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10 Great Culinary Adventures

Love food, will travel. If experimenting with regional foods is your favorite part of international travel, check out the Food Network’s list of ten gourmet getaways…

1. Barcelona, Spain
2. Biarritz, France
3. Cape Town, South Africa
4. Dublin, Ireland
5. Edinburgh, Scotland
6. Ko Samui, Thailand
7. Maui, Hawaii
8. Oaxaca, Mexico
9. San Juan, Puerto Rico
10. Vancouver, British Columbia

Add comment September 28th, 2006

Top 100 Companies for Working Moms - 2006

For the 21st year, Working Mother has complied a report on the family-friendliest companies in America. In compiling the report, the magazine solicited applications consisting of 550 questions. Working Mother used five main criteria as the basis for its judgments: flexibility, leave time for new parents, child care, elder care and the number of women occupying top jobs. The top 10 companies that best satisfied the five criteria were: Abbott Laboratories; Bon Secours Richmond Health System; Ernst & Young LLP; HSBC USA Inc.; IBM Corp.; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Patagonia Inc.; PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP; Principal Financial Group, and S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. View the full list of 100 best companies…

Add comment September 28th, 2006

30 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do

Do you know the best way to carve a turkey or remove a wine, wax, or grease stain from a tablecloth or shirt? What about the most efficient way to paint a room? Or the proper way to tie a tie? Martha Stewart assembled all 30 hints and techniques in one tidy booklet. Click Here (1.1mb PDF file) to download them all…

Watch video clips of Martha demonstrating each of the “30 Things.”

Add comment September 28th, 2006

Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Best High School Movies

Entertainment Weekly magazine recently assembled their picks for the 50 best high school movies. The top 10 films are listed below. Check out EW.com for details about all 50…

1. The Breakfast Club (1985)
2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
3. Dazed and Confused (1993)
4. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
5. Heathers (1989)
6. American Graffiti (1973)
7. Clueless (1995)
8. Boyz N the Hood (1991)
9. Election (1999)
10. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

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10 Great B2B Web Sites 2006

Each year, BtoBOnline.com provides a behind-the-scenes look at 10 b-to-b Web sites that excel at communicating with customers and prospects. These sites offer in-depth information about products, services and the company. They are easy to navigate, enabling users to find what they want quickly and efficiently. Their design is clean and embodies the corporate brand. Finally, they allow users to accomplish business-oriented tasks, whether it’s managing a project or making a purchase.

Accenture
Bank of America
Boston Scientific
CA.com
DHL.com
Gates.com
Grainger.com
Steelcase.com
Sun.com
USG.com

Add comment September 27th, 2006

The Best Spas in the World

Readers of Spa Finder publications and the Spafinder.com Web site have chosen Arizona’s Miraval, Life in Balance as their “favorite spa” in North America for 2006. Other favorites around the world were Sante Winelands Hotel and Wellness Center in Paarl, South Africa; Chiva-Som in Hua Hin, Thailand; Brenner’s Park Hotel & Spa in Baaden-Baaden, Germany, and the Kurotel Longevity Center and Spa in Gramado, Brazil. View all the award winners, by country or category…

Add comment September 21st, 2006

Adweek’s Website Hot List 2006

To determine this year’s Hot List list, Adweek evaluated sites that create content, as opposed to aggregating it. The top ten list includes four sites that rely, for the most part or in whole, on user-generated content, the biggest online trend advertisers currently face. Adweek reviewed data on approximately 400 sites from Nielsen/NetRatings AdRelevance. They looked for growth over the past six months in unique users or time spent per person, and also invited several interactive media directors and clients to weigh in, giving their thoughts on which sites they believe are doing it right. The final list mirrors what is happening on the Web: community sites mix with traditional media properties. Some of the oldest sites stand side-by-side with the newest. Download Adweek’s Web Site Hot List PDF…

1. YouTube
2. MySpace
3. The Weather Channel
4. TMZ.com
5. BusinessWeek.com
6. Heavy.com
7. MLB.com
8. Cartoon Network
9. ESPN.com
10. Facebook

Add comment September 19th, 2006

The World’s Most Talked About Videos

ViralVideoChart.com scans several million blogs a day to see which online videos people are talking about the most. They look for references to videos on the three most influential video sharing sites: YouTube, Google Video and MySpace. Viral Video Chart counts the number of times each video is linked to and the number of times each video is embedded. Each morning they publish a list of the 25 videos that generated the most buzz over the previous day. Check out the hottest videos…

Add comment September 18th, 2006

Top 55 Places to Start a New Career

The Walt Disney Co. landed the No. 1 spot on BusinessWeek’s “Best Places to Launch a Career” ranking. Disney’s strong on-campus recruiting, solid benefits, and collaborative culture helped put the entertainment giant at the head of the BusinessWeek ranking, which identifies top employers for new college graduates. BusinessWeek analyzed feedback from students, college career counselors, and employers to reveal which companies offer the biggest advantages for entry-level employees, such as the highest pay, the most rapid advancement, and the best training programs. Visit BusinessWeek.com for the full top 55 rankings, and profiles of each employer…

1. Walt Disney
2. Lockheed Martin
3. Deloitte & Touche
4. Goldman Sachs
5. Enterprise Rent-A-Car
6. State Department
7. Raytheon
8. General Electric
9. JPMorgan
10. Abbott Labs

Add comment September 14th, 2006

100 Best Events in North America 2007

The American Bus Association’s Top 100 Events in North America is an annual compendium of the best events for group travel in the United States and Canada. Each spring, a committee of ABA-member motorcoach and tour operators selects the top 100 events for the subsequent year; the list is unveiled in September. Winners are chosen from hundreds of celebrations, festivals, fairs, commemorative events, and more that have been nominated by state tourism offices and local and regional CVBs. Check out the 2007 list…

Add comment September 14th, 2006

The Market’s 10 Best Stocks of the Past Decade

The Motley Fool has compiled a list of the top ten performing stocks of the past decade. Read the full article…

1. Hansen Natural
2. Christopher & Banks
3. Daktronics
4. Chico’s
5. NVR
6. Celgene
7. Frontier Oil
8. Meritage Homes
9. Expeditors International
10. Yahoo!

Add comment September 14th, 2006

Best 361 College Rankings

The Princeton review’s annual college rankings based on survey of 115,000 students is now out in “Best 361 Colleges - 2007 Edition”. The book’s full ranking lists are also posted on PrincetonReview.com…

* #1 School for Undergraduate Academics — Univ. of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
* Best Professors — Middlebury College (Middlebury VT)
* Most Beautiful Campus — Pepperdine Univ. (Malibu CA)
* Best Dorms — Smith College (Northampton MA)
* Best Campus Food — Bowdoin College (Brunswick ME)
* Happiest Students — Brown Univ. (Providence RI)
* Most Liberal Students — Warren Wilson College (Asheville NC)
* Most Conservative Students — Hillsdale College (Hillsdale MI)
* Toughest to Get Into — Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Cambridge MA)
* Most Diverse Student Body — DePaul Univ. (Chicago IL)
* Best College Library — Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
* Best College Newspaper — Yale Univ. (New Haven CT)

Add comment September 6th, 2006

Lucky’s Favorite Shopping Websites

Interested in dressing better and shopping smarter? Lucky magazine has created a directory of their 200 favorite sites for online shopping, from A to Z…

Add comment September 3rd, 2006

America’s Top 25 Smartest Cities

Education rankings were released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau. CNNMoney.com took a look at American cities with the highest concentration of college degrees. If you equate education with intelligence, then the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7% of its residents age 25 or older have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher. The 10 smartest cities in the U.S. are listed below. Check out CNNMoney.com for the full top 25 list and key stats on each city…

1. Seattle, WA
2. San Francisco, CA
3. Raleigh, NC
4. Washington, DC
5. Austin, TX
6. Minneapolis, MN
7. Atlanta, GA
8. Boston, MA
9. San Diego, CA
10. Lexington-Fayette, KY

Add comment September 2nd, 2006

Great List of Home Decorating Sites

Domino magazine has collected their favorite websites for stylish living and created an online “black book” of the best places to shop for home decorating, entertaining, gardening, renovating ideas, and gifts worth giving. Check out the list…

Add comment September 1st, 2006