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- Online travel journal NOW!HERE takes off, plans to show students... - CU Columbia Spectator
- Carrasco airport in Uruguay named as best - Kuala Lumpur News
- TeleTech Announces Release Date for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 ... - MarketWatch
| Online travel journal NOW!HERE takes off, plans to show students... - CU Columbia Spectator Posted: 08 Feb 2010 02:14 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. NOW!HERE is going places. Juliana DeVries, CC '11, started the online travel journal last year as a reference spot and creative outlet for other Columbia students stricken by wanderlust. The Columbia International Relations Council and Association oversees its production. The journal's name, NOW!HERE—pronounced "now here"—came from something DeVries's friend said while canoeing down the Bonnet Plume River in the Yukon: "We're not in the middle of nowhere, we're now here!" DeVries added that she is from New Hampshire, "which people often also call 'the middle of nowhere,' but which locals sometimes call 'Now Hampshire' as a counter to this." This semester, DeVries is studying abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, entrusting the title of editor in chief to Lauren Argenti, CC '12. Argenti was the Travel for Leisure editor, and she took last year off to travel in East Africa and South America. Argenti thinks that the journal's title "goes along with what we want—people living in the present and seeing what they can do." One of the reasons NOW!HERE began was the slight frustration DeVries felt in deciding where to study abroad. "I used to study Japanese, but I knew I didn't want to study in Japan ... It took me a long time to explore my other options and decide, and I didn't always know where to look for information," she said. Argenti added that another underlying cause was the feeling that "Columbia kids don't get out of the bubble enough. ... People don't remember that there are fifty states and the rest of the world." The relatively small staff works hard to accept and put together articles, art, and creative writing that is both informative and inspiring. Argenti notes that involvement with the journal is "a huge time commitment." Indeed, weekly staff meetings are necessary for brainstorming, pitching, and editing. DeVries noted that she "was especially surprised by the above-and-beyond dedication of my editing board. I was incredibly lucky to find a group of people last semester who really took this project on as their own and ran with it." NOW!HERE's status as a new online publication seems to work in the group's favor. "Getting to work on something new is exciting … because it seems almost like anything is possible. If someone on the board has a new idea, they put it out to the group. If something's not working, we change it," DeVries said. Argenti added, "The first issue was really awesome—so much better than expected. The result that we got was so positive that it really propelled us. … Everyone was so psyched last semester. We're trying to keep that going." The journal is broken up into four parts: Travel for Leisure, Features, Study Abroad, and Creative Writing and Art. The first section deals primarily with students' adventures outside of an academic realm. Articles from the last issue ranged from a story "myth busting" a Cancún spring break to a piece praising Austin, Texas. Argenti said that NOW!HERE was very conscious of its collegiate audience and wanted to focus on affordable options for travel, which can be seen in the piece entitled "Less than a Benjamin" in the Travel for Leisure section. A Features piece spoke of "Jack Kerouac as a Travel Writer" while the Study Abroad section contained thoughts on Columbia's Reid Hall program in Paris as well as the availability of study abroad options in Africa. The last section is a writing portfolio and photo gallery. While the staff's goal so far is simply to stay the course, Argenti does want to emphasize that "one of the founding principles of the magazine is that it's about traveling and going and seeing cool things, but it's also about giving back. ... [It is] not only about telling people things, but helping people." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| Carrasco airport in Uruguay named as best - Kuala Lumpur News Posted: 08 Feb 2010 08:49 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Home | Kuala Lumpur News.Net The shell-shaped terminal, designed by Uruguayan-born architect Rafael Vinoly, was inaugurated in Carrasco last November. The article reads: "The new terminal is a gorgeous throwback to JFK circa 1960. In spirit, it's like Saarinen's TWA Terminal, but in style, it's more similar to the JFK's international arrivals hall. A 1,000-foot-long, low arch, it is as simple as a child's drawing of an airport, one unbroken, graceful curve. Inside, the departures hall is a great, sunlit room, like an old train station, and a top floor terrace commands sweeping views of the runways." 15 of the world's top airports have been listed by the magazine as: Terminal 3, at Beijing International Airport, China; Terminal 4, Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain; TWA Terminal, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York; Sondika Airport, Bilbao, Spain; Denver International Airport, US; Incheon International Airport, Korea; Marrakech Menara Airport, Morocco; Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong, China; Tempelhof International Airport, Berlin; Malvinas Argentinas Airport, Ushuaia, Argentina; Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan and Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia. Have your say on this storyFive Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| TeleTech Announces Release Date for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 ... - MarketWatch Posted: 08 Feb 2010 01:21 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
ENGLEWOOD, CO, Feb 08, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- TeleTech Holdings, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!ttec/quotes/nls/ttec (TTEC 18.00, +0.03, +0.17%) , one of the largest and most geographically diverse global providers of technology-enabled business process outsourcing (BPO) services and solutions, today announced details relating to the release of its fourth quarter and full year 2009 financial results and related conference call and webcast. TeleTech will release fourth quarter and full year 2009 financial results after market close on Monday, February 22, 2010, when a summary press release will be issued and its Annual Report on Form 10-K will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A conference call and webcast with management will be held on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. You are invited to join a live webcast of the conference call by visiting the "Investors" section of the TeleTech website at www.teletech.com. If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, a replay will be available on the TeleTech website through Tuesday, March 9, 2010. ABOUT TELETECH TeleTech is one of the largest and most geographically diverse global providers of technology-enabled business process outsourcing solutions. TeleTech and its subsidiaries have a 27-year history of designing, implementing, and managing critical business processes for Global 1000 companies to help them improve their customers' experience, expand their strategic capabilities, and increase their operating efficiencies. By delivering a high-quality customer experience through the effective integration of customer-facing front-office processes with internal back-office processes, we enable our clients to better serve, grow, and retain their customer base. We use Six Sigma-based quality methods continually to design, implement, and enhance the business processes we deliver to our clients and we also apply this methodology to our own internal operations. TeleTech and its subsidiaries have developed deep domain expertise and support more than 250 business process outsourcing programs serving more than 90 global clients in the automotive, communications and media, financial services, government, healthcare, retail, technology and travel and leisure industries. Our integrated global solutions are provided by approximately 45,500 employees utilizing 36,000 workstations across 71 delivery centers in 17 countries. For additional information, visit www.teletech.com. Investor Contact: Karen Breen 303-397-8592 SOURCE: TeleTech Holdings Copyright 2010 Marketwire, Inc., All rights reserved.
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