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The Swiss Alps is one of the most beautiful and unspoiled parts of the world, and a haven for those who relish picturesque scenery in particular. However, among the traditional skiing resorts and popular holiday destinations also reside some of the worlds most remote places.
One such hamlet is a tiny place by the name of Obermutten. This almost completely anonymous Swiss town has not been known by many people throughout most of its history, and with good reason. Obermutten houses less than 80 residents, making it one of the smallest recognisable towns in Europe in population terms.
But the people of Obermutten decided a couple of years ago that they weren't going to let their lack of size and prominence detract from their attempts to attract tourists. They decided that in order to put their diminutive town on the map, some innovative marketing would be required. So the local people got their collective thinking caps on, and came up with a scheme which been hugely successful for Obermutten.
Obermutten is based in the Graubünden area of Switzerland, which is no stranger to tourism, but even some of the more hardened destinations in the region have been impressed with what Obermutten has achieved. The locals decided that a good way to market the town was via Facebook, and that this social media site provided an ideal opportunity to engage with travellers and tourists, and gain a new prominence and reputation.
What was particularly novel about the Facebook campaign launched by Obermutten was the personal nature of it. The small Swiss town announced that it would print out the picture of everyone who liked its Facebook page, and pin them on a noticeboard in the centre of the town. Those involved in the Facebook campaign also pledged to answer every single question which was posed by those visiting the Facebook page. They could surely only have imagined how involved this would become!
Early videos related to the campaign depict the Mayor of Obermutten pinning up the first ten likes of the Facebook page to the noticeboard in question. This began as what they believed would be a logistically simple task, but the personalised, innovative and community-focused approach that the Swiss town has taken has led to the Facebook page going viral beyond their wildest dreams.
Because the people involved in the Facebook campaign kept the initial promise by responding to all questions and hanging up the pictures of every single person that likes the page, Facebook users became increasingly engaged with the Obermutten campaign. The commitment of those involved to truly engage with the audience and create a real community feel was spectacularly rewarded.
Obermutten goes viral
Within no time it was necessary for the town to invest in a much larger bulletin board, and soon it was an equal necessity to print smaller pictures. Within a matter of months, even the walls of houses in Obermutten were plastered with Facebook pictures of fans. The Facebook page not only became a success, it in fact became the most liked page in Switzerland; an achievement that was scarcely believable for a town consisting of a few dozen people that virtually no one outside of Switzerland had ever heard of.
Not only did Obermutten attract a huge amount of tourists to the small, picturesque town as a result of their efforts, but the Facebook campaign was eventually widely picked up by international media. This elevated the profile of the Facebook page and the campaign itself. Overall, putting the magnitude of success that this campaign achieved into words is extremely difficult, but it would be reasonable to describe it as stratospheric.
To put this campaign into perspective and give some solid data on what was involved, Obermutten spent only 10,000 Swiss francs (€8,300, £7,000 or $11,000) on their innovative Facebook campaign. By comparison, their return on investment was pretty staggering. Obermutten earned around 2.4 million Swiss francs (€2 million, £1.6 million or $2.5 million) from a combination of increased tourism and media attention. Some basic mathematics would tell you that this was 240 times what they spent on the campaign!
Obermutten has now attracted over 60 million fans from 32 countries spread across every continent. It has attracted more Facebook fans than such notorious holiday destinations as Saint Moritz, Helsinki and Florence. For a period of time it had the most active Facebook page in Switzerland, and received interactions from such notable sources as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Coca-Cola.
This was obviously an extremely notable campaign given the vast success that was achieved by such a tiny town with a relatively small budget. It was also unique in that no specialist marketing experts were involved.
The Obermutten campaign succinctly illustrates some key aspects of digital marketing that the Digital Tourism Think Tank has reiterated several times previously. Personalising a campaign, making it interactive, and engaging directly with your audience to create a genuine communal vibe to a marketing campaign can reap rich rewards. The phenomenal success of Obermutten should make this abundantly clear.
The social media site Instagram has grown hugely in its short four year existence. It's not that long ago that few people had heard of the photo and video-sharing platform, but Instagram has rapidly become a household name, popular with both everyday users and commerce alike. It is this growing user base which has enabled Instagram to recently achieve a milestone for its community.
300 million user community
Instagram has recently announced that it has over 300 million monthly active users. This is obviously a very large figure in itself, roughly equal to the population of the United States, but it is further put into perspective by comparison with other social media sites. The much more established Twitter, which one would assume to be bigger than Instagram, only boasts 284 million monthly active users. Given that Twitter is eight years-old, this is a pretty massive achievement for a social media site only half its age.
Thus, there is evidence to suggest that when we talk about the big two social media sites from now on, instead of mentioning Facebook and Twitter, increasingly we could possibly instead referred to Facebook and Instagram. This is more good news for the former, given that it is the parent company of Instagram. Facebook has moved into profitability recently with an outstanding marketing and monetisation strategy, and now it can boast that Instagram is clearly the fastest growing of the social media sites.
Aside from its obvious popularity, and the exponential growth of its user base, Instagram also makes an ideal site for those involved in tourism, either at the commercial or destination level. The photo and video-based nature of the site makes it ideal for holiday-related companies to share absorbing media, and it is certainly a source of potential customers and revenue that should not be overlooked.
Skift Trends Report
With this in mind it is extremely valuable for tourism-related businesses to understand the latest trends on Instagram. Thus, the Skift Trends Report, which provides the latest intelligence on travel trends, has some interesting insights into the way that Instagram is developing as a social media site which tourism businesses would do well to pay heed to.
One of the most notable aspects of Instagram which has been documented by Skift is the fact that it has an extremely engaged community as well as a fast-growing one. According to the research organisation Forrester, 4.21 percent of brands' total followers on Instagram have engaged with their content in comparison to 0.03 percent and 0.07 percent of brands' total followers on Twitter and Facebook, respectively. It hardly need be said then that it is absolutely in the interest of any business to create a strong brand on Instagram.
While this is already an impressive figure that offers companies are huge opportunity, it is expected to grow further still in 2015. This is because Instagram has recently announced that it will eliminate spambots forever during the next calendar year, which will vastly decrease the total follower count on the photo-sharing site. Instagram has shown itself to be keen to create an entirely human network of users which is particularly tuned to brand awareness.
Instagram is now attracting vast figures with regard to daily uploads and downloads and this is something else that shrewd businesses can tap into. According to figures in the Skift report, 70 million photos are uploaded to Instagram every day, and this is only expected to increase as the popularity of Instagram escalates and diversifies in the coming years.
Instagram shifts to the mainstream
When Instagram started out it was very much viewed as a niche channel, and certainly didn't have a particularly corporate-focused flavour. If anything it was associated with fashion and young people sharing photographs of one another, but with its move to the mainstream and shifting emphasis toward being an ad-supporting platform, Instagram has in fact because the ideal site for travel-related marketing. The social sharing site combines the most intense audience for commercial content with a young and fashionable user base, and an image which has not yet become corporatised or dowdy in any way.
One of the useful features provided by Skift with regard to Instagram is its SkiftIQ service. This tracks the social media efforts of over 2,700 travel brands to ascertain which particular topics, companies, brands and destinations are currently trending on the photo-sharing site. Currently, Disney has made great usage of the Instagram platform, achieving thousands of followers per day, while the National Geographic Instagram site is currently the largest among travel-related pages. Additionally, Australia has done a great job of appealing to the Instagram community, and has already racked up over 60 million likes.
Engaging with customers in the contemporary era is increasingly a task best achieved by visual means, and in this respect Instagram provides the ideal communal platform for all travel companies and destinations to explore. As the reputation of the site continues to increase, it would make obvious commercial sense for tourism-related organisations to investigate the potential that it offers them.
Amazon has come an awful long way since Jeff Bezos launched the company out of his garage mainly as a seller of obscure academic books. The company celebrated its twentieth anniversary this year, and now boasts an operating income of over $74 billion per annum. Needless to say, Amazon has become the world's largest retailer, and is continually branching out into new niches and industries in an attempt to grow its revenue and satisfy investors.
Despite the massive success and diverse product range of Amazon, the company has hitherto shown little interest in participating in the tourism industry. But recent reports indicate that Amazon.com is poised to launch its own travel service, which will centre around the booking of independent hotels and resorts near some of the world's premier cities.
Amazon Travel to go live
Amazon Travel will go live sooner than many people might have expected, with reports indicating the first bookings will be available from 1st January next year. The service will apparently feature a carefully curated selection of hotels initially, which will be situated within a few hours' drive of the US cities of New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle.
According to interviews conducted with hoteliers that have signed up for the Amazon Travel scheme, the retailer is intending to utilise the merchant model that Expedia and Hotels.com have implemented with great success. This new site will apparently attract commission for Amazon of a standard 15 percent for prepaid bookings; thus Amazon is effectively undercutting Expedia, for example, which currently charges 25 percent commission.
According to interviews with hotels that are initially involved with the project, Amazon has used TripAdvisor ratings as part of the criteria for selecting properties to participate. At this point in time, Amazon is clearly being very selective about the hotels that it allows to participate in this fledgling site, as it will include only a few properties per destination for the time being, all of which must have achieved a star rating of four and above.
In addition to the basic hotel booking facility, Amazon will also be providing editorial content regarding tourist attractions, and activities which tourists can participate in within the supported destinations. It has been emphasised that Amazon will be initially focusing merely on hotels, and not flights or other travel-related products. However, given that its obvious rivals in this field all offer flights and other tourist-related offers, it seems inevitable that if this initial Amazon Travel site is a success that the company will expand into other arenas as its tourism venture develops.
Despite the fact that this is launching in a matter of weeks, Amazon has remained pretty quiet on the matter thus far. When contacted to comment on the creation of Amazon Travel, the corporation has declined to comment. This is very much in line with the low-key launch of Amazon Travel, and it is evident that this is a venture which the retail giant is handling carefully and cautiously.
However, Amazon has been recruiting pretty aggressively with the intention of filling positions related to travel on a permanent basis. Amazon has posted employment ads for travel market managers for Amazon Local in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Dallas, and it will be interesting to see in what direction this business develops in the future.
Amazon to target independents
Evidently, Amazon is attempting to create a marketplace for retailers in the hotel industry who might otherwise find it difficult to attract customers. A high-profile listing in a massive retailer such as Amazon.com could offer a significant marketplace for independent and boutique hotels, who typically have a struggle to compete with the established chains that now dominate the hotel industry.
While Amazon has not explicitly run a travel business before, it is nonetheless worth pointing out that it has dabbled with collaborations in the industry. Amazon established partnerships with Expedia in 2001 and SideStep in 2006, and these experiences have perhaps emboldened the hierarchy of the company to investigate opportunities in the travel niche.
Future European focus?
It is thought that Amazon's attempt to target the independent niche could pay particular dividends in Europe, even though the service is launching in the United States. The US hotel market is almost completely dominated by powerful chains, but independent hotels enjoy greater commercial success in the European continent, and this could eventually lead to a widespread launch of the service in Europe.
Competing with dedicated tourism and hotel booking services will not be easy for Amazon. A major company such as hotels.com has achieved its success by focusing on that one singular market. But the ability of Amazon to excel in numerous industries - for example, Amazon Web Service remains by far the dominant player in cloud computing - suggests that its attempts to establish a position in hotel booking shouldn't be underestimated.
One of the most intriguing technological developments of recent years has been the Internet of Things. This concept is very much based in the present, but also one that will become increasingly significant in the future. Yet although many people have heard the hype related to this coming phenomenon, most people are as of yet unfamiliar with what the Internet of Things actually entails.
Defining the Internet of Things
Even supposed layman's definitions of the Internet of Things can be somewhat confusing for the uninitiated. Wikipedia defines the technology as "the interconnection of uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices within the existing Internet infrastructure." To elaborate on this rather impenetrable definition, the Internet of Things will most obviously impact the general public via its ability to connect everyday items to the Internet, effectively making them smart devices.
This technology has hitherto been most associated with domestic homes, with the possibility of connecting appliances such as washing machines and fridge freezers to the Internet. While the benefits of this may not be immediately obvious, the theory behind Internet of Things is that people will be able to remain connected to their appliances whether or not they are at home. This is already being implemented with regard to such technology as electricity systems which enable consumers to alter thermostats while outside of their homes.
But it is not merely in the home where the Internet of Things can have a serious impact. Already airports are looking at the possibilities offered by this technology as part of the constant battle to improve the departure and arrival experience for customers. While both airports and airlines have attempted to differentiate themselves from one another in terms of price and value for money, promoting innovation and enhanced customer experience can be another way of attracting consumers.
London City Airport Piloting Internet of Things
And one airport is already dipping its toes into the water of opportunities offered by the Internet of Things. London City Airport faces a huge amount of competition from iconic competitors such as Heathrow and Gatwick, but it does benefit from a unique location adjacent to the financial centre of the city of London. As a consequence of this, London City Airport targets corporate travellers primarily, with this group representing 63 percent of the passengers that go through the airport on a daily basis.
Eighteen months ago, London City Airport became the first in the UK to test drive the Internet of Things, utilising the technology to pilot cross-technology networking around the airport. What it actually enabled was security lines to have the ability to communicate with each other, and then ping the mobile devices of travellers with up-to-date waiting times.
This potentially offers several benefits. For example, drivers will know the moment that customers are making their way through terminals, and food and beverage outlets can take pre-orders for customers and automatically begin preparing food as soon as customers go through security. Auto-bookings can also be easily enabled for travellers who are unable to make flights, as determined through their GPS-enabled devices.
There are many other potential applications and benefits of this technology for businesses related to airports and tourism, and it seems possible that this hi-tech project can be a precursor to widespread adoption by airports across the UK and indeed the world.
The development of the customer experience and the face of airports in the future were examined and discussed in-depth at the recent FTE Global 2014 event in Las Vegas. A raft of industry experts offered their thoughts at the event on what the airport sector should be preparing for over the next 15 to 20 years.
The 'Generation Y Traveller'
In particular, the event looked at the importance of the so-called 'Generation Y Traveller'. This was defined as a traveller of the future; an individual with less patience and greater requirements from airports than travellers of the past. These are people who are very technologically savvy, and also to some degree reliant on tech (and some might suggest even addicted to some degree). It is also suggested that this group expects superb customer service, has little tolerance for delays, and adapts quickly to new innovations that become available.
While one should be wary of generalisations, the picture of the future traveller was pieced together by looking at existing trends. And Dubai airport, which participated in the forum, is already developing the sort of flexible infrastructure required to handle the demands of the future. Mike Hardaker, Head of Business Improvement at Dubai Airport, explains that it is currently examining all of its procedures, in an attempt to improve the customer experience which the Dubai airport believes has stood still for around 30 years.
The Internet of Things can play a significant part in the re-shaping of customer experience related to airports, and both airports themselves and travel-related businesses likely to operate out of airports can benefit from paying heed to this technology as it develops.
With the tourism industry becoming ever more competitive, the onus is on destinations to market themselves more effectively to potential travellers. With this in mind, the French tourism development agency, Atout France, has recently run a Facebook campaign aimed at engaging potential visitors to France with the nation.
Testing the Francophile
The basis of this particular campaign is to test what kind of 'Francophile' a visitor to the Facebook page is. To explain this expression briefly, a Francophile is simply someone who has a certain passion for, or predilection toward, the culture of France.
In order to establish the category of Francophile that visitors may fit into, visitors to the Atout France Facebook page are encouraged to answer seven different questions on a variety of France-related topics. The questions touch upon such subjects as users' perception of French people as a nation, the ability of users to speak French, various cultural aspects of France as a country, and opinions on French geography, landscape and motivations for visiting the nation.
The personality test is intended more as an entertaining exercise than an intense examination of people's reasons for visiting France. But it is a way of encouraging people to engage with France as a destination in a fun way. It is also worth noting that at the end of the campaign there is a message encouraging people to share test results on Facebook, and to encourage friends or peers to participate in the test themselves. This has the intention of ensuring that the test goes viral, and additionally helps create a communal aspect to the personality exercise.
Utilising Facebook
The decision of Atout France to work with Facebook applications is an interesting one, as this has not been witnessed in the tourist industry too much of late. One of the last notable Facebook campaigns was the "Send your Facebook profile to Cape Town" app, which achieved massive success for South Africa as a destination.
What should be borne in mind and taken out of the Francophile campaign being run by Atout France is that intense engagement with an app is not necessarily important. Actually, the more complex and convoluted an app is, the less chance there is that the general public will really engage with it. Limited engagement and interactivity is in fact preferable, and it is also advisable to have a call to action at the end of a campaign. Attempting to direct people to either a website, campaign site, or social media platform in order to enable DMOs to continue engaging and interacting with potential visitors to a nation is also to be recommended.
Creating demographics
This may not have been the goal in the case of the Atout France campaign, but it does seem something of a missed opportunity for them not to attempt this. It would surely have been invaluable for this Facebook campaign to direct participants to other websites or social media campaigns. From this point, Atout France would have been able to gather further information from people who have taken the personality test, and perhaps ascertain to what extent the data can be utilised in future campaigns and marketing activities.
All data related to marketing can come in useful, but creating nuanced and intersected data which categorises people based on demographics can be extremely valuable. While it is worthwhile to make marketing campaigns as simple and as fun as possible in order to ensure that a large number of people participate, it is also worth bearing in mind that the data gleaned from such campaigns will be limited by its simplistic nature. Atout France has gained an impression of what attracts people to France from its campaign, but this information could become even more valuable if the organisation was able to acquire follow-up data to strengthen its impression of the people participating in the campaign.
Nonetheless, these light-hearted and community-based feel of the campaign is the sort of vibe and approach that destinations should generally seek to imitate in their marketing.
The significance of tourism as an economic factor is sometimes underestimated. It is in fact one of the most dynamic industries in the world, and responsible for nearly 10 percent of the world's GDP. Other figures related to tourism are even more significant, with the industry responsible for 30 percent of service exports and one in every 11 jobs worldwide.
Travel abroad expanding rapidly
This is only set to become more prominent in the future as the ability to travel abroad becomes more socio-economically feasible for millions more people every year. Just over half a century ago, in 1950, only 25 million people travelled the globe, and the overwhelming majority of these were drawn from the European and North American continents. Last year, the annual number of international tourist topped 1 billion; a forty fold increase in just 60 years. And these travellers are being drawn from an ever diverse range of emerging economies.
In conjunction with this growth of tourism, the unchecked rise of digital and mobile marketing methods has resulted in t the way consumers book and research travel evolving rapidly. The proliferation of online tourism-related content has ensured that companies in a wide variety of tourism niches have had to alter the way that they market and sell in order to attract customers.
A recent report produced by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) entitled "Online Guest Reviews and Hotel Classification Systems: An Integrated Approach" takes a particularly close look at the hotel industry, and provides a wealth of useful information for organisations in this line of trade. The report was prepared with the collaboration of the Norwegian Accreditation; an agency of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries of Norway.
Traditional versus new wave
Those in the hotel industry will be aware that there are two primary ways that hotels can be assessed; hotel classification systems and guest reviews. The former of these is perhaps the more traditional way of grading a hotel's worth, with almost everyone on the planet familiar with the star system. But the latter has become increasingly important in recent years, especially as vast numbers of people are now using the Internet as their primary way of researching, planning and ultimately booking trips and hotels.
The UNWTO report assesses both of these key areas of information and attempts to draw conclusions based on the latest trends in the industry. This is really a critical report for anyone in the hotel industry to peruse in depth, but it is possible to sum up some of the most important assertions and trends recognised in the UNWTO report in this article.
Firstly, it is important that before making an online hotel reservation, the average consumer will visit 14 travel-related sites, roughly using each site about three times. They'll also carry out nine travel-related searches via Google and other search engines. This indicates that research is an important part of the online hotel booking experience.
However, as much as consumers carry out their own research before booking a hotel, reference to traditional ranking systems remains prevalent. Official hotel classifications are frequently used by consumers as a filter mechanism during their booking process, with the guest reviews then utilised in order to make a definitive selection. Thus, aiming for good reviews from customers is incredibly important, but hotels should not underestimate the importance of where they fit into the star rating system.
Star rating demographics
The report also indicates that the potential quality of guest reviews upon hotel classification increases with decreasing star levels. While three and four star hotels are more likely to attract excellent reviews and deliver what is perceived to be outstanding value for customer service, five-star hotels tend to find it more difficult to exceed, or even match, the expectations of consumers.
In order to measure the impact of customer reviews, the UNWTO reports carried out a complex research matrix which assessed the impact of reviews on revenue. Those who compiled the report acquired online reputation data from ReviewPro and hotel performance data from SmithTravel Research in order to draw the most accurate conclusions possible.
They found that a 1 percent improvement in review scores tends to translate directly into a 1 percent gain in revenue per available room. This information is displayed in a table contained within the report, and also broken down into various demographics. Again it should be noted that the more luxurious hotel is in terms of classification, the smaller this effect will be. The UNWTO report found that there was nearly a 1.5 percent gain for mid-scale hotels, while luxury hotels experienced a mere 0.49 percent increase.
Overall, the research collated in this extremely informative report indicates that both the traditional elements of hotel assessment as well as contemporary reviewing systems are important to consumers. But both customers and the hotel industry itself are interested in seeing a closer fit and collaboration between the two elements in the future, as well as the establishment of a common framework for guest reviews.
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The Optimus F7 is the better-spec'd of the two mass market LTE-enabled phones by LG. It packs a 4.7" True HD IPS screen of 720p resolution and 312ppi.
The Optimus F7 has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor with 2GB of RAM – not as powerful as the Optimus G's, but it borrows the QSlide multitasking and Live Zooming (pinch zooming for playing videos) of the LG flagship.
The back of the F7 has a nice looking pattern. It's somewhat similar to that of the Nexus 4, but the effect isn't as good.
The LG F-series is all about connectivity and, more specifically, LTE. The Optimus F5 is at the low end of the range, while the F7 is the premium offering.
The F5 is built around a 4.3" IPS display of qHD resolution, and it's actually quite a pleasant one at that. It treats you to accurate colors looking at the screen head-on, but quickly loses ground as you tilt. The display is also quite reflective, which could be a problem when using it outdoors.
Powering the phone is a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. They help it run Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean skinned with LG's Optimus UI. Everything was moving at a good pace and we didn't experience any lag with the UI or delay in opening apps.
We should also mention the cool features that come with the latest iteration of the Optimus UI skin. One of them is Live zooming, first seen on the Optimus G. Multitasking is enhanced thanks to the upgraded QSlide features allowing you to open two apps at the same time. You can change the size, position and the transparency of the apps you've opened. Those include video, browser, memo, calendar and the calculator.
With such a heavy belt of features, the 2,150mAh battery sounds decent for a midrange smartphone of this size. The good news is that LG has managed to keep the F5's waistline at the reasonable 9.3mm. In fact, the F5 is really pocket-friendly at 126 x 64.5 x 9.3 mm.
It's an all-plastic device, with a chrome-like side frame. Both the white and black versions are prone to fingerprints, but they are a lot less prominent on the white one.
User available storage is just short of 8GB, but is expandable via a microSD card slot (up to 32GB). At the back, there's a 5MP autofocus camera, compete with an LED flash. It can also record 720p videos at 30fps. A 1.3MP camera at the front takes care of video chatting.
Overall, the F5 offers quite a lot: LTE, a dual-core CPU, Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean (we all know how LG updates their phones), and an OK display. It should do well on markets where LTE has proper penetration.
LG has refreshed their L-series of smartphones for 2013 renaming the whole line-up to L II and the L7 is the best-equipped of the trio. Since the L-range is more value-oriented and generally cheaper than the F-series, the L7 is close to the level of equipment of the F5.
As such, the Optimus L7 packs a 4.3-inch display producing 480 x 800 pixels of resolution. This rounds up to the reasonable 217 pixels per inch. Colors are alright, as well as the brightness.
The L7 is running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, with the Optimus UI skin. Powering the device is a Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon chip with dual Cortex-A5 CPUs running at 1GHz. It doesn't sound particularly exciting, but manages to keep the system going at a good pace.
As for the actual design of the device, you can tell it apart from the F5 and F7, as it lacks a home button, replacing it with the classic four-button Android arrangement of capacitive controls. Like the rest of the range, it's all plastic, too and measures 121.5 x 66.6 x 9.7mm.
There's also a dual-SIM version of the phone (as a matter of fact, each L II-series member has one) and it's simply dubbed L7 II Dual. We were told that it supports dual SIM standby.
LG has also included a separate capacitive key on the main row of buttons below the screen to manage SIMs. Here are some hands-on photos of the phone.
All in all, the L7 II is very nice to hold and touch, despite its glossy plastic finish. Its fingerprint-prone but not too bad.


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Undrafted in 2017, Sean Durzi came back with a huge season and has gotten himself back in the discussion for the 2018 NHL Draft. After putting up two goals and 38 points in 60 games for the Owen Sound Attack in his draft year, he exploded this season. Durzi scored 15 goals and 34 assists for 49 points in 40 games this year. He also added four goals and 16 points in 11 playoff games. The Attack defeated the London Knights in the first round of the OHL playoffs and gave the top-ranked Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds all they could handle in the second round; taking them seven games. Durzi was named to the OHL Second All-Star Team.
Durzi had ankle surgery prior to the 2016-17 season. The corrective procedure was necessary when it was discovered that he had an extra bone in his ankle. While it may have led to a tough season last year, it is not expected to have long-term effects. Durzi also missed time with an ankle sprain in January 2018, but this is apparently the opposite leg.
Durzi is a very good but not great skater. He has good top end speed and acceleration in both directions. However, his backwards skating is particularly better than his forwards skating in a few key areas. When he is moving forwards, his edge work and agility can be a bit jerky and clunky. However, they are very smooth when going backwards. This means he is better at keeping his man in front of him when defending the rush, than getting around defenders when he leads it. His pivots in both directions are good though, allowing Durzi to transition quickly from offence to defence and vice versa. Durzi could stand to improve his lower-body strength and balance, as he can be overpowered along the boards and in front of the net.
Durzi has really improved his shot. While he is a defenceman who puts up a lot of goals, he does not do it with his slap shot. Instead, he loves to sneak in from point and let go a wirst shot or snapshot from the top of the circles. He has really improved his accuracy on those shots, as well as the release this season. Durzi is very good at pulling the puck in, and moving laterally to open up a shooting lane to get the puck on net.
Durzi is also a playmaker from the point. He has good vision, and the ability to get the puck through tight areas. On the rush, he is willing to join as the trailer, and wait for a pass from a teammate. He also makes a good first pass out of the zone. However, Durzi could stand to work on his stickhandling and puck protection. He is not as effective if asked to skate the puck out of his own end, or to lead the rush moving up the ice.
Durzi's defensive game is a work in progress. He has good positioning and cuts down passing lanes as well. He is also tough to beat in one-on-one situations, with his strong backwards skating allowing him to maintain good gap control. However, Durzi really needs to add size and strength to his game. He can be overpowered in board battles and has a difficult time clearing the front of the net.
Durzi's second time through the draft status may be seen as an advantage by some teams. He will be eligible for the AHL next year, allowing a team to get him directly into their development system if they can sign him to a contract. Durzi can work on his hands, as well as improve his forward skating, but has the potential to be a strong offensive defenceman. His game is similar to Toby Enstrom but this is a stylistic comparison and not one based on skill or ability.
The following is a compilation of some of the highlight packages of Durzi that are available on youtube.


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Monster Beverage, one of the top energy drink companies in the United States, reported its fourth quarter 2017 net sales as more than $810 million. That's just one company, and that's just for one quarter.
The value of the US energy drinks market is worth more than ten billion dollars. This is in spite of the fact that many health advocates are saying energy drinks have various potentially adverse effects on one's health. Here are 5 possible ways energy drinks can harm your health.
Energy drinks and shots usually contain caffeine and other ingredients that may or may not boost energy levels. These drinks are associated with increased heart rates as well as higher blood pressures, which is attributed to their high caffeine content. Energy drinks are also known to cause ventricular arrhythmia or heart rhythms that are abnormally rapid.
In severe cases, consumption of energy drinks can lead to atrial fibrillation. When this happens, the atria and the ventricles are beating irregularly and are no longer in sync. A person suffering from atrial fibrillation may complain of heart palpitations as well as shortness of breath. Atrial fibrillation, if not treated right away, can lead to stroke and other heart diseases.
There have also been reports that men as young as seventeen or nineteen years old had episodes of myocardial infarction after consuming energy drinks. Studies have shown that regular consumption of energy shots or energy drinks can lead to impaired endothelial functions.
Other adverse effects on the cardiovascular system associated with high consumption of energy drinks include aneurysm formation and arterial dilation which can cause sudden drops in blood pressure.
To date, there have been several energy drink-related deaths reported. Because of this, many health advocates are calling for the banning of energy drinks, or at least to prohibit their sale to young people below age 16.
In a recent study conducted in Canada involving more than 2,000 young people aged 12 to 24, various side effects of energy drink consumption were reported. Experiencing fast heartbeat was the number one complaint at 24.7%, followed by difficulty sleeping at 24.1%.
Other reported adverse effects include headaches, chest pains, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. A small percentage also reported having seizures.
In another study involving young adults, the researchers investigated the effects of drinking acute consumption of energy drinks on the subjects' blood pressure and heart rate as well as their blood glucose levels. Higher diastolic blood pressure and blood glucose levels were reported after drinking three energy drinks at one-hour intervals.
A high intake of energy drinks can lead to dental erosion. This is because energy drinks normally have high sugar content and low pH which are contributing factors to dental erosion. In fact, studies have shown that energy drinks cause more damage to oral health than sports drinks do.
Because energy drinks are generally acidic, it erodes the glossy outer layer of teeth called the tooth enamel. When this is eroded, it can make the teeth hypersensitive and prone to cavities. What's more unfortunate is that erosion of the tooth enamel is an irreversible damage.
In many energy shots or drinks, caffeine is not the only source of energy. These drinks often contain high concentrations of sugar. Hence, acute caffeine intake can lead to higher risks of obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes.
With regard to its effect on insulin sensitivity, caffeine intake is correlated with insulin resistance in a dose-dependent manner. This means that the likelihood of increased insulin resistance goes higher the more caffeine you consume. Preliminary evidence also shows that overconsumption of energy drinks may have adverse effects on the liver.
Caffeine is considered a diuretic, which means it promotes the formation of urine. Diuretics work by making a person lose water through urination. Thus, diuretics like energy drinks should be avoided when there is a potential for dehydration such as when you are engaged in prolonged exercise where temperatures are high.
In one study involving US Air Force personnel, the results showed that regular energy drink consumption was highly associated with both trouble falling asleep and dehydration. More than 20% of the survey respondents complained of dehydration as a side effect of energy drink consumption.
Aside from promoting diuresis, caffeine also increases sodium loss. Because sodium is important in proper cardiovascular functioning, sodium loss may affect cardiovascular performance during athletic events or while engaging in physical activities.
Drinking too much caffeine can lead to an intoxicated state. In fact, caffeine intoxication is actually listed in the latest edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM5). The symptoms listed in the manual include insomnia, restlessness, diuresis, nervousness, muscle twitching, and psychomotor agitation, along with other symptoms.
If a person is experiencing significant distress and is showing 5 or more of the listed symptoms after consuming 250 mg or more of caffeine, then it could be diagnosed as caffeine intoxication.
Caffeine intoxication, however, is not the only caffeine-related disorders listed in the DSM5. Caffeine-induced anxiety and sleep disorder are also included. Aside from these, consumption of caffeine at more than 300 mg can also induce hallucinations.
Out of all the possible adverse effects of overconsumption of energy drinks, the most dangerous is when energy drinks or energy shots are mixed with alcohol. This can lead to death. In fact, there have been several deaths attributed to the lethal combination of alcohol plus energy drink.
Many people believe that they can reduce their drunkenness or sober themselves up if they drink coffee or energy drinks after having drunk large quantities of alcohol. The truth is caffeine does not help metabolize alcohol nor does it lessen the impairment effects of alcohol but it does mask alcohol's depressant effects.
The result is that it makes people think they're not yet drunk, so they will continue to drink alcohol. This then increases the risks of alcohol-attributable dangers like drunk driving and impaired judgment.


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Augusta, GA – Robert "Bob" James Miller, 63, husband of Brenda Fletcher Miller, entered into rest Thursday, February 5, 2015. Mr. Miller was born in Ft. Bragg, NC to the late CSM Donald Miller and Judith Shearer Lord.
He was lovingly known as "Papa Bob" and "Bob the Bug Man". Mr. Miller owned and operated Summerville Pest Control with his wife for over 30 years and considered his customers his extended family. He was a member of Fleming Baptist Church.
Other survivors include his daughters, Stacey Miller-Loftin and her husband Bradley of Evans and Stephanie Rogers and her husband Rich of Augusta; two brothers, Carl Miller of Prescott Valley, AZ and Tommy Miller of Hephzibah; grandchildren, Lillianna and Trent.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 at 2:00 P.M., in the chapel of Chance & Hydrick Funeral Directors with Reverend Billy Atkins officiating. Interment will be in Westover Memorial Park.
Pallbearers will be Bradley Loftin, Rich Rogers, Kenny Padgett, Richard Loftin, Rick Rogers and Johnny Pressley.
Honorary Pallbearers will be Mark Hudlow, Judge Carlisle Overstreet, George McGahee, Ron Neal and Mr. Miller's nephews.
If so desired memorial donations may be made to Fleming Baptist Church 3027 Peach Orchard Road Augusta, GA 30906. To continue his legacy, the family has asked you to share God's love by doing an act of kindness for someone. "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels." 2 Thessalonians 1:7.
The family will receive friends Sunday afternoon from 3:00 until 5:00 P.M., at the funeral home.

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I fought off a burglar in my own home - but he inspired my new novel
'Next to food and shelter, work and dignity, we need stories' - the Quick Reads initiative aims to reduce the reading deficit trap Credit: Heathcliff O'Malley/Daily Telegraph
Amanda Craig
2 February 2017 • 11:00am
One Sunday morning, I came back from a walk with my husband and son to find a man in our home, stealing my computer.
You never know how you'll react to finding a burglar in your home, but mine was to fight him. I had a new novel (only partly saved) and a child to protect, and instant rage made me fearless. Although the thief was fit, young and well over six feet and I am none of these things, I was somehow able to fight him all the way from my study into the hall, where I pinned him against the banisters, shouting for my husband to help and my son to call the police.
Stories have the power, which Dickens above all used, to make the haves see the have-nots as people. My burglar was not a beast, but a person Amanda Craig
Although the burglar escaped through the window he'd removed to gain entry, the police were able to trace him through the DNA on the T-shirt we tore off him. A month later, I identified his photograph at a police station, and he went to prison.
Anyone would be shaken up after such an encounter, and I went on thinking about the thief – and his accomplice – for a long time. Like many authors, I have been invited into prisons and learnt how many inmates struggle with reading and writing. For me, the revelation was that my recovered laptop's search history showed that the thief was functionally illiterate.
Novelist Amada Craig Credit: Charlie Hopkinson/Little Brown
"If I had my way, I'd put burglars in a pit with a hungry lion," said the police detective who handled the case, and my own feelings were not too different when I considered what might have happened to someone less lucky or robust. Yet the more I thought about what it must be like to grow up, trapped in semi-literacy, the more I wanted to write about that world.
For five long minutes, I'd been hand to hand and skin to skin with the thief, and he'd reminded me of a wild beast. What would it be like to be him? Worse, what would it be like to be someone who wanted to learn but was, like Stephen Lawrence, a target for gang violence because of this?
To read is to develop empathy, because you can't be inside characters' hearts and minds without dilating your own Amanda Craig
When Cathy Renzenbrink asked me to write a Quick Read novella for World Book Night what particularly interested me was that she mentioned how Quick Reads tend to be read not only by people of all ages who have lost confidence in reading, but by young offenders in prison. I knew that "my" burglar must be long out of prison (and I hoped a reformed character), and yet I still wanted to write a story not only about the world he was from.
I knew something about gangs and sink estates; my former sister-in-law Harriet Sergeant had written a brilliant account, Among the Hoods, about the attitudes and experiences of the lost boys she befriended. All my novels have recurring characters who grow and age, and I had already created a deprived child called Billy in my third novel, A Vicious Circle, who would now be a teenager. I wondered if Billy might be my new hero.
One thing in particular haunted me: on the way back from the police station where I'd made my identification, the detective and I had discussed the lack of empathy in criminals.
"I've know people who have died from the shock of burglary," he said. "Thieves just can't imagine what it's like to have your home violated."
Amanda Craig's Quick Reads novella, The Other Side of You Credit: The Reading Agency
I knew then that this was the way into my story about how a young man, on the run from the gang on his estate after witnessing a murder. The grown-up Billy, or Will, is on the way to becoming a monster as well as a thief; what saves him is – well, you will have to read The Other Side of You to see.
To read is to develop empathy, because you can't be inside characters' hearts and minds without dilating your own. There is a terrible irony in the fact that despite English literature, from Shakespeare to JK Rowling being the most famous in the world, and English the most dominant language, one in six adults are functionally illiterate. Too many grow up in bookless homes. Our country frequently appears at the bottom of international rankings for literacy.
If you love reading, it's heart-breaking to know that millions of people are shut out not only from jobs but also from pleasure, information and emotional enlightenment Amanda Craig
This is the most colossal waste – and if you love reading, it's heart-breaking to know that millions of people are shut out not only from jobs but also from pleasure, information and emotional enlightenment. To read is not necessarily to become a better person, but we all need stories, better to enjoy life or to endure it.
Quick Reads, now run by The Reading Agency, aims to address the reading deficit trap by publishing short books of 20,000 words, and together with its partners, push against a deprivation which is estimated to cost the UK £81 billion a year in lost earnings and increased welfare spending. The initiative has published over 100 titles, sold or distributed more than 4.8 million copies and enabled over 4.6 million library loans (PLR) since it was founded in 2006. Each book costs just £1.
The roll-call of authors who have contributed to the annual challenge is as varied as it is excellent, and includes Roddy Doyle, Malala and Lynda La Plante. The payment is minimal, but the fun enormous. Though we are asked to use simpler language and shorter sentences than might be usual, the voices must be our own, and the stories gripping enough to keep the most reluctant reader going.
This year's Quick Reads have been written by best-sellers including Rowan Coleman and Jenny Colgan Credit: The Reading Agency
This year, my own contribution is joined by best-sellers like Rowan Coleman, Dreda Say Michell, Jenny Colgan, Susan Jeffers and a crime collection, Dead Simple, by Peter James, Mark Billingham Jane Casey and Clare Macintosh. The stories that have come out of readers' experiences are touching: new readers have told how the books they encounter have helped them through bereavement or crippling lack of self-confidence.
Books are such humble, flimsy things and yet stories have the power, a power which Dickens above all used, to make the haves see the have-nots as people. My Will is not a beast, but a person. My burglar was also a person.
We live in a world whose luxuries were unimaginable a hundred years ago, but whose suffering and cruelty remains acute. Next to food and shelter, work and dignity, we need stories. Quick Reads are the cheapest stories to give or buy, but anyone who finds their way to reading for pleasure gets a key with which to unlock the world
Amanda Craig's novella, The Other Side of You (Little Brown) is published alongside five other Quick Reads titles, all of which retail at £1.
Her new novel, The Lie of the Land, is out on June 15.
Quick Reads is an annual initiative run by The Reading Agency whose mission is to inspire more people to read more.
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The Greatest Food Mysteries of 2017, Solved
We now know why so many people get into fights at Taco Bell and what to call chocolate chip cookies with no chocolate chips.
Modified photo via Flickr user sparklykate
We discovered a lot about ourselves and each other in 2017—most importantly the revelation that Tom DeLonge was right all along about the feds' secret UFO program, but, you know, some other stuff, too. He dug into the delicate nature of cookie-naming, the ethical soundness of street drugs, and the timeliness of one of the 90s' most memorable movie scenes—involving pizza, naturally. Oh, speaking of pizza, we angered some Italians by postulating that New York's pizza is a very worthy competitor. Answers, answers, we've got answers, kids. Read on to put an end to some of food's biggest unsolved mysteries of 2017.
What the hell do you call a chocolate chip cookie that has no chocolate chips?
Ever pondered this one, smart guy? Sometimes you want chocolate chip cookies, but for whatever reason, you just want that buttery, brown-sugary base without all of that damn cocoa clouding up your flavor profile. They're not a sugar cookie. They're not a chocolate-chip-free chocolate chip cookie—even the acronym of CCFCCC is too long. But writer Eve Peyser, who is fond of such cookies, settles on a name that feels fitting enough.
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What Has The Plastic Waste Crisis Taught Us About Recycling Innovation?
By Philippe von Stauffenberg
Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash
It's estimated that eight billion tons of plastic have been produced since the 1950s. Of that total figure, only 10%, at best, has ever been recycled.
Plastic recycling has taken place for decades and there's no denying that mechanical recycling works well for rigid plastics such as PET and mono materials. Currently however, most plastic waste still ends up being dumped, burned or sent to landfill.
The reasons for this are manifold. Some plastic substrates are manufactured from multiple polymers — laminated or coextruded. This makes them difficult to recycle as the various materials cannot be easily separated and sent to the relevant waste channels.
Other forms of plastic are too expensive to collect and sort so it is not economic to recycle them. This applies to most plastic films. Plus, in the main, plastic contaminated with food cannot be recycled either.
As a result, plastic waste has become a runaway global problem and it's only set to get worse. According to the United Nations Environment Program, the world produces three hundred million tons of plastic waste each year. In contrast, the world's plastic recycling capacity is estimated to be forty-six million tons a year according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Meanwhile, plastic production is projected to double by 2040. By the same year, the amount of plastic waste finding its way into the oceans is expected to triple to twenty-nine million tons.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink
Across the world, think tanks and thought leaders, including scientists, academics and environmentalists, are united in agreement. The current approach to dealing with plastic waste simply isn't working. The statistics show that it's a drastic problem and to address it requires radical thinking — and an equally radical solution.
Any such solution must adopt a systems approach. Upstream, more needs to be done to reduce the production of virgin plastics and to ensure consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) are supplied in packaging that is reusable or refillable.
Many individual nations and regional trade blocs have implemented legislation to encourage these changes in corporate behavior, but these fragmented efforts equate to local answers to a global issue. There is currently no worldwide regulator or treaty for the plastics industry and perhaps this needs to change.
Downstream, there is a clear and present need to increase our recycling capabilities. Investment is key - but so too is innovation. Simply expanding our existing mechanical recycling infrastructure through large scale plants may alleviate the problem but it certainly won't solve it. This is in part due to the cost and difficulties in recycling most plastic waste as previously mentioned.
New technology and new methodologies must be developed to provide a much-needed boost to our current recycling activity.
New Innovations, New Possibilities
Working closely with UK-based chemical recycling company, Enval, Greenback Recycling Technologies is helping to pioneer a unique microwave-induced pyrolysis solution for dealing with low-density, plastic waste. This waste includes plastic aluminum laminates where aluminum foil is combined with plastic substrates.
Thanks to its lightweight, flexible nature as well its ability to provide an effective barrier against light, moisture and gases such as oxygen, laminated flexible plastic packaging has been widely adopted by the world's major brands for application across CPGs ranging from food to cosmetics.
Flexible laminated plastic packaging enables manufacturers to reduce overall pack weight, transport costs and attributable vehicle emissions, not to mention the weight of packaging waste for disposal post-use. As a result, its use is increasing with more than 160,000 tons of this form of packaging entering the UK marketplace each year.
The process being championed by Greenback and Enval enables plastic aluminum laminates to be kept out of landfill and recycled in a way that is clean, efficient and economical. It transforms the material into oil feedstock (Py-Oil) which can be used to produce new plastic, effectively closing the loop on this waste. The aluminum is also recovered with a purity exceeding 98% enabling it to be resmelted.
Physical and Digital Advances
Pyrolysis recycling can be further used to recycle post-consumer plastic waste which would ordinarily be destined for landfill.
The pyrolysis plants themselves are scalable and quick to commission. A single module can process 2.5kt per annum of hard-to-recycle plastic waste and can be neatly upscaled in 2.5kt increments to fit the size of the waste stream available.
As well as driving new developments in physical processes, innovation is helping to deliver new advances in digital technology which can assist with the current waste crisis. Greenback's eco2Veritas circularity platform for example provides complete traceability across the plastic recycling process.
It helps to enhance the value of Py-Oil by giving CPG companies the reassurance that they are using recyclate that has come from legitimate sources where the provenance of the material is fully verified - from the point of collection to use.
This provenance is particularly important when it comes to enabling recyclate to be used instead of virgin polymer in much needed food contact packaging applications. It also has the potential to be of significant benefit because of the twenty billion kilos of plastic currently used for packaging in Europe, almost 50% of it is employed by the food and drink industry.
In answer to the question, what has the plastic waste crisis taught us about recycling innovation?
That it's an absolute necessity.
It may not provide a silver bullet for the current situation facing the world. But it can, and is, making a significant difference.
KEYWORDS: laminated packaging films manufacturing mechanical Pyrolysis recyclable flexible materials
Philippe von Stauffenberg, Greenback Founder and CEO