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What would you like to see in the Alhambra Place Plaza?

Alhambra Place has been mostly empty since Mervyn's closed in 2009. The city has been in talks with various buyers, according to City Manager Julio Fuentes. But without access to Redevelopment Agency funds it's having difficulties bridging the gap between what the owner is asking for the properties and what developers are willing to pay for a mixed-use project.

We would like to hear from Alhambra residents about what type of businesses they would like to see open at the site.

What type of businesses should open at Alhambra Plaza? Choose all that apply.

22 thoughts on “What would you like to see in the Alhambra Place Plaza?”

  1. @Charles
    Nothing can surpass the splendor and awesome grandeur of the Alhambra Arch at Freemont and Valley – not even the orginal Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Who would have thought that something so flimsy and cardboard looking would pass the test of time. Another arch? No thank you.

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  2. I think they should put an 800ft. tall “Gateway Arc” constructed out of hand-carved limestone, granite and marble blocks, something massive….something that can been seen not only from Alhambra…but for miles throughout the entire San Gabriel Valley.

  3. En mi opinion es una tristeza que una zona tan bonita, este casi vacia,es un desperdicio a nivel economico ya que la ubicacion es perfecta para cualquier negocio, ademas el lugar se presta para caminar con la familia y mas que nada es la imagen de nuestra ciudad. Yo no puedo creer que las personas encargadas de ver que nuestra ciudad cresca no se hallan preocupado por darle una solucion a este asunto.

  4. This particular property may be the most critical development in Alhambra’s future.

    I suggest you look to the mixed-use property that is a part of or next to the Glendale Galleria. It has shopping, restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, condos and a central open area for people to mingle, eat etc. I think it also has a central fountain. I believe it is called Americana At Brand. I think The Grove is a similar concept.

    I am against an actual park being installed here, but I guess a “park like setting” would describe what I suggested without actually being a “park”. I agree that the buildings should all front main street, but use the central open area as I described above if possible.

    For parking, I believe there is already a public parking structure on 1st street.

  5. @ A Friend,

    “Downtown Alhambra is ugly and already a dead zone particular east of Garfield”

    I don’t think downtown Alhambra is ugly and as far as the eastside of Garfield is concerned, I do somewhat agree with you. I have written to the mayor about this previously and was told that the emphasis for now is WEST of Garfield, within the West Main St. Corridor. This location has been in planning for years. You can learn more about it on the link below:

    This is where the concentration of businesses are. In the future, we should have no doubt that as our economic base expands, more development will continue on eastward on Main St. With the economy still down, it’s obvious businesses aren’t just going to sprout up everywhere to fill in the gaps. Development takes time, entails careful market analysis, and many are NOT SHOVEL-READY.

    I agree with Joseph and Larry, that this is one of the most critical areas for a new project and quality should be the end goal for this specific location. Also important – no more surface-level parking. Historically, this intersection was the sight of the Alhambra Hotel and Jones Building, structures that stood much taller and gave more depth than the ones we see today. It would be nice to give substance to this area once again…

  6. The Alhambra Place is a golden opportunity for the city and the owner to make a shopping, living and pedestrian area that would anchor the downtown strip. This would require that the city elevate their standards and not just allow the developer to cram as many units into the mix as has been done on more recent developments on Main St. ( City Venture project at former library site). Having an open area for a “park” like setting and underground parking would be a great start in the planning. Barcelona and many other innovative cities have figured this out a long time ago and there is no reason that Alhambra cannot get out of the bland and over-developed rut that has been the signature style of past mix use projects. It might take some time to find just the right developer to do this, but having a quality project should be the end goal.

  7. The Ross accross the street is pretty small compared to some other Ross, TJ Maxx, and Marshalls stores that I have visited. It would be nice to have a bigger discount retailer in Alhambra.

    It would also be nice to have an Alhambra mall, something like what Arcadia and Montebello have.

    Oh, and the underground Gold Line extenstion from East LA through Alhambra to Pasadena mentioned by a previous post should come up Atlantic to Main and then stop at Garfield and Main before continuing North to Pasadena.

  8. Downtown Alhambra is ugly and already a dead zone particular east of Garfield. Go a couple of blocks west of Garfield and things look newer, but not better. The developers may be making money, but the people of Alhambra are getting visually poorer.

  9. @John: I disagree with your assertion that a park would create an economic dead-zone. Done well, a park would serve as a central gathering point for the community and, combined with pedestrian/bike-friendly upgrades to Main Street could serve as an anchor and economic driver for the Main Street corridor. A park combined with a pedestrian corridor would create one large outdoor space that would encourage people to come, linger, shop, and eat.

    I’d like to see a plaza-style development that has mixed use buildings on two or three sides surrounding a park. The first floor businesses would have flexible outdoor space to use. For example, a cafe or restaurant could use that space for outdoor seating. The park could be used for public events, the farmers market, rented kiosk spaces, and as a general gathering place for the community. It would need trees (I recommend oaks), pathways (perhaps an X shape), and pleasant lighting.

    A central courtyard surrounded by a mixed use development would not integrate with the rest of Main Street in the way that an park opening up to Main Street would.

    1. @ Dan Bednarski,

      Thanks for sharing your opinion. I would like to add that the zoning near this area already has high-density and that creating another park would underutilize Alhambra’s housing needs capacity, particulary in the near future. Mixed-use, in my opinion, would be the best way to go. It allows housing development without further encroachment on R1 tracts (a big issue here in Alhambra), provides anchor customers to nearby businesses, allows more diverse business opportunities, and promotes walkability (alleviates short-trips consumated by cars). This supports SB 375 guidelines and again, in my opinion, good planning for Alhambra’s long-term needs. Also not sure, but what would the parking requirements be for a park? Any surface-level parking lot would take away more areas for a park. I’m happy already with the numerous parks we have now.

      I think you miscontrued my word of “central”. I wasn’t specific as to say that a central courtyard would be bounded by all four sides. My main issue was to keep business frontage up close on Main St. but not necessarily preclude any access to a central courtyard. Even if it was bounded on all four sides, I would still look at the developer’s renderings to see what accessibility features would be incorporated into the actual design. I would also like to add that I have traveled to many countries around the world (and I’m sure you have been overseas) and some of the best places to hang out/relax weren’t always those visibly-open to everyone.

  10. We had Independent stores there already, I was born in Alhambra and have seen this look for too long, just like up the street near fourth and -sixth street, that looks and works good, with all the happenings on main street now, more apartments and stores would definitely work

    I Truly think the Alhambra Mayor and council members deserve an award for what they have done over the years to Alhambra- Thank you

  11. Let’s be real – Alhambra citizens don’t have much of a choice.

    They will take who they can get.

    That being said, a big national chain is probably the best thing for the city.

  12. @ A Friend,

    Disagree. This area needs further development and it’s the lack of density and diversity (of needs) that’s causing many stores to lose business here.

    Placing a park here will create an economic dead-zone that will break-up the continuity along Main St.

    So you say there’s enough mixed-use already? So should we say that we have had enough of our housing needs as well? If you care to even bother reading the Design Review Board and Planning Committee Agendas once in a while, you will see that people are always requesting to expand their homes/businesses or start a new project. And that’s for a reason, the need is there…

  13. With the CRA guy, the crooked realtors need to parachute back to reality and stop relying on public coffers to profit from their investments. Drop the rent, build out the useless parking and maybe we’ll have an actual palatable boba tea shop again. There are tons of single use plazas coming up in San Gabriel, there’s no reason why this can’t be resuscitated.

  14. Anything but Mixed-use development (Retail and housing). Please, Alhambra is NOT in ASIA. We have way too many asian style retail/housing on main street!

    1. @Len

      It’s hard to tell if you’re just trolling or you unfortunately have never seen or read about other cities in the US (like Los Angeles, 8 miles away) that have
      mixed-use developments.

      That being said, I do wish the developments have some coherency in the way they look. With designs that look like someone just clicked a bunch of things together from a software catalog, and then painted with garish schemes, they don’t quite seem to fit in. Take the bank on Garfield/Valley: I don’t know what to make of it, other than wonder who in their right minds chose that color scheme. If they wanted it to stand out, they succeeded, but they also succeeded in making it an eyesore.

    2. @Len: Mixed-use is a traditional American property use. Most Main Streets in America – including Alhambra – were traditionally mixed-use in one way or another. Many storefronts had living quarters, often occupied by the proprietors upstairs, as well as some office space. Look at Old Town Pasadena for another local example. You’ll also see mixed-use throughout Europe where it is the primary land-use in most cities.

      Aside from the business names/signs, are there any particular projects you find look more Asian than others on Main Street?

  15. And while I can still dream, a below-grade LRT that connects the Gold Line from Atlantic (in East LA) to Pasadena with a stop on Main/Garfield would be nice.

  16. We have enough mixed-use buildings along Main St now. Knock down the buildings, tear up the concrete, and put in a park including a dog area. Make space for the citizens of Alhambra. We have enough space for businesses already.

  17. In my opinion there should be a large mixed-use development at this location. Not only will it promote more pedestrians on Main St., but allow ample room for our housing supply to increase without invading other lower-density areas. Anything else will be space underutilized considering future growth and economic viability of the surrounding areas. Subterranean parking is also a key component: the surface-level parking lot currently there is a huge waste of underutilized space. I understand funding is an issue, but the city should not rush into putting just anything there.

    The other options the Alhambra Source lists mainly reflect SINGLE-USE land zoning. This not only promotes more segregated spatial arrangements of primary and secondary uses (where we work, live, shop, etc.), but increases traffic and congestion.

  18. No particular retail preference, but I wish they would be able to incorporate some type of public green/park space that as a whole, would strongly encourage pedestrian traffic. It may be also worthwhile to move the current farmer’s market to this space and make it more accessible/visible from Main/Garfield.

    1. @ Robert Kim,

      That’s a good concept and what I was thinking was perhaps a central courtyard plaza of some type (while keeping the larger structures fronting Main St. for easy pedestrian access to first-floor businesses).

      The farmer’s market can definitely improve it’s current location but first all these surface-level parking lots need to go.

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Bathrooms are one of the most widely used rooms in a home. They also, unfortunately, are one of the last to ever get a makeover. Creating a dream bathroom, to update a home, does not mean it needs to be torn down and rebuilt.

The first step in a bathroom makeover is to completely clear the room of any clutter. Place these items in another area of the home until the bathroom is finished. If these items are not wanted in the makeover design, they can be tossed away or given to a Salvation Army store.

The next step in updating a bathroom is cleaning the current one. Scour the whole room from ceiling to floor. After it is clean, take a good look around. The outdated areas can easily be focused on when the room is empty. Now is the time to start making a list of the things that need to be replaced, starting with the ceiling and working downward from there.

Ceilings in the bathroom should be white. They give the room an airy feel in them. Ceilings that have not been painted in a while should be done before anything else in the room is touched. Semi-gloss makes perfect paint for bathroom ceilings as flat paint doesn’t stick as well in the humidity that bathrooms often have in them.

Bold, bright colors should feeling closed in. Try white or a very light tan color on the walls in smaller bathrooms. If the walls are tiled check to see what type of shape they are in. If only a few tiles are bad those ones can easily be replaced. Tiles that are old and dated should all be replaced. Again, light colors are preferable when choosing tile colors. The same goes for flooring. Linoleum and self stick tiles are easy to install but not quite as durable as stone tiles. If a budget friendly fix is in order, than a sheet of linoleum can be purchased from a home improvement store and is quite inexpensive.

Look over the existing faucets in the bathroom. If they are dull and/or chipped, new ones can be purchased for them. Stainless steel faucets never seem to go out of style. They also mix well with many types of decor themes. If the sink is worn or chipped it can also be replaced. The newer glass bowls are great pieces in any type of bathroom. These bowls can be mounted on pedestals or even on an entire counter if cupboard space is needed.

Shower stalls that have glass doors might also need to be replaced. This is one of the easier ways to update an out of style bathroom. Old bathtubs can also be replaced with newer ones. Tiles that surround a tub give it an updated look that says modern as well as relaxing.


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How the Middle Market Kept Productivity High Through the Recession

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What? While the Great Recession destroyed productivity in the U.S. economy, it stayed alive in the middle market.

So what? Mary Josephs, of middle market investment firm Verit Advisors, says companies must look to employees for productivity improvements.

Now what? Thomas Stewart, of the National Center for the Middle Market, believes the next generation of productivity gains may come from new technology used in the midmarket, not the employee.
Sept. 29, 2016

As U.S. productivity crashed with the Great Recession, the middle market’s productivity stayed afloat. Here’s how they did it.

The Great Recession was an insidious force against the U.S. economy. Across the country, organizational production plummeted in step with the GDP, capital investment and jobs. The country was sent into a fiscal tailspin, with productivity left to swirl into its downward spiral.

Crashing productivity was less publicized than other failing pieces of the economy, but its pain was felt country-wide. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm business productivity dropped 100% between the periods of 2000 to 2007 and 2007 to 2015 from 2.6% annual growth to 1.3% annual growth

Middle market productivity, while not unaffected by 2007’s economic sinkhole, has been a proverbial lambent flame in an otherwise darkened economy. As U.S. productivity continues to languish in 2016, down 0.6% during the second quarter, midmarket productivity has been on the rise since the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the Middle Market Center. The sector experienced its third consecutive quarter of growth in the second quarter of 2016. Yielding 3.3% growth in the second quarter, it is closing in on its 2014 productivity increase of 4%.

Mary Josephs, founder and CEO of middle market investment firm Verit Advisors, posits midmarket productivity held steady due to one of its finest assets: the employee.

“I have a bias and a passion for the middle market,” she says. “The sweat equity of family and entrepreneurs building businesses in communities across the country is, to me, part of the foundation of America.”

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Middle market companies, which contribute $6.2 trillion to the economy and employ 50 million Americans, have a unique combination of svelteness and monetary power, striking a balance small and large businesses normally cannot. For this reason, midmarket organizations are set up for employee engagement and productivity, Josephs wrote in a recent Forbes column

The midmarket’s compact workforces allow for a protean work flow, easily able to turn on a dime, and, in theory, provide a greater level of productivity. Getting employees to consider productivity enhancements can improve the bottom line from 4% to 10% year-over-year, Josephs says. This can only happen at companies that combine culture, leadership and talent.

“The families that are about building a business and sustaining a culture … tend to have extraordinary throughput,” she says. “I call that productivity, whereas, if it’s a privately held family business [that tries to] take out as much money as possible for the family—maybe not offering a retirement plan because that’s not required, or skimping on benefits, training, health care and leadership development—[that] is not [productive].” Such benefits, in Josephs’ experience, correlate to productivity, which correlates to value.

Finding Value Within

Thomas Stewart, executive director of the National Center for the Middle Market, knows how powerful an engaged, productive employee base can be. He’s written two books on intellectual capital within companies and says he’s endlessly intrigued by productivity. Stewart enjoys looking askew at productivity, but thinks there’s one tenet that’s important to remember: productivity’s equation is output divided by input. Increasing productivity means increasing outputs or reducing inputs. The question in 2016 often boils down to creating more with less, or perhaps finding greater value with the same workforce and tools.

“If I can have the same number of people, and they’re doing more work or more valuable work that I can charge a higher price for, then I’m increasing productivity,” Stewart says. “[If] I take the same number of workers and increase the number of widgets they produce per worker, but also increase the value of the stuff they produce, that’s a significant thing.”

Analytics and Big Data may assist in productivity improvements, no matter the employee base; however, executives at each midmarket company must ask what measurements of productivity are most effective in each case

This is where the productivity of middle market companies can be made or broken. These companies are aggressive hirers, Stewart says, anywhere from 50% to 100% faster than small or big businesses in terms of net growth, but they usually hold off on capital spending until coming into additional funds. Any savings via productivity may mean an ability to make smarter investments.

“They’re really cautious about adding to their monthly costs,” Stewart says. “Whether that’s wages, plants or capital equipment, they want to maximize the output they’re getting.”

Labor productivity is the simplest measurement, Stewart says, and often tells less of a story than many think. Getting more complex—and perhaps sophisticated—means measuring total factor productivity, or the portion of the output not explained by the amount of input in production. This measurement determines how efficiently inputs are used on the production level, per Harvard Business School. Stewart says this may give a wider view of productivity across the organization and bring forth the question of where companies will look for additional productivity. Could it go beyond labor and into new equipment or technology, such as automatic drivers or drones?

“We may be on the cusp on a lot of labor productivity gains in places that have been resistant to it before,” he says.

Creating a More Engaged Employee Base

How is a more efficient, productive employee base cultivated? Josephs says the culture must be allowed to come alive with ideas. Some ideas will be good, some will be bad, but all will have the aim of creating more efficient business practices. This likely means promising employees their good ideas will not mean a round of layoffs, Josephs says. After all, no employee wants to make a suggestion that will slash their hours or end their job. Creating an atmosphere where mistakes and new ideas are not only allowed, but encouraged, may be a key to productivity.

“You get politics out of the way and [everyone] rowing in the same direction,” she says.

These changes must come from the top. Executives must believe in cost-benefit analysis, coaching, investing, recruiting benefits and encouraging employees to exchange ideas for the best result, Josephs says.

“That’s a leap of faith for some people. I think of people who came out of a very tough time in business. They have a mentality that all spending detracts from value. You have to believe that it’s not spending, it’s investment. You have to have permission to do it,” she says.

An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) or other employee-owner agreement that gives employees a stake in the company may be positive for productivity and increase the willingness of employees to be more open, invested and creative, Josephs says. However, there must still be something the entire company is driving for, she says; a common goal of productivity must be in place. This, in the end, will help the company and employees make money

“The exceptional companies have identified what some key drivers are in their business,” she says. “Maybe for factories it’s on-time deliveries. For retailers, it’s minimizing shrink and turnover. [In any case, they’d] have everyone knowing that these metrics are going to help boost share value, which is going to make the retirement accounts bigger.”

What’s Next for Midmarket Productivity?

Midmarket companies will need to find where opportunities to improve exist, Stewart says. This is likely where advanced data analytics will factor in, as he believes the productivity slowdown across the country is probably from the “easy gains” of the first wave of automation, digitization and offshoring. Avoiding a productivity lull will mean finding more creative ways to use what is already in place

As an example, Stewart says if a company’s total cost of producing a good is $100 when it was made 25 years ago, (where 50% of costs were attributed to labor, 25% to IT and 25% to machinery) and the cost to produce is still $100, where could feasible cuts be made in production? Labor costs are likely down, he says; could technology be the place to look? Stewart believes so, saying the productivity of machines and IT, especially with technology getting less expensive each year, could be a sensible place to save money.

Now, with automated systems and leaner employee bases, Stewart says midmarket companies need to ask, “What’s next?” This may go beyond labor and into finding a greater level of productivity in technology. “People who can crack those nuts might make some really big gains,” he says.

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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors may not have a clue on what to do about the troubled Martin Luther King Jr./Charles R. Drew Medical Center, but it does know this much: It wants the county-owned hospital out of the headlines.

For years, the supervisors have tolerated King/Drew’s life-threatening problems and obscured them behind the closed doors of lawsuit settlements and between the covers of scathing federal and state reports. For the last year, however, the hospital’s long pattern of failure—desperately ill patients ignored and left to die, dangerous medication mix-ups, undertrained and unsupervised nurses, shady business dealings, doctored patient charts and timecards—has leaped into the public eye through insistent reporting by The Times.

Auditors last month released a report, ordered by Garthwaite, on the county’s contract with the private Drew medical school, which trains the graduate-level physicians, or residents, who serve as the medical staff at King hospital. The county pays Drew $13.6 million a year—57% more per resident than it pays Harbor/UCLA Medical Center to run a much better-regarded training program. But Drew keeps such pathetic records that no one can say where the money goes, except to department chairmen who earn 31% more than their Harbor/UCLA counterparts. (So much for the old excuse that King/Drew’s problems stem from stinginess on the county’s part.)

Shocking as they were, the audit’s findings were in line with recent Times stories on sloppy, if not criminal, bookkeeping throughout the medical center. King/Drew paid nearly $1 million in the last five years to a surgical instrument company owned by one of its orthopedic surgeons. Not only did this violate the county’s conflict-of-interest laws, the disposable devices cost twice as much as more conventional (and reusable) instruments preferred by most hospitals. Another orthopedic surgeon lied on his timecards and referred patients from King/Drew to his private practice.

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Atlanta—Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. improve its public image, said early Friday he was stepping down from his position as head of an outside support group amid criticism for remarks seen as racially offensive.

“I think I was on the verge of becoming part of the controversy, and I didn’t want to become a distraction from the main issues, so I thought I ought to step down,” Young, a former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador, told The Associated Press.

Young, once a close associate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said his decision to step down followed a report in the weekly Los Angeles Sentinel, which he said was misread and misinterpreted.

In the Sentinel interview, Young was asked about whether he was concerned Wal-Mart causes smaller, mom-and-pop stores to close.

“Well, I think they should; they ran the ‘mom and pop’ stores out of my neighborhood,” the paper quoted Young as saying. “But you see, those are the people who have been overcharging us selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they’ve ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it’s Arabs; very few black people own these stores.”

Young, who has apologized for the remarks, said he decided to end his involvement with Working Families for Wal-Mart after he started getting calls about the story.

“Things that are matter-of-fact in Atlanta, in the New York and Los Angeles environment, tend to be a lot more volatile,” he said.

He also said working with the group “was also taking more of my time than I thought.”

An after-hours call to Wal-Mart was not immediately returned. Company spokeswoman Mona Williams told The New York Times on Thursday that Young’s comments did not reflect Wal-Mart’s views.

“Needless to say, we were appalled when the comments came to our attention,” Williams said. “We were also dismayed that they would come from someone who has worked so hard for so many years for equal rights in this country.”

Washington—Andrew Young, the former United Nations ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, said Thursday he has resigned as head of Working Families for Wal-Mart, a Washington-based group that supports the retail giant.

His resignation followed the publication of comments he made to a reporter about Jewish-, Asian—and Arab-owned businesses.

“I recently made some comments about former store owners in my neighborhood that were completely and utterly inappropriate. Those comments run contrary to everything I have dedicated my life to,” Young said in a statement.

“I apologize for those comments. I retract those comments. And I ask for the forgiveness of those I have offended.”

Young said his comments “run contrary to everything that Wal-Mart is and means to communities.”

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Why the GOP Can’t Win With Minorities

Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2009

Today conservatism is stigmatized in our culture as an antiminority political philosophy. In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of water.

{snip} Can’t it be assumed, they would argue, that support of classic principles–individual freedom and equality under the law–constitutes support of minorities? And, given the fact that blacks and Hispanics often poll more conservatively than whites on most social issues, shouldn’t there be an easy simpatico between these minorities and political conservatism?

But of course the reverse is true. There is an abiding alienation between the two–an alienation that I believe is the great new challenge for both modern conservatism and formerly oppressed minorities. {snip}

I think it began in a very specific cultural circumstance: the dramatic loss of moral authority that America suffered in the 1960s after openly acknowledging its long mistreatment of blacks and other minorities. Societies have moral accountability, and they cannot admit to persecuting a race of people for four centuries without losing considerable moral legitimacy. Such a confession–honorable as it may be–virtually calls out challenges to authority. And in the 1960s challenges emerged from everywhere–middle-class white kids rioted for “Free Speech” at Berkeley, black riots decimated inner cities across the country, and violent antiwar protests were ubiquitous. America suddenly needed a conspicuous display of moral authority in order to defend the legitimacy of its institutions against relentless challenge.

This was the circumstance that opened a new formula for power in American politics: redemption. If you could at least seem to redeem America of its past sins, you could win enough moral authority to claim real political power. Lyndon Johnson devastated Barry Goldwater because–among other reasons–he seemed bent on redeeming America of its shameful racist past, while Goldwater’s puritanical libertarianism precluded his even supporting the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Johnson’s Great Society grandly advertised a new American racial innocence. If it utterly failed to “end poverty in our time,” it succeeded–through a great display of generosity toward minorities and the poor–in recovering enough moral authority to see the government through the inexorable challenges of the ’60s.

When redemption became a term of power, “redemptive liberalism” was born–a new activist liberalism that gave itself a “redemptive” profile by focusing on social engineering rather than liberalism’s classic focus on individual freedom. In the ’60s there was no time to allow individual freedom to render up the social good. Redemptive liberalism would proactively engineer the good. Name a good like “integration,” and then engineer it into being through a draconian regimen of school busing. If the busing did profound damage to public education in America, it gave liberals the right to say, “At least we did something!” In other words, we are activists against America’s old sin of segregation. Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

But conservatism sees moral authority more in a discipline of principles than in activism. It sees ideas of the good like “diversity” as mere pretext for the social engineering that always leads to unintended and oppressive consequences. Conservatism would enforce the principles that ensure individual freedom, and then allow “the good” to happen by “invisible hand.”

And here is conservatism’s great problem with minorities. In an era when even failed moral activism is redemptive–and thus a source of moral authority and power–conservatism stands flat-footed with only discipline to offer. {snip}

Added to this, American minorities of color–especially blacks–are often born into grievance-focused identities. The idea of grievance will seem to define them in some eternal way, and it will link them atavistically to a community of loved ones. {snip} Today the feeling of being aggrieved by American bigotry is far more a matter of identity than of actual aggrievement.

And this identity calls minorities to an anticonservative orientation to American politics. It makes for an almost ancestral resistance to conservatism. One’s identity of grievance is flattered by the moral activism of the left and offended by the invisible hand of the right. Minorities feel they were saved from oppression by the left’s activism, not by the right’s discipline. The truth doesn’t matter much here (in fact it took both activism and principle, civil war and social movement, to end this oppression). But activism indicates moral anguish in whites, and so it constitutes the witness minorities crave. They feel seen, understood. With the invisible hand the special case of their suffering doesn’t count for much, and they go without witness.

The first impulse is to moderate. With “compassionate conservatism” and “affirmative access” and “faith-based initiatives,” President George W. Bush tried to show a redemptive conservatism that could be activist against the legacy of America’s disgraceful past. And it worked electorally by moderating the image of conservatives as uncaring disciplinarians. But in the end it was only a marketer’s ploy–a shrewd advertisement with no actual product to sell.

What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good. It could be above moral vanity. And so it made no special promises to me as a minority. It neglected me in every way except as a human being who wanted freedom. Until my encounter with conservatism I had only known the racial determinism of segregation on the one hand and of white liberalism on the other–two varieties of white supremacy in which I could only be dependent and inferior.

The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity. {snip}

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ICE Boss Says He Suspended Use of Arrest Quotas

Amy Taxin, Forbes, August 17, 2009

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday the agency is no longer using arrest quotas in a program aimed at tracking down immigrants who have ignored court orders to leave the country.

John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for ICE, told reporters that eliminating the quotas in the program was one of the changes he made since taking office this year.

Morton declined to state how widespread the use of quotas was previously or which quotas he suspended. He said the change would not affect the agency’s work to find and arrest immigrants who don’t heed their deportation orders.

Agency records from ICE’s fugitive operations program show that beginning in 2004, teams were assigned to arrest at least 125 so-called fugitive immigrants. In 2006, each team’s quota was increased to 1,000 fugitive arrests.

Immigrant advocates voiced outrage at the quotas and accused agents of racial profiling to net more arrests. {snip}

ICE’s fugitive operations teams made more than 34,000 arrests during the 2008 fiscal year, more than double the number than two years prior.

Morton, who spoke with reporters on a two-day visit to Southern California, said the teams would increasingly focus on finding immigrants with criminal backgrounds.

Karen Tumlin, a staff attorney with the National Immigration Law Center, said a key concern has been agents’ practice of arresting undocumented immigrants with no prior contact with law enforcement while out trying to track down criminals.

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Racial Preferences in Obamacare

La Shawn Barber, Michelle Malkin, March 23, 2010

Transfer of wealth and “crucial decisions” aside, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains provisions that provide incentives for racial discrimination. {snip}

One provision states that programs with “a record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or from a rural or disadvantaged background” will be given priority for government money. This is only one of several such provisions. Programs and medical institutions that practice racial preferences will be moved further up the money queue than programs and medical institutions that disregard race.

{snip} The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called the provisions racially discriminatory and sent President Barack Obama and Congress letters warning them about the provisions. The politicians ignored the warning, naturally.

The Commission said the inclusion of the discriminatory provisions appeared to motivated by a crusade to narrow racial health care disparities and the belief that the disparities are caused by a shortage of medical professionals who are members of preferred minority groups. {snip}

The Commission rightly concluded that medical institutions competing for federal dollars may end up lowering academic standards for minority applicants, and added that “race-based attempts to achieve some ill-defined ‘critical mass’ of minority students or to demonstrate a ‘sufficient’ record of training such students are constitutionally suspect. . . .

If the Obama administration’s going to violate the Civil Rights Act, one would think the discriminatory provisions actually would solve the racial health care disparity problem. The Commission cited research that showed raising the quality of care at hospitals in the 500 largest minority serving areas would improve minority health care more than eliminating racial disparities within every provider in the U.S.

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The Antikythera Mechanism

What you are looking at is a kind of astrolabe, and this one is known as the Antikythera Mechanism. It was found in a very well preserved shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, and it was very likely something similar to this:

Without that added bit of context, it would be difficult to imagine the ruined version to be similar to the actual astrolabes used during that particular era. This particular paper (pdf alert) is essential to understanding why the find was so important.


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A Steady Diet of Nothing

When you feed people remakes and comic book movies, and when you do it year after year after year, don't be shocked when they stop going to see your tired old retreads.

The thing that surprises me is that Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies aren't doing as well as the Lord of the Rings, critically at least, and that there seems to be no desire on the part of people to actually make good films anymore.

Why would I go see another Spiderman movie? Why would I see another X-Men movie? There are so many of them on the shelf already. Today's studios have to feed an overseas market that just wants explosions and little dialogue, so they have no qualms about going to four or five sequels that rip off the same tired old remade idea.

I lasted about 40 minutes into Transformers 4. We walked out and didn't miss a thing. The humanities are all but dead in this country. Who's doing anything interesting? Someone has to, and they're probably broke and wishing someone would buy a few more copies.


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For several years now, mobile device manufacturers have been in a race to push the pixel density of mobile devices higher and higher. The race began with the iPhone 4 “Retina” display – an at the time impressive 330 pixels per inch (PPI) 960x640 3.5” display. Keen to trump the Retina moniker, makers of Android devices soon churned out devices with displays with PPIs of 440 and higher, with the current push to 2560x1440 displays in 5.5” or smaller sizes which yield an amazing 500+ PPI. Next up was a similar race in the tablet space, with 1280x800 soon giving way to 2560x1600 displays, but this time in a 7” to 10” form factor.

All the while, the lowly PC and Mac chugged along with displays that could hardly be called impressive. The standard LCD display of just a few years ago would hover somewhere around 96 PPI, and it was often lower. A 17” LCD with a resolution of 1280x1024 wasn’t an accident – it was exactly 96 PPI, which is what the PC and Mac would render at by default. High resolution laptops would barely squeak past the 120 PPI range. These lower densities – though decent for the longer view distances of desktop monitors – have until recently not been improved on, highlighting the gap in progress between the two devices categories.

Further complicating matters, desktops and mobile devices have always differed in how they use resolution when it is increased. On a mobile device, higher resolution has been used to increase image quality, while higher resolution displays on a desktop were released as part of physically larger displays and used to increase the amount of work you can do. Mobile devices have had one big advantage: they are backed by new operating systems that are built for higher resolution out of the box, and there is no back catalog of legacy applications to deal with. Phones and tablets can easily deal with high resolution displays, but for the PC and Mac, things are not so simple.

In 2012, Apple launched the 15.4” Retina MacBook Pro. At the time it was far and away the highest PPI laptop available. It took a lot of work for Apple to ensure a high resolution display was usable because for really the first time, increased resolution on a computer was used to improve image quality rather than simply to increase screen real estate. How they achieved this was nicely explained by Anand back in 2012. However, OS X wasn’t perfect; certain applications didn’t behave as well as they should have, which resulted in some applications having blurry text or other UI issues. Still, Apple was able to make the Retina display work, and for the applications that were Retina aware, the result was a fantastic experience. If developers updated their applications, their clients could enjoy the high resolution clarity that had already taken over the mobile space.

But what about Windows? Windows Vista, and then Windows 7, both had support for higher DPI (Dots Per Inch) settings; even lowly Windows XP had some support for DPI scaling. The main issue was that there was no market force pushing for High DPI (in the operating system and APIs, it’s referenced as DPI as opposed to the PPI of a display) like there was with the Retina MacBook Pro. OEMs were happy to sell consumers low cost, low resolution 1366x768 TN panels for years. If people don’t demand better, most OEMs are unlikely to provide them better than the basics in such a low margin industry.

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Brand Model Screen Size Screen Resolution Pixels per inch
Acer Aspire S7 13.3" 2560x1440 221
ASUS Zenbook UX301LA 13.3" 2560x1440 221
Dell XPS 11 11.6" 2560x1440 253
Dell XPS 15 15.6" 3200x1800 235
HP Spectre 13t-3000 13.3" 2560x1440 221
Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro 13.3" 3200x1800 276
Lenovo X1 Carbon 14" 2560x1440 210
Panasonic Toughpad 4k 20" 3840x2560 231
Razer Blade 14" 3200x1800 262
Samsung ATIV Book 9 13.3" 3200x1800 276
Toshiba KIRAbook 13.3" 2560x1440 221

What changed was a combination of High DPI tablets and the Retina MacBook Pro putting pressure on the PC industry to offer something better. It has taken a long time, but finally quality displays are something that are important enough to consumers for every single major OEM to now offer at least one, if not multiple, devices with High DPI.

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  • inighthawki - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - link

    I take it you're not a developer? Or else you'd understand at large companies you have a set of tasks, a time limit, and you have to cut certain features and prioritize them to customer needs. In Adobe's case, maybe, despite what you may think, their research showed that few people needed a high DPI UI, so resources were spent on other features first. Reply
  • npaladin2000 - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - link

    Yes I am a developer, working for a large multinational ecommerce provider. And I just said exactly what you did only I was much coarser and simpler in my language in the hopes that it will penetrate some of the thicker skulls out there. But the bottom line is that you apply hours to the features that are either functionally required, contractually required, or will actually be used. If something's unlikely to be used or isn't a specifically requested feature, it's not going to get resources spent on it. Why would you? That would essentially be throwing away money. Those hours could be spent on something else that will actually generate revenue instead. Reply
  • Murloc - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - link

    he was answering to eddman, not you, look at the comment indentation. Reply
  • inighthawki - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - link

    I was replying to eddman. Anandtech's comments section could use a small upgrade. After like 4 levels of replies it's impossible to tell who is replying to whom. Reply
  • JDG1980 - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - link

    You're missing the point. You have to *actively do something wrong* for DPI scaling to not work properly. The standard guidelines for Windows API programming have included support for HiDPI for years. If you don't have time to program your own custom controls that support HiDPI, then use the standard controls. If you have time to reinvent the wheel for your project, then you have time to do it right. Reply
  • Gigaplex - Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - link

    "If you have time to reinvent the wheel for your project, then you have time to do it right."

    I wish this was true, however it's not. As deadlines loom, you do whatever you need to in order to get it to work. It would be nice to use standard controls for everything, but they aren't flexible enough for that.
  • darthrevan13 - Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - link

    Then why set the flag to true? So that there would be more problems? Reply
  • Zoomer - Monday, April 21, 2014 - link

    Same issue with VLC - fidelity in rendering the work is essential. Small UI vs your artwork rendered wrong - not hard to see what customers will choose. Many pros already memorized the keyboard shortcuts anyway. Reply
  • twtech - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - link

    If you are ever involved with software development, one of the things you will learn is that there is always more to do, and there will always be more to do than you can ever get done. So you must prioritize what you're going to work on.

    If you want to devote the time to DPI scaling, that means something else that you could be doing is not going to get done. When most displays were all roughly around the same PPI, it just didn't make sense to prioritize DPI scaling highly relative to other work.
  • phoenix_rizzen - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - link

    Yeah. Everyone seems to forget that before LCDs took over and relegated us to a wasteland of 720p and 1080p panels, hi-resolution and hi-dpi monitors were commonplace. 1600x1200 was common in the 90s, and usually under/around 20". 1280x1024 was even more common at 14-17".

    Don't feel like doing the math on those, but they should be over 100 DPI.

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A recent article in Newsweek discussed the continuing pay gap between men and women, and suggested some reasons why women still make less than their male colleagues. Another recent story discussed how female doctors are paid less than male doctors. I'm not going to argue here whether or not the pay gap is real. Instead, I want to discuss that, at least in some workplaces, women are paid less than men for the same work.The Newsweek article contained a disturbing statement: "In many workplaces, discussing pay is frowned upon; in some, it's a dismissible offense. So, like Ledbetter, women often don't know when they're getting paid less than men." Lilly Ledbetter, the pay discrimination victim who lost her case and inspired a law, found out about how much less she made than her male colleagues when she got an anonymous note.

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If you aren't lucky enough to get a note from someone brave enough to tell you that you're a victim of discrimination, how do you go about proving pay discrimination? Here are eight ways that you can find out if your male colleagues make more than you for the same work:

%VIRTUAL-hiringNow-topCity%1. Ask your colleagues.
The reason the statement in the Newsweek article disturbed me is that non-supervisory employees in private workplaces have the absolute right to discuss working conditions, including pay. That right is in the National Labor Relations Act, which applies to most non-government workplaces. If you're a supervisor, you may be out of luck on this. The NLRA doesn't apply to supervisors. If the company has an illegal policy saying that you aren't allowed to discuss pay with co-workers, you can report them to the NLRB. The better your relationships at work, the more likely someone will simply tell you what you want to know.

2. Ask your senator to support the paycheck fairness act.
An important bill that would have assisted women in proving pay disparity just failed in the Senate. Among other things, the Paycheck Fairness Act would have prohibited employers from retaliating against even supervisory employees who discuss or disclose wages of co-workers. It also would have made it easier for employees to prove pay disparity.

3. Ask former colleagues.
If your colleagues can't or won't discuss their wages, maybe a former colleague will. If you have a good relationship with a male former co-worker, ask them how much they made. If they made more than you for the same work, it might be another way to prove pay discrimination.

4. Look at public records.
If the company has to file documents with the SEC or other government agencies, those records may include employment agreements or other pay records.

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5. Look at unemployment filings.
If your state law says that a company's unemployment tax returns are public record, ask to see your company's records. These records will list every single employee and what they were paid. Ask your boss or HR: Sometimes they'll actually tell you what your colleagues make. If you think they'll retaliate, don't take this step. I'd only recommend this if you have a good relationship with someone in management or HR.

6. Look at severance agreements.
Severance agreements are usually based on a certain number of weeks or months of pay. Some of them become public record in SEC filings. Sometimes former colleagues are willing to show them to you. Depending on your job, they might even come across your desk. Occasionally, the agreements pop up online. If you Google "severance agreement" and your company name, you might be surprised what pops up.

7. Look at employee lawsuits.
If a former or current colleague sued the company, their employment or severance agreement might be in court records. Many courts have their records online in a searchable form. Some may still require you to go to the courthouse. Your co-worker's salary might be disclosed in answers to interrogatories or other documents in the court file. If you're really lucky, the court records might also disclose salaries of other employees.

8. File with the EEOC.
If you're being subjected to other types of sex discrimination and just aren't sure about the pay, file with the EEOC on the other discrimination and say you suspect that you're also being paid differently. The EEOC will likely ask the company for those pay records as part of its investigation. Unfortunately, you won't get access to your file until the end of the investigation, but at least you'll eventually know the truth.

While it's tough to find out what colleagues are making, it's not impossible if you're persistent and patient.

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Once I think I have proof that I'm being paid unfairly, what can I do?

1. File a formal complaint of sex discrimination with HR.
Put your complaint in writing and tell them that you believe you are being paid less than similarly-situated male colleagues. Hopefully they will investigate. If they can confirm the discrimination, they may resolve the matter for you. If you file a discrimination complaint, you are (mostly) protected from retaliation if you had a good faith belief that you were a discrimination victim.

2. File with the EEOC or your state agency.
You don't have to go to HR first in a pay disparity case, before filing with the EEOC or your state agency that handles sex discrimination claims. If you fear retaliation, filing with the EEOC is absolutely protected from retaliation.

3. Contact an employment lawyer:
When in doubt, or if you want legal representation for your claim, talk to an employee-side employment lawyer in your state to find out if you have a case.

Do you have a problem with your employer? Do you have a question about your legal rights in the workplace? Email Donna Ballman, care of AOL Jobs. Make sure to include a description of your problem, as full as you feel comfortable. Keep in mind that anything you include in your email could be reprinted and responded to publicly. It will not be confidential. Govern yourself accordingly.

Also note: Writing to Ballman at AOL does not create an attorney-client relationship. Ballman can't give legal advice here about specific situations but will be glad to discuss general issues and try to point you in the right direction. If you need legal advice, contact an employment lawyer in your state.

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The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system.

There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader vision that encompasses care throughout the patient’s journey. The authors argue that we need to see safety through the patient’s eyes, to consider how safety is managed in different contexts and to develop a wider strategic and practical vision in which patient safety is recast as the management of risk over time. Most safety improvement strategies aim to improve reliability and move closer toward optimal care. However, healthcare will always be under pressure and we also require ways of managing safety when conditions are difficult.  We need to make more use of strategies concerned with detecting, controlling, managing and responding to risk. Strategies for managing safety in highly standardised and controlled environments are necessarily different from those in which clinicians constantly have to adapt and respond to changing circumstances.

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Dine in style with the Arlington Dining Chair Beige Fabric, a comfortable dining chair with a timeless, elegant look. Undeniably luxurious, it is upholstered with plush beige fabric and edged with studs for a classic finish. Its tall, supportive backrest features quilted detailing, enhancing both the comfort and appearance of this deluxe model. Plus, the sumptuous seat is sprung and belted for premium comfort. Four oak finished legs support the seat, formed of solid wood for strength and stability. The Arlington comes complete with protective floor plugs, helping to ensure flooring remains in excellent condition.

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Seat Height 46 18.1
Overall Height 98 38.6
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Overall Seat Depth 54 21.3
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Film Screening to Benefit Can Do MS

Jan 06, 2012

Atlantis Casino Resort Spa will host a film screening of an exhilarating documentary about an elite group of skiers who scale the world’s highest mountain, and challenge its most dangerous slopes, Skiing Everest will screen in a limited theatrical benefit event on February 1, 2012. All proceeds will benefit the Jimmie Heuga Center Endowment Fund, supporting Can Do MS Lifestyle Empowerment Programs for people living with Multiple Sclerosis.

Filmed by co-director Mike Marolt over ten years, Skiing Everest follows a group of close friends, led by Marolt and his twin brother, who grew up in Aspen taking on 14,000-ft. peaks with their father, 1960 Olympic skier Max Marolt. Skiing Everest follows the Marolts and their childhood friends, Jim Gile and Olympic cross-country skier John Calhoun, in what many people consider the toughest physical challenge on Earth – climbing and skiing in the “Death Zone” without using bottled oxygen, under weather conditions as perilous as the thin air, with hidden crevasses and 10,000-ft. sheer faces that drop into Nepal and Tibet far below.

“It is hard to do anything at such altitudes,” wrote Forbes adventure columnist Jim Clash, “where death lurks at every turn, let alone ski and survive to tell the tale.”

The film also tells the history of high-altitude skiing, dating back to the 1930s, and includes interviews with Hans Kammerlander, the first to ski from the summit of Everest; Laura Bakos, the first woman to ski from the summit of an 8,000-meter peak, and Chris Davenport, the two-time world extreme skiing champion and avid ski mountaineer.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Purchase tickets at the Atlantis Gift Shop or by calling (888) 551-7007, or online at www.mscando.org. Must be at least 21 years old to participate. For more information about the film, please visit www.SkiingEverest.net.

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Al Khor International School

Case Studies 29 Sep 2015

Our background with Al Khor International School

Al Khor International School (AKIS) is a co-educational international school offering students the choice of an English or Indian school curriculum. The school, which is located north of Doha, is owned by RasGas and Qatargas which are two of the largest natural gas-producing companies in the world. The school has over 4,500 students and primarily caters for the children of their employees. FCm has been partnered with the school since 2014.

FCm has achieved savings of up to 15% on group travel in just nine months.

Here's how we made it possible...

FCm manages the travel program for Al Khor International School which has an approximate annual spend of 3 million Qatari Riyal. The business’ main travel consists of group bookings for student activities, tours and excursions. These complex group bookings often involve multiple specialities including air travel, hotel bookings, visas, car hire and sightseeing tours. In addition, FCm is responsible for staff business travel, vacation bookings and travel arrangements for new staff taking up positions with the school. The school also requires assistance with MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Events) activities to support their business and promotional objectives.

The client’s focus was to engage a travel management company with the experience and regional knowledge to manage their school’s group travel requirements. To this end, they sought a provider that could demonstrate the in depth local experience and extensive resources required to deliver an end-to-end solution for the school’s often complex bookings. This included the ability to handle visas and ticket bookings separately, for the diverse number of nationalities represented at the school. The client also required a company with regional resources to source and supply local contacts to help groups with land travel arrangements.

Our solution

Drawing on years of experience handling group bookings, FCm’s professional team tailored a personalised solution to meet the client’s objectives.

A hands-on approach to supplier negotiations

FCm worked with suppliers to negotiate better rates with the key airlines and hotels utilised for student group bookings, to achieve significant cost savings. Regular reviews are also held with the client to discuss service level satisfaction and to report on data management procedures.

Dedicated support

FCm committed to appointing a key account manager, with a strong understanding of the client’s needs, to provide one point of contact for the client’s group bookings, business travel and MICE requirements. FCm’s dedicated travel desk handles the complete requirements for group bookings and sources the most appropriate hotels for the convenience and safety of students. In addition, FCm’s ability to provide 24/7 emergency assistance services was important in helping the school to meet its duty of care obligations to both staff and students.

By concentrating on the client’s main focus areas, FCm’s proactive approach has delivered significant, tangible results.
  • Through improved supplier negotiation, FCm secured cost savings of around 15% on the client’s overall travel.
  • By streamlining the travel process and conducting regular review meetings with the client, FCm has delivered service excellence.
  • The client has benefited from having one point of contact for all travel bookings, this has simplified bookings and saved the client significant time and effort.

Al Khor International School's response

“We would like to express our whole hearted thanks for the service you have provided for our recruitment trip to India. Our passengers were well satisfied with all the arrangements which you organised in a short span of time.”
Essme Anoop - Administration Assistant,
Al Khor International School