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When Cara Serber, an actress living in Frisco, learned in March that her daughter, Libby Grace Serber, 6, had cancer, friends rallied around the family. People are wearing Team Libby bracelets and taking pictures with Team Libby signs all over the country.
Former Dallas Theater Center company member Cedric Neal, who is currently performing on Broadway in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, helped get actors from his show along with actors from Broadway's Shrek the Musical, Wicked, South Pacific, Les Misérables and other productions to say hello in costume to Libby on YouTube (Minnie and Mickey Mouse also make an appearance).
You can see the video at dallasnews.com/entertainment.
Now you can support Libby, too, by going to a fundraising show on June 11. The event will feature more than two dozen local performers donating their talents, including B.J. Cleveland, Willy Welch, Denise Lee and Gary Floyd, actresses dressed up as Disney princesses and raffle prizes.
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June 11, with the raffle and lobby fun at 6 p.m. and entertainment at 7 at Dallas Children's Theater's Rosewood Center for Family Arts, 5938 Skillman St., Dallas. $10 donation requested, cash at the door (no credit cards).


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Question about anti-biotics, when they expire does that mean they are useless or that they are poisonous?
When they expire they expire there is some controversy surrounding expiration dates of medicine the safe bet is to follow the guidelines and do not use.
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Finding a great Mississippi River view in New Orleans is surprisingly tough, but one of these windowside, leather chairs is a perfect perch for watching as the barges and ferries maneuver down the snaking river.
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2012 Sealine -Disabled F42
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The F42 has unrivalled space for entertaining throughout the craft with a significantly larger flybridge due to the extended design first offered on the F46. The F42 also builds on the practical cruising capabilities of the hugely successful F42/5.
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
LOA: 13.60 m
Beam: 4.48 m
Maximum Draft: 1.15 m
Bridge Clearance: 5.0 m
Headroom: 1.95 m
Dry Weight: 12900 kgs
Drive Type: Pod Drive
Cruising Speed: 28 knots
Maximum Speed: 32 knots
Engine Options
Engine Option 2: 2x Volvo Penta Diesel IPS 600 435 hp
Engine Option 1: 2x Volvo Penta Diesel IPS 500 500hp
Fresh Water Tanks: (450 Liters)
Fuel Tanks: (1200 Liters)
Sealine International F42
- Sociable flybridge, space for six plus to dine in comfort around the large dining table
- Ability to create a large sun bed aft by simply folding down the backrest on the rear seats
- Cockpit is large enough for entertaining and has a grill and optional fridge to add to the enjoyment of alfresco dining
- Optional third docking station located in aft cockpit
- Large lazarette with wet oilskin hanging area
- Comfortable "L" shaped saloon seating converts to extra occasional twin or double berths
- Optional fridge just inside the saloon
- Double sliding helm seats at both helms
- Elevated lower helm and large open atrium down into galley
- Fully equipped galley, with twin sink, fridge, hob and eye level oven
- Full height cocktail cabinet adjacent to galley
- Two cabins, offering five berths as standard with the luxurious master cabin located forward
- Forward cabin has separate ensuite shower and toilet compartments
- Luxury full beam mid cabin that can be configured either as a triple, twin or double plus single bed with separate ensuite stall shower and toilet
- Hand crafted furniture used throughout which has been finished in washed walnut with solid walnut accents. The colour palette for the soft furnishings is earthy with fruit
- There will be the option to have additional storage in the mid cabin in lieu of the third berth
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How Yin Yoga Can Bring Out Our Inner Swan
Anyone who knows me knows I am far from passive. A cheerleader at heart, I love to laugh out loud, crack jokes and yell across the room. I love to have fun!
So why is it that I teach Yin yoga, a passive, dark and deeply still yoga practice?
I don't know – I just understand it.
I think there is an inner swan in me and I know the practice can bring out the inner swan in anyone. It balances – brings us into stillness and teaches us to linger there. It raises our consciousness and releases our negative emotions – emotions that hold us back from a healthier connection with life.
Have you ever seen a swan skim across a pond with wings spread open with grace? I see it in every class I teach – in every student. Yin is a beautiful practice. A magical practice. The poses sweep us up into a higher awareness or ground us when needed. The dharanas help to focus the mind.
Visualize the bird spirit of the swan. Feel yourself there on the pond – your soul so beautiful it takes an observer's breath away. Your breath away.
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Poppy Seed and Apple filled Pastries
Can I just start off saying that I come from a family where our grandma used to be the queen of all things baked, bulochki/pastries and roulades in particular? Her bulochki (aka pastries) were so soft, so fragrant, so delicious and for years I tried to make mine similar to the way hers came out and never succeeded. Mine were soft and delicious when they just came out of the oven, but would harden or go stale very quickly. Other times, in an attempt to make my pastries softer and stay fresh longer, I would reduce the amount of liquid in the recipe, which would result pastries that looked like a melted candle, all liquidy and almost runny, while good on taste, not so much on presentation. I don't quit easily, in fact I don't know one recipe where I quit before reaching the desired goal. Over the years I have gained a lot of knowledge about the yeast dough, how it works, what it likes and what it dislikes. I think this recipe will conclude my search for the perfect dough, perfect technique and perfect pastries. I am really excited to share it with you, as I like knowing that I helped someone find that perfect recipe and saved you from the same trouble that I had finding it.
Here's some general theoretical knowledge about yeast dough, that I have collected over the years.
One of the most important and key things when working with yeast dough, is kneading it to the correct gluten development .
To figure out if the gluten is fully developed you would take about 2-3 tablespoons of dough and stretch it out with your fingers to make a 'window' – if the dough tears, then it is not developed yet. When you are able to stretch the dough to an almost paper thin thickness and when you look through it it is uniformly thin, with no chunks of thicker dough, the gluten is fully developed and you're ready to add your fat component (butter/oil/margarine). This is called a "windowpane test". At this point the dough will not stick to the walls of the mixing bowl.
Why is gluten development important? Gluten is what will eventually hold the air bubbles in as they expand. The strands of gluten will easily stretch and easily accommodate for the air. If the gluten is not developed and you proof the dough and then shape it, most likely it will result a very misshaped product that 'runs' instead of holding it's shape and form and deflates very easily.
If you braid a hala, it will most likely tear at each twist, as there is not enough gluten development for the dough to properly stretch with the rise, and if you were to make a roulade, then it will most likely be flat'ish instead of holding the round shape a roulade should hold.
There is such term as "strong" flour. When the word "strong" is used to describe flour, it usually means that it is high in gluten content. The higher the gluten content, the more moisture it can hold. That's how you get a ciabatta bread. The ratio of water to flour is very big, nevertheless you don't get a flat piece of bread, but a fluffy, rounded bread, with huge air bubbles that don't collapse.
Fat – this is what makes the bread soft and pastry-like. Fat also inhibits or prevents the development of gluten. This is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when it comes to things like brioche.
Sometimes the fat is added after the gluten is fully developed as at this point, the gluten strands are developed and the fat just coats them from the outside, giving us the benefits that come with strong strands of gluten, but also the benefits that come with fat being present. If you were to add the fat before the gluten is developed, each flour particle would be covered in fat, therefore inhibiting or not allowing any gluten development at all. Hence the name 'shortbread', it actually refers to the strands of gluten being 'short' (as we all know, the cookies have a very high ratio of butter to flour, therefore not allowing any gluten development at all), which results in crumbly and 'sandy' texture of the cookies. So now we know that fat can inhibit the development of gluten. There is one more thing though – depending on how much fat we add, we can get soft pastry, without it becoming a shortbread. "Amount' is the keyword here.
Understanding this little bit of information about the yeast dough, gives you a an upper hand when it comes to breads, pastries and such.
So let's get to the recipe itself.
Poppy Seed and Apple filled Pastries
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- 1/3 - 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cups 1/2 stick butter, room temperature
- 2 tsp active dry yeast
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 1/2 - 4 cups flour
- 1 egg yolk for glazing
Poppy Seed filling****
- 1 cup poppy seeds
- 1 qt. milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Apple Filling****
- 4 large apples peeled, cored, grated
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons semolina
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Pinch of cinnamon optional
- Heat milk until lukewarm and add yeast. Mix. Leave to rise, about 15 minutes
- Meanwhile, in a bowl of an electric mixer combine egg, salt and sugar. Sift the flour in and add the risen milk mixture. With a hook attachment, starting with the slower speeds combine flour and the milk mixture, then increase the speed to 2 and continue kneading the dough until it completely stops sticking to the bowl, looks very smooth and gluey, and you get a thin and see through result performing the 'windowpane test', about 15 minutes.
- Add room temperature butter and kneed the dough some more, until butter is fully incorporated into the dough and no traces of it are left on the bowl, about 5 minutes
- Shape the dough into a ball. Place into a well greased bowl and oil the outside of the dough. Cover the bowl with clean kitchen towel. Place the bowl on an elevated, draft free surface (fridge, top of cabinets), where the temperature is higher*, allowing the dough double in size, about 1.5 hours.
- Meanwhile, prepare the filling.
Poppy Seed Filling
- Place the seeds into a medium size pot, cover with milk (1 qt) and let come to a boil, watching the milk so that it does not run over. Once at a boil, lower the heat and allow the mixture to simmer for about 30 minutes. You can let it sit covered off the heat, for another 30 minutes.
- Drain through a fine mesh sieve.
- Put the poppy seeds through grinder twice.
- Add the sugar, vanilla extract and mix.**
Apple Filling
- Grate peeled apples.
- Add sugar and mix. Let sit for about 2-3 minutes.
- Place the grated apples over a fine mesh sieve and squeeze the extra liquid out. Transfer to a bowl.
- Add enough sugar to make the apples sweet (optional).
- Add a pinch of cinnamon (optional) and 2 tablespoons semolina***
- Mix well together.
To make & shape pastries
- Punch down the dough. Shape a round ball and then a log.
- With a rolling pin, roll out the 'log' to about 30 inches long and 12 inches wide. f
- Spread the filling of choice along the length of the dough, leaving about 2 inches at the other end.
- Roll roulade, 'jelly-roll' fashion and pinch end to the roulade.
- With a sharp knife and a quick motion, cut the roulade about every 3 inches.
- With a knife cut in the middle of each piece, leaving the two pieces attached by about 1/2 inch of dough. Take the two ends, separate them and lay them inside part out facing up, side by side, making it look like a heart.
- Transfer to a baking sheet, lined with parchment paper. Continue with the rest of the dough, placing each piece about 3 inches apart.
- Cover with a clean kitchen or paper towel and place somewhere up top, allowing the pastries double in size, about 40 minutes.
- 20 minutes into the proofing, turn the oven on to 350F.
- Whisk the egg yolk and using a pastry brush, brush pastries with egg yolk mixture right before placing them in the oven.
- Bake for about 15-20 minutes, until golden brown.
- Transfer to a cooling rack.
- Dust with powdered sugar before serving.
- Best eaten right away, but will keep fresh for at least 6 hours.
Recipe Notes
*If your oven turns to a low temperature of 100F, you can place it in the oven and leave the door ajar. Otherwise, just put it on top of the fridge or cabinets where the temperature is higher.
**The poppy seed filling will look pretty dry. I like it this way, because it does not "flow" out of the pastries and doesn't burn.
***It will absorb the extra moisture when the apples bake.
****Recipe is designed to use ONLY one of the fillings, not both. If you want both fillings, either half the filling recipes, or double the dough recipe.
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2 Bed Semi Detached Bungalow, Sucina
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2 bedroom semi detached bungalow for sale in Sucina, Murcia. The property has 1 bathroom, open plan kitchen, utility area and a lounge/dining room. Spacious roof terrace and front garden with room for a pool
Located on a quiet street and in walking distance of the town centre.
Sucina has all the services and amenities for daily living, including a medical centre, schools, veterinary surgery, filling station, banks supermarket and chemist. There is a good selection of bars and restaurants to suit all tastes and budgets with some having live music at the weekends. The church and plaza is central to the town and becomes the centre of activities for the popular Summer fiestas. There is a weekly street market every Monday which is ideal for buying fresh locally grown produce.
The town of Balsicas is a 10 minute drive away and has a train station which connects to Murcia and from there to the rest of Spain. Sucina is right next to motorway access which means so many places are within easy reach. San Javier airport, Los Alcazares and the Mar Menor beaches, are just a 20 minute drive. The cities of Cartagena and Murcia are 25 minutes. Alicante airport is 55 minutes. The popular La Zenia Boulevard Commercial Centre is 20 minutes away and as well as fashion outlets has stores for electrical goods, furnishings, DIY etc. The newly extended Dos Mares shopping mall is in San Javier.
Hacienda Riquelme and Peraleja Golf courses are just a 5 minute drive with many other top class courses in the area, including La Torre Golf Resort, New Sierra Golf, Terrazas de la Torre and El Valle.
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I work with individual adults, couples and young people aged 11 and over. I've worked with people who have faced a wide range of issues, including:
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I am an integrative, humanistic counsellor.
As an integrative counsellor I use my knowledge of a range of counselling theories and techniques to tailor an approach that works for you.
My humanistic approach derives from a fundamental belief that we all have an innate drive towards health and well-being, the capacity to take control of our lives and to make positive changes. Sometimes however we can get 'stuck', troubled by feeling that we don't have control or can't change our situation. That's where my role as a counsellor comes in - to get alongside you and to help you to get back on track.
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Blog Tour/Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt
First, we will start with a bit about Elizabeth Hoyt:
www.elizabethhoyt.com and www.juliaharper.com.
(BBB) I am so happy to have you here on my blog today! As I siad before your interview touched a part of my heart. Lets hop right in, shall we? What gave you the inspiration for this series?
(EH) When I began work on the books the war in Iraq had just started. I'm of the generation that grew up immediately following the Vietnam War and I read the books and watched the movies that depicted that terrible conflict and the brave men who came home changed forever. I've also always been interested in World War I, a war that killed a generation of young men and left many others with what we now call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It was during the first World War that the medical community first formally recognized and tried treating PTSD.
I took all this background and decided to work it into a series of books about four soldiers returning home from war to Georgian England. What would it be like for them to have experienced war so far from home? How would such brave heroes react to PTSD in a time period when mental illness was viewed as a moral weakness? And how could the women they meet and fall in love with help them to return home?
(BBB) What made you interested in writing Georgian era romance? (This is with Ms. Hoyt's correction, I had labeled the book as Regency era)
(EH) I watched a lot of swashbuckler movies when I was a kid?and many are set in the Georgian time period (Scaramouche, for instance.) The Georgian period (when the Georges reigned in England?ie: most of the eighteenth century) was an earthy, passionate era. Men wore wigs and swords, ladies had sweeping, lush gowns, and all manner of things were being invented and discovered.
(BBB) Do you dream of writing other genres or is romance your favorite thing to write?
(EH) Romance is my favorite genre, but I wouldn't mind writing a mystery some day.
(BBB) What's your favorite food?
(EH) Sushi
(BBB) If you could have dinner with three people alive or dead who would they be?
(EH) Shakespeare and the Coen brothers.
(BBB) What is you favorite book out of the ones you have written?
(EH) I think To Seduce a Sinner because it was difficult to write?and thus more gratifying when I got it right.
(BBB) Do you base any of the physical characteristics of your characters on people you know?
(EH) No.
(BBB) Was is hard to learn the entire society/protocol/procedures for Georgian England?
(EH) Not really. I've always read historical romance, so I already had a lot of background.
(BBB)Do you have a favorite book of all time?
(EH) Howard Pyle's The Wonder Clock
(BBB) If you couldn't be a writer what would you have been?
(EH) Nothing. I have the best job in the world and I?m very happy with it. ;-)
Thank you so much for stopping by and answering my questions!
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Mmm. Sushi. No argument from me.ReplyDelete
Just dropping in to let you ladies know that I've posted this at Win a Book. Thanks for the e-mail!
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Hey guys! A quick update to let you know that I've revamped my blog. I was getting a tad bored with how it looked so, I decided to give it a bit of a makeover. For those of you who aren't a major girly girl like myself, you may want to shield your eyes because it's probably going to look like Barbie got sick all over your computer screen haha!...What can I say, I love me some pink. The layout is much more suited to my personality anyway, it's quirky and playful and I do hope you like it :)
On another note, I nabbed myself yet another bargain, which I couldn't resist sharing with you all. I picked up these little beauts in Penneys (Primark) for a FIVER!! Seriously? I am very, very smug right now. They also had them in grey and pink, but I found them to be slightly tacky and cheap looking in comparison to the turquoise. I think they're absolutely fab, and they'll look great during the winter with a sexy LBD and some thick tights.
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Google's stated mission is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".
The genius of this statement is that it sounds quite innocuous, indeed philanthropic, despite its obvious grand ambition, but actually allows pretty much anything within its scope.
It is interesting to see just how much of the online customer journey (from search, to research, to purchase) Google is taking hold of. Will we all end up as "wholesalers" to Google's customers?
There are all sorts of variations on the marketing funnel or customer purchase cycle. For example, there's "AIDA" (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action).
Online we certainly know that people search for things (most purchases online start with search); people research products and services online (using product/price comparison, reviews and ratings etc.); and they buy them online.
In the AIDA model online, attention might be driven by an online ad or an article perhaps, interest would be indicated via search, desire would be elicited following research and action would be the last click and purchase.
I think it has been long assumed that the role that a search engine like Google plays in all this is to help relevant customers find your site – you may already have won their attention and they want to find you; or perhaps you can get their attention using paid search ads.
But it's intriguing to see just how far along the customer journey Google is now going.
Let's assume that a company has managed to pique your Attention (via a Doubleclick - aka Google - served ad)...
You do a search to find out more. And let's face it, we all know search is actually used as a navigational tool as much as it is to actually *search*.
Below is a screengrab showing the search results for 'flowers in Hertford'. The top 'natural search' result, as you can see, is actually a load of listings from Google Local. (and note the Google Checkout icon on the Serenata Flowers paid ad - more of that later).
This is fair enough perhaps? It's helped get rid of the affiliates who were polluting such natural search results.
But it's starting to go further.
Have a look at below which shows the Argos natural search listings - top of Google for a search on 'Argos' as you'd expect. Except now there is a site search feature there. However, the search results you get are still within Google, not on the Argos site.
...which is great for Google as it gets a load more page impressions (and therefore can serve more ads).
Not sure how happy I would be if were a retailer who had spent a lot of money on my own site search to return results the way I (rather than Google) wanted to. Then again, they are showing, and linking to, my product sub-categories, and they are Google, so who am I to complain?
And how about the one below. This is a search on 'flights london to new york'. The top 'natural search' result is actually more like a price comparison tool built directly into the search result itself.
Imagine this:
- You are using Doubleclick/Google to do your advertising to drive attention/demand (and if you own a site, of course you're using Google's recently announced free ad serving platform, Google 'Ad Manager')
- You use Google Adwords to drive traffic to your site when people search following exposure to your (Google-served) ads
- You use Google Site Search on your site to help people find things
- And you use Google Optimiser and Google Analytics to help boost conversion rates
- And Google Checkout to help 'your' customers pay (which, incidentally, helped your Google paid search ads perform better, for less money, in the first place)
- And all hosted on the Google Apps platform using Google tools like Google Page Creator to actually create and manage your site...
In fact, do 'your' customers ever really need to leave Google world? Google already owns the start of pretty much all customer journeys online, so, in the name of making the rest of the information journey more 'useful', why shouldn't it deliver the rest of it as well?
And when all your competitors are tooled up with Google, so Google also has a perfect view of your market place, and they roll out PPA (Pay Per Action) then at the beginning of each year/season we can all just agree with Google how many customers they will give us, at what price, and then all we need to do is sort out the fulfilment, delivery and customer service.
Ok, I'm pushing things to make a point, but it will be interesting to see how far Google goes.
I'm not even necessarily against Google doing this - it might just be something we all have to live with and adjust our business models accordingly?
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We all loved Google when they first appeared as we got pure search results, unsullied by paid priority content on Exite, UKplus and Yahoo. All the search engines have made sure we now see whatever highest bidder has paid them to put in our faces. The balance for consumers of wading through paid content before getting to what they really want is coming down on the side of avarice as usual.
Search engines facilitate the deepest corporate pockets to get first eyeball for their products and services at the expense of the long tail of the web. Disenfranchised local businesses of the Google era see no value in key word, ad-words or banner-ad internet advertising. They need another location based services platform to compete for their nearby, highly valued customers with a more effective, low cost, location-targeted model.
Search has to become much relevant, and location based to cut out all the chaff
It is possible to have a local interactive, e-commerce version of "Yellow Pages" over wireless networks where we only get results from a specific area without needing the internet and Search Engine opportunistic "pushed content".
You have to approach the internet like a logistics company, where it is much more efficient to store goods closest to the people who want it. The internet distributes information out from the middle to the users on the edge of the network, which requires "big roads" to transport all that data traffic. The critical factor is to deliver data highly relevant to the user within the parameters of time, space, location and profile. What if we turn the internet "inside-out" by pre-positioning the data people want in their area at the edge of the network within cached memory inside local street side WiFi transceivers. Users can have access to virtually unlimited information on the products and services of local enterprises and the community through a wireless device without necessarily going on to the internet.
Information, entertainment and communication can all be conducted in the wireless transceivers at the edge of the network closest to the end user instead of embarking on a long trip around the internet. All of these wireless caching transceivers can be linked into a common global network for entertainment, interaction, location specific search and content discovery.
These wireless transceivers are ultimately scalable as they can distribute global content locally and also send local content out to the world. This would be a wireless location-based services platform to enable the "arterial" mobile operators to get right into the "capillaries" of focused local delivery.
If you cache relevant, local data right next to the consumer, they only take a short journey and don't need Google to do it.
It is quite interesting point of view, James presented. Sort of a 'hardware solution'.
I'd like to present in just a few words another aproach to consider as an alternative to google hegemony. If f.ex. you are a florist from Hertford you can 'omit' google by building your 'website address awareness' (like brand awareness) among local society. How to do it?
1. Utilizing ROS display campaigns on the most popular portal in the local area.
2. Clearly and firmly exposing your address 'SerenataFlowers.com' on your banner.
3. Making alliance with the owner of the portal against google - promising constant advertising exposure on the portal (constant income for the owner of the portal) negotiate the maximum lowest cpm.
4. Track and measure both post-click and post-view sales of your display campaings.
In the long term you can achieve people (both customers and future customers) typing your address in the browser instead of the google search box
and independency from google.
I know, it is not the reach-exactly-targeted-audience-in-the-time-where-it-is-searching-for-the-product-and-pay-only-for-clicks type of thinking but in the end when you compare your marketing expenditures vs sales income, believe me, it can be worth it to look for alternatives to google.
The point raised about people using Google Analytics as a free tool to measure conversions on their site is one that surprises me the most. To my mind a good website analytics package provides the most valuable insights into marketing equation because it truly links the return part of "ROI" to the investment in marketing activities to drive traffic to a conversion of any sort.
When taking the Google Analytics package – websites that invest in driving traffic the myriad of ways to their site, are giving Google insight into exactly what the relative value of that traffic is worth. Is it such a stretch to imagine a situation where Google uses variable pricing methods for inventory that match precisely the relative value of the traffic to a website or individual?
As the economist Milton Friedman famously said "there is no free lunch."
The article is well written and makes some good points. However, when it comes to converting web traffic at the point of sale online, we have an incredible body of evidence to support that just implementing technology like Google Optimizer or Google Analytics will hardly boost conversion rates.
In fact, most of our prospective customers didn't even know what their cart traffic or abandonment rates were when we first started talking with them, and even if they did know, they either had no idea or a million ideas as to how to improve conversion rates and couldn't figure out which direction to go.
It seems for some businesses if you put a gold solution on a silver platter in front of them it seems they still procrastinate taking any action despite how quickly we can deploy our infrastructure to begin delivering revenue to them.
In our experience and opinion, technology is not going to improve conversions. It's going to be good old fashioned selling that will improve conversions and that's why we believe (as do our partners now enjoying new revenue where there previously was none) we are on the right track.
Technology will facilitate the connection between customers and sales people, and it will help sales people pre-qualify prospects, but technology alone really cannot itself improve conversion. We think companies like ours hold the power when it comes to technology that can make selling more efficient and effective. For example, our chat rules engine constantly gets more sophisticated so our sales reps time can be spent on the most qualified prospects possible. The more we can deploy 'self-managing' technology solutions like this, the more we can deliver winning technology pieces.
As for what or how we can integrate with Google, we have made the decision to being technology agnostic as much as possible and supporting whatever technology our partners currently use now or want to use in the future.
Because of this, we are increasingly familiar with most of the analytics landscape today: Webtrends, Omniture, WebSide Story, Google Analytics, etc. Google's analytics solution is not as sophisticated as some. It lacks some critical cross reporting features such as identifying what sources of traffic are converting. It also does not offer an API at this time to allow anyone to extend or integrate with it.
We think the best element we can leverage from Google is the referring search terms and use our chat platforms capabilities to launch targeted chat invitations to inbound traffic from certain origins or search terms.
Now that's smart.
We believe Google's priority will continue to be driving traffic to sites and getting paid to do so, it should be our job to enable the connection between the most qualified prospects and the right sales people.
That's where we come in and do the REAL selling.
Google's overiding USP and why it can facilitate some of the methods mentioned in the article is everyone's over riding "trust" in itself. People know Google deliver the most relevant search results so everyone uses Google. I have asked many people to check my organic rankings in other locations. When they tell me I'm number 4, they really mean number one, as they are unaware that the top three results are paid for listings.
Why else the Google checkout ads get higher CTR than ads without the logo in them?
Users also believe that entering the flight departure dates in Google *will* give them the best deal on their flights because they trust Google's accuracy.
Interesting observation but I think it is just a natural consequence of business evolution. Power currently sits with Google and that power will increase for a while. Prior to Google it was superstores like Tesco and Walmart and prior to that it was the brands themselves that held the power. Access to information has driven the evolution and Google is riding the current wave. I predict they will be disintermediated themselves and that power will eventually reside with the consumer.


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Cellular-to-WLAN Roaming Specification Published
September 08, 2004
Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) is intended to get mobile devices to work with WLANs, and has the backing of names like Sony, T-Mobile, Cingular, and many more.
Last week, a group of 14 companies announced the publication of the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) specifications for extending mobile voice and data services over fixed wireless LANs. The companies involved include Alcatel, AT&T, BT, Cingular, Ericsson, , Motorola, Nokia, Nortel Networks, O2, Rogers Wireless, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, and T-Mobile USA.
Ken Kolderup is vice president of marketing at Kineto Wireless, a mobile solutions provider which participated in the development of the specifications. The aim of UMA, Kolderup says, is simple: to enable consumers to roam seamlessly between their cellular networks and the wireless LANs in their homes and offices. For carriers, that can be a very attractive proposition.
"They can allow their subscribers, using new dual mode mobile handsets, to roam seamlessly between the outdoor network when they're out and about, and as they go into their home or office wireless LAN environment, to be able to leverage that to receive higher-performance mobile voice and data services at a significant cost savings," Kolderup says.
For consumers, Kolderup says, the experience is truly seamless. "The normal mechanisms that are in the cellular network today for handing over calls between base stations as you drive down the freeway, it leverages those same mechanisms for handing the call off between the outdoor network and the wireless LAN," he says. "So there's no service interruption as they transition between different environments."
Handset manufacturers, he adds, view UMA as an excellent selling point for Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones. "I think this is a service model that really makes a lot of sense for inclusion of Wi-Fi in mainstream mobile devices," Kolderup says.
"The controller box is responsible for extending and managing access to mobile services, and securing them, from all these wireless LAN endpoints," Kolderup says.
The timing of this announcement, he suggests, is particularly fortunate. "For mobile operators, one of their largest opportunities for growth right now, now that subscriber penetration is so high in most developed countries, is trying to get more use of mobile services, and encouraging people to use a mobile device as their primary if not only device when at home and at the office," he says.
Particularly in dealing with competition from services like voice over IP, Kolderup says, UMA can give carriers the perfect weapon. "UMA allows them to take advantage of voice over IP, Wi-Fi, and broadband, for them to also provide a very high quality, high performance service that subscribers are looking for, in exactly those locations where they can't do it very well today," he says.
The carrier can then charge for service however they like. "There is the ability to identify traffic and charge differently for it when you are in a wireless LAN environment, and my presumption is that most carriers will look to do that," Kolderup says. To compete with VoIP services, he says, carriers might offer limited or unlimited WLAN access for, say, $5 to $20 a month on top of their usual mobile access fees.
Commercial deployments, Kolderup says, should start in the first half of 2005. "For a mobile operator, this is a way for them to encourage more use, and to give the subscribers what they're saying they want," he says. "It's giving the subscriber more, and retaining them and their service."


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Gaze Into the FutureWith Seven Pages of Project: Superior Goodness!It's Wednesday and I wouldn't normally be updating The Communique during new comic day, but for this, I'll make an exception.AdHouse Books' highly anticipated spiritual successor to the excellent and beautiful Project: Telstar brings the super and every shade of heroics one could imagine in the form of Project: Superior. This superstar creator anthology is over-stuffed with hundreds of beautiful color pages written and illustrated by some of the hottest creators in the industry including Jeffrey Brown, Dean Haspiel, John Cassaday, Graham Annable, Paul Rivoche, Joel Priddy, Paul Pope, Jim Rugg, Farel Dalrymple, Jim Mahfood, Paul Hornschemeier, 2004's Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics winner Josh Cotter, and many, many more!And in celebration of next Wednesday's release of this truly awesome anthology, the Isotope is proud to present seven never before seen pages from this book for your viewing pleasure. Download this exclusive sneak peek, my comic reading friends, and enjoy. Happy Wednesday!Click here for part 1 and here for part 2.Project: Superior$19.95 for 288 Full-Color pagesFrom AdHouse Books
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I am still building this business. It isn't usually my busy season photographically but this past two months… I have been swamped in an awesome way! Thanks for sharing the love. I am still getting the images from this past November -now up for the blog! Crazy busy with fun families, seniors, newborns, soon to be BIRTH photography and kids school stuff.
Now I have noticed that when I am at a session I use two lenses primarily. Having to swap them out is a pain and I hate making my clients wait that split minute while I am doing so. I also would love to offer a mini video of the session with their portraits. So I am still saving up but what can it hurt to enter a contest to win that camera now? Nothing I guess. So.
Big thanks to the SnapKnot wedding photography directory for offering this great camera giveaway!
Check it out. The brides I have sent there have loved the site!
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Contact AthleteSpeakers today at 800-916-6008 to book Adam LaRoche for a guest appearance, motivational keynote speech, grand opening, autograph signing, product announcement, employee gathering, or for an exclusive meet and greet. The booking agents at AthleteSpeakers work on your behalf to get you the best price for your desired sports celebrity.
AthleteSpeakers has built very close direct relationships over the years with top athletes, agents, publicists and managers. We specialize in assisting small, medium, and large companies as well as event planners with booking athletes like Adam LaRoche for speaking engagements and appearances at trade shows, golf outings, casinos, conferences, conventions, and corporate events. For years, companies have turned to AthleteSpeakers to get Adam LaRoche's booking fee, appearance cost, and booking agent contact information.
Adam LaRoche was born November 6, 1979 and is a retired American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has also played for the Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks and Washington Nationals. He is the son of pitcher Dave LaRoche and the brother of third baseman Andy LaRoche.
On March 15, 2016, LaRoche said that he intended to "step away from baseball." He said that he would honor a request from teammates to reconsider his retirement for a day or two before making an official announcement. On the next day, it was revealed that LaRoche's reason for a possible retirement is that the White Sox have placed a restriction on his 14-year-old son entering the team's clubhouse every day. By retiring LaRoche would walk away from a $13 million contract.
LaRoche is one of the co-owners of Outdoor Networks hunting show Buck Commander with friends and pro athletes Chipper Jones, Ryan Langerhans, Tom Martin, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Willie Robertson who is from the Duck Commander series.
LaRoche is a devout Christian who helped the Washington Nationals promote "Faith Day" at Nationals Park along with teammates Denard Span and Ian Desmond.
To inquire about Adam LaRoche's availability and speaking fee, contact the agents at Athlete Speakers. Let our team of booking agents make a Adam LaRoche appearance at your next event a reality.
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"The A-Team" hits theaters this weekend, giving the classic 1980s television series a modern update with a high-profile cast and some brand new adventures. But that's not the only place to find the team in its new incarnation.
IDW Publishing recently released collections of its two official "A-Team" miniseries, "Shotgun Wedding" and "War Stories." The first is a tie-in to the film featuring a new adventure with Hannibal, B.A., Face, and Murdock, and the second is the official prequel to the film that provides origin stories for the four main characters.
So, are they worth picking up? Do they fit in well with the film? Read on for a full breakdown.
"The A-Team: War Stories" by Chuck Dixon & Erik Burnham (w), Hugo Petrus, Casey Maloney, Alberto Muriel, Guiu Vilanova (a) - IDW Publishing: In all the time the original "A-Team" television series was on the air, I don't remember there ever being a definitive origin story for its main characters. Sure, they hinted at adventures they'd had together prior to the series' run and characters from their respective pasts would regularly factor into their adventures, but with "War Stories" we get a set of stories that feature each of the characters on solo missions.
We find Hannibal extracting a chemical weapon engineer from Saddam Hussein's army with a lame disguise and only a glimmer of a plan, and B.A. Baracus driving, smashing and otherwise bulldozing his way through a dilemma that ultimately leads to his dishonorable discharge. However, it's the stories featuring Templeton Peck (a.k.a The Face) and "Howling Mad" Murdock that are really worth the price of admission. As Face races to locate an expensive motorcycle in the middle of a warzone and Murdock lapses between hallucinations and reality while recounting a tale from his past, readers get a great taste of why both characters are so much fun, and why the team itself has endured.
You don't need to read "War Stories" before you see "The A-Team" in theaters, but it provides an extra dimension to the reinvented franchise that should be enjoyed by fans and newcomers alike.
"The A-Team: Shotgun Wedding" by Joe Carnahan & Tom Waltz (w), Stephen Mooney (a) - IDW Publishing: A tie-in story that could reside just about anywhere in the "A-Team" continuity (after the team was formed, that is), "Shotgun Wedding" is a fun adventure that unfolds on a cruise ship. The team is tasked with protecting the daughter of one of Hannibal's old military buddies, after her life is threatened and her upcoming wedding is endangered.
Posing as members of the ship's crew and the wedding team, Hannibal becomes the priest, Murdock the chef, B.A. the chaffeur/bodyguard, and Face becomes the couple's wedding planner. There are a few complications, though: Murdock's culinary abilities are questionable at best, and Face is already all-too familiar with the bride (in the biblical sense). As you might expect, hijinks (and explosions) ensue.
While it doesn't add as much depth to the characters' histories as "War Stories," "Shotgun Wedding" is still a great ride. It's the sort of tale that could serve as a storyboard of sorts for another "A-Team" film, complete with well-timed beats, nice action sequences and fun moments that make good use of the characters' individual personalities. Like "War Stories," it doesn't need to be read before the film, but anyone who leaves the film wanting more would do well to pick up "Shotgun Wedding" for another adventure with the team.
Both "The A-Team: War Stories" and "The A-Team: Shotgun Wedding" are available now from IDW Publishing. Let us know what you think in the comment section or on Twitter!


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Incidents Raise Suspicions on Motive: Killing of Journalists by US Forces a Growing Problem
During the Vietnam War, which US forces fought from 1960 through 1974, and which cost the lives of several million Southeast Asians and 58,000 Americans, eight American journalists died. Not one of them was killed by American fire.
In the Iraq War, 136 journalists were killed. At least 15 of them -- about 11% of the total -- were killed by US forces, sometimes apparently with deliberate intent. (Consider that if some 500,000 US troops rotated through Iraq over the course of the way and 4000 of them were killed, that meant soldiers had a 1:125 chance of being killed there. With 136 dead journalists, there would have had to be more than 14,000 journalists covering the war for them to have the same odds of getting killed.)
In Afghanistan, nine journalists have been killed, at least one by US forces, and in that case, the killing was deliberate, though it is unclear whether the victim was known to be a journalist.
One thing is clear: it is dangerous in the extreme to be a journalist covering America's wars, at least beginning with Vietnam, and in Iraq it was more dangerous to be a journalist than to be a soldier.
Why this might be the case is hard to say, but it seems that an antipathy towards journalists within the military may have something to do with it.
Back in 1983, the US, in one of the more ludicrous military actions in its long history of war, invaded the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, on the pretext that it feared Cubans were building a military airbase there (actually Cuba had sent construction workers to the impoverished isle to help the country build a better commercial airport so as to improve its tourism business). During that invasion, which was conducted with a total media blackout despite almost no opposition (the main "enemy" putting up any resistance was the Cuban construction workers! There were no Cuban troops there), a group of seven journalists, including a reporter from the New York Times, attempted to reach the island on a small boat. They were blocked by a US destroyer, which warned them over a loudspeaker to turn around or be "blown out of the water." The journalists gave up and retreated.
That little "war," which was conducted from beginning to end with no reporters allowed in the battle zone, marked the beginning of a new relationship between the Pentagon and the press -- one where the military maintains complete control over access and information, both what is provided to the media, and what the public gets to learn.


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Republican, Democratic Party Delegate Count Today
About a year after he announced his candidacy, it comes down to Super Tuesday and Texas. Also, for some GOP primary races in East Texas, it won't be over until May 24, the date of the primary runoff election. Super Tuesday offered Clinton a chance to bury the narrative of a troubled campaign that stumbled out of the gates with an exceedingly narrow win over Sanders in Iowa, quickly followed by a 22-point drubbing in New Hampshire, a neighbor of Sanders' home state of Vermont.


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Hello everybody! Today I'm coming at you with a review from one of my favourite companies - you guessed it, House of Fraser! Today I'll be talking about my new Therapy Dog Tooth Jacquard Dress.
With a navy blue and black Dog Tooth pattern, the Therapy Jacquard dress is ideal for the office. But the real beauty of this dress lies in it's versatility. Add some sparkling jewellery and a pair of heels to this little number, and you're good for a night out!
The dress itself is true to size (which I know can be such a pain when it comes to purchasing dresses and they're not of true size). I feel this dress is a little big on me, but I already knew I was one or two dress sizes smaller than the one this was available in - which shows that with Therapy dresses, you can't seem to go too wrong with your dress size. They don't come up too big or too small. If you're really struggling, I'd say these dresses do sway a little more towards the larger end of the size.
In the first photograph, I've paired the dress with a little black cardigan and some flat dolly shoes for a more comfortable, relaxed, casual vibe. The dress can also be paired with skin tone tights and a grey jumper. Because of the dress' subtle pattern, it gives you the option to cover the top half (with a cardigan or your coat) and give the impression of a stylish skirt.
In the second photograph, I've added delicate gold and cream jewellery to give the dress a pop of bright, uplifting colour, and also put on a pair of classic black heels. Because the dress is subtle, I didn't want to take away from it with too many colours and bold heels, it's always best to play it safe when you're experimenting with patterned dresses.
This dress is wonderfully comfortable, and thicker than your usual flowy, airy dresses all in preparation for Winter - the colours and tones of this dress draw Autumn in to a close. If you like the look of this dress, be sure to check out the House of Fraser Therapy dresses online here and have a look through all of their lovely new styles!
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The cool new Watermelon Keg Tap transforms melons, pumpkins, and other large fruits into full blown festive drink dispensers that are perfect for any backyard summer BBQ or tropical Luau. Just slice a lid from the top of a watermelon, scoop out and eat the insides, cut a hole near the bottom, insert and connect the faucet and shank, fill up the melon with your favorite alcoholic concoction or other beverage, pull the faucet's handle to pour, settle into a hammock, and chill. Yep, it also works great on pumpkins too at your next Halloween party.
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Is Tylenol (Acetaminophen) Bad for Your Liver or Kidneys?
Dr. Sharon Orrange - October 16, 2014
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is one of the most commonly used medications so you should know if it hurts your liver or kidneys. The short answer: acetaminophen is safe on the kidneys and may damage your liver, but only at high doses. Here is what you need to know.
How much Tylenol can I take?
Acetaminophen is the generic name for Tylenol so they are the same thing. The recommended daily maximum is 4 grams per day, which would be 8 extra strength Tylenol (500 mg) or 12 regular (325 mg) Tylenol tablets. See More
More FDA Oversight for Over the Counter Drugs?
Elizabeth Davis - February 26, 2014
The FDA has announced a public hearing in March 2014 to discuss updating the review and approval process of over the counter (OTC) drugs.
The hearing itself doesn't mean there will be any changes to the process, but the FDA hopes to address issues like misbranding, the large number of non-prescription drugs on the market that haven't been evaluated at all, and the current limitation on the FDA's ability to require changes to products or labeling. See More
FDA Warning: Rare But Serious Acetaminophen (Tylenol) Reaction
Elizabeth Davis - August 02, 2013
If you notice a rash, blister, or other skin reaction while taking any drug containing acetaminophen, you should stop taking the medication immediately and contact your doctor or other health provider. The symptoms can be signs of three rare but very serious skin disorders, caused by a reaction to the acetaminophen.
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OSAKA, JAPAN — The sister city of Chicago knows all about big shoulders, too. With a population of 8 million crammed into a coarse urban labyrinth, Osaka was a bustling center of commerce and industry long before the American bombing raids of World War II brought a temporary halt to its prosperity.
Here in the nation`s third-largest city, power has always been measured in terms of gold, quantity or output, and where ``Making any money?`` takes the place of ``How are you?`` when one member of the citizenry greets another. The similarities to Chicago cease, however, when it comes to the arts. Osaka has no musical organization to compare with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, preferring to import many of its performing arts attractions from Tokyo or abroad. Still, there is a persistent public craving for Western classical music here, and when Georg Solti and his orchestra returned to Osaka last weekend for the fourth and fifth concerts of its second Far East tour, a receptive, knowledgeable audience was awaiting them.


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The Green Way: The Impact of Technology-enabled Sustainability
ICT makes up nearly 2 per cent of global CO2 emissions today—about the same level as the entire airline industry—and is on track for a 50 per cent increase by 2020.
Private corporations and the public sector are facing increasing pressures to reduce their carbon emissions and energy bills, driven by enforced legislation and regulation, increasing energy costs, and, perhaps as important, a constantly growing demand from customers for more sustainable operations and products, according to a study by Booz & Company. In focusing on carbon reduction related to IT departments, many companies respond by attempting relatively simple fixes, such as reducing the number of PCs in the organisation. However, this is not nearly enough to create a sustainable environmentally conscious programme.
Instead, top corporate management working with CIOs should develop a robust, comprehensive, and holistic green IT model that leverages technology to minimise the carbon footprint of the entire organisation. "Such a programme would view environmental sustainability as a business strategy, driving eco-friendly approaches throughout the organisation to improve business operations, better preserve the environment, enhance productivity, and cut costs at the same time," commented Ramez T. Shehadi, the Booz & Company partner leading the IT Practice in the Middle East.
Green Is the New Imperative
For most companies, going green is rapidly becoming an imperative, but as critical as green strategies are, many companies are unsure about how to begin.
"It's clear that information and communication technology (ICT) usage by companies contributes significantly to the carbon footprint, making up nearly two per cent of global CO2 emissions today - about the same level as the entire airline industry," commented Danny Karam, a Senior Associate at Booz & Company.
What's more, the number of PCs worldwide is projected to double between now and 2014, and mobile voice and data traffic is forecast to rise fourfold by 2012. As a result, total ICT emissions are on track for a 50 per cent increase by 2020. Faced with these realities, many companies take a narrow view of the way IT can help reduce their carbon emissions. The approach they choose is what we call "greening IT" -carbon footprint reduction programmes focused solely on minimising energy usage and non-recyclable waste in corporate IT departments.
"However, with a macro, business performance–oriented strategy that can be termed 'going green through IT', IT innovation is leveraged to make the organisation's operations as a whole more eco-conscious," added Karam.
Going Green through IT
A host of activities unrelated to IT operations within an organisation can yield dramatic carbon reduction when green applications are leveraged in areas such as process and building automation, logistics, energy, motors and teleconferencing. In fact, IT advances targeted at low-carbon solutions could lower the global carbon footprint by as much as five times the emissions from ICT itself, according to Smart 2020, a report published by the Climate Group. Just as important, these applications not only substantially diminish environmental impact in an organisation, but also have a positive effect on performance by driving down energy and waste costs.
Operational process automation: This involves sharing databases, installing wireless data communication equipment and distributing portable computers, and integrating decision support tools so that aspects of management are decentralised.
Automating internal building operations with climate control equipment, motion and light detection and control devices, and temperature sensors: The reduction in carbon emissions in global facilities could be as much as 10 per cent by 2020.
GPS and other logistics technologies: These can help reduce travel time and lower vehicle emissions in companies that rely on transportation to conduct day-to-day business activities.
Upgraded industrial motors: Industrial activity uses nearly half of all the electrical power generated globally, with industrial motors contributing 65 per cent of that figure. With an increase in the efficiency of motor systems, potential emissions savings could reach 15 per cent by 2020.
Tele- and videoconferences: Long-distance meetings and telecommuting can significantly lower the amount of employee travel and measurably reduce carbon footprint.
Greening IT
Although it has limited value alone, a greening IT programme can have tremendous impact on reducing carbon footprints when it is integrated with a vigorous campaign of going green through IT. Among the possible facets of a green IT programme are consolidating data centres, adopting cloud computing, installing advanced cooling systems and power management software in data centres and deploying thin clients.
In addition, the relatively short life-cycle of ICT products, and the lack of thought given to dealing with end-of-life ICT assets, has led to a growing dispersal of toxic chemicals. Electronic waste contributes 70 per cent of all toxins to the waste stream. "Corporations, of course, are the largest users of ICT and hence are responsible for a significant portion of its overall carbon footprint. CIOs can work with ICT vendors to participate in - or establish - an asset recovery programme that can extend the life of systems, using strategies such as refurbishing equipment and extracting useful components and materials from recyclable systems," commented Shehadi.
Green IT Governance
For strategies of greening IT or going green through IT to be effective, IT governance has to reflect sustainability on an ongoing basis with clear steering mechanisms and key performance indicators (KPIs). Typical governance considerations are:
Management processes: What are the oversight requirements for green IT practices? Which executives and which departments are required to do which activities to make sure that the green IT programmes and policies are implemented well?
Organisational structures and footprint: What is the appropriate operational model to deliver the green IT programmes?
Architectures: Which technology solutions should be adopted for green IT?
Policies and controls: What are the measures and rules used to monitor the environmental impact of green IT?
Supplier management: What types of incentives can suppliers be given to embrace the organisation's green IT approach?
Four-step Approach
"Creating a successful green IT strategy is extremely challenging, but the effort is well worth it, particularly when the green IT programme delivers cost savings, an enhanced global reputation and even new potential revenue streams," commented Shehadi. On the basis of its findings during the study, Booz & Company has developed a four-phase framework to keep a green IT programme on course and overcome the obstacles to its implementation.
Phase 1: Diagnostic/Baselining
Baselining consists of bottom-up data collection and a top-down visioning process. The bottom-up aspect involves assessing a company's carbon emission footprint currently and in previous years in (a) the IT function and (b) the organisation's entire business operations. In this step, the goal is to delineate and quantify the carbon footprint of high-emitting activities, such as production facilities or travel, by using available data including electricity bills, travel and purchasing records, energy usage data and waste reports. These baseline results are compared with benchmarks available from other organisations of similar types and sizes, in part to identify where improvement opportunities exist.
At the same time, the top-down process involves interviewing and surveying senior stakeholders about their level of satisfaction with IT and their expectations for sustainability in both the IT group and the overall business. The key is to align the organisation's sustainability targets with the company's aspirations for its green programme.
Phase 2: Opportunity Assessment
Based on the results of baselining, top company stakeholders meet in a series of workshops to identify and prioritise IT and organisational alternatives for reducing carbon footprint and energy costs.
In preparation for the workshops, appropriate green strategy benefits to focus on are culled from these sources:
- Databases of companies that have successfully implemented green IT strategies to find possible areas of savings
Review of processes and practices in the IT group or throughout the organisation that could be improved.
Phase 3: Target State Definition/Blueprinting
Based on the prioritised initiatives and opportunities, recommendations for a green IT strategy are offered. Among the detailed aspects of the blueprint:
The landscape of future applications needed for the going green through IT programme; such things as videoconferencing facilities, energy consumption dashboards and building automation systems are likely candidates.
The planned technology infrastructure for greening IT—e.g. cloud computing and the future landscape for desktops, servers, printers, data centres, wireless communication devices and networks.
The governance and organisational processes to manage and measure the performance and delivery of the green IT strategy.
Phase 4: Green IT Road Map and Business Case
The green IT strategy is translated into a master plan with a short and long-term project road map. For each prioritised initiative in the plan, KPIs are established. Ongoing programme assessment transparency and organisational change management procedures are also defined in this phase.
In addition, an overall business case is developed that balances carbon footprint reduction goals for both greening IT and going green through IT with a self-funding implementation plan when possible. To achieve such a plan:
Projects are phased in, starting with anticipated quick wins and using generated savings to fund more capital-intensive parts of the road map.
External funding, such as from government incentive programmes, is sought for initial seeding.
When possible, equipment is phased out at the end of its useful life with savings from this effort transferred to the green IT campaign.
Finally, there should be a robust change management function incorporated in a green IT programme. Successfully adopting green IT approaches is not achieved without substantial behavioural change, and such a cultural shift is impossible without visible management support.
For most companies, going green the right way remains a mystery or a problem too daunting to tackle in a fully-fledged approach. But avoiding this issue in the hopes that it will resolve itself via half measures is not acceptable anymore, as many organisations are learning; this can result in continuing inefficiencies, expensive energy costs, wasteful processes and less than stellar relationships with potential customers. "The four-phase approach for a holistic green IT strategy takes a longer-term vision to implement, but the sustainable results over time will more than pay for the effort it took to reach them," concluded Karam.