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2012: End of year school news: graduating seniors earn awards, prove ...
North Denver Tribune
These scholarships came from colleges, the Denver Scholarship Foundation, and from alumni who have banded together to support the students as they seek further education. The North Side High School Alumni Scholarship Foundation offered 24 scholarships ...

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Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE), the leading provider of events in the global travel and tourism industry, is delighted to announce the launch of World Travel Market Latin America – the first global event for this increasingly important region for travel and tourism. The first World Travel Market Latin America will take place in São Paulo in April 2013. RTE is working with the Brazilian tourist board EMBRATUR over a hosted buyers programme for WTM Latin America.

The Guardian
France's new Socialist govt cuts members' salaries
Seattle Post Intelligencer
SARAH DiLORENZO, AP, SYLVIE CORBET, Associated Press Newly appointed French Industrial Recovery Minister Arnaud Montebourg, right, shakes hands with outgoing French Economy and Finance Minister Francois Baroin, during their handover ceremony Thursday ...
Key ministers in new French governmentReuters

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A Little Out of Your Way
Huffington Post
What he was struggling to resist, I suspect, was what Bobby Kennedy called "the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who have the privilege of an education.

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Open Source Robotics Foundation Announced
Robots.net
Its mission is to support the development, distribution, and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education, and product development. OSRF's board of directors includes Professor Wolfram Burgard of the University of Freiburg, ...

NCR Corporation today launched NCR Express Keya hotel check-in kiosk that lets guests who have checked in online or via a mobile collect their room key without queuing at reception, meeting consumers" needs for the same convenience and speed they get with airline and car rental check-in.

Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) today announced it has reached the milestone figure of 250 open and signed hotels in Asia, with the 250th hotel to be located in Bo"ao in China. This represents 129 open hotels plus our development pipeline of 121 projects - totaling more than 75,000 rooms in 15 countries.

Interview: Getting results from an online advertising campaign may not be easy but Barbara Pezzi, Director of Analytics & Search Optimisation at Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, says it is possible. Here she shares some tactics for delivering online advertising benefits in a multi-channel world with EyeforTravel"s Ritesh Gupta

Welding Robotics Instructor
WEAU-TV 13
Competencies and tasks of these positions will be met consistent with the educational principles of the college, which focus on meeting the learning needs of students. Provide instruction for the Welding / Welding Fabrication Technical Diploma program.

New York"s Roger Smith Hotel is now driving mobile and Facebook reservations through tools provided by Pegasus Solutions. The Midtown Manhattan boutique has launched a mobile site leveraging OpenFlex from Open Hospitality, a division of Pegasus, and has tapped the OpenView booking engine to capture "Facebookings."

Newport Hospitality Group (NHG) held its 21st annual General Manager Conference at Kingsmill Resort on April 15 to April 18, 2012. The conference ran three days with marketing presentations, idea sharing sessions and safety and security workshops all designed to promote continued improvement in the 35 hotels managed by this Williamsburg based hotel management company. The conference culminated on its final night with the annual awards dinner where NHG leaders recognized the exceptional performers of 2011.

State of Davidson: Unemployment belies job opportunities
Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
But there are opportunities out there, according to business, education and economic development leaders speaking at The Business Journal's State of Davidson event, held Thursday morning at Davidson County Community College . Around 35000 workers leave ...

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The U.S. lodging industry recovery may have begun in 2010, but it wasn"t until 2011 that the improved prosperity was shared by nearly all hotels in the country. In 2011, 80.5 percent of the properties that participated in the 2012 Trends® in the Hotel Industry survey enjoyed an increase in total revenue, while nearly three-quarters (72.3%) of the participants achieved growth in profits.

ST. GEORGE, Utah – May 17, 2012 – ContactPoint today announced an alliance partnership with Kennedy Training Network (KTN) to integrate its LogMyCalls platform into KTN training, call assessment and coaching services. This means that KTN now offers its training, coaching and mystery shopping clients a new alternative to traditional "shop calls."

While many businesses may be engaged in Pay Per Click advertising, there may be a few who are not taking advantage of using negative keywords. In this article, we will outline the importance of using negative keywords, and we"ll begin by listing the adverse effects of not doing so.

I read an interesting post today from Michelle Schumate who is a Regional Director of Operations with The Hamister Group. Michelle and Hamister"s idea about "Treating Guests As Friends In The Extended Stay Industry" helps to remind all of us who are involved in the hospitality industry that hotel guests deserve attention that goes well beyond check in, a clean and comfortable room, and a receipt upon check out. So the question becomes is technology beginning to create barriers that are isolating hoteliers from their guests?

Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Europe. This set covers May to July 2012, taken in the 1st week of May 2012 (all rates are in US dollars for two adults for a one-night stay).

Hotel rate parity trends for May to July 2012 of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Europe. The report shows the percentage of hotels with cheaper rates on their own brand site compared to their rates on other OTAs.

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Salman Khan: World's Most Influential Online Educator
Indo American News
By Sowmya Nandakumar HOUSTON: With degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS in Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and an MBA from Harvard Business School (a ...

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Safemark Systems, the hospitality industry's leading provider of guest room safes, has appointed Steve Davis as president. In his new role, Davis will work alongside Safemark CEO George Oelschig to implement growth and profitability initiatives across multiple channels and markets.