Vacation

1.) Cannes: Although better know for it’s film festival, the city of Cannes is an idyllic holiday maker’s paradise with stunning beaches, amazing restaurants and a pretty solid nightlife. To be fair, there had to be a reason why all the celebrities flock there right?

2.) Antibes: Located about halfway between Cannes and Nice, Antibes boasts of amazing weather over summer – coupled with beautiful beaches which make it the perfect French summer getaway destination.

3.) Saint-Tropez: Playground of the rich and famous – this is not a place that would typically come onto my radar straight away but I’ve been looking at potentially holidaying here and it’s not quite as expensive as it seems. Of course some things are (if you stay at only the poshest hotels and eat at only the nicest restaurants) but that can be said of any towns or cities really so have a gander at this beautiful French gem when you’re thinking of potentially holidaying in France.

4.) Marseille: This is not quite as luxurious as some of the other places on this list (which, on the flip-side, means that it can be a more affordable option) but it is still worth visiting. In addition to the beach, the town has such a rich history and is ideal for the holidaymaker looking to get a decent mix of sight seeing and beach life.

5.) Nice: Nice’s reputation precedes it. Even simply saying you’re thinking of going to Nice to your friends conjures up images of luxury, decadence and summer fun worth holding out for.It’s always ‘nice’ whenyou go on a beach holiday where there’s so much more to offer in addition to beautiful beaches and Nice is definitely one of those places in France that ticks all the right boxes.

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The German city of Nördlingen is located in the center of the valley - impact craters formed by meteorite.

A psychologist has teamed up with an online ticket company to formulate what makes the perfect getaway — and it could mean leaving your smartphone at home.

“Kids are very proficient at using mouses, screens, or clicking onto things,” Dr. David Holmes of the U.K. told ABC News on Monday. “The tendency is that their attention spans have been reduced. In order to have good family interaction, you have to kind of limit, or put a ban on using technology and that goes for adults as well as children.”

Holmes worked alongside FloridaTix.com after the site surveyed 2,000 families about what they feel makes the ideal family vacation.

Holmes then created the formula that he says measures the factors of a perfect family vacation.

Those factors include lifetime experience (LE), quality family interaction (QI), quality activities (Q), accommodation quality (AQ), weather (W), screen freedom (S) and overall cost (C).


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If you have trouble recalling that sand-in-your-toes feeling of a long vacation; you're not the only one. New data shows that a whopping 56 percent of Americans haven't taken a real vacation (one week away from the office) in the last 12 months. What's worse? That’s up from 52 percent in 2012. It's not that we don't need a week away from the grind, it's that we just aren't clocking out. But why?

Even though we're told the recession ended years ago, there's still a widespread feeling that "it’s not over yet." For one thing, real wages are still down relative to before the recession.

According to a Gallup poll from this past May, Americans are still holding onto their dollars, and vacations can be viewed as the ultimate luxury spend. Do we need to go back to the days of piggy banks to put away dollars for a week on island in the sun? Try socking away a few clams every paycheck into a special "vacation fund" savings account. A few months or a year later, you can take that break without racking up major debt.

If you're an hourly contractor, or don't get any paid time off, the expense is even more — loss of wages for the week plus spending more money to lounge around on a hammock somewhere exotic. That can feel like just too much strain on the budget.

A cheap solution might just be in the form of the staycation. Sleep at home and explore your city during the day like a tourist. Just don't check that work email when you get back each night! Here are some quick tips on making your staycation a real relaxing one.

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What's the worst that could happen if a few hundred yards of road shut down in downtown Palm Springs? From a traveling standpoint, maybe nothing more than a little bit of inconvenience, but let's discuss that.

Several days ago, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians announced it wants back jurisdiction of several sections of road: Calle Encilia between Amado and Andreas roads, westbound Andreas between Encilia and Calle El Segundo and southbound Encilia between Andreas and Tahquitz Canyon Way.

The street "vacation" request comes amid the tribe's master plan for a hotel project that replaces the Spa Resort hotel. Few details have been released on the project, which is on 22 acres opposite the Spa Resort Casino at Andreas and Encilia.

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How many times have you uttered, “I need a vacation,” in the past year? With 2015 winding down, many American workers are still sitting on unused vacation days.

Americans are increasingly reluctant to take vacation, despite the negative consequences, including fatigue, stress, poor morale, reduced productivity and strain on family life.

In an effort to curb employees from becoming workaholics, some companies require that their workers take their vacation time, CNN Money reports. Balsamiq is one of those companies.

Giacomo Guilizzoni is the founder of Balsamiq, which makes rapid wireframing tools for web design and app mock-ups. He told CNN Money that the company’s U.S. workers weren’t taking enough time off, so he implemented a mandatory vacation policy.

“We expect people to take at least 20 days of vacation, in addition to nine national holidays,” said Guillizzoni, who along with half the company is based in Italy, where vacation days are “written into the contract, and pretty much sacred.”

Jobs site Anthology is trying out a mandatory vacation policy. Its employees get all major holidays off, two weeks of paid vacation and five flex days, according to CNN Money.

Although some companies have unlimited vacation policies, they aren’t always effective in getting workers to take time off. Anne-Marie Slaughter, president of the nonpartisan think tank New America and author of “Unfinished Business: Men, Women, Work, Family,” told TechRepublic that she implemented a use-it-or-lose it policy with vacation time when she first started New America.

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The first step to freedom is opening your mind to a sense of adventure.

WorldWide staffers received a late holiday gift this year when they returned to work and were given unlimited paid vacation time. The independent employee-owned network of 12 agencies is moving from the more traditional policy of accruing vacation days for personal time off, to flexible time off where there is now no limit.

"In an entrepreneurial company, you want a results-driven culture of trust. You want to find the right people, and it's important to give them the right choices to blend work and life," said CEO Robert Vallee Jr., who explains there's no limit on the paid FTO other than "reasonableness." "Everybody's got a job to do, deadlines and targets are set, and you're still expected to meet them."

How it's working at one agency

Argonaut believes in giving employees the space to find things that inspire. Imagine a job where you're paid to go off and write a screenplay, take a family vacation in Malaysia, study improv, learn film editing or just walk the Santa Cruz boardwalk with your fiancé.

That's a snapshot of some of the recent out-of-office time enjoyed by the 85 staffers at the agency, which also gives employees $500 a year to "enrich their creativity." "We're an industry hinged on creativity," said Margo Menapace, head of culture and talent. "You have to find the things that inspire you." Menapace added that the only catch is making sure the time off is appropriate with work schedules and deadlines: "We trust you. We know you're going to come in, get the work done and be responsible."

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Legend has it that the Oracle of Delphi connected priests with super natural beings who passed along advanced technology and information.
And conspiracy theorists claim that is how a modern-day laptop ended up in a Greek sculpture from 100 BC.
But historians say the sculpture is just a deceased woman 'touching the lid of a shallow chest'.



‘I am not saying that this is depicting an ancient laptop computer,’ StillSpeakingOut, conspiracy theorists, said in a video he released on YouTube in 2014.
‘But when I look at the sculpture I can’t help but think about the Oracle of Delphi, which was supposed to allow the priests to connect with the gods to retrieve advanced information and various aspects.’



The statue, ‘Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant’ is on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. Those who don’t believe in aliens or time travel, say the object is a wax tablet that ancient Greeks used for writing with a stylus or pen



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Indian man could be first recorded human fatality due to a meteorite

Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday, killing one person. If scientists confirm the explosion was due to a meteorite, it would be the first recorded human fatality due to a falling space rock.

According to local reports, a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking, damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings. Three other people were injured.

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