What a great app and it is Made in China! My wife uses the other 2 popular apps which are QQ and Weibo in China but states this is far better and everyone is using it. Then an expat in China highly recommends it for everyone not just the Chinese and I installed the app which was easy to set-up. It located my contacts immediately and I connected with a former co-worker in Macau seconds after signing up. What’s amazing is that the 300 million users are the same number of US citizens and the scale factor is incredible. The app is fast and easy and I learned to communicate with my friends in China without my wife translating which I just copy and paste into Google translator. What is really big for tourism and advertising is the QR code which is crazy popular in China. Every item we bring to China and all the items they want to buy in a store they scan with the QR code to find information and prices. They are always asking where the QR code to scan is. It would be a great campaign for tourism and companies which should jump on this feature to use. It is Made in China! I cannot wait until my next trip to China to use the app location. Travel Smart and Travel Safe. http://skift.com/2014/03/19/why-travel-brands-need-to-be-on-chinas-wechat/
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If you are traveling internationally it is critical to protect your passport from being stolen or lost. If you use a money belt then you are less likely to lose it. If you use a money belt then you are very unlikely to get it stolen from a pickpocket. Unfortunately this has been brought to light in the wake of the missing Malaysian Airplane and we are thinking about everyone on board. Wow, in the news today it is reported that 60K stolen or lost passport are used yearly which is an incredible large number. I now use a money belt when I travel because all my documents are located in one pouch and it will not be stolen by a pickpocket abroad. I created a new design money belt for comfort and it is selling well on ebay and Amazon. Most all money belts cost less than $20 USD so it is a no-brainer to purchase one. Buy my money belt or from my competitors just buy one when you travel, it is no guarantee you will not lose it or get it stolen but there is less of a chance. Travel Safe and Travel Smart. http://skift.com/2014/03/10/behind-the-worlds-stolen-passport-market/ Yes, it is all about the money. A recent article suggested airplanes loss money when it takes too long to board planes, now they will send customer back through security to check-in carry-ons, yeah that will save time which by the airlines account would not save money because it is holding up the flight. Get some handheld to charge customers at the gate. Yes, it is all about the money. The reason to change it is because customers are bypassing the fees by the airplane allowing oversized carry-ons which they state in the article because they are losing revenue by NOT charging at the gate. Yes, it is all about the money. Now we will have less customer service and more airline personal and SECURITY looking out for suitcase size rather than looking after our security, WOW. Yes, it is all about the money. If they want to charge us and want us to check our bags then they should take FULL responsibility for damage, lost, and stolen items from our suitcases when they take the suitcase. Charge us but use the extra money on camera and security to reduce lost, stolen and damaged bags. Yes, it is all about the money. The airlines recommends to never put valuables in checked suitcases then we cannot take them on carry on with limits what do we do? Solution to the carry-on and speed-up boarding problems: Make and assign overhead bins for each individual seat and clearly label them. Use dividers in the overhead compartments NOT open space. At check-in have a bin size with cover to close it, if the carry-on does not fit then it needs to be checked in. At the gate have the same fit test bin with cover, if it does not then it needs to be checked at the gate with a smartphone payment device the same device they use to charge us on the plane for drinks, food, and merchandise. If the bins are NOT sized for limits then this causes all the chaos because when we do not have limits then we will always take up as much space as possible. For example, what if we did not have individual seats but bench type seating without any armrest or foot dividers it would be chaos but we do not so the same should be applied to the overhead bins. If each seat was assigned a space over the seat then this would automatically speed up the boarding process and I would not care if I was in boarding group 1 or 5 because I know I have my seat and overhead bin space assignment for my ticket I purchased. One of the simplest solutions is clearly marking the seats numbers because travelers cannot find their seats and this would help with international travelers with a language barrier and that’s one of the reasons Southwest has a faster boarding process because travelers do not have to find their seats they just sit at an open seat. http://news.yahoo.com/carry-crackdown-united-enforces-bag-size-limit-175219049.html Centers in Shanghai are preparing for an increase in IVF with the new changes to the 1 child policy, see link below. We tried for several years and now the only method available to us is the IVF maybe we should go to China because it is more affordable than the US. In China is shows a cost of $5000 USD and in the US it averages $15000 USD and we had a negative experience with our Las Vegas fertility doctor. It would cost us several thousands to fly over to China but with our apartment in Nanjing and my wife’s parents ready to assist it may work out better. Maybe we should post a crowdsourcing project to help pay for the expensive then document for everyone to follow.
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