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Who Really Owns and Operates The Well-known Cruise LInes

Who actually owns and operates the most popular and your favourite cruise lines? Be prepared for some surprises as I take a look at who the biggest cruise lines in the world are based on number of passengers carried, and then who owns and controls the lines. Although there are many cruise lines, they are all pretty much owned by three large cruise corporations. Discover who owns and operates the cruise lines you have heard of, love or considering cruising with.

Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 60+ cruises.

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Princess Cruises Ocean Medallion Review

Princess Cruises were the first cruise line to introduce the Ocean Medallion smart wearable device that is supposed to change the way you cruise. It helps you board the ship faster, find your way around the ship, order food and drink to wherever you are on the ship, gamble and play games , locate your friends and more. But how does it really work? What are the pros and cons? Find out my thoughts, take and review of the Princess Cruises Ocean Medallion.




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Report: MRG Ranks Global IPTV Market Leaders

MRG is excited to release its highly comprehensive annual study IPTV Market Leader Report by Product and Region — Fall 2012.

MRG’s IPTV Market Leader Reports identify which IPTV systems and software companies are leading each of the six IPTV market segments: access systems, video headend systems, video-on-demand server software, set-top boxes, middleware, and content protection/digital rights management. The data is further segmented by geographic region as follows: North America, Latin America/Caribbean, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East/Africa.

“IPTV is continuing its rapid growth worldwide but some of the more exciting opportunities are only just beginning in the Middle East/Africa and Latin America/Caribbean regions,” said Jose Alvear, Senior Research Analyst at MRG. “While the growth in the number of new IPTV service providers has been slowing down because telcos around the world have already deployed IPTV services for a number of years, there are still plenty of new opportunities available to vendors in emerging markets. In addition, vendors are now supplying multi-screen, content delivery and OTT services, as the global pay-TV industry continues to evolve into new screens and devices.”




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NOW TV Continues to Extend Reach with Roku Launch

NOW TV is now available on Roku streaming players. NOW TV offers instant access to Sky Movies – the UK’s most popular subscription movies service – with no contract, set-up costs or installation. New customers can take advantage of a free 30 day trial of the service, plus also benefit from a three-month introductory offer of £8.99 a month.

Roku users will, from today, be able to find NOW TV within the Roku Channel Store and once registered for NOW TV online will be able to access the movies they choose instantly. Once they have connected their Roku box to their TV and home WiFi network, NOW TV customers will be able to watch their favourite movies on their main TV, as well as continue to watch them out and about through their smartphone, tablet or laptop. NOW TV is already available on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, selected Android smartphones, and other connected devices.




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A Republican finally reveals the truth about the GOP tax cuts

No, they aren’t going to pay for themselves.




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Alex Acosta gave a pass to Epstein years ago. He’s still at it as labor secretary.

His department has ignored visas for trafficking victims.




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Trump’s immigration policies speak louder than his racist, xenophobic words

Sadly, the most recent horrors are not an aberration.




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A question missing from the health-care debate: Will doctors make less money?

Democratic candidates need to show their math.




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For Trump and his cronies, draining the swamp means ousting experts

The administration is celebrating the brain drain and helping the real swamp.




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Trump has a dream team for mismanaging a recession

If we have an economic downturn, it will be bad.




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Stephen Miller is right about immigration — but not in the way that he means

Immigration does touch on many other policy issues, though maybe not in the manner he suggests.




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Trump’s tendency to double down on bad ideas doesn’t bode well for the economy

One could imagine him becoming even more protectionist and more isolationist in a recession.




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The Saudi-Iran crisis could end Trump’s lucky streak on the economy

The attack on Saudi oil facilities comes as the U.S. economy has been showing signs of fragility.




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Trump thinks the economy makes him impeachment-proof. It might be the opposite.

Any economic improvements aren’t helped by his actions.




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Trump found a way to simultaneously sabotage our health-care and immigration systems

He just took out two birds with one proclamation.




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Trump and Republicans are on the hunt for Real Crimes

Those are being committed by the Democrats, Republicans say.




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Democrats already have a popular, progressive agenda. They just need to amplify it.

How best for the party to get its message across to voters.




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The strongest reason to mourn Volcker: He was willing to be unpopular

Public officials today could take a lesson from the former Federal Reserve chair.




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Mitt Romney bucks his party. Republicans should follow his leadership.

A bipartisan tax proposal could signal a shift in the GOP’s business-first focus.




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Two years later, every promise made about the GOP tax cuts has been broken

The tax plan has benefited the wealthy while ballooning the deficit.




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Here are four suggested New Year’s resolutions for the media

I hope others in my industry will adopt them — and call me out if I don’t.




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Trump says he hates corruption. But he wants to make bribery easier worldwide.

“It’s just so unfair that American companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas.”




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Trump’s Treasury secretary just admitted the tariff rationale is hogwash

Maybe it was the altitude at Davos.




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On health care, is Trump malicious or just incompetent? Yes.

New cuts are actually expansions, according to Mike Pence.




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Worried Trump might weaponize the presidency? He already has, many times.

He did it in the Ukraine affair, of course, but most of his abuses have happened closer to home.




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How Trump’s failure to learn from history is making your whiskey a lot more expensive

It’s another way in which the president’s supposedly narrowly focused tariffs have trickled down.




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With coronavirus, Trump’s lies and his reassurances backfire

Americans have not only health risks but also economic fears.




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The 2020 elections are being driven by health care. That’s good news for Democrats.

Republican incompetence and heartlessness are again coming to Democrats’ rescue.




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Officials have spent the last few years dismantling anti-recession measures

And now, we’re woefully unprepared.




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The next threat: Hunger in America

As demand at food banks has surged, donations from local grocers and supermarkets have plummeted.




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The covid-19 pandemic has revealed another area of critical government underinvestment

Archaic computer technology is hampering the effort to combat the effects of covid-19 in the United States.




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This ‘dreamer’ is saving lives during this pandemic. She wants a chance at normal life.

Young medical students and health-care workers simply want to keep contributing in the only home they know.




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It appears the Trump administration is doing all it can to drive away health professionals

The administration’s crackdown on immigration makes it harder to staff a health-care system facing chronic worker shortages.




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Why Tom Cotton’s immigration idea makes no sense

America only benefits from U.S.-trained scientists.




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How Web Media Developer can use YouTube SEO with Better Search Marketing to Rank Their Videos

There are several things which go into successful video marketing on YouTube. One of these things is the very often neglected YouTube SEO that’s so vital for getting viewers to actually find your video. Too many YouTube marketers are concerned with what’s going on in their videos to really push for better SEO, and it […]

The post How Web Media Developer can use YouTube SEO with Better Search Marketing to Rank Their Videos appeared first on SpyreStudios.




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From Concept to Design: How Developers Create Today’s Most Popular Mobile Games

In the past five years, mobile games have exploded in popularity. With the advent of Apple’s App Store, mobile app developers have jumped on the opportunity to create mobile games from scratch on the most popular devices in the world. What Makes a Mobile Game Go Viral? Why is it that some mobile games become […]

The post From Concept to Design: How Developers Create Today’s Most Popular Mobile Games appeared first on SpyreStudios.




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12 Home Office Setup Ideas for Web Designers and Developers

Coffee, music, YouTube channels, and procrastination— only a handful of things can make your day when it comes to increasing productivity but none of them are as complete as having a home office setup. It makes a world of difference where and how you work especially if you work from home. Hence, some home office […]

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Teaching My Daughters to Read. Part I: Context

Blast from the Past: This blog entry was first issued on June 30, 2014 and was reissued on March 28, 2020. As I re-introduce this piece, we are sheltering in place as is so much of the world. That means schools are closed in many places and teachers and parents are concerned about what is being lost from children's education. As with many of you, I've been trying to help protect children's learning during these fraught times. Which brings us to today's blog entry, this one about how I taught my own children to read at home.




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Teaching My Daughters to Read. Part II: Print Awareness

Last week, I began a multi-part series on how I taught my daughters to read. My oldest daughter wryly replied to that entry, suggesting I could have saved a lot of pixels if I had just said that I hired a tutor…. And her son who just had his third birthday (and who did not read that entry) informed me that his goal for being three years old was to read words.




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Teaching My Daughters to Read. Part III: Phonics

So far, I have explained the literacy environment, print awareness, and sight word teaching that were part of teaching my daughters to read, but phonics also played an important role.




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Teaching My Daughters to Read. Part IV: Success

Previously, I described how I taught my daughters about print, sight vocabulary, phonological awareness,




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Your Home as a Learning Experience

Have you ever thought that your home might provide areas of learning experiences for your child? As a teacher of young children, I would ask parents to look at their homes as a unique way of engaging children with their immediate and daily environment. Doing so not only prepares the children for school academic learning, but also for physical, social and emotional growth.




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Home Learning for Young Children: A Daily Schedule

Establishing daily and weekly routines provides a structure for learning at home. Parents and children know how the day will unfold; routines create predictability and also anticipation for the fun and comforting things that will happen throughout the day. It can be helpful to identify a learning theme to explore together over the course of two weeks. You'll find a sample daily schedule below, with ideas for how to bring in the theme into every part of the day, from breakfast to read alouds to art and science activities. 




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The ABCs of Teaching Reading at Home

This month’s school closures have forced families to become teachers at home overnight. 




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Literacy for All: Equitable Practices for Reading and Dyslexia

Teaching students to read is the first job of our schools. How can we help all students become strong, confident readers? Literacy for All: Equitable Practices for Reading and Dyslexia was held on February 20, 2020 in Annapolis, Maryland. The event was hosted by National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL), Decoding Dyslexia Maryland (DD-MD), and community partners. Reading experts from NCIL shared best practices in early screening and interventions supported by decades of reading research.




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Learning with laughter: an interview with Kevin McCloskey

Kevin McCloskey delivers fascinating information in digestible, user-friendly formats, which appeal to not only young readers but experienced ones as well.




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Earned Attention: More than a stack of paper

As an industry I think we’re getting weary of all the various “rich content” experiments and products floating around these days. I have to admit that most make me want to yawn and move on to the next item in …




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Beta 3 of iOS 13.5, iPadOS 13.5, MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 Released for Testing

Apple has released the third beta versions of iOS 13.5, iPadOS 13.5, and MacOS Catalina 10.15.5. Separately, watchOS 6.2.5 beta 3 and tvOS 13.4.5 beta 3 are also available for testing. The third beta versions of iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5 are actually reversioned from iOS 13.4.5 and iPadOS 13.4.5, so if you were testing ... Read More




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Beta 4 of iOS 13.5 & iPadOS 13.5 Released for Testing

Apple has released the fourth beta versions of iOS 13.5 and ipadOS 13.5. Additionally, Apple also released the fourth beta builds for watchOS 6.2.5 and tvOS 13.4.5. As of writing, macOS Catalina 10.5.5 beta 4 is not yet available for testing, but presumably will arrive soon as well. iOS 13.5 beta 4 and ipadOS 13.5 ... Read More




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oscon: Mobile UX Design & Development for Apps - learn to craft an app that’s functional and fun to use http://t.co/L8kTLaxbYH #oscon #tutorial

oscon: Mobile UX Design & Development for Apps - learn to craft an app that’s functional and fun to use http://t.co/L8kTLaxbYH #oscon #tutorial