Sep 4, 2009

Finding the best slatwall accessories

As a woman who loves to impress at the parties, I personally take a lot of time to try to find the best accessories that fit my physical appearance in a more fashionable way. Moreover, I also tend to look for the best deals on slatwall accessories so that I can always be one of the first to show some high quality accessories for the best prices ever!

Personally, I believe that it is important that we always feel connected to the accessories that we have at home, making it possible for us to feel even more confident when showing them to our friends.

Keeping this in mind and knowing that many of you, my readers, love those accessories too, I would personally advise you all to take some time to visit the website to which I have linked just above and where you will be given the chance to find some of the most stunning pieces of fashion that you could possibly find for your house but also for you… Furthermore, you are also given the chance to get important discounts when buying larger amounts of items from the website above, meaning that you can save even more money by buying from them! What else could we really ask for?

Discovering Thailand and its amazing beaches



Have you ever been to Thailand before? Would you personally like to take the most out of its beaches for the best price ever? If that's the case and if you would like to discover more about Thailand and the great things that you are going to be able to find there, then you definitely need to take some time to read the msnbc.com article just below:

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BANGKOK - Attention Internet-savvy travelers: Thailand is giving away free trips to five lucky couples who don't mind sitting in front of a computer while on vacation.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand launched a new campaign Tuesday offering five couples fully paid trips to the country's most popular cities and beaches. In return, they will be asked to blog, chat and tweet about their holiday in a bid to win a grand prize of $10,000, a BlackBerry and a video camera.

Applicants should be "good storytellers" and must know how to navigate YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, the TAT said on the contest's newly launched Web site where one-minute video auditions can be submitted until Oct. 15.

Thailand's tourism industry is facing its worst crisis in years, with foreign arrivals down 15 percent so far this year because of political upheaval and the global recession.

Tourism officials say they were inspired by Australia's recent highly publicized campaign dubbed the "Best Job in the World." The contest to serve as the caretaker on a tropical Australian island for six months, while promoting the destination on a blog, drew 35,000 applicants and worldwide media attention.

"We got the idea from Australia," said TAT official Phanom Kaributra, who is coordinating the contest. "We think it's a good way to use social networking to promote Thailand."

A panel of TAT officials will select 25 semifinalists by Oct. 15 and the winning five couples — and grand prize winner — will be chosen by worldwide online voting.

Each of the five couples will be sent early next year on a six-day trip to different destinations: the capital Bangkok, beach resorts Phuket, Samui and Pattaya, and the northern city of Chiang Mai.

Phanom said the couples would be free to explore but would not be encouraged to "go to red-light districts and places like that."

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The importance of financial advice

When considering all my experience as a businesswoman, I would personally say that investments and financial stability are some of the most important topics for the success of any business or the financial growth of any household.

Keeping this in mind, if you have recently got some new credit cards or if you have recently been granted a new loan, I would personally advise you to take some time to read about how you can best pay off those credit cards, mortgages or any similar financial help that you may have been given. Moreover, if you become absolutely acknowledged of how to best mortgage payoff, then you will have the chance to play a very important role in your household, saving hundreds of dollars while also making sure that you are protecting the financial future of your children.

So, would you like to get independent and experience financial advice on those topics above and discover how you can save extra money for your future? If that’s the case, then you definitely need to take some time to visit the website to which I have linked just above and see with your own eyes how easy it is to protect our future. Furthermore, on the website above you may also discover more about Stock Market and investment strategies, allowing you to start investing your money with more reliability and with better future prospects.

Discovering Spain



Even if you have never been to Europe before, I can assure you that you are really losing something great if you don't take some time to travel to Spain, one of the most beautiful countries all around the world and where you will be given the chance to enjoythe best vacations of your life! Below you may read another msnbc.com article to discover how you can take the most out of your travel to Spain:

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By Rick Steves
Tribune Media Services

I'm tucked away in Santiago de Compostela, in the northwest corner of Spain. I have a three-part agenda: see pilgrims reach their goal in front of the cathedral, explore the market, and buy some barnacles in the seafood section — then have them cooked for me, on the spot, in a cafe.

Whenever I'm here, I make a point to be on the town square facing the towering Cathedral of St. James at around 10 a.m. That's when scores of well-worn pilgrims march in triumphantly from their last overnight on the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James) — a 30-day, 500-mile hike from the French border.

Since the Middle Ages, humble hikers have walked these miles to pay homage to the remains of St. James in his namesake city. Their traditional gear includes a cloak; a pointy, floppy hat; a walking stick and a gourd (for drinking from wells). The way is marked with yellow arrows or scallop shells (a symbol of the saint) at every intersection. Doing the entire route from the border to Santiago takes about four to six weeks.

At journey's end, hikers complete their pilgrimage by stepping on a scallop shell embedded in the pavement at the foot of the cathedral. I just love watching how different pilgrims handle the jubilation.

Most people picture Spain as a hot, arid land, but if Europe had a rain forest, it would be here. Rain off the Atlantic has colored Santiago's granite green with moss. But there are no showers this morning. The church is backlit by the rising sun and, looking up, the weary pilgrims squint ... small before God.

Routinely, pilgrims ask me to take their photo and email it to them. Then they say, "I've got to go meet with St. James," and as has been the routine for 1,000 years, they head into the cathedral.

Two blocks away, Santiago's public market is thriving, oblivious to the personal triumphs going on at St. James' tomb. There's something basic about wandering through a farmers market early in the morning anywhere in the world: Salt-of-the-earth people pull food out of the ground, cart it into the city, and sell what they've harvested to people who don't have gardens.

Dried-apple grandmothers line up like a babushka cancan. Each sits on a stool so small it disappears under her work dress. At the women's feet are brown woven baskets filled as if they were cornucopias — still-dirty eggs in one; in the next, greens clearly pulled this morning, soil clinging to their roots. One woman hopes to earn a few extra euros with homebrews — golden bottles with ramshackle corks — one named "licor cafe," the other, more mysteriously, "oruzo casero" (could it be homemade ouzo?).

I see rickety card tables filled with yellow cheeses shaped like giant Hershey's Kisses ... or, to locals, breasts. This local cheese is called "tetilla" to revenge a prudish priest who, seven centuries ago, told a sculptor at the cathedral to redo a statue that he considered too buxom. Ever since, the townsfolk have shaped their cheese like exactly what the priest didn't want them to see carved in stone. You can't go anywhere in Santiago without seeing its creamy, mild tetilla.

Stepping farther into the market, I notice spicy red chorizo — sausage in chains framing merchants' faces. Chickens, plucked and looking as rubbery as can be, fill glass cases. Fisherwomen in rubber aprons and matching gloves sort through folded money.

There's a commotion at the best stalls. Short ladies with dusty, blue-plaid roller carts jostle for the best deals. A selection of pig's ears mixed with hooves going nowhere fills a shoebox. The ears, translucent in the low rays of the morning sun, look as if someone had systematically and neatly flattened conch shells.

From one vendor I buy "percebes" (barnacles) at about $16 a pound; they're one-third the price I'd pay in a bar. I get a little less than half a pound and hustle my full bag over to the market cafe called Churro Mania. There, Ramon and Julia boil them for $4 per person, plus 10 percent of the cost of whatever you have them cook up. Feeling quite like a local — sipping my beer so early in the morning — I wait for my barnacles to cook.

Then comes the climax of my morning: Julia brings my barnacles, stacked steaming on a stainless steel plate, as well as bread and another beer. I'm set. Twist, rip, bite. It's the bounty of the sea condensed into every little morsel ... edible jubilation in Santiago.

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