Do you commute or travel always and you want to pack some grilled dishes? Is the smile that anyone who loves smoked food could ever wish for. How can you achieve this? Probably, you may have been relying on traditional oil grills in preparing your dishes but never achieved the taste. Worry no more because pellet grills are here, just for you! Whether you are a commuter or a traveler things are now easier for you.

But what are pellet grills? This is an electric grilling machine that is fuelled by pellets usually from hardwood. There many terms that usually describe pellet grills. Never mind when you come across such names as, wood-fired grills, electric pellet smokers or wood pellet grills. They mean the same thing. It’s the best outdoor cooking device. Though they use wood pellets, they require electricity to turn on the fan and the digital control board. To use then is very easy. Just put your pellets into the hopper and set the desired temperature you want using the programming device then you can now put your food and feel free to go. The machine will itself automatically control the temperatures you set.

For travelers and commuters, why do you need a pellet grill?

First and foremost, pellet grills give the best flavor. This is the main reason as to why many cooks use this when preparing the barbecue. While using this cooking tool, it usually gives you all the freedom to vary the flavor you want to achieve just by mixing different pellets.

Secondly, it’s so easy to use a pellet grill. Don’t judge by the name imagining how hard it is to use. These tools are the easiest to use than the charcoal and gas grills. Having been equipped with a digital control system, it permits you to set your food and forget with no fears at all For a traveler, loving to eat smoked food while traveling, you can easily load you pellet grill with pellets and put your meat there for some few minutes and it’s done.

More so, you can cook in various ways while using a pellet grill. Having been enabled with temperature control of about 180 degrees and 500 degrees, you can roast, bake or perhaps smoke your food. There is no need of buying both a grilling machine and a smoker. Just acquire one pellet grill and get served with the food you would like to eat while traveling.

Nevertheless, the value is what matters most. Buying a pellet grill means you have both a smoker and a grill at once. Most pellets grills come with grills that are made of stainless steel which means they are long lasting. You can always save more Perhaps you may not be knowing which type is the best, I will recommend Traeger. It has all the features to make you happy.

For travelers, you can now worry no more as a pellet grill will enable you to cook the best-smoked food, flavored for your taste and travel! settled. You can try this recipe: roasted Cornish game stuffed hen that requires 2 tablespoon butter, 1 wild mushroom, yellow onion, a cup of wild rice, 4 hens Cornish, and a quarter cup stranger fins. Pellet grills are there to make you happy while traveling or commuting.

The best wood lathe for the activity relies upon the span of the wood that you will use for the task. Another thought for the right tool to do the carpentry is the region that you need to work with a computer. Diverse wood can offer the Toolsy says some incredible plan capacities to add to your carpentry ventures.

One very important thing to keep in mind when traveling is the food. No matter where you will go, you have to always make sure that you can eat food or try this recipe that you’ve been wanting to try that you will need to survive. It is considered an important feat to get packed on a long journey, and knowing very well the nature of such ordeals, to proceed to actually intend on eating well and healthy through the journey while traveling. This is no mean feat and most people more often than not do not even want to go through the mental pressure and therefore abandon the escapade from the very first thought of it. This is because it requires a very strong mind to follow through. It is nevertheless important that healthy living is upheld, and so the best kinds of meals to carry on a journey.

Fundamentally, planning is an essential part of any trip at all and this will allow the smart use of time. Perishable foods are an important part of any diet and should not be left out just because you are traveling. It is always best to take along a cooler or even mini-freezer with plenty of ice to boot. It is thus advisable to pack vegetables like broccoli and carrots, eggs, sweet potatoes, meat, chicken, and shrimp as well as an assortment of fruits.

Smoked meats are also a very important source of yummy protein especially when you will be on the road, and due to the cumbersome nature of charcoal and wood ovens and stoves, there are now portable and affordable electric smokers around that can smoke meat to perfection. You can check www.seriouslysmoked.com/best-cheap-electric-smoker-for-money to check some portable electric smokers. These products are really effective and do not cost a lot of space or effort to pack along on a journey. When you have chosen the perfect smoker for you, all you need then is, of course, the meat. If you will be going to camp somewhere far from the hustle and bustle of the city, having smoked meat while having a bonfire is a great idea. Also, non-perishable food like packaged foods can really come in handy when there is an emergency. This is because they do not need to be refrigerated before being ingested and can serve as alternative meals while one is on a hike of away from a place to stay.

Planning is very important especially when you do not want hunger to ruin tour trip. You can also try the food in the places where you will traveling or have stopovers especially the foods that you haven’t tried but always make sure that you have packed foods just in case it would be inconvenient to buy somewhere.

The fact that advocates have opted for a marketing strategy is not a guarantee of its success. They must take proper marketing plan steps which will make sure that they meet their objective. Remember you are not just speaking to people one on one At the same time, some of the advocating issues might not b in line with the recipients religious, social and cultural affiliations, This is why planning is ideal to avoid misconception of information as well as convince the recipients of the change of heart just in case it is contrary to their beliefs.

The marketing department is the engine of any advocacy group. Any mistake or error in this department means a flop in the entire awareness campaign. The marketing product is the first-hand information and contact with the recipients. Have you seen some viral posts online of a campaign gone wrong? It could be because of misinformation or basically a poor marketing plan. Marketing plan for advocacy is important for the following reasons.

Saves time and money
Without a plan, you will be working on a trial and error basis which means that you will ever spend on a marketing plan which is not effective that means that you just waste time and money. The information may be so urgent such that any time wasted may mean to have a catastrophic effect. Imagine if you have to send information to vacate a place due to a threat of an earthquake.

Reaches to a wider market
Goos marketing planning means that you use the best strategies which will come in handy to make sure that you reach not only the right people but also a wider market. It is the best way to make sure you only concentrate on a strategy which will bear fruit.

Helps in the dissemination of information
The main aim of marketing for an advocacy is to make sure that you are able to pass the information faster and in a timely manner. When working without a plan you will be dealing with unnecessary sideshows which may hinder the dissemination of information.

Can save a calamity or any fatalities
Basically, proper marketing planning means that you just do things right. The long-term effect is that if the information was to reach people faster to save a situation then the marketing tools will be a success since a proper SWOT analysis of the same will be ideal. provides effective marketing strategies.

Enhances timely decision making
During planning, the marketers look at critical points in all the marketing strategies with a thought of the budget and what is workable for the advocacies. This means that you will be able to make the right decision on behalf of the organization to save on any losses.

In marketing, the planning process is the most crucial process in any marketing procedure. Without it, you may make some crucial mistakes which may be detrimental to the entire organization. The loss may be too much to a point that you may not be able to salvage the situation. Why do you have to go through all that when you can avoid by just a simple marketing plan?

Advanced technology is the best thing that ever happened to the world. It just makes the world a global village. This era of industrialization has also seen the transport sector experiencing tremendous change. This is seen is the improved road network and also the fact that people can now afford cars which even creates yet another problem which is traffic jams. You will ask your self why you need a discussion on transportation. It is a good avenue for people to give suggestions about the current status of transportation and get insights from it if there are improvements needed. If you also have discovered something on the transport sector, it is also prudent to share information. Some of the ways to engage people online include:

– Social media networks
In social media, of course, you will have friends, relatives, and followers. All these people also have their own circle of friends. That is why information becomes viral in just a few hours from the time you posted. You cannot undereat the power of social media in the dissemination of information. Just in case there is an accident, the information will reach faster to save lives and for drivers to be cautious on such a road. At the same time, there is a storm in an area, it is prudent to share such information to avoid any fatalities. Bigger transportation issues can also be discussed by the people together with the transport sector.

– Marketing automation application
This is not just a tool for corporate marketing. It comes in handy to aid in creating awareness even in the transport sector. It just needs one person to just get the information and within minutes or hours, it will reach a wider area. An example of such applications includes www.gedlynk.com/clickfunnels-vs-leadpages which comes with a comprehensive feature for it. The main feature of this application which can help the transport sector is the fact that they can always create an email campaign with the information and send it to the database as well as share with social networks integrated into the toolkits.

– Instant messaging service
Instant messaging tools can also be a good strategy to give people information about transportation issues. In one way or another, the information will reach the target audience in a few hours. It is just one message which you can also send along with an image or a video for it to be more visual and eye-catching.

– Video conferencing
You have a seminar on transport models and not everyone made a point to attend the conference. All you need is their views, why not opt for a video conference to still achieve the same objective. All relevant stakeholders will schedule a time to participate because after all it is faster, cheaper and you get real-time feedback on the same. It is a simple and effective way of allowing people to have public participation on the transport issues without taking so much time traveling hence even saving on cost. Advanced technology was the best thing that happened to humanity since it made work simpler and effective. You can do everything at the comfort of your keyboard.

Since the time it began selling locally made 3 and 5 Series cars in India from its Chennai plant, BMW India has tasted increasing levels of success. In 2009 it managed to take over as the market leader in the luxury segment from Mercedes Benz, which was the indisputable leader for almost fifteen years. Last year, despite playing second fiddle to Mercedes  Benz for several months, BMW had the last laugh.

Even the models BMW planned to sell in limited numbers, ended up exceeding expectations. The Gran Turismo brought into India as a CBU  (Completely Built Unit) was projected to sell about 100 units. They ended up selling 150.

BMW’s 5 Series sedan was one of the key growth drivers last year.  The latest generation 5 Series arrived only in the month of June at dealerships, and the hot-selling entry-level 520d model wasn’t  introduced till November. In six months, BMW sold 2,403 numbers of the new 5 Series compared to 1,509 old 5 Series models for the whole of  2009, marking a 59% growth YoY.

The same phenomenon is observed with the smaller 3 Series Sedan which clocked 2432 units last year, a 110% growth to the measly 1155  units in 2009. Credit has to go to the affordable Corporate Edition models, which were stripped-down variants of the entry-level models.

Overall growth for BMW India in 2010 compared to 2009 was an astounding 73%.

Mercedes  Benz India, despite losing the crown of being India’s most preferred premium brand, has upped its game. The company recorded improvements in the important segment. It sold 80% more cars in 2010 than it did in 2009. In terms of growth percentages, the battle clearly is won by Mercedes  Benz.

The company’s best-selling model was the E-Class, which clocked  2,490 units, compared to 1,024 in 2009. Mercedes Benz launched the new  E-Class in the second half of 2009, and it has performed strongly throughout 2010. The

C-Class, propelled by the introduction of the new CGI engines and less expensive variants, did 2070 units (2009 = 1579 units) while the best performance was in the SUV category where Mercedes Benz did 523  units (2009 = 140units) and clocked a massive 273% growth. The recent additions GL, R and the steadily running M-Class are reasons for this huge leap.

There is a catch, however. Mercedes Benz India’s numbers are purely wholesale (number of cars dispatched to dealers). On the other hand, BMW  India only publishes retail numbers (number of cars delivered to customers). It’s very difficult to determine how many cars left Mercedes  Benz dealerships, but whatever that number is, it still isn’t enough to hold a candle to what the giant from Munich has achieved in just three years since it landed in India.

Shrawan Raja

Challenging the union government to come clean on its policy on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis, All India Motor Transport Congress’ president, said the government policy of private participation on roads projects is full of frauds.

Every year transporters contribute more than Rs 3.20 lakh crore about 25 per cent of country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is more than Rs 11 lakh crore.

“Our concern is that in India in the next few years 777 toll plazas under the BOT are going to start and already 186 is in operation out of which 32 toll stations are those which have recovered the money, but still they are collecting the toll taxes, we are not oppose for paying for maintenance or other charges,” he adds.

“We have written to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to show how much they earn every day, month and year, but still we have not got any reply from their end, it is high time that government clean this mess and listen to our grievances as we the people on the receiving, Sunil Kale, General Secretary, Bombay Goods Transporters Association said.

The $ 362 million Mumbai-Pune expressway has already recovered the capital amount within six years. But still we have to pay the toll, as the government has signed a contract of 24 years with the private contractors. Collection on the expressway is about Rs 1.2 crore as per day, but the government figure shows half of it, Kale said.

Asking from where they are quoting the figures and information, the chief said, they have got all the information’s from the Right to Information Act (RTI).

Documents given by the association says, the stretches between Panipat and Jalandar where three barriers fall at Karnal, Shambu, Ladwal (Ludhiana), toll rates have increased from Rs 175 to Rs 441, Rs 105 to rs 264 and Rs 160 to Rs 461 for 10 wheel vehicles within 14 months, about two to three folds rise, after NHAI gave the road to M/s Soma-Isolux NH One Tollway, Tolling-Panipat-Jalandar BOT to convert from 4 lanes to 6 lanes.

In the eastern India, more than 29 illegal weighbridge and illegal check gates are located with the distance of 75 kms, the government is not paying heed to any of our complaints, the paper adds.

Toll collection is on between 23 km Panvel to Dronagiri route called NH 4B, which connect JN Port since 2006. The toll is collected by Mumbai JNPT Road Company, a private contractor, and the tolling agreement is renewed every year. The daily collection of the toll is about Rs 20 lakh per day which amounts to Rs 65-70 crore per year. On Satara-Kagal route the toll is highest in the country; there has been an increase of 15 percent to 20 percent every year, Maharashtra Truck owners Association representative stressed.

Take Kshipra-Indore on NH 3, Rau-Dhamnaod route, Chennai-Bangaluru up to Krishnagiri, Dehu Road-Shendra project, Anewadi Toll Plaza, Pune-Satara route and many other routes the overcharging is going on.

The transporters allege that government agencies even give completion letter to private developers before the work is started and start collecting tolls on the basis of the completed project.

The government has also included Wholesale Price Index (WPI) in the new 2008 rule that is applicable even after the projects are completed. The WPI can only be calculated on the incomplete projects because once the project is granted the WPI is taken into consideration.

Every year, close to 1.5 lakh people die and about 4 lakh people are injured on the roads all over India. According to an estimate, due to multiple checkpoints on road more than $2.5 billion of fuel is wasted by unnecessary formalities.

Jagdish Nehul