Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) – DCA 
• Hotel direction: 20 miles NE
• Driving directions: Take the George
Washington Parkway North to I-495
East, (towards Baltimore). Stay on I-
495 E and exit on New Hampshire
Ave South (Exit 28B). Turn Left at the
2nd light (Adelphi Road). Go 3 miles.
At the intersection of Adelphi Rd. and
Rt. 193 (University Blvd.), turn Left on
Rt. 193 (University Blvd), then an
immediate Right into the UMUC
Campus. Follow signs to the Inn &
Conference Center.
• Alternate transportation: Expert
Sedan; fee: 50 USD (one way)
• Estimated taxi fare: 50.00 USD
(one way)
Washington, DC/Dulles (IAD) – IAD
• Hotel direction: 35 miles E
• Driving directions: Follow signs to
Washington DC via the Airport
Access Rd. Take I-495 East (towards
Baltimore). Stay on I-495 E and exit
on New Hampshire Ave South (Exit
28B). Turn Left at the 2nd light
(Adelphi Road). Go 3 miles. At the
intersection of Adelphi Rd. and Rt.
193, turn Left on Rt. 193 (University
Blvd), then an immediate Right into
the UMUC Campus. Follow signs to
the Inn & Conference Center.
• Alternate transportation: Expert
Sedan; fee: 80 USD (one way)
;reservation required
• Estimated taxi fare: 80.00 USD
(one way)
•June 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment
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•June 23, 2010 • 1 Comment
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Gawker Artists Presents Mom & POPism
•June 9, 2010 • Leave a CommentGawker Artists Presents Mom & POPism
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On August 4th, Gawker Artists curator, Liz Dimmitt, joined street artist, Billi Kid, for MOM & POPism, a celebration of James and Karla Murray’s book, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York.
The event gave the art community an opportunity to bask in the nostalgia of the New York City of yesteryear.
The book’s photos of iconic Mom & Pop shops from the five boroughs were blown up and mounted on panels surrounding Gawker Media’s NoLita rooftop. NYC graffiti and street artists painted and designed new pieces of art directly on the panels to mix past with present. Over 300 guests, including members of the Gawker Artists community, press and fans, mingled on the rooftop amid the storefronts, admiring the work and creating a microcosm of NYC’s past.
Browse the image gallery below to check out the event. Get a taste of MOM & POPism for yourself at the public viewing on August 15th on the Gawker Media rooftop.
Apple topples Microsoft’s throne
•May 27, 2010 • Leave a CommentNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft’s dominance as the tech industry’s most valuable player has ended.
On Wednesday, Apple’s market capitalization edged past its longtime rival’s as investors made official what consumers have long suggested: Microsoft is no longer the industry’s alpha dog.
Just last month, Microsoft’s market cap exceeded Apple’s by about $25 billion, but now Apple is in the lead by nearly $3 billion.
// Microsoft’s consumer products business is struggling to compete as Apple’s hot new items like iPad and iPhone capture the attention of customers.
Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) fell 4% to close at $25.01 on Wednesday, while Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) lost 0.45%, closing at $244.11.
Shares of Microsoft have dipped more than 15% in the past couple weeks, while Apple’s stock is down just over 6%, despite recent market volatility.
“What this really means is that Wall Street has more confidence in Apple’s growth prospects than it does in Microsoft’s growth prospects,” said Matt Rosoff, lead analyst at Directions on Microsoft, an independent firm.
“Apple is showing high growth, with the launch of its iPad and its new iPhone coming out, and while Windows is a great competitor versus the Mac, Microsoft just hasn’t come up with new areas of growth.”
Microsoft’s reputation as a market leader took another hit Tuesday when the company announced that it plans to shake up its management structure.
Amid the shuffle, Robbie Bach, who was in charge of years-long effort to turn Microsoft into more of a threat to Apple by heading the entertainment and devices group and overseeing innovative consumer products like Xbox and Zune, will retire from Microsoft in the fall.
“This just means those efforts didn’t work out,” said Roger Kay, president of analyst firm Endpoint Technologies. “It’s sort of like Japanese samurai ethic, which says you need to fall on your sword to maintain your honor.”
Tow the line or keep up with the Joneses?
Part of Microsoft’s problem is that, instead of finding its own audience, it has fallen into a game of catch-up and is focusing too much energy on finding products to directly rival Apple’s, said Kay.
“I don’t know if they have to compete,” he said. “What seems to be working for Microsoft is its serious applications for businesses, education institutions and other enterprises, and if they stay focused on their commercial business that gives them a lot.”
While Microsoft’s first quarter earnings were boosted by the success of its new operating system, Windows 7, Apple’s record profit and revenue in the first quarter was driven by iPhone sales.
And many of Microsoft’s efforts to branch out have been met with little success. For example, the company’s Zune music player, meant to rival the iPod, has failed to create the same buzz as Apple’s device, with sales dropping significantly in 2009.
Microsoft even looked into creating a tablet computer that would have competed directly with the iPad, which Apple introduced at the beginning of April, selling more than 1 million in the first 28 days of release. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ended up pulling the plug on the project before the tablet ever made it to market.
“Zune hasn’t gone anywhere, their tablet is dead, their phones are having trouble establishing a market position — but consumers still use Office and Windows,” said Kay.
Other experts say that Microsoft shouldn’t stop at its core business, and that it simply needs to innovate more — and faster — in order to stay competitive.
“They have to continue to try to find other businesses, otherwise growth is always going to be bound by the PC market,” said Rosoff.
Until Microsoft develops a clear direction and finds new ways to innovate, Apple will continue to push ahead, he said.
“Wall Street believes in Apple because Apple continues to put out new products that capture the imaginations of the press and tech pundits,” said Rosoff. “Microsoft just hasn’t been able to come up with a new multi billion dollar business like Apple.”
Airport for Sale
•May 25, 2010 • Leave a CommentAccording to this story by PK Semler and Charls Rice in The Financial Times, BWI Airport may be offered for sale. At a cyber security summit at the National Institute of Standards, Governor Martin O’Malley said “the state is still open to acquisition offers for Baltimore Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI). The state also would consider the possibility of an IPO…”
This isn’t the first time that a sale of the state owned airport has been discussed but it is the first time I’ve heard of the possibility of a public stock offering.
“Maryland could also be interested in taking its stake in the airport public, with the aim of it being sold to a private company, said O’Malley. This strategy has been used with success in Poland, as it allows for a more accurate public valuation of the stake.”
This doesn’t seem to make sense. I believe that the airport actually makes money for the state. Why sell off a good performing asset at a time when the state is looking for new sources of revenue?
American Airlines Travel
•May 20, 2010 • Leave a CommentI haven’t had a lot of luck with air travel of late. My flights always seem to be delayed – and for some reason, when a flight is delayed more than half an hour, it always turns out to be six hours at least. You lose a whole day, your sleep patterns get completly screwed up, and, of course, any vague hint of a bug you might have had getting on to the plane gets turned into a full-on raging cold by the time you’ve spent 12 hours in a metal tube breathing stale, fifth-hand, dry-as-dust air.
I’m in Argentina now, and my trip down here is a case in point. The kind of people who say “you’re lucky” to someone with a terrible injury would probably say the same thing about me: I was on the last plane out of JFK as a major snowstorm was blowing in to New York, and who knows when I might have been able to leave had the flight been cancelled.
That said, however, the American Airlines experience left a very great deal to be desired. On an evening when all flights out of the airport were significantly delayed due to weather, they insisted on boarding us right on time, only to sit at the gate… and sit at the gate… and sit at the gate a bit longer. The announcements from the captain were mumbled, short, and unhelpful: something about engines, power, de-icing, it was not clear at all.
After about an hour, finally a coherent message from the captain. The good news: we were finally able to leave the gate. The bad news: a couple of standby passengers who were meant to be on board turned out not to be, and so their luggage would have to be removed. Of course, they had all the relevant information an hour earlier, when we were waiting around twiddling our thumbs, but somehow failed to act on it until the point when we were hopeful we might finally be able to take off.
Eventually, the bags were found, the plane left the gate, and – I think, nothing was made very clear to us – we started the first phase of de-icing. Apparently there are de-icing “stations” at JFK: this is not a procedure, like refuelling, that can be done at the gate. So various bits of the plane got de-iced, and then we headed off to station number two, where the wings and fuselage would get done. Except we never got there. What with heating and lighting the cabin, and de-icing whatever they de-iced, they’d somehow managed to run out of whatever battery power they needed to actually move the aircraft. So we had to wait for another hour while someone could, in effect, give us a jump-start.
Then, the second phase of de-icing took at least twice as long as it should have, for similar reasons to do with power. First one side of the plane got de-iced, then the other, instead of them both being done at the same time.
More profoundly, the way we were running out of power created a big problem: there now wasn’t enough fuel left to get us all to Buenos Aires. The captain had three choices: cancel the flight, which no-one wanted; lose 60 passengers to lighten the load; or refuel in Miami. In the end, the choice was made for him: the crew had spent so long sitting on the ground that under union rules they weren’t allowed to work the whole 11 hours to BA. So Miami it was.
It was exactly at this point that things really started to go wrong. Once the flight had been sitting on the tarmac for a certain amount of time, Miami was a certainty. In fact, the pilot more or less admitted we would have to refuel there in one of his earliest announcements, while we were still stuck at the gate. But let’s be charitable and say it took them a couple of hours to put two and two together. The plane was meant to leave at 10:20, so by 12:20 American Airlines should have been getting on the phone to Miami, organising a new crew to replace the JFK crew, and generally attempting to ensure that we wouldn’t need to spend any more time in Miami than we needed to refuel.
We finally took off, five hours late, at 3:20. The flight was fast and uneventful, and we landed by 5:15. The crew, by this point, was very annoyed: rather than working 22 hours New York – Buenos Aires – New York, they would get paid for only nine or so, for the time spent idling in New York and the flight to Miami. Still, they told us, not to worry: the American Airlines agent would be waiting for us at the gate, along with the replacement crew, and we should be on our way in no time.
Of course, when we get to the gate, there’s no agent there: no one in Miami seems to have the foggiest notion what’s going on. Eventually, at 6:00, roughly when we were expected to be leaving, an agent arrived, and seemed most surprised to see us at the gate. After a bunch of scrambling around, it’s determined that our nine-person crew from JFK is going to be replaced by a five-person crew from Miami – they should be here any time. And, indeed, they all turn up relatively quickly, except for the one who doesn’t. An extra crew member must be found, which is likely to take an hour or so, and so at this point it’s decided that maybe we should be let out of the airplane after all. We’d been cooped up for eight hours, no one knows how long we’ll be stuck in Miami, and the flight on to Buenos Aires is another nine: even American realised that it might not be smart to make a 767 with more than its fair share of small children stay in its seats for something over 18 hours at a stretch.
So we’re told that we can stretch our legs for half an hour. No longer will groups of no more than four people at a time be accompanied to the phone booths and back; rather, we can all enjoy the splendours of the American Airlines departure lounge in Miami at our pleasure.
The departure lounge is a pretty grim place, outfitted with little more than a Nathan’s hot-dog stand staffed by the surliest people I’ve ever seen in Miami (although the fact that they were working at 6:00 on a Monday morning might explain that bit). All the same, it’s an improvement over the interior of our airplane’s fuselage.
Actually, scratch that. The surliest people I’ve ever seen in Miami weren’t the hot-dog vendors, they were the gate Nazis. What no one bothered to tell us when we were deplaning (yes, they really used that word) was that once we were off, they wouldn’t let us back on again until they were good and ready. No, they never said why. For me, it was no great hardship: all it meant was that I couldn’t read my book, which I’d left safely tucked in the pocket on the back of the seat in front of me. But for others, especially one woman who had just got up to make a phone call and who had left two children on board, including a four-year-old, this petty decision had huge consequences.
Everybody was cranky, remember: it was now 7 in the morning, and no one had got much in the way of sleep. An 11-hour flight is pretty hard work at the best of times, but now that another seven or eight hours were being added on to that, most of them spent on board the airplane, people were getting angry. No one at Miami knew anything; the only thing they told us was that they’d simply arrived at the airport at 6:00 and really had no idea what was going on, where the crew was, how many of them there had to be, when we might be taking off, when we might be landing, or anything else.
At this point, understandably, various passengers decided that they’d had enough. They were in Miami, which has many flights down to Buenos Aires each day, and rather than stick around this accursed airplane, they were going to hang out in Florida for a day or so and then, somewhat rested, continue on to Argentina. After all, for the elderly or the very young, an 18-hour plane journey is the last thing you want, and if you can avoid it, you do.
I don’t know whether anybody actually got off at Miami, whether their bags had to follow them, or what. No one saw fit to tell us peons what was going on: all we knew was that the 7:00 deadline for us to get back on to the plane had come and gone, and there was no sign of anything happening. Communication was nil. The American staff started playing the sorry-we’re-clueless card a bit too often: sorry, I don’t know. I don’t know anybody who knows. I can’t help you.
On the plane, it was the same story: people who’d missed dinner on the grounds that it had been served at 4 in the morning when no one wants to eat were told that no, they couldn’t have anything to eat, and that actually, I, your flight attendant, haven’t had anything to eat since last night either. Oh, and no, I can’t get you immigration cards for Argentina or anything like that, because the JFK crew put them somewhere and we have no idea where. And in general, sorry if you have no service on this flight, but you have to understand: we’re very understaffed.
On arriving at Buenos Aires, we just got the standard “welcome to Argentina and thank you for flying American” message: no apology for being eight hours delayed, and certainly no attempt to make things up to us.
This general unhelpful attitude is something I’ve come across before with American (and I’ve only flown them on two other occasions). I had an American flight from Los Angeles to New York once, which involved a change at Dallas-Fort Worth. All flights in and out of DFW were delayed for some reason, but we were assured that because everyone was delayed by pretty much the same amount of time, there shouldn’t be any difficulty making our connections.
Of course the story changed when we got to DFW. Sorry, your flight to LaGuardia has left already: for noise reasons, planes aren’t allowed to land there after a certain time, so it got bumped up the list. Again, a failure of communication from one airport to another: while on the Argentina flight it was New York not communicating with Miami, on the New York flight it was DFW not communicating with Los Angeles. Of course, if we’d known in LA that we wouldn’t be getting to New York that evening, we would never have left at all, and rather spent one more night in California, catching an early flight back to New York the following day. But because of information failure, we were stuck in Dallas-Fort Worth overnight.
It got worse, though: American decided/decreed that the reason we were forced to stay in Texas overnight was weather, not general incompetence on its own part, and that therefore they weren’t even going to put us up in a hotel. If we liked, they could procure some army-style cots and maybe a blanket or two and we could sleep on the floor of the departure lounge.
Cock-ups, of course, happen on all airlines, through their fault or otherwise. But where other airlines seem to genuinely want to make things better, American seems to be as unhelpful as possible. Virgin once gave me a voucher for being delayed, even though they’d phoned me in advance to tell me that the flight was late and I could turn up a few hours later. Even the low-cost airlines in Europe, like Buzz, or in the US, like JetBlue and SouthWest, are known for their customer service. But American seems to have a completely different mindset.
I think that the problem could well be the aftermath of September 11. American has been inflicting wave after wave of job cuts, and evidently a lot of the lost jobs have been the people coordinating its different operations around the country. I worry, too, that others have been in more vital areas: I don’t think it’s coincidence that the Rockaway crash happened so soon after September 11, when morale in the airline industry was at its lowest and thousands of jobs had just been cut.
People are nervous about flying these days, and maybe they ought to be, although their reasons for nervousness (war, terrorism) are, I think, misplaced. The chances of an airline passenger being the victim of a terrorist attack are minimal. But the chances of the same passenger falling victim to incompetencies which are a result of downsizing following general nervousness about a terrorist attack are much greater. It’s almost as though being scared of a flying is a self-fulfilling prophecy: the more people that are scared of flying, the fewer people flying, the more layoffs the airlines need to make, the less safe flying becomes, and the more justified a fear of flying is.
Still, I’m going to continue to fly Baltimore, American , just because of their leg-room. I’m telling you, once we were airborne, I actually managed to stretch out and get some sleep – in economy! That doesn’t mean I like them, though.
A Good Limousine Service
•May 19, 2010 • 2 CommentsA good limousine service like BWI Airport Limo, Annapolis Limo or whatever, will help you do just that: by providing the best transportation available to you, you can make sure that such life-changing events will be made as memorable as possible.
Limousine Services for Proms, Airport, Bussiness Meetings & Weddings
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•March 16, 2010 • Leave a CommentWashington DC Limo
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