The Santa Clara-based startup has been trying to build out its own
niche in the $1 billion+ smart device case market* by offering
something different from the usual combination of device protection with
a little bit of personal flair. In addition to the above features, its
cases are also stamped with a scannable QR code, which can link to
either your business contact information, your social profiles, or the
contact and reward information you would want someone to see if your
device is lost. You can toggle through which of these settings is
active using either Findables’ native mobile app or its website.
The
company first soft-launched its products five months ago, with more of
a focus on the “lost and found” feature, but user feedback had the
team rethink things a bit. Apple already offers the “Find my iPhone”
app, users said, plus there are other companies that doing things
involving stickers or tags, for example. Says Findables co-founder
Andre Liao, the space was already pretty competitive.
So with the new line of cases,We provides high risk merchant account
for businesses in high-volume industries. the emphasis will be more on
the social features, something which speaks to the team’s original
inspiration for Findables, anyway. “[We wanted] a case that had some
personality. What I mean by that is allowing the user to customize and
personalize the case.” says Liao.Our precision manufactured lasers and laser marker
systems deliver the highest possible laser marking performance. “Then
we started thinking about the benefits – wouldn’t it be great if you had
a case that could help you share information?”
Via the
Findables site or app, users can customize their profiles with any info
they choose by uploading pictures, writing a short bio, and adding
links to social networking services like LinkedIn, Facebook, or
Twitter, for example. Plus, they can add personal links – like the link
to their sales deck on Dropbox, their personal website, or anything
else.
Upon sign-up,Search our Eyeglasses frame
catalog for designer frames including from China. the code on the case
is registered to the user, and from then on it will show whichever
profile (business, personal, or “lost”), you have enabled.
The
codes on the device cases are just standard QR codes, which can be read
using any third-party scanning application. If using the
Findables-branded iOS or forthcoming Android app, however,Buy Sports glasses
and prescription goggles with a custom Glasses prescription. you can
download the digital business card directly into the phone’s address
book. For those using third-party barcode-scanning apps, the vCard has
to be emailed first. The native apps also track the history of scans,
and support favoriting.
At present, the company offers cases
for the iPhone 4 and 4S, iPhone 5, Samsung’s Galaxy SIII, the new iPad,
and the iPad mini. A protective case for the iPhone 5, designed to
compete with Spec’s CandyShell product, is also on its way. Existing
cases are produced at low-cost in China using polycarbonate (hard
plastic) to which a soft touch finish is then applied. They retail for
$29.95-$49.95 and Findables has sold over 20,000 to date.
Findables,
co-founded by Derick Yee and now a team of eight, has raised angel
funding in the “hundreds of thousands,The most important qualities to
look for in a pair of new Cycling sunglasses
are the clarity of vision.” and was intending to raise a round a few
months back. But, says Liao, “we ended up focusing our attention on
getting purchase orders. We’re expecting the revenue that we’ll be
generating will to be able to sustain and grow the company…We’re about
to turn a corner. We’re about to be profitable,” he claims.
Of
course, that’s all a big bet on the QR code’s traction and growth. And
since barcode-scanning isn’t a feature native to smartphones, users
still have to be savvy enough to have a reader app installed. Relying
on savvy users means this is still a risky bet. But in the meantime, the
cases look nice and definitely make for a nice conversation starter,
at least.
Microsoft can perhaps be forgiven for its wariness
entering the market with the latest, more powerful version of its
Surface tablet, after the first incarnation—the Surface with Windows
RT—launched to lukewarm consumer acceptance. But whereas the former
machine was hobbled by a new, limited Windows-hybrid interface married
to a paltry selection of apps, the Surface Pro boasted the eye-opening
potential of bringing together tablet functionality and high-end
computing. That’s why I was eager, and fortunately, I finally ended up
with my own Surface Pro a few days ago (in fact, I’m writing this column
on the fabled Touch Cover). I’m here to tell you that it is one
giddy-making device—at least, for the right person.
I’ve been
playing with Surface Pro for a couple days, and I’ve come away with
some strong initial impressions. Most of these impressions are
positive, but a few are undeniably negative; let’s call those last
items frustrations, or areas to improve, because in most of those
cases, they are certainly areas that the existing Surface Pro can
improve on in its lifetime. I’ll start with my top 5 features and wrap
up with my bottom 3.
2013年2月19日 星期二
Teen clerk's heroics put felon in prison
Thanks to a courageous teenager’s willingness to fight back and a
dropped check card, a habitual violent criminal is just beginning to
serve a long prison sentence for a Carver County convenience store
robbery.
Demetrius Derden, 28, of Blaine, was sentenced in federal court in St. Paul to 14 years and two months in prison for the armed robbery in December 2011 of the Mayer Oil Company station on Ash Avenue.
Court documents reveal that Derden had all he could bargain for when he confronted the clerk over a forgotten safe combination, at one point forcing the teen to his knees and putting to the high school senior’s head the barrel of a weapon that turned out to be a BB gun.
“You’d better remember [the combination],” Derden demanded. “Your life depends on it.Bay monitoring and parking guidance system come together in seamless integration offering more benefits.”
The clerk begged for his life and then heard the gun click but not fire. It was then that the teen challenged the robber, tearing off his mask and suffering a bitten finger in the confrontation.
Derden grabbed the money and took off and left behind an empty bottle of rum — as well as a check card with his name on it. Authorities needed just hours to arrest Derden at his home.
“The clerk ... believed he was about to be shot dead,Our precision manufactured lasers and laser marker systems deliver the highest possible laser marking performance.” the Carver County attorney’s office said in a statement Tuesday announcing the sentencing. “The clerk then stood and began the fight of his life.”
While authorities have not said how much money Derden came away with, his sentence includes making restitution of more than $9,000. The clerk’s identity has also not been disclosed.
Derden, wearing a mask, entered the store and pointed the gun at the clerk standing behind the cash register. The teen followed orders and put all the money, more than $2,000, from the register into a plastic bag.
The clerk was then ordered to a backroom and told to empty the store’s two safes. The teen told Derden he didn’t know the combination to the second safe. That’s when Derden had the teen kneeling and pleading for mercy.
Upon hearing the gun’s click, the clerk “seized this as an opportunity” to try and stand up, prosecutors wrote in one court filing. Derden pushed him back down and struck him on the head with the gun.
They began fighting, with Derden hitting the teen again with the gun and biting the clerk’s finger.
The teen wrestled the gun from Derden, and pulled off his mask and jacket before being pushed to the floor. Derden grabbed the bag of money and fled.
Police, armed with Derden’s check card,Willkommen im virtuellen Zuhause der Lercher Werkzeugbau GmbH. arrested him several hours later.
The clerk was treated at a hospital for injuries to his scalp, face, finger and elsewhere. “To this day, [the teen] has several permanent scars on his head and face,” the prosecution wrote.
In arguing for nearly 16 years in prison, prosecutors called Derden “a dangerous repeat offender who had committed crime after crime for the past 10 years, regardless of whether he was on probation, supervised release or had just been released from prison.”
Marci D. Gill, 35,Polypropylene and polythene can be used in a process called plastic injection mould. of the 16300 block of S. Lawndale Avenue, Markham, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, four counts of possession of a controlled substance,Browse our huge selection of Safety goggles from the best brands. speeding and other violations, following a traffic stop in the 15700 block of Cicero Avenue.
Gill was stopped after police clocked him doing 54 mph in a 35 mph zone.
During the stop, Gill appeared shaky, while continually reaching for a bag in the front passenger seat of the car, according to the report. Gill told officers that he was transporting a 'water bong' used for smoking meth to a friend's house, according to the report.
Gill also told officers that the bong was his, but that he no longer used drugs and that was why he was transporting it to the friend's house, according to the report.
Also in the car, police found another bag containing hundreds of small, plastic baggies commonly used for distributing narcotics.
Inside one bag, police found another bag that was locked. Officers believed the bag contained more pipes and narcotics, according to the report.
Officers cut open the bag and discovered two clear plastic baggies containing suspected crystal meth, one plastic bag containing three pills of suspected Xanax, one purple bill of suspected Aderol, two vials containing suspected Rohypnol and one glass pipe used for ingesting meth.
Demetrius Derden, 28, of Blaine, was sentenced in federal court in St. Paul to 14 years and two months in prison for the armed robbery in December 2011 of the Mayer Oil Company station on Ash Avenue.
Court documents reveal that Derden had all he could bargain for when he confronted the clerk over a forgotten safe combination, at one point forcing the teen to his knees and putting to the high school senior’s head the barrel of a weapon that turned out to be a BB gun.
“You’d better remember [the combination],” Derden demanded. “Your life depends on it.Bay monitoring and parking guidance system come together in seamless integration offering more benefits.”
The clerk begged for his life and then heard the gun click but not fire. It was then that the teen challenged the robber, tearing off his mask and suffering a bitten finger in the confrontation.
Derden grabbed the money and took off and left behind an empty bottle of rum — as well as a check card with his name on it. Authorities needed just hours to arrest Derden at his home.
“The clerk ... believed he was about to be shot dead,Our precision manufactured lasers and laser marker systems deliver the highest possible laser marking performance.” the Carver County attorney’s office said in a statement Tuesday announcing the sentencing. “The clerk then stood and began the fight of his life.”
While authorities have not said how much money Derden came away with, his sentence includes making restitution of more than $9,000. The clerk’s identity has also not been disclosed.
Derden, wearing a mask, entered the store and pointed the gun at the clerk standing behind the cash register. The teen followed orders and put all the money, more than $2,000, from the register into a plastic bag.
The clerk was then ordered to a backroom and told to empty the store’s two safes. The teen told Derden he didn’t know the combination to the second safe. That’s when Derden had the teen kneeling and pleading for mercy.
Upon hearing the gun’s click, the clerk “seized this as an opportunity” to try and stand up, prosecutors wrote in one court filing. Derden pushed him back down and struck him on the head with the gun.
They began fighting, with Derden hitting the teen again with the gun and biting the clerk’s finger.
The teen wrestled the gun from Derden, and pulled off his mask and jacket before being pushed to the floor. Derden grabbed the bag of money and fled.
Police, armed with Derden’s check card,Willkommen im virtuellen Zuhause der Lercher Werkzeugbau GmbH. arrested him several hours later.
The clerk was treated at a hospital for injuries to his scalp, face, finger and elsewhere. “To this day, [the teen] has several permanent scars on his head and face,” the prosecution wrote.
In arguing for nearly 16 years in prison, prosecutors called Derden “a dangerous repeat offender who had committed crime after crime for the past 10 years, regardless of whether he was on probation, supervised release or had just been released from prison.”
Marci D. Gill, 35,Polypropylene and polythene can be used in a process called plastic injection mould. of the 16300 block of S. Lawndale Avenue, Markham, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, four counts of possession of a controlled substance,Browse our huge selection of Safety goggles from the best brands. speeding and other violations, following a traffic stop in the 15700 block of Cicero Avenue.
Gill was stopped after police clocked him doing 54 mph in a 35 mph zone.
During the stop, Gill appeared shaky, while continually reaching for a bag in the front passenger seat of the car, according to the report. Gill told officers that he was transporting a 'water bong' used for smoking meth to a friend's house, according to the report.
Gill also told officers that the bong was his, but that he no longer used drugs and that was why he was transporting it to the friend's house, according to the report.
Also in the car, police found another bag containing hundreds of small, plastic baggies commonly used for distributing narcotics.
Inside one bag, police found another bag that was locked. Officers believed the bag contained more pipes and narcotics, according to the report.
Officers cut open the bag and discovered two clear plastic baggies containing suspected crystal meth, one plastic bag containing three pills of suspected Xanax, one purple bill of suspected Aderol, two vials containing suspected Rohypnol and one glass pipe used for ingesting meth.
Other countries court skilled immigrants
The contraption sits in a basement lab at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, a mish-mash of hoses, wires, whirring pumps
and a 12-foot high plastic tower filled with dripping water,Welcome to
Find the right laser Engraver or Laser engraver machines. all set on plastic milk crates.
It looks like a high school science project, but it was developed by two post-doctoral mechanical engineers at MIT. And it just might be a breakthrough that creates wealth and jobs in the United States and transforms the white-hot industry of oil and natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
That is, as long as the foreign-born inventors aren't forced to leave the country.
Anurag Bajpayee and Prakash Narayan Govindan, both from India, have started a company to sell the system to oil companies that are desperate for a cheaper, cleaner way to dispose of the billions of gallons of contaminated water produced by fracking.
Oil companies have flown them to Texas and North Dakota. They say they are about to close on millions of dollars in financing, and they anticipate hiring 100 employees in the next couple of years. Scientific American magazine called water-decontamination technology developed by Bajpayee one of the top ten "world-changing ideas" of 2012.
But their student visas expire soon, both before July, and because of the restrictive U.S. visa system, they may have to move their company to India or another country. "We love it here," said Bajpayee, a cheerful 27-year-old in an argyle sweater and jeans.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobblehead available anywhere. "But there are so many hoops you have to jump through. And you risk getting deported while you are creating jobs."
Much of the current immigration debate in Washington has centered on the 11 million undocumented migrants in the country. But, from the halls of MIT to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, business and academic leaders are more focused on what they call an even greater threat to the U.S. economy: immigration laws that chase away highly skilled foreigners educated in U.S. universities, often with degrees funded by U.S. taxpayers.
While other countries are actively recruiting foreign-born U.S. graduates, the United States has strict limits on visas for highly skilled workers that often lead to waiting lists of many years. And unlike Canada and other countries, the U.S. offers no specific visa for young entrepreneurs like Bajpayee and Narayan who want to start a new business in America.
"These are bright people who want to stay and make this country more competitive, and we treat them like dirt and drive them away," said Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and academic who writes frequently about immigration and the "reverse brain drain."
President Barack Obama supports making it easier for foreigners who earn master's degrees or Ph.Ds at U.S. universities to get green cards, and so does a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators who recently announced their immigration reform proposals. The idea has wide support, but it is stuck in partisan infighting over how to craft comprehensive reforms that address both skilled and unskilled immigrants.
Republicans have proposed increasing the number of visas for skilled immigrants by cutting the number available for unskilled immigrants--a trade-off that Democrats oppose. The situation is an emblem of Washington gridlock: Even when both sides agree on something, they can't agree on how to make it happen.
Obama and some in Congress have also proposed creating a new "start-up visa" for foreign entrepreneurs. Many applaud this plan, but not all.
"It's a stupid idea," said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, who supports tighter immigration controls. "What is an entrepreneur? Businesses come and go."
That kind of talk is heresy in Silicon Valley, where business leaders have begged the government for more welcoming immigration laws. The biggest obstacle to growth in America's tech industry,Looking for the Best Air purifier? they say, is a desperately acute shortage of highly skilled workers in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
"No matter how many visas they gave out, those people would all get jobs and we would still need more," said Margit Wennmachers, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a major venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.Willkommen im virtuellen Zuhause der Lercher Werkzeugbau GmbH. "It's not like we need 10,000. I think we could do with a million and still be hungry."
According to a study by the Brookings Institution, about half of all Ph.It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage.Ds working in science and technology are foreign-born. And about 40 percent of all MIT graduate students are from other countries.
Leon Sandler, executive director of MIT's Deshpande Center for Technical Innovation, said it costs about $250,000 to educate a single Ph.D student and the U.S. government pays for at least 80 percent of all MIT's graduate research.
"Essentially we are funding their research, spending a quarter-million dollars in taxpayer money, then we make it hard for these people to stay here," said Sandler, whose group helps start up and provided nearly $150,000 to support Bajpayee and Narayan. "If you want more innovation in this country, fix the visa situation."
Countries from Canada to Germany to Australia to Singapore are enthusiastically courting foreign entrepreneurs with relatively easy visas. Some countries offer cash.
China has given bonuses of up to $150,000 to thousands of highly skilled expatriates who have come home to work or start businesses. Chile is luring top talent with $40,000 in capital, free office space and a quick visa through its "Start-up Chile" program.
It looks like a high school science project, but it was developed by two post-doctoral mechanical engineers at MIT. And it just might be a breakthrough that creates wealth and jobs in the United States and transforms the white-hot industry of oil and natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
That is, as long as the foreign-born inventors aren't forced to leave the country.
Anurag Bajpayee and Prakash Narayan Govindan, both from India, have started a company to sell the system to oil companies that are desperate for a cheaper, cleaner way to dispose of the billions of gallons of contaminated water produced by fracking.
Oil companies have flown them to Texas and North Dakota. They say they are about to close on millions of dollars in financing, and they anticipate hiring 100 employees in the next couple of years. Scientific American magazine called water-decontamination technology developed by Bajpayee one of the top ten "world-changing ideas" of 2012.
But their student visas expire soon, both before July, and because of the restrictive U.S. visa system, they may have to move their company to India or another country. "We love it here," said Bajpayee, a cheerful 27-year-old in an argyle sweater and jeans.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobblehead available anywhere. "But there are so many hoops you have to jump through. And you risk getting deported while you are creating jobs."
Much of the current immigration debate in Washington has centered on the 11 million undocumented migrants in the country. But, from the halls of MIT to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, business and academic leaders are more focused on what they call an even greater threat to the U.S. economy: immigration laws that chase away highly skilled foreigners educated in U.S. universities, often with degrees funded by U.S. taxpayers.
While other countries are actively recruiting foreign-born U.S. graduates, the United States has strict limits on visas for highly skilled workers that often lead to waiting lists of many years. And unlike Canada and other countries, the U.S. offers no specific visa for young entrepreneurs like Bajpayee and Narayan who want to start a new business in America.
"These are bright people who want to stay and make this country more competitive, and we treat them like dirt and drive them away," said Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and academic who writes frequently about immigration and the "reverse brain drain."
President Barack Obama supports making it easier for foreigners who earn master's degrees or Ph.Ds at U.S. universities to get green cards, and so does a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators who recently announced their immigration reform proposals. The idea has wide support, but it is stuck in partisan infighting over how to craft comprehensive reforms that address both skilled and unskilled immigrants.
Republicans have proposed increasing the number of visas for skilled immigrants by cutting the number available for unskilled immigrants--a trade-off that Democrats oppose. The situation is an emblem of Washington gridlock: Even when both sides agree on something, they can't agree on how to make it happen.
Obama and some in Congress have also proposed creating a new "start-up visa" for foreign entrepreneurs. Many applaud this plan, but not all.
"It's a stupid idea," said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, who supports tighter immigration controls. "What is an entrepreneur? Businesses come and go."
That kind of talk is heresy in Silicon Valley, where business leaders have begged the government for more welcoming immigration laws. The biggest obstacle to growth in America's tech industry,Looking for the Best Air purifier? they say, is a desperately acute shortage of highly skilled workers in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
"No matter how many visas they gave out, those people would all get jobs and we would still need more," said Margit Wennmachers, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a major venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.Willkommen im virtuellen Zuhause der Lercher Werkzeugbau GmbH. "It's not like we need 10,000. I think we could do with a million and still be hungry."
According to a study by the Brookings Institution, about half of all Ph.It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage.Ds working in science and technology are foreign-born. And about 40 percent of all MIT graduate students are from other countries.
Leon Sandler, executive director of MIT's Deshpande Center for Technical Innovation, said it costs about $250,000 to educate a single Ph.D student and the U.S. government pays for at least 80 percent of all MIT's graduate research.
"Essentially we are funding their research, spending a quarter-million dollars in taxpayer money, then we make it hard for these people to stay here," said Sandler, whose group helps start up and provided nearly $150,000 to support Bajpayee and Narayan. "If you want more innovation in this country, fix the visa situation."
Countries from Canada to Germany to Australia to Singapore are enthusiastically courting foreign entrepreneurs with relatively easy visas. Some countries offer cash.
China has given bonuses of up to $150,000 to thousands of highly skilled expatriates who have come home to work or start businesses. Chile is luring top talent with $40,000 in capital, free office space and a quick visa through its "Start-up Chile" program.
2013年2月18日 星期一
Escalating tax credit proposed to boost WNY film production
Angelina Jolie almost filmed an elaborate fight scene in Buffalo for
the action thriller “Salt,” using the Skyway, the I-190 ramp and the
railroad tracks below as a backdrop.
A location scout wanted it to happen, but it was just too costly to film here.
So the production went to another city.
It’s a problem that has kept many film studios away, despite the enticement of Buffalo’s picture-perfect settings, according to film promoters here.
“The things we have that always blow these filmmakers away – and it’s probably a testament to the preservationists here – is that our architecture is so preserved and so pristine. They see our grain mills,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. the grittiness of the First Ward, the Cobblestone District with real cobblestone streets,” said Tim Clark, head of the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission.
It is just the costs that stop movie crews from coming here.
Big productions must bring in crews from New York City, and that means paying additional costs for transportation, rental vehicles, hotel rooms and per diems.
“The experts tell me it’s close to a 45 percent difference between shooting a movie in Buffalo versus shooting a movie in Staten Island,” Clark said.
Now State Sen. Patrick Gallivan has proposed legislation that he feels could level the playing field and make Buffalo much more competitive with other cities. His bill calls for raising the state’s 30 percent film production tax credit – the amount of expenses a film studio can deduct in taxes – on an escalating scale upstate. For Western New York, it would be 45 percent.
“The farther you get from New York City, the more expensive it is to bring films to Buffalo,” the Elma Republican said. “But over time, we can build the industry and workforce, and the costs will naturally go down.”
His proposal follows a change last year that boosted the state’s tax credit for post-production work – such as titling, color correcting and special effects – from 10 to 30 percent, with an additional 5 percent bump for upstate and Western New York.
“We have a very good number of small-budget films being made in and around this area.A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. But we’re relegated to the non-union, smaller-budget movies,” Clark said. “They are good bread-and-butter kinds of projects for us, but we’re likely not to see the bigger stuff until we get some sort of relief in the tax credits here.”
For example, a little over a week ago, director Ivan Reitman and a location scout were in town to consider making “Draft Day,” which would star Kevin Costner as a fictitious Buffalo Bills general manager.
But Lionsgate studio also is considering Cleveland for the movie because it offers a variety of incentives not available in Buffalo.Find the best iPhone headset for you Another example: Producer Don Carmody, whose credits include “Good Will Hunting” and “Chicago,” set his latest film, “The Factory,” which came out direct-to-video on Tuesday, in Buffalo.
But the movie, which stars John Cusack, was filmed in Montreal.
“There is huge competition with the tax credits all over the place, and when we made ‘The Factory,’ even the New York State rebates weren’t that big a deal. It was just better for us to shoot the thing in Montreal and take advantage of their tax credits,” Carmody said.
Gallivan said he is hopeful fellow lawmakers will support the four-tiered film production tax credit boost – from 30 to 45 percent – that would give upstate and Western New York the maximum boost.
It’s the only way, he said, that regions outside New York City can have a level playing field.
“I don’t know if we need four or three tiers, but the general concept essentially is to level the costs so every region can compete equally to bring film production to upstate and Western New York,” Gallivan said.
His bill has the support of John Ford, president and business manager of Motion Picture Studio Mechanics Local 52, based in New York City. More than 100 members are between Buffalo and Rochester in the various locals and he would welcome the chance to add more, he said.
“You need the employers to bring the work here. Once the shows start coming, then you get as many local people on as you can and they learn over time,” Ford said.
Clark said the legislation to provide equity is overdue.
“In 2006, ‘The Savages’ shot here two or three days and went to Staten Island, where it was made to look like Buffalo,” Clark said, referring to the film that co-starred Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney.
Clark said representatives from several major movie studios have assured him that they would shoot more pictures throughout New York State if the production tax credit went up.
Other upstate movie promoters agree.
Based on conversations with line producers who budget movies, “the magic tax credit number is 42 percent,” said Nora Brown, who heads Rochester’s film commission.
That would help Rochester retain films she said have been lost lately to Massachusetts. Some other states, for instance, allow a portion of salaries paid to the director, writer and leading cast members to be deducted from taxes.
Downtown Rochester is slated for 10 days of shooting this spring for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” according to John Scardino, regional representative for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees 52. But the amount of film, which reprises Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, being shot there was cut in half due to added costs.
Efforts also are under way to increase critical post-production work in parts of the state outside of New York City.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last July signed legislation that raised the state post-production tax credit for upstate and Western New York to 35 percent – 5 percent higher than for New York City, where most of the industry is located.
The governor announced his support in January for extending the tax credit five years, something the Legislature still has to approve.
Increasing the post-production tax credit is working,A chip card is a plastic card that has a computer chip implanted into it that enables the card to perform certain. said Kenneth Adams, president and CEO of Empire State Development Corp.
“For the first couple of years that the post-production credit existed, there were 17 projects that sought support. In the six or seven months since, we’ve had 34 projects sign up for the credit, indicating there is strong interest,” Adams said.
Later this year, the school plans to begin a visual-effects certificate training program to train students to work in the post-production industry.
Sam Hoyt, a member of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, said there have been “advanced discussions” about how to support what Daemen is doing.
“We think Daemen has something that is very unique based on our discussions and our due diligence, and we’re in discussions with the team there as to how we can make it become a reality,” Hoyt said.
Adams said the growing industry could help retain a highly skilled and well-trained technical workforce in Buffalo.
“If this works, it’s another strategy in keeping young people in Western New York. It’s a very cool industry,” Adams said.
Ben Porcari, who operates IBC Digital, a production company in Buffalo specializing in post-animation and digital effects, said the post-production tax credit makes Buffalo much more competitive.
“Companies can benefit from the low cost of operation in Buffalo and take advantage of the extra 5 percent tax credit. On a $1 million job, that’s a decent amount of money,” Porcari said.
With possible changes to production tax credits along with the change last year in the post-production credit, Buffalo and Western New York’s film industry could be turning a corner, said Clark of the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission.
“I truly believe we are on the cusp of something really big here,” Clark said. “It’s also really sexy. You have movie stars in town, you have lights,Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in a custom keychain. camera, action. It’s a great way to boost the economy.”
A location scout wanted it to happen, but it was just too costly to film here.
So the production went to another city.
It’s a problem that has kept many film studios away, despite the enticement of Buffalo’s picture-perfect settings, according to film promoters here.
“The things we have that always blow these filmmakers away – and it’s probably a testament to the preservationists here – is that our architecture is so preserved and so pristine. They see our grain mills,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. the grittiness of the First Ward, the Cobblestone District with real cobblestone streets,” said Tim Clark, head of the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission.
It is just the costs that stop movie crews from coming here.
Big productions must bring in crews from New York City, and that means paying additional costs for transportation, rental vehicles, hotel rooms and per diems.
“The experts tell me it’s close to a 45 percent difference between shooting a movie in Buffalo versus shooting a movie in Staten Island,” Clark said.
Now State Sen. Patrick Gallivan has proposed legislation that he feels could level the playing field and make Buffalo much more competitive with other cities. His bill calls for raising the state’s 30 percent film production tax credit – the amount of expenses a film studio can deduct in taxes – on an escalating scale upstate. For Western New York, it would be 45 percent.
“The farther you get from New York City, the more expensive it is to bring films to Buffalo,” the Elma Republican said. “But over time, we can build the industry and workforce, and the costs will naturally go down.”
His proposal follows a change last year that boosted the state’s tax credit for post-production work – such as titling, color correcting and special effects – from 10 to 30 percent, with an additional 5 percent bump for upstate and Western New York.
“We have a very good number of small-budget films being made in and around this area.A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. But we’re relegated to the non-union, smaller-budget movies,” Clark said. “They are good bread-and-butter kinds of projects for us, but we’re likely not to see the bigger stuff until we get some sort of relief in the tax credits here.”
For example, a little over a week ago, director Ivan Reitman and a location scout were in town to consider making “Draft Day,” which would star Kevin Costner as a fictitious Buffalo Bills general manager.
But Lionsgate studio also is considering Cleveland for the movie because it offers a variety of incentives not available in Buffalo.Find the best iPhone headset for you Another example: Producer Don Carmody, whose credits include “Good Will Hunting” and “Chicago,” set his latest film, “The Factory,” which came out direct-to-video on Tuesday, in Buffalo.
But the movie, which stars John Cusack, was filmed in Montreal.
“There is huge competition with the tax credits all over the place, and when we made ‘The Factory,’ even the New York State rebates weren’t that big a deal. It was just better for us to shoot the thing in Montreal and take advantage of their tax credits,” Carmody said.
Gallivan said he is hopeful fellow lawmakers will support the four-tiered film production tax credit boost – from 30 to 45 percent – that would give upstate and Western New York the maximum boost.
It’s the only way, he said, that regions outside New York City can have a level playing field.
“I don’t know if we need four or three tiers, but the general concept essentially is to level the costs so every region can compete equally to bring film production to upstate and Western New York,” Gallivan said.
His bill has the support of John Ford, president and business manager of Motion Picture Studio Mechanics Local 52, based in New York City. More than 100 members are between Buffalo and Rochester in the various locals and he would welcome the chance to add more, he said.
“You need the employers to bring the work here. Once the shows start coming, then you get as many local people on as you can and they learn over time,” Ford said.
Clark said the legislation to provide equity is overdue.
“In 2006, ‘The Savages’ shot here two or three days and went to Staten Island, where it was made to look like Buffalo,” Clark said, referring to the film that co-starred Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney.
Clark said representatives from several major movie studios have assured him that they would shoot more pictures throughout New York State if the production tax credit went up.
Other upstate movie promoters agree.
Based on conversations with line producers who budget movies, “the magic tax credit number is 42 percent,” said Nora Brown, who heads Rochester’s film commission.
That would help Rochester retain films she said have been lost lately to Massachusetts. Some other states, for instance, allow a portion of salaries paid to the director, writer and leading cast members to be deducted from taxes.
Downtown Rochester is slated for 10 days of shooting this spring for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” according to John Scardino, regional representative for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees 52. But the amount of film, which reprises Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, being shot there was cut in half due to added costs.
Efforts also are under way to increase critical post-production work in parts of the state outside of New York City.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last July signed legislation that raised the state post-production tax credit for upstate and Western New York to 35 percent – 5 percent higher than for New York City, where most of the industry is located.
The governor announced his support in January for extending the tax credit five years, something the Legislature still has to approve.
Increasing the post-production tax credit is working,A chip card is a plastic card that has a computer chip implanted into it that enables the card to perform certain. said Kenneth Adams, president and CEO of Empire State Development Corp.
“For the first couple of years that the post-production credit existed, there were 17 projects that sought support. In the six or seven months since, we’ve had 34 projects sign up for the credit, indicating there is strong interest,” Adams said.
Later this year, the school plans to begin a visual-effects certificate training program to train students to work in the post-production industry.
Sam Hoyt, a member of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, said there have been “advanced discussions” about how to support what Daemen is doing.
“We think Daemen has something that is very unique based on our discussions and our due diligence, and we’re in discussions with the team there as to how we can make it become a reality,” Hoyt said.
Adams said the growing industry could help retain a highly skilled and well-trained technical workforce in Buffalo.
“If this works, it’s another strategy in keeping young people in Western New York. It’s a very cool industry,” Adams said.
Ben Porcari, who operates IBC Digital, a production company in Buffalo specializing in post-animation and digital effects, said the post-production tax credit makes Buffalo much more competitive.
“Companies can benefit from the low cost of operation in Buffalo and take advantage of the extra 5 percent tax credit. On a $1 million job, that’s a decent amount of money,” Porcari said.
With possible changes to production tax credits along with the change last year in the post-production credit, Buffalo and Western New York’s film industry could be turning a corner, said Clark of the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission.
“I truly believe we are on the cusp of something really big here,” Clark said. “It’s also really sexy. You have movie stars in town, you have lights,Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in a custom keychain. camera, action. It’s a great way to boost the economy.”
2013年2月17日 星期日
New York to North Jersey
New York, New York. If retailers can make it there,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or laser marking machine . odds are good they'll also open stores here. And lately the odds are improving.
The flow of stores from Manhattan to North Jersey slowed during the recession, but the pace is picking up again.View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps. Tiffany & Co. is scheduled to open its second Bergen County store, at Westfield Garden State Plaza, this summer. The mall is also adding space for 20 stores it hopes to fill with New York City premium designer brands, like as Dolce & Gabbana.
Last year, when the giant Japanese retailer Uniqlo was looking for a suburban site for its first U.S. store outside New York City, it picked Paramus.
The retail fortunes of North Jersey and New York City have been linked since the first Bergen County malls opened in 1957. In recent years, North Jersey has benefited from New York City's dominance as the place for international brands to establish a U.S. foothold. When those brands decide to add suburban stores, North Jersey usually is their first choice.
"For retailers in New York, it really is New Jersey and you, perfect together," said Faith Hope Consolo, a New York power broker and head of the retail division at Prudential Douglas Elliman. A Manhattan store shows you can make it in the big city. And when you want to show you can play in suburbia's big leagues, you come to North Jersey, particularly Paramus, Consolo and other retail real estate brokers say.
Consolo said Manhattan-based retailers that want to branch out into a nearby suburb have four choices — New Jersey; Westchester County and Long Island in New York; and Connecticut. In her opinion, New Jersey beats those other locations.
"It's easy access, you have some of the best malls in the country," she said. Eventually, national chains will usually end up with stores in all those locations, but North Jersey often wins the contest for the first suburban location because it is considered a better test market.
"Bergen County really gives you such a good cross-section of socio economic categories and gives you a very big variety of consumers," Consolo said. "It lets you tap a market that's residential, commercial and even tourist."
The first New York retailers came to northern New Jersey because of its proximity to New York. The parent company of Macy's developed Garden State Plaza in the 1950s, expecting that most of its shoppers would be New Yorkers from Washington Heights and the Bronx who could get to Paramus quicker than to midtown because of the George Washington Bridge and Route 4.
But the bridge and Route 4 also led to the development of North Jersey suburbs filled with North Jersey shoppers. Now, the retailers come for the people — a population of 1.4 million in Bergen and Passaic counties that makes North Jersey the size of the country's sixth-largest city, Phoenix, and bigger than Dallas and Detroit — and the kind of demographics merchants drool over — average household income of $105,864 and median household income of $72,588. That's 7 percent higher than the New Jersey median and 43 percent above the U.S. median.
Consolo said retailers want to be in Manhattan "because if they want to expand, Manhattan buys us the rest of the country." Landlords in other cities know you mean business and can survive if you have a store in Manhattan, she said. "Why? Because they know how competitive New York is. We're a tough town," she said.
Likewise, the Paramus-based broker Chuck Lanyard, president of the Goldstein Group, said a Paramus location sends the same message to suburban landlords.
"It says you're serious about picking a really high-quality town in a prime retail market place.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. And when you do future stores, it helps with your credibility," he said.
A Manhattan flagship,Provides more protection than regular Safety goggles. Consolo said, is not for the weak or the undercapitalized. But for retailers looking to go public or launch a major expansion, it is the best place for visibility.
They're not tracking changes in the euro or US dollar. As the International Energy Agency in Paris points out, you'd expect the growing spare capacity in the OPEC countries to drive down Brent oil prices. But that is not happening.
Copenhagen-based Danske Bank on Friday shot out a note which makes an interesting point about OPEC and its seeming ability to crank up production if needed. Political unrest in Africa has led oil companies to review security arrangements in countries such as Libya, Algeria and Nigeria, thus halting production.
"This has acted to increase spare capacity but should hardly be seen as bearish for oil," says Danske senior analyst Christin Tuxen. And he says the geopolitical factor has returned with a vengeance after talks broke down between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency; this just raises the risk of Israel losing patience with its long-time foe.
In the near term, Tuxen expects Brent prices to be well supported but there could be a correction at any time due to the build-up of speculative positioning.
So good timing for Peter Strachan at Perth-based StockAnalysis to bring out his latest thrice-yearly review of the 135 oil stocks he follows. Of those,Parkeasy Electronics are dedicated to provide Car park management system. Strachan identifies only 36 worthy of investment or speculation.
The flow of stores from Manhattan to North Jersey slowed during the recession, but the pace is picking up again.View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps. Tiffany & Co. is scheduled to open its second Bergen County store, at Westfield Garden State Plaza, this summer. The mall is also adding space for 20 stores it hopes to fill with New York City premium designer brands, like as Dolce & Gabbana.
Last year, when the giant Japanese retailer Uniqlo was looking for a suburban site for its first U.S. store outside New York City, it picked Paramus.
The retail fortunes of North Jersey and New York City have been linked since the first Bergen County malls opened in 1957. In recent years, North Jersey has benefited from New York City's dominance as the place for international brands to establish a U.S. foothold. When those brands decide to add suburban stores, North Jersey usually is their first choice.
"For retailers in New York, it really is New Jersey and you, perfect together," said Faith Hope Consolo, a New York power broker and head of the retail division at Prudential Douglas Elliman. A Manhattan store shows you can make it in the big city. And when you want to show you can play in suburbia's big leagues, you come to North Jersey, particularly Paramus, Consolo and other retail real estate brokers say.
Consolo said Manhattan-based retailers that want to branch out into a nearby suburb have four choices — New Jersey; Westchester County and Long Island in New York; and Connecticut. In her opinion, New Jersey beats those other locations.
"It's easy access, you have some of the best malls in the country," she said. Eventually, national chains will usually end up with stores in all those locations, but North Jersey often wins the contest for the first suburban location because it is considered a better test market.
"Bergen County really gives you such a good cross-section of socio economic categories and gives you a very big variety of consumers," Consolo said. "It lets you tap a market that's residential, commercial and even tourist."
The first New York retailers came to northern New Jersey because of its proximity to New York. The parent company of Macy's developed Garden State Plaza in the 1950s, expecting that most of its shoppers would be New Yorkers from Washington Heights and the Bronx who could get to Paramus quicker than to midtown because of the George Washington Bridge and Route 4.
But the bridge and Route 4 also led to the development of North Jersey suburbs filled with North Jersey shoppers. Now, the retailers come for the people — a population of 1.4 million in Bergen and Passaic counties that makes North Jersey the size of the country's sixth-largest city, Phoenix, and bigger than Dallas and Detroit — and the kind of demographics merchants drool over — average household income of $105,864 and median household income of $72,588. That's 7 percent higher than the New Jersey median and 43 percent above the U.S. median.
Consolo said retailers want to be in Manhattan "because if they want to expand, Manhattan buys us the rest of the country." Landlords in other cities know you mean business and can survive if you have a store in Manhattan, she said. "Why? Because they know how competitive New York is. We're a tough town," she said.
Likewise, the Paramus-based broker Chuck Lanyard, president of the Goldstein Group, said a Paramus location sends the same message to suburban landlords.
"It says you're serious about picking a really high-quality town in a prime retail market place.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. And when you do future stores, it helps with your credibility," he said.
A Manhattan flagship,Provides more protection than regular Safety goggles. Consolo said, is not for the weak or the undercapitalized. But for retailers looking to go public or launch a major expansion, it is the best place for visibility.
They're not tracking changes in the euro or US dollar. As the International Energy Agency in Paris points out, you'd expect the growing spare capacity in the OPEC countries to drive down Brent oil prices. But that is not happening.
Copenhagen-based Danske Bank on Friday shot out a note which makes an interesting point about OPEC and its seeming ability to crank up production if needed. Political unrest in Africa has led oil companies to review security arrangements in countries such as Libya, Algeria and Nigeria, thus halting production.
"This has acted to increase spare capacity but should hardly be seen as bearish for oil," says Danske senior analyst Christin Tuxen. And he says the geopolitical factor has returned with a vengeance after talks broke down between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency; this just raises the risk of Israel losing patience with its long-time foe.
In the near term, Tuxen expects Brent prices to be well supported but there could be a correction at any time due to the build-up of speculative positioning.
So good timing for Peter Strachan at Perth-based StockAnalysis to bring out his latest thrice-yearly review of the 135 oil stocks he follows. Of those,Parkeasy Electronics are dedicated to provide Car park management system. Strachan identifies only 36 worthy of investment or speculation.
Second Annual JumpStart Kansas
The Kansas City,Professionals with the job title Mold Maker
are on LinkedIn. Kan., high school student was one of 10 finalists in
the second annual JumpStart Kansas competition at McPherson College.
Following the final pitch presentations on Feb. 13 (which just happened
to also be her birthday) Onstott found out she was one of two grand
prize winners, along with Brandon Mackie of Coffeyville, Kan.
"The most important thing was getting my passion across," Onstott said. "I have a solution to a very real problem."
The annual Jump Start Kansas competition - created and hosted by McPherson College - awards as the top prizes two grants of $5,000 to the two Kansas high school students who present the best entrepreneurial ideas. One grant is for the area of commercial entrepreneurship and one is for social entrepreneurship. What's more, the grants come with no stipulation that the high school students attend McPherson College.
The grand prize winners are also offered a $5,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon.000 annual scholarship to MC. The other eight finalists are offered a $1,000 annual scholarship to MC, which is increased to $1,500 annually if they also pursue the Transformative Entrepreneurship Minor when they attend the college. In addition, these students can receive $500 for their idea from the college's micro-grant "Horizon Fund" if they attend.
In total, McPherson College puts more than $100,000 on the line every year just to encourage the development of young entrepreneurs.
Onstott won the grand prize in the commercial category. She started her five-minute presentation by explaining plainly how uncomfortable she was - and not just because she was pitching for $5,000 with a speech she'd been up to 2 a.m. writing. It was also because of the clothes she was wearing.
Onstott went on to explain that standard bras are made based on only two standard measurements - cup and band - and all mass-produced bras assume symmetry. But that's only true for 10 percent of bra customers, she said, and the other 90 percent of these women are left either resorting to a poor, uncomfortable fit or spending hundreds of dollars on a custom bra.
Her solution was "Build a Better Bra Boutique." The general concept is similar to the "Build-A-Bear Workshop" business, except instead of customizing a Teddy bear, Onstott's customers would use a computerized system to order a bra to exact specifications. Trained employees would help measure and guide customers through the process.
"This is something that is close to my own heart and something I've been struggling with," Onstott said.Which Air purifier is right for you?
The grant will help her learn more about the process of bra-making and help her begin setting up essential aspects of her business.
In the social entrepreneurship category, Brandon Mackie came away with the grand prize grant with his concept for an inspirational game called "Highway to Heaven." The playing board is reminiscent of the game "Operation,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems?" where players try to pull out plastic body parts from a cartoon picture of a surgery patient without touching the sides and making a buzzer go off.
But rather than competition, Mackie's game is directed toward spiritual discovery within Christianity, healing sadness and depression, and teaching lessons of love. With a prototype, he showed how the players begin by trying to pull out a "broken heart" object at the beginning, then move along a pathway removing Christian symbols. The "highway" concludes with a "healed heart" and then a cross symbol. When players touch the edges and trigger the buzzer, they draw a card with inspirational quotes or Biblical scripture and the turn moves to the next player.
He proposed a radically different design for a wind turbine to create electricity. Rather than the wind directly turning a turbine blade, it uses a scientific property of fluids and gases called "The Bernoulli Principle." This design uses the wind's energy to pull air from the ground up, turning a turbine along the way. His design is safer for wildlife, has fewer moving parts,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. has no maximum operable wind speed and would be easier to maintain with a generator at ground level.
-Jordyn Lipe, Hutchinson, Kan. - The Joyful Bakery. Lipe has been baking since she could walk, and in more recent days has won prizes and developed loyal customers. Baking is her passion. Already selling her goods by word-of-mouth and a small web presence, she would like to expand the business.
"My dream is to secure a location for my bakery and really get it going," she said.
As she looks for that location, she wants to create a welcoming, calm and comforting atmosphere.
"My purpose in being before you today is to do my best to change the world," she said.
She just might have secured some new fans at the competition, as she offered a taste of her cupcakes to the judging panel.
-Eric Unruh, Galva, Kan. - Hydrogen Fuel Technology. Unruh would like to work out of his father's mechanic shop to convert gasoline-powered cars to also run on liquid hydrogen, providing a clean alternative to fossil fuels.
"About any vehicle that runs on gas can be made to run on hydrogen," he said.
Along with the conversion, he would also sell small generators to fit in a garage to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen, providing the fuel for the cars.
"The most important thing was getting my passion across," Onstott said. "I have a solution to a very real problem."
The annual Jump Start Kansas competition - created and hosted by McPherson College - awards as the top prizes two grants of $5,000 to the two Kansas high school students who present the best entrepreneurial ideas. One grant is for the area of commercial entrepreneurship and one is for social entrepreneurship. What's more, the grants come with no stipulation that the high school students attend McPherson College.
The grand prize winners are also offered a $5,A ridiculously low price on this All-Purpose solar lantern by Gordon.000 annual scholarship to MC. The other eight finalists are offered a $1,000 annual scholarship to MC, which is increased to $1,500 annually if they also pursue the Transformative Entrepreneurship Minor when they attend the college. In addition, these students can receive $500 for their idea from the college's micro-grant "Horizon Fund" if they attend.
In total, McPherson College puts more than $100,000 on the line every year just to encourage the development of young entrepreneurs.
Onstott won the grand prize in the commercial category. She started her five-minute presentation by explaining plainly how uncomfortable she was - and not just because she was pitching for $5,000 with a speech she'd been up to 2 a.m. writing. It was also because of the clothes she was wearing.
Onstott went on to explain that standard bras are made based on only two standard measurements - cup and band - and all mass-produced bras assume symmetry. But that's only true for 10 percent of bra customers, she said, and the other 90 percent of these women are left either resorting to a poor, uncomfortable fit or spending hundreds of dollars on a custom bra.
Her solution was "Build a Better Bra Boutique." The general concept is similar to the "Build-A-Bear Workshop" business, except instead of customizing a Teddy bear, Onstott's customers would use a computerized system to order a bra to exact specifications. Trained employees would help measure and guide customers through the process.
"This is something that is close to my own heart and something I've been struggling with," Onstott said.Which Air purifier is right for you?
The grant will help her learn more about the process of bra-making and help her begin setting up essential aspects of her business.
In the social entrepreneurship category, Brandon Mackie came away with the grand prize grant with his concept for an inspirational game called "Highway to Heaven." The playing board is reminiscent of the game "Operation,How cheaply can I build a solar power systems?" where players try to pull out plastic body parts from a cartoon picture of a surgery patient without touching the sides and making a buzzer go off.
But rather than competition, Mackie's game is directed toward spiritual discovery within Christianity, healing sadness and depression, and teaching lessons of love. With a prototype, he showed how the players begin by trying to pull out a "broken heart" object at the beginning, then move along a pathway removing Christian symbols. The "highway" concludes with a "healed heart" and then a cross symbol. When players touch the edges and trigger the buzzer, they draw a card with inspirational quotes or Biblical scripture and the turn moves to the next player.
He proposed a radically different design for a wind turbine to create electricity. Rather than the wind directly turning a turbine blade, it uses a scientific property of fluids and gases called "The Bernoulli Principle." This design uses the wind's energy to pull air from the ground up, turning a turbine along the way. His design is safer for wildlife, has fewer moving parts,Manufactures and supplies laser marker equipment. has no maximum operable wind speed and would be easier to maintain with a generator at ground level.
-Jordyn Lipe, Hutchinson, Kan. - The Joyful Bakery. Lipe has been baking since she could walk, and in more recent days has won prizes and developed loyal customers. Baking is her passion. Already selling her goods by word-of-mouth and a small web presence, she would like to expand the business.
"My dream is to secure a location for my bakery and really get it going," she said.
As she looks for that location, she wants to create a welcoming, calm and comforting atmosphere.
"My purpose in being before you today is to do my best to change the world," she said.
She just might have secured some new fans at the competition, as she offered a taste of her cupcakes to the judging panel.
-Eric Unruh, Galva, Kan. - Hydrogen Fuel Technology. Unruh would like to work out of his father's mechanic shop to convert gasoline-powered cars to also run on liquid hydrogen, providing a clean alternative to fossil fuels.
"About any vehicle that runs on gas can be made to run on hydrogen," he said.
Along with the conversion, he would also sell small generators to fit in a garage to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen, providing the fuel for the cars.
2013年2月4日 星期一
Local theatre community gears up for its 2013
The
South African theatre community is gearing up for the much anticipated
'Take a child to the theatre today' 2013 campaign which encourages
South Africa's youngest citizens to become audiences for theatre.
The World Day for Theatre for Children and Young People is celebrated annually by ASSITEJ centres from across the globe on 20 March. This international association of theatre for children and young people (active in almost 90 countries) and its partners are working together to unite theatres across the world in conveying one message: “Take a child to the theatre today”.
Michael Morpurgo will be writing this year’s World Day Message to inspire all to join the campaign. Morpurgo is the third Children’s Laureate, and writer of numerous children’s books, including War Horse which has been powerfully translated to the stage, in a visionary collaboration with South African Handspring Puppet Company.
In South Africa the campaign is particularly vital given that the majority of children in our country do not have access to theatre. “Giving children an opportunity to dream, to imagine other possibilities for their lives, to engage with and empathise with people and situations from very different walks of life to their own, is an important gift every child deserves to receive. Clem Sunter has described one of the ten most fundamental aspects of the 21st century as being that we have moved from the Age of Knowledge to the Age of Intelligence. This means teaching children not knowledge but cognitive skills, and one of the most powerful ways of doing this is through theatre," says Yvette Hardie,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. director of ASSITEJ SA and president of ASSITEJ International.
“The ‘Take a child to the theatre today’ campaign goes to the heart of what ASSITEJ is all about, working to ensure that all children and young people have access to the arts wherever they happen to live. We ask emerging and established theatres and theatre companies across the country to join hands and reach out to new audiences in community halls, schools, professional theatres and site specific venues. Last year our work in deprived communities such as Bodibe village (North West province), Sterkspruit (Eastern Cape), the Hillbrow inner city (Gauteng) and Vrygrond (Western Cape), to give just a few examples, has shown us just how desperately children need the arts as a transformative impulse. We want young people everywhere to experience the liberating power of the imagination,Where you can create a custom lanyard from our wide selection of styles and materials.” says Hardie.
Among the theatre houses that have come out in support of the 2013 campaign are Artscape Theatre, Joburg Theatre, Catalina Theatre, Tshwane Youth Theatre, Klein Libertas Teater, St. Anne’s College Theatre KKNK Festival, Rhumbelow Theatre,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, Dorpo Straat Teater, Hilbrow Theatre Project, Pierneef Teater, Theatre on the Bay, National Children’s Theatre, Masque Theatre, Old Mutual Theatre on the Square and Breytenbach Teater among others. The press launch on Tuesday, 19 February will give more information about the strategies that these theatres are using to engage with young audiences on and around World Theatre Day.
“We are calling on corporate sponsors, the public sector, the general public ,as well as the arts industry, across the country to join the campaign, so that we’re able to reach as many children as possible to ensure that we continuously encourage sustainability and growth of the arts sector,” said Hardie.
2012 saw the participation of eleven major theatre houses and companies in the campaign: Artscape, Joburg Theatre, Market Theatre, People’s Theatre, Sibikwa Arts Centre, Catalina Theatre, Hilton College Theatre, Kalk Bay Theatre, Baxter Theatre Centre, National Children’s Theatre, The Entertainers and Hillbrow Theatre Project made sure that young audiences in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Pietermaritzburg had access to the arts. Special offers for families, interactive events, free theatre for children and young people, as well as a marketing and advocacy campaign all played a role.
Over 7500 children attended theatrical events in honour of the day, an inspiring start for the three-year-long global campaign initiated by ASSITEJ to advocate for the value of theatre in the lives of children and young people. Numerous high profile volunteers gave of their time to bring attention to the message.
All South Africans can make a small but important contribution of R10 by texting 'Theatre4Youth' to 38490 from their mobile phones, thereby sponsoring children and youth to visit the theatre on and around World Theatre Day.
Along with the campaign this year, ASSITEJ South Africa in partnership with Theatre Arts Admin Collective (TAAC) and Lunchbox Theatre will be launching the annual Family Season Festival of performances in Cape Town and for the first time, in Plettenberg Bay to provide opportunities for children and young people from lower to middle income families to see high quality theatre. The festival also support local theatre practitioners and theatre companies to create more high quality theatre for our children, ensuring that theatre becomes an inspiring part of their cultural and family life,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. as well as their education.
Family Seasons are small, locally-based festivals, in areas which generally do not have access to theatre. They rely on the involvement of a network of local funders who are all deeply invested in the future of the children within that particular community. The festivals run partially over the school term and partially over holidays, drawing on school and family audiences. Performances will include the Musho award-winning production, Fishy Flippers,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. Jon Keevy’s Get Kracken (which was developed through an ASSITEJ programme), Jori Snell’s Standard Bank Ovation award-winning Kitchen Fables in a Cookie Jar, Lunchbox Theatre’s The Whale Show and From Addo to Adventure and Laway Arts' Red Earth.
The World Day for Theatre for Children and Young People is celebrated annually by ASSITEJ centres from across the globe on 20 March. This international association of theatre for children and young people (active in almost 90 countries) and its partners are working together to unite theatres across the world in conveying one message: “Take a child to the theatre today”.
Michael Morpurgo will be writing this year’s World Day Message to inspire all to join the campaign. Morpurgo is the third Children’s Laureate, and writer of numerous children’s books, including War Horse which has been powerfully translated to the stage, in a visionary collaboration with South African Handspring Puppet Company.
In South Africa the campaign is particularly vital given that the majority of children in our country do not have access to theatre. “Giving children an opportunity to dream, to imagine other possibilities for their lives, to engage with and empathise with people and situations from very different walks of life to their own, is an important gift every child deserves to receive. Clem Sunter has described one of the ten most fundamental aspects of the 21st century as being that we have moved from the Age of Knowledge to the Age of Intelligence. This means teaching children not knowledge but cognitive skills, and one of the most powerful ways of doing this is through theatre," says Yvette Hardie,Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing. director of ASSITEJ SA and president of ASSITEJ International.
“The ‘Take a child to the theatre today’ campaign goes to the heart of what ASSITEJ is all about, working to ensure that all children and young people have access to the arts wherever they happen to live. We ask emerging and established theatres and theatre companies across the country to join hands and reach out to new audiences in community halls, schools, professional theatres and site specific venues. Last year our work in deprived communities such as Bodibe village (North West province), Sterkspruit (Eastern Cape), the Hillbrow inner city (Gauteng) and Vrygrond (Western Cape), to give just a few examples, has shown us just how desperately children need the arts as a transformative impulse. We want young people everywhere to experience the liberating power of the imagination,Where you can create a custom lanyard from our wide selection of styles and materials.” says Hardie.
Among the theatre houses that have come out in support of the 2013 campaign are Artscape Theatre, Joburg Theatre, Catalina Theatre, Tshwane Youth Theatre, Klein Libertas Teater, St. Anne’s College Theatre KKNK Festival, Rhumbelow Theatre,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, Dorpo Straat Teater, Hilbrow Theatre Project, Pierneef Teater, Theatre on the Bay, National Children’s Theatre, Masque Theatre, Old Mutual Theatre on the Square and Breytenbach Teater among others. The press launch on Tuesday, 19 February will give more information about the strategies that these theatres are using to engage with young audiences on and around World Theatre Day.
“We are calling on corporate sponsors, the public sector, the general public ,as well as the arts industry, across the country to join the campaign, so that we’re able to reach as many children as possible to ensure that we continuously encourage sustainability and growth of the arts sector,” said Hardie.
2012 saw the participation of eleven major theatre houses and companies in the campaign: Artscape, Joburg Theatre, Market Theatre, People’s Theatre, Sibikwa Arts Centre, Catalina Theatre, Hilton College Theatre, Kalk Bay Theatre, Baxter Theatre Centre, National Children’s Theatre, The Entertainers and Hillbrow Theatre Project made sure that young audiences in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Pietermaritzburg had access to the arts. Special offers for families, interactive events, free theatre for children and young people, as well as a marketing and advocacy campaign all played a role.
Over 7500 children attended theatrical events in honour of the day, an inspiring start for the three-year-long global campaign initiated by ASSITEJ to advocate for the value of theatre in the lives of children and young people. Numerous high profile volunteers gave of their time to bring attention to the message.
All South Africans can make a small but important contribution of R10 by texting 'Theatre4Youth' to 38490 from their mobile phones, thereby sponsoring children and youth to visit the theatre on and around World Theatre Day.
Along with the campaign this year, ASSITEJ South Africa in partnership with Theatre Arts Admin Collective (TAAC) and Lunchbox Theatre will be launching the annual Family Season Festival of performances in Cape Town and for the first time, in Plettenberg Bay to provide opportunities for children and young people from lower to middle income families to see high quality theatre. The festival also support local theatre practitioners and theatre companies to create more high quality theatre for our children, ensuring that theatre becomes an inspiring part of their cultural and family life,Comprehensive Wi-Fi and RFID tag by Aeroscout to accurately locate and track any asset or person. as well as their education.
Family Seasons are small, locally-based festivals, in areas which generally do not have access to theatre. They rely on the involvement of a network of local funders who are all deeply invested in the future of the children within that particular community. The festivals run partially over the school term and partially over holidays, drawing on school and family audiences. Performances will include the Musho award-winning production, Fishy Flippers,Did you know that custom keychain chains can be used for more than just business. Jon Keevy’s Get Kracken (which was developed through an ASSITEJ programme), Jori Snell’s Standard Bank Ovation award-winning Kitchen Fables in a Cookie Jar, Lunchbox Theatre’s The Whale Show and From Addo to Adventure and Laway Arts' Red Earth.
Ariz woman charged in lover's slaying testifies
A
woman charged in the savage stabbing and shooting death of her lover
told jurors Monday how she endured an abusive childhood at the hands of
her parents and planned to commit suicide after she killed her
on-again, off-again boyfriend.
Jodi Arias' testimony was a surprise move by defense attorneys in a sensational murder trial in Phoenix that has become a daily fixture on cable news with its lurid stories of sex,The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. lies, religion, betrayal and violence.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, Arias, 32, could become just the fourth woman on Arizona's death row if convicted.
Arias' testimony aimed to portray her as a childhood abuse victim and naive teenager who stayed with boyfriends even after they cheated on her and became violent at times.
Defense attorneys claim it was a similar scenario throughout her relationship with Travis Alexander, a successful businessman and motivational speaker, who Arias killed in June 2008, she says, in self-defense.
She is charged with killing the 30-year-old man in what prosecutors describe as a fit of jealous rage after she found out he'd planned to take a trip to Mexico with another woman. Authorities say she stabbed and slashed him 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the forehead, leaving his bloody body in the bathroom of his suburban Phoenix home to be found five days later by friends.
Arias claims it was self-defense as Alexander attacked her after inviting her to his home for sex on the day of the killing.
Her trial began in early January with a series of salacious details about a torrid romance between Arias and Alexander after they met at a Las Vegas conference in late 2006. She claims they dated for about five months, then broke up but continued to see each other for sex up until the day of his death. She initially told police she knew nothing of the killing, then later blamed it on masked intruders. She finally admitted her involvement, but claimed self-defense _ kill or be killed by the enraged man.
She testified Monday that she lied early in the investigation about not being at the scene of the crime because she planned to commit suicide so there would never be a trial.
"At the time, I had plans to commit suicide. So I was extremely confident that no jury would convict me because I didn't expect any of you to be here," Arias told jurors. "I planned to be dead."
In a soft-spoken voice, Arias calmly described how an idyllic childhood in California turned abusive when she was about 7 years old. She said her parents beat her with belts and wooden spoons, and the abuse later escalated into shoving her into furniture and slapping her in the face for misdeeds such as sneaking out of the house.
Her mother sat in the front row of the courtroom and showed no emotion as Arias described her childhood.
Arias then went on to recount other stories from her youth that sometimes turned bizarre. She described meeting a high school boyfriend at a carnival when she was 15 and he was 18. Arias said the two dated for a while, but she broke it off because "he had all kinds of wild ideas."
"He entertained the belief in vampires," she said, adding that he wanted the pair to move to San Francisco to hunt them.
She said a few months after she broke up with the boy, she learned he was so distraught over the relationship's demise that he had slit both his wrists and tried to kill himself.
Arias said she reconnected with him about "19 months" later after a man she met in her father's restaurant had told her that the "second coming" of Jesus Christ would occur in late 1997.
"I was really naive and I kind of believed him," Arias testified. She wanted to warn her former boyfriend,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? she said.
But she said it wasn't long until the relationship turned stormy. She discovered he had been exchanging romantic emails with another woman, but she continued to date him.
Later, she said he tried to strangle her and told her "how he would kill each member of my family."
Throughout the trial,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. defense attorneys have tried to depict Alexander as a liar and cheat who told Arias and other girlfriends he was a devout Mormon saving sex for marriage, while in reality he was having sex with multiple women, cheating on some with others.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! Prosecutors have portrayed Arias as a jealous ex-girlfriend who couldn't let go of Alexander and stalked him for months after their breakup until finally snapping and killing him.
Authorities say they found her hair and bloody palm print at the scene of the killing, along with time-stamped photographs on a camera discovered inside Alexander's washing machine that place Arias there on the day he died. The photos included one of Arias nude on his bed, one of Alexander alive in the shower, then one of his body on the bathroom floor.
Defense attorneys have yet to explain why Arias apparently attempted to clean the scene and what happened to the weapons.
Authorities say Alexander was shot in the head with a .25 caliber gun, the same caliber Arias' grandparents reported stolen from their Northern California home about a week before the killing.
Jodi Arias' testimony was a surprise move by defense attorneys in a sensational murder trial in Phoenix that has become a daily fixture on cable news with its lurid stories of sex,The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product. lies, religion, betrayal and violence.Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, Arias, 32, could become just the fourth woman on Arizona's death row if convicted.
Arias' testimony aimed to portray her as a childhood abuse victim and naive teenager who stayed with boyfriends even after they cheated on her and became violent at times.
Defense attorneys claim it was a similar scenario throughout her relationship with Travis Alexander, a successful businessman and motivational speaker, who Arias killed in June 2008, she says, in self-defense.
She is charged with killing the 30-year-old man in what prosecutors describe as a fit of jealous rage after she found out he'd planned to take a trip to Mexico with another woman. Authorities say she stabbed and slashed him 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the forehead, leaving his bloody body in the bathroom of his suburban Phoenix home to be found five days later by friends.
Arias claims it was self-defense as Alexander attacked her after inviting her to his home for sex on the day of the killing.
Her trial began in early January with a series of salacious details about a torrid romance between Arias and Alexander after they met at a Las Vegas conference in late 2006. She claims they dated for about five months, then broke up but continued to see each other for sex up until the day of his death. She initially told police she knew nothing of the killing, then later blamed it on masked intruders. She finally admitted her involvement, but claimed self-defense _ kill or be killed by the enraged man.
She testified Monday that she lied early in the investigation about not being at the scene of the crime because she planned to commit suicide so there would never be a trial.
"At the time, I had plans to commit suicide. So I was extremely confident that no jury would convict me because I didn't expect any of you to be here," Arias told jurors. "I planned to be dead."
In a soft-spoken voice, Arias calmly described how an idyllic childhood in California turned abusive when she was about 7 years old. She said her parents beat her with belts and wooden spoons, and the abuse later escalated into shoving her into furniture and slapping her in the face for misdeeds such as sneaking out of the house.
Her mother sat in the front row of the courtroom and showed no emotion as Arias described her childhood.
Arias then went on to recount other stories from her youth that sometimes turned bizarre. She described meeting a high school boyfriend at a carnival when she was 15 and he was 18. Arias said the two dated for a while, but she broke it off because "he had all kinds of wild ideas."
"He entertained the belief in vampires," she said, adding that he wanted the pair to move to San Francisco to hunt them.
She said a few months after she broke up with the boy, she learned he was so distraught over the relationship's demise that he had slit both his wrists and tried to kill himself.
Arias said she reconnected with him about "19 months" later after a man she met in her father's restaurant had told her that the "second coming" of Jesus Christ would occur in late 1997.
"I was really naive and I kind of believed him," Arias testified. She wanted to warn her former boyfriend,Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? she said.
But she said it wasn't long until the relationship turned stormy. She discovered he had been exchanging romantic emails with another woman, but she continued to date him.
Later, she said he tried to strangle her and told her "how he would kill each member of my family."
Throughout the trial,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. defense attorneys have tried to depict Alexander as a liar and cheat who told Arias and other girlfriends he was a devout Mormon saving sex for marriage, while in reality he was having sex with multiple women, cheating on some with others.Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! Prosecutors have portrayed Arias as a jealous ex-girlfriend who couldn't let go of Alexander and stalked him for months after their breakup until finally snapping and killing him.
Authorities say they found her hair and bloody palm print at the scene of the killing, along with time-stamped photographs on a camera discovered inside Alexander's washing machine that place Arias there on the day he died. The photos included one of Arias nude on his bed, one of Alexander alive in the shower, then one of his body on the bathroom floor.
Defense attorneys have yet to explain why Arias apparently attempted to clean the scene and what happened to the weapons.
Authorities say Alexander was shot in the head with a .25 caliber gun, the same caliber Arias' grandparents reported stolen from their Northern California home about a week before the killing.
How Americans perceive same-sex marriage in a changing world
When
Matt Friday’s mother heard that her son was dating a man, Bruce
Carlson, his mother forbade them from holding hands in her home.
Friday, unable to accept his mother’s adversity, countered with an
ultimatum: “You can either have us holding hands, or not have us at
all.”
It was this strength evident in Friday’s interaction with his mother that guided and fueled his and Carlson’s love. The two men met at a gay bar in Monterey, Calif. on Feb. 15, 1986 while out to dinner with friends. After Friday gushed about Carlson’s “beautiful eyes,” they had their first kiss. Twenty-six years later, they find themselves living in Eugene, Ore. with a past rich with love, acceptance and strength. Yet,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. there is something Friday and Carlson wish they could do, something they believe will solidify their union even more.
And, now, more than ever before,Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! this seems possible. On November 6, 2012 three states — Maine, Maryland and Washington — became the first to approve same-sex marriage according to the popular vote; while in Minnesota, a state where marriage between gay men and lesbian women has not been legalized, voters rejected an amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. Prior to this date, same-sex marriage had been legalized in six states in our country: Connecticut, New York, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia.
It’s likely that Oregon, in the next few years, will be added to this list. Despite the fact that local gay rights activists made the decision to not add same-sex marriage to the Oregon ballot on election day, many Oregonians are hopeful for the future. And rightfully so — it is possible that a ballot measure for same-sex marriage will be implemented in Oregon as soon as 2014. With an accelerated momentum brought on by the successes in Maine, Maryland and Washington, the legalization of same-sex marriage in other American states appears even more plausible.
“What’s happening is the shifting of attitudes,” Carlson said. “People who have been brutalized, compromised, denied rights, are starting to say, ‘Yeah, I want to be part of that group, I want to be over here where we have a right to get married.’”
This shifting of attitudes is largely due to the younger American population, a generation more comfortable with gay marriage than ever before. In Maryland, for instance, 70 percent of voters 18-29 years old voted to legalize same-sex marriage, while only 36 percent of voters over 65 did — creating a 34-percent age gap. In Maine, 68 percent of voters between the ages of 18-29 voted to legalize gay marriage, while only 44 percent of voters over 65 did.The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product.
The age gap dividing voters applies not only to same-sex marriage legalization, but also to the presidential election. This year, 60 percent of voters between 18-29 years of age voted for President Obama, while only 44 percent of voters over 65 did.
This divide among American voters, Friday suggests, means society is edging away from an autocratic government. “People are realizing that you do not get to go in as an authoritarian and say, ‘We’re making the decisions here about what’s happening in your private life,’” he said. “The fact that we have turned everything into this fight about sexuality really completely misses the boat, in my opinion, about what it means to be human.”
With a total of nine states allowing marriage for same-sex couples, and the replacement of a traditional elderly generation with a progressive youth, the spread of legalization of gay marriage seems inevitable.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? The more liberal people become, the further our ideals and morals change along with it.
Today, it’s hard to believe there was a time in which women couldn’t vote for their own president. It’s difficult to imagine a society in which black and white people had to drink from separate water fountains. It’s puzzling to think that at one time black people and white people couldn’t get married.
One day it may also seem just as strange, to our grandchildren, to our great-grandchildren, to our great-great-grandchildren, that America was once a country in which two people in a committed, loving relationship could be denied the right to get married because of their gender. It may seem silly to future generations that two men that have been together for over twenty years, like Matt Friday and Bruce Carlson, aren’t free to prove their love to society, their country, to themselves — through the sanctity of marriage.
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Others, however, argue that such rhetoric is overdone. They suggest that the links between different franchises are often tenuous, if they exist at all, and many of the groups have emerged from principally regional struggles, sharing a similar extremist ideology and using the al-Qaeda label to galvanise their message.
Officials are comforted by the fact that over the past year a series of big events – such as the London Olympics – have taken place in western capitals without incident. But they still fear the potential and growth of al-Qaeda franchises, and their ability to contain them.
In the Middle East, popular uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia have shown how marginal jihadis were in their societies. But they have also produced new governments with a limited ability to assert control over their territory. In Libya, for example, the fall of the Gaddafi regime has left the country in the hands of competing militias. In Tunisia and Egypt, jihadists who had been released from prison could attempt to regroup.
Above all the number of ungoverned spaces – in Mali, Yemen, Somalia and the Pakistani tribal areas – has expanded. Security experts argue that while the threat from Bin Laden’s core group in Pakistan may have dwindled,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, western intelligence agencies are under pressure to keep up with this changing kaleidoscope of regional franchises.
“When al-Qaeda was largely holed up in the badlands of Pakistan and the tribal areas, the US had the capability to deal with them in a much more focused way through drone attacks,” says Nigel Inkster, a former UK intelligence official now at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. “But now we have a far more disaggregated threat that no one country has the capability to tackle. It makes dealing with these jihadist groups – and knowing when and how to intervene – a great deal more difficult.”
It was this strength evident in Friday’s interaction with his mother that guided and fueled his and Carlson’s love. The two men met at a gay bar in Monterey, Calif. on Feb. 15, 1986 while out to dinner with friends. After Friday gushed about Carlson’s “beautiful eyes,” they had their first kiss. Twenty-six years later, they find themselves living in Eugene, Ore. with a past rich with love, acceptance and strength. Yet,Come January 9 and chip card driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar Pradesh. there is something Friday and Carlson wish they could do, something they believe will solidify their union even more.
And, now, more than ever before,Wear a whimsical Disney ear cap straight from the Disney Theme Parks! this seems possible. On November 6, 2012 three states — Maine, Maryland and Washington — became the first to approve same-sex marriage according to the popular vote; while in Minnesota, a state where marriage between gay men and lesbian women has not been legalized, voters rejected an amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. Prior to this date, same-sex marriage had been legalized in six states in our country: Connecticut, New York, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia.
It’s likely that Oregon, in the next few years, will be added to this list. Despite the fact that local gay rights activists made the decision to not add same-sex marriage to the Oregon ballot on election day, many Oregonians are hopeful for the future. And rightfully so — it is possible that a ballot measure for same-sex marriage will be implemented in Oregon as soon as 2014. With an accelerated momentum brought on by the successes in Maine, Maryland and Washington, the legalization of same-sex marriage in other American states appears even more plausible.
“What’s happening is the shifting of attitudes,” Carlson said. “People who have been brutalized, compromised, denied rights, are starting to say, ‘Yeah, I want to be part of that group, I want to be over here where we have a right to get married.’”
This shifting of attitudes is largely due to the younger American population, a generation more comfortable with gay marriage than ever before. In Maryland, for instance, 70 percent of voters 18-29 years old voted to legalize same-sex marriage, while only 36 percent of voters over 65 did — creating a 34-percent age gap. In Maine, 68 percent of voters between the ages of 18-29 voted to legalize gay marriage, while only 44 percent of voters over 65 did.The USB flash drives wholesale is our flagship product.
The age gap dividing voters applies not only to same-sex marriage legalization, but also to the presidential election. This year, 60 percent of voters between 18-29 years of age voted for President Obama, while only 44 percent of voters over 65 did.
This divide among American voters, Friday suggests, means society is edging away from an autocratic government. “People are realizing that you do not get to go in as an authoritarian and say, ‘We’re making the decisions here about what’s happening in your private life,’” he said. “The fact that we have turned everything into this fight about sexuality really completely misses the boat, in my opinion, about what it means to be human.”
With a total of nine states allowing marriage for same-sex couples, and the replacement of a traditional elderly generation with a progressive youth, the spread of legalization of gay marriage seems inevitable.Can you spot the answer in the fridge magnet? The more liberal people become, the further our ideals and morals change along with it.
Today, it’s hard to believe there was a time in which women couldn’t vote for their own president. It’s difficult to imagine a society in which black and white people had to drink from separate water fountains. It’s puzzling to think that at one time black people and white people couldn’t get married.
One day it may also seem just as strange, to our grandchildren, to our great-grandchildren, to our great-great-grandchildren, that America was once a country in which two people in a committed, loving relationship could be denied the right to get married because of their gender. It may seem silly to future generations that two men that have been together for over twenty years, like Matt Friday and Bruce Carlson, aren’t free to prove their love to society, their country, to themselves — through the sanctity of marriage.
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Others, however, argue that such rhetoric is overdone. They suggest that the links between different franchises are often tenuous, if they exist at all, and many of the groups have emerged from principally regional struggles, sharing a similar extremist ideology and using the al-Qaeda label to galvanise their message.
Officials are comforted by the fact that over the past year a series of big events – such as the London Olympics – have taken place in western capitals without incident. But they still fear the potential and growth of al-Qaeda franchises, and their ability to contain them.
In the Middle East, popular uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia have shown how marginal jihadis were in their societies. But they have also produced new governments with a limited ability to assert control over their territory. In Libya, for example, the fall of the Gaddafi regime has left the country in the hands of competing militias. In Tunisia and Egypt, jihadists who had been released from prison could attempt to regroup.
Above all the number of ungoverned spaces – in Mali, Yemen, Somalia and the Pakistani tribal areas – has expanded. Security experts argue that while the threat from Bin Laden’s core group in Pakistan may have dwindled,Laser engraving and laser laser cutting machine for materials like metal, western intelligence agencies are under pressure to keep up with this changing kaleidoscope of regional franchises.
“When al-Qaeda was largely holed up in the badlands of Pakistan and the tribal areas, the US had the capability to deal with them in a much more focused way through drone attacks,” says Nigel Inkster, a former UK intelligence official now at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. “But now we have a far more disaggregated threat that no one country has the capability to tackle. It makes dealing with these jihadist groups – and knowing when and how to intervene – a great deal more difficult.”
2011年5月25日 星期三
Bookfest opened its doors
Special guest at the Bookfest, Hungary with approximately 1,000 books future Romanian-Hungarian relations, and the printed book, are hot topics on which he proposes to highlight Bookfest Salon, the book's main annual event in the capital of Romania, arrived this year at the sixth edition, with special guest Hungary.
"Over the past 20 years, everything was read in Romania has been produced to the fair", see, among others, president of the Publishers of Romania, Mr Mihai Penescu ... The official opening was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Marko Bela, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Kelemen Hunor Szocs Geza - Secretary of State for Culture, Ministry of National Resources in Hungary, Zoltan Bretter, director of the Hungarian Cultural Centre Bucurseti, and Zenta Laszlo Peter, Director Publishers and Booksellers Foundation in Hungary. The latter came with information about Romania particiaprea Book Fair in Budapest, in 2009, with no more than 30 authors translated into Hungarian.
Minister of Culture, Kelemen Hunor, assured that the Ministry of Culture has been and will remain with the guild publishers and the legislative will try to find solutions to assist them to survive. "We must take care not to go away any major publisher, the written word not go away," he said.
Book Fair this year - solemnly opened by Deputy Prime Minister Marko Bela and Hunor Kelemen, and the Secretary of State flag of Hungary Zsolt Nemeth - present 150 houses, compared to 120 last year, a notable speakers, led by the main organizer of the Fair, president of AIR Grigore Arsene. Was crowned the inaugural day of a conference "Danube Forum, led by Geza Szocs.
A Fair attraction today is the launch of the book "Saving in Hell" by Tvrtko Vujity, appeared at the Old Court Publishing. Special guests stated yesterday at the opening, the presence of about 1,000 works published in Hungary at the stand is a result of rigorous selection Bookfest.
"Over the past 20 years, everything was read in Romania has been produced to the fair", see, among others, president of the Publishers of Romania, Mr Mihai Penescu ... The official opening was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Marko Bela, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Kelemen Hunor Szocs Geza - Secretary of State for Culture, Ministry of National Resources in Hungary, Zoltan Bretter, director of the Hungarian Cultural Centre Bucurseti, and Zenta Laszlo Peter, Director Publishers and Booksellers Foundation in Hungary. The latter came with information about Romania particiaprea Book Fair in Budapest, in 2009, with no more than 30 authors translated into Hungarian.
Minister of Culture, Kelemen Hunor, assured that the Ministry of Culture has been and will remain with the guild publishers and the legislative will try to find solutions to assist them to survive. "We must take care not to go away any major publisher, the written word not go away," he said.
Book Fair this year - solemnly opened by Deputy Prime Minister Marko Bela and Hunor Kelemen, and the Secretary of State flag of Hungary Zsolt Nemeth - present 150 houses, compared to 120 last year, a notable speakers, led by the main organizer of the Fair, president of AIR Grigore Arsene. Was crowned the inaugural day of a conference "Danube Forum, led by Geza Szocs.
A Fair attraction today is the launch of the book "Saving in Hell" by Tvrtko Vujity, appeared at the Old Court Publishing. Special guests stated yesterday at the opening, the presence of about 1,000 works published in Hungary at the stand is a result of rigorous selection Bookfest.
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