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Adizan Abdullah Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) Consultant Adizan Abdullah (CRO) is a British entrepreneur, Google Partner, experienced and certified conversion rate optimization expert. Web analyst, a certified online tester, and certified unique value proposition developer too. About my work: RESULTS COUNT! So does giving your very best … more Adizan Abdullah (CRO) is a British entrepreneur, Google Partner, experienced and certified conversion rate optimization expert. Web analyst, a certified online tester, and certified unique value proposition developer too. About my work: RESULTS COUNT! So does giving your very best....that's why I provide a very unique one-to-one personalized service. I am experienced, accredited and certified thus I do GUARANTEE all my work. If I don't meet your target, then you don't pay - simple as that! Born RAF (H) Wegberg, Germany, and raised, educated in the north-midlands of England. Now spends time residing in Borneo, Malaysia, and South East Asia. Here to help...with a quick turnaround, very friendly, yet, discreet and confidential, so please click on the contact button above and lets talk. With over 14 years experience in providing safe, effective and proven CRO/PPC/SEM/SEO analytical solutions that help clients meet, or exceed their own goals and objectives - guaranteed! Contact me for a comprehensive list of my accreditation's, certifications and accolades @conversionbreakthrough.com I offer a unique one-to-one conversion rate optimization (CRO) service, and consultancy, aimed at increasing conversions and or sales, while reducing your advertising costs for; International online-offline SMEs and SMBs in both the B2B & B2C sectors. You can get expert conversion rate optimization (CRO) results, or instant consultative advice from a certified consultant on both; technical, and commercial matters. Within the following sectors: - Conbversion rate optimization - Conversion auditing - Conversion modeling - Conversion mapping - Goal definition - Goal setting - KPIs - Conversion tracking - Landing page optimization - Full site optimization - Usability testing - eCommerce - Checkout optimization - Sales funnel optimization - Reducing cart abandonment - Persuasion architecture - Online testing - Split testing - A/B MVT Testing - Test validity methods and or protocols - Heat-mapping and gaze plotting - Web analytics - Tag manager - Detailed site and competitor analysis - Site speed, improving your page load time And much more... AdWords plus BingAds professional too. Certified in all three Adwords disciplines [search, display, reporting & analysis]. BTW I am "Adwords Enhanced Campaigns" fully compliant, with MCC access. Along with Google Analytics individually certified too Here to help, with a fast turnaround, you can talk with me anytime. I have an array of research, testing, and analysis facilities. I am able to give you real-time data, information, results about your company, your competitors, and your market too. Before you contact me;please remember, I am here to help, so as much information that you can prepare in advance, will only help me...to help you :) Verticals include: agencies, automotive, businesses, celebrities, charity and NGOs, computers, consumer goods, eCommerce, education, electronics, entertainment, financial services, food and beverage, governmental, healthcare, home and garden, hospitality, hotel and accommodation, industrial, industry, insurance, legal, logistics, manufacturing, marine, media, nonprofit, occasions, oil and gas, gifts, politics, recruitment, retail, softwares, telecommunications, tourism, transportation, travel... I can help you too Get instant expert (CRO) advice from a certified conversion rate optimization consultant. Thank you for taking the time to read my profile, and I do look forward to talking with you soon :) less google-adwords advertising on-page-optimization ab-testing web-testing functional-testing msn-adcenter seo-keyword-research market-research pay-per-click seo sem marketing-strategy google-analytics ecommerce-consulting 00 more less $100.00 HOURLY RATE 5.0 7 HOURS MALAYSIA LAST ACTIVE Feb. 18 2014 0 PORTFOLIO ITEMS 1 TEST
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David Crowther Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) | Landing Pages | PPC | Copywriting ★ I offer a '100% Money Back Guarantee' – I'll pay you back 100% of your money if your conversion rate doesn't increase relatively by 15% or more. ★ That's how confident I am that I'll increase your conversion … more ★ I offer a '100% Money Back Guarantee' – I'll pay you back 100% of your money if your conversion rate doesn't increase relatively by 15% or more. ★ That's how confident I am that I'll increase your conversion rate, be it for lead generation or direct sales. I've had success across many different industries and work with both start ups and established companies. If you looking to sell more products, increase sign ups to your email list, add more subscribers to your membership site and ultimately grow your revenue, I can help. Over time I've put together a group of specialized contractors, each an expert in their field of UX design, development and PPC, that compliment my core services allowing me to provide a complete solution to my clients. Let's chat if you're looking to: ✓ Overhaul an existing landing page to increase its conversion rate ✓ Pinpoint and plug the leaks in your sales funnel ✓ Write a series of emails for a drip feed campaign ✓ Turnaround an under-performing PPC campaign ✓ Design Google friendly landing pages for your next PPC campaign ✓ Track and optimize an email marketing campaign from start to finish ✓ Redesign your website following best practices in usability and conversion rate optimization. My core experience (over 16 years) is in: - Conversion rate optimization - Landing page optimization - Copywriting - Unbounce landing pages - Wordpress landing pages - A/B testing - Split testing - Multivariate testing - Email marketing strategy - Email copywriting - Email autoresponders - User experience / UX / UI - Usability testing - Information architecture / IA - Wireframes / wireframing - Project management I have experience with the following services/tools as a Conversion Rate Optimization expert: - Mixpanel, Clicky, ClickTail, KISSMetrics, CrazyEgg, Google Analytics and Segment.io - Optimizely and Visual Website Optimizer - Wufoo, Formstack, SurveyMonkey and Qualaroo (formally KISSInsights) - MailChimp, Awebber, GetResponse and Campaign Monitor - Intercom.io and Customer.io Check out http://www.davidcrowther.com to learn more about me and my experience. So, click on the big 'Contact' button in the top right of this page and let's see if we can work together. Kind regards, David Crowther Conversion Rate Optimization & Landing Page Optimization Consultant P.S. My consultancy services are currently in high demand. As such, there is currently a 2 - 3 week waiting period once the job has been awarded. If your job is high priority or has a deadline, contact me to discuss my Express Service where the job will be completed within one week of the job awarded and deposit paid. less ui-design web-design copywriting ab-testing usability-testing email-marketing internet-marketing marketing-strategy ecommerce-consulting sem ppc-advertising google-adwords msn-adcenter inbound-marketing strategic-planning business-analysis information-architecture wire-framing google-analytics website-wireframing internet-surveys direct-marketing lead-generation omnigroup-omnigraffle microsoft-visio sales selling quantitative-analysis 00 more less $100.00 HOURLY RATE 4.8 190 HOURS UNITED KINGDOM LAST ACTIVE March 10 2014 16 PORTFOLIO ITEMS 1 TEST
Bilash S. Ruby On Rails | TDD | jQuery | J2EE | Server Expert Over the last 5 years, I have developed a wide range of websites using JAVA, ROR, and MySQL including sites for start up companies and small businesses. Watch my work at http://www.akhoni.com http://www.pazienti.net http … more Over the last 5 years, I have developed a wide range of websites using JAVA, ROR, and MySQL including sites for start up companies and small businesses. Watch my work at http://www.akhoni.com http://www.pazienti.net http://www.pazienti.it http://www.rethai.com http://www.branderapp.com https://www.pivotpi.com http://www.glider.io I am seeking opportunities to build websites from the ground up for you or your business. My Stackoverflow profile : http://www.stackoverflow.com/users/838180/bilash-saha less ruby-on-rails ruby j2ee mysql sphinx nginx apache-administration rackspace-cloudservers oauth ssh jquery ajax scrum agile-software-development ab-testing memcached varnish-cache spring-framework jboss-seam html xhtml css javascript richfaces hibernate oracle-database birt ssl paypal-api paypal-integration payment-gateway-integration amazon-ec2 amazon-s3 amazon-web-services 00 more less $40.00 HOURLY RATE 5.0 3153 HOURS BANGLADESH LAST ACTIVE Feb. 24 2014 7 PORTFOLIO ITEMS 3 TESTS GROUPS: Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Professionals Network 00 more less ASSOCIATED WITH: BSquare Technologies 00 more less
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Aakash T. Pioneer in Software, Websites, iOS & Android apps QA & Testing, JIRA As a Software Quality Consultant, Business Analyst and Project Manager for Startup teams and small business owners, I offer valuable support for your online projects. Critical conversations with users, frequent status updates and well-written documentation for all stakeholders is key … more As a Software Quality Consultant, Business Analyst and Project Manager for Startup teams and small business owners, I offer valuable support for your online projects. Critical conversations with users, frequent status updates and well-written documentation for all stakeholders is key for any successful project launch. With ten years of management and organizational experience in operations environments with software and web development teams, I add great value to your project. By strategizing, implementing and delegating your more complex project milestones, you can continue focusing on driving your business forward. Service Description My experience assisting a great number of international and local project teams, allows me to provide a new perspective on your web development or operational change project. I understand the need for flexibility and am passionate about my work so it often bleeds over into my weekend. My greatest strength is in anticipating the needs of my client in order to allow them greater flexibility in their primary function. Professional goals include networking with web professionals, gaining experience in development and design trends and staying current with technical knowledge. Here are a few of my strengths and accomplishments that will help you get ahead: - Thorough organization skills and follow-up initiative - Keen judgment in working with clients in order to anticipate schedule changes, needs and potential improvements. - Strong customer support skills and proficiency at documenting and resolving website bugs with development. - Creative communication style with market appropriate tone for writing articles, scheduling status updates and linking social networks in order to build a strong online presence. - Ability to draft procedures, policy communications and weekly Excel reports in order to maintain updated project status for the team. - Coordinator of web projects first by building customer requirements and then by working with developers and designers to accomplish tasks and milestones by deadline. - Use case creator for functionality testing of web projects to ensure delivery of well-executed projects to the customer. - High comfort level in managing clients using various tools including Gmail, MS Project, JIRA, Atrium. - Preference in using Windows with several different browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera etc. - Familiarity and access to Windows operating system for occasional testing within Internet Explorer. - I have great expertise in testing .Net, PHP (Drupal, Magento, Wordpress), Mobile applications less software-testing manual-testing atlassian-jira hp-quality-center functional-testing black-box-testing penetration-testing database-testing regression-testing usability-testing user-acceptance-testing project-management microsoft-project risk-management mantis defect-tracking microsoft-excel microsoft-word microsoft-powerpoint test-automation test-case-design ab-testing game-testing software-qa-testing web-testing unit-testing ecommerce-consulting testng-framework web-content-management website-development wp-ecommerce website-prototyping administrative-support english-tutoring pos-terminal-development automated-testing requirement-management requirements-analysis selenium selenium-webdriver load-testing performance-testing agile-software-development internet-marketing 00 more less $11.11 HOURLY RATE 4.4 39 HOURS INDIA LAST ACTIVE March 11 2014 34 PORTFOLIO ITEMS 17 TESTS GROUPS: BigCommerce BoonEx Corona Labs LoginRadius PHPFox 00 more less ASSOCIATED WITH: AbhaySoft 00 more less
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Reason2Race provides you, athletes of all levels, the opportunity to enhance your race experience. We invite you to pick one event this season to be the one that challenges you to reach your next performance goal while making a difference in your local and global communities. If you are looking to take your event participation to a new level, choose a Reason2Race, and experience how supporting others supports you in reaching and exceeding your athletic goals! Read athlete stories here.
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Pumpkin Morning, Noon and Night: An Exercise in Seasonality Disorder
By Carolyn Alburger on November 07, 2011 4:00 PM
We've broached seasonality disorder once or twice in the past. Maybe you experience it while biting into a peach on a cold August day. Or perhaps you really get that Twilight Zone feeling after seeing roasted asparagus (topped with an egg of some sort?) on menu after menu after menu after menu during the spring. Now that it's November, pumpkins and squashes explodeth all over the place, but—blessedly—their versatility keeps us guessing.
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Padilla named Opening Day starter | dodgers.com: News
Padilla named Opening Day starter | dodgers.com: News
Geez this season is going to suck out loud.
Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Bullets are cheap. Life is priceless.
I wonder if part of Torre's thinking is to make a statement to Ned and upper management, essentially saying "Hey, as we currently stand I'm forced to go with a guy like Padilla for opening day. Get me a real #1 starter!"
Torre doesn't seem manipulative, but this could be a subtle dig at the Dodgers lack of pursuing a top of the rotation arm this offseason. Of course I'm probably reading too much into this.
I think it's just that Torre has been around long enough that opening day is just another game on the schedule, and since there isn't a clear ace, you might as well just get your matchups the best you can. Especially since it's a road game.
Eric Stults is heading to Japan, as the Dodgers are finalizing a sale of the left-hander to the Hiroshima Carp.
Dodgers' Eric Stults headed to Japan, sources say | Dodgers Blog | Los Angeles Times
Dodgers' ownership issue won't be resolved until end of season - latimes.comA Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner sets date of Aug. 30 for beginning of trial to determine whether Frank McCourt or estranged wife Jamie McCourt owns the team. The trial is expected to last until end of September.
Kenny G Around the Horn : Repko Released; Stults Cleared to LeaveThe Dodgers released outfielder Jason Repko Wednesday, saving $375,000 of his $500,000 salary. Repko had been passed on the outfield depth chart by Xavier Paul.


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Feuds, lawsuits, criminal charges embroil Clinton County town of Peru
Peru, NY, Apr 13, 2009 — Small-town politics can be a tough business. Feuds over local taxes and skirmishes for control of village boards can be every bit as nasty as the political fights in Albany or Washington DC. But the rancor that has enveloped in the town of Peru, in Clinton County, is in a class by itself. For nearly four years, town supervisor Donald Covel has battled openly with members of his town board. There have been public shouting matches, a recall effort, and a flurry of costly lawsuits. Covel is now facing criminal charges of official misconduct and abuse of power. As Brian Mann reports, many locals say the rancor and bitterness have crippled their local government.


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The Cobber's Companion: How to Build Your Own Earthen HomeMichael G. SmithISBN:9780966373806Publisher:Cob CottagePublication Date:1999Binding:SoftcoverSynopsis: More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings Other editions: Softcover - 2002, Softcover - 2001, Softcover - 2001, Hardcover - 1998, Softcover - 1994, Softcover - 1994, Softcover - 1993, 1990, Hardcover - 1989, Softcover - 1980 |
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Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhDDr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications. Medical Editor:
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The second syllable of fountain can be /I/or /ə/ or somewhere between.
In the below exercise, the word fountain is placed under the/I/ sound, but it is pronounced like this /faʊntən/.
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Why is it placed under the /I/ sound?
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The second syllable of fountain can be /I/or /ə/ or somewhere between.
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I'd always pronounce it with an /I/, never /faʊntən/
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The Nebraska Public Power District is making contingency plans in case another brutally hot summer threatens its system.
Last year, the utility had to curtail electrical service and solicit voluntary reductions because of the strain caused by Nebraska's hottest and driest summer on record.
The utility will spend between $4.7 million and $7.9 million renting and installing mobile diesel generators at five sites across north-central Nebraska.
Each site will be able to generate up to 8 megawatts of additional electricity.
Besides installing temporary generators, the utility is improving portions of the transmission line between the Battle Creek and North Norfolk substations.
One of the reasons NPPD was strained by last summer's unusually intense drought is that it provides most of the electricity needed to run Nebraska agriculture's irrigation systems.
More than 30 times last summer, NPPD exceeded its previous high for electricity generation. The old record of 2,671 megawatts was set July 30, 2006.
Last summer, demand peaked about 13 percent higher, at 3,030 megawatts on July 25.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For all of his liberal positions on the environment, taxes and health care, President Barack Obama has proved to be a hawk when it comes to fighting terrorism.
From deadly drones and secret interrogations to withholding evidence in terrorism lawsuits, the Democrat has followed the path of his predecessor, Republican President George W. Bush. The U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, remains open despite Obama's pledge to close it, and his administration has pursued leaks of classified information to reporters even more aggressively than did Bush's.
''They have maintained momentum in a lot of important areas that we were focused on, and they've continued to build in those areas,'' said Ken Wainstein, the White House homeland security adviser and a top Justice Department lawyer under Bush. ''You can see an appreciation for the severity of the threat, the need to stand up to it, and the need to go on offense at times.''
This past week's confirmation hearing for Obama's nominee to lead the CIA showed just how much Washington — Democrats especially — has come to accept the same counterterrorism policies that drew such furor in the first years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
John Brennan, Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, refused to say that waterboarding was a form of torture but he called it ''reprehensible'' and said he would not allow it if he were CIA director. He also said he didn't know whether any valuable information was gathered as a result. His testimony was received by a mostly friendly panel of senators, and his confirmation is expected to move forward soon.
In October 2007, by contrast, Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, called waterboarding ''repugnant'' but also refused to say whether it was torture. His confirmation was delayed for three weeks and nearly derailed.
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama has stopped or softened a number of Bush's security tactics, including ending harsh interrogations, closing secret prisons and, overall, trying to be more transparent about counterterrorism policy. But he noted that Obama has delivered on his campaign promises to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, take the battle to al-Qaida in Pakistan and Yemen before its members can attack the U.S., and to end the war in Iraq.
''Yes, we're still fighting al-Qaida, but I think there are very few people who would take issue with that,'' Vietor said Friday. ''This president does what he says he's going to do, and I think that's noticed around the world.''
Obama's embrace of many of Bush's counterterrorism policies did not hurt him in his re-election bid last year. In one key rejection of Bush's legacy, Obama repeatedly has said he believes waterboarding — the interrogation tactic that simulates drowning — is torture and illegal and that it will not be used under his watch.
But Brennan, a career CIA officer who has been Obama's counterterrorism adviser since 2009, told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that because he was not a lawyer he could not answer whether he personally believes waterboarding is torture. The CIA waterboarded at least three al-Qaida detainees before the tactic was banned in 2006.
The parallels between Obama's and Bush's security policies were on sharp display in the run-up to Brennan's hearing, At issue was the use of unmanned drones to kill suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens, overseas.
A newly surfaced Justice Department memo from 2012 outlined the Obama administration's decision to kill al-Qaida suspects without evidence that specific and imminent plots were being planned against the United States. At Thursday's hearing, Brennan defended the missile strikes by the drones, saying they are used only against people who are considered active threats to the U.S. — and never as retribution for earlier attacks.
In a way that Bush did not, Obama has sought congressional approval of laws that he then uses as the basis of many of the counterterrorism policies he has carried over from his Republican predecessor. He successfully lobbied Congress three times to renew the USA Patriot Act, the 2001 law that lets the government put roving wiretaps on U.S. citizens' phones with a secret court order and obtain other personal and financial records with no judicial approval at all.
White House spokesman Jay Carney defended the strikes as legal under a 2001 law authorizing the use of military force against al-Qaida. CIA drones also have been used in attacks, including the 2011 killing in Yemen of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric with suspected ties to at least three attacks planned or carried out on U.S. soil: the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting that claimed 13 lives in 2009, a failed attempt to down a Detroit-bound airliner the same year and a thwarted plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010.Continued...


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AMR and US Airways unveiled an USD$11 billion merger deal after months of negotiations, creating the world's biggest airline with 6,700 flights a day.Now comes the hard part. Before they can welcome their first passenger onboard they have to get regulators to sign off on a deal and then integrate a web of intricate systems - a process that has complicated other marriages in the airline industry."So far it's just been pushing paper," said aviation analyst Robert Mann. "The next 18 to 24 months is the hard work of implementation."In addition to integrating the two companies' work forces, they will need to meld together infrastructure, IT, real estate and commercial systems, he said.Integrating the airlines' reservations systems is a big challenge, said Basili Alukos, a Morningstar airline analyst. He said the previous US Airways and America West merger was "one of the worst" integrations in the industry, but that US Airways has likely learned from that experience."It seems as if (American-US Airways) has the benefit of history on its side," Alukos said, adding that the new American can also learn from the growing pains of Delta-Northwest and United Continental.United Continental made a number of changes following its 2010 merger, including converting to a new computer reservations system.As it shifted to a single reservations system and implemented other new processes, on-time arrivals suffered and mishandled baggage rates went up. United said in January that customer satisfaction scores were improving.US Airways chief executive Doug Parker, who will head the newly merged company, said his experience with America West was a plus."Integrating airlines can be difficult sometimes, but we've (already) done one at US Airways," he said. "We know what to do and know what mistakes to avoid."Workforce integration could also be a challenge for the new American, where union representation issues will need to be resolved."The good news is the people they have in the unions now are trying to work with the company," said Darryl Jenkins, chairman of the American Aviation Institute in Washington. "I think they will be able to get through... issues reasonably quickly now."ALL-STOCK DEALThe deal, subject to approvals from US and European regulators, the US Bankruptcy Court, gives creditors of the bankrupt American Airlines' parent control of the combined airline.US Air's management team, led by Parker, will assume operational control of the airline, while AMR creditors will own 72 percent of the combined carrier and take five seats on the 12-member board.US Airways will have four seats on the board. The remaining seats will be filled by AMR representatives.Tom Horton, who became AMR's chief executive when it filed for bankruptcy, will serve as chairman of the combined airline until the first annual meeting of shareholders, after which Parker will take over."It has been the most successful airline restructuring in history, and we had been very focused from the outset on creating the most value for our owners," Horton said.WORLD'S BIGGESTThe new combined airline, which will carry the American Airlines name, will be 2 percent larger than current No. 1 United Continental in terms of traffic - the number of miles flown by paying passengers worldwide.The merger, could help speed up the recovery of the US airline industry as carriers will have more room to boost fares as yet another competitor is eliminated."Wall Street has been enamoured of consolidation from an industry perspective because it will help control capacity," said George Hamlin, president of Hamlin Transportation Consulting. "But I'm not sure being large for its own sake is going to guarantee success. A lot of pieces need to be put together. A lot of pieces will need to be shed."The new American will be based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. Parker has long advocated industry consolidation and began pursuing a merger in early 2012.Parker, 51, the longest-serving CEO of a major US airline, kick-started the industry's consolidation wave when his America West bought US Airways out of bankruptcy in 2005.Horton's role had been one of the last sticking points for a deal, people familiar with the situation said, with AMR's board pushing for a bigger role for him."Tom Horton and his team did not want this a few months ago," said Hamlin. "But they are realistic and saw that this is what they needed to do."The tie-up is the fourth major merger in the US airline industry since 2008, when Delta Air Lines bought Northwest. United and Continental merged in 2010, and Southwest Airlines bought discount rival AirTran in 2011.The new, larger American Airlines would return to the top of the pile among US carriers that it ceded in recent years as high labour costs made it difficult to compete with restructured rivals.The standalone American is currently third in terms of traffic behind United and Delta, both of which used Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to cut costs and find merger partners.A combined American-US Airways would have revenue of about USD$39 billion, based on 2012 figures, ahead of United Continental, which had revenue of about USD$37 billion.DEAL DRIVERSUS Airways stockholders will receive one share of common stock of the combined airline for each US Airways share, the companies said in a statement.US Airways shareholders will get 28 percent of the equity of the combined airline. The remaining 72 percent will be issuable to stakeholders of AMR and its debtor subsidiaries, American's unions and current AMR employees."American work groups may be taking a little bit of a pay cut... (while) US Airways work groups, on the other hand, will probably get a pay raise," Avondale Partners analyst Fred Lowrance said.Unions representing the carriers' pilots, flight attendants and ground service workers said they support the deal, while the machinists union said its new contracts must be completed before it supports the merger.The two companies said they expect USD$1.2 billion in one-time transition costs, spread over the next three years.Annual savings from the merger should grow to more than USD$1 billion by 2015, the companies said. Source: Reuters
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Mary Wassermann, ARLIS/NA Co-Chair
John Taormina is the outgoing
VRA Co-Chair, a new Co-Chair will be appointed.
Mary Wassermann is ARLIS/NA
Co-Chair duties as of August
The remaining task force
members are listed at the end of the report.
Previous Reports
A progress report was submitted
in August 2002 to the ARLIS/NA Executive Board.
A press release announcing the
postponement of the Institute was released in Fall 2002.
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develop an infrastructure and curriculum for a week-long summer institute of
continuing education in image collection/visual resources management; to
negotiate instructors and teaching materials for the institute; and to arrange
its first venue and program schedule at Rice University (Houston, Texas) for
early summer 2004.
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outside funding possibilities and to begin working on initial tasks of the
remaining project plan, Phases 3-7.
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is being considered to more effectively implement the remaining work phases.
John Taormina, the current Co-Chair for VRA will be stepping down from
his post and Elisa Lanzi, VRA President, is recruiting for a replacement.
A small gathering of Task Force
members met with members of both Executive Boards in Baltimore at the ARLIS/NA
conference in March 2003. Among
discussion of many issues related to the Summer Institute, it was agreed that a
formal agreement between both organizations be established.
A report of the Baltimore meeting was written by ARLIS/NA Co-Chair Mary
Wassermann, which outlines other parts of the discussion.
Issues for the Executive
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2. Board input on implementing
the remaining phases of the JETF
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both organizations on structure and remaining phases of
4. Suggestions and support for
funding possibilities.
Current Task Force Members
listed below:
Mary Wassermann, Co-Chair, ARLIS/NA, Philadelphia
Museum of Art
John Taormina, Co-Chair, VRA, Duke University
Mikki Carpenter, Museum of Modern Art
Debra Cox, University of Washington
Eileen Fry, Indiana University
Leigh Gates, Art Institute of Chicago
Paula Hardin, University of North Carolina/Chapel
David Hogge, Freer-Sackler Gallery
Martha Mahard, Harvard University
Mark Pompelia, Rice University
Margaret Webster, Cornell University
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While I was in Tasmania I shot some promo images for Diamonds Of Burlesque.
Bec, the owner of the troupe has a character called Sergeant Sparkles and this is her all ready to command the troops and civilians.
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Cool shot! I had a flash back to the movie Sucker Punch!
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Fantastic image…
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great shot. I would follow her command
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she is in charge, that much is for sure
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Windows revenue up, but not because of Windows 8, say analysts
Computerworld - Revenue at Microsoft's Windows division was up 11% in the fourth quarter of 2012, bucking the long-running trend where the company's OS sales have mirrored PC sales.
But the unexpected results, which made Windows the company's top revenue-producing group for the first time since 2009, did little to answer the question on analysts' tongues: How did Windows 8 perform in its first sales test?
"I heard absolutely nothing on how Windows 8 is doing," said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. "I have to believe it's because it's not an impressive number. If it was, there would be horns being blown at the top of the buildings in Redmond."
That silence may speak volumes. By most accounts, Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system has not provided the sales "pop" to the PC industry that a new edition has typically delivered -- a sign many have read as trouble for Windows 8 specifically and Microsoft overall. In the fourth quarter of 2009, for instance, when Microsoft launched Windows 7, the company recorded $6.9 billion in Windows revenue, a 28% increase over the prior year.
This upgrade cycle, Windows' revenue was $5.9 billion, representing a 24% increase over the same period in 2011, or an 11% jump after adjustments for early sales of Windows 8 and a $15 upgrade offer to buyers of new computers.
But as both numbers were at odds with estimates of PC sales, which research firm IDC recently pegged as down 6.4% for the quarter, analysts struggled to parse Windows 8's execution.
"It was all kind of confusing," acknowledged Bob O'Donnell, an analyst with IDC in an interview Friday, of the revenue upswing in the face of declining PC sales. Windows revenue typically syncs with PC shipments; as the latter rise and fall, so do sales of Windows licenses.
Microsoft executives did tell Wall Street analysts last week that the company had sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses, but that milestone had actually been announced weeks earlier. And as is its practice, Microsoft did not separate Windows 8 revenue from the division's total, which also included sales of Windows 7 and the new Surface RT tablet.
In last Thursday's earnings call, Microsoft CFO Peter Klein explained how the Windows division outperformed the PC market.
"The three biggest components of the 11% total revenue growth were the retail upgrades, the sales of the Surface [RT tablet] and then multi-year licensing agreements within enterprises," said Klein in the question-and-answer part of the earnings call.
Klein also admitted what he called "some tailwind" from sales of Windows licenses -- presumably Windows 8 licenses to computer makers known as OEMs for "original equipment manufacturers" -- that have been installed on new machines that remain unsold.
"There was some tailwind from inventory, which was ... within the healthy range that we typically see," said Klein. "But the three big impacts, all up, on the Windows revenue were the retail upgrades, sales of Surface and the enterprise annuity business."
O'Donnell was skeptical, and believed that the "tailwind" Klein downplayed was really the driving factor in Windows' revenue upswing.
"Our sense is that the [OEM] build [numbers] going into Windows 8 were relatively high, and that there is a lot of remaining inventory because sell-through was relatively modest," said O'Donnell, echoing other analysts who argued that fourth-quarter PC sales were sluggish at best. "They sold more [licenses] than OEMs needed."
Moorhead wasn't buying it.
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Cain is addressing the Family Foundation's annual fundraising gala in Richmond. He signed copies of his latest book, "This is Herman Cain: My Journey to the White House," earlier in Lynchburg.
Cain, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO, is trying to emerge from a crowded field of GOP contenders led for now by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
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Euro 2012 Tactics - Poland
ESPN's look at the plans of Poland this summer
The Manager - Franciszek Smuda
This 63-year-old was appointed to replace Leo Beenhakker in the autumn of 2009, as he finally landed the national team job after featuring on short-lists for the job several times in previous years.
A former defender with Legia Warsaw and a string of former NASL sides in the United States - he was once a team-mate of George Best at the Los Angeles Aztecs - Smuda has enjoyed considerable success coaching Polish outfits, notably winning domestic league crowns with Widzew Lodz (1996 and 1997) and Wisla Krakow (1999) and the national cup with Lech Poznan (2009). His finest hour came in 1996 as he led Widzew to the group stages of the Champions League, a feat no Polish club manager has achieved since.
Often criticised for overdosing on experimentation, for failing to come up with a settled line-up quickly enough, Smuda likes to ring the tactical changes during a match, though he can be rather scattergun in his decision- making.
Sometimes his intuition pays off; on other occasions it backfires horribly and he has been under fire in from some quarters in the run-up to Euro 2012. Some of his critics are waiting for him to fail.
The Captain - Jakub Blaszczykowski
A bullish and incisive right-winger who very much leads from the front, full of energy and desire and totally committed to the cause, 'Kuba' has played a vital part in Borussia Dortmund's domination of the Bundesliga over the last two seasons.
His confidence could not be higher right now. Poland have three 'Dortmunder' (Blaszczkowski, full-back Lukasz Piszczek and striker Robert Lewandowski) in their first eleven and their mental strength and winning abilities will be vital to the national team's cause this summer.
Aged 26, the Daniel Craig lookalike is much more consistent than he was in his younger days, more of a team player and he certainly has the respect of his colleagues in the squad and it seems as if this a tournament made for the exuberant Blaszczykowski, who has been cashing on his national celebrity status by enthusiastically dealing with his numerous media and commercial obligations ahead of Euro 2012.
The Formation
In his 32 months in charge, Franciszek Smuda has gone through the tactical card, toying with a 4-4-2 - which star front-man Robert Lewandowski publicly was pushing for - a 'Christmas Tree' 4-3-2-1 and 4-1-4-1 featuring just one midfield holder.
Unfortunately the tinkering has produced little in the way of tangible improvements and on their own patch this summer, Poland are almost certain to line-up in a 4-2-3-1, the only formation the players seem comfortable with.
Smuda's aim is to have his side press high up the pitch and take a 'best foot forward' approach, going on the offensive with bursts of quick one-touch passing. Up against the top-class likes of a Spain, Germany or Holland, a cautious, counter-attacking game undoubtedly would have been the order of the day for the Poles, but in a first-round group widely considered the weakest of the entire championships (Greece, Czech Republic and Russia), Smuda's young side will need no prompting to pick up the gauntlet.
Wingplay is absolutely fundamental to Smuda's plans, especially the dynamic Dortmund right-flank tandem of Blaszczykowski and Piszczek.
The Weak Spot
The real danger for the Poles is that brilliant young keeper, Arsenal regular Wojciech Szczesny is effectively left to mount a one-man salvage operation at the back.
The Poles are alarmingly short of credibility in central defence and wherever you look in this area, there are severe concerns: the rather agricultural and ill-disciplined stopper Marcin Wasilewski; the broken elbow which has put at risk the participation French-born Damien Perquis and the non-selection of experienced veteran Arkadiusz Glowacki, who has been plagued with injuries of late.
Another danger zone is left-back, where Werder Bremen's Sebastian Boenisch is only just getting into the matchday swing following a year out with a knee complaint. Can he really be ready for a major international tournament?
In addition, Poland have difficulties with their staying power, unable to maintain a high-tempo for more than half an hour and patchy in their pressing efforts. Against the best in Europe, a 20-minute burst of mediocrity could be fatal.
Finally, there are questions over whether Poland have enough creativity in the middle of the field. The evidence presented by Trabzonspor's Adrian Mierzejewski and Ludovic Obraniak of Bordeaux is hardly convincing.
Injury Nightmare
If striker Robert Lewandowski was to drop out from this summer's main event, a large chunk of the Poles' chances would go with him.
Poland's Player of the Year for 2011, the Dortmund striker not only has been in excellent scoring form this term but also has an exceptional all-round game, boasting both the ability to come deep and link the play and intelligently run the channels.
The alternatives do not bear thinking about. Pawel Brozek has not figured too often since joining Celtic on loan from Trabzonspor in January, Kamil Grosicki is happier on the wing than through the centre, while Artur Sobiech has flattered to deceive in the German League with Hannover.
Young Gun - Rafal Wolski
An exciting young attacking midfielder who has proved a revelation for Legia Warsaw this season, two-footed Wolski is in his element taking on defenders and a good finisher. This 19-year-old may not be the most imposing physical specimen but he nonetheless very difficult to knock off the ball and with his wide range of ball-skills - especially a Zidane-like drag-back - he can be irresistible. He could well be a game-changer from the bench.
What they Say
"The group stage draw has been good to us. We can beat Greece and the Czechs and qualify for the quarter-finals, which is as much as we dare dream. It troubles me a little that rely more on magic from Lewandowski and Kuba than our ability as a team." Grzegorz Mielcarski, former Poland international
The Verdict
Ineffectual in every major tournament they have reached in the new millennium, home advantage and a certain lack of expectation could reverse the trend.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia "taxpayers were best served" by the state's decision to use $24 million in federal stimulus funds to purchase more than 1,000 high-end Internet routers for public facilities, a state official overseeing the spending told federal lawmakers.
Homeland Security Director Jimmy Gianato said West Virginia is building a high-speed Internet network "based on expected future needs," according to a letter Gianato recently sent to two U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee chairmen who are scrutinizing the router purchase. The routers cost $22,600 each.
"The whole project was designed for the future," Gianato told the Gazette Wednesday. "It wasn't designed for today's needs. These routers will, hopefully, take us 10 to 12 years into the future."
The state has installed the routers in rural schools, libraries and health clinics, even though the equipment was designed for research universities, medical centers and corporations.
House Republicans have asked Gianato to explain why the state didn't purchase large routers for large facilities, and small ones for locations with only a few computer terminals.
The state purchased 1,064 routers -- all the same model -- in July 2010.
"The consensus was that taxpayers were best served by the use of the unified routers, which given the state's existing administrative resources, would be a more cost-effective approach over the long term in that it facilitates future growth and deployment strategies, configuration management and administration of maintenance and replacement parts," Gianato wrote in a June 28 letter to U.S. Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and John Shimkus, R-Illinois.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's office released Gianato's letter to the Gazette this week.
The state used $24 million from a $126.3 million federal economic stimulus grant to purchase the routers, which funnel data, such as email and web pages, from one network to another.
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