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25 October 2012 marks 130thbirthday of Picasso

Spain expects increase in visitor numbers to coincide with celebrations

Thomas Cook offer range of Spanish breaks for travellers

It's just over 130 years since the birth of Picasso and many admirers will head to Spain this autumn to join in the celebrations on the 25 October, leading travel operators Thomas Cook have suggested.

Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881 but lived for many years in Barcelona until the political upheavals of the Spanish Civil war in the 1930s forced him into exile. The Spanish artistic tradition extends from the mainland to the islands and many visitors are expected to take advantage of Ibiza holidays to celebrate his connection with Spain.

To help travellers find inspiration for artistic holidays in Spain, Thomas Cook look at some of the best destinations for holidaymakers to visit:

Ibiza

Ibiza holidays are the perfect option for art lovers. The Marta Torres Gallery in Ibiza Old Town has an international reputation and artists who have exhibited here include Julia Ribas.

Tenerife

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Due to the accelerated pace of the online marketing environment, small- to mid-sized businesses need a smart, affordable solution designed for todays social driven marketplace. Toronto internet marketing company FS Local, which offers such a solution, is now opening their program to new clients after a success test launch phase.

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The platform unifies and handles every aspect of the digital marketing experience. The program features:

1) Monthly blogs to give businesses the opportunity to offer their expert advice and engage in direct communication with customers

2) Integrated reviews to bring essential transparency and community interaction

3) Printable coupons to convert online browsers into offline shoppers

4) Press releases for upcoming promotions, sales, and events

5) Toronto social media marketing to the online community to promote directory page, blog posts and coupons

Importantly, these features are all handled by the FS Local team of professionals and consultants at a substantial discount over alternative marketing options, saving businesses valuable time and money and ensuring that the web presence is handled correctly a valuable opportunity for small businesses struggling to adapt to the digital marketplace.

Given the results yielded by the trial period, the program is currently undergoing expansion to additional clients on an invitation-only basis; click here if youre interested finding out more about how you can receive an invitation into this post-beta expansion.

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iSnap Social, the creator of the Social Photo Station and accompanying suite of social media marketing tools, has shared its 500,000th photo and reached 100 million online impressions. The iSnap Social Photo Station lets users snap a photo at a venue, event or business and instantly upload it to social networks such as Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter. iSnap Social users recently shared their 500,000th photo, resulting in over 100 million total online impressions.

iSnap Social installed its first photo station in December 2010. By February 2011, users had already uploaded 10,000 photos, resulting in over one million online impressions. This rate of adoption is fantastic but not surprising explains iSnap Social CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Lowe. Photos are meant to be shared and iSnap Social makes sharing fun and easy for our users. We've anticipated this level of growth since installing our first photo station, but reaching 100 million online impressions is still an epic achievement for our brands and customers."

iSnap Social offers users an enjoyable way to take high quality photos, branded with the featured companys graphic overlays, and share them with friends instantly. Brands get a unique tactic to engage with customers, add fans and followers and gain insightful user data. The iSnap Social cloud-based platform tracks metrics along the way, gathering usage statistics, conversions, time and demographic information. All data is viewable and exportable in real time from the secure iSnap Social cloud website.

iSnap Social was founded in 2010 by Alexander Lowe, an entrepreneur with a proven track record of developing smart technologies. His last project, Webraiser, was acquired in 2006 by Flextronics International. Alexander conceptualized iSnap Social on a napkin in 2010.

About iSnap Social:

iSnap Social is the creator of the social photo station and accompanying suite of social marketing tools. iSnap Social products enable brands to create more authentic connections with customers through photo sharing. iSnap photos are liked, commented on and shared broadly across multiple social networks. By making branded photo sharing easy and fun, iSnap builds a brands social media presence quickly and efficiently while providing an exciting free amenity to customers. For more information, please visit http://www.isnapsocial.com.

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Grant Marketing adds social media marketing to their already extensive line of marketing services

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Armed with her BS in business management and concentrations in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Ms. Kassim not only has the skill set but has the drive which is imperative in creating and implementing a flawless integrated marketing campaign. According to Mr. Bob Grant, President of Grant Marketing, Anushka has seamlessly integrated into our team and has already contributed greatly even in her short time; our clients will find her pleasing to work with and will benefit from her marketing savvy and social media expertise.

About Grant Marketing

Grant Marketing is a brand development and integrated marketing advertising agency specializing in business-to-business communication and services for manufacturing, technology, distribution and business service companies. Based in Boston Grant Marketing is able to leverage its many years of experience to help its clients in growing their businesses. Grant Marketing is able to do this by going through a proprietary brand development process, integrated marketing, and advertising campaigns shaped by thorough research and analysis of both the business and the marketplace.

Grant Marketing is located at 800 Boylston St. Prudential Tower, 16th Floor, Boston, MA, 02199. For more information please visit http://www.grantmarketing.com.

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HONG KONG It didnt take long for the Chinese government to try to take control of the conversation about Mo Yan.

Days after the 57-year-old novelist thrilled his country by winning the Nobel Prize for literature, Chinas central censorship organ issued a directive to media companies instructing them to strictly police online discussion for anti-party chatter or mentions of two other Chinese-born Nobel winners.

China Digital Times has atranslationof the leaked directive:

To all websites nationwide: In light of Mo Yan winning the Nobel prize for literature, monitoring of microblogs, forums, blogs and similar key points must be strengthened. Be firm in removing all comments which disgrace the party and the government, defame cultural work, mention Nobel laureates Liu Xiaobo and Gao Xingjian and associated harmful material. Without exception, block users from posting for ten days if their writing contains malicious details.

Liu Xiaobo, a human rights activist and author, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, but he remains in prison in China. Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000 after giving up his Chinese citizenship in 1996.

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Official media has also been trying to steer the public toward acceptable lines of thinking about Mo Yan. In the state-run Peoples Daily, an editorial urges people to adopt one of three mentalities about Mo Yan that can be considered correct.

These prescribed perspectives are: seeing his victory as a blessing for those in China who have long had the Nobel Prize complex; seeing it as a good thing that should not be over-interpreted; and rejecting those who criticize his work.

The last order presumably targets those in China who reacted to Mos victory with anger. While the overwhelming response was celebratory, a number of reform-minded Chinese knocked Mo Yan for having an apparently cozy relationship with authorities. Mo Yan remains a member of the Communist Party, and the vice chairman of the party-run Writers Association. He also contributed to a book of calligraphy in tribute to Mao Zedong.

Liao Yiwu, a celebrated author who was imprisoned for writing about the Tiananmen Square massacre, called the prize a woeful example of the West's fuzzy morals, in an interview with Der Spiegel in Germany, where he has lived since fleeing China in 2011.

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