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|Oct 5, 2004
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|Rodney S. Daughtrey
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|Ita Software, Inc.
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This invention relates generally to computerized travel planning systems.
Travel planning systems are used to produce itineraries and prices by selecting suitable travel units from databases concerning geographic scheduling and pricing information. In particular, travel planning systems that operate over the Internet are known. Some computer travel planning systems, such as Internet sites, generally produce a set of planning options, or itineraries for the traveller to consider. These options are often in the form of a single list of the possible itineraries from which the traveller may select. Such a display approach makes it difficult to clearly compare, discriminate, focus, and assimilate criteria and information that are likely to be important to the traveller.
According to an aspect of the invention, a graphical user interface for a travel planning system includes a tabular region of the graphical user interface that displays summarized travel options and comprises a plurality of cells that act as controls and a second region that displays selected travel options resulting from filtering a set of travel options in accordance with a control actuated in the tabular region.
According to a further aspect of the invention, a method for displaying travel options includes compartmentalizing travel options into bins according to a set of criteria. The invention has compartmentalizing travel options into 'bins', according to a set of criteria through displaying the resulting bins in a table.
One or more of the following advantages may be provided by one or more aspect of the present invention.
With a summary table as part of a user interface to the travel planning system, travellers can select individual bins in order to focus on a subset of travel options that they are interested in. Selecting an individual cell displays a secondary level of information about the travel options that are represented in that cell. In this secondary level of information about individual travel options, each travel option has a mechanism for selecting and displaying the details of that specific travel option. The summary table can appears in the top frame of a web browser.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a client server travel planning system particularly operable over the Internet.
FIG. 2 is a diagram of a query screen for a graphical user interface implemented as a web page from a web browser.
FIGS. 3-5 are diagrams of web pages depicting results of executing a query for a round trip based on information entered through the query screen of FIG. 2.
FIGS. 6 and 7 are diagrams of web pages depicting details of travel options provided in the web pages of FIGS. 3-5.
Referring to FIG. 1, a travel planning system 10 is shown. The travel planning system 10 can be used with various forms of travel such as airline, bus and railroad and is particularly adapted for air travel. Travel system 10 can include a server computer 12 having a computer memory or storage media 14 storing a server process 15. The server process 15 can include a scheduler process 16 and a faring process 18. An example of a scheduler process 16 is described in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/109,622, entitled "Scheduler System for Travel Planning Systems", filed on Jul. 2, 1998 by Carl G. DeMarcken et al. and assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference. Also an example of a faring process 18 is described in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/109,873, entitled "Graphical User Interface for Travel Planning Systems", filed on Jul. 2, 1998 by Carl G. DeMarcken et al and also assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference. As described in the incorporated references, the system 10 can include databases 20 a-20 b and these databases 20 a-20 b are typically stored locally and updated periodically by accessing remote resources 21 a, 21 b that maintain the respective databases. The system 10 can also include a plurality of clients 30 a-30 c coupled to the server 12 via a network 22. The network 22 can be any local or wide area network or an arrangement such as the Internet. Other travel planning systems such as those on the Internet can also be used.
The scheduler process 16 provides itineraries to a faring process 18. The faring process provides a set of pricing solutions by finding valid fares corresponding to the itineraries produced by the scheduler process 16. The faring process 18 also validates the fares for inclusion in a set of pricing solutions. The information to have the server produce the set of pricing solutions is obtain from a user entering data in a graphical user interface as will be described below. In addition, the set of pricing solutions are also displayed to the user through the graphical user interface.
Referring now to FIG. 2, a web page 50 that is part of a graphical user interface for the client process 36 is shown. The web page 50 allows the user to construct a query which can be executed by the server process 16 to produce flight plan options for the user.
The web page 50 includes a query table 52 which is a tab table 54 here comprised of three tabbed regions 54 a-54 c. The first tab is labeled one-way, the second tab round trip 54 b and the third tab multi-segment 54 c. The multi-segment tab is shown and is substantially the same as the other tabs except that the multi-segment tab allows the user to enter data for multiple segments of a flight by allowing the user to construct a new query segment region. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the table includes a region 56 a for entering flight information for a first segment of a flight. The information includes an origin to a destination and information concerning dates and time of travel. The query also allows the user to specify some potential cost saving feature by allowing the user to cause the server to look for other airports within 50 miles of a designated airport and include such other airports in answers for the segment. It also allows a user to specify a travel window. The table 54 can also include a second segment (not shown) having regions for entering similar information and includes controls 62 a and 62 b for either removing a segment from the query or adding a segment to the query, thus allowing a user to provide a complex arrangement of segments corresponding to multi-segmented flights.
The web page 50 also allows for entry of passenger information such as the number of adults, seniors, children and infants which may be important in determining the fare price for a ticket. The web page 50 also allows a user to have the server process check seat availability on designated flights. With the check availability box activated, the server process 16 will return travel options for which there is seat availability.
Referring now to FIG. 3, a web page 70 that depicts results from the server process 16 executing a query entered via the query page (FIG. 2) is shown. The web page 70, includes a table 72 that summarizes travel options. The travel option summary table 72 is a tab table comprised of a tab 74 a that groups summary information by airlines, a tab 74 b that groups summarized information by flight times and a tab 74 c that summarizes travel information by airports.
As shown in FIG. 3, with the airline tab 74 a selected, the summary information in the table is arranged in rows and columns with each of the airlines arranged in columns of the table as links and each of the rows of the table 72 arranging specified travel options such as non-stop flights or one-stop flights, as links. Interior cells within the table 72 are links which correspond to prices for each of the airlines with respect to each of the travel options. The table displays a set of air travel options according to specified criteria, e.g., the airlines used in one or more of the travel options (displayed from left to right at the top of the table), and the number of stops or connections in the set of travel options. Here, the travel options represented by a given table cell are those options which use the airline in the same column as that cell, and that have the same number of stops as the "number of stops" header in the same row as that cell. A third criteria, price (i.e. price of an airline ticket), is displayed in each cell of the table; this price is the minimum price for any of the travel options that are represented by a given cell. Selecting a cell (by clicking on a URL in this case) displays, in the lower pane, a listing of the travel options for that particular cell. Each travel option contains a 'details' URL link in the row of information devoted to that travel option; clicking on that link takes the traveller to yet a third level of information, a detailed description of that travel option as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.
A general procedure to construct the graphical user interface is given below:
1) Obtain list of query-specific travel options.
2) For each criteria in travel options:
Enumerate bins for the criteria
For each travel option T:
Place travel option T into some bin
3) Given the bins computed in (2), compute intersections of bins to determine what bins go in what cells of the summary table
4) Generate and display summary table given information from procedure (3).
If the travel system operates on a pricing graph, the links are hyperlinks to a enumeration algorithm such as described in the copending application which can sort through a pricing graph, as described in the above application, and return a set of travel options which correspond to the intersection of here the airline represented in the column and the travel option represented in the selected row. Otherwise the links activate routines to sort through a list of travel options.
Thus, for example, selecting Delta Airlines and non-stop flights corresponding to cell 75 a which has value of $378 will bring up all non-stop options on Delta Airlines, e.g., no stops in any segment and depict the top 30 of those results in the results frame 76. Thus, the links in the table 72 are used to control the display of travel options in the results frame 76. The results frame 76 includes a plurality of results, here the top 30 results are typically shown, arranged in a table with a hyperlink denoted as "details" which, when activated, brings up details of the travel option such as shown in FIG. 6. FIG. 6 also has a second link which, when activated, brings up booking details as shown in FIG. 7. FIGS. 6 and 7 in addition to showing details of the travel option also shows warnings 80 and planning suggestions 82.
Returning to FIG. 3, the table 72 allows the display of summary information in different manners depending on which tab is selected.
As shown in FIG. 4, when the flight time tab 74 b is selected, the table 72 is arranged to show departure times between the origin and the destination over ranges of times for the potential days of travel in the outbound portion of the trip in rows of the table, as well as departure time for the return portion of the trip in columns of the table 72 over time ranges in the potential return days. Thus, selecting one of the outer peripheral cells of the table will bring up all flight options on a designated day in the designated time area; whereas selecting an interior cell will produce the intersection of options for a time segment on the selected outbound date and the time segment of the selected return date. The table 72 also depicts the starting or lowest fares for each one of the different time segments allowing a user to decide the most appropriate time to travel giving considerations such as cost and convenience.
As shown in FIG. 5, when the airport tab 74 c is selected, the summary table has columns corresponding to destination airports and rows corresponding to origin airports.
The summary table 72 segments or compartmentalizes travel options into bins, according to criteria that the user might use to select a specific travel option. Each dimension of the table has a travel criteria associated with it (for example, a two-dimensional table would have a criterion along the horizontal rows of the table, and a criterion along the vertical columns of the table). In addition, another, different criteria is represented in the cells of the table. The process for producing a summary table, given a set of travel options and a set of criteria, is given below. For example, other criteria could be used within the interior cells or at the edges of the table.
The graphical user interface is populated by obtaining a list of query-specific travel options. For each criteria the process will enumerate bins for this criteria, and for each travel option T, the process places the travel option T into some bin. Given the bins computed the process computes intersections of bins to determine what bins go in what cells of the summary table. The process generates and displays the summary table with the determined information.
It is to be understood that while the invention has been described in conjunction with the detailed description thereof, the foregoing description is intended to illustrate and not limit the scope of the invention, which is defined by the scope of the appended claims. Other aspects, advantages, and modifications are within the scope of the following claims.
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DANIEL ISLAND, S.C. (WCIV) -- Thousands of pounds of debris washes up along Lowcountry shores every year, and one local nonprofit is taking on the task to clean it up.
Wounded Nature has spent the last three years cleaning up the shoreline -- not the popular beaches like Folly and Isle of Palms, but the ones that are forgotten.
"There are 2,900 miles of tidal coastlines in South Carolina; 141 miles of that coastline are the tourist beaches which are maintained fairly well by the city and by the state. The remaining 2,750 miles is what we look after," said Rudy Socha, CEO of Wounded Nature.
This weekend's cleanup covers a stretch along the south end of Daniel Island.
"On average we probably pick up about 30 cubic yards of debris, which can vary between 5 to 10 tons," said Socha.
Lou Winoski is the Chairman of the organization. He says the cleanups are about protecting the ecosystem.
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"What we'll find is either reduced populations of oysters and shrimp in those areas or no oysters or shrimp in those areas at all," said Socha.
Socha says he has spoken with the Department of Natural Resources and has identified islands that are in critical condition.
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MEXICO CITY, March 10 (Reuters) - Dutch brewer Heineken said on Tuesday it will invest 7.5 billion Mexican pesos ($480 million) to build a brewery in Mexico to supply U.S. and Mexican markets.
The brewery in the northern state of Chihuahua will produce five million hectoliters (132 million U.S. gallons) of beer per year, said Marc Busain, managing director of Heineken's Mexico unit Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, but that could be expanded.
Heineken is the world's third-largest brewer and its Mexican brands include Sol, Indio and Tecate. ($1 = 15.6173 Mexican pesos) (Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; Editing by James Dalgleish)


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How Yummy is Yum Brands' Valuation?
Discounted Earnings:
Analysts followed by Yahoo!Finance expect YUM! Brands, Inc. to grow earnings 12.32% per year over the next 5 years and I've assumed they can grow at 9.24% (75% of 12.32%) for the next three years and 4.50% in perpetuity. Running these numbers through a discounted earnings analysis with a 10% discount rate and summing over 30 years yields a fair value price of $84.41. This means the shares are trading at a 12.1% discount to the discounted earnings analysis.
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The Graham Number valuation method was conceived of by Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, and calculates the maximum price one should pay for a company given the earnings and book value. YUM! Brands earned $2.36 per share in fiscal year 2013 and ended with a book value per share of $4.89. The Graham Number is calculated to be $16.11, suggesting that it's overvalued by 360.5%. Since we invest for the future, let's replace the earnings per share with forward looking earnings of $3.63 for FY 2014.
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Nice valuation PIP. It's incredible that YUM's stock price has gotten up here, when you consider that every quarter the Cassandras come out in force :o) I bought McDonalds a while back on the pullback....and I look to do the same with YUM.ReplyDelete
I'm hoping for some more emerging market or China specific concerns to knock that share price down. Even better if it comes soon because the next ex-div is 4/9. I think around $70 I'd be interested but it'd be a smaller purchase to start off with. Unless it gets down into the $60's I'm not overly excited about it.
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Compelling argument to buy this company on a correction. These are some great brands overseas. I don't have any exposure to restaurants and this one is on my list. Great companies rarely get cheap, so its a matter of buying it at a fair price, which will likely still be a premium over fair value.
I'm definitely looking to buy on a correction. I think they are set up nicely to deliver some great results, both operationally and for dividend growth. Looking at both MCD and YUM was pretty surprising when I crunched the numbers on store counts. It's pretty amazing to see the growth potential they both have. I don't expect the store count numbers to get to the same ratios as they have in the US because China is going to continue to get much more densely populated meaning less stores to serve the same area. But even half of the restaurant to people ratio of the US in China/India is going to mean a heck of a lot of restaurant openings.
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Thanks for sharing. I like everything taco bell has done recently, but I do agree that the current price is not an ideal entry point. I think they have a lot of room for growth, and will definitely be looking to buy once we see a pullback.ReplyDeleteReplies
I always wondered why Taco Bell never branched into breakfast foods. I can't speak for the rest of the country, but I know here in Texas breakfast tacos are a fairly regular breakfast item. Seems like a good fit for Taco Bell but it took them a while to move that direction. I'm also looking to buy on a pullback because I think it'd be a good complement to McDonald's.
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It's hard to find value in the market today. But I'm rounding up a list of elite dividend payers to look out for when the market has a huge correction. This one is definitely on my look out list.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think YUM has excellent prospects moving forward. I'm doing a bit of the same as I'm not overly excited about putting much capital to work right now so it's the perfect time to refocus my attention towards valuations and what prices offer solid values.
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Ranchi, Aug. 30: Jharkhand High Court today issued a notice to Union minister of state for food processing Subodh Kant Sahay, seeking an explanation over the transfer of a CCL officer to the Northeastern Coalfields.
The court also stayed the transfer order of the officer, Hitesh Verma, and asked CCL management to withdraw the relieving order.
Verma had claimed that Sahay was responsible for his transfer from the state capital to Assam.
The coal officers mother had used the Right to Information Act to ask Coal India Limited (CIL) the parent of CCL to give reasons for the officers transfer.
CIL authorities had replied that Verma was being transferred because of the Union ministers orders.
Verma had annexed the letters furnished by CIL, which show the pressure exerted by the minister in transferring the officer to the Northeastern Coalfields in Assam.
The transfer order violates CIL rules.
Since Sahay was holding a position of power, Verma had stated in his petition before the high court, the minister had wanted Verma transferred because of personal reasons.
Verma also said CCL has not transferred any of its officers in E4 grade, to which he belongs, to the Assam coalfields or vice-versa in the past five years. The officer has been targeted because the Union minister has a personal grudge against him, he had said.
Verma, who is the son-in-law of Sahays sister, was earlier posted in the state capital. He has been in the eye of the storm since his wife and Sahays niece, Sanjana, died on October 13, 2004. Though it is said that Sanjana died of illness and medical reports corroborated this claim the minister and his family held the coal officer responsible for the death and have tried to implicate him in a criminal case. Verma was also sent to jail.
The coal officer was suspended from work when he was in police custody and had resumed work only after he was released from jail in 2005. Soon after that, the coal company was influenced to transfer Verma to Assam.
CCL officers said they often get VIP references for transfers but these have never been vindictive.


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Harvard educated. A brilliant researcher. Denied tenure twice, once on appeal.
So Amy Bishop, biology professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, took a handgun into a biology faculty meeting and, police say, killed three people and injured three.
Colleagues said they never saw that violence coming, which is obvious, yet, they characterize her as a social misfit.
Most associates were surprised to learn she killed her brother with blasts from a shotgun in 1986, although Massachusetts officials came to the controversial conclusion the death was an accidental homicide.
Massachusetts police reported at the time that Bishop, 19, fired a shotgun at least three times, hitting her 18-year-old brother in the chest.
Neither did colleagues know authorities questioned Bishop and her husband in a 1993 attempted mail bombing of the home of a Harvard medical professor under whom she studied. The case remains unsolved.
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Understanding Energy Buying Practices of Middle-Market Companies
An expanding array of competitive energy suppliers and alternative solution providers are stimulating and rewarding mid-market companies to pay closer attention to their energy expenditures and options. In July 2012, independent consulting firm APPI Energy surveyed 383 middle-market companies to analyze three questions regarding energy practices:
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The survey results evaluate how middle-market companies make buying decisions associated with energy solutions, and define best practices that middle-market decision makers can implement to reduce energy costs and consumption.
How frequently do middle-market companies assess their energy costs and explore alternatives?
When asked how often their organization reviews its energy expenditures, two thirds of middle-market companies report that they review their energy expenditures at least annually. Almost one quarter (22%) of middle-market companies said their evaluation is ongoing. Combined, that means three quarters of the middle market evaluates their energy costs on a regular and frequent basis.
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In deregulated energy markets, it's prudent for middle-market companies to consistently and frequently review energy costs. Energy prices are volatile and change every hour, every day. "Mid-market companies are evaluating their energy supply expenditures and selecting competitive pricing that lowers costs on an ongoing basis," explained Walter Moore, President/CEO of APPI Energy. "The potential for savings is thousands of dollars, which has a major impact on middle-market operating budgets."
Even if your business location is currently locked into a contract with a competitive energy supplier, you can lock in today's low pricing in a contract that begins when your current contract ends. Reviewing each bill to verify the accuracy of the price and contract terms and conditions is also imperative. The bottom line is that tracking energy prices, products, and services is an ongoing and necessary effort.
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Relatively few middle-market companies (less than 13%) have identified an employee as an "Energy Executive" with the primary responsibility of evaluating energy solutions/suppliers. Likewise, few middle-market Facility Managers or Office Managers drive the selection of energy solutions or suppliers. While the significance of energy expenditures varies by industry and other factors, it is clear that most middle-market companies consider energy-related decisions to be a senior executive (C-level) responsibility.
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"Developing an energy management strategy may be a daunting task for busy executives, but is vital to reducing operating costs," commented Michael S. Payne, JD, LLM, Executive Vice President & Corporate Counsel for APPI Energy. "Just like other buying decisions, executives must vet the supplier community, negotiate contract terms and conditions, and verify the accuracy of bills after the supplier contract is implemented."
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While these factors are clearly important to decision makers, their influence is limited by the absence of compelling information from a trusted provider. "When vetting competitive energy suppliers, middle-market buyers must identify meaningful differences in billing options, contract terms & conditions, and customer service availability," said Jeff Sherman, Director of Consulting for APPI Energy.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) lists a series of questions on its website for middle-market executives to ask competitive suppliers before making a buying decision. For example, is the supplier licensed by the PUC? What is the length of the agreement? When factual information regarding service reliability, billing accuracy, or contractual factors is credibly presented to decision makers, selection becomes much less dependent on price.
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The yellow ones are Extended release . They are a total of 2 mg. you can break in half of you only want to take 1mg. I take 4mg a night for about 12 years now. But I take the 1mg immediate release but have a pharmacy tech license , so on Xanax it's ok to break in half. Some XR drugs are not ok.
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Hagi Chawan by Tamamura Shogetsu
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A very attractive chawan (tea bowl), made by a master potter named Tamamura Shogetsu Tanga.
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Tamamura Shogetsu established his kiln, called Kofuan, in the city of Hagi, in 1952. One of his sons, Tamamura Shogetsu II, has inherited the kiln. His other son, Tamamura Tohyoh, is also a potter.
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MCA Denver's (not too) likable showcase of Joel Swanson and Ian Fisher
By Ray Mark Rinaldi Denver Post Fine Arts Critic
Posted: 01/26/2014 12:01:00 AM MST
Updated: 01/26/2014 11:14:33 AM MST
"Atmosphere No. 38, 2012," oil on canvas, by Ian Fisher.
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Artists don't want to be liked too much. A little fawning, that's just fine, especially if it leads to selling work. But anything close to widespread appeal can ruin a career, and fast.
Contemporary artists are expected to challenge the way we think and see, to make us uncomfortable, not win us over with warmth. Like IRS auditors, journalists and beauty-contest judges, we want them to call out the ugly, expose the truth at the expense of personal popularity.
So, with some caution I encourage you to enjoy the work of Joel Swanson and Ian Fisher, each with a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. But resist its ability to make you very happy.
The title of Joel Swanson's 2011 "Lady Gaga's Twitter Feed Translated into Morse Code," explains the piece well. A peanut-size beacon flashes what the pop singer puts out on social media.
(Provided by Museum of Contemporary Art Denver)
The artists work differently, but both offer a raw delight. Fisher, because his paintings of giant clouds colliding in the skies tend to knock people out with their beauty. Swanson, because his plays on language use plain English and deliver a solid punch line.
Of course, both minds run deeper than they first appear; their humor and good looks are a byproduct of their attempts to give us a shake. Each invites the same sort of delamination, and you can see why MCA curator Nora Burnett Abrams made the user-friendly choice of exhibiting them at the same time.
Swanson's "Left to Right, Top to Bottom" plays out like a crossword puzzle. The artist gives us a word or symbol, then a clue, and lets us take it from there. He hangs a 3-foot, sideways "V" from the ceiling and sets it rotating on its string. As soon as you make it out to mean "greater than" it spins around into "less than." Language, we come to understand, is fluid, unstable and we interpret it from our own point of view.
For "Sincerely," he simply isolates that single word — a cursive sign-off from an actual hand-written letter — and blows it up to fill a full, 36-foot wall in the museum. Does its size make it more sincere or less? Does it have any meaning at all at such proportion?
It isn't just words Swanson explores but the way language itself is assembled over time. His " Lady Gaga's Twitter Feed Translated into Morse Code," delivers the pop star's actual social-media messages via a bullet-size beacon, set on a waist-high podium, that flashes on and off in real time. In a de-evolution of languages, ones and zeroes become dots and dashes and we see how communication takes on structure.
Ian Fisher's "Atmosphere No. 50 (Follow You Into the Dark), 2014." Oil on canvas, 72 x 96 in.
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These aren't deep thoughts necessarily. Like a lot of conceptual art, once you get the gist of a Swanson work, the thrill dissipates. All that flashing, spinning, writing requires a lot of effort to deliver a single thunk. This is where its likability comes close to taking it all down.
But Swanson is a complex thinker, and the accumulation of objects here adds up to a deep and enjoyable trip through an unusual mind. At 35, he's built an impressive résumé, which includes his current job as Director of the Technology, Arts & Media Program at the University of Colorado in Boulder, as interesting and complicated a place as you will find.
His work is just weird enough to keep you on edge, and the grand effort required to present it makes it both complete and compelling. For "Ampersand," Swanson hand-wrote the "&" character 25,000 times in a grid directly on the wall. It's a marvel of human labor and a rich consideration of an everyday symbol that goes on & on & on & on. All at once, language is a pattern, a drawing, interpretable, mysterious and thrilling.
Fisher's thrills take less brain power, but require a longer look. He paints clouds in turbulent, skyscapes full of color, puff, swirl and organic drama. Clouds knock into clouds, sharing, overlaying, infiltrating each other's airspace. This is nothing you want to see during takeoff or landing at DIA, but tamed and contained on large canvases, it can be stunning.
Joel Swanson's "Sincerely," stretches about 36 feet along the wall of the Museum of Contemporary Art. In the foreground at right is the piece "Ampersand," consisting of 25,000 ampersands that the artist hand-wrote directly on the wall.
(Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post)
This work has a commercial side that makes it suspect. The MCA shows a lot of art, and almost none of it is as pretty as Fisher's. Not yet 30, the painter is already repped by prestigious Robischon Gallery. His oil paintings have a Western, big-sky quality that fetches serious money in these parts.
But ordinary painters don't end up at the MCA or on Robischon's roster. Fisher takes us into the deep space of our heads by pairing the categorical with the abstract. His "Atmosphere No. 50" combines true clouds of white, orange and blue with almost artificial, black, cloud-like shapes. In "Atmosphere No. 51" he focuses on too much sky, commanding a look at the bigger picture above us.
He lets drips of paint turn the canvas unpleasant for "Atmosphere No. 35," creating an abrupt, fasten-your-seatbelt moment that reminds us we are looking at a painting and not a photograph — at art and not an advertisement for air travel.
In the same way that Swanson wows us with effort, Fisher interrupts our peaceful journey by showing his own hand. Stopping the natural affability of his scenery in its tracks, adding a layer of wonder and interest.
Viewers will fawn over both shows, until they don't, and the place where they stop will determine just how good they think this work is. Likability in the eyes of the beholder, just where it ought to be.
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July 1st, 2014, 10:46 AM #1
Finding advertisers who do vouchers/coupons in CJ, Linkshare
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Hey guys,
This might sound like a really stupid question but I was just wondering if anyone can help me. Currently using Commission Junction and Linkshare and I need to find advertisers who do vouchers/coupons promotion.
Does anyone know an easy way when searching for advertisers to filter them so I just see a list of advertisers who offer coupons/voucher promotion?
It'd be a major help, thank you all!
July 2nd, 2014, 02:18 AM #2
Neither network to my knowledge has a coupon filter. You're going to have to read the terms.
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Okay thank you, anything in particular I should look out for in the terms with regards to coupons/vouchers?
July 2nd, 2014, 04:21 AM #4
For CJ, what kind of works, is to log in and click on Advertisers, type in "coupons" in the keywords box, then select "No Relationship" under status and whatever other filters that you want. Then select "search" and you will get a list of advertisers that mention it in their descriptions.
They may mention it as in.. they don't do coupons.. so you then have to click on the logo/name to open up the terms. I do about 20 at a time. Then do a page search of the word coupon and that helps you scan the terms quickly for each advertiser.
Hope this helps.
July 2nd, 2014, 04:26 AM #5
In Linkshare, do you know what the BentoBox is?
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Hi thank you, that's what I have ended up doing! And yeah does that find voucher/coupon advertisers before you apply to them though? I thought it was just for getting voucher codes from sites you've applied too but I could be wrong
July 2nd, 2014, 04:31 AM #7
Oops. The BentoBox only shows you your Advertiser's coupons. Sorry
July 2nd, 2014, 04:31 AM #8
One final last resort..lol
Go to retailmenot and click through their advertisers.
Make a list of the ones with actual coupons. Not just links
July 2nd, 2014, 04:34 AM #9
When you go to their main page, select Browse>Coupon Codes and you'll see the list.
That would probably be your fastest solution.
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