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We stayed at the Delta for one night during late September.

The hotel was clean and modern with a restaurant, nice bar and a swimming pool/spa on site.

We stayed in a premium room which exceeded our expectations.

The room was spacious, clean and very well appointed.

The hotel staff were all very friendly and helpful.

The hotel is about a 15 minute walk away from the centre of Banff, with its many dining options, bars, gift shops, etc.

Would definitely recommend and stay there again should we visit Banff in the future.

In this knowledge economy, writing is the chief value-producing
activity. But you may not be writing as well as you could. That
may be because you think writing requires a special talent that
some people have and some people don’t.
In fact, writing is a process that can be managed like any other
business process. If you can manage people, money, or time, then you can
manage your writing. And you can profit from the results.
This book will give you the tools to become—in the next 36 hours—
a more effective, efficient manager of your own writing.
• You’ll become more effective because you’ll learn to produce writing
that gets things done.
• You’ll become more efficient because you’ll learn to produce more
effective writing in less time.
How can this magic happen in just 36 hours? It’ll happen because
you’ll learn to take the management skills you already have and apply
them to the process of writing. Remember, whether or not the word manager
is part of your job title, you clearly are a successful manager. Otherwise,
you wouldn’t have
• the money to buy this book,
• the position to have somebody else buy it for you,
• or the time and initiative to be browsing through it in a bookstore.

Through your experience in business and in life, you’ve learned to
manage: to manage people, to manage money, to manage time. This book
will teach you how to use these same skills when you write.
Let me tell you a story. When I was a kid growing up in rural Iowa,
there was a local fisherman who had more money than common sense. He
always had the newest, most expensive fishing gear, but he didn’t always
know how to use it.
One fall he decided to take up ice fishing. He ordered the very best
cold-weather clothing, the very best portable shelter, the very best ice
saw and tackle. The first winter day our local reservoir had frozen over
enough, he was out on the ice at dawn. He set up his shelter, sawed his
hole in the ice, sat on his new folding stool, and waited.
Three hours passed without even a sign of a fish. The disgusted
fisherman was about to call it quits and head home when he saw a teenage
kid in faded blue jeans and a faded green Army field jacket head out
onto the ice. The kid whacked a hole in the ice with a hammer, baited a
hook, and immediately pulled out a nice fish. Within 10 minutes, the kid
had a bucketful and turned back for the shore.
The older man yelled for him, but the kid was apparently out of voice
range. So the man started walking fast toward him and finally caught up
with him at the shore.
“Son,” the man said, “I’ve been out here three hours without catching
a fish, and you’ve pulled out half a dozen in 10 minutes. What’s your
secret?”
“Hmrm hmrm,” the boy muttered.
“What’s that?” asked the man.
“HMRM HMRM,” answered the boy, louder.
“I’m sorry, son; I can’t understand you. What’s your secret?”
The boy moved his hand to his face, took a handful of something
out of his mouth, and explained.
“WARM WORMS.”
Well, OK, that story didn’t really happen. But I wanted you to
believe, for a while, that it had happened in order to make two points:
1. Writing can change and even create reality. For a while, my words
made that story real for you. And the writing you do on the job
can create a new, better reality for you in your work life. On his
blog, my favorite management guru, Tom Peters, quoted novelist
James Baldwin that “you write in order to change the world.” Tom
continued, “Call me hopelessly naïve, but I believe there is no
excuse for any variety of ‘business writing’ that should be crafted
any less carefully or aim any less high than a great novel or great
inaugural address. After all, we do aim—day in and day out—to
change the world via our human collectivities called enterprises.
Right?”
2. This will be a “warm worms” book. It will give you practical,
down-to-earth tools—the equivalent of a hammer, a bucket, and
a mouthful of night crawlers—to re-create yourself as a more
effective, efficient writer.

I love video games because it's jsut a way to pass time when you're bored. i like all games but I prefer ones I can play with my friends or my brother. I spend a lot of time on it.

How can people spend all their time and money on computer games? It's an obsession!
I think it's a lot better to go out and do something in reality. maybe this is why so many children are unfit and overweight

Gaming helps with our lives! and it gives us what real life can't. i can't run very fast or drive a car because i'm too young. But I love going fast so i get Sonic and racing games to let me feel the freedom of going fast.

Video games are great. I play MMPORGs (massively multi-player online role-playing games)
specifically Star wars Galaxies. I play all the time, maybe 40 hours a week. I'm in a team with some people I know in real life and some I don't. I just love the Star wars universe and you can do everything you can't do in real life.

I like RPG games, story games and warcraft video and Internet games. I like Tony Hawke, warcrafrt and Final fantasy. I play a lot but not as much as I used to. it's just soomething to distract you when there's nothing else to to.

999 emergency. What’s your emergency?

Oh my God! It’s my boss, Sir Villaroy… He is lying unconscious on the floor with a pool of
blood all around him!!! He’s holding a gun! He must have shot himself!

Have you checked to see if Sir de Villaroy is dead?Is he breathing?

I don’t think so.

I see. Where are you calling from ?

From the living-room.

No, I mean what’s the address?

1 Oak Lane West Bromwich

Who are you, m’am?

I’m the housemaid, Mrs Studridge.

Ok Mrs Studridge. I'll have a police officer on his way to check it out. Stay on the line until
someone gets there and do not touch anything.

blood
clothes
rescue
database
comfortable
the games industry
games consoles
problem-solving
computer gamers
computer games

Computer games are good for you!
Computer games could become part of your school lessons after research said they can actually help you learn.
The government looked into games like Championship Manager and SimCity and decided they teach children how to think clearly and make decisions.
It's often said games are bad for children because they stop them reading.
Problem-solving

SimCity: 'Life skills'
But the research showed problem-solving, and even maths and spelling all got better amongst gamers.
And because children like to play the games together, they're good for communication skills, too.
SimCity apparently teaches kids that 'life is not simple' and Championship Manager shows how to use databases.
The government is now looking at ways to bring games to the classroom