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A rather comprehensive discussion on Wikipedia about the Seattle Metro Area
Smart Trek provides real time travel information for Seattle
Seattle 101 - A Guide for Travelers and Tourists provided by the City of Seattle
Public Transportation
Seattle offers numerous bus lines in the downtown area, near the convention center. For route details and hours, visit http://transit.metrokc.gov/. A day pass is available for $2.50 that allows unlimited rides for a day. This pass is available on all Metro buses. One-way fares are $1.50 during "peak" hours (morning and evening rush) and $1.25 during non-peak hours.
Riding Metro Transit is free between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily in Downtown Seattle.
The Ride Free Area extends from the north at Battery St. to S. Jackson St. on the south, and east at 6th Avenue to the waterfront on the west. Metro routes 116, 118 and 119 are not included in the Ride Free area.
There is an Easy Guide Map for Downtown Seattle Bus Service on the Metro Online site.
Google Transit Planner for Seattle. Enter two locations and get the directions using transit.
ALA Shuttle Bus
ALA does have a shuttle bus service it uses that starts on Friday to take members on specified routes from hotels back and forth to the Convention Center. Members have to wear their name badges to board the bus. Schedules for this shuttle will be available in hotels, in Cognotes, and in the Meeting Guide.
Taxis are available in downtown Seattle, at the convention center and at most hotels. You may also request a taxi be called by a hotel or restaurant. Rates are: $2.50 Meter Drop (entering the taxi), $2.00 per Mile, 50¢ per minute Waiting Time and 50¢ per extra passenger over two, excluding minors.


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Buried in the posthumous accolades for all the cool stuff Steve Jobs was responsible for are interviews with friends, partners and competitors which all circle around the Jobs' real gift and skill: vision. Jobs was no mediocrat.
Mediocrity has a negative connotation but, by definition, mediocrity just means being in the middle. And the middle is where most of us, and most business and organizations, live. For a corporation it is the ideal place to be since that is where most of your market will be. For an organization, including non-profit charities like HSBC, it may seem the smart place to be because it puts you in the middle of your charitable "market", the people who support your work.
For us as individuals, being in the middle is just usually the easiest place to be and there are no demerits for being where everyone else is. So when I say that Jobs had the gift and skill of not being a mediocrat, it is not a slight on those in the middle, it is merely a compliment for him. No more than saying that Jimi Hendrix was a gifted and skilled guitarist is a slight to me- a person neither skilled nor gifted on the guitar.
President George H. W. Bush famously said he didn't have the "vision thing" and most people don't. The "vision thing" is often a gift but depending on when and where you live and work it can be quite an unwelcome one. In the Middle Ages being a "visionary" was as likely to get you burned at the stake as anything else. It can still get you proverbially burned at the stake today, depending on how far out of the middle your vision draws you. And a gift of vision alone is little more valuable than dreaming of a painting a masterpiece, if one lacks the skill to execute it.
Even lacking the gift of vision, some can cultivate the skill of implementing vision. The best CEO's have this skill. They can take what's floating around out there and shift the bell curve of the middle, that medio-spot, right up to the line that separates the mediocre from the great. But skill alone can't break through that wall.
What Jobs really seemed to master, and what I have heard again and again from those who knew him best, was the combination of the gift and the skill of seeing and working outside of the middle and of determining how to drag the entire bell curve with him so that he and his vision were no longer outliers, they were the new norm.
He did not always succeed in this because there is a great tyranny of mediocrity. It is the greatest tyranny of all because it is the norm and it works incessantly, actively and passively, to keep the middle from moving. Mediocrity tends to explicitly avoiding, if not block, change and those in the middle often genuinely fear what is around the corner or over the curve. Our natural tendency is to want to believe we are not actually in the middle, that we are somewhat more visionary than we actually are, and to suspect those who lead us to a place, a future, or a way of doing things we can't easily see for ourselves.
It doesn't help that visionaries are often perceived to be- and sometimes genuinely are- a bit arrogant, as Jobs was reported to be, especially in his younger years. This perceived arrogance is often the convenient excuse of those who do fight against a vision of change, even one laid out in excruciating detail before them, not because they do not see the correctness of the course but because they resent not having seen the path themselves. They are the ones who blindly hold to dogma in the face of reality. We've all experienced their blind, mediocre wrath at times when we've presented a "What if we did this…?" to them.
There is no doubt that Jobs repeatedly saw not just where he could take something but he looked around to see what pieces were already there to build with. He combined gift and skill. The Apple (and Disney, where he was also the largest individual shareholder) he left behind on Wednesday were built on ideas, inventions and people relegated to the scrap heap. Graphic User Interfaces, the mouse, desktop computers in the home, digital music, even Pixar Studios, were all considered unpractical novelties or even threats to the status quo in which the corporate world existed until Jobs and his vision thing came along and cobbled the parts and concepts together into something which would have been terrifying to the powers that be ten, twenty, thirty years ago but is now the new normal- and wildly profitable for them.
He was booted from Apple because his vision wasn't being realized quickly, and profitably, enough for even those who had invested in his vision. But when highly capable mediocrats had failed in their efforts to do something with Pixar Studios, he came in and built a behemoth. When the vastly skilled mediocrat Michael Eisner, former CEO of Disney, failed to see the real potential of Pixar and was prepared to scuttle the partnership it had with Disney, he was ousted by new CEO Bob Iger, a person who has at least cultivated the skill of visioneering.
The end result was that Jobs, ousted from Apple and purchasing a floundering Pixar from George Lucas for five million dollars, received over seven billion dollars and became Disney's largest shareholder. It also meant that John Lassiter, the Walt Disney of our time and a gifted visionary in his own right, was returned to the management bosom of the company which had previously fired him. Fired him for having the vision to do more with computer generated graphics. The vision Disney later paid seven billion dollars to get back.
The way Jobs described finding the right thing to do and the happiness it brings one personally in a commencement speech he gave a few years ago is making the rounds but it seems to me to be widely misinterpreted due to the media's selection of sound bites. They focused their doe eyed sap on a sentence or two about doing what you love, without the context he placed that advice in. He did not mean, as so many seem to think, that doing what you love is the same thing as doing what necessarily makes you the happiest. Doing what you love is often extremely difficult and leads to the greatest heart break. Jobs paid a price repeatedly for doing the visionary things he loved, the things which we now ultimately see where the right things but which often led to personal failure and rejection for Jobs.
In reality, it was doing the visionary thing which brought him happiness, success or not. I liken that need to do the visionary thing, the thing that feels right, even when few if any have any idea what you are seeing or talking about, with the feeling of rightness someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder must feel from knowing the light switch is in the correct position. It's not just that feels wrong in the wrong position. It's that one feels compelled to put it right. I imagine that is no more comfortable or "happy" for a visionary than it is for an OCD sufferer. Jobs clearly had that compulsion to put his work and world right as he saw it. Even when he found himself on the wrong end of a pink slip from the company he created, when he was hardly happy, he knew we was doing what he loved and was walking his true path.
Despite suffering from failure and rejection he maintained a trust and love in the correctness of his vision and he would have been proven right eventually, even if given no credit and it was in obscurity. What he saw was correct. He didn't always have the resources, the people, the timing, the luck, or probably the skill to realize his vision all the time, but when he had that correct combination he transformed the world he worked in and we live in. And that gave him happiness and success. That attempt to have the gift and skill of visioneering and bring together all the external components which will realize their full potential is what we should all strive to emulate.
What does any of this have to do with animal welfare? Well, animal welfare is largely a domain of staunch, even prideful, mediocrats and has been for decades. Most of the professionals are not only happy to be in the middle, they savagely defend their position there. They not only cannot see beyond their point on the bell curve, because of the life and death consequences of our work, they cannot even embrace the possibility that there may be a new way forward. To do so would be to admit they had not seen that way and, as a result, animals had paid the price.
Not only is this bad for animals, it opens the field to those who can come in claiming to be visionaries. The success of the most strident of the No Kill movement is largely due to the mediocrats claiming the immutability of the status of animal welfare so devoutly that any prophet of change, whether gifted with true vision or not, can make any claim and it will be accepted as at least some other way. But the mere gift of vision is not enough; the skill of doing something with that vision must be there, too.
Animal welfare mediocrats have been engaged in a tyranny of mediocrity by denying that the torrential rains of animals entering shelter and facing euthanasia could be stopped. Fringe visionaries have come along at times with little more of a vision than "pray for sun". Some have finally come along with enough skill to suggest building a roof but then ask us to deny that rain is continuing to fall elsewhere on others. Until we can all see and accept and implement a vision in which all are equally under cover from the rain, we will be at best gifted mediocrats. We will only move along the curve to a certain point and no farther. We will never move it to a new normal in the way that Steve Jobs did in his industry.
As long as those in the middle are terrified of change and those who offer a vision of change provide only the shallowest of alternatives and only thumbnail sketches rather than detailed blueprints of their visions, very little will change for animals.
What would the lives of animals be like if we could create the Apple of animal welfare? What if all the others working in animal welfare were striving to keep up with visionaries who have jumped the wall instead of shackling themselves to the middle in terror of change? What would that mean for the animals we all claim to care about? Hell, what would that mean for our own happiness and success in an "industry" wracked with misery, attrition and burn out?
What if we all became the visioneers of animal welfare rather than its mediocrats? We may not be able to be the Steve Jobs of animal welfare but we should all try a little harder to be like the Steve Jobs of animal welfare.


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Huntingdon (9-4, 1-0 USA South) had 20 hits in the game, with only one for extra bases. Richie Post (1-1) started and took the loss for LC. Post allowed six runs, five earned, in 4-1/3 innings. Kolby Skolnik threw the final 3-2/3 innings, surrendering three runs. The Hawks jumped out to a 5-0 lead after an inning. The Panthers got on the board in the sixth on an RBI single from Austin Jones, who also had a double in the game. Ryan Ross walked in the ninth and later scored on a wild pitch for LC's final run. Rhett Hollon had a double in the inning.
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Medb is the most featured of all female characters in the Irish matter, let alone the most featured woman warrior, yet she's often treated merely as a footnote, either a misogynist joke or a humanized Goddess. A predominant theory is that she was nothing more than an example of how wrong it is for a woman to be sexually free and to attempt to take on male roles. For others, she is seen as a humanized Sovereignty Goddess, conflated with Medb Lethderg despite no real connection being made other than the name, "redeeming" her sexuality as appropriate and laying the blame for all her "failings" at the feet of the "unworthy kings" she weds. Neither makes for a very complex figure.
If this review seems uncharacteristically positive, keep in mind a couple of things. One, it's hard to argue with someone pointing out that there are multiple ways to view something, because, well, there are just more views. But, full-disclosure, when I found the dissertation I looked Dr. Dominguez up and wrote her an email, because I am the sort of geek that writes fan mail to academics. I found this study to be not only informational, but very inspiring at a time when I was feeling out of sorts over my own project. I think that this study is a vital piece of the puzzle in understanding the place of women, especially women warriors, in the literature and it stands strong as part of what I think is a growing body of work on women of Early Gaelic culture, both literary and historical. So, yes, I highly recommend this book to every Celtophile out there who wants a deeper look at Medb, or women in general, in the culture. I would like to recommend it even more strongly to those who think they already have it all figured out.
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Narrative of a Costa Rica Medical Adventure
by Rebecca Theophanous
Pitt's summer term lasts for four whole months. If you haven't started thinking about what you are going to do with your time off, then take a quick break from classes, clear your mind for a few minutes, and start now! International pre-health opportunities are a great choice for getting early clinical exposure, learning about global health, and most importantly having fun. The experience is unique, gives you much to say in medical school applications, and offers you an opportunity to try something new. If you need convincing or don't know where to start, here's my story.
Sitting on the beach, eyes closed, ice cold drink in my hand…I could feel the soft sand beneath my toes and the sun's bright rays warming my skin. I could hear the waves slowing ebbing, softly touching the edge of the sand before returning back to the deep blue. I could smell the salt in the air, hear the monkeys swinging in the trees behind me, and... wait a minute! Isn't this supposed to be a pre-professional health article? Although the beach does seem appealing as Pittsburgh's snow forecasts are certainly looming, what does this have to do with medical school or medicine for that matter?
When I entered the University of Pittsburgh as a pre-medical student three years ago, I remember being handed a thick pamphlet describing what steps I would need to take in order to reach that elusive place called medical school. Skimming the pages, I noticed information on required coursework, GPA expectations, volunteering, research, getting to know your professors, and other mind-boggling material that told me I was signing away my life for the next decade. I read nothing about studying abroad, traveling the world, or getting to know a new culture. Yet, I was fortunate enough to find the right opportunity, the time to do something unique, and thereby experience something that I never had imagined was possible.
This past summer, I spent five weeks in San José, Costa Rica on the Medical Spanish and Health Care in Costa Rica program with International Studies Abroad (ISA). It was an amazing experience because I had the opportunity to combine my language interests as a Spanish major with my medical interests as a neuroscience major.
On the weekdays, I had my Medical Spanish class every morning, which was taught completely in Spanish. I learned medical terms, practiced taking vital signs such as blood pressure and heart rate, learned about common diseases such as gastric cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, and studied different aspects of medicine including traditional and holistic medicine. We were expected to give presentations and talks for every topic that we studied, such as a talk to the public on diabetes, a talk to adolescents on contraceptives, and a talk to students about a body system (naturally, I chose to present on the nervous system).
One of my favorite parts of the course was, believe it or not, the midterm and final exams! For our exams, we were expected to interact with simulated patients, perform a physical exam, take vital signs, ask about medical history and the reason for the visit, and then finally order the right lab exams if necessary and diagnose the person – all in Spanish. Even better than that, after passing our exam, the advanced students had the opportunity to act out the part of simulated patient for the beginner and intermediate classes. Although on the first day I was a little frightened by the description of our exams on the syllabus, by the end it was an enjoyable and invaluable learning experience.
My second course was held in the evenings two days a week. It covered a combination of the Costa Rican health care system and tropical medicine in general, this time taught in English. I really enjoyed this course because it gave me a new perspective on medicine while learning about important modern day issues with healthcare and global disease.
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This article describes only a small sample of my experience in Costa Rica, but I hope that it is enough to convince other pre-medical students to take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad at least once during their undergraduate career. For any readers who are thinking, "I do not know any Spanish or other languages, there is no way I'll be able to survive in another country" the ISA program I selected had beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels into which students would test. Some people came to the country not knowing a word of Spanish, and they did much more than survive (did I mention white-sand beaches, volcanoes, and waterfalls on weekend excursions?).
Looking back on my experiences studying abroad, my travels have made me grow both personally and intellectually. From my countless memories and stories, I have no doubt that I made the right decision to go. I have learned that there is no better way to experience life than to put yourself in the unknown and try something completely new. You can, too!


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The latest round up of legal and regulatory developments and other news on cybersecurity from the Datonomy blogging team at Olswang LLP.
UK policy and regulatory developments
- Election special: It will be interesting to see what the new Conservative Government means for cybersecurity. The Conservative manifesto pledged to continue investment in cyber defence capabilities and improve response to cyber crime with reforms to police training (including the use of volunteer "Cyber Specials"). Datonomy will be looking out for new policy announcements – the state opening of Parliament and the Queen's Speech will be on 27 May. In terms of ministerial appointments which may have a bearing on cyber policy, these include: Matt Hancock, who has replaced Francis Maude as Minister for the Cabinet Office, Oliver Letwin who is in overall charge of the Cabinet Office and Sajid Javid, the new Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
- On 7 May the Gov.uk website re-published a document originally published in February by the Cabinet Office, BIS, FCO and National Security and Intelligence entitled "2010 to 2015 government policy: cyber security". The document details the efforts made by the last government to address the threats posed to the UK's digital infrastructure. The document focuses on how the UK Cyber Security Strategy, published in November 2011, has helped to deliver a safer online environment for e-commerce, a stable cyberspace, greater resiliency to cyber attacks and increased cyber skills, knowledge and capability throughout the workforce.
- This week's Cert-UK update focuses on the Rombertik malware which has successfully managed to evade most computers' anti-virus software. The malware is said to be able to steal users' credentials and other information and can destroy a computer by deleting its Master Boot Record. Cert-UK worryingly reports that "this is yet more testament to the unfortunate truth that malware is developing more rapidly than defences." This week's report also contains an in-depth assessment of the Dridex banking Trojan. Read the full update for 7 May 2015 here.
EU policy and regulatory developments
- The European Commission released its long-awaited Digital Single Market Strategy on 6 May 2015. The strategy contains 16 initiatives intended to realise the creation of a single European market for e-commerce. Initiative number 13 relates to cybersecurity and states that "in the first half of 2016 the Commission will propose a partnership with the industry on cybersecurity in the area of technologies and solutions for online network security." Read EurActiv's reaction to the strategy here. Olswang has published its reactions to the telecoms regulatory aspects of the strategy more broadly here.
- Network and Information Security Directive (NISD): Since last week, there does not appear to be any new news in the public domain concerning the NISD. The Strategy refers to it as marking "an important step forward" but does not shed any light on the latest state of play, noting only that it is "in the legislative process".
- In coordination with the publication of this Strategy, the Commission has also announced that the "High-level Cybersecurity Conference" will take place on 28 May 2015 in Brussels. The conference will focus on the proposed NISD and the next steps for building cybersecurity capabilities.
- Review of the ePrivacy Directive: the Strategy also mentions the forthcoming review of the ePrivacy Directive, something that was heralded in President Junker's Mission Statements to his new Commissioners at the end of 2014. The Strategy document alludes to a potential future widening of the PECD rules relating to Internet players – it states that the PECD may need to be reassessed since most of its provisions apply only to providers of electronic communications services. The review of the PECD will not begin until the provisions of the new GDPR are adopted "which should be by the end of 2015" according to the Strategy.
US policy and regulatory developments
- The Department of Commerce has announced that it will be leading a delegation of 20 US companies to Bucharest, Romania and Warsaw, Poland in order to discuss a cybersecurity trade mission. Deputy Secretary, Bruce Andrews, will lead the five day trip which is due to start today (11 May 2015). The delegation (reportedly including major companies such as IBM, Cisco and Microsoft) aims to expand US cyber presence within Central and Southeast Europe.
- Following on from our 20 April update on China's "Great Cannon", the US State Department has confirmed that it has asked China to officially investigate the allegations that it has interfered with internet content hosted outside the country and that was then used to attack US websites. Despite repeated denials of knowledge by the Chinese government, the US has asked the Chinese authorities to conduct an investigation and report its findings.
Asia policy and regulatory developments
- Reuters is reporting that China's legislature, the National People's Congress, has drafted a new cybersecurity law calling for sovereignty over China's cyberspace. The legislation is said to be a reaction to the recent Snowden leaks as the state seeks to protect "national internet space sovereignty, security and development interests". It is not yet clear what this would mean in practice for net neutrality or international cyber cooperation.
- PBS is reporting that amongst the 32 bilateral agreements recently signed by China and Russia, is an agreement to end aggression in cyberspace between the two countries. The article linked above hypothesises on whether this is an attempt to gang up on the West.
Attacks, reports and other news
- Following the release of its 2015 cyber attacks analysis report (named, "2015: A View from the Front Lines", registration/download needed), Mandiant is asking whether 2015 will see the rise of the Chief Information Officer. The report highlights that there has been a big rise in the proportion of incidents affecting legal, business and professional service firms. Furthermore, the proportion of incidents detected by the victim organisation has fallen since 2012, from 38% to 33%. In the majority of cases, the victim is informed by an outside entity such as a law enforcement agency.
- Microsoft has released its new school of cybersecurity tools, named Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA). The release is reported to be the product of Microsoft's purchase of the enterprise security firm, Aorata, in November 2014, according to Ars Technica. ATA is said to continuously learn the behavior of organisational entities and adjust itself accordingly to detect abnormal behaviour and malicious attacks.
- According to local press, an Alaska-based company, Afognak Native Corporation, has had $3.8 million stolen by cyber criminals. Hackers reportedly requested the transfer of money to a fictitious business account in Hong Kong, which the business's controller regrettably believed to be real. The company is now working closely with the FBI in order to try to recover the sum.
- The BBC is reporting that far-right extremists may have been to blame for the hack of a website relating to the Nazi concentration camp, Mauthausen. The website had to be quickly deactivated after an unspecified message was displayed on the website to mark the 70th anniversary of the closing of this concentration camp that killed more than 100,000 Jewish people in WWII.
M&A news
- New startup Cybereason, which specialises in gathering and displaying real time threat information, has just raised $25 million in Series B funding. Investors include the security company, Lockheed Martin.
And finally…
- One hacker has received his digital comeuppance after exploiting weaknesses in the code of the online game, Guild Wars 2, in order to cheat the game into giving him additional powers. The hacker, called DarkSide, was brought to the attention of the game's administrators via a series of user-captured videos of his unfair exploits. The administrators served up their own brand of retribution by forcing the online character to strip and then making him leap from a bridge to his digital death.
Contributors to this week's update: Tom Pritchard, Paralegal, Claire Walker, Head of Commercial Know How and Ashley Hurst, Partner, Commercial Litigation.


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Once upon a time… It's how all heroes begin their story, and you're a hero, too! Your mama has cancer, and it's a scary journey, but you can help your mama just by being you—special, wonderful, YOU. Your mama loves you just the way you are. You are your mama's knight.
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text: Yohan Sanmugam 7 August 2008 Politics & Government What's in store? Yohan Sanmugam 7 August 2008 Politics & Government 1827 whats-in-store With political analysts already suggesting that David Cameron is a PM-in-waiting, most Brits are eager for change. A change from the stealth taxes, over-centralization and onslaught on civil liberties that have summed up Labour, and more noticeably, Gordon Brown. Another crucial issue will be the EU. And to this, Cameron will bring change too. Much of his policy towards this institution is to be commended. In July 2006 he helped to found the Movement for European Reform together with the Czech Civic Democrats. This will work towards the removal of protectionism (particularly dismantling the CAP) and usher in a free-trade platform that the EU no doubt needs to embrace. If they were to succeed, such reforms would not only alleviate the poverty of excluded agriculturalists but would also allow food prices to fall as supply increases (not to mention helping to reduce taxes). So all is good? Well, up to a point. Trouble could actually stem from the deep-seated euroscepticism of many of his MPs. Their aversion to the EU will likely breed lethargy and leave the British government simply moaning about Europe without ever engaging or accomplishing significant reform. And as our report Eutopia argued, if we're going to be in the EU then we might as well fight our corner properly. It will be interesting to see on which side of this line David Cameron decides to walk.


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The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) was established in 1991. Anne Muñoz-Furlong founded the organization after her daughter was diagnosed with milk and egg allergy as an infant. She discovered that information vital to raising a child with food allergies was not widely available.
FAAN's membership now stands at approximately 25,000 worldwide and includes families, dietitians, nurses, physicians, school staff, and representatives from government agencies and the food and pharmaceutical industries. FAAN serves as the communication link between the patient and others.
FAAN is funded through membership dues, sale of materials, donations, and grants.
To raise public awareness, to provide advocacy and education, and to advance research on behalf of all those affected by food allergies and anaphylaxis.
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FAAN works with policymakers on federal, state, and local initiatives in areas such as food labeling, epinephrine availability, and management of food allergies in schools, camps, airlines, and restaurants.
FAAN supports and participates in research studies that lead us to a better understanding of, and a cure for, food allergy and anaphylaxis, and that improves the quality of life of individuals managing these conditions.
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Spain | 2012 | Directed by Jorge Torregrossa
Logline: A group of old friends have gathered for a reunion, but soon discover that the absence of one friend is the explanation for the unfolding of ominous supernatural events.
Smoldering with suspense, bristling with intrigue, coiled like a snake ready to bite, and as elusive as it is enigmatic, Fin is a feature that promises far more than it ultimately delivers, but the ride to the beyond is a solid, very well-acted, drama-thriller.
Despite the involvement of Sergio Sanchez on co-writing duties (he penned The Orphanage), the movie spends far too much time meandering around the characters rather than getting to the bones of the story: the end of days.
Director Torregrossa's background is in Spanish television, but he shows flair in his mise-en-scene. He certainly can elicit excellent performances, a shame then that the majority of the characters are less-than-interesting. Thankfully the most charismatic ones last the distance.
Essentially Fin becomes a waiting game, as the cosmic elements take their aim on the poor, hapless friends. Seems their old buddy Angel (Eugenia Mira) – the Prophet – might just be right after all. There'll be tears before bedtime, tears before the Armageddon. Quietly does it.
The movie's most captivating moment is when the thunder and lightning occur at just after midnight, and all power is zapped. None of the cars electrical equipment works, and then the first friend vanishes. It's a tense and unsettling situation. From there the friends are on the move, and the narrative becomes a chase; the remaining friends trying to find anyone who hasn't disappeared, before they all disappear.
The screenplay is based on a novel by Daniel Monteagudo, and I'm sure it reads more compellingly than the movie. It's a shame then that Fin doesn't work quite like it should. It simply plateaus far too soon, and as such you lose interest in the outcome. When the end finally arrives, it's an anticlimax. Ultimately, Fin is a thriller that begs for more thrills.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's four-nation started on Monday, and he will land in Germany for the first leg of his six-day tour. According to various media reports , Pm Modi is expected to have very tight schedule and will meet host of leaders and Business delegates in order to attract investment in India. The four nation trip comes right after his government had completed three years at the Centre
The following is breakup of PM Modi's engagements during his four-nation tour:
May 29, 2017:
. Upon landing in Berlin, the Prime Minister will directly depart for Schloss Meseberg, the official State Guest House of the Germany.
. The Prime Minister will sign Visitor's Book.
. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host a dinner for PM Modi at Schloss Meseberg.
May 30, 2017:
. Germany will host ceremonial welcome for PM Modi.
. Thereafter, the Prime Minister and German Chancellor will attend fourth biennial Inter-Governmental Consultations (IGC) plenary meeting at International Conference Room at Chancellery.
. After the meeting, both the leaders will address the media.
. Later, both the countries will sign Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs). Chancellor Merkel will host lunch for PM Modi and Indian delegation.
. Then the Prime Minister will depart for Hotel Adlon Kempinski at Palaisaal to attend Indo-German Business Summit 2017.
. PM Modi is expected to invite the German investment in India under Make in India.
. From the summit, the Prime Minister will depart for Castle Bellevue to meet German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
. After meeting with the German President, the Prime Minister will depart for Berlin Tegel Airport to start his Spain tour. He will rest at Hotel Intercontinental.
May 31, 2017:
. In the morning, PM Modi will sign Book of Honour at Sala Tapies, La Moncola Palace.
. After the signing ceremony, PM Modi will have a meeting with Spanish President Mariano Rajoy.
. After the meeting, President Rajoy will host breakfast for PM Modi and Indian delegation.
. Thereafter, bilateral agreements will be exchanged and conclusion of the CEOs Forum will be presented at Antechamber of Building of Council of Ministers at La Moncloa Palace.
. PM Modi will then depart for Palacio de la Zarzuela to call on Spanish King Felipe VI.
. After the meeting, the Prime Minister will depart for Hotel Intercontinental where he will participate in Roundtable interactions at Granados Hall with Spanish CEOs and business tycoons.
. Once the PM completes interactions with the Spanish businessmen, he will depart for St. Petersburg to start his Russia visit.
. PM Modi will stay at Grand Hotel Europe at St. Petersburg.
June 1, 2017:
. In Russia, the first engagement of the Prime Minister is to pay homage at the Piskarovskoye Cemetery.
. He will then depart for Konstantin Palace where he is scheduled to address the CEOs Forum after lunch. Both the countries will issue press statement after signing bilateral agreements.
. Russian President Vladmir Putin will host dinner for PM Modi.
June 2, 2017:
. This will be probably the busiest day for the Prime Minister in his trip.
. In the morning, the Prime Minister will take part in presentation of Urga Kanjur to Jampa Donod.
. Then the PM is scheduled to meet Tigran Sargasyan, chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission and former Prime Minister of Armenia.
. PM Modi will next visit the State Hermitage Museum and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts.
. In the afternoon, the Prime Minister will attend the plenary session of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
. Thereafter, he will interact with Governors and visit 'Make in India' Pavillion.
. PM Modi will also meet Prime Minister of Manogila J. Erdenebat, Federal Chancellor of Austria Christian Kern, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
. In the evening, PM Modi will depart for France to start his last leg of four-nation tour. He will be staying at Hotel Plaza Athene in Paris.
June 3, 2017:
. In the morning, the Prime Minister will meet newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron.
. After the meeting, Macron will host lunch for PM Modi.
.Thereafter, the Prime Minister will leave for India


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Associate Professor, PhD in Philosophy, MPhil in European Literature (University of Cambridge)
The article represents a study of 'mortal film code' in so-called 'decadent pattern' in cinema. Various levels of 'mortal film code': morphological, symbolical, auditory, subliminal etc. have been analysed using examples from Russian 'decadent cinema'.
Key words: mortal cinematic code, thanathology of cinema, thanathochronotope, 'style- murder', 'death-fitting'.
Voronezh State University, Russia Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies, Doctor of Science (in Philosophy)
This article critically examines the various forms of thanatology presented in the biological, psychological and postmodern contexts. Intensive spread of «thanatological discourse» arises from the lack of understanding of death as a phenomenon that is beyond the boundaries of human knowledge. In this connection the work by M. S. Uvarov «"Death of Death": postmodernist project» is analyzed in which thanatology is called gay science», because of the fact that the post-modern discourse of death is indifferent to real death. This means that death is no longer a mystery and tragedy, becoming a fact of everyday culture. It substantiates the idea of the absolute incomprehensibility of death. It becomes clear as a result of philosophical reflection. Philosophy by its nature was initially concerned about the death. It is the most appropriate way to think about death that reveals the human situation. The appearance of thanatology as a «science of death» indicates the oblivion of philosophy with its original questioning, which is a characteristic feature of modern culture.
Key words: death, thanatology, science, psychology, postmodern discourse of death, philosophy, metaphysics, mystery of death, tragedy, modern culture.
Saratov State Academy of Law, Russia Department of Philosophy, Professor, Doctor of Science (in Philosophy)
Being as the space of objectives where lity and prospect determine composition and quality of inquiring of a human being is presented in the article. Such strategy of transcendent is antithetic to the logic of utilitarian trimming of culture for definite problems. This is the basis for the revealing of the value content of culture.
Key words: being, possibility, prospect, death, value.
Branch of Military Training and Research Center of the Air Force «Air Force Academy» of Chelyabinsk, Russia Аssociate Professor of Department of Humanitarian and Socio-economic Disciplines. PhD, Doctoral Student (D.Sc.) Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Eurasia and East, Chelyabinsk State University.
This study is an attempt to comprehend the universal meaning of death that goes back to the archaic tradition, the meaning eliminated by the processes of desacralization, socialization, and profanation of consciousness. The paper focuses on the fundamental inconsistency of modern rational approaches to the issue of the archaic perception of death and, particularly, to the ancient burial rituals that use non-rational prescientific (mythological) forms of perceiving the insurmountable conflict of life and death. In this regard, the central objective of the study is to create a synthetic, integral concept of the metaphysics of death that leads to the possibilities of understanding the archaic meanings of death. This concept can be a comprehensive, ontologically grounded theoretical basis for a unified research approach to understanding ancient burial ritualism. This concept of the metaphysics of death has the meaning of Ascension to the absolute Spirituality. The central core of this concept should be considered as the metaphysics of Overcoming that reflects the dynamism of the inner spiritual existential space reflecting the ratio between the immanence of part and the transcendence of the holistic Being. The metaphysics of Overcoming as an archaic general social mechanism pointed towards a society balanced in its spiritual and material development. In this paper, we proposed the ways to study burial rituals that imply a unified approach to the burial ritual as a global archaic initiatory act.
Key words: ancient burial rite, the death of metaphysics, Return ontology, оntology of myth, metaphysics of overcoming, the dialectic of objectivity and energetic.
P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Russia Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor, PhD
The article is devoted to the paradigms (metaphysical images) of death and its reflection in culture. One identifies two conceptual forms in premodern condition: manifestatsionizm and creationism. Death as absolute annihilation and the absence manifests itself in the monotheistic creationism. Death here is not the source and measure of life, and its limits. «Death of God» as the central event of modernity is a product of man and the objectification of the transcendental subject. In the anthropocentric world the experience of death is the experience of generating the individual – an entirely new modality of human being in comparison to the sacrocentric paradigm. The postmodern metaphysical image of death can be described as «Death dead». This death is sterile; it does not produce anything.
Key words: metaphysical image, death, premodern, modern, postmodern, manifestatsionizm, creationism, Descartes, subject, individual, dividuum.
St. Petersburg State University, Russia Philological Faculty, Dep. of Applied Linguistics Professor, Dr. Sci. (Philology)
The theory of landscape constituted many conceptual gaps until nowadays. In this article landscape is regarded from the viewpoint of the general vitology as a complex organism which constitutes as its main feature the generation of various regularities. Life is regarded here as the interruption of these regularities, and death is regarded as their loss and destruction lead to corpse-formation when the organism is reduced to the body and then to the destruction of this body.
Key words: landscape, organism of landscape, life of landscape, corpse of landscape, death of landscape, cadavrization of landscape, general vitology.
Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia Professor, Doctor of Sciences (in Philosophy)
The article exposes the philosophic and aesthetic specific traits of Russian erothanathology based on traditions of Russian Silver Age Religious Renaisance deeply rooted in F.Dostoevsky. This philosophy of human descending from Dostoevsky had been developed as philosophy of the Other in Russian Silver Age authors, such as L.Karsavin, B.Vysheslavtsev, P.Florensky et al, and related to the negation of binary oppositions of ethics and aesthetics in erothanathology constituting concepts of lack of freedom, violence, compulsion, victim, death as well as unity, wholeness and free choice of a human.
Key words: metaphysics of unfreedom, eschatology, life aesthetics, another.
Nizhnevartovsk State University, Russia Professor of Chair of History of Russia Doctor of Sciences (in Philosophy), Phd in History
Millennial roots thanatology – from ancient traditions to the concepts of M. M. Bakhtin, M. K. Mamardashvili, S. Kierkegaard allow to evaluate the contribution of the Russian "Thanatos" N. Gogol's epistolary to this eternal theme.
Key words: thanatology, Russian Thanatos N.Gogol, epistolary genre.
Vologda State University, Russia Professor of Department of Theory and History of Culture and Ethnology Doctor of Sciences (in Philology)
The article is devoted to one of the sections of literary thanatology – thanatopoetics (A. Hansen-Loeve). We consider the contribution of Mikhail Bakhtin to the study of this problem, especially his articles about the subject organization of thanatological plot situations. The ways of narration about death («death from the outside», «death from the inside»), proposed by the scientist, are identified and described. On their basis, as well as on the basis of the modern narratological theories, we offer and substantiate some additional narrative models («death from the inside, but from the outside», «death from the outside, but from the inside»). These types of narration affect the representation of the theme of death, causing the specifics of attitude to death and stylistic devices, expressing this specifics.
Key words: thanatology, thanatopoetics, Bakhtin, subject organization, narrative model.
State Institute of Art Research, Moscow, Russia Chef Researcher, Doctor of Sciences (in Philosophy), Professor
Various periods of cultural crisis in Russian culture which arouse academic interest to the question of Thanatos and the peaks of suicides are analyzed in the article from the point of the concept of social anomie by E.Durkheim and put through sociological and culturological approaches.
Key words: thanatos, anomie, decadence, mentality, suicide.
D.S.Likhachev Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow, Russia PhD, Senior Researcher Russian New University, Professor
Mortal space is treated as very disciplinary. In Russia this space is not clearly defined. The XX century was a period of body domination. The most significant works of art show the image of a dying body. The culture of the XXI centuryis marked by the emergence of interest to the posthumous existence of the body and also to mobilization of already dead body.
Key words: disciplinaryspace, landscape, embodiment, measure, transformation, death, succession.
St. Petersburg State University, RussiaCentre for Mediaphilosophy, Scientific Secretary, PhD
Despite the fact that the question of cultural decline is quite explored, and models of describing the logic of the rise and the fall of cultures are presented in modern theory, the question of possibility for a «virtually dead» culture to live by means of the other «virtual live» culture it is still not explored. In this article an attempt to describe the culture of death as a desire to survive and translate information about itself through «inorganic» channels on the example of Byzantium is offered. The consequences of «translation» of thanatological cipher of Byzantine in Russian and European cultural code are analyzed.
Key words: pseudomorphs, museumification, cultural code, the death drive, symbolization, culture-virus, technology, agonistic, a collective body, imperial consciousness.
Minin State Pedagogical University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences Associate Professor, PhD
Image of death becomes one of the main signs of emerging critics of the traditional parameters of culture and consciousness in modern world. Destruction of the classical norm and traditions connecting with death, is a sign of new parameters of modern man`s consciousness. In this article the features of cultural embodiment of death`s image in American cinema is discussed. It has strong connection to apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic themes of the end of XXth beginning XXIth century. The evolution of the end of world, specifics of American approach to the individual and collective death of movie characters are shown. The images of «American Adam», «American innocence» and «American Dream» become a powerful basis for the viewer's consciousness. It discovers the perception of reality, visual aesthetics of death and its accompanying ideology.
Key words: modern culture, cinema, mythology, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, «American Adam», «American innocence», «American dream», cultural norm, image of death.
D.S.Likhachev Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Russia Head of Center for Basic Sociocultural and Cultural Psychological Studies Human Brain Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg, Russia Principal Research Fellow, Doctor of Sciences (Philology)
St. Petersburg State University, Russia Faculty of Philology, Associate Professor, Doctor of Sciences (Philology)
St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, Russia Associate Professor, PhD in Philosophy
Нerzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia Associate Professor, PhD in Cultural Studies
Actual issues in studies of psychological mechanisms of art perception and their brain correlates, from neuroaesthetics by S.Zeki – V.Ramachandran to the cartography of neuroaesthetic space by G.A.Ivanitsky, are regarded. Special attention is devoted to the development of neurocinematics, from the axiomatics by U.Hasson to the results of the research group of P.Tikka, as well as to interim results of the studies of cultural psychological potentials of the subliminal perception research direction.
Key words: fundamental issues in cultural studies, neuroaesthetics, neurocinematics, perception of art text, psychological processes and states, brain mechanisms of art perception.
International Integral Institute of Holoscendence, St.Petersburg, Russia Psychologist
Human Brain Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg, Russia Postgraduate Student
S.M.Kirov Military Medical Academy, St.Petersburg, Russia Lecturer, PhD (Medical Sciences) "Opeka" Social Geriatric Centre, St.Petersburg, Russia Deputy Chief
Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg, Russia, Senior Research Fellow St.Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology, Associate Professor St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Chair of Medical Physics, Associate Professor, PhD
Psychological effects of perception of music by 63 normal young Russian city dwellers were studied. Stress coping strategies, primitive in functional and ontogenetic terms (confrontation, avoidance) were demonstrated to be primarily affected, as well as such basic psychological defense mechanisms, as suppression. Differences in the effects of perception of the traditional (light European classical) music and the non-traditional (contemporary designer) one were traced back, primarily at the level of general psychological tension. As a result, possible psychological mechanisms supporting the adaptive function of culture, are discussed.
Key words: psychological states and processes, stress coping strategies, psychological defense mechanisms, perception of music, traditional and non-traditional art, cultural inheritance.
The article considers cinema in the media archeology perspective. Cinema as one of the cultural narratives can not only tell stories of social life but also reveal the structure of the world and its cultural and medial organization. Media archeology, with its oppressive desire for abandoned and outdated technological devices, sometimes takes the form of necrophilic passion for contact with the dead and old-fashioned kind of fetishization. Movies with their attention to the narratives play the role of social and technological barometer. It allows to open / erupt the dominant media of popular culture of a certain age to identify short- lived "new" and "old" media. In Russian language "izverg" means "monster". Originally "izverg" means the being erupted, outcast, thrown from a human world. I refer to the erupted media as the iconic characters of popular culture. Eruption of media is the kind of communication in popular culture associated with the new means of media that change the culture. This article focuses on the cinematic horror their medial nature.
Key words: cinema, media, media archeology, disautonomy of media, monster, monstrology, vampire, Dracula, Frankenstein, popular culture, media erupted.
N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia Lecturer, Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy)
In the situation of the media turn in the culture, defining not only new ways of understanding, but a new kind of rationality, environment that is acceptable for the "slow" visual also stays important. Art images are stored in the unhurried rhythms of perception, offering one of the possible responses to the challenges of media reality. The paper presents the concept of visual ecology by the example of the photography project. Visual ecology in the situation of the image wars is determined by its relation to the personal visual security culture.
Key words: photos, media war, visual ecology, visual security.
Pushkin Leningrad State University, St. Petersburg, Russia Doctor of Arts, Professor
Each historical era and culture defined the meaning of human existence differently. But there was something in common. It was determined by existential sense of culture. In other words, both meaning and his purpose acquired certain content depending on what place in the metaphysical hierarchy of culture was given to the person. This article attempts to see and to analyze the connections between the ancient desire of man to find the divine quality of immortality, artistic phenomena and philosophical reflection on this process. The author suggests to structure the body of the heroes of ancient Greek sculptures dividing them into «ascendes» and «descendes» groups. In our view, sculpture, continuing the tradition of visualization of the sacred idols, was able to bring a new type of «ascendes» heroes, who entered in a world of immortal heroes, in the art space.
Key words: immortality, virility, antique sculpture, visual, archetype, «descendes» hero, «ascendes» hero courage, representation of history, Plato, Garmody, Aristogiton.


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Technology has become the important part of our lives nowadays, especially for the people who got addicted to it. Whether you wanted or not technology has its gasps on people's minds n life's .In this topic lets talks about favors of morden technology which is common yet important thing, the gate.
In this topic we will discuss the capability and different option that all automatic gate openers have to offer. As I mentioned above that gates are most important and common thing that you can find. They are found everywhere every door whether it's a high-end grounds or low class dwellings .security has become one of the most important aspect. One of the best things is to install is best automatic gate openers; it also improves the traffic inflow.
Garage automatic doors: it is one of the simplest options a person can install and yet it solves the most hassled problem. why to get out of your car to open the garage door when it can done with just click of the button .With the security purpose ,it also saves lot of time as we are always running short of it. There are unlimited numbers of options market has to offer.
Automatic industrial doors: These Doors are basically designed for factories, small as well as for big ones. It gives you the better access not only to loads but also to the people concerned.
Automatic commercial doors: As the name suggested it is tied up with commercial area. Where there is lot of walk-ins for example schools, shopping malls .more effective ways is to install it with sensors. So that one don't have to open and close the door manually.
Doors are secured and reliable thing a person can rely upon. Installation of best automatic gate openers is innovative and hassle free idea.…


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67312534584407832812019-11-07T01:44:39.954-08:00Larry Kless' WeblogOnline video, online video publishing, streaming media, OVP, OTT, web television, video advertising, marketing, startups, gadgets, social media, videoconferencing, collaboration and related topics are discussed here. Thanks for stopping by the "Klessblog."Klessbloghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731253458440783281.post-76233932151125990702015-05-08T01:20:00.000-07:002015-05-08T01:20:20.743-07:00Animoto Survey Says: Consumers Want More Video Marketing on Web, Social and Email [Infographic]According to a new survey released today by Animoto, the leading cloud-based online video creation service, consumers are hungry for video and four times as many of them would rather watch a product video than read about it. In fact, of the 1,051 U.S. consumers surveyed, 1 in 4 actually lose interest in a company if it doesn't have product video. The company issued a press release and infographic detailing the findings of its 2015 Video Marketing Cheat Sheet.

eMarketer estimates that US video advertising will climb to $7.8 billion this year and social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter continue to attract and build content partnerships. Animoto CEO Brad Jefferson sees video as a huge opportunity for businesses to engage with consumers:

"The growth of online video marketing in recent years has been tremendous," said Jefferson. "Today, there are more than 7 billion videos watched every day on Facebook and YouTube. Historically, in order to create and distribute high-quality video to your customers it was cost-prohibitive for all but the largest brands. However, today's tools and platforms ensure that small and medium businesses can reach their audiences where they hang out online. This represents one of the biggest marketing opportunities for small businesses in a long time."

Three key themes emerged from the study, data presented below is directly from the press release:

 1. Video Marketing Resonates With Consumers (Video drives brand lift)

63 percent of consumers say companies that use video know how to reach their customers

One quarter of consumers lose interest in a company if it doesn't use video

56 percent of consumers believe that if a company has a website, it should have video

2. Video Boosts Email Marketing and Social Media Engagement (Connect with consumers)

84 percent of all consumers said that they have liked a company video that has appeared in their newsfeed

43 percent of consumers are more likely to read email newsletters that include links to video

56 percent of consumers have watched a company video that came through email

Nearly half of all consumers have shared a company video on their own social media profile

3. Video Boosts Email Marketing and Social Media Engagement (Tell your story)

80 percent of consumers say a video showing how a product or service works is important when learning about the company

56 percent of consumers says customer testimonials are helpful when purchasing a product/service

About half of customers say that 'about the company' videos are the most helpful when purchasing a product/service

About Animoto: Animoto makes it easy for businesses to create effective, professional videos within minutes with no video editing experience. Businesses use Animoto to enhance and promote their brands, drive website traffic, increase sales, and create dynamic email, social and online marketing campaigns.Founded in 2006, Animoto is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco. For more information go to: http://animoto.com/business. Klessbloghttp://email@example.com://klessblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/animoto-survey-says-consumers-want-more.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731253458440783281.post-76534444715620587892014-12-01T23:58:00.001-08:002014-12-02T00:06:10.634-08:00The Evolution of Video Marketing Part 2: An Illustrated History [Reel Summit]This post is about five months old and goes back to the Reel Summit that was held at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco on July 24-25, 2014. I meant to do a lot of blogging on this event, which was put on by good friend and ReelSEO rockstar and founder Mark Robertson and Dave Holland, ReelSEO Events and Commercial Director, but as you have noticed I've been way to busy to blog!

So, I share this video produced by BonFire Labs as the first post to wrap up the year, and the best of 2014!

Stay tuned for more to come... and visit ReelSEO to get everything you need to know about video marketing!Klessbloghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://klessblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-evolution-of-video-marketing-part-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731253458440783281.post-45706885109543386002014-07-24T10:57:00.001-07:002014-07-24T10:57:55.916-07:00The History of Video Marketing Part 1: Revolution [2014 ReelSummit] #reelsummitThe 2014 Reel Summit taking place today and tomorrow at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. This two-day conference is the only industry event devoted entirely to online video marketing for marketers and content creators who are serious about the (r)evolution of digital video marketing. The event is sponsored by ReelSEO and brings together inspiring brands, marketers and industry thought-leaders to share cutting-edge knowledge and advanced training and best practices on video production, online video advertising, brand management, e-Commerce and much more. ReelSEO welcomes video industry leaders YouTube, Vice, Vimeo, Cisco, Buzzfeed, Pixability, Brightcove, JW Player, Tubular, CinemaSins, and many others to learn from each other and celebrate the world of online video marketing.

As YouTube marketing expert Greg Jarboe says, this video, "An Illustrated History of Video Marketing Meet the Screens", produced by Bonfire Labs, illustrates that online video has grown, matured, and become mainstream.

"So has its audience", says Jarboe. "What was once the domain of the cutting-edge few has now become so common that it's transformed how the world interacts with the web. Companies that never thought of using video now realize it's the best way to communicate with their customers, build their brands, and educate and inform stakeholders both inside and outside of their organizations. With this new audience comes new challenges and new possibilities."
This year's keynotes include:

Jonathan Perelman, GM of Video & VP Agency Strategy at BuzzFeed

Jeroen "JW" Wijering, creator of the world-renowned JW Media Players;

Jon Klaff, Head of Media Solutions, Brand Activation Team at Google/YouTube

Jim Louderback, General Manager of Discovery Digital Networks

Rob Davis, Executive Director/Founder of the Content Marketing & Advanced Video Practices at Ogilvy

 Allison Stern, Co-Founder of Tubular Labs

This Tubefilter article, 2014 Reel Video Summit Has A Stellar Lineup, Grilled Gurus, captures a great synopsis of the event and discusses a new and different format where attendees can "Grill the Gurus." Also, this Onlinevideo.net article written by YouTube marketing expert

Several of the sessions will be streamed live on ReelSEO's YouTube, so stay tuned for updates.

More information - http://reelsummit.comKlessbloghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://klessblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-history-of-video-marketing-part-1.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731253458440783281.post-28438226230969418202014-02-26T22:20:00.002-08:002014-03-03T11:44:03.343-08:00Online Video Conversations: Tom Morgan, Net2TV

At OTTCON 2013, I caught up with television industry veteran Tom Morgan, Founder and CEO of Net2TV, to discuss the evolution of traditional television programming and how it's changed with the rise of broadband Internet television. Net2TV is a free, advertising-supported long-form television programming platform for smart TVs and connected devices. Net2TV was established in May 2012 and launched its Portico TV service in December 2012, which delivers niche content channels in food, tech, news and entertainment and looks and feels like a normal "lean-back" TV viewing experience. Content partners included like Discovery's Revision 3, CBS Interactive's CHOW, Popular Science, CNET and other branded content.

Morgan is passionate about Net2TV because it provides him an opportunity to solve the '500 channels and there's nothing on' problem. It's an opportunity to create great TV based on a great business model for program developers and advertisers. Before founding Net2TV in 2012, Morgan spent the last 30 years in the digital media space on business development, focused on advertising models for DVRs, video on demand (VOD), and broadband TV.

According to Morgan, we're in the third phase in the evolution of television, with the two most important dates preceding on, August 28, 1948 and September 7, 1979. In 1948, CBS President Frank Stanton lured big name entertainers like, Lucille Ball, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny and Milton Berle away from NBC radio and signed them to TV, which marked the beginning of a whole new medium of programming with "I Love Lucy" and other new shows defined the golden age of television.

On September 1979, a double header softball game was broadcast live for the first time on a little cable TV start-up called ESPN, and launched the first 24/7 Sports channel which brought niche content including live and recorded telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming. A year later in 1980, CNN would launch as the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage and other special-interest channels and niche content would follow.

"I think where most people talk about this being a new generation of television technology and everything else, what I think is the answer is, these were the emergence of the new networks of television," says Morgan. "So, like you had ESPN and MTV emerge in the 70's and early 80's, you're going to see whole new forms of programming here. Is it radically different? I don't think so. I think people in a television setting, which are sitting on a couch looking at a screen on the wall, regardless of the technology, want to be entertained, they want to be informed, be engrossed and engaged. That's our job in the industry."
Morgan says that we've reached the tipping point for original Internet television programming, with the plethora of original content available from Netflix, Crackle, Machinima, Revision3, The Makers, Bedrocket, YouTube creators and more and more choices everyday. The greatest opportunity, he says, is that television is being reinvented by this whole new class of programming.

"That's the biggest upside, ever, and that's why I'm in this business. That's the fun part," Morgan acknowledges.

This interview was recorded at OTTCON May 19-20, 2013.

Klessbloghttp://email@example.com://klessblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/online-video-conversations-tom-morgan.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731253458440783281.post-84597948737649323712014-01-18T00:31:00.000-08:002014-01-19T17:28:18.123-08:00Online Video Conversations: AJ McGowan, Unicorn Media (now Brightcove)The online video platform leader Brightcove acquired Unicorn Media on January 6, 2014 for $49 million, consisting of approximately 2.9 million shares of Brightcove stock and approximately $9 million in cash. Unicorn Media is a leading video technology platform company specializing in dynamic ad insertion in the cloud. Unicorn Media's key technology is a product called Unicorn Once, that enables dynamic optimization of video content, either live or VOD, across any Internet-connected device through a single URL, and monetize video content by dynamically inserting and analyzing targeted ads through its patented video cloud technology. Unicorn Media was founded in 2007 and made a name for itself within the online video platform space with more than 50 customers in the broadcast TV sector and $5 million in revenue in 2013. Boston-based Brightcove established itself as the first online video platform (OVP), founded by Jeremy Allaire in June 2005, and went public (NASDAQ: BCOV) in February 2012.

I spoke with AJ McGowan, Chief Technical Officer of Unicorn Media at OTTCON 2013, where he discussed Unicorn's product roadmap and customer experience, its perspective on the state of the online video industry, the challenges within the fragmented market, and where Unicorn would be in 2014. With the acquisition, McGowan will assume of the role of CTO at Brightcove, and Unicorn's video team and its Once technology joins Brightcove's Video Cloud and App Cloud platforms, and Zencoder, a cloud-based encoding platform and open-source HTML5 video player Video.js, acquired by Brightcove on July 26, 2012 for $30 million.

According to McGowan, the online video industry is at a tipping point. "If you were to compare this, for instance, to the conversion from terrestrial broadcast to cable broadcast, we're probably roughly 1978 or maybe the early 80's, so we're definitely in the early days," says McGowan. "There's massive opportunity that's still in front of us and people are experimenting. There's a lot of fragmentation in the marketplace. There's a lot of complex problems, and we solve a lot of those problems."

McGowan admits that all the complexity is actually great for business, and that throughout 2013 we'll continue to see growth. "Particularly now that we're allowing our customers to monetize their content effectively on all platforms," says McGowan. "That spurs those folks forward to actually putting that content on more platforms. I think we'll continue to see lots and lots of organic growth, and I think we're going to see a lot of different models being applied and we're really excited as a back-end technology vendor, because we make it a lot easier for people to experiment and try different things as they build those audiences."

Some of the challenges facing the industry as a whole, as McGowan points out, is in the friction of the monetization process on the business side. A lot of the hard technical problems have been solved, but one of the biggest problems yet to be solved is how to make an optimal experience, from the brands buying the ad all the way out to the consumer and all constituencies in that value chain. But a lot of smart people are working on solutions now that there's real money flowing into the space.

"I think that a big theme that you're going to see in the next 12-18 months, is as more dollars are being added to this business, as it starts to scale up, how do you make it dial tone? There's this expectation from users whether they're paying for content or whether they're consuming it in an ad-supported way, in either case when we're talking about premium content delivered out to massive audiences, it's go to just work," says McGowan.

So looking into the future, it's going to be all about scale. "Scale, scale, scale," McGowan emphasizes. "How do I get to more users in more places in a consistent high-quality broadcast experience."

This interview was recorded at OTTCON March 19-20, 2013.Klessbloghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://klessblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/online-video-conversations-aj-mcgowan.html


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U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver listened intently to concerns about loan debt as students, former students and concerned community members stepped in front of microphones Aug. 2 at the Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley Education Center.
MCC hosted the town hall, which was organized by the congressman's office to gather information about the burden of so many who are struggling to pay off cumbersome student loan debt. Cleaver stated that the problem is one "we can't afford to ignore any further," citing these numbers: About 44 million people owe nearly $1.4 trillion for the cost of their education.
About 200 people gathered to listen and provide input.
In the audience was incoming MCC student Andrew Lipker. He talked about how he had been enrolled in two separate four-year institutions since 2013 and because of some setbacks, he took out $50,000 in loans. Community college became a more cost-effective way for him to finish his education.
"Thankfully, I am very blessed that MCC let me in, because I am working at a place now where I can afford, barely, but I can afford seven credit hours here," Lipker said.
"Student loans should not dictate how your life goes," he added. He will be in MCC's paralegal program when fall classes start Aug. 23.
His $50,000 in debt was on the low side compared to others who spoke. One woman stated that before she was clear of her loans, she would have paid 435 percent of the original loan amount for a total of half a million dollars.
Cleaver said people must speak out about student loans and ensure students are aware of what they are signing. "I'm hoping one of the things we can do tonight is break the quiet," he said.
Cleaver talked about Congress' responsibility to mitigate the loan crisis. "It's our job," he said, "and right now, we are not doing our job."
The town hall was moderated by KSHB "41 Action News" reporter Dia Wall. Wall and Cleaver both thanked MCC and Chancellor Dr. Kimberly Beatty for the use of the venue. Cleaver took a moment to welcome Dr. Beatty into the "heart of our community."
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