Personanondata: QE II Leaves NYC for the Last Time

Thursday, October 16, 2008

QE II Leaves NYC for the Last Time

The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth II sails past the Empire State Building for the last time. I would have missed this as I was on a call, but three long blasts of her horn had me rushing to the window. Since I wasn't ready this was the only shot I got.

The ship is to be retired and will become a floating hotel in Dubai. Her predecessor, the QE was similarly retired to become a floating university but after an extensive refit in Hong Kong the ship caught fire in a spectacular inferno. Somewhere in the PND family archive, is a photo of that ship lying on its side in HK harbor. I hope nothing untoward happens to this one.

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Michael Cairns is currently Head of Partner and Channel Development for the publishing unit of the American Psychological Association which is a $100million scholarly, academic and educational publisher. In this role, he is responsible for all sales and marketing activities supporting the revenue base and working with current and new partners to expand APA's publishing program and mission. Michael Cairns has served as President, CEO and CRO of several brand name publishing, technology and content-centric businesses. His career includes a wide range of publishing and information products, services and B2B categories and his operating and consulting experience has largely been with brand-name companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Macmillan, Inc., Berlitz International, AARP, R.R. Bowker and Wolters Kluwer. Mr. Cairns has also served on boards including the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and also served as Chairman of the International ISBN Executive Committee.