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Why Business Travelers Should Carry a Frequent Flyer Credit Card
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It’s a good idea for any traveler, business or not, to carry a credit card with them on their journeys. Sure, there might be a risk for it to be lost or stolen, but consider being stranded in a strange land, with little cash, and no credit card. Not a pleasant thought, is it? And is it not better to have a credit card stolen, and report it so, than lose a load of cash?Carrying a credit card for business travelers can prove even more important, since business travelers often find themselves on the road or in the air a large portion of their time. And often with such travel, using cash just isn’t a viable option. But why is it important to make this credit card a frequent flyer card rather than just a generic credit card?Rewards and Partner PointsSomeone who does plenty of traveling could find himself accumulating rewards at a brisk pace. By carrying a frequent flyer card that offers points for purchases throughout the travel industry, including rental cars, hotel accommodations, and air travel, a traveler could find his point total growing rapidly. Similarly, if that card could be paired with partnerships for multiple other purchases outside the travel industry, point totals could accumulate rapidly for the busy business traveler.Free PointsWith many business travelers, they will be expensing their trips and travel costs to the company for which they work. If this is the case, it could result in free points for the traveler. Charging expense account items upon a card for which the traveler receives the points might mean the company pays the bills while the traveler reaps the rewards. Promotions & Special OffersWith many frequent flyer cards, promotions come and go, so the average business traveler may not be able to keep up with what the current specials may be. Therefore, it can behoove a traveler to have his frequent flyer card on hand, even if he is not planning to use it, just in case a certain promotion or special offer makes it worthwhile.Rewards Status LevelAs a business traveler builds his frequent flyer rewards totals, he may find he is breaking certain thresholds that improve his cardholder status level. Utilizing his frequent flyer card to improve his status level could result in increased rewards, preferential treatment, certain privileges, and similar benefits.Backup CardEven if a business traveler doesn’t decide to use his frequent flyer card for some reason, it may still be a good idea to have it on hand. Errors occur, even with customers of good standing, and a traveler doesn’t want to find himself stranded with the only credit card he has on his person being declined. Having that frequent flyer card on hand as a backup card could come through for him in a sticky situation when he’s traveling.
Have Gun Will Travel – The Complete First Season
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Rating: NrThe first season of Have Gun–Will Travel makes it easy to see why this Western series was an overnight success. Making its debut on September 14, 1957, the half-hour show ranked no. 4 in the ratings for its entire first season, which ran almost completely uninterrupted (minus a one-week preemption) until June of 1958–a punishing schedule unheard of in present-day television. (It ranked even higher in subsequent seasons, holding
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Business Travel question by ptimus: do you know what standard to use for estimating travel expenses for typical 3-5 day business trip?
I’m trying to figure out how to budget for annual business travel expenses. How much do you allow for a typical 3-5 day trip? Including airfare, parking, hotel, meals, taxi, etc.
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Answer by Shami
hi, It totally depends on you, u r planing for international trip, or domestic travel,
and also differ as per diff countires,
now in this fast comunication days, and every thing is available on internet, u can even count and manage every single peny before leave home, Tickets, hoteling, taxis, car rental, and even u can check fooding price in the town where u r going,
again i will ask u which country or city u want to visit, and form where u will fly?
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A knight without armor in a savage land, March 13, 2005
By Steven Hellerstedt “SH” –
This review is from: Have Gun Will Travel – The Complete First Season (DVD)
Richard Boone stars as Paladin in this six-disk dvd set of the first season of HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL (1957-1958). CBS broadcast an incredible thirty-nine episodes that first season, each episode lasting 23 to 25 minutes. Most episodes begin with the spiffily dressed Paladin (we’re never given a last name) scouring the thick stacks newspapers brought to him by the ever helpful Hey Boy (Kam Tong), bellboy at Paladin’s residence, the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. Eventually Paladin reads of a missing child in Colorado, or a rash of robberies occurring in Montana. Paladin slips his business card – a chess knight with the legend Have Gun, Will Travel, Wire Paladin, San Francisco – into an envelope and mails it to the injured party. Slowly enough as we wend our way through the first year we learn something of Paladin. He has a passion for justice and a taste for the good things. His going rate is $1000, although he will take on a pro bono job if the cause is just. In town he dresses to the nines and in sundry other ways consumes conspicuously. When traveling with a gun he dresses in black. Somewhere along the line he picked up a military education, quotes Shakespeare and Pliny, savors a first-edition of Dryden. His taste in and knowledge of fine wines is commented upon in a couple of episodes…. I don’t know if any of this matters, but going through fifteen hours of HGWT over a week or so it’s kind of fun to have an aha moment or two. Paladin is an enigma, and Boone, a little more credible as the gunslinger than the city dandy, was an inspired choice to play him. Boone has a commanding presence and, believe me when I tell you buckaroos, was pretty darn quick on the draw. Twenty-three minutes is a pretty tight box to fit a action story in, which might explain why we don’t waste a whole lot of time on Paladin’s backstory. Of course, the storytelling is made a lot easier when you consider the talent involved. The talent rundown has to start with Boone, who was nominated Best Leading Actor as Paladin in 1959 and 1960. The great majority of the first season episodes were directed by action veteran Andrew McLaglen (son of actor Victor McLaglen), although a couple were helmed by Oscar winning director Lewis Milestone. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry wrote a few scripts for the first season as well. Sam Peckingpah even co-wrote one episode (The Singer). The talent in front of the camera was as formidable as that behind. Major established stars like Victor McLaglen and John Carradine appeared in episodes – weak ones, in my opinion, especially the McLaglen episode (directed by son Andrew) in which the old actor played a construction foreman threatening to cut a town off from its source of water. McLaglen simply wasn’t getting around very briskly and it’s a little painful to watch. Another major movie star fares much better. Charles Bronson wasn’t established yet, but he plays a robber who more or less forces Paladin into a gunfighting showdown in an episode that paints fatal violence as both regrettable and, sometimes, unavoidable. Strother Martin (Cool Hand Luke) appears in two episodes, once as an unscrupulous frontier lawyer and earlier in a more affecting role as a high wire walker who’d lost his nerve somewhere along the way. Warren Oates plays one of the bad offspring in a truncated take on King Lear. That’s just the beginning. Future television stars appear in almost every episode. Pernell Roberts and Dan Blocker (Bonanza) appear as scruffy tough guys in relatively small roles in separate episodes. Jack Lord (Hawaii 5-0) is a cowardly kidnapper. June Lockhart (Lassie, Lost In Space) appears twice as a frontier doctor. Angie Dickinson (Police Woman) plays a young woman whose brother was murdered and threatens to incite a lynch mob. Mike Connors (Mannix) plays a cattle rustling bad guy in one of the early episodes. Okay, I’m enthusing here. Still haven’t got to the best stuff. What gave me the biggest kick was watching the people I’d never heard of. Peter Whitney, who the intro blurb that precedes each episode tells us made a film career out of playing slow-witted big guys and menacing big guys, plays a mentally challenged ranch hand who’s goaded into placing a burr under boss’s Stuart Whitman’s saddle, with dire consequences, in “The Last Laugh.” The diminutive B-western star Bob Steele plays a crooked mine boss in “The High Graders” – the Wire Paladin blurb tells us Steele had developed a quick draw during his B-career, which McLaglen pays homage to in a draw down between his character and Paladin. My favorite discovery, though, has to be Marian Seldes, a tremendous actress who is featured in two episodes. First as a mail order bride who Paladin escorts to her new home in “The Bride” and later as a small town teacher who the local bullies try to intimidate in “The Teacher.” Very strongly recommended, especially…
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Classic western with Boone firmly in control, July 17, 2004
By Deborah MacGillivray “Author,” (US & UK) –
This review is from: Have Gun Will Travel – The Complete First Season (DVD)
Richard Boone was one of the most natural actors ever to grace the screen. Good guys, bad guys, he did them all with such a grace and ease that he made it seem so effortless. Paladin was a product of the post-Civil War. A West Point Graduate, he was an educated man, a man who appreciated literature, opera, culture. So it was not surprising he settled in San Franscisco after the war. Though a man of refinement, he made his living by hiring his gun out to those in need. He passed his little cards around – “Have Gun, Will Travel. Wire Paladin, San Fransisco” and waited for clients to find him. While a cultured man, he was just as comfortable in the deadly knight errant persona, the man in black. Boone excelled at making you believe both sides could exist within one man. While he was a hired gun, he often spent more time talking to people making them listen to reason.A loved all these Westerns. Have enjoyed the reruns on TVLand, Starz Westerns, and the Hallmark Channel. But so many of the old Westerns don’t hold up well. I was surprised how well Rawhide and Have Gun, Will Travel hold their quality. So these are a super addition to any video maven’s collection. Sadly, I don’t think Boone ever got the true recognition his talent deserved, but those of us who appreciated him can now watch his talent shine.
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Comparisons, November 20, 2004
By Tim R. Niles “Nomad” (Silicon Valley) –
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