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Little Women – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Posted by: The Reviews Hub - North West in Musical, North West, Review 16/11/2017 Comments Off on Little Women – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Book: Alan Knee
Lyrics: Mindi Dickstein
Music: Jason Howland
Director: Bronagh Lagan
Reviewer: Richard Hall
In less than two years, Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre has become a byword for high quality, accessible, musical theatre. At the heart of the venue’s runaway success are its owners Joseph Houston and Willian Whelton. The dynamic duo has deservedly received widespread acclaim for the extraordinary contribution that they have made to theatre in Manchester and musicals in general.
The pair’s latest offering, the fifth show that they have staged with co-producer Katy Lipson and Aria Entertainment is the European premiere of the American cult musical, Little Women. Although the show enjoyed some success on Broadway, it is through the popularity of the cast recording that it is has become best known and where it has obtained a large and enthusiastic fan base. Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott’s, well known and much loved semi-autobiographical novel follows the four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy as they grow up during the American Civil War and their journey from adolescence into womanhood.
For Little Women, the producers have assembled at Hope Mill another first-rate cast, one of the finest that this reviewer has seen in any musical. In particular, the quartet of young performers who make up the March sisters are impeccable, each performance is wonderfully authentic, perfectly drawn and completely believable. In this hugely enjoyable production directed with great sensitivity and skill by Bronagh Lagan, the siblings effortlessly step out of Alcott’s classic novel to share their stories of heartache, hope, and joy with bundles of wit and spoonful’s of charm. When tragedy strikes the sisters realise more than anything the importance of family and the value of kinship.
The production brilliantly evokes New England in the mid-nineteenth century, at the heart of the set is a pair of large screens which suggest the natural beauty of the New England landscape and when opened, magically reveal the rooms in the family home where the sisters revel in Jo’s story making and confide to each other their innermost secrets.
As Jo, an aspiring writer and the most impetuous of the sisters, Amie Giselle-Ward gives an astonishing and what surely must be a career-defining performance. She holds the stage throughout, orchestrates with ease and grace the movement of the other characters around her and portrays a dazzling array of emotions. Her singing is exquisite and extraordinarily moving and will no doubt adorn many West End musicals in years to come. The rest of the cast, especially those playing the other March sisters and in particular Cathy Read as the ill-fated Beth, give outstanding support. Anna Stolli as Mrs. March and Connor Hughes as Laurie, Jo’s would be suitor are worthy of special mention for their hugely impressive musicality and striking vocal performances. A small unseen band comprising of a piano and string quartet provide perfect accompaniment and fill the Hope Mill Theatre with a marvellously rich, lush and vibrant sound.
This is a warm-hearted musical, sprinkled with liberal doses of passion and the exuberance of youth. All genuine fans of musical theatre and especially those who have listened to and enjoyed the original cast recording should beat a path as soon as they can to Hope Mill Theatre. Performed for the first time outside of America and Australia, Little Women is a real gem of a musical and on the strength of this excellent production will surely be produced in other theatres very soon.
Runs until Saturday 9 December | Image: Antony Robling
Book: Alan Knee Lyrics: Mindi Dickstein Music: Jason Howland Director: Bronagh Lagan Reviewer: Richard Hall In less than two years, Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre has become a byword for high quality, accessible, musical theatre. At the heart of the venue’s runaway success are its owners Joseph Houston and Willian Whelton. The dynamic duo has deservedly received widespread acclaim for the extraordinary contribution that they have made to theatre in Manchester and musicals in general. The pair’s latest offering, the fifth show that they have staged with co-producer Katy Lipson and Aria Entertainment is the European premiere of the American cult…
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Allan Knee Amie Giselle-Ward Anna Stoll. Aria Entertainment Bronagh Lagan Cathy Read Connor Hughes Hope Mill Theatre Jason Howland Joseph Houston Katy Lipson Little Women Louisa May Alcott Manchester Mindi Dickstein William Whelton 2017-11-16
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How to Find the Value of Your Action Figure
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Action figure collecting can be very profitable when you know what you're looking for and, more importantly, what you have. For those collectors who look to their collections as a financial investment, knowing the value of each action figure is extremely important. If you hope to one day resell your figures on the collectible market, you must determine its value according to the demand for the figure and the condition (or grading) it's in.
Determining Condition
How much a figure is worth depends greatly on how pristine or how beat up it is. The six basic grades of condition are as follows:
C10: Mint Condition: The figure has no discoloration, paint loss, dirt or grime, has tight joints and includes all of its original accessories. If the figure is still packaged, the package itself must be in equally pristine condition without tears, creases, or damage from torn-off price tags.
C8-9: Near Mint Condition: The figure must be as close to original condition as possible with the allowance of any minor issues, such a single loose joint or one or two missing accessories. Dirt, discoloration or paint loss is still not allowed in this grade.
C6-7: Fine Condition: The figure must still be complete (no missing limbs or broken parts) but may lack most of its original accessories, have some minor wear, discoloration or paint loss. You may often find this grade described as "played with condition".
C4-5: Good Condition: The figure probably has none of its original accessories and clearly shows excessive wear, including noticeable discoloration, some loose joints, and paint loss. Most collectors would still consider this figure to be easily repairable.
C2-3: Poor Condition: The figure is in noticeably bad shape, with very loose joints, major paint loss, and extreme discoloration. A figure in this condition may also show some minor breaks, such as the thumbs being broken off. Most collectors tend to leave figures in this condition alone.
C1: Very Poor Condition: The figure is an absolute mess, with limbs broken off, major paint loss, bite marks from dogs, burn marks from firecrackers, you name it. A figure in this condition is generally considered trash.
Finding the Going Rate
Once you've determined the condition of your figure you can start researching just how much it's worth. But first, keep this in mind; the prices for anything on the collectible market are not set in stone and can fluctuate over time and from one venue to another. (The going price for a figure in a tiny collectibles shop in a small town will be vastly different than its going rate at a large toy convention in a big city.) So once you determine the value of your figure, know that it is simply a rough estimate of the current going rate.
Finding the Values
Online: A quick search on online auction sites like eBay will give you an excellent idea of the current value of a figure. When searching for a figure, be specific. Searching for "Batman figure" will not give you a narrow enough sampling nor accurate pricing as searching for "1984 Super Powers Batman Near Mint Complete" will. Once you have found a few, get a good average of what the going prices are and stick with that for your figure.
Books: There are dozens of action figure price guides available at your local bookstores and online at Amazon. When buying a price guide, always try to get the latest edition in order to get the most accurate and up-to-date pricing. These books can generally be trusted and are used all over the country by collectors. One excellent price guide comes in an inexpensive 3-volume set called Tomart's Encyclopedia & Price Guide to Action Figure Collectibles.
Magazines: There are a couple of different magazines that focus solely on action figures such as Lee's Toy Review, which contains articles on the latest figures on the market and an extensive price guide for dozens of action figure lines. The benefit of magazines is that you get a month-to-month accurate update of the current market values and with a subscription, it comes right to your door.
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One thing to watch out for in collecting for a financial investment is that an action figure's prices can rise and fall dramatically. So even though you've found a price for a figure last year, you should check again to see if the current market value has risen or fallen. Also, keep up with trends and beware of fads. Some figures simply fall out of fashion and others have a meteoric rise, only to fall just as quickly and stay at the bottom.
When the first Harry Potter movie was released, the action figures were being snatched up from the stores and resold online for hundreds of dollars. Now they can be found at toy conventions, mint in package, for less than their original retail price. Also, keep in mind that the value of a figure is how much a collector could be willing to pay for it, but not at all how much a dealer will be willing to pay for it. So if you decide to sell a figure that's valued at $100, a dealer, who needs to make a profit and can only sell it for its current value, will only offer you $50, possibly less.
But no matter what an action figure's current market value may be, never forget how much it's worth to you.
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The Children review at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick – ‘a deftly directed production’
Patrick Driver and Rachel Laurence in The Children at Theatre by the Lake. Photo: Robert Day.
by Stephen Longstaffe - Jun 18, 2019
Lucy Kirkwood’s 2016 play The Children is set in the aftermath of an accident at a British nuclear power station. Married couple Robin and Hazel (Patrick Driver and Maggie O’Brien) both used to work at the plant but are now retired. They are visited by an old friend, Rose (Rachel Laurence), who turns out to have a proposition for them.
It’s a play in which personal intimacies and social duty collide over the kitchen table, and the responsibilities of the old for future generations are probed and articulated.
Stefan Escreet’s production is the second studio show in Theatre by the Lake’s summer rep season, and the immersive nature of the space serves the play well. Designer Elizabeth Wright works with the studio’s usual traverse set-up to create a country-cottage chic kitchen, complete with whitewashed stone walls.
Though some of the conflict between characters feels a bit too loudly telegraphed, for the most part Escreet trusts the audience to spot what is going on. The play’s humour is given room to breathe. The relationships accumulate significance in the under two hours of real time the performance takes, and there are plenty of nicely nuanced nonverbal moments where what is being spoken takes a back seat.
Indeed understanding that the play is not all talk is the key to the production’s success. This is especially true of the final 10 minutes, which are driven by Mark Melville’s eerily powerful sound design coming to the fore, and a haunting final image, atmospherically lit by Robbie Butler.
The cast of three does a fine job. Driver’s ex-philanderer Robin keeps his emotional cards close to his chest, but not so close we can’t see how things will pan out. O’Brien’s Hazel is a study in defensively brisk efficiency, and she plays nicely off Rachel Laurence’s more enigmatic Rose.
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major op.35; Pas de deux and Danse russe from Swan Lake; Sérénade mélancolique op.26; Valse-scherzo op.34; Mélodie in E flat major op.42 no.3
The Strad Issue: September 2017
Description: Rock-solid, if stately, interpretation of a violin concerto warhorse
Musicians: Esther Yoo (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy
Composer: Tchaikovsky
Catalogue Number: Deutsche Grammophon 481 5032
Reactions to this highly accomplished account of the Tchaikovsky Concerto will depend on how you view the piece itself. In recent years the increasing tendency has been to give the music more room to breathe, with tempos generally statelier in feel and with enhanced room for interpretative manoeuvre from the soloist. It would, indeed, be difficult to imagine a more nobly poised take on this glorious score than this, with Esther Yoo sustaining a radiantly golden tone throughout even the most treacherous pyrotechnical terrain, captured in sound of tactile precision. She has the musical presence and personality to captivate the listener’s attention and Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Philharmonia complement her every caprice with alacrity. All I miss is the electrifying sense of forward momentum generated by the likes of Jascha Heifetz/Fritz Reiner (RCA) and Isaac Stern/Eugene Ormandy (CBS). Yoo gives similarly commanding accounts of the shorter items, taking the notoriously tricky solos from Swan Lake, with their flying spiccato acrobatics and (at one point) vertigo-inducing rising 10ths, in her stride, alongside heartfelt renderings of the Sérénade mélancolique and Mélodie. A greater sense of abandon would have made all the difference to the final section of the Valse-scherzo, although Yoo’s playing is, in every other respect, virtually flawless. JULIAN HAYLOCK
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Bitcoin Is Here to Stay So Try Investing in It
Investors should feel bullish on bitcoin because it's here to stay. TheStreet dives into the volatile cryptocurrency.
Updated Sep 3, 2018 1:04 PM EDT
The king of crypto still has it.
Bitcoin is a controversial topic for investors. There are experts on both sides arguing for and against the once hot cryptocurrency. While the current arguments center around the recent price plunge and the lack of federal regulation, there's one argument that a lot of experts can agree on--bitcoin is here to stay.
"[There's] Less than a 1% chance in my mind that bitcoin won't succeed," said Hermann Finnbjörnsson, founder and CEO of Svandis. "I think that there are a lot of reasons to be bullish on bitcoin. Banks are getting into bitcoin."
But, let's face it, anyone can say that bitcoin is the future, so why should investors take it seriously? After the collapse in prices during the winter of 2018, where bitcoin fell from $19,000 to $7,000 seemingly overnight, investors would be right to feel bearish about the cryptocurrency.
Those naïve bears could be missing an opportunity.
A chart of bitcoin over the past year,
Experts TheStreet spoke to almost all agreed that investors should still feel bullish on the future of bitcoin despite the price wipeout. The bears point to the daily volatility around bitcoin and often colorful folks involved in the space. But the risk reward appears skewed to the bullish camp.
"There are numerous reasons why this new asset class has captured people's imagination since its inception in 2009 -- bitcoin displays a number of characteristics that make it a very powerful and alluring concept. It allows for direct, peer-to-peer transfer of value in completely trustless transactions," said Russell Korus, CEO of EZ Exchange.
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Added Korus, "It is fully decentralized, autonomous, writes all of its records to a public ledger, and its record-keeping is completely immutable. These characteristics contribute to creating a brand new paradigm which represents a shift from the free exchange of information to the free exchange of value. This has far-reaching and society-shifting repercussions, and creates the conditions for mass disruption of intermediaries in virtually every industry."
That potential looks to have gone lost amid the recent focus on price volatility.
Some, like Finnbjörnsson who have been involved with bitcoin since its early days, thinks that the value can only go higher after the dip. "I believe that it'll hit $10,000 by the first week of November." He attributes the possible rise to the fact that the New York Stock Exchange's parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, plans to roll out a bitcoin ETF on Nov. 5, 2018.
The ETF will be launched under Bakkt, which explains its purpose "as a scalable on-ramp for institutional, merchant, and consumer participation in digital assets by promoting greater efficiency, security, and utility." High-profile companies such as Microsoft (MSFT - Get Report) , Starbucks (SBUX - Get Report) , and Boston Consulting Group have signed onto the initiative.
While the ETF will open new doors for investing in bitcoin, it's just one of many reasons that investors should feel bullish.
"Technology will adapt cryptocurrency to be something that you can go and buy on your phone," said Michael Terpin, partner at Alphabit fund. He theorizes that "most people are going to use their phones to play candy crush blockchain."
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So, while the $7,000 pricetag may not look great to investors who were cheering bitcoin on last year, the future is really where they should be looking. As the crypto moves into the next stage of its life, it'll likely be a better asset for portfolios as more people understand its usefulness in society. With that understanding, should come less price volatility.
"Cryptocurrencies, and the distributed ledger technology that they are built on, will do nothing less than change the world in the most fundamental ways. They will have more impact on society over the next 20 years than the Internet has had over the last 20. The future of cryptocurrency is very bright," said Korus.
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All Blacks ace Ben Smith back and '100 per cent' fit
New Zealand and the Highlanders have been boosted by Ben Smith's imminent return to Super Rugby action this week.
Ben Smith will return from almost seven weeks out when the Highlanders meet the Crusaders in the Super Rugby quarter-finals on Friday.
The New Zealand star suffered a hamstring injury in the 31-31 draw with the Chiefs on May 4 and was initially ruled out for six to eight weeks.
And although the Highlanders have taken no risks with Smith, who will depart for Pau later this year, he is fit to play against the defending Super Rugby champions in Christchurch.
Smith's inclusion will come as a boost to the All Blacks, with the 33-year-old to see some club action ahead of the Rugby World Cup in Japan in September.
Friday will see Crusaders' All Blacks front row start for the 1st time this season, with Codie Taylor & Owen Franks returning to the run-on side. Highlanders have made only 2 changes for the clash in Christchurch #CRUvHIG pic.twitter.com/CJy0ct9bYv
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Highlanders coach Aaron Mauger told reporters: "He's trained really well in the first couple of days this week.
"He was touch and go last week, so we thought he would be a good chance for this week.
"He's done everything required and ran around at full pace yesterday, getting off the ground and getting in the air. He's 100 per cent confident that he's good to go."
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Send help to children
Children at critical risk: emergency response needed in aftermath of Cyclone Idai and Kenneth
Send help to children affected most by extreme storms affecting Southern Africa - Cyclone Idai and Kenneth. UNICEF is on the ground to bring life-saving aid to children affected and continues to support on a massive scale with urgent supplies and ensure families receive the care they need.
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Cyclone Idai and Kenneth – What is the impact on children?
Six weeks after Cyclone Idai caused unprecedented damage to Mozambique and its neighbouring countries such as Malawi and Zimbabwe, affected families brace for another cyclone: Kenneth.
After battering Comoros, Idai made landfall in Mozambique and Tanzania.
Mozambique has been hit hardest. An estimated 1.8 million people – 1 million of which are children - are affected. UNICEF has declared it a Level-3 emergency -- its highest-ranking -- and issued a global appeal for US$117 million to support the response to Cyclone Idai.
UNICEF mobilized quickly to reach vulnerable children, coordinating its response with other UN organizations and partners in the region to deliver life-saving emergency supplies.
How is UNICEF helping children?
Providing access to safe water and sanitation
In hard-hit city of Beira, Mozambique, poor water access and hygiene conditions, is putting children at risk of diseases such as cholera, malaria and diarrhoea.
More than 14,800 cases of Malaria have been reported since March 27 in Sofala Province, one of the areas hit hardest by Cyclone Idai. A looming hunger crisis and compromised immunity threatens to pose danger to hundreds and thousands of children. UNICEF is ramping up efforts to prevent transmission and so far distributed more than 100,000 bed nets, but many more are needed.
Safe drinking water is essential to prevent the spread of illness. On March 26, UNICEF, with support of the UK government, led the repairs to the water supply systems in Beira and is working to rehabilitate water systems in other parts of the disaster zone.
Cholera treatment centers have been set up in strategic areas. UNICEF is implementing a program to immunize 900,000 people against cholera in Mozambique. Read more on UNICEF’s response.
Getting medical supplies to affected regions
In Malawi, thousands of families have been forced from their flooded homes and many lack basic needs, including food, water and sanitation facilities. UNICEF supplies –including oral rehydration salts, antibiotics and insecticide-treated bednets – are arriving in southern Malawi for families who lost their homes and are living in evacuation centres.
In Zimbabwe, UNICEF is delivering medical supplies, hygiene kits, jerry cans, soap and water treatment tablets. UNICEF and its partners are working hard to overcome transportation obstacles to reach affected communities, including airlifts to deliver life-saving supplies to areas cut off by damaged roads and bridges.
Providing protection and support for children
UNICEF is deploying tents to affected districts to shelter displaced people who have largely sought refuge in school buildings. The tents will free up classrooms, allowing students to return to their lessons and resume a sense of normalcy. Furthermore, UNICEF is shipping schools in a box kits, recreational kits, blackboards and Early Childhood Development kits for children in the displacement camps.
Children and their families need urgent help now. They need safe drinking water, health supplies and emergency shelter
Lives of already vulnerable children have come to a hard stop. Homes and schools are destroyed. Roads and bridges have been washed away. The next few days are crucial.
It is heart-breaking to see the destruction and what it means for our children. We are here, present and committed, day and night, to make sure that children have shelter, clean water and access to health, we are fighting cholera and stopping the spread of disease. Nothing is stopping us.
Tina Mucavele, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Mozambique
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The coming days will be crucial for many children and their family. The full extent of the devastation of the second cyclone is still uncertain. We do know that thanks to your online donation, UNICEF can be there for every child with life-saving emergency supplies in the first hours after an emergency happens.
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The Cast of Hamilton Will Help Raise Clinton Cash
Think regular tickets are expensive? Seats for the fundraiser start at $2,700, and go all the way up to $100,000.
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Nothing brings people to a political fundraiser like a special performance of Hamilton—and Hillary Clinton knows it. The Clinton campaign announced on Saturday that an extra performance of the Broadway hit has been scheduled for July 12 as a fundraiser for the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, according to an email sent to supporters.
“When I first saw the musical Hamilton last year, I was blown away,” the email reads. “It’s an incredible feat of storytelling about the fight for the heart and soul of our very nation. It’s a look at history that feels immediately relevant today. It’s a beautiful piece of art with empathy to spare.”
Organized by the Hillary Victory Fund, seats for the matinee performance start at $2,700 and go to $100,000 for “event chair” tickets, which includes two premium seats, a wrap party with Clinton and “other special guests,” and an invite to the Democratic National Convention. Tickets are available on Clinton's website.
Entertainment Weekly notes that last November, the show’s cast hosted a fundraiser for the Democratic National Hope Fund, which President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended. Both fundraisers indicate that the Tony Award-winning Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda—a hot commodity for the Clinton campaign—is not shying away from political advocacy both on and off Broadway.
“I’m going to be trying to get out the Latino vote as hard as possible,” Miranda said last week, according to The Daily Beast.
“I think it’s very clear that Latinos living in the United States—their interests are bound up in voting this year, and I’ll leave it at that, but making sure people turn out is going to be a priority for me,” Miranda continued, talking about how once he leaves Hamilton on July 9, he plans to work on voter outreach. “Our issues are on the table, from Puerto Rico to a wall to keep half of us out being a [Republican] Party platform. It’s important we get out and vote.”
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VantagePoint : Louis B. Mendelsohn’s Book Just Released – Trend Forecasting with Technical Analysis: Unleasing the Hidden Power of INtermarket Analysis to Beat the Market
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New Multi-Market Approach Requires Enhanced Trading Tools
GLOBAL, INTERMARKET ANALYSIS NEEDED FOR 21ST CENTURY TRADERS & INVESTORS
NEW YORK, January 25, 2001 – Fractious, volatile global equity, capital and derivatives markets will dominate the first years of the 21st century and will require a new intermarket approach for traders and investors.
That’s the big picture from leading technical market analyst Louis Mendelsohn, writing in his just–released book, Trend Forecasting with Technical Analysis: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Intermarket Analysis to Beat the Market (Marketplace Books, 2000).
“Intermarket analysis empowers traders to make more effective trading decisions based on the linkages between related financial markets,” says Mr. Mendelsohn. “By incorporating intermarket analysis into your trading strategies, rather than limiting your scope of analysis to individual markets, these relationships and interconnections between markets will work for you rather than against you.”
Mendelsohn’s new book examines how independent global events impact everyday trading decisions and how traders and investors can use intermarket analysis and high-tech neural networks to understand and profit in this environment.
“Today’s traders can no longer rely on single market analysis methods, which were designed for more independent, less volatile market conditions,” Mendelsohn says.
“Asian market fluctuations, obscure currency devaluations, fluctuating oil prices and many other diverse and seemingly distant factors impact everyday trading decisions right here,” says Mendelsohn. “Seeing the patterns and trends in today’s interconnected markets is vital for today’s successful trader and investor.”
New Tools for New Markets
“One of Mendelsohn’s greatest contributions to intermarket analysis has been his application of neural networks to the process,” writes John Murphy, leading author and expert on technical analysis, in the new book’s Foreword.
Trend Forecasting with Technical Analysis provides a primer on neural networks, which are computer applications designed to process enormous amounts of information and perform pattern recognition and forecasting. Neural networks sift through seemingly unrelated market data to find repetitive patterns that could never be perceived visually or by comparing two markets to one another.
Moving Averages as Forecasting Tool
Mendelsohn, for example, describes how he uses neural networks to turn moving averages – one of the most widely used technical analysis tools — into a powerful market forecasting tool.
“I have successfully applied neural networks to intermarket data in order to forecast moving averages, turning them in a leading indicator that pinpoints expected changes in market trend direction with nearly 80% accuracy,” he says. “This is in sharp contrast to using moving averages as a lagging indicator, as most traders still do.”
The new book highlights Mendelsohn’s development and application of his proprietary VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis Software, which forecasts price trends based on the pattern recognition capabilities of neural networks applied to intermarket data.
Trend Forecasting with Technical Analysis: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Intermarket Analysis to Beat the Market, published by Marketplace Books, is available in January, 2001 with a suggested retail price of $19.95. It can be ordered online at www.ProfitTaker.com.
Louis B. Mendelsohn is a pioneer in global, intermarket technical analysis and is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Florida-based Market Technologies (www.ProfitTaker.com), a leading investment software development firm.
Born in 1948 in Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. Mendelsohn received a B.S. degree in Administration and Management Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1969, an M.S.W. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1973, and an M.B.A. degree with Honors from Boston University in 1977.
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When Black Meets White
Chromatic aberration, refractions and colored shadows are some of the concepts which have intrigued philosophers, scientists and artists. Many intriguing questions are raised in the space between the optical spectrum, as determined by Isaac Newton, and the phenomenon of perceiving color by human eye. But, what about those situations when the “presence” of color is questionable at best? Come last week of November, find out at INOPERAbLE Gallery…
Roman Pfeffer – Black Square escaping
INOPERAbLE Gallery
INOPERAbLE is an art space which focuses on street art as an extraordinary phenomenon within Contemporary Art. The space based in Vienna, occupying a surface of 170 square meters works with a devotion to limited edition books and the sale of original art pieces. The core of the INOPERAbLE team are creative individuals Nathalie Halgand and Nicholas Platzer (aka 401RUSH). The gallery had a grand opening recently (read more about this event in INOPERAbLE Opening), with more than 30 artists present, including the great names of urban art Broken Fingaz, JAZ, Know Hope, Pixel Pancho, Reka One and Saner, to name only a few. During the last week of November, the gallery will host an interesting group show.
Gerhard Himmer, artwork
When Black Meets White Exhibition
All of the works, which the public will be able to see and admire during the exhibition, are based on one common aesthetical assumption – they are purely built on the “colors” black and white. This represents quite an intriguing concept since, although we perceive these “ideas” as colors, black and white, in fact, exist as the absence of the visual stimulus and overstimulation of the spectrums on the retina of the eye, respectively. It should be noted that the exhibition will feature positions dedicated exclusively to one of the two states. However, in terms of style and techniques, we shall be able to see inspiring works by artists who create collages, drawings, paintings, sculptures, as well as video… Finally, the notions which are addressed by the artists include purely formal and aesthetic ones, but also those which echo cultural and historical discourses, as well as social and individual experience, and popular culture.
Franz Riedl, artwork
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In the period between November 28th 2014 and January 31st 2015, the public of the city of Vienna and its guests will be able to see the works of a talented and inspiring group of artists. The show curated by Lucas Cuturi will feature art of Alexandra Baumgartner, Paul Busk, Ida Divinzenz, Thomas Draschan, Gerhard Himmer, Doris Therese Hofer, Claudia Larcher, Elena Muti, Roman Pfeffer, Wendelin Pressl, Arnold Reinthaler, Franz Riedl, Patric Schmierer, Charlotte Schnabl, Philipp Schweiger, Lukas Troberg, Walter Vopava, Nives Widauer and Clemens Wolf.
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GE and SEPCOIII to build first ultra-supercritical power plant in Pakistan
Published by Nicholas Woodroof, Assistant Editor
World Coal, Monday, 09 July 2018 11:45
GE Power is to provide boiler and steam turbine technology to power Pakistan’s first ultra-supercritical power plant in Deh Ghangiaro, Bin Qasim, Karachi. The project will add up to 660 MW of electricity to the national grid – the equivalent power needed to supply up to 1.3 million Pakistani homes and industries. The power plant will be constructed by SEPCOIII and commercial operations are expected to begin in 2021.
The Lucky Electric power project stands out as the first power plant located outside Thar district that will use lignite mined from the Sind Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) Mine at Thar Block II, in addition to imported lignite as back-up fuel. It is expected to set an example of how Thar coal can be transported over a distance and used reliably to produce power close to load centres.
The boilers will use Beater Wheel mills and proven coal preparation technology, which are essential to handling high-moisture lignite. GE’s boilers will help generate low cost power efficiently and reliably from Thar lignite, which was long considered difficult to achieve because of the low calorific value and high moisture content of the fuel.
Sacha Parneix, Commercial General Manager for GE’s Steam Power business in the Middle East, North Africa & Turkey (MENAT), said: “GE is proud to provide this project with highly efficient USC technology, for which reliability has already been proven successfully by GE worldwide, including burning challenging fuels like lignite coal. On top of being designed for local Pakistani Thar coal, the project’s location at Bin Qasim also ensures easy connectivity to the national grid and very low transmission and distribution losses in supplying affordable power to the major load centre of the city of Karachi, in particular.”
“SEPCOIII has worked with GE for many years now on power projects around the world. We are confident that our collaboration, which brings together GE’s industry-leading technologies with SEPCOIII’s outstanding management skills and execution resources, will lead to the successful completion of this important project,” said Qin Xubao, Project Director at SEPCOIII. “As the first lignite-fuelled ultra-supercritical power plant across the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey region, the project will help to set new industry benchmarks in Pakistan.”
“Coal will remain a vital part of the energy mix in Pakistan. The ultra-supercritical technology by GE is not only reliable, affordable, and an efficient solution, but also helps to lower emissions. The turbines will generate up to 660 MW to help the country bridge the gap between electricity demand and available supply,” said Sarim Sheikh, President and CEO of GE Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcoal.com/power/09072018/ge-and-sepcoiii-to-build-first-ultra-supercritical-power-plant-in-pakistan/
K Line takes delivery of Corona Dynamic
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (K Line) has announced the delivery of new ‘Corona’ series coal carrier: Corona Dynamic.
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By 2006, after six years at Nike, Grossman desired a CEO position, preferably in a company where she did not need to commute across the country as she did at Nike. Nike had recently appointed its own new CEO and a new president, so she actively looked to find an opportunity in another company, seeking this time one that was direct-to-consumer, entrepreneurial but not a start-up, and one that she could transform by taking advantage of new technological advances. A recruiter approached her about IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC), the parent company of HSN, Inc., and after studying HSN’s broadcasts Grossman realized that, in her words, “HSN really needed to become more of a lifestyle network that would inspire people through products”. Her vision was to offer inspiring lifestyle programming, particularly with charismatic celebrities, with all the products for sale – rather than the usual dry and old-fashioned standard sales format.
She took the idea to Barry Diller, the head of IAC, and even though she had no television experience, no direct-to-consumer experience, and no experience in most of the product categories HSN sold, he hired her. In April 2006, Grossman was appointed CEO of IAC Retailing, overseeing HSN, the catalog company Cornerstone Brands, Shoebuy.com, and IAC’s international retailing operations.
HSN had had seven CEOs in the previous 10 years, and according to Grossman, the company, offices, and employees seemed downtrodden and frozen in time. One of her first actions was to throw out all the old, broken, or dirty office furniture and give all employees Aeron chairs. In order to focus on revitalizing HSN, she closed IAC’s failing UK auction business, sold its German shopping channel, closed the down-market DirecTV clearance-shopping channel, and put another executive in charge of Cornerstone brands. She also eliminated negative or “toxic” employees, sought out committed, knowledgeable people within and outside the company to head up important divisions, and ensured that all employees were on board with the company’s new vision.
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There is Life After Act 10
August 4, 2014 by 8 O'Clock Buzz
Three years after its initial introduction sent hundreds of thousands to storm the Wisconsin State Capitol, Act 10, which effectively ends collective bargaining for Wisconsin public employees, became the law of the land. Last Thursday’s 5-2 Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision upholding the law came as a disappointment to public employee unions, but certainly not a surprise. What happens next, though, is a much more open question. Will public employee unions survive? Will they adapt to the new law and find new ways of organizing, or will they essentially disappear in the years to come? Brian Standing spoke with AFSCME Council 40 Kettle Moraine district representative Neil Rainford.
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VITA tax prep help returns to Glenville State
by: Alex Hines
Posted: Feb 18, 2019 / 11:45 PM EST / Updated: Feb 18, 2019 / 11:45 PM EST
Students and faculty at Glenville State College are helping area residents prepare their tax returns for another year.
For the 22nd year, GSC will be a VITA tax prep site.
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program is a federal program that provides similar support nationwide.
The Glenville State site doesn’t just help taxpayers; it also provides experience for accounting students at the college.
“They see that it’s not as daunting a task sometimes as it seems that it is to begin with, and we can help arm them with some skills that they oftentimes will say, ‘you know, I think I could do this,'” said Cheryl McKinney, business department chair and coordinator of the VITA site at GSC.
The GSC VITA site will be open at the Heflin Administration Building Room 309B from 3 to 5 on Tuesday and Thursday and 2 to 6 on Wednesday.
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BRIDGEPORT W.Va. - Pierpont Community & Technical College has announced the interim director of the Robert C. Byrd National Aerospace Education Center.
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The recently-enacted state-funded program covers basic tuition and fees for high-demand fields of study affecting community colleges and certain four-year institutions.
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salt is the product formed by a reaction in which?_______ atoms of acid are replaced by the atoms of a metal.
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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors received a report on the impact that Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are... — Updated 4/22/2019
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Anesthetic Risks and Management of Patients with Chronic Renal Failure
S. Robertson, BVMS (hons), PhD, DACVAA, DECVAA, DACAW, DECAWBM (WSEL), Specialist in Welfare Science, Ethics and Law, MRCVS
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Kidney disease can be divided into two main categories: acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). AKI develops over hours or days and may be a result of toxicities, sepsis or acute urinary obstruction; these are high risk anesthesia patients and should be stabilized as much as possible before sedation or anesthesia. CKD which is more commonly encountered is the focus of this discussion.
Chronic kidney disease is a structural or functional disease of one or both kidneys which has been present for an extended period of time (weeks, months or years). CKD is progressive and irreversible and currently there are no effective treatments that significantly slow the disease process. This is predominately a disease of older animals and the prevalence increases with age and is a common disease seen in veterinary practice. There may be a known underlying disease process that initiates renal damage but in most cases an inciting cause cannot be identified. There are several hallmark changes that aid in the diagnosis of CKD and staging is recommended. The International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) uses renal function tests, proteinuria and blood pressure to stage the disease in cats and dogs on a scale of 1 to 4 (www.iris-kidney.com). This approach allows for individualized treatment at each stage.
The function of the kidneys include excretion of metabolic waste products, regulation of blood volume, extracellular blood volume, acid-base balance and red blood cell production; therefore, disease can have far reaching effects. The kidneys have the ability to maintain these functions even as nephrons become damaged; azotemia does not become apparent until 60–70% of the functional kidney tissue is damaged. A dog or cat may present with no obvious clinical signs of renal disease and may have normal blood work yet have only a small percentage of functional kidney tissue left: when these patients are challenged by anesthesia they make be "tipped" over into renal failure.
Abnormalities frequently encountered in these patients include an elevated blood urea nitrogen, elevated creatinine, and hypoproteinemia. Electrolyte abnormalities may be present with potassium (high or low) being highly relevant to anesthetic management. Metabolic acidosis, hypertension, anemia and dehydration may be present and some patients may experience nausea and vomiting. Other co-morbidities, for example diabetes mellitus, may be present, and in older patients the consequences of ageing and their impact on anesthetic management must also be considered.
These patients may require anesthesia for many reasons (e.g., planned dental and orthopedic procedures or in an emergency situation such as trauma). In addition to considering the effects of anesthesia on renal function, the impact of surgery must also be appreciated; surgical stimulus results in catecholamine, renin, arginine vasopressin (AVP) and aldosterone release leading to increased renal vascular resistance and decreased renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Similar responses are elicited by pain and fear. These responses can be significantly ameliorated by low stress handling and good analgesic protocols. Laparoscopic surgery increase intra-abdominal pressure resulting in direct venous compression, decreased cardiac output and increases in renin, aldosterone and AVP sufficient to cause oliguria in human patients.1
The kidneys receive 20–25% of the cardiac output and have a high oxygen consumption rate (higher than the brain on a per gram basis). General anesthesia commonly results in decreased cardiac output, hypotension (mean arterial pressure (MAP) < 60 mm Hg or systolic arterial pressure (SAP) < 90 mm Hg); in one report 22% of dogs and 33% of cats were hypotensive during elective procedures.2 Renal blood flow and GFR are directly related; in normal healthy patients GFR is stable over a wide range of systemic blood pressure (mean arterial pressure of 80–180 mm Hg) due to renal autoregulation. However, autoregulation may be different in the face of disease and hypotension should always be addressed.
There is no single recommended anesthetic protocol for dogs and cats with CKD; each one will require an individualized approach, however, some suggestions can be made.3 Goals of anesthetic management include maintaining normotension, isovolemia and good cardiac output to maintain perfusion of vital organs.
Patients with CKD should be stabilized as much as possible prior to surgery; this is possible when the procedure is elective but even in an emergency situation spending time prior to anesthesia to correct as many abnormalities as possible is time well spent. It is important to ensure patients are adequately hydrated and this may require intravenous fluid administration. If nausea and vomiting are present these will contribute to dehydration and are very unpleasant; anti-nausea and/or anti-emetic drugs such as ondansetron or maropitant may be indicated. Normal serum potassium should be < 5.5 mEq/L and must be checked as hyperkalemia can be life threatening. Hyperkalemia causes altered cardiac excitability, automaticity and conduction and can result in cardiac arrest. If the patient is dehydrated, 0.9% saline is indicated and may be all that is required as the fluid therapy will dilute serum potassium, correct fluid deficits and cardiovascular function and enhance renal perfusion and excretion. Metabolic acidosis enhances hyperkalemia and should be corrected; this may also respond to rehydration. Regular insulin (0.5–1.0 U/kg) and dextrose (1–2 g per unit of insulin) can be used to rapidly decrease serum potassium. In an emergency 10% calcium gluconate (0.5–1.0 mg/kg IV) can be given to protect the heart until other measures are put in place to decrease serum potassium.
If anemia is present it is usually long standing and well tolerated; however, if bleeding is expected and the hematocrit is < 20% or Hb is < 7 g/dl transfusion should be considered. Pre-oxygenation via face mask is recommended.4
Decreasing stress, fear and pain are important and can be achieved with sedatives, tranquillizers, analgesics and low stress handling techniques.
A baseline blood pressure should be measured prior to anesthesia; CKD patients may be hypertensive and renal autoregulation may be altered (shifted to a higher range); in these patients a drop in blood pressure that would be tolerated by healthy patients may result in a significant decrease in RBF.
Acepromazine can be used if hypovolemia has been corrected. Low doses (0.01–0.03 mg/kg) and usually adequate and avoid the potential hypotension secondary to vasodilation seen with higher doses. There is some data in dogs suggesting acepromazine may offer renal protection.5 Alpha-2 adrenergic agents should be avoided as their effects on the kidney are unpredictable.6 Benzodiazepines (diazepam and midazolam) have minimal renal and cardiovascular effects; however, their effects are unpredictable and some animals become excited. Benzodiazepines are idea for co-administration at induction to reduce the dose of induction agent. Opioids should be incorporated and even for non-painful diagnostic procedures they are valuable because of their sedating properties, minimal cardiovascular effects and anesthetic sparing effects.
Injectable induction agents should be used; mask induction with inhalant agents is stressful and also requires a "large dose" which will cause cardiovascular depression. Propofol and alfaxalone are good choices but ketamine should be avoided as it will stimulate sympathetic activity. The dose of induction agent will be decreased if co-administered with a benzodiazepine.
Although isoflurane is less metabolized that sevoflurane this is a theoretical advantage. Anesthetic sparing techniques should be used (e.g., opioids, local anesthetic blocks) to minimize their effects.
Intraoperative use of "low dose dopamine" infusion is no longer advocated and has not been shown to provide renal protection; however, inotropes may be used to support cardiac output. Some CKD patients may benefit from mannitol induced diuresis;3,6 and suggested doses are 0.5–1.0 g/kg over 20 minutes.
Intraoperative monitoring is routine but should focus on blood pressure and if hyperkalemia is a concern the ECG should be closely monitored.
Chronic kidney disease patients may be challenging to anesthetize but with careful planning they can be well managed without further renal insult if the pathophysiology of the disease and the effects of anesthetic drugs on the kidney are understood.
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3. Bednarski R, Grimm K, Harvey R, et al. AAHA anesthesia guidelines for dogs and cats. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc. 2011;47(6):377–385.
4. McNally EM, Robertson SA, Pablo LS. Comparison of time to desaturation between preoxygenated and nonpreoxygenated dogs following sedation with acepromazine maleate and morphine and induction of anesthesia with propofol. Am J Vet Res. 2009;70(11):1333–1338.
5. Boström I, Nyman G, Kampa N, Häggström J, Lord P. Effects of acepromazine on renal function in anesthetized dogs. Am J Vet Res. 2003;64(5):590–598.
6. Schroeder C. Renal disease. In: Snyder L, Johnson R, eds. Canine and Feline Anesthesia and Co-existing Disease. Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell; 2015:116–28.
Sheilah Robertson, BVMS (Hons), PhD, DACVAA, DECVAA, DACAW, DECAWBM (WSEL), MRCVS
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
East Lansing, MI, USA
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Women are Farmers, too
There are a lot of reasons why we associate women with food production. Female representation in farming is not one of them. Surprised? It’s not your fault.
In 1972, the United Nations reported — with absolutely no supporting evidence — that women did 60 to 80 percent of the agricultural work in Africa. Despite being little more than a guess, the statistic became “fact” in development circles. In reality, women do roughly 40 percent of the work producing livestock and crops in Africa. So why the huge discrepancy?
“When you look at women, they’re not just the labor force,” says Catherine Sakala, a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow from Zambia. “They’re the people who take this food and prepare it in their homes. They’re the people who you’ll find selling that produce in markets.”
She thinks that if people consider the entire value chain, it becomes clear that women have several roles to play in agriculture, from production to policy.
Catherine is a biologist with the Zambian Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock. She works with farmers to manage their livestocks’ health and prevent the spread of diseases. She also volunteers with ZaWARD, a mentorship program that aims to close the gender gap in agriculture.
She says she mentors girls because more women farmers will lead to better food security and more income for families, simply because it will mean there are more people working in agribusiness. She argues countries lose that added production by leaving women out or not developing their potential.
Angelique Ingabire is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow from Rwanda who also mentors young women and girls in agriculture. The women are recruited from rural areas where subsistence farming is common, but farming as a business is rare. One of the groups she oversees is a cooperative of 40 women who grow pineapples.
“We trained them, we gave them a small amount of money to start up, and now they’re doing great,” she says.
She sees farming skills as a source of empowerment for her students. In another program on financial literacy, she teaches pre-teen girls how to plant small “kitchen gardens” to contribute to their families’ pantries and pocketbooks.
“For us, it’s more about them being able to say in the future, ‘I think I can do this by myself.’”
Catherine and Angelique would be pleased to know that, unlike the case in the world at large, the number of women working in agriculture is actually increasing in sub-Saharan Africa. The International Labour Organization estimates that by 2022, a third of all women working in agriculture will be in Africa.
“You can’t develop if you have left one gender backwards,” says Catherine. “You have to carry both people along.”
Are you a woman looking to learn about agriculture as a business? Check out these Mandela Washington Fellow–backed organizations:
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Microsoft to field a Cloud OS for government: Sources
Microsoft may be readying one or more versions of its Cloud OS tailored specifically for government customers.
By Mary Jo Foley for All About Microsoft | August 9, 2013 -- 15:01 GMT (08:01 PDT) | Topic: Cloud
Microsoft may be readying one or more versions of its cloud operating system that would be customized for government users, according to my sources.
Currently, Microsoft sells the same set of Windows Azure and Windows Server offerings to government users, alongside all other types of users.
But sources of mine who asked not to be named say there could be one or more versions of Microsoft's Cloud OS platform -- meaning Microsoft's set of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings -- in the works.
The private cloud version of Microsoft's Cloud OS offering may be codenamed "Fairfax," according to my contacts. Fairfax, Virg., is the home of the General Services Administration, and close to other U.S. government agencies. I believe Fairfax is meant for U.S. government users. (I don't know if there might be versions specific to governments in other countries somewhere down the line.)
A Microsoft government cloud OS would be, in some ways, similar to the Office 365 for Government offering which Microsoft rolled out a year ago. Office 365 for Government is a multi-tenant service that stores US government data in a segregated community cloud.
This Cloud OS for government -- if an when it materializes -- wouldn't be based on the Windows Azure OS per se, as Azure only runs in Microsoft's own datacenters. Instead, it would be a customized variant of Windows Server, with physical servers residing on site at government locations, my sources say.
I'd assume Windows Azure Pack will play a key role in any kind of Cloud OS for government offering. Windows Azure Pack includes the persistent virtual machine, service bus, portal, Web sites and a few other components previously available only as part of Windows Azure for use on Windows Server and targeted at hosters.
One of my sources said Microsoft officials have discussed internally the idea of an Azure/cloud OS for the government, but was unsure if this had made it beyond the planning stages at this point.
I asked Microsoft whether Azure for Government and/or something akin to Office 365 for Government was in the works on the operating system side of the house and didn't hear back.
One Microsoft cloud partner said the idea of a cloud OS for government makes sense.
"Contrary to popular belief, 'one cloud to rule them all' will likely not work in the near term," said Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda Inc, which has developed a private platform as a service (PaaS) offering. "Different industries and sectors have wildly different requirements and regulatory environments. The government is notoriously demanding when it comes to infrastructure and cloud expectations, so having a government specific Azure SKU makes a lot of sense if Microsoft plans on winning that business."
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NAB, Westpac-backed Australian startup launches Open Data Marketplace
Data Republic has launched the Open Data Marketplace, a governed platform for organisations to list, exchange, and collaborate on data projects.
By Asha Barbaschow | September 1, 2016 -- 04:16 GMT (21:16 PDT) | Topic: Big Data Analytics
Sydney-based big data startup Data Republic has launched Open Data Marketplace, a digital platform for organisations to exchange data sets under the governance of strict contractual arrangements.
Speaking at the 2016 Hadoop Summit in Melbourne on Wednesday, Data Republic's CTO Ryan Peterson said the concept of the platform originally came from a philanthropic venture, with the team wanting to leverage data to help solve social issues.
"What really started the business process was what we learned about social behaviours and social problems: That we couldn't solve them because it wasn't easy to share the data," he explained.
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"For example, we learned through looking at data that in adolescents 14 to 19 years old in Australia, the highest likelihood of death is suicide. It's not just Australia unfortunately, it's the same in the US. In Palo Alto, where a lot of these tech companies exist, one in five [adolescents] attempt suicide."
Peterson said there was no data accessible to help solve such a problem.
"The reason we call this Data Republic is because we believe this is a movement -- you can get all of these people's data together and you start looking at solving some major socioeconomic issues and on top of that, being able to change businesses, we just really haven't scratched the surface yet," he said.
"It really is a fantastic opportunity and we're already seeing such change from this -- it's really exciting."
Founded in 2014, Data Republic is funded by Westpac's investment arm Reinventure, NAB Ventures, Qantas Loyalty, and a handful of private individuals. Peterson said that being backed by such Australian giants has certainly helped Data Republic be trusted by others, but the startup also put in the hard yards around ensuring an individual's data is kept safe.
The Open Data Marketplace is built on top of a legal framework that allows people to exchange data, with personal information stripped out.
"It allows us to get data from party A to party B without ever touching the personal information or revealing something that a lot of people would be concerned about," he said.
"Before we built a single line of code, we spent a year working on the legal agreement; making it so two people can exchange is not so simple, you have to build trust in data exchange, so we started with the legal framework, then working with the privacy commissioner, talking to all of the privacy organisations, especially in Australia, and learning what they would feel comfortable with.
Peterson said that not only were the authorities and regulators comfortable with the data exchange concept, they were excited. He said they know the exchange is happening anyway, and it may as well be organised and governed and have the privacy of individuals as its key focus.
"We have the Australian Bureau of Statistics data loaded and we have the Bureau of Meteorology data loaded, we do get certain data from various organisations in government, too," he said.
The platform itself requires an in-depth approval process, with permitted users still not given complete access to everything. Additionally, Peterson said that every single transaction requires a data request form and the approval by both Data Republic and the original data contributor.
Peterson said that an organisation needs to think about its data as adding to the company's valuation, noting that it should be treated just like an asset.
"There's so much data available that can expand and enrich data sets and we're just taking that next-level," he said.
"The ability to turn nothing into something -- it's a whole new currency, and it hasn't been looked at as a currency.
"We think that's why the banks have been really supportive of us: Money is just the start, now it's going to be data."
The CTO said Data Republic is currently working on a social good program which will give the likes of NGOs and research organisations access to data for their own projects.
"We think that that's going to be the most exciting part of the business and we think it will really get people trusting data exchanges, that's why we want to focus on the social good programs first so it becomes less about you sharing my information and more about solving problems," he said.
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Windows Longhorn: still the most exciting Windows UI to date
Windows codename Longhorn is, without a doubt, the most visually-exciting time in Windows development. With planning for the OS beginning ~2000 and ultimately ending in 2007 as Windows Vista, it saw the end of the Jim Allchin era of Windows and ushered in one Steven Sinofsky, who was recently let go of after the completion of Windows 8.
Until its cancellation and reset in 2004, Windows Longhorn was an overly-exciting prospect for Windows enthusiasts and developers. Instead of dividing users and forcing a completely newfangled UI upon its users, Windows Longhorn sought to extend and enhance the familiar. While Windows Vista may have looked close enough to Longhorn, it was nowhere near it to those of us who grew along with Longhorn through its early years.
With the news of Steven Sinofsky leaving Microsoft , I am once again excited by the prospect of what's possible for Windows. With this gallery, I seek not only to demonstrate the evolution of a the most exciting UI Microsoft has ever envisioned for Windows, but more importantly, to convey some semblance of the enthusiastic passion developers and users had for Windows: a passion long since lost that I think Microsoft should focus on reclaiming.
So with that, grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and click-through to see a vision of Windows you either forgot about or have never even seen.
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In the beginning, there was the sidebar! Early thinking in this area consisted of everything from the Microsoft Research team (via an application called Sideshow) to the MSN and Windows team collaborating on visual mock-ups, like the one pictured above. The sidebar was going to be a centerpiece in Windows Longhorn, giving you instant access to the information you most wanted to see -- everything from contacts, to news, to documents and more.
Although a the sidebar made it into Windows Vista, it was more of an afterthought by then, existing as a separate application that was ultimately unutilized and quickly abandoned.
In 2001, flash mock-ups were created to showcase what a finalized Windows Longhorn might look like. Many different UIs were created, but only one was chosen to be the model designers and developers would code into Windows development. This particular demo spawned the Plex (the name of the theme used in M3-M4 builds) era of Longhorn development at Microsoft. Subsequent themes used were Slate, Jade, and various forms of Aero.
As you can see in this screen shot, there were massive changes planned for the Windows shell.
Here's another conceptual shot of a Plex-themed Windows Longhorn, circa 2001.
This is a Plex concept that extends even farther back in time than the previous two screen shots, thus showing the humble beginnings of a wild new look for Windows.
This screen shot represents early thinking for the carousel view: a view that would allow users to view the contents of a folder in a flashy, new way. Presumably, pressing the left and right keys on the keyboard would make items spin left or right, accordingly. This feature didn't make it very far, but it was implemented and working to some extent in early builds of Longhorn!
During the early stages of Longhorn UI ideation, countless mock-ups were dreamed up, mocked-up, then sifted through to land on the right candidate(s) for designers and developers to pursue. Here's an example of an extremely wild Longhorn UI concept that never saw the light of day much beyond what you see here.
Every aspect of Windows was being addressed and given a massive facelift, as well as a functionality lift. This is one of countless login screens that were mocked-up by designers working on Longhorn.
During PDC 2003, Hillel Cooperman (Tjeerd Hoek's partner in crime on the MSX team) gave an unbelievably exciting, no-pictures-allowed (though some folks, like Paul Thurrott, were given permission to take and share some pictures at the time) demonstration of Windows Longhorn that was MUCH more ambitious and FAR more visually-exciting than the Plex-themed Longhorn.
Though you can't tell from this screen shot, the background, called Aurora, animated and was to be realized via a then-new markup language called XAML. For the first time, Microsoft was going to make it easy for developers and designers to work together seamlessly -- or so, that was the goal.
Once logging in from the previous screen, the user was sent to this absolutely gorgeous desktop. To note, this presentation was only a mock-up made and demonstrated in Macromedia Director (flash-based, basically). This look would directly inform visual development of Longhorn straight up through its cancellation with build 4094.
Though the Aero name and some of its properties (like transluscency) would carry on through the completion of Windows Vista, the lack of many of the shell changes that would have truly shown it off made it nothing like its earliest incarnation, as showcased throughout the next handful of screen shots.
The Start menu in this Longhorn concept was animated in numerous ways: the Windows flag waves, there's an aurora animation running on the left-hand pane, and as you hovered over menu items, their respective icons would swing into view at the top of the left-hand pane. It was an awesome, awe-inspiring vision of the Start menu!
Big glass borders gave an exciting look and feel to the shell, also providing a space for recent thumbnails. The thumbnails feature seemed odd and out of place, but at this point in time, the focus was on showing off the potential of a sleek, clean, and glassy UI that Windows users would hopefully drool over (and we did).
The orb you see was an animated WMP gadget that gave the appearance of existing in a 3-dimensional desktop space. (In a later screen shot, you will see a much more drastic extent to which Microsoft was thinking in terms of 3D space on the desktop.) Also, attendees were given a glimpse of more functionality that one could utilize the sidebar for. Once again, the "wow" effect was achieved.
Welcome to Phodeo. Firstly, you will notice the lack of translucency in the shell. The thought here was to keep your attention focused on what you wanted to see inside of a maximized window. If you viewed this window in a non-maximized state, Aero's translucency would kick in.
That said, Phodeo was to be a completely new experience for browsing, sorting, and working with photos in Windows. The background was an animated aurora and you could change the views of images. As shown above, images were sorted by month, and as you moved through months, the animation was kind of like a carousel, except with the smallest ends moving off into infinity and/or moving into view, depending on which way you scrolled.
Make no mistake, it was visually stunning.
For document management, Microsoft was going with something called "stacks." It was a nifty way for displaying, organizing, and sifting through documents. Also showcased in this image is a different look and feel for the glass borders of Aero -- something that quite frequently changed, albeit subtly, in multiple early builds of Longhorn.
Even when going out, Longhorn wasn't going to leave anything without style! Shutting down your system showcased a beautiful, full-screen aurora animation.
Longhorn wasn't going to be all flash and little substance, no. Microsoft worked hard to showcase how Longhorn would be both beautiful and functional for everyone from average home users to demanding professionals. With strong shell integration planned, apps would be made to run seamlessly between all components of the shell: the sidebar, windows, the taskbar, etc.
The next handful of images showcase ideas for a more professional Longhorn, without sacrificing performance or beauty (theoretically, of course).
Here's an example of Excel running within a Longhorn environment. Notice the email notification and tile in the sidebar, quickly giving users access to the most recent emails.
Here's an example showcasing Microsoft's preview pane, where just about any type of information could be shown about a document, application, or anything else that could take advantage. Developers were going to be given access to APIs that would allow them to code whatever they wanted from their application into the preview pane.
This screen shot shows a lot going on: document stacks, preview pane information, contacts in the sidebar, and more. Longhorn was going to make the most of providing as much information as it could, all in the most attractive way possible.
Though you can't tell, the seemingly static image in the preview pane was actually an animation! In fact, the preview pane could consist of all moving parts, if a developer wanted to do as such for their application. In some of the later pre-cancellation builds of Longhorn, Microsoft included preview pane auroras, which all varied in color (depending on the type of folder that was opened) and were coded in XAML.
Rounding off the "Longhorn for business" screen shots, this is an example of multiple non-maximized windows, demonstrating what I noted earlier about Aero's translucent and non-translucent states. Needless to say, at this point, Windows Longhorn was shaping up to be quite easy on the eyes while one worked!
Just about every Microsoft service that Longhorn touched was going to be given the Longhorn UI treatment, including Live services. The screen shot above demonstrates that reach and showcases how it could, in theory, work to create a seamless Longhorn experience.
The advent of Windows Flip was a Longhorn-based implementation of Alt+Tab. Not only were you shown thumbnails while you tabbed through your selections, but all the selections would show in larger windows in the background, thus allowing you to see even more clearly what you were selecting through.
Windows Flip was a 2D visual effect, but with the most demanding version of the Aero theme enabled, one could enjoy Windows Flip 3D: a feature that still exists in Windows to this day. Instead of Alt+Tab, pressing the Win key + Tab makes all running tasks fold back into 3D stacks you can scroll through. It's primarily a flashy effect, but when it was first mocked-up, it was a nice change of pace that fit well with the Longhorn vision.
For years prior to Longhorn, Microsoft had messed with the idea of 3D space on the desktop. In the small desktop screen shot in the lower right-hand corner of the image above, you can see what was perhaps the most drastic conceptualization of a 3D Longhorn desktop. In it, the wallpaper and sidebar fold back out of view, much like a door opening away from you, to reveal a sort of 3D space that housed a few ideas, including revealing another desktop or simply showing more information on the current desktop.
In this screen shot, taken from an Amazon demo at PDC 2003, Jim Allchin showed off a rather flashy Amazon browsing experience, which utilized the preview pane and one of many 3D views. (To note, this demo was meant to also show off some of the underlying services that were being baked into Longhorn.) The theme you see here is Slate, which was rather hideous compared to the beautiful Aero theme showcased earlier. It was merely temporary.
Here's an image that showcased Phodeo's 3D view from a different perspective.
Yet one more of the myriad of Longhorn mock-ups created, this one showcases thinking for a sidebar/taskbar combination. Personally, I wasn't a fan of it, but the window that's open, however, shows yet another take on how beautiful the preview pane could be made to look and function. (Thanks to Long Zheng for initially sharing this image on his blog.)
If you've fallen in love with Longhorn, then welcome to the club! Most of us who lived through its development will forever be infatuated with what was never meant to be. To be clear, it's not Longhorn that I hope Microsoft brings back with the departure of Steven Sinofsky; it's the passion and ridiculous excitement that made Windows users and developers want to tell Microsoft to shut up and take their money already.
And with that, thus concludes this little journey into Windows Longhorn: an OS that, to this day, evokes exponentially more excitment within me than Windows 8 ever has at any point through its development. I hope Microsoft can once again focus on something more than a lackluster UI.
This is a gallery showcasing some of Microsoft's UI thoughts during the most visually-exciting period of Windows development: Windows Longhorn.
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Aiken County neighborhood still facing storm damage five days later
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Posted: Mon 11:35 PM, Jun 24, 2019 |
Updated: Tue 7:54 AM, Jun 25, 2019
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A house on Ponderosa Drive is draped in a tarp after a tree destroyed the roof. (Source: WRDW/WAGT)
NORTH AUGUSTA, SC (WRDW/WAGT) -- Five days after a crazy storm hit the CSRA, some residents of Ponderosa Drive in Aiken County are still without power and air conditioning.
Patti Pruett was in her home Thursday when she watched a tree fall onto two of her family cars.
"Tears. I couldn't help it," she said.
She would later come to realize that the same tree that fell onto her cars also scraped a portion of her roof, leaving a small hole. The very next day, another tree came down on that same spot of her roof - completely collapsing it.
"The whole attic just came down into the bedroom," she described.
Right across the street, Kim Cauthen was helping his friend clear fallen trees from the yard. Cauthen says that while his friend got her power restored on Saturday night, she is without air conditioning.
That's because a tree fell on her outdoor air conditioning unit, completely crushing it.
"Although it took 15-20 seconds to happen, it's going to take a very, very long time to clean up," Cauthen said.
Around the corner sits another house whose roof was damaged by a fallen tree. And just beyond that, a house completely destroyed by a fire.
That residents of that home had just returned home after their power was restored Sunday when the fire broke out. Fire officials say the cause was electrical.
Pruett was told that her power had been restored, but that it was best to not turn it on until the wiring could be properly examined. According to her power company, it's possible for electrical wires to become damaged and spark a fire once power is restored to them.
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By Mitch Teich & Audrey Nowakowski • Dec 5, 2014
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Mitch Teich speaks with Milwaukee Magazine's associate editor Matt Hrodey about his latest profile of Senator Tammy Baldwin.
It’s been just over a month since sweeping victories by Republican candidates around the country, and here in Wisconsin.
And once the lame duck session of Congress ends, Democrats will be the minority party in both the House and the Senate.
The week after the election, we caught up with Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin, the state’s junior senator. Despite the shift of party control, she sounded unfazed by the challenges ahead as a member of the minority party.
"I don't think my job changes frankly. I'm a U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin, I am fighting for those opportunities to help working families get ahead," Baldwin says. "Yes, there's a change in partisan control, but my job in many ways remains quite the same as to advocate for Wisconsin."
As a profile in the December issue of Milwaukee Magazine points out, it was a typically measured response from the former congresswoman from Madison.
Associate editor Matt Hrodey traveled to Washington to interview Baldwin, and he spoke with Lake Effect's Mitch Teich to share what insights he learned.
"Her style as a senator is pretty collegial, so she's kind of doing a little bit of a waiting game to see how people are going to react to her and what the new environment is," Hrodey says.
"If you like a sort of true blue, liberal politician, you're going to like Tammy Baldwin. As much inroads as she's made and building connections with the business community, she's still Tammy from Madison," he says. "She sees being a public official as an actual profession."
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NEA Chief Bullish About Arts in Wisconsin and Continued Federal Funding
By Bonnie North • Nov 7, 2014
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Lake Effect's Bonnie North chats with Jane Chu, chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin. Also listen to a performance by the Lationo Arts Strings Program.
Jane Chu, chairwoman of the National Endowment of the Arts wrapped up a two-day visit to Wisconsin Thursday.
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Xerox History Timeline — 2000's
We at Xerox have been working in the document management industry for over a century. In that time, we've brought you many of the office items you take for granted at work every day. From the first xerographic image that was made in 1938 to our breakthroughs in home and business computing from the 1970s to today, we've been advancing business from day one.
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Xerox Named CIO-100 Award Winner for Customer Service, Support
International Data Group's CIO magazine today named Xerox Corporation's Office Printing Business as a recipient of the 2000 CIO-100 award. The award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence.
Xerox Wins Service Partnership Award
Xerox has been presented with the Service Partnership Award by Staples Retail and Delivery, an operating unit of Staples, Inc. The award recognizes Xerox for excellence in customer service and field training.
CAP Ventures Validates Xerox is No. 1in Digital Copier Market
CAP Ventures is the third information-technology research firm to validate that Xerox is No. 1 in total digital copier sales, accounting for 37 percent of all units placed in the United States in 1999.
Xerox Continues to Excel in Diversity Efforts
In a survey on diversity efforts in Corporate America, Fortune magazine ranks Xerox No. 11. The survey considered not only the number of minorities at each company, but also the makeup of the board of directors, the top 50 executives, those in the ranks of "officials and managers" and the percentage of new hires.
Xerox Ranked No. 6 on "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list
Xerox is ranked No. 6 on "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list compiled by Business Ethics magazine. The magazine based the rankings on companies that "excel in serving multiple stakeholders well."
Connecticut magazine Picks Xerox Among Top Places To Work
Xerox Corporation was named one of the 'Top Places to Work' by Connecticut magazine that selected just 18 of the state's 95,000 businesses. In its selection, the magazine consulted recruiters and personnel agencies throughout the state, requesting they identify firms in which potential employees express strong interest.
APQC Honors Xerox Communities of Practice
The American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) has selected Xerox Corporation's Corporate Engineering Center as one of five benchmark organizations for "Building and Sustaining Communities of Practice."
Resende Plant Awarded With Brazilian Award For Quality In Workplace
The Xerox Resende plant in Brazil has been awarded with the "2000 National Award for Quality in the Workplace and Working Relations." The award recognizes the Brazilian companies that perform best in ten different working relationship quality indicators.
2 Xerox Executives Ranked Among Worlds Top Ten Knowledge Executives
Two Xerox executives were recognized for "world-class knowledge leadership contributions to their organizations and the New Economy." Xerox's John Seely Brown and Yotaro Kobayashi are among the world's 10 Most Admired Knowledge Leaders.
AMIGO Award to Xerox Remanufacturing Facility
SUMEX, Xerox's remanu-facturing facility in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, won one of two AMIGO (Arizona Mexico International Green Organization) awards. SUMEX won the award for its efforts to promote and teach pollution prevention practices.
Xerox Awarded Excellence in the Use of Television
Xerox television (XTV) has been recognized as a finalist in the Audio Visual Awards 2000 in association with Sharp. For the second year running, XTV was nominated among the top three in the category "Excellence in the use of television" sponsored by Media Week.
Xerox Cited by Latina Style Magazine
Xerox has been recognized as one of the top 50 employers for Hispanic females by Latina Style magazine.
Xerox Wins Award of Distinction From U.S. Small Business Administration
Xerox has won the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Award of Distinction, which recognizes large federal contractors that have exceptional small business subcontracting pro-grams.
Xerox One of the Top Corporations for Womens Business Enterprises
The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) has recognized Xerox as one of the Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises. This list is based on WBEND's annual survey and analysis of corporate best practices in supplier diversity programs for women's business enterprises.
Xerox Canada Recognized with Spiritus Award
Xerox Canada was presented with the Spiritus Award, which recognizes individuals, groups or employers who have made significant contributions to the advancement of New Brunswick women in social, legal, economic or cultural areas.
Xerox No. 2 in its Category Among FORTUNEs Global Most Admired
Xerox ranks second among companies in the imaging/office equipment category on the 2000 "Global Most Admired" list of companies compiled by FORTUNE.
Xerox Business Research Group Cited
The Xerox Business Research Group (XBRG) was cited for best practices in "Gaining and Using Market Insight" by the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) in Houston.
Xerox People Cited For Supporting The Dreams Of Olympians
International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch has recognized the efforts of all Xerox people in keeping the Olympic dreams burning as brightly as the flame that presides over the Sydney Games.
Xerox CEO Receives Highest Honor from International Olympic Committee
Xerox Chairman and CEO Paul Allaire has received the "Olympic Order," one of the highest honors that can be bestowed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in recognizing distinguished service to the Olympics movement and personal achievement.
Xerox Corporate Engineering Center Cited for Knowledge Sharing
The American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) has selected the Xerox Corporate Engineering Center as a benchmark organization for "Building and Sustaining Communities of Practice."
Xerox has been named vendor of the year for best technologies for 1999
Xerox has been named vendor of the year for best technologies for 1999 by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, a federal Department of Energy facility outside San Francisco.
Xerox Canada Wins MBE Vendor of the Year Award
Xerox Canada has been selected vendor of the year at the annual Mail Boxes Etc. Canada national convention held in Ottawa.
Xerox Wins Two Awards From U.S. Small Business Administration
Xerox has won two supplier awards from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA): the Frances Perkins Vanguard Award for Excellence and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence.
Xerox Among Top Ten Global Knowledge Companies
Xerox has been recognized for its "world-class efforts in managing knowledge" by Teleos, an independent knowledge management research organization, and The KNOW Network, a Web-based community that shares best knowledge practices.
Xerox Honored for its Commitment to the Disabled Community
Xerox has been named "Private-Sector Employer of the Year" by CAREERS & THE disABLED magazine. Xerox received this award for its commitment to recruiting, hiring and promoting people with disabilities, and for supplying disabled employees and customers with customized products and services.
Xerox Is No. 5 Among Computer & Office Equipment Companies
Xerox, which was ranked 87th in this year's Fortune 500 based on 1999 results, is ranked No. 5 among companies that Fortune groups under the category of Computers & Office Equipment.
Xerox Ranked No. 64 On Forbes List of the Super 100
Xerox is ranked No. 64 on Forbes magazine's list of the 'Super 100'—based on a composite ranking of sales, profits, assets and market value for 1999.
Fuji Xerox Receives "Nikkei BP Technology Award"
Fuji Xerox (FX) has received the "Nikkei BP Technology Award" in the ecology division for its plastics recycling system for copiers, jointly developed with Ube Cycon, Co., Ltd, at the tenth "Nikkei BP Technology Awards" sponsored by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., a leading publisher of business technology information.
Fuji Xerox Ranked #1 in Customer Satisfaction
Fuji Xerox is ranked Number 1 in both in monochrome and color laser printers in a Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) study conducted by J.D. Power Asia Pacific, Inc. in 1999.
Xerox Receives Best Practice Award
Xerox has been recognized by Linkage, Inc. with a Best Practice Award for the company's Empowered Work Groups Change Initiative.
Xerox Named Knowledge Company of the Year
Xerox was selected by KMWorld magazine as the "Knowledge Company of the Year" for 1999. Xerox was cited for Eureka, a knowledge-sharing best practice that enhances customer service by increasing Xerox service teams' ability to diagnose, solve and prevent equipment problems in the field all over the world.
Xerox Cited for Distinguished Environmental Achievement
Xerox was honored at the State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC) for "exceptional and distinguished achievement in Great Lakes ecosystem improvement." The United States and Canadian Consuls General, who presented the award, cited Xerox for its work on becoming a waste-free company.
Fuji Xerox Australia Wins United Nations Environmental Award
Fuji Xerox Australia (FXA) has been recognized by the United Nations for its environmental leadership and has been placed on the "UN Global 500 Roll of Honour."
Xerox Wins the Millennium European Environmental Award
Xerox Europe's success in implementing sustainable development in its manufacturing operations was recognized by The Princes' Award Foundation, an independent, non-profit foundation supported by the European Environment Agency.
Fuji Xerox Ebina Plant Wins Energy Award
Fuji Xerox Ebina Plant has won the New Energy Minister of International Trade and Industry Prize, sponsored by the New Energy Foundation, for its best practice in the introduction of solar energy power generation equipment, in the 21st Century Type-Conserving Apparatuses and Systems awards.
DocuPrint N2125 was Selected Among the 10 Best Products of 2000
The Xerox DocuPrint N2125 was selected among the "10 Best Products of 2000" by Government Computer News. The article summarizes the top ten products that tested the best in the Government Computer News labs during the past year.
Xerox N3225/4025 selected as Best Buys
The N3225/4025 have been selected as Best Buys by Office Solutions in the mid-volume laser printer category (16-49 ppm).
Two Xerox Phaser Products Win Editors Choice Awards
Xerox's Tektronix Phaser. 850 and Phaser 750 have each received an "Editor's Choice" award from Better Buys for Business, a prominent office equipment buyer's guide.
Xerox DocuPrint M750 Listed Among Top Ten Inkjet Printers
The Xerox DocuPrint M750 is listed in PC World's November 2000 Issue as one of the "Top Ten Inkjet Printers." Xerox released the M750 color inkjet printer in June 2000 as one of the first new printers as part of the SOHO Strategic Alliance.
Xerox Document Centre Products Win 3 Editors Choice Awards
The Xerox Document Centre 480, 470 and 460 digital products have each won an "Editor's Choice" award from Better Buys for Business, an influential office equipment buyer's guide.
Xerox DocuColor 12 Voted Product of the Year
The Xerox DocuColor 12 Copier/Printer has been named Product of the Year by participants at PrintImage International's conference in Chicago. Voted on by several hundred of the association's quick and small commerical print members, the DocuColor 12 beat out products shown by more that 100 companies in various categories.
Xerox Network Printer Wins World Class Award From PC World
PC World has honored Xerox with a 2000 World Class Award in the workgroup monochrome printer category for the Xerox DocuPrint N2125 Network Laser Printer. The DocuPrint N2125 impressed PC World with its quick speed, crisp text, "flawless" line art and gray-scale images.
Xerox WorkCentre 490cx Receives CNETs Top Multifunction Award
The Xerox WorkCentre 490cx color inkjet all-in-one MFP outperforms Epson and Samsung MFP models when comparing printing and scanning quality.
WorkCentre Pro 765 is Best Buy
The July 2000 edition of What To Buy for Business has named the Xerox WorkCentre Pro 765 a Best Buy in a review of the thermal and plain paper fax market.
Xerox Chosen as Printer Manufacturer Of The Year
Xerox has been recognized by dealers across the country as the Printer Manufacturer of the Year. Marketing Research Consultants, publishers of The Cannata Report, conducted the survey of 325 independent copier/printer dealers over the past 5 months.
DocuPrint N2125 Wins World Class Award from PC World
PC World has honored Xerox with a 2000 World Class Award in the workgroup monochrome printer category for the Xerox DocuPrint N2125 Network Laser Printer. A member of the DocuPrint N Series, the N2125 also was No. 1 on PC World's Top 10 corporate printers chart in May.
Xerox WorkCentre Pro 16fx Wins Editors Choice Award
The Xerox WorkCentre Pro 16fx, digital printer/copier/fax wins prestigious "Editor's Choice Award" from Buyers Laboratory Inc. Buyers Laboratory found Xerox's WorkCentre 16fx to demonstrate perfect reliability.
Review Calls Phaser 750DX the Printer of Choice
PC Magazine, reviewing the Tektronix Phaser 750 DX printer, says that it offers "good performance and high-quality output." "The Phaser 750DX offers the slickest network printer installation available to date," says the magazine's May 5 review.
Xerox Ranked No. 1 in U.S. Digital Copier Market
According to estimates recently released by two leading information-technology research firms, Xerox Corporation is No. 1 in digital copier sales for the second consecutive year, accounting for more than 35 percent of all units placed in the United States in 1999.
DocuShare Named Product of the Year
KM World magazine has selected DocuShare as one of its KM Products of the Year. The editors cited DocuShare's tight integration with Microsoft Windows, enhanced security, powerful indexing and retrieval, file management in native formats, and centralized software deployment.
PC Magazine Gives 4-Stars to Phaser 850
"To say that we were impressed with the network installation is an understatement..quite simply, this is the slickest network printer." The Phaser 850 receives a 4-star rating from PC Magazine for impressive printer performance, including high print quality and speed.
Xerox WorkCentre XD100/102 Named Outstanding Personal Multifunctional Product
The Xerox WorkCentre XD100/102 named an "Outstanding Personal Multifunctional Product for 1999/2000" in Buyers Laboratory Inc.'s "Pick of the Year" awards. The laser-based digital copier/printer proved to be an excellent overall performer in Buyers Laboratory Inc. three-month in-depth product evaluation.
Xerox WorkCentre XD100 Among Smart Business Best of the Best
Xerox WorkCentre XD100 among PC Computing MVP Awards 2000 "Best of the Best". PC Computing review, "Prints a dozen copies a minute and the sharpness of laser printing. The XD100 connects to your PC to double as a 600-dpi printer for less than $500. Xerox is the way to go."
Xerox WorkCentres Receives an A for Performance
Xerox WorkCentre XD100 makes the A-List on Smart Business magazine's top digital copiers for the 1999 and counting. Excepts from past award listings tout, "no more paper jams; no more long lines at the copy machine. With the XD100, you can send copy and print jobs from your PC."
Channels Group Named Best New Printer Vendor from DellWare
The Xerox Channels Group has been named "Best New Printer Vendor" for 1999 from DellWare, the division of Dell Computers that sells non-Dell branded IT products.
Xerox WorkCentre 470cx Recommended by CNET
Xerox WorkCentre 470cx is recommend by CNETas a "Top Multifuntion Printer". "The $299 Xerox WorkCentre 470cx may cost the same as the HP OfficeJet 610, but it provides faster speeds and better output quality, states CNET."
Xerox Wins Six Awards for Document Centre, DocuColor Products
Xerox Corporation has earned six awards in the "Digital Office Awards 2000" competition, sponsored by the Digital Times' Business Equipment Research & Test Laboratories. According to BERTL, the awards are based on lab tests conducted on several vendors' products during the past year.
Color DocuTech 60 Chosen as One of the 10 Best New Products for 2000
The Color DocuTech 60 was chosen among the top 10 products for 2000 in a competition sponsored by The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Ltd. Fuji Xerox previously won the award in 1989, 1992, 1995 and 1996.
DocuTech 2000 Series Awarded Three Top Honors
For the third year in a row, Better Buys for Business editors reaffirmed Xerox's position as one of the key leaders in the graphic arts industry by awarding top honor to three Xerox printers: the Xerox DocuTech 2000 Series 65, 6100 and 6135.
DocuColor 1250 Series Wins Energy Conservation Prize
In the Commendation of 21st Century Type Energy-Conserving Apparatuses and Systems sponsored by The Energy Conservation Center (ECC), Fuji Xerox won the Commendation from the Director-General of the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy for seven models in the DocuColor 1250 series.
Xerox Team & Partners at Gartner Group Win Connecticut Innovation Award
The Xerox Business Services (XBS) account team at Gartner Group and their co-supplier Pitney-Bowes received the Silver Innovation Award from a State of Connecticut quality improvement organization.
1999 Supplier of the Year Award from GM
Xerox was given the 1999 Supplier of the Year Award from General Motors Corportion. The award recognized the achievement of Xerox's capabilities within the category of Corporate Services for our delivery of Multi-lingual and Knowledge Document Management Solutions.
Xerox Receives President's Award from Mail-Gard Concepts
Mail-Gard Concepts Inc. presented its first-ever President's Award to Xerox Corp., announced Leo Hertzog, president of Mail-Gard. The purpose of the award is for Mail-Gard to recognize Xerox for its role as one of Mail-Gard's valued strategic business partners.
Xerox Recyclable Ream Wrap Receives Top Award
Xerox Corporation has been recognized by the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), the leading trade association for converters and suppliers of flexible packaging, with its 1999 Top Packaging Award for Xerox' groundbreaking recyclable ream wrap, introduced in early 1999.
Solid Ink Printing
We launch the Phaser 850 color printer—our first to utilize non-toxic, cost-saving solid ink technology—and raise the bar for office color printing with brilliant quality prints at a market-leading 14 pages per minute.
Tektronix Acquisition
The company acquires Textronix, Inc.’s color printing and imaging division for US$925 million, a move that doubles our reseller base to 16,000 and helps us benefit from Tektronix’s proven online marketing ability.
Paper Sourcing Standards
We adopt an environmental position on paper sourcing, formalizing our goal to purchase from companies committed to sound environmental, health and safety practices and sustainable forest management.
Electronic Reusable Paper
Researchers at Xerox PARC invent a document display technology that is thin, flexible and portable, like paper, but capable of displaying different text and graphics when an electric charge is applied.
DocuColor 2000 Series
Launched to worldwide acclaim, these advanced printers are optimized for just-in-time printing, personalized printing, and printing for e-commerce and Internet delivery. We will sell about 5,000 units within two years.
Xerox No. 32 on America's 2001 Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities
Xerox is No. 32 on the Div2000.com second annual Internet election. America's leading women and minority owned businesses selected the Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies that best promote multicultural business opportunities.
Xerox Cited for Diversity
Xerox has been named as one of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity in DiversityInc.com's first annual list. Workforce diversity, employee policies and marketing strategies initiatives were among the factors used to determine a company's rank on the list. Xerox is ranked at No. 13.
Fuji Xerox Wins Social Contribution Awards 2001
Fuji Xerox won the Grand Prize at the Corporate Social Contribution Awards 2001, sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun foundation. The prize is given to the most outstanding company based on the 11th Corporate Social Contribution Survey.
Xerox No. 35 on MONEY's 2001 Corporate America's Best Benefits Listing
Xerox is ranked No. 35 on MONEY's 2001 Best Company Benefits Survey that was sent to senior compensation and benefits executives at Fortune 200 companies.
Xerox Corporate Legal Team Receives "Employers of Choice" Award
Xerox has received the 2001 Employers of Choice award from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. MCCA recognized Xerox's law department for its outstanding commitment and success at creating and maintaining an inclusive corporate legal department.
Xerox Receives Diversity Award
Xerox received diversity award from the National Business and Disability Council. Xerox is honored as a founding member of the council dating back to 1976 with 25 years of outstanding dedication to the employment of people with disabilities.
Xerox Receives Diversity Award from Minority Corporate Counsel Association
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has honored Xerox with its Employers of Choice Award, which recognizes outstanding law departments that progress in changing the legal profession.
Xerox CEO Ranked No. 6 on FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women in Business
In FORTUNE's annual survey of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, Xerox CEO and President Anne Mulcahy is ranked 6th. The list is a snapshot of power at a moment in time.
Xerox Receives Supplier Diversity Award
Xerox received a corporate award from the Houston chapter of the Native American Chamber of Commerce. The award was given to Xerox for its generous support of Native American suppliers.
Xerox PARC Cited for Reading Exhibit Design
ID Magazine, a premier international design magazine, has recognized PARC's Research in Experimental Documents (RED) team in this year's Interactive Media Design Review. The RED team has been awarded two honors for exhibits in "XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading."
Xerox Portugal Voted Best Company To Work For In Portugal
EXAME, the top Portuguese business magazine, invited Xerox Portugal along with over one hundred other companies to participate in a study by an external consultant to identify the best 15 companies to work for in Portugal.
Xerox in Top Ten of America's 50 Best Companies for Minorities
In a survey on diversity efforts in Corporate America, Fortune magazine ranks Xerox No. 6, moving up from its spot at No. 11 last year. Fortune article states that "Xerox has reiterated its commitment to diversity, and with minorities accounting for 40% of new hires."
Xerox Among Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises
Xerox is among the 2001 MAKE Award Winners honored by Teleos, an independent knowledge management research organization, and The KNOW Network, a Web-based community that shares best knowledge practices.
Xerox Ranks Among the Top 100 E-businesses
Xerox Corporation ranks among the Top 100 e-businesses in the United States, according to the second annual InternetWeek 100 survey. InternetWeek magazine surveyed 350 companies in nine industries over a two-month period to identify the top 100 e-businesses.
Xerox Receives 2001 Business Vision Award
Xerox was among the five winners of the 2001 Business Vision Awards, honoring innovative BroadVision® customers who combine vision, ingenuity and business value to unleash the full potential of their e-business initiatives.
Xerox Wins United States Pan Asian American Supplier Award
Xerox has won the United States Pan Asian American Supplier Corporate Award for the third year in a row. The award is given to a U.S. Corporation that demonstrates a strong commitment to purchasing goods and services from Asian American Companies.
Xerox Named to the Gay Financial Network (gfn.com) Top 50 List
Xerox is ranked No. 5 on the Gay Financial Network's (gfn.com), online provider of financial and business news, information and services to the gay and lesbian community, annual list of the 50 most powerful Fortune 500-ranked, gay-friendly publicly traded companies.
Xerox Named No. 2 on Working Woman Supplier Diversity List
Xerox has been ranked No. 2 on Working Woman magazine's first annual "Supplier Diversity" list, which recognizes the top 30 U.S. companies with the best track records for buying goods and services from minority- and women-owned businesses.
Xerox Captures Awards at FIRST Competition
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a program that unites engineers and high school students to advance interest in science and technology. This year two of Xerox's sponsored high school robotics teams captured awards at the 2001 FIRST Robotics Competitions.
Fuji Xerox Named Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise
Knowledge Management Society of Japan has named Fuji Xerox a Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE). Fuji Xerox is recognized as a highly respected world leader in knowledge management.
Xerox Webster Facility Receives State Water Compliance Award
The Xerox facility in Webster, N.Y., was awarded the 2001 New York State Water Environment Association Silver Compliance Recognition Award, recognized for excellent environmental compliance for wastewater discharge.
Fuji Xerox receives the Environment For Tomorrow Award
In recognition of Fuji Xerox's (FX) closed-loop system that promotes environmental preservation, FX received the "Environment For Tomorrow Prize" at the 2nd Environment For Tomorrow Prize Awards, sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun.
Fuji Xerox Wins Award for Recycling System
Fuji Xerox received the Minister of Economy Trade & Industry (METI) Award in the recycling technology and systems category for its closed-loop recycling system based on the reuse of parts in the manufacturing process.
Fuji Xerox Wins Global Environment Award
Fuji Xerox has received the Earth Environment Committee Award for Corporate Excellence at the 10th Global Environment Awards, sponsored by the Japan Industrial Journal.
Xerox Phaser 7700 Wins Technical Excellence Award
The Phaser 7700 color laser printer was honored by PC Magazine at the 18th annual Technical Excellence Awards ceremony held at Fall Comdex 2001. The Phaser 7700 received a Technical Excellence Award for its 22 page-per-minute print speed and photo-quality images.
Xerox Phaser 860 Among Winners of PC Worlds Latin American Awards
Among the winners of the International Data Group (IDG) third annual PC World Latin American Awards, recognizing the best IT products and services in Latin America, was the Xerox Phaser 860. The Phaser 860 was named as Best Color Printer for Workgroups.
DocuPrint N2125 Cited by PC World Magazine
PC World magazine has announced the winners of their 19th annual World Class Awards. For the second year in a row, the DocuPrint N2125 has been awarded a "World Class Award" in the category of Best Workgroup Printer of 2001.
Phaser Printers Take Awards at MacWorld
The Phaser 860 was honored with a Best of Show Award at this years MacWorld Expo in New York. Of the 11 products receiving this award, the 860 was the only printer included.
Xerox DocuPrint N2125 Takes Corporate Best Buy Award
The Xerox DocuPrint N2125 takes the Best Buy Award for corporate laser printers in the June issue of PC World magazine.
Xerox Phaser 1235 and DocuPrint N4525 Take Awards
The Xerox Phaser 1235 & DocuPrint N4525 have made the "A" List in Smart Business magazine. The DocuPrint N4525 took the Editor's Pick for Network Laser Printer, replacing the 4025, while the Phaser 1235 was chosen in the Network Color Printer category.
Xerox Network Printers, Multifunction Products
Xerox has received 45 awards and recognitions for its digital and networked office products since the beginning of 2001. The distinctions include Editor's Choice awards from PC Magazine, Better Buys for Business and CRN magazine.
Phaser Printers Receive Editors Choice in Color Laser Roundup
The Phaser 2135DX scored five points out of five in PC Magazine's color laser roundup, garnering the Editor's Choice Award. The editors also gave high marks to the Phaser 1235N which scored a rating of four out of five points.
Xerox Phaser 790DP Wins Editors Choice Award
The Phaser 790DP has taken top honors in the March 12 issue of Computer Reseller News, winning the Editor's Choice Award. According to the article: "Output from the Phaser 790 looks excellent. Color accuracy and sharpness are top-notch. In addition, the printouts have a vibrancy and glossy finish that most other laser output lacks."
Xerox DocuPrint M-Series Wins Wind Rivers Cool Customer Design Award
Wind River Systems, Inc., a provider of software and services for connected smart devices in the Internet age, has presented its "Cool Customer Design" award to Xerox for its DocuPrint M750 and DocuPrint M760 color inkjet printers.
Fuji Xerox Wins the Energy Conservation Prize for the DocuPrint C2220
Fuji Xerox received the Commendation from the Chairman of the Energy-Conservation Center (Energy Conservation Prize) for the second consecutive year in the Commendation of 21st Century Type Energy-Conserving Apparatuses and Systems awards sponsored by the Energy Conservation Center.
Three DocuColor Products Named Editors Choice
For the second straight year, Better Buys for Business has awarded top honors to three Xerox digital color copier/printers, reaffirming their dominance from the office to production-printing environments. The DocuColor 12, DocuColor 30 and DocuColor 40 were chosen for their superior image quality, speed and customer value.
Smart Computing Gives Xerox M760 Gold Medal
The M760 takes the lead in the $150 to $249 category of inket printers with the DocuPrint M760. Smart Computing concludes "All in all, the DocuPrint M760 is a great package from several angles."
Xerox Phaser 750DX Named the best printer in the Business Class
In an article titled, "Best: Great Stuff — Tested and Approved in Our Top-Secret Labs," Wired magazine names the Phaser 750DX the best printer in the Business Class.
Top Honors From 'Better Buys for Business' & Print Buyers Survey
Xerox has received top acclaim for its high-end printing and graphics arts products, both from a major industry publication and from print buyers who make printer purchasing decisions.
Xerox DocuColor 2000 Series Presses Win Award
Xerox DocuColor 2000 Series Presses have won a spot on Digital Output magazine's list of "Readers' Choice Top 50 Products and Technologies."
Xerox Among America's Top 50 Corporations Providing Multicultural Business Opportunities
For the second consecutive year, Xerox Corporation earned recognition on Div2000.com's annual "Div50" list of "America's Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities" for 2002. Xerox was ranked No. 31, up one place from its No. 32 ranking for 2001.
Xerox Earns 100 Percent on HRC 'Corporate Equality Index'
Xerox Corporation was one of only 13 major U.S. companies to earn a perfect score—100 percent—on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's first Corporate Equality Index. The index rates large corporations on policies that affect their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.
Xerox Canada Among "50 Best Companies to Work for in Canada"
Xerox Canada has been cited on the "50 Best Companies to Work for in Canada" list published by the Toronto Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine.
'Fortune' Magazine Names Xerox a "Blue-Ribbon Company"
Xerox Corporation made Fortune magazine's list of "Best of 2002 — Blue-Ribbon Companies" for appearing on at least five of Fortune's six major annual listings: the Fortune 500, the Global 500, Best Companies for Minorities, America's Most Admired Companies and Global Most Admired Companies.
Xerox Ranks Among Top 10 Companies for Diversity and Women
Xerox has earned recognition in the 2002 Best of the Best: Corporate Awards for Diversity & Women report. The second annual report was produced by Diversity Best Practices and the Business Women's Network.
'Money' Magazine Ranks Xerox on Annual 'Best Benefits' Survey
Xerox has been acknowledged as one of the top 75 U.S. companies offering benefits packages to attract and retain employees. The company was ranked 40th on Money magazine's annual list.
Xerox Chairman & CEO Among 'Most Powerful Women in Business'
Xerox Chairman Anne Mulcahy has been ranked No. 6 on Fortune magazine's list of Most Powerful Women in Business.
Xerox Named to 'InformationWeek' 500 List
Xerox Corporation has been named to CMP Media LLC's InformationWeek 500, a listing of the largest and most innovative users of information technology.
Xerox Web Site Recognized on NetMarketing 100
www.xerox.com has been cited in the 2002 NetMarketing 100 — BtoB magazine's list of the best business-to-business web sites. The magazine started the list six years ago and Xerox has been honored every year since.
Xerox SVP on Fortune list "50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America"
Ursula Burns, senior vice president, president of the Document Systems & Solutions Group at Xerox, is ranked 28th on Fortune magazine's annual list of the 50 most powerful African-American executives in the United States.
Xerox on Fortune list of "50 Best Companies for Minorities"
For the fifth consecutive year, Fortune magazine has named Xerox Corporation as one of America's "50 Best Companies for Minorities." Xerox, ranked this year at No. 14, holds diversity as a core value; the company operates a range of programs to promote diversity, balance and inclusiveness across all operations and activities.
Xerox Named Global MAKE Winner for 2002; Also Recognized in 'Hall of Fame'
Xerox was one of 21 global companies recognized as winners in the 2002 Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network.
Xerox Ranks Among 'Best Places to Work' in Technology
Xerox has been named as one of the top 100 IT workplaces in the United States, according to IDG's Computerworld annual "Best Places to Work in Information Technology" survey.
Xerox Ranked Among North America's Top 10 Knowledge Enterprises
Xerox has been recognized as one of North America's top 10 Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) by Teleos, an independent knowledge management research company.
Xerox Receives "Singles Friendly Workplace Corporate Leadership Award"
Xerox has received a Corporate Leadership Award for having personnel policies that are more equitable to unmarried workers than those of most other employers in the nation.
Xerox No. 8 in its Category Among 2002 America's Most Admired Companies
Xerox ranks eighth among companies in the Computers/Office Equipment category on the 2002 Most Admired Companies list. The ranking is listed by industry and by total points for key attributes.
APQC Honors Xerox for Its Knowledge Retention Practices
The American Productivity & Quality Center has highlighted Xerox Connect for its best practices in knowledge retention. One of six companies selected by a detailed set of criteria by APQC.
Xerox India Recognized for Outstanding Safety Record
Xerox's Rampur, India manufacturing facility received the British Safety Council's 2002 National Safety Award for its outstanding safety record. A team of employees from Xerox's Rampur, India, manufacturing facility proactively identified and eliminated a potential safety hazard in a standard maintenance procedure for toner manufacturing equipment.
Xerox Technology Park in Dundalk, Ireland, Receives Good Neighbor Award
Employee volunteers from the Xerox Technology Park in Dundalk, Ireland, were involved in several community outreach programs in 2002, including the planting of a wildflower garden three miles from the site.
Xerox Webster Facility Receives State Water Recognition
Phaser 6200 is 'Best Product of the Year'
Computer Reseller News (CRN) has cited the Phaser 6200 as the Best Product of the Year in the printer category. The article, 2002 Product Of The Year Awards: A Recipe for Success, noted that the 6200 finished ahead of the HP LaserJet 2500 and Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2300.
PC Magazine Names Phaser 6200 Among 'Best Products of 2002'
PC Magazine has named the Phaser 6200 as among the Best Products of 2002. "The year 2002 saw the debut of sub-$1,000 color laser printers," according to the review. "But to get the best, you'll have to spend more — and we think the Xerox Phaser 6200DP Color Laser Printer is the one to spend your money on."
Phaser 8200 Cited
The Phaser 8200 has been nominated "Best Color Printer" by readers of the Business Equipment Digest Magazine, the United Kingdom's definitive authority on office products and technology. The award secures the 8200's position as one of the most desirable workgroup color printers now available.
Phaser 860 Named Product of the Year
The Phaser 860 was named "Product of the Year" at the 2002 TECH Awards in Portland, Ore. The TECH Awards honors the northwest's top technology leaders.
Phaser 6200/8200 Online Campaign Awarded
The Phaser 6200/8200 online campaign was awarded the trophy for "Best Business to Business Campaign in 2002" at the @d:Tech Awards in New York City. The @d:Tech Awards is the premier event for interactive advertising and marketing.
Xerox Document Centre 555 Earns Editor's Choice Award
The Xerox Document Centre 555 was honored with an Editor's Choice Award from Better Buys for Business, one of the nation's leading authorities on document imaging equipment. It is the sixth year in a row that Xerox's Document Centre systems have been recognized by Better Buys for Business.
Xerox Rated No. 1 Network Color Printer Vendor
The 2002 VARBusiness Annual Report Card has rated Xerox as the number one network color printer vendor. Winners were selected based on survey responses from more than 5,000 channel partners who were asked to rate their satisfaction with a company's products, support and partnering activities.
Phaser 6200 Receives Editor's Choice Award
The Phaser 6200 was honored with an Editor's Choice Award and a rating of 5 out of 5 in PC Magazine's color laser printer roundup. The article — "Color Printing Hit's the Fast Lane" — praised the Phaser 6200 for its output quality, ease of use and network management tools.
Phaser 8200 Cited at PC Expo 2002
The Xerox Phaser 8200 was honored with an award of distinction during Smallbiztechnology.com's Technology Solutions Awards at PC Expo in New York. The 8200 won the award for the best "business/corporate printer" in the accessory/peripheral category.
Phaser 7700 Wins Excellence in Imaging Award
The Phaser 7700 won the Excellence in Imaging Award in the category of Business Color Printer at this year's DigitalFocus media event held at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) tradeshow. The Excellence in Imaging Awards are among the most prestigious awards in the field of digital imaging.
Nine Xerox Office & Graphic Arts Products are 'Editor's Choice'
Nine Xerox digital color copier/printers, digital multifunction systems and network printers captured top honors with an Editor's Choice Award for 2002 from Better Buys for Business magazine.
Xerox Production Systems Receive 10 Industry Awards
Xerox received 10 top honors for Xerox color and monochrome production systems. The award-winning products include the latest introductions in the Xerox color production line, as well as the long-successful DocuColor 2000 Series Presses and DocuColor 12 Printer.
Three DocuTech Systems Honored by 'Better Buys for Business'
Three Xerox DocuTech 2000 Series systems were selected for the 2002 Editor's Choice Awards from Better Buys for Business magazine. Better Buys for Business recognized the DocuTech 2000 Series 6100, 6115 and 6135 production publishers.
Xerox Wins Global Anti-Counterfeiting Award
Xerox has received a Global Anti-Counterfeiting Award for its efforts to combat the counterfeiting of Xerox toner and other consumable supplies worldwide.
PARC Incorporation
Founded in 1970 as a Xerox division, Palo Alto Research Center Inc. (PARC) is incorporated as a wholly owned Xerox research company and continues to contribute relevant technology to our product offerings.
New Xerox Chairman
Anne M. Mulcahy, who started with the company in 1976 as a field sales representative, becomes chairman of Xerox Corporation on New Year’s Day (and remains CEO, a position she assumed in August 2001).
A multimillion dollar print and television ad campaign with the tagline, "There’s a new way to look at it™," showcases the power of the Xerox brand and our unique ability to help businesses achieve better results.
Xerox Receives 'Prism Award' for Graphic Arts Leadership
New York University named Xerox Corporation as the winner of its 2003 Prism Award. Each year a committee presents the award to a company that has demonstrated leadership in the field of graphic communications management and technology.
Xerox Among 12 Finalists for Corporate Caring Award
Xerox Corporation was named among 12 national finalists for the first annual "Most Caring Corporation in America" award, sponsored by The Caring Institute.
2003 'Corporate Equality Index' Rates Xerox 100 Percent
The Human Rights Campaign has released its second annual Corporate Equality Index, which measures a company's support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) employees. Xerox is one of only 21 major U.S. corporations that earned a 100 percent rating.
'DiversityInc' Ranks Xerox No. 9 on Best Companies for Executive Women List
In recognition of its commitment to diversity and to fostering an inclusive corporate culture, Xerox has been ranked No. 9 among the "'Best Companies for Executive Women", according to a study by DiversityInc magazine.
'DiversityInc' Names Xerox Among Top 10 Companies for Asian Americans
Xerox has been acknowledged as one of the top 10 best companies for Asian Americans by DiversityInc magazine. Xerox is No. 5 on the list. DiversityInc re-examined data collected for its top companies for diversity survey to identify the best companies for Asian Americans.
'DiversityInc' Ranks Xerox No. 10 in 'Top 50 Diversity' List
In recognition of its commitment to diversity and to fostering an inclusive corporate culture, Xerox has been ranked No. 10 among the "Top 50 Companies for Diversity," according to a study by DiversityInc magazine.
'Equal Opportunity' Magazine Lists Xerox as 'Top 50 Employer'
Xerox Corporation was named No. 18 among the 50 top companies in Equal Opportunity magazine's 10th annual reader survey of "Top 50 Employers." The survey asked readers to name the companies for which they would most like to work or whom they believe are progressive in hiring members of minority groups.
Xerox Among Top 10 Sales Companies In The United States
Researchers at Selling Power magazine have identified Xerox as one of the best companies for salespeople to work for, ranking Xerox in the top 10 among some of the most respected manufacturing companies in the United States.
Xerox Named Among "Best 50 Buyers" by DiversityBusiness.com
For the third consecutive year, Xerox Corporation earned recognition on DiversityBusiness.com's annual "Div50" list of "America's Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities." Xerox was ranked No. 26 on the 2003 list, up from its No. 31 ranking for 2002.
Xerox Corporation made Fortune magazine's list of "Best of 2003 — Blue-Ribbon Companies" for appearing on at least five of Fortune's seven major annual listings: the Fortune 500, the Global 500, Best Companies for Minorities, America's Most Admired Companies and Global Most Admired Companies.
Ursula Burns Named to 2003 Global Influentials List
Business Group Operations President Ursula Burns has been named to the Time/CNN Annual List of Global Business Influentials. The editors of Time magazine and CNN solicited nominations from their reporters.
Xerox Wins 2003 'Leadership Award' from GAGV
The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley chose Xerox Corporation as the recipient of its 2003 Business Leadership Award. Xerox was specifically cited for its early adoption of a non-discrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and gender identity, for offering domestic partner benefits, and for comprehensive diversity training.
Mulcahy, Burns Named to 'Fortune' Magazine's List of 50 Most Powerful Women
Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy and Xerox Business Group Operations President Ursula Burns have been named to Fortune magazine's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business.
InformationWeek magazine has ranked Xerox Corporation among the largest and "most innovative" users of information technology in the United States, in the magazine's annual "InformationWeek 500" list.
Xerox do Brasil Cited Among '100 Best Companies To Work For'
For the sixth time in seven years, Xerox do Brasil has been honored as one of the 100 best companies to work for in Brazil. The announcement came from Revista Exame, a key Brazilian business magazine that publishes the "100 Best Companies to Work For" annual list.
Xerox Ranks on 2003 'LATINA Style 50' List
LATINA Style magazine has named Xerox Corporation among the top 50 employers for Latina women to work in the magazine's annual ranking. The companies selected are recognized for their enlightened employment policies.
Xerox.com Cited on NetMarketing 100 List of Best Business-to-Business Web Sites
BtoB magazine has cited www.xerox.com on its NetMarketing 100 list of the best business-to-business Web sites. The list is limited to b-to-b companies that use their Web sites to brand and to sell their products or services.
Xerox Awarded Gold Lion at Cannes International Adverstising Festival
Xerox has won the Gold Lion in the Alternative Media category at the 2003 Cannes International Advertising Festival. The award cited the DocuColor 1632/2240 Ambient Launch Event in Europe.
Xerox Corporation Recognized by Urban League
Xerox Corporation has received the 2003 Corporate Leadership Award from the Urban League of Southwestern Connecticut Inc. The award is given annually to companies, "which by their deep commitment to opening doors of opportunity and generous investment of philanthropic resources, best exemplify support for the goals and values of the Urban League movement."
'Fortune' Names Xerox One of America's Top 50 Companies for Minorities
For the sixth consecutive year, Xerox Corporation has been named to Fortune magazine's list of America's "50 Best Companies for Minorities," reflecting the company's consistent efforts to support an inclusive environment both inside and out.
Xerox Ranks Among '100 Best Places to Work' in Technology
Xerox Ranks on 'Girlfriends' List of 'Best Lesbian Places to Work'
Girlfriends magazine's annual list of "Best Lesbian Places to Work" again includes Xerox, which the magazine notes has "been on our list as long as we can remember," citing practices such as generous benefits, broad nondiscrimination policies, and support for a gay employee group.
Xerox Named One of North America's Leading Knowledge Enterprises
Xerox has been named one of the top 12 knowledge enterprises in North America by Teleos, an independent knowledge management research company. It is the sixth year that Xerox has been has been honored by Teleos for its knowledge management practices.
Motroni Named to "Top 50 Hispanics" List
Hector Motroni, chief staff officer and chief ethics officer for Xerox Corporation, was named one of the "50 Most Important Hispanics in Business and Technology" by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine.
Survey Reveals Xerox Among Top Supporters of Historically Black Engineering Schools
US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine has done its first survey of the "Top Supporters of Historically Black College and University Engineering Programs." Xerox was one of 42 companies and agencies named to the list.
2003 "10 Best Companies for Asian Americans" List Includes Xerox
In recognition of its ongoing effort to support the Asian Pacific American small-business community, Xerox has been named as one of the "Ten Best Companies for Asian Americans," an award sponsored annually by Asian Enterprise Magazine.
Xerox.com Ranks No. 3 in Online Customer Respect Study
The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their customers online, released the results of the High-Tech Sector of its Winter 2003 Online Customer Respect Study. Xerox's corporate Web site — www.xerox.com — ranked No. 3 in customer respect.
Xerox Named Among Top 50 Employers by CAREERS & the disABLED
Xerox Corporation has been named among the top 50 employers by CAREERS & the disABLED magazine. Readers were asked to name the employers, both in the private and public sectors, for whom they would most like to work, or that they believe would provide a progressive environment for people with disabilities.
Xerox On Fortune Magazine's 'America's Most Admired Companies' List for 2003
Xerox ranks No. 9 among companies in the Computers category, in Fortune magazine's 2003 "America's Most Admired Companies" list. Companies are rated using eight criteria: social responsibility, long-term investment value, employee talent, quality of products/services, innovation, use of corporate assets, financial soundness and quality of management.
Xerox Ranks on National Corporate Reputation Survey
Harris Interactive performed its Annual RQ 2002 survey, which measures the corporate reputations of the 60 most visible companies nationwide — Xerox ranked No. 21 on this year's list. The study also addresses corporate sincerity, corporate citizenship and ethical standards.
Xerox Named to Hispanic Magazine's Top 100 Companies List for 2003
Xerox has once again been named to Hispanic Magazine's Corporate 100 list, recognizing companies that excel in providing business and job opportunities for Hispanic Americans. The companies are chosen based on recruitment efforts, diversity training, ethnic representation of its board members and minority business initiatives.
Readers Rank Xerox Among Top 50 Companies for Minorities
Minority Engineer magazine has named Xerox Corporation among the top 50 companies for minorities. In the magazine's Annual Career Preference Survey, readers were asked to name employers, both public and private, for whom they would most like to work or that they believe would provide a positive working environment for members of minority groups.
Xerox Supplies Mexico Receives the Arizona Mexico International Green Organization Award
Xerox Supplies Mexico (SUMEX) has been awarded the 2003 the Arizona Mexico International Green Organization award (AMIGO). SUMEX has received the AMIGO award in 5 of the last 6 years for their work in the pollution prevention or process improvement categories.
Xerox Technology Park Recognized for Excellence in Occupational Health and Safety
The National Irish Safety Organization has recognized the Xerox Technology Park in Dundalk, Ireland for excellence in occupational health and safety for a third year in a row.
Xerox DocuColor 3535 Earns "Hot Product" designation for 2003
Electronic Publishing magazine has honored the DocuColor 3535 with a "Hot Product" designation for 2003. The editors noted that the products cited in the article are "truly innovative."
Xerox Phaser 7300/DN Among Best Products of 2003
The Phaser 7300/DN has been listed among PC Magazine's Best Products of 2003. The editors noted that the 7300/DN "blows away competing printers in terms of speed and offers excellent print quality" and that installation is "ridiculously easy."
Phaser Printers Honored by 'Computer Reseller News'; 'Better Buys for Business'
Computer Reseller News (CRN) named the Phaser 6250 the Best Product of the Year in the printer category, and Better Buys for Business has bestowed its Editor's Choice award on the Phaser 3450.
Xerox Color Systems Rated Best in Survey by Industry Analysts, Inc.
Xerox has become the first company to take the top spot in three consecutive Industry Analysts end-user studies in the same year.
DocuShare Software Wins A 'Best of Show' Award
Xerox received a CMP "Best of Show" Award for its DocuShare software, at the 2003 TECHXNY trade show. CMP editors selected DocuShare 3.1, Xerox's document and content management software, as the winner in the "Best Business Application" category.
Xerox MFPs Earn Readers' Choice Award from 'Transform Magazine'
Readers of Transform Magazine, an industry trade publication with more than 50,000 qualified subscribers, selected Xerox's office multifunction technology as a favorite in the magazine's Readers' Choice Awards.
Award Winning Xerox Copier Assistant Wins Gold CQIA Innovation Prize
Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc. (CQIA) will award Xerox with a Gold CQIA Innovation Prize for its Xerox Copier Assistant software on October 16, 2003. The Xerox Copier Assistant is software that enables blind and visually impaired users to make digital copies without the aid of others.
Six Xerox Digital Copiers, MFPs Win 'Better Buys' Awards
Xerox's newest digital copiers and multifunction systems have earned "Editor's Choice" awards from Better Buys for Business, a leading independent research and evaluation guide. Xerox captured top rankings for mid-volume copiers and multifunction devices with its CopyCentretm, WorkCentre® and WorkCentre® Pro systems.
Xerox Copier Assistant Software Wins National IT Award
Xerox's technology that makes it easier for blind and visually impaired people to use a copier has won the Information Technology Association of America's 2003 "IT Works Ability Award."
Xerox Office Products Receive 14 Top Industry Awards
Xerox received 14 top industry awards in a variety of categories for its office products. The accomplishments include three Best of 2002 designations, nine Editor's Choice awards, a 2003 Highly Recommended designation, and a Best Buy title.
Xerox Document Management Service Wins Show-Stopper Award
At the 2003 EDUCAUSE conference a panel of judges consisting of higher education technology administrators and key technology decision makers scanned the exhibit floor looking for products and services they judge as exceptional and worthy of serious consideration.
Siemens Medical Solutions USA Names Xerox '2003 Supplier of the Year'
Xerox has been recognized as the "2003 Supplier of the Year" by Siemens Medical Solutions (SMS). Xerox has implemented a nationwide managed services print standardization solution across all major SMS divisions in the United States.
Prestigious IEEE Award
In honoring us with its 2003 Corporate Innovation Recognition Award, IEEE cites our DocuTech line, "which unified digital electronics, computing and communications with xerography to create the print-on-demand industry."
100th iGen3
Launched only last year (2002), the iGen3 Digital Production Press continues to populate a receptive global digital printing market as we deliver our 100th system.
Technology Advocates
We join Microsoft and other companies as founding sponsors of the Information Work Productivity Center at MIT, an effort formed to study how organizations can use technology to increase productivity.
Xerox Named to 'Div50' List
Xerox ranked among the "Top Corporations for Multicultural Business Opportunities for 2004," according to the fifth annual list — the Div50 — produced by DiversityBusiness.com (formerly Div2000.com).
Xerox Again Earns 100 Percent on Corporate Equality Index
For the third year, Xerox Corporation has earned a 100 percent rating on the Corporate Equality Index, a report issued by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The index rates major U.S. corporations on their records toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.
Xerox Ranked No. 10 Among 'Top 50 Companies For Diversity'
Xerox "national leadership" on diversity-related issues has earned it a top spot on DiversityInc magazine's "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" list. Companies were evaluated based on their measurement programs for evaluating diversity success in key areas such as CEO commitment, employee demographics, and corporate communications.
Xerox Cited for Corporate Responsibility
The Toronto Globe and Mail's magazine — Report on Business — has cited Xerox in its ranking of corporate social responsibility of companies that conduct business in Canada. Companies from 10 industry sectors were scored and ranked on a variety of social and environmental indicators.
Diversity Report Ranks Xerox Among 'Best of the Best'
A new report on corporate America's commitment to diversity shows that Xerox — which holds diversity and inclusion as core values in its culture — ranks among the "best of the best." The report, titled Best of the Best: Corporate Awards for Diversity and Women 2003-2004, made its assessments by evaluating 45 of the latest "best company" lists.
Xerox Oklahoma City Supplies Manufacturing Plant Recognized
Xerox's Oklahoma City Supplies Manufacturing Plant has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration as one of its Voluntary Protection Program sites.
'Business Week' Magazine Names Mulcahy Among the Best Managers of 2004
CEO Anne Mulcahy was named among the 19 best managers of 2004 in the cover story of Business Week magazine's January 10 issue. According to the article, "The Best & Worst Managers of the Year," some of 2004's strongest performances came from executives in a cleanup role.
Xerox Named One Of World's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises
For the seventh year in a row, Xerox has been named one of the world's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises by Teleos, an independent knowledge management research company, and the KNOW Network ( www.knowledgebusiness.com), a global community of knowledge-driven organizations.
Xerox Ranks on 5 'Fortune' Magazine Lists; Named 'Blue-Ribbon' Company
Xerox Corporation has been named a 2004 "Blue-Ribbon Company" by Fortune magazine, a designation for appearing on at least five of Fortune's eight major annual listings, including the Fortune 500, the Global 500, Best Companies for Minorities, America's Most Admired Companies and Global Most Admired Companies.
'Diversity Best Practices' Lauds Xerox for Leadership, Advocacy
Acknowledging Xerox and its longstanding leadership as a champion for diversity, Diversity Best Practices and The Business Women's Network have honored Xerox chairman and chief executive officer Anne M. Mulcahy with the 2004 Diversity CEO Leadership Award.
Xerox Named Best Employer in Quebec
Xerox Canada was named Best Employer in Quebec by Watson Wyatt's third annual Best Employers Challenge. Xerox was the only company to win the award in the category of "more than 500 employees." The 2004 "Défi Meilleurs Employeurs" (Best Employers Challenge) recognizes Québec-based organizations that provide a healthy and stimulating work environment.
Mulcahy, Burns Named to 'Fortune' Magazine's 2004 List of 50 Most Powerful Women
Xerox do Brazil Named One of the Best Companies to Work For in Brazil
Exame magazine and the Great Place To Work Institute named Xerox do Brazil one of the best companies to work for in Brazil. This is the seventh year the company has made the list of the top 150 companies.
'InformationWeek 500' Ranks Xerox Among Top 10 IT Innovators
Xerox Corporation has been named to the Top 10 of CMP Media LLC's InformationWeek 500, a listing of the nation's most innovative users of information technology.
Xerox.com Named Among "10 Great Web Sites"
Xerox's corporate Web site at www.xerox.com has been recognized as one of the country's top business-to-business Web sites by BtoB Magazine, a trade publication covering business marketing, Internet initiatives, and advertising.
'LATINA Style' Magazine Names Xerox Among Top 50 Companies for Hispanic Women
Xerox has been named to the seventh annual "LATINA Style 50," a ranking based on companies' policies and practices for Hispanic women. Companies were assessed on such factors as number of Latina executives, mentoring programs, educational opportunities, alternative work policies, dependent/child care support, employee benefits, and Hispanic relations.
Xerox do Brasil Among Best Brazilian IT Companies
InfoExame magazine has placed Xerox do Brasil at number 11 on their list of the 200 best information technology companies in Brazil. The magazine judged the companies on 12 parameters including financial performance, sales growth and profit.
Xerox Employees Recognized for Commitment to Supplier Diversity
The Upstate New York Regional Minority Purchasing Council Inc. has recognized Xerox's commitment to supplier diversity by singling out two Xerox employees for recognition: Ken Syme as the 2004 Corporate Executive of the Year. Syme, and Bill Kornylo, as the 2004 Upstate Volunteer of the Year.
Xerox Ranked on 'Computerworld's' "100 Best Places to Work in IT"
Xerox was included in IDG Computerworld's "100 Best Places to Work in IT"annual ranking, moving up to No. 65 from No. 81 last year. The ranking and reflects Xerox's longstanding commitment to diversity and to fostering a top workplace environment.
Xerox Named to 'Fortune' magazine's List of "50 Best Companies for Minorities"
Xerox was named to Fortune magazine's list of "50 Best Companies for Minorities" and at No. 17 was the highest-ranking technology company. The 50 companies on Fortune's list "match a diverse workforce with diversity in their management ranks and on the board."
'Captivating' Ad for Phaser 7700 Wins Silver
Technology Marketing magazine has cited Xerox with an ICON Award that recognizes the best marketing communications for and by technology companies. Winners were selected in 36 categories from a pool of 400 entries.
Xerox Brazilian Plant Recognized
Xerox do Amazonas (XAM) has been ranked among Brazil's top 150 exporters by Suframa, the Brazilian government agency that is responsible for international trade.
'Asian Enterprise' magazine names Xerox to its Top 10 companies
Asian Enterprise magazine has named Xerox among the best companies for Asian-Americans for the second year in a row. The Asian Enterprise awards were created to acknowledge Asian entrepreneurs as well as Fortune 500 firms that provide opportunities for Asian-Pacific Americans and people of color.
'Essence' Names Xerox to "30 Great Places to Work" List
Essence magazine named Xerox to its "30 Great Places to Work List," based on a survey of 162 companies. Six major categories were explored, including organizational commitment to diversity; career development and advancement; work-life balance; representation in the workforce; community involvement and support; and inclusive culture.
'Canadian Business' Magazine Cites Xerox for Diversity
Xerox Canada was among three companies that have been featured for their diversity programs by Canadian Business magazine. The magazine published an article that reported on changes in the Canadian workforce and how companies are responding to workplace diversity.
Motroni, Elizondo Among '50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business'
Chief Staff Officer and Chief Ethics Officer Hector Motroni and Patricia Elizondo, senior vice president, major account operations, have been selected for Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine's "50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business" list for 2004.
Xerox.com Achieves Customer Respect Rating of 9.0
The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm, has given Xerox.com an overall Customer Respect Index rating of 9.0. A 10 is the highest achievable score.
Xerox Video Wins Silver Telly Award
Xerox has been awarded a Silver Telly Award in the employee communication category for the DVD video, Xerox Innovation at Work. The employee video is an informational and motivational program that chronicles Xerox's upcoming corporate participation at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
Xerox Ranks No. 130 on Fortune 500
Xerox Corporation ranked No. 130 on Fortune magazine's annual Fortune 500 list. The ranking of America's largest companies was compiled by Fortune on the basis of 2003 revenue. Xerox had 2003 revenue of $15.7 billion.
2003 Xerox Brand Advertising Wins Award for Excellence
The Xerox Brand Advertising Campaign has won the BusinessWeek Award for Excellence in Corporate Advertising for the second year in a row. The award recognizes the top 12 performing campaigns in BusinessWeek as measured by Starch Research.
Xerox Named Top Designer-Friendly Company
Xerox Corporation has been named a top "Designer-Friendly Company" by influential Graphic Design USA magazine. Xerox is among 100 companies featured in the publication's 2004 directory "that care about providing top-flight products and services, adding value and finding solutions, communicating with and standing behind the creative community."
Xerox Ranks No. 4 on Fortune Magazine's 'Global Most Admired Companies' List
Fortune magazine's annual "Global Most Admired Companies" survey put Xerox No. 4 in the "computers" industry category, behind only IBM, Microsoft and Dell. Xerox achieved an overall score of 6.75.
Xerox Ranks No. 3 on Fortune Magazine's 'America's Most Admired' List
Xerox moved up to No. 3 in the "computers and office equipment" category on the Fortune magazine 2004 lists of "America's Most Admired Companies." Xerox was ranked No. 9 in its category last year.
Xerox Named to 'Hispanic Magazine' 100 Best Companies List for 2004
Hispanic Magazine has again named Xerox to its Top 100 Companies list, a compilation of companies that excel in providing business and job opportunities for Hispanics. Xerox has been on the "Corporate 100: The One Hundred Companies Providing the Most Opportunities to Hispanics" list each year since 1995.
NAFE Ranks Xerox Among Top 30 Companies for Women to Work
Xerox was named one of the top 30 companies for executive women to work by the National Association for Female Executives, a major association for women professionals and business owners.
Ursula Burns Named One of Tech's 'Top 50' for 2004
U.S. Black Engineering & Information Technology magazine has named Ursula Burns to its "50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology" list for 2004. According to the magazine, "honorees are chosen for this annual list based on their work in making technology part of global society."
Xerox Named as One of the Best Employers in Canada
Xerox Canada has been recognized for the second consecutive year as one of the 50 Best Employers in Canada by the Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine. Gaining six spots, Xerox Canada is ranked No. 44 and is the only office equipment manufacturer to make it into this year's list.
Xerox Webster Facility Wins Award for Pollution Prevention
Recognizing an innovative way to further control pollution at Xerox's Webster, N.Y., plant, the Genesee Valley Chapter of the New York Water Environment Association has awarded Xerox its 2004 Industry Award for Pollution Prevention.
Webster Facility Receives Recognition Award
For the third consecutive year, the Xerox facility in Webster, N.Y., has been awarded the New York State Water Environment Association Silver Compliance Recognition Award.
Xerox Receives "Basey Award" for Categorizer Software
The 2004 Basex Excellence awards were presented by Basex, a leading research and consulting firm that pioneered collaborative business knowledge research, honor organizations for their leadership and technological innovation in the field of Collaborative Business Knowledge.
Phaser 7750DN Maintains PC Magazine's æEditors' Choice' Designation
The Phaser 7750DN maintains PC Magazine's æEditors' Choice' designation in the color laser printer category that it received in April 2004. The Phaser 7750 receives high marks for speed, paper handling and quality.
Xerox Desktop Office Products Take 'Pick of the Year' Award
Buyers Laboratory Inc. has honored three Xerox desktop products with a Pick of the Year award for Fall 2004: Xerox Phasertm 4500DX, Xerox Phasertm 7750GX, and Xerox WorkCentretm M20i.
Xerox Products Awarded Top 'Editor's Choice' Honors
Better Buys for Business has awarded top honors to Xerox printers and multifunction systems. "Xerox continues to deliver outstanding printers, copiers and multifunction devices at every level from office environments all the way to full-scale commercial printing operations," said Jon Bees, editor-in-chief, Better Buys for Business.
Phaser 7750 Lauded in Two Reviews
The Phaser 7750 received a rating of 5 out of 5 and first place in this tabloid color printer roundup in Mac Design, and was praised for its print speed, color tools, and IT support tools in Digital Publishing Solutions.
Xerox MFP, Color Printer Win Awards From 'Better Buys' Analysts
For the second consecutive year, Better Buys for Business has awarded an "Editor's Choice" designation to the Xerox WorkCentretm M15/M15i multifunction product.
Resellers Name Xerox Best Network Color Printer Partner
For the third consecutive year, Xerox has been named the top network color printer vendor in CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine, a leading industry publication for value-added resellers who market high-technology products, solutions and services.
Xerox Phaser 8400 Honored with Hot Pick Award
Xerox Phaser 8400 has been honored with a Better Buys for BusinessHot Pick award and has been added to their 2004 Color Laser Printer and Business Inkjet Printer Guide.
Xerox WorkCentre M15i Earns Editor's Choice Award
The Xerox WorkCentre M15i earned the Better Buys for Business Editor's Choice award for the second consecutive year. The award will be published in the August issue of Better Buys' 2004 Low-Volume Copier and Multifunctional Guide.
Xerox DocuMate 510 Scanner Receives Four Stars from PC World Magazine
The Xerox DocuMate 510 scanner has received four out of five stars and a positive review in the April 2004 issue of PC World. The reviewer was impressed with both the speed and the accuracy of the DocuMate 510.
Xerox DocuMate 252 Awarded "Best of Show" in Desktop Scanner Category
The Xerox DocuMatetm 252 duplex scanner, unveiled at the 2004 AIIM trade show, has been awarded the AIIM E-DOC Magazine 2004 "Best of Show Award" for "best desktop scanner."
Better Buys for Business Cites CopyCentre C40 as 'Editor's Choice'
The CopyCentre C40, a color stand-alone copier was chosen for its strong print performance and ability to serve both color and black-and-white printing needs.
Better Buys for Business Cites Phaser 3450 as 'Editor's Choice'
The Phaser 3450 laser printer rounded out Xerox's most recent award wins and was commended for its processing power, ability to handle large monthly workloads of up to 100,000 pages, and expanded paper capacity of up to 1,100 pages.
Better Buys for Business Cites WorkCentre Pro 40 as 'Editor's Choice'
The WorkCentre Pro 40, an advanced color multifunction system that copies, prints, scans and faxes, was chosen for its strong print performance and ability to serve both color and black-and-white printing needs.
Xerox Office Products Named Best of 2003 By 3 Top Publications
Xerox receives top honors from three leading computer publications, all citing Xerox office products as the best in their class. The Phaser 6250 was named PC Magazine's "Best Color Laser of 2003" and CRN's "Product of the Year" in the printer category, and the Xerox DocuColor 3535 copier-printer was honored as an Electronic Publishing "Hot Product of 2003."
Xerox and Its Customers Lauded for Digital Color Printing Excellence; Innovative Applications Recognized with 13 Industry Awards
Demonstrating its expertise in digital color printing for commercial print and graphic arts environments, Xerox and two of its customers — Tucker Printers and Mercury Print Productions — were honored with a total of 13 awards from two recent competitions: the 2004 Gold Ink Awards and the 2004 International Association of Print House Craftsmen Gallery of Superb Printing awards.
Xerox Receives 2004 Distinguished Partner Award
Xerox has received the 2004 Distinguished Partner Award from Taylor Development, the support organization that provides services for the businesses that are part of Taylor Corporation.
Xerox iGen3 Press Wins Major Graphic Arts Industry Award
The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, one of the world's leading centers for graphic communications research and education, recently selected the Xerox iGen3tm Digital Production Press to receive its esteemed 2004 InterTech Technology Award.
Better Buys for Business Cites Xerox Products as 'Editor's Choice'
The DocuColor 12 copier/printer and DocuColor 3535 multifunction system earned Editor's Choice Awards. "With an impressive offering ranging from color copiers and multifunction devices to black-and-white printers, Xerox is a dominant force in the industry," said Jonathon Bees, editor, Better Buys for Business.
Best Public Access Kiosk Application
KIOSK magazine sponsors an awards competition within the interactive kiosk marketplace to seek out self-service kiosk projects and products that are "setting standards of kiosk excellence & challenging existing technology." The Brooklyn Public Library / Pharos Library was awarded "Best Public Access Kiosk Application" supported by Xerox Global Services.
Market-Leading Technology
Our Nuvera digital copier-printers launch, creating a new mid-production market segment, and the Phaser 8400 is unveiled as the industry’s first office color printer to run at 24 ppm in color or black and white.
DocuColor Milestone
We achieve the 10,000th installation of our reliable, globally trusted DocuColor 2000 Series press—a significant accomplishment that speaks to our top market share position in digital production color printing.
Global iGen3 Success
Our iGen3 Digital Production Presses — installed worldwide — reach a major milestone with more than one billion pages printed since the system’s launch at Graph Expo in 2002.
Corporate Signature Logo
The company rolls out a new signature logo—depicted simply as "XEROX"—to replace "The Document Company – Xerox" corporate signature, which was adopted in 1994.
Innovate in France
We're proud to receive the inaugural Innovate in France Award from the French government’s Invest in France Agency for our contributions to innovation and research at our facilities in Meylan, France.
Resource Rollout
We target drupa 2004, the world’s largest printing trade show, to introduce seven digital systems, an expanded suite of services and workflow tools that reinvent traditional printing and drive customer profit.
Olympic Finale
We celebrate our 40th and final year of Olympic sponsorship—which began with the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria—by documenting the legacy of the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, Greece.
7 Xerox Systems Earn Top Honors From 2 Organizations
Xerox closed 2004 by winning seven industry awards from Better Buys for Business and Buyers Laboratory Inc., two independent research organizations.
'Minorities in Business Magazine' Recognizes Xerox for Diversity Leadership
Minorities in Business Magazine has recognized Xerox for its commitment to diversity with the "MIB Corporate Diversity Leadership Award 2005."
Human Rights Campaign Foundation Gives Xerox a Perfect Score
For the fourth year, Xerox Corporation has earned a 100 percent rating on the Corporate Equality Index, a report issued today by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
'Black Enterprise' Names Xerox Among '30 Best for Diversity'
Xerox's demonstrated leadership in diversity makes it one of the "30 Best Companies for Diversity," according to a new list announced by Black Enterprise magazine.
Xerox Named to 'Hall of Fame' by 'DiversityInc' Magazine
DiversityInc magazine's "Top 50 Companies for Diversity list" now is in its fifth year, and editors said "it's time to applaud those 10 companies that have made it onto the list every time." Xerox is one of the 10 companies cited in the DiversityInc Hall of Fame.
'DiversityInc' Names Xerox No. 7 on "Top 50 Companies for Diversity"
DiversityInc magazine has ranked Xerox No. 7 among the 2005 "Top 50 Companies for Diversity," up from the No. 10 ranking it held each of the past two years. This is the fifth time Xerox has competed and been ranked by DiversityInc.
Xerox Makes Top 10 of Nation's "100 Best Corporate Citizens"
Demonstrated successes in and commitment to diversity, philanthropy and related activities led Xerox Corporation to be named No. 10 in Business Ethics magazine's 2005 list of the nation's "100 Best Corporate Citizens."
Xerox Named Among World's Top 100 Sustainable Companies
A new global business ranking was unveiled at the World Economic Forum, identifying the top 100 companies that are leading the way to a more sustainable world. Xerox Corporation was among the 20 U.S. companies recognized on the list.
'Fortune' Magazine Ranks Xerox Among 'Blue-Ribbon Companies'
Fortune magazine has recognized Xerox as a 2005 "Blue-Ribbon Company," a designation given to companies appearing on the most Fortune lists in one year. Xerox appeared on four of Fortune's seven major annual listings: the Fortune 500, the Global 500, America's Most Admired Companies and Global Most Admired Companies.
'Fortune' Magazine's Most Powerful Women List Includes Mulcahy, Burns
Fortune magazine issued its annual "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list, naming Xerox chairman and CEO Anne M. Mulcahy and Business Group Operations president Ursula Burns to the list once again.
Mulcahy Named to 'Women to Watch' List
The Wall Street Journal has named Anne M. Mulcahy to its global "50 Women to Watch 2005" list, including Xerox's chairman and CEO as No. 4 in a feature titled, "Running the Show."
Xerox Color Ad Campaign Wins 'Best Award' from 'BtoB'
BtoB magazine, a leading magazine for marketing strategists, gave Xerox Corporation its 2005 "Best Award" in the print advertising category for Xerox's Color Campaign.
'Gay Alliance' Grants Xerox the 2005 æCourageous Leadership Award'
The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, an education and advocacy organization based in Rochester, N.Y., has granted Xerox Corporation the 2005 Courageous Leadership Award, which "recognizes a company that has made a bold, confident action in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community."
Xerox Corporate Ad Campaign Wins 'BusinessWeek' Award
The Xerox brand advertising campaign has won the BusinessWeek Award for Excellence in Corporate Advertising for the third year in a row. The award recognizes the top 12 performing campaigns in BusinessWeek as measured by Starch Research out of a total of 50 campaigns.
Xerox Manufacturing Operations Named 'Assembly Plant of the Year'
Xerox Corporation's New York-based manufacturing operations have been named "Assembly Plant of the Year" by Assembly magazine, a leading industry publication for manufacturing and design engineers, managers and assembly professionals.
Canada's National Quality Institute Grants a 'Gold' to Xerox
Xerox Corporation's North American Teleweb Operations in Canada have earned a Gold Trophy from the National Quality Institute — the highest honor under the NQI's prestigious Canada Awards for Excellence program.
'Hispanic Business' Magazine Cites Xerox Among Top 40 Companies
Hispanic Business magazine has named Xerox Corporation to its inaugural list of "Top 40 Companies for Hispanics." The Hispanic Business "Top 40 Companies" list measures a company's commitment to Hispanics in the workplace, and it examines how companies reach Hispanics in recruitment, promotion, procurement, community support and marketing.
'LATINA Style' Magazine Names Xerox Among Top 50 Employers for Latinas
LATINA Style magazine has named Xerox Corporation to its 2005 list of 50 best companies for Latinas to work in the United States.
Mulcahy Named to List of 100 Most Powerful Women in Business
Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy has been ranked No. 6 on the Forbes "100 Most Powerful Women in Business" list. Forbes rankings are "based on a composite of visibility (measured by press citations) and economic impact.
Xerox Ranks No. 381 on Fortune Global 500
Xerox Corporation ranked No. 381 on Fortune magazine's 2005 "Global 500" list. The ranking of the world's largest companies was compiled by Fortune on the basis of 2004 revenue. Xerox had 2004 revenue of $15.7 billion.
Xerox Ranks 108 Among Canada's Top 1,000 Public Companies
Xerox Canada has improved its ranking among Canada's most profitable companies by more than 100 places — to 108 in 2004 from 219 in the previous year.
'Computerworld' Ranks Xerox Among '100 Best Places to Work' for I.T. Professionals
Xerox Corporation has once again been named among the "100 Best Places to Work in IT" according to IDG's Computerworld . This honor is part of the weekly IT publication's 12th annual "Best Places to Work in IT" survey.
Xerox Recognized Among Best in Public Relations
Xerox won two awards from the Public Relations Society of America for the company's Office Makeover contest and the launch of the Xerox Nuvera line. Both PR programs won Silver Anvils, considered the icon of public relations best practices.
Xerox Treasurer Named to "100 Most Influential People in Finance" List
Rhonda Seegal, Xerox vice president and treasurer, has been named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Finance" by Treasury & Risk Management magazine. The magazine noted, "Seegal has been instrumental in improving Xerox's financial position and helped lead the company's $3.6 billion recapitalization."
Xerox.com Cited by Customer Respect Group
Xerox's corporate Web site — www.xerox.com — was ranked No. 2 in the High Tech category in a new report by the Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their customers online.
Nazemetz Named Among Top 25 Women in HR
Human Resource Executive magazine has named Patricia M. Nazemetz to its list of the "top 25 most powerful women in human resources." Nazemetz is Xerox's vice president for Human Resources.
Xerox Named to 'Essence' List of '35 Great Places to Work'
Xerox has been singled out by Essence magazine for the company's commitment to recruiting, welcoming and mentoring African-American women.
Motroni Named To 'Top 25' Executives List
Hispanic Trends magazine has named Hector Motroni to its list of "top 25 Hispanic executives in key U.S. industries." Motroni is Xerox's chief staff officer and chief ethics officer.
Xerox Cited for Support of Engineering Schools That Serve Blacks
Xerox has been ranked among private-sector organizations that are the most supportive of the nation's historically Black engineering schools.
Xerox Ranks No. 2 on Fortune Magazine's 'Global Most Admired Companies'
Fortune magazine's eighth annual "Global Most Admired Companies" survey put Xerox No. 2 in the "computers" industry category, behind only IBM.
European Study Names Xerox Among 'Best Places to Work' in Ireland
Xerox was named one of the 2005 "50 Best Companies to Work For in Ireland," according to a detailed European study conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute Ireland and Discovery Research.
Xerox Ranks No. 4 on Fortune Magazine's 'America's Most Admired'
Xerox was No. 4 in the "computers" category on the Fortune magazine 2005 lists of "America's Most Admired Companies." Xerox had an overall score of 6.67, up from its score last year of 6.13 when it was ranked No. 3.
Hispanic Magazine Names Xerox to 2005 Top 100 Companies List
Hispanic Magazine has named Xerox to its "Hispanic Corporate 100: One Hundred Companies Providing the Most Opportunities for Hispanics" list. Xerox has held a spot on the magazine's Top 100 list every year since 1995.
Xerox Among Top 10 Companies for Executive Women
The ability of women to lead and succeed at Xerox Corporation has earned the company a top spot on the 2005 Top 30 Companies for Executive Women list, released by the National Association for Female Executives, a women's professional and business association.
'Black Enterprise' Names Three Xerox Executives to '75 Most Powerful' List
Black Enterprise magazine has announced its 2005 list of the "75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America" — and three Xerox executives made the list: Quincy Allen, Ursula Burns, and Emerson Fullwood.
Xerox El Segundo Noted As 'Energy Efficiency Leader'
As part of "Flex Your Power" — California's energy efficiency marketing and outreach campaign — the California Public Utilities Commission has recognized Xerox Corporation as an "Energy Efficiency Leader" for its efforts to operate an energy-efficient campus in El Segundo.
EPA Recognizes Xerox Among 'Best Workplaces for Commuters'
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its second annual list of Fortune 500 companies that are designated as "Best Workplaces for Commuters." Xerox Corporation was on the list as one of about 50 Fortune 500 companies that "offer excellent commuter benefits to at least 10 percent of their U.S. work forces."
Xerox India Earns 'International Safety Award'
Xerox India Ltd. has received the International Safety Award for its Rampur plant from the British Safety Council for the sixth year in a row. The award demonstrates Xerox's global commitment to environmental protection, health and safety practices that ensure the well-being of employees, customers and the community.
Xerox Among 54 Companies to Join EPA's 'National Environmental Performance Track Program'
The Xerox Supplies manufacturing plant in Oklahoma City, Okla., is among 54 facilities to have earned membership in the U.S. EPA's National Environmental Performance Track Program.
Xerox Webster Environmental Project Wins New York State Award
On Nov. 4, 2004, the Genesee Valley Chapter of the New York Water Environment Association awarded Xerox its 2004 Industry Award for Pollution Prevention, recognizing Xerox's innovative way to further control pollution at its Webster, N.Y., plant.
'Wall Street Journal' Honors Xerox Technologies
Two technologies developed at the Xerox Research Centre Europe captured awards in the Wall Street Journal's 2005 Technology Innovation Awards contest. Technologies for image and text categorization were both selected as runners-up in the software category.
Xerox Wins Tech Innovator Award in VARBusiness Printing Category
Xerox has been named "Tech Innovator of the Year" in the printing and imaging category by VARBusiness magazine, a leading industry publication for value-added resellers that market high-technology products, solutions and services.
Xerox Wins Best Business Applications at SoftSummit 2005 Conference
Xerox has been recognized for the best business applications in SoftSummit's 2005 Summit Awards. The panel of independent judges noted that Xerox differentiates its printers through value-added software.
Resellers Name Xerox As Network Color Printer Company of 2005
For the fourth consecutive year, Xerox has been named the top network office color printer vendor in VARBusiness magazine, a leading industry publication for value-added resellers who market high-technology products, solutions and services.
PC World Awards Phaser Products
A review in PC World has awarded the Phaser 4500N first place in the "Workgroup Laser Printer" chart, netting 3.5 out of 5 stars. PC World editors praised the Phaser 4500N for its ease of use, simple network installation and overall performance, noting it was the fastest printer in its class.
Better Buys for Business Names WorkCentre M20/M20i and CopyCentre 118/WorkCentre M118/WorkCentre M118i
Better Buys for Business has named the WorkCentre M20/M20i and CopyCentre 118/WorkCentre M118/WorkCentre M118i "Editor's Choice" in the 2005 Low-Volume Copier and Multifunctional Guide.
IT Week Awards Phaser 4500N
IT Week has given the Phaser 4500N five out of five stars and its Editor's Choice distinction. The review highlights output quality and connectivity.
InfoWorld Gives Top Honors to WorkCentre Pro C2636
The WorkCentre Pro C2636 has taken top honors in InfoWorld's color multifunction roundup. The multifunction system received the highest overall score of 8.6 out of 10.
Xerox Customer Publication Earns Top Award
The Xerox Office Group has been recognized for excellence in user documentation by the Society for Technical Communication (STC) at their annual International Conference in Seattle.
Outstanding' WorkCentre C2424 Cited by Industry Publications and Test Labs
The WorkCentre C2424 has received more awards and honors from industry leading publications and test labs. These include a special achievement award from Buyers Laboratory Inc. and an "A+" Rating from Government Computer News.
Xerox DocuMatetm 272 Wins the AIIM E-DOC Magazine 2005 "Best of Show Award"
The Xerox DocuMatetm 272 duplex scanner, unveiled at the AIIM trade show in mid-May, has been awarded the AIIM E-DOC Magazine 2005 "Best of Show Award" for "best workgroup scanner."
Xerox WorkCentre C2424 System Earns Top Honors From 3 Reviewers
Within the first month of availability, Xerox's new WorkCentretm C2424 solid ink color multifunction system has earned accolades from three leading independent reviewers and research organizations: Better Buys for Business, VARBusiness, and BERTL.
Xerox Receives Highest I.T. Honor from 'Network Computing' Magazine
At Networld + Interop, a leading information technology trade show, Network Computing magazine awarded Xerox a distinguished Well-Connected Award.
Xerox DocuMate 262 Scanner Receives Editors' Choice Award From 'PC Magazine'
The Xerox DocuMatetm 262 duplex scanner has received the prestigious Editors' Choice Award from PC Magazine and was given a rating of 4 1/2 out of 5. The PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award is given out to the products and services that stand out from others in their category.
Phaser 5500DN Receives PC Magazine's æEditors' Choice'
The Phaser 5500DN received PC Magazine's æEditors' Choice' designation and a rating of 4 1/2 out of 5. The Phaser 5500 is praised for its speed, print quality and paper handling capabilities.
Phaser 3150 Named 'Product of the Year'
The Phaser 3150 was named æProduct of the Year' in the monochrome laser printer category in the Small Business Computing's Excellence in Technology Awards, beating out the Lexmark E323 and Brother HL-5140.
Phaser EX7750 Wins "Best of Show Award"
Macworld Magazine awarded the Xerox Phaser EX7750 color laser printer with EFI Fiery color network server a "Best of Show Award" during the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
Readers' List Xerox iGen3 Amongst Top 50 Products and Technologies
Each year, Digital Output magazine recognizes 50 companies as "Top Product Innovators." The graphic arts trade publication compiles responses from readers throughout the year, and the most popular products and technologies make the list.
Xerox, Customers Win 6 Industry Awards for Digital Printing
Xerox and two of its commercial printing customers — Tucker Printers and Automated Graphic Systems — won six "Gold Ink Awards" for high-quality books, posters and personalized marketing materials, all of which were produced with Xerox digital technology.
Xerox 4110 Copier/Printer Earns Five-Star Rating From Leading Independent Test Lab
Xerox's 4110tm Copier/Printer, a 110 page-per-minute black-and-white production system, has received a top five-star rating from Buyers Laboratory Inc., a leading independent document imaging research and testing firm.
Xerox Recognized on USA listing of the top "100 Designer Friendly Companies"
Xerox was recognized in the 2005 Graphic Design: USA listing of the top "100 Designer Friendly Companies" as a company that cares about providing top products and services, adding value, finding solutions, communicating with and standing behind the creative community.
Corporate Citizenship Award
We’re honored to receive the 2005 Corporate Citizenship Award (in the U.S. Community Service category) from the United States Chamber of Commerce Center for Corporate Citizenship.
Forty-nine new products—together earning 320 awards worldwide—enter a company portfolio that has been 95 percent refreshed in the past two years and accounts for two-thirds of equipment sales revenue.
Climate Leaders
Formalizing our pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we join the U.S. E.P.A. Climate Leaders program and announce a 10 percent reduction goal (based on 2002 missions) from worldwide operations by the end of 2012.
Paper Sourcing
In support of our 2000 paper sourcing position detailing sound environmental, health and safety practices and sustainable forest management, we issue stringent requirements for companies providing paper to us for resale.
Global Disaster Relief
We fuel Southeast Asia earthquake and tsunami relief efforts with a US$2 million contribution, and provide an additional US$2 million to fund Hurricane Katrina financial and technical assistance.
Color Printing Leadership
Customers print more than 10 billion color pages on our systems in 2005, demonstrating our digital color printing leadership and driving revenue from color up 18 percent and color page volume up 30 percent.
Focus on Core Strengths
Tapping a $20 billion market opportunity, we sign consulting and document management contracts with global companies across chemical, automotive, entertainment, security, technology, financial and other industries.
2006: Dubai Quality Award
Xerox Emirates won the prestigious Dubai Quality Award in 2006 which was presented by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance and Industry at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Dubai Quality Award.
'Black Enterprise' Names Xerox Among '40 Best Companies for Diversity'
To develop its second annual list, Black Enterprise editors evaluated more than 1,000 companies according to several criteria, including community outreach and minority representation on the board, in senior management and in the total work force.
NAFE Ranks Xerox Workplace Among 'Top 30' for Women
Xerox's culture of equality, opportunity and flexibility has helped earn the company a spot on the 2006 list of "Top 30 Companies for Executive Women," released today by the National Association for Female Executives, a women's professional and business association. See news release.
Two Xerox Locations Accepted into EPA's 'Performance Track' Program
Xerox Corporation's facilities in Webster, N.Y., and Cincinnati, Ohio, have volunteered to minimize pollution beyond environmental regulatory requirements while reducing water and energy use — leading to Xerox's acceptance into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Performance Track Program.
DocuMate 152 Earns Editors' Choice
PC Magazine reviewer M. David Stone noted that low-end scanners like the DocuMate 152 work well enough for a small office to use for document management. What separates the Xerox offering from others in its class is its software package. See news release.
'KMWorld' Names Xerox As A Leader in Knowledge Management
Xerox has been selected as one of "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" by KMWorld magazine. The publication based this selection on the quality and effectiveness of Xerox's DocuSharetm 4.0.1 software, a secure, Web-based enterprise content management system. See news release.
Families and Work Institute Honors Xerox's Work-life Approach
Xerox's leadership was honored by the Families and Work Institute's 2006 Work Life Legacy Award designed to spotlight people and companies that "forge new ways of making work 'work' for employees and employers. See news release.
American Chemical Society Industrial Innovation Award
Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) researchers will receive R&D Magazine's "Top 100" innovation award today in Chicago — one of six recent technology industry awards recognizing the company's research and innovation in color science and advanced document systems and services.
Buyers Laboratory Honors Three Xerox Products with "Pick of the Year" Awards
Buyers Laboratory Inc. honored three Xerox products with "Pick of the Year" awards in their 2006 fall awards program: WorkCentre 7132, WorkCentre 7665, and WorkCentre 7655.
WorkCentre 4150XF Honored with 'Pick of the Year' Award
Buyers Laboratory Inc., has awarded the WorkCentre 4150xf black-and-white multifunction printer as "Pick of the Year" for Outstanding Mid-Size Workgroup Console Monochrome Multifunction Printer.
Xerox Office Printers, Copiers, MFPs Earn 146 Honors Worldwide
In the first half of 2006, Xerox office printers, copiers and multifunction systems earned 146 honors and awards worldwide from leading IT testing and research organizations including Buyers Laboratory Inc., Industry Analysts Inc. and Better Buys for Business.
Industry Analysts, Inc., Names DocuColor 250 as 'Best in its Class'
Industry Analysts Technical Services Division selected the DocuColor 250 as the best product in the Light Production û Color category in its Tester's Choice report.
Phaser 6350 Receives an A+ Rating and Reviewer's Choice
A review in Government Computer News has earned the Phaser 6350 an A+ Rating and Reviewer's Choice in its latest color workgroup printer roundup.
Xerox 4590 selected as a "Hot Pick"
Business TechEdge magazine honored the Xerox 4590 copier-printer with a "Hot Pick" designation for its image quality and fast scanning speeds.
Xerox Color Systems Earn Nine Top Awards From Leading Test Labs
Xerox has earned nine awards for its color printers, copiers and multifunction products from Better Buys for Business, a recognized industry authority on office imaging equipment; Buyers Laboratory Inc., a leading testing lab; and CRN, a publication focused on information technology and distribution channels.
Xerox Digital Printing Technology Recognized with 6 Industry Awards
Xerox's digital printing technology was recognized with two "Must See 'em" honors and a "Still Worth a Look" award, along with three "Gold Ink" awards at Graph Expo, the printing industry's largest annual exhibition.
'Latin Business' Names Xerox to 'Corporate Diversity Honor Roll'
Latin Business magazine's third annual Corporate Diversity Honor Roll recognizes Xerox Corporation as one of 21 companies "doing the most on behalf of the nation's women and minority communities."
'DiversityInc' Magazine Recognizes Xerox
As part of its sixth annual "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" project, DiversityInc magazine has recognized Xerox Corporation for its efforts to nurture a diverse, inclusive workplace environment.
Urban League Chapter Recognizes Xerox's "Extraordinary Leadership" in Diversity
Xerox Corporation has won the "Best of the Best Award for Corporate Diversity" from the Northern Virginia Urban League, which surveyed more than 100 companies with a major presence in Northern Virginia.
'Computer Weekly' Names Xerox to Top 10 'Most Influential'
Xerox Corporation is No. 5 on Computer Weekly magazine's list of the top 10 "most influential organizations of the past 40 years" in information technology.
Xerox Named to 2006 'InformationWeek 500'
Xerox Corporation was No. 185 on the 2006 list of "InformationWeek 500" companies, which ranks the nation's most innovative users of information technology.
Fortune magazine has recognized Xerox as a 2006 "Blue-Ribbon Company," a designation given to companies appearing on the most Fortune lists in one year. Xerox appeared on four of Fortune's major annual listings: Fortune 500, Fortune Global 500, America's Most Admired Companies, and Global Most Admired Companies.
Xerox Wins 2006 Gold Mercury Corporate Governance Award
Gold Mercury International has announced that the winner of the 2006 Gold Mercury Corporate Governance Award is Xerox Corporation, a company intent on leading with innovative technologies, products and services that customers can depend upon to improve business results.
'Fortune' Most Powerful Women List Includes Mulcahy, Burns
'Corporate Equality Index' Ranks Xerox At 100 Percent
For the fifth time, Xerox has earned a 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, which measures companies' respect for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
Xerox Earns Spot On 'Top 50 Companies for Hispanics' Survey
Hispanic Business magazine has named Xerox Corporation to its 2006 "Top 50 Companies for Hispanics" list. This is the second year that Hispanic Business has named a Top 50 and Xerox also made the inaugural list in 2005.
'Latina Style 50' List Includes Xerox
Latina Style magazine has named Xerox Corporation to its annual "Latina Style 50" list, an alphabetical list that acknowledges the 50 best companies for Latinas to work in the United States.
Fortune Global 500 Ranking for Xerox
Xerox Corporation is No. 431 on Fortune's Global 500 this year, with $15.7 billion in revenue and $978 million in profit for 2005. The Global 500 list is an annual ranking of the world's largest corporations by revenue.
Xerox's 2005 Annual Report Wins Silver Award
The League of American Communication Professionals gave Xerox's 2005 "True Colors" Annual Report a silver award and a 94 out of 100 rating for the report's creativity, narrative, letter to shareholders, message clarity, presentation of financials and other key attributes.
Mulcahy Accepts 'Heart of Gold' Volunteering Award for Xerox
The efforts of Xerox people whose volunteer work includes working with the elderly, providing clothing and books to children, and giving blood were recognized by the Volunteer Center of Southwestern Fairfield County (Conn.).
Best Investments in Europe Award
Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy was presented with a "Best Investments in Europe" award at the World Investment Conference, given in acknowledgement of Xerox's sustained commitment to its investments in Europe, particularly the Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) in Grenoble, France.
Xerox Named Among Top Companies for Asian Americans
For the third time since 2003, Asian Enterprise magazine has named Xerox among the top 10 companies for Asian Americans.
Four Xerox Executives Named to '100 Most Important Hispanics' List
The editors of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine have named four Xerox executives to the magazine's "100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business" list for 2006.
Connecticut NSHMBA Calls Xerox æPartner of the Year'
Xerox Corporation was selected as the winner of the 2006 "Corporate Partner of the Year Award" by the Connecticut Chapter National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA).
Mulcahy Named to the 'Time 100'
Time magazine has named CEO Anne Mulcahy to its Time 100 list of the people who shape our world. Among the list's 'Builders and Titans,' Mulcahy is cited for leading an extraordinary turnaround.
Xerox Among 10 'Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses'
Veterans Business Journal magazine has named Xerox Corporation to its second annual "Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses" list. According to the magazine, corporate supplier diversity policies have included women- and minority-owned firms for decades, "but adding veteran-owned businesses is a more recent phenomenon."
Xerox Corporation ranked No. 142 on Fortune magazine's annual Fortune 500 list. The ranking of America's largest companies was compiled by Fortune on the basis of 2005 revenue — Xerox had 2005 revenue of $15.7 billion.
Barron's "World's Best CEOs" List Includes Xerox
Editors at Barron's magazine have revealed their second annual list of the world's "30 top corporate leaders" — and the list includes Xerox and Anne M. Mulcahy, chairman and CEO.
Xerox Classic Receives Nationwide Tour's Co-Charity of the Year Award
The Xerox Classic golf tournament has been named the Co-Charity of the Year by the Professional Golf Association Nationwide Tour. The distinction means three Rochester, N.Y., charities will share a $15,000 cash award from the PGA.
'Savoy Professional' Magazine's 'Ideal Employers' List Includes Xerox
Savoy Professional magazine's list of "Top 100 Employers for African Americans 2005: Ideal Employers" includes Xerox Corporation at No. 91.
Xerox Ranks No. 4 on Fortune Magazine's 2006 'Global Most Admired'
Fortune magazine's ninth annual "Global Most Admired Companies" survey put Xerox No. 4 in the "computers" industry category, behind IBM, Microsoft and Apple.
Xerox was No. 3 in the "computers" category on the Fortune magazine 2006 lists of "America's Most Admired Companies." Xerox earned an overall score of 6.85, up from its score last year of 6.67.
Xerox Germany Ranks Among Top Employers
The Corporate Research Foundation has named Xerox Germany one of the top 50 employers in Germany and first in the category of employee development.
æBlack Enterprise' Names Burns to æ50 Most Powerful' List
Ursula M. Burns was named to Black Enterprise magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list. The "Most Powerful" list represents the top echelon of women in business and includes 11 CEOs and 13 presidents.
Xerox's corporate Web site — www.xerox.com — is among only a handful of high technology companies that have improved their online performance.
Xerox Wins GSA's 2006 'Evergreen Award'
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) National Furniture Center (NFC) has named Xerox Corporation as the winner of the 2006 "GSA Evergreen Award" in the Technologies and Electronics category.
Xerox Earns New York State Environmental Award
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded Xerox's Webster facility with its annual New York State Environmental Excellence Award for outstanding efforts in environmental innovation, sustainability and partnerships.
Xerox Facility in Wilsonville Earns Membership in EPA Partnership
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the entry of Xerox Corporation's facilities in Wilsonville, Ore., into the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities. Xerox is the first Region 10 (Alaska, Oregon, Idaho and Washington) company to join EPA's NPEP program.
Xerox Wins Local 'Pollution Prevention' Award
An initiative to reclaim and reuse more of a chemical solvent vital for photoreceptor production won a pollution prevention award from the Genesee Chapter Industrial Issue Committee of the New York Water Environment Association.
Better Buys for Business Honors Multifunction Products with Editor's Choice Awards
Better Buys for Busines has selected the Xerox CopyCentre/WorkCentre/WorkCentre Pro 255, 265, and 275 as Editor's Choice recipients in their upcoming 2007 High-Volume Copier and Multifunction Guide.
Communications World Magazine Awards Two Phaser Products
Communications World Magazine reviewed the Phaser 3500 and Phaser 8500DN, with both earning an Editor's Choice award.
Phaser 4500N Captures 'Editor's Choice' Award
Enterprise Week Magazine has bestowed its Editor's Choice award on the Phaser 4500N monochrome printer. The printer was selected for its speed and value.
U.S. Postal Service Recognizes Xerox Innovation
Xerox has been selected by the U.S. Postal Service as the 2006 Best in Class Innovation Award winner for the Northeast area. The award recognizes organizations that have used technology, innovation, or automation in ways that resulted in maximum efficiencies in the mail value chain.
Hispanic Magazines Cite Xerox on Two 'Top Companies' Lists
Xerox has been named to the "Hispanic Corporate 100," an annual list compiled by Hispanic Magazine that recognizes companies providing the most opportunities to Hispanics.
New GLBT 'Best Places To Work' List Includes Xerox
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation today released its "Best Places to Work" list for GLBT equality, a new online resource that gives job seekers the information they need to find out which employers support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and consumers.
Xerox EA Toner Earns CQIA Innovation Gold Prize
Xerox's Emulsion Aggregation (EA) toner technology has won a gold award in the 2006 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Innovation Prize competition.
Buyers Laboratory Inc. Selects Xerox Products as "Pick of the Year"
BLI honored both the Xerox WorkCentre Pro 232 and the WorkCentre Pro 238 MFP units with spring 2006 "Pick of the Year" awards. The WorkCentre Pro 232 and 238 received the award for their class-leading print productivity.
Buyers Laboratory Inc. Honors Phaser 7760 as "Pick of the Year"
The Phaser 7760GX color laser printer has been honored as BLI's "Pick of the Year" for outstanding large workgroup color printer.
Better Buys for Business Honors Products with Editor's Choice Awards
Better Buys for Busines has selected the Xerox WorkCentre PE120/PE120i and CopyCentre C118/WorkCentre M118/WorkCentre M118i as Editor's Choice recipients in their 2006 Low-Volume Copier & Multifunctional Guide due to publish at the end of June.
Phaser 7400DN Takes the Lead in 'InfoWorld' Review
The Phaser 7400DN color printer received the highest overall score with an 8.3 rating out of 10 in InfoWorld's head-to head comparison review of the Phaser 7400 and the Ricoh Aficio CL7300D.
Xerox Named To '100 Designer Friendly Companies List' By Top Graphic Design Publication
Xerox Corporation has been named to the "100 Designer Friendly Companies" list by Graphic Design: USA, a top publication covering the graphic design and creative services market.
XMPie
Adding to our business solutions portfolio, we acquire XMPie, a leading provider of variable information software, which enables personalized marketing programs across print, web, email and more.
New Products and Awards
Our investment in innovation produces 14 new products in 2006 alone, together earning 208 industry awards. Products launched this year and in 2005 account for nearly two-thirds of our equipment sales.
Erasable Paper Patent
Xerox researchers file patents for erasable paper—made possible by an experimental technology that allows printed images to last only a day and paper to be reused, promising significant office paper use reduction.
Toner Process Refinement
Our new E-agent chemical cuts the energy required to make certain printer toner—Xerox’s most energy-intensive process—by 22 percent, which, by 2008, could save enough power to light 24,000 homes for a year.
Greenhouse Gas Accountability
By joining the California Climate Action Registry, we make a corporate pledge to work with the registry to voluntarily track, report and certify our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually.
Nature Conservancy Grant
Our US$1 million grant with The Nature Conservancy—our largest environmental partnership to date—will help strengthen and advance practices that promote sustainable forest management.
We become the first document management company to receive certification from customer satisfaction research firm J.D. Power and Associates for providing "an outstanding customer service experience."
www.LetsSayThanks.com
This company-sponsored website lets people personalize postcards that are printed on our digital presses and sent to U.S. military troops stationed overseas. More than 10 million cards are created by year-end.
Global Citizenship Report
Our first annual citizenship snapshot is published, summarizing the company’s practices, policies, goals and accomplishments in a comprehensive review of what we’re doing to ensure a just, sustainable future.
Our breakthrough dual-engine printer platform will become the foundation for future Xerox printer designs and deliver unsurpassed productivity and reliability to the digital printing industry.
Black Enterprise Names Xerox Among the Best for Diversity
Xerox has been recognized for its commitment to diversity and named among the "2007 Best Companies for Diversity" by Black Enterprise magazine.
Xerox Ranks Among Best on Major Diversity Lists
Xerox has again been recognized for championing diversity and has been named to three more "top" lists. The company is included in DiversityInc magazine's "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" and Hispanic Magazine's "Corporate 100."
LATINA Style Magazine Again Names Xerox to its Top 50
Xerox is on the 2007 LATINA Style 50 list, recognizing the best companies for Latinas to work. The company has been named to the list eight times since 1998. See news release.
Xerox Among Top Companies for Female Executives
Xerox has been named to the 2007 list of "Top Companies for Executive Women," an annual list released by the National Association for Female Executives, a women's professional and business association. See news release.
Xerox Color Products Rated Best in Analyst Research Survey
Customers rated Xerox's office color printers, copiers and multifunction systems "best" among competitors, including Canon, Hewlett-Packard and Ricoh, in the 2007 Annual Color End-user Survey conducted by Industry Analysts, Inc. See news release.
Xerox Among "Diversity Elite," Declares Hispanic Business Magazine
Hispanic Business magazine has named Xerox Corporation to its Diversity Elite 2007 list. Xerox has been on the list each year since its 2005 inception. Xerox was ranked No. 32 this year.
Xerox Color Laser Printer Honored with Best of 2007 Award
Xerox was honored with a "Best of 2007" award from PC Magazine in the printer category for the Phaser 6360tm color laser printer. The color printer earned this award for speed, paper handling and price. See news release.
Innovations From Xerox Earn 6 Industry Awards
Xerox researchers received the R&D Magazine's "Top 100" innovation award — one of six recent technology industry awards recognizing the company's research and innovation in color science and advanced document systems and services.
'PC Magazine' Gives Phaser 8860 Solid Ink Printer an "Editor's Choice" Award
PC Magazine reviewer David Stone gave the Phaser 8860 solid ink printer an "Editor's Choice" award and a four-and-a-half rating.
Phaser 8560N Named 'Editor's Choice' by "Computer Shopper"
The Phaser 8560N solid ink printer was awarded an "Editor's Choice" designation with an 8.3-out-of-10 rating. Computer Shopper reviewer Denny Atkin highlights the printer's "superb" overall print quality, ease of installation and quick printing speeds.
Phaser 8560MFP Wins 'Best of FOSE' Award
The Phaser 8560MFP solid ink multifunction printer was named a Government Computer News "Best of FOSE" award winner in the peripherals category. Xerox is the only printer vendor to win an award at the FOSE trade show in Washington D.C.
FaxCentres and Phasers Lauded
PC Magazine bestowed an "Editor's Choice" on the Phaser 6180N, SmartComputing.com included the Phaser 3124 monochrome laser printer among the "Staff Picks," and FaxCentre F110 and FaxCentre 2121 have earned the "Editor's Choice" designation in Better Buys for Business.
Black Professionals Magazine Includes Xerox in Top 100 Companies for Diversity
Black Professionals magazine has named Xerox to its "2007 Top 100 Companies for Diversity" list. The list recognizes companies from a wide range of industries who represent diversity and inclusion at its best.
Xerox Named One of the World's Most Ethical Companies
Xerox was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies in 2007 by Ethisphere Magazine. The elite list of companies was recognized for strong leadership in ethics and compliance, advancement of industry discourse on social and ethical issues, and positive engagement in the communities in which they operate.
Xerox Citizenship Practices Earn Spot on '100 Best Corporate Citizens' List
Xerox Corporation today was named to CRO magazine's 2007 list of "100 Best Corporate Citizens." The ranking marks the third time that Xerox has been named to the list, following appearances in 2000 and 2005.
Anne Mulcahy Cited Among Most Influential in Business Ethics
Ethisphere Magazine has named Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy among the most influential people in business ethics. Mulcahy ranked no. 7 on the list.
'Wall Street Journal' Women to Watch 2007 List Includes Mulcahy, Burns
The Wall Street Journal issued its 4th annual global "Women to Watch" list, naming Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne M. Mulcahy and Xerox President Ursula Burns to the list once again.
Xerox's FrugalColor.com Web Site Wins Gold Award
Xerox's FrugalColor.com Web site has won the Gold Award at the 2007 W3 Awards. The W3s were established last year by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) to honor outstanding Web sites, Web advertising, and Web video.
Xerox Personalized Magazine Covers Cited
MIN Integrated Marketing Awards cited a campaign that enabled WIRED magazine subscribers to create their own custom magazine cover — something that has never been done before.
Xerox Cited for Office Goat
Xerox's FrugalColor.com was awarded the 2007 WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Web Site Development by the Web Marketing Association.
Xerox Named 2007 Corporation of the Year by Michigan Council
The Michigan Minority Business Development Council (MMBDC) has awarded Xerox Corporation the 2007 MMBDC Corporation of the Year — Commercial Products award.
'Fortune' Most Powerful Women 2007 List Includes Mulcahy, Burns
Fortune magazine issued its annual "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list, naming Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne M. Mulcahy and Xerox President Ursula Burns to the list once again.
Xerox Achieves 100 Percent Score on Corporate Equality Index
Xerox has earned a 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, which measures companies' respect for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.
Mulcahy Named to 'Forbes' List of 100 Most Powerful Women in Business
Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy has been ranked No. 13 on the Forbes "100 Most Powerful Women in Business" list. The power ranking score is based on a composite of visibility (measured by press citations) and economic impact."
Burns Listed Among Top 10 Corporate Women of Color
Xerox Corporation President Ursula Burns has been named to Working Mother magazine's Top 10 Corporate Women of Color list.
'Institutional Investor' Magazine Names Mulcahy Among "America's Best CEOs"
The editors of Institutional Investors magazine asked a simple question of research analysts and portfolio managers: "Who is the best chief executive officer in the sector or sectors for which you are responsible?" In the imaging technology sector, CEO Anne Mulcahy ranked No. 2.
Xerox Greece Among Best Workplaces in Europe
Xerox Greece has won a place on the list of the best 100 places to work across the European Union, as nominated by the company's employees.
Xerox Portugal Recognized for Family-Friendly Policies
Xerox Portugal has been awarded The Most Family-Responsible Company for medium-sized businesses. The award recognizes companies that manage internal polices that protect their employees as well as their employees' families.
Xerox Corporation ranked No. 145 on Fortune magazine's annual Fortune 500 list. The ranking of America's largest companies was compiled by Fortune on the basis of 2006 revenue. Xerox, headquartered in Stamford, Conn., had 2006 revenue of $15.9 billion.
Xerox Ranks Among Best Companies on Fortune's America's Most Admired
Fortune magazine's 2006 lists of "America's Most Admired Companies" places Xerox at No. 3 in the "computers" category. Xerox also placed No. 1 in the social responsibility category among its peers.
Selling Power' Magazine Names Xerox Among Top 25 Companies for Sales Reps
Xerox has been ranked No. 15 in Selling Power magazine's list of "The 25 Best Manufacturing Companies to Sell For." The annual list rates companies on compensation, training, and career mobility for their sales forces.
Xerox Again Makes HRC's 'Best Places to Work' List
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, today released its annual list of the "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality."
Xerox Canada Among the '50 Best Employers' for 2007
Hewitt Associates' eighth annual workplace study for the Toronto Globe and Mail has ranked Xerox Canada among the "50 Best Employers in Canada 2007." Xerox Canada ranked No. 38, and it was the third time that Xerox Canada made the "Top 50" list.
Xerox's Environmental Performance Wins Financial Times/Citi Private Bank Award
Xerox Corporation was recognized for improving its environmental performance over time in the inaugural Financial Times/Citi Private Bank Awards. The entrants were judged on their "carbon efficiency," a calculation of reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to the company's sales/revenue.
Xerox's Erasable Paper Lauded by TIME Magazine
Xerox's erasable paper is hailed as one of the best inventions of 2007 in the environmental category by TIME magazine in its new listing of the top discoveries.
Phaser 3200MFP Honored with "Pick of the Year" Award
Buyers Laboratory Inc., has given the Phaser 3200MFP multifunction printer a "Pick of the Year" award as Outstanding Personal Non-Networked Monochrome Multifunction Printer in the monochrome multifunction printer category.
Phaser 4510: Pick of the Year
The Phaser 4510DT monochrome laser printer won a Buyers Laboratory Inc., "Pick of the Year" award for Outstanding Large Workgroup Monochrome Printer.
DocuColor 242/252/260: Editor's Choice
The Xerox DocuColor 242/252/260 multifunction systems have been selected as "Editor's Choice" winners in Better Buys for Business 2007 High-Volume Printer and Digital Duplicator Guide.
Xerox Phasers Honored with Buyers Laboratory Inc.'s "Pick of the Year" Awards
Buyers Laboratory Inc., has selected the Phaser 8560 MFP DN solid ink multifunction printer as "Pick of the Year" for both the Outstanding Small Workgroup Color Multifunction Printers and the Outstanding Critical Color Printers.
Phaser 6360DN Color Laser Printer Receives "Editor's Choice" Award
The Phaser 6360DN color laser printer was awarded an "Editor's Choice" designation with a four out of five rating by PC Magazine. Reviewer David Stone compliments the Phaser 6360's performance, easy set-up and network installation.
Phaser 8560MFP and WorkCentre 4150 Win Better Buys for Business "Editor's Choice"
The Phaser 8560MFP solid ink multifunction printer family and WorkCentre 4150 monochrome multifunction printer family have been selected as "Editor's Choice" winners in Better Buys for Business 2007 Printer Multifunctional Guide.
BERTL Honors Three Xerox Office Products
BERTL honored the following three Xerox Office products with "BERTL's Best" awards in their 2007 awards program: WorkCentre 4150, WorkCentre 7132, and Xerox SmartDocumentTravel.
Xerox WorkCentre 4150S Selected as a Product of the Year
The WorkCentre 4150S monochrome multifunction printer has been selected as a Product of the Year recipient by Small Business Technology Magazine. The device was selected for its ease of use, functionality, user-friendly features and fast speeds.
Xerox Mortgage Services BlitzDocs Receives Synergy Award
Xerox Mortgage Services, formerly Advectis, Inc., provider of one of the most widely-used solutions for electronic mortgage document collaboration, has announced that it received the 2007 SourceMedia, publisher of Mortgage Technology Magazine, Synergy Award for its BlitzDocs solution.
Better Buys for Business Honors Xerox Products with "Editor's Choice" Awards
Better Buys for Business honored the following products with "Editor's Choice" awards in their 2008 Color Copier Guide published in late 2007: WorkCentre 7132, WorkCentre 7232/7242, WorkCentre 7328, WorkCentre 7675, and DocuColor 242/252/260
Better Buys for Business Honors Xerox Phaser Productions with "Editor's Choice" Awards
Better Buys for Business honored the following products with "Editor's Choice" awards in their 2008 Color Laser Printer and Business Inkjet Guide published in late 2007: Phaser 6180, Phaser 8560, Phaser 8860DN, Phaser 6360, and Phaser 7760.
Better Buys for Business Honors Five Xerox Products with Editor's Choice Awards
Better Buys for Business honored the following products with Editor's Choice awards in their 2007 Color Copier Guide published in early 2007: WorkCentre 7132, WorkCentre 7655, WorkCentre 7665, DocuColor 240, and DocuColor 250.
National Medal of Technology
We accept the U.S. government’s highest honor awarded to American innovators for our more than 50 years of contributions to the modern reprographics, digital printing and print-on-demand industries.
Reduced Emissions
With an 18 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, we exceed our 2012 company-wide greenhouse gas target and adjust our goals upward to a 25 percent reduction by 2012 (based on 2002 emissions).
High-Yield Business Paper
This breakthrough paper, the first mechanical fiber paper for digital printing, uses half the trees required by standard chemical pulping processing and 90 percent of the tree (versus 45 percent for standard papers).
U.S. Climate Action Partnership
We’re the first high-technology company to join this alliance of business and environmental leaders formed to combat climate change and effect legislation and regulation that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
DJSI North America
Our inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index reflects Xerox’s corporate commitment to building long-term shareholder value through economic, environmental and social performance.
"Chain of custody" certification from the Forest Stewardship Council and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification communicates that our paper products come from responsibly sourced raw materials.
Reusable Paper
Xerox scientists use an experimental printing technology to develop self-erasing, reusable paper—a game-changing idea that could greatly reduce the estimated 40 percent of pages printed for one-day use in offices.
Partnering with SolFocus, Inc., our Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) helps make renewable energy more affordable and accessible by creating systems that cut the cost of solar power generation in half.
Emulsion Aggregation Toner Plant
This Webster, New York, plant produces energy-saving toner in our most energy-efficient building—more than 3,000 sensors help control humidity, airflow, temperature and other variables through a networked system.
All Xerox United States manufacturing facilities are accepted into the U.S. E.P.A.’s National Environmental Performance Track, which recognizes facilities voluntarily exceeding regulatory requirements.
Reducing Electronic Waste
An aggressive product remanufacturing and recycling effort diverts more than two billion pounds of electronic waste from landfills by extending product lifespan and repurposing component materials.
Global Imaging Systems, Inc.
Our $1.5 billion acquisition of Global Imaging Systems pairs its small and mid-size business market expertise and nationwide distribution network with our rapidly expanding document product and service portfolio.
Burns Becomes President
Twenty-seven-year Xerox veteran Ursula M. Burns, who joined the company as a mechanical engineering summer intern in 1980, is named company president on April 3 and is also elected to the board of directors.
Technology Service & Support Certification
We're the first company to achieve this J.D. Power and Associates honor two years in a row, for continued technical support of our network printers, multifunction systems, digital copiers and high-end digital presses.
November, 2008: Xerox Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Indice
For the second consecutive year, Xerox has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for North America, which tracks the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide. See news release.
November, 2008: Xerox Named to KLD Sustainability Indice
Xerox Corporation was recognized as a socially responsible investment by independent research firm KL — companies selected for inclusion on KLD indices must meet specific environmental, social and governance performance standards. See news release.
May, 2008: Xerox Named a Performance Track Corporate Leader by the U.S. EPA
Xerox became the first technology company to be named a Performance Track Corporate Leader by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Xerox is one of only five companies named an EPA Corporate Leader. See news release.
March, 2008: National Association for Female Executives Names Xerox Among Top Companies for Women
Xerox has been named again as one of the 2008 "Top Companies for Executive Women," an annual list released by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), a women's professional and business association. See news release.
October, 2008: Xerox Print Drivers Lauded by Industry
Two Xerox print drivers introduced earlier this year earned a "Technological Innovation Award" from Industry Analysts, Inc., a market research firm specializing in office automation. See news release.
October, 2008: Industry Analysts, Annual Color End-User Survey
For the second consecutive year, Xerox devices were rated "Best Overall" as well as "Most Reliable and "Best Color Consistency" in Industry Analysts' annual Color End-User Survey. See news release.
August, 2008: Xerox Named "Company of the Year" for Workgroup Color Printers
For the sixth time in seven years, Xerox has been named the "Overall Winner" and "Company of the Year" in the workgroup color printers category by VARBusiness magazine, a leading industry publication for value-added resellers who market high-technology products, solutions and services. See news release.
June, 2008: Xerox DocuMate 262i Receives BLI Spring 2008 Pick Award
Xerox DocuMate 262i earned Buyer Laboratory Inc.'s Spring 2008 "Pick" for "Outstanding Departmental Scanner" in the scanner category. See news release.
March, 2008: Xerox 8265 Color Wide Format Printer Receives "Best of Show" Honors at On Demand
Xerox received a Best of Show Award for the Xerox 8265 Color Wide Format Printer at the annual AIIM/On Demand Conference and Exposition, a major event for the document imaging industry. See news release.
May, 2008 The U.S. EPA Awards Xerox Climate Protection Award
The EPA awarded Xerox a 2008 Climate Protection Award for its achievements in reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Xerox reduced its total global greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent from 2002 to 2006, surpassing several years early its original goal of a 10 percent reduction by 2012. See news release.
Xerox Earns 100 Percent on Corporate Equality Index
For the seventh consecutive year, the Human Rights Campaign honored Xerox with a perfect score on the 2009 Corporate Equality Index, which rates 583 businesses on a scale from 0 to 100 percent on their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.
LATINA Style Magazine Recognizes Xerox as Top Corporation for Hispanic Women
n its annual evaluation, LATINA Style Magazine named Xerox one of 50 corporations that are providing the best career opportunities for Latinas in the U.S.
Xerox Named One of the Most Reputable Companies
Xerox Corporation has been named as one of the top 10 best corporate reputations in the United States, according to a survey conducted by the Reputation Institute and reported by Forbes magazine.
Xerox Selected as One of the Top Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans
Xerox is selected as one of the "Top Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans." The publisher of Asian Enterprise Magazine recognized Xerox's commitment to the small business community as well as our contributions to the Asian Pacific American community.
Two Xerox Multifunction Printers Receive "Pick of the Year" Awards
Two Xerox multifunction printers received Fall 2008 "Pick of the Year" awards from Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) in the monochrome printer category — the Phaser 3300MFP was selected as Outstanding Personal Monochrome Multifunction Printer, and the Phaser 3635MFP was named Outstanding Mid-Size Workgroup Monochrome Multifunction Printer.
Better Buys for Business, æEditor's Choice' Awards
Better Buys for Business honored the following products with "Editor's Choice" awards in the online iGuide under the Printer Multifunctional and Scan-to-File categories — WorkCentre 4260 family, Phaser 3300MFP, and DocuMate 162.
Xerox Phaser 6180MFP Honored by PCWorld
The Xerox Phaser 6180MFP color laser multifunction printer is listed as a "Readers Top Choice" for PCWorld's "Best Products of 2008" in the Color Laser Printers category.
National Child Labor Committee Presents 2008 Lewis Hine Award to Xerox Employee Ronald Dukes
The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) announced that Ronald E. Dukes of Rochester, New York, will receive its prestigious Lewis Hine Award, bestowed annually to ten relatively unknown men and women for their efforts on behalf of the health, education, and welfare of children and youth, particularly those at risk.
Black Enterprise has announced its fourth annual list of the 40 Best Companies for Diversity. The companies identified in the list demonstrate strength and outperform their peers in one of multiple categories, including senior management, board involvement, and employee base.
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Xerox Named One of America's Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities
DiversityBusiness.com conducted an election among 600,000 women- and minority-owned businesses. Xerox placed No. 15 among Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.
Xerox Named One of the Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses
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Fortune magazine's 2007 lists of "America's Most Admired Companies" places Xerox at No. 4 in the "computers" category, outranking Sun, Canon, Dell, NCR and others.
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Computer Shopper, "Top 100 Products of the Year" Award
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Buyers Laboratory Inc. Honors WorkCentre 7242
Xerox has won three Buyers Laboratory Spring 2008 "Pick of the Year" awards: Phaser 3250DN, Phaser 5550DN, and WorkCentre 7242.
Xerox Products Receive Better Buys for Business Top Innovative Office Products for 2007
Better Buys for Business named the Xerox Phasertm 8860 color printer and Xerox WorkCentretm 7675 advanced color multifunction system "Top Innovative Office Products for 2007."
Xerox Imaging and Repository Operations Renews ISO/IEC Security Certifications
Xerox Corporation has successfully renewed its ISO/IEC 27001 certifications for its document and hosted repository operations, resulting from the company's continuing efforts to secure the integrity of business-critical information for its customers.
Service and Support Recognition
Our long-term commitment to superior service and technical support continues to gain momentum with another J.D. Power and Associates certification for customer service excellence—our third in a row.
With this convenient tool—the industry’s first—businesses can pinpoint opportunities to reduce the energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste of their imaging equipment and paper-intensive processes.
Environmental Papers
Our commitment to sustainability expands as we introduce the company’s first papers certified to sustainable forest management standards, as well as new recycled papers designed for digital printing.
Paper Package Labeling
Our new label mark on paper packaging is designed to communicate clearly with customers, helping them select the paper most appropriate for their sustainability and printing needs.
Sustainable Supplies Guide
The Paper and Supplies Sustainability web portal launches, providing easy-to-use resources to help evaluate paper choices and chart the environmental impact throughout the paper’s lifecycle.
Sustainable Stock
Xerox is named to the FTSE4Good Index—a stock index that tracks companies meeting globally recognized standards for corporate responsibility—as well as the KLD indices and Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
New Corporate Identity
Our new logo features the Xerox name in vibrant red, all-lowercase type, adjacent to a spherical symbol with lines that form an "X" to represent our connection to customers, partners, industry and innovation.
Healthcare Provider Solutions, from ACS, a Xerox Company, has received the following Best in KLAS awards (Based on Professional Services Top 20 Best in KLAS year-end survey):
2007 — Best in KLAS (Top 20 year-end) Financial Implementation Principle
Honorable Mention — Service Category Leader — Staff Augmentation
Honorable Mention — Service Category Leader — Other Implementation Principles
2008 — Best in KLAS (Top 20 year-end) Financial ERP Implementation
2009 — Best in KLAS (Top 20 year-end) Clinical Implementation Principle
Xerox named 2009 World's Best Companies by Ethisphere
Xerox was named one of 2009's World's Best Companies by Ethisphere Magazine, rankings that recognize companies that promote ethical business standards and practices by going beyond legal minimums. See news release.
March, 2009: Xerox Ranked No. 1 in Computer Industry by FORTUNE Survey
Xerox is the world's most admired company in the computer industry as ranked in FORTUNE magazine's annual reputation survey released today. See news release.
March, 2009: Xerox's ColorQube 9200 Series Wins Award for Innovation
Xerox's ColorQubetm 9200 Series multifunction printer (MFP) was honored with a Technological Innovation Award from Industry Analysts, Inc., in recognition of the breakthrough technology behind the world's first high-speed solid ink multifunction printer. See news release.
June, 2009: Xerox Global Services Tops 2009 Black Book of Outsourcing List
Xerox is the leader in Document Process Outsourcing (DPO) according to the 2009 Black Book of Outsourcing, an annual guide that evaluates the costs and benefits of outsourcing. See news release.
June, 2009: XRCC Named One of Top 10 Locations for Employees
The Xerox Research Centre Canada (XRCC) has been named one of the Top 10 Places Where Employees Thrive by Your Workplace magazine. Xerox was cited as an organization that offers a dynamic and creative workplace culture built on collaborative dialogue, trust, clear outcomes, tolerance, and teamwork. See news release.
February, 2009: Black Enterprise Magazine Names Three Xerox Executives to "Most Powerful" List
Black Enterprise magazine issued its list of 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America, naming Xerox President Ursula Burns, Xerox Canada President and CEO Kevin Warren, and Production Systems Group President Quincy Allen, to the esteemed list. See news release.
August, 2009 Resellers Honor Xerox with "Best Partner Program" Award
Resellers honored Xerox's Peak Reseller Program at the CompTIA Breakaway 2009 event with the Best Partner Program award, chosen by more than 400 technology resellers and solution providers at the annual event hosted by CompTIA, a leading trade association for the IT industry. See news release.
June, 2009 Xerox Honored for Innovative Color Print Pricing in the Office
Xerox's new color pricing plans, offered with the ColorQubetm 9200 Series multifunction printer (MFP), have been awarded "Most Innovative Color Printer Pricing" as part of the 2009 BERTL's Best Awards. See news release.
Xerox Awarded Second Aberdeen Achievement Award
Xerox has been awarded the 2009 Performance Excellence Award from Aberdeen Group — the Best-in-Class award recognizes an enterprise for its superior performance and its focus on and automation of the strategic sourcing process. See news release.
Xerox Named to FTSE4Good Index
For 2009 Xerox met the FTSE4Good criteria for corporate responsibility, human rights, environmental actions, social and stakeholder engagement and countering bribery.
Xerox Named one of America's 100 Best Corporate Citizens
In Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine's tenth annual listing of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2009, Xerox ranked 16th, up from its 2007 rank of 49.
Office of General Counsel wins "Employer of Choice Award"
Xerox's Office of General Counsel has again been honored with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's Employer of Choice Award, recognizing Xerox's law department's diversity, as well as the company's overall efforts to promote a diverse workforce.
Xerox Receives Top Governance Rating from GMI
GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) released its new ratings and research reports for all 4,200 companies in their system. Xerox was one of the 43 companies, or one percent, that achieved an overall global rating of 10.0, the highest GMI assigns.
Xerox One of Human Rights Campaign's "Best Places to Work"
The Human Rights Campaign recognized Xerox as one of its 2009 Best Places to Work, distinguishing the company's workplace policies as fair-minded and equal.
Xerox Named to iSixSigma's Top 10 Best Places to Work
Xerox has been named to iSixSigma's list of Best Places to Work for Six Sigma professionals, ranking 7th, and noted for its supportive culture for Lean Six Sigma, talent and training.
Xerox Receives Outstanding Achievement Award for Energy Efficiency
In a comparative energy consumption evaluation conducted by the independent research organization Buyers Laboratory Inc., the Xerox WorkCentretm 7428 and WorkCentre 7435 both received an Outstanding Achievement Award for Energy Efficiency.
Xerox Recognized as an American Heart Association Fit Friendly Company
Xerox earned "gold-level" designation through the American Heart Association's Fit Friendly Company Program — "gold-level" recognition is for companies that fulfill criteria such as offering employees physical activity support, increasing healthy eating options at work and promoting a wellness culture.
Xerox Facilities in Dundalk, Ireland Honored with NISO Occupational Safety Award
Xerox's manufacturing, engineering and assembly facilities in Dundalk, Ireland won the 2009 National Irish Safety Organisation's Electronic/Electrical Manufacturing/Assembly Award for demonstrated effectiveness and superior performance in risk management, objectives, programs, management review and health and safety.
Trophée HORIZON 2009
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Newsweek Ranks Xerox in its Top 500 Green Rankings
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Xerox Places First on 2009 Green Outsourcing Survey List
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Xerox Products take "Editor's Choice, Readers' Choice" Awards
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Xerox Wins "Best of Show" Awards at On Demand 2009
Five digital printing products from Xerox and XMPie®, a Xerox business unit, were recognized in the On Demand 2009 Best of Show Awards — Xerox FreeFlowtm Express to Print, XMPie PersonalEffect® 4.6 software, the Xerox iGen4tm press, Xerox Nuveratm 200 EA Perfecting Production System, and XMPie's uStore® 3.5.
Xerox Applications Recognized for Digital Excellence
Xerox has been honored with 10 International Gallery awards from IAPHC, Inc., an independent network of graphic arts and printing professionals, for work created on Xerox digital systems including the iGen4tm, iGen3tm Digital Production Press, and the Xerox Nuveratm 288 EA Perfecting Production System.
Xerox Among "Most Admired for HR"
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'Fortune' Most Powerful Women 2009 List Includes Xerox CEO Ursula Burns
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Burns, Mulcahy Make Forbes List of Powerful Women
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Rift between RBI and Central Government – BEFI
November 1, 2018 By Vasanth Leave a Comment
RIFT BETWEEN RBI AND THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
BANK EMPLOYEES FEDERATION OF INDIA
NARESH PAUL CENTRE
53 Radha Bazar Lane, (1st Floor), Kolkata – 700 001
e-mail: pradipbefi@yahoo.co.in Website: www.befi.in
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Press Statement issued on 30th October 2018 by Shri Pradip Biswas,
General Secretary, Bank Employees Federation of India, at Kolkata,
ON THE RIFT BETWEEN RBI AND THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
We are disgusted, rather alarmed, at the public show of rift between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Central Govermment in recent months.
Based on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance (1926), as conceptualised by Dr. B.R.Ambedkar in his famous book, “The problem of the Rupee – its origin and its solution”, RBI was established in 1935 to take care of the financial troubles in the aftermath of the First World War. Since then it has been in charge of managing and regulating the currency and credit system, the monetary policy and foreign exchange reserves of the country; it also acts as the Banker to the Central and State Governments and exercises supervisory
and regulatory controls over the Banking System.
True to its policy of decimating all constitutional and other public institutions to suit its political agenda, the present dispensation at the centre has been out to undermining the autonomy and authority of RBI in all conceivable ways. It all started with the formation of the Monetary Policy Committee, in 2016, with three members nominated by the Centre, so as to gag the RBI’s absolute say in the matter of deciding interest rates. Then came the most ill-conceived demonetisation which, the RBI claimed to have been handed out to it by the Centre, a clear case of usurpation of authority of RBI in the matter of currency management.
To make RBI fall in line, Sri Nachiket Mor, a Director on the Board of RBI, was then removed more than two years before his term was to expire; at the same time, Sri S. Gurumurthy and Sri S. Marathe, having RSS-links, were inducted into the Board much to the displeasure of the Govornor. Then it has been flexing its muscles on the issues of management of Bad Loans (called NPA) of Banks and Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) thereagainst.
There are tussle, also, over Special Window for Dollar Sales to Oil Companies, over funding of Non-Banking Financial Companies, over formation of a separate Payment Regulator etc. To top it all, the Centre wants the RBI to transfer its reserves to the central exchequer; while RBI has made a pay-out of a whopping Rs.30,000/- crore this fiscal, the Centre demands at least Rs.66,000/- Crore which the RBI has declined. The list is almost unending but having one single objective of decimating the Reserve Bank of India, the Central Bank of the country.
While we do not subscribe to all the decisions of RBI at all times, there is no denying that the firm intervention by RBI has saved our economy from many a crisis, the latest being the global financial meltdown of 2008; we firmly believe that undermining RBI would, in its wake, bring about a costly disaster for our economy.
We, therefore, demand that the authority, autonomy and independence of RBI be further strengthened so as to enable it exercise more and stringent supervisory and regulatory control over the banking and monetary system in the best interest of our country.
For favour of circulation/broadcasting/telecasting through your esteemed media.
(Joydeb Dasgupta)
Source: BEFI
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Professional opinions: push-traffic market’s development prospects.
We love push traffic. There’s a lot of it, it converts well, it still hasn’t grown old among users like other formats have, but still there’s talk of push-notifications being at the end of their era. You always hear how with the upcoming Google Chrome browser update, it will be technically impossible to send notifications to users. So that the updates get out, but the traffic is still there.
So how are things really going and should we be worried? We asked those who work with this type of traffic on the frontlines: Business Owner of Push Notifications from PropellerAds Aleksandr Vasekin and MegaPush CEO Lev Artischev.
A little spoiler beforehand — the prospects are huge.
What do you see in the future of the push traffic market?
Aleksandr Vasekin. PropellerAds.
Recent trends show that users spend less and less time in the actual browser, instead moving their activity to various services and applications. One of those mechanisms is, as it happens, a new channel Push-Notifications.
Push-technology has to and will develop, at the moment it’s all “wild west” out there, especially when it comes to advertising. But this segment of the market is gradually forming the rules of the game, and in the end there will remain those players who are capable of providing quality results and taking users’ interests into account when sending out messages.
Lev Artischev. Megapush.
How do I see the future right now?
There are players who understand the market and do a lot of things to ensure that it thrives. But lately there’s been a lot of players that send out push notifications almost every 20 minutes. Sending notifications more frequently doesn’t mean earning more money, it just means getting more misclicking, thus lying to your advertisers and killing the market. 20 minutes is a catastrophe, and on top of everything it also makes users blind to the push notification. If you follow the market rules, it will only develop. Many are afraid that Google will tighten the screws and eradicate the market immediately, but that’s impossible. Push notifications have ties to not only the advertising networks, but also a lot of white services which will cause a collapse if they’re ever turned off. Additionally, a lot of google services work with the help of push notifications.
How will traffic be regulated on the browsers’ side?
This channel of communication utilizes a very large infrastructure, so it’s very unlikely that the channel will be turned off.
I think there will be more options to make it easier to unsubscribe from notifications, or to go through a double confirmation when first subscribing. This will regulate all spammers and will help users consciously subscribe to notifications when they’re really agreeing to it.
When it comes to browsers’ policies, we’re expecting the process of users subscribing to push-notifications to become harder. This policy will only become tougher. Another moment, when it comes to browsers, is the process of unsubscribing. The whole mechanism will become easier. Flow will be much more simple. For those players who work with the market properly, this will barely affect anything. But those who, as I said, flood users with push-notifications every 20 minutes, it will lead to a colossal loss in their user base and their business will be doomed. Otherwise, push-traffic already claimed a certain place in the advertising world, and at the moment it’s probably the third place in terms of volume and quality, after context and native ads. If that’s not how it already is, then we’re very close to it anyway.
Do you want to try push-traffic on your own? Now’s the perfect time to do it — on the 22nd of November at 6pm, we will tackle how to start working with push-notifications and immediately profit, step-by-step. Join us, it’ll be lit!
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As Community Development Organizations (CDOs) are the primary vehicle for development in low-income neighborhoods, scholars have begun to examine them in terms of the degree to which they increase citizen participation, increase civic capacity, as well as stabilize and revitalize neighborhoods through the creation of social capital. According to Putnam, civic action requires the existence of social capital; he defines social capital as "norms, trust, and networks." As Gittell and Vidal note, there has been a "virtual industry of interest and action created around the implication of Putnam's findings for the development of low-income communities."
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Federal Regiment
28th New York Infantry
Organized: Albany, NY; mustered in 05/22/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Lockport, NY 06/02/1863
Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Capt. William H. H. Mapes
This Regiment's Chain of Command:
Army - Army of the Potomac
Corps - Twelfth (XII) Army Corps
Division - 1st Division, XII Corps
Brigade - 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XII Corps
The Regiment was organized at Albany in early May 1861 in response to the first call for troops at the outbreak of War. They were mustered into Federal service for two years on 22 May.1
On the Antietam Campaign
By 4 September 1862, at the start of the Maryland Campaign, the Regiment had been decimated by casualties and disease. As a result, they were consolidated into 4 companies, commanded by Captains Fitzgerald, Fenn, Waller and Judd. Captain Mapes, recently returned from recruiting duty in New York was senior officer present and commanded the unit.
The Regiment saw no action at South Mountain on September 14th, and was only briefly under fire on the Federal right at Antietam on the 17th.1
Initial Strength: 65; Killed in Action (KIA): 2; Wounded (WIA): 9; Captured (POW): 1;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 18.5%
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Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #27: Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #28: Williams' Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #29: Crawford's Brigade, Williams' Division - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
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C Capt Mapes, William H. H.
D Pvt Chapman, Thomas J. MWIA 09/17
G Pvt Bryan, Benjamin WIA 09/17
M Pvt McCarty, James Died 09/24
Unk Pvt Coats, George Died 00/00
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1 Boyce, Charles William, A Brief History of the Twenty-eighth Regiment New York State Volunteers, First Brigade, First Division, Twelfth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Buffalo: C.W. Boyce, 1896 [AotW citation 685]
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Race Report: 2013 Heart of the Valley Triathlon
Submitted by Craig Dean –
The 2013 HOTV sprint triathlon was held five weeks earlier than in previous years, but maintained its excellent reputation as a well-organized, competitive event for a wide array of athletes. The Osborn Aquatic Center in Corvallis, OR once again hosted the multiple-wave pool swim where participants were treated to extra wide lanes in the 50-meter indoor pool. Local Northwest multi-sport legend Kirk Rose greeted the participants on the pool deck and bellowed instructions for everyone to hear. He worked with the official race director in explaining to competitors the 10-second send offs, passing etiquette and the route to the transition area. Kirk’s energy was contagious to many of those around him and especially to those who know his history in racing and overcoming personal health issues over the years.
The race had a clean start and a bit of shuffling in the lanes before each swimmer found their tempo. Daniel Hough started 10-seconds behind Ray Fiori, but managed to skip past him in the opening 100 meters allowing Fiori to embark on his pre-race strategy of clinging to Hough’s slipstream and enjoying the speed and comfort of the draft. Ray commented after the race that he had to press into anaerobic levels to catch Hough’s feet after each turn, but the benefits of the draft made the effort worth the while. The fastest swimmers made waves in lanes 9 and 10 with Karl Britsch leading Marco Ramirez and Brian Villarete out to transition. The transition area was clogged early with the top eight swimmers separated by 1:34. One of the pre-race favorites and defending TRI NW Sprint Champion, Nate Youngs, had the misfortune of swimming an extra lap, setting him behind his actual efforts.
The women’s race was tight as well. Mixed in with the male lane assignments, Robin Clevenger and Angie Smith exited the waters just seconds apart and quick on the heels of the leaders in the men’s field. Angie, currently training for Nationals in Milwaukee, WI this June and flying the banner for the state of Oregon at the event, has become a staple competitor for the overall win at most Northwest races she enters. Chasing the leaders into transition by 30 seconds was Kelsey Longrie and 10 seconds later, Kambria Schumacher. Schumacher was looking to make her mark on the hilly ride.
The bike course at HOTV may be a mile shorter than the typical sprint races, but it makes up for the distance with an aggressive elevation profile. After exiting transition and crossing a controlled intersection, the road pointed skyward in a quadricep burning incline that is just long enough to coax respect from the most accomplished cyclists. Ray, an experienced mountain bike rider and self-confessed specialist at the cycling leg of triathlons, took advantage of his slim frame to leap up the ascent while gobbling up the leading swimmers. Ray’s burning desire to establish the overall lead while on the bike was accomplished when he overtook Hough amongst the slopes at the midpoint of the ride. He ultimately grabbed the top bike split of the day with a 24.46mph average speed. I picked my way through the field while chasing relay rider Grant Eldridge. We eventually joined Hough who was riding in 2nd position overall for a spirited conclusion of the bike race. We were tightly trailed by a young upstart in the sport of triathlon, Marco Ramirez. Due to his start differential, Marco finished the ride in 3rd position overall and in contention for the podium.
The women transitioned well out of the pool and created separation early on the ride. Smith churned ahead of Clevenger and into the overall lead on the early slopes of the course. Her 21.31mph average speed was good enough to hold the overall lead into transition, but her gap on Schumacher became dangerously thin. Schumacher set the top women’s split with a 21.51mph average and whittled Smith’s lead down to 22 seconds heading into the run. Clevenger nailed down an impressive ride to hold onto 3rd position while Erica McKenzie made the biggest jump from deep in the field following the swim to 4th position after the ride.
In stark contrast to the undulating terrain of the bike course, the run was a pancake flat, two-loop course that offers a peaceful neighborhood setting with a few tight corners. It was difficult to site anybody except those in immediate proximity. The only evidence of Fiori’s solid lead on the pack of chasers came from a few of the more experienced spectators that clocked and communicated split times. To those hoping to catch Ray, the split information was not supportive. In Ray’s own words, “I made it hurt”. Fiori cruised to victory by nearly a full minute and a total time of 1:01:01. I finished 56 seconds behind the winner and Hough another 47 seconds behind me.
On the women’s side, Schumacher bolted out of transition and quickly established her tempo around the track which led out into the neighborhoods. In a slight alteration to the course from season’s past, the run segment started with a loop around the track rather than finishing on the rubberized surface. Schumacher continued her quick cadence and leapt into the lead to never look back. Her women’s best run split of 19:13 capped a winning day with an overall time of 1:07:19. Angie Smith laid down a solid run of her own to finish 30 seconds back of the lead and well clear of her nearest pursuer. McKenzie continued with her momentum off of the bike and transitioned in a flash before setting her targets on 3rd place. Her 20:05 run split matched that of Smith and catapulted her into a 3rd place overall finish.
Congratulations to everyone involved with the promotion, organization and execution of the event including both the AA Sports event staff and the folks at the Osborn Aquatic Center. The Heart of the Valley Triathlon provides a perfect opportunity for those looking for their first triathlon and a favorite for those looking to get an early season race under their belts. If you haven’t already, spread the word about the sport. It’s a lifestyle more than an event. It’s a community to be proud of and one that can be shared with many more.
For complete event results CLICK HERE.
Northwest News & Features, Race ReportsTags: Angie Smith, Craig Dean, Daniel Hough, Heart of the Valley Tri, Heart of the Valley Triathlon, HOTV Triathlon, Kambria Schumacher, pool triathlon, Robin Clevenger, sprint triathlon
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Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics
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Josef Hofbauer, Universität Wien, Austria
Karl Sigmund, Universität Wien, Austria
Date Published: June 1998
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Every form of behavior is shaped by trial and error. Such stepwise adaptation can occur through individual learning or through natural selection, the basis of evolution. Since the work of Maynard Smith and others, it has been realized how game theory can model this process. Evolutionary game theory replaces the static solutions of classical game theory by a dynamical approach centered not on the concept of rational players but on the population dynamics of behavioral programs. In this book the authors investigate the nonlinear dynamics of the self-regulation of social and economic behavior, and of the closely related interactions among species in ecological communities. Replicator equations describe how successful strategies spread and thereby create new conditions that can alter the basis of their success, i.e., to enable us to understand the strategic and genetic foundations of the endless chronicle of invasions and extinctions that punctuate evolution. In short, evolutionary game theory describes when to escalate a conflict, how to elicit cooperation, why to expect a balance of the sexes, and how to understand natural selection in mathematical terms.
Comprehensive treatment of ecological and game theoretic dynamics
Invasion dynamics and permanence as key concepts
Explanation in terms of games of things like competition between species
"...something for anyone interested in game models in organismal biology." Nature
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"For the biologist who is mathematically inclined or the mathematician interested in biology...this volume is rich in results and likely to provoke stimulating thought." The Quarterly Review of Biology
contains: 20 b/w illus.
Introduction for game theorists
Introduction for biologists
Part I. Dynamical Systems And Lotka-Volterra Equations:
1. The logistic equation
2. Lotka-Volterra for predator-prey systems
3. Lotka-Volterra for two competitors
4. Ecological equations for two species
5. Lotka-Volterra for more than two populations
Part II. Game Dynamics And Replicator Equations:
6. Evolutionarily stable strategies
7. Replicator equations
8. Other game dynamics
9. Adaptive dynamics
10. Asymmetric conflicts
11. More on bimatrix games
Part III. More On Lotka-Volterra And Replicator Dynamics:
12. Hypercircles and permanence
13. Criteria for permanence
14. Replicator networks
15. Stability in n-species communities
16. Some low-dimensional ecological systems
17. Heteroclinic cycles and C-matrices
Part IV. Population Genetics:
18. Discrete dynamical systems in population genetics
19. Continuous selection dynamics
20. Mutation and recombination
21. Fertility selection
22. Game dynamics for Mendelian populations
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Evolutionary Game Theory, Natural Selection, and Darwinian Dynamics
Introduction to Population Biology
Models and Games
Economics in Nature
Social Dilemmas, Mate Choice and Biological Markets
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Democracy from Above
Regional Organizations and Democratization
Author: Jon C. Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hardback, eBook
Since the momentous events of the late 1980s, democratic transition has been a widely studied phenomenon. Most scholars who have investigated the causes and implications of the global trend to democracy have argued that domestic politics is the leading determinant in the success or failure of transitions to democracy. In this book, Jon Pevehouse argues that international factors, specifically regional organizations, play an important role in the transition to and endurance of democracy. Domestic elites use membership of regional organizations to advance the cause of democracy since these organizations can manipulate the costs and benefits of democracy to important societal groups such as business elites or the military. Six cases (Hungary, Peru, Greece, Paraguay, Guatemala, and Turkey) examine the causal processes behind the statistical association between regional organizations and democratization. These findings bridge international relations and comparative politics while also providing guidelines for policy-makers who wish to use regional organizations to promote democracy.
Confronts current controversial political issues such as the ability of international actors to export democracy
Combines insight from different theoretical traditions within political science: comparative politics and international relations
Contains a strong mix of both statistical and case study material
'Democracy from Above bridges disciplinary and methodological categories in a smart and thorough way. Students of both international organisations and democratisation will have to contend with the book's convincing conclusions, and policy-makers should as well.' The Review of International Organizations
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4. Regional organizations and the transition to democracy
5. Regional organizations and the transition to democracy: evidence from cases
6. Regional organizations and democratic consolidation
7. Regional organizations and the consolidation of democracy: evidence from cases
8. Conclusion.
Index (82 KB)
Table of Contents (43 KB)
Jon C. Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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MMA fighter's Marine background not everything it was said to be
By on May 8, 2010 Marine Corps Marathon, Mixed martial arts
Ken Alexander (Photo provided by Pure Combat)
Camp Pendleton hosted a free mixed martial arts show Friday night. The card included a number of former Marines, including Kenneth Alexander, who lost his fight by techinical knockout in the second round.
Turns out the loss may be the least of his problems right now.
A Marine Corps Times reader disputed published reports that said Alexander was a sniper, that he had deployed twice to Iraq and Afghanistan, and that he had served with the Special Forces. So Marine Corps Times spoke to the fighter earlier this week, and Alexander acknowledged that none of that was true, that he’d only deployed to Kuwait and Kyrgyzstan, and that he wasn’t a sniper. Alexander essentially blamed the media for misrepresenting his past. But a new video indicates that Alexander may have a little more explaining to do.
See the full story over at the Battle Rattle blog.
Military MMA roundup: ‘Sniper’ update, Tim Johnson’s next fight, former Marine suspended, more
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We are a team of musicians, composers, producers and music supervisors providing music for a wide range of projects along with being one of the official music suppliers to the BBC. With dozens of composers working for us along with two dedicated music supervisors, a head of audio, an audio engineer and a Musical Director, no job is too big for us.
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Marc Madnick moved to Los Angeles in 1986 to follow his dream of being a screenwriter. Like many aspiring and professional screenwriters of the time, he found the process of writing a script trying and time-consuming. The problem was not a lack of ideas, but rather the lack of any word-processor capable of automatically formatting a script to Hollywood’s stringent standards. This experience led Madnick and former partner Ben Cahan to the creation of Final Draft, a fully dedicated screenwriting software application that automatically formats your script to Hollywood’s industry standards. A very strategic marketer, Madnick knew that if he could convince Hollywood’s heaviest hitters (Tom Hanks, Oliver Stone, and Lawrence Kasdan, to name a few) that Final Draft software will save them time and money, he’d have a chance at success. Just five years after its inception and Madnick’s aggressive marketing campaign, Final Draft screenwriting software had become the entertainment industry standard for screenwriting and the market leader among its competitors worldwide. With the company now in its 25th year and the ninth version of the software, Final Draft, the application and its brand, continues to grow in popularity and into new markets throughout the world.
In 2013, Final Draft was awarded the prestigious Prime time Emmy Engineering Award. In 2016, Final Draft was acquired by Cast & Crew Entertainment Services. Based in Burbank, California, and with offices across the U.S. and in Canada, Cast & Crew is a trusted partner to major and independent film and television studios. Cast & Crew provides clients with a robust portfolio of critical services. These include payroll and residuals processing, the industry-leading PSL production accounting system and other software, as well as financial services such as production incentive consulting, administration and financing. Cast & Crew continues to accelerate its investment in technology, supported by majority shareholder Silver Lake Partners, the global leader in technology investing, which acquired Cast & Crew in mid-2015.
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Government Video Expo
Now in its 20th year, Government Video Expo showcases video, broadcast, audio, display, streaming, and delivery technologies on its exhibit floor, while also providing a broad range of educational options for media professionals working in television and production for federal, state and local government, education, law enforcement and education. Offering complimentary admission for qualified professionals, Government Video Expo is firmly established as the premier media technology event for the Mid-Atlantic area, with three days of conferences, keynotes, training sessions, product demonstrations, panel discussions, and networking events.
NewBay Media, LLC
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Since 1993 the name MAGIX has stood for user-friendly multimedia software. Our product range includes seamlessly integrated online mobile and cloud services as well as digital content. We place value on outstanding price-performance ratios in order to offer perfect solutions for the creation, design, presentation and archiving of digital photos, graphics, websites, video and music. That goes for both beginners and professional users.
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MovieMaker Magazine
MovieMaker Magazine is the nation’s leading resource on the art and business of making movies and the world’s most widely read independent film magazine. MovieMaker’s content is directed at the audience as well as the artist, and its lively mix of interviews, trend-setting criticism, DIY techniques, festival coverage, distribution and financing tips, behind-the-scenes indie “war stories” and appreciations of classic Hollywood actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, screenwriters and editors makes MovieMaker Magazine a perennial favorite and trusted brand with cinema artists and discriminating film fans everywhere.
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Quick Film Budget
Why Use Quick Film Budget? TIME and MONEY. Filmmakers’ time is valuable and their resources are limited. Whether you’re a professional screenwriter, director or producer or a first timer looking to break in, the process of creating a film budget could take a month and be quite costly. Quick Film Budget (QFB) will generate your budget in a matter of seconds. You will quickly be on your way to creating the right presentation to show investors, producers or studios.
Before you score your big spec sale or close any pay-or-play deal, there is no need to start spending big money on a film project. Film budgets can cost as much as thousands of dollars to create but Quick Film Budget instantly delivers a professional, customized budget for the low cost of $199.
How Does QFB Work? QFB allows the user to customize the budget specifically to his or her own screenplay or movie project details through a series of questions.
Each completed film budget will include a personalized topsheet and a fully detailed production budget. The detailed production budget includes development costs, talent costs, prep period budget, shooting period production budget, post-production budget, financing costs, contingency costs and total above-the-line and below-the-line breakdowns. Then, the filmmaker can request a modifiable version in Microsoft Excel, iWork Numbers, Entertainment Partners Movie Magic Budgeting or Showbiz Budgeting.
11301 W. Olympic Blvd., #459
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At Red Giant, we make tools, films and training to enrich the community of filmmakers and motion designers. For our own award-winning short films, we create new software to fill our needs. Then we make those products available for everyone else, helping artists create the perfect look that matches their story. Red Giant develops tools that make the filmmaking process faster, more secure, more accurate and just more fun. For over 10 years, we have built software for motion design, color correction, visual effects and photography that is used for everything from major motion pictures to worldwide television programming to web production. To learn more, and to join the Red Giant community, please visit us at www.redgiant.com. You can also join us on Facebook (RedGiantSoftware), follow us on Twitter (@RedGiantNews) , watch our films (www.redgiant.com/films) and get free content at Redgiantpeople.com.
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Roti Modern Mediterranean
We created Roti for a reason: To share our love of the Mediterranean’s delicious flavors, wholesome ingredients, and bright spices. This is food you’ll love to eat and makes you feel great. Check out their Facebook and Instagram.
1311 F Street NW,
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SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. With national offices in Los Angeles and New York, and local offices nationwide, SAG-AFTRA members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.
1900 Broadway, 5th Floor
(between 63rd and 64th streets)
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Studio Binder
The world’s most intuitive film production management service. Create and share script breakdowns, shooting schedules, shot lists, storyboards, personalized call sheets and more.
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The Lookout is a video collective that operates like a co-working space for independent video professionals and boutique production companies. We’ve built a strong community for video industry craftspeople that facilitates greater opportunities, more work, and actual ‘creative’ collaboration. The Lookout was formed in late 2012 after it’s founders completed their largest project to date, The Garden of Steven. Since then we’ve grown into a large family of filmmakers housed in our three story studio in Adams Morgan.
2439 18th St NW - Upstairs
Adams Morgan, DC 20009
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The Tracking Board
(TB) The Tracking Board is Hollywood’s #1 source for insider news and exclusives, tracking, analysis and coverage on all things film, television and entertainment. Home to the most robust spec market tracking, in development coverage, annual best lists, reviews, reports, opinions and daily news as it happens.
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Tshirtist
tshirtist.com provides over 20 years’ experience in screenprinting on t-shirts, hoodies, and all kinds of other garments.
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Zacuto creates production grade, filmmaking camera accessories. Our gear is made entirely in the USA, designed by filmmakers for filmmakers. Zacuto creates production grade, filmmaking camera accessories. Our gear is made entirely in the USA, designed by filmmakers for filmmakers. It comes with an unparalleled lifetime warranty and our world renowned customer service. We have a singular philosophy on camera rig design—balance! Our Next Generation Recoil® rig is compatible with every camera, from a tiny mirrorless to the largest cinema camera. The one rig for all your cameras. Zacuto’s original designs free filmmakers to focus on innovation, inspiration, and creativity.
Zacuto Office and Rental Department
401 W Ontario St, Suite 100
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ZICO Coconut Water
The story of ZICO® Coconut Water ; begins in Central America, where, while volunteering with the Peace Corps, founder Mark Rampolla took notice that the locals regularly drank sweet coconut water for replenishment. Back in the States, in 2004, Mark left his corporate career to create ZICO® Coconut Water, initially selling it out of a van to New York City yoga studios. He couldn’t make it quickly enough; customers were hooked on its refreshing taste and hydrating benefits. The story goes on to Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, where our suppliers source coconuts from hundreds of local farmers and work directly with coconut plantations – many that have been in families for generations to bring you crisp, delicious ZICO. Our story continues with you. We’re passionate about finding ways to help everyone achieve the balance they need throughout the day, and think ZICO’s hydration benefits can be one small step towards that balance, whether you seek them out in your cubicle, at the kitchen table, after a run, or in a moment to yourself.
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Asia Nine
Asia Nine’s design draws inspiration from different Asian cultures. Jewel tones and rich woods envelop guests with a warm and exotic atmosphere. Elements of Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, and Vietnamese including a full service sushi bar, bar & lounge. Asia Nine’s named for its location near 9th Street on E (in Chinatown DC), Asia Nine sits just around the block from the Ford’s Theatre and a short walk from the Verizon Center. Serving lunch, dinner, late night and brunch, including a full service raw bar and extensive sake menu, the Nuevo Asian cuisine as “Asian-Asian Fusion”. The menu features elements of Thai, Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese, just to name a few. Asia Nine guests enjoy signature entrées such as the tender Asia Nine Lamb Chops, seasoned with house spice rub, grilled and served with mango-soy coulis, and potato nest with mint oil and the Miso Honey Duck Breast, marinated in miso honey and fresh herbs and laced with a sake butter sauce, Hoisin BBQ Ribs, Miso Honey Duck Breast, Pad Thai, Singapore Fried Rice and spicy Kapow. Dessert items include Thai Tiramisu, and Sesame-Ginger Cheesecake.
915 E. Street, NW
Tel: (20) 629-4355
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For over 50 years, Backstage has been the most trusted place for actors and performers to find jobs and career advice, and for casting professionals and talent seekers to find the right performers for their projects. Today, Backstage is the largest online casting platform in the United States, with over 4,000 roles posted every week, and over 100,000 members building their careers on the platform. Casting professionals can take advantage of sophisticated application management tools to make the job of finding the perfect performer a breeze.
CASTING YOU CAN TRUST
At Backstage, a team of casting experts review each casting notice posted to ensure the quality and legitimacy of the project, and to quickly reject any illegitimate listings. No other casting service takes the steps we do to protect performers. We take the safety and privacy of our members seriously, with the customer success team always available to respond to any questions or issues you may have on your journey as a performer.
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Bar Deco
Inspired by the art deco period and America’s industrial roots, the Bar Deco team is committed to bringing simple food and drink to the next level by mixing traditional preparation with globally-inspired flavors. Whether you are grabbing drinks after work with colleagues on our rooftop, meeting friends for dinner, or having a bite to eat before a game or concert across the street at the Verizon Center, you’ll find a warm, welcoming atmosphere at Bar Deco.
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Barbizon Lighting Company
Barbizon Lighting Company has been providing professional lighting and rigging equipment for over 65 years. Professionals from all industries turn to our team for lighting equipment, expendables, systems and rigging. Our expertise goes beyond equipment, as we provide ideas and solutions for entertainment and architectural projects. Whether you work in the television, film, theatre, museum, house of worship or architectural lighting communities, Barbizon Lighting has the knowledge, expertise, and service that sets us apart. We not only provide equipment, expendables and accessories, but we also offer complete system integration, installation, commissioning, technical services, and support after the job is complete. We’re here to provide lighting and rigging equipment for most any application.
6437 G General Green Way
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Bring Your Own Cocktail (BYOC)
Bring Your Own Cocktail is a craft cocktail company producing ready-to-drink, single serve cocktails you can enjoy anywhere, at anytime. Our cocktails are made with the finest ingredients; fresh-squeezed fruit juices, premium alcohols and made from scratch simple syrups to add a touch of sweetness. We prepare our cocktails in small batches to ensure the finished product is of the highest quality.
Hamlin & Sussex LLC
703 Edgewood Street, NE
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Everyone knows that New York City is the home of the best-tasting, most authentic bagels anywhere. So when the idea for Bruegger’s was born in in 1983, the first thing we did was head for the Big Apple. We learned the time-honored, traditional methods that had made New York famous for bagels like kettle-cooking the bagels, then baking in a real stone hearth oven. We spent two and a half years working with a professional bagel baker to perfect our recipe and process. Then we set off on our mission to introduce the authentic taste of New York-style bagels to the rest of America. But our neighboring state played an important role, too. Real made-in-Vermont cream cheese provides the smooth, delicious foundation for a dozen unique blends you’ll find only in our bakeries. From Onion & Chive to Jalapeño to Bacon Scallion, there’s a spread to complement every bagel — and every craving.
Bruegger's
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California Tortilla
We are California Tortilla and we are Mexican Re-Imagined. From the ingredients, to the preparation, to customer service, we’ve re-imagined them all to transform a “quick bite” into a mouth-watering, crave-inducing, I can’t wait to come back experience.
THE FLAVOR / Our Chef-Inspired Creations blend flavors from around the world with the best of Mexican. At Cal Tort you’ll find addictive combinations like Honey Lime, Korean BBQ and our signature California Screamin’. And just in case you are looking to turn up the heat on your favorite dish, Cal Tort is home to the Wall of Flame with 75 hot sauces.
THE PREP / Our ingredients take the definition of fresh to a new level- no freezers, #1 Hass avocados, Roma Tomatoes, all white meat chicken breast, Grade A Sirloin steak. We chop, slice and smash by hand. No large batch-cooking here. We make everything in small batches throughout the day, so it’s fresh and tasty.
THE EXPERIENCE /
Guests aren’t a number at Cal Tort. They are individuals… people, and people that we really like and want to see again. From the time you walk in the restaurant to the moment you leave, we will do whatever we can to make your time with us great. Smiles, questions answered, menu suggestions offered and warm genuine service. And expect to have some fun. From promotions like pop-tart day, to the Monday Night Wheel and Burrito Elito rewards, we keep things interesting. We are California Tortilla and we invite you to experience Mexican Re-Imagined.
728 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
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The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s (CHAW’s) mission is to build community through the arts. It is a community-based, not-for-profit organization founded in 1972 by Sally Crowell and other community members who were interested in sharing their artistic expertise with children and adults. Arts instruction classes were held in several Capitol Hill churches until, in the late 1970’s, the organization obtained the use of the old B.B. French School (545 Seventh St, SE) from the District of Columbia government. CHAW embarked on an extensive renovation of the facility (which had been closed for many years) through a partnership with the Marines of the 8th & I Street Barracks, neighborhood businesses, and local residents. Federal financial support from the U.S. Department of the Interior helped to fund the endeavor. The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop moved into the fully renovated building in 1980.
The Workshop facility includes a dance studio (which doubles as a recital hall), paint studio, black box theater, art gallery, complete ceramics/pottery studio, a photography darkroom (the only “open” darkroom in D.C.), private music instruction studios, and business offices.The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop is located in a racially and economically diverse neighborhood. Students, artists, faculty, audiences, and staff come from diverse communities throughout the Capital Region – and especially from Capitol Hill. CHAW is continually evolving to meet the needs of the community.
545 7th Street, SE
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Carlyn Davis Casting
Carlyn Davis Casting stands alone as the “Go To” Casting company in this market. Our casting staff has extensive experience in film and video production. Our president, Carlyn Davis, is a member of C.S.A., on the Board of Emmy’s and has been Casting in this market since 1992.
The thousands of talent presented in this interactive website are freelance and a good representation of what the 2nd largest Equity market in the nation has to offer.
We have pre-auditioned each person presented here. You can find not only your Dayplayers and Hosts, but your Voice Over Artists, Models and even Background performers. This site is an excellent Casting Tool for Producers. We know this market’s talent. We understand our clients needs. We can find the right talent for every role and are the strongest Casting Team you will find in the DC/MD/VA region.
Carlyn Davis
124 E. Broad Street., Unit C-2
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Cinematcher
Cinematcher is a matchmaking app for film, T.V. and digital media jobs and events. Our unique algorithm and swiping coupled with our Geo locator enables users to hire and get hired for projects – in an instant, all over the world. Cinematcher is a mobile application for smartphones and tablets that seamlessly matches a diverse pool of candidates to projects based on their unique profiles and experiences. Breaking into the industry and locating and retaining talent has never been as easy or cost effective. This application is an essential tool for any prospective or current member of the industry.
Lights. Camera. Connect.
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GOOD FOOD…CRAFTED WITH A PURPOSE
At Clif, we’re passionate about food. Food that feeds and inspires the adventure in all of us. Whether you’re going on a hike, hitting the slopes, or competing in a triathlon, our recipes are purposefully crafted to help provide the energy you need.
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Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center
ABOUT US / Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center (CHACC), was established to explore arts and culture of people of the African Diaspora (descendants of people from Africa), specifically, communities of African Americans, residing East of the Anacostia River. CHACC’s purpose is to develop and expand cultural and artistic opportunities for residents, beginning in Ward 8 and expanding to Ward 7. One of the most urgent needs and highest priorities of CHACC is to weave children and youth into the fabric of the economic revitalization occurring in communities in Wards 7 and 8.
OUR MISSION / CHACC’s mission is to expose, inspire and educate both youth and adults to the rich arts and cultural opportunities in Wards 7 and 8, from a historical and modern day prospective. The center is a catalyst in igniting creativity, balance, and economic prosperity, east of the Anacostia River.
3200 MLK Avenue, SE
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Eat Good, Do Good
Cosi is more than flatbread sandwiches and signature salads – we’re a family of foodies committed to making the world a better place.
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District Taco
Always Fresh, Always Mexican
In 2009, two neighbors got together over some homemade chips, salsa and guacamole and decided to launch District Taco as a food truck. District Taco has since grown and now operates multiple locations in and around Washington DC. Our mission is to serve quality Mexican (Yucatan style!) food that is fresh, simple and healthy. All of our food is made fresh daily from quality ingredients. We strive to limit our impact on the environment by serving in environmentally-friendly packaging where possible. If at any time your experience at District Taco is less than the best, please come speak with us and let us know so we can make it right. You may also contact us at taco@districttaco.com. As we say, “Orale!” which roughly translates to “Right On!”
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EagleBank
We were founded on the realization that banks were largely failing their communities because they were simply not part of them. So with a desire to change that, we set a new standard for banking. These standards are the reason we’ve become the go-to community bank in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC, and we hope to continue serving the people and businesses around us.
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Ford’s Theater
The site of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Visit Ford’s Theatre and step back in time. While at our historic site, you will learn about the events of April 14, 1865, and the lasting impact of Lincoln’s assassination on our nation. We are a popular Washington, D.C., tourist destination and welcome more than 650,000 visitors a year. Ford’s Theatre presents live theatre on stage regularly, so our daily visit schedule varies.
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GALA Hispanic Theater
GALA (Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos) Hispanic Theatre is a National Center for Latino Performing Arts in the nation’s capital. Since 1976 GALA has been promoting and sharing the Latino arts and cultures with a diverse audience, creating work that speaks to communities today, and preserving the rich Hispanic heritage for generations that follow. By developing and producing works that explore the breadth of Latino performing arts, GALA provides opportunities for the Latino artist, educates youth, and engages the entire community in an exchange of ideas and perspectives. GALA has staged over 200 productions, ranging from classical Spanish theater to contemporary Latin American plays, original musicals, and works by local Latino youth; toured elementary schools with bilingual children’s programs; and participated in national and international theater festivals.
GALA partners regularly with other local arts groups, including the In Series, Young Playwrights’ Theater, and Washington Performing Arts Society, with whom it co-presents the annual ArteAmericA series. Over the years, ArteAmericA has introduced Washington D.C. audiences to over 100 established and cutting-edge performing artists, including Tito Puente, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Lila Downs, and Gilberto Gil, and provided hundreds of local school children the opportunity to participate in workshops with these talents.
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Gediyon Kifle
Gediyon Kifle is a Washington, D.C.-based award-winning photography whose client list and published work include: Gourmet, Elle a’la Carte, Savoy, The Times Picayune and the Washington Post magazine. His work can be found in private collections and museums throughout the United States and Africa.
923 F Street NW, Suite 201
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Green Hat Distilled Gin
New Columbia Distillers is a family business owned by Michael Lowe and his wife, Melissa Kroning and John Uselton and his wife, Elizabeth Lowe. John and Michael come to their passion for craft distilling by wearing many hats in the restaurant and liquor business—not to mention the military and legal worlds. From Houston to Boston to Washington, John has worked in all capacities of front-of-house restaurant work—from humble busboy to award-winning bar- tender to savvy manager. Michael spent a couple of years on a Navy submarine and a few more at private DC law firms. He retired from the law in 2008, bought himself several cocktail books and started investigating the art and science of distilling.
In 2011 John and Michael were the first to bring craft distilling to DC. After a brief apprenticeship with Dry Fly Distillery, they located a home for their distillery in a 90-year-old warehouse near the Art Deco landmark Hecht Co. warehouse on New York Ave. When they learned the history of The Man In The Green Hat, they knew they had a name for DC’s own signature gin.
New Columbia Distillers LLC
1832 Fenwick St. NE
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Half Pops
WE ARE A SMALL TEAM OF PEOPLE WHO EMBRACE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION – WE JUST HAPPEN TO REALLY LOVE FOOD. It all started with an idea, a slightly obsessed founder, some uncooked popcorn and lots and lots of testing. Mike Fitzgerald (Fitz) was on a mission to perfect the process on how to create a crunchier version of popcorn…you know, the best part. Conceptually, it sounds pretty easy to do…but easy, it wasn’t, or someone probably would’ve figured this out a long time ago. Fitz was crazy about the idea (and possibly a little crazy in general) so he built a small factory hoping to find the perfect popcorn crunch. A couple of years and tens of thousands of pounds of popcorn later, he finally nailed it! Family and friends around Seattle were gobbling it up. Since all great ideas deserve such treatment a US Patent was filed, a brand name was created (Halfpops…genius) and Halfpops were available in stores in April of 2011. The business was born.
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Hint Water
We love our tasty water that’s 100% natural goodness. hint water is water, just more delicious. hint water and hint fizz have 0 sugar, 0 diet sweeteners, 0 stevia, 0 preservatives, 0 calories, and 0 gmos. we promote a policy of 0 fake (and we’re super proud of it!). hint is pure wholesome water with nothing but natural fruit oils and essences – now there’s a hintcentive you can happily drink to!
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Honeygrow
honeygrow is about thinking different when it comes to our approach, our style + our people. Founded by Justin Rosenberg in Philadelphia in 2012, honeygrow brings people together over the highest quality, wholesome, simple foods. As a newly converted proponent of a plant-based diet and tired of the mediocrity in both food and experiences presented by many of the older + emerging fast dining options, Justin decided to leave the cubicle world, train in a fine-dining kitchen, and pursue a life that spoke to his passion: creating awesome things through the lens of nourishing foods.
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Impact Hub Washington DC is a membership community of entrepreneurs, activists, creatives, and professionals taking action to drive positive social, economic and environmental change. Members have access to a local & global community of change agents, coworking space options (including amenities such as wifi, coffee/tea, privacy booths, printing & more), frequent events, discounted event & meeting space rentals & more. Visit ‘Become a Member’ to view full benefits & pricing. Impact Hub Washington DC is a certified B Corporation. Being a B Corp strengthens our resolve to achieve higher social & environmental standards, and empowers others in our community to do the same. Learn more about B Corps.
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In3 is the District of Columbia’s first community space focused on inclusion, innovation and incubation. The incubator is committed to creating a collaborative environment where under-resourced members have access to the space and services needed to build or grow a successful business. In3 will improve the business landscape in the District by providing members with the right tools and access to financial, technical and professional resources.
2301-D Georgia Ave, NW
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IndieFlix brings engaging stories to movie lovers around the world. IndieFlix has over 8,000 high quality shorts, features, documentaries, classic TV and web series from 85 countries, 2500 film festivals and the top film schools. Founded by filmmakers, IndieFlix is a membership-based streaming service that has become one of the most meaningful global online platforms. IndieFlix is a pioneer in the industry, paying filmmakers for every minute their movie is watched in a win-win model that increases filmmaker’s payout as the company grows. You can watch on the free IndieFlix app available in the Apple and Google app stores, on any internet connected device, and on home entertainment systems with Roku, Apple TV (Airplay) and more.
4314 E. Madison St.
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Kimberley Skyrme Entertainment
Kimberly sees herself as an Artist, she paints her canvas with People. Her acting background enhances her skills for communicating the specific language used between directors and actors. Combining her love of filmmaking and her ability to find the “right face for the right place” she continues to work around the clock on current and future projects. She works directly with Producers and Directors during the development, creative, and pre-production phases. Personal attention is paid to all phases of casting from the initial meeting to hear the Director’s vision, to talent selection, audition logistics and post production needs. In addition to the pre-screening of talent and creative selection of the most qualified actors, her services also include live, video, or audio auditions. Kimberly facilitates and attends all auditions and call back sessions. She and her team can handle rehearsal schedules, script delivery, wardrobe requirements, fittings, final call times, directions and location information.
University Park, MD 20782
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Kimberly Skyrme Casting
Kimberly began her career as a Casting Director in 1990, after graduating from American University in Washington DC as a Theatre Major with a minor in Modern Dance, her roots started at Central Casting, and in 1993 she started her own company, Capital Casting. With help of many wonderful Actors, she has worked on film, television, and radio projects in cities across the US for major movie studios, advertising agencies, and numerous regional film companies. Her unceasing dedication toward the art of professional casting has earned her a long-standing reputation in the industry, as well as life-long friendships. She has supported studio features, independent films, commercials, videos, and well known TV series. Her portfolio includes work on Deep Impact, Hearts in Atlantis, Beloved, Pelican Brief, True Lies, Unsolved Mysteries, Death of a Nation, Group House, Camouflage, and a Bud Light commercial. She has also garnered kudos for her work in music videos, games, interactive programs, training videos, radio and theatre.
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LumaForge
We are a group of filmmakers, editors, colorists, and creatives building the tools we need to tell our stories. There are server companies that have gone into the movie business, and then there are movie people who’ve gone into the server business… we are the latter. If you asked any of us a few years ago whether we thought we’d be running a technology company we’d have laughed you out of the room. Storage and servers are boring, not sexy at all, and have very little to do with actually making movies. Besides, at the time everything seemed to be working well enough; movies were getting made, nobody was complaining too much, and if we just kept buying bigger hard drives every couple of years we’d be right as rain. Then came cheap 4K, FCPX , Resolve, Creative Cloud and “collaborative workflow” and the cracks began to show. The computers were fast enough, and the software was amazing, but there was something holding us back… can you guess what it was?
We didn’t need bigger hard drives and faster RAID’s, what we needed was for everyone to work together from one place; we needed to collaborate. Well, too bad. Soon the idea of buying a never-ending supply of external hard drives to go with our new cameras bummed us out no matter what version of Thunderbolt it supported. If nobody was going to give us what we wanted, we would have to do it ourselves. Over the last 4 years we reluctantly became experts on anything and everything related to storage, networking, workflow, and digital filmmaking. We’ve tested, broken, and bricked more expensive pieces of silicon and asked more dumb questions to very smart people than we’d care to admit, but our cause was noble. We just want a better way to make movies.
During our R&D phase we realized that even the “big guys” with their half-million dollar SANs and complex fibre channel networks weren’t happy either. Editors on a shared network practically needed an IT degree to cut a movie, as well as anger management classes to cope with beachballs and latency. It turns out this storage problem was much bigger than we thought, and it became crystal clear that the storage technology that made the digital revolution possible a decade ago wasn’t going to cut it in today’s world of modern content creation and consumption. The entire model had to be reimagined; we were back to the drawing board. Fast-forward to today and you’ve got a technology company run by story tellers who are constantly trying to push the envelope. We hope you like what we’ve done.
– Sam, Eric & Josh
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Miracle Theatre
The Miracle Theatre is located on Capitol Hill in the historic Barracks Row neighborhood. The original building, the Meader Theater, opened on December 27, 1909 as a vaudeville theatre with a mix of entertainment, including motion pictures and live performances. The building continued to operate as a movie theatre under several names until 1960: Meader, New Meader, Family and Academy. During the theatre’s many transitions and renovations it showed a variety of films including silent, triple-feature westerns and in the late 1950s, foreign films. In 1962, The People’s Church purchased the building and served the Capitol Hill community for half a century. On March 23, 2011, National Community Church purchased it, launching its seventh location in the metro DC area and embarking on a mission to revive the building’s rich history as a movie house and live entertainment destination.
The Miracle Theatre is a second-run movie theater and live performance venue, and the newest oldest movie theater in Washington, DC. Albert Einstein once said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” A well-created story transports. It provokes thought and invites us to reimagine. It inspires and beckons us to experience the everyday miracles all around. At The Miracle, we celebrate great art, music, and storytelling that is beautiful, truthful, aspirational, or just plain fun. Come to The Miracle and be transported. Let us make your day miraculous
35 8th Street, SE
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Pond5 is a New York based online marketplace for royalty-free media. The company licenses royalty-free footage, music, sound effects, after effects, images and 3-D models. It is reported to have the world’s largest collection of stock footage.
80 Fifth Avenue, 18th floor
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Potter’s House
The Potter’s House is a nonprofit café, bookstore, and event space in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. Since opening our doors in 1960 we have been a key place for deeper conversation, creative expression, and community transformation. After closing in 2013 for major renovations, The Potter’s House re-opened in spring 2015 with a renewed space and revitalized offerings. In our rapidly changing city – one in which development so often means displacement – The Potter’s House is a deeply rooted space where we can build relationships across our differences, envision just alternatives, and grow the movements that will make them possible.
1658 Columbia Road, NW
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Pro Cuts Editing Services
We at Pro Cuts Editing Services pride ourselves in our specialized approach to video post production. We offer Professional Video Editing, Multimedia, Graphics, custom Blu Ray/DVD Authoring, Replication and Duplication, Streaming Video, Edit Suite Rentals, Web Design and Development, PowerPoint/Keynote Slideshows along with consultation, internet-based research and digital storage solutions, making us a great stress reliever for all who want to make their video shine. For videographers and photographers, we are the perfect way to elevate those final hour frustrations. Many have found themselves busy with shoots and inevitably behind in their editing work. Working with our firm, will reduce your post production tension. We are your partner, not your competitor. For non-professional videographers and photographers, we pride ourselves in providing educated editing for your video. Thereby, making your perfect lasting memory. Serving Annapolis, Baltimore, Washington, DC, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond.
2138 Priest Bridge Court, Suite 1
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Route 11 Chips
From the moment we dropped our first batch of chips back in the early days of 1992, we understood our destiny as a high quality producer. Instead of succumbing to the frenzy of mass production, we took advantage of our small size and made chipping our personal art form. The payoff was immediate: an incredible potato chip!
If you’re already a Route 11 fan, thank you for keeping us so busy here in chip land. And, if you’ve never had a Route 11 potato chip, it’s about time!! Here you can order online, find a store near you that carries Route 11, get directions to our factory, learn about our goal of becoming a waste free facility, or just read about how we got started in this unusual business.
With a secret recipe and superior ingredients, our mission is to make an outstanding product in a safe and clean environment. In this world of uncertainty that we live in, we believe comfort food should be just that. Know where your food comes from!
11 Edwards Way
Mount Jackson, VA 22842
Tel: 1-800-294-SPUD
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Snacklins
Whether you call them cracklings, pork rinds, scratchings or chicharones, your VEGAN & GLUTEN-FREE option has now arrived!
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Spot Hero
SpotHero is an on-demand parking mobile app- and website-based marketplace that connects parking lots, parking garages and valet services that comprise the marketplace for parking spaces with drivers who need to find and reserve them. We recommend reserving parking in advance with SpotHero!
To reserve your parking spot today, visit the E Street Cinema SpotHero Parking Page to book parking with rates up to 50% off drive-up. New to SpotHero? Download the SpotHero iPhone | Android app and enter promo code DCSHORTS for an extra $5 off parking!
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Student Filmmaker Magazine
Our goal is to inspire, educate and promote motion picture production and artistry. Film and Video makers of all levels can network, learn and grow in our Community. We review technology, new techniques, new workflows and creativity in the five distinct stages of production: Development, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production and Distribution. Additionally, we post industry trade show news and updates of film and video related products and services. As new and emerging independent filmmakers and working film and video professionals in the film, television, and motion picture industry, we never stop learning in our careers. With the rapid application of new technologies, new techniques, and new trends in motion picture and video production, we are all students.
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TaKorean
With a deep love and appreciation for food, founder and CEO Michael Lenard, opened TaKorean in August 2010 out of a 1985 Ford step van that he converted to a food truck. A native of Washington, DC, Lenard is determined to provide healthy, well-balanced meals at a reasonable price to his fellow Washingtonians. Since 2010, TaKorean has expanded to four fixed locations in Washington, DC.
13th & F Street, NW
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Teaism is a locally owned restaurant with 3 locations in DC. We are passionate about serving top quality loose leaf tea and fresh, healthy food!
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We’ve built revolutionary technology that is changing the way people get around cities. Using Via, a ride booked on your phone costs little more than the bus. Via is on-demand transit on a mass scale; it’s smart transportation that’s friendly to our planet. Currently live in NYC, Chicago, and Washington DC we’re backed by some of the world’s top investors and aggressively expanding.
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48 Hours Film Project
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie – write, shoot, and edit – in just 48 hours. On Friday night, teams draw a genre from a hat. They are then given a character, prop and line to include in their films. On Sunday night, in a wild dash to the drop off event, the film is turned in – and teams celebrate. The film is then screened at a local theater in front of an audience of filmmakers, friends and families.
Tel: info@48hourfilm.com
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72 Film Fest
The 72 Film Fest is an annual time based film competition where teams have 72hours to make a movie. Based just outside the DC/Baltimore metropolitan area in Frederick, MD- 72 Film Fest inspires and challenges filmmakers to create a movie based around a specific annual theme. 2016 Marks the ELEVENTH year for Frederick Maryland. 72 Fest was founded with the introduction of the 72 Film Fest in 2006. Our Mission: To provide an outlet for the creative community by hosting challenges in the fields of filmmaking, stage, writing, and other arts.
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Actors’ Center
The Actors’ Center (AC) is a membership group and a non-profit organization created by and for actors in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Since its inception in 1981, the AC has grown into a large and diverse community of more than 1,100 active, talented members, including theater artists of all types and ranging from early-career beginners to experienced professionals.
1810 16th St NW, 2nd floor
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AFIDOCS
AFI DOCS is the nation’s documentary film festival known for showcasing the best in documentary filmmaking from the US and around the world. AFI DOCS is also the only film festival in the United States that offers the unique opportunity to connect film audiences with national opinion leaders, filmmakers and intriguing film subjects. With conversations and experiences you won’t experience at any other film festival, AFI DOCS harnesses the power of this important art form and its potential to inspire change. Screenings during this annual five-day event take place in landmark venues in Washington, DC and the world-class AFI Silver Theatre, the independent film hub of the metropolitan region. Throughout the year the AFI DOCS FILM SERIES brings audiences in the nation’s capital the best in nonfiction filmmaking.
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Alexandria Film Festival
Celebrating 11 years of independent film from around the world, the Alexandria Film Festival offers an enriching cinematic opportunity for filmmakers and film lovers alike by bringing high quality, diverse, and thought-provoking films to Alexandria, Virginia. The 11th anniversary Alexandria Film Festival will be held November 9–12, 2017.
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Anacostia Arts Center
The Arts Center opened in 2013. It is 9,300 square feet, and includes a 1,000 square feet Black Box Theater; space for five galleries/boutiques; a short term exhibition gallery called Blank Space SE, a café, and an 800 square feet lounge area. Learn about the building’s history. While The Arts Center is new, its parent organization, ARCH Development Corporation, has been working in Anacostia since 1991. For the majority of its history, ARCH focused on neighborhood small scale business development and general business support.
1231 Good Hope Road, SE
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Arlington Independent Media
Arlington Independent Media (AIM) is a nonprofit membership organization and community media center in Arlington, Virginia. We provide training and access to media technologies, and facilitate the creation of video, audio, web and digital content. AIM is committed to cultivating the voices in our community that might otherwise not be heard.
Since 1982, AIM has continuously provided a video production equipment, facilities, training, and access to a basic cable television channel to all on a first-come, first-served basis. Our members use their skills to produce powerful local media content that highlights the people, places, organizations, businesses and events in our community. Our video programming can be found on in Arlington County on the two public access cable television channels we operate: Comcast channel 69 and Verizon channel 38.
AIM’s facility, located in Clarendon just off Wilson boulevard, is equipped with the latest in media-making tools including an HD three-camera television studio, a state-of-the-art audio production suite, portable audio and video equipment, two editing stations, a Mac computer lab, a mobile production van, and more. With the historic launch of WERA-LP 96.7 FM, Radio Arlingon in December 2015, AIM continues needs of the diverse population of Arlington County and the DC metro area in exciting new ways. Take a look at our class offerings and consider becoming a member to take advantage of everything we have to offer.
2701-C Wilson Boulevard
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Arune LLC
Arune is a startup design and consumer products company. We create and produce useful physical and digital products to benefit our users and our community. We also produce live events to promote creativity and build networks of creative people.Here at Arune, we are committed to helping our customers achieve their goals. We create useful products that facilitate positive expression. Our products encourage expression and creativity in all forms. We are dedicated to promoting success and empowering dreams. In addition to helping our customers, we want to change lives and help the planet. In order to have a greater impact, we link our sales to a beneficial cause. We plant a tree for every physical product we sell. Help us, help others.
11160 Veirs Mill Road
Suite LLH-18-135
Wheaton, MD 20902
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Asian Pacific American Film Festival
The mission of the DC Asian Pacific America Film Festival is to bring attention to the creative output from Asian Pacific American (APA) communities and encourage the artistic development of APA films in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.
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Baltimore Webfest
Baltimore’s first New Media Web Fest #BNMWEBFEST. Baltimore’s New Media Web Festival! Celebrating New Media Content and community. Featuring celebrity judges, panel discussions.
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Barracks Row Main Street
The mission of Barracks Row Main Street is to revitalize 8th Street SE as a vibrant commercial corridor reconnecting Capitol Hill to the Anacostia River using historic preservation and the arts as economic development tools and benefiting the broadest possible local community.
Our vision for Barracks Row is to create a vibrant business district steeped in history. The gateways to the business district invite customers into the first major commercial street of the old Federal City. Eighth Street SE is still a thriving commercial district scene, with many retail shops and restaurants enjoyed by community members in a safe and clean environment.
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Bethesda Film Festival
The fifth annual Bethesda Film Fest will feature five short documentaries made by local filmmakers at screenings.
Bethesda Urban Partnership
7700 Old Georgetown Road
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The British Council is the United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust. We work with over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Each year we reach over 20 million people face-to-face and more than 500 million people online, via broadcasts and publications. Founded in 1934, we are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body.
British Embassy
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Capital Fringe
WHAT IS CAPITAL FRINGE
At Capital Fringe our focus is on expanding audiences appetites for independent, Fringe theatre, music, art, dance and unclassifiable forms of live performance and visual art.
Capital Fringe is a catalyst for cultural and community development, and a destination that brings artists and audiences together. Capital Fringe thrives on amplifying the vibrancy of the DC’s independent arts community and enriches the lives of those who reside, work and visit here.
1358 Florida Ave NE
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Capital Irish Film Festival
March 2- March 5, 2017
2017 Film Submissions Now Open
Submission Entries
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CIFF showcases films about subjects pertaining to all of Ireland, Irish identity and culture or that are examples of Irish artistry. Entries are invited for feature-length or short films, including comedy, drama, documentary, animation, experimental and musical. CIFF welcomes Irish language films, which must contain English subtitles.
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Charm City Fringe
Our Mission: The City, A Stage…Charm City Fringe is a nonprofit that develops, showcases, and celebrates new and innovative theatre and performing arts in Baltimore.
Charm City Fringe (CCF) is held in Baltimore, Maryland. CCF provides a platform for artists to elevate their work and reach new audiences, while eliminating obstacles and allowing audiences to discover and explore new artists and works. Charm City Fringe holds an annual Fringe festival each November, as well as other semi-regular productions, while offering opportunities for young people to get interested & involved through workshops and volunteer opportunities.
Together, Baltimore’s theater community is greater than the sum of its parts. Charm City Fringe, Inc. aims to connect and elevate the theater community, engage existing audiences, attract non-traditional theatergoers, and reach out to communities not commonly represented. We look to cultivate Baltimore as a hub for theater and the performing arts and expand, strengthen, and enhance creative learning opportunities for Baltimore’s youth.
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Chesapeake Film Festival
With all of today’s movie viewing options, the film festival is still the only place to see great new works, discover hidden treasures, and engage with the heart of an artist. Building on a legacy of diversity and quality, Chesapeake Film Festival’s 9th annual program will sharpen its focus on stories of particular interest and care to our region and community. Join the Discovery and share your interests!
101 Marlboro Ave, Ste 53
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CINE honors and champions the creators of exceptional media content. CINE builds and supports a community of professional, emerging and student film, television and digital content creators through the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, the CINE Connects mentorship program, the Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest, and related skill-building programs.
1003 K Street, NW
Tel: (507) 400-CINE (2463)
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Click on This Show
lick On This Show is an online Music and Entertainment Video Magazine – Online since 2009. Hosts have covered interviews in New York City, DC, Los Angeles, Morgantown, Va., Miami, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Park City, Utah and Austin Texas. We’ve covered The Sundance Film Festival, South By Southwest, The NAB Show, Fire Fly Music Festival, and the Showbiz Expo.
Interviews have included: actor Anthony Anderson, Actress Angela Bassett, actress Darby Stanchfield, actor Cuba Gooding Jr, Singer/actor Nick Jonas, TV creator/ Writer Norman Lear, Priscilla Presley, Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, singer Michael Bublé, actor Patrick Dempsey, Actor Kevin Bacon, Actress Lisa Kudrow, actor Keanu Reeves, Terri Nunn and her band Berlin, Benji and Joel Madden (of Good Charlotte), Rosie O’Donnell, Melissa Leo (Treme), David Simon (Treme, The Wire), actor Kellan Lutz, actor Jeffrey Tambor, Tommy and Shelby Chong, actor Kevin Sorbo, race car drivers Danica Patrick, Mike Conway, Simona De Silvestro, actresses Rachel Leigh Cook, Kristin Kreuk, Kristin Wiig, Ariel Winter (Modern Family), comedian/ actors Ray Romano, Marlon Wayans, actor/ director Jason Bateman, actor/ director Jon Favreau, actress Ellen Barkin, actor Jeremy Irons, singer Taylor Dayne, actor Jason Priestly, the bands the Strange Familiar, Ariana and the Rose, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Spandau Ballet, DJ Jes, DJ Markus Schulz, R5 and so many more!
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Combat Cinema
Rapidly deploy worldwide into the full spectrum of military operations to capture, edit and transmit high definition still and video imagery in support of commanders’ tactical, operational, and strategic objectives.
What does Combat Camera do?
Combat Camera acquires and utilizes still and motion imagery in support of combat, information, humanitarian, Special Forces, intelligence, reconnaissance, engineering, legal, public affairs, and other operations involving the Military Service. Combat Camera is separate from Public Affairs and focuses on purely documenting events as they happen, providing on the ground commanders with priceless imagery and situational awareness of the battlefield.
55th Signal Company (Combat Camera)
845 Chisholm Ave.
Fort Meade, MD 20755-5505
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Creative Edge Collaborative
We have decided to change the way film works in our communities. We are focusing on 3 initiatives:
Partner with local film-makers and distributors to screen global film. Create a global film experience that entertains local residents and attracts visitors.
Partner with local high schools to encourage young filmmakers.
INNOVATE:
Partner with local film professionals to change the way film works.
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CulturalDC
CulturalDC makes space for art. Each year CulturalDC serves over 1,000 artists and arts groups and 30,000 audience members through the activation of art space and presentation of contemporary visual and performing arts at our two spaces, Flashpoint and Source, and in nontraditional venues across the city. Through our programs and services we work with artists, arts organizations and real estate developers to build the creative infrastructure that fuels the arts and builds community in Washington, DC.
CulturalDC & Flashpoint / 916 G Street, NW / Washington, DC 20001
Source / 1835 14th Street, NW / Washington, DC 20009
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In some faiths it is said that the world was made in seven days. The name Day Eight asks us to remember that every day is the eighth day, the first day after creation. Day Eight’s programming strives to expand the understanding of possibility, inspired by the act of creation as necessarily connected to a moment in time. Remembering the moment of creation – this moment – may be helpful in allowing creation of future days that are happier, healthier, and more fun.
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DC Adventure Film Festival
to inspire adventure across all generations and cultures,
to encourage outdoor activity,
to celebrate the outdoor experience, and
to educate through the power of film.
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DC Black Film Festival
The DC Black Film Festival (DCBFF) is dedicated to showcasing quality film, web series and television content by and about people of African descent. We support emerging artists striving to add diversity to the images and storytellers working in the entertainment industry. The DCBFF is committed to playing an integral role in discovering, celebrating and helping films and filmmakers by bringing them to the attention of the industry, media and public.
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DC Chinese Film Festival
Founded in 2011, DCCFF bring together artists, film professionals, film lovers, and scholars to Washington DC, the capital of documentary and independent filmmaking, for rare screenings, cutting-edge panel discussions, and networking events.
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DC Environmental Film Festival
The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) is the world’s premier showcase of environmentally themed films. Through our annual festival, year-round events, and online resources, we seek to advance public understanding of the environment through the power of film. Each March in Washington, DC, we host the largest environmental film festival in the United States, presenting more than 150 films to an audience of over 27,000. Often combined with thematic discussions and social events, our films screen at museums, embassies, libraries, universities and local theaters. Many of our screenings are free. DCEFF also partners with filmmakers, distributors, and venues to present environmental films throughout the year. Our Washington, DC location offers the unique ability for films and filmmakers to reach national decision makers. Founded in 1993, DCEFF is the longest-running environmental film festival in the United States. It has grown into a major collaborative cultural event both during the festival season and all year-round.
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DC Film Society
he Washington, DC Film Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation of quality mainstream, international and independent films. Members enjoy free sneak preview screenings and lots more.
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DC Filmmakers
The DC Filmmakers group is a community of people passionate about the moving image (film, video, television, web broadcast/streaming, … ). We look at digital production and film production as two side of the same coin. The group is a resource to network, make films, learn, teach, screen films, discuss business aspects of the industry, and to make friends. Our members include Producers, Directors, Cinematographers, Writers, Editors, Actors, Audio Engineers, Lighting Gaffers, Grips, Audio Designers, Digital Artists, and Entertainment Lawyers.
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DC Fray
Our mission to #neverstopplaying is core to our foundation. Now as DC Fray, we have expanded our mission beyond sports to include events, travel, and fitness. We want to make fun a lifestyle to help motivate even more people to love what they do, and do what they love every single day.
DC Fray (formerly United Social Sports, Inc.)
951 V Street, NE
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DC Independent Film Festival
DCIFF was launched in 1999 to nurture independent film. As a competitive festival, all films are Washington DC premieres and many are U.S. and world premieres. As the oldest independent film festival in Washington, the DC Independent Film Festival has a storied history of presenting extraordinary films. We have showcased cutting edge features, shorts and documentaries on every subject from every country with every budget and subject imaginable. By exhibiting world premiere screenings, hosting timely seminars and workshops, and even sponsoring discussions with the United States Congress, DCIFF gives independent filmmakers opportunities for their voices to be heard in a way that no other festival can provide.
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DC Labor Fest
The annual DC Labor FilmFest brings an array of new films and beloved classics about work and workers across the globe to the nation’s capital.
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DC Media Makers
DC Media Makers is now an official Adobe user group. We are the preeminent association of filmmakers, videographers, vloggers, bloggers, journalists, entertainers, writers, advocates, multi-media producers, tech enthusiasts, etc. We are dedicated to building local community, education to enhance media literacy, and promoting media production in all its forms. We trade video production knowledge, web production knowledge, teach newcomers how to make media, and share strategies to distribute media online. We feature guest presenters, critiques, and collaborative projects. Whether you are an old pro (-we have members from CNN, NBC, and NPR), an established videoblogger, or someone who wants to jump in but doesn’t know where to start, we welcome your involvement.
DC Media Makers believes peer learning is the best kind of learning, so we encourage you to participate, teach, and learn with us. When it comes to making media, DC Media Makers’ preferred MO is “have fun, learn, create, share, repeat.” So if you are passionately interested in all things digital (i.e. digital production, online video, podcasts, mobile blogging, screencasting, …) the group is for you. No matter what your level of experience with digital tech or media, there’s a place for you here. Share a favorite online video clip from your personal or professional portfolio or a new editing software or other production tips or a new project idea. Bottom line: DC Media Makers is the ‘big tent’ for peer learning and promoting digital literacy in DC.
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DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
October 5 – 9, 2016
DCPFAF is a non-profit, volunteer-run annual festival that showcases the work of Palestinian filmmakers and artists in Washington, DC + surrounding areas.
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DC Public Library
The District of Columbia Public Library is a vibrant center of activity for residents and visitors in the nation’s capital. The library provides environments that invite reading, learning and community discussion and equips people to learn all their lives, to embrace diversity and to build a thriving city. We are proud to be a recognized force in the community for engaging the mind, expanding opportunities and elevating the quality of life.
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DC Webfest
The Washington, DC Web & Digital Media Festival is the first festival that concentrates on future technology and entrepreneurship.
Tel: info@dcwebfest.org
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Destination Congress Heights
The mission of Destination Congress Heights is to support the establishment and implementation of lasting, comprehensive revitalization in the Congress Heights commercial corridor by investing in and expanding existing businesses while also attracting new businesses. Congress Heights, DC will be a walkable community focused on providing a safe and comfortable environment featuring an attractive and welcoming streetscape, imaginative use of public spaces, an infusion of DC culture and heritage, technology amenities and enhance the quality of life of residents and visitors alike with feasible and sustainable development.
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DMV Arts + Culture
We are patrons of the arts, connoisseurs, and culture enthusiasts. Greater DC Arts! is your community to experience the best in art, culture, and social events that the DMV has to offer. From visual arts to dance to comedy to music to theater and beyond, we are a community that embraces talent, expression, and culture in its many forms.
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Docs in Progress
Docs In Progress is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which gives individuals the tools to tell stories through documentary film to educate, inspire, and transform the way people view their world. Creating community through documentary film. Docs In Progress creates and fosters a supportive community for documentary filmmakers. By developing, encouraging, and celebrating new and diverse voices in documentary film, we also seek to deepen the public’s experience, understanding, and appreciation for documentary as a form of art and expression. We do this by offering an array of programs and services aimed at aspiring and experienced documentary filmmakers and the broader community.
8700 1st Avenue
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Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival and Symposium
In recent years, the creative landscape of films inspired by investigative reporting has flowered in unexpected and exciting ways, and across a variety of genres and platforms. Yet this flourishing of creativity comes just as the rights of journalists and visual storytellers are challenged on nearly every level—legally, financially, logistically and in terms of safety. And despite their common ground, journalists and filmmakers often remain strangers to each other. They tend to operate in distinct silos within their own ecosystems, missing out on the critical opportunity to interact and engage in an exchange of ideas, resources, and best practices.
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Downtown DC BID
The Downtown Business Improvement District (BID) is a private non-profit organization that provides capital improvements, resources and research to help diversify the economy and enhance the Downtown experience for all. This special district, where property owners have agreed to tax themselves to fund services, encompasses a 138-block area of approximately 520 properties from Massachusetts Avenue on the north to Constitution Avenue on the south, and from Louisiana Avenue on the east to 16th Street on the west. As a catalyst, facilitator and thought leader, the BID promotes public/private partnerships to create a remarkable urban environment.
1250 H Street, NW, Suite 1000
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival
October 27 – November 11, 2017
Film Submissions Now Open
Devoted to screening short film from Edinburgh, Scotland and around the world, The ESFF evolved from the Leith Short Film Festival in 2011 and has shown everything – from the first film made in Somalia in 20 years, to Oscar nominated shorts from Australia, the USA and Ireland, as well as short films smuggled out of China and Iran – and hosted visiting film-makers from China, Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and all over the UK. We have hosted Q and A sessions with Mark Kermode, held pavement cinema screenings at pancake kiosk in town, hosted a night of Shetlandic shorts with visiting Viking warriors, and we’ve taken some of our best short films on tour to the Sardinia Film Festival and also to the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival. Our plans for next year include holding screenings in Tokyo at Short Shorts Film Festival, Japan’s biggest short film event, and we’re planning on holding screenings of animated shorts, curating short film nights for Hidden Door Arts Festival and much more!
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EuroAsia Shorts
EuroAsia Shorts proudly presents an annual week of short films from Europe, Asia, and the United States screened at embassies and cultural centers throughout Washington, D.C. Every night includes a cultural Q&A and discussion with experts, and several nights include special reception events! Join an international cinematic dialogue that is uniquely Washingtonian.
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Film Neu
The newest films from Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
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Filmfest DC
For over 30 years, Filmfest DC has sought to keep pace with global cultural and social activities. Today we find ourselves in a conundrum of opposing beliefs and shifting governmental policies, which have often divided citizens and forged a culture of “us vs. them.” As a reflection of our times, this year’s festival has taken on a special focus on issues ripped from today’s headlines in hopes of increasing clarity and civil discourse.
Our Opening Night feature, This is Our Land, looks at what can happen when a community faced with new immigrants and threatened job security becomes the target of right-wing operatives. The Justice Matters section of social issues films has been expanded and this year we have added Division & Debate, a new section exploring timely contentious issues. The Lighter Side section of international comedies, Trust No One, our thriller and espionage section and the Global Rhythms music series continue to be festival staples, along with World View, the core of the festival’s international program.
Filmfest DC would not be possible without the support of our Board of Directors, sponsors, staff, and hundreds of volunteers. Many people have generously shared their time and talent with us, and we want to deeply thank them. Good movies make the world a better place. Please join us for debut works by gifted directors, and a broad array of award-winning films from around the globe. We invite you to our annual adventure. We are very pleased to bid you welcome.
Tel: 202-234-FILM (3456)
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Frederick Film Festival
Our organization’s mission is to provide access and exposure to the art of film and film appreciation to the Frederick community through exhibition of films and other film-related educational activities. Also, to stimulate the recognition of the artistic merit of film and to foster an appreciation of different cultures, cultural artistic styles, and history through the viewing and discussion of international and documentary films.
40 South Carroll
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Funniest Feds
Making a federal case out of comedy since 2007.
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GI Film Festival
The GI Film Festival (GIFF) is a 501 c(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to sharing the military experience in and out of the arena of war. The festival is the first in the nation to exclusively celebrate the successes and sacrifices of the service member through the medium of film. The GIFF presents films from new and established international and domestic filmmakers that honor the heroic stories of the American Armed Forces and the worldwide struggle for freedom and liberty. Some of the films screened are voted on by fans. Others are screened for the first time. All will in some way express the courage and selflessness of our fighting men and women and the value of their work.
The GI Film Festival is open to filmmakers of every experience level, from first-timers to veteran directors and producers. Prizes are awarded annually to winners in three main categories: feature, documentary, and film shorts. In addition to presenting feature, documentary, and short film screenings, the GIFF also presents panel discussions, educational forums and special events, including: Movie screenings by international and domestic filmmakers. Awards presentation featuring a special celebrity major motion picture screening. Kick-off cocktail party and red carpet events, Special exhibitions, Hollywood “meet and greets,” and more…
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Global Impact Film Festival
Who We Are: Global Impact DC, brought to you by DCBX, is a socially- minded film festival that focuses on cultivating global outreach, celebrating culture and supporting non-profit organizations. Our Mission: Our mission is to empower lives by celebrating the power of media for social justice. Our Promise: We promise to bring audiences crucial “must see” documentaries and powerful narratives that provoke and inspire social change. Our goal is to bring together socially minded filmmakers, digital media professionals, social entrepreneurs and the like to create a social impact through film.
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The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. We promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. We convey a comprehensive image of Germany by providing information about cultural, social and political life in our nation. Our cultural and educational programmes encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement. They strengthen the development of structures in civil society and foster worldwide mobility.
With our network of Goethe-Instituts, Goethe Centres, cultural societies, reading rooms and exam and language learning centres, we have been the first point of contact for many with Germany for over sixty years. Our long-lasting partnerships with leading institutions and individuals in over ninety countries create enduring trust in Germany. We are partners for all who actively engage with Germany and its culture, working independently and without political ties.
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Golden Triangle BID
The Golden Triangle BID is an award-winning non-profit 501(c)(6) corporation that works to enhance the Golden Triangle — the 43 block neighborhood that stretches from Dupont Circle to Pennsylvania Avenue. The primary focus of the BID is to provide a clean, safe, and vibrant environment within this remarkable neighborhood, and to retain and attract businesses to the Golden Triangle.
Founded in 1997, the Golden Triangle BID encourages economic development through capital improvement projects, a variety of engaging events, and public art projects. The BID also strives to increase quality of life through public safety and maintenance services. The BID is funded by a special tax that is paid by property owners within the neighborhood. The Golden Triangle BID’s working budget for FY2017 is $5,440,720 and can be divided as follows: $2,159,955 for Ambassador and Safe and Secure Programs; $1,096,000 for Public Realm and Capital Programs; $998,825 for Economic Development and Promoting the Brand; and $1,185,940 for Administration.
The BID connects its members to numerous resources, events, and information in and around the neighborhood. The staff serve as a first point of contact for member questions and issues and act as a key liaison between businesses and many city agencies. Together with corporate and government partners, the BID develops and implements programs that strengthen the vitality of the Golden Triangle. The BID is dedicated to making the Golden Triangle a great place to live, work, and play.
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Greenbelt Access Television
Greenbelt Access Television (GATe) is a non-profit organization developed to bring public access to the Greenbelt area. A Greenbelt City Council appointed committee was appointed to develop an independent organization to foster public cable access. In 1986, a charter was incorporated establishing GATe as a non-profit, 501 C(3) corporation. In 1997, with the accumulated fees from over the years, the Committee was able to hire Kjell Forsting, a pioneer for cable in his native Sweden. Mr. Forsting had the foresight to purchase a digital editing suite for the newly established GATE Studio in the renovated Community Center. In 2005, GATe sponsored its first Utopia Film Festival which continues every year due to the efforts of a volunteer committee. Each October, videos from around the world are screened in various spaces around Greenbelt. GATe has established its own designated channels on Comcast channel 77 and Verizon FiOS channel 19. Today, we keep Kjell Forsting’s vision alive by maintaining the digital quality he saw as the future of video production.
15 Crescent Road
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Hillyer Art Space
Hillyer Art Space is a contemporary gallery dedicated to serving the public with quality exhibitions and programming. Established in April 2006, Hillyer is a program of International Arts & Artists, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally through exhibitions, programs, and services to artists, arts institutions, and the public. International Arts & Artists (IA&A) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts, locally, nationally, and internationally. IA&A fulfills its mission by providing programs and services to artists, arts institutions, cultural organizations and the public. In addition to Hillyer Art Space in Washington, DC, IA&A also provides Traveling Exhibitions Services, graphic design services via our Design Studio, Cultural Exchange Programs, and a Membership Program.
9 Hillyer Court, NW
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Historic Dupont Main Streets
The mission of Historic Dupont Main Streets is to promote, coordinate, and maintain the cultural, economic, and environmental qualities of Dupont Circle to make it an exemplary place to live, work, shop, and play.
Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets
9 Dupont Circle, NW
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Immigration Film Festival
October 20 – 23, 2016
We are a group of unpaid volunteers working year-round to produce an annual film festival bringing stories of immigrants and refugees to Capital area audiences. The Immigration Film Festival is under the wing of the Washington Ethical Society, a nonprofit, humanistic religious congregation. Since it serves as the Festival’s fiscal sponsor, all donations are 100% tax free and dedicated exclusively to the Festival. Our goal is to put faces on immigrants and tell the stories of global immigration through film, the most popular of media. We do this not only to entertain but also to inform and inspire action. We live in an interconnected web of being. Recognizing this, we aim to motivate viewers to take action to correct the injustices that lead to migration and the dislocations that result from immigration.
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IndieCapitol Awards
IndieCaptiol is an entertainment hub devoted to the independent film production scene in the Washington, DC metro area (a/k/a the DMV)
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We partner with filmmakers who bring untold stories to public broadcasting to make a difference in the world.
1435 Folsom Street
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Japanese Information and Cultural Center
The Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC) is a part of the Public Affairs Section of the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. The JICC is committed to enriching the relationship between Japan and the United States through an active, vibrant cultural exchange. We aim to promote a better understanding of Japan and Japanese culture by providing a wide range of information and diverse cultural programming.
For the past few decades, the JICC has provided the residents of District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland with an exciting artistic, educational, and cultural dialogue, often in partnership with local institutions like the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the Smithsonian Institution, and many more. As we mark our 35th anniversary in 2016, we look forward to deepening the ties we have in the community as well as establishing new relationships moving forward.
Through our Educational Program, we invite students and adults from around the DMV to join us and explore the rich, dynamic history of Japanese culture. From samurai to robots to business etiquette, we welcome all ages to the Center to develop a deeper cultural awareness. To learn more about our Educational Programs and make a reservation, please visit our Educational Programs page.
The JICC in Washington D.C. provides services to the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. If you live outside these jurisdictions, we encourage you to find the closest cultural center to you through our Japanese Consulates page.
Tel: (202 238-6900
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Make a Movie in a Month
Our collaborative production challenge returns with “Make a Movie in a Month” (MMM 2016) ! Make a short film in about 30 days. Get experience, meet new friends, and have some fun. These are the goals of the production meeting. You asked to do it again and now you have the chance.
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March on Washington Film Festival
2017 FESTIVAL DATES: July 13th – July 22nd
“The focus of the entire film festival is the untold or lesser told stories of the civil rights movement. A focus on the thousands of men and women who courageously worked to make this nation whole.” -Robert Raben, festival founder
The March on Washington Film Festival strives to increase awareness of the events and heroes of the Civil Rights Era and inspire renewed passion for activism. The festival leverages the broad appeal of film, music, and the arts to tell these important stories to a wide audience. This year’s festival will span three cities—Atlanta, Washington, and New York—where we will host several film screenings. Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion. These intimate and meaningful conversations made the inaugural festival a runaway success. We will once again pair films with live musical performances that reflect the songs and spirit of the era.
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Maryland Film Festival
MdFF Mission
The mission of the Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) is to bring films, filmmakers, and audiences together in a friendly, inclusive atmosphere that reflects the unique aspects of our community, while participating in and adding to the larger film dialogue across the country and across the world. Film for Everyone.
About MdFF
Founded in 1999, MdFF brings films, filmmakers, students and audiences together in a friendly, inclusive atmosphere. Through the organization’s annual five-day Maryland Film Festival each May, daily programming at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District, and the Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship, MdFF reflects the unique creative aspects of Baltimore’s community, while participating in the film and cultural dialogue across the country and the world. Film for Everyone. Every Day.
5 W. North Avenue
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Maryland International Film Festival
We are a platform for independent filmmakers to engage audiences, collaborate with other filmmakers, and educate the community.
36 South Potomac Street
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We support up-and-coming food entrepreneurs by providing commercial kitchens, combined with institutional knowledge and extraordinary opportunities. Mess Hall supports a vibrant and diverse local food community. Our members come together to collaborate, leverage shared resources, and gain access to a breadth of professionals with decades of industry experience.
Our 10,000 sq ft facility boasts 4 shared kitchens, walk-in refrigeration, collaborative offices, ample storage, and an expansive event space where food brings people together. Recently, we hosted sold-out events including Ramen World, Sushi Belly Tower, The Warehouse Society (an invite-only supper club) and Capital Taste, along with various pop-ups, classes, fundraisers, and industry-related events. We’ve been a little busy since opening in October 2014, and we’ll find time to launch a new website soon. For now, please follow updates on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
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Navteca
Navteca is a woman-owned technology services company focusing on emerging technologies and IT innovation, like cloud and virtual reality. A small business headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland, Navteca develops, executes, and manages technical solutions for government clients like NASA and NOAA. The Navteca solutions team is comprised of AWS certified solutions architects and senior developers who are highly trained and experienced individuals. Navteca is passionate about furthering our clients’ missions through technology. Navteca = Navigating Technology.
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New York City Independent Film Festival
The NYC Indie Film Festival provides a showcase for the best in independent cinema, including short films, feature films, music videos, and animated works. With panels, parties and a week-long gathering of fellow indie filmmakers, the 8th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival is the place to be May 1 – 7, 2017. The festival strives to promote an open and nurturing environment for artists, writers, actors, film-makers and fans. We will be screening the best indie films and offering panels, classes, seminars and discussion groups as well as opportunities for the filmmakers and fans to mingle and network. The NYC Indie film Fest is eager to embrace fresh ideas and storytelling. We will be screening narratives, documentaries, short films, super shorts, animations and music videos. We are looking for filmmakers whose passion for the art form is real as they push films in new directions.
Showcase the best independent films, from all around the world, to the public and the entertainment industry in New York City.
To stay focused on the low budget films and emerging filmmakers, the true Indies, and to create the largest gathering worldwide of true indie filmmakers.
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North Beach American Film Festival
The North Beach American Film Festival showcases the best in American Independent Film, spotlighting national films that exhibit the vast multi-cultural and diverse aspects of American Life.
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Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association
Now twenty-five years old, the Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association, PQNA for short, counts over 170 organizations as members. These include restaurants, shops, commercial office tenants, museums, hotels, theaters, non-profits, public agencies, property owners, and residences. The PQNA serves its members by promoting the many activities its members sponsor, whether it’s museum programs, lectures and films, theatrical performances, art exhibitions, wine dinners, book signings, lectures, or musical performances. PQNA also publicizes meetings that inform those in the neighborhood of plans being undertaken by public agencies and developments being constructed by private developers. In addition, the PQNA hosts monthly breakfast meetings on timely and relevant topics delivered by interesting speakers.
912 F Street, NW - Suite 508
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Picture Lock
Picture Lock is an entertainment website, radio program and TV show! The show covers new releases, classic films, and interviews with both studio and indie filmmakers, actors, actresses, and everyone in between. Tune in to hear the show every Friday from 3-4PM on WERA 96.7FM Radio Arlington, live streamed at www.wera.fm!
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Queen City Film Festival
The Queen City Film Festival (QCFF), Western Maryland’s premiere film festival, is held each year in early Fall in Cumberland, Maryland. Founded in 2012, and currently in our sixth year, QCFF 2017 will be held October 5-8 at The Venue At Mezzos in Cumberland, Maryland. QCFF offers a four-day program of screenings and educational panels, and welcomes filmmakers from around the world. Located in Allegany County, Cumberland offers a delightful blend of hospitality and history; mingled with charming shops, delicious dining, arts and entertainment and lots of events and activities.
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Reel Affirmations
Reel Affirmations Film Festival is Washington DC’s International LGBTQ Film Festival and Monthly Film Series. Our Annual film festival brings several days of NEW AND EXCITING international, documentary, short and feature films from all over the world to Washington as well as panel discussions, filmmaker Q&A and celebrations. Our Monthly Film Series: Reel Affirmations XTRA keeps LGBTQ images and lifestories on the foreground of the Arts and Culture scene in Washington DC.
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Richmond International Film Festival
RIFF, one of the largest international competitive film festivals in the Mid-Atlantic brings more than 150 cutting edge films to RVA, plus nightly local, national and international music, industry panels, Q&As, red carpet awards, and entertainment mixers that usher the spirit of Hollywood into Virginia’s Bowtie Cinemas, various music venues, and the historic Byrd Theater, a venue touted by USA Today as “one of the top 10 places to still see a movie in splendor in the United States.” RIFF takes place Feb. 27th – March 5th, 2017 – tickets on sale now at www.rvafilmfestival.com
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Rosebud Film Festival
January 27 – January 29, 2017
Submission Entry
Since 1990 the Rosebud Film Festival has worked to recognize and honor the innovative, unusual, experimental, and deeply personal in regional film and video making, and to offer audiences with the finest in locally produced, contemporary work. For over 20 years, the competition has recognized and honored the innovative, unusual, experimental, and deeply personal in regional film and video making. All film types are welcome, including features, shorts, fiction, documentary, experimental, animated, and music videos. The competition is open exclusively to DC, Maryland, and Virginia filmmakers with works first released between January 1, 2015, and November 7, 2016. The five winners—including one Best of Show—will be announced at a gala awards celebration on the evening of Sunday, January 29, 2017, at the Clarendon Ballroom. In addition to promotional opportunities and special screenings, the five winners will each receive $1,000 cash.
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Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia
This year Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA), a qualifying film festival for the annual Academy Awards® and one of Asia’s largest international short film festivals, will be held in Tokyo (5 venues) and Yokohama (1 venue) from 1 June (Thu) through 25 June (Sun).
Nearly 9,000 films from over 100 countries and regions around the world were in the running, with the cream of the crop — some 250 titles — being selected to screen at the festival.
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Short Shots TV
Short Shots TV Film Competition is a Washington DC Metropolitan Area based short film competition that will be televised and feature viewer based voting for the grand prize winner of $1000 and an interview episode. The curation of the show content is submission based, where filmmakers from Maryland, DC, Virginia and West Virginia are invited to submit films no longer than 8 minutes to compete on the show. The show is created by the minds behind the IndieCapitol Awards and the producer’s of numerous independent films hailing from the Metropolitan area. The show will be hosted by Picture Lock Show’s Kevin Sampson and media personality Dee Sanae and the first season will start October 2017 on Washington’s WDC50.
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Shorts TV
ShortsTV is the global home of short movies.
We have the world’s largest catalogue of high quality short movies available on TV, online and in theaters, and also produce original short film content for broadcasters and brands. Our teams obtain only professionally produced live action, animation and documentary short movies from the world’s most famous film festivals and independent suppliers. Through the acquisition of these films we offer professional short filmmakers an unparalleled commercial medium to develop their careers, and viewers an opportunity to see the best short movies from around the world – on TV, online and in theaters.
On TV, our channel is the world’s first and only 24/7 HD channel dedicated to short movies. Available across the US and Europe, ShortsTV brings short stories to life in stunning high definition and covers the latest events in the short film industry. Online, we offer hundreds of the world’s best independent shorts for download from stores in over 90 countries, including iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Instant Video.
In theaters, we produce and distribute the annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical release, bringing the world’s top awarded short movies to the big screen. And on top of all that, we produce original short film content through our production division, Shorts Factory. Whether it’s for our own TV channel, or other broadcasters and brands, we use our unique expertise in short film to produce high quality short form content that entertains, educates and inspires.
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Smart Philm Festival
The SmartPhilm Festival brings to the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region the first film festival with films shot exclusively with smartphones and other mobile devices. With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of apps, the ways creatives represent the world around us in digital media is rapidly changing.
SmartPhilm will level the playing field for all aspiring and professional filmmakers. Creative minds no longer need expensive cameras and equipment to bring their stories to life. All one needs is a smartphone that shoots video, write a script, make a movie, see it on the big screen.
Our goal is to provide a platform to the global artistic and storytelling community to document and produce their own stories in the most accessible way. The festival is open to aspiring and professional filmmakers of all ages. Selected films will be screened at during a one-day program at the inaugural SmartPhilm Festival in Arlington, VA. on May 13, 2017.
Tel: info@smartphilmfest.com
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Stone Soup Films
Vision: Nonprofits have greater social impact when they are empowered by effective storytelling. Stone Soup Films was founded in 2008 as a nonprofit production company that builds the capacity of worthy organizations by developing a pro-bono communications strategy represented in a professional promotional film.
We combine the assets of collaboration, mentorship, education, and community service by joining the volunteer efforts of hundreds of expert and novice filmmakers. Our goal is to tell the real-life stories of how local groups are transforming the lives of individuals in need. We help organizations tell their stories by going to the individuals they serve, and letting those clients’ stories of transformation be emblematic of the organization’s important work.
There is no doubt that good storytelling can make all the difference in their ability to connect with the target audience, whether it be for fundraising, information or visibility purposes. Any nonprofit serving the people of Washington, DC that does not have a current film or substantial communications budget is invited to apply for a Stone Soup film. The process includes developing a communications strategy and a marketing and distribution plan for the finished film. If you have professional film experience or want to get involved on any aspect of production, please join us as a volunteer! Student filmmakers with an interest in serving the community are invited to apply for a formal internship.
1921 Sunderland Place NW
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Story District
Story District’s mission is to turn good stories into great performances, to be a platform for diverse perspectives, and to serve as a pipeline and training ground for new voices and talent in storytelling. Named the “gold standard” in storytelling by the Washington Post and nominated for the 2012 DC Mayor’s Arts Awards for Innovation in the Arts, Story District reaches an audience of more than 10,000 annually through the production of more than 25 performances, ongoing adult education classes, and custom trainings and performances for businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies. We value storytelling as a space for people to listen and be heard, connect with others, embrace different perspectives, examine their own lives, and explore what it means to be human.
3329 Georgia Ave, NW
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Street Sense
Street Sense has been changing the story of homelessness in our community since 2003. We offer economic opportunities to people experiencing homelessness through media that elevates voices and encourages debate on poverty and injustice. Our innovative approach harnesses the talents, aspirations and hard work of men and women who are homeless. At Street Sense we define ourselves through our work, talents and character, not through our housing situation.
1317 G Street, NW
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Sunderland Shorts
In 2006, Sunderland became the first and only non-capital city to sign a Friendship Agreement with Washington DC. Since then, the two cities have been working in partnership to develop economic, educational and cultural relationships, providing the people of Sunderland with new experiences and opportunities.
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival is one of many creative industry initiatives that have been developed through this partnership and has seen creative professionals from both DC and Sunderland participate in exhibitions and academic exchange visits.
Established in 2014 and now in its third year, Sunderland Shorts was conceived and developed in collaboration with DC Shorts, a film festival with a thirteen year history, which has gone from strength to strength and is now one of the most respected film festivals in the USA.
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival c/o Sunderland City Council
Sunderland Software Centre
Tavistock Place
SR1 1PB
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SunnysideVR
SunnysideVR is a full-service virtual reality studio based in Washington, DC with one simple, primary goal: to create awesome, immersive video content for advertising, marketing and journalism. While we make all kinds of videos, we specialize in 360° video, aka Virtual Reality, that engages and excites your audience by putting them in the middle of the action and adding a sense of presence that traditional video just can’t replicate. We create immersive video content for all VR platforms, including iOS, Android, Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, and Samsung Gear VR. We can even do 4D experiences with specialized hardware. We have taken on projects of all sizes with clients that range in size from Esteé Lauder and Twitter to small non-profits and arts organizations. We are a division of Sunnyside Productions, LLC, so we can also manage your traditional video or photography needs, as well, if you’d like other media content in addition to VR.
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Television, Internet & Video Association of DC
The Television, Internet and Video Association of DC (TIVA-DC), a local not-for-profit (501(c)(3)) organization was formed to serve the needs of the growing greater DC production community, including Maryland and Virginia. Focused on the burgeoning local market, TIVA offers an entrée into a world of career opportunities, new-industry technology seminars, educational outreach, mentoring and award ceremonies.
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The Documentary Center @ GWU
The Documentary Center at the The George Washington University sponsors a wide-range of programs devoted to non-fiction film education, production, and exhibition. The Documentary Center is a chartered center under the umbrella of the Center for Innovative Media within the School of Media and Public Affairs.
Our centerpiece educational offering is the annual six-month Institute for Documentary Filmmaking that runs annually from January through June. We also offer specialty programs such as our prestigious International Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship. Finally, we offer a number of short courses and workshops such as our on-line courses, and customized story-telling workshops offered through SMPA’s Executive and Professional Education.
At the Documentary Center, non-fiction film comes to DC audiences through our Center Screen Showcase, and through our collaborations with partner organizations such as Docs in Progress and Women in Film and Video. Finally, you can see Documentary Center produced award-winning films across all platforms at home and abroad.
The Documentary Center
Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
805 21st Street NW
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The European Independent Film Festival
ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival is dedicated to the discovery and advancement of the very best independent filmmakers from around the world. They provide a unique platform for risk-taking storytellers to reach the broadest audiences possible. ÉCU has expressly established itself and is often referred to as the Sundance of Europe. As such, they are the perfect venue for bold and visionary filmmakers to present their work to the cinema-loving public who are actively seeking alternatives to commercial-hungry major studio projects. Their screenings of new and thought-provoking cinematic creativity attracts more than just the public, but agents, talent scouts, production company representatives, distributors, and established producers, all of whom are searching for inspiring projects and raw talent.
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The Metro DC Center
The DC LGBT Center educates, empowers, celebrates, and connects the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.To fulfill our mission, we focus on four core areas: health and wellness, arts & culture, social & support services, and advocacy and community building. We envision communities where LGBT people feel healthy, safe, and affirmed.
Center Arts is the home for our arts and cultural programs. This includes the Reel Affirmations Film Festival (www.reelaffirmations.org), the OutWrite LGBT Book Festival (www.outwritedc.org), the Capturing Fire Poetry Slam (www.capturingfire.org), and the DC Queer Theatre Festival (www.dcqueertheatrefest.org).
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Theater Washington
Building on 30 years of credibility and service as The Helen Hayes Awards, theatreWashington is the only organization dedicated to supporting and representing all sectors of the Washington theatre community—theatres, professionals, and diverse audiences of all ages—to build a strong, vibrant, connected community.
theatreWashington’s Vision:
We envision a region, nation, and world that celebrates, reveres, and eagerly seeks out Washington’s extraordinary, diverse, and vibrant theatre community, recognizing it is an essential element of our world-class region that contributes greatly to our quality of life.
theatreWashington’s Mission:
Together, with the region’s dynamic professional theatre community, theatreWashington creates and invigorates audiences, strengthens the region’s theatrical workforce, and celebrates excellence on Washington stages to build and an even more vibrant community for all.
theatreWashington’s Goals:
* To ensure the operational stability of the organization so it can lead and advance the Washington theatre community in innovative ways
* To greatly heighten awareness of the extraordinary Washington regional theatre landscape by broadening, diversifying, and developing audiences and promoting and celebrating all the theatre community has to offer
* To unify and strengthen the professional Washington regional theatre community through innovative and valued programs and services
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Think Local First DC
Working with independent businesses, consumers and policymakers to grow a sustainable local economy in Washington, DC.
641 S Street, NW
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Tryka Film Coalition
Tryka is a student filmmaking community consisting of high school filmmakers, actors, designers, musicians, and artists in the DMV area. Our mission is to make better films and filmmakers by providing a hub where opportunities, resources, education, and people converge. Sponsored by Imagination Stage, Tryka hosts monthly meetings where members can network, hire cast and crew, give feedback on scripts, and hear from guests speakers.
4908 Auburn Ave
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Utopia Film Festival
2017 FESTIVAL DATES: October 13th – October 15th
SUBMISSION LINK
The Utopia Film Festival is held annually in Greenbelt, Maryland, located near Washington, D.C. Greenbelt was one of America’s first planned communities, a New Deal city built by the Roosevelt administration in the 1930’s. The Utopia Film Festival, now in its 13th year, takes its name from the idealistic origins of Greenbelt, described by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as “the first garden community in the land planned for the uplift and unfolding of the human spirit.” Utopia seeks documentaries, feature films, shorts and animation which creatively explore the personal, social, political, cultural and environmental issues which challenge humanity’s never-ending quest for a better world.
Greenbelt Community Center
15 Crescent Road, Suite 204
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Virginia Film Festival
2017 FESTIVAL DATES: November 9th – 12th
SUBMISSIONS LINK
The Virginia Film Festival at the University of Virginia has been celebrating the magic of the movies and inspiring audiences for over 29 years in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Every autumn, the VFF showcases celebrated new features and documentaries, fresh perspectives on timeless classics, and local filmmakers from here in Virginia. Today, the VFF stands as one of Virginia’s most important cultural landmarks, and one of the most respected regional destination film festivals in the United States.
Each year, the VFF brings in a fascinating selection of guests, from internationally acclaimed directors and actors to professors and leading cultural experts who lead discussions that stimulate, educate, and engage. Past guests include Jimmy Stewart, Morgan Freeman, Leonard Maltin, Werner Herzog, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Hopkins, Sandra Bullock, Nicolas Cage, Gena Rowlands, Bill Plympton, Sigourney Weaver, Shirley MacLaine, Danny McBride, Colin Firth, Liv Ullmann, William Styron, Tippi Hedren, Ross McElwee, Matthew Broderick, Stanley Nelson, January Jones, Cherry Jones, Oliver Stone, Will Forte, Mia Wasikowska, Jorma Taccone, Meg Ryan, Ashley Judd, Jenna Elfman, and Patrick Wilson.
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Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts
Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts began in 1983 as a unique collaboration of lawyers and artists to fulfill a mission to serve artists in need of legal knowledge and assistance. Since then, WALA has supported artistic expression and creative innovation serving the legal needs of the arts and cultural communities in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia. WALA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides access to education, advocacy and legal services through workshops and seminars, legal clinics and pro-bono referral services for creatives and cultural organizations. More than 350 of Washington’s top lawyers and law firms participate as volunteers in WALA’s legal services programs.
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Washington DC Film Critics Association
Founded in 2002, The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) comprises professional DC-based film critics with affiliations in television, radio, print and the internet. As of 2016, WAFCA has grown to include 50 dedicated members from the District, Maryland and Virginia. Our group works to advocate complete freedom of expression in film and film criticism – including the individual critic’s right to disagree with the opinions of their colleagues, and to promote public awareness that film in an important art form as well as a means of entertainment. WAFCA maintains stringent requirements for membership and our members must adhere to all studio-imposed review embargoes. Our members vote every December to recognize the very best achievements of the cinematic year. Over the brief history of the association, WAFCA has garnered international attention, respect and credibility for the independent-minded approach that the group has taken in honoring Hollywood’s elite, often serving as a bellwether for identifying both Golden Globe and Academy Award winners.
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Washington Jewish Film Festival
2018 FESTIVAL DATES – May 2nd – May 13th
One of the largest and most respected Jewish film festivals in North America, the Washington Jewish Film Festival (WJFF) is an international exhibition of cinema that celebrates the diversity of Jewish history, culture and experience through the moving image. In addition to the annual festival, the WJFF presents an ongoing, year-round film series, in our home venue at the Edlavitch DCJCC. The WJFF annually serves over 15,000 people through 80+ screenings, nearly all of which are regional, US or world premieres. Most screenings are followed by discussions with guest filmmakers and subject matter experts.
Edlavitch DCJCC
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Washington West Film Festival
Intelligent story not only entertains, but it truly can change the world. A well-told story captures our imagination, makes us laugh, forces us to reflect, and inspires transformation. And so the purpose of the Washington West Film Festival is to celebrate innovative and impassioned film that will both comfort and challenge our audiences who, in turn, can make lasting, tangible differences in our world. At Washington West, we will screen and, in many cases, premiere some of the finest independent films from all around the world in three in-competition categories: dramatic features, documentary features, and short films. As we mature, we will expand our programming to include major Hollywood studio releases, giving established filmmakers the opportunity to unveil their story before a conscientious audience in one of the world’s most influential cities. We want to connect artists – emerging and renowned – with audiences who are eager for a unique cinematic experience, and together, make the world a little bit brighter.
11911 Freedom Drive, Suite 850
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WERA 96.7
WERA’s mission is to enlighten, enrich, and entertain Arlington’s diverse community by promoting and facilitating independent radio. On December 6, 2015, Arlington, Virginia entered a new era with the introduction of WERA-LP 96.7 onto the FM dial. A project of Arlington Independent Media, WERA’s programming is produced by and for the community. WERA is an outlet for anyone interested in creating, producing, and delivering broadcast-quality content to the Arlington community and surrounding area. WERA-LP features local-centric programming brought to you by talented and dedicated volunteer producers working in a wide variety of genres and styles to bring the sights and sounds of the Arlington area to our listeners. WERA-LP is Arlington’s only radio station. Broader coverage of DC and Northern Virginia often overshadows the news, events, people, stories, and culture that define one of the most diverse and innovative communities in the country. But WERA-LP and wera.fm will provide an opportunity for all Arlingtonians to raise their voices and share their perspectives – and listen to their friends and neighbors as they produce and deliver their own community radio programs.
WERA-LP 96.7 FM
2701-C Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201
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West Virginia Filmmakers Festival
October 6th – October 8th / 2017
Film Submission Now Open
The first West Virginia FILMmakers Festival was held in the spring of 2001 at the Landmark Studio for the Arts in historic Sutton, West Virginia. Co-founded by Kevin Carpenter and Steve Fesenmaier to showcase West Virginia’s best filmmakers. Films are now shown primarily at the Elk Theatre, a Historic 1930s one-screen theater on Main Street in downtown Sutton. Filmmaking seminars, other festival activities, and after-parties with live music are held at the Landmark Studio for the Arts.
Hosted every October, the festival has become the singular celebration of West Virginia Filmmakers. The festival is characterized by enlightening films, networking opportunities, live music, and great parties. The West Virginia FILMmakers Festival is a wonderful venue for meeting filmmakers, actors, and industry contacts, while experiencing the latest produced films reflecting trends, techniques, and technology.
Sutton, WV 26601
Tel: http://wvfilmmakersfestival.org/contact
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Wheaton Film Festival
2016 Film Submission is Now Open
Film Freeway: Submission
With film screenings, panel discussions, and networking, the 2nd Annual Wheaton Film Festival is a great showcase for filmmakers and film fans. Everyone is invited to come to Wheaton, MD on Friday, November 11, 2016 at 3pm – check out Eventbrite for tickets. The selected filmmakers will each get to introduce their film live to the attending audience and to answer some brief Q&A.
We will have two education panels. The tentative topics are:
• Filmmaking A to Z – a discussion of the overall process of filmmaking and distribution.
• Entertainment Law 101 presented by Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA)
This event is supported in part by the Montgomery County government, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Chuck Levin’s Music Center, WALA, DC Media Makers, DC Filmmakers, DC Shorts, Docs In Progress, Arune Labs, Adobe Software, and Final Draft Software.
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Winter Film Awards
2017 Film Submission Period Now Open
Without a Box: Submission
Winter Film Awards is an all-volunteer women and minority-run 501(c)3 organization founded in 2011 by NYC filmmakers and arts enthusiasts. It was built with the dream of making indie film more accessible to the public and providing driven, talented artists the opportunity to break through competitive barriers to establish meaningful careers in film. Our Mission is to recognize excellence and diversity in cinema, with a special emphasis on showcasing women and minority filmmakers and to promote learning and artistic expression for people at all stages of their artistic careers. Our focus is on nurturing emerging filmmakers from all genres from around the world, and helping them gain recognition and contacts to break into this difficult industry.
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Women in Film and Video
Women in Film & Video (WIFV) is dedicated to advancing the career development and achievement for professionals working in all areas of screen-based media and related disciplines. WIFV supports women in the industry by promoting equal opportunities, encouraging professional development, serving as an information network, and educating the public about women’s creative and technical achievements. WIFV, a 501(c)(3) non-profit community benefit organization founded in 1979, is the premier professional resource for people who want successful media careers in the DC-metro region. Our resources, connections and advocates support a vibrant, creative media community.
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FILM SPOTLIGHT: swiPed
Texters texting, tweeters tweeting, likers liking, posters posting, Googlers Googling… are we teching too much? More connected than ever, but more distant by the day. Is humanity being swiped away?
5 minutes • Animation • United States
Explore the website, watch trailers, read about films — then join us for 11 days this September.
Tweets by @dcshorts
#dcshorts17
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Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch
Posted by News Fetcher on September 27 '13 at 12:45 PM
By Soulskill from Slashdot's is-there-tech-that-can-mute-the-rhetoric department:
bednarz writes "In four days, the health insurance marketplaces mandated by the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act are scheduled to open for business. Yet even before the sites launch, problems are emerging. Final security testing of the federal data hub isn't slated to happen until Sept. 30, one day before the rollout. Lawmakers have raised significant concerns about the ability of the system to protect personal health records and other private information. 'Lots and lots of late nights and weekends as people get ready for go-live,' says Patrick Howard, who leads Deloitte Consulting's public sector state health care practice."
Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan
By Soulskill from Slashdot's as-long-as-you-don't-program-it-to-run-over-mimes department:
Daniel_Stuckey writes "The current test vehicle uses what Nissan calls its 'Advanced Driver Assist System,' which isn't fully autonomous, but rather can be thought of as a really advanced cruise control system. According to the company, the system can keep a car in its own lane, while automatically changing lanes to pass slower vehicles or prepare to exit a freeway, which it can also do automatically. Along with that, the car automatically slows for congestion, and — most impressively in my opinion — can automatically stop at red lights. In other words, the car isn't fully automatic in that you can't simply type in a destination and have it do all the work, but the bulk of driving load is taken care of. Curiously, Nissan's goal appears to be to take sloppy human drivers out of the equation to eliminate road fatalities."
Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case
Posted by News Fetcher on September 27 '13 at 11:30 AM
By Soulskill from Slashdot's you-own-more-cameras-than-you-think department:
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "CNN reports that Jared James Abrahams, a 19-year-old computer science student, has been arrested for allegedly hijacking the webcams of young women — among them reigning Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf — taking nude images, then blackmailing his victims to send him more explicit material or else be exposed. Abrahams admitted he had 30 to 40 'slave computers' — or other people's electronic devices he controlled — and has had as many as 150 total. His arrest came six months after a teenager identified in court documents as C.W. alerted authorities. She has since publicly identified herself as Cassidy Wolf, the recently crowned Miss Teen USA. Wolf received messages featuring pictures of her at her Riverside County address and others apparently taken months earlier when she lived in Orange County, says the criminal complaint (PDF). The message explained 'what's going to happen' if Wolf didn't send pictures or videos or 'do what I tell you to do' in a five-minute Skype videoconference, according to the criminal complaint. 'Either you do one of the things listed below or I upload these pics and a lot more (I have a LOT more and those are better quality) on all your accounts for everybody to see and your dream of being a model will be transformed into a pornstar (sic),' wrote Abrahams. FBI agents raided Abrahams' Temecula home in June and seized computers and hardware, cellphones and hacking software, court records show. Outside the court, Abrahams' lawyer, Alan Eisner, said that his client's family feels 'profound regret and remorse' over what happened. Eisner told CNN affiliate KTLA that Abrahams is autistic. 'The family wants to apologize for the consequences of his behavior to the families who were affected.'"
Valve Announces Steam Controller
By Soulskill from Slashdot's long-awaited-innovation department:
Today Valve unveiled their third and final announcement about living room gaming: a Steam controller. The company made the determination that existing gamepads simply weren't good enough for bringing PC games to the living room, so they made their own. Instead of having directional pads or thumb sticks, the Steam controller has two circular trackpads. The trackpads are also clickable, and Valve claims they provide much higher fidelity than any previous controller trackpad. Valve also eschewed the traditional 'rumble' feedback mechanism: "The Steam Controller is built around a new generation of super-precise haptic feedback, employing dual linear resonant actuators. These small, strong, weighted electro-magnets are attached to each of the dual trackpads. They are capable of delivering a wide range of force and vibration, allowing precise control over frequency, amplitude, and direction of movement." The center of the controller holds a clickable touchscreen. "When programmed by game developers using our API, the touch screen can work as a scrolling menu, a radial dial, provide secondary info like a map or use other custom input modes we haven't thought of yet." The design also breaks up the common diamond-shaped button layout, instead putting the A B X Y buttons at the corners of the touchscreen. The controller is designed to be hackable, and Valve will "make tools available that will enable users to participate in all aspects of the experience, from industrial design to electrical engineering." The controller is being beta tested concurrently with the Steam Machines they announced on Wednesday, so you can expect them to be on sale in 2014.
New Unix Implementation Turns 30
By Unknown Lamer from Slashdot's edited-using-emacs department:
Thirty years ago, rms wrote: "Free Unix!
Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free to everyone who can use it.
Contributions of time, money, programs and equipment are greatly
needed."
And thus began the revolution. Thirty years after posting the initial announcement, it's hard to find someone who hasn't interacted with Free Software at some point, even if they didn't realize it. To celebrate, the FSF is holding an anniversary celebration and hackathon this weekend at MIT.
Tesco: 3D Printing Will Come To Supermarkets 'Within a Few Years'
By Soulskill from Slashdot's yes-i'd-like-to-print-4,000-lego-bricks-please department:
TinTops writes "The IT chief of supermarket giant Tesco has said he believes there is a market for 3D printing in large supermarkets, and that it will be 'good for customers.' Mike McNamara told V3: 'I think it will help Tesco as a company, I don't think it will be a bad thing. It'll be a great thing for customers, we'll have 3D printing in our stores. As retailers you'll always adapt. So new things come along — the internet came along, we adapted to that one. We kind of have the internet version two with smartphones now, which has been a bigger impact than the wired internet, we'll adapt to that, we'll adapt to 3D printing, we'll adapt to RFID. You live, you change.' McNamara thinks 3D printers will be commonplace in stores before they start showing up in significant numbers at people's homes. This could 'give shoppers a new reason to visit shops for quick access to niche items.'"
How LucasArts Fell Apart
By Soulskill from Slashdot's why-couldn't-you-just-make-a-new-xwing-vs-tie-fighter-game department:
An anonymous reader sends this story from Kotaku's Jason Schreier about the downfall of LucasArts:
"Over the last five months, I've talked to a dozen people connected to LucasArts, including ex-employees at the company's highest levels, in an attempt to figure out just how the studio collapsed. Some spoke off the record; others spoke under condition of anonymity. They told me about the failed deals, the drastic shifts in direction, the cancelled projects with codenames like Smuggler and Outpost. They told me the stories behind the fantastic-looking Star Wars 1313 and the multi-tiered plans for a new Battlefront starting with the multiplayer game known as Star Wars: First Assault. All of these people helped paint a single picture: Even before Disney purchased LucasFilm, the parent company of LucasArts, in November of 2012, the studio faced serious issues. LucasArts was a company paralyzed by dysfunction, apathy, and indecision from executives at the highest levels."
Microsoft Shows Off Its Vision For Gesture-Controlled PCs
By Soulskill from Slashdot's wave-your-hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-don't-care department:
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has demoed a prototype gesture-controlled PC using an augmented version of its Kinect motion sensing system. The rig detects 16 gestures and can be used to navigate Windows 8. Microsoft said it wants gestures to complement what is possible using mouse and keyboard, rather than replacing them, and the system favors simple gestures made just above the keyboard, rather than more elaborate Minority Report-style gestures. '[A] window is maximized by clenching a fist to "grab" it and then opening the hand while moving towards the top of the keyboard. Performing the same series of gestures in reverse minimize the window. Repeating the gesture while moving the hand to the left or right edge of the keyboard docks the window with the left or right edge of the screen. The same series of gestures while moving the hand to the top left and right corners of the keyboard will throw the window to the left or right of screen, but not dock it with the edge. Bringing hands together in the middle of the keyboard and then moving them to the keyboard's left and right edge with palms down and fingers splayed will show the desktop. Repeating the gesture restores the original view.'"
When Criminals and Terrorists Communicate In Real Time
By Soulskill from Slashdot's getting-CNN-holograms-to-jabber-about-you-isn't-enough-anymore department:
theodp writes "CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen notes that the assault on the upscale Westgate Mall in Nairobi by armed gunmen 'was the first major terrorist attack in history in which the group that mounted the operation used Twitter to announce to the world it was responsible. The group then quickly tweeted what its rationale was for the attack and also gave operational details of the assault — all in real time.' During the massacre, a Twitter account purportedly used by the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab tweeted, 'Like it or loathe it! our mujahideen confirmed all executions were point blank range!' The group also wrote, '#Westgate: a 14-hour standoff relayed in 1400 rounds of bullets and 140 characters of vengeance and still ongoing. Good morning Kenya!' So, what's in store for our brave new world of Social Media? 'The next logical step,' fears Bergen, 'will be for terrorists to cover their deadly operations using their own real-time live video feeds linked to sites such as Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. If that happens, terrorist attacks will become a form of theater in which terrorists not only get to write the play but also act as the primary producers of the coverage of the event.'"
'Zombie' Hormone Disruptors Rise From the Dead
By Soulskill from Slashdot's also-vulnerable-to-shotguns department:
ananyo writes "Hormone-disrupting chemicals may be far more prevalent in lakes and rivers than previously thought. Environmental scientists have discovered that although these compounds are often broken down by sunlight, they can regenerate at night, returning to life like zombies (abstract). Endocrine disruptors — pollutants that unbalance hormone systems — are known to harm fish, and there is growing evidence linking them to health problems in humans, including infertility and various cancers 'Risk assessments have been built on the basis that light exposure is enough to break down these products,' adds Laura Vandenberg, an endocrinologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst who was not involved in the study. 'This work undermines that idea completely.'"
Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades
By Soulskill from Slashdot's if-taco-bell-keeps-growing department:
An anonymous reader writes "A panel of expert climate scientists appointed by the United Nations has come to a consensus on an upper limit for greenhouse gases. The panel says we will blow past this limit in just a few decades if emissions continue at their current pace. 'To stand the best chance of keeping the planetary warming below an internationally agreed target of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change, the panel found, only about 1 trillion tons of carbon can be burned and the resulting gas spewed into the atmosphere. Just over half that amount has already been emitted since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and at current rates of energy consumption, the trillionth ton will be released around 2040, according to calculations by Myles R. Allen, a scientist at the University of Oxford and one of the authors of the new report. More than 3 trillion tons of carbon are still left in the ground as fossil fuels.' You can read a summary of the report's findings online (PDF). It says plainly, 'It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming (PDF) since the mid-20th century.'"
Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws
By Soulskill from Slashdot's google's-lawyers-must-be-busy-folk department:
New submitter SpacemanukBEJY.53u writes "In a declaration that could make Google very nervous, a U.S. federal judge on Thursday rebuffed Google's defense of its targeted ad system that scans the content of Gmail. Judge Lucy Koh — who also heard the Apple-Samsung case — found Google's terms and conditions and privacy policy isn't clear to users. Koh subsequently allowed a class-action suit to proceed against the company (official ruling). The plaintiffs in the suit allege Google violates federal and state wiretap laws by scannning the messages sent by non-Gmail and Gmail users."
How Early Should Kids Learn To Code?
By samzenpus from Slashdot's diapers-and-distros department:
the agent man writes "Wired Magazine is exploring how early kids should learn to code. One of the challenges is to find the proper time in schools to teach programming. Are teachers at elementary and middle school levels really able to teach this subject? The article suggests that even very young kids can learn to program and lists a couple of early experiments as well as more established ideas including the Scalable Game Design curriculum. However, the article also suggests that programming may have to come at the cost of Foreign language learning and music."
New Zealand Converting Old Phone Booths Into National WiFi Network
By samzenpus from Slashdot's superman-approved department:
An anonymous reader writes "What do you do with old public phone boxes hardly anyone uses? Convert them into a national network of WiFi hotspots is the answer in New Zealand. While others have converted their old phone booths into libraries, toilets, showers and even smoking booths, in New Zealand 700 hotspots will be live by 7 October with a target of 2000 by the middle of 2014. 1Gb of data will be free to customers of the incumbent operator, others have to pay for monthly access."
Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance
By samzenpus from Slashdot's works-for-them department:
cold fjord writes "The New York times reports that the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Vice Chairman, Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), are moving a bill forward that would 'change but preserve' the controversial NSA phone log program. Senator Feinstein believes the program is legal, but wants to improve public confidence. The bill would reduce the time the logs could be kept, require public reports on how often it is used, and require FISA court review of the numbers searched. The bill would require Senate confirmation of the NSA director. It would also give the NSA a one week grace period in applying for permission from a court to continue surveillance of someone that travels from overseas to the United States. The situation created by someone traveling from overseas to the United States has been the source of the largest number of incidents in the US in which NSA's surveillance rules were not properly complied with. The rival bill offered by Senators Wyden (D-OR) and Udall (D-CO) which imposes tougher restrictions is considered less likely to pass."
Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know?
By samzenpus from Slashdot's protect-ya-neck department:
An anonymous reader writes "Recent reports from around the net suggest that SSL certificate chain for gmail has either changed this week, or has been widely compromised. Even less-than-obvious places to look for information, such as Google's Online Security Blog, are silent. The problem isn't specific to gmail, of course, which leads me to ask: What is the canonically-accepted out-of-band means by which a new SSL certificate's fingerprint may be communicated and/or verified by end users?"
Scientists Describe Internal Clocks That Don't Follow Day and Night Cycles
By samzenpus from Slashdot's up-all-night department:
sciencehabit writes "Almost all organisms, from bacteria to mammals, have a circadian clock—a mechanism in their cells which keeps them in sync with Earth's day-and-night cycle. But many organisms follow other rhythms as well. Now, new research provides the first evidence that animals have molecular cycles independent of the circadian rhythm. They include a sea louse whose swimming patterns sync up with the tides, and a marine worm that matures and spawns in concert with the phases of the moon. The discoveries suggest that noncircadian clocks might be common and could explain a variety of biological rhythms."
Scientists Create "DNA Barcodes" To Thwart Counterfeiters
By samzenpus from Slashdot's swab-it department:
Zothecula writes "Earlier this year, we heard about a gun and a fogging system, both of which tag criminals with synthesized DNA. The idea is that when those people are apprehended later, they can be linked to the crime by analyzing the location- or event-specific DNA still on their skin or clothing. Now, scientists at the Technology Transfer Unit of Portugal's University of Aveiro are developing something similar – 'DNA barcodes' that can be applied to products, then subsequently read as a means of identification."
What the Insurance Industry Thinks About Climate Change
By samzenpus from Slashdot's hedge-your-bets department:
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Joseph Stromberg reports at the Smithsonian that if there's one group has an obvious and immediate financial stake in climate change, it's the insurance industry and in recent years, insurance industry researchers who attempt to determine the annual odds of catastrophic weather-related disasters say they're seeing something new. 'Our business depends on us being neutral. We simply try to make the best possible assessment of risk today, with no vested interest,' says Robert Muir-Wood, the chief scientist of Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a company that creates software models to allow insurance companies to calculate risk. Most insurers, including the reinsurance companies that bear much of the ultimate risk in the industry, have little time for the arguments heard in some right-wing circles that climate change isn't happening, and are quite comfortable with the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels is the main culprit of global warming. 'Insurance is heavily dependent on scientific thought,' says Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America. 'It is not as amenable to politicized scientific thought.' A pronounced shift can be seen in extreme rainfall events, heat waves and wind storms and the underlying reason is climate change, says Muir-Wood, driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. 'The first model in which we changed our perspective is on U.S. Atlantic hurricanes. Basically, after the 2004 and 2005 seasons, we determined that it was unsafe to simply assume that historical averages still applied,' he says. 'We've since seen that today's activity has changed in other particular areas as well—with extreme rainfall events, such as the recent flooding in Boulder, Colorado, and with heat waves in certain parts of the world.' Muir-Wood puts his money where his mouth is. 'I personally wouldn't invest in beachfront property anymore,' he says, noting the steady increase in sea level we're expecting to see worldwide in the coming century, on top of more extreme storms. 'And if you're thinking about it, I'd calculate quite carefully how far back you'd have to be in the event of a hurricane.'"
Scientists Create New "Lightsaber-Like" Form of Matter
By samzenpus from Slashdot's may-the-new-matter-be-with-you department:
First time accepted submitter loftarasa writes "A group of scientists led by Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and MIT Professor of Physics Vladan Vuletic have developed a form of matter by binding massless photons together in a special kind of medium to create 'photonic molecules', effectively bringing us a bit closer to a world with lightsabers. 'The discovery, Lukin said, runs contrary to decades of accepted wisdom about the nature of light. Photons have long been described as massless particles which don't interact with each other – shine two laser beams at each other, he said, and they simply pass through one another. "Photonic molecules," however, behave less like traditional lasers and more like something you might find in science fiction – the light saber.' The work is described in Nature (paywalled)."
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Immfly’s Best-In-Class Connected Digital Services Platform Arrives to AILA Lounges
Barcelona | June 28, 2019– The Immfly Lounge service is part of a unique customer journey platform Immfly provides airports and airlines. It is designed to enable seamless extension of the customer experience end-to-end: from lounge, to gate, to inflight and post arrival. The Immfly Lounge service is now available in one of the largest airports in the Carribean, serving VIP lounges in Santo Domingo’s AILA airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas). AILA handles 3.5 million customers annually and the airport’s top 10 routes include direct flights to hubs in the USA, Europe and South America served by carriers including American Airlines, Iberia, Delta, Avianca, Spirit, Air Europa, Jet Blue and United Airlines.
Immfly uses proprietary state-of-the-art wireless infrastructure to provide unrivalled digital entertainment streaming speeds paired with customised services for premium airline passengers visiting the lounge.
To deliver a seamless end-to-end journey, Airlines and Lounges can choose to extend Immfly’s service to any designated pre-boarding area, to the inflight experience and even the post flight segment. Moreover, optional features such as managed web services, ensure customers can access information related to content they will be able to enjoy, prior to arrival at the airport. e.g In a service Immfly provides Iberia Express customers are made aware which Game of Thrones episodes they will be able to enjoy prior to travelling via web content managed by Immfly.
The content made available to lounge customers is also best-in-class in terms of breadth and quality. Beyond new movie releases, Immfly enables lounges and airlines to provide customers a portfolio of top tv shows, best-selling audiobooks and e-books, podcasts, games, music, press & magazines, destination guides, newsfeeds, kids content in addition to specially customised modules Immfly develops for its lounge partners e.g unlocking shopping opportunities, offering tactical upgrades and other services available in using the platform as a communication channel.
Immfly activates the pre-flight touchpoint
Access to Immfly’s Connected Digital Services platform in departure terminals, in lounges or gate areas, enables airlines and airports to secure multiple competitive advantages beyond those gained by enhancing the customer experience with entertainment. The digital experience during the “before boarding” moment increase opportunities for higher engagement with brands or services. Whether its special campaigns or promotions, subscriptions to specific schemes or distribution of services available pre-flight, in-flight or post-flight, the ability to boost revenues and reduce operational costs is immense. Immfly Lounge’s proposition to airline and airport clients focuses on its 3 pillars: Enhanced Customer Experience, Increased Revenues and Reduced Operational Costs.
Before Boarding
VIP Lounge Operator in Santo Domingo’s AILA airport
Before Boarding, which operates multiple airports VIP lounges in the Latin American region, is the latest client to offer Immfly’s Connected Digital Services platform to passengers. The company has been working to transform the traveller experience since 2013. Imad Al Asmar, Director General of Before Boarding explains “ Before Boarding actively looks at options which provide our users with the best and most sophisticated experience. Our customers can now enjoy this dynamic entertainment platform in our AILA spaces at no additional cost. The service is available to enhance the time customers have available at the airport, as they wait for their flight or even for their luggage collection. They can now relax, enjoy the latest in entertainment content in addition to exploring new products and services we announce in this innovative premium connected digital services platform provided by Immfly.”
Immfly’s Connected Digital Services platform uses state-of-the-art technology available to its clients with a flexible and modular structure. Digital innovation is changing the pre-flight experience significantly. Immfly provides its client’s customers the ability to escape the hectic flight day environment with easy access to a vast world of entertainment and digital services. Through their own personal electronic devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops..), users can effortlessly watch the latest Hollywood releases, the hottest TV-shows, enjoy premium local and International press, play interactive games, listening to music or keep the kids entertained with their favourite programs. Passengers accessing the “Before Boarding” lounges in Santo Domingo can now sit back, relax, and make time fly as they wait for their departure. Immfly Lounge also provides a range of versatile advertising modules giving prestigious brands the opportunity to digitally interact with an affluent public in an exclusive environment. Best of all, for maximum engagement, no special apps or downloads are required. Passengers in the VIP rooms simply connect to the “Before Boarding” WIFI network by introducing a web address and password provided onsite.
Maria Cardenal, Product & Digital Services Director adds Immfly .” Entertainment today is everywhere and above all it’s digital. At Immfly we are experts in digital entertainment solutions which also connect passengers with airlines and airport lounges. We continuously innovate and evolve to meet the needs of companies in the sector. We are very pleased to collaborate with Before Boarding given the company’s customer-focused approach and determination to offer a service that meets the demands of the global connected traveler ”
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 3:37 pm
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Barcelona, Spain | June 25, 2019– The Immfly Lounge service is part of a unique customer journey platform Immfly provides airports and airlines. It is designed to enable seamless extension of the customer experience end-to-end: from lounge, to gate, to inflight and post arrival. The Immfly Lounge service is now available in one of the largest airports in the Carribean, serving VIP lounges in Santo Domingo’s AILA airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas). AILA handles 3.5 million customers annually and the airport’s top 10 routes include direct flights to hubs in the USA, Europe and South America served by carriers including American Airlines, Iberia, Delta, Avianca, Spirit, Air Europa, Jet Blue and United Airlines.
Before Boarding, which operates multiple airports VIP lounges in the Latin American region, is the latest client to offer Immfly’s Connected Digital Services platform to passengers. The company has been working to transform the traveller experience since 2013. Imad Al Asmar, Director General of Before Boarding explains “Before Boarding actively looks at options which provide our users with the best and most sophisticated experience. Our customers can now enjoy this dynamic entertainment platform in our AILA spaces at no additional cost. The service is available to enhance the time customers have available at the airport, as they wait for their flight or even for their luggage collection. They can now relax, enjoy the latest in entertainment content in addition to exploring new products and services we announce in this innovative premium connected digital services platform provided by Immfly.”
Maria Cardenal, Product & Digital Services Director adds Immfly . “Entertainment today is everywhere and above all it’s digital. At Immfly we are experts in digital entertainment solutions which also connect passengers with airlines and airport lounges. We continuously innovate and evolve to meet the needs of companies in the sector. We are very pleased to collaborate with Before Boarding given the company’s customer-focused approach and determination to offer a service that meets the demands of the global connected traveler”
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 3:50 pm
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Ethiopian Airlines Selects IMMFLY’S Connected Digital Services & IFE Platform
Barcelona, Spain | April 9, 2019–Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, announced that it has established a new partnership with Immfly, an on-board digital transformation platform for in-flight e-commerce and on-board connectivity that enables airlines to digitally improve the passenger travel experience.
Immfly’s international growth momentum continues as the premium IFE & Connected digital services company gains new territory with the airline that commands the lion’s share of the Pan-African network.
From its hub at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, Ethiopian serves 120 passenger destinations across the globe, out of which over 60 are in Africa. Together with Ethiopian, Immfly will cover an extensive range of destinations across Africa, Europe, North and South America, Middle East & Asia.
Immfly’s Connected Digital Services and Best-in-Class IFE platform will be installed in 20 Ethiopian Airlines aircraft by this summer. The platform will be available in five languages including English, Amharic, Chinese, French, and Arabic to serve the distinct nationalities in the airline’s demographic profile.
In addition to premium Entertainment and Immfly’s proprietary content modules, Ethiopian will benefit from Immfly Active, a cutting-edge portal, empowering the airline with increased flexibility and autonomy. Immfly Active is a powerful direct access portal enabling airlines to track onboard KPIs, analyze key data and progressively manage a greater number of onboard services for greater competitive advantage.
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 3:47 pm
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The Successful Partnership of Iberia Express & Immfly: 5 Years Into the Partnership, We Crunch the ‘NPS’ Numbers
Barcelona, Spain | January 22, 2019– Iberia Express, the first partner to launch Immfly’s Inflight Entertainment (IFE) & Digital Services platform, has released statistics showing how the partnership has positively impacted its Net Promoter Score (NPS).
In 2014, Immfly’s IFE and Digital Services platform was installed on the first Iberia Express aircraft, and launched with the name Club Express Onboard (CXO). The system has since installed in the full Iberia Express fleet.
Users of the system complete an online survey after the flight. Results from the past three years have been analyzed to provide insights into how Immfly’s platform has influenced the evolution of passenger satisfaction.
In 2016, Iberia Express asked passengers a general question to verify platform use and overall satisfaction with Immfly’s IFE and Digital Services platform. From the beginning, a significant share of respondents, 31.6%, gave the platform a top three score (scoring the service an 8, 9, or 10 out of 10), with a Perceived Level of Quality (PLQ) of 5.4 out of 10.
In marketing-speak, passengers giving the CXO system a Top 3 score are described as platform “fans”. Within 12 months, 2017 survey results showed platform fans were on the increase, up to 35.5%, and PLQ scoring rose to 5.8. The survey was also expanded to include questions on usability and content.
By 2018, the survey grew to include responses from over 10,000 passengers, and the positive trend in the share of highly satisfied platform fans continued, with 44.5% now giving Immfly’s platform top marks and PLQ reaching 6.1. In addition, both usability and content metrics saw significant percentage-point increases with differences of up to +15ppts in a single year, following continuous improvement efforts in partnership with Iberia Express. Perhaps most interestingly, the overall NPS of platform users is higher than those who don’t log into the platform, which is reflected in their positive qualitative feedback that flights seem shorter when they can enjoy a movie or keep up-to-date with daily news.
“Passengers are very happy with the increased content available on the platform, and their customer scores reflect that improvement. As a consequence, they are spending an average of 50 minutes per flight on the platform, an increase from the previous 30 minutes. In particular, our customers love the selection of films and TV shows”, added Paloma Cabañas, Head of Customer Experience and Inflight Services in Iberia Express.
“Our vision has always been to enhance our reputation as a world-class entertainment and services partner which is recognised for its innovation, dynamism and ability to customise the IFE experience” explained Julia Maruny, Head of Content at Immfly. ” We are constantly seeking new ways to break ground and introduce new entertainment formats to improve passenger satisfaction. Just recently we have added the new Sports channel in Iberia Express which has been well-received by the platform’s users” .
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 3:57 pm
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Immfly Turkey Office: Immfly is Broadening Its Horizons and is Extending Its Operations to the Middle East
Dubai | November 13, 2018– Immfly is growing internationally, and the facts speak for themselves. The most recent partnerships signed with the long-haul airline Wamos Air, and with Pegasus, the first airline in Turkey launching Immfly digital services (in more than 100 aircrafts), and even with SunExpress, a subsidiary of the two industry-leading airlines, Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, are not going unnoticed.
Get closer to partners
The clients’ portfolio is increasing and so is the Immfly team. Immfly’s value proposition is about treating clients as partners, partners who are actively involved throughout the entire process of the digitization of travelling. None of this would be possible if Immfly had not set up an office close to them. Installing an office in Turkey guarantees a smooth and efficient coverage of the Turkish and Middle Eastern markets.
Yasemin Gurcan, part of the IT Team at the Immfly Turkey office, comments “Inaugurating a new office here in Turkey is a clear step-forward for Immfly. Everything that we were doing in Western Europe we can now do here. It gives us a sense of enthusiasm and gratitude. Knowing that we are now closer and will be able to see to the needs of our neighbors’ customers gives us security and ensures efficiency in delivering the results we promised.”
Aviation Measa, Dubai
In line with the latest deals, for the first time Immfly will attend the Aviation Festival MEASA and will be located in booth 37 at the trade-show. The conference for airlines, airports, and their partners focuses on teaching how to grow a business by converging technology, customer experience and new revenue streams.
Immfly is going as silver sponsor and, on the 13th at 12 pm, will participate in a panel discussion about “Achieving success with ancillaries”, together with Dan Kerrison, Vice President of Inflight Product of Flydubai.
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 3:42 pm
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Immfly Lounge: Extending the Digital Relationship Throughout the Entire Customer Journey
Immfly offers the opportunity to airlines to engage passengers with an amusing experience that starts at the airport and continues while flying
APEX EXPO, Boston MA | September 24, 2018– The digital services platform Immfly, that, until now, could only be accessed onboard, can now entertain the passengers on the ground, while waiting for the flight. Based on the passengers’ access ratio and satisfaction level with Immfly’s platform, the company decided to extend, and specially, anticipate its offer to the airport. Airport vip lounges, or pre-boarding areas at the terminals can now have Immfly’s digital services at their disposal.
The day of the flight
The extension
The day of the flight means not only the flight but also beforehand in the airport, where only very few airlines can have a digital relationship with its customers.
From the moment someone looks for travel inspiration to the time it gets back home, there are several touch-points that constitute a commercial opportunity for airlines and its partners to interact with customers and get the most of those interaction in the form of revenue or in the form of customer satisfaction. Many airlines have done a great job using their digital channels and capabilities to communicate in a more personal and personalised way with their customers at most of those touch points, but still, there are significant gaps in that digital customer journey. There are still touch points that are not being used in a digital way. The biggest digital gap is the day of the flight, “the moment of truth” for NPS, the phase that most affects customer perception of the whole experience.
A seamless experience
Its benefits
Immfly offers now the opportunity to not only entertain passengers during that typically hectic time, improving their experience through personalization and choice, but also a new opportunity to monetize that digital relationship.
It is the chance to improve customer experience at the airport through entertainment and service at the same time that opens a new opportunity for ancillary revenues such as seatupgrades or activities at destination. Eventually, everything that could be done and enjoyed during the flight, can now be done before, on the ground.
Jimmy von Korff Martinez, co-founder of Immfly states “Combining the in-flight entertainment platform with the in-airport platform that offers the same entertainment content will allow customers to browse and select content before the flight for watching it later. In the same way will allow them to start watching a movie while waiting to board and continue watching the same movie in-flight, or to book or buy an activity on their final destination, which means passengers will benefit from a seamless experience and content consumption before and during the flight”.
From the airport, during the flight and post-flight, the Immfly wireless digital platform lets the airline expand the digital relationship with its customers, the data collection and revenue generation opportunities, and imp
Posted by Patricia on Monday, October 1, 2018 at 7:11 pm
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Immfly and Font Vella Levité Refresh Air Nostrum Passengers
Barcelona | September 5, 2018–Immfly, after having carried out campaigns with brands such as Rakuten, American Express, Volvo or Mondelez, has now taken to the clouds the refreshment Font Vella Levité, with an action that is being developed throughout the entire summer, onboard Air Nostrum’s fleet.
Onboard Branding
Through an action that combines sampling and digital branding, the brand is present on Air Nostrum flights (Iberia Regional).
In collaboration with Immfly, a technology company specialized in onboard digital services and entertainment solutions, Font Vella Levité has created an entertaining and refreshing campaign where passengers can interact with the brand playing the “Lemonade Game”, participating in a draw for a flight for two people or enjoying the entertainment channels included in the platform.
Onboard Sampling
The soft drink from Danone, bets for one of the most innovative advertising environments; the aircraft’s interior and the entertainment systems in passengers’ own devices. This combination ensures (an) excellent brand exposure and visibility, and fits perfect to this kind of products during summer times.
Levité is the lemonade from Font Vella, a refreshing drink inspired on the traditional lemonade, ideal for (the) summer trips.
Ramón Rodríguez, Brand Sales Manager at Immfly, states “I f a brand wants to surprise and ensure their investment in actions with a real positive impact, the environment of an airplane is ideal for its captivation, innovation and level of disruption. ”
Onboard advertising
The retention rate of advertising onboard is 79%, the highest of all media, and onboard advertising generates more than 25% of positive impact on the purchase intention, According to Media Life Magazine.
These type of arguments further reinforce the increase of campaigns like the one Font Vella Levité is currently performing.
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 2:29 pm
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Maria Cardenal Joins Immfly to Lead the Company’s Innovative Product
Spain | July 17, 2018– After the strong partnerships with renowned airlines such as EasyJet, Iberia Express, Volotea, among others and more recently, with Pegasus and SunExpress airlines, Immfly is highly oriented to design, develop and manage new in-flight digital products and services to provide the state-of-the-art in technology and to please the passengers’ experience.
Cardenal’s know-how and expertise go beyond the conventional entertainment products due to the vast experience she brings with her career – the understanding of both airlines needs and travelers expectations. Immfly and Maria Cardenal are currently working on the most outstanding digital services solutions, positioning the technology company at the industry’s frontline.
Barcelona, 17th July 2018 . Maria Cardenal has joined Immfly, a leading provider of in-flight digital services and entertainment in Europe and most recently, also in the Middle East, to lead the company’s product and innovation department. The technology company founded in Barcelona finds itself in a period of international growth and is consolidating its position through the unique in-flight experience that provides, with personalized capabilities that passengers can access and enjoy through their own smart devices.
During the course of hers 11 years experience working within the airline industry, Maria Cardenal has held senior positions in companies such as Vueling Airlines and Clickair.
At an academic level, Maria holds a Master in Business Administration from ESADE and a Bachelor in Business Administration from Carlos III University.
Maria’s last job position was as Head of Innovation at Vueling airlines, where she instituted Vueling Innovation Lab and participated on the IAG’s startup acceleration program Hangar 51, on its 2017-18 Spanish edition.
Maria has also been Head of Product Development and Ancillary Revenues at Vueling Airlines for 9 years leading the area responsible for the development of innovative products and services that add value to Vueling customers and help the company to differentiate itself from the competition, and, was at the same time accountable for the ancillary revenue generated by those products and services.
Prior to that, Maria was part of the management team that started Clickair, the fastest growing airline in Europe, as Head of Ancillary Revenue from 2007 to July 2009 when it merged with Vueling. Before joining the airline industry, Maria spent seven years dedicated to helping enterprises to enter e-commerce, as Head of new business development at Logista, from October 2000 to July 2007.
This current month, Maria Cardenal accepted a new professional and career challenge when decidedtoincorporateImmfly. “Immflyisanamazingcompany.Itisagileandinnovativeasno other competitor on its field and has already demonstrated that it has the right approach to addressing the needs of both airlines and travelers around the world. I’m so happy to join this company and I hope that I can contribute to making Immfly fly higher.”, explains Maria Cardenal, current Product Director at Immfly.
Jimmy Martinez Von Korff and Pablo Linz, co-founders of Immfly, welcome the appointment:
“María Cardenal brings a unique airline DNA to our company. We know each other for a long time and we share the same vision on where we want to expand our cabin digital services. Maria was has been driving innovation and ancillary in Vueling in the key years of the airline’s digitalization. We are excited about her user-centric approach and we are sure we will continue building extraordinary technologies and services for the cabin space that will meet airlines digital aspirations.”
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Immfly Enhances SunExpress On Board Experience by Introducing Its Inflight Digital Platform
Leisure carrier partners with tech company for introduction of brand new inflight entertainment system
Dublin, Ireland | June 6, 2018–“SunExpress Entertainment” with Immfly Digital Services: The airline, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, introduces its partnership with Immfly for its new inflight entertainment system.“SunExpress Entertainment” will be rolled out across the fleet of Boeing 737-800NG and MAX and will be personalized for every passenger with an on-demand function via everyone’s individual mobile device. Since Immfly is leading the development of inflight digital platforms in Europe as a tool for boosting airline revenues by analyzing customer loyalty and by adding revenue streams with digital inflight sponsorship services, the platform “SunExpress Entertainment” was designed with clear marketing and revenue optimization objectives.
A unique personalization of content in terms of route, time, airline and language
Immfly can customize its digital services to meet the best conditions and offer the best passenger experience. A broad range of entertainment modules such as TV-shows, movies, music, games, press and magazines as well as kids’ content, will be available on board of the SunExpress aircrafts. To access them, passengers have to use their own personal electronic devices (mobile phone, tablet, laptop), enter the Immfly WIFI network on board and enjoy the wide variety of content.
International and local content
As Immfly’s digital platform will be present in two distinct markets – each one of them very rich in CSPs – it will count on international providers such as 20t h Century FOX as well as local content – from Turkey and from Germany respectively.
“In addition to only offering entertainment and flight information, Immfly works closely with SunExpress to perfectly fit their digitalization strategy and enable SunExpress passengers to enjoy a digital seamless travel journey including the onboard experience,” explains Vincent Tomasoni,Chief C ustomerandContentOfficeratImmfly.
Plan your trip while flying
“Your Destination” is fully dedicated to provide guidance and valuable tips for passengers about places to go, discover the most secret spots of the city and the various activities to do right after landing. The section offers information regarding transfer services, tours, where and what to buy, and all of this information in a guide format that covers the airline’s routes, available in several languages.
“SunExpress Entertainment” also provides practical information about the flight and an interactive 3D map of the route in the “Flight Info” section, that shows a real-time flight tracker to checkpoints of interest, the airline ́s destination, the actual time at the destination, outside temperature, the aircraft’s altitude and speed as well as the arrival time. Provided by “The Weather Network” passengers will always be informed about local weatherconditionsandforecastsattheirfinal d estination.
Additionally, SunExpress’ catering and duty-free menus SunCafe and SunShop will be available on the “SunExpress Entertainment” digital platform. SunExpress plans to even enhance this new channel by allowing the passenger to select and pay goods from the platform in a “self-service” way, and also, choose to receive the order at the seat or at the galley.
“We are happy to work together with Immfly on our inflight entertainment system in the future”, says Peter Glade, Commercial Director of SunExpress. “ Our guests’ experience is of paramount meaning to us, which is why we need a strong partner as Immfly by our side in order to offer a diverse entertainment program in line with additional services.”
A scalable service in the air
Immfly’s digital services platform is highly reliable, flexible and scalable into new features that can be upgraded at any time, depending exclusively on the airline’s criteria and need. It is Immfly’s intention to continuously add new digital services, and in this way, Immfly and SunExpress are boosting the passenger experience and enhancing SunExpress’ value and position in the aviation industry.
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Immfly Onboard Travel Guides Allow Passengers to Enjoy Their Destination Before Landing
Time spent on a plane is no more synonymous of boredom.
Passengers onboard easyJet,Iberia Express, Volotea and XL Airways can now better enjoy the moment
of flying by reading about what to do and where to go to their final destination. Immfly’s onboard digital services platform provides downloadable travel guides, from hundred cities covered by the airline’s routes, available in several languages and formats.
Barcelona, Spain | January 23, 2018– Immfly’s onboard digital services platform is 100% dedicated to guaranteeing the passenger can get the most of its experience while flying. The onboard travel guides are a useful feature to anticipate plans and close decisions before landing. At the same time, it is a powerful place for cities increase its visibility and to raise awareness of the endless activities available to be there discovered and explored.
Destination Overview
City Lifestyle
Immfly gives the passengers the opportunity to get to know the city before touching the ground. The history and background of the city, the lifestyle of its citizens, the local culture and customs, the typical and traditional gastronomy of the region, the must-see and visited places, the unmissable secret spot overlooking the heart of the city or the sunset near the ocean, all of these information is now available for consult. The destination guide’s access is not restricted to the onboard experience. Instead of that, Immfly’ guides accompany and travel along the entire passenger’s trip, from the flight and while on the ground, by being downloaded in pdf files and stored in passengers own smart devices.
Nightlife, food & drinks and much more
Travel means discover the unknown and experience new and unforgettable places. Immfly’s travel guides suggest million of possible activities for any type of trip and traveller’s profile.
Tips for the ones who love to go out and have fun in a bustling city, the most famous places to eat and drink, the historical museums, the ideal place to go shopping, a walking tour by the city, are just some examples of what these travel guides are capable of.
Weather on destination
As part of planning, knowing the weather conditions on the final destination could be very useful. Immfly provides information on local weather conditions and forecasts which helps to
better organize the plans according to it.
Immfly’s digital services offer the best activities and transfer services in all destinations managed and in contact with different partners. Besides being informed, passengers can actually buy activities such as museums entrances, a touristic bus trip, a football game, while flying. Additionally to that, Iberia Express has developed a microsite where passengers can even purchase before and after the moment of flying, by simply accessing the Iberia Express activities website. The time spent on a plane, seated, is no more synonymous with wasting time. Now it is possible to plan in advance and avoid lines in the most searched places.
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Kontron Selected by easyJet to Provide System Hardware for its Wireless In-Flight Entertainment Service
Innovative “Air Time” Service is launched on first five easyJet aircraft
San Diego, CA | December 6, 2017–Kontron, a leading global provider of embedded computing inflight entertainment and connectivity equipment, today announced that its integrated In-flight Entertainment & Connectivity (IFE&C) platforms have been selected by easyJet, the leading European low-cost airline, for its new wireless in-flight entertainment service. Kontron and long-time in-flight digital solutions partner, Immfly, are collaborating to support the launch of the easyJet “Air Time” service onboard five easyJet aircraft. Kontron is supplying the complete set of hardware products necessary to implement the Wi-Fi network onboard the aircraft to support Immfly’s uniquely flexible content application software. “Air Time” gives passengers the ability to access personalized services and content through their own smart devices, making seat-back or other built-in aircraft monitors obsolete.
Kontron was selected after an extensive industry review, assessment and testing of available hardware solutions available in the IFE market. The hardware solution for easyJet consists of Kontron’s ACE Flight™ 4600 Airborne Server, Removable Storage Devices (RSSDs), and its Cab-n-Connect™ A100 Cabin Wireless Access Point (CWAP). Kontron has built a strong reputation for providing breakthrough IFE&C platforms that help accelerate development for quick time-to-market at the lowest cost of deployment. There are currently more than 4000 commercial aircraft operating worldwide with Kontron equipment on board.
“A deciding factor in our selection of Kontron is their long history of providing proven IFE&C solutions,” said Andrew Middleton, Ancillary Revenue Director at easyJet. “The powerful combination of Kontron and Immfly lets us ensure our customers have the broadest and most reliable in-flight entertainment experience that replicates their consumer smart device capabilities on the ground.”
“Immfly continues to partner with Kontron for its highly reliable and open architecture platforms that are fully qualified to D0-160G with PMA and optimized for a full range of flight services,” said Jimmy Martínez von Korff, co-founder of Immfly. “Using Kontron platforms allows us to focus on designing the most compelling in-flight entertainment services that include engaging new content and other capabilities that are in high demand by today’s airline passengers.”
“Part of our ongoing strategy in supporting partners such as Immfly is to provide the critical system components that lay the enabling foundation for continued IFE innovation based on the most advanced features and highest broadband connectivity possible,” said Andy Mason, VP Technology at Kontron America. “We anticipate the success of the “Air Time” launch due to the unique aspects of the service and close collaboration of easyJet and its partners.”
For more information on its avionics product portfolio, please visit:https://www.kontron.com/industries/avionics
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 3:48 pm
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Immfly Closes a New Partnership with American Express
Barcelona, Spain | June 13, 2017–One of their main targets being to provide airlines with new and boosted revenue streams, Immfly’s wireless platform offers a unique over-the-air reception of advertising campaigns pioneered by major labels such as American Express, Halls – from Mondelez – or Vodafone. According to the airline’s preferences and the brands’ strategy, the campaigns can be either online or offline, thereby ranging from Channel Sponsorship or Email Marketing formats, to Samplings. IFE Wireless Solutions are flourishing, and so is Immfly’s year on year revenue, which has increased up to 400%.
“We are thrilled to include partners such as American Express on our advertiser portfolio. The inflight digital advertising industry is growing YoY at a 3 digits speed, which opens great perspective for the future” asserts Samuel Gombervaux, Chief Revenue Officer at Immfly and former Head of Advertising at Google. “Our Immfly platform enables digital advertising interaction where and when others can’t reach. It’s a moment when our audience is relaxed and receptive: during their flight”.
Immfly’s willingness to work with advertising brands also involves Small & Medium Businesses. The latter have the opportunity to promote their services in the platform’s digital travel guides, prospectively attracting new potential customers and enabling passengers to discover high quality experiences when they reach their destination.
According to Jimmy M. von Korff, co-founder of Immfly, “The IFE industry is evolving towards smarter digital services that add value to the passenger’s experience, and as airlines seek to enhance it, they must also identify innovative ways to increase revenue. Via Performance Marketing and Platform Sponsorship, we aim to cover these two needs since we provide airlines with a strong ancillary tool while still enhancing the passenger’s travel experience and ultimately benefiting brands and other third parties”.
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Immfly Redefining XL Airways Passenger Experience with Onboard Digital Entertainment
Recently shortlisted finalist for the Crystal Cabin Awards and operative since the 16th of January in its first long haul flights, Immfly, branded as XL Cloud, has already welcomed more than 30.000 new users flying onboard XL’s A-330 fleet
Barcelona, Spain | February 13, 2017– “Connect to XL CLoud and Kiss Boredom Goodbye” – that’s how the new XL entertainment platform is introduced to its passengers. Since beginnings of 2017, Paris-based XL Airways is upgrading the inflight experience with Immfly’s wireless platform, available on routes to the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the US. Passengers that fly with XL Cloud can access the platform using their personal electronic devices via the app – available to download for free prior to the flight – or web. Once in the platform, they can browse through a large selection of movies, TV Shows, newsfeeds, magazines, kids channels and travel guides, among others. The frequently renewed catalogue, which is available in English and French, includes free content and a Premium offer, available for 9.95€ per flight, or for 15€ when renting an ipad Mini onboard provided by a third company.
XL Airways is the first airline to launch Immfly’s entertainment digital solution on long haul flights.“The platform’ scalability played a major role in the decision process, it’s the power of the Cloud”, says Vincent Tomasoni, XL’s Product Marketing Manager. “Offering XL Cloud marks the completion of a major project destined to improve customer experience through breakthrough technologies. We chose Immfly’s pioneering solution as a key player to help us make this possible and reach the milestone of becoming the First French airline to offer streaming entertainment”.
Pablo Linz, cofounder of the Spanish based company, Immfly, stated that “Making our product ready for long- distance aircraft has encouraged a significant growth opportunity for our product. We are now exposed to a higher volume of passengers who have an average of 10 hours to enjoy our content, and as part of our ambition to continuously improve the passenger experience, we have developed new product features such as a games channel and an onboard chat. Certainly, the user metrics collected until now reaffirm the success of the project”.
Immfly, which will be exhibiting at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg and attending the Crystal Cabin Awards Ceremony, continues to get closer to its objective of becoming the travel industry’s favourite on-board monetization partner, reaching 100 million connected passengers by 2018.
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 1:51 am
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Immfly Offers Airlines the Fastest and Most Efficient Content Syncro in Europe
The industry leader in wireless in-flight platforms since 2014 in Europe, Immfly, is already providing airlines a game changer autonomous system in the rapidly growing In-flight Entertainment & Connectivity market
Barcelona, Spain | November 24, 2016– Pioneering the IFE-C Market in Europe since its launch with Iberia Express two years ago, Immfly, owning an STC for A320 and A330 aircraft, offers airlines a unique solution ready to be installed in just one night. Its unprecedented system, currently operational on three airlines, consists of one server, several WAPs and one switch in the cockpit, and proves to autonomously upgrade and download the content and the software every time the aircraft lands. The company, having achieved an industry first with its technological approach, steadily responds to the market demands and sustains its position as the industry’s prefered wireless solution in Europe.
“One of the key reasons that brought us to partner with Immfly was its unique operations management value proposition, which leaves the airline a margin of any manoeuvre” states Ricard Falomir, CIO from Iberia Express. “Upon landing the system automatically connects to the Cloud to download passenger data and process payment transactions. With Immfly onboard we just have to make sure that the hardware is on, the rest is successfully managed either by their operations team or by the system itself”.
Moreover, Immfly substantiates that connectivity is just around the corner. “According to how the market is taking shape, we propose airlines a flexible 2 step approach with no operational disruption: First Wireless IFE and then Wireless IFE & Connectivity” says Alfredo Ibáñez, CTO of the Barcelona based company, Immfly. “Given that our product is compatible with most connectivity operators and integrators, adding a connectivity system to an Immfly equipped aircraft involves a seamless integration with significant cost benefits and technological synergies”.
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Immfly Awarded The Newcomer of the Year
The European leader focused on revenue services, eCommerce onboard and Newsfeed, Immfly, lands on its first Apex Award, and is finalist for the Best In-Flight Connectivity Innovation
APEX EXPO, Singapore | October 25, 2016– Being its first time participating in the Awards, Immfly’s wireless solution received double recognition during the ceremony held at the 2016 APEX Expo in Singapore. Selected by a number of industry professionals, the Spanish company was announced finalist for the Best In-Flight Connectivity Innovation category, and additionally won The Newcomer of the Year Award, designed to recognize a unique achievement successfully implemented in the past year.
This year, with more than 100 qualified entries, the Apex Awards program expanded from two to eight categories to embrace the high number of competitive submissions. A panel of industry peers judged entries and selected those airlines and / or vendor partners that had recently launched an innovative and brand new product or service. Immfly’s digital solution, which is the only one in Europe that offers tailored, quality, content-rich platforms specialised in revenue optimisation, was recognized as one of those products. Moreover, this Award comes on the heels of a year of milestones, new airline partnerships, and opened maritime market.
“We are delighted about having received two recognitions at once since it sets our solution as a game-changer on both a national and an international scale, shining a spotlight on what differentiates us from the competition” states Jimmy M. von Korff, co-founder of the Spanish company, who was present at the ceremony and collected the price. “Moreover, it has an exclusive motivational effect on the team and our partners, as it recognizes their hard work and celebrate success”.
The Barcelona based company is currently at the 4-day premier event in Singapore, meeting regional and global airlines to discuss the latest strategies and technology in the air travel industry, committed to elevating the airline passenger experience, and getting closer to their objective of becoming the travel industry’s favorite on-board monetization partner, reaching 100 million connected passengers by 2018.
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 4:05 pm
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With the Installations Recently Completed in 21 Aircraft, Immfly Has Announced Today the Release of a New Product, Completely Branded Under the White Label ‘Club Express Onboard’
Barcelona, Spain | July 12, 2016– Iberia Express, which entered into partnership with Immfly in 2014, was the first airline to offer this innovative wireless service on board their short and medium haul flights. Now, two years later, the companies have announced that their partnership has gone one step further by launching a new product identity under one unified brand, Club Express Onboard’. Taking advantage that now the solution is accessible in the full fleet, the product offers new features and fully integrated into the airline’s travellers’ club.
Javier Hernández Racionero, Head of Marketing and eCommerce at Iberia Express, says that “with Club Express Onboard we seek to consolidate and differentiate Iberia Express’ travel brand and to further integrate the inflight entertainment experience in line with our travellers’ club. Our aim is to offer a greater consistency to the overall user experience and making it easier to access all the services that the airline has to offer”.
“We have launched Club Express Onboard to better adapt to the airline strategy, making it accessible for free in Iberia Express’ entire fleet via any electronic device” states Pablo Linz, co-founder of the Barcelona based company, Immfly. “This new product offers a wider selection of content, including movies in English and Spanish and many other audiovisual channels, ensuring we deliver the best on board service to their passengers”.
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XL Airways, First Long-Haul Airline to Partner with Immfly for Wireless Entertainment & Inflight eCommerce
Immfly, the first profitable in-flight digital platform in Europe performing in Iberia Express full fleet, and currently installing in Volotea’s A-319, enters the long-haul market on board XL’s A330 fleet
Barcelona, Spain | June 15, 2016– From October on, XL Airways, the French airline operating flights mainly to long-haul destinations, will install Immfly’s on board solution in their Airbus A330 fleet, serving the carriers daily flights to North America, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. Being fully operational by December 2016, this is the first time that the digital platform will be accessible in long – haul aircraft, branded as XL Cloud.
“We are impatient to propose this new service to our passengers”, says Laurent Magnin, CEO of XL Airways. “Entertainment is an essential part of the inflight experience. XL Cloud is a response to this expectation and is completely in line with our concept of travel personalization”. Jimmy M. von Korff, co-founder of Immfly, also welcomed the news “we are delighted to be partnering with XL Airways, which represents our first long-haul project and the opportunity to perform in a new environment, where passengers have an average of 8 hours to enjoy entertainment content and discover more insights about their destination.”
Passengers that meet Immfly can use their personal mobile devices to access an onboard Wi-Fi network. Once connected, they are able to enjoy a wide variety of content from newsfeeds and magazines to documentaries, kids channels, music and sports videos. The frequently renewed catalog (on each flight for the press) will include free content and a premium offering, available for a fee. In-between programs, passengers will be able to follow the progress of the flight and learn more, not only about their destination but also the areas they fly over. French and English destination guides will be available for download.
“The XL Airways’ A-330 need to include up to 6 wireless access points in order to cover the higher density of connected users and to allow all travellers to connect simultaneously”, says Alfredo Ibáñez, CTO at Immfly. “Making our product ready for long- distance aircraft is a new challenge that will encourage a significant growth opportunity for our product.”
Moreover, this new step brings the Barcelona based company, Immfly, closer to their objective of becoming the travel industry’s favorite on-board monetization partner, reaching 100 million connected passengers by 2018.
Immfly is leading the development of on-board digital platforms within Europe, helping airlines to strengthen their customer loyalty by increasing their “Net Promoter Scores” amongst passengers and encouraging the creation of new ancillary revenues through the sponsorship and e-commerce available on the platform.
Filed under News Releases · Tagged with A330, IFEC, Immfly, inflight entertainment, PEDs, Wi-Fi, XL Cloud
'Future–proofing' the IFE installation means providing an onboard network with sufficient bandwidth that the airline will never have to tear apart their airplane to re-wire to install upgrades. Fiber-to-the-Seat™ provides a fiber optics network running at a gigabit per second – High-definition video is only the beginning – who knows what the hot, killer apps will be 10-20 years from now?!”
- Rich Salter, CTO, Lumexis Corporation
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Delay on visa could scuttle cancer grant
Harvard scientist's $750,000 at stake
By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff | October 16, 2006
Loling Song is one of thousands of immigrants each year whose permanent residency applications are held up because of FBI background checks.
But in her case, that delay has consequences that go beyond a life held in limbo: Song, who was born in China, is a scientist at Harvard Medical School, and the recipient of a $750,000 grant for breast cancer research from the National Cancer Institute.
Unless her application for permanent residency is approved by Nov. 30, Harvard Medical School will lose Song's research funding.
The biophysicist sued officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI in US District Court in Boston last week to try to bring a successful conclusion to her quest for a green card, which began in April 2004.
``It strains credulity that the United States Government . . . could not finish a security check . . . during more than two years," the lawsuit said. ``This unconscionable delay is a denial of . . . due process . . . and will result in a major disruption of Dr. Song's medical research on breast cancer, an issue of national interest."
Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Shawn A. Saucier said his department, a division of Homeland Security, processed about 1.3 million applications for residency and citizenship last year, and that about 99 percent of applications are cleared within six months.
``I'm sure applicants are very frustrated, and we're frustrated as well," Saucier said. ``We want to continue to pursue efficient processing, but we simply cannot do so at the cost of national security."
FBI spokesman Bill Carter said delays like those that held up Song's residency application are unfortunate, but that background checks can be complicated.
``The FBI priority remains to protect the United States from a terrorist attack, and to that end we must ensure the proper balance between security and efficiency," he said.
But Song is running out of time. Under National Institutes of Health rules, the recipient of a grant must be a legal permanent resident; the Institutes have extended Song's previous deadline by two months.
After she applied for residency, Citizenship and Immigration Services agreed that Song is an immigrant ``of extraordinary ability" and that because of her work she merited a ``national interest waiver," which qualified her application for speedier processing.
Since then, the applications of Song, her husband, and son, who all are citizens of the Netherlands, have been held up because of the FBI check.
Song and her husband called immigration authorities repeatedly to speed the process along, and the offices of Representative Michael E. Capuano and Senator Edward M. Kennedy have interceded on her behalf. Neither Song nor her lawyer agreed to be interviewed.
``Dr. Song is one of the promising researchers who have helped make this country a world leader, and we certainly understand the need for the security clearance process," said Kevin Casey, director of government relations at Harvard University. ``But we would hope it wouldn't be an impediment to someone of her stature conducting the research that the NIH sees such value in."
Scientists born in China are among those who face the biggest hurdles, said Al Teich, director of science and policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, because the government is concerned that profitable technologies developed by scientists working here will make their way to China, where intellectual property standards are not as rigorous.
``We benefit enormously from the contributions of foreign scientists in this country," Teich said. ``And to the extent that we make it more difficult for those people to get into this country and stay in this country, well, we are shooting ourselves in the foot, really."
Yvonne Abraham can be reached at abraham@globe.com.
(Correction: Because of an editing error, the headline on a story in yesterday's City & Region section mischaracterized the immigration application of Harvard scientist Loling Song. Her application is for permanent residency status. Song already has a visa.)
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New wings and a prayer
John Hay April 21 1980
New wings and a prayer John Hay April 21 1980
John Hay
As the chief of the defence staff conceded, there are probably better planes being built. But Admiral Robert Falls was eager to defend the F-18A as cabinet’s choice for Canada’s new fighter. “It can do the job and it can do it well.” He had a right to sound relieved. The government took three years to find a jet to replace the ramshackle fleets of Voodoos, Starfighters
and CF-5s, but it finally endorsed the military’s own choice. The F-18A rides the reassuring thrust of twin engines, is burly enough to take later alterations and boasts the rugged landing gear drawn from its first design as a carrierbased fighter for the U.S. Navysuiting it to touch down anywhere from northern strips to the German autobahn. Likely cost for 137 planes with all the extras: $4 billion-plus by the last delivery at the end of the decade. But its
maker, McDonnell Douglas, had to overcome a scrappy last-minute lobbying assault by competitor General Dynamics and its one-engine F-16 (see box). With plane specs sewn up months ago, the two builders could only bid with industrial offset packages. After a final all-night negotiating session, officials judged McDonnell Douglas the winner,
with a promise of $2.9 billion in business brought to Canada by 1995.
Falls says the F-18A emerged as the best compromise within the government’s stringent spending limit—a fighter to meet “the declining bomber threat” to North America, dogfight with the Warsaw Pact in Europe and support NATO ground forces along Germany’s central front. Even if such a paragon exists, it doesn’t take an armchair general to wonder whether a defence policy so served is anything more than an accident of history dressed up to impress our friends.
For all the flap over the new plane, the defence department has avoided any wide-open policy review which might raise public doubts about the need for this or any other fighter. Though there has not been a thorough review since the white paper Defence in the 70s came out in 1971, neither boffins nor brass think a new one is due. They argue that the only real military threat to Canada is a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It
follows that Canadian interests lie in preventing a new holocaust by guarding the American deterrent—the power to strike back at the Soviet Union so painfully that Moscow will not dare attack. Hence the need for fighters to discourage any Soviet bomber assault across the Arctic and the jets and tanks in Germany to help dissuade the Red Army from any attempted rush to the Rhine. What has not been publicly asked by any government in 10 years is whether 5,000 Canadian soldiers and airmen in Germany matter a whit to deterrence, or whether a treasure should be spent launching jets into northern skies that would surely be defended by the Americans anyway.
“Canada,” as one top defence official acknowledges, “has the luxury of being able to do nearly nothing for its own security.” Like it or not, he says, we live under the American nuclear shield; any attack on Canada would provoke American response, and the Soviets know it. Notes Toronto-based military expert Nicholas Stethem: “For a country that prides itself for shedding nuclear weapons, we rely on the bomb more than most.” As a middling power with a small armed force (80,794 in uniform at last count, including 5,440 women), nothing reasonably within Canadian re-
sources could be done to affect the global military balance.
What Canada can and does influence, though, are relations within the 15-nation NATO alliance. Buying new German Leopard tanks for the mechanized brigade in Europe hardly struck fear into Soviet hearts, but it pleased the Germans and was meant to help Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau cobble better commercial and political relations with Europe. Nostalgia for the days of Pearsonian diplomacy should not obscure the truth that alliance politics have always dominated Canadian attitudes toward the Atlantic alliance. In his newly published fourth volume of In Defence of Canada, historian James Eayrs stresses Ottawa’s concern both to commit American power to Europe’s defence after the Second World War and to hobble what seemed dangerously belligerent tendencies in Washington to challenge Stalin. At the root of Canada’s keenness for NATO was the fear of being stuck alone with Washington in North American defence while Europe stood separate, and so went the line among Canadian diplomats at the time: “Less chance of rape with 12 in the bed.” NATO was set up in 1949; the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) nrA until 1957.
If the pliable bonds of alliance set the limits of Canadian defence policy, and not the iron logic of military force, then there is far more scope for changing defence policy than the silence on the Rideau implies. George Ignatieff, a former ambassador to NATO, argues for a new policy pivoting in the Arctic and including NATO-Soviet disarmament of the polar region (see page 6). A similar proposal has been put by Nils 0rvik, head of the Centre for International Relations at Queen’s University, though 0rvik says Canada should keep forces in Germany while bolstering the existing commitment to fly to Norway’s aid in time of trouble. Banning arms from the Arctic also claims supporters within the external affairs department; the problem would be to persuade the Americans, who view the North as a possible front that must remain open. Privately, diplomats more interested in security than arms races favor transforming Canada’s forces into indisputably defensive units—selling off the tanks and fighters now based in Germany.
As for the new fighters just ordered, planners say between 36 and 54 will be based in Germany and 25 more committed to the northern flank of Europe but based at Cold Lake, Alberta, and Bagotville, Quebec. The rest will patrol Canadian airspace. And if the long delay in the decision to buy them reflects our lack of enemies, at least they will make for dandy air shows. f¡?
The art of war for fun and profit
April 1980 By Paul MacRae
April 1980 By David Kline
Anatomy of a comeback
April 1980 By Ian Anderson
On a fast boat to China
The King is deadlong live the star
April 1980 By Bill MacVicar
April 1980 By Maureen Piercy
High noon in Calgary
April 1990 By LISA VAN DUSEN
Continental murmurings
April 1990 By ROSS LAVER
National Notes
A night of the long knives?
Prizefighters get close too
March 1981 By JOHN HAY
A small but sinister missile
November 1982 By JOHN HAY
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Chrislea was based originally at Heston, Middlesex, in 1936, building joint designs of R. C Christophorides and B. V. Leak. In 1938 one L.C.1 Airguard was built, a two-seat, low-wing cabin monoplane for Civil Air Guard. Company transferred to Kentish Town shortly before Second World War, undertaking subcontract work for aircraft industry. Moved again in 1947 to Exeter Airport, where during 1948-1950 a series of four-seat lightplanes were constructed: Series 1 CH.3 Ace, Series 2 CH.3 Super Ace, and Series 4 CH.3 Skyjeep. The first of these high-wing cabin monoplanes was flown in August 1946, but high operating costs and unacceptable control system affected sales of the Ace and Super Ace; more conventional system used on 1949 Skyjeep. Total production (all three types) about 26 aircraft. In 1952 assets acquired by C. E. Harper Aircraft Ltd and all surviving models were scrapped.
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Tag: lebron
March 24, 2019 March 24, 2019 by Rajan Sharma
Your personal fantasy basketball cheat sheetYour personal fantasy basketball cheat sheet
Welcome to the Basket Brawlers Fantasy Basketball Four-Cast! For the week of March 16th to 22nd (Saturday-Friday), we have the disco two – Rajan Sharma and Adam Johal giving you your fantasy basketball insights for week 2 of the fantasy basketball playoffs.
James Harden, Houston Rockets
61Pts, 7 Reb, 1 Ast, 3 Stl, 19/34 Fg, 9/13 3PM, 14/17 Fts
03/22/2019 vs SAS
It was a career high tying night for The Beard who may have solidified his case for back-to-back MVP Awards after his game on Friday night vs the Spurs. His coach Mike D’Antoni may not be lying when he said the only man who can stop James Harden is the coach himself…. by benching him. Aside from that, Harden is as close to unguardable as there is in this league.
Johals’s Pick:
JaVale McGee, Los Angles Lakers
33Pts, 20 Reb, 6 Blk, 1 Stl, 15/20 Fg
03/22/2019 vs BKN
With the Lakers on the brink of elimination, JaVale came out with his best performance of the season. But as you probably expected, the Lakers still lost and are officially toast for the 2018-2019 season.
Taurean Prince, Atlanta Hawks
15.3 Pts, 2.3 Ast, 3.3 Reb, 1.3 Stl, 3.0 3PM in the last 7 days
After spending much of the year on the IR, Prince finally appears to be healthy and producing the kind of stats owners were expecting when he was drafted in the top 80 this season. Look for him to close out the year strong for this red-hot Atlanta Hawks team
Emmanuel Mudiay, New York Knicks
17.8 Pts, 5 Ast, 2.8 Reb, 0.5 Blk, 1.5 3PM in the last 7 days
While the Knicks appear content with “Not Try’in for Zion”, Mudiay has been able to put up some impressive numbers of late, putting up 18 pts and 5 assists on 46% shooting over the last week.
Kevin Love, Cleveland Cavaliers
With the Cavs firmly out of the playoff race, look for them to start reducing the workload off some of their vets down the stretch. Love has been playing great basketball of late, which doesnt bode well for the “Stop tryin for Zion” supporters in The Land
Bam Adebayo, Miami Heat
Bam has been on a tear of late, but as is with all Miami players, he will always be at risk of falling out of the rotation (see: Kelly Olynk).
Jabari Parker, Washington Wizards
This might seem crazy based on the numbers he has out up lately, but hear me out. His minutes have been cut by almost 12 per game over the last 2 contests as Washington has been said to be going with a Portis/Thomas Bryant frontcourt for the last 10 or so games, meaning Jabari will be riding a lot of pine. Dont say I didn’t warn you!
Hassan Whiteside, Miami Heat
Speaking of Heat rotations, Hassan Whiteside has moved to Miami’s bench, and it appears to be hitting the big man’s numbers hard, as he played just 5 minutes in games against the Wizards and Thunder this past week. While he can still be a sources for blocks, move off of him if there is someone better on your wire.
There you have it! Tune in again next week for your weekly Fantasy Basketball Fix!
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Welcome to the Basket Brawlers Fantasy Basketball Four-Cast! For the week of March 2nd to 8th (Saturday-Friday), we have yours truly, Rajan Sharma joined once again by Jordan Taylor, and the dynamic duo of the Power brothers giving you your fantasy basketball insights as you head towards fantasy playoffs.
Dray and Cal’s Pick:
51 Pts, 5 Reb, 9 Ast, 2 Blk, 1 Stl, 3 3PM, 15/28 Fg, 18/20 Ft
03/07/2019 vs OKC
Dame time was all around on Thursday against a hot OKC Thunder team. Unfortunately, it was a losing effort. Everyone is starting to look at the playoff picture and this is something we could see a lot more of in the next few months. Buckle up, because that was a blast to watch.
Jordan’s Pick:
Karl Anthony Towns, Minnesota Timberwolves
41Pts, 14 Reb,2 Stl, 3 3PM, 15/27 Fg, 8/10 fts
As I write this KAT is putting up an almost duplicate line Saturday night against the Wizards tonight, if there was ever any doubt of KAT making the all star game, then this week should have eliminated all the haters. While there is 0.01% chance of Minny making the playoffs, at least we can take solace in the Timberwolves All-Star not letting up on the gas pedal anytime soon.
39Pts, 5 Reb, 4 Ast, 1 Stl, 2 3PM, 14/26 Fg, 9/13 Fts
03/06/2019 vs PHI
Only 1 player has scored more points since the all star break than Zach LaVine as he appears to finally be coming in to his own as the focal point of the Bulls offence. LaVine dropped 39 on the Sixers including the game winning bucket, look for LaVine to continue scoring at a high rate for the rest of the season.
Derrick White, San Antonio Spurs
14.3 Pts, 6.0 Reb, 6.7 Ast, 3.3 Blk, 1.3 Stl, 1.0 3PM over the last 7 days
Derrick White has turned around the Spurs after the worst Rodeo road trip (always takes place after All-Star) in team history. Since then, Derrick has crushed with those averages above and beaten OKC, Denver, and Detroit. Go get this boy if he’s available. Won’t be for long.
Tyler Johnson, Phoenix Suns
13.7 Pts, 5 Reb, 5.7 Ast, 1.3 Stl, 0.7 Blk, 1.3 3PM over the last 7 days
While he is currently trending down on ESPN, I wouldn’t sleep for long on Tyler Johnson, he has strung 3 solid consecutive games together averaging over 30 minutes per game, with such a lack of guard depth, he is in for a nice run to closeout the season. Solid point guards are hard to find this late in the game.
Delon Wright, Memphis Grizzlies
17.7 Pts, 4 Ast, 5.7 Reb, 1.3 Stl, 0.7 Blk, 0.7 3PM in the last 7 days
Delon Wright has been splitting minutes at the 1 and 2 when playing along side Mike Conley and it is paying dividends for the Grizzlies. This is a contract year for Delon so look for him to finish out strong the rest of the season and cash in them cheques!
LeBron James, LA Lakers
If you’re reading this with LeBron on your roster, it’s probably too late. Minutes restriction, no play-off hopes, and team animosity are all spelling disaster for LeBron owners. Ownership knows they have 3 more years of LeBron and have no interest in endangering their future. He will find pine for the remainder of the year. Dump him if you can.
Jrue Holiday, New Orleans Pelicans
News broke out early this week that Jrue will be facing a minutes restriction for the upcoming games until the end of the season, now after averaging just over 30 minutes a game he has been diagnosed with an abdominal strain, see if you can get 2nd or 3rd round value for this guy before they upgrade him to out for the season, you have 7 to 10 days, go!
DeAndre Jordan, New York Knicks
With the Knicks firmly out of the playoff picture with no incentive to win and a young Mitchell Robinson waiting in the wings, now is the time to capitalize on trading the double-double machine DeAndre Jordan.
Reggie Bullock, LA Lakers
Reggie in Detroit was gaining momentum and was a top pick-up before the trade deadline. After his move to LA, it looked like he might have some juice left in the tank as a 3-point specialist with LeBron; however, the only tank that is happening now is the team. With LeBron resting and the priority shifting to showcasing the young talent, Bullock is out of the rotation and can be let go.
Gary Harris, Denver Nuggets
Harris has not been able to stay healthy all season and unfortunately never got into the groove in Denver, Malik Beasley, Monte Morris, IT, and Jamal Murray are on a timeshare where no-one can excel consistently, great if you are a Denver fan, bad if you are a Fantasy owner.
Marc Gasol, Toronto Raptors
Gasol being traded to the Raptor was the worst possible outcome for fantasy owners. Nick Nurse runs a “fluid” rotation at center and Gasol hasn’t quite found his fit with this team. He’s averaging a putrid 8.3 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block a game over the last week of play.
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January 30, 2019 February 9, 2019 by Dray
Brow on the Move
Wow. What a week it has been for the New Orleans Pelicans and Anthony Davis. On Monday, Davis’ agent Rich Paul of Klutch Sports told Adrian Wojnarowski that Davis “wants to be traded to a team that allows him a chance to win consistently and compete for a championship.”
Damn Brow, that is cold. The Collective Bargaining Agreement states that neither players nor their agents are allowed to publicly request trades, so the league has followed up quickly with a $50k fine for the big man.
As if that wasn’t enough, Paul went to ESPN and reported that Davis will not be signing an extension this upcoming summer, and there has been leaks already that the Brow won’t be signing long term with anyone other than the Lakers.
Photo credit to Sky Sports https://www.skysports.com/nba/news/12375/11621473/la-lakers-expected-to-push-for-anthony-davis-from-new-orleans-pelicans-before-trade-deadline
The Pelicans have responded respectfully in my opinion, offering up the following statement:
This past weekend, Anthony Davis’ representatives informed us that Anthony does not wish to sign a contract extension with our team and subsequently has requested a trade. Although we are disappointed in this decision, our organization’s top priority is to bring an NBA championship to our city and fans and build our team for long-term success.
Relative to specific talks of a trade, we will do this on our terms and our timeline. One that makes the most sense for our team and it will not be dictated by those outside of our organization. We have also requested the League to strictly enforce the tampering rules associated with this transaction.
https://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/statement-new-orleans-pelicans-1-28-19
So is it Magic, or is it LeBron? Has Magic been looking at this since he arrived? All thoughts that are running rampant through the basketball world, but nothing is for sure yet.
If Davis didn’t land on the golden coast, where else could he go? Paul’s statement outlined he wants to win now, but there are many teams that would welcome his talents, potentially using them to pave their way to the Larry O’Brien.
Call me crazy. No other pundit is putting the Rockets in the mix. So why am I? Remember the Jimmy Butler sweepstakes? I do. Somehow the Rockets were in the mix offering up to and including four first round picks , with whatever contracts they had to match salary. If I’m the ghost of Dell Demps, I’m looking to hoover up as many first round picks as possible in an attempt to sell the Pelicans ownership that I can still do my job half decently. And if I can somehow swindle someone like Clint Capela in return, I’m looking pretty good.
It’s pretty obvious at this point that there is a rift between Knicks brass and the unicorn twin Kristaps Porzingis. It seems like Knicks staff are hell bent on keeping him out for the full season to “protect their investment”, but reports are suggesting that ‘Taps is chomping at the bit to get back on the court. If there is no signs that he is willing to sign an extension with the Knicks immediately, and opt to become a restricted free agent, why not look to capitalize on value return by getting arguably the best big man in the league, and hopefully convince him to stay and sign for the super-duper max.
Photo credit: https://www.nj.com/knicks/2019/01/nba_trade_rumors_knicks_aggressive_in_pursuit_of_p.html
An Embiid-Davis front court tandem? I don’t think I need to write any more. Elton Brand’s offer starts with a package of Jimmy Butler (who will be lucky to receive a vets min contract this summer the way he’s going), Markelle Fultz, and whatever draft picks you have remaining. This is a long shot, but you can only imagine how many 76ers fans are salivating over the thought of this happening.
If I’m Masai Ujiri, I’m buttering up the Pelicans front office on a tasty offer starting with a possible All-Star in Pascal Siakim. Siakim has been by far Toronto’s shining star coming out of the Kawhi for Demar trade this summer. Oh what’s that? That was only the appetizer? The main course is Jonas Valanciunas (established starting center), followed by a cheese course of OG Anunoby. We also have a wine cellar that is highlighted by Delon Wright, Fred Van Vleet and Norm Powell. Take your pick New Orleans. This pantry is quite bountiful.
Photo credit: https://www.raptorshq.com/2019/1/29/18202203/nba-trade-rumours-anthony-davis-toronto-raptors
As of Tuesday afternoon, it sounds like the Bucks standing offer is anyone except Giannis, which makes zero sense. The Bucks depth and chemistry is what has got the Bucks to first in the East under head coach Budenholzer. But hey, if you combine the wing-spans of the Brow and the Freak, you could reach from one side of the court to half way across Lake Michigan. Sounds pretty freakish if you ask me.
So what do you all think? Sound off in the comments!
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January 19, 2019 January 21, 2019 by Rajan Sharma
Welcome to the first weekly segment of the Basket Brawlers Fantasy Basketball Four-Cast. This will be a weekly post that we will provide every Saturday to help you dominate your fantasy league as we approach the trade deadline and fantasy play-offs.
By this point, you probably have your core players locked in, so we are here to help you make the under-the-radar moves that will push you to the top of your own fantasy basketball leagues! With our rotating panel of expert fantasy Basket Brawlers, we’ll outline recommended moves that we think will make the difference.
From here until the end of the season we will break down the following categories in 140 characters or less:
2) Fantasy sleeper pickup of the week (less than 20% owned in 12 team leagues)
Joining me on the expert panel of fantasy basketball analysts this week is none other than Adam Johal and Jordan Taylor who have both won fantasy leagues in the past and know what it takes to win! So…lets get to it!
Adam Johal’s pick
56 Pts, 10 Reb, 6 Ast, 1 Stl, 1 Blk, 16/34 Fg, 21/23 ft, 5 threes
01/16/2019 vs MEM
Harden is lighting the league on fire and Wednesday night showcased him at the height of his powers.
Jordan Taylor’s pick
41 Pts, 5 Ast, 3 Reb, 11/22 Fg, 10/10 Ft, 9 threes
01/16/2019 vs NOP
This game didn’t need any other mentions as it was already the highest offensively paced game this week, but Steph Curry still managed to shine above the rest. He hit 9 threes on the way to GSW’s win and kept his ridiculous streak of 8+ 3pm for the past three games. He cooled down Friday night and returned to mortal numbers, but we are in the presence of the greatest shooter of all time – so enjoy it.
Rajan Sharma’s pick
38 Pts, 7 Reb, 11 Ast, 1 Blk, 14/21 Fg, 6/9 ft, 4 threes
Uncle Drew now has 29 assists over his last 2 games, including a career high 18 assists vs the East leading Raptors (and #1 on our weekly power rankings: http://basketbrawlers.ca/nba-power-rankings/ ) on Wednesday night…maybe he should call out his teammates more often?
Kyrie Irving Call Out Young Teammates After Latest Loss https://t.co/BncLB1aRGD pic.twitter.com/ukDf3HXh9q
— The Source Magazine (@TheSource) January 14, 2019
Richaun Holmes, Phoenix Suns
13.5 pts/6.0 reb/0.5blks in the last 7 days
Holmes has had some great 9-cat stats, including great assist and steal potential for a center.
Kenneth Faried, Free Agent
The manimal has been waived by the Brooklyn Nets and intends to sign with the Houston Rockets where he will soak up all the missed shots from Harden with Clint Capella out recovering from surgery on his hand. Take the flier and benefit from a boost in rebounds.
DeMarre Carroll, Brooklyn Nets
14.0 pts/7.7 reb/1.7 threes per game in the last 7 days
With injuries to many of their key wings, the Nets have called upon Carroll to play all the minutes he can handle. He can be relied on in the short term to provide a boost in scoring, rebounding, and triples.
Bradley Beal, Washington Wizards
Beal has been on a torrid pace lately, but now is the time to maximize his trade value.
Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors
With Boogie back in the fold you can expect Green’s already dismal shot attempts and numbers to continue on a downward trend. Draymond has the intangibles for the Warriors that just won’t transfer over to the fantasy stat sheet. Having Boogie last night confirmed you will get the same Draymond with Cousins in the lineup, but how long will it last? See if you can get a high round point guard for your troubles
Marc Gasol, Memphis Grizzlies
With the Grizzlies having cooled off since their blistering start and free agency looming ahead for their star big man, look for Memphis to be sellers this trade deadline and shift in to more of a youth movement going forward.
4) Top Drop Candidates
Josh Jackson, Phoenix Suns
Jackson seemed to be heating up start the new year but has fallen off a cliff his last two outings with Booker back in the lineup. Feel free to give him the snip if you’re eying someone on the wire.
All Houston Rockets Not Named James Harden
With the beard going on his offensive tear this month, touches for the rest of the team are few and far between. Search the waiver wire somewhere else because the likes of PJ Tucker, Austin Rivers, and Gerald Green won’t get it done for you consistently to warrant keeping them.
Well, the JaVale McGee feel good story is now over. He has been bumped down to 3rd string after Ivica Zubac has rushed the scene and stolen the hearts of the Laker Faithful. Time to cut ties here unless you are desperate for shot blocking.
pic.twitter.com/ReVVEiaMUL #Zubac #LakeShow #lakers
— Nimah A (@MsNemah) December 22, 2018
Thats all for this week! Hope you can take away some knowledge from the expert analysis above. Check back in next Saturday for more Fantasy Basketball Four-Cast from your favourite Basketball Know-It-Alls!
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January 17, 2019 January 17, 2019 by Dray
The Impact of a King
Obviously, LeBron is a major piece of whatever team he belongs to. Even still, it’s astonishing how much of an impact he has when he gets sidelined.
LeBron has been out since December 25th and since then, the Lakers are 4-7. Believe it or not, that’s actually one of the better records by a LeBron team when he is removed from action.
2018-2019 LA Lakers 4-7
2017-2018 Cleveland Cavaliers Did not miss a game
2016-2017 Cleveland Cavaliers 0-8
It’s surprising that those Cavalier teams with Kyrie and Kevin Love couldn’t secure a few more wins with the King off the court. To be fair, those two were rested with LeBron for some of those games, but it almost seems like teams become complacent when you lean on the King. You know on any given night that LeBron could easily get a triple-double, so I believe that players start to let off the throttle. When LeBron is sitting, the floor falls out beneath them and they can’t find a way to fill the gap.
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Whether you agree with my theory or not, it holds true that a young team who are trying to make a name for themselves may be more likely to break through this barrier and scrap out a few wins without him. As a Lakers fan, you should be happy with their record sans-LeBron. He’s cleared for practice starting next week, and you hope that the young guns carry some of this swagger through when he’s back.
LeGM
LeBron does much more than just impact the team in the W column, he has also been a tampering GM if you’d believe a small portion of the leagues managers. People love to joke that LeBron controls a team top down. When he returned to Cleveland, it was somewhat plausible. Now Magic is the boss but people still think that LeBron himself is driving the acquisition of the Brow, stating that he wants to play with MVP candidate Anthony Davis after the upcoming off-season.
That’s because he is, and it’s completely allowed.
If any other player was recruiting top tier talent in this fashion, GMs wouldn’t even flinch. But because LeBron is believed to have a significant amount of pull in the front office, people are clambering for a tampering crack-down on the King. Rightfully so, LeBron responded as follows:
Asked by reporters after the Lakers’ 112-104 win over Davis and the Pelicans if in hindsight his comments were “wrong,” James shot back, “No, of course not.”
“Ask me would I like to play with Kevin Durant? Ask me right now,” he told the press scrum around his locker.
“Would you like to play with Kevin Durant?” a reporter asked.
“Absolutely,” James said. “Ask me if I would like to play with Jimmy Butler.”
“Would you like to play with Jimmy Butler?” the reporter asked.
“Ask me about Kyrie Irving,” James said. “Giannis [Antetokounmpo]. Ask me about [Joel] Embiid. Ben Simmons. Go ahead. All of them. Luka Doncic. Ask me right now. Come on guys, it is not rocket science. It is not rocket science. These are great players. Absolutely, I would want to play with a lot of great players, that is just who I am. So? People get caught up in bunches. Sometimes they wish they could control what you say and they can’t control me. At all. And I play by the rules.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/12/22/lebron-james-shrugs-off-anthony-davis-tampering-talk-i-play-by-rules/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.366170648c0b
Anthony Davis’ upcoming off-season has been a hot topic this season; even Kevin Garnett has stated that AD needs to go play with LeBron.
Regardless of whether Kawhi, AD, KD, or anyone else decides to take their talents to Hollywood, LeBron is playing some of the best basketball we’ve ever seen. He’s performed better through the first 30 games with the Lakers than any other team in his past. Every year people think he’ll drop off, and every year he outperforms himself. All I can say is, Lakers fans must be happy campers right now. The Lakers are locked in for four more years of LeBron and starting next year they’ll have more cap space than Anthony Davis has eyebrow. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them take a title with LeBron on the roster.
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January 9, 2019 January 14, 2019 by Rajan Sharma
NBA Power Rankings – Week 12
BasketBrawlers NBA Power Rankings is officially back for the New Year! We will be working even harder to provide you with the content and unique insights that you need from the NBA world. With Adam Kroon, the usual editor of this segment tied up with other commitments, this weeks segment is brought to you by the Give N’Go Podcast’s own: Rajan Sharma
Much has changed in the NBA landscape since the turn of the new year. The Grizzlies, who had started out red hot at the beginning of the season are starting to show their age. The Rockets have been fuelled by the MVP Calibre Heroics of James Harden, and Spurs have quietly been surging behind an inspiring performance on the night of Kawhi’s return to San Antonio. With that said, lets get to it! W
1. DENVER NUGGETS (26-11)
Last Weeks Ranking: 3 (+2)
Last Weeks Record: 3-0
Offensive Rating: 111.9 (7th)
Defensive Rating: 106.4 (9th)
Net Rating: +5.4 (5th)
The Nuggets took care of business against some teams fighting hard for a playoff spot with games against the Knicks, Kings, and Hornets respectively. The Nuggets continue their surprisingly successful campaign and have survived their injury plagued season so-far. With Paul Millsap and Gary Harris returning to action this week the Nuggets are finally starting to get healthy – which should be a scary thought for the rest of the NBA.
2. TORONTO RAPTORS (30-12)
Last Weeks Ranking: 1 (-1)
Defensive Rating: 107.3 (10th)
The Raptors have been busy this week! They started out with some hard fought victories against the Bulls and Jazz (a game in which Kawhi Leonard dropped a career high 45 points against the Utah Jazz defense) before they went in the San Antonio and got absolutely decimated by the Spurs, who were led by DeMar DeRozan’s revenge triple-double – the first of his career.
However, the Raptors managed to save face by defeating the other 2 teams fighting for the top spot in the east to end the week. The Raptors took a page out of Drizzy Drake’s playbook and beat the Bucks and the Pacers back-to-back. Going back-to-back! With Kyle Lowry returning to the lineup after being out for 6 days, we may actually see the Raptors two stars play in the same game for the first time early December this upcoming week!
3. SAN ANTONIO SPURS (23-17)
Last Weeks Ranking: Not Ranked (+13)
Don’t look now, but the Spurs are once again flying under the radar in to the playoff picture! The Spurs have rattled off 4 straight victories over the Clippers, Celtics, Grizzlies, and capped off by a routing of the Toronto Raptors after DeMar DeRozan racked up the first triple-double of his career against his former team. The Spurs are finally starting to get healthy after their wing depth was decimated by injuries to start the season and the results are showing in the win column. The Spurs play the Thunder twice next week, giving them a real shot of moving in to the top 4 of the Western Conference. Let’s see if old reliable can keep the NBA’s longest winning streak rolling!
4. MILWAUKEE BUCKS (27-11)
Last Weeks Ranking: 4 (-)
Offensive Rating: 113.5 (2nd)
Defensive Rating: 104.3 (3rd)
Net Rating: +9.2 (1st)
The Bucks are the only team in the top 3 of both offensive and defensive efficiency in the entire league. They came up just short in a marquee match-up against the Raptors on Saturday night, but they have still been dominant thus far. The Bucks have won 8 of their last 10 games, and if Brook Lopez can continue his Harden impersonation – hitting step back 3’s with 16 on the shot clock on the regular – the Bucks will be a tough match-up for any team come playoff time. Despite the hot start, lets see how the Bucks close out this season, as they will now play 21 of the next 30 games on the road.
5. HOUSTON ROCKETS (22-16)
Net Rating: +1.3 (13th)
The re-emergence of MVP Harden has been an absolute treat to watch for NBA fans across the globe. James Harden is averaging over 40 points per game over the last 12 games, including an absolute thriller against the defending champion Golden State Warriors in which The Beard dropped another 44-point triple double and a game winning 3-pointer over Draymond Green and Klay Thompson.
An interesting point to note though, is that this sudden improvement of play by the Rockets also lines up with Chris Paul being removed from the lineup. Could this just be a coincidence? Tune in to the Give N’Go Podcast’s episode 12 which discusses this in detail in last week’s pod: http://basketbrawlers.ca/give-n-go/
6. PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS (23-17)
Last Weeks Ranking: 13 (+7)
Defensive Rating: 110.4 (21st)
The Blazers sole loss last week was by 2 points in a thriller against the rival OKC thunder. Besides the one blemish, the Blazers were able to rattle off impressive wins against the Sixers, Kings, and the blazing hot Houston Rockets. All the off-season talk about whether or not Lillard and McCollum can co-exist as your 2 best players has quieted down now with the emergence of their bench, and their young Bosnian Center Jusuf Nurkic, who became the first player in NBA History to record a rare 5×5 game (at least 5 points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks in the same game) while also recording at least 20 points and 20 rebounds. The 23-year old big man finished the game against the Kings with 24 points, 23 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals, and 5 blocks. Wow.
7. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS (26-14)
Offensive Rating: 113.6 (1st)
The Warriors were one blown call by the refs and a James Harden step-back 3 away from a perfect week. Despite all of their recent struggles, the Warriors still hold on to the 2-seed in the Western conference, and sit only 1 game back of the top spot. If you are a Warriors fan, I think you take this result all day given the struggles of the Warriors supporting cast this season. We are yet to see Boogie make his debut with the team, but it seems like they need another boost to get them back to their championship aspirations after going 8-5 over their last 13 games.
8. INDIANA PACERS (26-13)
Offensive Rating: 108.7 (16th)
Defensive Rating: 102.9 (2nd)
Net Rating: +5.8 (3rd)
The Pacers fell short on Sunday night against a Kawhi-less Raptors squad, but they still hang on to the number 3-seed in the Eastern Conference and the 2nd best defensive rating in the League. The Pacers will face off against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night, which should be a nice test for a team looking to establish themselves amongst the elite in the NBA.
9. PHILADELPHIA 76ers (26-14)
Despite all the drama that seems to surround the Sixers at every turn of the way – the latest being Jimmy Butler suddenly unhappy with his new role on the team – the Sixers continue to rattle off victories. The Sixers will have a pretty pedestrian week next week, as they have games against the Wizards (twice), Hawks, and the lowly Knicks. If they can sort out all their internal dramas, they could be next in line to join Toronto in the 30-win club by the time we roll out these Power Rankings next week.
Reporting with @ramonashelburne: Philadelphia’s Jimmy Butler has aggressively challenged coach Brett Brown on All-Star’s role in 76ers offense, complicating an already-tenuous chemistry among team’s Big 3 hierarchy. Story on ESPN. https://t.co/DYqEAZNzM1
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 4, 2019
10. Oklahoma City Thunder (25-14)
Offensive Rating: 107.4 (21st)
Defensive Rating: 101.7 (1st)
Seems like the Thunder can never quite get it right…they followed up impressive wins over the Mavs, Lakers, and Blazers with an absolute DUD against the Washington Wizards. Scott Brooks got his revenge game against his former squad, and despite Russell Westbrook having another triple-double, he did his squad no favours with his 8 turnovers in the game and 9/23 shooting from the field. But alas, that is the fate of the OKC Thunder until they realize that maybe running more of the offence through PG-13 instead of Westbrook may be the solution to their problems. The dynamic duo of Westbrook and Paul George are currently sitting at a usage rate of 31.3 and 29.6 respectively.
Well there you have it! Let me know what you think about the power rankings in the comments below, or on twitter page (link is below):
https://twitter.com/_BasketBrawlers
Who didn’t quite make the cut…
11. Boston Celtics (23-15)
12. Los Angles Clippers (23-16)
13. Utah Jazz (20-20)
14. Brooklyn Nets (20-21)
15. Los Angles Lakers (21-20)
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October 15, 2018 October 16, 2018 by Rajan Sharma
BasketBrawler’s Pre-Season Award Predictions
By Rajan Sharma
If this off-season has taught us anything, it is that the NBA is a 12-month sport. There have been no breaks in the action as we went from another Golden State Warriors Championship to the NBA draft that saw DeAndre Ayton go 1st overall and the Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks exchange future studs Luka Doncic and Trae Young, to a free agency period that saw the best player in the world – Lebron James – take his talents to Hollywood, to the end of the summer drama with Jimmy Butler taking the entire Wolves organization hostage and terrorizing everyone and their grandmothers on the practice courts.
The NBA is one giant soap opera, and I love every second of it. But with that being said, every good soap opera needs a star-studded cast to take it to the top. That’s where I have turned to the Basket Brawler’s own panel of basketball analysts and experts to see who they believe will walk away with the hardware this season with each of the top regular season awards. Joining me on the panel today will be our local Seattle Supersonics enthusiast Draydan Power, Basket Brawlers Fantasy League Defending Champion Adam Johal, the Tech Guru and lead analytics expert Adam Kroon, the Give N’Go Podcast’s own Jordan Taylor, and Fantasy Basketball Analyst Extraordinaire Steven Petterson.
So, without further a due, lets see who the Basket Brawlers expert panel has chosen to take home the hardware in this upcoming NBA Season!
Most Improved Player Award
Rajan Sharma’s pick – Myles Turner (Indiana Pacers)
After having a disappointing season last year, Myles Turner has completely changed his diet and body in anticipation of a big bounce back season. Myles Turner is the ideal big man in today’s NBA. He is long, athletic, protects the rim, and he has an outside jumper. Look for Turner to help the Pacers build on an impressive 7-game playoff series loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers and take a run at the Eastern Conference crown now vacated by The King.
Draydan Power’s Pick – Jamal Murray (Denver Nuggets)
The blue arrow has already taken a leap forward after a great finish to last year’s campaign. He was heating up after the All-Star break and was absolutely electric to watch during the OT thriller against the T-Wolves last season. A big piece of me would of loved to have seen the Nuggets in the playoffs just to see what he could do, but regardless, he’s geared up to continue his rapid rise with a huge year this year. Even though IT is there, I don’t think it will affect his play time and I can’t wait to watch him, Jokic, and Millsap make a splash in the high elevation.
Adam Johal’s Pick – Myles Turner (Indiana Pacers)
Myles Turner was a hot choice for MIP heading into the 2017 season, but injuries led him to regress a bit in his third year. Turner has dedicated his summer to his conditioning and appears to be in much better shape than his previous three seasons. Like his teammate Victor Oladipo, Myles Turns looks to translate his improved conditioning onto the court for 2019.
Steven Petterson’s Pick – Josh Richardson (Miami Heat)
Josh Richardson will be an All Star in the East this year. Book it. Spoelstra, Pat Riley, and Richardson himself have all been hyping him up as a break out player this year and his final two preseason games showed why. He is controlling the floor and scoring at will. Richardson has stated he hopes to reach 18ppg this year and I believe he will do it as he grows in to a force to be reckoned with and shows everyone why Riley was so hesitant to include him in a potential Butler trade.
Adam Kroon’s Pick – JaVale McGee (Los Angles Lakers)
Playing with Rondo and LeBron is going to revitalize his career. I have nothing else to say, but lob city just switched LA teams
Jordan Taylor’s Pick – Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks)
If you had Victor Oladipo winning this award at the start of the season, I have some stocks and bonds I want you to take a look at. After preseason I really don’t see alot of players looking like they will take a major step forward. Some that come to mind would be Miami Heats Josh Richardson, the guard-forward was a nice surprise last year and many news outlets have lavished over his off season training. When your part of the package for a potential jimmy butler trade, better believe this guy can ball. Other player consideration I have were Atlanta’s John Collins, a cheap pick in itself as players in their second year make incremental improvements to their game. Finally someone you cannot leave out of the conversation is Giannis, all preseason has taught us is that he truly deserves that number one overall fantasy spot. Is this the year he goes from all-star to better than LeBron? He is a legitimate shot at both MVP and MIP.
Winner: Giannis Snub: Josh Richardson
Defensive Player of the Year Award
Rajan Sharma’s pick: Kevin Durant (Golden State Warriors)
Adding to my theory of a good storyline, this one is just too juicy to pass up. Kevin Durant has already made it known during the off-season that he wants more respect for the work he puts in on the defensive end of the court, and blames the fact that people “hate” him for the reason he doesn’t get his proper recognition on that end of the court. The Slim Reaper averaged nearly 2 blocks and 1 steal per game last season, along with having one of the best rim defense statistics in the entire league. This is the year that Durant finally breaks though and adds to his already impressive resume.
Draydan Power’s Pick – Kawhi Leonard (Toronto Raptors)
After what most people consider to be a Twilight Zone season for Kawhi, he needs to come back and make a big splash in the worst way. I truly believe that Kawhi will be in the running for MVP but won’t quite close it out (spoiler – I’m betting that will go to the other DPOTY candidate). All the pressure is on the Raps after firing Dwayne Casey and giving up DeMar DeRozan for a Kawhi rental, so expect him to come out gangbusters. I hope to see a Kawhi with a chip on his shoulder, getting down and dirty on both ends of the floor and carrying the Raptors to a deep playoff run.
Adam Johal’s Pick – Kawhi Leonard (Toronto Raptors)
Amongst the players with the most to prove this season, Kawhi has to be near the top of the list. Fans and journalists around the NBA have seemed to forgot the level Leonard was playing at prior to his injury last season. Kawhi will once again have to prove why he is one of the greatest two-way players in NBA history, and in a weaker conference, I think he will certainly do that.
Steven Petterson’s Pick – Ben Simmons (Philadelphia 76ers)
This is a real, dark-horse pick. It’s weird to think that Simmons is only in his second year in the league, but I believe we are going to see some considerable growth – specifically on the defensive end. Last year Simmons was a strong force on the defensive end and from what I have seen in preseason he looks extra committed to that side of the floor this year. He locks in, guards with intensity, and smothers opposing guards. I think this year people realize how much of an asset Ben Simmons’ defence is. Does he win the award? Maybe it’s a season or two early… But if he does, I told you so.
Adam Kroon’s Pick – Rudy Gobert (Utah Jazz)
No one will challenge the throne. We’re looking at another Ben Wallace type run for DPOY with Gobert. No surprise here whatsoever.
Jordan Taylor’s Pick – Rudy Gobert (Utah Jazz)
Defensive player of the year is always a hard one. Mainly due to stats not having as much of impact when being factored into voting. Short and quick: were looking at back to back award from the Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, something we have not had in at least 4 years. He’s got it all defensively, and with a clean bill of health relative to last year. He’s primed to patrol the paint erasing opponents shot attempts with his quick feet.
Winner: Rudy Gobert Snub: Drummond Green
Coach of the Year Award
Rajan Sharma’s pick: Nick Nurse (Toronto Raptors)
Adding to the story line and what I feel will be a special season North of the Border, first year head coach will take home the Coach of the Year honours after leading the Raptors to 60+ wins and a 1st seed in the Eastern Conference. All the attention seems to be on the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers coming in to the season and the Raptors will once again fly under the radar and take the crown out East. For those unfamiliar with Nick Nurse, his peers voted him as the most likely best future bench boss when he was an assistant last year. He is an analytical genius and an intelligent basketball mind who likes to experiment and think outside the box. Having come from the Houston Rockets system previously, Nurse is an advocate for high efficiency shots and this new look Raptors team may be even better on both ends of the floor with Kawhi Leonard. I fully expect them to finish top 5 in both offense and defense this upcoming season.
Draydan Power’s Pick –Brad Stevens (Boston Celtics)
He could of easily won it last year as well. Brad took a team of rookies and sophomores to the Eastern Conference Finals, pushing LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers to 7 games without the help of their two All-Stars, Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward. People have been spouting off all summer with questions of “What do you do now when you developed so much young raw talent and now have to add two All-Stars!?”. Boo-hoo what a tough problem to have. Even if it was a problem, I would trust Brad to figure it out and incorporate everyone as needed while getting players up and down the bench to buy in to the system. This guy is for real and this will be the first of many awards for him.
Adam Johal’s Pick – Mike Budenholzer (Milwaukee Bucks)
Coach Bud has had of history of making rosters with less than stellar talent perform beyond their capabilities. Now that he has a roster equipped with a bonafide superstar in Giannis, Mike Budenholzer is ready to show the league what a full roster is capable of under his system.
Steven Petterson’s Pick – Mike Budenholzer (Milwaukee Bucks)
Unlocking Giannis Antetokounmpo’s full potential and unleashing a fast, free-flowing, high octane offense is going to make Budenholzer look like a genius. I see him as being for Giannis what D’Antoni was for Harden. Giannis was already fairly successful while being held back by Kidd, and he will be unleashed now. Budenholzer and Giannis will lead the Bucks further than anyone currently anticipates, and Coach Bud will be rewarded for it.
Adam Kroon’s Pick – Brett Brown (Philadelphia 76ers)
With another year of Simmons and Embiid blossoming under his tutelage, we’re going to see the Sixers make the Raptors and Celtics feel hot under the collar. Looking for 50 wins this year is the next step for this team, and hopefully a nice trophy for coach Brown.
Jordan Taylor’s Pick – Mike D’Antoni (Houston Rockets)
Coach of the year; definition; which team with the best roster finishes top 3 in the conference while not underperforming or over achieving. Check the history, I ain’t lying. Would love to see Denver Nuggets Head coach Mike Malone win. He has done amazing work out their with that young team and they are primed for a David vs. Goliath playoff first round if they can make it in the ever talented western conference.
Winner: Mike D’Antoni Snub: Michael Malone
6th Man of the Year Award
Rajan Sharma’s pick: Tyreke Evans (Indiana Pacers)
Tyreke “The Freak” Evans had a bit of a resurgent year last season – posting his best campaign since he put up 20/5/5 in his rookie year. Make no mistake about it that last season was no fluke. Tyreke displayed elite ball handling and court vision, an improved jump shot, and leadership qualities that we had not seen from him before. With the Pacers looking to take the next step in to one of the Eastern Conference’s elite teams, look for Evans to bring a spark off the bench and even close out games with fellow dynamic scorer Victor Oladipo.
Draydan Power’s Pick – Eric Gordon (Houston Rockets)
Call me safe with some of these picks. Eric Gordon was runner up last year and much like Brad Stevens, I don’t think anyone would of been too surprised to see him win. His touches will definitely go down with Melo in town, but this guy balls out against any starting or secondary unit in the league. He’s a huge reason the Rockets had and will have so much success, so look for him to put in another phenomenal year. If he stays healthy, he’s a top pick.
Adam Johal’s Pick – Dennis Schroeder (OKC Thunder)
The Thunder have been longing for the days of James Harden when they had elite scoring off the bench. Dennis Schroeder is clearly not on the level of Harden, but his ability to score off the bench and potentially play alongside Russ could vault him to the top of the SMOTY race
Steven Petterson’s Pick – Terry Rozier (Boston Celtics)
Terry Rozier is coming for his money. With his contract ending after this year, Rozier has already stated that he is going to play so well that Coach Stevens won’t be able to take him off the floor. I envision a ton of games where Rozier’s tenacity and drive propel him to be on the floor when the game is on the line. Will he get enough minutes behind Kyrie to have the stats needed for a 6th Man award? Debatable. But I think Scary Terry is going to force himself into this conversation one way or another, in his quest for a massive pay-raise in 2019.
Adam Kroon’s Pick – Carmelo Anthony (Houston Rockets)
He did not go quietly into the night. He did not want this. Holy fuck he’s good at it. Whodathunkit? Lou Will will have competition this year in Carmelo now that he’s deemed playing off the bench to be possible. Look for him to drop at least 8 long 2s a game with a couple boards and minimal defense to help the Rockets lose to the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals again this year.
Jordan Taylor’s Pick – JJ Reddick (Philadelphia 76ers)
6th man of the year, as I write this Jamal Crawford still remains without a team in October and you can never count this perennial award winner out of the conversation. Most of my early picks have become full time starters on their teams this year (Denver’s Will Barton to name one). I’m not fond of LA Clippers Lou Will, into reason why is there are alot of capable mouths to feed in LAs step child NBA team. Bother their draft picks look good and Patrick Beverly and Avery Bradley appear healthy and ready to go this season. My dark horse for this award resides on the city of brotherly love. Preseason has shown us Brett Brown is starting to have more faith in second year point guard Markelle Fultz, he has been playing well in response after being inserted into the starting lineup during ore season. The odd man out becomes my NBA look alike: JJ Reddick. A starter in his own right, I see him leading the 76ers second unit on A nightly basis while maintain similar scoring averages to last season. A victim. Of circumstance, but hey bringing a trophy home to wifey should take the sting off.
Winner: JJ Reddick Snub: Eric Gordon
Rookie of the Year Award
Rajan Sharma’s pick: Luka Doncic (Dallas Mavericks)
This one was an easy choice for me. Luka is the best rookie prospect we’ve seen from Europe in a long time. Luka just has that special IT factor in his game that will translate beautifully to the NBA after winning Euroleague MVP last year as a 19 year old Phenom. There is just something with how in control Luka plays that separates him from the rest of the rookie pack. Some may say he is too slow, but he moves just at the right pace, he is never in a rush, and gets to any spot he wants on the floor with a James Harden-esque play style. Couple that with his elite playmaking and court vision and you have the makings of a perennial all star in this league for many years to come! I am all aboard this hype train!
Draydan Power’s Pick – Deandre Ayton (Phoenix Suns)
It’s a stacked rookie class again this year, but the era of the big man is ready to make a come back. Deandre Ayton has impressed everyone this pre-season by looking like a man among boys…probably because that’s exactly what he is. I am a big believer that it will transition well into the regular season and we will see Ayton get as many touches and looks as he can handle with Booker out to begin the season. Oh, and when Booker is back, he’ll be a full-time glass cleaner on both ends of the floor. He’s my man for ROY.
Adam Johal’s Pick – Luka Doncic (Dallas Mavericks)
This year’s crop of rookies are extremely talented with the likes of DeAndre Ayton, Jaren Jackson Jr, Trae Young, and Miles Bridges. However, amongst all rookies, Luka Doncic appears to be the most NBA ready, and more importantly, has the best roster around him. Often, success of rookies – and NBA players in general – depends on fit. Luka will slot into the point forward role will targets like DeAndre Jordan, DSJ, Wes Mathews and Harrison Barnes around him. Expect big things from Luka in his first year.
Steven Petterson’s Pick – Luka Doncic (Dallas Mavericks)
Luka is going to make Atlanta look like fools. It will be a strong two way battle between him and Ayton, but Luka will prevail. His long tenure in the European professional leagues will help him battle through the trials of a long 82 game season, giving him a sustainable edge over Ayton. His highlight plays, and already-signature, behind-the-back drives will be on Sportscenter reels all season.
Adam Kroon’s Pick – Luka Doncic (Dallas Mavericks)
Serbian National Team coach and current Phoenix Head Coach was quoted as saying that Luka would be like a wolf among children this season. Former Euro League MVP Doncic will prove all the haters, including the Hawks front office, completely wrong.
Jordan Taylor’s Pick – DeAndre Ayton (Phoenix Suns)
ROY this year more than ever will be about oppurtunity on the team your drafted by. You have to consider depth, coaching staff, and team expectations. PHX Deandre Ayton fits the bill. With little depth behind him, Ayton will demand heavy minutes from the get go. The suns have no expectations going in and this will allow Ayton to flourish as a legitimate player. Other notables to watch will be Dallas Mavericks Luca Doncic and Atlanta’s Trae Young, no depth on either team behind them, but I only see their roles as ok players and not spectacular like Ayton. Not to take away from their talents, they could definitely have the better careers. Time will only tell.
Winner: DeAndre Ayton Snub: Ben Simmons :smirk:
Most Valuable Player of the Year
Rajan Sharma’s pick: Kawhi Leonard (Toronto Raptors)
This was probably the hardest award to choose from. Its hard to bet against the King, and we all know what James Harden and Anthony Davis are all about…. But the NBA award voters love a good story and this one fits the mould. Disgruntled Superstar leaves San Antonio on bad terms and returns to the league to lead the Toronto Raptors to their first 60+ win season in Franchise history. All the talk around the Raptors will be about whether Kawhi will stay or will he go, but make no mistake about it – Kawhi will be on a mission this season to prove that he has still got it! Voters LOVE a first time award winner, and with all signs pointing to Kawhi being happy so far in Toronto, im expecting him to take the league by storm! The Raptors will improve on their 59-23 season last year and I expect Kawhi to laugh all the way to his first MVP award of his career.
Draydan Power’s Pick – Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans)
As I said above, it’s all about the big men. AD nearly won it last year with his incredible performance after the All-Star break to close out the season with Boogie on the sidelines. The dude has a new agent and has not been shy about his feelings towards leaving if there isn’t success in New Orleans. He knows what he’s capable of doing to the best talent in the league and he will do everything in his power to bring success to the Big Easy, or at the very least, cement himself as a top player in today’s game as he looks to move on. Side note: if he didn’t win the MVP (and even if he does), he’s a good bid for DPOTY as well.
Adam Johal’s Pick – LeBron James (Los Angles Lakers)
I really wanted to pick Giannis here, but this season seems ripe for the King. LeBron’s Lakers have a better roster than his Cleveland team last season and I fully expect the Lakers to usher in a new era of showtime basketball. While some (ludicrously) have the Lakers finishing as low as 9th, I think the Lakers will finish top 3 in the West – thrusting LeBron to the top of the MVP conversation for 2019.
Steven Petterson’s Pick – Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks)
The Greek Freak is coming for everyone this year. At 23 years old, Giannis is ready to take his reign as one of the best players in the league (and make about 8 league members look foolish too). In Milwaukee’s new system his full range of talent will be on display, and it is going to horrify every opposing team all season long. 30-7-7, with Giannis pushing Milwaukee to the 3rd seed in the East – you heard it here first.
Adam Kroon’s Pick – Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans)
This is a contract year for the Brow, and if he wants to get max dollars while not playing for the Pelicans, he’s going to need to blow up and carry the Pels into the playoffs. Without Boogie to help in the last year’s playoff push, we saw Davis pull a LeBron like carry-my-team-on-my-shoulders move. I think we’re going to see a carry over of that Anthony Davis this year.
Jordan Taylor’s Pick – LeBron James (Los Angles Lakers)
The MVP race remains ideally the same horse and pony show after the dust settled on the major off season moves over the summer. The likes of James Harden, LeBron James, and Anthony Davis will continue to reign supreme as upper level players. My guess is the enamour of LeBron in LA is to much for the voting board and the king continues his tyrant rule over the NBA. Let’s not forget that there is always the outliers in teir two that could shake up the status quo: Kevin Durant, kawhi Leonard, and Giannis.
Winner: LeBron James Snub: Giannis
Well, there you have it! Who do you think got it right? Do you agree or disagree with any of these rankings? Hit us up in the comments and let us know what you think!
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Climate change press release - 15.03.09
More than eight in ten Australians believe that climate change is happening and that humans are at least partially responsible. An overwhelming nine in ten of these people want Australia to take a leading international role in tackling this issue. They say we should not wait for larger countries to spell out their policies first.
When the views of climate change ‘sceptics’ (the 16% of people who accept that the climate is changing but who doubt that humans have caused it) are taken into account, a massive 83% of Australians still favour Australian leadership according to the poll.
These findings have just been released from Thermometer Survey, a commercial syndicated research based service which provides information to several state governments and large private and not‐for‐profit organisations in Australia. They come from the most recent wave of one of the largest surveys of community opinion on climate change to ever be released publicly, conducted in February and which confirmed results from an earlier baseline survey conducted last September.
The survey was administered among a representative sample of 1606 Australians in September 2008 and updated among 1510 in February 2009. Given the size of the samples, the result is estimated to be the same, plus or minus 2.5%, as if the entire Australian population were to be polled, and would be repeated nineteen times out of twenty. By showing that the September result was replicated in February gives the poll significant credibility.
Only two percent of Australians (just one in fifty) deny the climate is changing. More than eight in ten (81%) believe human activity is at least partially responsible for climate change while 14% say there is no connection between changes in the natural environment and human development. Among those Australians who do believe there is a connection, 90% in September and 91% in February encourage early action by Australia.
In light of the global financial crisis, a new question was added to the February survey to test Australians’ resolve to act on climate change in the face of deteriorating economic conditions. 59% reported that they believe Australia should not wait until the economy crisis passes before addressing climate change but that we should take action on both issues at once. Only about one in eight believe action on the economic crisis should take priority.
Respondents were asked in both September and February to name the three most serious issues facing Australia on an unprompted basis. In September, the environment topped the list, mentioned by 46%. The economy came second, mentioned by 33%. Five months later, the two issues had reversed positions. The economy shot ahead 36 points to capture 69% of mentions and the environment fell just five points to be mentioned by 41%.
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Study shows that wearing a “fatsuit” makes women snack harder.
By Seriously Science | June 21, 2018 11:36 am
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Overeating is a growing problem. But what makes us overeat? Obviously, delicious food can be hard to resist, but that’s clearly not the only factor. Here, scientists explored whether feeling overweight changes how we eat. It turns out that wearing a suit designed to make one feel obese did change participants’ eating habits — but only for women. Women, but not men, ate more snack food when wearing the fatsuits, even in private. The scientists were not able to determine why this was true, but it’s true.
The psychosocial experience of feeling overweight promotes increased snack food consumption in women but not men.
“Self-identification of being overweight has been associated with overeating and weight gain in observational studies, irrespective of whether the individual in question is objectively overweight. The aims of the present studies were to examine whether experimentally manipulating the psychosocial experience of feeling overweight impacted on snack food consumption and to identify mechanisms explaining this effect. In Study 1, to manipulate the psychosocial experience of feeling overweight, 120 women wore an obese body suit or control clothing in public or private settings, before consuming snack foods. Wearing the obese body suit resulted in an increase in snack food consumption and this effect was not moderated by whether participants wore the obese body suit in public or in private. In Study 2, we aimed to replicate the effect of the obese body suit on snack food consumption and also examined whether the effect of the body suit on eating behaviour was moderated by participant sex (n = 150; 80 women). Women who wore the obese body suit ate significantly more than women who wore the control clothing, but this effect was not observed in men. Across both studies we examined a number of potential mechanisms that could explain the effect that wearing the obese body suit had on snack food consumption, but did not find supporting evidence. The psychosocial experience of feeling overweight may lead to increased snack food consumption in women, but the psychological mechanism explaining this effect is unclear.”
Can overweight people blame their tastebuds?
Dining with an overweight person makes you eat more.
Study finds that obese women have more sex.
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By Seriously Science | August 23, 2018 6:00 am
Photo: flickr/ NASA Goddard Photo and Video
[Note from the authors of “Seriously, Science?”: After nine years with Discover, we’ve been informed that this will be our last month blogging on this platform. Despite being (usually) objective scientists, we have a sentimental streak, and we have spent the last few days reminiscing about the crazy, and often funny, science we have highlighted. Therefore, we have assembled a month-long feast of our favorite science papers. Enjoy!]
On Earth, farts are typically no big deal — smelly, harmless, and they quickly dissipate. But if you’re an astronaut, every fart is a ticking time bomb. The gases in farts are flammable, which can quickly become a problem in a tiny pressurized capsule in the middle of space where your fart gases have no where to go. In this “oldie but goodie” study from the late 1960s, scientists fed subjects a then-state-of-the-art space diet compared with a “bland formula.” They discovered that the space diet actually produced more gas than the control diet, and noted that “volumes would be larger at reduced spacecraft and suit pressures.” This explains why astronaut food doesn’t include freeze-dried beans…
Intestinal hydrogen and methane of men fed space diet.
“Intestinal bacteria form two gases, hydrogen (H2) and methane (CH4), that could constitute a fire hazard in a closed chamber. So H2 and CH4 pass from the anus but these gases are also transported by the blood to the lungs and removed to the atmosphere. Several factors affect gas formation: 1) amount and kind of fermentable substrate; 2) abundance, types, and location of microflora; and 3) psychic and somatic conditions that affect the gut. We evaluated the first factor by studying men fed different diets and have also recorded influences of uncontrollable factors. One group of 6 men ate Gemini-type diet (S) and another received a bland formula (F), for 42 days. Breath and rectal gases were analyzed during the first and final weeks. Flatus gases varied widely within dietary groups but much more gas was generated with diet S than with F. In the first 12-hour collection, subjects fed S passed 3 to 209 ml (ATAP) of rectal H2 (avg 52) and 24 to 156 ml (avg 69) from the lungs (assuming normal pulmonary ventilation). With F, these values were 0 to 3 ml (avg 1) and 6 to 36 ml (avg 20). Subjects were calmer during the second test. Gas production was lower with S than initially; F values were unchanged. Methane differed idiosyncratically, presumably due to differences in flora. Computed from 12-hour values, maximum potential daily H2 and CH4 are per man: for S, 730 ml and 382 ml; for F, 80 and 222 ml. Volumes would be larger at reduced spacecraft and suit pressures.”
To fart or not to fart: that is the question.
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Sexually aroused by farts? You’re not alone.
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Tag: Putin Kid
Putin – Macht, Moneten, Morde
By Bernd Pulchin BERND PULCH, pulch, PUTIN, VIDEO May 11, 2018 8 Words
The Model, Putin, Derispaska and Trump – Must Watch Video
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Revealed – Wladimir Putins Revenge Caught on Film
By Bernd Pulchin BERND PULCH, pulch, PUTIN, VIDEO November 27, 2017 43 Words
Soviet Psycho Terror exposed on Film
By Bernd Pulchin BERND PULCH, COMMUNISTS, DOCUMENTARY, KGB, pulch, stalin, VIDEO November 13, 2017 35 Words
Ex-Soviet Bloc General Who Knows KGB Better Than Anyone in Media Pushes Back on Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theories
In 1978, Ion Mihai Pacepa walked into the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, Germany, and defected to the United States.
At the time, Pacepa was an intelligence chief and three-star general in the Securitate, Romania’s secret police during the days of the Soviet Union.
Before defecting, Pacepa rolled in crowds that included Fidel Castro, Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev, and Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.
With all the news surrounding Trump and Russia, Independent Journal Review wanted to know what Pacepa thought about the hot-button issue.
Pacepa said:
“The current anti-Trump campaign — including the completely unsubstantiated allegations about his Russian connection — is the result of eight years of a socialist/progressivist government of the United States.
History usually repeats itself, and if you have lived two lives, as I have done, you have a good chance to see that re-enactment with your own eyes.”
Pacepa provided some examples of what he meant by “history repeating itself”:
“In 1978, I paid with two death sentences from my native Romania for helping her people to stop thinking of government as a boon bestowed from on high, and to rid themselves of their Socialist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, who preached that ‘a man like me is born only once in five hundred years.’”
“Thirty years later, I saw the virus of Marxism, disguised as socialism/progressivism, and its nauseating Stalinesque cult of personality infecting the shores of my adoptive country, the United States,” he continued. “’I am the One the world is waiting for,’ proclaimed Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Party nominee for the White House, during his 2008 electoral campaign.”
The 88-year-old intelligence chief continued:
“On Feb 7, 2009, the cover of Newsweek magazine proclaimed: ‘We Are All Socialists Now.’ That was also what Romania’s newspaper Scînteia proclaimed when Marxism transformed that country into a monument to Ceausescu.
Two years after seizing power, the U.S. nomenklatura produced the same results as Romania’s nomenklatura did — on a U.S. scale. Over 14 million Americans lost their jobs, and 41.8 million people went on government food stamps. The GDP dipped from 3.4% to 1.6%, and the national debt rose to an unprecedented $13 trillion.”
IJR asked Pacepa if he sees any merit in the accusations against Trump. He fired back, “Making the country‘s new leader a scapegoat for the country’s inherited problems might be a new phenomenon in the United States, but it is an old Russian/Soviet/ tactic known as political necrophagy in the inner circle of the KGB community to which I once belonged. From the lips of Nikita Khrushchev, I used to hear over and over: ‘Change the public image of the leader, and you change history.’”
Pacepa provided personal examples of his use of political necrophagy: “Khrushchev’s political necrophagy was launched into the world on February 26, 1956, when he exposed ‘Stalin’s crimes’ at the XXth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in a four-hour ‘super secret speech’ that was secretly released to The New York Times. Sound familiar?”
“Although Marxism publicly proclaimed the deciding role in history was played by ‘the people,’ the Marxists firmly believed that only the leader counted,” Pacepa said. “A fish starts smelling from the head, KGB chief Yuri Andropov used to preach, and one of the main tasks of the KGB community was to make America’s head stink.”
He continued:
“His KGB — and my Romanian DIE — produced thousands of fake ‘documentary’ materials portraying President Harry Truman as the ‘butcher of Hiroshima,’ painting President Dwight Eisenhower as a “shark” of the war-mongering military-industrial complex, describing President John F. Kennedy as an arrogant millionaire who thought he owned the world, and insinuating that President Lyndon Johnson was a Mafioso who had bumped off his predecessor.”
Pacepa told us that he sees Trump as a strong leader.
We asked him to provide some reasons for his view:
“After eight years of Obama’s efforts to transform the U.S. into a monument to himself, I see President Trump as manna from heaven for the United States. In my view, he is a contemporary version of John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and J. P. Morgan, all of whom played a large part in making the American dream a reality for millions.
“President Trump also understood that all socialism and progressivism had left behind was countries that ended up looking like trailer camps hit by a hurricane, and I have strong reason to believe that this is a lot more important for the U.S. than the fact that he is still learning the bureaucratic and political skills one also needs to be president.”
Pacepa addressed the Russia issue further. But instead of talking about Trump, he brought up former CIA Director John Brennan, who voted for the Communist candidate in the U.S. in 1980, when the U.S. was still heavily engaged in the Cold War. “In March 2013, President Obama appointed a new CIA director, John O. Brennan, who had voted the Communist ticket. In my experience, communism is a malignant tumor on the body of any country or organization.”
“This is another thing I learned during my years at the top of Socialist Romania,” he said. “Marxism, like any cancer, works silently — you can feel it only after it has spread throughout the body, and then it is usually too late. The sudden, almost overnight collapse of the powerful Soviet empire is incontestable proof to that.”
Pacepa went on to call the U.S. the greatest country in the world because of its successful “capitalist system.” But he didn’t paint a rosy picture of Russia, either.
“During the Soviet Union, the KGB was a state within the state. Now the KGB is the state. Over 6,000 former KGB officers are running Russia’s federal and local governments. Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s current Minister of Foreign Affairs, a graduate of the KGB-sponsored Institute of International Relations, is just one of them,” said Pacepa.
According to Pacepa’s co-author of the book “Disinformation,” Professor Ronald Rychlak, Pacepa believes Russian President Vladimir Putin would have also preferred a Democrat president to Trump.
With all the continued talk of Trump and the Russia conspiracy, Pacepa’s incredibly unique voice on the issue is one that shouldn’t go unnoticed.
By Bernd Pulchin BERND PULCH, Donald Trump, KGB, kgb agent, pulch, PUTIN, RUSSIA September 26, 2017 1,066 Words
REVEALED – Kremlin ‘covered up the murder of a former KGB chief’
Oleg Erovinkin was found dead on Boxing Day in the back of his black Lexus
The morgue in Russia has not reached a conclusion about the cause of death
Local media is claiming foul play was at the centre of him being killed in Moscow
It has been claimed Erovinkin is a key source mentioned in the explosive dossier
Gareth Davies For Mailonline
06:26 EDT, 28 January 2017
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Oleg Erovinkin, who served as a general in the KGB, was found dead on Boxing Day in the back of his black Lexus in Moscow
The Kremlin may have covered up the murder of a former KGB chief accused of helping ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele to pull together the notorious dossier on Donald Trump.
Oleg Erovinkin served as a general in the KGB and was found dead on Boxing Day in the back of his car in Moscow.
It has been claimed he died of a heart attack, but an expert on Russian security threats believes he was murdered for his role in the explosive dossier.
The suspected murder victim was close to former deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, who is named throughout the leaked memo, according to the Telegraph.
Erovinkin is understood to have been an important link between Sechin and leader of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin.
Agent Steele’s dossier, which was made public earlier this month, noted how he had a source close to Sechin.
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Igor Sechin and Russian President Vladimir Putin pictured attending a meeting on January 25
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Donald Trump speaks with Vladimir Putin on the telephone in the Oval Office on January 28
He said the source had revealed alleged links between the US President’s supporters and Moscow.
At the time of Erovinkin’s death, Russian state-run RIA Novosti news agency said his body was found in a black Lexus and that a major investigation was underway in the area.
His body was sent to the morgue, which returned no cause of death, and the investigation continues.
Local media reports suggested he was killed as a result of foul play, but it was later claimed he died of a heart attack.
Christo Grozev, an expert on Russia-related security threats, wrote in a blog post, that he believes Erovinkin was Mr Steele’s dossier source.
He wrote that he has no doubt the dossier was on Putin’s desk at the time the suspected victim died.
‘Whichever is true,’ he wrote, ‘He would have had a motive to seek – and find the mole.
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Christopher Steele pictured with a female companion believed to be his second wife Katharine
‘He would have had to conclude that Erovinkin was at least a person of interest.’
The so-called dirty dossier states that in 2013 Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on the bed of the Presidential Suite at the Moscow Ritz Carlton, where he knew Barack and Michelle Obama had previously stayed.
It says: ‘Trump’s unorthodox behavior in Russia over the years had provided the authorities there with enough embarrassing material on the now Republican presidential candidate to be able to blackmail him if they so wished.’
The document states that Trump had declined ‘sweetener’ real estate deals in Russia that the Kremlin lined up in order to cultivate him.
The business proposals were said to be ‘in relation to the ongoing 2018 World Cup soccer tournament’
The dossier claimed that the Russian regime had been ‘cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for at least five years’.
According to the document, one source even claimed that ‘the Trump operation was both supported and directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’ with the aim being to ‘sow discord’.
The report claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself had endorsed moves to encourage ‘splits and divisions in the West.
The dossier was handed over to the FBI in August although the information was also passed from the former MI6 agent to John McCain through an intermediary.
McCain then handed the document over to FBI Director James Comey.
Its contents were made public after intelligence chiefs apparently briefed Trump and Obama on the allegations which were circulating in Russia and elsewhere.
However, none of the claims have been proven and most are strongly denied by the President-elect.
By Bernd Pulchin BERND PULCH, kgb agent, KGB SPIES, kgb spy, mord, MURDER AND EXECUTIONS, pulch, PUTIN September 26, 2017 938 Words
Must Read: Joe Scarborough Fears Trump Will Murder Journalists And Political Rivals Like Putin Does
Donald Trump’s admiration of Vladimir Putin and the tyrannical way he runs Russia is very worrying to Trump’s friend Joe Scarborough.
The Morning Joe host strongly advised that Trump to put out a statement condemning the killing of journalists and political opponents. Because if he doesn’t, his recent statements in two separate interviews over the course of the last year are even scarier.
“He’s running his country, and at least he’s a leader,” Trump said in December 2015 when asked about Putin murdering journalists and political rivals. “Unlike what we have in this country.”
“But again: He kills journalists that don’t agree with him,” Scarborough replied.
Trump then stunned Scarborough by excusing Putin’s crimes.
“I think our country does plenty of killing, also, Joe, so, you know. There’s a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now, Joe. A lot of killing going on. A lot of stupidity. And that’s the way it is.”
And just as in that interview, Trump basically repeated himself during an interview with Bill O’Reilly that aired prior to the Super Bowl on Sunday.
“There are a lot of killers,” Trump said in defense of Putin. “You think our country’s so innocent?”
And that makes Joe Scarborough wonder if Trump will start emulating Putin.
“If Donald Trump keeps being asked to criticize Vladimir Putin for assassinating journalists, and Donald Trump refuses to criticize Vladimir Putin for assassinating journalists, and say, well, we do it, too, in a sense, does that suggest that he thinks that it’s OK to assassinate journalists? Does that suggest that it’s OK to jail political opponents, to assassinate political opponents?”
Scarborough then condemned Trump for defending Putin and advised him to issue a statement against killing journalists and political rivals to make it clear that he does not support doing these things.
“If you don’t condemn after being asked repeatedly to condemn these actions, at some point you go back to the ‘he who does not deny admits’ story, and it suggests that he does. I suggest somebody at the White House get him to write a very strong statement letting the world know that he condemns the assassination of journalists and political rivals, because he suggests in the two interviews with O’Reilly and us that he does not…How do you compare a country whose leader assassinates journalists, a country’s leader who assassinates political rivals — we saw one found dead in the street across from the Kremlin a year ago — who jails economic rivals, who has an authoritarian regime that has put everybody on notice, he’s plundered his country. Many people estimate that Putin is worth $200 billion that he has stolen from the Russian people, and yet this desire to keep preaching moral equivalency continues and it is baffling. It was disturbing enough a year ago, it is baffling now, as president of the United States, that he’s still doing this.”
Donald Trump is a threat to our individual liberties and our lives. His obsession with wanting to be buddies with Putin is frightening and the fact that he is actually defending murder is sickening and un-American.
By Bernd Pulchin BERND PULCH, Donald Trump, MURDER AND EXECUTIONS, MURDER OF JOURNALISTS AND TRUTHSEEKERS, pulch, PUTIN September 25, 2017 September 25, 2017 569 Words
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Attribution is the assignment of cause to an effect. Attribution is the glue that binds cause and effect. (Naturally, this is the heart of modeling). For example, we don't say simply that one marble crashed into another and caused the second marble to move: we assign kinetic energy as the attribution that binds the cause and effect.
Lack of Attribution
Examples of Types of Attribution
Luck, Chance
When we don't have an attribution — we are compelled to look for one. This is because the mind seeks to make meaning of events.
A form of open source license is the by-attribution license. Using the content of something licensed under the by-attribution license requires that you attribute the original author as the cause of the effect.
See lack of attribution above.
Strange loops are intertwined loops of causation. They are interlinked loops of upwards and downward causation.
"If two organisms which have been coexisting peacefully receive painful shocks, they immediately exhibit characteristic patterns of aggression toward each other. The aggressive behavior is not necessarily directed toward the the actual source of the stimulation; it may be "displaced" toward any convenient person or object. Vandalism and riots are often forms of misdirected aggression. An organism which has received a painful shock will also, if possible, act to gain access to another organism toward which it can act aggressively." — B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity (See: scapegoat.)
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More on fracking shale Ponzi scheme -- get out while you still can!
The Darker Shades Of Shale
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013 4:35 PM
Russell Lee Dust in the Bakken October 1937
by Raul Ilargi Meijer, The Automatic Earth, August 20, 2013
No, I wasn't going to write a third article on shale in 2 weeks, absolutely not. But what I've read these past few days doesn't leave me much choice. It turns out that the entire plethora of doubts I have raised in Shale Is A Pipedream Sold To Greater Fools and London Is Fracking, And I Live By The River are now also being raised on a larger scale: the media are - belatedly as usual - waking up. But that doesn't mean they understand what's going on. They're clueless.
What we see in for instance an article from Bloomberg, and an editorial from the Guardian, is that they do not understand the effect of depletion rates; it's not even mentioned. Neither do they understand how much of a straightforward and outright speculation scheme bubble shale has been to date. Instead, they seem to think that lower than expected reserves are the main topic, or at best environmental concerns.
Neither is true; they are important, but the main question may not be whether fracking is environmentally safe, but if it's economically safe. The economic case for fracking, and the entire shale oil and gas industry, is so shaky it would be criminally stupid to let it continue and risk any environmental damage. Shale is not about energy, it's about speculation. Looking at the numbers, it's obvious the returns don't justify the levels of investment -and I'm not even talking energy returns, and that means it'll all be over soon. Bloomberg:
Shale Grab in U.S. Stalls as Falling Values Repel Buyers
Oil companies are hitting the brakes on a U.S. shale land grab that produced an abundance of cheap natural gas - and troubles for the industry.
The spending slowdown by international companies including BHP Billiton and Royal Dutch Shell comes amid a series of write-downs of oil and gas shale assets, caused by plunging prices and disappointing wells. The companies are turning instead to developing current projects, unable to justify buying more property while fields bought during the 2009-2012 flurry remain below their purchase price, according to analysts.
The deal-making slump, which may last for years, threatens to slow oil and gas production growth as companies that built up debt during the rush for shale acreage can’t depend on asset sales to fund drilling programs. The decline has pushed acquisitions of North American energy assets in the first-half of the year to the lowest since 2004. [..]
North American oil and gas deals, including shale assets, plunged 52% to $26 billion in the first six months from $54 billion in the year-ago period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. During the drilling frenzy of 2009 through 2012, energy companies spent more than $461 billion buying North American oil and gas properties, the data show.
Prior to this year, oil and gas transactions ranked among the top two in total deal values every year since 2005, except 2008 when they were fourth. So far this year, oil and gas isn’t among the top five.
Bloomberg notes the numbers, but has no idea what they mean or where they come from. Which may not be all that surprising given that the industry itself is only just finding out, but Bloomberg journalists should do their homework.
The land grab began more than a decade ago when improved drilling methods and a process called hydraulic fracturing, which cracks rock deep underground to release oil and natural gas, opened up new production in previously untappable shale fields.
The rush accelerated in 2004 as more shale fields in North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Ohio were identified, opening new troves of petroleum and the prospect of energy independence in North America.
There was never any such prospect. From the very beginning, it was a manufactured illusion designed to make huge profits on land and assets sales.
As overseas buyers moved in, booming production soon led to oversupplies, and gas prices plunged to a 10-year low in 2012, forcing companies to write-down the value of some of their assets. Companies were also hurt when some fields thought to be rich in oil proved to contain less than anticipated.
That shortfall caused Shell to write down the value of its North American holdings by more than $2 billion last quarter. Shell, based in The Hague, paid $6.7 billion for North American energy assets in seven transactions since 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The company told investors this month that it expects its North American oil and gas exploration to remain unprofitable until at least next year. "The major acreage deals are behind us now," Shell Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser said in a conference call with analysts.
BHP said it would cut the value of its Arkansas shale assets by $2.8 billion. During a May 14 conference presentation, CEO Andrew Mackenzie said capital and exploration spending will "decline significantly" to around $18 billion in 2014, and continue to fall after that.
Firms depending on asset sales to help finance drilling may not have enough money to pay for higher oil and gas production, said Eric Nuttall, who oversees C$70 million ($68 million) at Sprott Asset Management LP in Toronto. That could slow output growth, especially as companies try to avoid taking on more debt. "A lot of companies have let leverage get out of hand," he said, speaking about Canadian firms.
Leveraged bets. I smell Wall Street. We'll get back to that. First, a little problem in Ohio, as noted in New Scientist:
Fracking operations triggered 100 quakes in a year in Ohio
Protests against proposed fracking operations in southern England culminated today with the arrest of Caroline Lucas, a Green Party member of parliament. Meanwhile, new geophysical research concludes that over 100 small earthquakes were triggered in a single year of fracking-related activities in one region of Ohio.
[..] The Ohio quakes, centred around Youngstown, were triggered by the disposal of wastewater from fracking operations in the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania rather than by the fracking process itself.
The new geophysical research, by Won-Young Kim at Columbia University in Palisades, New York, is the latest to suggest that the main risk of earthquakes associated with fracking relates to the way the water used in the operations is disposed of afterwards. In Ohio, the wastewater was injected into a deep well. This raised the pressure of water within the rock and triggered 109 small quakes between January 2011 and February 2012. The largest, on 31 December 2011, had a magnitude of 3.9.
And how can you not love this angle?
Church of England 'land grab' for rights to minerals under THOUSANDS of homes and farms fuels fears of controversial fracking
The Church of England is fighting to claim the rights to minerals beneath thousands of homes and farms, it emerged last night. Legal action has already begun, raising fears the Church could try to cash in on the controversial process of fracking.
Under a new law, landowners have until October to assert their rights over minerals. Residents across the country have now started receiving letters from the Land Registry, informing them that the Church is seeking to register the mineral rights to the earth beneath their property. Church Commissioners – who manage the Church’s investments – are trying to assert ownership of 500,000 acres of land, an area roughly the size of Sussex.
The claim, which lawyers believe could allow the Church to profit from fracking, is being made under laws dating back to the Norman Conquest. The age-old laws give ‘lords of the manor’ the rights to extract anything of value from the earth underneath property on their estates. The Church still holds these rights in several parts of England. These include some places where geologists believe energy can be extracted by fracking – the controversial process of extracting oil and cash by fracturing underground rocks with water and chemicals.
[..] ... the commissioners have started sending legal letters to residents informing them of the Church’s ‘unilateral’ right to benefit from any mines and minerals under their land. One recipient spoke of his concerns that the Church’s claim could be linked to future fracking projects. Dr Richard Lawson, a retired GP who lives in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, said: ‘It’s an ethical question for the Church – will they use their mineral rights to block fracking or to make money out of it?’
[..] ... the Church has released a statement insisting that they have ‘no particular plans to mine under any property,’ adding: ‘This is confined to registering what the Commissioners have owned for many years. There is absolutely no link with fracking.’
Meanwhile, at the Guardian:
Energy policy: how not to win an argument
The UK government, by appearing to rush to judgment in favour of fracking for gas, has lost any power of persuasion it might have had in the more measured debate that remains necessary but now seems increasingly unlikely. Similarly, by choosing its first exploratory oil drilling site in the south in a picturesque village within easy reach of London just as the politicians go on holiday, the energy firm Cuadrilla has predictably aroused the kind of alliance between celebrities, environmentalists and not-in-my-back-yard Tory voters that has barely been seen in a generation. This is no way to resolve a complex question that could shape the cost and security of the UK's energy supplies for decades.
Taken together, a chancellor with a reputation as hostile to the green agenda as Mr Osborne's, and a department for energy and climate change torn between the greenie Lib Dem secretary of state, Ed Davey, and a business minister, Michael Fallon, who is openly sceptical about key aspects of climate change policy like setting specific objectives to cut carbon emissions, the coalition is always going to struggle to sound open-minded.
Yet it has a case to make. Look at the report the government commissioned from the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering which concluded in June last year that, given tight regulation and monitoring then in technical health and environmental terms, fracking is safe. The risks of earthquakes, polluted water tables and air pollution were either negligible or capable of management. But what the report also said – and few picked up on – was that the report's authors drew particular attention to the fact they had not considered the impact on climate change objectives of either extracting or burning shale gas.
No depletion rates, no land speculation, but "the cost and security of the UK's energy supplies for decades". The Guardian's editorial staff really has no idea what they're talking about. And THAT, messieurs et mesdames, is "no way to resolve a complex question". Like Bloomberg, the Guardian should do its homework. That is, unless its sees its role as kowtowing to a deluded government and a less-than-honest industry.
Wall Street is not done yet, not by a long shot. You got a good sting, you export it. We already saw earlier how shale is being promoted in China. Here's some South America cheerleading from oilprice.com:
Here's The Next Thing in Shale
We've talked about unconventional gas drilling underway in Chile. Now it appears another Latin American nation wants to get in on the act: Brazil. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz talked shale during a visit to Brazil this weekend. Moniz noted that U.S energy companies are eager to use their unconventional expertise to help exploit Brazil's resources.
There is certainly geologic potential here. Earlier this year, state hydrocarbon agency ANP estimated that Brazil may hold over 500 trillion cubic feet of unconventional gas reserves. [..] The gas market here is reasonable. With Brazil in fact looking to increase domestic supply and move away from expensive LNG. With all these pluses, this might be a place where shale can work. We'll see what the bidding is like November 28 to 29. Here's to the new shale frontiers.
And it's not as if it all the information need be new to these folk. Forbes published this Robert Ayers piece last May, and again it's about the numbers:
Shale Oil And Gas: The Contrarian View
[US ] investment in shale in 2010 and 2011 was apparently a trillion dollars, with another $600 billion scheduled for 2012.
Indeed, it does appear at first glance that the kinds of shale deposits that contain recoverable gas and oil are very large. The Bakken and Eagle Ford shales under Montana and North Dakota contain up to 700 billion barrels of fluid oil bound tightly into sandstone. According to the current wisdom of the U.S. Geological Survey, 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of the oil will be recoverable, amounting to 6 months or so of current U.S. consumption. Even if the recovery rate is doubled or quadrupled, it would take care of perhaps two years of current US consumption.
Complicating the issue is the fact that shale gas (and oil) wells peak and decline much more rapidly than conventional wells. The Bakken play declined about 69% in the first year, 39% in the second year, 26% in the third year, etc.
[..] ... drilling for gas in the US trebled from 2000 to 2009, while the quantity of gas recovered remained virtually constant. Drilling for oil in the US in 2012 was at the rate of 25,000 new wells per year, just to keep output at the same level as it was in the year 2000, when only 5,000 wells were drilled. [..]
There will surely be a boomlet in shale gas and oil, but my opinion, for what it is worth, is that the fracking boom is partly – perhaps largely – hype, and that a lot of the small investors now being solicited by various investment publications will lose their shirts. I think the head of the IEA has been quite irresponsible in attaching her institution’s good name to such a dubious proposition. To put it in quantitative terms, I accept David Hughes' conclusion that the peak of shale oil will occur (circa 2020) but will be around only about one third of the IEA’s 10 million bbl/day estimate for natural gas liquids and a similar fraction of Citi-Group’s bloated estimate of about 4 million bbl/day for U.S. shale oil.
But my favorite this week comed form close to home, from Nassim, a commenter at the Automatic Earth, who played around with the North Dakota government's proprietary Historical Bakken Oil Stats:
[Here's] the last 6 months of data - to get a bigger sample.
Number of additional wells = 840
Number of additional barrels/day = 52,828
Average increase in barrels/day/well = 62.89
If it costs $8 million per well, that works out at a capital cost of $127,205 per barrel/day. If their profit margin - just for the sake of argument - is $30/barrel, this suggests that it takes $11.6 of investment to make $1/year of return.
In the table, the average oil production per well is 129 barrels/day. The numbers above suggest it is more like 62 barrels/day for the newer wells. Really scary stuff.
If you want to dig deeper into the role Wall Street plays in the shale bubble, I suggest you read energy banker Deborah Rogers at Energy Policy Forum. Here's is the executive summary, click the link to read the rest.
Shale and Wall Street: Was the decline in natural gas prices orchestrated?
In 2011, shale mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for $46.5 billion in deals and became one of the largest profit centers for some Wall Street investment banks. This anomaly bears scrutiny since shale wells were considerably underperforming in dollar terms during this time. Analysts and investment bankers, nevertheless, emerged as some of the most vocal proponents of shale exploitation. By ensuring that production continued at a frenzied pace, in spite of poor well performance (in dollar terms), a glut in the market for natural gas resulted and prices were driven to new lows. In 2011, U.S. demand for natural gas was exceeded by supply by a factor of four.
It is highly unlikely that market-savvy bankers did not recognize that by overproducing natural gas a glut would occur with a concomitant severe price decline. This price decline, however, opened the door for significant transactional deals worth billions of dollars and thereby secured further large fees for the investment banks involved. In fact, shales became one of the largest profit centers within these banks in their energy M&A portfolios since 2010.
The recent natural gas market glut was largely effected through overproduction of natural gas in order to meet financial analyst’s production targets and to provide cash flow to support operators’ imprudent leverage positions. As prices plunged, Wall Street began executing deals to spin assets of troubled shale companies off to larger players in the industry. Such deals deteriorated only months later, resulting in massive write-downs in shale assets.
In addition, the banks were instrumental in crafting convoluted financial products such as VPP's (volumetric production payments); and in spite of the obvious lack of sophisticated knowledge by many of these investors about the intricacies and risks of shale production, these products were subsequently sold to investors such as pension funds. Further, leases were bundled and flipped on unproved shale fields in much the same way as mortgage-backed securities had been bundled and sold on questionable underlying mortgage assets prior to the economic downturn of 2007.
So, can we stop talking about shale and move on to more serious topics? Have I sufficiently made the case that shale is a source of waste and nonsense, not of energy? Probably not, right? And it seems so simple, all these people should take one good hard long look at shale in Poland, and they'd understand.
“We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years, and my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy.”
It won't even last 10 years. Far too little recoverable carbon has been bought with far too much borrowed money.
http://theautomaticearth.com/Energy/the-darker-shades-of-shale.html
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Nuclear debate heats up in Germany over new tax and plant lifespans
Germany's nuclear power plants operators have threatened to pull out of nuclear power generation in protest of a proposed tax. The general debate over the future of German nuclear power has heated up again.
Controversial negotiations are underway in Germany between the government and energy providers as companies threaten to shut down their nuclear power plants over a proposed tax on fuel rods and Germany's debate over its nuclear energy future reignites.
News magazine Der Spiegel reported that the operators of Germany's 17 nuclear power plants - RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall and EnBW - have said they will cease nuclear energy generation altogether if a planned 2.3 billion euro annual tax on fuel rods is introduced.
Deputy Finance Minister Werner Gatzer has been conducting negotiations with the four providers to find an alternative to the tax, with the companies reportedly offering the government up to 30 billion euros ($38.3 billion) in exchange for permission to continue running nuclear plants for an additional 12 years.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble came out in favor of the proposed deal, as it would guarantee increased government revenue. He was joined by Chancellor Angela Merkel, who also praised the proposal.
'Dirty business'
According to an agreement signed by the previous center-left German government, nuclear energy is supposed to be phased out in Germany by 2020. Merkel's ruling center-right coalition wants to postpone this date, a position which the government opposition strongly opposes.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, leader of the Social Democrats' parliamentary group, came out against the energy producers' proposal while the Greens' Renate Kuenast told a regional daily that the proposal was "dirty business: billions for an [extended] run time, money for the comeback of a dangerous technology."
Kuenast added that the opposition would not put up with the proposal and planned to make life difficult for ruling coalition come autumn.
Environment minister left out
A spokesperson from Germany's environment ministry said that the environment minister Norbert Roettgen was not involved in the negotiations. He said that the proposed fuel rod tax was a compromise aimed at encouraging the development of alternative energy sources.
Before the electric companies proposed to buy their extended time, Roettgen had advocated a much shorter extension of the time allowance coupled with heavy taxation, putting himself at odds with Germany's leading business associations.
The president of the BDA national employers' association, Dieter Hundt, told the Hamburger Abendblatt he supported an unlimited extension of nuclear power plant lifetimes, declaring it "economically and environmentally irresponsible to shut down safe and profitable atomic power plants for ideological reasons."
Hans Peter Keitel, president of the federal association of German industry, took a stronger position against Roettgen's proposals, saying the minister should realize he was "not the head of Greenpeace."
Merkel launches energy tour
Under the cloud of the stepped-up nuclear debates, Merkel is expected to announce plans on Monday to visit nuclear and other energy plants in preparation for her government's much delayed energy plan aimed at solidifying laws governing Germany's energy sources.
Germany is split on the issue of nuclear energy, with just over half the population favoring the eventual shut-down of plants.
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Here's a taste of what you can expect:
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These days, many creative types have their hands in a variety of mediums. This is certainly the case for Clinton Lugert. As part of THEY design for film, he specializes in all forms of design and advertising for features films, from title credit animations, to websites and screen printed posters. He even helps shoot them sometimes. At Olson, he works with both local and national brands as an Art Director/Designer. And as part of the Pencil Project collective, he helped direct the trailer for the Twin Cities Films Fest.
City: Minneapolis
Years spent living in MN: 806 Fortnights
Name three things that are inspiring your work right now:
1. Mythology: For the great stories and archetypes within.
2. Music: I match the genre I'm listening to with each project I'm working on. This is one of the ways I keep myself versatile.
3. Anthropology: Having such deep insights into the people you're creating for can be extremely helpful on public projects. And the left-brain analysis helps bring balance to the process.
Name three things that inspired and/or motivated you as a budding creative type:
1. Comic books. I loved them for all the reasons kids do, and I still love them now. Trying to mimic their style and tell my own stories was the gateway for me.
2. My kindergarten friend Jamin Lackie. In the small world we grew up in we were the only other artist around. We continue to inspire and challenge each other to this day as he focuses on 3d character creation.
3. My surrogate Grandfather Curtis Thormodsgaard. He was a creative pioneer and huge inspiration. He showed me the tools and methods of the trade and was a great example of a successful, self-made creative. His entire family has been a massive factor in my creative and personal life. I work with his grandsons every day at the studio we share in the old Gran Belt brewery.
What was your last big project?
At Olson I'm working on campaigns for large brands often but they aren't only mine. As THEY-design the last big project was Gregg Holtgrewe's Dawning. I thought I was coming on to shoot second camera but by the time it was all done I was an associate producer, consulted on the story and our efforts to land distribution. My biggest contribution was designing all the branding and marketing materials for the film from hand screen printed posters to title credits animation (with Gaardhouse). After a long journey the team successfully had the film distributed through all major outlets. It was an inde-film miracle.
What do you have going on now or coming up in the near future that should be on our radar?
The Pencil Project and I are in pre-production for a documentary about a man seeking to beat a land speed record with a motorcycle he's building in his garage. An electric motorcycle.
Creative/career high point (so far)?
After a couple years of designing and printing gig posters I eventually found an opportunity to create a poster for my favorite musician in the world, Joseph Arthur. It was one of the hardest things I've ever designed in my life–probably because it was so personal to me. Balance and redemption are strong themes in his music and eventually the concept became an illustration of the Icarus & Daedalus story. When I presented the poster and reasoning to him he loved it, drew Icarus for me and then I exploded into stars.
What has been your biggest challenge as a creative type?
Financial was definitely a hurdle being self-employed for so long. Knowing when to charge high and when to accept a passion project is tough. I think my biggest challenge however has been saying "no" to challenges in general. I'm proficient in many disciplines and have a wide range of interest; consequently I've overloaded myself many, many times. Focus is key.
How has the Minnesota scene changed since you began working here?
I've been able to legally drive for almost 2 years now. That's a change.
Since I've been making things here Uptown has been neutered and NE has developed but it's hard to constrain the creative community to just Minnesota since we're all so connected. Maybe that's what's changed. It's felt to me that in a short time the tools of our trade became so accessible that everyone was shooting video or recording a band or designing. But then all at once we started getting our hands dirty too. It's been a pleasure to watch, and participate in, the return of screen printing, letterpress and even craft beers. I'm greatly enjoying this renaissance of craftsmanship.
Name another local creative type that you’re currently excited about:
Fine Art: Paintings by the surrealist Alison Lindburg endlessly enchant me.
Music: I look forward to every Phantom Tails show.
Design: My friend Gary Loo Bun has gone freelance and joined our studio so I'm excited to see what he creates and what we make together.
Name the best movie you have ever seen. How about the worst?
Fight Club. I think it's a modern masterpiece and not just as a film, but as art. It speaks to the emasculation of modern males, urban angst and American escapism. It was entirely self-aware and broke the 4th wall with style. It's satire is endlessly quotable. Fantastic performances, amazing cinematography and a killer sound track. Every piece of that film was perfectly crafted. In my opinion of course.
The worst is definitely the Star Wars Holiday Special. The MN Film & TV Board makes it into an annual endurance match & I have a blast making the mashup posters for it. Sure, it's a great event, but no matter how much fun we have it cannot wash away the blight that creation is on all moving pictures.
What has been the best concert you have attended (so far?):
It was the best and the worst at the same time. The final So It Goes show. "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
Read the article on CityPages here.
The University of Minnesota and Partners in Prevention have just launched first-ever "Ask About Aspirin" heart attack & stroke prevention campaign. The concept is a simple comparison highlighting the ease of taking care of your heart versus the struggle of having the consequences of not.
At Olson, I worked with Creative Director Matt Burgess and copy writer Monique Thomas on the concept and execution. Photos by my talented friend Matt Blum. Here are a few of the pieces:
WEBSITE - ASKABOUTASPIRIN.COM
STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL - Leia Print
The Star Wars Holiday Special Leia posters are done printing! Here are some shots of the process.
As you can see Mr. Erik Hamline from Steady Print Shop Co. did a fabulous job as always.
The Princess Leia posters will be for sale at the event and because we love spreading the holiday cheer last year's poster will be thrown in for free with every purchase!
Here are the event details:
Star Wars Holiday Special
Thursday, December 8th (RSVP on Facebook)
Bryant Lake Bowl
810 W Lake Street
5:00pm - Tickets available with unwrapped Toy for a Tot.
7:00pm - Screening 1
10:00pm - Screening 2
PS - Don't bring your children thinking they will enjoy this...
FINDING BALANCE - Joseph Arthur
Sometimes designing is like being lost in the woods.
When I was going to art school I was a big believer that every single piece of work should have a well thought out theme. I thought every element should all tie back to a greater plot or theme or reference and there could be no "happy accident". This was foolish of me because then all art became cereberal instead of emotional and expressionistic. As I've evolved as an artist I've realized that while I do often still start with cereberal intentions I have to eventually let go and put myself in to my work. Putting yourself into a piece of work also sets you up for more rejection. Luckily for me, in this very personal project, both sides of my creation were well-received. Ultimately the roadblock in my mind was my own perfectionist attitude. I hope you enjoy this tour of watching me bang my head against the wall.
My favorite musician, by a landslide, is Joseph Arthur. As you can tell by my Last.fm listening habits, I may have a problem.
And that's not even including the other 563 times I've listened to him play with the Lonely Astronauts. So when he came to town I bought several tickets for my friends and got excited about the show. Not too long later I realized that my friend Todd O'Dowd worked there. I had designed a poster for Solid Gold & White Light Riot to play there years ago so I got in touch with Todd and gave it a shot. He, being the awesome guy that he is, obliged.
Once it was approved I was ecstatic and got to work immediately. Thankfully the idea came to me right away. The execution of that idea however did not.
Many of Arthur's songs have religious themes like a Father/Son relationship, redemption and often he sings of the sun itself. This story also has another strong theme - balance.
Any artist has to wrestle with the ability to find balance in their lives between the mania of creation and the depression of failure. Few know this battle as well as Arthur. These things all lead me to the myth of Icarus & Daedalus.
Not only does Icarus appear somewhat angel-like thanks to his wings, but also the whole story is loaded with similar themes that Arthur continually explores. In the story the King fears the Minotaur and commissions the brilliant Daedalus to construct a labyrinth to contain him. He places the beast on an island in the center of the construct. For fear of the secret of the labyrinth getting out, he banishes Daedalus and his son Icarus there as well.
Most of us know the rest of the story about Icarus flying too close to the sun, melting his wings of wax and falling in to the sea, but few remember that in spite of great loss, Daedalus made it home. He then went into hiding, denied the king and dedicated his life to the gods.
Years later Daedalus was discovered because he was the only one able to solve a small puzzle. His vanity of his own powerful mind made him known to the King once again.
You'll see our friend the Minotaur makes a cameo on this poster as the center label of a vinyl record which has grooves like a labyrinth.
So in the interst of full disclosure I'll publish my rather embarassing and meandering path to the final product. First, I looked for inspiration and ended up spending many hours looking at just about every single picture of Icarus that is on the internet.
A lot of these are really awesome, especially that abstraction in the top-middle. I hadn't settled on a style but because Arthur's music has evolved to be quite abstract over the years, and his own art is very wild I thought I'd try something along those lines. This was another hurdle I put in my own way. It's one of the few styles I've not explored much. In fact, I once designed a rather stark/abstract poster for Solid Gold, So It Goes and MC/VL that no one else liked but me.
Maybe it's hard to see, but the original spirit of this poster reemerged during this creation process by way of the color palette.
So after much asset gathering I set off on my confusing and frustrating journey. Joseph Arthur's used to play with The Lonely Astronauts and it was also the name of one of their songs. I got hung up on trying to marry my concept with reality too literally and started experimenting with the idea of Icarus as an astronaut.
I secretly still like this idea, and will probably revisit it. It reminds me of all sorts of fantastic old sci-fi stories and even the 80's SilverHawks cartoon.
I then tried the more abstract style. Once I'd hit a wall of despair I talked the poster over with the fantastic surrealist artist Alison Lindburg. You can see some of her work at www.AlisonLindburg.com
She helped me come up with this idea of putting a labyrinth on the turntable. Brilliant! With the help of some art from CSA Images (Some of which are free if you print on French Paper) I then took a nice detour to crazy-town. I was also all caught up in this idea that I wanted the water to be on top, and the sun on the bottom so that it looked like at first he was flying, but was actually falling. That idea didn't survive.
At this point I was using a lot art as placeholder while Alison Lindburg illustrated the wings for me. She at one point wisely predicted that I'd end up using just a feather.
Here is the beautiful wing that Alison illustrated for the poster.
But she was right, the wing was killing me. I was ready to abandon this entire style. Most of the time I create my designs/illustrations in one session. One sustained burst of inspiration. This time, I had failed for a second time and so I walked away. This was scary. As the creative process would have it, the poster finally came together in my mind while riding the bus and thinking of everything except this project. I quickly sketched out a few layouts that were using only a feather.
That was it. I had broken through the self-imposed barriers in my mind and now it was just time to execute it. I quickly threw together some versions.
It started to come together.
I found if I strayed too far from water being blue and the sun being yellow that the Icarus theme would be completely lost. French Paper make a great blue paper called Poptone Berrylicious that I had used for the Melismatics jellyfish poster for the MN State Lottery a while back. I only realized as I started writing this post that some of the colors felt a little like that Solid Gold & MC/VL poster.
Once I found the layout I fell in love with a few things. First, the shape that is echoed in the feather and the arm of the turntable. (I'll concede that was completely a "Happy Accident"). Second, that I could use the feather to throw off the symmetry and highlight some text with it's tip.
I sent off the proof and thankfully everyone involved liked it. So then, it was time to print. I contacted the press-ninja, Erik Hamline of Steady Print Shop. He did a fantastic job as always.
And here's the finished product!
Thanks to this project I was priviledged enough to meet Joseph Arthur and his awesome manager to discuss this project, religion, film, and working together again. He signed a poster and even drew Icarus on it for me. Overall what I took away from it was the beauty of one artist inspiring another and that creation becoming an inspiration in return. As a team we decided to give away a poster with every merch purchase at the show. It felt right to build good will for the musican to the fans, the venue to the locals and from me to all parties. The show was amazing and the night was perfect. Whew.
Thanks for wading through this embarassing, but enlightening process with me. I hope it's become clear that sometime perseverance is the best trait an artist can have.
The remaninder of the 50 limited edition posters are now available for sale at THEY's Etsy Store.
JOSEPH ARTHUR POSTER NOW FOR SALE »
BLACK CINEMA CAFE - Film Festival Poster
Fifth Third Bank sponsored Black Cinema Cafe and Olson had me design the posters for the festival. The Wright Museum has a nice description of what BCC is all about:
The Black Cinema Café is a national film screening and discussion series showcasing films written, produced or directed by persons of or that offer fresh perspectives and non stereotypical portrayal of the culture or lifestyles of people from African descent.
The BCC brand is an original and unique concept as it features screenings of independent and studio films in a café or lounge like environment and provides an alternative to the typical movie going experience. Each event features a film screening, a networking component and a Q&A.
Black Cinema Café’s have been held in various venues and in the following markets: New York, NY, Brooklyn, NY, Washington, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Oakland, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Houston and Newark, NJ.
The team at Olson paved the way for this project to be an Art Director's dream. I explored a wide variety of art from the culture and put together a large mood board.
And from there I created this color palette:
One of the challenges of this project is that we had no idea which movie, genre or even subject matter they would choose to screen at the event. This was both confusing & liberating. On one hand we only had to tackle the culture in general without a specific feel (since the festival is a seperate brand from the film itself anyway). On the other hand, the whole culture is an intimdatingly large target.
This didn't slow us down one bit. Soon the excellent illustrator/designer Lori Benoy & I were cranking out many concepts. Here's a few of them:
This was going back to an old wood cut style and treating the American flag in rather dramatic ways.
You'll see Lori's concepts are vintage-jazz inspired and great. Any one of these would have been a wonderful choice.
This one was intended to have local photos for each market.
After presenting all these concepts, Fifth Third Bank's African American cultural consultant told us, "You've got soul.". That still makes me smile. They chose the following Afro/Africa - Marrionette design. Here are some shots of the creation process:
After going through so many vintage posters from the African American culture I settled on an earthy tone. Here I'm using some French Paper swatches as my color guides. The typeface Nougat Extra Black has these great diagonal slabs on it. I had used it for the Chilibean branding & it ended up leading me down the thought of tilting everything like vintage jazz posters. Honestly, not that unlike my work on the short film series Thicker Than Blood/Turnipseed. Ultimtaely I used one of my favorite typefaces, Lubalin Graph and treated it in a similar way.
Expiramenting with trying to integrate africa into the illustration while maintaing the marrionette strings & some visual interest. The hard part here is not letting it get too cheesy.
Thinking about how "less is more" I also tried this alternative approach.
I liked it. It almost stuck around but I thought the imagery was too obvious. Eventually I fell in love with this marionette idea - I feel as though it has some great ties to the sentiment of the culture.
Below are some mockups we presented to the client:
We thought we may do a web portal
At first we thought we might do a more lemon-colored gold. Here the invite concept is starting to come together.
And here are some shots of the final products which were screen printed and letterpressed - quite the accomplishment for a bank client. Prepress & production was done by the wonderful Erin Julin. She did a fantastic job - they turned out better than anticipated.
STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL - Leia
Every year a few of us crazies in Minneapolis donate our time to the Minnesota Film & TV Board to benefit Toys for Tots. THEY & I have been delighted to be a part of if for three years now.
Year one was "Treebacca". Year two was "R2 The Snow Droid".
This year we thought we'd ask our friends & fans what they'd like to see and we put it up to a poll on our Facebook page. Everyone added their own idea so we ended up with a lot of options that all had 1 vote. Ultimately I went with my gut, which was very guided by Joey Hall & the event master from the film board himself, Chris Grap. Princess Leia needed some help with her Rebel Wreath and this is a quick tour of the creation process.
First, I needed some reference and inspiration. Originally I thought I'd do the poster in complete profile.
But it just wasn't happening. After a whole lot of archeology I found a torn up vintage oversize Star Wars comic book & this excellent image.
And that was it. First I thought I'd try it without the hood so we could see the classic buns.
It was already getting fun but the poster didn't have any visual weight to it yet. I revisited the hood but wasn't sure how to handle it. I found Nefer-Ra's Deviant Art page, blatently stole the hood and decided to try it on. I also hunted down a wreath which you'll see is actually a series of cupcakes. It worked because it wasn't so photographic that it was a halftone mess and it wasn't so patterned that it looked like flat clip art.
Now I started to think about color. In previous years I strayed away from traditional Christmas colors but this year I decided to embrace it. I knew I wanted to print on French Paper as I nearly always do and so I went searching for paper colors and decided on something really wild. White. 100lb Pop-Tone "Sweet Tooth" to be exact. Once I added this flood of red, and dropped in the classic Star Wars logo I started getting excited enough to show Chris a sneak preview.
Ultimately that logo didn't work, but it sent me down the right path - vintage Star Wars book cover. The border ties it all together and brings back memories.
Now it was time to start getting into the details. I didn't like how the ribbon came out and hadn't added the second wreath yet
Here's the final, which I can't wait to print!
I added a slight distressed texture to the red so that when printing it's not too heavy, causing the paper to curl. Learned that from the Dawning poster.
The event is December 8th at the Bryant-Lake Bowl. I'll have hand silk screened prints there limited to an edition of 100. I hope you can make it. RSVP on the Facebook Event Page.
- Clinton Lugert of THEY design
JOSEPH ARTHUR POSTER - 1st Proof
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to design & print a poster for my favorite musician - Joseph Arthur. I listen to him alarmingly often and know his work well.
You'll see our friend the Minotaur makes an appearance on this poster as the center label of a vinyl record which has grooves like a labyrinth.
I hope you like it. It was a great challenge to design for another artist and material that I love.
Poster is up for sale at the THEY Etsy Store.
Feather illustration by Alison Lindburg. Other illustrations courtesy of CSA Images.
Movember is coming up! Here's a poster for Olson's participation in it. I used some of the wonderful fonts from LostType.com
TWIN CITIES FILM FEST TRAILER - By The Pencil Project
The great folks at The Pencil Project & I have been working on this trailer for the Twin Cities Film Fest & are proud to present it finished and ready for showtime! Music by Joel Dodson.
FIFTH THIRD BANK - We Run On Ideas
Fifth Third Bank was changing marketing directors and campaigns. Olson had me art direct & design this one-of-a-kind book for their brass to show them that we had their back. Fifth Third are seeking innovation and progress. In a quest like that, you're never quite finished so the style became that of a sketch - the first notion of a concept. The book is hand Japanese side stitched. Mark Anderson wrote the copy and Manthei Design letterpressed the cover.
THE GATEKEEPER - Key Art Walkthrough
Here it is, the final key art for Isaac Meisenheimer's The GateKeeper starring Ron Perlman. Illustration by Jeremy Packer [ZombiYeti] Art Direction & coloring by Clinton Lugert.
Here's a quick tour of how we landed on this final piece. If you'd like to see THEY's works in progress you can see what we're up to by following us on Dribbble.com/THEYdesign.
First of all, we were very excited to work on this project and not just because of the names attached - the script is awesome fun. Luckily for us our very talented, long-time friend Nathaniel Levisay is composing the music for this film and he recommended us to the director, Isaac Meisenheimer.
The goal of the The GateKeeper is to create a feel-good zombie movie that has the 80's genre-film mentality. This hooked us right away as we are big fans of Goonies, Monster Squad and the like.
Since the film is still seeking funding and other partners this is more of a teaser poster than anything - key art to set the mood. Our first draft was a lot more simple but you'll see the concept and color scheme were already set.
The idea was simple and sound. However, since the gothic style has been embraced by many modern gangs it could read the wrong way. The trucker hat put it over to the top and we decided to change up illustration styles as well.
Then we found the work of the remarkably talented Jeremy Packer [aka ZombieYeti]. Thankfully he was cut from the same cloth and immediately started sketching. Here are a couple of the thoughts he sent our way.
As you can see, he's amazing. The hat is gone, and his idea of bringing a keyhole into the forehead was brilliant. We gave some direction and had another round.
He nailed it. The next round was the ink.
Then we played with the type again.
We all loved it but Isaac made the right decision and pushed us towards a more classic Goonie's treatment.
And then the color.
Due to scheduling conflicts Clinton Lugert dusted off his old comic book skills and finished up the last couple rounds of color.
And the final round is up top. Up next we'll be preparing various forms of colaterol for the film. We hope you'll keep tabs on The GateKeeper as it progresses by following @Meisenslimer on Twitter or subscribing to their blog.
And if you're ever in a graveyard and you see Ron Perlman. Run.
SNOWBLIND - Key Art
We've just finished our first stab at the key art for Gregg Holtgrewe's Snowblind. The first style is based on various children's book illustrations in hopes that it unlocks the elemental fear of monsters in all of us.
This second style follows a bold and violent path - which is what the producers are looking for on this film which is being pitched for international distribution as well as to the SyFy Channel. We're trying hard to walk the line between cliche and abstraction. Hopefully we found a balance.
THE GATEKEEPER - Final Inks
We're excited to have been working with the incredible Jeremy Packer for the last couple of weeks on the key art for Isaac Meisenheimer's The Gatekeeper starring Ron Perlman. Shown here are the final inks. Now we're moving on to color. The scheme will be rather pop-80's to accentuate the classic genre and lightheartedness of the film.
PHASMA EX MACHINA/GHOST FROM THE MACHINE PREMIERE
Matt Osterman lovingly refers to his Phasma Ex Machina/Ghost From The Machine as "The little movie that could" and this weekend it will. Not only have they already attained distribution (no small feat for a true inde) but this Friday as St. Anthony Main theaters in Minneapolis the film has it's theatrical premiere and first run!
Opening night is Friday July 15th at 7pm. There's a Q&A and an after party at Pracna. The film then runs at the theater until July 21st. Here are the details & a place to buy tickets online.
Our limited edition posters will be for sale at the merch table. Hope to see you at the after party!
DAWNING RELEASE ON DVD & BLU RAY
After many years and much work we're proud to announce that Gregg Holtgrewe's DAWNING has been released on Video-On-Demand, DVD and BluRay! (Soon it will be available to stream online as well).
Many members of THEY were heavily involved in this film.
Clinton Lugert was an Associate Producer, shot second camera and designed the key art, title credits, press kit, t-shirts, disc packaging & menus, website, etc...
Co-Writer: Matthew Wilkins
Composer: Nathaniel Levisay
Title Credits Animation: Zechariah Thormodsgaard of Gaardhouse
Post Production Coordinator: Chris Grap
Disc Authoring: Jeff Strobl
It's been a long journey with a great team and the team is excited to already excited to be moving on to the next project. We hope you'll check out the film and let us know what you think!
Here's the trailer:
PHASMA EX MACHINA POSTER - WINNER IN AIGA DESIGN SHOW
The AIGA has chosen our design for Matt Osterman's Phasma Ex Machina (Now known as Ghost From The Machine) as a winner in the 2011 Design Show! I'm honored to be held up with such fine company.
Ghost From The Machine explores the grey area between life and death and how we reconcile these losses. After the death of his parents, Cody plunges himself into the fringe science of the supernatural and invents a machine he intends to be a conduit between the other side. He becomes increasingly preoccupied with this goal and begins ignoring his responsibilities to work, life and his younger brother. But the real problems come when it works. This story of holding on to grief and the consequences of obsession was fertile ground for a poster concept. After many ideas I decided to focus on the bondage of his creation - the machine - and loneliness of the aftermath.
SHOOTING & DESIGN
For the execution I tested my wire-theory on the mannequin at THEY's studio & then promptly tangled Sasha Andreev up in phosphorescent wire. We shot with the wonderful photographer Clark Patrick at his studio. Everyone was a great sport about the whole thing as we directed Sasha to strike poses ranging from God and Adam in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel to a marionette. Finally the mood we wanted was found in the solitary pose on the poster today.
Originally the visual treatment was to be the opposite of the photos. In this style the illuminated wires are inverted, so they seem to radiate blackness in an ethereal world.
But the director was wise to focus on the dark nature of the story and request the opposite.
Here are several early proofs:
Jon Maichel Thomas from Studio Collective animated the title credits and co-produced the film. He also oversaw this project from their end and was excellent to work with. Jon continually pushed me and my design to be cleaner, stronger and tighter insuring that the concept was king. In the final round we all had a tough time deciding between the final and this alternative:
I hand silk screen printed 100 posters using our then-freshly-built screen printing vacuum table which was constructed by my good friend, the ever creative and kind, Lucas Shank of Lucas Brand Co. They are printed with silver metallic ink on thick metallic black paper. Because of the shiny combo you can lose the image entirely in a glare - we love this and think it adds a necessary mystical feeling to the print.
I loved being involved with Phasma Ex Machina & working with the team. It's one of my favorite pieces I've created and are honored to have been selected as a winner in the AIGA Design Contest. If you'd like to see these in person as well as the tremendous work from the show the exhibit of the contest will be up at Chris Sheehan's Shelter Studio May 9th & 10th, 9:00am - 5pm at 2112 Broadway St NE # 150 Minneapolis, MN 55413
And as always, the posters are up for sale on THEY'S POSTER STORE. Here's the final:
And here's the big metal cube to celebrate:
DAWNING LANDS A DISTRIBUTION DEAL & THE ARTWORK REMAINS UNSCATHED
Since 2008 We have been intimately involved with Gregg Holtgrewe's "DAWNING". We came on board to shoot 2nd camera and since then we've been fortunate enough to not only become close friends with the cast and crew but also bring many of THEY into the fold.
Matt Wilkins co-wrote, Chris Grap co-produced, Nathaniel Levisay scored, Zechariah Thormodsgaard of Gaardhouse animated the title credits and Clinton Lugert designed the posters as well as the rest of the media kit. We're proud to be credited as associate producers of the film.
The team has taken the film to over 19 film festivals, racking up a laundry list of great reviews, made it on to a few top-ten lists and taken home 4 awards including Best Picture.
After all this, we have some great news. Thanks to Breaking Glass Pictures "DAWNING" has joined the ranks of the small selection of MN films that have gotten distribution! Soon the film we be availble from RedBox to Video On Demand to Netflix and everywhere in between. We're currently finishing up the DVD package design.
One of the most amazing parts of this deal is that the promotional artwork we've created for the film is going to market unchanged. Specializing in design & animation for feature films is our greatest passion and we're always proud when our work can help an inde film get noticed. However, once the distribution deal is signed the initial designs rarely (never) make it through the big machine and out to the audience without drastic changes. Something as bold as the "DAWNING" designs are just asking to be watered down - but this one time it won't be and for that we are both thankful and proud.
The October Country had this to say:
Color me intrigued as hopefully you are as well dear readers. If not, then feast your eyes upon these absolutely stunning posters for the film, which I'll admit are not only the most beautiful works of advertisement I have seen in ages, but are also what initially got me to sit up and pay attention in the first place. As far as successful marketing tools are concerned, you knocked this one outta the park guys, bravo.
To learn more about the film and stay informed check out www.DawningTheMovie.com. We'll be posting about the release and any other big news.
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Oakland’s “BBQing While Black” gathers hundreds to clap-back at #BBQBecky
by Isra Ibrahim
Culture, Events, Poverty, Race
Aloysius McMahan from Oakland made a shirt representing the reason why he and many others in the Black community were at Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif., barbecuing at the "BBQ-ing while Black" event PC: (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
On April 29, a white woman called the police on a Black family for using a charcoal grill at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. A fellow Oakland resident, Michelle Snider, recorded the incident and accused the unidentified white woman of harassing the family because they are Black. It sparked national conversations about racism. Police came to the scene, questioned the family, but took no further action.
The video went viral and has amassed over 2 million views on YouTube, prompted a Saturday Night Live (SNL) feature, and other funny parodies. It has also inspired a viral hashtag, #BBQBecky, which many have used to create memes by cutting and pasting pictures of the white woman calling police in important times of Black History. But the ultimately clap-back was when hundreds came to celebrate Blackness at the same spot a month later.
Who did this. pic.twitter.com/pD9FMDtRqE
— zellie (@zellieimani) May 13, 2018
Hello Oakland police. This is #BBQBecky. There's a black man with 10 knives in his hands looking at me and l fear for me live. He has a Gang with him to. Bring back up. #BlackTwitter #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/GqYSJPqIOz
— LL Kool Dre (@llkooldre50) May 14, 2018
As reported by the East Bay Times, Oakland residents responded to the viral incident by hosting a park festival called “BBQing while Black,” where Black people were invited to grill and eat seasoned ribs and chicken.
“This is about doing what we’ve already been doing and eat in peace, literally,” said Logan Cortez, one of the event’s organizers. “We’re not fighting for our rights; it’s already our right to do this.”
The viral video has reignited a local ongoing conversation about gentrification. The housing crisis has led to an exodus of many Black residents from Oakland. They made up 36% of the population in 2000 and now are at 23.5 percent in 2016. Gentrification is changing the socio-cultural and economic makeup of Oakland, and Lake Merritt has many neighborhoods that are gentrifying quickly.
Jhamel Robinson, one of the event’s organizers, shares he can’t afford to live in the community he grew up in.
“It’s all we’ve ever known,” said Oaklander Baretta Van Dyke. “Oakland is for everybody.”
BBQ, Black Family, festival, Gentrification, Lake Merritt, Oakland
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Nostalgia Critic Real Thoughts on – TMNT Out of the Shadows
Posted by: Doug Walker in Channel Awesome, Doug Walker, Nostalgia Critic Real Thoughts, Videos January 20, 2017
We know what NC, AVGN, and Black nerd thought of it, now let’s see what Doug and Rob thought of it.
Watch the NC review here.
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yeah, the first live action move is better at having an actual story with actual emotion to it.
and glad Rob will admit the 2003 series was probably the best since his and Doug’s favorite but at the same time, you are talking about faithfulness to the source material and the first cartoon was totally unfaithful
the original comics started out as straight parody but became a serious story with only undertones of parody witch is why the creators hated the original cartoon.
maybe I just don’t get it because I prefer drama to comedy and never watched the first cartoon, just the 2003 one.
9ansean
Can anyone verify that Peter Laird or Kevin Eastman actually hated the original cartoon, because I’ve done multiple searches on the early history of the franchise and found nothing to suggest this. If nothing else they oversaw of all the early licensing because it gave them enough money to carry on their original comic and expand their independent company Mirage Studios, so I doubt they could hated it that much.
You’ve never seen the 1987 TMNT cartoon, yet you know that it was “totally unfaithful”? Listen, I know that you’re not a comedy person (BTW, I’m the exact opposite; I prefer comedy to drama), but the above sounds more like you’re personal opinion than that of Eastman and Laird’s, and it really doesn’t help your argument when you admit that you haven’t seen the very thing that you’re attempting to criticize. It sounds more like you’re simply poo-pooing the 1987 series because it was comedy focused and having no sense of humor, you neither understand nor appreciate comedy and therefore didn’t even bother trying to watch it. At least wait until you’ve actually seen something before making pat assessments of it.
BTW, the 2003 TMNT series had plenty of comedy. There were action elements and some drama, but it offered laughs as well. It wasn’t all grimdark. If you say that it was, you’re either delusional or simply uninformed.
Also I’ve never read any source on the history of TMNT stating that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird hated the 1987 series. I’d really like to know where you heard or read that, and please don’t tell me that you read it on some message board or that some guy said it on Facebook, because that’s not a credible source.
I can only site ChannelFrederator but I believe they are more on the professional side and not just some YouTube channel even quoting Eastman as saying if he did the original cartoon, he’s do away with things like Bebop and Rocksteady.
and from people I’ve talked to, Eastman and Laird hating the first cartoon seems to be common knowledge.
and I know the second cartoon had comedy in it. I don’t hate comedy, I just hate when it’s the entire show with no semblance of character development, plot or other emotion.
and I have at least watched a very detailed retrospective of the 80s cartoon from Rowdy C and even he admits the first series is unfaithful to the source material.
So you interpret Kevin Eastman saying that he wouldn’t do the TMNT animated series exactly the way that it was done back in 1987 as “I hate the old series”? How long are your arms, because that’s one hell of a a reach you’re attempting!
“and from people I’ve talked to, Eastman and Laird hating the first cartoon seems to be common knowledge”
Translation: You have no official source. That’s just the opinion of yourself and your like minded acquaintances. An opinion doesn’t magically become a fact just because some other people on the internet happen to share you view.
Your problem is that you live in your little bubble with like thinking people and you tell yourselves that you’re the “majority” because you and everyone you know agree with each other, ignoring the fact that just as many people, if not more, have a completely different opinion.
I’m not saying that the 1987 series didn’t take liberties with the original source material. My point is if you haven’t seen the original animated series, who are you to pass judgment it’s quality? Stop quoting internet reviewers and start thinking for yourself.
they aren’t my acquaintances, they are people I just stumbled across even on this site’s forum.
and Eastman obviously wanted the series to be more serious because he was heavily involved with the 2003 series. and even from channelfrederator, I heard Eastman hated the original cartoon.
Oh, so you’re taking the opinions of people you don’t know on the internet who aren’t any more knowledgeable on the subject than you are as gospel. Even better. Someone on Frederator said it, so it MUST be true!
If you can provide a source in which you can quote Eastman himself saying that he hated the 1987 series, then please do so. Otherwise, you have no solid evidence to support your claim and therefore need to shut up.
You’re still doing nothing but repeating what you’ve read on message boards and making snap assessments based on half-truths and conjectures which you’ve concocted inside your own head. If you can’t present a tangible, concrete, black-and-white confirmation that Eastman and Laird hated the 1987 series, then you need to stop making that claim since you’ve shown repeatedly that you can’t prove it.
“I have at least watched a very detailed retrospective of the 80s cartoon from Rowdy C and even he admits the first series is unfaithful to the source material.”
Rowdy C is just a reviewer, dude. Unless he worked with Eastman and Laird personally or was involved in the production of the series or the original comic, then his opinion is no more objective than yours or anyone else’s. Everything you cited is the equivalent to “this guy said so” or “that’s what me an my posse say” or “this is how I feelz in my heart”, none of which equates to anything factual or concrete. Again, if you personally aren’t as fan of the ’87 series, then say that, but don’t go around making claims that you can’t prove.
This idea that TMNT somewhere down the line became all super-serious and mature, nah, I can’t take that pretentious crap notion seriously. We’re talking about 4 turtles who are transformed into butt-kicking, wisecrack-spouting, pizza eating ninjas who live in a fully furnished home in the sewers of New York City where they’re raised by a talking rat who learned how to mimic martial arts moves and who do battle against some psychopathic ninja crime boss who wears armor decorated with cheese graters. Face it, TMNT is at its’ core, silly as all get-out; turning it into fun comedy isn’t really that big a stretch.
the turtles can still have character development and heart to it and the second series was more serious with even gray morality with Kari’s struggle between her honor and her loyalty to Utrom Shredder who also killed millions across the galaxy.
You’re just talking out of your ass at this point. You should wear a diaper over your mouth ’cause that’s where all the crap is coming out.
I can’t take you opinions on this seriously, especially since by your own admission you don’t know enough about the 1987 TMNT series to accurately judge it or compare it to any other. Why is it so hard for you to simply admit that you don’t know what you’re talking about?
again, the channelfrederator example was quote from an interview and yes, Eastman said he hated the first cartoon.
Yeah, I’m not gonna argue with you about all that, because I honestly and truly couldn’t give 2 candy-coated shits about any of those plot points. What you’re squawking about now is nothing more than opinion, which is subjective. You can prefer whichever style you prefer, but stop acting like one interpretation is objectively incorrect or inferior just because it doesn’t adhere to your personal preferences.
last thing, how is that not more mature? if Kari was in the original cartoon, she’s have been a cookie cutter villain with know moral grayness whatsoever.
It sounds more like you’re projecting your own personal feelings about the original series onto the alleged ones of the creators. It seems unlikely that Eastman and Laird would’ve been so willing to license their creation and make a ton of money off of it in that form for so long if they truly hated it. The fact that you openly admit that you’ve never even bothered to watch the ’87 series, instead opting to just turn your nose up at it on sight because you’re not a fan of humor, doesn’t make your claim any more believable.
Sorry, but you’re going to need to site a credible and legitimate source of information to verify that, and I mean one besides your own ass. You can’t go around pretending that the reality that exists in your head is the reality that exists in the world. If you can’t prove something, then you probably shouldn’t say it.
but I admit I probably can’t talk since I didn’t read the Mirage comics either but I saw Linkara’s review of it and the second cartoon was, from what I can tell, almost identical to it in ways, so, maybe I’m not totally ignorant on the matter.
and on a related topic, another reviewer gave his take on the controversy over Turtles Forever. with some exceptions, liking that movie depends on weather you were a fan of the first or second cartoon.
and wile there are still five good seasons, the second season was kind or ruined by the fanboys of the 80s cartoons who forced 4Kids to make the series more light and goofy. Cyber Shredder was a good idea but that season still had elements of the Fast Forward season.
Getting back on-point: Walkers, there’s not going to be a 3rd Bay-produced Turtles movie. The studio pulled the plug on that franchise when Out of the Shadows under-performed at the box office.
and to clarify, I know at it’s core, the whole Ninja Turtles is silly but with the 20003 series, the concepts were silly but the exaction was serious. it doesn’t matter what fictional story I watch, if I connect to the characters and they can make me laugh, cry and all sorts of other things, then I take it seriously.
and I will admit that I’ve heard about emotional moments in the original cartoon but to fans of that show, with the series mainly being wacky and stuff, did those moments flow naturally? maybe they did but it probably still wasn’t enough for my tastes. even the original live action films had emotional moments
on another subject, if you ever do real thoughts on editorials, maybe you can do one on the editorial on The Looney Tunes Show since you no presumably know the reasons why people hate the newer version of Lola Bunny.
it’s not so much people like me think the original Lola was great or that good of a character at all but how awful and some point to the DC licensed comics portrayal of the character who was basically the Space Jam Lola but also funny, using that version would have basically pleased everyone. and as someone on TV Tropes noted, the other Looney Tunes retained certain personality traits from previous incarnations but not Lola.
but you know, I would have been okay with the new Lola if she had a little thing called character development and became a more well rounded character who doesn’t get away with getting her boyfriend arrested for jewel robbery.
and unlike the Ghostbusters thing, the original Lola was only in Space Jam for three and a half minutes, there isn’t really an original for me and others like me to fall back on.
there are other things to suggest you do in Real Thoughts videos but I can’t think of them or have already said them.
actually there is something about when you get grossed out by fictional animal characters having relationships with humans. you were right to do so with the Chipmunks but characters like Howard the Duck are adults and fully sapient and thus, consenting bestiality is wrong in real life because real life animals can’t consent but fictional anthropomorphic animals can consent.
and there are actual officially made stories from companies like DC discussing this issue like one issue of Swamp Thing where Batman points out that a lot of characters in that universe are in interspecies relationships and no one cares but apparently Swamp Thing banging his girlfriend is a crime against nature.
and no one ever complains about Jenny Flint and Madam Vastra from Doctor Who
“The Looney Tunes Show since you no presumably know the reasons why people hate the newer version of Lola Bunny.”
1. The Walkers aren’t going to do a Real Thoughts on The Looney Tunes Show because there was no Nostalgia Critic review of the series.
2. Just because *you* hate the newer version of Lola Bunny doesn’t mean that everyone does. Geez! Two years later and you’re *still” bitching about Lola?!? Let it go already!
3. This video has nothing whatsoever to do with Looney Tunes or DC. Try to stay on topic.
Devil’s Advocate, I’m curious: do you have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or some other sort of psychological condition? I’m not trying to be facetious, I genuinely want to know. The way you obsess and prattle on endlessly over the same 3 or 4 subjects isn’t normal or healthy. My advice: seek some form of therapy or professional counseling so these things will no longer dominate your life. It’s just fiction, man, you only need to have fun with it, none of this stuff is important. You take these silly cartoons way too seriously, and this is coming from someone who plans to one day forge a living making silly cartoons.
In the words of Hank Hill, “That boy ain’t right.”
I don’t want to answer that in public and can’t use the forum to send a PM but you are right, I will try to stop
but I do not try to obsess over these things and it only comes off that way, I have lots of other things I spend my time one you guys just happen to see the posts about the things I complain about, sometimes, I think you are looking for them, I’ve talked about things I like on these comments too.
“I have lots of other things I spend my time one you guys just happen to see the posts about the things I complain about, sometimes, I think you are looking for them,”
Aaaand there’s that giant ego again. Tigger, please. I don’t actively seek you out. Get over yourself. If I wanted to argue with sad, obsessed fans over the same set of trivial matters, I’d have stayed on Toon Zone.
I was just making a suggestion on more real thoughts videos witch others have done before.
and I talked about other stuff in that post besides Lola Bunny and I mentioned actual reviews like Howard the Duck.
really the last thing, I will no longer suggest new videos. and the Lola Bunny comment can just be ignored.
and I am sorry for the trouble I caused again.
if I could delete my comments or edit them after a few minutes, I would.
I liked the first one. I liked this one except for Casey Jones and how they dealt with Krang. I’m not sure which one I liked better. Then again, I grew up with the CGI TMNT movie so that’s pretty much my only sense of reference for the most part. Also, this movie had super awesome 3D. It was well worth my money.
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I HATED this movie. I felt it was SO much worse than the first one. Not even the inclusion of Krang and Bebop & Rocksteady could save this mess. Plot was horrible. They got all the characters wrong. Casey is not a freaking cop. Karai wouldn’t get taken out by April and Vern. April just felt bored with everything. Krang felt like he was a complete afterthought. Sure, Bebop & Rocksteady were dumb. Cool. They were also just gross and unfunny. I’m not even against that kind of humor. The writing here was just so bad that they were uninteresting to watch. There was hardly any action in this movie and when there was something going on it was over before you knew it. Absolute, garbage movie. You want good current TMNT, read the IDW series. It’s amazing. Even the Nick show is pretty damn fun. Both are made by people who clearly love and care about the franchise. These movies were made by people who only care about getting butts in the seats.
Corey46
Doug and Rob is the new Siskel and Ebert but cooler.
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I will be Director! Ha ha ha ha ha ha he he he ho ho ho! Oh yeah and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Unicorns”, Teenage Mutant Ninja Unicorns, Teenage Mutant Ninja Unicorns, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Unicorns, Heroes with a Half-Horn, Unicorn Power!
I will restore Hollywood Kid’s of Family Film movies that do not talk down or pander to children everywhere to their former 1980’s and 90’s to early 2000’s glory. I will be a great filmmaker, mark my words if they let me. Make Hollywood great again.
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yeah i was so excited for Stephen Amell casting of this. Then it was so disappointing. that was the only reason I wanted to watch it LOL
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David Meade promotes BTYSTE 2019
Press release • Apr 24, 2018 11:53 BST
Pupils Ben Gibson and Lauren Chambers are pictured with BTYSTE ambassador David Meade at Fort Hill Integrated College in Lisburn
TV star and mentalist, David Meade, recently joined students at Fort Hill College in Lisburn to promote the 2019 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE), which will take place from 9 – 12 January 2019 at the RDS in Dublin.
David Meade, who is an official ambassador for BTYSTE, is calling on Northern Ireland secondary school students to take part in the Exhibition and start developing their ideas for an award-winning STEM project (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
He said: “This is my fourth year supporting the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition and I’m thrilled to be part of this exciting event once again. I’m passionate about anything that inspires young people and encourages students to challenge themselves and to explore new ideas and this exhibition allows them to do just that.
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To mark the announcement of the dates for the January exhibition, BT commissioned research* into working people’s attitudes to different industry sectors in Belfast.The survey of 300 people revealed that 61% of STEM employees in Belfast had a job satisfaction rate of over 70%. Further positive results for the STEM sector showed that nearly 70% of respondents said they were inspired by their work and a quarter expected a salary increase of 10-20% in the coming few years. In addition, 50% of STEM employees found that the work they are doing is ‘pioneering innovation’. This is in stark contrast to the Humanities sector where just 18% found their work to be pioneering and only 3% of those in Health and Education.
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Outlaws and Inlaws, Part 6.
I got sidetracked by a bookshelf relocation project that cast my books to the four corners, but now that the lost manuscripts are rediscovered and painstakingly reconstructed, I'm once more wending my solitary way through these short story anthologies, thusly:
The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison. RIP Harlan. As a youth I was fascinated by his most famous short story, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, but soon discovered that most of his work was like being cornered by a garrulous drunk. Also, for some reason, I read a whole book of his film reviews. He spent a lot of time whining that Gremlins was a bad movie on the grounds that its ad campaign was misleading (Bait: heartwarming. Switch: scary monsters.) Lots of parents' groups were unhappy about this at the time too, but hardly anyone talks about it now, so I suppose it didn't really traumatize that many tots.
This story, which is far less kid-friendly than Gremlins, is a sequel to the preceding Robert Bloch tale about Jack the Ripper gettin' transported to the far future. In that story, Jack's brand of from-the-heart viciousness trumps the decadent rich-girl cruelty of the future world's Murder Eloi. In this followup, Jack turns out to be pursuing a religious false-flag mission to raise awareness about the sufferings of the urban poor via committing spectacular crimes in urban poor territory. Meanwhile, Ellison pulls back to reveal that the future world has matters in hand, and is keeping Jack around for intense, immersive entertainment, much to Jack's humiliation. The future world's decadent pleasures and cruelties are presented with baroque, phantasmagorical imagination.
Perhaps this story influenced Neil Gaiman's Sandman story arc about a serial-killer conference; that ended with the hero humiliating a bunch of smug murderers by revealing to them just how pathetic they were once their vainglorious narratives were stripped from them.
The Night That All Time Broke Out by Brian W. Aldiss. Aldiss' critical history of science fiction literature, Billion Year Spree, includes a close comparison of the prose styles of Tolkien and Mervyn Peake that helped me understand how fully a prose style can color writing. On that basis, I expected more compelling prose from Mr. Aldiss, but this story reads as though it was manufactured too briskly for literary niceties.
It concerns an all-too-stock suburban couple that runs afoul of the new household necessity, time gas. This gas has been discovered deep in the earth, and, in controlled quantities, allows you to re-experience the past. The immersiveness of this proves dangerous to one's sense of the now, and ultimately to one's very identity. Regression to earlier ages and stages is a risk, and once the time gas starts leaking, watch out.
It's clever enough, and the effects of too much time regression are deployed with farcical results. The prose seems purloined from slick magazines of the mid-century, though, with banal characterizations and adverbs like mildew. Perhaps this says less about Aldiss' capabilities and more about the pressure of being a high-throughput writer for one's bread.
The First Third by Neal Cassidy: A letter from Kerouac's muse that suggests just how much of Kerouac's from-the-hip/heart/groin writing style issues from Cassidy. A nasty, misogynistic account of a woman who has sex with Neal and is therefore a perfect woman, and a woman who refuses sex to Neal, and is therefore an evil monster. This sloped-brow broishness is presented with the high/low eloquence of a casually wrought, jazzy linguistic performance that might just be worth reading 2 pages of mean-spirited dick worship for. Or might not.
Off the Road by Carolyn Cassidy. Neal's wife suggests that her husband's proto-redpill rhetoric is empty bluster, and that he was a more sensitive and anxious man that his writing dared admit. She initiates a conflicted affair with Kerouac, who also comes off as more bashful than in his self-presentation. Despite her worries for the feelings of both men, Carolyn soon has a tentative upper hand in this Jules and Jim style relationship. That's one way to bring misogynists to heel.
Go by John Clellon Holmes. I never heard of this Holmes guy, but if you regard yourself as any (literary) variety of emo or goth, you might wanna check him out. An excerpt:
"We said goodbye when we met the first secret time... We come together rarely and then like two infected lovers in some contagious ruin, we lie down together only so that we might die warm."
You like this or you don't. Later there's an examination of "coolness" in the 50s sense of the term that essentially describes the symptoms of either crippling depression or heroin addiction. It speculates that the pathology of coolness may break free of the circumstances of its inception and become communicable, a distressing speculation worthy of further literary exploration.
Christmas Gift by Robert Penn Warren: Don't let the title fool you; This ain't no Hallmark movie. It's about a timid country boy from an unrewarding family situation who has to go into town to fetch a doctor on behalf of a pregnant sister. He meets a bunch of townfolk who mostly treat him with diffidence shading into restrained kindness, with the exception of one loser who subjects him to as much hazing as the other townies will stand for. The snow is dirty gray and mud-mixed.
The first time I read this I thought it was an utter bummer, probably because the title led me to expect at least a little cheer. A second reading revealed the subtle (almost concealed) kindnesses and austere beauty that I expect from Warren. An overlooked Christmas treat for the tough-love demographic. Share it with a miserable hillbilly child, along with some baked cinnamon apples, or a hand-rolled cigarette if you prefer to honor the text.
Bright and Morning Star by Richard Wright. A proud African-American Communist Party operative needs to figure out which honky-ass party members she can trust with her son's life, and which ones are going to get him lynched. Every character, black or white, talks in a thudding dialect that kept pumping the brakes on my effort to read this, but, like problematic fave H. P. Lovecraft, Wright's vision is so compelling and horrifying that it rewards those who power through the stumbling prose. As in Lovecraft, shrill racism and misanthropy roll together into a bolus of psychotic hatred, only here it's not the narrator who's racist, but his villains, labor-busting white degenerates.
Wright's angry dissection of racist evil is the reality-based flip side of Lovecraft, who was a passive and persnickety cohort of the racist thugs who bring this tale to a more grueling, protracted, horrifying conclusion than that of any "horror" story I've ever read. This story posits that serving the interests of the downtrodden will get you murdered, and the best you can do is stick to your values, never give in, and murder 'em back.
I really needed the next two stories to plug me back in to some hopefulness, and thankfully, they did.
Miss Cynthie by Rudolph Fisher: Miss Cynthie has left her small town for the first time and taken a train to New York City to visit her grandson David, but it soon becomes evident that David has a secret. Where does his wealth and fame come from? Is he a criminal?
Spoiler: he's a successful song-and-dance man, and he's secretive about it only because he knows that Miss Cynthie regards the theatre as the antithesis of church. She lets herself be dragged to a performance, and even though she's unhappy with the scanty costumes and show-biz razzmatazz, she's won over by her grandson's performance of a song she taught him in his youth.
Country culture both resists and is appropriated by city culture, and traditional entertainment carries on in new forms. Wright's communist struggle gets nice old ladies and the young men in their lives killed, but Fisher's show-biz enriches similar nice old women and young men, bringing them together in the kind of cheer I wanted from that Christmas story.
The Gilded Six Bits, Zora Neal Hurston. A charmingly happy married couple almost lets their love get ruined by a cheezy roll-flashing Lothario. Hurston is absolutely persuasive about the love, the loss, and the reconciliation that brings this tale to an end as joyful as its beginning. Like Wright, she puts all the dialogue in dialect, but she makes it swing; the characters are practically singing and dancing through life. Hurston's prose becomes highflown and ornate to describe powerful emotion, which might seem like a creaky old-fashioned affectation from a less deft storyteller, but Hurston made me believe that her down-home characters' emotional lives deserved the intensity of such heavy-laden language.
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Charles Richards
Herbert Hersee
Bill Engel
Christina Forbes
Ann Fowler
Andrew Rogers
Robert Adam
Julia Allen
Fletcher Booth
Laura Booth
Diana Ashley
Nola Colefax
Billie Sinclair
James Ashley
Peter Bonser
Ernest Quinnell
Paul Briscoe
Charles Christie
Robert Dey
Ella Doran
John Fitzgerald
Benjamin Taylor
Beryl Taylor
Peter Cipollone
John Carmichael
Ron Wild
Carol-Lee Aquiline
Betty Bonser
Caroline Conlon
John Doran
Marion Fairweather
William James (Bill) Engel was born at Stroud NSW in 1914. He joined the staff of the Deaf Society in January 1933 as a trainee welfare officer at the age of 18, after replying to an advertisement in a church newspaper. Soon afterwards he spent a year in Melbourne training under Ernest J D Abraham, as part of a training scheme proposed by the new National Council of Deaf Societies. He then returned to Sydney and worked as an assistant to Alfred Lonsdale, Honorary Welfare Superintendent at the Society. During the Depression years of the mid-1930s, Engel lived in the Deaf Society hostel with Deaf people, taking on duties ranging from nursing to cooking. In April 1953 after the retirement of Alfred Lonsdale, he was appointed as the Secretary/Superintendent.
Engel was one of the founders of the Australian Federation of Deaf Societies where he served as a Secretary/Treasurer. He helped to create qualifications for Sign Language Interpreters for the Australian Association of Workers with the Deaf and helped establish the Australian Deaf Sports Federation, where he was its first Secretary. He was also a member of the Rotary Club of Sydney, Vice-President of the Protestant Churches Soccer Football Association, and was well known in Sydney’s Social Welfare groups.
In 1973, Engel received an MBE for his services to the Deaf Community through his work as the General Superintendent of the Deaf Society. When he retired in 1979 after 47 years of service with the Deaf Society, he continued to stay involved with the Deaf Community. The Oration at each Annual Meeting of the Australian Deaf Sports Federation is named in his honour. He was recognised for his kindness and patience with individual Deaf people, and also for his broader involvement in achieving greater public awareness of the needs of Deaf people and in the creation of special facilities for them.
Engel married Enid Russell Muncaster in 1940 and they raised three children together. Enid supported her husband’s career with the Deaf Community until her death in 1992.
Bill Engel died in Concord, Sydney in 1993 at the age of 79 years.
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This register of interests was published on Friday, 26 May 2017, 3.09 pm.
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I, Mike Lewis, a Member of the City and County of Swansea give notice of the following interests.
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Name of Employer or Body.
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2. ii. Details of any person who employs or has appointed you, any firm in which you are a partner or any company for which you are a remunerated director;
Name of Person or Body making payments.
3. iii. Details of any person, other than your authority, who has made a payment to you in respect of your election or any expenses incurred by you in carrying out your duties as a member;
Welsh Labour (Swansea)
4. iv. Details of any corporate body which has a place of business or land in your Authority's area, and in which you have a beneficial interest in a class of securities of that body that exceeds the nominal value of £25,000 or one hundredth (1/100) of the total issued share capital of that body;
Name of Corporate Body.
5. v. Details of any contract for goods, services or works made between your Authority and you or a firm in which you are a partner, a company of which you are a remunerated director, or a body of the description specified in (iv) above;
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6. vi. Details of any land (Give the address or other description sufficient to identify the location) in which you have a benificial interest* and which is in the area of your authority; See note 6
Address/Description of Property.
60 Gelli Aur, Treboeth, Swansea SA5 9DG
7. vii. Details of any land (Give the address or other description sufficient to identify the location) where the landlord is your Authority and the tenant is a firm in which yu are a partner, a company of which you are a remunerated director, or a body of the description specified in (iv) above;
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8. viii. Details of any body to which you have been elected, appointed or nominated by your Authority;
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ix. Any of the following in which you have membership or hold a position of general control or management:
9. ix(aa). public Authority or body exercising functions of a public nature;
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14. x. Give the address or other description (sufficiant to identify the location) of any land in the Council's area in which you have a license (whether alone or jointly with others) to occupy for 28 days or longer.
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Gauchos Advance to MPSF Finals
April 29, 2011 at 11:54 am by Kirk Reed
The UCSB men’s volleyball team established the program’s reputation as one of the best in the nation with a dominating 3-1 (25-17, 26-28, 25-20, 25-23) victory over No. 3 Long Beach State in the semifinals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament. The Gauchos now advance to the Conference Championship Match for the first time since 1996.
[media-credit name=”Jon Kopecky” align=”alignleft” width=”250″] [/media-credit]The 49ers jumped out to an early three-point lead in the first set, but the Gauchos capitalized on a hand injury to Long Beach’s freshman setter Connor Olbright, setting a defensive tone that carried UCSB to the biggest victory for the program in over a decade. The Gauchos limited the 49ers to a hitting percentage of .227 for the match and cruised to a 25-17 win in the first set.
“We kept them on the ropes the whole time,” senior outside hitter Cullen Irons said “We had a chance to win in three, but we let them go on a run. But we came back and closed them out. We’re stoked about advancing to the league championship. It’s a great feeling to know we’re a part of Gaucho history forever.”
UCSB lost a back-and-forth second set by a score of 26-28, but the team maintained composure and opened up a 10-3 lead to start the third set. Behind the outstanding defensive efforts of seniors Irons and Scott Slaughter, UCSB seized a 2-1 lead in the match with a third set victory. Slaughter — who leads the MPSF in hitting percentage — finished one of his most impressive nights of the year with 11 kills on 14 attacks for a .786 hitting percentage and tied sophomore middle blocker Dylan Davis for the match lead in blocks with seven.
“I didn’t have a good offensive match, but everyone picked up the slack,” Irons said. “We blocked really well. I made my contribution on defensive end. We let the volleyball do the talking. We want to keep winning. We’re close to our goal of a national title.”
The decisive fourth set saw 14 ties, including a dramatic serve from senior outside hitter Jeff Menzel at 23-23. After a poor 49er attack and an ensuing kill by senior outside hitter Trey Valbuena — who finished the night with five kills and nine blocks — a triple-block from Irons, Davis and senior setter Vince Devany secured a match victory for UCSB. Menzel led the Gaucho attack with 23 kills. Senior libero Andy McGuire also played a crucial role in the UCSB win with 12 digs.
“Reaching the conference finals is unreal,” Menzel said. “But our job isn’t done. We celebrated a little, but now we’re looking to prepare for the finals.”
Playing its best volleyball of the year, UCSB now takes on No. 1 USC in the MPSF finals Saturday at 7 p.m. at USC’s Galen Center. The Trojans won both meetings between the two teams in the regular season.
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Come join us tonight if you can and watch the wheels come off the Chariot! JMI
we took the wheels off ourselves, Jerry–yes, that was us, we did it!!!!!!!PEACE!!!!!!!
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2. HTML Overview
HTML Document Structure
HTML Tag Syntax
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the language used to encode World Wide Web documents. It is a document-layout and hyperlink-specification language that defines the syntax and placement of special, embedded directions that aren't displayed by a Web browser, but tell it how to display the contents of the document, including text, images, and other supported media. The language also tells you how to make a document interactive through special hypertext links, which connect your document with other documents on your local system, the World Wide Web, and other Internet resources such as FTP and Gopher.
The basic syntax and semantics of HTML are defined in the HTML standard. The HTML standard and all other Web-related standards issues are developed under the authority of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Standards specifications and drafts of new proposals can be found at http://www.w3.org.
The most recent work by the HTML working group at the W3C is a working draft for HTML 3.2. Still, the most definitive implementations of HTML for a Web author come from the tag sets that the most popular browsers use.
This section of the book summarizes the current state of HTML in seven chapters, as listed below. For more information on HTML, we recommend HTML: The Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
This chapter (Chapter 2, HTML Overview) introduces you to the background and general syntax of HTML.
Chapter 3, HTML Tags, describes the syntax of HTML tags and documents with descriptions of all the HTML tags in current use.
For authors who want to use frames in HTML, Chapter 4, Frames, covers the frame tags in more detail and shows examples of using them.
For authors using tables, Chapter 5, Tables, covers the table tags in more detail.
Chapter 6, Color Names and Values, contains listings of valid color values (for tags with attributes for specifying color).
Chapter 7, Character Entities, contains a listing of common character entities recognized in HTML documents.
Chapter 8, Browser Comparison, describes the most important differences between the most popular browsers, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2.1 HTML Document Structure
An HTML document consists of text, which comprises the content of the document, and tags, which define the structure and appearance of the document. The structure of an HTML document is simple, consisting of an outer <html> tag enclosing the document header and body:
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This illustrates in a very <i>simple</i> way,
the basic structure of an HTML document.
Each document has a head and a body, delimited by the <head> and <body> tags. The head is where you give your HTML document a title and where you indicate other parameters the browser may use when displaying the document. The body is where you put the actual contents of the HTML document. This includes the text for display and document control markers (tags) that advise the browser how to display the text. Tags also reference special-effects files like graphics and sound, and indicate the hot spots (hyperlinks or anchors) that link your document to other documents.
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Old Mutual plc is an international long-term savings group. Established in 1845 in South Africa, it is now a FTSE100 listed company operating in 34 countries. In South Africa, Old Mutual is a leading player on the corporate landscape, not just because of its financial impact but also because of its leadership on issues of social transformation and economic redress.
The company has led the way in areas like black economic empowerment and Old Mutual's Masisizane campaign — which means “let's help each other” — is pumping more than R400 million into women-owned enterprises, skills development and financial education in rural areas. The Old Mutual Foundation, set up in 1999, does innovative work in education and small-scale farming — with a strong emphasis on staff volunteerism as a driving force.
Old Mutual also makes significant contributions to South African sport, both at the highest levels and at grassroots. Paul Hanratty, MD of Old Mutual South Africa, welcomed the partnership with Dreamfields with these words: “For Old Mutual our partnership with Dreamfields is about making a difference in the everyday lives of ordinary South Africans. Each time a field is established it will send a message to the community around it that they are being cared for, and that they are being given the opportunity to succeed if they just grasp it with both hands.”
Old Mutual's backing of Dreamfields reinforces the company's other investments in soccer, including the Old Mutual Football Academy and partnerships with Bloemfontein Celtic, Ajax Cape Town and Moroka Swallows. “Those three teams all have strong development programmes and our investment in those teams is part of our philosophy to invest in sport at the growth end.
“Dreamfields continues that philosophy and recognises that participating in sport is just one aspect of South African's lives, albeit a hugely important one. It is also an extension of the work of the Old Mutual Foundation which focuses on sustainable initiatives at grassroots level. For all those reasons, there is an almost magical fit between Dreamfields and Old Mutual,” Hanratty said.
Visit Old Mutual at www.oldmutual.co.za
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Dairy companies may raise yogurt prices, committee formed to check on what was circulated
According to news reports, a number of dairy companies are planning to raise yogurt prices in the Kingdom starting Monday, July 8, 2019, but the decision has not been verified yet.
According to what was circulated on Sunday night, a number of dairy companies agreed to increase prices by up to 25% per kilogram.
If what was circulated is true, the cost of one kilogram of yogurt will rise from JD 1 to JD 1.25, while the cost of yogurt of 700-800 gram will rise from JD 0.79 to JD 1.
However, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply said in a statement that it is currently following up on what was circulated over local media and social media platforms.
The statement added that the Ministry has formed a committee under its chairmanship and the membership of representatives of concerned and related parties from the public and private sectors to calculate the cost of dairy production and the profits achieved.
The Ministry said it would take appropriate measures on this matter in light of the results of the study that the committee will conduct.
With regard to the agreement reached by a number of companies, the Ministry said it will also be considering the legality of this agreement and whether it violates the provisions of the competition law.
The Ministry also said it will not allow any unjustified increases in prices and that the competition law prohibits any agreements to increase prices.
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About INO
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Nursing System Organization Law
First chapter- Generalities
Article 1- Definition of the Organization
Article 2- Goals of the Organization
Second chapter: Duties and Authorities
Article 3- Duties and authorities of the Organization
Third chapter: Organization
Article 4- Organization
Article 5- Members of the high council
Article 6- Director general of the organization
Article 7- Board of directors of districts
Article 8- Members of the board of directors
Article 9- Chairman of the board of directors
Article 10- Secretariat of the organization
Article 11- Budget of the organization
Article 12- Annual registration of the organization
Article 13- Duties of high council
Article 14- Duties of the director general of the organization
Article 15- Duties of the board of directors of districts.
Fourth chapter: Membership and election
A: membership conditions
Article 16- Iranian national nurses, assistant nurses, operation room and anesthesia technicians
B: elections
Article 17- Election of the board of directors
Article 18- The combination of central council for supervision on election
Article 19- Duties of the central council for supervision
Article 20- Election of board of directors
Article 21- Voters' qualification
Article 22- Candidates' qualification
Fifth chapter: Miscellaneous
Article 23- Investigation of guild and professional violation
Article 24- Violation of rules and punishments
Article 25- In-charge of elections
Article 26- Powers of courts in informing the primary council of disciplinary forces
Article 27- Copies that are against the law
Article 28- Organization's logo
Article 1- Definition of organization
The Nursing Systems Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran; hereinafter in this Act is referred to as "Organization", is an independent organization with legal identity which has been established for realizing the goals and duties of the Organization (as set forth in this law).
To work for improvement and perfection of nursing profession
To work for maintaining the nurses and people's rights against nursing services
To work for the establishment, preservation and supporting legal, physical, spiritual and professional rights of nurses
To work for promoting knowledge and skills level of nurses and their on-the-job training courses
To familiarize society with the duties and services of nurses
To work in executing Islamic measures and values in nursing section
To work for proper and precise execution of medical regulations and ethics in nursing section
To cooperate with organizations and legal institutes inside the country and in international institutes.
Second Chapter- Duties and Authorizations
Article 3- The duties and authorizations of the organization in achieving its goals are:
to cooperate in development and determining educational standards of different nursing levels
to cooperate in determining the number and method of admitting nursing students in the Iranian universities
to work for improving the quality of skills and knowledge of nursing graduates
to contribute in establishing and expanding nursing researches in the country and suitable and efficient use of the achievements of the researches
Cooperation in determining service standards and the duties description in different classes of nursing
to cooperate in supervision, control and evaluation of the methods of offering services and observing nursing rules and regulations
to determine criteria for the issuance, extension or cancellation of membership card in the organization
to cooperate in determining scientific, research and professional exchanges with legal organizations inside the country and other courtiers as well as international scientific, academic and professional associations to improve educational and service quality of nursing
to present expert's reports on the nursing violation of rules as referred to this organization by the medical organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran for due consultation.
to cooperate in developing regulations for providing professional rights, maintaining and improving social measures of nurses.
Third Chapar: Organization
Article 4- The organization's structure is as follows:
1- Director general
2- Board of directors
3- Secretariat of the High Council
4- Internal commissions and expertise councils for investigation of violations
Article 5- Members of high council are:
A. twenty five principal member and five alternate members of nursing staff. The combination of principal members is as follows:
Eighteen experts and higher ranks, five assistant nurses, one operation room technician and one anesthesia technician who should be elected with the majority of votes of the representatives of districts board of directors.
B. One representative as introduced by he health and treatment commission of the Islamic Legislative Assembly (Majlis) (as observers) and two nurses, appointed by the minister of health and medical education, one nurse from armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran as appointed to by the headquarter of Grand Leader and a representative introduced by State Forensic Medicine Organization.
Note 1. The alternate members include three nurses, one assistant nurse and one operation room or anesthesia technician who attain majority of votes in their fields after principal members.
Note 2. the boards of directors of districts have five hundred participants who cast vote in the nursing system election to elect one member of the board of directors to hold general meetings of representatives. Districts that have one thousand participants would introduce two members per each five hundred additional members. The representatives meeting will elect members of high council directly and in writing amongst qualified candidates.
Note 3. The session of high council of nursing system is held at least twice a month. The sessions will be valid by the presence of two third of high council member and the decisions made by majority of votes will be indispensable for the concerned affiliated units.
Note 4. The minister of health and medical education, his deputies and the director general of nursing could participate and express views in the sessions of high council without any votes.
Note 5. The high council of nursing has one chairman, two deputies of chairman and one secretary who are elected for two years with relative majority. There is no restriction in re-electing the members.
Note 6. High council of nursing system has consultative commissions whose number and duties will be determined by the high council of nursing.
Article 6:
Director general of the organization who has the responsibility of executing high council's approvals as well as administrating the organization's affairs- as per article 14- will be a nurse with a bachelor's degree education and member of the high council of the organization. The director general should be elected with absolute votes of members for a four-year period and there is no restriction in his/her re-election.
Note- The method of investigating resignation or questioning director general of the organization will be put in the agenda upon the request of minimum seven members of high council and should follow the internal memos of the council.
In towns who has a minimum number of two hundred members (as per article 16) (minimum one fifth of them should be B.S. or higher degree holders) will establish board of directors of district.
Note- The meetings of board of directors of the districts are held once per month and will be convened with minimum two third of official members and decisions taken with maximum votes will be valid.
The board of directors of districts consists of nine principal members and three alternate inspectors as follows:
Six numbers (at least two educational staff)
Two assistant nurses
One operation room or anesthesia technician
Note 1- If (operation room or anesthesia) technicians are not elected, a nurse should be elected instead.
Note 2- For each one of the clauses 1, 2 and 3, an alternate member will be also elected.
Note 3- The board of directors of nursing system of districts of province capital should undertake duties and responsibilities of the boar of directors of nursing systems of the affiliated districts of the province which do not have a board of directors from nursing system.
Note 4- If the province center and affiliated districts lack nursing system, their affairs will be settled by the nursing system of a town or central province town which will be duly specified by the high council of nursing system.
The chairman of board of directors of nursing system of any of districts will be one of the members of board of directors with minimum B.S. degree who will be elected upon the suggestion of absolute majority of members and the order of director general of the organization for a four-year period and his/her discharge will be possible through order of director general of the organization.
Article 10:
The secretariat of nursing system organization has been established in the central organization in Tehran.
The budget of nursing system organization will be provided from membership, contribution and gifts of legal entitles and natural persons.
The amount and method of receiving annual membership fee of the members and other financial and administrative regulation of the organization as well as method of spending the budget will be executed after approval of high council.
Article 13- The duties of high council are:
to approve suggestions of consultative commissions
to cooperate and coordinate with concerned institutes in nursing affairs
to approve annual budget of the board of director of districts
to supervise on good performance of approvals
to supervise on the function of nursing systems in districts
to investigate disciplinary violations of the board of directors of nursing systems in districts and establishing necessary coordination among them
to approve necessary by-laws to administer organization and facilitate assigned duties
to dissolve board of directors of districts in following cases:
disregarding the duties assigned as per this law, according to the decision of high council
non establishment of four frequent sessions and/or six meetings with intervals with no justified excuse, as decided for by the high council.
Note 2. The Secretary of high council is responsible for holding and administering secretariat of the organization.
Article 14- The duties of director general of the organization are:
to execute approvals of high council and contents of the law, pertaining to the establishment of nursing system organization
chairman of finance administrative council and welfare and cooperation funds
to spend organization's expenses according to the approvals of high council of nursing
to confirm and issue the orders of chiefs of nursing system of districts as suggested by the board of directors of that city as well as discharging the mentioned chiefs.
Article 15- Duties of the board of directors of the districts are:
the board of directors of each district will have the entire powers and duties of the organization in the limits of that district.
To present plans and suggestions to the consultative commissions of the high council
To follow up and supervise good performance of approvals of high council
To suggest annual budget of nursing system of districts to the high council of nursing and its expenditure after approval according to the by-law passed by the high council.
Fourth Chapter- Membership and election:
A. membership conditions:
Any Iranian nationals in nursing assistant nursing, operation room technician, anesthesia technicians and affiliated classes of nursing profession fields are allowed to apply for membership at the organization.
Note- members of organizations should pay an annual membership fee. The amount and method of receiving the fee will be in accordance with the instructions which are prepared by the high council of nursing.
B. Election:
The election of the first course will be made maximum three months after approval of this law and upon notice of the ministry of health and medical education and for subsequent periods, the election will be made three months before expiry date of commitment period of the director general of the organization and at the same time as the central council for supervision on election is being elected.
Note- The election of the board of directors of nursing systems in districts which have been already dissolve or their elections have been cancelled or invalidated by the central council for supervision will be held maximum within three months and upon coordination of the supervision council and observing other provisions of relevant law.
The council for supervision on election which is elected for four years will be as follows:
two members at the election of the minister of health and medical education
Two representatives as observers at the introduction of the health and medical commission and election of Islamic Legislative Assembly.
One representative of attorney general as the observer
Two representatives from medical council organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran
The central council for supervision has following duties:
to elect three to five members of the council to supervise election of district nursing systems and election of high council of nursing system and their election or discharge
to supervise on good performance of elections in election polls
to investigate qualification of membership candidates for the board of directors of nursing system in districts and high council as well as notification of the views of central councils to the executive councils of the election
to investigate the claims of candidates within the legal frameworks and related by-laws
to investigate claims of candidates whose qualification has not been confirmed by supervision councils and due revision
to stop or cancel elections partially or entirely within the frameworks of legal articles and instructions, directly or upon suggestion of executive councils or supervision councils of election polls
Final approval of good performance of elections of nursing system board of directors of districts and members of high council of nursing system as well as signing credit of electors
to investigate claims and objection in writing of the board of directors of individuals concerning confirmation of candidates' membership at the board of directors of nursing system and due revisions
Note- The central council of supervision is authorized to assign duties of this article to any supervision council on election of board of directors of district nursing systems and high council of nursing, partially or entirely.
Election of board of directors of nursing systems of districts and members of high council of nursing system of districts will be entrusted to the executive councils of the election. The method, holding manner, quality of their work and procedures of related elections will be accordance with the by-law which will be developed by the high council of nursing system and approved by the minister of health and medical education.
Note- The mentioned by-law will be developed in the first course of election of the central council and duly approved by the minister of health and medical education.
The candidates should have following qualifications:
membership qualification
holding membership card at nursing system organization in first course of election, certificate of the ministry of health and medical education will be sufficient
to live in the election districts on time of election upon approval of board of directors of that district or health and medical network of the district.
The qualifications of candidates at the board of directors of district nursing system and high council of nursing system are as follows:
to have membership conditions at nursing system organization
to have no records of conviction that had led to deprivation from social rights
to have minimum three years of records, residence or employment at the election district
having no records of violation of moral rules or moral and financial corruption and fraud
Practical commitment to Islam and constitution law
Note 1. Religious minorities as named in the constitution law should follow their own religious beliefs; provided that they do not breach Islamic laws and codes in public.
Note 2. Members of supervision and executive councils can not volunteer as candidates.
Fifth Chapter: Miscellaneous:
To investigate professional and guild offences of nursing profession and relevant groups, the board of directors in the center and districts that have expertise's councils should act as advisor to the medical council organization in accordance with clause 9 of article 3 of this law.
The offences and punishments will be in accordance with the law pertaining to the establishment of Medical Council System of the Islamic Republic of Iran approved on January 10, 1996, to be decided on primary and supreme disciplinary councils of medical council organization.
The ministry of health and medical education will be in-charge of election of board of directors in districts and the high council elections, through executive councils, by observing the provisions of this law.
The courts of the Islamic republic of Iran are entitled to inform the disciplinary primary councils of medical council of the relevant districts twenty four hours before arresting any nurses to the court to investigate their charges on professional failure; unless in cases when the judge decides there is a risk of escape or set up.
Those parts of the laws that are against this law will be considered as abolished.
The high council of organization is obliged to prepare the logo of the organization and have it approved within six months.
The above-mentioned Act, consisting twenty eight articles and twenty notes, has been passed at the Islamic Legislative Assembly on its open session dated December 2, 2001 and was duly confirmed by the Guardianship Council on December 12, 2001.
Mehdi Karoubi
Parliament Speaker
True translation is certified.
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Home World News Snakes force Liberian President George Weah out of office
Snakes force Liberian President George Weah out of office
Snakes have been found in Liberian President George Weah’s office, forcing him to work from his private residence, the BBC has learnt.
Press secretary Smith Toby told the BBC that on Wednesday two black snakes were found in the foreign affairs ministry building, his official place of work.
All staff have been told to stay away until 22 April.
“It’s just to make sure that crawling and creeping things get fumigated from the building,” Mr Toby said.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosts the office of the president, so it did an internal memo asking the staff to stay home while they do the fumigation,” he said.
The office of the president has been based in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since a fire in 2006 gutted the nearby presidential mansion.
A FrontPage Africa news website video shows workers trying to attack the snakes when they appeared near the building’s reception.
“The snakes were never killed,” Mr Toby said. “There was a little hole somewhere [through which] they made their way back.”
Police and presidential security were seen guarding Mr Weah’s residence in the capital Monrovia. A fleet of vehicles including escorts jeeps were parked outside.
Mr Toby said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs started to fumigate on Friday.
“That building’s been there for years now, and [because of] the drainage system, the possibility of having things like snakes crawling in that building was high,” he said.
The president is definitely returning to his office on Monday after the fumigation whether or not the snakes are found and killed, Mr Toby said.
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Marjane- “Holy Spirit”
“Holy Spirit” – Marjane’
marjane (427×640)“Holy Spirit” Marjane’
J Jane Music Group (2015)
www.marjanemusic.com
Marjane’s lovely vocals float over this passionate, urgent call for spiritual guidance in daily life. The background vocalists are all Marjane, too—a multi-tracking technique first used in gospel in the early 1950s by Clara Ward and fellow West Coaster Doris Akers.
The R&B flavor to the track harkens back to Marjane’s initial pursuit of a secular music career before she tired of being objectified by a fashion-and-looks obsessed industry. Singing for God was how she began and where she returned.
“Holy Spirit” is the Stellar-nominated indie singer-songwriter’s latest radio single and a track from her latest album, Grateful.
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The Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Act
By Mike Koehler on March 13, 2018 in Asset Recovery, Congressional Activity, Uncategorized
Efforts by the U.S. government to combat foreign corruption are broader than just the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. For instance, approximately ten years ago the DOJ announced a Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.
Related to this general program, recently Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA) introduced H.R. 5101 – the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Act “to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to pay rewards under an asset recovery rewards program to help identify and recover stolen assets linked to foreign government corruption and the proceeds of such corruption hidden behind complex financial structures in the United States and abroad.”
By Mike Koehler on December 15, 2017 in Africa Sting, Asset Recovery, Books and Records, DOJ, Enforcement Agency Policy, Enforcement Agency Speeches, FCPA Inc., Foreign Law Enforcement Cooperation, Internal Controls, OSI Systems, Richard Bistrong, SEC, Transparency International
Funny, also funny, corruption in the anti-corruption industry, the head of the DOJ’s FCPA Unit writes, reasons for the general increase in FCPA enforcement, scrutiny alert, asset recovery, and for the reading stack. It’s all here in the Friday roundup.
This recent FCPA Blog post asked “what’s the most important FCPA case ever” and stated: “The Africa Sting showed how far the feds would go to make a splashy FCPA case. But the final lesson was that using a big sting to concoct a supposed industry-wide conspiracy was a bad idea. The judge didn’t buy it, and neither did a couple of juries.”
Funny that the post doesn’t mention that the the person at the center of this failed, manufactured case was its current Contributing Editor and training partner Richard Bistrong.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Blanco Delivers FCPA Speech
By Mike Koehler on November 9, 2017 in Asset Recovery, DOJ, Enforcement Agency Policy, Enforcement Agency Speeches, Individual Enforcement Action
Today, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco delivered these remarks at a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act / OECD Convention Anniversary Conference held at NYU School of Law. This post excerpts portions of Blanco’s remarks.
But first a few comments.
In his speech, Blanco states that it “is astonishing to think about what the FCPA and OECD Anti-Bribery Convention have achieved in a relatively short period of time.” That of course depends on what the word “achieve” means. On one level, has the FCPA really “achieved” (after 40 years – not exactly a “relatively short time period”) its objective of reducing bribery given that there are more enforcement actions, not fewer, as the FCPA has matured?
Acting Assistant AG Blanco On Foreign Law Enforcement Cooperation
By Mike Koehler on July 25, 2017 in Asset Recovery, DOJ, Enforcement Agency Speeches, Foreign Law Enforcement Cooperation
Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco recently delivered this speech which focused largely on foreign law enforcement cooperation in bribery investigations. The bulk of the speech concerned U.S. – Brazil cooperation with portions also dedicated to the DOJ’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.
In his speech, Blanco used much of the same rhetoric as prior DOJ officials have in talking about bribery and corruption and once again the notion that the U.S. will “push[] forward hard against corruption, wherever it is” is subject to interpretation.
With Chi Guilty Verdict, Focus Shifts To Kinemetrics And Guralp Systems
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The DOJ recently announced that Heon-Cheol Chi (Chi) of South Korea, “the Director of South Korea’s Earthquake Research Center at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) was convicted … following a four-day jury trial of laundering bribes that he received from two seismological companies based in California and England through the U.S. banking system.”
As noted here, according to court documents the companies are Kinemetrics (a California company that designs technologies, products, and solutions for monitoring earthquakes and their effects on people and structures) and Guralp Systems Ltd. (a U.K. company that designs, manufactures and delivers products, services, systems and solutions for a wide range of applications for the seismological research community as well as the the oil & gas, civil engineering and energy sectors.)
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West Sussex County Council invests in latest technology
West Sussex County Council Leader Louise Goldsmith with the drone.
West Sussex County Council has become one of the first council’s in the country to invest in a drone to benefit its work.
The drone will be used by West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service as well as for wider council use.
Members of the fire and rescue service’s Technical Rescue Unit will use the device to scout out locations, such as heath fires.
The aerial perspective from the drone will help the unit co-ordinate resources on the ground. It also has thermal imaging so can be used at night.
There is also wide scope for use of the drone across wider council activities including surveying buildings, for example to check roofing, bridge inspections and potentially for use in other community work.
Council Leader Louise Goldsmith said: “I’m really excited we have bought this new equipment to expand on the really fantastic work our fire and rescue service does. I know by investing in these pieces of equipment they will help save lives.
“There are also some really exciting opportunities for us to use the drone across the council and we are one of the first local authorities to have invested in one. I look forward to seeing it in action.”
Side view of the new aerial ladder platform.
West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service has also taken delivery of a new 32m aerial ladder platform (ALP), which will be used at a variety of fire and rescue incidents. The vehicle, which came in substantially under budget at a cost of £610,000, will be based at Horsham Fire Station. It replaces one that has been in service for 18 years. The service has a second ALP based at Worthing Fire Station.
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Draft
By dc20willsave, January 4, 2014 in General Discussion
Shining knight
keeper of thrillpower
Location:Glasgow
that sounds hilarious enough I may consider removing them just so you could use them stavros
dc20willsave
I've Got a Headache
Location:Dayton, OH
Rjoyadet messaged me that his villain pick is Edward Cullen.
Ian is up (can't wait to see who your villain pick is). Considering Stavros can take his villain point at any time, I would ask you, Shining Knight, to decide if you want to change those earlier picks sooner than later.
I will let stavros decide if he wants the crime travelling two as his villians and announce my final official heroic pick as H G welles from time after time
Urban Spaceman
Villain Pick:
Fu Manchu.
Fuck. Yes!
Wolf 359 was an inside job!
To protect the integrity of the draft you can keep them, I'll find an alternative. Originally I was going to cast this as their botched time machine causing bleeds through reality, displacing people and causing entire buildings and monuments to shift between realities causing chaos. This is still happening but due to another machine so startlingly primitive that it's brute force approach to reality shifting is causing rips and tidal waves through the multiverse.
Upon landing in his next world Quinn Mallory is murdered in an alley and his travel device accidentally coopted by the investigating officer DCI Jane Tennison. She is tasked by British Intelligence with using the device and seeking out the best detectives and specialists of the era with different reality backgrounds to create as big a pool of knowledge to work from as possible. As she deals with threats she's finds talent suited to them, Giles for the Supernatural, Syd for murderers, etc. when they decide they need an expert to perfect the device and home in on the reality distortion a they find the greatest mind of his world, Will Hunting. He tracks the distortion to a seemingly backwards reality technology-wise, where brick phones and fax machines still qualify as high technology. To an industrial warehouse near Canary Wharf....
A body lies on the floor, green shirt soaked in blood, the broken remains of the cellphone used to beat him to death beside him. Another figure stands over him, his darker green shirt spattered with his victims blood.
"No wonder you didn't last with him, clearly he's no replacement for me"
"Please!" Barely audible above the clicking and whirring of the huge machine at the centre of the room, the cry repeats, "Please, stop!"
The pleading figure, stuck the the wall with a fibrous gluelike material, begged his captor. "You don't want to do this!"
"Don't I Nick? I supposed I don't really, but this isn't about what I want. It's never been about what I want! It's always been you hasn't it? You and Roz, and it never mattered who wore the green shirt. Well now you get your wish mate. Look at it nick, my great machine, my grand design, A hundred thousand floppy drives working in perfect unison, generating enough static to disrupt the fabric of reality and for me to escape to where I'm actually wanted!"
"It wasn't our idea to replace you! Bureau 2 makes those decisions, you know that!"
The pacing angry figure turned back on Nick "But you didn't fight for me did you mate?! Roz told me everything before the end"
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER?"
"I didn't do anything! I just left her safe where she wouldn't be any trouble, it's not my fault that was tied to a intercontinental electromagnetic missile aimed at Belgium!"
"Please, let her go!"
"Sure mate, if you can tell me one thing"
"Anything!"
"What's my surname?...come on we worked together all that time, Nick Beckett, Roz Henderson and...?"
Nick thought desperately "...Ramsay?"
"You must be joking" He pushes a red control, we hear a missile take off outside with some muffled screaming.
"It's Mitchell!!! Mitchell! Bring her back you monster!"
"Wrong again, and far too late mate. Soon the world finances will be ruined and all the good we did those three years will be erased like I was never here. Then you can start over, see how your fancy new man fares, see just how replaceable I am. And I'll be gone where I'm wanted, I'll finally be not just the original Ed, I'll be the ONLY Ed. And there's no one in this world who can stop me mate!"
My villain is the original Ed from Bugs series 1-3, as portrayed by Craig McLachlin.
slothian
Hail to the King!
Location:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
I got a good chuckle that a) Crime Traveller was referenced within a team, and that b) Stavros wanted those characters as the villains! I know Tom, and Dave Probert, are not big fans of the show. That show that only lasted one season. Which makes it VERY eligible for Twice as Bright, Half as Long....
Anyway, my villain:
Having been responsible for averting international disaster in 1985 by staging an incident which decimated New York City, Adrian Veidt watched on seeing his plans on a global scale come together. But at a lower level, national stability was being threatened by over-population and a lack of a threat for people to unite against. With that, Veidt manipulated the formation of the League of Extraordinary Demons, starting with the legendary Tall Man and then utilising his skills to resurrect John Ryder as the figurehead before recruiting the more terrifying ghouls of the League. Briefing from afar against certain targets for the League to take down, Veidt always ensured that their slaughter was monitored, and when the time came, released to the world to showcase a new threat to world safety. Veidt now plans to have those that are eager to form mobs and disrupt order rise up against the League's revealed Headquarters. If the League successfully defend themselves, they gain more hatred and opposition from aggressive dregs who stand to be slaughtered. If the League go down in battle, humanity gets a feeling of triumph.
The League are set up and cannot win, in Veidt's calculations. But he underestimates the capabilities of this dysfunctional team of the undead, always trying to close in on the true identity of the mastermind who landed them in this mess. And if they ever do, they'll somewhat less mercy than Dan Dreiberg - even the movie version....
Venneh is up.
pretty sure I suggested crime travller for Twice as Bright, Half as Long
Oh, it's on the list!
Venneh
Glad we're all on the same murderous page.
My villain? This little motherfucker.
Don't worry, I suggested it to Ian in a Newcastle pub over an inadequate steak and pint back when the podcast was mere whispers and rumour.
Wetherspoons do steaks tantamount to their price, sir! Which is my way of saying "yes, I agree".
and now getting one in time for a change heres the dastardly villians of team paradox....
FACTION PARADOX....
Hey Dudes.
Location:New Richmond, WI
Genesis had not had an easy run since seperating from Jesse Custer. Genesis knew what the real cause of all it's pain was. Genesis had gone to some great trouble to gather the seven hunters, even resurrecting the doctor. Genesis had gathered them, here, in it's own past to do one thing.
Because in this time, he was still alive. In this time, the man could be killed before he took an innocent life and became a monster.
Genesis has subtly manipulated these seven to hunt and kill the man who would become...
The Saint of Killers.
You Know Who is up. Prof and James, you can go whenever.
Here's looking at you
Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World!
I got two villains.
One of the many cases worked by the 90s era League involved the discovery and containment of a sleeping god. The god's very existence and dreams warped reality around it. People still don't realize there is no such place as Wyoming. The league was more scared of what would happen if this God ever awoke so they found a way to placate it's dreams and shape them so it would find a new identity and a reality where it would hopefully slumber for the rest of eternity. After that, it was just a task of transporting the god from where they found him in Indianapolis to the containment area in Los Angeles. The god sleeps there to this day. The identity that the league forced upon him is...
Zach Morris.
Zach should have continued the dream. The ones caught in the original dream would be trapped and reintegrated where need be. The occasional person has escaped but not all are so lucky. For example, as a young recruit for The League, Stephen Urkel accidentally transported a family friend into the dream where she was changed into a young woman named Lisa Turtle. Any who enter the dream become enslaved to Zach's reality, their very being altered to make them more suitable for the High School world that revolved around his schemes. No one knew that better than the woman who would later nearly destroy reality. She arrived in LA seeking fame, having briefly tasted it in Las Vegas. Instead, she became homeless and destitute until the day she got too close to that abandoned building that most rational people steered away from. There are many things you could accuse this young woman of. Being a whore was the most common one. Rationality would never be it. She became part of the new reality, a childhood friend to Zach, a feminist, a genius. But, underneath it all, she would always be...
Nomi Malone/Jesse Spano.
Nomi should have never reawoken but in Zach's craving for drama, an innocent escapade involving a girl group turned into a silly addiction to caffeine pills but it was enough to stir Nomi out of the stupor of Jesse. Finding another young woman trapped in the dream, Nomi awoke her and they, beyond all likelihood, escaped but Nomi couldn't stand the real world anymore and after killing Kelly, went back into the dream, taking her identity. Now, Nomi Malone is the Lady MacBeth steering Zach Morris to do her desires, not quite realizing that the dream is expanding and that worse, Zach is dangerously close to waking up.
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Limit Theory
Sensors, Scanners, Stealth and A.I. Perception
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jawdan
#1 by jawdan
How would the A.I. go about identifying the location of the player or other NPC's? Especially in the case where the player is purposefully trying to hide from a non player character? For example, the player is attempting to hide from a particularly
nasty NPC pirate who will blow him up and steal his cargo if he is seen. Or reverse the roles and the player is attempting to sneak up on a merchantman to get a heavy, sudden, barrage of firepower into his engines before he can flee.
I don't know how this works in a space game, basically. In other games, I know it goes by the position of the player, whether he is in light or shadow, how much noise he is making, or whether he is in the line of sight of the A.I. But how would this vary for a spaceship hiding from a spaceship. Obviously the player who is hiding knows he is hiding from someone, but how do they get the advantage?
Would it have something to do with dust? The position? Line of sight? Certain distance? Cover? Sensor ability?
How do you implement the ability for a player to be stealthy without making the A.I. overly ignorant? I'm not sure. Thoughts?
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Re: Stealth and A.I. Perception
#2 by Masterofjumping
It would work like any games I suspect, There is certain variables and a factor of chance.
Variables that I can think of are;
*This is from the perspective of the player ship hiding from a AI.
- View Distance, How far a AI would be able to detect. The closer they get to the player the higher chance of detection.
- Players ship power levels. Like if they have engines, weapons, lights all powered down then the chance of detection would be reduced.
- Size of players ship. If it is a large ship then the chance of detection would be higher with it increasing as the AI get's closer.
- Natural Cover, If the player is in a field of asteroids or inside a dust cloud the chance of detection would decrease. And the same would happen if the AI was in a dust cloud since their visibility would be reduced.
- Ship camo, Plating that reduces detection from sensors. Cloaking would drastically reduce the range of detection.
- Sensors on the AI ship. Depending on how strong and accurate the sensors are the chances of detection would change.
- Movement of player. If the player is moving it is far more likely they will be detected.
- Line of sight. Very important, if the player is behind a asteroid then the AI ship should not be able to detect them unless they have sensors that penetrate the asteroid.
You would give a percentage to all these and then it would be calculated whether the AI detects the player or not. At least this is how I think it works.
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ravener96
Oslo, denmark, asia, mars
#3 by ravener96
also the ativities you do like shooting and hailing would drasticly increase the chance of detection.
would be cool if you could do the milenium falcon thing and hide close tho the ship too.
#4 by Lanfranc
Realistically speaking, stealth in space is not possible unless you're physically hiding behind something, such as an asteroid. The energy profile of a space craft (especially from heat) will always be too high compared to the background.
#5 by DWMagus
Lanfranc wrote: Realistically speaking, stealth in space is not possible unless you're physically hiding behind something, such as an asteroid. The energy profile of a space craft (especially from heat) will always be too high compared to the background.
This is probably the best answer in regards to this. Unless you either have some sort of jamming device or IFF spoofer, the enemy will more than likely 'see' you. At that point, it becomes more of a "how likely is the enemy wanting to go after/seek you".
If the enemy is already trying to seek you, they'll probably continue to seek you within reason (not too far away, no reinforcements, how much of a threat you pose, etc). All of that can be controlled via a small number of variables from 1%-100% and then just dice roll that (where % is how likely the enemy is to seek and/or chase). If you pose some threat, the variable may be from 1%-80% instead, and if you have reinforcements and are far away, the variable may end up being 1% - 15%. Add in a random number generator and you see that 85% of the time, the enemy won't even bother with you.
When it comes to jamming and/or IFF spoofing, another variable based on how likely the enemy will be able to 'see through' your facade. Same scale, 1-100%. Like this, it handles the majority of AI when it comes to detection and stealth. Now the actual implementation of that? No clue.
There go's my list of stealth variables.
Wouldn't shutting the ship down help reduce the energy levels?
Masterofjumping wrote: Wouldn't shutting the ship down help reduce the energy levels?
Theoretically yes, but you still need power at least for life support, such as generating oxygen and definitely heating at least a part of the ship to a survivable temperature. That in itself would be sufficient to detect it.
There are some other techniques which theoretically might give you some degree of stealth for a while, such as dumping your heat in a direction away from the enemy, but they're all rather questionable in practice. As DWMagus suggests, you're much better off assuming that the enemy will find you sooner or later and instead work on either deception (making him think you're supposed to be there) or some form of jamming (making it harder for him to find out who you are and target you).
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#8 by Grumblesaur
So let's say we have a cloaking device, and using it also distorts the radar in a circle around your ship?
Different strength cloaking devices could have different radar jamming ranges. Fighters would only need it to be a few hundred meters, but for capital ships it would probably be along the lines of a few kilometers, which would allow fighters without their own cloaks to hide under the mask of the capital ship.
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Hm, I understand the realistic issues that several of you have addressed. But in the terms of gameplay, is it something that you wouldn't want implemented?
#10 by Grumblesaur
Realism is no object, and stealth is always desirable in a game where people could potentially want to shoot you.
Gazz
In your brains. Thinking your thoughts.
#11 by Gazz
I would happily throw realism out the window and replace it with technobabble. =)
For instance, you could have an everything-absorbing hull and heat sinks that direct the generated heat aft where the engines are causing an unmaskable signature anyway.
However, if you coast, pointing your ship at the thing(s) that you don't want to be seen by, you have a chance for your stealth gizmos to work.
The nice part about this is that the AI could easily use it.
AI stealth fighters would approach your ship by flying straight at it. Obviously. So their approach is "stealthed".
If you have scouts covering your perimeter, they would be able to look "around" the approaching fighters and spot them.
Also important: the time component. That's when a game of position turns dynamic.
The closer the target is, the faster it can be identified.
Stealth fighters may be able to do a hit & run, leaving the scene before they can fully be identified.
Could also have a "ECM" module installed, which further delays identification by a flat x seconds.
That would be a major bonus ability for fighters.
A working stealth concept with a counter... and as a bonus, the AI would use it simply by doing the obvious.
I hate player-only features. =)
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#12 by Lanfranc
Certainly realism should not be allowed to overrule the needs of the game for its own sake, but on the other hand, nor should it be ignored just because it's cool. The thing is that the decision of where to come down on the spectrum of more versus less realism regarding these things does have a significant impact on the flavour and setting of the game that comes out in the other end.
For instance, if genuine stealth is a viable strategy for spaceships, we need to ask why all spaceships that expect combat aren't outfitted with stealth equipment? Are there cost concerns, negative impact on the crew, or reduced combat efficiency? In that case, only a few 'special force' ships will have stealth, but all combat forces will still have to take their existence into account: Outfit at least some ships with sensors that can counter them, as well as develop flexible strategies that make best use of one's own stealthed ships while minimising the efficiency of the opponent's. Effectively, this means the 'feel' of space combat will be quite similar to modern naval warfare, or perhaps as it is in Star Trek.
Or maybe all ships do in fact have stealth – in that case, our space combat is rather going to have the feel of submarine combat, with a number of hidden opponents in a hide-and-seek game of detection and firing solutions, each side trying to get the advantage before the other one does. (I can't remember if this form has appeared in science fiction, although it probably has.)
On the other hand, if there is no stealth available at all, space combat would see larger fleets of battleships and escorts, each with a relatively high situational awareness, with an emphasis on strategy and large-scale set battles, such as for instance during World War I, and also much like it appears in e.g. Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica. So again a different flavour from the two others.
So the point is that, especially for something as important for this type of game as space combat, I think it would be better to first look at the type of flavour and experience you want from the game, and then implement features to support that.
(In this case my personal preference is for the third style. I do like giant space battles. )
#13 by DWMagus
Gazz wrote: I would happily throw realism out the window and replace it with technobabble. =)
Masterofjumping wrote: There go's my list of stealth variables.
I'm sure all these variables come into play somewhere, but for an overall effect, keeping it simple and straight-forward is desirable. The standard K.I.S.S. is pretty much what you have to live by when you start coding advanced and sprawling things.
The Hedge Knight
#14 by The Hedge Knight
As much as I love me some meaty realism soup, if we applied it to ship design they will all look boring like this:
http://i.imgur.com/ahRPA.png
#15 by Masterofjumping
The Hedge Knight wrote: As much as I love me some meaty realism soup, if we applied it to ship design they will all look boring like this:
Not exactly a very nice looking ship is it
Realism is only so good as long as it makes for interesting gameplay. And honestly I am not sure whether I would like to try and land that thing or fight a bunch of raiders with it.
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5th Graduation Ceremony 2015
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12 February 2015 was a major day in G D Goenka World Institute and Lancaster University’s annual calendar. The day marked the 5th Graduation Ceremony of G D Goenka World Institute | Lancaster University. The function held at The Grand, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi conferred Lancaster University degrees on 170 students who completed Lancaster degrees at G D Goenka World Institute. For the first time, three engineering students were awarded their degrees. Students, parents, faculty, guests and others witnessed what was effectively the culmination of the hard work of the graduating students and the immense support that they received from several individuals.
Subhajyoti Ghosh (BEng, Mechanical Engineering) received the Chancellor’s medal (in absentia) for outstanding academic performance. Anjali Agrawal (PGDBM) received the Gopi Ram Goenka Medal in recognition of outstanding performance in curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities by a postgraduate student.
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Spark Therapeutics' Luxturna Gets EU Approval for Vision Loss
Posted on: 26 November 2018, source: Nasdaq
Spark Therapeutics, Inc. announced that the European Commission has approved the marketing authorization application ("MAA") for its gene therapy, Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec). The MAA sought approval for the therapy in adult as well as pediatric patients as a one-time treatment for vision loss due to inherited retinal dystrophy caused by a genetic mutation in both copies of the RPE65-gene and who have enough viable retinal cells. The RPE65 mutations, a progressive disease, can lead to total blindness.
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The EC decision was based on positive CHMP opinion. Data from a phase I clinical trial, its follow-up trial, and the first randomized, controlled phase III gene therapy trial for an inherited disease supported the decision. Data from the phase III trial showed that vision improvement was recorded as early as 30 days following the treatment.
Please note that Spark Therapeutics has a licensing and commercialization agreement with Novartis Pharma NVS , which granted the latter rights to develop and commercialize Luxturna outside the United States. Thus, Novartis will be responsible for launch and distribution of the gene therapy in Europe. Spark Therapeutics will manufacture and supply Luxturna to Novartis under a supply agreement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Spark Therapeutics received an upfront payment of $105 million and is eligible to receive additional $65 million in milestone payments from Novartis. However, the majority of the total $170 million in upfront and anticipated milestone payment will be considered as revenues as and when Luxtarna is supplied to Novartis. Novartis will also pay royalties on ex-U.S. net sales of Luxturna.
Adoption of Luxtarna in Europe remains to be seen along with its impact on Spark Therapeutics' revenues. We remind investors that Luxturna was approved in December last year for a similar indication in the United States.
Spark Therapeutics' shares were up 1.5% on Nov 23, following the news. However, shares of the company have declined 47.7% in the past six months compared with the industry 's decrease of 11.1%. On its third-quarter earnings call, the company stated that Luxturna has done well since its launch in the United States with sales growing every quarter. The gene therapy is covered under all the major national payers, making it more accessible. Spark Therapeutics also has its own contracting model, Spark PATH, under which a patient can purchase directly or pay in installments based on the therapy's outcome.
In the third quarter, the company recorded $8.9 million in sales of Luxturna, which was almost 32% higher than sales of $6.7 million achieved in the first six months of 2018. However, the company is concerned with timely identification of patients with RPE65 mutation. The company plans to shift its focus to support faster identification of patients in 2019.
The company also has a global collaboration agreement with Pfizer PFE under which it is developing a gene therapy for the treatment hemophilia B. Per the terms of the agreement, Spark Therapeutics transitioned a gene therapy candidate to Pfizer for late-stage development. In July 2018, Pfizer initiated a phase III study to evaluate fidanacogene elaparvovec. Apart from this, Spark Therapeutics is also developing two gene therapies in early-stage studies for treating choroideremia, a progressive vision loss disorder and hemophilia A.
Spark Therapeutics, Inc. announced that the European Commission has approved the marketing authorization application ("MAA") for its gene therapy, Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec). The MAA sought approval for the therapy in adult as well as pediatric patients as a one-time treatment for vision loss due to inherited retinal dystrophy caused by a genetic mutation in both copies of the RPE65-gene and who have enough viable retinal cells. The RPE65 mutations, a progressive disease, can lead to total blindness. {fastsocialshare}
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Surface: The Noise She Couldn't Make
Here's another release in teh Surface series. Those who played the previous games are anticipating a highly polished and catchy hidden object puzzle adventure game. And they are right. Surface: The Noise She Couldn't Make tells you another great mysterious story where your psychic abilities are the last hope.
Your abilities will be challenged with the problem of comunication with the girl.
You are ivited to investigate a case of a girl that was found on a highway. She was unconscious and there was a bloody knife next to her. All the attempts to figure out what had happened were not a success.
But your extraordinary abilitied might be what will help solve this case. The only problem is that you'll have some problems comunicating with her... But additional challenge is what makes the games of this genre more interesting and catchy.
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onderful as that of this game series. The graphics are beautiful and detailed and realistic. The sounds and music created the atmosphere that matches the story.
The game is well developed to the smallest detail. There is always lots to do for you wherever you go. The items that you find you can use right away, so there is not lots of going back and forth.
Both the hiddne object levels and mini games are very entertaining and interesting. The game keeps you attached.
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I've been playing a lot of the Minecraft Alpha laelty too. I agree, it really captures the Lego vibe of building whatever you want relatively easily. It also combines it with a cool survival mechanic of making sure monsters don't get you. Also, the exploration aspect is very cool. Whether you are above or below ground, you can see some impressive results of the procedural generation. It's pretty insane how much money Notch is pulling in from this, especially since it's only an alpha.
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[Sherlock Holmes - illustration by Sidney Paget]
transcription of Jim Carroll's 1986 Naropa workshop continues
JC: Now I'm going to play this..
(JC: here, can you cue this up? first song on Side A - Student: Sure)
This is some of the stuff. I shouldn't really play this either, but this is the stuff with a couple of new songs I wrote with me and (Ray) Manzarek - I think this one's called.. This is a real rough mix. I made.. I had the engineer make it while the guitar guy was doing his lead lines.. so.. I figured I just wanted to write songs now that had a kind of, you know, didn't have anything heavy happening in them, in a certain way. And I'm a real Sherlock Holmes fan, so.. I think, the day before.. I wrote this, the day before I'm flying out there to make the demos, the good demos, in the fancy studio, and we had - what was it? - Well, I saw, like, a Sherlock Holmes thing on [tv] on Channel 13 Mystery Theater - and I was thinking - And, on the plane, I wrote this lyric.
[Jim deciphers the lyrics] - I think it says: - "I want to put my mind and find a proper solution just like Sherlock Holmes/I want to lay in a couch and figure things out just like Sherlock Holmes/I want… At first I put "I want to lay on a sofa and figure things out.." These are the little things you find when you're singing it. "Lay on a sofa" and then you realize I want to "lay on a couch" and "figure things out". You know, "a couch" and "out" are a lot better than "sofa"and "out". If I said "I want to lay on a sofa and think things over", that might have been okay! - "I want to lay on a sofa and read the author" - But and then..what..and where does it go? -
And then.. but whre does it go? - there's a little change in the music and then it goesI want to catch that man in Central Park/who leaps from bushes in the dark - a little pause - "A shaved head.. - and a synth-line or a jump.. snare - (I told the (engineer) I wanted a snare-hit then but (Ray) Manzarek said, "No, let them play a synth line there" - "A shaved head - [Waaa - JC imitates the synthesizer] dressed like a logger, attacking random twilight joggers. And this version doesn't have it, but then it goes, "And on every corpse, he leaves strange poems/But I'm going to snag him just like Sherlock Holmes" - (This one just has "But I'm going to snag him just like Sherlock Holmes"). Then it goes into a little instrumental that says… The bridge is.. "I want to stand up straight, stand up tall/I want to win the final battle at the waterfall"/ "I want to play the violin, be left for months alone/never hear the dial tone on a telephone"/ "When it rings, I'm a total wreck/It's like pliers tightening around my neck"/ "I feel these mysteries in my soul/I feel them just like Sherlock Holmes" - And then the last verse is, "I want a doctor like Watson to amaze and dazzle, just like Sherlock Holmes"/"I want to hide my secrets in Morroccan slippers.." [that's where he hid his syringe - "the seven -percent solution" - (I'm) a real Holmsophile - holmsophile? - that doesn't sound right, does it! - shit!) -
And then there was.. how does it go? - "I want to.. I want do something then.. it's that same change..I want to.. I forget that part. And then it goes 'I want to.. " It says something and then it says "I want to.. I want to find that trash that finds a means to kill/that is worse than the hounds of the Baskerville(s)" /And uncover women at uptown parties/who agents for Professor Moriarty"/ They got blow-guns and good darts disguised as combs/But I'm going to catch them just like Sherlock Holmes"
So that one - I'll play that one, and then I'll play a song that is a little more relevant to something.
[It's a good band, a good band - Rough mix though - deaf engineer, chickenshack studio with the rain falling on the roof … ] - Jim plays the "rough mix" of his Sherlock Holmes song. Here it is recorded by Ray Manzarek and Roy Rogers (sic) [from the album Twisted Tales (posthumously released, 2013]
It has a real long fade I don't want to subject you to it, you know…
[Audio for the above can be heard here, beginning at approximately forty-six-and-a-quarter minutes in and concluding at approximately fifty-four-and-a-quarter minutes in]
Labels: Jim Carroll, Music, Ray Manzarek, Sherlock Holmes
jsm August 28, 2016 at 11:04 AM
I'm a little bewildered that Carroll would have missed a track off a album released in 1982 - by Sparks - that had a song with an identical theme (including "synth riffs" and all!)called Sherlock Holmes off their Angst In My Pants album! Lines like 'Dogs, bark and he knows their breed.' and 'I can dance like Sherlock Holmes. I can sing like Sherlock Holmes. But I can't be Sherlock Holmes.' Says everything you need to know about wanting to solve life's mysteries, but with a sense of self-revelry and humility that gratuitous beat poetry. By the way, the rough take is FAR better than before the transparent commercializing effects of Manzarek's guitar were added. Hindsight is 20/20, but Sparks were/are always ahead of the times, maybe their SH was too stealthy?
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Home Media Action Alerts2005 Making a Difference, With Your Help (August 16, 2005)
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Chao Harn Kae’s Dreamlike Ceramic Sculptures
by Andy SmithPosted on November 4, 2017
The surreal ceramic sculptures of Malaysia native Chao Harn Kae are both strange and humorous, combining creatures and appendages with delicate textures. The Hong Kong-based artist’s dreamlike works range in size and mood, as the figures bounce between evoking playfulness and timidness. His charge has been described as “unraveling humanity while remaining true to human nature.”
“Chao shows great enthusiasm in sculpturing clay as a major media,” a statement says. “He also does bronze sculptures and photography. His works reveal humanistic emotions. Through the delicate changes during his art creation, he releases his inmost feelings and emotions.”
The artist is a 1997 graduate of the Malaysia Institute of Art. He’s recently taken part in shows in his native country, Macau, and Hong Kong. See more recent work below.
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Beer for History series
When: Thursdays, Aug. 17, Sept. 14 and Oct. 12, 6 to 8 p.m.
Where: Folsom Tavern, 164 Water St., Exeter
Cost: $20 per person, or $55 for all three events in the series. American Independence Museum members receive a $5 discount per event.
Visit: independencemuseum.org/beer-for-history
Historical brews
Drink and learn at Beer for History series
By Matt Ingersoll listings@hippopress.com
Three Granite State breweries will join forces with the American Independence Museum in Exeter to showcase craft beer and history, with brews being poured alongside colonial-themed games, historical trivia competitions, museum tours and a tavern “escape room.”
This is the second year the museum is hosting the Beer for History series in its own Folsom Tavern, with one event happening in August, one in September and one in October. During each event, one brewery will lead the festivities with themes related to their brews and to Revolutionary War-era history.
The first event in the series, featuring Neighborhood Beer Co. in Exeter, is happening Thursday, Aug. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. Additional events are Sept. 14, when the museum will host 7th Settlement Brewery in Dover, and Oct. 12, when Earth Eagle Brewings in Portsmouth will be featured.
“We started with the idea that what we wanted to do was base classic German recipes for our beers … and put an Americanized twist on them,” said Salina McIntire, sales and marketing coordinator of Neighborhood Beer Co. “Some of them we don’t necessarily make year-round, but they are fun for these types of events, because we get to highlight a lot of history and culture.”
Craft brews the Neighborhood Beer Co. will be pouring at the event include the Boss Flamingo, a German steam beer blended with malt and spicy yeast flavors, and the Obstinate Goat, an ale made with German landrace hops to give it a citrusy flavor.
“[The Obstinate Goat] is an American blond ale-style beer,” said Rob Levey, director of advancement for the American Independence Museum. “It has some of the heavier qualities of a bock beer and the lighter qualities of blond beer. … German beers typically have high alcohol content but people are shocked because it tastes so light.”
Museum Executive Director Emma Bray said the breweries and the museum will also host games, trivia, museum tours and even an “escape room” inside the tavern, which will be the theme of the August event.
“The tavern is going to be open for people to walk around through … and there are labels and interpretive panels to talk about the tavern’s history,” Bray said. “Children are welcome as well. There will be a children’s space in the tavern with food and games.”
Levey, who came up with the series idea last year, said he wanted to create an event to connect the history of brewing beer with the history of the museum.
“Breweries love history and honor their roots … and these events also allow us to honor the roots of our country as well,” he said. “The property [of the museum] is really important, not only to Exeter but to the history of the state as well, because it was actually the capital of New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War. … George Washington also had a beer in one of the rooms in the tavern before he was president, so folks will have the opportunity to see that room.”
Multiple breweries attended the same events during last year’s Beer for History series. But this year’s events have been tweaked, Levey said, to give each visiting brewery its own platform to showcase its brews.
“By narrowing the focus down to one brewery per festival, it gives the staff a chance to talk about what they brew and how they brew it, and a little more about the business as well,” he said. “It all connects back to the historical aspect of brewing beer.”
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Home» Kokoda 4 Ali Island
Are you ready to take on the ultimate charity
and personal development challenge?
A major fundraising initiative for the Ali Island project in partnership
with Australian Kokoda Tours, Crossfit Geelong, Belmont Physiotherapy Centre and O’Malley Fitness.
The inaugural ‘Turn the lights back on in Ali: Kokoda 2012 Challenge’ saw 11 Geelong people undertake over 6 months of training and fundraising to complete the gruelling Kokoda Track and raise over $20 000 for the Ali Island Project
This year, 10 trekkers matched their effort.
What is the ‘Turning the lights back on in Ali: Kokoda 2014 Challenge’
This ultimate charity and personal development package is worth over $7000.
You get:
To walk in the footsteps of heroes with a fully-guided trek along the Kokoda Track
To attend a moving ANZAC day ceremony at Australia’s wartime cemetery in Port Moresby
Up to 8 months of premium training and trek preparation from some of Geelong’s premier fitness trainers and exercise physiologists
Access to super discounts on equipment and supplies for your trek
To support Australian volunteers in their efforts to build a sustainable development project for some of Australia’s neediest neighbours.
A collection of photos and a DVD of your achievement.
Provided with backpacks and walking poles saving you many hundreds of dollars in expensive hiking equipment
You give:
A $2000 non-refundable deposit (subject to terms and conditions) to secure the best price of flights, transfers, accommodation and travel insurance.
Your commitment to seek small sponsorships and pledges from friends and associates in recognition of your trek along the Kokoda Track. The pledge form and electronic links will be supplied to you.
Your ideas, input to fundraising activities for the Ali Island Project.
To be an ambassador for the Ali Island project.
What is my fundraising target?
The ‘Turning the lights back on in Ali: Kokoda 2014 Challenge’ package is worth $7000 per person.
After your $2000 deposit you will have a balance of $5000 to pay to secure your place on this unforgettable experience. Up to $2500 of this can be fundraising leaving your personal contribution at $4500- much less than what you would pay if we weren’t supported by our generous sponsors Australian Kokoda Tours, O’Malley Fitness, Crossfit Geelong and Belmont Physiotherapy Centre
Do I have to fundraise?
No. If you elect not to fundraise you can pay $7000 directly to Australian Kokoda Tours and still take part.
About the Kokoda 4 Ali Island trainers
Michael O’Malley (Mick): O’Malley Fitness is managed by Michael O’Malley and based at the Health & Fitness Studio at the prestigious Geelong Lawn Tennis Club.
Mick was the first Australian in 24 years to win a Commonwealth title on foreign soil as well as the first Australian ever to win two national titles in the same year.
Victorian Lightweight Boxing Champion
Australian Lightweight Boxing Champion
Victorian Featherweight Boxing Champion
Australian Featherweight Boxing Champion
Australian Superweight Boxing Champion
Commonwealth Super Featherweight Boxing Champion
Chris Chalmers: Chris and his wife Corrine opened up a world class CrossFit Facility in Newtown Geelong. They both developed and ran one of the largest Bootcamps in Australia and were instrumental in changing the fitness community in Geelong. Chris also works as a Stunt Actor appearing in Australian film and television, holds national and state titles in wrestling as well as being a 6 time veteran of Kokoda.
Travis McCombe: Travis was born in the Sepik region of PNG. In October 2009, Travis returned to the area with his wife Kelli, spending six days in Aitape and on Ali Island. During the stay, they became aware of the sustainable development project proposal and since returning to Geelong, have brought together a group of like-minded individuals to help bring the Ali Island Guest House and Conference Centre to life. A former ironman and sprint canoeist, he is a senior physiotherapist and exercise physiologist with the Corio Bay Health Group and principal physiotherapist of the Belmont Physiotherapy Centre. Travis trekked Kokoda with the Turn the lights back on in Ali: Kokoda 2012 Challenge team.
For further information please contact the Island Project.
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Some Candy Talking
The wee Sugar Sheds inspired ghost story "Candy Bones" has been shortlised in The Woman In Black Ghost Story competition. If you haven't already, why not pop over to youtube and give it a watch.
It's a very short story, will only take up two minutes of your time, and if you like it, please give it a wee thumbs up on youtube. The prize if it wins is not fortune, but glory, as it would appear on "The Woman In Black" dvd as an extra...how's that for giving the Sugar Sheds a new audience. Well, a new audience of people that watch DVD extras...Sadly however, if successful, for reasons of international understanding, my voice would be replaced and the story read by someone called "Daniel Radcliffe".
And if that story isn't really for you...then don't worry...there's 9 others on there to choose from.
Check out The Woman In Black's youtube channel.
Labels: candy bones, ghost story, greenock sugar sheds, woman in black
Candy Canes and Gingerbread Sheds
This week in Sugar Sheds related news...there's a further lifeline for Riverside Inverclyde; the piece here definetly suggests that some of that involves seeking lottery funding for future projects..something we have suggested around the Sugar Sheds from the very start.
Successful lottery funding requires significant and genuine local consultation, involvement and even partnership. There's a way yet to make this all start working for everyone, and lots of options to explore; there's Big Lottery's Growing Community Assets Fund; there's SCVO and Unity Trust Bank's 50million loan scheme for third sector / social enterprise business centres; and of course it's been a while since Inverclyde secured any major capital funding through Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland. Not to mention new funding available for events through Creative Scotland 2012 Year of Creativity. And those are just the top of the google search. All this of course is set against the publication of Scottish Governments new Regeneration Strategy, firmly placing local people at the heart of regeneration . Everything to play for.
So. Six months on, as the year ends, thanks very much to everyone who has helped out, kept in contact and stuck with us; a successful campaign is more than a facebook click, but from the initial flurry around that page, we've been able to get discussions with the people who can influence this situation and meet many people who've successfully fought for change elsewhere. Next year what we're after is some action. Here.
For now, festive fun...
Two of the bands who helped out with our Celebration Ode recordings have recorded Christmas tunes. I'm a sucker for Christmas tunes.
Ard Amas have "It's Christmas" and some other new tunes on their myspace.
Sneaky Pete have a new tune dropping this weekend as well.
And local band The Purple Doves have released a charity single for Christmas with all proceeds going to Ryan Ferguson's Leukaemia Fund. Buy it now on itunes.
Over on our heritage blog Tales of the Oak, we're curating our Ghost Stories For Christmas throughout December.
And on my own blog Stramashed, you can find out all about Santa's Little Werewolves.
See you all next year.
Here's a few wee sugary Christmas tunes...
Labels: 2012, ard amas, candy canes, christmas 2011, creative scotland, greenock, greenock sugar sheds, riverside inverclyde, sneaky pete, stramashed, tales of the oak, year of creativity
The Regeneration Game - New Rules
The Scottish Government have released their new regeneration strategy. Well worth a read.
An initial scan reveals a number of areas which could impact on any future regeneration projects based around the Sheds (and of course everywhere else!).
First and foremost, we have a handy definition for what is actually considered "regeneration".
Regeneration is the holistic process of reversing the economic, physical and social decline of places where market forces alone won’t suffice. This holistic theme runs throughout this Strategy and forms the basis for the propositions and conclusions.
Good start. Holistic is good. Provided everyone's signed up to being holistic of course.
A number of key themes were identified in the initial discussion papers which informed the report.
- Clarification on the roles and responsibilities that different organisations have in delivering regeneration
- Recognition that a coordinated approach is needed at a local level and across public services to tackle area-based disadvantage
- The importance of community led regeneration
- Recognition of the constraints on public sector finances alongside a continued need for appropriate grant support and innovative funding solutions
- The importance of placemaking in supporting successful communities
- Support for town centres as a central part of community life
Hmmm. Liking where the community appear to be placed in this regeneration process. Mind you, we have all heard similar things before. The strategy recognises some of the ingredients for regeneration which has been measurably successful;
Our future regeneration activity must focus on outcomes and take account of lessons learned. The key success factors for designing and delivering regeneration interventions, are detailed below. Public, private and third sector partners should consider these key elements when delivering regeneration locally.
- puts communities first, effectively involving local residents in the regeneration process and empowering communities
- is holistic, making connections between the physical, social and economic dimensions
- adopts a long-term vision for a places and focuses the on the safety and quality of places
- takes account of the specific function of neighbourhoods and integrates regeneration initiatives into wider economic strategies
- makes tailored interventions to link economic opportunity and need to address worklessness and deliver sustainable quality employment
- is supported by simple and aligned funding streams and maximises the impact from mainstream resource by better integration with place-based interventions
- Has strong leadership with clear accountability and makes effective use of partnership working, involving the private sector, both in investment and in shaping ideas and development.
The really interesting stuff for me is from page 20 "Community Led Regeneration. Local People Delivering Local Change", which outlines exactly how communities will be able to influence regeneration processes and what resource will be made available from Government to assist. Here's a few highlights, then seriously, go read the report.
Community led regeneration is about local people identifying for themselves the issues and opportunities in their areas, deciding what to do about them, and being responsible for delivering the economic, social and environmental action that will make a difference. It is dependent on the energy and commitment of local people themselves and has a wide range of benefits.
Community led regeneration covers a spectrum of activity from committed volunteers coming together informally to campaign or act, to the work of enterprising local community anchor organisations like Development Trusts and community based housing associations.
Building on the success of the Wider Role fund and recognising the important role that Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) and other community groups like Development Trusts play in delivering change at a local level, we have developed the People and Communities Fund. This fund forms part of the overarching Regeneration Investment Fund.
The Scottish Government will provide £7.9m per annum from 2012 to 2015 to support the People and Communities Fund, specifically to promote and support community led regeneration. The details of this fund will be announced in 2012, however, activity will include:
- Building on the Wider Role fund, funding to support and strengthen local community anchor organisations across Scotland, including RSLs and Development Trusts. These will be organisations that deliver local support for community asset ownership through the Community Ownership Support Service. This service, provided through the Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS), provides help and advice to community organisations interested in asset ownership.
- Investment in a new community capacity building programme. This will focus on areas where there are currently few local organisations, weak networks amongst local people and where local people's skills and confidence need to be nurtured. It will have a focus on helping people to decide how budgets in their areas are spent.
Lots more to read, and as ever, the devil isn't so much in the detail as in the reality of local delivery, but certainly this would seem to give a clear nod as to where regeneration initiatives will be steered from next year. Interesting times.
Labels: achieving a sustainable future, greenock sugar sheds, regeneration, riverside inverclyde, scottish government regeneration strategy
A Ghost Story for Christmas
I know its been a wee while since our last update, but there’s been a fairly major development in the ongoing Story of The Sugar Sheds.
If you follow our local press, you’ll maybe be aware that local regeneration company Riverside Inverclyde has had its funding dramatically reduced, making the outlook for them post 2012/13 very challenging indeed. At this early stage, there are obviously many questions still to be asked about all of this, and what projects RI are going to be able to focus on over the next 18 months. But clearly, whatever the outcome, developments and plans for the James Watt Dock / Sugar Sheds are likely to be affected.
So that’s that then eh? Let’s just leave it. Eh…nope. If anything, this kind of uncertainty over “what next” requires more attention. Next year, it’s our plan to keep the Sugar Sheds on the agenda, at the very least, we still think there’s some mileage in our outlined programme of events.
In the meantime, with the nights drawing in and the nip in the air, here’s a short Sugar Sheds inspired Ghost Story For Christmas, “Candy Bones”. There’s a whole month of this sort of festive malarkey over on our Tales of The Oak blog.
Labels: bones, candy, greenock sugar sheds, regeneration, riverside inverclyde, tales of the oak
Candy Skeletons
Here's our piece from todays Greenock Telegraph...
The darker side of The Sugar Sheds history was explored last week when psychic medium Joan Charles took a tour around the iconic buildings with local heritage enthusiasts.
Joan has spent the last few months exploring mysterious and unusual locations across the UK and she was really glad to get the opportunity to investigate in her own area.
“The minute I walked in, I felt the atmosphere was very oppressive, just a real feeling of being trapped, not just physically, but maybe..financially. The people who worked in here had a very hard life inside and out of the Sheds. A lot of illness and disease.”
Construction on The Sugar Sheds began in 1885, with the buildings being completed 125 years ago in 1886. Thousands of people have worked in and passed through The Sheds since then, including German and Irish workers, something which Joan picked up on immediately.
“There was a real sense of multiculturalism there, not just in terms of the ships docking, but the people working, the people stuck inside. I was getting real Dutch and Canadian connections as well.”
Joan was in no doubt about one thing,
“People have died there. I was getting a man who had died in a fire there, trapped inside. Not the recent fire, before that.”
Paul Bristow is part of the Keep Greenock Sugar Sheds a Community Space campaign, and as a member of Magic Torch, has been researching and writing about local heritage and folklore for over ten years.
“With old buildings, there’s always a strange feeling, a sort of absence, spaces which were once so full of people and life, now empty and silent. The Sheds are a tremendously atmospheric space, and I was really interested to see what someone a bit more sensitively tuned to that space than myself might be able to find out! We’ve worked with Joan a few times before in exploring local spaces with a bit of dark history.”
Paul was really interested in some of the areas Joan was talking about which he had not heard before.
“Joan was particularly interested in the remains of the lift shaft in Shed A, a site which anecdotally has been the location for a number of deaths within The Sheds over the years. There were a few things which we’ll have to check up on, a number of specific family names and related events, other instances of fire within the building, and also the possibility that there were ever coffins stored within the sheds. It’s good to have a few new lines of enquiry.”
Following the success of The Tall Ships in Greenock earlier this summer, The Sugar Sheds have been the focus of a local campaign to see more events hosted there.
Two multinationals and a number of community groups are discussing potential future uses for The Sugar Sheds with the buildings owners, James Watt Dock LLP. The LLP are currently accepting expressions of interest from Events Management Organisations looking at developing commercial events in this unique location.
One of the more popular suggestions for events within the space was a Halloween event with music, horror films and ghost hunting based on Joan’s initial experiences, there’s certainly plenty there to find!
Just to keep you jangling...here's the theme tune from Clive Barker's horror film The Candyman...(the original short story was set in Liverpool, another "sugar town")
Labels: bones, candy, candyman, clive barker, greenock, greenock sugar sheds, joan charles, sugar sheds, telegraph
It was Greenock’s very own Abram Lyle who discovered Golden Syrup in 1883, back in the days when civic leaders and businessmen were also pioneering inventors, adventurers, philanthropists and general all rounders.
Golden Syrup is beloved by many, and at this time of year, is an absolutely critical ingredient in right good Candy Apples for Halloween. (It’s also very useful for making Gingerbread Sheds..but more of that nearer Christmas..)
30 apples
5 cups of white sugar
½ cup Golden Syrup
2 tsp blackcurrant syrup
Place lollipop sticks or wooden craft sticks into each apple at the stem end. Set aside.
In a heavy saucepan, mix together the sugar, golden syrup and water. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium and continue to cook until the mixture reaches 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads. This will take a good 45 minutes!
Remove the sugar mixture from the heat and stir in the black currant syrup. Quickly dip all of the apples, holding them by the stick. You can let them cool by inserting the other end of the stick into a thick sheet of foam board. If that is not available, set the coated apples onto waxed paper or aluminum foil. Make sure they don't touch each other.
Nomm. Nomm. Nomm.
If yer after a more traditional recipe, or don’t actually want to make 30 Candy Apples at one go…try here.
And don’t forget that before giving any visiting Galoshans Candy Apples, they must perform The Galoshans Play.
The Galoshans Play
"Heritage + Development = ?"
Open publication - Free publishing - More civic
Yesterday we were fortunate enough to attend the Scottish Civic Trust's conference on heritage, regeneration and development, a great opportunity to hear from the people leading the field in placemaking and civic pride.
We heard social, cultural and crucially, economic arguments for use and redevelopment of older buildings; historic building restoration uses fewer resources and creates more employment than new builds. It was incredibly refreshing to hear architects and government agencies commenting very clearly on the measurable benefits of involving the community in development of projects and programmes, beyond the superficial and passive notions of simply commenting on plans which have already been drawn.
There is a renewed emphasis too on energy efficiency in historic building adapatation, with grants currently available for buildings like The Sugar Sheds to explore the feasibility of sustainable energy use as part of any redevelopment.
From the Chord Projects just over the water in Helensburgh, through to Govan's redevelopments and the Govan Folk University and on to Maryhill Burgh Halls Trust...none of these are projects and processes a million miles away..all of these wonderful places and ideas are within half an hours drive. Those communities, agencies and architects have worked collaboratively to realise their shared vision. Surely we're not talking such a massive cultural leap to make similar things happen down here. Though obviously, what was clear from all involved was the time effort and energy that has been invested by all partners in making these ideas a reality. Here are projects which have developed with imagination, vitality and risk, daring to push beyond the minimum expected standard, and creating something all the more special as a result. The question we should ask ourselves and our civic leaders is not "why not here?" but "when do we start?".
More than anything, we came away convinced that such regeneration and development is possible when all parties involved are able to sit down respectfully and work together to be greater than the sum of their parts. It can happen, it can be done. Even here. And wouldn't it be great, if in the future, Inverclyde's regeneration of The Sugar Sheds was able to be recognised as an example of innovation and best practice in the same way that these projects and programmes are now.
Next, we're off to visit Out of the Blue through in Edinburgh, a former Drill Hall, now the centre of a thriving cultural community...
If you are feeling like getting inspired by bold new building designs in old spaces, you can read a great new document from Historic Scotland and Archticture and Design Scotland, "New Design in Historic Settings" which was launched at the conference.
An inspiring day, thank you very much to the Scottish Civic Trust.
Event Management Opportunity?!
Check it out! James Watt Dock LLP are offering Event Management organisations the opportunity to propose events and programmes within The Sugar Sheds. Could this be the beginning of The Sheds being utilised longer term as an events venue? This is what many, many people who had signed up to the campaign wanted to see.
Certainly, following the success of the venue at The Tall Ships, we're really glad to see the recognition of the space in this way. Hats off to RI for taking the time to explore other opportunities. I also don't think it is at all unfair or unreasonable to say that without so many peoples suggestions, interest and efforts and the subsequent national coverage of the Sugar Sheds campaign, the market might not have been getting tested in this way at all.
A lot of events management teams and promoters, local and national, got in contact with us in the weeks following the start of the campaign. I really hope some of them take the opportunity to explore their suggestions for The Sugar Sheds further. We'd certainly be interested in helping that happen in any way we can.
Critically though, we would continue to hope that there is also room for local investment, involvement and employment in the ongoing development of The Sugar Sheds...after all, the local community will be the lynchpin in the sustainability of the space in the longer term.
Recently, I had a "robust debate", with someone who was not convined by the notion of The Sugar Sheds as "a community space". His feeling was that we had enough community centres and "places for junkies and old folk to go to". As someone who has managed a community centre in my day job, I take a wee bit of exception to that...but I think I understand what he was piledriving at. Our notion was never that the sheds be turned into a big giant subsidised community centre, that isn't how we would define a community space; art galleries are community space, swimming pools, theatres, museums, playparks...and this is the sort of space we hope the Sugar Sheds will become, a place where people feel they can go safely to enjoy themselves, and that also provides a direct benefit to our community, whether that is through jobs or the activity that happens there.
We sent some outline suggestions to Riverside Inverclyde a few weeks ago around the community opportunities available (none of which would clash with the above development opportunity), and we are assured of a response soon.
So...still worth sticking in there for now on all fronts...
Labels: community space, greenock sugar sheds
Mr Cube's Roots
"Mr Cube's Roots - The Story of Sugar" was passed to us recently; it's a booklet produced in 1962 by Tate and Lyle. While the book is interesting from a time capsule perspective, the real story is that of Mr Cube himself.
Mr Cube was the personification of the British Sugar Industry, among his many other claims to fame, he headed Tate and Lyle's campaign to avert the nationalisation of the sugar industry in Britain. He first appeared in July 1949 in a period of post-war rationing and austerity. Friendly little chap isnt he? Kind of like a proto Sponge Bob. Except that his popular appeal almost helped lose Clement Atlee's government the 1950 election just after they had founded the National Health Service, the Welfare State and nationalised a whole range of other industries. Cheers Mr Cube.
The booklet is a wee bit vague on the trades links with slavery, Mr Cube apparently had nothing to do with that. But it does explain how sugar is crystallised in great detail.
In other news, you may be aware of a new Artist in Residence Project being organised by Alec Galloway and delivered in the Sugar Sheds over the next few months. Alec blogged about his vision for the project back in July and has permission from Riverside Inverclyde to proceed We're all looking forward to seeing how it develops.
Check out the facebook page here.
Labels: absent voices, alec galloway, greenock sugar sheds, mr cube, tate and lyle
National Poetry Day - Ballad In Blank Verse
To celebrate National Poetry Day, we are publishing poems across all our blogs.
John Davidson was a poet who spent much of his life in Greenock, working as a teacher at the Highlanders Academy, a school which he himself attended.
This poem has recently been quoted and reprinted on the panels surrounding the statue of Ginger The Horse in Dalrymple Street.
Davidson, and later WS Graham evoke a proud, working Greenock, when the Sugar Sheds and shipyards were not simply part of daily life, but an intergal part of the landscape...
from A Ballad in Blank Verse
All summer and all Autumn: this grey town
That pipes the morning up before the lark
With shrieking steam, and from a hundred stalks
Lacquers the sooty sky: where hammers clang
On Iron hulls, and cranes and harbours creak
Rattle and wing, whole cargoes on their necks;
Where men sweat gold that others hoard or spend,
This old grey town, this firth, the further strand
Spangled with hamlets, and wooded steeps,
Whose rocky tops behind each other press,
Fantastically carved like antique helms
High flung in heaven’s cloudy armoury,
Is world enough for me.
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Guest Blogger - Innes Carmichael
Innes Carmichael shares a recent cultural exchange experience with us, showing how another brick built warehouse has been converted for community use in a way that combines heritage, art and live music...
Estonia's Traditional Music Center
Recently, I visited Estonia through a cultural exchange with ArchNetwork Scotland funded through the Leonardo programme.
I was part of the exchange through my work as a trainer of textile techniques (spinning and natural dyes) and through my membership of Sgioba Luaidh Inbhircluaidh and the connection to Gaelic culture and song, our work at Auchindrain especially. (read more about the work of Sgioba Luaidh Inbhircluaidh – Inverclyde Waulking Group – here)
It was a fabulous experience and I learned a lot, saw amazing things-but the visit to the Estonian Traditional Music Center in Viljandi just fit so well with the sugar sheds I thought it only right to let you all know about it.
What really impressed me was the echoes with the situation in Greenock-and the speed, elegance and “can do” attitude with which the Estonians got this project off the drawing board and into reality- in 2 years!
There seems to be far less of the “100 reasons why we cannae dae this” attitude in Estonia, we could really learn from that. They are a wee country of just one and a half million people and have been independent for 25 years after singing the Soviets out of their country. They make full use of European funding resources – a lot of funding through LEADER for instance, which usually focuses on rural funding. Best of all, they used almost exclusively Estonian architects, acoustic engineers and craftspeople. The old vodka warehouse is a listed building but they worked around this with elegant simplicity.
Here is an extract from my report for Arch Network on my return.
“Housed in an imaginatively restored former vodka storehouse the Centre has transformed what was a seedy part of town into a vibrant hub of music and performance art. Using mainly Estonian architects and technicians it serves as a beacon to other countries in the speed and efficiency of the restoration and the elegant simplicity of the design and function.
All the fittings and textiles are made by local blacksmiths, woodworkers and students from the Culture academy.
Our guide and Events Manager at the Centre, Silja Soo told us of the Famous Viljandi Folk Festival hosted by the Centre, an event in the last weekend of July that pulls around 20,000 visitors into Viljandi. We also visited the Library of International Folk Music in the basement and I left two cd’s of Scottish folk music to add to the collection.”
Here is an extract from the report a fellow exchange member did charting the development of the project.
“This 18th century storehouse belonging originally to a mansion had been used to store potatoes, wheat and vodka but was in a dilapidated state in the 1980s.
A four day music festival was started by Ando Kiviberg and some other students of the folk music course at the Cultural Academy in 1993. This grew to a major folk festival from 1995 onwards. They began to develop the idea of restoring the old storehouse to make a folk music centre. They gathered funding from various sources, including the EU and the local council with donations and a loan to finance a superb folk music centre with a small (80 seat) performing space and a large (400 seat) concert hall at a total cost of over 5M Euros. The building opened in 2008. The acoustics have been particularly well developed. Decoration of much of the dressing rooms etc has been done with traditionally inspired patterns by students of the Cultural Academy.
A library and archive of CDs and sheet music has been begun in the basement . We were all very impressed by this project, by the vision, and the way it has come to fruition.”
You can view more photos from the exchange here and here.
Labels: estonia traditional music center, innes carmichael, inverclyde waulking
Future-proofing Yesterday
Shed B - used during Tall Ships for performances
One word we have heard from everyone we have spoken to, is that any alternative plans for the Sugar Sheds need to be "sustainable". But what does that actually mean? Is that self sustaining? Environmentally sustainable? Sustainable through regular government subsidy? How do you measure that sustainability? In what way do you guarantee it? It is often a word we use indiscriminately without really thinking about what it means, more about what it implies. Certainly, last year it won the award for "most jargoniest jargon".
Maybe like with any good relationship, sustainability isn't something that happens, it's something you work at. The sheds are naturally separated, lending themselves to phased development. So the first year or two of a Sugar Sheds project could be much more about the refurbishment of parts of the building, undertaken as a local employment and training programme, resourced through local and government employability contracts, and potentially Heritage Lottery or Historic Scotland. These gradually refurbished parts of the sheds are the areas which could then be leased back to the community (at nice knockdown rates of course), to unlock funding resources from lottery and elsewhere, and subsequently used to run community based projects, exhibitions and programmes, or provide occasional performance space for local bands. Performance and recording space as well as a regular programme of gigs could be the basis of income generating activity for a social enterprise linked to the community organisations leasing the space...
But that's just off the top of my head of course. Needs a bit of thinking through...is it sustainable enough? How do you do it? How do you turn the largest brick built shed in Europe into something that generates enough income to continue to resources the activities inside it? Can you do it at all?! Clearly if anyone genuinely knew the answer to that, we would have done it already. Therefore, we need to look elsewhere for our solutions. For us, a starting point this week was a very helpful chat with the Scottish Civic Trust, champions of Scotland's spaces and places.
The Civic Trust are running a conference on October 27th, "Heritage + Development = ?". The conference will feature examples of successful regeneration and redevelopment projects; examine government policy from heritage to planning and placemaking; and highlight the importance of community and civic engagement. Sounds ideal eh? We've booked a few places. We've also uploaded a few new documents to our resources page. Arm yourself.
There is no easy solution, and there is no straightforward guarantee that anything is "sustainable", our plan, for now is to start small with a range of activities and events next year, and for now to listen and to learn from others who have faced similar challenges and succeeded.
We took these photos a couple of weeks ago, but Scottish Screen have some much nicer new shiny ones on their Flickr account. Wonder what they were down scouting for?
Shed A - used as a bar during Tall Ships and the space RI are
happy to consider for short term community use
One final thing, slightly off topic, but indulge us. We genuinely believe that more innovative and experimental development of Sheds can create jobs and opportunities for the area. However, the building is safe and reasonably wind and watertight, they are not in any immediate danger right now; the Clyde Coastguard service is...and that service saves lives. So if you are in Greenock tomorrow, get yourself along to the march.
Public Protest March, Greenock, Sep 24th at 11am, Esplanade Cafe to Battery Park. Event here.
Banner Workshop at Fire Centre, Greenock 23rd 6-8pm. Event here.
You can read more details of this vital UK wide campaign on this blog.
Sweet Choons
Just a wee quick reminder to come see us tomorrow at Cathcart Square...have a chat with us about what you would like to see in the sheds, get a balloon, buy a book...go crazy.
To get you in the mood for the weekend, here's a wee sweet tooth playlist....
There Will be Balloons
Members of the Sugar Sheds campaign group will be down at Cathcart Square in Greenock this weekend, with balloons, badges, books and bits of paper for you to sign. But more importantly, we would like to hear your views face to face about the sorts of things you would like to see happening if we attempt to fund an 18 month programme of events.
We were hoping to unveil our lovely new campaign mascot this weekend...but that can wait for now. Meantime, just come see us and say hello.
In fact, why not make a day of it..its Doors Open Day in Inverclyde, with lots of spaces open to the community, including the Custom House. Here's just two suggestions for you...but there are over 30 venues open across Inverclyde.
Guest Blogger - Joanie@8pr/8digital
As the BBC shifts Waterloo Road to Scotland and looks to invest further in the future, as we hear rumours of location scouts scuttling around Greenock checking out the views and as the new regional TV channels programme prompts a facebook page championing InverclydeTV, Joanie from 8pr takes a look at the history of Greenock and The Sheds on screen...
ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR CLOSE-UP GREENOCK?
2011 and Brad Pitt is filming a Zombie movie (World War Z) in a Glasgow currently doubling as Philadelphia. The Disney/Pixar team have finished their fact finding visit from San Francisco to gather detail on the terrain for their up-coming animation ‘The Brave,’ set in Scotland and telling the story of a Scottish Princess. This puts Scotland front and centre in the movie world for 2012. It’s come a long way from Para Handy’s The Vital Spark filmed in and around The Marine Bar and their boat “The Maggie” moored at Victoria Dock.
As a film location, Greenock has had it’s fair share of movie madness; the dock cranes in the background, like giant monolithic effigies to the bustling industrial feel of the town in the late 70’s and early 80’s. ‘Just a Boy’s Game’ burst onto our TV screens in 1979. It starred a gravel voiced Frankie Miller as Jake McQuillen, grandson of Greenock hardest man (Hector Nicol), who is losing his last fight for life. The movies and plays through the years meshed folklore with real life to create characters still remembered today.
An everlasting movie scene in my head is the wee shipyard worker who thought he was a gunfighter, pretending to shoot his colleague against a backdrop of the spectacular Greenock Sugarsheds and blowing the imaginary smoke away from his fingers before holstering. Its just one of many scenes shot against the fine backdrop of Greenock’s industrial past. The movie ‘Down Where the Buffalo Go’ (1988) was written by Greenock’s own Peter McDougall and starred the Hollywood ‘Pulp Fiction’ star Harvey Keitel as a US Navy Shore Patrol Officer stationed at the Holy Loch. The Wild West of Scotland twinned with the Wild West of the US in gunslinger style is not an unusual likening.
Elephants Graveyard – another Peter McDougall masterpiece - stars Billy Connolly as Jody, out of work and wandering the hills behind Greenock where he meets Bunny, who is pretending to his wife he’s a postman and is wandering the same hills aimlessly. Jody’s happy-go-lucky philosophy against a backdrop of hopelessness runs through this Play for Today, and as always, in the background are the Sugarsheds and the all too familiar cranes.
Each movie and play shot through with negative and positive. Words like, gritty can be replaced by stoic; drama and struggle by real-life; with added touches of warmth and plenty of humour. Coming back into the present, I remember the screening of Sweet Sixteen in London. I caught sight of my mother’s house on the big screen in a scene involving the Battery Park. I leapt up and announced to amused cinemagoers “there’s my mum’s house!” before slinking back into my chair like a crazy lady in the back row. And let’s not forget the lovely, tender Dear Frankie with heartthrob Gerard Butler as the romantic lead. You are in no doubt that the prime location is Greenock, with some exterior and interior shots in Glasgow.
No question that Inverclyde can offer a spectacular backdrop and that the Sugarsheds have played their part in movie history! Are we ready to expand on that movie heritage?
You can find Joanie on facebook and twitter, or follow her blog right here.
Folk have sent us a few links and clips featuring the docks and The Sheds. We'll put them all up on the blog next week, if you've any you would like to share, or if you fancy a bit of guest blogging, drop us a line keepgreenocksheds@gmail.com
Meantime...quite frankly any excuse for a wee clip of Elephants Graveyard...
Culture Jacking Sugar Shed Style
Just for a laugh, a few of the posters our design guru was having fun with before he settled on our Uncle Sam / Irn Bru collection. I'm getting the Obama one made into a teeshirt...
Opportunity Knocks...
Last week, as a direct result of the interest generated by the campaign and all your support, we got the opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with a our two local MSPs and senior staff at Riverside Inverclyde...though, not all at the same time. Those conversations were very positive for initial discussions, and really signal where we need to be going next...
First up, we met with George Hunter, Operations Manager from Riverside Inverclyde. George is also on the board of the James Watt Dock LLP, he has been following the Sheds facebook page and blog. In principle, he was very clear that he sees no issue with the aims and objectives which we have laid out. He was keen that there be community activity and varied events at the sheds, and would most certainly consider temporary lets of some of the space to allow that to happen. Clearly though, the public liability / health and safety responsibilities for the use of the space would transfer to the leaseholder. Hmm. Tricky. Also, Shed B, (which is the one where all the gigs happened) still has issues with water ingress. The suggestion was initially that we look at Shed A for some events (this was the bar). We're going down there to have a look round shortly.
So...okay..RI happy for us to come back to them. What we're thinking is an 18 month programme of activities and events, specifically based around the ideas and suggestions put up on the page.
What about our local politicians? Well, so far we have met with Stuart McMillan MSP and Duncan McNeill MSP, both of whom expressed a broad support for positive use of the sheds, provided there was some notion of sustainability. Stuart McMillan was interested to see that any activity down there, from refurbishment work to events directly created local jobs. Both will continue to discuss the situation with Riverside Inverclyde.
So, we're pushing at an open door, which is a good thing, but we don't just want to tumble through that door and land flat on our faces. I may have over-extended that metaphor there. You get the idea.
Anything that we want to put in the sheds needs to be well organised and varied to appeal to Inverclyders and other audiences, that's what will prove the case. In order to do that effectively, we'll need a more formal structure for the group, to fundraise both through grant opportunities, crowdsourcing and more traditional methods, and we'll also need to get all of you who have kindly offered to help, from promoters and community groups through to artists and stage crew to pitch in pulling this together. Having looked at some of the health and safety implications etc and with summer almost gone...we're now thinking events for next year are more likely.
While we're planning all that, we'll still be looking more formally at an alternative business plan for the building. More on that to follow.
So...victory! Sort of. Maybe. Thank you all for helping get us to this point. Now's when the hard work starts if we are serious about using the sheds as a community space in the future. If you haven't already offered your skills and support to us, and think you can help, contact us on keepsugarsheds@gmail.com. Likewise, keep signing and sharing (and if you still want to be part of our Celebration Ode collection, singing)
We're intending to have a stall at one of the Cathcart Square events over the next few weekends, if you see us, come say hello and help support another local event attempting to use a historical space creatively.
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Celebration Ode 2011
A few weeks ago, we asked bands and performers to reinterpret Celebration Ode, the poem composed to mark the occasion of the inauguration of the James Watt Dock. Its been great fun receiving these and listening to how everyone has made it their own.
The poem itself is out of copyright, but for all these reinterpretations and recordings, the copyright remains with the artists involved.
First up, we have a version from Sneaky Pete. recorded and mixed on Thursday.
Sneaky Pete's Analogue EP is out now on iTunes
Sneaky Pete - A Celebration Ode by Sugar Sheds
Singer songwriter Yvonne Lyon has been described variously as "stunning", "life affirming" and "the bees knees". Listen to (and buy!) her critically acclaimed Ashes and Gold album here. This is her version of Celebration Ode. Music written by Gareth Davies-Jones and Yvonne Lyon and performed by Gareth Davies-Jones, Yvonne Lyon, Bronwyn Davies- Jones and Steph MacLeod.
Yvonne Lyon - Watt Song (Celebration Ode 2011) by Sugar Sheds
Life On Standby are a 4 piece female fronted electronica infused alternative rock outfit from Inverclyde, recently hitting the Glasgow live scene and working towards recording their first EP come October.
Life on Standby - Ode To Celebration (Celebration Ode 2011) by Sugar Sheds
Inverclyde's premier pirate folk band Shinbone Al provided this rip roaring foot stomping shanty version.
Shinbone Al - Celebration Ode (2011) by Sugar Sheds
Martin Jones, a singer songwriter wanted to give the tune a bluesy, soulful feel, here's his interpretation.
Martin Jones - A Celebration Ode (2011) by Sugar Sheds
Greenock based folk rock outfit Ard-Amas made their live debut at The Sugar Sheds during the Tall Ships...as well as releasing their debut album there, so they are very much committed to the campaign!
Check out their myspace page for a preview.
Ard-Amas - Celebration Ode (2011) by Sugar Sheds
A big big thank you to everyone who took the time to be involved. Since putting them up on Saturday, we've been promised many more from other bands and performers. We'll keep posting and sharing whatever we're sent. Please check out more music from all the artists involved and support their work.
The variety and enthusiasm makes me think there's probably mileage in a whole Sugar Sheds album, we've got loads of different old folk songs, broadside ballads and poems just crying out to be reinterpreted and re-recorded. Hmmm. Watch this space.
Labels: ard-amas, celebration ode, greenock, greenock sugar sheds, life on standby, martin jones, shinbone al, sneaky pete, yvonne lyon
Sugaropolis
Today we celebrate the foundation of the James Watt Dock 130 years ago on 6 August 1881 with a look at how the dock, the sheds and the sugar industry all played a part in the history, heritage and development of our town.
At around the same time as the shipbuilding industry was developing along the firth of the Clyde, another commercial development was beginning which would have an equally significant impact; sugar refining. Trade began between Greenock and the sugar exporting colonies of the West Indies around the early 1730's, but very little of what was imported stayed within the area. Glasgow had been refining sugar since the 1660's, and so much of what was brought ashore at Greenock and Port Glasgow was shipped up river by cart. It is possible that there were a number of small refining industries operating in the area at this time. However, the first comercial refinery was not established in Greenock until 1765, at the foor of Sugar House Lane, close to where the Oak mall now stands. It was built by Mr Mark Kuhl, and employed just a handful of men. But other refineries quickly followed by the 1820's there were at least 8 operating in the area. By the 1870s, there were 14 or 15 large refineries in operation, producing a quarter of a million tons annually and employing thousands. At this time, there was no town in the Empire, outside of London, carrying out the trade so extensively and Greenock rightfully earned the title of Sugaropolis, the sugar capital of Scotland.
Such were the opportunities for work that many immigrants arrived in Greenock in search of employment. The area’s Irish population began to grow but so too did a small German community. The Germans had been considered as masters of the sugar trade for some time and many came to Britain from rural North Germany in search of work. Immigrants from Hanover tended to sail into Hull or London before making their way to the centres of the refining industry such as Liverpool and Greenock, often working in the sugar trade until finding something less arduous. Census data shows that in 1881 there were fewer than two dozen Germans in the Inverclyde area yet, by 1891, this figure had grown to nearer 1,000. While the hard and often dangerous work was carried out by native Scots, and immigrant Irish and Germans, the refineries tended to be owned by wealthy local merchants.
One of the major players in the industry was Abram Lyle II. Having bought into the Glebe Sugar Company as part of a partnership of local merchants in 1865, Lyle was to go on to make his fame and fortune from sugar. As provost of Greenock, Lyle presided over the development of several important schemes, including the James Watt Dock, the municipal buildings, and the construction of the road to the Lyle Hill. Lyle, who also donated the fountain that bears his name and still stands in Cathcart Square today, can be considered as one of the most influential figures in the area’s development.
In 1921 some 30 years after Lyle’s death, the Tate and Lyle sugar companies merged in London to become the largest sugar company in the world. Yet Lyle was not the only son of Greenock to make an impact on the sugar industry in other locations. Indeed, many members of Greenock families, having helped establish the industry in their native town, sought fortune in London, Liverpool and beyond. The abolition of duties on sugar in 1874 had a great impact on the Greenock refineries seeing an increase in output to meet the growing national consumption. It was at this time that plans were drawn up for a facility that would ensure the town’s prolonged success in the industry.
During the latter half of the 19th century it was becoming increasingly apparent that Greenock’s harbour accommodation was too small. The growth of overseas trade and the sugar industry forced the Harbour Trust to make plans to expand the area’s harbour facilities. In 1850, the Victoria Harbour was completed and within 20 years the Albert Harbour was also in operation. Yet even as these docks were being constructed, plans were being made for a grand scheme that would make Greenock the finest seaport in Britain. In 1868 a competition offering prizes of £300 and £100 was set up to find the best proposed scheme for the new development at Garvel Park. The winner was an amateur called Mr Fiddler of London. As he couldn’t guarantee he had the necessary expertise to carry out his development, the second prize-winner, renowned architect and engineer, Walter R. Kinipple was commissioned for the development. The first stage of the project, the Garvel Graving Dock, was started in 1870 and completed some four years later. In 1871, however, it had been decided to add a wet dock to the scheme, so the Harbour Trust set about raising the necessary funds and public support for the new development. Eventually, on 1 August, 1878, Provost Lyle ceremonially cut the first sod of what was by now called the James Watt Dock, suggesting “there had never in the history of Greenock been a more momentous time involving greater interests or a greater outlay of money.”
On 6 August 1881 a double celebration for the town of Greenock took place when Provost Campbell laid the foundation stones of both the municipal buildings and the James Watt Dock and finally on the 5 August 1886, almost 20 years after the project was first started, the dock was officially opened. The lavishness of the opening ceremony reflected the importance of the project to the people of Greenock. A train was laid on to bring a large party of guests from Glasgow, a fleet of boats sailed from the Albert Harbour with the Provost’s craft officially opening the dock by breaking a ribbon stretched across the sea entrance. Thereafter banquets, back-slapping and speech-making were the order of the day. It was truly an event of national significance with reporters and sketch artists coming from as far away as London and from illustrious publication’s such as The North British Daily Mail, The Illustrated London News, The Scotsman and The Glasgow Herald. Yet the event was best summarised by the Greenock Telegraph which stated: “ After having experienced many years of corporate and administrative travail, after having seen Glasgow go dangerously ahead in the matter of steamship trade, Greenock yesterday, for the first time in her history stood forth as one of the greatest and best equipped of British seaports.”
James Watt Dock and its warehouses made possible the expansion of Greenock’s trade connections and in particular allowed for the growth of the sugar industry as it entered its heyday in the early 1900s. Perhaps this venture more than any other gave Greenock its image as a ‘ships and sugar town’.
Over the course of the 20th century, the decline of Greenock’s sugar industry was marked, until finally in the late 1990s the last refinery closed and the ships no longer came. James Watt Dock is a legacy of the area’s past, a monument to industry. Today it represents the most complete 19th century wet dock in Scotland while the Titan cantilever crane dates from 1907 and is the oldest in existence. The Sugar Sheds themselves are the largest surviving brick and cast iron warehouse in Scotland.
The dock’s dilapidated state is symbolic of the decline of the local shipping and sugar industries, yet the scheme itself is hailed by architectural critics as a rare early example of a warehouse designed as part of an overall dock plan. Such is the historical and architectural value of the building that it has featured on the World Monument Funds list of the 100 most threatened monuments alongside The Valley of The Kings and The Great Wall of China. James Watt Dock: Inverclyde’s very own wonder of the world!
What are you all about?
In the last few weeks, thanks to the support of local people, this campaign has attracted lots of attention and opinion. In turn, our local MSPs have been talking to RI about the possibilities for the future of the sheds, representing the views and comments the community have made. This week, the Chief Executive and Operations Manager of Riverside Inverclyde have also agreed to talk to members of the group about the suggestions that have been made and the possibility of further community use of the space. We were also really pleased this week to read this piece in The Scotsman, from Joan McAlpine MSP.
Brilliant. And thank you.
As things have continued to move on, we felt it was important to be clear about what we hope to achieve with this campaign. What we might all hope to achieve with the building itself is really the next step...
To explore an alternative development strategy for regeneration of the Sugar Sheds in order to provide the maximum community benefit for the people of Inverclyde.
1. To work collaboratively with Riverside Inverclyde and all key stakeholders- including the local community- to explore alternative uses for the Sugar Sheds beyond the current outline planning permission.
2. To establish a genuinely representative and meaningful way for the local community to be involved in the discussions and planning of the buildings future use – not simply the opportunity to comment on drawings and plans.
3. To secure permission for a number of community events to be undertaken within the sheds over the medium term to help test the case for longer term community use and also to build on the Tall Ships momentum to continue to positively market the buildings potential.
4. To work collaboratively to prepare an alternative business case for sustainable community use of the building
5. To explore different funding and ownership models for regenerating the Sugar Sheds in the longer term in order to provide the maximum community benefit for the people of Inverclyde,
Naturally, we would hope to see a genuine commitment to exploring these objectives from Riverside Inverclyde, James Watt Dock LLP and our locally elected representatives, particularly those directly involved with RI.
So, thank you very much for your support, interest and suggestions so far, please keep sharing the facebook page and signing the petition. This will be a long haul. I hope you'll stick with us. There's plenty more to come.
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Expert says Government “cowering” over flooding issue
December 7, 2015 December 7, 2015 Laura 0 Comments
The fight for Foynes: GFS says they saved town €2 million this weekend.
By Elizabeth Doherty
THE country is yet again counting the cost – human and financial to the flooding in the wake of Storm Desmond’s ire – but shouldn’t the state be proactive to prevent such wide scale effects?
The storm caused road closures, power outages and flooding across the country, with Donegal, Kerry, Mayo, Cork and Galway, all affected.
One flooding expert says the Irish Government is not taking enough action – and is merely “paying lip service,” to the issue.
Photos emerged over the weekend of a pub in Donegal half submerged along with the rest of a village street and of a donkey being rescued from rising flood water in Kerry.
The army was even called to evacuate an elderly couple from their home near Glenflesk, Co Kerry.
And motorists were forced to abandon their vehicles as waters rose.
But floods are not a new phenomenon to Ireland anymore – and in the last decade they have been occurring more often.
Yet it seems the state is not placing enough resources in to addressing, what has now become a national urgency.
Shane Curran, co-founder of Global Flood Solutions, is part of a very successful company defending communities across the world against flooding.
But while former GAA Roscommon goalkeeper Shane, stands at the forefront of building the answer to flooding – it seems the Irish Government is yet to take on board the solution.
GFS has provided flood defence to parts of Africa, Canada, the U.S and UK, but is has only been requested to assist once in Ireland.
“The Government needs to take control, to streamline effective flood control measures. Unfortunately too much lip service is paid to effective mitigating control measures,” Shane said.
“This could be done very effectively by taking a pro active and business like approach to deploy effective barriers.
“Government or agencies of the state have little experience of flooding and its nature,” Shane said.
“Cowering behind reports that will have little or no impact is how they deal with severe flooding issues.
“There is currently no plan to effectively resource councils with the armory to fight flood occurrences.
Shane Curran, former Roscommon goalkeeper says the Government must stop paying lip-service on flooding.
“There are many ways our company and products could effectively help the state and reduce the issues currently been experienced by people, businesses and infrastructure around the country.
Last year flooding also caused problems in Dublin, across Santry, Malahide, Drumcondra, and in other areas.
And in 2013, flooding also struck the Irish capital and swept across the country. In 2012, Cork and Belfast suffered heavy flooding.
Last year a European Commission report warned that the cost of sea flooding would increase from €996m to almost €3bn in Ireland and the UK.
Figures released last year also showed that flooding had resulted in insurers paying almost €750m in claims since 2000.
“Preparing effectively with products that can alleviate flood issues is the first step and I would also say we need an efficient mechanism to deploy effective barriers to cope with these frequent problems,” Shane said.
The establishment of a “cohesive organisation” with its “primary focus” on flood defence should be “a priority,” the former footballer said.
“Councils simply don’t have manpower or technical expertise to operate a resilience plan,” he said.
Despite his conviction and the company’s track record – it seems strange that the Government has not alerted Shane and co for help.
But the fact is, it hasn’t. However, Canada, the U.S, the UK and Africa, has. This seems even more unusual given that the firm is Irish.
“Our company could put an effective plan in place that would prepare targeted areas in a very short time-frame, with our extensive international operations experience,” Shane said.
First defence. Shane Curran says investment is urgent against flooding.
“Regretfully it’s only a matter of time before a similar instance occurs here. A person lost their life in the last flood in Dublin – We can’t protect everything but we can prepare and mitigate effectively.
“The major issue is responsibility. There will be frantic calls here in the next few days about defense and the great and the good will come out and talk nonsense.
“Then, like the floods retreat until the next, the talks will too and so it goes on until the next and then it’s some one else’s problem. It’s the hear no evil see no evil scenario.”
The state vowed to spend double on flood defence last year – from €100m by 2019 – but this sum would only be enough to protect one city – Cork.
In 2014, flooding to Cork and Limerick, was estimated to have cost €50m of damage.
Last year the Government’s flood defence coffers spent just €45m.
And again, this year, the country seemed ill-prepared against the storm and rising tide.
“Effective procurement would cost the state a small fraction of what it would save from clean up-operations,” Shane said.
“Figures suggest that every €1 spent on flood defence up to €10 is saved. It would not take a genius to work out from a simple audit how much it would cost to adequately put a plan in place.
“With modern meteorology techniques, it’s possible to predict well in advance storms and possible flooding – indeed Gerry Fleming, an esteemed meteorologist, was predicting this last week.
“Further more it’s been predicted that this week is going to bring more severe rains and further flooding.”
The company has provided flood protection to Canada, the City of Medicine Hat in Alberta, the U.S, Washington. It also worked on a military project in Somalia.
Picturesque Alberta: Shane Curran’s company helped build flood defence here.
In Ireland, Shane said the company “saved the town of Foynes from flooding.”
The firm estimates it saved the state €2million by providing defence to the town which was at risk of flooding over the weekend.
The mobile concertainer wall, which is filled with sand, is almost a metre high and a metre deep, and runs for 100 metres between the harbour and railways tracks.
The defence was put in place in just six hours. It was put in place to replace a 40 ft block wall breached last year.
That flood surged through the town, flooding homes, shops and bars. Shannon Port Company chose to adopt this system to save money in future.
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Whispers of Betrayal
by Michael Dobbs
Published by HarperCollins (UK)
314 pages, 2000
Buy it online
Reviewed by J. Kingston Pierce
Michael Dobbs was both lucky and not in being a literary success from the get-go. His first novel, House of Cards (1989), was a splendidly driven and devious tale about Francis Urquhart, a chief whip in Britain's Parliament whose legislative and personal goals were uninhibited by anything so tedious as scruples or a sense of equity. Adapted for television (with some essential changes) by the BBC, the popularity of Dobbs' debut led to a pair of sequels and made the author a hot commodity in publishing circles. However, his subsequent works have all been judged in relation to House of Cards -- and sometimes been found wanting.
Admittedly, it's hard to whack every one over the fences with the same assurance that carried House of Cards so far. But Whispers of Betrayal, the third installment in his series about a bumbling but generous-hearted "parliamentary detective" named Thomas Goodfellowe, finds Dobbs again exploiting his insider knowledge of political machinations to most-satisfying effect. No longer is Goodfellowe relegated to the sidelines of power-scheming and spin-doctoring. In this hard-to-set-aside and frequently humorous story about a plot to cripple London and bring a self-serving prime minister to his knees -- arguably Dobbs' best novel of the last half-decade -- Goodfellowe finds himself back at the beating heart of things, the man upon whom the future of Britain's capital city unexpectedly rests.
As Whispers grinds into gear, Goodfellowe's prospects appear to be improving. Although he lost his government ministerial standing in his premiere adventure, Goodfellowe MP (1997), and his wife remains adrift in a state of depressive catatonia, the "Honourable Member of Parliament for Marshwood" has finally made peace with his teenaged daughter, Sam, and looks well along the way to happiness with fetching restaurateur Elizabeth de Vries. Furthermore, he is slowly regaining a sense of ambition. As he tells an appalled Sam early on, "I'm thinking of becoming -- trying to become, at least -- a Minister once more."
Meanwhile, however, other players in this drama are conspiring to test the backbencher's patience and perspicacity. Foremost among these is Colonel Peter Amadeus, an erstwhile paratrooper and old school chum of Goodfellowe's, who feels betrayed by the British government. After his many years of service and heroic acts during the Falklands War, he is disgusted to see the military being reduced in size and stature "by a mixture of recession and the awesome incompetence of its political masters." Condemned by budgetary cuts to a desk job, Amadeus resolves that the leaders of his island nation should apologize for treating him and soldiers like him shabbily ("Belated recognition that they were men. Of valour, and of value."). But when his letter to one of the London tabloids, enunciating his grievances, is answered with scorn by the Minister for Defense, the colonel decides that his willingness to reason has ended. It's time for revenge.
Amadeus and his hand-picked cabal of disgruntled military experts start small: They pollute the water supply to Number 10 Downing Street with food dye, causing Prime Minister Jonathan Bendall's wife to exit her shower one morning all astream with the colors of a stagnant pond. Some see this as a prank, but not Bendall. A supremely arrogant and conniving pol, he imagines in this disruption the kernel of domestic terrorism on a monumental scale. "It could have been anything!" he tells his beleaguered Home Secretary. "The most monstrous substance known to man. Typhus. Anthrax. You talk of reassurance and God knows I've tried, Home Secretary. I've looked at it every way I can, but I'm damned if I can find a single shred of reassurance in any of this. My wife could be dead. I could be dead. The whole of our system of government paralyzed." Stung by charges that he isn't acting with the alacrity or savvy necessary to forestall more widespread attacks on Londoners, and hoping to shore up his approval ratings, Bendall launches a crusade against whomever caused the mischief at Number 10, unprepared for the fact that his defiance will only cause Amadeus and company to fight back with ammunition of increasing potency.
Author Dobbs, who was an adviser to former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, brings to his yarns an authenticity of attitude and action that would elude a writer with less experience or interest in the workings of government. One hardly doubts that the peeks he allows us inside Number 10 or the horse-trading hallways of Parliament draw on his intimate knowledge of both. But it is Dobbs' sketches of toadying and eccentric politicians that are the most delightful. Consider, for instance, his description of a bullying House whip by the name of Battersby:
Battersby was an oversized man with a figure like a deflating balloon and a face that brought to mind a cauliflower. A couple of outer leaves stuck out from the top of the cauliflower in passing imitation of hair. The Battersby mind could never be described as broad but, in the exercise of his duties, it was extremely singular. He was what was known as the Whip of Last Recourse. It was his function to deal with those Members who had reached that point of utter confusion in which they started rambling about 'conscience' and 'principle' .... At that stage Battersby would reach into his badly cut and over-large jacket and pull out a little black book. The production of this well-thumbed volume was a gesture that inspired remarkable piety, for in it were recorded all of the known telephone contacts for that particular Member. Starting with The Wife, of course. Then The Parliamentary Secretary. Also The Constituency Agent. In the case of an alcoholic, the book held the number of The Doctor or The AA Group, and with a gambler, perhaps even The Accountant or The Bookmaker.
But the most potent entries in that little black book seemed to be those numbers that a Member struggled to keep most private -- the 'OI' numbers, as they were referred to in Battersby's shorthand. What those in the Whips' Office called 'the numbers of the night'. The places where the Member was most likely to be found in the hours after the sun had set. The numbers of The Mistress or The Lover.
In Battersby's book and in his meticulous script, these names were divided into two categories differentiated between 'Occasional Indiscretion' and 'Ongoing Involvement.' .... Production of the dog-eared manual at the regular surgery [Battersby] held in the Whips' inner sanctum had a similar effect to a cattle herder producing a revolver -- cures amongst those beasts afflicted by the disease of conscience proved almost miraculous.
Broadly seen, this whole novel is about vulnerabilities: those of the elected officials who draw Amadeus' ire and those of the metropolis in which they all reside. The military conspirators embarrass Bendall at one point by corrupting the pager system with which whips summon Members to vote in the House of Commons, shooing them all home just when the Prime Minister needs their help to pass his latest budget. Elsewhere, Amadeus destroys the career of Bendall's latest Home Secretary by directing copies of the impassioned e-mail messages he sends to a young male researcher on to the editor of a local newspaper. The conspirators even find ways to wreck havoc across London's telephone and traffic-control systems. (Dobbs reports in an afterword that, as an enthusiastic student of security systems, he worries about modern cities falling prey to the very sorts of technological assaults outlined in Whispers. One can only hope that this book doesn't give the nut-jobs out there a few pointers.) In a subplot, and as a nice counterpoint to all of this, Goodfellowe proves vulnerable in his own quite different way -- a victim of jealousy, incited by the strong-willed Elizabeth de Vries' efforts to raise much-needed capital for her restaurant from a former lover.
As London's security deteriorates, and extraordinary government defenses prove impotent, Bendall turns to just about anyone who can help, no matter how unlikely. And no one could seem more unlikely than Thomas Goodfellowe, a man the Prime Minister has already made look foolish in front of the whole House, someone whose reputation might regain its luster only in comparison with others who enjoy even less public favor. While Goodfellowe imagines his call to Bendall's aid as a first move back into the loops of power (the initial step, perhaps to his becoming Prime Minister himself -- a particularly proletarian PM, complete with his rusting bicycle as "a symbol of sincerity and independence"), Bendall sees the Member from Marshwood as an annoyingly "high-minded moralist" whose single asset is in giving his administration a "principled" air. Yet Goodfellowe, studying the situation with fresh eyes and a willingness to speak his mind, proves to be the most able analyst of Amadeus' actions. The trouble is, Goodfellowe's efforts may be too little and come too late to save either the odious Bendall or the glorious capital.
There's a tendency in novels employing political backdrops to portray officeholders as one-dimensional and two-faced and to look for heroes from beyond the echoing hallways of government -- journalists, private eyes, maybe private citizens who are seeking justice amidst the bureaucratic maze. The Goodfellowe yarns, while they certainly include elected leaders with more peccadilloes than promise, also provide in their main protagonist a welcome exception. In an interview posted on the HarperCollins Web site, Dobbs is asked to diagnose the popularity of his backbench-warming sleuth. "I think [Goodfellowe's] appeal," the author muses, "lies in the fact that he is a very normal human being. Unlike so many politicians and political characters who tend to be ... driven by ambition or some other single-minded motivation. He, like the rest of us, has all sorts of things going on in his life: not only job and politics but family and money problems, girlfriend problems -- all the usual sorts of problems that have a direct impact on the sort of life he is able to lead and the sort of activities he is able to undertake. So he operates on many different levels, and he is a much more compassionate fellow because of those involvements and, indeed, those weaknesses."
Francis Urquhart would have rolled over him like a Prussian tank, only twice as fast. But after Goodfellowe MP, The Buddha of Brewer Street (1998) and now Whispers of Betrayal, the overweight and underappreciated Member from Marshwood has proved -- to himself, as much as anyone else -- that he has the potential for greatness. Dobbs may make his own point with Whispers. Although it isn't a perfect book (it fails, for instance, to fully exploit the delightfully brazen character of Mickey Ross, Goodfellowe's assistant), it does show that the author hasn't lost his touch for penning intelligent thrillers, compelling enough to make you pay attention to politicians again. | July 2000
J. Kingston Pierce is the crime fiction editor of January Magazine.
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Sites at Risk
The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland
An Architectural and Social History
by Sharman Kadish
Photography by English Heritage
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
80 colour and 170 black & white photographs, 398pp.
ISBN: 978-0-300-17051-1 £45
The religious buildings of the Jewish community in Britain have never been explored in depth. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished images and photographs taken specially by English Heritage, this book traces the architecture of the synagogue in Britain and Ireland from its discreet Georgian and Regency-era beginnings through the golden age of the grand "cathedral synagogues" of the High Victorian period to the twentieth century and beyond.
Sharman Kadish sheds light on obscure and sometimes under-appreciated architects who designed synagogues for all types of congregation and devotes a pioneering chapter to Jewish stained glass. She examines the relationship between architectural style and minority identity in British society and looks at design issues in the contemporary synagogue.
Shortlisted for the American Society of Historians of British Art Prize in 2013.
What the British Press have said:
The Times April 2011
Jewish Chronicle 15 July 2011
Jewish Heritage in Gibraltar: An Architectural Guide
You can order this publication direct from the publisher
© 1997–2019 Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage in the UK & Ireland. All Rights Reserved.
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The Wish Giver: Cover Reveal and Teaser
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My Fairy Tale Academy series continues with the next installment:
The Wish Giver!
This is a Fairy Godmother retelling mixed with the Snake Prince.
I didn’t use any fairy tale for the Fairy Godmother. Instead I incorporated some Eastern lore for her story. Exploring that was fascinating. I had a great time writing it and I hope you love it!
You met the snake prince, Prince Kawbra, in The Monkey King. He’s back and still the only snake who can roll his eyes.
Here’s my inspiration photo for Nakusa. She’s from a little village that no one has heard of. No one there treats her with respect. She’s at the Academy to become a fire caster, but things don’t go quite as she planned.
Official release day is Wednesday, March 20th!
Because I’m so grateful for all of you, I’ll have the price at 99 cents on release day. A sort of fan appreciation day.
Here’s the first chapter. Enjoy!
Nakusa stood next to the other fire casters, who lined up shoulder-to-shoulder at the edge of a ring of sand. Flagstones covered the ground beneath their feet.
The trio watched as Solomon marched to the pit with his shoulders back and his nose in the air. When he reached the rim of black rocks in the ground, he stopped and peered down at the single flame coming from a coal, as if daring it to disobey him.
“Remember, Solomon,” said their instructor, Rulcan Lunaignis, “you need a will of iron to command fire.” A thick scar covered half of the older man’s face. He wore the sleeves of his white shirt rolled up to his elbows, and black pants and boots. His dark hair lay cropped against his scalp.
Solomon, a first-year student at the Academy and grandson to the most powerful fire caster in recorded history, shrugged a shoulder.
Nakusa wanted to hate him. She did hate him, but it would be easier if he wasn’t so handsome. He stood a head taller than she did, with creamy white skin and light-brown hair. His green eyes shone as he narrowed them at the flame.
The instructor continued. “Fire responds to commands, not suggestions. Yet you need it to flow, almost like water, but it will not naturally go where you want it to.”
Marianne, the oldest mermaid princess at the Academy and their premiere water caster, gave the older man a tight smile. Her long blonde braid curled around her red school jacket.
S’ula, a first-year sea witch, snorted. Despite the extra weight on her body, S’ula wore the school uniform—a white shirt with a red-and-blue plaid scarf and plaid skirt—without apology. Her dark skin and eyes shone in the firelight, and her short, spiky black hair with red tips almost looked like it was burning.
Solomon ignored the instructor and raised his hand. He uttered the word “grow” and clenched his fingers into a fist.
The flame sputtered. The blue-and-white center flared before the fire roared to life, reaching three feet into the air.
Nakusa and the other two fire spellcasters stepped back.
Marianne and S’ula held their hands up, ready.
Solomon opened his hand and lowered it. As he did so, the flame went back to the size it had been before.
“Good!” Rulcan said. “We need to work on your control, but good.”
Solomon looked down his hooked nose at the older man and sneered. “Yes, sir.” Nakusa’s breath caught in her throat as Solomon walked back to stand at the other end of the line. Sunlight caught the green in his eyes, and he almost smiled.
The instructor turned to the three remaining students. “Let’s see if you’ve all been paying as much attention. Next!”
The boy next to her gave Nakusa a little shove.
She stumbled forward and into Rulcan’s line of sight.
“Nakusa.” The instructor motioned her to the spot where Solomon had stood. “I hope you’ve been practicing.”
Nakusa walked across the sand, the ground moving beneath her feet, and stopped at the edge of the ring of flat black stones.
“Remember, you must be firm.”
She nodded and stared at the flame. Fire casters should be able to feel the flame like an extension of their bodies. Like a finger or a toe. They should be able to command the fire with the same control as an appendage.
“Go on,” the instructor said.
Nakusa sighed and held her hand out. She closed her eyes and opened her mind.
Everyone, even non-magical races like humans, left a magic imprint. Nakusa had mastered feeling that on her first day. Find the magic around her. Feel the power as it moved through the earth, the water, the air and fire. She could do all that. Unfortunately, that had been the end of her easy lessons at the Academy.
A fire caster should be able to connect with the fire, but Nakusa could not. Feel it? Yes. Connect to it? No.
That didn’t stop her from trying.
Power built inside her, like water gathering behind a dam. Her skin buzzed. Nakusa waited until she had enough magic, then released it.
The power rushed out of her, and Nakusa cracked an eye open.
The flame remained as it had ever been, brightly dancing in the middle of the stones.
“Try again,” the instructor said in a strained voice.
Nakusa closed her eyes and repeated the process. This time when she released her power, she opened her eyes and watched the flame, hoping it would help her focus.
Again, nothing happened.
Rulcan let out a frustrated snort. “Have you been doing the additional exercises I gave you?”
Nakusa lowered her hand and looked down. “Yes, sir.”
“You are a fire caster, are you not?”
“All of my people are fire casters.”
He took a step closer. “Then you need to work harder.”
Shame burned Nakusa’s brown skin, and tears gathered in her eyes.
“Get back in line.”
She nodded and walked to her place, refusing to look up.
“Next!” the instructor bellowed.
The student next to Nakusa squared his shoulders and spoke under his breath. “I wish I could beat Solomon.”
Rulcan went through the same instructions, and Nakusa blinked her tears away and forced herself to watch. To figure out what she was missing.
The student, a blond boy named Svin from the far north, held out his hand and closed his eyes.
Nakusa studied every inch of him. His feet. His stance. The way he leaned forward before he said “grow.”
A strange sensation twisted in Nakusa’s stomach.
Power poured from Svin and into the fire. The flame sputtered and almost went out, then exploded. It shot high into the sky, the apex rising above the nearby magic building.
“Control it!” Rulcan yelled.
Svin’s already light skin paled, but he kept his hands out and spoke. “Diminish!”
That should have calmed it, but instead the fire became thick, like molten rock.
“Get back!” S’ula bellowed.
“Diminish!” Svin yelled again. The geyser of magma ignored him and turned into a fountain, spewing fist-sized comets of glowing, acrid death everywhere.
Nakusa, Solomon, and the other boy scrambled away. Nakusa stumbled, suddenly dizzy.
S’ula and Marianne held their hands out and spoke a word. Water poured from their fingers, giving the glowing red magma a cool bath before it hit the ground.
Svin cried out in pain and crumpled.
Marianne left S’ula to the shield and turned toward the ring of smoking stones. She whispered something, and a single line of water sprang from the ground and wrapped the base of the flame like a rope, then tightened. The air sizzled and steam rose, but the water didn’t evaporate until it had strangled the flame back to its original size.
Rulcan waved his hand, and all the pieces of fire that had reached the sand dimmed and disappeared. Some had turned the sand to hazy glass.
Solomon shook his head. “He needs to learn some control.”
Nakusa frowned; Svin had the best control in class. Why had he suddenly lost it?
The instructor and Marianne rushed to the fallen Svin. The mermaid princess put her hands on him and closed her eyes. A moment later, she opened them.
“Healing crystal,” Marianne said to S’ula.
S’ula reached into an inside pocket, pulled out a small blue crystal, and tossed it to Marianne. Then she turned her dark, angry eyes on the rest of them. “You all okay?”
“Of course,” Solomon said.
Nakusa nodded, as did the other boy.
Solomon moved to Nakusa. His green eyes looked down at her, and for the first time, she found a bit of compassion there. “What do you think about when you cast?”
Nakusa’s mouth went dry, and she had to swallow before she spoke. “Uh, the fire.”
“Just the fire?” He stood only a few feet away. His eyes continued to study hers. His lips pressed together in concern.
His lips…
She blinked. “Sorry, what?”
“What else do you think about?”
“I, uh, I do exactly as Rulcan instructs us. I build the power, focus on the flames, then let my power out.”
His lips pulled into a frown. “So it should be working.”
Now she ducked her head. “Yes, it should.”
Solomon sighed. “Well Nakusa, perhaps you should rethink your assignment as a fire caster.”
Her head came back up. “What?”
“You’ve only had the one experience with fire casting. It might not be your calling.”
“My…my calling?”
He placed a hand on his muscled chest. “Where I come from, magic is a calling as much as it is anything else. If the magic hasn’t chosen you, it will not heed you.” His hand moved to her shoulder. The weight of his arm took her off balance. “Most fire casters are men. Perhaps this is too much for you.”
Nakusa, whose insides turned from raging hot at his touch to freezing cold at his words, looked at him in horror. Was he saying she should quit?
A groan from Svin pulled Solomon’s attention away from Nakusa. He dropped his hand. “Is he all right?” Solomon asked.
“He’ll be fine,” Marianne said as two students on the security detail appeared to haul the now awake Svin to the medical building.
Rulcan wiped sand off his pants and walked to the other students. “I’m afraid that’s all for today. We’ll have to get to you next time.”
The last student didn’t seem disappointed.
The instructor eyed Nakusa. “And we’ll give you another chance.”
“Yes, sir,” she said.
The Monkey King: Cover Reveal and a Teaser
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The Monkey King!
In case you’re not familiar, The Monkey King is an ancient folklore tale from China. He is a monkey born from stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. He fights the four dragon winds, rebels against heaven, is imprisoned and eventually helps a monk travel to the west and save some Buddhist texts.
My favorite retelling of The Monkey King (besides mine) is an anime called Saiyuki. I took a few tidbits from the show for my story. One of them is that Goku (the Monkey King in the show) is always hungry. Plus he’s funny. The whole show is funny. Check it out. And watch with the English dub. Trust me.
I also incorporated his three-section staff from the legends as well as the circlet/crown that keeps his powers in check.
The love interest for this story is none other than Aurora, but her story isn’t anything like the usual fairy tale, and she’s much more than a damsel in distress!
Official release day is Wednesday, March 6th!
Here’s the first chapter!
A strange weight pressed down on Saru’s eyelids. He fought to keep them open, but to no avail. The droning voice of the instructor went on and on, talking about things that literally lulled him into a stupor.
“We only have tales from a few of the ancient races. Some we know originated with the oldest fey, while others don’t belong to any particular race.”
Saru’s ears shut down, and for a moment darkness snuggled in around him. Maybe just a quick nap.
Then someone poked him from behind. His chin slipped off the heel of his hand, and his face almost fell onto the desk before he recovered. His eyes shot open and he took a deep breath.
Saru found the teacher staring at him with cold green eyes. He waited for the censure.
Instead, Master Aloon—a rail-thin human with a stubby nose and long blond hair, dressed in blue robes—sniffed once and continued with his lecture.
“For instance, we have the story of the Monkey King. A powerful being born of stone and resembling a monkey. Some stories make him out to be a trickster. Others describe violent tendencies if provoked. The fey take credit for his departure, but no one knows what really happened.”
A yawn overpowered Saru’s resolve to sit quietly, and he covered his mouth.
Several students around Saru sniggered.
With another poke from behind, a paper slid between his arm and his side.
A light hiss sounded as Saru pulled it forward and set it on his desk. He mentally wondered what it would say this time.
It could be another thinly veiled suggestion that he ask her on a date. Or it could be her congratulating him for almost winning the Assassination game, which he’d rather not be reminded of. Or it could be her trying to make fun of the teacher in order to impress him. Saru bet on the last before he opened the piece of parchment.
It crackled as he smoothed it. The words had been laid out with precision, and the handwriting could have come from a book.
Do you have a group for the project?
Saru took his own pen and wrote in sloppy letters. What project?
He handed the note back while Master Aloon wasn’t looking. The guy never stopped talking. Considering this was literature class, Saru saw a sort of ridiculous irony in the situation.
“Another ancient story we have is of the predecessors of the First Fey. The accounts differ so widely that many historians believe they are nothing more than fairy tales, or stories with morals to impart on young children.”
The parchment returned to Saru. The project he’s about to assign us.
Saru glanced over his shoulder and waved his finger in a circle.
Catherine sat up straight with her shoulders back. She managed to make the school uniform look extra good with her pleasing proportions and her long, golden curls. Her ruby red lips—glossy thanks to some potion she’d put on them—spread into a smile as she took the parchment back and wrote more.
Saru returned his attention to the teacher.
“Believe it or not, the merpeople have some of the oldest stories. The Kraken in particular has a fascinating history.”
Saru put his chin in his hand again and scratched at the golden circlet around his head. His bushy brown hair almost covered it, but no matter what he did, it itched. And he couldn’t get it off.
The note came over Saru’s shoulder, and he snatched it up.
We split into groups of four, then we pick a story and make a play of it.
A play? Saru frowned.
The teacher moved to the front of the room and held up a thick book with a painting of a tree on the front cover. “Tomorrow we will split up into groups of four. As a group, you will choose a story and make a production of it.”
Half the class tittered, while the other half slumped in their chairs. Saru joined the latter.
Master Aloon continued. “You will have two weeks before you perform your play. The group with the best production will have the privilege of presenting at the annual Peach Ball.”
That brought another titter of excitement from every girl in the room, and a collective groan from the boys. Saru shook his head and vowed to find a reason not to go.
The Academy was a place for the nobles of different regions and races to meet and learn the etiquette of court. Unfortunately, the dean felt that learning how to behave in public settings was important, so they had a ball every month.
Luckily, the first two had held some excitement. During the Welcome Back Ball, the human Prince Samuel had been exposed as a liar and all-around jerk. After homecoming, a handful of students had been attacked by briars and almost died, and supposedly Prince Adem had fought a bunch of trolls to save everyone. Maybe someone would go on a rampage at this one. At least it would break up the monotony of tedious dancing and practiced conversation.
“Come tomorrow with names of who you want in your group.”
Catherine nudged him from behind.
Saru ignored her.
“Get your book as you leave, and find a story you are interested in. This presentation will be fifty percent of your grade, so choose something you feel you can represent to the class.”
Saru was the first student on his feet, the first to grab a book, and the first through the halls and back outside.
“Saru, wait.”
He gritted his teeth. When would this girl figure it out?
The slap of her high heels on the cobblestones got faster and louder. Saru sighed and stopped. “What is it, Cathy?”
Princess Catherine of Danor—one of the highest-ranking human princesses at the Academy—pursed her lips at his use of the nickname. Somehow she managed to look positively radiant, despite how hard she’d run to catch up with Saru. Her green eyes narrowed just enough to catch his notice. “Saru, I think we should be in the same group for this project.”
Saru turned and walked toward the fountain. “And why is that?”
“Because you’re going to need a good grade.”
Unfortunately, she was right: he did need a good grade on this project. Without it, he might fail literature class and have to retake it.
Catherine continued. “And because I think we would work well together.”
What she really meant to say was that she thought the two of them should be the main couple in some sort of romantic tragedy in which they would have to kiss at least once.
“Do you?” Saru asked as they joined the other students heading for the cafeteria.
Despite her tiny figure and short legs, she managed to keep up with his strides. “I do.”
He huffed. Enough of a fall breeze blew that overspray from the fountain settled on Saru’s skin. Part of him wanted to jump into the fountain and get wet all over, but he’d tried that once and then spent the next month cleaning the stupid thing.
Catherine put a delicate hand on Saru’s arm. “Think about it.”
Saru kept his eyes peeled until he found his savior.
Catherine made a face.
Saru gave her his winning smile. “I’ll think about it.” Before she could grab him, he slipped into the crowd of students.
“Hey Saru,” a human third-year student said.
“Get in any fights with the pixies this week?” a centaur asked.
“Have you tried fighting them?” Saru asked with a laugh.
“Saru, are you going to try the Assassination game again?” a satyr asked.
Girls smiled at him. Boys waved or nodded. Saru fought the crowd until he got to Teth.
The half-woman, half-bird, and all-siren gave him a wry smile. She stood almost as tall as Saru. The upper half of her body resembled that of a woman with creamy skin and long, inky-black hair. Dark, shining feathers covered the lower half of her body, which resembled a bird’s, complete with taloned feet and wings nestled close to her back. Her eyes, the color of the sea, regarded him. “Still using me to ditch the princess?”
Teth had been the red team’s medic in the Assassination game, and Saru had grown quite fond of the siren’s sardonic humor as well as the ease with which she frightened off other girls. “She’s terrified of you,” Saru said.
“As well she should be.”
“That girl doesn’t know when to stop,” Saru said.
“Maybe if you stopped being so dashing,” Teth said.
“I can’t help it,” Saru said. “It comes naturally.”
Teth chuckled, and all the boys within hearing distance stopped and stared.
Saru shook his head; her powers didn’t work on him. They both found it refreshing. The two of them followed the crowd into the cafeteria.
Rows of long tables filled the space, and a buzz of noise came from the students already occupying almost half of them. Food lines had formed along the far wall. The aroma of spiced meat and roasted potatoes overpowered the subtler scents of bread, vegetables, and cake.
“Are you going to sit by us?” Teth asked.
Saru made a face. “And watch you and the other sirens eat raw meat? No thanks.” Besides, he knew they preferred their privacy.
“Who will save you from the princess?”
“I’ll think of something.”
Teth chuckled again and moved off to the window where they served the races who preferred uncooked meat.
Saru moved to the end of the line and grabbed a wooden tray. He saw the number of students between him and the food, made a face, and decided to go straight for dessert.
Several of the other boys eyed him with envy. Everyone else had to go through and get the nutritious stuff before they got cake, but Saru didn’t like living by the rules. Instead, he walked to the far window and set his tray down on the counter.
“One of each,” he said as he looked over the tables, trying to find someone to sit with whom he could stand but Catherine hated.
The person behind the window scoffed. “You have to get real food first.”
The Frog Maiden: Cover Reveal and a Teaser
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Did you like The Mermaid?
What about The Beast?
Excited for the next installment of my Fairy Tale Academy Series?
Well, I am!
Here’s the cover for Book 3: The Frog Maiden
The Frog Prince (which this tale is loosely based off of) has never been one of my go-to fairy tales. However, I wanted to steer clear of the standard Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty...so I decided I would try my hand at this one.
Guys, when the ideas started coming for this story I laughed and laughed. My inspiration came from not only The Frog Prince, but also the 80’s movie Gotcha! and the anime Ouran High School Host Club. (Which, by the way, is one of my favorite anime shows. Also, I had to watch the first episode for “inspiration”)
I use a lot of the other races from the Academy in this book, and I searched the internet for inspirational pictures. These are a few that I came up with.
(Note: I do not own these. I found them through Google searches and don’t have the info to credit them. If you know who drew them, let me know and I’ll add it!)
Bric, the Satyr
One of the Tiny Triad of Pixies
Official Release for this book is Wednesday, February 20th!
The fabric of Brisa Northcott’s bag groaned as she adjusted the strap on her shoulder. A trickle of sweat rolled down the back of her neck and she cursed under her breath as she darted out of the way of a wave of second-year students headed for the cafeteria. Brisa didn’t have time to eat. She needed a place to study. Her eyes darted to the library, and then at the stream of students entering.
All of the tables on the green were taken, although with the centaurs heading up some sort of game involving a ball, there wouldn’t be a lot of quiet happening outside. Brisa passed the fountain where a gaggle of third-year girls of all races had gathered.
“Did anyone ever find out who made Belle’s dress for Homecoming?”
Homecoming had been over two weeks before, and these girls were still talking about it?
“It was Taylor. He’s almost booked through the Peach Festival. You’d better get your name in his list today.”
“Taylor, as in Prince Adem’s roommate?”
“Prince Adem is dreamy.”
“I heard he almost turned into a troll and laid an egg.”
Brisa shook her head. Trolls didn’t lay eggs.
The din from the girls faded, replaced by the clopping sound of a centaur coming up behind Brisa. Her fingers tightened around the strap of her bag.
“Brisa! Wait up!”
The cadence hastened. The boys coming toward Brisa stared behind her and up two feet.
The faint smell of a barn accompanied the centaur as she caught up.
Adosa’s back drew even with the top of Brisa’s shoulder. Her sleek, dark brown hide shimmered in the sunlight, as did her black tail and long, straight hair. Ruby red lips pulled into a mocking smile that didn’t reach her doe-like brown eyes. As usual, she wore her white uniform shirt unbuttoned almost to the point of making Brisa uncomfortable with the scarf tied around her neck. “Where are you off to?” Adosa’s gait slowed as she walked next to Brisa.
“I need to study,” Brisa said in an even voice.
“You do have a lot to learn, especially if you’re going to keep your scores high enough to stay.”
The boys passed, craning their heads at the centaur. Not only was she beautiful, but she held a small place of power among her people. Power that went straight to her head.
“The library is always a good place to study.”
Brisa slowed, forcing Adosa to walk at a snail’s pace. “Everyone else is in the library.”
“I suppose that’s true. What about your room?” Adosa put a hand on her chest. “I forgot, your roommate is a vampire. I’m guessing she’s sleeping.” She smirked. “I suppose that’s what you get when your father is a charlatan and you have no heritage.”
Brisa ground her teeth but forced a smile. “I supposed so.”
Adosa tossed her black hair. “I’m on my way to the arts building. One of the sculptors wants to use me as a model.”
Of course they did.
“You could come!” Adosa sneered. “It’s always quiet.”
The thought of sitting in a room with Adosa and her adoring fans made Brisa’s skin crawl. She glanced around and said, “That’s a very nice offer, but I’m meeting someone in the history building.”
“I thought you said you were looking for a place to study.”
Brisa ignored the question, took the next cobblestone path and waved. “See you later.”
“My offer stands!”
Brisa took the stairs two at a time and retreated into the building. Students occupied the first two rooms she passed. When she got to her history room, the instructor—Bo’ab—sat at her desk.
Bo’ab glanced up as Brisa went by. The tall, slender First Fey waved. Brisa kept moving.
The study area near the far stairs—consisting of a table, two chairs and a dusty couch—was deserted. Brisa sighed as she set her books on the table. The carved, wooden chair screeched along the stone floor as she pulled it out.
Brisa opened her bag and stared at the contents. History, science, magic, diversity of species, sculpture…she had enough work here to keep her busy for a month. In the end Brisa decided to start with her goblin report. It wasn’t due until the end of the week, but she’d been working on it a little each day, and if she continued, the report would be finished ahead of schedule.
Brisa pulled out two textbooks and her notebook. Several slips of paper poked out the top of each book, and she opened both to the latest slip. She retrieved a pencil, flipped to her report in the notebook, and began reading.
Understanding the other races was one of Brisa’s primary concerns, and she’d had to beg Dean Banli to let her into the advanced diversity of species class. If she didn’t impress the instructor with this report, he would likely kick her back to the first-year races class.
Goblins had always fascinated Brisa. They kept much of their clanish culture secret, but enough was known that Brisa had plenty of material to put in her report.
According to her research, goblins were reputed to be shy creatures. Everything Brisa had seen here at the Academy proved otherwise. Acting student body president, Rakar, was a goblin, and he was anything but shy.
Another discrepancy seemed to be that the goblins liked to steal. Brisa hadn’t found anything in the library or the school records that indicated that they’d had any issues with thefts involving goblins.
Brisa had hoped to find out more about their clans, but so far she hadn’t had much luck. Perhaps she would ask Rakar for an interview.
Several minutes passed and Brisa was in the middle of writing a long note, when the clomping of hoofs echoed from down the hall.
Adosa. Again?
Brisa gathered all of her things in her arms, hooked her bag over her shoulder and ran up the spiral stairs as fast as she could. Her shoes slapped on the stones, and her legs burned. She reached the landing and ducked behind the half-wall.
The clomping came to a stop.
Brisa held her breath.
“Did anyone see you?” a gravelly voice asked.
“No way,” a deep, alluring voice answered.
“And you’re sure she had a blue tattoo?”
“That’s what the girls said.”
Brisa adjusted the bundle in her arms so she could breathe.
More clopping. This time just two hoofs.
“Did she take the bait?” the gravelly voice asked.
A new voice snorted. “Of course. No woman can resist knowing a tiny bit of their future.”
“I still can’t believe girls buy into that,” the deep voice said.
“All too easy.”
“Is the Tiny Triad tailing her?” the gravelly voice asked.
“They were the last time I saw them.”
Brisa leaned over the rail so she could see below. As she suspected, a centaur stood with a satyr. Both faced a goblin.
The centaur’s silver hide and cropped white hair almost gleamed in the light. A tattoo ran out from under his white shirt and up his neck. He’d rolled his sleeves up, and Brisa could see the tattoo peeking out at his elbow. She’d seen the satyr before—a second year with brown fur, short horns and a disarmingly handsome smile.
The goblin, like all of his kind, stood shorter than most human men. Large, pointed ears poked out from his head. Gold earrings dangled from both in varying quantities. His skin looked extra green next to the white shirt and tie and black pants.
“Okay,” the goblin—owner of the gravelly voice—said, “we just got lucky. If we can pull this off, we’ll have the biggest advantage in the history of this competition.”
The centaur and satyr nodded.
Brisa frowned. What competition?
The goblin continued. “You know what to do.”
Before either of his companions could move away, a zip of light came down the hall and halted in front of the goblin, bouncing up and down. It let out a faint trill.
“Good,” the goblin said, rubbing his hands. “I’ll be upstairs, waiting.”
“You got it, boss,” the centaur said.
Whatever this was, Brisa wanted nothing to do with it. She turned to creep away from the stairs, but let out a scream and dropped her books when she came face-to-face with a glowing pixie. The little green-skinned female wore a tiny uniform, and somehow she’d managed to find the shortest plaid uniform skirt Brisa had ever seen. Flowing red hair cascaded past her hips. Her wings—segmented like a butterflies—looked like tiny stained glass windows in shades of brown, orange and green. Burning red eyes glared at Brisa, and the pixie let out a high-pitched wail.
Brisa jumped back. “S—sorry.”
“Well, well, what have we here?”
Brisa let out a yelp and spun back toward the stairs, stepping on her books in the process. She came face to face with the goblin. His orange eyes took her in from head to foot, then he looked over her shoulder. “Assassinate her, girls.”
The Beast: Cover Reveal and a Teaser
Tags : Cover Reveal The Academy The Beast YA Books
Did you like The Mermaid? Excited to go back to The Academy?
Here’s the cover for Book 2: The Beast
Beauty and the Beast is maybe my favorite fairy tale. (Don’t tell the others.) It stems from seeing Disney’s version in the theater when I was a teenager and falling in love with it. Specifically the library. I read a few of the early versions of the tale before I started writing mine.
One tidbit I incorporated was that of Belle’s lineage. You’ll have to read the story to find out more, but Belle is more than she seems, and it is important.
As you’ll read below, Adem’s curse works a bit different in my story than other versions. I hope you like it!
Official release day is next Wednesday, Feb. 6th!
The carriage swayed as it trundled through the dense forest. Each rut in the road made the carriage jolt, and each jolt made Adem grit his teeth.
“Are you even listening to me?”
Adem blinked and looked back at Gilles, his advisor and pseudo-father. “Uh, no?”
Gilles sat ramrod straight in the seat across from Adem. The dark jacket over his tunic fit his slim body to precision. The buttons caught the light filtering in through the window, and despite the bouncing, Gilles’ perfect posture didn’t waver. The man’s dark eyes bored into Adem’s.
“Sorry.” Adem fought back the urge to sigh. “Please continue.”
“I said that two more people have started to turn.”
Adem curled his hands into fists. “Who?”
Gilles, who had just opened his mouth to continue, closed his lips. “Who?”
“Yes, who?” Adem asked, his voice almost a growl.
“Two of the elderly maids.”
“Ellen?”
Gilles nodded. “And Anna.”
Adem rubbed his face.
“As much as we all appreciate your concern, you have a more important task.”
Adem held up a hand. “I know why I’m going to the Academy. You don’t have to tell me—again.”
This time Gilles’ eyes flashed. “Girls can be very distracting for sixteen-year-old boys.”
“It’s not like I’ve never seen a pretty girl before,” Adem grumbled.
“I’m worried about the beast inside you.”
Gilles shrugged. “The few adults who have begun to change have experienced some unexpected side effects.”
“Like being attracted to fertile members of the opposite gender.”
Adem shifted in his seat. “I’ve got more important matters to worry about.”
“For now,” Gilles said.
An unexpected wave of anger bubbled to life, and Adem spoke through clenched teeth. “You don’t trust me?”
Giles studied him. The man’s eyes seemed to breach to Adem’s core, pushing aside his temper and going straight to the heart of the matter. Instead of censuring Adem, Gilles cleared his throat. “You need to be careful.”
“I will be,” Adem said, keeping his anger in check.
“Be especially wary of the faeries.”
“You think I’m an idiot?”
“If someone would tell me what my parents did to end up cursed, things would probably be easier.”
For the first time, Gilles shifted in his seat. “Your parents never shared their dealings with anyone.”
Adem sat forward and stared into Gilles’ dark eyes. “Not even you?”
“Not even me.” The older man didn’t blink.
He was lying.
Gilles cleared his throat. “You know what you have to do. Stay away from the faeries and find what you need, or we will all end up like those outside the walls.”
“I know the consequences of failure.” Adem swallowed as blurry images of the first year of the curse rose in his mind. The monsters who had once been his friends had thrown themselves at the barrier around the castle until their own bodies were broken, or they found someone else to prey upon.
His friends.
His parents.
Adem’s eyes flicked to Gilles again, and he narrowed them. The man was hiding something. Adem could practically smell it as Gilles looked out the window and pretended to ignore the fur that had sprouted on his face the moment they’d cleared the barrier around the courtyard.
The coach lurched to the side and hit a bump so big that Adem lost contact with the seat, then crashed down hard. Pain stabbed his backside, awakening the anger lurking just below the surface.
“What’s going on?” Adem bellowed as he opened the window. He stuck his head out and heard the horses scream in terror, then an invisible hook grabbed the carriage and hauled it forward. Adem hit the back wall hard.
Gilles flew across the space and landed in an undignified heap next to Adem.
Their gilded cage began to vibrate as the horses sped up.
Stars danced in Adem’s vision, and he shook his head. “Are you all right?” He helped Gilles to a sitting position.
Gilles nodded, but put a hand to his head where blood ran from a cut.
The scent of iron stung the inside of Adem’s nose. It drew him in like a child to a piece of candy. He licked his lips, wondering what the hot liquid would taste like.
“See what’s happening,” Gilles said in a weak voice.
The words shattered the moment, and Adem hauled himself to the window. The outside air brushed his face and hair, dispelling the iron and bringing with it the scent of pine trees, damp dirt, and…
Adem inhaled. Something didn’t smell right. Not blood, but a musk that made the hair on the back of his neck prickle. He stuck his head out and found the horses pulling against the reins.
“Marshel, what’s going on?” Adem yelled.
A growl answered him.
Adem’s stomach turned to lead. He looked back at Gilles and found the man still groggy. No help there. “Marshel? Can you hear me?”
Another growl. Almost words, but not quite.
“Great,” Adem muttered. He unclasped his cloak, dropped it on the seat, and opened the door.
“Master Adem, what are you doing?” Gilles asked in an alarmed voice.
Adem ignored the man and moved out onto the steps. Cool wind pulled at his tunic.
“Marshel!”
Lather covered the horses’ hindquarters. The carriage hit another bump, and Adem’s fingers tightened around the door frame. With a grunt, he heaved himself toward the driver’s bench.
“You’re going to get killed!” Gilles cried.
“Not if I can help it.” Adem stretched his hand toward the rail of the driver’s bench. The tips of his fingers brushed the rough wood. He stood on his toes and took hold of the rail just as the carriage bucked again.
Adem let out a yell and used every ounce of strength he could muster to hold on. One glance down showed the broken road beneath, along with the mercilessly turning wheels.
His fingers slipped. Maybe Gilles was right—maybe he was going to die.
If he died, everyone in the castle died.
A shot of adrenaline—more than he’d ever felt before—coursed through his body, and Adem reached for the rail with his other hand. His fingers inched toward the target, but they went over another bump, and Adem almost slipped. His back hit the side of the carriage hard. He glared at the rail, held his breath, and reached. This time his grip found purchase, and he used the remaining adrenaline to pull himself up.
He opened his mouth to ask Marshel what had happened, but he found the man curled in on himself, the reins still in his—
Instead of fingers, claws protruded from the man’s gloves. Gray fur poked out the top.
The hair on Adem’s neck rose again, and he found himself bearing his teeth. He shook his head and reached for the reins.
A low snarl sounded, and Adem stopped with his fingers just inches from the man. “Marshel?”
The snarl turned into a groan, and Marshel shuddered. He looked up.
Adem froze. Instead of the man’s usual blue eyes, gold eyes stared back at him.
“Can’t do that. Sorry.” Adem wrenched the reins from Marshel. Marshel lunged, but Adem kicked him away. Marshel crashed to the other end of the bench, and Adem pulled on the reins.
The horses fought against the command. Now that he knew Marshel had started to change, Adem could assume that the animals had caught the scent. The carriage slowed.
Adem looked over his shoulder. “Come get Marshel off!”
The horses refused to stop completely, but Adem slowed enough so Gilles could hop out and pull Marshel off.
After another dozen yards, the horses lost his scent and came to a stop.
Adem tied them off, hopped down, and ran back.
Gilles crouched over Marshel, who contorted as if someone were poking him with a hot iron. Animal fur sprouted on his cheeks and jaw, and Marshel’s nose elongated.
“It seems that our progression quickens the longer we’re outside the castle,” Gilles said, glancing down at his own increasingly furry hands. Gilles looked at Adem. “You?”
“Besides a heightened sense of smell, I’ve got nothing.”
“Perhaps the protection spell is stronger for you. Or perhaps it is because you are young.”
“Does it matter?” Adem asked.
“It means you need to focus at the Academy.”
Marshel stopped thrashing. He lay on the ground, panting. Adem squatted next to him and took his hand—now a paw. “I’m sorry.”
Marshel’s eyes barely focused on Adem. “Save us.”
Faces of those still in the castle swam before his vision. Men and women who had been servants, nobles and peasants, forced to work together to survive. Most Adem counted as friend.
They were his responsibility.
Adem gave Marshel’s hand a squeeze and rose. He faced Gilles. “Take the carriage and get him back.”
“What about you?” Gilles asked.
“I’m only a day’s walk from the Academy. I’m sure I can find a ride.”
Gilles frowned. “You shouldn’t arrive like that.”
“Why? Because I’m a prince?” Adem stepped toward Gilles. “I don’t care about that. I’m not going there for validation or to find a wife or a mate or to die uselessly or anything else.” He pointed at Marshel. “I’m going to keep this from happening to everyone we love.”
Gilles studied him for a moment, then nodded. “Yes, m’lord.”
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VANGUARD Newspaper
Yar’ Adua/Jonathan divide the North:
National News Jan 16, 2010 It is exactly 55 days President Umaru Yar’Adua was flown abroad for medical treatment. Yet, silence is the norm on the true position of the President’s health. Rather, rumours of his illness and death are heating up the system, leading to demand for empowerment of the Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President, mass rallies, court judgements, rows in the Senate, a Yar’Adua voice on BBC among others.
The BBC voice came after the media reported that the president was clinically dead , brain-damaged and on a life support machine.
It is clear that the Yar’Adua illness is being politicised and Nigerians are at a loss as to the way out of the quagmire. Would the entire nation be left at the mercy of one man?
As if to answer the question, a Federal High court in Abuja adopted a mid-course approach to resolving the problem by making a pronouncement based on section 5(1) and 148(1) of the 1999 constitution that the VP Jonathan can perform Yar’ Adua’s duties. That judgement was like tackling the matter from a periphery.
Saturday Vanguard went to town to sample the opinions of ethnic leaders, politicians and lawyers as to the provisions of the constitution under the circumstances and their views are as diverse as the issues being raised.
We can’t empower Jonathan — Shehu
A three- time member of the House of Representatives, Abubakar Garba Shehu in an encounter with Saturday Vanguard says the National Assembly cannot compel the President to resign or the VP to act on behalf of the president :
The National Assembly cannot compel anybody to resign or to act on behalf of another. Section 144-145 of the constitution has not given the National Assembly the power to ask the VP to take over. The person to do that is Federal Executive Council, FEC . The Constitution is very clear. I have been in the House of Reps for eleven years.
There is no provision that empowered the National Assembly to ask the President to resign or the VP to take over the powers of the President.
The FEC members are not elected but the constitution has given them that power. The only power the N.A has is that of impeachment and that is when the president has committed an impeach able offence and Yar’Adua has not done that.
We cannot do anything about his ill-health. Nigerians should go and read the 1999 constitution, section 144-145.
The President is recovering and will soon be back. Though he is the president, he can fall sick and he can die. So, Yar’Adua remains the president.
There have been presidents who were sick and they recovered. We should pray for his recovery so that he could continue where he stopped before the sickness, like following up on Amnesty and his 7- point agenda. We should not be negative about this whole thing as we are being.
Nigeria is hanging on the precipice – Agoro
By Chioma Gabriel, Deputy Editor
Dr. Olapade Agoro (Aladura Patriarch) is the National Chairman/former Presidential Candidate of the National Action Council (NAC) He is also the National Chairman of Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) and he says:
Sickness until pronounced madness remains within curable diseases under the management control expectation of general practitioners.
A sickness that starts with self delusion, wide laughter to oneself without reasonable cause, loose, careless and meaningless talking and probably with walk- jumping if not carefully, quickly and properly diagnosed may after all end up in madness.
Madness it must be mentioned starts from the head and not the mind.
The carelessness of Nigerians beginning its current democratic dispensation which hurriedly started in 1999 with a gang up of political opportunists with mad heads is proving fatal.
In the over ten years of PDP mis-governance, evidences of socio-economic and political misfortunes never seen before and never ever anticipated have besieged Nigeria.
Starting from Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, the US published a list of 27 most corrupt Nigerian government officials which list was never allowed to see the light of the day in Nigeria but which eventually culminated in the exposure of late Chief SM Afolabi’s National ID card corruption scandal must have informed us what was to befall the nation.
From 1999 to date ,the once known evils of official government corruption, political murder, treasury looting, violent religious riots, mass unemployment, insecurity of lives and property, massive importation of food and critical necessities of life, governmental policy reverses, governmental lying, capital and key industries flight out of Nigeria to other African countries et al have added new dreadful entrants like kidnaping , militancy and now sadly the grand father of criminal activities- “Abdul Muttalab International Terrorism.
Perhaps the greatest of the assault at the peace and unity of recent time is the current shame of hide and seek political gambit the nation with mad heads is playing over the health of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua
Notably, the prayerful and demonstration of open support by all and sundry, Christians and Muslims to the current very painful health status of President Umaru Yar’Adua stand unequalled in the political history of this nation.
As such, there can be found no justifiable reasons than HEAD MADNESS why anybody should hold the nation to ransom, refusing to allow the necessities of Constitutional provisions interplay to come into effect in this matter.
Unfortunately for the nation, as I always said and maintained, Nigeria has Jonathan as Vice President but not Good luck.
Until Nigerian masses rise up to take their fortunes in their hands by forcing the instrument of national shame out of power, there is no way Jonathan devoid of Good luck would be installed as Acting President of Nigeria.
I don’t understand the argument – Kukah
Reverend Father Matthew Hassan Kukah was the Secretary of National Conference on Political Reforms held in the era of President Obasanjo and he says he does not understand the angst being expressed by Nigerians on Yar’Adua’s absence as governance is still going on:
I don’t understand the brouhaha about President Yar’Adua’s illness and the issue of having an Acting President. Has the Vice President complained that he doesn’t have enough powers? If he has not complained, why are people crying more than the bereaved?
The VP has not said that there is anything that comes before his table that he doesn’t have the power to handle. If he doesn’t have the power, the powers will not be given to him by the people on the streets but by the relevant arm of government .
You said the National Assembly has said it doesn’t have the power to empower him , so the issue is how do we understand the workings of the various arms of government? I’m saying this because a lot of things are being confused.
As far as I am concerned, people are barking at the wrong tree.
I’m still not clear what powers would be given to the Vice President, because he has not said he doesn’t have powers to do XYZ. I’m not quite sure that I understand what the brouhaha is all about.
You said there is a vacuum and I’m not doubting but what kind of vacuum? If we have a VP and the president is not around, how is there a vacuum? We have a new Chief Justice and a new Permanent Secretary. They were sworn in by recognised authority .I don’t understand what the media is up to.
The protesters that came to Abuja are entitled to stage their protest. There is nothing criminal about that. They could stage a protest even if the President is there.
The kidnaping of four foreigners in the Niger Delta has nothing to do with the president being present or being absent.
If there are constitutional ways of empowering the VP to become the Acting President, I’m sure he knows exactly what to do. If the VP can be empowered by the people on the streets, people know what to do.
If it is the National Assembly that will empower the VP, those people equally know what to do. That the president is not on seat is for a reason everybody knows. But how do you empower the VP? You don’t have the powers. I don’t have the powers. A lot of people have gotten carried away by this, but lets be clearer in the quality of analysis that we make.
42 Responses for “Yar’ Adua/Jonathan divide the North:”
Dr Buki Morgan MBBS psc London & Lagos says:
January 16, 2010 at 11:19 pmMAITAMA DISAPPOINTS AND IS A LET-DOWN
Maitama Sule’s comment is tragic. For long I respected this affable and witty Nigerian, I even looked up to him and expected him to defend those who speak the truth at all times. For him to dodge commenting on the Yar’Adua problem is a tacit confession that there is hardly any defence for this obstinacy and obdurate acts. He finds himself in the position of either choosing between the path of righteousness and true patriotism, and loyalty to a friend and party allegiance. The sad but tragic truth is that he chose the latter.
Maitama, I tell you this time around , you are wrong. DEAD WRONG.
Posted 16 Jan 2010 21:41hrs
You Self says:
January 16, 2010 at 10:01 pmI agree with Stevo. Why listen to suckers like Maitama Sule and Rev. Kukah. Both of them have lived their lives. They are done. Now is our time. It’s left for me and you to figure out how to best live our lives. Sule and Kukah will sure not live our lives for us. As far as I am concerned, TO YOUR TENTS OH NIGERIA! How much longer should we continue to listen to Aboki and a zombie to proffer our way forward to us? Everything Nigeria stinks! And it has stunk since Shagari! What is more? Nigeria as we know it is finished — Kaput! Broke Nigeria up now and let’s go our different way. I have had it, and have for years. I can’t wait.
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Trey Gowdy Crushes the Obama Narrative on Saving Benghazi Heroes in Just 38 Seconds
by Justin Green June 28, 2016, 11:28 am 34.7k Views 9 Votes
The House Benghazi Committee’s report is out, and while some in the media are downplaying its findings, what Trey Gowdy announced Tuesday will definitely raise eyebrows.
One particular item of note is whether swift action by the Obama administration could have saved Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, former Navy SEALs working with the CIA in Benghazi.
Back in 2013, Obama Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said nothing could have gotten to Benghazi in time because:
The reason is because armed UAVs, AC-130 gunships, or fixed-wing fighters with the associated tanking, armaments, targeting and support capabilities were not in the vicinity of Libya and because of the distance, would have taken at least 9 to 12 hours if not more to deploy. This was, pure and simple, a problem of distance and time.
But Gowdy told the country in a televised press conference on Tuesday:
“The mortar attacks could have taken place at 7:15 a.m. or 9:15 a.m. or even at lunch time on the twelfth. Because at the time those two Americans were killed, not a single wheel of a single U.S. military asset had even turned toward Libya.”
The much-awaited report also detailed a reason why they had so much trouble getting forces who could help.
NBC News reports:
In a newly revealed two-hour secure video conference on the night of the attacks led by White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and attended by Clinton and others, State Department officials raised concerns about the diplomatic sensitivities of the attire to be worn by assets launched.
In an interview with the Committee, Patrick Kennedy, the under secretary or Management at State, described the department’s sensitivity as wanting to “make sure that the steps we were taking would enhance the security of our personnel, not potentially diminish the security of our personnel.”
According to one commander, the report states, as forces prepared to deploy, “during the course of three hours, he and his Marines changed in and out of their uniforms four times.”
Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods perished, Gowdy noted, seven hours after the attack began.
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RICHARD THOMPSON (1957 - 2016)
The brilliant Richard Thompson, an artist of immense gifts and creator of the last great comic strip, Cul de Sac, passed away today.
I've written about Richard several times on this blog, always inadequately. I've written about his courageous decision to end his strip in 2012 when Parkinson's cruelly stripped him of his god-given gifts, and the book about his art that was created as an homage to Richard by fellow artists such as Bill Watterson, Peter de Seve, John Kascht and Nick Galifianakis.
As I wrote in that book:
Richard's lines wobble like an infant learning to walk, teetering to the right and to the left of what the laws of perspective and anatomy might require. His shapes are askew as if they were lured from the straight path by a more fun place to play. Yet those same lines are applied with such exquisite precision, his drawings would be diminished by any variation. His beautiful ungainly pictures place him among the very top artists in his field.
You can view an excellent documentary about Richard below. His extraordinary gifts deserve your attention.
In the final stages of Richard's illness, he sat immobilized in a wheel chair barely able to whisper a single word. Still, some of the most talented and famous cartoonists and illustrators came from far and wide just to sit in his presence. They were a boisterous group, sitting around Richard's messy kitchen table (littered with Richard's crappy diet of Cheetos, orange soda and corn nuts) drawing sketches, laughing and telling jokes. But the instant that Richard attempted to say something, all noise ceased. Everyone turned expectantly to Richard and strained to hear his few squeaked words, which were consistently the best part of the conversation.
Even ravaged by Parkinsons, he was always the funniest man in the room.
Posted by David Apatoff at 3:41 PM 14 comments:
COMIC-CON 2016: PHIL HALE
One of the most exciting developments at San Diego Comic-Con was the world release of Phil Hale's new book, Let's Kill Johnny Badhair. The book brings together Hale's brilliant series of paintings of a solitary, half dressed figure battling a machine in front of a bright blue sky.
Hale painted the same subject nearly eighty times. Yet, there’s nothing redundant about these pictures. Each new painting was a fresh experiment. Each battle had an uncertain outcome.
These are what composers call “variations on a theme.” They allow the composer to explore a concept’s full potential by using multiple, even contradictory approaches. They gave Hale the freedom to give his character different roles, to kill him off and bring him back again in a more profound state, one that could grow and mature along with Hale’s artistic powers.
Hale was kind enough to invite me to write an essay for this book. Here is an excerpt:
Hale’s artistic growth through these variations is obvious for all to see. He didn't want a formula he could repeat to make his job easier. To the contrary, he struggled with each new painting the way Jacob struggled with the angel, wrestling through the night and refusing to let go until the angel blessed him. Sometimes he won and other times he didn’t, but neither outcome was permanent.
The clash between man and machine has inspired many legends, from John Henry’s race against the steam drill to John Connor’s struggle with Skynet. You might say it has become a central metaphor for our time. Like all great metaphors, the clash between man and machine offers both strength and flexibility. Its imagery is strong and clear while its message is flexible and ambiguous, permitting a wide variety of interpretations. For example, a clash between man and a machine might represent humanity’s clash with modernity, but it might also symbolize sterile efficiency against organic imagination. We might reflect on it as a statement on the endurance of the human will when flesh is pitted against metal; or the value of a soul in a conflict with the soulless; or the conflict between order and disarray.
Hale has developed his own, striking version of the metaphor: a ballet in the sky between Badhair and a sinister metallic conglomeration of sprockets, blades and cables. The two characters leap up together, they twirl mid-air, one advances while the other retreats. The paintings are powerful, even savage, and yet at the same time they are riddled with ambiguity: sometimes it seems one combatant has won, but that lasts only as long as the next painting. The stakes seem high-- perhaps the very highest-- but it’s never quite clear what they’re battling for or who the victor will be.
I love the way Hale sets his stage with a universal background: an eternal blue sky with no distractions or clutter that might limit the scene to a particular time or place. For all we know, these battles could be taking place on Mt. Olympus or in some dystopian future. They could take place over centuries or in a nanosecond. The combatants could be enormous in size or microscopic. The sky gives us no basis for measuring any of these things; it's the perfect backdrop for a clash of big ideas and ambitious icons.
Hale flew to San Diego from London for the release of his book, which was published by Ashley Wood's publishing company.
It was a pleasure to see Phil again, to talk about our favorite illustrators, and to be reminded of his great sincerity, his intellectual curiosity and his passion for growth. The wonderful compilation of badhair paintings in this book reminds me of his past accomplishments, but it is clear he has many themes, and many variations ahead of him.
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ONLY THE CARTOONISTS PREVAIL
Mort Drucker
On this date in 1925, the famous Scopes "monkey trial" began in Dayton, Tennessee. High school teacher John Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution in public school.
T.S. Sullivant
The lawyer for the World Christian Federation blasted evolution for suggesting that humans were descended "not even from American monkeys, but from old world monkeys." The lawyer defending Scopes, Clarence Darrow, told the court his goal was "preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States."
Scopes lost his trial, but nobody ever seems to lose this battle permanently. For nearly 100 years, the argument has raged in different forms. More than a dozen other states attempted to impose similar laws against teaching evolution. Scientists, theologians, teachers, government officials, clergy and bureaucrats all clashed bitterly over this issue. When the opponents of evolution began losing ground, they switched tactics and attacked anew in the name of "creation science."
It was the generals who proved most persuasive. Following the Soviet Union's 1957 launch of Sputnik, the US government became so alarmed by the state of science education it passed the National Defense Education Act. The resulting textbooks included the theory of evolution, but even that didn't stop the resentment. Texas newspaper editorials and church sermons angrily insisted on the right of Texans to disbelieve science.
The only group that seems to make out well in these kinds of protracted disputes are the cartoonists. At least they get to have fun drawing cool pictures of monkeys. So in commemoration of the Scopes trial, here are some of my favorite drawings of apes:
From the great Walt Kelly:
The brilliant Mort Drucker drew dozens of wonderful monkeys in his story about Mighty Joe Kong in MAD no. 94:
From Peter de Seve:
And for those who enjoyed last week's panels from Prince Valiant, here is another elaborate (although somewhat stiff) image from Hal Foster:
And finally, the weirdest of them all, from Gary Larson:
THE ENORMOUS ADVANTAGES OF FORM
The pictures in comic strips today have become less ambitious and imaginative.
Prince Valiant, 1942
The strips which first established the greatness of the medium had a strong visual character. Today the drawings have become simpler and more basic, even as the words have become more adult and sophisticated.
You'll find no images in comic strips today like the grand images from Hal Foster's Prince Valiant:
You'll find no powerful chiaroscuro drawings such as these from Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates:
You see no displays of visual imagination such as this from Gasoline Alley:
or this from Lyonel Feininger's Wee Willie Winkie:
Feininger imagines the black smoke from the locomotive smokestack as "giants" while the steam from the cylinders becomes white rabbits running alongside the train:
George Herriman's visual layouts were crucial to his poetic content:
The words in Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon were pretty silly, but Raymond's drawings were quite eloquent. Note his strong brush work describing Dr. Zarkov's back:
Raymond created huge fanciful worlds with his brush:
Such worlds are gone from comic strips, having migrated to movie screens.
Why have so many strips today settled for a low grade functionality?
People have offered many explanations: smaller size, changed economics, different priorities. I'd like to suggest another explanation: drawings have become dumber because comic strip audiences are less appreciative of the importance of form. The modern appetite for comic strips has shifted from form to content; rudimentary drawings in simplistic, repetitive compositions don't slow the intake of a joke.
Whatever the reason, there's an awful lot of mediocre drawing in popular strips today.
In this example, the woman's rolls of fat make no sense, and the folds on her shirt work against the humor of the drawing. Those spasmodic motion lines surrounding both the woman and Opus suggest movement in all directions simultaneously. Opus is running on a floor substantially higher than the one on which the woman stands. I don't mind the ugly colors since the artist is going for a grotesque effect, but here the light source and purple shading are as aimless as the line work.
There's no law that pictures must be internally consistent-- George Herriman made an art of inconsistency-- but the sloppiness of so much contemporary drawing wastes a lot of opportunities. Spontaneity is a virtue only as long as artists are able to distinguish it from carelessness.
Words can be eloquent but pictures have an eloquence all their own. If we lose sight of the enormous advantages of form -- the extraordinary range of qualities found in omission and selection, in visual design, imagination and grace-- we will never be able to recapture them with all the advantages of content.
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Letter backs Massachusetts tribes on sacred site
The Massachusetts Historical Commission is backing the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in a dispute over a sacred site.
MHC executive director Brona Simon said she found "considerable archeological, historical, and ethnographic information" to support the tribes' view that Nantucket Sound is a culturally significant site. She said the sound deserves to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
"The identity and culture of the indigenous Wampanoag are inextricably linked to Nantucket Sound," Simon wrote in a 21-page opinion. "The long archaeological and historical record of dependence upon marine resources and the ocean setting are well documented, with many illustrative historical and contemporary examples of the specific use of Nantucket Sound by the Wampanoag."
The opinion could affect the future of the controversial Cape Wind project. The tribes, who are known as the people of the first sun, say the 440-foot-tall turbines planned at the site will obstruct their view of Nantucket Sound and disrupt sacred sites.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plans to make a decision on the project by the end of the year. As part of the process, the tribes want the National Park Service to place Nantucket Sound on the historic register.
Aquinnah Wampanoag Chair Cheryl Andrews-Maltais and Mashpee Wampanoag Chair Cedric Cromwell both addressed the issue at the White House Tribal Nations Conference yesterday. They urged Salazar to reject the project.
Wind farm snared in clash over history (The Cape Cod Times 11/6)
Nantucket Sound may get new status (The Boston Globe 11/6)
Interior promises action on wind turbine project (11/3)
Editorial: Reject tribal claim on wind turbine site (11/2)
Massachusetts tribes fight wind farm project (10/5)
Obama declined Aquinnah Wampanoag meeting (08/31)
Letter: Tribal opposition to wind energy project (07/16)
Massachusetts tribes oppose wind turbine site (7/15)
NYT Blog: Salazar on Indian Country rights-of-way (03/25)
wampanoag
Phil Busey: Do more for Oklahoma Indian business
Rep. Kennedy backs bill to fix land-into-trust ruling
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Once they moved like the wind : Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache wars
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Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache wars
Roberts, David, 1943-
Geronimo, 1829-1909
Apache Indians -- History
Apache Indians -- Biography
Cochise, chef apache, m. 1874
Cochise, Apache chief, 1805?-1874
Apache (Indiens) -- Histoire
Apache (Indiens) -- Biographies
Cochise, Apache chief, d. 1874
Apache Indians
Apache Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Apache (Indiens) -- Guerres
Apache Indians -- Wars
Apache Indians -- Kings and rulers
Of the many tales of conflict and warfare between the U.S. government and the Indian tribes, perhaps none is more dramatic or revealing than the story of the Apache wars. Those wars were the final episode in the U.S. government's subjugation of the indigenous peoples; the surrender of Geronimo in 1886 effectively ended the Indian wars. As Anglo settlers moved into the Southwest in the mid-1800s, skirmishes with the Indians intensified. The Apaches were the most feared of the Southwestern tribes, both by Anglos and by other Indians. Under the leadership of the charismatic Cochise, the various Apache groups unified in opposition to settlers and to U.S. Army patrols. Although soldiers lured Cochise into a trap through trickery, he quickly escaped and was never recaptured
Shortly before Cochise's death, General George Crook was sent to the Southwest to subdue the Apaches and settle them onto reservations. Crook's predecessors had had little luck against the Apaches, who seemed to be able to melt into their mountain homelands when pursued. But Crook began using as scouts Apaches who had agreed to surrender and move to reservations. Thanks to the tracking skills of these Apache scouts, Crook was able effectively to pursue the free Apaches now under the leadership of Geronimo and other warriors. Geronimo, upset about the loss of his freedom, accepted the reservation for months at a time, only to break out and resume his resistance. In September 1886, recognizing the hopelessness of endless flight, he surrendered for good, having successfully eluded one-fourth of the U.S. Army
Once They Moved Like the Wind is the epic story of the Apache campaign, told with sympathy and understanding. David Roberts recognizes that in struggling to save their land, the Apaches were fighting to preserve their way of life. Evenhandedly, he describes the sorry history of the reservations, where the Apaches were deceived and abused by the U.S. government and its agents, while at the same time he acknowledges reliable contemporary sources that reported on the Apaches' cruelty. Using historical archives and contemporary accounts, David Roberts has written an original, stirring account of the last years of the free Apaches
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Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor with a very poor prognosis despite multi-modalities of treatment. As a result, there is a critical need to develop alternative therapies. Propentofylline (PPF) is a...
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Cif, a novel Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxin.
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality amongst cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Following initial colonization of the CF lung by P. aeruginosa , the bacterium establishes chronic, long-term infections. Chronic P....
The occurrence of amino acid activating enzymes and transfer RNA in rat liver mitochondria.
Mitochondria. Enzymes. ; Rats.
Subcellular location and function studies of the serum and glucocorticoid induced kinase-1 (SGK1).
Protein kinases -- Mechanism of action. Sodium channels -- Genetic aspects. Glucocorticoids. Acetylation. Histones. Sgk protein. Receptors
The serum and glucocorticoid induced kinase 1 (SGK1) is involved in aldosterone-induced Na + reabsorption by increasing epithelial Na + channel (ENaC) activity in cortical collecting duct (CCD) cells. We found the SGK1-GFP fusion protein is...
Towards the experimental verification of macroscopic phenomena in quantum electrodynamics.
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Immunomodulation and the prevention of pathogen-driven ileitis.
Crohn's disease -- Prevention. Crohn's disease -- Treatment. Immune response -- Regulation. Toxoplasma gondii -- Pathophysiology.
Oral infection with Toxoplasma gondii in susceptible C57BL/6 mice results in the morphologic, histologic and immunologic changes in the small intestine consistent with the human Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) of unknown etiology, Crohn's disease....
Regulation of ENaC expression by corticosteroids and SGK1 in cortical collection duct cells and mammary epithelial cells.
Sodium channels. Adrenocortical hormones. Protein kinases. Epithelial cells. Mammary glands. Sgk protein.
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Microstructural determinants in glacial ice.
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Dual-frequency ultrasound detection and sizing of microbubbles for studying decompression sickness.
Decompression sickness. Blood gases -- Measurement -- Technological innovations. Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging.
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Critical structural features involved in the determination of agonist efficacy and trafficking of the [alpha]-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) receptor.
Glutamic acid -- Receptors. Ion channels -- Molecular aspects. Ligand binding (Biochemistry). Biological transport -- Regulation. Receptors.
AMPA receptors (AMPA-Rs) are glutamate-gated ion channels that mediate the majority of excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain. AMPA-Rs are generally found in vivo as hetero-tetramers made up of a combination of the GluR1-GluR4 subunits....
Functions of prostacyclin in vascular and uterine smooth muscle.
Prostacyclin -- Physiological effect. Vascular smooth muscle. Vascular endothelium -- Physiology. Myometrium -- Physiology. Cardiovascular system -- Diseases. Cellular signal transduction.
Prostacyclin (PGI2) is a major product of COX-2 derived arachidonic acid metabolism in the endothelium and uterine myometrium. Evidence indicates that PGI 2 protects against development and progression of vascular disease. While it has been known...
Optical spectroscopy guided by structural and functional MRI for breast cancer imaging.
Optical spectroscopy. Magnetic resonance imaging. Breast -- Cancer -- Imaging.
Magnetic Resonance (MR)-guided Diffuse Optical Imaging is an emerging technique to improve breast cancer imaging. This modality combines the high sensitivity of breast MR with images of tissue physiology, including blood content, oxygen saturation,...
Effects of elevated endogenous kynurenic acid on spatial working memory, contextual conditioning, and conditional learning.
Kynurenine -- Derivatives. Cognition. Memory. Brain chemistry. Brain -- Pathophysiology -- Animal models.
Kynurenic acid (KYNA) is produced and released by astrocytes, and acts as an α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist (at lower, physiological concentrations) and an antagonist of the glycine site of the NMDA receptor (at higher,...
Bridging the adaptive and innate immune system: A study on mast cells and the regulation of tumor immunity.
Mast cells -- Immunology. Tumors -- Immunological aspects. Immune response -- Regulation.
Traditionally, mast cells have been studied for their role as proinflammatory effector cells in allergic disorders. Recent findings however have opened up the discussion in the community of immunologists regarding MCs should be considered as...
Numerical methods in electromagnetics : evanescent nanometry for DNA sequencing, and EM induction for UXO detection and discrimination / by Alex Bijamov.
Mice -- Morphogenesis.;""Mice -- Genetics."";""Transcription factors."";""Cellular signal transduction."";""Genetic regulation."";""GATA4 Transcription Factor -- genetics."";""Wnt Proteins -- physiology.""
The use of computer models to capture, understand and control dynamic brain processes.
Brain -- Physiology -- Mathematical models. Brain stem -- Effect of chemicals on. Basal ganglia -- Physiology.
Understanding how the brain works remains one of the toughest problems in science, despite the progress in scientific technology available for its study. The difficulty lies in the fact that the brain is a dynamic system, while the body of facts...
Understanding AMPA receptor function and assembly, one piece at a time: structural and biochemical analysis of GLuR4 ligand-binding and ecto-domains.
Glutamic acid -- Receptors. Ion channels -- Molecular aspects. Ligand binding (Biochemistry). Medical Term: Glutamates.
AMPA receptors are glutamate-gated ion channels that mediate most of the excitatory synaptic signals in the central nervous system. They form tetrameric assemblies that are combinations of the subunits GluR1-4, each of which contains a...
Experimental studies of fine-particle transport in turbulent flows
Sediment transport.;""Silt."";""Turbulence.""
Epithelial sodium channel regulation in the mouse kidney: two novel approaches to a classic question.
Sodium channels -- Physiology. Proteins -- Physiological transport. Biological transport -- Regulation. Aldosterone -- Physiological effect. Epithelial cells. Protein Transport. Vesicular Transport Proteins.
Nearly one billion individuals worldwide have elevated blood pressure (BP) and 90% of these cases are due to unknown causes. Aldosterone is the primary hormone regulating Na + reabsorption in the kidney and is therefore a major determinant of the...
Ionotropic glutamate receptor structure determination by electron microscopy.
Glutamic acid -- Receptors. Cell receptors -- Structure-activity relationships. Ligand binding (Biochemistry). Glutamates.
α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors (AMPARs) function as paracrine and autocrine receptors throughout the body. Most studies have focused on their role in fast excitatory neuronal signaling, and learning and memory. In...
Searching for a hijacked epoxide: structural, mechanisitic, and functional characterization of Cif, a virulence factor secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretes a protein that triggers the accelerated degradation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in airway epithelial cells. This protein, known as the CFTR inhibitory...
c-di-GMP mediated regulation of the LapA biofilm adhesin through proteolysis by the calcium-dependent cysteine protease LapG / by Chelsea D. Boyd.
The localization of the putative adhesin LapA to the cell surface is a key regulatory step required by Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 to irreversibly attach to a surface and form a biofilm. LapA contains several domains conserved in predicted...
Role of the Menin-MLL1 interaction in normal hematopoiesis and leukemia / by Bin Li.
Leukemia represents a small percentage of human cancer, accounting for about 5% of all cases of cancer in adults, but, interestingly, for about 50% of all cases of cancer in children. The behavior of leukemia is often regulated by the chromosomal...
Targeting CFTR endocytic interactions as a therapeutic strategy in cystic fibrosis / by Lemira Sahar Al Ayyoubi.
Despite the recent FDA approval of the potentiator drug Kalydeco for treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF), only a small (3-5%) portion of patients benefit from this drug. Other functional classes of drugs including correctors are under clinical...
From target discovery to high-throughput screens--selective CAL PDZ inhibitors as candidate CF therapeutics
Peptides -- Therapeutic use. ; Chloride channels -- Pathophysiology. ; Ligands (Biochemistry) ; Protein-protein interactions. ; Cystic fibrosis -- Molecular aspects. ; High throughput screening (Drug development) ; PDZ Domains. ; Cystic Fibrosis...
PDZ domains are protein:protein interaction domains that serve as molecular scaffolds, especially in the case of specialized cellular environments like polarized airway epithelial cells of the human lung. Historically the domains have been thought...
The role of mitochondria in chromium carcinogenesis.
Chromium. Carcinogens. ; Mitochondria.
Ionic and mechanical responses of the rat brain to acute dilutional hyponatremia.
Brain -- Physiology. ; Hyponatremia.; Rats.
Capillary permeability in the rabbit heart.
Capillaries -- Permeability. ; Rabbits -- Physiology. ; Heart -- Blood-vessels.
In vivo fluorescence imaging and tomography methods to quantify metastatic burden in lymph nodes / by Alisha Viola DSouza
Morbidity and complexity involved in lymph node staging via surgical resection and biopsy could ideally be overcome using node assay techniques that are non-invasive. Visible blue dyes, fluorophores and radio-tracers are often used to locate the...
How sea ice microstructure influences the polar transport of salts from the ocean into the atmosphere / by Ross Lieb-Lappen
Sea ice appears to form an impenetrable boundary at the ocean-atmosphere interface in polar regions, yet in fact its porous structure provides critical pathways for the exchange of heat, gases, salts, and other chemical species impacting the global...
The role of the Drosophila SK channel in sensory processing and behavior / by Ahmad Nawwaf Abou Tayoun.
Partially ordered sets. ; Forcing (Model theory). ; Set theory.
Ionic basis of neuronal CO²/H+ chemosensitivity in the pulmonate snail, Helix aspersa.
Hypercapnia -- Regulation. ; Carbon dioxide -- Physiological effect. ; Carbon dioxide in the body. ; Brown garden snail -- Respiration. ; Potassium channels.
After more than 150 years of studying the respiratory effects of hypercapnia, the intrinsic neuronal mechanism by which carbon dioxide (CO²) stimulates electrical excitability of respiratory neurons, and hence respiratory drive, is still...
Iron acquisition in Bradyrhizobium japonicum.
Rhizobium -- Physiology. ; Plants -- Effect of iron on.
Actions of substances placed in the cat cerebrospinal fluid space.
Pharmacology, Experimental. ; Cats.
Vibrio cholerae H-NS: investigation of regulated genes and structure-function analysis.
Vibrio cholerae -- Genetics. ; DNA-binding proteins. ; Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; Bacterial proteins.
H-NS, an abundant nucleoid associated protein, has a role in silencing the expression of a variety of environmentally regulated genes during growth under nonpermissive conditions. A genetic approach was used to study H-NS regulation of genes in...
Geology and geochemistry of the El Laco magnetite deposits, Chile.
Magnetite -- Chile -- El Laco. ; Formations (Geology) -- Chile -- El Laco.
Intramembranous particle clusters and cytoplasmic vesicles in mice with nephrogenic defects of urinary concentration.
Diabetes -- Research. ; Mice as laboratory animals.
Deletion of the carboxy terminus of simian virus 40 large T antigen affects viral late gene expression.
Tumor antigens. ; Gene expression. ; Simian viruses.
An examination of Raf-1 expression and kinase activity throughout the T lymphocyte cell cycle.
Proto-oncogenes. ; T cells. ; Phosphotransferases.
Stable isotopes as tracers in hydrogeologic processes: case studies from the Connecticut River of New England and the Heart Mountain Fault of Wyoming and Montana.
Radioactive tracers in hydrogeology -- Case studies. ; Isotope geology -- Connecticut River Watershed. ; Isotope geology -- Montana -- Heart Mountain Fault. ; Isotope geology -- Wyoming -- Heart Mountain Fault.
Studies on the mechanism of insulin stimulation of glucose transport in the rat adipocyte.
Cellular control mechanisms. ; Cell physiology. ; Fat.
Coupling of termination, 3' processing and mRNA export.
Messenger RNA -- Genetic aspects. ; Transcription factors. ; Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; RNA-protein interactions. ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Genetics.
Calcium control of nervous excitation.
Excitation (Physiology). ; Calcium -- Physiological effect.
SGK1 is an important determinant of sodium channel activity in the mammalian collecting duct.
Aldosterone -- Mechanism of action. ; Aldosterone -- Physiological effect. ; Adrenocortical hormones -- Genetic aspects. ; Sodium channels -- Genetic aspects. ; Genetic regulation.
Hypertensive disorders, as well as congestive heart disease. Despite extensive research on the regulatory events that occur between aldosterone induced transcription and the early activation of epithelial sodium channels (ENaC ) in cortical...
Hydrophilic solute transport across the rat blood-brain barrier.
Blood-brain barrier.
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Heritage trail on the history of Holywells Park, Ipswich, Suffolk
Home to the Cobbold brewing family in Ipswich for over 150 years and now a rejuvenated and beautiful parkland open to the public – with, of course, its own Lifechart heritage trail of eleven different displays.
They bring to life aspects of the park in its 19th and early 20th century heyday (now restored with a generous Heritage Lottery Fund grant), the mansion that once stood here and the Cobbold brewing family who shaped Holywells and made it their home. Three further displays, plus a timeline binding them all together, hang in the converted stables.
Please email us if you would like to buy a Lifechart gift card* on Holywells as a 5-card
pack £8.95 incl. VAT and P&P
*159 x 159mm, 300-words history on reverse, plain inside, envelopes, in one cello bag.
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Samsung scion joins board as profits plunge on Note 7 crisis
posted October 27, 2016 at 10:24 am by AFP
Samsung heir apparent J.Y. Lee took a major step towards control of the family-run conglomerate on Thursday, joining the board as the company reported a 30 percent profit plunge following a highly damaging recall crisis.
The move is being seen as a coronation of sorts of the 48-year-old Lee, who is already vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and has seen his influence grow since his father, Samsung patriarch Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack and was hospitalised in 2014.
"Mr. Lee's election to the board will allow him to more actively participate in and take formal responsibility for the company's important decision making, contributing to creating long-term, sustainable value for all of our stakeholders," board chairman Kwon Oh-Hyun said.
The nomination was approved by an extraordinary meeting of Samsung shareholders which also focused on the recall fiasco surrounding the flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone that has hammered the reputation of the world's largest smartphone maker.
The meeting began just hours after Samsung announced a third quarter operating profit of 5.2 trillion won ($4.6 billion) -- down from 7.3 trillion won a year ago.
The profit slump was in line with a revised earning estimate issued by Samsung two weeks earlier after it killed off its Note 7 smartphone due to devices overheating and bursting into flames.
- Brand hit -
The decision to discontinue production of a model aimed at competing with arch-rival Apple's iPhone was a devastating move for a company that prides itself on the quality production of cutting-edge technology.
Scrapping the Note 7 saw earnings of the company's core mobile business drop off a cliff, with the mobile division's operating profit for the third quarter down almost 98 percent from the previous quarter at just 100 billion won.
In an earnings statement, Samsung said its mobile unit would focus on "expanding sales of new flagship products ... as well as regaining consumers' confidence."
The impact of the Note 7 debacle on the electronics giant's brand name is still being calculated, with Samsung itself having predicted another $3 billion-plus in lost profits over the next two quarters.
"The mobile business hit bottom, but it should pull off a partial recovery in the fourth quarter where we will be looking for an operating profit of roughly 2.0 trillion won," said Greg Roh, an analyst at HMC Investment Securities.
"But we'll have to wait until the second quarter of next year for a full recovery with the launch of the Galaxy 8 smartphone in March," Roh said.
- Consumer confidence -
"Samsung has lost consumer confidence, but I think it still has at least one more chance. Rather than rushing to release the next product, it should conduct a thorough inspection and explain the results of its investigation into the Note 7," he added.
As an illustration of the loss of prestige suffered by a company used to being treated as corporate royalty in South Korea, thousands of domestic Note 7 customers are expected to join a class action lawsuit seeking compensation over the recall fiasco.
Samsung accounts for around 17 percent of South Korea's GDP and the Note 7 crisis has impacted the national economy, with the Bank of Korea adjusting its overall growth forecast.
- Management spotlight -
Companies like Samsung are not used to dealing with public scrutiny, or indeed with uppity shareholders -- but the handling of the Note 7 recall placed its management style under a very harsh spotlight.
Despite the pall cast over the smartphone division, Samsung's display and chip businesses -- which supply screens and memory chips to TV makers and rival phone brands -- has held up well.
"In particular, demand for memory chips saw a remarkable increase, due mainly to high-density, high-performance mobile and server products," the company said.
Operating profit in the semiconductor division stood at 3.37 trillion won in the third quarter, up 28 percent from the previous quarter.
Topics: South Korea , technology , company , Samsung , earnings
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All information on kidney stones composition of kidney stone symptoms of kidney stones causes of kidney stones risk factors for kidney stones diagnosis of kidney stones treatment of kidney stones kidney stone medication kidney stone diet
What dietary factors and lifestyle measures are used for prevention of kidney stones?
Patients should take some specific preventive measures to prevent kidney stones. The most important recommendations for reducing the risk for calcium stones are increasing fluid intake, restricting sodium, and reducing protein intake. A lower risk for calcium stones is also associated with potassium intake. Dietary calcium itself does not appear to increase the risk for kidney stones. Patients should try to correct any acidic or alkaline imbalance in the urine so that such stone-forming substances are more likely to dissolve. Try to avoid stone recurrence using dietary changes; if such measures fail then drug treatments may be helpful.
Fluid Intake
Of all the preventive recommendations, drinking enough fluid is the most important guideline for people with any type of kidney stones.
In general, patients with calcium or uric acid stones should drink at least ten full glasses of fluid each day (half should be water). This includes one with each meal and drinking fluids at night, even if it means getting up from sleep. Fluid intake should produce at least two and a half quarts of urine each day. More water (over a gallon every day) is needed to prevent cystine stones and it must be drunk at regular intervals throughout the night and day.
In all cases, more fluid is needed after exertion and during times of stress. If fluid intake is sufficient, the urine should be pale and almost watery, not dark and yellow. Although water is best, it may vary depending on its source. Other beverages have various positive or negative effects: Variations in water itself may have different impacts. One study reported that drinking hard tap water increased urinary calcium concentration by 50% compared to soft bottled water. On the other hand mineral water containing both calcium and magnesium may reduce several risk factors for both calcium and uric acid stone formation. Drinking one-half cup of pure lemon juice (enough to make eight glasses of lemonade) every day raises citrate levels in the urine, which might protect against calcium stones. (While orange juice also increases citrate levels, it does not lower calcium and it raises oxalate levels. It is therefore not recommended.) Cola beverages can severely reduce citrate in the urine and should be avoided. Many soft drinks contain phosphoric acid, which increase the risk for stones. Some research shows that drinking one quart per week may increase a person's risk of developing stones by 15%. A number of studies have found a risk for stones from drinking grapefruit juice. In one study, just one 8 ounce cup of grapefruit juice per day increased the risk for forming stones by 44%. Fruit juices, particularly apple and cranberry juice, contain oxalates, although it is unclear whether oxalate-containing foods pose a risk for calcium oxalate stones. A 2000 study reported significantly higher oxalate levels in the urine of patients taking cranberry supplements, indicated that people at risk for calcium stones should avoid cranberry products. Cranberry juice helps prevent urinary tract infections, however, and so may be helpful for reducing the risk for struvite stones, although these stones are rare. A 1999 study conducted in Finland suggests that the risk of developing stones decreases with beer consumption. This study found no effects from coffee, tea, or wine, but other research has reported a lower risk with these beverages. It should be noted that beer is high in oxalates. Beer and other alcoholic beverages also contain purines, which may increase the specific risk for the less common uric acid stones in susceptible people. Binge drinking, in any case, increases uric acid and the risk for stones. No one, of course, is suggesting excessive alcohol intake for prevention of kidney stones.
Sodium Restriction
Because salt intake increases the amount of calcium in urine, patients with calcium stones should restrict their sodium intake. Some researchers believe that restricting sodium along with increasing fluid intake is the most important dietary measure for preventing stones.
Calcium from Foods. It has been fairly well established that dietary calcium (such as in dairy products) is actually protective against many cases of calcium oxalate stones. Large studies of both men and women found that those with the highest intake of calcium from foods had a much lower risk for stones than those who had little calcium in their diets. Dietary calcium may actually bind the oxalate in foods, preventing it from being absorbed into the blood and excreted into the urine. In a normal healthy diet, dairy products supply almost 80% of the daily calcium requirement. It should be further noted that many people have calcium stones associated with resorption (the breakdown of bone that releases calcium into the blood stream). Limiting calcium intake in such people could actually promote further bone loss.
Calcium Supplements. Evidence on calcium supplements are mixed, although in general many suggest that they reduce oxalate levels and so help prevent calcium oxalate stones. One study suggested that taking 500 mg of calcium supplements a day regularly may "reprogram" the intestines to absorb less calcium and so be protective. Experts generally advise that calcium supplementation within dosage recommendations, approximately 1200 mg per day, remains safe. In one study, however, women who took calcium supplements had a 20% higher risk for stones. Research indicates that dosages of calcium above 2000 mg per day are clearly associated with the formation of stones. Some experts speculate that this higher risk may occur because supplements are often taken in the morning either without food or with breakfast, which is typically low in oxalates. Taking supplements with later meals may not incur the same risk.
Calcium Restriction in Certain Cases. Some calcium stone patients who have supersaturation of calcium in the urine and who are not at risk for bone loss may need to restrict calcium, but more studies are needed to define this group precisely. Certainly, children with hypercalciuria should not restrict calcium, since this could harm bone growth.
Fiber-Rich Foods and their Compounds
Fiber may be beneficial for people with kidney stones. In addition some fiber-rich foods may contain compounds that help protect against kidney stones:
Phytate. A wide variety of high-fiber plant foods, such as wheat or rice bran and soybeans, contain a compound called phytate (inositol hexaphosphate). It appears to help prevent crystallization of calcium salts, both oxalate and phosphate. (It is sold as dietary supplements, usually called IP6 as well. It should be noted that phytate itself can inhibit absorption of certain important minerals, including zinc.) It should be noted that soy is very high in oxalates, so the overall effects of soy on kidney stones are not clear.
Gahat. Gahat is a lentil-like bean that has been used for centuries in Nepal, Northern India, and Pakistan to treat kidney stones. A US study attempted to identify changes in the urine that might account for these reports by having subjects consume gahat three times daily for two days. Results found no changes in calcium, citrate, phosphate, sodium, or oxalate, although there was an increase in urine volume, and an increased excretion of uric acid and magnesium. More study is needed to learn if Gahat has any benefit.
Some evidence suggests that omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in certain oily fish, may have properties that reduce the risk for calcium stones. Such fatty acids reduce factors that produce inflammation and which may increase the risk for stone production. Omega-3 fatty acids can be obtained in supplements, but their efficacy is not known.
Protein Restriction
Protein increases uric acid, calcium, and oxalates in the urine and reduces citrate. Diets high in protein, particularly meat protein, have been consistently associated with kidney stones. (Meat protein has a higher sulfur content and generates more acid than vegetable protein.) According to Swiss studies, about a third of people at risk for calcium stones may have a sensitivity to meat proteins that cause mild hyperoxaluria. Whether restricting meat protein has any protective value is unknown. Studies to date have found no difference in stone development between people with low and normal meat protein diets over four years. A 2001 study, for example, found no difference in stone formation in two groups of patients who consumed beef or plant proteins in equal amounts. A 2000 study reported that only dramatic reductions in meat protein had any preventive effect against stone recurrence. It is reasonable, in any case, for everyone to consume meat protein in moderation. People with struvite stones, who need to reduce phosphates in their diets, should also cut down on proteins.
Purine Restriction in People at Risk for Uric Acid Stones
A high intake of purines can increase the amount of uric acid in the urine, so those at risk for uric acid stones should reduce their intake of foods that contain purines. They include beer and other alcoholic beverages, anchovies, sardines, yeast, organ meats (eg, liver, kidneys), legumes (eg, dried beans, peas, and soybeans), mushrooms, spinach, asparagus, cauliflower, and poultry.
Oxalate Restriction in Hyperoxaluria
Most people with calcium oxalate stones should not avoid oxalate-rich foods unless the physician specifically recommends a restrictive diet. Oxalate binds with calcium in the intestine, which may actually reduce calcium absorption. Some studies, in fact, indicate that eating foods containing oxalates and calcium together may reduce the risk of stones. Most of the foods that contain oxalates are very important for good health. Restricting oxalates may be particularly harmful in people with malabsorption.
Foods high in oxalic acid include beets, soy, beet tops, black tea, chenopodium, chocolate, cocoa, dried figs, ground pepper, lamb quarters, lime peel, nuts, parsley, poppy seeds, purslane, rhubarb, sorrel, spinach, and Swiss chard. Foods containing moderate oxalates include beans (green and wax), blackberries, blueberries, carrots, celery, coffee (roasted), concord grapes, currants, dandelion greens, endive, gooseberries, lemon peel, okra, green onions, oranges, green peppers, black raspberries, strawberries, and sweet potatoes.
Vitamins in Hyperoxaluria
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) may convert to oxalates, and people with hyperoxaluria should avoid vitamin C supplements. (A high intake of vitamin C does not appear to increase the risk of stone formation in people with no risk factors for stones.) Vitamin B6, or pyridoxine, is used to treat people with hyperoxaluria when dietary reduction of oxalates and calcium supplements is not effective in preventing stones. It is particularly beneficial for the inherited disorder, type I primary hyperoxaluria. Patients should not try to self-medicate with vitamin B6. Very high doses (500 to 2,000 mg daily over long periods) can cause nerve damage with loss of balance and numbness in the feet and hands. Food sources of vitamin B6 include meats, oily fish, poultry, whole grains, dried fortified cereals, soybeans, avocados, baked potatoes with skins, watermelon, plantains, bananas, peanuts, and brewer's yeast. Citrate salts may also be important for people with excessive levels of oxalates.
More information on kidney stones
What are kidney stones? - Kidney stones are solid accretions (crystals) of dissolved minerals in urine found inside the kidneys or ureters. Also known as nephrolithiasis, urolithiasis or renal calculi.
What are kidney stones made of? - Kidney stones consist of a center that consists of crystal-like substances, and a surrounding region that is composed of layers. Kidney stones are composed of different chemical substances.
What are the symptoms of kidney stones? - Symptoms often occur when a stone migrates into the ureter, the tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder, and prevents the drainage of urine from the kidney.
What causes kidney stones? - The development of the stones is related to decreased urine volume or increased excretion of stone-forming components such as calcium, oxalate, urate, cystine, xanthine, and phosphate.
What are the risk factors for kidney stones? - Kidney stones affect about 12% of men and 5% of women by the time they are 70 years old. Kidney stones that strike women are more apt to occur during pregnancy.
How are kidney stones diagnosed? - Diagnosis of renal stone disease involves a medical history, physical examination, laboratory evaluation, and imaging tests.
What're treatment options for kidney stones? - Treatments of kidney stones include dietary modifications (including the advice to drink plenty of water), medications, and use of a lithotriptor.
What drug treatments are available for treatment and prevention of kidney stones? - Diuretics are commonly used in the treatment of high blood pressure and other disorders to eliminate fluid and sodium from the body. Citrate salts are often given to people with calcium oxalate or uric acid stones.
What dietary factors and lifestyle measures are used for prevention of kidney stones? - The most important recommendations for reducing the risk for calcium stones are increasing fluid intake, restricting sodium, and reducing protein intake.
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About Michael Leppert
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Conservative court scolds Trump for ‘contrived’ reasoning
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Being “authentic” is the buzz these days. Spin has gotten so out of control in our politics that it now takes special training to just be real. “Fake news” and “fact checks” are also new staples used so often they are losing their sting. But when the leader of the Judicial branch of our government describes the reasoning of the Executive branch as “contrived,” that is important.
It’s a slightly more dignified way for the court to call the administration liars.
Yes, the U.S. Supreme Court stole the headlines on Thursday, as it often does on the last day of its term.
Two important 5-4 decisions were highlights primarily for their legal conclusions. But the decisions on gerrymandering and the census also established that Chief Justice John Roberts is clearly this court’s new “swing” vote. He voted with the conservatives in the gerrymandering case, stating that the federal courts were not the place to decide how congressional districts should be drawn. He then voted with the liberals on the question of whether the census can include a question about citizenship, authoring a particularly scathing opinion directed at the Trump administration.
Helpful hint: the government should not devise or invent its reasoning for important decisions while Chief Justice Roberts is in charge.
Secretary of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had attempted to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. The results of the census are important for many reasons, specifically regarding federal government funding and representation in congress by the states. The notion of adding the citizenship question was widely expected to drive down participation in the process, and therefore the total. So, 18 states sued to block the question from being added.
The constitution explicitly requires “an Enumeration” of “all persons,” including the “whole number of persons in each State.”
Other demographic data has been gathered through the censes over the decades, but the constitutional purpose of the exercise is “enumeration.” Anything that might adversely impact that purpose should be kept out of it. Census officials feel strongly about this.
The Trump administration’s purpose for asking people their citizenship status is designed to accomplish the opposite, to drive down the enumeration, particularly in states with large immigrant populations like California and New York. Their political reasoning is also clear: fewer people in those states means less representation for “blue” states.
There is significant history for a legitimate debate on asking this question when conducting the census. But in typical Trump fashion, instead of having the legitimate debate in hopes of prevailing on the facts, it constructed a nonsensical argument about how it needed citizenship information to protect voter rights. Huh? The GOP fighting for voting rights is suspicious in and of itself, even before the plaintiffs successfully proved that Secretary Ross had fabricated the entire endeavor.
Chief Justice Roberts wrote in the census case that agencies must offer “genuine justifications for important decisions, reasons that can be scrutinized by courts and the interested public…Accepting contrived reasons would defeat the purpose of the enterprise. If judicial review is to be more than an empty ritual, it must demand something better than the explanation offered for the action taken in this case.”
Roberts has consistently displayed a tendency to preserve Executive branch authority, but even he has his limits. Being lied to is apparently too much for him to tolerate.
Governing is often difficult. Counting used to be simple. I know plenty of people who find comfort in math by using reasoning like “numbers never lie.” Honestly, is there anything more predictably authentic than a number?
Joseph Stalin said “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.” Pretty insightful from a brutal dictator who never faced a general election by those he ruled.
The census decision on Thursday, coupled with the gerrymandering case, is all about how we count and how counting can be manipulated by our governmental processes. The average American likely does not care much about these cases with the same enthusiasm as they would gun or abortion related rulings.
If they only knew how interconnected these things truly are with one another, maybe that would change.
This is Chief Justice Roberts’ court. It has been for some time, but now he is not just the chief, he’s the swing. On Thursday in these two cases, he went right once and left once. Many will see it more as going right and wrong.
Too many Americans don’t have any opinion at all, I mean, if we were counting them.
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Indianapolis, Indiana’s Michael Leppert began writing a blog in April of 2014. A year later, The Statehouse File published his column “The Anonymous People,” marking the first time he was published by a mainstream media outlet. The blog-turned-column then became a weekly installment there, and has been republished in newspapers throughout Indiana regularly since. Michael’s first book, Contrary To Popular Belief, A Chronicle of a Progressive in Indiana, was published in July of 2016.
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Disney Springs / Disney Style / Shopping / Walt Disney World
Photo Tour of the Grand Opening of World of Disney!
by Maria Salerno · November 12, 2018
My most recent Walt Disney World experience was loaded with tons of exciting ‘firsts’, and even a few ‘lasts’. The firsts on this particular vacation weren’t just first-time experiences for me- like dining at a new restaurant- but were firsts for each and every person lucky enough to be at Disney Springs. With over 100 stores and counting, it’s not too difficult to find a shopping destination at the Springs that you’ve never visited before…but what about a shopping destination that NO ONE has visited? Yes, we were there to take photos on opening day of the newly reimagined World of Disney!
You guessed it, I’m talking about the grand re-opening of the store whose absence has been felt for many months. The highly-anticipated reveal of the re-imagined store was the cause of many questions and concerns in the lead up to the grand opening. Why the total departure from the old-style Disney Store look? Will the new layout make for an easier, less-congested shopping experience? Wil the store look more appealing and inviting than the artist renderings? And, most importantly, will the same great merchandise be fully re-stocked, just the way we remember it?
All of these questions were answered when the store re-opened on Monday, October 22, 2018. From the outside, things were as-remembered: Life size statues of Cinderella and Aurora framed the west entrance, window displays filled with art and appealing merchandise colorfully attracted the eye, and the Stitch, the biggest troublemaker of them all, sprayed water down onto giggling children. So, far, so OLD, right? Well, one step inside, erased all sense of ‘old’, and that was when I knew a new era of World of Disney was upon us.
The interior design reminded me a whole lot of the Disney Store renovations we’ve seen in malls across the nation in the past decade. Yes, many Disney Stores have closed down, but the ones that fought the trend and stayed in business saw massive remodels that succeeded in updating their overall feel without losing any of that sought-after Disney charm.
Big black-and-white banners featuring sketchbook-style art of famed Disney characters greeted guests as they entered, and just three steps inside the doors eased every fear and reservation I had about the new shopping spot. Don’t worry, while life size statues of characters and blatant Disney-themed rooms may be gone, you definitely won’t mistake this place for a Disney merchandise store!
The open floor plan design coupled with the updated, modern racks and hangers for the merchandise made navigation a breeze. The different sections of the store are certainly still apparent, and it’s easier now than ever to find the section you’re looking for and make your way there without having to pass through a labyrinth of rooms.
As I’m sure you’ve already noticed, the merchandise is back, baby, and the offerings are more expansive than ever before! The home section is stocked with a mug wall that will succeed at impressing any collector as well as Mickey-shaped cookware suited for any kitchen endeavor.
The plush wall layout is one upgrade Disney did not deem necessary- and I could not be more relieved! To mess with such a classic set-up would have been a pity, but like Disney does in all of their endeavors, they know when to upgrade, and when to leave well enough alone. The plush section, like the rest of the store, was designed with minimalism in mind.
The walls, floor, and ceiling are all painted an understated beige tone which I assumed would not feel ‘Disney’ at all. After seeing the store in-person, I certainly judged prematurely! I think the plain paint color choices and open floor plan better highlight the plush toys- and all of the merchandise- than the World of Disney of olde.
Mickey ear hats. They’re a Disney Parks vacation essential, and World of Disney has created a section dedicated solely to the pair of ears that put the company on the map almost 90 years ago. The ear hats received a brand-new, exclusive shopping section in the store and while the hats are definitely the main draw, pops of other Mickey ear merchandise are on display here too! The day I visited was the first day these Mickey Mouse 90th anniversary ornaments were released, and with so few remaining on the shelves, I was lucky to snap a photo before they sold out!
Halloween at Walt Disney World begins in August, so I suppose Christmas’ mid-October start isn’t anything out of the ordinary. Even so, having just attended Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party a few days prior, seeing an entire wing of the store stocked with Christmas apparel and decorations seemed a bit premature to me.
However, seeing a small portion of the store all decked out in Holiday charm was a great peek at what we can expect from the rest of the store when the Holiday overlays take full effect in November. So, after you’ve checked out these grand opening photos, I want to know what your take on the new store is! Do you plan to visit the new World of Disney on your next vacation? Leave me a comment and let me know!
Are you planning to book a Disney vacation for you and your family? I’d love to help! You can find me over on Facebook, or contact me directly at msalerno@mickeytravels.com, or 800-308-6257
Maria Salerno
Hiya pal! I am an Authorized Disney Vacation Planner and writer thrilled to be a part of your Disney vacation planning! I’m a WDW Annual Passholder, so you can find me in the Parks regularly throughout the year. In addition to being a Disney Parks loving girl, I’m also a Disney toy and merchandise collector, a runDisney enthusiast, and Disney music and movie aficionado! You can find me on Facebook: :https://www.facebook.com/MickeyTravelsMariaSalerno/?ref=bookmarks
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Sign-ups are now open for the ESET Computer Security Journalism Award
by Más que Seguridad
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ESET, leading company when it comes to the preventive detection of threats, announced that signs-ups are now open for anyone wishing to participate in the twelfth edition of the ESET Award for Computer Security Journalism. All Latin American journalists are invited to participate with their articles on computer security published in local media.
Those who wish to participate can sign-up in three different categories, depending on their professional specialty:
Graphic Press
Multi-Media Press
Participants can submit up to an article per category, which must have been published between August 31st, 2018 and up until the contest’s end, August 9th, 2019. The winner will win a trip to the Mobile World Congress 2020, one of the world’s most important tech events, to be celebrated in Barcelona, Spain. The winner will also have the chance to visit the ESET headquarters, located in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Prizes will be awarded to the winner of each category. And as the yearly tradition dictates, special mentions will be given by region (Brazil, Mexico, the Andean Region, the Rioplatense region, the Central America region, and the South Caribbean region).
A jury made of famous journalists and local specialists will review each of the submitted works. Points will be awarded in accordance to each entry’s social relevance when it comes to the chosen theme, which in this case is computer security, the interest it may generate in the community, originality, depth of treatment given to the information, narra
tive quality and proper use of technical terminology.
Rodrigo Rodriguez, journalist at Colombia’s DONJUAN was the winner of the previous year’s award, with his work titled Bonnie and Clyde in the digital era. A s
pecial mention was made in the Graphic Press category to Carla Mandiola Garcia, who works for Chile’s El Mercurio, where she published her Is Facebook Listening to Me? Article.
In the Digital Press category, Alice Cristiny Ferreira De Souza, who works for the Pernambuco Diary, won with Mulheres sao o Principal Alvo de Agressoes e Difamaoes na Internet. In the Multi-Media Press category, the winner was María Jesús Prada Picadode, who works for Colombia’s Canal Trece, where she published her investigation titled The Hidden Secrets of the Deep Web.
If you wish to learn more or sign-up for the 2019 ESET Computer Security Journalism Award, click here.
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