Portrait of a Barista
Portrait of a Barista
by: Iulia Pascanu
The barista is the Italian word for the skilled person who prepares coffee (ultimately espresso) in a coffee house.
What would you want your barista to be like?
This is not a trick question. The more I think of it, the more I believe it, that the world of coffee making must be laying on the shoulders of a barista.
I believe that because the coffee I am beeing served in a coffee house, I expect it to be good. On the other hand, the manager of the...
About Your Newsletter
About Your Newsletter by Iulia PascanuNo matter how you name it: email advertising, email marketing campaign, newsletter, ezine. The medium is already worn out. Overused. Abused. This means you have to make extra efforts to make people get involved with whatever you do for making a living online.I don't want you to believe I'm one of the self made Internet gurus out there. No need to mention I'm not a real Internet guru either :). I'm just an ordinary Internet user, happy to share some...
Coffee and Health
Coffee and Health
by: Iulia Pascanu
Coffee and health used to be a controversed theme in the seventies. Nowadays, moderate coffee consumption is rather exonerated from its supposed negative long term effects upon health.
My mother used to be one of those persons who teaches her offspring, in its early ages, that coffee is not bad. It is bad bad bad! In consequence, I managed to keep away from coffee. At least untill the difficult age of 10, when, as I remember, I was permitted to join...
Desert Inn Makes Room For "Encore at Wynn Las Vegas"
Desert Inn Makes Room For "Encore at Wynn Las Vegas" by Iulia PascanuThe towers of the legendary Desert Inn in Las Vegas (nine-story each) were imploded on November 17, 2004, in order to make room for a new construction in the "Wynn Las Vegas" project, initially planned to span over 20 acres of land.Nostalgically described as "another chapter in Las Vegas' history that is being closed beneath a cloud of dust" by Las Vegas Review Journal, the name of Desert Inn stands now by the side of other...
Donald Trump Builds Across From Wynn on the Las Vegas Strip
Donald Trump Builds Across From Wynn on the Las Vegas Strip by Iulia PascanuDonald Trump has plans to begin the building of a $300 million tower on the Las Vegas Strip, in January 2005.Trump announced his plans last summer, but in the meantime he's got company, as just recently Steve Wynn had the Desert Inn imploded to make room for his Encore, right across the street. The 64-story hotel entitled "Trump International Hotel & Tower" - just like its peer in New York City - will be situated...
DoubleClick's Q3 2004 Report Shows Bulk Email Marketing Eficiency Increase
DoubleClick's Q3 2004 Report Shows Bulk Email Marketing Eficiency Increase by Iulia PascanuInternet marketing company DoubleClick published its final report over the bulk email marketing evolution this year. The figures show year-over-year increase in delivery rates (cleaner emailing lists), and a decrease in open rates and click-through rates. The variations are light, proving a steady and maturing environment.DoubleClick's metricsThe data analyzed were based on more than 2 billion messages...
Factoring And Invoice Finance Demystified
When faced with a factoring service contract for the first time, you may find it complicated. In fact the concept of invoice finance is quite simple.
Factoring is a financial facility that allows your company to get paid on the invoices almost as soon as they have been issued. The facility effectively allows small or medium sized companies to turn your invoices, to include slow paying invoices into cash. Also known as accounts receivable financing, this is merely a way of helping small...
Is Zone Diet a Fad?
Is Zone Diet a Fad?
by: Iulia Pascanu
Health Castle offers "Ten signs of a fad diet":
1. It promises massive weight loss (1 - 2 lbs per week)
Dr. Barry Sears is careful when he declares a standard weight loss on Zone diet. He considers that anything between 1 to 1,5 lbs per week is satisfactory. "It will be impossible to lose more than one to one point five pounds of fat per week. Anything over that is loss of retained water", says Sears himself on his daily "Ask Dr. Sears" column at...
Las Vegas "Whales"
Las Vegas "Whales"
by: Iulia Pascanu
What Las Vegas jargon names "whales" is in fact the creme of the high rollers species. They are a handfull of people that in some opinions don't exceed 500 individuals in the world. Las Vegas hoteliers are nuts about them; some claim four or five of those whales bet much more than the rest of the thousands customers they receive daily. No wonder they are suspected of going as far as selling their first born child to get one of those whales into their...
Las Vegas & The Movies
Las Vegas & The Movies
by: Iulia Pascanu
Sunny Las Vegas hosted hundreds of movies or movie-scenes. Some of them got the Oscar. Others got lost on the way. But Vegas surely remains a classic attraction for film-makers since the glory of the Rat Pack days.
To be completely fair, the early 60's weren't really the first screen action days in Las Vegas. Frank Sinatra's first movie, Las Vegas Nights was set back in 1941. However, the Rat Pack Days are always a good point to start.
The Rat...
Las Vegas Centennial Party
Las Vegas Centennial Party by Iulia PascanuLas Vegas turns 100 this year, on May 15th. Las Vegas Events (LVE) and Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) have a mega-party planned to last all the next year round, debuting December 31st 2004.Las Vegas accustomed those who happen to drop by and pay a visit just the last day of the year, with fireworks extravaganza, live music, multicolored lights and people celebrating in the street.It is true, only a hundred years ago (that...
Las Vegas Interesting Facts
Las Vegas Interesting Facts by Iulia Pascanu Las Vegas is the capital of world gambling. Everybody knows that. The question is not only "how" but also "who" made it become what it is now.The three kingsMany have had their days of glory in the state of Nevada. But these three step out of the crowd, as they gave the name of the game.Frank RosenthalHe is the best sports handicapper in the history of Las Vegas. He used to be called "Las Vegas King", "Guru", or something that he surely is: a...
Some Villain Thoughts About a Container Village
Some Villain Thoughts About a Container Village
by: Iulia Pascanu
Preview: "Shipping containers" have yet nothing to do with "housing" in Romania. Is there any chance that they will soon? Belonging to Eastern European block, released in 1989 from communist oppression, Romania has already experienced 15 years of less and less stunning freedom.
-----------
I read a few articles about shipping container housing. It took me about five minutes to realize this subject makes your mind frolic...
The Miraculous Claims of the Zone Diet
The Miraculous Claims of the Zone Diet
by: Iulia Pascanu
One way of recognizing a fad diet is said to be the promise of multiple miraculous effects upon health. And Zone diet promises a lot.
"Why is the Zone diet so controversial?"
"Beats me!"
Extract from an interview with Dr. Barry Sears, by Harper&Collins Publishers
Five cover promises
At first glance, Barry Sears' first published book "Enter The Zone" has the following main points:
Lose weight permanently
Reset your genetic...
The Omega Zone Diet and Fish Oil
The Omega Zone Diet and Fish Oil
by: Iulia Pascanu
Is high-dose fish oil the magic pill? Dr. Barry Sears claims that Zone diet, combined with daily supplements of high-dose fish oil ("pharmaceutical grade"), antioxidants and vitamins is the passport to a long, healthy and successful life.
The Omega Zone Diet and specialists' opinion
"Omega RX Zone - The Miracle of High-dose Fish Oil" is considered the best contribution that Dr. Barry Sears has yet made to a healthy diet. The benefits of...
What about Juan Valdez?
What about Juan Valdez?
by: Iulia Pascanu
Juan Valdez is a most popular figure in the advertising world and the symbol of the Columbian 'cafetelero' since 1959.
Juan Valdez is a fictious character created in 1959 to represent the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Columbia (founded 1926).
His appearance is one of the steadiest in the advertising world, including allmost mythical moustace, sombrero, poncho and a mule-companion called Lana.
In the first commercials, Juan Valdez used...
Why Stick With Email Clients Like Outlook?
Why Stick With Email Clients Like Outlook? by Iulia PascanuTrying to figure out a stream in banning one email client or another is no easy job. As soon as somebody rises up saying Outlook is bad, somebody else comes saying it's good and the other one is bad. And the story goes on and on.On one hand, email clients like Outlook Express and (even more) MS Outlook do a really good job when it comes to user friendliness. What email client allows you to use more options on the agenda, bell...
|
|