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As mobile continues to increase its say in revenue generation, Qunar is going to pump in more money to further drive expansion of its mobile user base.
ChinaTravelNews, Ritesh Gupta - Qunar's ongoing revenue generation transition from PC to mobile and its evolving association with Baidu, especially with two entities deciding to end the Zhixin cooperation agreement, are being minutely scrutinized as the company strives to achieve profitability by the next year or so.
Sharing its Q1 results, Qunar clarified that with the conclusion of Zhixin cooperation agreement, there won't be any "material impact" on its "operations or financial condition".
But this definitely brings a key question to the fore – with mobile being a major focus, can the same catapult Qunar to profitability as planned?
Before we talk about mobile in isolation, it needs to be mentioned that there are three important links to Qunar's investments as it gears up for best long-term returns.
Speaking during the company's Q1 earnings call, Qunar's CFO, Yilu Zhao mentioned that technology-related investment has enabled the company to scale to automation. Looking back at its early execution of its SaaS system five years ago, the company today says this has paved way for smooth transition into the mobile era. The resulting data infrastructure ensures closure of transactions within its own platform.
The other two aspects are nurturing supply chain and user base expansion on mobile.
"User expansion in mobile will be the driver for long-term revenue growth as our users stay with us for a long-period of time with increased transaction frequencies every year," said Zhao.
There are numerous benefits of such approach, for instance, having a centralized mobile platform allows for effective cross-selling.
This engaged and loyal mobile customer base, along with Qunar's knack to spread its product offerings, has enabled to draw even more active users, step up user engagement and further improve a virtuous network effect.
"We have stepped up on our investments in Q2 in offline marketing channels. The online penetration is still low in China's travel industry. Offline channels present bigger opportunity to any online channels in attracting and converting leads. We also offer incentive to users for downloading our apps while setting up payment methods," explained Zhao.
Qunar's co-founder and CEO, CC Zhuang said, "For many quarters we have focused on capturing the offline to mobile tailwind and as a result, all our mobile-related metrics are trending up being very robust way very consistently."
Zhao further added that considering China's side of the transition from offline to mobile as well as hotel direct networks that the team has worked on over the past year or so, it's time to expand and monetize this for improved performance. Qunar's direct hotel network covered over 237,000 hotels till last year. Also, the company finalized pacts with 22 global hotel chains in Q1 to strengthen its portfolio to cover high-end luxury hotels and the overseas market.
Mobile platform – standout performer
For a company that has been asserting its supremacy in the mobile domain, Qunar has done exceedingly well considering that the team started monetizing qualified clicks garnered from its mobile platform exactly three years ago.
And this performance brought a change in the tie-up with Baidu. In fact, going forward Qunar projects that warrants issued to Baidu will go down from here on. This is owing to the fact that Qunar has laid aggressive marketing plans for its mobile platform and chosen to curb the same for the website platform.
Zhuang mentioned that the partnership is "actually moving from the PC age to the mobile age".
"With all the user data pointing towards strong returns, we will continue to invest aggressively to further drive expansion of our mobile user base," said Zhuang. Qunar's active mobile users have risen from 25.2m in 2013 to 42.2m last year.
According to iResearch, there were around 750m installations of Qunar Travel till last year.
The contribution of mobile as a channel is growing. Mobile accounted for close to 40% of total revenue, approximately 41% of flights tickets sold and 56% of hotel room nights stayed, last year. Moving on this year, mobile contributed 59.4% of total revenues in the first three months. Mobile revenues for the January-March 2015 period were RMB398.5 million (US$64.3 million), an increase of 275.7% year-on-year. Overall, this is the fourth successive quarter that Qunar's y-o-y revenue grew 100% or above.
A couple of other key figures:
Average number of flight ticket transactions per mobile user increased from 0.17 in 2013 to 0.34 in 2014.
Average number of hotel room night transactions per mobile user increased from 0.08 in 2013 to 0.18 in 2014.
With such figures, it becomes clear that Qunar isn't going to slow down on this count. As shared by the company, its operating expenses can only go up from here on, "due to stepped up discretionary expenditures to acquire new mobile users through offline channels".


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post6631710430363398037..comments2012-07-17T10:21:43.759-05:00Comments on Linux in Exile: Windows v firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-10173111532079982562010-10-16T23:37:09.516-05:002010-10-16T23:37:09.516-05:00No body understands what user want other than Micr...No body understands what user want other than Microsoft coming to user experience. At present Ubuntu is free but the reason behind the popular Ubuntu is the distribution of Cd's and Dvd's for free. I think in few years after Ubuntu become popular they will charge for services they offer. Why google is distributing its android platform for free because they are seeing profits in near future and succeed. Same thing with Ubuntu but for desktops and laptops Windows 7 is the best. I used ubuntu and for a long time and don't like the interface but installing packages is very easy. fast boot and shutdown despite there is last of some features that windows offers. Any one can use windows operating systems with ease unlike Ubuntu.

But i like Ubuntu as well as Ubuntu they both have their own capabilities and following. I am using Vmware now to test different linux distribution on my windows 7 platform.ramhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-25308746366068300242010-09-30T23:17:22.110-05:002010-09-30T23:17:22.110-05:00Wow, lots of comments. I think how you compare Li...Wow, lots of comments.

I think how you compare Linux to Windows installation depends on what you consider to be the actual installation. If you just count the initial installation, I'm not sure what all you people are doing that Windows is really noticeably harder. At this point, both systems ask you more-or-less the same questions. About the only things you can say is that (1) the Windows installation takes freaking forever for whatever reason (all unprompted though), (2) Windows makes you press an "I agree" button, and (3) Windows gives you a dialog like what I imagine what you'd get if you told Ubuntu you wanted to choose partitions manually. (Disclaimer: I don't actually know what that looks like, or what the installation shows you if you've got Windows on there already and want to dual boot; I've only installed Ubuntu on a clean virtual machine with more-or-less default settings. I also don't know how Wubi looks.)

The real problem with Windows installation comes post-... well, post-installation, when you have to update the system, often through two or three reboots. (I just did another virtual machine of XP from what was probably fresh SP3; that took two reboots.) That *is* obnoxious.

Also terrible is the XP setup, which alternates between asking questions and installing for a while, so you can't even just answer questions for 5 minutes then walk away for an hour like you could with older Linux installations. (My first couple Linux installations were Red Hat 8 and Mandrake 9, or Red Hat 9 and Mandrake 10, or something like that, back in late 2002. Both of those were already way better than XP was -- they had similarly-complicated installers even on the easy route, and much more complicated (but also more functional) installers if you choose packages and such), but they asked for everything they needed up-front.

On my front, I also recently got to switch back to Linux at work. This makes me very pleased, because it means that when I'm at home and at work my OS is annoying me in different ways instead of all the same way like it was when I was on Linux at work. ;-) I've also got my tiling WM back which is very nice for work-type stuff. (I run Windows at home, and I think that's pretty clearly the right choice. I game enough and stuff like that where if I were to use Linux I'd be probably spending lots of time either trying to work around games not working or rebooting to switch OS. Most of the good things about Linux I find apply rather less at home than they do at work too. YMMV of course.)evanedhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-44474047145598323942010-09-30T21:40:32.636-05:002010-09-30T21:40:32.636-05:00I put Ubuntu on to my blogsurfing machine. My boyf...I put Ubuntu on to my blogsurfing machine. My boyfriend put Ubuntu onto his laptop. In both cases, earlier OS was WinXP. And no Greg, it was not from source, it was from a install CD burnt directly from whatever the official download site is.

The amount of tweaking that was needed to get either installation to operate was several times more demanding and time-consuming than for the Windows. Even after multiple consultations with bithead nerds in our social circle, either machine will sometimes require several boots to present the full desktop. The Firefox shows signs of memory leak or something that over a few days causes the computer to crawl ever slower, requiring a maintenance reboot -- and then we are back at the "multiple boots for desktop".

But when the linux works, its flexibility compensates for a lot.

I do wish the cult of linux would pause in their chanting of the slogans and entrenching in their attitudes, and give us something that also the slightly less technically dedicated can use with a bit less bemusement. Granny-ready, linuxes are not.

(20 years ago I wrote system software for process control computers. Now I can't even make a general-purpose OS sit up, let alone beg any more.)

//firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-58347086930481909172010-09-30T16:56:53.133-05:002010-09-30T16:56:53.133-05:00I also think Linux is way easier to install than W...I also think Linux is way easier to install than Windows.

Heh. I did a clean install of Win7 64bit and it took at more than 6 hours. Installing Ubuntu on the netbook that has the not quite correct processor (it is an intel atom and they are not generally interchangeable) only took about two hours. My laptop took about twenty minutes, while the only delays on my desktop were getting the boot drive changed to a thumb drive.

That doesn't take into account getting a windows desktop set up the way I want it and getting an Ubuntu desktop set up. There is less to get rid of and what there is is easier to dump.DuWayne Braytonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-15555955422624147582010-09-30T13:40:06.052-05:002010-09-30T13:40:06.052-05:00Mad & Greg: "... the Wubi installer – whi...Mad & Greg:
"... the Wubi installer – which installs the operating system with the ease of a regular Windows app..."

I also think Linux is way easier to install than Windows. (Especially that I can boot from a USB drive, and run a system from that to test things, then install it.) But I assumed that quote was in the article because people who have only used Windows won't have any other frame of reference. If you say "easier than a Windows app" then that doesn't mean much if you have only used Windows apps. So saying it's just as easy helps to "lower the barrier" for these users.

My $.02

JHJHhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-77347537692141610102010-09-30T13:35:39.240-05:002010-09-30T13:35:39.240-05:00Glad to see everyone's back, and a few new nam...Glad to see everyone's back, and a few new names. :-)

I think it's great that a more "mainstream" magazine like PC Pro is running an article like this. That Linux compared so favorably speaks well to the community and organization around Linux and open source software. These kinds of improvements don't come out of a vacuum, folks. People had to write those new features. And it's not due to a single distro, but all of them learning from each other and borrowing from each other to make something great.

You just don't find that kind of IT "ecosystem" with Windows. Maybe that's why I view Windows (and Microsoft) as falling behind.

JHJHhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-25341936887313701752010-09-30T07:18:44.769-05:002010-09-30T07:18:44.769-05:00Hey, DuWayne, I hope you like the transition as mu...Hey, DuWayne, I hope you like the transition as much as I have. My frustrations with Ubuntu and Mint have been short-lived each time I run into them because there are so many sources available with instructions for how to do things that are decidedly not windows-like.

I have found so many cool things that have no Windows equivalent that do things that I had never thought of when I was using Windows. I would never go back to a Windows system now that I have been using linux Ubuntu and Mint.

Also, I like the price of all the apps.Mike Haubrichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-83512393279681480742010-09-30T05:50:30.902-05:002010-09-30T05:50:30.902-05:00george w. - That really depends on whether you wo...george w. -

That really depends on whether you would like to see more Linux, less windows, or would rather keep Linux to yourself.

Two years ago I would not have gone to Ubuntu, nor would I have gone even six months ago. I know this because I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows several times over the last two years. I finally kept it in a few months ago and a few weeks ago removed Windows from my machines altogether (even managed to resurrect a netbook that died - after replacing the processor).

The only reason I was able to do this is because of those "more new features," you seem to be wondering if they = improvement. I am a student/single father and have little time to spend learning how to functionally use a non-intuitive, non-user friendly desktop enviro. I am not trying to bash Linux - believe me, I am loving being Winfree (Apple products have never been an option for me - I despise the Mac OS and the hardware is uberoverpriced). But I could not be Winfree if it required reading several books to learn the language and constantly paying attention to what's going on. I'm learning Russian now and Mandarin is going to come on it's heels - those are enough new languages for me to learn (though I am sure I will slowly pick up Linux as I fix random crap on my machines).

While more new features may not = improvement for you, they are the difference between me being stuck with Windows, or having another option. I am extremely grateful to have this other option. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the people who have taken the time to create distros that are user friendly enough for people like me, who don't have that time. I also greatly appreciate the people who are obses...er, who are so fond of Linux that they nagg...er, encouraged me (and others) to switch.DuWayne Braytonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-20597285719565009102010-09-29T21:38:20.048-05:002010-09-29T21:38:20.048-05:00Mad: Unbelievably so. The difference is astonishi...Mad: Unbelievably so. The difference is astonishing. I assume when I see a statement like this that some moron is looking at installing from source, as if the average Ubuntu did that any more than the average Windoze user does (and of course, you can install from source on Windows if you want, and can get the source, which you can't)Greghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-63151050258693003322010-09-29T21:17:10.089-05:002010-09-29T21:17:10.089-05:00I disagree with part of that quote from the articl...I disagree with part of that quote from the article - Ubuntu is easier to install than many MSWin programs and definitely easier to install than MSWin email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-55121940034945899112010-09-29T21:01:09.158-05:002010-09-29T21:01:09.158-05:00So... "more new features" equals better?...So... "more new features" equals better? I guess that's what I'd expect a Windows-loving magazine like PC Pro would say.george.whttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-45624253820951790742010-09-21T08:26:32.694-05:002010-09-21T08:26:32.694-05:00Great post! ---------- Java Platform, Enterprise ...Great post!

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Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is the industry-standard platform for building enterprise-class applications coded in the Java programming language. Based on the solid foundation of Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), Java EE adds libraries and system services that support the scalability, accessibility, security, integrity, and other requirements of enterprise-class applications. java web development companytenax_technologieshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650649138973583402.post-88329619765453752512010-09-20T17:43:55.964-05:002010-09-20T17:43:55.964-05:00It's good to see an article from a mainstream ...It's good to see an article from a mainstream technology (maybe?) magazine writing up a serious review like this without letting preconceptions of each OS get in the way. I also like how they take Ubuntu's loss not as a sign that Linux will never be ready for the desktop but as a sign that given how close it is now, it could easily beat Microsoft Windows in a few years.
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His father is actor Martin Sheen. His younger brothers are Charlie Sheen and Ramón Luis Estevez, and his younger sister is RenĂ©e Estevez. He is most famous as part of the 1980s Brat Pack group of actors, having starred in The Breakfast Club (1985) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985). He also appeared in the cult film Repo Man (1984), as the punk-rocker-turned-car-repossessor Otto. Estevez is probably most recognizable among younger audiences for his role in The Mighty Ducks series. Emilio is very proud of his Spanish and Irish heritage.
He has two kids with ex-girlfriend, model Carey Salley, a son Taylor Levi (born in June 1984) and daughter Paloma Estevez (born 1986). Most recently, he has directed episodes of the TV series, Cold Case, Close to Home, The Guardian and CSI: NY.
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The agent of Alessandro Diamanti has admitted that his player will consider a Bologna exit at the end of the season.
"Alessandro is loved in Bologna, but there could be some important opportunities for him in the summer," Luca Puccinelli told Sky Sport Italia.
"If a top team came in for him then that would be a really big opportunity.
"In Italy or abroad? If he stays on the peninsula then that would help his international career as he would be seen more regularly.
"But if a major Champions League side made an offer then it wouldn't be very intelligent to not consider such an option."
The 29-year-old attacking midfielder, part of Cesare Prandelli's national squad, has scored six goals in 22 League games this term.
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The government was accused today of performing a U-turn on one of the most explosive issues of the general election when the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, left open the option of a "death tax" to fund long-term care for the elderly.
Only months after waging a Tory poster campaign against the Labour plan, Lansley established a new independent commission that will be free to examine compulsory funding of long-term care.
He is already under fire for abandoning commitments in the coalition agreement after he abolished primary care trusts.
Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said: "Today's announcement is yet another example of the Tories changing their tune only weeks after the election. When I called cross-party talks [as health secretary], Mr Lansley refused to attend unless a compulsory option was taken off the table. He even produced crass posters with gravestones to make his point. Now he is giving this commission free rein to look at compulsory options."
Lansley announced that the economist Andrew Dilnot would chair a commission on the funding of care and support that will report within a year. A Department of Health spokesman confirmed that the commission would be free to examine a variety of funding options.
"The commission will look at both voluntary insurance schemes and partnership models of funding," the spokesman said. "We do not wish to constrain the commission from considering other options, such as compulsory schemes. It is important that the commission has the space to rigorously consider this complex social policy issue in full."
Lansley told the Commons health select committee: "I am not seeking to fetter [the commission]. We are looking at a partnership model to the extent that a publicly funded public care service is consistent with the fiscal framework. [The commission] will look at insurance and partnership models and [others] in previous green papers."
Lansley said the commission was "fully aware" of the Tory manifesto proposal for an £8,000 voluntary insurance model to cover residential care costs.
His remarks, the terms of reference for the commission and the coalition agreement indicate that the government's preference is for a voluntary insurance scheme and a partnership funding scheme.
The coalition agreement cited a partnership scheme, recommended by the banker Derek Wanless in a report for the King's Fund in 2006, which concluded that "almost everyone" would make a contribution. Wanless said a minimum level of care would be provided free. For more care, people would make contributions that would be matched by the state up to a limit, with those on low incomes supported through benefits. The scheme would not involve means testing.
"Almost everyone makes some form of contribution, however modest, in the partnership model. This puts important incentives in place for people to save to provide for their needs in older age."
But Wanless warned: "Compared with means testing, partnership is not as progressive in that it reduces the differential between what poorer people pay and what better-off people pay. Wealthier people would pay less than under means testing and so the state would be contributing towards the cost of care for some people who could afford care themselves."
The existing system is heavily means tested, with councils containing demand by restricting access to people if they have savings or assets of £23,000 or more. By 2006, fewer households were receiving supported home care than in 1997, and fewer older people got publicly funded care at home than did in 2003.
The commission has to produce a system for England able to cope with an expected extra 1.7 million people needing care over the next 20 years, partly due to the ageing population ageing, with the number of people over 85 expected to double by 2026. Lansley said: "We know that one in five 65-year-olds today will need care costing more than £50,000. The answer is clear – we must develop a funding system for adult care and support that offers choice, is fair, value for money and is sustainable for the public finances in the long term."
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There was a time when couch potatoes couldn't help gushing over serials like "Betiyaan" and "Behnein", which had female protagonists fighting the entire world for their sisters and even killing an enemy or two if they so much as dared to cast an aspersion on their kin. Move over gushing siblings!
Enter warring sisters! Currently, prime time shows like "Amrit Manthan", "Jamuna Paar", "Sasural Simar Ka", "Haar Jeet", "Baba Aiso Var Deejo", " Afsar Bitiya" and "Saath Nibhana Sathiya" are pulling all stops to celebrate this sibling rivalry. So, how potent is the new ruling mantra on telly? Is it too far-fetched or does it reflect reality of life? LT get onto the hatred trail...
As you watch the newage telly sisters plotting against each other and trying their level best to show the other in worst possible light, you wonder if it is really possible for two siblings to hate each other so much. Producer Rajan Shahi of "Bidaai" and "Kuch Toh Log Kahenge" fame, whose show "Jamuna Paar" has a strong track of sisters' rivalry, says, "I have seen quite a few sisters hating each other in real life. In fact, we have so many business and Bollywood families having siblings' war stories, where they go to the extremes. Even though we hate to admit it, the fact is that our close relations are very fragile. More the love, greater the expectations, which can't always be met all lead to problems especially when one sibling starts exploiting the other. In my serial "Jamuna Paar", the older sister sacrifices her talent for the younger one, who is not gifted. Whether they fight for power, status, money or the attention of a man, intriguing wars go on everywhere between sisters!"
Adaa Khan, nee Princess Amrit Kaur Sodhi of "Amrit Manthan" feels that these tracks reflect the practical approach of the youngsters today. "My character in the serial is a practical girl, who wants to enjoy the riches and status just like so many other girls of my age. In real life too, I know of quite a few sisters, who have gone to all extremes to get the upper hand. Especially when there's more love, hatred is bound to breed. But, life goes on!"
One thing that could have been responsible for sudden rush of these hate-sis tracks is that they spell good news for TRPs. After all, "Bidaai" with its cult sis-hating track, recorded big-time TRPs. "Uttaran" also dwells on similar theme and has been doing consistently well commercially. Trilok Singh, the supervising producer of new soap "Haar Jeet", says: "The love-triangle involving two sisters, with one scheming against the other, always works. So, we aim to score well on TRP meter."
Those, who are portraying these negative emotions on telly, don't find it easy, though. "The challenge lies in the portrayal being believable," says Neha Sargam, who's playing the conniving sister Ishika in "HaarJeet". She goes on to add: "Earlier, I played the sacrificing sister Nivedita in "Chaand Chupa Badal Mein". So, the production guys of "Haar Jeet" had a lot of doubts whether I would be able to get Ishika's nastiness right, but I convinced them. It's tough alright to be a selfish sister, who uses her sibling to lay her hands on a guy and his moolah. But then, everyone has negative emotions deep within, so one has to focus on them to get the act right!".
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The National Chicken Council released its "2013 Wing Report" to the media on January 22 and to date, there have been 7,407 unique internet articles, stories and blog posts about "chicken wings." In addition, there have been 1,600 radio and broadcast television news stories about "chicken wings" over that two week span.
The National Chicken Council was interviewed or mentioned specifically in 1,268 of those articles since January 22nd, and NCC reported that about half of those stories mentioned ethanol production as putting a strain on corn and feed prices.
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Dr. Thomas Elam, president of FarmEcon LLC, spoke at a media briefing on February 4 on behalf of the National Chicken Council and National Turkey Federation. According to Elam, the Renewable Fuel Standard is broken, but Congress can fix the rule by acting now and opening an inclusive, robust debate that leads to extensive reform.
Congress in 2005 enacted the first Renewable Fuel Standard which mandated levels of ethanol to be blended with gasoline. In 2007 that ethanol mandate was expanded, and biodiesel was added. The Environmental Protection Agency on January 31 proposed new percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the agency's Renewable Fuel Standard. The proposal is open for a 45-day public comment period, and the agency will consider feedback before the proposal is finalized.
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Russia will ban imports of US turkey because of concerns about the use of feed additive ractopamine, Russia's Veterinary and Phyto-Sanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) said in a statement on Monday.
The service will impose a temporary ban on US turkey starting from Feb. 11, it said.
It earlier decided to ban imports of US beef and pork from the same date for the same reason.
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text: The psychedelic wig-outs of Tonstartssbandht are much appreciated on this site, especially the live stuff. That's the focus of the Floridian brothers' new live record Overseas, a patchwork of shows from across Europe. A sweet, spring-blossomed scented version of their blog hit "Midnite Cobras" is a useful marker for how many turns this collection takes, both in terms of style and audio fidelity. Plus there's a lot of their trademark voice of God harmonizing amongst the din of licks and shreds that also descends on the record. Enough to send your eyes to the back of your head, and keep them there.


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Brad Colley plugged the cassette tape into his Sony Walkman and set out to mow the lawn. His girlfriend, Robbie Lynn, had already considered he might be The One, but now she was feeling even better about things.
The music choice: Les Miserables.
"A man who loves Broadway,'' she thought. "Perfect.''
Eighteen years of marriage and two sons later, they have seen the blockbuster musical several times and figured to see it again during its run in Tampa, less than an hour from their home in Trinity.
But as the cast of the national tour took the stage last Sunday at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, the Colley family checked into the Marriott Marquis in the heart of New York City's theater district.
They had pizza plans, but 10-year-old Joshua passed. His first airplane ride and the taxi trip into Manhattan had left him three shades of green.
He recovered nicely.
The next morning, Joshua, a fourth-grader in Audrey Long's class at Longleaf Elementary School, found himself sitting in a hallway with six other boys. They represented a short list of hundreds of applicants seeking a key part in the next round of the Les Miserables 25th anniversary U.S. tour.
This had all happened so fast. Joshua's parents had only recently learned of the auditions and Robbie Lynn had dashed off a quick letter and video. "It was one take with a flip (camera),'' she said.
And it wasn't like Joshua had all that much experience. His resume was, as they say in the theater, "light.'' Jim Wanker, the music teacher at Longleaf, had cast Joshua in a student play last summer and then a solo part in the annual Christmas show. About that same time, Joshua landed the role of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol at the freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg.
At 9 years old, this boy with dark brown hair and big brown eyes demonstrated a professionalism beyond his years. He made chorus practice every morning at 8:30, then classes. His parents drove him to St. Petersburg for rehearsals and returned home at 11:30 p.m. The next morning, he jumped out of bed eager to do it all over again.
"He never complained,'' said his dad. "He not only showed talent, but also passion.''
Twenty-two performances as Tiny Tim earned him raves and gained him confidence. Still, as the family sat in that New York studio watching Joshua assume the identity of Gavroche, a street urchin desperate to join in a student uprising in post-revolution France, they really didn't expect what happened next.
An hour after leaving the auditions, Brad and Robbie Lynn prepared for the flight home. Joshua and his twin brother, Cameron, ran around the hotel acting like 10-year-olds. They marveled at their first sight of snow, albeit a dusting.
Brad's cell phone rang.
They had expected it might take a few weeks to hear from the producers, but now one was on the phone saying how much they loved Joshua. The exact words, his father recalled: "Joshua blew us away.'' A contract would be forthcoming, along with more logistics. The first performance: March 13 at the Boston Opera House; the last Aug. 5 in San Francisco.
The family headed home. Brad and Robbie Lynn hesitated to share the news. Until a contract was in hand, they didn't want to jinx anything.
But come Monday morning, Joshua went to school and told Mr. Wanker. The news spread like wildfire. Students and teachers offered congratulations. A cafeteria worker said, "When you're rich and famous, I can say I fed that boy.''
At home a few blocks from the school, Joshua and Cameron played like always. They rode bikes and skated and watched an X-Men movie. Their parents considered the reality of six months on the road and how to accomplish their No. 1 goal: keeping the family together, healthy and happy.
Joshua will have to join a union. His pay, which has not been determined, will go into a college fund.
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In retrospect, this probably shouldn't have come as a big surprise. As a student at Pinellas Park High School, Robbie Lynn's beauty and matching voice landed her several roles in productions at the old Showboat Dinner Theater and other local venues. She played Jasmine in Aladdin shows at Disney World.
In 1999, the Colleys created Play 'N Around, producing and acting in educational musicals for children in schools and other venues throughout the Tampa Bay area. They like to say their boys were "born on stage,'' which is almost true. Robbie Lynn was eight months pregnant with the twins as she performed The Nutcracker.
"The boys have seen all our rehearsals and performances since they were born,'' Brad said. "They fell in love with performing, and they both have great voices.''
Cameron is particularly strong at comedy and ventriloquism. Asked how he felt about his brother landing this big part, he said, "I'm definitely jealous.'' But then he quickly added, "And proud.''
He watched as Joshua sang one of the most stirring of all the songs in Les Miserables. It comes as his character, Gavroche, is shot while trying to help the rebels. Joshua delivered with a passion and anguish that wouldn't seem possible from a 10-year-old and when it was over gave a gap-toothed smile and blurted, "And then he dies!''
The Colleys have an employee who will run their business while they are on the road. "We'll be connected,'' Brad says, "and everything will be fine. This is such a wonderful opportunity for Joshua, but also for the entire family.''
His wife went a step further, borrowing from arguably the most famous of all songs from Les Miserables: "We're dreaming the dream.''


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HOUSTON – Pressure from insurance companies forced a Webster pediatrician to change her practice.
Dr. Angelina Farella targets parents with unreachable deductibles able to pay out-of-pocket. She no longer accepts insurance or keeps long office hours. Instead, she spends more time with patients.
Last year, we met Dr. Farella spending her retirement to keep her practice "A Brighter Tomorrow Pediatrics" open and independent. Not sure when, if or how patient insurance companies would pay, Dr. Farella went from seeing 35-40 patients a day to 10.
"I fell off the cliff and caught the grid," she said laughing.
Now, she's working with smaller budgets. She spends up to two hours in consultations and less time in her office unless called.
"We're doing some house calls," she said. "We're going back to the old fashioned way of doing things and so that's pretty exciting. It's different."
It also allows her one day a week to visit places like MarCo Specialty Steel. It is a small business with 25 employees. The owners, concerned about employees catching and/or spreading the flu, bought vaccines and called in Dr. Farella to give everyone shots.
"You start losing one, two or three (employees) and you've got 25-percent of your staff gone," Russell Mapes, co-owner of MarCo Specialty Steel said.
Those kinds of outreach clinics help Farella share her passion of keeping people healthy and allows her to recruit new patients.


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Photograph the Earth from Every Angle and Every Altitude
The Google Earth Guys are back! You for sure remember their hilarious trip around the planet in their car to 'Street View' the roads of our world. The guys are created by Dan Meth and College Humor has brought us the great conversations Evan and Mike have while driving. Now they are back with a new journey for the two hard working, company dedicated employees. Of course the animation uses Google Earth imagery, off you go:
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Barbecue restaurant opens downtown
Lawrence residents Yale Baker and Shad Woodworth recently opened Vermont Street BBQ, 805 Vt.
Baker said the duo began the carry-out and delivery-only restaurant to tap into the downtown lunch crowd and to give Lawrence residents an easy way to pick up Kansas City-style barbecue.
Baker is a former Lawrence pizza delivery driver, and Woodworth is a graduate of a Portland, Ore., culinary school. That combination, Baker said, should serve the business well.
"I know the delivery business, and Shad knows how to cook," Baker said. "We hope to be able to carve out a nice niche by being able to deliver."
The business, which has 12 employees, offers beef, turkey, pork and sausage menu items. Prices range from about $5 to $12. Hours are from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week. The site previously was home to Mojo's, which relocated to 714 Vt. about 14 months ago.
Wichita: Airbus to double jobs
European aircraft maker Airbus plans to expand its engineering facility in Wichita, more than doubling its staff during the next few months from 65 to more than 140.
The Wichita engineering staff works on the wing design for the 555-passenger Airbus A380, as well as some work on the A340.
"We've been doing a good job for them," said Bill Greer, vice president for Airbus North American Engineering.
Airbus, the main competitor of Chicago-based Boeing Co. in the world market for major commercial aircraft, opened its Wichita office in March.
Wall Street: Earnings of area interest
Kansas City Mo.-based H&R; Block on Tuesday reported a loss of 5 cents per share in the first quarter compared to a loss of 17 cents per share during the same period a year ago. Company officials credited an increase in mortgage business for the stronger-than-expected results.
Atchison-based Midwest Grain declared an annual dividend of 15 cents per share payable Nov. 5.
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Obama Challenges Cantor: Explain Exactly Why Republicans Won't Vote on Jobs Bill
Later today in Dallas, President Obama will challenge Republicans to take action on his jobs bill, singling out Eric Cantor for saying yesterday that House Republicans wouldn't even hold a vote on the proposal. According to this speech excerpt, sent out by the White House, Obama will call on Cantor to explain what in the jobs bill Republicans oppose:
Yesterday, the Republican Majority Leader in Congress, Eric Cantor, said that right now, he won't even let the jobs bill have a vote in the House of Representatives. He won't even give it a vote.
Well I'd like Mr. Cantor to come down here to Dallas and explain what in this jobs bill he doesn't believe in. Does he not believe in rebuilding America's roads and bridges? Does he not believe in tax breaks for small businesses, or efforts to help veterans?
Mr. Cantor should come down to Dallas, look Kim Russell in the eye, and tell her why she doesn't deserve to get a paycheck again. Come tell her students why they don't deserve to have their teacher back.
Come tell Dallas construction workers why they should be sitting home instead of fixing our bridges and our schools.
Come tell the small business owners and workers in this community why you'd rather defend tax breaks for millionaires than tax cuts for the middle-class.
And if you won't do that, at least put this jobs bill up for a vote so that the entire country knows exactly where every Member of Congress stands.
There's no good reason for Republicans to oppose the American Jobs Act period, let alone for them to refuse to allow a vote on it. The only reasonable explanation for their blanket opposition is that they are playing political games, more interested in positioning themselves for the 2012 election than actually doing something to help address America's economic crisis.
Meanwhile, even though they refuse to do anything at all about the economy, House Republicans are continuing to pursue their right-wing social agenda, reviving battles from earlier this year over funding for Planned Parenthood and public broadcasting. And you know what that means: there's no chance Eric Cantor or anyone else in GOP leadership is going to explain their position in Dallas or anywhere else. They're too busy fighting Big Bird to worry about something as mundane as creating jobs.


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text: [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pinkertonDK_9834.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:And neither will you [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by the time we're done]], union-man...]]->''"We Never Sleep."''-->-- '''Motto of the Pinkertons'''An agent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, "Pinkertons" for short, "Pinks" to their enemies. Not to be confused with the album Music/{{Pinkerton}}, [[DirtyCommunists Pinkos]] or [[Webcomic/TheDreadful Pinkies]].Founded in the 1850s by Allan Pinkerton, the Pinkertons were often hired by corporations such as the railroad companies to investigate crimes against them and the activities of labor movements. Made famous by their protection of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln from an assassination attempt prior to his taking the oath of office. In the 1870s, they added government work to their portfolio, as the Department of Justice didn't have the infrastructure to do massive investigations on its own. (This work dried up in 1893 with the passage of the "Anti-Pinkerton Act", which prevented the US government from directly hiring Pinkerton agents.)In addition to their notorious and much-reviled strikebreaking work, the Pinkertons were also active in chasing down outlaws who'd pulled {{train job}}s or major [[BankRobbery bank robberies]]. And if you were wealthy enough, you could hire them for regular detective work as well. The Pinks were well known for [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner brutality and ruthlessness]] in their methods; in fiction, even when they're pursuing more laudable goals, this tends to give an unfavorable color to their portrayal.It's believed the phrase "private eye" comes from the Pinkerton Agency's symbol, an open eye (which rather hilariously came to look like the Creator/{{CBS}} eye in later years). Creator/DashiellHammett was a former Pinkerton agent, and used his experience to inform his stories.After the 1930s, the Pinkerton Agency largely concerned itself with security services. They were bought and merged with a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] security company called Securitas AB, they're now known as Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. Poetically, Securitas is now the subject of unionization attempts.Compare and contrast with PrivateMilitaryContractors. [[HilariousInHindsight Hilariously unrelated to]] RealMenWearPink.----!!Examples of Pinkerton detectives in fiction:[[foldercontrol]][[folder:Anime & Manga]]* The Pinkertons appear as villains in the [[{{Cancellation}} short-lived]], [[OELManga Original English-language manga]] ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Land_%28manga%29 No Man's Land]]'' by Jason [=DeAngelis=]. [[WeirdWest They try to harness the power of]] LegionsOfHell.* In the spinoff arc of ''Manga/GunkaNoBaltzar'', a CounterpartCulture detective agency is used to supress a strike.[[/folder]][[folder:Comic Books]]* A ComicBook story of Droopy (the dog) had him as a Pinkerton agent relentlessly and ruthlessly protecting a carpetbag of gold from a thief.* In the {{Elseworlds}} comic ''Justice Riders'' (The Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} [[RecycledINSPACE in the Old West]]) Guy Gardner appears as a Pinkerton agent.* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':** In the book "Jesse James", two bumbling Pinkerton detectives appear. Might be a ShoutOut to [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} two other bumbling detectives]] from FrancoBelgianComics. They travel incognito, oblivious to the SigilSpam that betrays them.** In a post-Morris album of the series, Lucky Luke finds himself going against Allan Pinkerton himself.* Pinkertons have appeared frequently (usually as antagonists) in ''ComicBook/JonahHex''.* Caleb Hammer, a Western character in the MarvelUniverse.* They sometime show up in ''ComicBook/TexWiller''. Being this a western comic book set before the start of the unions, they only show up chasing major criminals or doing investigative work. The agency is also noted to have some ethics, as they'll fire with prejudice any agent caught doing something illegal (as freeing a criminal after being bribed), and if asked about them will quickly denounce whatever they're doing now.** At the start of the "Death Cell" storyline Tex is framed for murder and it's mentioned they've been contacted to help find information to prove his innocence and catch the culprit before he and his accomplice can start an Indian war and have the Navajos evicted from their reserve. By the end of the storyline Tex and his pards have identified the culprit and found enough evidence to convict him and prove Tex' innocence on their own... And the Pinks reveal they have identified ''every single other member of the organization and provided enough evidence to arrest them'', [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome without even appearing on-page until one of their agents shows up to reveal what they've done in the meantime]].[[/folder]][[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]* The 1970 film ''Film/TheMollyMaguires'' recounts the real-life story of Pinkerton detective James [=McParlan=], alias [=McKenna=], played by Creator/RichardHarris, as he infiltrates a gang of railroad saboteurs led by Creator/SeanConnery as Black Jack Kehoe.* The 2005 movie ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' has Pinkerton agents extorting the wife of Franchise/{{Zorro}} to help them investigate a secret society trying to prevent the 1850 admission of California to the Union. Rather anachronistically, since the Pinkertons weren't formed until after that event.* As the Pinkertons pursued Jesse James in RealLife, they're often mentioned or seen in movies about him.* They pursue ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' to Bolivia (both in real life and in the film.)* Spicer Lovejoy, Cal Hockley's valet in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' was a former Pinkerton.* In an early scene of the 1992 movie ''Hoffa'', corporate-hired Pinkerton personnel assault early 20th century union organizers.* The Hollywood western ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma1957'' and [[Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007 its 2007 remake]] feature Pinkerton agents escorting an armed stagecoach filled with bank notes through Arizona. Pinkerton agents are seen throughout the 2007 version, and it's worth noting that in the remake the main Pinkerton is both a badass and deeply unpleasant character.* A couple of Pinkerton's Detectives pursue the eponymous characters in ''Film/BadGirls''. They never catch up with them.* In ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974'', [[spoiler:Cyrus Hardman]] is a Pinkerton agent. (In the original novel, he worked for the fictional [=McNeil=] Detective Agency.)* The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency (also a real company historically) engaged in similar strikebreaking actions in the [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory semi-historical]] film ''Film/{{Matewan}}''.[[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'', a Literature/SherlockHolmes story, features a PinkertonDetective infiltrating a gang of terrorist "Scowrers" (a fictional offshoot of the Freemasons, and who were based on the RealLife Molly Maguires.)** A Pinkerton named Leverton (described by Holmes as the "hero" of the "Long Island cave mystery") teams up with Holmes in ''The Adventure of the Red Circle''.* ''Literature/TheOutlawJoseyWales'' includes a brief chapter wherein a Texas Ranger and a Pinkerton Detective team up to search for Josey Wales.* Pinkerton toughs occasionally appear as secondary characters throughout Creator/HarryTurtledove's series of ''Great War'' and ''American Empire'' AlternateHistory novels. As the USA in those novels is much more "Europeanized" than ours, with a strong Socialist movement, they ultimately end up being defeated by the organised strikers and unions.* Felix Leiter in the ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels became a Pinkerton detective after being medically discharged from the CIA, for the rather good reason of losing a hand and a leg in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.* PK Pinkerton in ''Literature/TheWesternMysteries'' believes that he is a relative of the founder of the Pinkerton Detectives. His aspiration is to become a PinkertonDetective.* [[spoiler:Cyrus Hartman]] in ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'' is an employee of the [=McNeil=] Detective Agency, a fictional counterpart of the Pinkertons.* Sebastian Becker, the protagonist of a detective series by Stephen Gallagher, is an ex-Pinkerton.* In ''The Coronation'' and the novella ''Dream Valley'', it is mentioned that Literature/ErastFandorin worked for the Pinkertons during his stay in the US (though mostly as a freelancer rather than a full agent).* The protagonist of Creator/AnthonyHorowitz's Franchise/SherlockHolmes story, ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}'', is Detective Chase; a Pinkerton agent seeking to track down an American Crime-boss before he can replace Moriarty after his fall from the falls.* Creator/CliveCussler's character Isaac Bell is an investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, a fictional organization modeled after the Pinkertons.* In Jordan L. Hawk's gay supernatural detective series ''Whyborne & Griffin'', Griffin is an ex-Pinkerton, and his first encounter with the polymath Percival Whyborne relates directly to a terrifying ordeal he'd experienced while he was working with them. Later adventures often return to individuals or events from Griffin's Pinkerton past.[[/folder]][[folder:Live-Action TV]]* In the HBO series ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', the Pinkerton Agency and its agents are occasionally referred to by several of the show's characters, often ominously or with contempt. Even ''Al Swearengren'' thinks they're [[EvenEvilHasStandards below his admittedly low moral standards!]] Miss Isringhausen, Sofia's tutor from the show's second season, is eventually revealed to be an agent of the group.* Pinkertons appear a few times in the TV show ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr.''* One of the main characters of the short lived series ''{{Peacemakers}}'' (basically ''Series/{{CSI}}'' [[RecycledINSPACE IN THE OLD WEST!]]) was a former Pinkerton agent. One episode also featured a legendary Pinkerton agent gone rogue as the perp.* In Book Two of ''[[Series/NorthAndSouthUS North and South]]'', Orry Main enlists an ace Pinkerton detective to find his stray wife. Eventually, the gumshoe chafes at what is becoming a full-time assignment.* "The Ten Li'l Grifters Job," an episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', featured the team infiltrating a murder mystery costume party and had Eliot costumed as Charlie Siringo, a real-life Pinkerton agent. Given his history as a retrieval specialist, bodyguard, occasional government operative, and mercenary who now helps take down the CorruptCorporateExecutive of the week (at least one of whom he worked ''for'' in the past), the comparison is appropriate.* Pinkerton agents figure in an episode of ''Series/{{Copper}}''. They are not portrayed in a positive light.* On the ''Series/ElleryQueen'' episode "The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party", the victim's butler is an undercover Pinkerton, which doesn't stop him from being a [[TheButlerDidIt suspect]].* In ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' Season 4, the Pinkerton Detectives are revealed to have been hired to [[spoiler: investigate the suspicious death of Jimmy Darmody, to which end one of their agents seduces Gillian and manipulates her into confessing to the murder of the random young man whose corpse she passed off as Jimmy's to get him declared legally dead]].* ''Series/ThePinkertons'' naturally centers around these, featuring their founder Allan Pinkerton in the pilot, while one of the main characters is his son William. Incidentally the actor playing Pinkerton, Angus [=MacFadyen=], [[ActorSharedBackground has the same background as his character]], both having been born in UsefulNotes/{{Glasgow}}, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}.[[/folder]][[folder:Tabletop Games]]* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', the Pinkertons are the original [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] organisation, eventually becoming the Agency.* Not actual Pinkertons in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'', but the Wolfgang & Long Detective Agency shares similarities with them, running investigations across the solar system for nations who can't readily reach criminals.[[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* In the computer game ''VideoGame/PostMortem'', the player-character Gus [=McPherson=] is mentioned as being a former member of Pinkerton, and depending on the player's actions, sends telegraphs to the agency for research.* Pinkerton Agents appear as skilled shooters armed with six-shot carbines in the ''[[Videogame/EighteenSixtySixAMountAndBladeWestern 1866]]'' Western-themed mod for ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade''.* Booker [=DeWitt=], the protagonist of ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', is a former Pinkerton Agent who was apparently expelled from the organization due to "[[EvenEvilHasStandards behavior beyond the acceptable bounds of the Agency]]".[[/folder]][[folder:Web Comics]]* In ''Webcomic/HighMoon'', a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] {{Western}} webcomic series by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis, the protagonist Matthew 'Mac' Macgreor is a Pinkerton detective.* ''Webcomic/TheDreadful''[='=]s universe has the [[{{Expy}} Jackson Detective Agency]] standing in for the Pinks.[[/folder]][[folder:Western Animation]]* The security goons in ''WesternAnimation/ProjectGeeker'' are all named "Pinkers," a likely reference to the Pinkertons.* ''WesternAnimation/InchHighPrivateEye'' works at the "Finkerton" Detective Agency, an obvious pun on "Pinkerton". His boss constantly threatens to fire him.[[/folder]][[folder:Real Life]]* Creator/DashiellHammett, author of ''Literature/RedHarvest'', ''Literature/TheThinMan'', and ''Literature/TheMalteseFalcon'', was a Pinkerton detective. His experience working for the Pinkertons led him to [[DefectorFromDecadence develop communist sympathies]], eventually getting involved in left-wing politics full-time later in life.[[/folder]]----


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Even when the study controlled for factors like what kind of careers men and women chose and hours worked, it found that men still out-earn women by 7%.
So what does this have to do with the election? Actually, everything. The gender gap is at a historic high this year–and we're not even talking about wages anymore. We're talking about the voter gap. Women are actually much more likely to vote for Obama by about nine percentage points, while men are more likely to vote for Romney by the same number.
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But grabbing the female vote has become somewhat of a priority for both candidates as we head into the final stretch. That's because undecided female voters in swing states could have the power to tip the election one way or another.
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But interestingly, the next president could almost erase our economic woes by addressing women's concerns in a one-two punch: Economists think that closing the gender wage gap could be a much more effective stimulus than even Obama's 2009 giant spending package, growing the economy by a potential three to four percentage points. There are several reasons why, but the main point is that women tend to spend more of their additional dollars on themselves and their families than men do. So pay them more, and watch them reinvigorate the economy.
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Obama has the advantage of pointing to policy that he's already implemented: the Lilly Ledbetter Act. It removed the statue of limitations for suing a company when you find out they've been underpaying you. It's not bad, but it's not a great leap forward either. After all, as one of our own readers pointed out, "All the act does is say I can sue the pants off people." And Vice President Joe Biden himself said "it's not a big deal in terms of equal pay." More will have to be done.
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Hussey notices a power shift
Australian batsman Mike Hussey believes the tide has shifted against South Africa and the home side has drawn enormous self-belief from beating the tourists in recent matches.
Australia's win in Tuesday night's second Twenty20 match at the Gabba was its third straight over the tourists in a week, including the third Test at the SCG.
The wins will provide a handy confidence boost ahead of the five-match one-day series, starting at the MCG on Friday, and Australia's return tour of South Africa, which begins next month.
Hussey, who also made a welcome return to form by smashing an unbeaten 53 from 33 balls at the Gabba, said Australia had been keen to force a momentum shift this summer.
"I guess that was the focus coming into the third Test match when we had lost the series, was to try to change the momentum a little bit," he said.
"From that point of view, yeah, I think it's definitely a good start.
"I think it's given a lot of guys a lot of belief we can beat this South African team, so we have to go on with some confidence on Friday.
"But on Friday we start at nil-all and start punching again."
South Africa skipper Johan Botha agreed there had been a power shift this summer, and the Proteas now had to find a way to wrest the advantage back.
"(Last) night showed us we can compete with Australia and we'll have to keep finding ways to do it, because we have lost all the momentum now," he said.
"We're going to be under pressure in the one-day series, but I think we can compete in the one-day series."
South Africa is hopeful batsman AB de Villiers will recover from a bruised hip to play in the first one-dayer.
The Proteas said he had recovered to "75 per cent" on Tuesday, after copping a painful blow from Shaun Tait in Sunday night's first Twenty20 match.
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4. If it's we dispatched wrong product, please do not open the packaging/merchandise.
Effective 1st April 2015, all goods and services may be subjected to GST 6% upon checkout.
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