which will be branded differently from the rest of the Hard Rock and have a separate check-in desk, though its casino will flow into the existing slots and table games area.

Kwasniewski said the additions will attract more guests and cater to existing customers who stay elsewhere because they prefer quieter sleeping quarters.

"I lived here for five months, and it can be a little intimidating at 4 o'clock in the morning when it sounds like the middle of the afternoon in your hallway," Kwasniewski said. "It simply goes back to a manner of being creative, and providing a product to the consumer that they've never seen before and never experienced before."

Fine said the Hard Rock likely had no choice but to go forward with its expansion after funding it because it needs money to pay off its lenders.

The 10,000 hotel rooms coming soon to Las Vegas don't include thousands more from projects that have been halted or canceled.

The 4,000-room Fontainebleau on the north end of the Strip is fighting with lenders in federal bankruptcy court in Miami to get the last of its funding to open this year. Harrah's Entertainment has halted its 660-room Octavius tower at Caesars Palace until further notice.

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Starting your own business

When considering all my experience as a businesswoman who has already played an important role in some major companies, I am quite aware of the fact that it is often difficult to get all the needed credit and financial relief that is needed when we want to expand our businesses or simply start our own business.

Keeping this in mind, I would like to advise all of you to have a look at these Business Loans, which are specially conceptualized to cover the needs of those who plan to start running their own restaurant. Moreover, as the website to which I have linked above is extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate, I am more than sure that you won’t find it difficult to find an answer to most of your questions before applying for your own loan. As a matter of fact, applying online is really easy and quick as you only need to fill the answers to seven questions and you are ready to go!

So, have you been dreaming and planning to start your own restaurant so that you can finally do something that you really love doing? Would you like to get some financial help to make it happen? If the answers to these questions are affirmative, then I strongly advise you to take some time to visit the website above.

A strange emergency stop...

Just as you know, most planes have enough technology to detect almost anything that human senses may also detect. In fact, recently another flight was interrupted thanks to the fact that the sensors of the plane detected an unexpected smell that anyone could easily recognize! Below you may read the original msnbc.com article and discover more details about this great story:

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NEW YORK - The electrical smell that caused a Southwest Airlines Co flight to make an unexpected landing Sunday was caused by a coffee maker in the back of the aircraft, a company spokesman said on Monday.

The coffee maker was in the back galley of the Boeing 737 plane. The aircraft was examined and put back into service by 12:30 p.m. EDT Sunday, said Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz.

"Anything that might have touched the burner might have caused the electrical smell," Mainz said. He added that the problem was "fairly unusual," although it was not the first time it has happened.

Flight 693 bound for Orlando, Fla., departed from Bradley International Airport in Connecticut at 7:21 a.m. EDT Sunday. The plane, which held 131 passengers and 5 crew members, landed at Long Island Islip MacArthur Airport shortly before 8 a.m.

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