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Photo Print 101 — Changing Formats
Tags: iOS, Photography, Photos, Tutorial, Apps

Photo Print 101 — Changing Formats

Getting the right sized print can sometimes make or break an order. It is understandably frustrating to pick up your prints only to find that the photo won’t fit in its destined frame!

To help prevent such a scenario from playing out, here is a step-by-step guide for making sure the prints you get are exactly the format you intended them to be.

A little reminder: prints are available in five sizes (4x4, 4x6, 5x7, 8x8 and 8x10). For anything bigger, checkout the Photo Print 101 — Posters article.

So here we go — selected images are automatically sized either as a 4x4 or 4x6. You will know which format is currently selected or being modified by the blue line that appears beneath it. To change the size, tap on one of the other photo formats above the picture and either move the image around the frame to position it to your liking or use the + button below the photo to manually indicate the number of copies you wish to order for that sized print.

As formats are changed and added, you will see a number in a blue circle appear next to that size. For example, when changing the format to a 5x7, after using the + button or moving the image, the number 1 will appear next the 5x7. As copies are added and removed, this number will increase or decrease to indicate exactly how many prints are being ordered.

As the 4x4 or 4x6 size is automatically applied when you select a photo, you can remove that format from your cart with the — (minus) button.

We strongly encourage you to preview your order by reviewing which numbers appear in the blue circles and verifying that only the desired formats are chosen.

FAQ — Photo formats

1) Print sizes are measured in inches

2) It is possible to rotate photos so a 4x6 “portrait” style print can also be a 6x4 “landscape” style print

3) Five formats are available: 4x4, 4x6, 5x7, 8x8 and 8x10

Download Photo Print today and your photos will be ready for pickup at a Walgreens near you in under 30 minutes.
Choose and Compare the Best Option for Miami Photo Rental
By: Photo Booth Party
Tags: Photography, Miami, Photos, Photobooth

Choose and Compare the Best Option for Miami Photo Rental

Are you planning to include a photo booth in your wedding ceremony or any other considerable event? There is no doubt that any such decision of yours would invite more fun at the event as photo booths are meant to yield awesome results. A great majority of people worldwide choose to install these booths are their event to give it a distinctive and marvelous appeal.

In today’s fast-paced world, getting a striking Miami photo booth rental is not a big thing as there are myriads of options available to choose from. No matter how much your budget is, what kind of photo booth you actually want or what kind of event you’re organizing, getting the most awesome photo booth rental in Key Largo has become quite easy these days. Let’s look at below portion to check how to make the best choice in this regard.

With respect to Miami photo booth rental, there is a general rule which states, bigger is better. Not only will a bigger booth be able to house you and your close friendsfeasibly, you can choose to jump inside with a small flock of people adding up more excitement. For weddings, a bigger booth is definitely a must!

Don’t forget to ask the photo rental company for sample photos as most of the companies do not produce good quality photo prints. So, keep a check on this for great results.

Do make sure that the Miami photo booth rental company that you choose has spare equipment. You might never know when a hard drive, camera, flash, printer, etc. may malfunction. At Party Booths, every booth should have 2 computers, 2 cameras, 2 flashes, and 2 printers, etc. to give you that extra peace of mind.

By carefully searching and comparing different options for this purpose, you may end up choosing the best.
President Launches Paris, France, and begins a nine-day visit to Europe.
By: Cross Road
Tags: Photos

President Launches Paris, France, and begins a nine-day visit to Europe.

Newsis Seoul Airport and gimtaegyu hongjieun reporters are Moon Jae-in president scheduled nine days and seven nights starting from visiting Paris, France, yesterday embarked on a tour to Europe.

Mr. Moon left Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, for Paris.

At the airport gimbugyeom the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, The Korea Corporate Government Secretary, president chief of staff, Im Jong-seok, Han Lee Hae-chan, the then presidential chief of staff, Democratic floor leader hongyeongpyo, the leader of the Democratic Party.Back off.

Mr. Moon, who arrives at the Paris-Oly International Airport on the same afternoon, will begin his visit to France with a dinner meeting with his French compatriots.

On the next day, she will attend a Korea-France friendship concert with Kim Jeong-sook. The friendship concert, under the theme of “The Sound of Korean Music,” is a BTS, Black Springs (geomungo, saxophone, pansori), and Mungo (geomungo and others).

Starting on the third 스포츠토토사이트day of his visit to France, he will carry out the official schedule of his state visit.

President Moon will attend the Korea-France summit with President Emmanuel Macron, a joint press conference, a meeting with the Speaker of the House, and a state dinner hosted by President Macron, starting with the official welcoming ceremony and the funeral.

After having a luncheon with Paris City Hall reception, Korea-France Business Forum, and Prime Minister Eduard Philippe, UNESCO Secretary-General O’Dre Azule will complete his visit to France and leave for Italy on Saturday.
A Photo That Captures an Entire Period of American Political History
By: Sarah Marilyn
Tags: Donald Trump, American History, Photography, Photos, Journalism

Source: Huffington Post

This photo struck me as ICONIC. Could be used in the history books of the future to depict an entire juncture in American history and politics. This will endure long past the caricatures of bitter cartoonists, for sure. I’ll tell you why.

The hands poised like a man who “tells it like it is” or, rather, is about to “tell YOU how it is”. The Strong Man, sturdy stance, mouth open. Could be bluster, could be buff, that is for the viewer to read-in.

The media clamoring to re-post and headline his latest tweets, shoving microphones in his face, desperate to hear every self-righteous take on any and all days of the week, at any and all hours. Taking personal and deep offense at being cut off, as if access to him was their lifeline, their raison d’etre.

The perfect image of an institution locked in the patterns of Stockholm Syndrome, lambasted and persecuted by the man but can’t stay away, longing more and more intensely for the attention of the abuser — forcing the rest of the nation to watch them as they keep going back for more and more, only to face more and more lambasting and hostility from the man whose every word their mental grounding clings to.

Bombs and shooters approach their offices, and they look to him to “tell it like it is”, so they can run around in circles re-processing and fixating on every word and tweet. It’s not their fault, to an extent — although some self-awareness could sure go a long way. It’s just how abusers work.

They want to rile you up and get a reaction, so they can then use your reaction to beat you upside the head and coerce you into submission — to treat you with active engagement and undermining hostility, to keep you depending on their every word for your relative sense of security.

His criticisms of the media will simply be lost beyond the objectives he actually accomplishes with that rhetoric — no one will remember what was “fake news” — because at the end of the day, and at the end of his term, the media was always there, hanging on his every single word, loyal through thick and thin to spreading his every message and platforming him from the beginning of his campaign to the bitter, bitter end.

The Media could never bear to leave his side, and they at least felt and behaved as if they were nothing, without him, if it was not actually true in fact. This was the power of the Trump regime — an iron curtain of THIS STANCE, and the media, in lock-step, inseparable, and this is how the nation was led for x amount of years during this period.

This is America — this photo is fantastic
Perfect Gifts for the Entire Family
By: Sungale Electronics
Tags: Holidays, Photos, Smart Home, Cloud

Thinking of snagging great deals this #BlackFriday? There’s no need to wait in crowded lines at the outlet mall when you can stay in the comfort of your home and shop the latest electronic gifts you won’t find anywhere else! Happy shopping!

Gifts for the family who live far away

If you have a family who lives in a different state or even overseas, you might find it difficult to keep in touch with them, especially around the holidays. The cloud photo frame makes staying connected with your family easier; you can share photos of every special event in your life and send them directly to their frame, the best part is that they’ll get to share that experience with you!

Model #CPF1051

Gifts for Mom or Grandma

The digital photo frames don’t require your family to be tech-savvy, Sungale has multiple frames to fit everyone’s needs. From fully functioning frames to easy to navigate frames. So, if you’re loved ones aren’t tech savvy, no problem — they don’t have to miss out on the tech gifts. Frames such as The PF803 are easy to set up, just simply load their favorite photos to a memory SD card and begin displaying them on the hi-def LCD screen! For more features, click here and discover the perfect frame for them.

Model #DPF710

Gifts for the Food Enthusiast

The cook in your family would love to bring technology into their kitchen and find how easy it is to keep entertained while learning new recipes! Find the gift that would bring them joy here.
“No, he’s not black, he’s Brazilian”… with Diego S for Elska Magazine
By: Liam Campbell
Tags: Racism, Chicago, Brazil

One of the most interesting legacies of having spent my childhood in America was the casual racism that permeated everyday life. After having spent my entire adult life in England, the comparative lack of racism astounds me, and I still marvel at the amount of mixed-race couples around as if that was something extraordinary.

At the age of eight, my mother got married, and the new ‘wealth’ brought by having a second income meant that I would be sent to Catholic school, which required tuition. I wasn’t sent there for religious reasons but for safety. The new Catholic school was no more than fifteen minutes by foot from my old public school, but demographically it was worlds apart. At the new school it was purportedly less likely that I’d end up being murdered on the playground there. That new school was totally white.

Ok, to be totally honest, there were a couple of Latinos, but one was Ecuadorian and the other’s family was from Belize. The point was made, however, that they were “not Mexican or Puerto Rican”. These were the bad kind of Latinos, the ones who joined gangs, sprayed graffiti and shot each other outside the 7–11. Ecuador? Belize? Nobody talks about them in the news.

In the final year at St Ferdinand Parish School we got two transfer students, a twin brother and sister. They were black. And they were the first black people we ever saw in six years at the school so far. Most people thought this was big news, but the twins were well-liked, so the news wasn’t spread in an aggressively racist way. These kids were “good” but black was still “dangerous”, so there was a standard reply whenever kids from the neighbourhood would say “I heard you got some black kids at your school now”… I’ll always remember the response, “No! They’re not black, they’re Brazilian”. I guess that not having your ancestors brought up picking cotton in the Alabama sun was safe, no matter what colour your skin actually was.

Find out more about Elska here: www.elskamagazine.com

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What's the Brazilian market adaption strategy?
By: Pri Araujo
Tags: Advertising, Marketing, Brazil, Digital Marketing

To start with, I’d like to clarify that what I’m saying here is directed specifically to the Brazilian market, where the little I’ve seen took me to question this amazingly creative and incredibly delayed format when compared to the little I’ve seen abroad.

It’s been some time since we all started talking, posting, questioning about what’s there to come and how agencies would survive and digital taking over, how digital can not pay for our Cannes Lions creatives and working model, old school media and advertising that not always put strategy, ROI or KPI’s at first and so goes.

So, I just came back from a trip to the North Pole. Yes, pretty amazing and yes, I will use it as a comparative. Do you know what else is amazing? How everything there is adapting to the new, warmer, environment. As we had an increase of 1 or 2 degrees in our continents, the Artic had an increase between 2 and 4 degrees in the temperature. As a consequence, we are starting to observe animals behaving differently, adapting. Different species of whales that hunt together, killer whales hunting in new, social, ways, polar bears that climb mountains due to the lack of ice, reindeers migrating to other parts of the land.

They adapt, we don’t.

Mainly, we are still waiting for the temperature to go back to it’s normal average. And trying to hunt on our own in melting ice or believing that our skills don’t need improvement and that we are not the ones that need to adapt. It’s the environment.

Our market it’s definitely not in it’s best time with all of our political and economical issues. But other than studying, talking, posting, what have you done to collaborate with the new scenery?

If you could not blame anyone or anything, what would you do to change in order to survive? And for how long will we believe on better days to come instead of embracing and trying to learn with all that’s happening right now?

And to all other professionals that I’ve met that are in constant movement: What’s the secret?

The biggest barrier to adapting is mindset. Adapt or Die (and then reborn)?
A Story Max Barry Would Drool Over: Coca-Cola Piercing Tongues, In Latest Marketing Stunt
By: Shabooty
Tags: Brazil, Coca Cola, Marketing

First of all, Max Barry, marketing god and author demi-god, and pseudo-friend, is always on top the latest marketing moves esp. in the soda-pop industry (he wrote a novel about

it for gosh sakes) — so I am hoping he will chime in on this story. Apparently, now Coca-cola in a Coke-Zero promotional stunt/marketing plan, is basically saying, ‘hey you dumb slut, hoe-bag-in-training, do you want to get your tongue pierced?’ (Do you want to slob-knobs, and drink Coke-Zero in between your slobbing of knobs?). Well, we’ll pierce your skank-tongue, for free! But your stud will have a big coke-zero logo on th end. Ha ha….classic move.

Hey I am down with that and all. That sure is an industrious move…so they’ll probably be doing that too with industrial-bar piercings (sorry that was a corny play on words that I couldn’t resist). Don’t believe me? Here is a pic… and here is a gallery of pictures. Here is a youtube video with an ad with tongues.

Coke Zero’s throwing weight behind tongue-piercing parlors in Brazil. Seriously. Shops in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Salvador are giving free piercings to people that agree to take a picture with a fresh new Coke Zero stud. Coke’s calling the concept advertising.

and here is more info to read.

and here’s max barry’s blog.

ps.

oh, I am thinking of getting a free penis piercing with a BALLPARK FRANKS logo at the end of the stud. At least it would be ‘consistent’ marketing. Well, in MY case.

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Six candidates Porto Alegre Prefecture spoke their propolsals in Federasul
Tags: Brazil

Six candidates Porto Alegre Prefecture spoke, on Wednesday (31) on their proposals and answered questions from businessmen during the Tá in Mesa, Federasul, a joint initiative of the entity with the Commercial Association of Porto Alegre (ACPA). Fabio Ostermann (PSL), Luciana Genro (PSOL), Mauritius Dziedricki (PTB), Nelson Marchezan Jr. (PSDB), Raul Pont (PT) and Sebastian Melo (PMDB) highlighted their projects to issues related to business and entrepreneurship in city, speaking of public-private partnership opportunities for certain projects such as the construction of a new events center.

The dialogue was divided into four parts: first, all had five minutes to present; then each answer to a question, time drawn, made by traders in two minutes; in the third round, all answered the same question, prepared by Federasul also in two minutes; and, finally, they had four minutes to complete. Some candidates talked about the national political situation, since the event took place at the same time, the Senate, the term of Dilma Rousseff (PT) was impeached.
4 Things to Do and See in Sao Paulo, Brazil
By: Jerry Shiveley
Tags: Brazil, Travel, São Paulo, Tourism

When spending time in the largest city in South America, it can be difficult, and downright intimidating trying to come up with an itinerary that includes everything you want to do.

Sao Paulo, Brazil remains true to its roots through winding roads and highways that follow the historic routes of its settlers, and the cultural abundance that makes up the city allows for a truly diverse experience no matter where you choose to go. With that said, the following are just a few of many fun things you can experience when visiting Sao Paulo.

Free Walking Tours

If you prefer to go the organic route in terms of tourist attractions, walking tours around the city provided by local information centers can give you a local’s perspective on what to do, and where to go. You have a number of options, with the Old Downtown walk being one of the most popular, and Paulista Avenue following closely behind. What’s great for American visitors, all tour guides speak both English and Portuguese to include every guest.

Parque Estadual da Cantareira

A truly breathtaking park located just north of Downtown Sao Paulo, The Cantareira State Park allows visitors to get up close and personal with local wildlife, in addition to providing one of the best views of the city. Though it requires a bit of climb, reaching the top of this park is an experience unlike most. Various species of birds, monkeys, and local plant life are abundant throughout, making the view that much more magical.

It is important to note however, that the park is only open on weekends and holidays, so plan your trip accordingly.

Mercado Municipal de Sao Paulo

The Municipal Market of Sao Paulo features meats, spices, fruits, and vegetables from all over Brazil to give you a taste of the country’s best foods. The building itself houses a number of restaurants as well, many of which serve traditional Brazilian recipes like Pastel de Queijo and Mortadella sandwiches. Be cautious when purchasing though, as prices tend to be on the heavier side. Buying a large basket of goods could rack up a hefty bill.

Sao Paulo Cathedral at Se

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Brazil’s largest city is located at Se, otherwise known as the spiritual centre of Sao Paulo. Aside from attending one of the daily services held here, visitors are welcome to explore the cathedral freely and take photos both inside and out. While the surrounding neighborhood may not be the most aesthetically pleasing, there are also a number of great cafes nearby.
God and Football: the Way of Life For Brazilians
By: Lynda Musings
Tags: Brazil, Travel, Culture, Football, Religion

God and Football: the Way of Life For Brazilians

A diverse country but united by these two factors

Brazil is home to different ethnic origins. The Brazilian culture was largely shaped by the Portuguese Empire which they were a part of for over 300 years; other colonist nations such as Spain, Italy and Germany, and Africans who were brought as slaves by the colonial masters. As diverse as the country may seem, these two things unite them.

Religion

Brazil is home to a lot of diverse religious beliefs but with a population of 190 million people, 123 million are Catholics making them the largest Catholic country in the world. Catholicism is the official religion of Brazil and is formally institutionalized into their political and social system. Most of their bank holiday is based on the Catholicism.

Football

Futebol, as spelled in Brazil is the most popular sports in the country. Football, known as soccer in America is the very air Brazilians breathe to survive. To understand just how much this sport means to Brazilians as a people, watch how they reacted when their national team lost the semi-finals to Germany in the 2014 World Cup game.
Tribe catcher Yan Gomes to promote baseball in Brazil this December
By: Cleveland Guardians
Tags: Brazil, Cleveland Indians, Major League Baseball, MLB

Seven Major League Baseball players were chosen to represent MLB abroad this winter, with Cleveland Indians catcher Yan Gomes returning to his native country of Brazil, December 12–15.

Gomes will visit São Paulo to participate in various community events, including leading a clinic for children in Mogi das Cruzes — where Gomes first began playing baseball. He is the first Brazilian-born player in the Major Leagues, and faced off with the first Brazilian pitcher — the White Sox right-hander Andre Rienzo — in August.

Free agent reliever Latroy Hawkins will also head to Brazil as a pitching instructor in February. Other MLB ambassadors are set to share their passion for the game with fans in the Netherlands, France, China, and South Africa.

During this past season, Gomes said that Brazil’s qualification in this year’s World Baseball Classic was a stepping stone to the sport’s bright future in the country.

“It’s tough still because it’s not a very common sport in Brazil,” Gomes said. “Being in the big leagues definitely does help a little more because people kind of listen to you more. Especially this offseason, just [going to] make a huge effort to go there and try to show my face and explain a little of the sport.”

For more information on the MLB ambassador trips, please visit MLB.com.

— TribeVibe contributor Courtney Shilling
Barnes & Nobles II
By: Jennifer Cabral
Tags: Portuguese, South America, Amazon, Brazil, Notes

Barnes & Nobles II

Wondering around the bargain section of Barnes & Nobles is like looking at your bookshelf where the pile for “What was I thinking” or “My uncle didn’t know what to give me for xmas” books are. But there are some books that I hope I wouldn’t get even if I was very drunk or if my family despised me, like “Elvis favorite meals” or “Guide to cats: How to survive your neurotic owner”. No wonder why they are all under 5 bucks. At the “travel” bargain section — ( These sections can be perfectly organized. Not like walking into a used bookstore at the Maleta building in downtown Belo Horizonte, where you can only find a book if you ask the owner of the place. Usually an old man sitting in the back of the store. He knows every shelf by heart, since he has nothing else to look at or to look for… ) — So at that travel bargain section there was a book titled “Amazonia”. I picket it up, expecting to put it down by the second page… books like this are usually too outdated or talk more about the Spanish speaking south american countries than the Brazilian part of the amazon… even though Brazil hosts most of it. But instead, I started dazzling over pictures of cocoa trees, acai, exotic birds and indians as if I am looking at the most remote place on the planet. For someone from southeastern Brazil, it is really remote. I can count the people I know that visited the amazon forest. Most of them are foreigners, not Brazilians. Joao you are not included on the list: I remember your stories about eating turtles and tucupi. Only college classmate who ventured into the forest.

After my speech about eating acai and banana smoothies, about a parrot and a turtle that I once had, about the rubber era in the north of Brazil, as if I know much about it, I finally shut up. But only for a few minutes. After finally putting the book down the speakers played an old Samba. I was amazed even though that sound is played on every elevator ever built. By the time it started playing the song “cajuina”, I was sure I was doped by the pills I just took trying to stop a headache from becoming another migraine. Either that or the guy in charge of the counter on the CD section was. When I looked at the counter all I saw was a typical white caucasian American, as American as they come. He probably believed he was playing another CD in Spanish. Probably no, I’m absolutely sure he had no clue that was Brazilian Music, in Portuguese …he probably doesn’t even know there is a Portuguese speaking country in South America, like most. Before leaving the store I saw a CD named Acoustic Brazil on the shelf saying: Now Playing. At least it wasn’t playing only in my head, along with this entire monologue.
Brazil Re-elects President Dilma Rousseff
By: Nyu Local
Tags: National, Brasil, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff

By Betina Paglioli

At 8:30 p.m. last Sunday, Dilma Rousseff was officially re-elected as President in Brazil. She ran against Aécio Neves in the closest race the country has had since 1989: 51.64 percent of voters chose Dilma, while 48.36 percent chose Aécio, a difference of just 3 million votes. Neves got 12 states in the Federal District, while Rousseff won in 15 states.

After thanking voters and allies in her first speech,Rousseff said she doesn’t believe the elections have polarized the country; that within the contradicting ideologies brought by the race, all Brazilians were moved by the hope of a better future. She urged for more dialogue and cohesion between parties as well as citizens to lead to a more mature democracy. “This President is willing to dialogue,” she declared, her speech broadcast on a live feed. “And this is my first commitment on my second term: dialogue.”

She called her re-election a “vote of hope” from the people for an improvement on the government, and the actions already taken by it. “I want to be a much better President than I have been so far,” she said. “I want to be an even better person than I have striven to be. This feeling of prevailment must boost not only the government and myself, but the entire nation.”

Dilma vowed to peacefully and democratically lead change and popular causes. Another important discussion she stressed was a referendum on the possibility of a political reform. Her commitment against corruption was passionately argued as she promoted changes in legislation and measures to oversee government behavior. Lastly she discussed measures to maintain and stimulate the country’s economical growth.

In closing, the President claimed, “more than ever, it’s time for each and every one of us to believe in Brazil, to increase our faith in this incredible nation to which we have the privilege of belonging, and to which we have the responsibility of making more prosperous and just.”

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<your brand here> Rewards and Commoditization
By: Phil Rubin
Tags: Loyalty, Uber, Lyft, Lyft Vs Uber, Customer Experience

<your brand here> Rewards and Commoditization

Uber’s announcement of its new Uber Rewards program was more than a disappointment; it was downright lame, even more so as the company is one of the original “unicorns” and a pillar of the “sharing economy”.

Uber Rewards stands in stark contrast to the company’s disruptive, innovative launch and expansion, which has attracted billions of investment dollars even without disclosing details of its business performance until recently. Uber leveraged a compelling value proposition to quickly claim market leadership, largely building its business without traditional marketing and advertising. It is, in fact, a tribute to the company’s remarkable innovation that significant reputation missteps have been costly but not fatal.

So, does the Uber program live up to its innovative and disruptive brand? Ah, no, not even close. Uber Rewards is a free-to-join, spend-and-get program that awards points to customers for Uber rides and Uber Eats purchases. Rewards include $5 credits, complimentary upgrades, a flexible cancellation policy and priority airport pickups.

This approach is all but innovative, and its attempt to offer value is not only convoluted but easily replicated. According to TechCrunch, the program wasn’t rushed to market, and it wasn’t shortchanged in investment. So how did an innovative company launch such a pedestrian program? Maybe they are panicking in response to slower growth and hopes of an IPO next year?

A loyalty program is a means to an end. It’s the mechanism to get customer permission — opt-up even more than opt-in — that allows a company to better pay attention to customers and treat them accordingly (this is the rDialogue definition of loyalty marketing). rDialogue has always held steadfast the conviction that every loyalty strategy needs to be unique to the company and brand. It should be recognizable without a logo or any other form of identity. As we’ve seen more and more commoditization of loyalty “programs,” this belief has only strengthened.

By virtue of its mobile-app and operating model, Uber has customer addressability and trackability, and the company has multiple paths to communicate with customers (all traditional reasons to launch a loyalty program). Uber doesn’t need a “program,” especially in the traditional sense of a rewardsprogram.

And, that leads to one last thing… Rewards is the worst, most off-brand name for any company’s loyalty program. Sorry Starbucks, but Nike+ and Adidas Creators Club are exponentially more on-brand. As is Delta SkyMiles, Amazon Prime and Nordstrom’s new Nordy Club. Your program should be representative of your brand. It should be able to live on its own. Rewards is anti-climactic. And only one potential aspect of a loyalty “program”.

Lyft is reportedly launching its “program” later this year. (We’re here if you need us.)
Bigger, more flexible carpools are here!
Tags: Waze, Ridesharing, Uber, Lyft

Bigger, more flexible carpools are here!

Carpoolers — we’ve got an exciting update!

Drivers can now pick up multiple riders at different stops along their route with little-to-no detour. Get ready to fill those empty seats, save even more on gas, and make your carpool more fun.

Riders: Easily join an existing carpool. Whenever you see a driver’s profile with a green “Available seats” badge, simply request to join and wait for confirmation.

#ProTip: Confirmed a carpool? Share the details with your friends and invite them to fill the extra seats. Just tap the share button at the top right corner of your screen.

Drivers: Once a carpool is set, additional riders can ask to join. You can accept or decline — and in the future, you’ll be able to offer rides as well. Stay tuned for that update!

#ProTip: Now when you send multiple offers, you may end up getting more riders in your carpool if they share the same route. So don’t be shy — offer those rides!

More improvements

Thank you to all our Waze Carpool veterans who took the time to share their feedback. Your insights helped us improve the overall experience. We’ve redesigned the Waze Carpool screen you see during a live ride. Now, drivers can easily see their full drive itinerary, contact their riders, and start their carpool with one tap.

Plus, more stops won’t make for a more complicated drive experience. Waze seamlessly guides drivers to every pickup and drop-off spot, and lets them mark their progress so riders stay in the loop.

Maximum savings

With more riders on board, you can save even more. Drivers can fill up to 4 seats in a carpool, and earn a bit extra with each rider — keeping in mind that prices are adjusted, so they don’t exceed the total sum of gas and wear & tear.

For riders, prices may be adjusted with each person who joins. The amount will depend on distance, but riders can get a great deal on their ride to work or school.

Ready to rev up your commute and meet a few more Wazers? Be sure to use the latest version of Waze and Waze Carpool to try a group-pool.

Happy carpooling!
Why Traveling through Taxis Is Better Than Other Transport Mediums? Choose Wisely Save More
By: Tw Black Cars Ltd
Tags: Uber

Why Traveling through Taxis Is Better Than Other Transport Mediums? Choose Wisely Save More

People who can’t afford to purchase a personal vehicle often rely on taxis or local public transport mediums. For going from a place to another by taxi, people may consider several facts but somehow these facts could also leave them thinking more before hiring a taxi, such as why to hire a taxi, where to get one and the most important concern ‘which taxi service would be best for them’. In this blog, I’ve discussed the answers to all such questions which come in your mind while you decide on which taxi service would be best for you.

In most cases, people hire a taxi because either they don’t own a personal vehicle or they don’t know how to drive. Such people have no other option than to get taxis to reach their destinations. On the other hand, there are those who enjoy the ride. By appointing a Tunbridge Wells to Stansted taxi service in UK, you get the privilege to sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride without any responsibility of driving, keeping your head straight and your eyes on the road. You can simply enjoy your journey by taking glances at the outer world and the driver will safely drop you at your destination.

Some people have difficulties in remembering certain long routes resulting they might get confused in the streets. Such people can get the benefits of hiring a taxi as mostly all the taxi services generally employ highly experienced and good drivers who know most of all the routs. In some cases, for instance, if you are getting late for your office, during such situations, you can ask them to drop you to the office through the shortest route available and the driver would do his best to drop you safely on time.

The best benefit anyone can get from any reputable taxi service is the reasonable fare. Most of the taxi services which you can appoint in advance generally cost you cheaper than any other standard or private taxis. You won’t need to worry about additional expenses such as toll and parking fee; any reputed company would not cost you more than the calculated fare according to the length of travel. This way you can enjoy the ride without any worry about extra charges. However, if you hire a Tunbridge Wells to Stansted airport taxi and back to Tunbridge, the driver may ask you to pay airport parking fee and nothing more than that.

It can also give you a major benefit if you book a taxi in advance. This way, you can save a big amount of time that you might have wasted by roaming around the streets and waiting for local taxis to pick you up. While the driver would be on his way to you, you can complete your packing and get ready as generally, these taxi services take not more than 20 minutes to reach the riders.

The facts mentioned above are a few of many other benefits of hiring a taxi. You can go online and check for different taxi service providers in your area, also ask for referrals from your friends or family to find a reliable taxi service for you.
The Uber and Lyft question Parksen solves
Tags: Uber, Smart, Smart Parking, Smart Cities, Shared Economy

Just recently, Uber and Lyft both started on news because of the traffic and parking issues that they created in downtown Plymouth in the USA. It has raised safety concerns as well as cost and future transportation optimization. When the businesses are going well with Uber and Lyft, the downside of it shows.

Moreover, Uber and Lyft drivers can be seen stopped on a street and looking at their GPS to figure out where they are supposed to pick up their customers. This causes traffic jams on the street, and might endanger drivers and passengers lives.

Another issue that caused indirectly by the Uber and Lyft services, is that some motorists would use city’s parking decks or surface-level parking spaces, then leave their vehicles overnight by catching an Uber or Lyft ride home.

Uber, Lift and other similar providers need a solution like Parksen

PARKSEN’S SOLUTION HELP TO DROP PARKING ISSUES

Parksen’s solution could solve these parking issues for both Uber, Lyft and other competitors. First of all, with our platform solution, we could help to find out parking spaces that are not being used yet, and inform the ride-hailing services businesses to utilize it. So, instead of being stuck in the downtown areas, the professional drivers could easily find space to park and have appointments with their clients.

Second, Parksen could also help the motorcyclists to find better parking spaces for themselves. The reason they park their vehicles in the parking spaces overnight, is because they don’t want to drive under the influence or tiered after a long day. It’s better to do so. On the other hand drivers have to find parking spaces around the restaurant and bar area. Moreover local governments have to learn it and provide extended solutions, that we at Parksen help design and solve.

Some of the cities prohibits vehicles in the city parking spaces from 3 to 5 a.m., but if the drivers notify the police department in advance, there is still possibility to park overnight. What a smart parking app like Parksen could do to solve this issue is to creatively think for the government how to manage the overnight parking.

With the smart app and our backend platform, Parksen will be able to bridge the needs of municipalities with the business owners, Uber and Lyft drivers as well as all other drivers. This way we make our parking smarter, our cities better and fully connecting all services in a bundle that benefits everyone.
TFL Check Spots, Get Prepare Yourself
By: Jackie James
Tags: Uber

TFL Check Spots, Get Prepare Yourself

Complete the legal requirements

It is necessary for every person who is on the road to complete all the legal requirements required by the higher authorities. it’s not only make your face but also provides the great facilitation for your needs. we are well aware about the teams that are specially organised to Inspect vehicles about the private hire drivers to complete the legal requirements. It’s time to be organized by the people that deals with the private cars or having the services for PCO Vehicle Hire London.

Private hire regulations

Private higher inspectors complete the legislation and the regulations requirements in that can be helpful and make sure the people have legalized their vehicles in the proper way. because every person that is on the road needs to fulfil their requirements through the proper documentation process. Because after making hard earned shift is to be fined or have your car’s private hire licence revoked. You must have the complete car documentation, like this certificate of insurance, schedule of insurance including the permissions. drivers need to complete the documentation regarding the driving licence and PCO badge.

Daily checks

Complete the daily requirements mostly included tyre checks, lights, cleanliness of your vehicles and the other minute work that can save lot of your time. because A stitch in time saves nine. All these factors make the great contribution for yourself and you will experience the best results in your profession. Because completing all the legal requirements will make your more responsible citizen as compared to those who don’t actually complete their requirements. Daily checks have many benefits that can save yourself form the chaos. It makes yourself enough handy to do the things in the best way in which you complete the legal requirements and all the other things as well.

Timely maintenance and fitness certificate

Timely maintenance is the important part of your life through which you can have the multiple benefits. Because in this way, you can increase the life of your vehicles. As you get the fitness certificate for your vehicle then you find it more comfortable for you to handle the things in the best way. Make all these things beneficial because you will certainly get the appreciations form the organizations for which you work.

These are instructions are valuable for the drivers through which you can make the things flawless for you. It’s our duty to complete all the legal requirements and to educate the others to follow the footsteps that can have the advantages for us.
Raycom Media Camellia Bowl
Tags: Sports, Sports Betting

The final bowl this Saturday night is the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl in Alabama. It features two teams from not too far away, in Middle Tennessee and Arkansas St.

The line on this game opened Arkansas St -3.5 and 62.5 (most widely available lines). And really, they haven’t moved much. The hook is gone and Ark St -3 is widely available, while the total has come down a touch as 60.5 is the current total.

In previous previews, like this one for the New Mexico Bowl, its worked best to start the handicapping process by looking at what kind of points the teams should be expected to score and allow based on the opponents they have played through out the year. The comparison for these two teams looks like this:

This chart explains that there is value on the Arkansas St line despite where the line is moving. The line should be Arkansas St -9.5. Much like the injury concerns that were described in the Oregon-Boise bowl matchup, here, injury concerns mar this line. MTST has a dynamic quarterback (at least for the Group of 5 conferences), Brent Stockstill, who has spent much of the season injured. If you isolate just the last four games on MTST’s schedule though, you’ll see a 3–1 record where they scored over 30 points each time. Those kind of numbers don’t work with the projections above.

What about yards per play? Well, that metric is going to suffer from the same kind of mis-leading results.

Even despite the injury concerns for MTST’s qb, this measurement still shows value on MTST. Confused yet?

These efficiency stats don’t show a huge disparity either, especially considering the quarterback issue. If anything that should point even more in MTST’s favour.

Ark. St definitely has the advantage in defensive stats. Can Stockstill over come that?

This total has been coming down and the bet here is that Ark St is going to get their 30 points and MTST is going to outperform their metrics with Stockstill under centre. First total of the bowl season….

ArkSt/MTST o60.5,

Good luck
Patriots vs Dolphins Free Monday Night Football Pick, 12–11–2017
By: Ats Experts, Sports Professionals Network
Tags: NFL, New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, Sports Betting, Gambling

Free NFL Spread Pick by Chris Coleman of ATS Experts

New England Patriots (10–2) vs Miami Dolphins (5–7)

Date: December 11th, 2017

Game Time: 8:30 pm

NFL Odds: Dolphins +11, 48

A pair of AFC East teams squares off on Monday Night Football in South Beath when the New England Patriots travel south to take on the Miami Dolphins. The Patriots are (8–4 ATS) and (6–0 SU) on the road while the Dolphins are (4–6–2 ATS) and (3–3 SU) at home.

The Patriots are looking to wrap up their 9th straight AFC East title but they will have to do it without Rob Gronkowski. Gronk was suspended for a late hit on Buffalo rookie cornerback Tre’Davious White last week but the Patriots won the game 23–3. The Patriots defense was the story in this game, holding the Bills to just 85 passing yards.

On the season, New England is averaging 413.2 yards per game (1st), 292.6 passing yards (1st) and 120.6 rushing yards (9th). They are allowing 375.7 yards per game (28th), 254.9 passing yards (29th) and 120.8 rushing yards (26th) with just 18.6 points per game allowed (9th).

Tom Brady has 11 touchdown passes and one interception in his last four games versus Miami.

On the other side of this matchup is the Miami Dolphins who have had a disappointing season, but finally got back onto the winning track in their last game. The offense got clicking, and the defense stepped up against a very bad Broncos offense and that led to a 35–9 victory. Prior to their win vs Denver, they had lost five games in a row, mostly because of the defensive struggles.

Miami has struggled under the bright lights this season, losing all three prime-time matchups and getting outscored 112–45.

Once again, the question is whether or not any team can beat New England? Sure, this is a division game and the Patriots will be without Gronk but it’s next man up for this team. I just don’t see how Miami can cover even this large of a spread at home? Brady didn’t have a good performance last week in Buffalo so I fully expect him to bounce back. I’ll lay the -11 points and back the Patriots en route to another AFC East division title.

Patriots vs Dolphins Pick: Patriots -11
Sun Bowl (post fact)
Tags: Sports, Sports Betting

Sun Bowl (post fact)

The second bowl on Friday is the Sun Bowl between North Carolina St and Arizona St.

The line on this game opened NCST -5 and it has entered the biggest key number and landed on NCST -7.

What to make of these two teams? NCST was supposed to be a really good team pre-season but, they of course disappointed as usual. ASU has fired their coach and hired…. Herm Edwards? Yet, the fired head coach is staying on to coach this game. Figure that out.

As far as comparing stats, there is not a whole lot to separate the teams. Starting with expected points scored and expected points allowed, you’ll see that NCST should be favored but, probably not by 7 points.

The margin on yards per play is not large. It looks like the line is about right, and much like expected points, there is probably a tiny bit of value on ASU.

Both spread projections look like there is a little ASU value, what about efficiency stats? Well, the teams are largely the same.

On third down these teams are essentially the same. In the red zone, they are polar opposites. On defense, while NCST stops teams more frequently Texas AM looks like they get to the qb a little bit more.

There is not a lot to choose from here. Most people in this case would take the 7 points with the dog. But, with ASU’s weird coaching situation how can you do that? Wait and see if NCST shows up to play and maybe grab them live if they get below a td. Or watch the hockey game.

No play,

Good luck