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		<title>Barack Obama – the Next U. S. President</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R Adviser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama – Senator to Presidential Nominee, President Relationships! The definitive Advice as to whether a presidential candidate would win the election and eventually become the President of the United States could be verified, among other things, by computing whether there is any propensity for long-term relationships with his (for the time being) nominated vice [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="President Barack Obama" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/senator-to-presidentobamaphp" target="_blank">Barack Obama – Senator to Presidential Nominee, President</a></p>
<p>Relationships! The definitive Advice as to whether a presidential candidate would win the election and eventually become the President of the United States could be verified, among other things, by computing whether there is any propensity for long-term relationships with his (for the time being) nominated vice president.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party has chosen Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois as its nominee to compete against the Republican Party&#8217;s John McCain from Arizona in the forth-coming United States presidential election of 2008.</p>
<p>The 2008 presidential election is the first time in the U.S. history that two sitting senators will run against each other for the presidency of the United States, and more importantly, it is also the first time an African American has become a presidential nominee for a major party, as well as the first time both candidates of the two major parties &#8212; Democratic and Republican, were born outside the continental U. S. A. &#8212; Hawaii for Obama and the Panama Canal Zone for McCain.</p>
<p>On November 4, 2008, the Election Day in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, registered voters will cast votes for presidential candidates nominated and listed. They will however only select their state&#8217;s members of Electoral College and thereby indirectly vote for their presidential candidates.</p>
<p>On December 15, 2008, members of the U. S. Electoral College will meet in their respective state capital to officially cast their votes for President and Vice President.</p>
<p>On January 6, 2009, Electoral votes will officially be tallied before both chambers of Congress &#8212; the Senate and the House of Representatives.</p>
<p>On January 20, 2009, the constitutionally set Inauguration Day, Barack H. Obama, Jr. will become the 44th <a title="President Barack Obama" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/presidentbarackobama.php" target="_blank">the President of the United States</a> and Joseph R. Biden, Jr. the 47th Vice President of the United States.</p>
<p><a title="Barack Obama" href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/reladviser" target="_blank">Barack H. Obama, Jr.</a> (born August 4, 1961) announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007. On August 27, 2008 he became the nominee of the Democratic Party for the 2008 presidential election. Shortly after midnight on August 23, 2008, Barack Obama’s campaign announced, by way of text message to their supporters, that Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware has become the Vice Presidential candidate.</p>
<p>Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is the senior United States Senator from Delaware. Biden is both the Vice Presidential candidate for the 2008 November election and a candidate for re-election in the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, February 6, 2008, the day after the Super Tuesday &#8212; the single biggest U. S. presidential primary day, Best-Relationship-Advice made a bold and definitive advice that the then Senator Obama, now presidential nominee, or better called President-hopeful, will become President-elect at the end of 2008.</p>
<p>Subsequent to the announcement of the partnership with Senator Joe Biden, <a title="Relationship Advice" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/Best-Relationship-Advice_Matchmaking-Article4.php" target="_blank">Best-Relationship-Advice</a> has carefully computed definitively the Relationship between the presidential candidate, Obama, and the vice Presidential candidate, Biden. The result is stunning &#8212; there is absolute propensity for a long-term partnership. In the current situation that they are teamed up for the 2008 presidential campaign, this could only lead to one single conclusion, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will become President and Vice President of the United States in the 2008 Election.</p>
<p>Parallel study has been made on John McCain and Sarah Palin. The result is affirmative, that the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the Republican Party do not reflect any long-term relationship in the coming years.</p>
<p>The result is therefore conclusive, which duly coincides with the same piece of advice given before based upon a totally different methodology by <a title="Relationship Advice" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/Why_Choose_Best-Relationship-Advice.php" target="_blank">Best-Relationship-Advice</a>.</p>
<p>Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof!</p>
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		<title>Web Based Point Of Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing the newest technology in Retail Point of Sale over the web by Web POS. Other point of sale systems require you to download and install software. Not with Web Based POS, simply open your browser and type in your web address to securely access all of you company information. You don&#8217;t have to ever [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Introducing the newest technology in <a href="http://www.webbasedpos.com" target="_blank">Retail Point of Sale</a> over the web by Web POS. Other point of sale systems require you to download and install software. Not with <a href="http://www.webbasedpos.com" target="_blank">Web Based POS</a>, simply open your browser and type in your web address to securely access all of you company information. You don&#8217;t have to ever have to worry about software installs or updates ever. If you have multiple stores you will instantly be able to network them together. Web Base POS is packed full of features with functionality that will automate your entire business. Any one that is starting out or growing a multi store business will love <a title="Web Based POS" href="http://www.webbasedpos.com" target="_blank">Web Based POS.</a></p>
<p>See what others have discovered to be the most powerful Point of Sale and Business Management tool available today for retailers.</p>
<p>Visit us today for a free trial @ <a href="http://www.webbasedpos.com" target="_blank">www.webbasedpos.com!</a></p>
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		<title>6 Tips to Save on Your Printer Ink Cartridges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buying a printer is a one time cost, but since printer ink cartridges need to be bought on a regular basis, the cost of operating the printer and maintaining it in proper condition can add up. Each ‘print’ command, however small, makes your printer use ink, but with some easy tips, you can actually save [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Buying a printer is a one time cost, but since printer ink cartridges need to be bought on a regular basis, the cost of operating the printer and maintaining it in proper condition can add up. Each ‘print’ command, however small, makes your printer use ink, but with some easy tips, you can actually save a lot of ink and use a cartridge for a longer period than usual. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>1) Print only what is necessary </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Let’s begin with economising. Most often, we end up<strong> </strong>making unnecessary printouts and in the process waste precious ink. For instance, you might need to print only a small portion of a web page instead of the whole page. Instead of simply printing the whole page, complete with its heavy graphics etc, be specific on what you want to have in hard copy and print only that portion. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Text always consumes less ink compared to graphics or images. If textual information is all that you need then you can make sure that you don’t print the graphics and images.<span> </span>If it is a web page you need to save in a printed form, check for its print version. If there is no print version, you can copy and paste the text in a word document and take a printout of that. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Also try to do a bit of planning and double check what you are printing before hitting the print button. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>2) Go for a quick print preview </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Most branded printers such as HP, Canon, Dell, Epson or any other printer come with a printer driver which has a very useful print preview function. With this function, you can have a prior preview of the copy you want to take a print out of. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>This function is especially handy when you are directly taking the print out from the Internet. At times, what you see on a site is totally different as compared to the printed version. A quick preview can help to get the printout of the material that you specifically want. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>3) Make sure the power is turned off </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Just as you never switch off your computer without properly shutting it down, the same rule applies to your printer too. If you don’t shut down the printer properly, the print heads will remain directly exposed to air causing the ink to dry in the nozzles which, in turn, could affect the quality of printing adversely. Make it a habit to check the position of the print heads before cutting off the power. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>4) Use good software </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>There are various ink saving software options available online. These software applications are designed to reduce the consumption of your printer ink. With these applications, you can get good quality printout copies with less ink consumption even during high resolution printing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span><span> </span>5) Use printer ink cartridges smartly </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>If you don’t do printing regularly, run a small printing test at least once a week, to avoid the ink cartridges from drying up. This little precaution will help you to increase the life of the cartridge. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>6) Never expose your printer to extreme temperatures </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p><span>Too much variation in room temperature is bad for printer ink cartridges. You must avoid keeping your printer in too hot or too cold a temperature as the cartridges can dry up. For lasting printer performance, make sure the room has a normal and stable temperature. </span></p>
<p><span>With these small but important tips, your <a href="http://www.cartridgeshop.co.uk/Catalog/1/cartridges.html">printer ink cartridges</a> will get a longer life. It is easy to buy good quality printer ink cartridges at excellent prices from online shops. </span></p>
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		<title>The Beginning of the End of Hillary&#8217;s Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton: &#8216;This May Be the Last Day I&#8217;m Ever Involved in a Campaign of This Kind&#8217; June 02, 2008 12:48 PM ABC News&#8217; Sarah Amos Reports: Speaking to a crowd in Milbank, SD former President Bill Clinton admitted that today could be the last time he has such an active role in presidential politics. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><span style="Times New Roman;">Bill Clinton: &#8216;This May Be the Last Day I&#8217;m Ever Involved in a Campaign of This Kind&#8217;</span></h3>
<p class="date" style="auto 0cm;"><span style="small;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><em>June 02, 2008 12:48 PM</em></span></span></p>
<p><span style="Times New Roman;">ABC News&#8217; Sarah Amos Reports: Speaking to a crowd in Milbank, SD former President Bill Clinton admitted that today could be the last time he has such an active role in presidential politics. </span></p>
<p><span style="Times New Roman;">&#8220;I want to say also that this may be the last day I&#8217;m ever involved in a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, &#8217;til Hillary decided to run. But it has been, one of the greatest honors of my life to go around and campaign for her for president,&#8221; said Clinton as he began his speech. </span></p>
<p><span style="Times New Roman;">Watch the </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4980174"><span style="Times New Roman;">VIDEO HERE.</span></a></p>
<p><span style="Times New Roman;">It was certainly not a long thought &#8211; nor something he seemed to want to dwell on. But for a man who has rarely shown even an inkling of defeat in the past year, even uttering the words says a lot. </span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="Times New Roman;">See &#8220;<a title="President Barack Obama" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/presidentbarackobama.php" target="_blank">Definitive Advice on Barack Obama becoming U. S. President</a>&#8220;</span></p>
<p><span style="Times New Roman;"><br />
</span><span style="Times New Roman;">at <a title="Relationship Advice" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/" target="_blank">http://best-relationship-advice.com/</a> for full article.</span></p>
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		<title>Barack Obama Will Become U.S. President</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Definitive Best-Relationship-Advice on Barack Obama becoming U. S. President Today is Wednesday, February 6, 2008, the day after the Super Tuesday &#8212; the single biggest U. S. presidential primary day. Notwithstanding the fact that so far neither Senator Hillary Clinton nor Senator Barack Obama could proclaim the victory of the presidential primaries after the Super [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Definitive Best-Relationship-Advice on </strong><a title="Barack Obama" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/presidentbarackobama.php"><strong><span style="#002bb8;">Barack Obama becoming U. S. President</span></strong></a></p>
<p>Today is Wednesday, February 6, 2008, the day after the Super Tuesday &#8212; the single biggest U. S. presidential primary day.</p>
<p>Notwithstanding the fact that so far neither Senator Hillary Clinton nor Senator <a title="President Barack Obama" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/presidentbarackobama.php"><span style="#002bb8;">Barack Obama</span></a> could proclaim the victory of the presidential primaries after the Super Tuesday, Best-Relationship-Advice is, however, prepared to make a bold and definitive advice that the now Senator Obama will become President-elect at the end of 2008.</p>
<p>Barack Obama will not only prevail the presidential primaries of the U. S. Democratic Party but also advance to enthrone to the White House becoming the forty-fourth President of the United States. He is making history in the presidency of the United States of America &#8211; the first non-white ethnic President of the World&#8217;s Super Power. What &#8220;An American Dream!&#8221;</p>
<p>It has to make clear that Relationship Adviser is not American. He is not a member of or an affiliate to any political party &#8211; he does not have a slightest interest in politics. He is not a psychic either.</p>
<p>This piece of definitive advice is not fortune-telling based on <a title="horoscope sign compatibility" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/Best-Relationship-Advice_Matchmaking-Article3.php"><span style="#002bb8;">horoscope</span></a> or psychic power, as most fortune-telling always gives equivocal answers which are largely subject to interpretations after the event to its favor. The advice is like when a traveller books a plane flying from New York to Paris on a certain day with a certain flight time, he or she would be foretold the scheduled time of arrival in Paris on that particular day. When he or she actually takes the flight and onboard the plane, he or she would almost certain that the plane will get to Paris at about the ETA &#8212; estimated time of arrival &#8212; foretold by the Captain. At the end of the journey, the plane would actually get there at about that foretold ETA.</p>
<p>This seems exceedingly natural nowadays but not before May 21, 1927 when The Spirit of St. Louis was flown by Charles Lindbergh which made the first non-stop solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris.</p>
<p>The above analogy is most apparent and easily understood but not the advice on the outcome of a weighty presidential election campaign.</p>
<p>Most people would certainly be extremely skeptical about the credibility of <a title="relationship advice" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/Why_Choose_Best-Relationship-Advice.php"><span style="#002bb8;">Best-Relationship-Advice</span></a>, but time will soon prove the stunning accuracy of <a title="Best Relationship Advice" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/Best-Relationship-Advice_Matchmaking-Article4.php"><span style="#002bb8;">Best-Relationship-Advice</span></a> which relies on meticulous calculation and not on guesswork. After all, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.</p>
<p><a title="Best Relationship Advice" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/Request_Best-Relationship-Advice.html"><span style="#002bb8;">Best-Relationship-Advice</span></a> is intended for people who are very serious about making decisions of significant consequence, and today this piece of bold and definitive advice is monumental to demonstrate how credible it is.</p>
<p><a title="love relationship advice" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/Site_Map.html"><span style="#002bb8;">Best-Relationship-Advice</span></a>  is unprecedented, definitive and invaluable for those seeking for right directions in order to make right decisions, not only in <a title="perfect love match" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/How_Best-Relationship-Advice_Works.php"><span style="#002bb8;">love</span></a> and <a title="marriage advice" href="http://best-relationship-advice.com/Best-Relationship-Advice_Matchmaking-Article5.php"><span style="#002bb8;">marriage relationships</span></a>.</p>
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		<title>Private tours in Italy are the new trend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A research undertaken by tour operator A La Carte Italy Tours studies travel patterns to Italy. That luxury tour company offers chauffeured excursions across all areas of Italy. Americans travel gladly. How does their travel behavior look? We like traveling on our continent. We are actually a well-traveled people. Americans are always gladly seen guests. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://www.a-la-carte-italy-tours.com/prices.html' rel='attachment wp-att-835' title='Rome'><img src='http://www.quickannounce.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/vatican.jpg' alt='Rome' align="right" /></a>A research undertaken by tour operator A La Carte Italy Tours studies travel patterns to Italy. That <a href="http://www.a-la-carte-italy-tours.com/prices.html">luxury</a> tour company offers chauffeured excursions across all areas of Italy.</p>
<p>Americans travel gladly. How does their travel behavior look? We like traveling on our continent. We are actually a well-traveled people. Americans are always gladly seen guests. And they are popular because of their humor and probably because of their potential. And our preferred <a href="http://www.a-la-carte-italy-tours.com/amalfi-coast-tour.html">destination</a> out of America is Italy.</p>
<p>In order to be able to assess the international travel market, one must differentiate between three categories: mass travel, then the individual tourists, who are independent with a car, or the luxury-seeking tourists. </p>
<p>Those who drive their rental car individually visit particularly Italy and Croatia. The two countries still rank among the usually-visited destinations. Italy has the preference among our journeys abroad. </p>
<p>However if so-called package tours are booked out and crowded, Italy offers so much more with a private driver, guide and limousine. The numbers of the important tour operators underline the new trends. </p>
<p>That leads to a new trend with package tours and component journeys. More than one third of all tours last between 13 and 15 days; another third between five and eight days. The portion of those who can go more than 22 days on vacation, is small. </p>
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		<title>Michelangelo &#8211; Heritage of Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you enter St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica in the Vatican, you won&#8217;t miss Michelangelo&#8217;s masterpiece, the Pietà, sculpted in 1499-1500. Your private guide of A La Carte Italy Tours, a company offering private limousine tours across Italy, will tell you the story of that sculpture. Michaelangelo went to the Eternal City in June, 1496. He was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://www.a-la-carte-italy-tours.com/company.html' rel='attachment wp-att-755' title='Michelangelo'><img src='http://www.quickannounce.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/michelangelo.jpg' alt='Michelangelo' align='right' /></a>As you enter St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica in the Vatican, you won&#8217;t miss Michelangelo&#8217;s masterpiece, the Pietà, sculpted in 1499-1500. Your <a href="http://www.a-la-carte-italy-tours.com/company.html">private guide</a> of A La Carte Italy Tours, a company offering private limousine tours across Italy, will tell you the story of that sculpture.</p>
<p>Michaelangelo went to the Eternal City in June, 1496. He was still young, only twenty-one. It was the first step in his actual life. One of his first works there, La Pieta, executed for Cardinal St. Denis, the French ambassador at Rome, who desired to leave some monument of himself in the great city, made Michelangelo famous. </p>
<p>None before Michelangelo would have thought of this: the more often the work is contemplated, the more touching does its beauty become, everywhere the purest nature, in harmony both in spirit and exterior. Michelangelo numbered twenty-four years when he had finished his Pieta.</p>
<p>How could Michael Angelo have carved this work at twenty-four ? His knowledge of anatomy was surprising. But, above all, he was in love with art. He said once, explaining why he had not married: &#8220;I have only too much of a wife in my art, and she has given me trouble enough. As to my children, they are the works that I shall leave; and if they are not worth much, they will at least live for some time.&#8221;</p>
<p>When some person criticised the youthful appearance of the Virgin, and captiously asked where a mother could be found, like this one, younger than her son, the painter answered: &#8220;In Paradise&#8221;.</p>
<p>Upon Michelangelo&#8217;s return to Florence, Cardinal Piccolomini, later Pius III, made a contract with him for fifteen statues of Carrara marble to embellish the family chapel in the cathedral of Siena. Three years were allowed for this work. The artist finished but four statues, Peter, Paul, Gregory, and Pius, because of other labors which were pressed upon him.</p>
<p>Michael Angelo was then willing to undertake the making of another statue. He was allowed two years in which to complete it, with a monthly salary of six gold florins. His only preparation for the work was a little wax model which he moulded, now in the Uffizi. He worked untiringly, so that he often slept with his clothes on, to be ready for his beloved statue as soon as the morning dawned. He had shut himself away from the public gaze by planks and masonry, and worked alone, not intrusting a stroke to other hands. He was convinced that we must keep our head in solitude. Great thoughts are not born usually in the whirl of social life.</p>
<p>Finally, when the statue was finished in January, 1504, and the colossal David stood unveiled before the people, they said: &#8220;It is as great a miracle as if a dead body had been raised to life.&#8221; Michelangelo intended, by this work, to teach the Florentines that as David &#8220;had defended his people and governed justly, so they who were then ruling that city should defend it with courage and govern it uprightly.&#8221;</p>
<p>The statue of David weighed eighteen thousand pounds, and required forty men four days to drag it by ropes a quarter of a mile to the place where it was to stand in the Piazza della Signoria. Notwithstanding that the praise of the sculptor was on every lip, still there was so much jealousy among the artists that some of their followers threw stones at the statue during the nights when it was being carried to the Piazza, and eight persons were arrested and put in prison.</p>
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		<title>Small luxury news from Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the guides of A La Carte Italy Tours travel across Italy, they discover small luxury news which they are happy to share with the world. Italy top luxury destination &#8211; Italy is classified first destination for the top-of-the-range travellers in 2007. The world luxury travel market currently represents 25 million trips per year, that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the guides of A La Carte Italy Tours travel across Italy, they discover small luxury news which they are happy to share with the world.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.a-la-carte-italy-tours.com/" title="Italian luxuries"><img align="right" src="http://www.quickannounce.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/luxury_italy.jpg" alt="Italian luxuries" />Italy top luxury destination</a></strong> &#8211; Italy is classified first destination for the top-of-the-range travellers in 2007. The world luxury travel market currently represents 25 million trips per year, that is to say 3% of the totality of the trips. It accounts for also 25% of the expenditure related to the stays, that is to say 180 million dollars. The average budget of a traveller is estimated between 10.000 and 20.000 dollars. These luxury followers come from the United Kingdom, but also from Russia, Italy, Spain, and, more recently, China and India. This rise is explained by the considerable increase in a socio-professional category whose incomes amount to at least 1 million dollars. The principal worry of these customers is to obtain private and personalized services, like private flights, considered as a &#8220;necessary luxury&#8221;. Private islands, yachts, rental villas and private hotels also are in demand. Ethical and <a href="http://www.a-la-carte-italy-tours.com/unesco/">educational</a> travel has a lot of success.</p>
<p><img align="left" src="http://www.quickannounce.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/fiat500.jpg" alt="Fiat 500" /><strong>The Fiat 500 Luxury</strong> &#8211; This new car is so extreme, at the antipodes of luxury, that it is almost a luxury! The 500, named <font size="2">Car of the Year 2008, </font> is beautiful, customisable with 12 colours, 15 interior trims and a plethora of rims, stickers and accessories. Very pleasant to drive (in spite of a high noise level) with its way of changing gears similar to a kart, it shows a pretty urban temperament thanks to its 100 HP gasoline engine. Nervous, it also has a powerful braking system. It has plenty of safety features: airbags (front, side, roof, knees) and electronics: ABS with EBD, ESP, ASR, HBA, and others.</p>
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		<title>Madonna On The Way To Maldives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://travel-maldives.blogspot.com" class="broken_link">Madonna will arrive in Maldives</a> some time today to celebrate this year&#8217;s Christmas and the new year. She will be arriving around 11:15am today on her private jet. A local newspaper miadhu Online says that she is staying at Sonevafushi where she stayed with her husband Guy Ritchie a couple of years back when she visited Maldives for the first time.</p>
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		<title>Hollywood actor RJ Williams and Young Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[R. J. Williams or Robert Jackson Williams (born: July 19, 1978) was a child actor on movies and television shows. He is best recognized by soap opera fans for playing Rowdy on General Hospital from 1989 through 1991. R.J. Williams is the founder and CEO of YoungHollywood.com, a thriving new media property that has quickly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>R. J. Williams or Robert Jackson Williams (born: July 19, 1978) was a child actor on movies and television shows. He is best recognized by soap opera fans for playing Rowdy on General Hospital from 1989 through 1991.</p>
<p>R.J. Williams is the founder and CEO of YoungHollywood.com, a thriving new<br />
media property that has quickly become the authoritative voice of &#8220;Young<br />
Hollywood&#8221;  across numerous media platforms.  From its home base at<br />
http://www.younghollywood.com ,viewers can now<br />
find YoungHollywood.com&#8217;s programming on MySpace, YouTube and Yahoo!&#8217;s home<br />
pages as well as on TV on &#8220;Entertainment Tonight.&#8221;</p>
<p>YoungHollywood started out as an independent entertainment production company that became one of the largest producers of celebrity programming in Hollywood. Based on our extensive experience in creating quality entertainment, we developed a very simple programming philosophy at YoungHollywood – all of our content is based on integrity, accuracy, and a real sense of fun.</p>
<p>Launched in April of 2007, YoungHollywood.com is an online destination for<br />
original celebrity and lifestyle video content that provides the real take<br />
on &#8220;young&#8221; Hollywood &#8211; revealing the inside story of celebrity life, events,<br />
fashion, lifestyle and culture in the words of the celebrities themselves.</p>
<p>YoungHollywood.com has rapidly grown to attract nearly a million unique<br />
visitors per month and averages more than 20 million hits per month.<br />
YoungHollywood.com is also one of the top entertainment channels on<br />
MySpaceTV.com and has a partnership with YouTube.com, where YH videos<br />
consistently receive millions of views per month.</p>
<p>As a longtime actor himself, RJ Williams launched Young Hollywood because he<br />
wanted to create a site for unique, quality celebrity programming that would provide an authentic take on Hollywood culture, without tabloid sleaze or sensationalism.</p>
<p>RJ Williams has become the authoritative voice of “Young Hollywood” and<br />
hosts a recurring Young Hollywood segment that airs on Entertainment Tonight,<br />
the #1 syndicated entertainment newsmagazine show covering entertainment news,<br />
trends, and personalities of the next generation. In addition to ET, Young Hollywood has formed numerous strategic relationships – including deals with YouTube and Myspace.</p>
<p>Since its inception, Arjay Entertainment has established its presence among Young Hollywood. The company had formed several distribution alliances and provided content for ABC, Showtime, TV Guide Channel, America Online and various Fox Cable channels.</p>
<p>With its unparalleled access to the world beyond the velvet rope,<br />
Young Hollywood offers the ultimate insider’s perspective on celebrity lifestyle,<br />
travel, nightlife, music, fashion, and more.</p>
<p>They feature original video content, entertainment news, movie trailers, music videos, industry blogs, and celebrity photo galleries.<br />
They also share the latest scoop on what’s hot, new, and undiscovered — from fashion and style to restaurants to gadgets.</p>
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