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Military personnel Specials at Hampton Inn & Suites

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

There is nothing as praiseworthy and notable as serving your country in the US, an opportunity that further gives you lots of interesting life experiences you will remain with for the rest of your life, regardless of whether you opt to remain in the military or not. When you are a member of the armed services, it means that you will be travelling a lot, perhaps from base to base, or separately on occasion — it also therefore means that you will need a place to stay overnight, and no other place recognizes the distinctive contribution that the military personnel plays than the Hampton Inn & Suites

You will be expected to have your valid government-issued identification at the reception desk for you to get a special discount for military personnel. Once you are identified as military personnel, you, and/or your family will get special discount in the Hampton Inn room you will be staying. While there are no extra special services for military personnel hotel guests, you can always count on the same professional warm welcome as everyone else staying at the hotel, and can equally enjoy the same amenities as others, with the added advantage that you are paying less for all what you are getting.

Some of these amenities include a complementary hot breakfast, extra soft bed, free high speed internet connection every location within the hotel (individual rooms and the lobby inclusive) and of course the 1005 Satisfaction Guarantee. Hampton Inn and Suites has both regular rooms as well as suites, and apart from the new Hampton Boutique line, you will be in a limited-service hotel with no shops or restaurants within the hotel building, and notably there will be no concierge services.

Thus, if you are a service man or women travelling across the country, you can rest assured that the Hampton Inn chain of Hotels appreciates the role you play on behalf of Americans, and is always more than willing to extend a special rate for a clean, warm, and pleasant room at any of the many Hampton Inns and Suites spread across the country.

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Weight Lose Salad Recipe

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

A salad recipe seems to become the favorite expression of every woman, especially all women who have problems with their weight. Yes, it really does sound unbelievable but it is a fact that a person could lose weight only by going on a slim diet in which nothing but salads is consumed.

Actually, it makes sense since most of the salad recipe is sating but at the same time, they are not fatty. What does a salad have as ingredients? Well, that is mainly vegetables, oil and other seasonings. Of course, more and more salads have different kinds of meat in them but it is really not recommendable if you want to use the salads as a way for losing weight.

However, a perfect salad recipe should be not only sating but also tastes good. After all, it is important to eat something tasty during the period of your diet otherwise it would be still unpleasant although you will not be starving. Fortunately, there are many recipes for salads which are appropriate for losing weight and you are not likely to have problems choosing at least one which you like. But the truth is that if you want your diet to be successful, you’d better consume different spinach recipe salads every day. Your organism needs to be supplied with a super variety of micro- and macro- elements; and also vitamins and antioxidants. You should know that there is no dish (not even a salad) which contains all of them which is why consuming a variety of salads is the best way to get them.

But all advantages of a ‘salad diet’ have not been mentioned yet. You probably know that there are many women who undergo the so called yo-yo effect. There is no doubt that it is the most discouraging thing which could happen to somebody- after weeks of starvation, it all was for nothing! Anyway, it has been proved and it is a fact that by using a salad recipe or vegetable recipe as your diet regime, the risk of experiencing the unpleasant yo-yo effect is very, very small! So that was one more reason why to choose salads as the best and most efficient way to lose the extra kilos.

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About Twitter Emoticons and Smileys

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

While most instant messaging services offer Emoticons and smiley icons in abundance, Twitter has so far refrained from following suit. This even remains true with the ever increasing popularity and use of Emoticons in other areas of the Internet which help show emotion during user conversations.

Many people, while loving the Twitter concept, desire the inclusion of emoticons and smileys on their Interface, but at the time of writing, Twitter have no intentions of adding them to their service. The reason for this is that they are seen as a method of degrading the quality and look of the overall experience and worries about Emoticon spamming come to fruition. Twitter’s defence is that their service is for micro-blogging text and with the limited 140 character limit; there is no room for emoticons on their message boards. 

Many Twitter users feel that the service is lacking because of this decision and see Twitter as even being incomplete without them. 

There is however, an alternative. ‘TwitterKeys’* is a website which has a list of UTF compatible characters that can be used on Twitter posts. These are not as detailed as typical emoticons and smileys from say Facebook or Yahoo! Messenger; however they do show basic graphic images in black and white – more than is currently supported by Twitter by default. 

The Emoticons are fairly basic but there is a good range of content varying from a telephone image to a moon, hearts, stars, flowers and other typical symbols that you would expect to find on an Emoticon list. 

Implementing them into Twitter is very simple too. Simply double click on the Emoticon or icon that is to be used, hold down ‘Ctrl + C’ to copy the image and then press ‘Ctrl + V’ to paste the image into the Twitter text box. It’s as easy as that. These TwitterKey Emoticons are not just limited to the Twitter website either, they can be used in documents such as Word and Excel or on other instant messaging tools and social media websites. 

The link to find TwitterKeys is below.

Twitter Smileys and Emoticons

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‘Sudden Failure’ Brings Twitter Down

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Twitter addicts had to entertain themselves with something other than the social network and microblogging site for more than an hour Wednesday morning.

Twitter suffered a “sudden failure” and then encountered problems switching to a backup system, which left the site “largely inaccessible” for about 90 minutes, the company said.

Once notorious for regular and prolonged outages, Twitter has improved in this respect in the past year, but remains inconsistent. In August of last year, Twitter logged more than 6 hours of downtime, following a total of only 17 minutes in July, according to monitoring company Pingdom. In October, it had more than 5 hours of downtime, sandwiched between only 33 minutes in September and 22 minutes in November.

While Twitter is a free service, it has a large ecosystem of external developers whose revenue-generating Twitter-based applications are affected whenever the system has performance problems.

In addition, Twitter has concrete plans to generate revenue itself, at which point it the stability of the site will affect customers, whether they are advertisers or businesses that subscribe to fee-based Twitter services.

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Katy Perry Tweets – I’m Not Pregnant!Katy Perry Tweets – I’m Not Pregnant!

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Pop star Katy Perry has dismissed rumors that she is expecting a baby with her British fiancé Russell Brand.

Rumors had been swirling that the pair – who have only been dating for five months – were about to have a baby after they were spotted checking out baby clothes in a London kids boutique called Cubs.

REPORT: Katy Perry & Russell Brand Engaged!

But Perry killed the rumors by confessing on her Twitter page that it was her time of the month by saying: “@thedoctoluke ur gonna make me cry, maybe that’s my period tho. THAT’S RIGHT I’M BLEEDING. Face. Better luck next month peepz.”

Speculation the 25-year-old is carrying 34-year-old Brand’s baby also spiked after she posted a series of hints on her Twitter page recently.

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One tweet read: “Just so you guys in LA that you guys are about to experience 2010 … It’s noon on January 1st here in the future – let me tell you 2010 is BUMPIN!”

And Perry also posted a series of cryptic Twitter messages hinting she was pregnant – the day after her New Year’s Eve engagement in India, the singer wrote: “Let me tell you 2010 is BUMPIN!”

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