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Valentine’s Day is around the corner so get out your road trip planner and build a romantic weekend getaway for you and your partner.

Infuse the element of surprise into your road trip planning by secretly packing a suitcase and stowing it in the trunk of the car. Admittedly, this works better if it’s the woman who’s doing the surprise. Men generally aren’t as picky as to what they’ll wear out to dinner while women have definite ideas, so men, if you want to keep the road trip a total surprise, I’d recommend on packing at least 3 different outfits for her or pack just the day clothes and add shops to your itinerary to take her shopping for her to choose an outfit to wear out for dinner.

THINGS TO PACK FOR YOUR ROMANTIC GETAWAY(Tip: Copy/paste this section directly into the Trip Notes section of your road trip planner):

* A picnic basket with a wine bottle opener, cutting board, utensils, etc. Stop at a local store to pick up the wine, cheese, crackers. This is also a good time to ask the locals about their favorite spots for a picnic.

* A blanket to take for your picnic in the sun or for night-time star gazing.

* Scented candles for the hotel room.

* Romantic CDs for the hotel room, upbeat CDs for when cruising on the highway.

* A good road map (nothing kills the romantic mood faster than arguing about how you missed the turnoff or why you can’t pull over and ask for directions). However, if you should get lost, view it an adventure and use it as an opportunity to stop for refreshments or pick up a souvenir from your unexpected detour.

WHAT WILL FILL YOUR ROAD TRIP PLANNER?

* You can create a theme for your Romantic Escape like choosing wineries or museums, or outdoor markets, or base it around events like festivals.

*If you’re anywhere near the Finger Lakes Region in New York, check out this detailed blog loaded with details to make this trip a truly romantic getaway.

* If you enjoy wine and vineyards, this blog will give you some great ideas on where to go.

* If you have kids, make sure you check out this page for tips on how to best blend family life with romantic encounters with your spouse.

* Beaches or lakefronts are always romantic backdrops.

* A room with a fireplace adds warmth to the room and a glow to your skin.

* Dressing up for dinner sets the stage for the rest of evening.

* A nice restaurant with a view is a nice touch.

* Walk along Main Street after dinner, and explore those shops that catch your interest.

ROMANTIC THINGS TO DO WHILE ON THE ROAD:

* Red signifies love! Kiss your partner whenever you get stopped by the traffic light!

* Be spontaneous! If you spot a field of wildflowers, pull over and take pictures of each surrounded by color.

* Save the corks from the wine bottles you had with dinner and make a collage with other souvenirs you collect throughout the trip.

* Listen to an audio tape of a book that interests both of you (or have the passenger read it out loud to the driver)

* Sprinkle the restaurant dining table with rose petals when the waiter seats you.

* Create hearts from nature whenever you can and take pictures of them (twigs, rocks, beach sand, stones, flowers, vines, carved into a trail, etc.)

Getting away already puts the ahh in your weekend. Adding romance to your road trip planner adds a sweetness to it that will have you both smiling all weekend.

Plan for the best holidays ever - The Eastern Canada Holidays

If you are planning for a holidays, plan for the best holidays ever. Yes without any doubt that is the Eastern Canada Holidays. Canada has the highest maritime resources that you can enjoy. It has the highest tides with warm water and salt waters covered by ice. You can see there whales and cross there longest bridge. There are huge landscapes to inspire you like the island Prince Edward, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Charlottetown and New Brunswick..

Not only the places will attract you in your Eastern Canada Holidays, but also there are the friendliest people waiting to welcome you. You will be refreshed by salty air at the sandy beach. You can enjoy there by charming fishing or see its attractive wildlife. You will see the difference of lighthouses there in remote places.You will be amazed by the northern shore and national park of Cape Brenton and the coastal highway cabot trail.

Whatever you want like natural beauty or rich heritage or varities of culture you will get it in your next Eastern Canada Holidays. Your vacation will be further enriched by tasty seafood served by the warm hospitality. You will like the difference of the attraction in cosmopolitan city and rocky coves, alps, andes, there. You can not forget the river cruise experience in the St. Lawrence River.

Even if you are a frequent traveler, all your travel history will get down infront of Eastern Canada Holidays. The memory will be so much remarkable that you can never forget it or replace it with other memories.

This trip is designed for those who want to explore the Northeast United States and Canada’s Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Once you see the natural beauty of the rugged coastlines and forests, you will discover why visitors are so passionate about these beautiful regions. We travel in small, intimate groups (maximum of 13 passengers) and have the benefit of a professionally trained local guide who knows the best places in the national parks, national monuments and wilderness areas to respectfully observe wildlife, to enjoy fun, adventurous activities and appreciate the flavours of the local culture.

This is a camping based tour and we utilize state/national/private owned campgrounds. Our group is self sufficient and we provide all camping equipment (except sleeping bag) and a state of the art portable kitchen- and all camping meals are included in the tour price. We also stay in a locally owned 3 star hotel, eat other meals in locally owned restaurants and utilize established local suppliers for activities en route that help support local business and keep money in the community.

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NEWS

- U.S. posts record $956.80 bln budget deficit for the first

half of fiscal 2009, more than tripling the year-ago deficit

- Obama says he is seeing “glimmers of hope” across the

recession-hit U.S. economy but it remains under severe strain

- Turkey and IMF agree in principle on conditions of a new

loan deal worth up to $45 billion to help weather crisis

- Japan says it would sell more than $100 billion in debt in

the next 12 months to finance a record economic stimulus plan

- China exports, imports fell in March for fifth straight

month, but govt and economists see signs of a peak in contraction

MARKETS

- Asian shares rise, with South Korean stocks hitting a

6-month high; Japan’s Nikkei .N225 touches three-month high

- U.S. stocks .N end holiday-shortened week sharply higher

as Wells Fargo forecasts a record quarterly profit. Dow up 3.14

- Europe shares close higher on Thursday, buoyed by positive

U.S. news including Wells Fargo statement

- Oil prices rise nearly 5.8 pct on Thursday, fueled by stocks

rally, US data on workers filing new claims for jobless benefits

- Euro at lowest in almost a month against dollar

, hurt by holiday trade and view ECB edging toward easing

QUOTES

“We’ve still got a lot of work to do.” But “we’re starting to

see progress.” - U.S. President Barack Obama.

“We’ve agreed to a set of principles, within that framework

our hope is to finish the work (on the deal) on Turkey’s side

before its spring meetings.” - Turkish Economy Minister Mehmet

Simsek, referring to the next IMF meeting in about two weeks.

“Japan’s economy is worsening rapidly with exports and

production tumbling. Job conditions are also deteriorating

sharply.” - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso.

“The figures show signs of improvement from February, but it

is still too early to say that the worst is over for China’s trade

sector.” - Zhou Xi, an analyst with Bohai Securities in Tianjin.

“The market was helped by Wells Fargo’s stronger than expected

first quarter results estimate, fueling hopes of stabilization in

U.S. financial markets.” - Won Jong-hyuck, a market analyst at SK

Securities in Seoul.

DIARY

(all times GMT)

SATURDAY

WASHINGTON - Obama delivers his (taped) weekly radio address

at 1406; Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty delivers Republican

response at 1506.

TUESDAY

WASHINGTON - The Commerce Department issues retail sales for

March at 1230; the Labor Department issues producer price index

for March at 1230.

(Compiled by World Desk, Americas, +65 6870 3815)

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If Oracle’s acquisition of Sun actually becomes a market reality, it will most certainly change the dynamics of the market for servers, operating systems, development tools, database management systems, applications and, of course, virtualization technology. Let’s take a dark view of the possibilities in each area.

* Market for servers. Oracle will move from being a hardware neutral supplier of software and services to a provider of servers, software and services. Other hardware suppliers that had warm relationships with Oracle are likely to rethink their relationship. Bringing Oracle into a customer didn’t also bring in a sharp-toothed competitor. I would expect the relationship between Oracle and Dell, HP and IBM to cool down quite a bit.

* Market for operating systems. Oracle has been offering its version of Linux for a while. Sun has its Solaris. Both are flogging an open source message. Will Oracle continue to invest in Solaris isn’t yet clear. It certainly is conceivable that Oracle will choose to de-emphasize Solaris over time.

* Market for development tools. Both Sun and Oracle offer development tools and development environments. Sun has focused quite a bit of attention on beefing up open source tools. Oracle has focused largely on its own development environments. Oracle certainly could chose to de-emphasize Sun’s development environments or starve them to death by laying off Sun’s development team and handing the technology to Oracle’s current development team. Which development tools would get the highest priority? Very likely the answer to that question would be Oracle’s tools.

* Database management systems. Oracle is well known as one of the leaders in the relational database market. Over time, the company has also acquired non-relational, in memory and shared network cache data management technology. Sun has largely been neutral and has been happy to work with just about anyone to make their database management tools work efficiently. It is certainly reasonable to suspect that in the new world, Oracle’s own products would be emphasized and everything else would get whatever attention and budget that was left over.

* Applications. Oracle has acquired a number of application companies and has developed many of its own. Sun, on the other hand, really as gone to market with everyone else. The one exception was StarOffice. If we look darkly at the possibilities, Sun’s support of other application players could be less and less enthusiastic. It could disappear as well.

* Virtualization. Sun has been a long time player in the world of virtualization technology. It is one of the few companies that has offerings in nearly every layer of the Kusnetzky Group Model. Oracle, on the other had, has largely focused on building enough of a platform (operating system, virtual machine software, failover clustering, parallel processing and storage virtualization technology) to replace the offerings of folks such as Sun, IBM and the like when and wherever possible. They, of course, would prefer all of the revenue to end up in their bottom line rather than a portion. Will Oracle see the value in Sun’s offerings and bring them forward or dump them?

As one can easily see, Oracle’s move to acquire Sun creates a number of questions. Customers will need to fully understand what Oracle intend to do with hardware and software that has become the basis of part of their IT infrastructure.

If Oracle does this badly, Dell, HP and IBM are likely to be where these customers look for solutions. HP and IBM both have active programs to convert Sun Solaris users to users of their own technology technology. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see IBM create programs to use products from their Transitive acquisition and their global services organization to offer credible Sun Solaris/Oracle database to IBM AIX/DB2 migration products.

Of course, only time will tell if these questions are merely speculation or are definitions of Oracle’s future plans.

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Antiperspirants And Breast Cancer

Most underarm antiperspirants contain as the active ingredient, Aluminium Chlorohydrate, as you will probably think back on there has been controversy about Aluminium, since the 1950’s when it was a popular metal used for making cooking pots, Saucepans and Fry Pans and that it could be one of the contributing factors to Alzheimer’s, now we have another dilemma that could also be related to Aluminium, Breast Cancer.

Research shows that one of the leading causes of Breast Cancer could be the use of antiperspirants. The weak body has a number of areas, that it uses to purge Toxins from the body, these are, behind the knees, behind the ears, the groin acreage, and the armpits. The toxins are purged from the body in the form of perspiration and antiperspirant as the name clearly suggests prevents you from perspiring, thereby inhibiting the committee from purging Toxins from the armpit area.

These Toxin do not just disappear, Instead, the body deposits them in the Lymph Nodes below the arms, since it is unfit to sweat them out. A concentration of Toxins then builds up in the areas such as the armpits, which can then lead to cell mutations, which is cancer.

It cannot be ignored, that approaching all Breast Cancer Tumors occur in the upper outer quadrant of the breast area, this is where the Lymph Nodes are located. Men are less qualified (but not totally exempt) to develop breast cancer prompted by the use of antiperspirants, because the antiperspirant is more likely to be caught in the armpit braids, rather than directly applied to the skin, but ladies, who shave their armpits, increase the risk by causing imperceptable nicks in the strip, which allow the chemicals to enter easily into the body through the armpits.

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ABU DHABI // The capital’s tourism sector has been synonymous with business travel, but tourism officials say they intend to make pleasure travel a more important the sector in coming years.

Business tourism, one of the most resilient sectors of the economy, has protected Abu Dhabi from the economic downturn. But tourism officials say the addition of travel for pleasure would boost the local economy even further.

“The majority of travel that happens in Abu Dhabi is either business travel or expats living here that want to go home a couple of times every year, and outbound tourism is the bulk of travel agencies’ business here,” said Hani Khorsheed, the secretary general of the Abu Dhabi Travel and Tourism Agencies Committee.

“The reason why our business has not been affected by the economic crisis is because there is no tourism here yet.”

Abu Dhabi will host Business Tourism Week in March, incorporating the Gulf Meetings and Events Conference, the Gulf Incentive, Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition, and an event organised by the Society of Incentive Travel Executives. More than 250 exhibitors are expected.

Mubarak al Muhairi, the director general of the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, (ADTA) said improving business tourism was one of the authority’s major tasks, but it was also planning to build the leisure sector.

Mr al Muhairi said the authority would reach its 2012 target of 2.7 million hotel guests a year by aiming for “discerning tourists who have a keen interest in heritage and culture”.

Saadiyat Island, scheduled to open in 2018, has been touted as the main attraction for what the Abu Dhabi Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) calls cultural tourists.

Rita Aoun-Abdo, the art and culture advisor at the TDIC, said Saadiyat Island would distinguish Abu Dhabi from Dubai and other GCC countries. “We’re using art and culture as a catalyst to position Abu Dhabi locally and internationally,” Ms Aoun-Abdo said.

Antonia Carver, the editor of Bidoun, a Middle East arts and culture magazine, said Abu Dhabi had high hopes for cultural tourism, even though it was “starting from zero”.

“In the Gulf, it’s a new idea to go to an art museum. They’re thinking of putting in a museum before they’ve thought about an arts school and this is totally unusual,” Ms Carver said.

“But there’s also big, new middle-class tourism nations, like India, and bringing them here might be a real possibility.”

Bassem Kudsi, a spokesman for the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (Adach), said as long as the emirate had something truly unique to offer, the tourists should come.

“We have the geography, things like Sir Bani Yas Island,” Mr Kudsi said. “We have the camel festival, the sand dunes. With other events we’re targeting European travellers, like the Abu Dhabi Classics programme. It takes time but we are starting to build a critical mass.”

ADTA was working on other ways to attract more leisure tourists, with plans to expand overseas promotion, through 17 exhibitions, three more than last year, in 11 countries.

It will have promotions at the China Incentive Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition, the China International Travel Market, and other exhibitions in Italy.

ROME: Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said he is “very sorry” about Honda’s decision to pull out of Forumula One amid the global economic slowdown.

“I am personally very close to the team’s men who are facing difficult times,” Montezemolo said Friday in comments published on Ferrari’s Web site. “Unfortunately these things can happen under such conditions.”

Montezemolo was positive about the sport’s future, saying the Formula One Teams Association had taken important steps to cut costs at a meeting this week in London.

“We unanimously agreed to important short and long term measures, for 2009 and 2010,” he said. “We gave a new push toward a reduction in costs especially to help the smaller teams already from the next season.”

Montezemolo said the teams would meet FIA president Max Mosley to discuss their proposals. He said they were also looking to meet with F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone