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Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Digital pioneer Whatsonwhen is to be rebranded Frommer’s Unlimited - a move which will integrate the online expert’s business-to-business services together with Frommer’s®, the market leader in travel content for more than 50 years and a branded imprint of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The news was announced at Phocuswright in the US this week and follows the Wiley acquisition of Whatsonwhen in 2006.
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The promotion offers free airfare for children ages 2 to 11 who accompanyan adult on an Alaska Airlines Southern California Vacation package. Inaddition, adults who purchase a three-day or longer Disneyland Resort(R) ParkHopper(R) Bonus Ticket valid from Jan. 7 through April 30, 2009, pay thechildren's admission price to experience the magic of Disneyland(R) Park andDisney's California Adventure(R) Park.
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try to cut operating costs, reports
in a story in The Boston Globe.
Apple employees will have eight days of paid leave beginning Dec. 24, while workers at HP and Adobe will be asked to use some of their vacation to extend the holiday hiatus. All three companies typically take holiday breaks.
HP, which also announced its
, wants to close for two weeks, rather than one as usual. Its spokeswoman said:
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"We could hardly slip a piece of paper between them," Slive said.
Bigger is definitely better for the NCAA, though, as Slive said the average arena capacity for the 10 bid cities was 76,500.
Ford Field in Detroit will host the 2009 Final Four, followed by Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and Reliant Stadium in Houston.
Reliant Stadium was awarded a second bid before it has hosted its first Final Four.
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New CityBlog Network SpottedByLocals.com
Lets Travelers Experience Cities Like a Local
City travelers are increasingly
looking to learn more about the local culture of their chosen destination.
Paperback travel guides and websites with user generated travel information
often fail to offer this “local” perspective...
,
the first series of
of its kind, handpicked bloggers write about spots and pass on local tips
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A Travel Guide, a Lanuage Tool for Westerners to Learn to Speak Mandarin Chinese and to Know the Unique Chinese Culture.
"Travel to China with my pocket book : speak Mandarin right away" by Wang-Ching LIU and Marie-France FAY (ISBN 978-0-9731480-3-9) is the Award-Winner in Language Guides category of the 'National Best Books 2008 Awards,' sponsored by USA Book News; and the Award-Finalist in Travel Guides category of the "National Indie Read the rest of this entry »

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Mike Armstrong, 38, of Northeast Phoenix, is a certified fourth-degree Black Belt. He's a husband and father, and plays drums for the worship team at church. He also has been blind since 1996 because of a hereditary retinal disease.
Next summer, Armstrong will leave his family and his dojo, Blind Tiger Martial Arts Academy, to embark on an eight-day climb of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Representing and raising funds for the Phoenix-based Foundation for Read the rest of this entry »

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. His most recent venture is
, an online service to easily produce customized travel guides. Offbeat Guides’ simple process for building your own travel guide is based on answering five quick questions about the excursion: destination city, your current city, your name, traveldates and where (e.g. in which hotel) you will be staying.
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For the home office worker: Most PCs are functional, but not all that attractive. The new Dell Studio hybrid has plenty of style, perfect for the guy who has set up his office at home. The Studio Hybrid is designed to be the smallest, most personalized and environmentally friendly consumer PC -- 80-per-cent smaller than the typical desktop minitower and uses up to 70-per-cent less energy. But mostly we love its sleek design and the cool colours it Read the rest of this entry »

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Tampa, FL, November 19, 2008 --(
)-- Universal Action Travel has announced that in the coming year 2009, it plans to add multiple holiday destinations to it's already numerous vacation hot spots. The announcement came on the news that travel costs this upcoming year are expected to slightly increase across the board.
"We like to offer all of our travelers different destinations they may choose from, when looking where to vacation - some even Read the rest of this entry »

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