Blogging

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	Visit a blog to review information about a destination or travel service

The Basics:

A Web log, or blog, is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or travel; many also function as personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, links to other blogs, Web pages, and media related to its topic. Blog content can be unpredictable and varied in quality, as the technology allows any member of the public to create a blog for free, in only five minutes.

How does it relate to the tourism and travel industry?

Among users who seek information on the Internet, more than a quarter have visited a blog to review information about a destination or travel service supplier in the last months. This pattern reinforces the emerging relevance of travel communities as an information source.
As blogs are seen as a personal communication channel, visitors tend to see them as a more impartial source of information than corporate Web sites. Consider the difference of asking a friend to recommend a hotel in Brussels, to ringing the Hyatt Brussels and asking for their opinion!

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An Egyptian satellite, Egyptsat-1, was successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, MENA reported.

	Egyptsat-1, Egypt's first satellite for scientific research

Egyptsat-1 will be devoted to scientific research and photography to support development in the fields of construction, cultivation and fighting desertification, said MENA.

The Egyptian satellite is one of the 14 foreign satellites carried in one rocket launched by the Russian Federal Space Agency on the day, including a satellite from Saudi Arabia.

Egyptsat-1, Egypt's first satellite for scientific research, carries two remote sensing devices - an infrared and a multi-spectrum, according to MENA.

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	The Oceanic Whitetip Shark

Description & Behavior

The oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861), aka white-tipped shark, whitetip oceanic shark and whitetip shark, is a large stocky shark with a huge, rounded first dorsal fin and long, wide-tipped pectoral fins. The snout is blunt and rounded; upper teeth triangular; interdorsal ridge present. The dorsal side is usually dark gray with a bronze tinge, sometimes brown or blue; white ventral side, sometimes with a yellow tinge; the tips off first dorsal, pectorals, and lower lobe of caudal are often white or have white spots. The ventral surface of the pelvic fins, apices (tips) of anal and second dorsal fins, and ventral lobe of the caudal fin often have black spots and black or dusky saddle-marks are found in front of second dorsal fin and upper margin of the caudal fin. Up to 4 m total length; maximum weight: 168 kg; maximum reported age: 22 years.

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	Daylight Saving Time starts soon.

When local standard time is about to reach Midnight between Thursday, April 26, 2007 and Friday, April 27, 2007 clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Friday, April 27, 2007 at 1:00:00 AM local daylight time instead

Seconds before and after the change:

Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 11:59:59 PM +2 hours EET
Friday, April 27, 2007 at 1:00:00 AM +3 hours EEST.

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	From her perch in Berlin, Nefertiti became one of the most admired, and most copied, images from ancient Egypt.

WIn an escalating conflict over a famous 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, the head of Egypt's antiquities authority has threatened to ban exhibitions and tours of Egyptian artifacts from Germany.

Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, had requested the sculpture for a temporary exhibition. But German officials say the iconic artwork is too fragile to travel.

Upping the ante, Hawass on Sunday told his country's parliament that he "will never again organize antiquities exhibitions in Germany if it refuses a request, to be issued next week, to allow the bust of Nefertiti to be displayed in Egypt for three months."

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	David Morales at Pacha Sharm

Egypt Pacha Sharm El-Sheikh is celebrating its 3rd anniversay with the internationally acclaimed dance music icon from Brooklyn NYC, Grammy award winner for 'Remixer of the year' 1998 and nominee for 3 other Grammy awards, DJ David Morales. His track Here I am was featured in the block-buster movie The Devil Wears Prada. Co-Owner of Def Mix Productions, Co-host of MTV's high profile 90's The Grind, featured in Vogue, L'Uomo, GQ Magazines and style icon for Iceberg Jeans. His latest releases inclue Pacha Ibiza 05, 2 Worlds Collide feat. How Would U Feel & Nocturnal AX Winter 06.

When: 26/04/2007
Where: Pacha - Sharm El Sheikh
Doors Open@: 11:00 PM

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These flowers are quick to make and the children enjoy making them. Younger children may need some help with accordion-pleating the tissue paper.

	Servings: 10 small cakes Time:15 min / 5 min prep

Ingredients:
1 cup flour (can also use 1/2 white and 1/2 wheat), 2 &1/2 teaspoons baking powder,
2 tablespoons sugar, 1 dash salt
3/4 cup skim milk

• Mix dry ingredients together.
  
• Add milk all at once.
• Add 2 to 3 tablespoons more of milk, if needed to make batter of pancake consistency.
• Spoon onto hot griddle, one serving spoon at a time.
• Turn over when top is bubbly.
• Serve hot with butter and jelly.

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