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Transport in China

Intrepid believes half the fun of experiencing a new country is getting there, and getting around once there! Where possible, Intrepid uses local transport options and traditional modes of transport - which usually carry less of an environmental impact, support small local operators and are heaps more fun.

Depending on which trip you're on while in China, you may find yourself travelling by:

Cycling tourist looking at green mountain landscape of Yangshuo in Guilin China

Cycling through China is a great way to see the country from ground level. Whether you're pedalling through the hutongs or the countryside, you'll see the sights and get to meet locals along the way.

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Chinese bullet train

Bullet train

Speed across China in a super fast bullet train. It's one of the most effective ways to cover long distances in a short time.

Boats on the Yangzi River, China

Cruising down the Yangzi River is a quintessential China travel moment. Take in the scenery and bask in the epic glory of the dramatic Three Gorges.

Accommodation in China

Travelling with Intrepid is a little bit different. We endeavour to provide travellers with an authentic experience to remember, so we try to keep accommodation as unique and traditional as possible.

When travelling with us in China you may find yourself staying in a:

Overnight sleeper train in China

Overnight Sleeper Train

Sleeping on an overnight train may not be the most comfortable experience but you'll get the chance to mingle with locals, play cards with other travellers or simply sit back and watch the scenery whiz by.

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Chinese girl at a homestay

For an authentic experience, enjoy staying with local families in the hilltribe villages of the Sapa region where hospitality, fun and traditional food await.

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China travel FAQs

Most nationalities require a visa for mainland China. You must obtain your Chinese visa in advance. It is not possible to get a visa on arrival and Chinese visas can be difficult to obtain outside your country of residence. You may be able to apply for your visa in Hong Kong If you have time here before your trip departs. You will need a Single Entry Tourist for your trip valid for 30 days.

Hong Kong is not considered part of mainland China for immigration purposes and most nationalities do not require a visa. Please check with an embassy for specific requirements for Hong Kong.

Please make sure if you have a transit anywhere in China before arriving at your destination that you check with your airline to see if the transit will require using your visa.

List the destinations you will visit in China in chronological order on your application form. Do not mention Tibet anywhere on your application form, even if your tour goes here. You will be given a specific itinerary to use if booking a Tibet trip. While Tibet is not off limits to travellers, you must first obtain a Chinese visa BEFORE we apply for your Tibet permit on your behalf.

Including Tibet on your visa application without being booked on a government arranged tour will lead to your visa being rejected.

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* Itinerary – print off a copy of your specific trip itinerary from our website and include it with your application, marking the dates you will visit each destination if required (exception - Tibet tours)

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(Please make sure that this copy is for the passport that you will be travelling on. If you have to renew your passport after booking please notify us as soon as you have a new passport number and bring your old passport with you on your trip in case it is requested)

Generally, tipping is not expected on mainland China, although leaving spare change at restaurants and giving a small amount to porters or bar staff is becoming more commonplace (although not mandatory). Some large hotels and restaurants may already include a 10%-15% surcharge within the bill. The culture of tipping is different in Hong Kong, where taxi drivers and restaurants will usually round up the bill, and service staff like porters will generally expect a tip.

Travellers can access the internet via internet cafes and Wi-Fi hot spots in China's cities. Internet access is less available in rural and remote areas. Please note that some web sites are censored in China.

Mobile phone coverage is generally very good in China's cities, but less so in remote and rural areas. Ensure global roaming is activated before leaving home if you want to use your phone.

Most of China's toilets are squat toilets, although flushable toilets can sometimes be found in modern hotels and restaurants. Be sure to carry your own supply of toilet paper and soap, as these are rarely provided.

Metro ride = 3 RMB
Can of soft drink = 3-5 RMB
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Basic lunch = 15 RMB
Basic rice or noodle dinner 25 RMB
Three-course dinner = 80 RMB

Drinking tap water isn't recommended in China. For environmental reasons, try to avoid buying bottled water. Fill a reusable water bottle or canteen with filtered water. Ask your leader where filtered water can be found; some hotels we stay in may have drinking water available. It's also advisable to avoid ice in drinks and peel fruit and vegetables before eating.

Credit cards are accepted by China's large stores, hotels and restaurants, but less so by smaller vendors and market stalls where cash is usually the only payment option. Carry both modes of payment to be sure.

Travellers will be able to access ATMs in China's large cities and regional centres. Rural and remote areas will have less ATM access so ensure you have other payment modes before venturing out of the city.

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Intrepid is committed to travelling in a way that is respectful of local people, their culture, local economies and the environment. It's important to remember that what may be acceptable behaviour, dress and language in your own country, may not be appropriate in another. Please keep this in mind while travelling.

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Top responsible travel tips for China

  1. Be considerate of China’s customs, traditions, religion and culture.
  2. For environmental reasons, try to avoid buying bottled water. Fill a reusable water bottle or canteen with filtered water instead.
  3. Always dispose of litter thoughtfully, including cigarette butts.
  4. When bargaining at markets, stay calm, be reasonable and keep a smile on your face. It's meant to be fun!
  5. Learn some local language and don't be afraid to use it - simple greetings will help break the ice.
  6. Shop for locally made products. Supporting local artisans helps keep traditional crafts alive.
  7. Refrain from supporting businesses that exploit or abuse endangered animals.
  8. Please ask and receive permission before taking photos of people, including children.
  9. When on community visits or homestays, refrain from giving gifts or money to locals.

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In China, The Intrepid Foundation proudly supports:

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Braille Without Borders

This organisation aims to facilitate the integration and acceptance of the blind in Tibetan society by providing rehabilitation and education for blind children. In Lhasa, they have a preparatory school, medical massage training and a Braille printing press. At the vocational training centre and farm in Shigatse they teach skills including animal husbandry, market gardening, agriculture, cheese production, bread baking and kitchen management.

Beijing Huiling

Beijing Huiling

This proactive not-for-profit organisation helps the disadvantaged local community to live more independent lives. Art and craft workshops teach skills and foster employment options while public education projects enlighten the community about the ways in which people with disabilities can contribute to society.

Image supplied by Kim Bowden and Jane Crouch.

Xi'an Huiling

Xi'an Huiling

Providing skills, training, employment services and housing assistance, this organisation works to better the lives of disabled people in Xi'an by increasing the amount of opportunities available to this marginalised section of the population.

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A four-wheel terror for unions

If GM workers sign up to a deal compatible with global manufacturing conditions, miners and other manufacturers will have a precedent to remove union control. No wonder the ACTU is alarmed.

In a strange way I felt sorry for ACTU President Ged Kearney after her KGB interview. She is a genuine person caught in a new world and dealing with forces outside her historical nursing union experience. But in the process she is in danger of gambling with the jobs of many tens of thousands of Australians (KGB: ACTU's Ged Kearney, July 12).

Strangely it is the ALP that did much to take us into this new world first via floating the dollar (Paul Keating) and then by slashing tariffs (Julia Gillard and others).

In this world General Motors in Detroit can make cars in many countries and is simply not prepared to have a plant in Australia with work agreements that are incompatible with the rest of the world. However General Motors has agreed for an independent person to check the books, on a confidential basis, to confirm its sums.

Then next month an agreement will be put to GMH workers and, if they reject it, then General Motors will cease making cars in Australia. (Decision made: GM will shut without a labour deal, June 20).

It is unlikely that Toyota could continue alone so the whole automotive manufacturing industry then shuts. Ged Kearney and the Australian Workers Union are playing for big stakes.

That new agreement will take control of much of the management of the plants away from unions and put it back to management. Yet Ged Kearney clearly believes unions should have control over rosters and similar matters – that’s the way it works in nursing.

Detroit requires that rosters and similar matters be a management matter – if the company requires employees to work overtime or at the weekend then that becomes part of the job albeit that penalty rates apply in Australia.

It appears Detroit also wants a 10 per cent pay cut. Maybe that can be overcome with some deal related to the dollar but as things now stand Ged Kearney told the KGB that the proposed agreement was unfair and she went very close to saying she would not recommend it. She wants more time etc.

It’s true that simultaneously there is a government negotiation where more taxpayer dollars look like being required. General Motors would be very stupid to seriously compromise its labour agreements in exchange for even more money from taxpayers.

If the workers do agree I think there is a very good chance we will keep our automotive industry. Tony Abbott has said that, if elected, he would continue payments if there was a productivity agreement and a firm export deal. Australia is a leading global maker of rear wheel drive cars so there is an export market available.

What must really scare the union movement is that if General Motors workers agree to an agreement that is globally compatible (while complying with Australian law) then we will have an agreement which many manufacturing companies and some miners will seek to use as a precedent.

Unions will no longer be in control. We have lost Ford partly over this issue (there were also management mistakes) and more than 10,000 miners have lost their jobs in part because overseas prices no longer allow bad management and uncompetitive labour agreements, particularly on productivity issues.

Of course what makes both the government and unions angry is that Detroit is playing hard ball with timing and making its thrust in the middle if an election campaign. It’s a new world for Ged Kearney.

Footnote: Ged Kearney and I agreed that nursing paperwork was one of the most wasteful areas in the country. We were not attacking the nurses but the systems. She wants to use, in hospitals, the computer systems that are used around the country. I know some hospitals are doing using iPads etc. but it’s rare and it would seem that the blockage is poor hospital management. There is a big reduction in costs on the table and while extensive staff training is required, unions, at least at the top, do not seem to be the problem.

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A lesson from Bond and Metcash

Extremes in the 1980s and today's high dividend payout ratios have more similarities than you may think.

Summary: We can learn a lot from the experiences of Alan Bond and Metcash. In the 1980s Bond’s rise and fall was all about unlimited credit from banks and seductive profits from high leverage. After the 1987 share market crash and the introduction of dividend imputation, however, Australians began seeking shares in companies that paid tax and issued dividends from their profits. Now Metcash has paid out too much in dividends rather than reinvest capital into its business – something it sorely needed to do.

Key take-out:  Our banks are now more vulnerable than has been the case over the last decade. While they aren’t facing a Metcash situation because they are leaders in their field, they need to invest heavily into technology and get their costs down.

Key beneficiaries: General investors. Category: Strategy.

Our markets are moving roughly in line with expectations and I will make some brief observations at the bottom of this week’s comment.

But what I think is more important is to see what we can learn from both the Bond and Metcash experiences. Alan Bond’s death had us all harking back to those amazing 1980s.  In a strange way Metcash is part of the sequel to the Bond saga although I can’t underline strongly enough that the two are not linked.

The Bond rise and fall was all about two events: First, unlimited credit from banks (mainly overseas) and second, the seductive profit sums that could be concocted with very high leverage.

Basically in the 1980s a whole series of Australian businesses were taken over by entrepreneurs who, thanks to almost unlimited bank credit, geared themselves to the eye balls. That stopped the payment of any tax. Later, high borrowing sent many of the groups they acquired into receivership.

The 1987 crash stopped those practices but they would have arisen again, at least in the Australian market place, but for dividend imputation. Dividend imputation ended double taxation of those profits paid in dividends and it meant that companies paying Australian tax were much more valuable to Australian shareholders because they could pay dividends that carried franking credits.

And so instead of chasing the most highly leveraged vehicle they could find, Australians began buying shares in companies that paid tax and paid dividends from their tax paid profits.

International companies continued to invest in Australia with hopelessly leveraged assets with the clear aim of not paying Australian tax, but that is another story.

The combination of the big slumps that followed the 1987 share crash and dividend imputation changed the way we fund a great many of our listed companies.

Over time the Australian stock market rose by 15 to 20 per cent on the back of dividend imputation. But in the current decade came an era of lower and lower interest rates and increasingly investors began using high yielding shares as a key income source because bank deposit interest rates had fallen so low.

And so companies came under great pressure to pay out as much of their tax paid profits as they could. Senior executives whose packages were linked to the share price of a company worked ‘overtime’ to justify as high a dividend as possible so as to boost the share price and their bonus.

As a result Australian companies pay out a much higher proportion of their profits in dividends than most of their counterparts overseas.

In a strange way Metcash is an example of how this can go wrong. In the four years to 2013 Metcash paid an average of around 27.25 cents a share a year in dividends. The so called “underlying ” profit in those four years averaged around 33 cents a share. So on a “underlying” basis the company’s payout ratio was just under 83 per cent but the actual earnings (what the auditors thought was the profit) averaged only around 24 cents a share in those four years and did not cover dividends.

Quite clearly Metcash was boosting its share price by paying too much in dividends. I can’t think of a company that needed to reinvest more in its business than Metcash which found itself in the middle of two vicious wars. The first was the Coles/Woolworth/Aldi supermarket war where all three companies were looking to strip market share from Metcash’s IGA chain.

But Metcash through Mitre 10 and other brands was also in the middle of the hardware war between Bunnings and Masters. The company did its best to try to make its operations efficient but it faced a wall of efficiency investments from its rivals in the two wars. And in supermarket wars and via Bunnings that level of investment is going to increase.  Increasingly the supermarket war is going to be about customer data bases and mobile phone marketing. IGA are not big players in that race. Moreover, they papered over their problems by selling goods to their supermarkets at too higher price which boosted the warehouse profits but was unsustainable. Metcash has now stopped dividends and will try to fix the problem with the cash that it can generate.  However, with hindsight, it should have  acted much earlier. Of course, had Metcash faced the music earlier, the share price would have slumped so dividends were left at high levels.

The lesson from Metcash is that in any investment you make you need to look around and see what the rivals are doing and if those rivals are giving your company a hard time or disruptive technologies are beginning to be fired at your company. If this is happening then be on the alert.

As I have written in these columns many times, our banks are now more vulnerable than has been the case over the last decade. I have no doubt that the fall in bank shares is closely linked to market fears that disruptive technology will reduce bank profits. And banks have done exactly what Metcash did by boosting their share price by paying out a high proportion of their profits in dividends. Banks are not facing a Metcash situation because they are the leaders in their field. But they will need to invest heavily in technology and get their costs down. Westpac is giving itself ten years to reduce its cost by about 50 per cent. Other banks will have the similar targets. The banks clearly recognise the danger and it is a question of how much time they have.

I will be surprised if bank dividends are boosted substantially in the next few years because the companies need to invest.

Market brief

As we have known for some time the Greek crisis will go to the wire and my guess is it will be settled on the last possible day. There is a least a 40 per cent chance the Greeks will fall over and be forced out of the Euro so we could have a turbulent time. But I think there is a good 60 per cent chance that Greece stays in the Euro and will face penalties that will not be enforced. If they are forced out (and again in my view that’s a less likely course) Europe is far better placed to isolate the problem and prevent contagion than it was two or three years ago.

Elsewhere, the American recovery is proceeding on track although perhaps much more slowly than many thought. Unfortunately many of the jobs being created are lower paid and that slows the momentum but we are very likely to see higher interest rates in the US before 2015 is out. But the rate rises will not be big.

Meanwhile, the increase in the Australian ten year bond rate from 2.25 per cent to around 3.1 per cent in the last four months has clearly affected the Australian share market.

The remarkable aspect of the bond yields rise to date has been the divergence of markets here and overseas: In Australia as bond yields have inched up above 3 per cent, shares have fallen significantly in recent months: In the US bond yields have also risen but their share market continues to advance. One of those markets has got its pricing wrong.

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The reductionism stops here

Microeconomics as taught and practiced today has such shaky foundations that nothing should be forced to be consistent with or derived from it – least of all macroeconomics.

One of the defining features of neoclassical economics is the belief that macroeconomic analysis has to be not merely compatible with, but derivable from, microeconomic analysis. The development of economic theory has been driven far more by this belief than by the desire to make the theory compatible with the observed behaviour of the economy.

This ‘reductionist’ aspect of economics – the attempt to reduce the higher level topic of macroeconomics to an applied version of the lower level topic of microeconomics – is at odds with the last 50 years of genuine sciences, where complexity has ruled the roost, for reasons that were eloquently put by Physics Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson in a highly readable paper entitled More Is Different”.

In that paper, Anderson asserted that reductionism did not work, because though it is possible to rank sciences in a hierarchy in which “The elementary entities of science X obey the laws of science Y, … this hierarchy does not imply that ‘science X is just applied Y’… At each stage entirely new laws, concepts, and generalisations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.”

Economics violates this by its belief that “macroeconomics is just applied microeconomics”, but recent blogosphere debates have confirmed that there is a limit to how far neoclassical economists will take reductionism: it stops at microeconomics.

Logically, one could argue that if macroeconomics is just applied microeconomics, then economics itself is just applied accounting – since that is the “nuts and bolts” measurement discipline that underlies economics. However, neoclassical economists have responded to this assertion with derision.

The assertion has come about because numerous commentators have tried to persuade neoclassical macroeconomists that their models of central bank behaviour contradict the principles of accounting. The most egregious instance of this was Scott Sumner’s rejoinder to Cullen Roche, when Roche argued that Krugman’s model of banks lending reserves violated basic principles of accounting.

“Cullen, you said: ‘It’s basically double entry bookkeeping, understanding modern banking, flow of funds analysis, sectoral balances, etc. Most of it is just a description of the system we have’” he argued. “I have no interest in banking or bookkeeping. My interest is monetary policy.”

This is instructive on two levels. Firstly, if a Keynesian macroeconomist had given a similar retort to a neoclassical microeconomist asserting that “macro did not have good micro foundations”, the Keynesian would have come off second-best: “of course macro has to be compatible with micro!” would have been the general reaction. The second is that it does raise an important point for economists like me who reject the reductionist approach of neoclassical macroeconomists, and yet at the same time assert that macro has to be compatible with the even lower level discipline of accounting. If reductionism is wrong, then what it the proper relationship between a higher level discipline like macroeconomics and a more fundamental one like accounting?

On the first issue, reductionism fails because of what physicists dubbed “emergent properties”, which was the focus of Anderson’s paper: new phenomena arise from the interaction of fundamental entities – be they atoms in chemistry or individual agents in macroeconomics – that cannot be derived from the properties of the fundamental entities themselves. As Anderson put it in 1972: The behavior of large and complex aggregates of elementary particles, it turns out, is not to be understood in terms of a simple extrapolation of the properties of a few particles. Instead, at each level of complexity entirely new properties appear, and the understanding of the new behaviors requires research which I think is as fundamental in its nature as any other.”

Ironically, neoclassical economics provides one of the best instances of this in what is known as the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem. This theorem posed the question that, if you aggregated the demand curves of a whole lot of individuals who each obeyed the ‘Law of Demand’ (their demand for a good rises as its price falls), would the resulting market demand curve also obey the Law of Demand? The answer was no, it wouldn’t: the market demand curve could have any shape at all. In the jargon-laden words of Hugo Sonnenschein in 1972: “Can an arbitrary continuous function … be an excess demand function for some commodity in a general equilibrium economy?... we prove that every polynomial … is an excess demand function for a specified commodity in some n commodity economy… every continuous real-valued function is approximately an excess demand function.”

Interpreting the jargon, what this means is that a market demand curve derived from adding up the demands of numerous individuals, all of whom have downward-sloping demand curves, doesn’t have to be downward-sloping at all. But that is precisely what economists always draw when they draw a market demand curve, and this fallacious version of microeconomics is what has been imposed on macroeconomics. So microeconomics as taught and practised “doesn’t have good microeconomic foundations”, and nothing should be forced to be either consistent with it or derived from it – least of all macroeconomics.

But at the same time, critics of neoclassical macroeconomics like myself (and Cullen Roach and many others) reproach neoclassical macroeconomics for not being consistent with accounting. Is this a double standard – applying a reductionist vision (“Macroeconomics should be applied accounting”) while all along I’ve rejected reductionism?

No, but it does raise the issue of if not reductionism, what is the relationship between a given discipline like macroeconomics and the lower level entities that constitute it? I would argue that while a higher level discipline – like, for example, biology – can’t be reduced to a lower level one – like organic chemistry – it’s still necessary that biological theories can’t rely upon things that organic chemistry says are impossible.

So a biological model that relied upon something happening that organic chemistry says is impossible – such as for example using cyanide to enhance some cellular process – would be a nonsense model.

It’s in this light that I (and Cullen and many others) criticise the mainstream view that banks can lend from reserves: doing so would violate basic accounting principles. And for that reason, proposals like Nick Rowe’s that the Federal Reserve should just commit to “printing” reserves until such time as nominal GDP rises are nonsense – because those reserves can’t get into circulation in the real economy without violating the basic principles of accounting. I’ll cover why that is so in another post.

Steve Keen is author of Debunking Economics and the blog Debtwatch and developer of the Minsky software program

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Less than a 15-minute walk from Taksim Metro Station, this hotel offers accommodations with private bathrooms and free Wi-Fi. The Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia Museum are 2 miles away.

All rooms at Roncalli Suites provide plenty of space and include satellite TV. Each is equipped with air conditioning and a minibar. Every room has a sitting area with a sofa.

The hotel provides laundry and dry cleaning services to its guests. For those who wish to explore Istanbul by car, there is a car rental. Alternatively, the Roncalli Suites also offers a shuttle service.

The Roncalli is located 550 yards from Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Center. The Ataturk Airport is 12 miles away.

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Located within a walking distance from historic Sultanahmet area, Abella Apart Home offers a garden and a terrace with city and sea view. This self-catering accommodation features free WiFi in public areas. The property is 200 metres from Blue Mosque and 200 metres from Column of Constantine.

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$3,300 - $6,000 / month   in Sarasota
2 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms Sleeps 4

Imagine combining privacy of staying in a private home with the resort amenities of a fine hotel matched with a fantastic location, just 5 minutes from the beach and very easy access to Sarasota sporting cultural amenities and an array of dining options. Enjoy all that Sarasota has to offer while making yourself at home in a brand new, exquisitely decorated villa with a water view at the intersection of the south bridge to Siesta Key. Esplanade by Siesta Key is a one-of-a-kind resort complex with tennis, expansive pool, exercise facilities, beach volleyball court, dog park, kid’s playground, shuffleboard, community room with pool table and large TV’s, and activities galore. Enjoy the community aspect, or stay at home and relish the privacy of your own home.

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The kitchen has a gas range and French door refrigerator with water/ice dispenser. A wine cooler and plenty of dishes and glassware encourages whatever entertaining you might wish. The dining room has chairs for six.

If work calls, no problem. Your private home office has recessed lighting and a practical and efficient setup along with space for private discussions that will enable you to get your business at hand completed quickly so you can head on back to the beach or the golf course.

You can see the community complex from this home…. just 5 double villas away from the end of the driveway to the complex door.

Have a dog? With special permission, bring Fido along! Your well behaved fuzzy companion will make friends in community dog park.

The master king looks out over the water and is private and serene. The master bath has a walk in shower with shelf/seat, WC and an expansive walk-in closet with his/her areas. There is no worry about running out of space here. With the shelves, drawers and hanging areas, there is plenty.

Step on over to the guest room and smile as you take in the playful decorations and practical setup including spacious room for clothing as well as a private TV. The guest room contains two twins and an arrangement can be made in advance to convert these into a ‘king’ setup.

Laundry room with washer and dryer and a 2 car garage has room for one of your cars. A driveway has plenty of room to park a second car if need be. You need nothing more than your clothes and your toothbrush. Everything is included here.

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This gated complex is exclusive, private and closely located to the beach and this home is brand new to the rental market. The nearby Gulf Gate complex is well-known for a variety of specialty food shops as well as restaurants regularly appearing on the food circuit offering innovative and inspiring cuisine. Esplanade by Siesta Key is just off of RT 41 and you can get you downtown in less than 15 minutes to the cultural activities and nightlife, and just 12 minutes from the entrance of I-75. In season, you will appreciate being in this location because traffic moves here – unlike other areas. More time for more fun!

Note: Will discount for longer term renters (more than 3 months). HOA application and approval is required.

One small well-behaved dog is allowed with a fee. Please confirm with us before booking.

5847 Cavano Dr. Sarasota, FL 34231

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Property Type: Home Beds: 3 Accomodates: 4 Check In: : 3pm Bedrooms: 2 Check Out: : 10am Bathrooms: 2.0 Pet Friendly: Yes
Air Conditioning BBQ Grill Bathtub Big Screen TV Cable Clothes Dryer Coffee Maker Communal Pool Covered Patio DVD Dishwasher Family Friendly Fitness Room Full Kitchen Hair Dryer Hot Tub Ice Maker Internet Internet Access Iron and Board Kitchen Laundry Microwave Open Patio Patio Pets Considered Refrigerator Satellite or Cable Screened Patio TV WIFI Washing Machine Water View club house gated community near Siesta Key shuffleboard tennis Lodging
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We loved staying in this location. The house was very well equipped and beautifully decorated. We would like to return next year. Have been coming to Sarasota for 20 years and hopefully will gave many more. Would recommend using I trip.
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We have rented in the Sarasota area for about 25 years and have never been more satisfied with the rental agent or the property she offered. Loretta was easy to deal with, very honest in all cases and quick to respond to our requests and questions. The property was everything it promised to be and more . We hope to return next year.
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Financial Literacy for MSMEs will be in focus as the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) embarks on yet another Mobile Business Clinic; this time to the parish of Westmoreland on October 26-27, 2017. Having recognized that financing is the one of the major challenges affecting the growth of this sector, JBDC will use the upcoming Mobile Business Clinic to enhance the participants’ capacity with a new training seminar titled ‘Measuring what Matters.’ The seminar will take into account the financial metrics that startups should be tracking in order to ensure business growth. The metrics to be explored include; Market Potential, Startup Costs, Funding Options and the cost of these options, Product, Price and Break-even points, the Business Value, Operating Margins and Revenue Growth.

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Joel Kinnaman is a Swedish-born actor, known for roles in recent films like Suicide Squad and the Netflix series House of Cards. He has won the prestigous Guldbaggen award for best actor in a leading role. Cleo Kinnaman is a tattoo artist known for her detailed black and gray work. She began her artistic career with an apprenticeship in Stockholm at the age of 14. She was born in Belgium and also has roots in Ethiopia. The couple married in 2016 and is currently based in Los Angeles.

What are you afraid of? Why?
CLEO: The only thing that would scare me is if I one day became complacent, but the fact that I’m scared of it is a good indication that I will never let it happen.
JOEL: I’m afraid of fundamentalism. Of Tribalism.

What do you want to see change in the world?
CLEO: I feel like we all need to focus on the things that matter. With all the news, gossip, internet thrown in our face all day, a lot of people waste their time getting absorbed by nonsense. Many of the things we take for granted are luxuries we’ve only recently been able to have in this world. We need to remember that and not abuse the extra time many of us have been given. Use it for things that matter.
JOEL: I wish fewer people were governed by religious dogma. I wish we spent our collective human energy aiming to form unity and exploration

What inspires you?
CLEO: The people I surround myself with constantly inspire me. And when I manage to make a difference in someone’s life, it motivates me to work harder so I have the opportunity to do more.
JOEL: I'm inspired by my friends, the people I love. People that challenge themselves and their fears. People that aim so high that they have to risk failure.

What ideals are most important to you?
CLEO: Compassion is something important to me. If we all put more effort into understanding, rather than defending, I think we would have an easier time dealing with conflicts.
JOEL: Loyalty, honesty, kindness, humor and generosity.

What is your philosophy on relationships?
CLEO: If you want to have a good relationship, whether it be romantic or friendship, I believe you always have to act as the person you would want to be with. Show up for yourself and others will show up for you.
JOEL: Always try to give more than you get.

Your philosophy on life?
CLEO: Do your best to be happy, that’s all. It has a domino effect, it will effect everything and everyone around you.
JOEL: Develop your intuition, then follow your instinct.

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Job Title: Digital Marketing Executive
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
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An expanding and exciting lifestyle brand are currently searching for a Digital Marketing Executive to join their growing team in Chelmsford. With at least 2 years' experience in digital marketing, you will ideally have experience working for a retail or e-commerce business in house or representing multiple consumer brands agency side. With exemplary written and verbal communication skills, as well as strong analytical abilities and a creative eye, you will be confident working across all levels of their modern, passionate team. You will have proven experience in driving and managing PPC campaigns and will have a thorough understanding of Google Analytics. Experience working with SEO and social media would be a bonus in this role, as it covers a wide range of digital marketing activities.

This is a varied and exciting role covers all aspects of the digital marketing mix. You will be responsible for creating and implementing new strategies for the company's paid social campaigns; using your passion and enthusiasm for digital marketing trends and knowledge of the latest techniques to ensure all campaigns are optimised. Liaising with other departments and managers, you will analyse and report on all PPC campaigns and activity, using Google Analytics to gain insight and including your personal recommendations for future improvements. This hands-on role is perfect for someone with experience in all aspects of digital marketing, experience of SEO, social media and affiliate marketing would be extremely beneficial in this role. Your passion for digital marketing will be key in influencing the digital marketing strategy, you will assist in moulding the social media strategy and ensuring all website content is optimised for search engine rankings.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly-growing consumer business who are known for their career-progression opportunities. If you are a passionate and ambitious digital marketer looking to take the next steps in their career within an exciting lifestyle brand, then this is the opportunity you've been waiting for!

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  • In accordance with the team philosophy and Eventide's commitment for all staff to provide quality resident care, the person filling this position may be occasionally required to carry out or assist with other tasks in addition to the duties listed on this job description

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  • Petits Scholars International Nursery and Pre-School is a premium early years educator catering for 3 months – 5 years old children. We are a private establishment located in the Airport Residential Area of Accra, serving the Ghanaian and expatriate community.
  • We follow the United Kingdom’s Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (EYFS), which is the government-approved curriculum in the UK.
  • We believe that setting a strong foundation will create a love for learning which will in turn develop bright, articulate and confident children.

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  • A British Curriculum based Nursery and Pre- School is looking for an experienced Personal Assistant/Event Organizer.
  • The successful candidate will also provide clerical and office support services.

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  • Organized and can work under pressure ad tight deadlines,
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  • Should be able to work on weekends
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A lovely arrangement of this classic flute piece for solo bass or concert flute, accompanied by low flute ensemble. This is a great addition to the concert repertoire.

Difficulty guide: 4-6
Difficulty level, roughly compared to ABRSM exam grades. 0 is beginner, 9 is advanced (beyond grade 8).

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  • Part 1: Bass Flute or Flute
  • Part 2: Alto Flute
  • Part 3: Alto Flute
  • Part 4: Bass Flute
  • Part 5: Bass Flute
  • Part 6: Contrabass Flute in G
  • Part 7: Sub-Contrabass Flute in G
Category: 7 Mixed Flutes
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Why Northern White Cedar?
We work exclusively with Northern White Cedar for many reasons: its abundant supply in our nearby forests, its remarkable natural resistance to rot and insects, as well as its superior insulating qualities. We also feel that Northern White Cedar is a beautiful wood that provides a stunning backdrop to your daily life.

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At Katahdin, we’ve always had a deep and abiding interest in our natural surroundings. We’ve also seen the sense of reducing our carbon footprint and fuel consumption. We’ve achieved dramatic reductions through our biomass boiler which steam heats our mills using waste sawdust and our ethanol distiller that produces fuel for our vehicles from local culled potatoes.

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Southeast Asia off the beaten track
Southeast Asia off the beaten track

With no threat of experiencing typhoons, warm temperatures and lots sunshine, February is a perfect time to visit a Southeast Asian destination. In recent decades, nations such as Thailand, India, the Philippines and Myanmar have become very popular with tourists. However, if you are a particularly adventurous traveller there are a range of wonderful places to visit that are still very much off the beaten track.

There are many places in India suited to getting away from it all. Take Majuli in the state of Assam. Here on the world's largest inhabited river island, you can enjoy life in a lush wonderland, riding bicycles and viewing monasteries by day and enjoying delicious local cuisine at night.

For beachfront pleasure, nothing beats the town of Kannur in northern Kerala. Featuring a number of pretty beaches, relaxing family-run guesthouses and the intriguing Theyyam spirit possession rituals, it is the place to go if you want to get away from it all.

While most travellers to Myanmar will aim to visit Yangon, Bagan, Inle Lake and Mandalay, there are a range of other places to visit that are not quite as touristy.

If you are looking to escape busy Bagan, the more serene Mount Popa is only 50 km southeast. Here you can explore the lush countryside or hike up 777 steps to the summit of a crag where you will find the Popa Taungkalat Shrine. Alternatively, you can decide to hike up the mountain itself, where temples and beautiful natural sights come together perfectly.

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For more relaxation, the hilltop town of Kalaw is another hidden beauty. A backpacker's paradise, it has excellent bars, a welcoming population, fine guesthouses and is situated right in the middle of one of the only places in the country where you can trek overnight without prior government permission.

If you are looking for a place to stay in luxury during your time in Myanmar, Kempinski Hotel Nay Pyi Taw should be at the top of your list. With a range of restaurants and bars, truly comfortable accommodation and staff ready and waiting to make your wishes come true, it is a palatial retreat that cannot be missed.

The classic Southeast Asian destination, Thailand has a thriving tourist industry, which can sometimes make it difficult to find a quiet space or to find unique experiences.

Despite this, Islands such as Koh Phra Thong, Koh Kradan and Koh Mak are must-visits for people looking to escape busy seafronts and western restaurants, featuring populations (tourists included) only numbering in the hundreds.

Inland, the north and northeast of the country are some of the best places to find adventure, including the riverside of the Mekong River; the oldest temple in Thailand, That Phanom; and a host of hidden town and village retreats just waiting to be explored.

For luxurious visits to Thailand, there is no better place to stay than Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok. Here you can relax in style, enjoying fine restaurants, indulgent spa treatments and exceptionally decorated rooms.

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KIMS Hospital opens fifth operating theatre to meet growing demand

 KIMS Hospital, Maidstone, the largest independent hospital in Kent has invested £250,000 in new technology for its fifth operating theatre, meeting a growing demand for orthopaedic procedures.

Treating both private and NHS patients, KIMS Hospital, since opening in 2014, has seen a steady growth for its orthopaedic services. Working closely with some of the county’s leading Orthopaedic Consultants, the decision was made to invest in a new state-of-the-art air flow system for its fifth operating theatre.

KIMS Hospital, is the first hospital in the UK to install the Mediclean® Complanate UCV system from Brandon Medical, which improves clean air flow and ventilation in the operating theatre. This is particularly important for orthopaedic patients who have an increased risk of infection due to the nature of the surgery.

Simon James, CEO KIMS Hospital comments, “As the largest independent hospital in Kent we have an important role to play in delivering the healthcare services people require and supporting patient choice close to where they live. Investing in new technology and opening a new theatre shows our commitment to the people of Kent.  I’m also delighted, that by collaborating with local GPs and Consultants, we have ensured that our fifth operating theatre is equipped to treat additional orthopaedic patients and provide the highest standards of healthcare.”

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IN THE MEMORY OF THE MAP by Christopher Norment

A Cartographic Memoir
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A biology professor’s memoir concerning maps, memory and the importance of the natural world.

Norment (Environmental Science and Biology/SUNY Brockport; Return to Warden’s Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows, 2008, etc.) begins one dreary March day when, tired of grading papers, he pulled out a map of Mount Whitney, Calif., and began to ruminate about maps, boyhood, marriage, fatherhood and life in the outdoors. The author writes of his longtime passion for trails and highways and describes many experiences on the twisted, tangled trails in remote regions of North America and, eventually, of his life. Although an Edenic aura often glows around his accounts, the snake is present, too, in the form of a sexually abusive, alcoholic stepfather. Norment does not offer graphic descriptions of his boyhood trauma, but at various times the dark memories of abuse drip their poison on his prose. Roughly chronological (but with flashbacks), the narrative covers his boyhood wanderings in California, his childhood fascination with gas-station maps, his experiences following feral burros in Death Valley, his pleasant memories of working with Outward Bound and his hikes with his children and a lifelong friend, with whom he hiked, sans maps, in a remote area of Washington State. He writes eloquently about the allegorical aspects of maps and evinces a wide acquaintance with scientific and creative literature, alluding to Faulkner, Chabon, Vonnegut, Muir, Hugo, Shakespeare and many others.

A journey through life with a guide who knows the trail and its wonders and who delights in the unexpected vistas that elevation can offer.

Pub Date: March 15th, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-60938-077-9
Page count: 264pp
Publisher: Univ. of Iowa
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NonfictionMEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN by Susan Gubar
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A Less Than Perfect Beginning by Diane L. Huffman

A Less Than Perfect Beginning

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A debut novel about a young woman who never lets her abusive family life get her down.

Young Beth endures abuse and demoralizing indifference from every member of her family, including her angry father and dismissive mother. Her father quits working and insists that his wife take a menial job to support the family and his alcoholism. Beth’s two siblings both have weighty senses of entitlement, and her younger brother, a racist crook, manipulates her at every opportunity. Beth seeks escape through her friends and her work, and she locks her bedroom door to protect her from her father’s daily drunken rages, but she can’t do anything when he takes her wages to provide half the family income. The book is set in the 1950s and ’60s, and Beth can’t seek outside help from a society only beginning to recognize child abuse. Huffman’s strong prose and Beth’s cleareyed acceptance of her situation give the novel a voice of strength and ambition. Although Beth complains vociferously throughout the book, she knows that the adversity she faces shapes her personality in ways she’d never change. Throughout, she addresses issues squarely, without flinching. Although savvy readers may suspect the truth about a family mystery, Huffman still manages to draw out the suspense. The final chapter lists the various fates of the family members and reads like a detached set of movie credits, but the mother’s fate may come as a shock to readers; she remains a tragic, haunting figure whose motivations and behaviors could bear further exploration. Beth’s later journey through marriage and motherhood is a mere footnote that might have provided more intriguing introspection. Despite a clear, compelling narrative, it also remains ambiguous whether this novel is purely fictional or autobiographical, but it should find a host of interested readers either way.

An exhilarating, unsentimental story of one woman’s triumph over a devastating childhood.

Pub Date: March 14th, 2014
Publisher: iUniverse
Program: Kirkus Indie
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THE BROTHERS GRIMM by Donald R. Hettinga

Two Lives, One Legacy
Age Range: 12 - 14
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Hettinga (Presenting Madeline L’Engle, 1993) lays the intertwined careers of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm against a turbulent backdrop of Napoleonic invasions, civil unrest, and family misfortunes. He presents them as a pair of librarian/scholars who, despite (some) differences of temperament and interest, lived together for nearly their entire lives, achieving not only international renown for their researches into language and folk literature, but local notoriety as two of the “Göttingen Seven,” a group of professors fired for refusing to take a loyalty oath to an autocratic new king. Though the author is guilty of tucking in a few too many minor details—a wallpaper pattern, a menu, a certain glass coffin that turns out not to be the inspiration for the one in “Snow White”—his account of how the Grimms collected their tales through “tricks and trades, gifts and gatherings” makes fascinating reading. An annotated list of books by and about the brothers helps to compensate for a stingy assortment of illustrations and a long, superfluous list of fairy tale titles. Like Brust’s The Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen (1994), this makes absorbing reading for folktale fans interested in the story behind the Stories. (afterword, source notes, picture credits, timeline) (Biography. 12-14)

Pub Date: Oct. 15th, 2001
ISBN: 0-618-05599-1
Page count: 173pp
Publisher: Clarion
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ZAC AND MIA by A.J. Betts

Age Range: 14 & up
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Desperate to reconnect with the outside world, teen bone marrow recipient Zac’s very precise mind is distracted by the arrival of new cancer patient Mia in the 4-by-5-meter room next to his.

A single rock track plays on repeat next door (“The newbie’s gone Gaga. The girl’s got cancer and bad taste?”) until Zac pounds on the wall, and a tense bond begins to form. Zac, now “99.9 percent someone else,” is a model patient with extended family support back home on an Australian farm. He tracks cancer deaths with grim dedication: “I don’t want them to die, but they make my odds look better. I have to believe in the math.” Mia—not a Gaga fan after all, it’s just parent repellent—tells her high school friends she’s just on vacation, rejects her mother and lets anger threaten her treatment. Surrounded by the uncertainty of illness, Zac works from “logic and math,” while Mia’s decisions are “whipped up by emotion and impulse and I want, I want.” Taking its cue from the title, the first-person account starts with Zac’s voice, alternates between Zac and Mia in the middle, then seamlessly switches to Mia for the finale, with snappy dialogue throughout. A brief epilogue provides satisfying and realistic closure.

Above average in this burgeoning subgenre; it’s the healing powers of friendship, love and family that make this funny-yet-philosophical tale of brutal teen illness stand out. (Fiction. 14 & up)

Pub Date: Sept. 2nd, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-544-33164-8
Page count: 304pp
Publisher: HMH Books
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GREAT PROJECTS by James Tobin

The Epic Story of the Building of America, From the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention of the Internet
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Eight great American engineering achievements will be the subject of a major PBS series in 2002. Traditionally, publishers commission a densely illustrated coffee-table book to accompany such a show: here, happily, is a superior example of the genre.

While apparently chosen at random, all eight are impressive achievements. The earliest—but still in progress—is the taming of the lower Mississippi. Beginning with levees now stretching a thousand miles, work continues with massive dams, spillways, floodways, and control structures to keep the river from changing course. Experts agree this is ultimately futile, but the economic consequences would be so awful if we stopped that the projects continue. Historian Tobin (Ernie Pyle's War, 1997) illustrates the preoccupation of engineers with water by including three additional achievements: Hoover Dam, the New York City bridges, and the New York City water system. Electrical engineering takes up three chapters: the first is largely devoted to Thomas Edison, the man who not only invented the first practical electric light, but built the first electrical generating system (in New York). It lost money. The second describes development of the immense, worldwide electrical grid we take for granted. Last, the author tells the story of the Internet, an extension of this electrical grid, this time connecting individuals. Great engineering feats can turn out badly. Some would place our urban freeway system in this category. The author makes a good case by devoting a chapter to the most expensive engineering project in US history: the “big dig” now building a freeway through downtown Boston—underground. When it's finished, the detested surface freeway directly overhead will be torn down. Meanwhile, Tobin provides generous historical background to each project and doesn't neglect to explain scientific and engineering problems in a way laymen can understand. Maps, diagrams, and rare photographs appear on almost every page.

A fine addition to the sparse library of engineering histories.

Pub Date: Oct. 11th, 2001
ISBN: 0-7432-1064-6
Page count: 352pp
Publisher: Free Press
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A NAME EARNED by Tim Tingle
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From the "No Name" series, volume 3
Age Range: 12 - 16
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Bobby Byington needed to nearly die in order for his dad to finally stop drinking.

Now that the Choctaw teen’s father is sober, Bobby is able to experience the endearing side of his father. Unfortunately, Bobby’s best friend and high school basketball teammate, a white boy named Lloyd Blanton, is caught in the middle of a domestic violence crisis when his alcoholic father is accused of assaulting his mother. Lloyd’s father claims the incident was an accident, leaving Lloyd and the rest of the community to carry the weight of Mr. Blanton’s denial and the consequences of his father’s actions. Recalling his own past experience with an alcoholic father, Bobby attempts to console Lloyd, channeling their angst through the camaraderie they find on the basketball court. This story of friendship shows how a supportive Native American community comes together to support a wounded family, as Bobby is joined by his Cherokee friend Johnny and their Choctaw basketball coach. In Bobby and Lloyd, Tingle highlights the resilience that young people have as they navigate family challenges. What is most special is the bond that develops between Bobby and his father, a father-son relationship that defies the odds, depicting a healed father on the other side of sobriety.

An empathetic story that any teen dealing with family alcoholism can connect to. (Fiction. 12-16)

Pub Date: March 15th, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-939053-18-3
Page count: 168pp
Publisher: 7th Generation
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 New Kroll Ontrack study reveals that nearly 50 percent of organizations experienced e-mail and document data loss in the past year and took half a business day or more to recover
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New Kroll Ontrack study reveals that nearly 50 percent of organizations experienced e-mail and document data loss in the past year and took half a business day or more to recover

MINNEAPOLIS – Sept. 26, 2012 – Nearly half of organizations experienced data loss from the world’s two most used e-mail and enterprise content management applications, Microsoft® Exchange Server and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server, in the past year, with 59 percent reporting that it took at least half of a business day to recover from that loss. This is a key finding from a recent survey conducted by Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of e-discovery, information management, and data recovery products and services, of 326 IT managers, engineers and sales personnel from global corporations.

Forty-two percent of organizations reported experiencing at least one Exchange or SharePoint data loss in the past year, with 25 percent reporting multiple data losses. The degree of severity of data loss varied, with 20 percent categorizing their loss as a level one, defined as a severe disruption, such as a down system. Sixteen percent indicated their data loss was a level two or major disruption, while 37 percent categorized their data loss as a level three occasional disruption and 18 percent indicated it was a level four minimal disruption, such as an enhancement request.

“For many businesses, regardless of size, the use of e-mail means everything from simple internal communications or vital customer sales calls to invoicing and billing, “said Jim Reinert, vice president of product development, Kroll Ontrack. “E-mail – and Exchange – is involved at every level of business life. Losing that information is debilitating, putting a great deal of recovery and restoration requests and thus burden on IT.”

When asked how long it took to recover from their most recent Exchange and SharePoint data loss, 59 percent of organizations reported losing at least half a day, 14 percent lost multiple days and five percent claimed they never recovered from the loss. To restore the lost data, 26 percent reported that they leveraged an existing backup. This was followed by 21 percent, who leveraged an in-house capability, 18 percent who actually recreated the data and 14 percent who used a data recovery software tool. Sixty percent of respondents said the financial impact of their data loss was $50,000 or greater and three percent experienced a loss of more than $1 million.

“Based on the results of this survey, it is clear that data loss events on these business critical applications remain an ongoing challenge for IT,” added Reinert. “A single data loss and recovery event can escalate very quickly and become extremely expensive to an organization. However, there are tools that can granularly restore items, messages, attachments and even notes and contacts, eliminating the need for a backup recovery server. Tools that function in this capacity can save companies over 50 percent of restoration time when compared to using traditional methods.”

Three hundred and twenty six individuals participated in this survey. Fifty-seven percent were IT personnel, 17 percent were engineers, 14 percent represented sales, four percent were marketers and eight percent were identified as other.

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Kroll Ontrack provides technology-driven services and software to help legal, corporate and government entities as well as consumers manage, recover, search, analyze, produce and present data efficiently and cost-effectively. In addition to its award-winning suite of software, Kroll Ontrack provides data recovery, data destruction, electronic discovery, document review and ESI consulting. Kroll is a subsidiary of Altegrity, an industry-leading provider of information solutions. For more information about Kroll Ontrack and its offerings please visit: www.krollontrack.com.

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