Cue Freitag, one of the hippest bag and accessory companies in Europe.

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Inspired by the traffic that hummed through the intersection outside their Zurich flat, the Freitag brothers designed a courier bag made of old truck tarpaulins, used bicycle inner tubes and car seat belts.

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Freitag and her team continue to seek out ways to design outreach campaigns and programs which use a combination of reason and emotion to empower individuals and organizations to proactively prepare for disasters.

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"It's definitely a buyer's market, " Freitag said, and it is the right time to ask -- if these add-ons aren't already offered -- for free breakfasts, room upgrades and, for example, free access to a property's gym.

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OpenLeaks also announced for the first time the names of its media partners: German newspapers Die Tageszeitung and the weekly Der Freitag, Danish paper Dagbladet Information, the Portugese newsweekly Expresso, as well as the German food- and environment-focused non-profit Foodwatch.

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While the tidal wave of steeply discounted hotel properties didn't occur to the degree expected, a number of distressed properties still are winding through the system and selling on a one-off basis, said Jan Freitag, senior vice president of STR Global, a lodging research firm.

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