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Publicis Kaplan Thaler Wins 2 National Silver ADDYs
Posted by PublicisUSA in Our Work on June 8, 2013
NEW YORK CITY, NY (June 8, 2013) – Publicis Kaplan Thaler received two Silver National ADDYs at the 2013 American Advertising Federation National ADDY Awards — For Street Soccer USA in the Public Service – Integrated Campaign category and for Bounty in the Television – Regional/National – Single Spot category. The ADDY Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world.
Street Soccer USA — I PLAY FOR
How do you help get homeless people off the streets? Turns out one way is to put them on a soccer pitch. Street Soccer USA organizes homeless people into soccer teams that compete in rec leagues around the country, as well as the Homeless World Cup. Playing provides structure, support and a chance to be a part of something positive, which is why 75% of participants are off the streets within a year.
Publicis Kaplan Thaler was tasked with creating a single patch Street Soccer could sell as a fundraiser. In order to create an emotional connection, they realized they needed to go deeper and wider than just one patch. They ended up designing an entire league identity from scratch — from naming the teams to designing team crests and kits. The crests themselves were based on classic soccer iconography, creative a sense of pride in the teams sporting them. The I PLAY FOR brand, created by Publicis Kaplan Thaler, draws attention to the emotional reasons for playing. It was featured on the NBC Nightly News and seen by thousands of spectators at the events. IPLAYFOR.org became a hub for players and fans everywhere. Players could connect with other homeless athletes across the nation, and communities could show their support for the teams. Within a week, IPLAYFOR.org reached 68,000 people across seven countries.
For Street Soccer's biggest event to date, the Street Soccer National Cup in New York City, IPLAYFOR hit the streets. We flooded the city with wild postings, interactive chalk art, benches, and even a Times Square billboard. As a result, over 72,000 people stopped by to show their support. IPLAYFOR made headlines around the world. And, when word of the campaign spread, Kappa donated team jerseys and Slate gave us a free homepage takeover.
The entire run of jerseys featuring the team patches sold out, creative a healthy revenue stream for the cash-strapped charity. But, most importantly, IPLAYFOR helped Street Soccer get 75% of its players off the street this year.
Publicis Kaplan Thaler
Chief Creative Officer – Rob Feakins
Executive Creative Officer – Tom Drymalski
Executive Creative Officer – Perry Essig
Executive Creative Officer – Jim Kotulka
Copywriter – Jennifer Stopka
Copywriter – Alexis Garber
Copywriter – Brad Mislow
Copywriter – Brian Bellanca
Art Director – Christopher C. Smith
Art Director – Julie Eyerman-Allard
Art Director – Kay Saoyen
Project Manager – Sharon Malcolm
Photographer – Ian Young
P&G — Bounty
Kids who love sports rarely check their enthusiasm at the front door. Especially when excited by events such as the Olympics, inspired kids end up transforming their homes into athletic training grounds. They sprint, leap, dive or throw — on sofas, down hallways, in kitchens and all around the house. It takes brave parents to allow that behavior (given all the messes that could result) — and Bounty paper towels wanted to acknowledge those parents that don't let the fear of a little mess stand in the way of their children's big dreams. After all, that's Bounty's role in life: To help people live uninhibited by fear of messes.
The story of the Bounty Olympics "Anthem" is one of perseverance by every member of the team. Every P&G brand is afforded the opportunity to submit work to be produced for the Olympics. While the Bounty clients loved the idea for a spot pitched by Publicis Kaplan Thaler's Bertrand Garbassi and Kat Keeley, it was not within their budget. So, while on a shoot for another initiative, the team captured extra footage of the kids performing "stunts." They cut the footage together and shared it with the Bounty team, who loved both the spot and their initiative. The President of Family Care cited this as another example of how the agency "brings us what we need, not what we ask for."
It was then shown to CMO of P&G, Marc Pritchard, and he loved it so much he reallocated one of the two TV slots for the opening ceremonies to Bounty (a slot that would have been reserved for the P&G Mom's campaign). It's an amazing tale of the courage, stamina and passion on the part of both the agency and the client family care team.
Publicis Kaplan Thaler
Chief Creative Officer – Rob Feakins
Executive Creative Officer – David Corr
Creative Director – Bertrand Garbassi
Creative Director – Kat Keeley
Agency Producer – Alisa Cohen
Production Company – 2Films
Director – Bram Van Riet
Producer – Marc Stemmer
Editing House – Cosmo Street
Editor – Steve Bell
A list of all AAF 2013 ADDY Award winners can be found here.
About Publicis Kaplan Thaler
Publicis Kaplan Thaler is a fully integrated advertising agency with digital, social and technology at its core. With over 650 employees, it is the flagship of Publicis Worldwide in the USA, the North American operating unit of Publicis Worldwide, the largest global agency network within Publicis Groupe. The Agency's blue-chip client roster includes: Procter & Gamble, CITI, Nestlé, Merck, Pfizer, TriHonda, Wendy's, L'Oréal, AFLAC, and NAPA Auto Parts, among others. To learn more about Publicis Kaplan Thaler, follow @PKTtweets, like on Facebook or visit pkt.com.
About Street Soccer USA
Street Soccer USA (SSUSA) (www.streetsoccerusa.org) is sport for development program of HELP USA, which believes ending homelessness is a team sport. Through a systematic approach, SSUSA Builds community and trust through sport with participants and volunteers, transforming the context within which they live from one of isolation, abuse, and marginalization, to one of community, purpose, and achievement, requires participants to set 3, 6, and 12-month life goals, and empowers participants by providing access to services and educational/employment opportunities through our Jobs Academy. The Lady Salamander women's initiative has formed women's only teams at shelters across the U.S. as well. The program in San Francisco is operated in partnership with the St. Vincent de Paul MSC shelter and the SF Conservation Corps.
About Procter & Gamble
P&G serves approximately 4.6 billion people around the world with its brands. The Company has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Pampers®, Tide®, Ariel®, Always®, Whisper®, Pantene®, Mach3®, Bounty®, Dawn®, Fairy®, Gain®, Charmin®, Downy®, Lenor®, Iams®, Crest®, Oral-B®, Duracell®, Olay®, Head & Shoulders®, Wella®, Gillette®, Braun®, Fusion®, Ace®, Febreze®, Ambi Pur®, SK-II®, and Vicks®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 75 countries worldwide. Please visit P&G for the latest news and in-depth information about P&G and its brands.
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Skype Translator, the near real-time translation feature in Skype, which was announced in May and for which the preview sign up started in November of 2014, is now available. Those who signed up for the preview back in November, and those who are on Windows 8.1 (or Windows 10 Technical Preview), can now voice and video chat in English and Spanish in close to real time.
In addition to the voice translation between English and Spanish, more than 40 languages are available for IM conversations. A sample video provided by Skype:
Per Microsoft, this is a project that has been over ten years in the making:
Skype Translator is a great example of the benefit of Microsoft's investment in research. We've invested in speech recognition, automatic translation and machine learning technologies for more than a decade, and now they're emerging as important components in this more personal computing era. Skype Translator is the most recent and visible example.
On the Skype Garage blog, they explain how the Skype Translator technology works, simplistically:
It is interesting that the blog states how Microsoft has learnt colloquial language usage by being the translation service for social media sites like Facebook. It is clear that whatever deal Microsoft made with Facebook and Twitter to supply the translation services on those sites, was not just to be the translation service, but also to learn from the data and improve other products in their portfolio and fine tune products like Skype Translator.
Another nuance mentioned in the blog post is that the translation appears almost as a third person because based on research, they know customers "who are used to speaking through a human interpreter are quickly at ease with the situation".
Although there will be kinks in the service, this is a bold new product that can truly help break barriers in communication around the world. Also, given that the service relies on machine learning which in turn gets better as there appears more data to work with, Microsoft and Skype urges everyone to try the service and provide feedback.
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Today, we will be introducing a pachinko machine of "Ga-Rei –ZERO–", a prequel TV animation to the manga "The Enchained Spiritual Beast Ga-Rei" written by Hajime Segawa.
Its original work depicts a story of Yomi who turned into an evil spirit due to a stone called sesshouseki embedded in her forehead and protagonist Kagura who adores Yomi like a real sister.
Catchphrase of "Ga-Rei" is "Will you kill someone you love because of love?".
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Australia is renowned for its multiculturalism. Through my artwork I attempt to show that a person's nationality is irrelevant to their cultural background, thereby challenging preconceived images of the 'typical' Australian. I have printed my photos on canvas to enhance their tactile quality and their impact.
In these works by Jane MacSmith and David Moore, both photographers explore issues of national identity. How have the growth and change in Australia's cultural mix over time been revealed? Discuss how representation of facial expressions and human emotions can act to unify racial difference through the common human condition.


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Bluetooth programming can solve several annoying problems outside of its principal domain areas. For example, it works well if you're working on a standalone device and you want to configure the device via a custom Bluetooth profile, or you have a device that speaks a standard protocol that your Linux machine doesn't yet support. In this article, I demonstrate how to code your way out of both problems using Bluetooth.
Linux has a mature and capable Bluetooth stack called BlueZ. Many Linux distributions including Ubuntu 10.10 ship with a Bluetooth-enabled kernel as well as a set of profiles that enable your machine to do things like transfer files to and from a Bluetooth-enabled phone.
There are three main steps to making Bluetooth devices communicate:
- Scan: Scan for devices that advertise certain Bluetooth services
- Pair devices: Exchange a key to authenticate the devices and initiate secure communication
- Connect to a service: After the devices are paired, either end can initiate a connection to a particular service.
We'll use built-in tools to accomplish these tasks, and we'll use the BlueZ API to write a program that will communicate with the device. In particular, we'll implement the Headset profile (HSP), which allows your smart phone to use your computer as a headset. Sample code is provided in C.
Before diving into how to accomplish these tasks, let's cover system setup.
System Setup
The given examples were written on Ubuntu 10.10. You'll need the following packages:
- gnome-Bluetooth, a gnome applet for administering Bluetooth devices
- bluez-hcidump, communication debugging tool
- bluez, Linux Bluetooth stack and associated tools
- libBluetooth3, the BlueZ library
- libBluetooth-dev, the development files for linking to the BlueZ library
- libasound2, ALSA API for using a sound card
- libasound2-dev, ALSA API for using a sound card
Finally, you'll need a Bluetooth phone that supports the Bluetooth HSP (headset) profile and a Bluetooth adapter. I'm using a TRENDnet TBW-106UB USB Bluetooth adapter. After plugging the dongle into your machine, the Bluetooth-applet should start as indicated by the Bluetooth symbol on the top panel. (Second in from the left; see Figure 1.)
Figure 1.
Using the applet, you can scan for devices, initiate and complete the paring process, and connect Bluetooth services between devices. As the topic is programming, I'm not going to go through the process of scanning and pairing devices, but note that you will have to pair your phone with your machine in order to follow along.
BlueZ API
BlueZ exposes a socket API that's similar to network socket programming. If you're familiar with network programming in Linux, learning the BlueZ API will feel familiar. To implement the headset profile (more on what that means in a bit), we'll use two different sockets: RFCOMM and SCO.
RFCOMM sockets are like TCP sockets: They're useful in situations where reliability trumps latency. SCO sockets provide a two-way stream of audio data at a rate of 64 kb/s. SCO packets are not retransmitted.
Bluetooth Profiles
What does it mean to implement a Bluetooth profile? The standard Bluetooth profiles and core specification are published on the bluetooth.org website. The top of the page lists different version of the core specification. Below the core specification documents are the profiles.
We need two files from the website: Headset profile v1.1 (HSP), and the Core Specifcation Version 2.1 + EDR.
The core specification file tells you everything you need to know to create a Bluetooth stack. Weighing in at just over 1400 pages, it would be a hefty read. Fortunately, we'll only be using this document as a debugging aid. I chose version 2.1 + EDR because that's the same version that the dongle supports.
The HSP document is a much more manageable 27 pages. It shows how to implement the Bluetooth headset profile (HSP). With these documents in hand, let's configure the Bluetooth adapter, pair a smart phone, and finally get to coding.
Configure the Bluetooth Adapter
When scanning, Bluetooth looks for nearby devices that provide specific services. Services offered by a device are identified by the device class. The first thing we need to do is set the class of the adapter. We'll use the hciconfig tool to do this. Later, I'll show how to set the class in the code.
Setting the class requires creating a bitmask from a list of assigned constants. The Bluetooth.org site contains a series of assigned numbers documents. The definitions required to set the appropriate class are in the baseband document. I'm not going to go into detail about how the document formatted, but I'll point you to the relevant pieces for the class that we need to build. Using the second document, I'll construct the class value.
From the major service class, we'll select bits 21 and 19 (audio and capturing), and from the major device class, we'll use audio/video (00100). Because we chose the audio/video device class, scroll down to Table 7 in the baseband document where the minor device classes are listed for audio/video major class. From this table, we want hands-free device (000010). Putting the selected values together, the value of the class in hex is 0x280404.
To see the current configuration of your Bluetooth hardware, run
hciconfig -a. This command displays various data items about your hardware, most notably, the Bluetooth address and the class. Here's sample output from my machine:
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:11:22:33:44:55 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:7383 acl:0 sco:0 events:175 errors:0 TX bytes:3583 acl:0 sco:0 commands:175 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xff 0x59 0x83 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT Name: 'CSR - bc4' Class: 0x280404 Service Classes: Capturing, Audio Device Class: Audio/Video, Device conforms to the Headset profile HCI Version: 2.1 (0x4) Revision: 0x149c LMP Version: 2.1 (0x4) Subversion: 0x149c Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)
Under the class line, the output contains a text description of the service classes and device class. My machine shows a class of 0x280404, service classes capturing and audio, and device classes audio/video, and device conforms to the headset profile.
Run the following command to set the class:
sudo hciconfig hc0 class 0x280404.
After setting the class, run
hciconfig -a again and verify that the class, service class, and device class lines match my output. If it does, your phone should recognize the machine as supporting the headset profile. You can scan for your computer from your phone and pair them. Of course, we haven't implemented the headset service yet so your phone has nothing to connect to yet.
Bluetooth Addresses and Conversion Functions
Bluetooth addresses are a 6-byte hex number similar to an Ethernet MAC address. BlueZ provides convenience functions for converting between a 6-byte string in the format 00:11:22:33:44:55 and the
bdaddr_t struct. Here are the function prototypes:
int ba2str(const bdaddr_t *ba, char *str);
int str2ba(const char *str, bdaddr_t *ba);
The function
ba2str converts from the internal
bdaddr_t to a zero-terminated string (the
str parameter should have at least 18 bytes), and
str2ba provides the opposite conversion. The first example makes use of the
ba2str function.
Implementing the Headset Profile (HSP)
The HSP profile document describes how to implement the HSP profile. The profile overview (on page 204) contains a diagram that shows two distinct components of the HSP: the audio gateway (AG) and the headset (HS); see Figure 2:
Figure 2: Diagram copied from page 204 of the HSP profile document.
We're going to implement the headset side, (but implementing the audio gateway side is almost identical the audio gateway can be implemented by making a few small changes to the code).
Here are the steps:
- Set the class (as we did earlier, except through a function call)
- Register with the SDP server
- Listen for RFCOMM connections
- Listen for SCO connection
- Process data from the connections
The following sections provide sample code to accomplish these tasks.
Setting the Class
In a previous example, we used the hciconfig tool to set the device class. In this example, we'll set the class in code with a call to
hci_write_class_of_dev as shown in Listing One. Modifying the device attributes is a privileged function so this example must be run as root.
Listing One
#include "btinclude.h" int main() { int id; int fh; bdaddr_t btaddr; char pszaddr[18]; unsigned int cls = 0x280404; int timeout = 1000; printf("this example should be run as root\n"); // get the device ID if ((id = hci_get_route(NULL)) < 0) return -1; // convert the device ID into a 6 byte bluetooth address if (hci_devba(id, &btaddr) < 0) return -1; // convert the address into a zero terminated string if (ba2str(&btaddr, pszaddr) < 0) return -1; // open a file handle to the HCI if ((fh = hci_open_dev(id)) < 0) return -1; // set the class if (hci_write_class_of_dev(fh, cls, timeout) != 0) { perror("hci_write_class "); return -1; } // close the file handle hci_close_dev(fh); printf("set device %s to class: 0x%06x\n", pszaddr, cls); return 0; }


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New Year's Eve has never been my favorite holiday. I'm not one of those big New Year's resolution gals. I don't fret about making a list of all the things I need to change about myself on December 31st. It's not that I think I am perfect — I know I am not. Instead, I spend all 365 days of the year trying to improve, expand, and open myself up to new ways of being. I am fortunate to live in a community of like-minded people. Increasing consciousness, whatever that means to me, is at the top of my list.
This may sound trite, but there are things that, once you know, you just cannot go back on. Many years ago, a girlfriend saw me throw a plastic 6 pack ring in the trash. Long before recycling was fashionable or easy, she mentioned that she saw a show where birds were strangled by those rings. Ever since, when I am confronted with a ring, I take the time to cut up each of those six pieces. Over the years, I have converted many others by telling them why I cut those rings and in turn, they now do the same. I evolved so much that now I cannot remember the last time I purchased something that came with a 6 pack ring!
I know this is a small change, but it's one that I made 20 years ago that had a ripple effect. I don't feel bad about the way I did it before, I just didn't know. Each day I wake up and hope to improve on something. When you learn, you cannot help but chart a different course based on that information. Much like breast cancer altered my young life (twice!), I try to make small corrections every day — in the way I parent, the way I work, the way I interact and communicate with those around me — in order to be my best self. As many of you know, once you have had breast cancer, you just see things differently.
Although I am perfectly healthy now, I sometimes wonder if this year will be my last. I work so hard to live a healthy lifestyle, and I feel fantastic, but what if, hidden deep within my body, there are little cancer cells trying to kill me? The idea of not being here to see my daughter grow up, get married, have children of her own is enough to derail me entirely. Fortunately, I don't have this conversation with myself often.
I hope 2012 will be a great year for all of us. Change is surely afloat in so many areas of being. Reflecting back on 2011, I noticed that even when people showed me who they were, I sometimes saw them as I wanted them to be. Going forward, I hope to adjust my behavior based on what is real, not my idealized version of the truth. I am sure I will always see the world through rose-colored glasses, but maybe I can make them light pink instead of ruby red.
How do you handle the New Year? Do you make giant lists of things to do in January, or take a daily stab like me and "resolve to evolve" each day?
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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SEATTLE, Wash. – More than 13 million Americans are living with some form of cancer. Harsh treatments like chemo and radiation save lives, but they will also change lives. Now, many cancer survivors are learning how to cope with chemo brain.
"I just felt like my mind was muddled," said Deborah Binder, a cancer survivor.
"I'd ask my husband for the milk when I was meaning to ask for a banana," said Janet Freeman-Daily, another woman who fought and beat cancer.
These cancer survivors are now living with "chemo brain."
"It generally refers to people who have some kind of cognitive difficulty following cancer treatment," explained Monique Cherrier, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Neuropsychologist, University of Washington School of Medicine.
"Chemo brain" affects anywhere from 14 to 85 percent of cancer patients, but it's not just the chemo that causes problems. Radiation, hormone therapy, and surgery are also to blame.
Now, researchers are studying whether cognitive rehabilitation can help. Patients attended group sessions for seven weeks and learned proven memory strategies.
"We're actually seeing some nice activation pattern changes in the brain," Cherrier said.
After cognitive rehab, researchers can see the pattern of brain activation, suggesting they processed information more efficiently.
One of Freeman-Daily's favorite memory exercises is the "memory palace." You picture a room in your house and visually put something you want to remember by an object in that room.
"When I want to recall it, I just go back up and walk through the house and that image is there in the entry, and it reminds me of what it is that I'm trying to remember," she explained.
Binder says learning to group together information—like numbers—helped her.
"I feel like it is getting better, but I don't feel like I'm where I was before I was diagnosed," she said.
Other factors like lack of sleep, stress, and depression may also play a role in cognitive functioning and may also impact patients with cancer related cognitive dysfunction.
A study in 2012 looked at women after breast cancer surgery before any treatment was given. About one-in-four showed problems with word skills and about one-in-seven had memory issues. The women who reported worse brain problems also reported higher stress levels.
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Cancer survivors often complain about a mental cloudiness they notice before, during, and after cancer treatment. Its exact cause isn't always known, but this mental fog is commonly referred to as chemo brain. Chemo brain can also be called chemo fog, chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment or cognitive dysfunction. Patients have been aware of chemo brain for a while now, but researchers are only recently conducting studies to help explain it. Experts have known for years that radiation treatment to the brain can cause thinking and memory problems. Recently, they have found that chemo is linked to some of the same kinds of issues. Research shows that some cancer drugs can cause certain changes in the brain. However, it also shows that chemo and radiation aren't the only things that can cause thinking and memory problems in people with cancer. (Source: www.cancer.org and http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chemo-brain/basics/symptoms/CON-20033864)
WHAT IS CHEMO BRAIN?: Here are just a few examples of what patients call chemo brain:
- Forgetting things that they usually have no trouble recalling (memory lapses)
- Trouble concentrating
- Trouble remembering common words
- Trouble remembering details like names and dates
- Taking longer to finish things (disorganized, slower thinking and processing)
- Trouble multi-tasking, like answering the phone while cooking, without losing track of one task (Source: http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/physicalsideeffects/chemotherapyeffects/chemo-brain)
TREATMENT: Not many treatments exist for chemo brain, although some patients may find relief from stimulants like Ritalin, commonly used to treat ADHD. It can help improve mental focus, concentration, and stamina in cancer patients. Another thing to help manage the problems that might come with chemo brain is to use a detailed daily planner. Keeping everything in one place makes it easier to find the reminders you need. Also, exercise your brain by taking a class or doing word puzzles. Eating veggies, exercising, and getting enough sleep also keep you alert. Tracking your memory problems can also be beneficial. Keep a diary of medicines taken, time of day, and the situation you are in. It might help you figure out what affects your memory. Keeping track of when the problems are most noticeable can also help you prepare. You'll know to avoid planning important conversations or appointments during those times. This will also be useful when you talk with your doctor about these problems. (Source: www.cancer.org and http://www.mdanderson.org/patient-and-cancer-information/cancer-information/cancer-topics/dealing-with-cancer-treatment/chemobrain/index.html)


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Voicing Texts While Driving Not Safer Than Typing Texts, Says Study
Texting while driving is dangerous, whether it's type-to-text or voice-to-text.
April 25, 2013 -- To combat the reported dangers of texting while driving, many new mobile phone voice control applications and products have hit the market.
Apple's Siri voice assistant and Samsung's S Voice are two apps that allow users to, among many other things, text by speaking.
But a new study has found that voice-to-text might not be any safer than type-to-text while driving.
The study, conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, found that reaction times while texting were nearly twice as slow as when drivers were not texting, regardless of whether they were texting with their voice or their fingers.
"From our experiment, the response times and amount of time looking at the roadway was about the same when texting manually or using a voice-to-text application," Christine Yager, an associate transportation researcher at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, told ABC News.
"I previously co-led a study that looked at the differences between reading versus writing text-based messages while driving," Yager said. I became curious how newer methods of sending/receiving text messages would affect driver behavior and safety," she said.
READ: Drivers Know Cell Use Is Dangerous But Drive Anyway
In the study, the researchers asked 43 participants to drive 30 mph inside marked lanes on a closed course four times. The drivers were asked not to text in the first round, to send several texts via type-to-text in the second round and then several more texts via voice-to-text using Apple's Siri on an iPhone and Vlingo's voice app on a Samsung Android in the third and fourth rounds.
During the test drives, cameras tracked drivers' eye gaze, and GPS was used to record change in lane positioning. Driver-response time was measured by how many seconds it took the drivers to press a response button after a green LED light periodically flashed on the dashboard.
Drivers reported that the voice-to-text methods felt "safer," but the difference in driver reaction times when compared with type-to-text was slim to none. Texting with Apple's Siri, on average, actually produced slower response times than the type-to-text method. Response times while using Vlingo to text were the fastest, but only by a very small margin.
When texting with Vlingo, drivers spent more time with their eyes on their devices and less time with their eyes on the road, according to the study. While using Siri, drivers kept their eyes on the road more often.
The study also found that, on average, when using the voice-to-text software, the drivers took longer to complete a text than when typing manually.
Yager said that even though each participant was given time to practice using of each method of texting before the experiment, voice-to-text software was still new to most drivers. "It would require additional research to determine whether any driving performance improvements would be observed from being more familiar with the voice-to-text software," Yager said.
"A way to relate this study's results to the everyday driver is that if a texting driver is watching the road less often and their reaction times are slower, then that driver is less able to take action in response to a sudden roadway hazard, like a pedestrian in the street or a swerving vehicle," Yager said.
Thirty nine states have already outlawed type-to-text texting, but hands free, voice-to-text remains legal in every state.


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Science and art come together to bring the true sound of the recording studio into your home.
The entire history of recorded music is at our fingertips and playing all around us. We hear it in the gym, in the pub, on the TV, in our earbuds. But if you're doing something else and not really listening, music is just so much noise in the background.
Which is fine as far as it goes. But when you are listening—really listening—to music, you should be able to hear everything inside it. Every nuance and emotion, every drumbeat and slide scratch. Great sound opens your ears and hits you right in the heart. Great sound makes you feel something. And only then are you truly connected to the music you love.
The mission at Sonos is to fill every home with music. But of course it's not enough simply to put speakers everywhere if the music doesn't sound good. From my own experience I can tell you that everyone in the recording studio has worked incredibly hard to create sound that is just right, with the hope that you'll hear that and only that when you listen at home. Pure, unadulterated, fresh—no matter how old the song is itself. Speakers aren't meant to be part of the performance, but they sometimes take center stage because of a long-standing gap between speaker makers and artists.
About two years ago, I was introduced to Sonos CEO John MacFarlane, who asked me to listen to some new speakers the company was developing. John and his team had a vision: to make sure that the efforts the acoustics team were making reflected the vision of the community that creates the music. They wanted to make a speaker in which the sound would be just as good coming out as the material that goes in, and that the artists themselves would be a part of that creation process. Sonos understood the gap, and wanted to fill it with creators.
"…they weren't looking for an endorsement from me. They actually wanted input and feedback."
A couple of weeks later, Sonos' leading acoustic engineer Hilmar Lehnert came to visit me at Abbey Road Studios and brought a pair of the then-new Play:1 speakers to try out in my home. I struggled to find fault with them, I really did, as though my reputation depended on it! The sound they put out for such a small speaker is fantastic. What struck me about Sonos during that meeting, and that was so different from any other company I'd been introduced to, was that they weren't looking for an endorsement from me. They actually wanted input and feedback. The people at Sonos are never satisfied with what they have made. They want to keep making it better in any way they can. They are so keen to listen, as opposed to just making sound.
I was hooked.
As fresh as the day it was made.
Erm, where's the button that makes everything sound great? pic.twitter.com/HpmxjhwRjv — Giles Martin (@mashupmartin) March 11, 2013
The audio world is filled with phrases like "artist intent," "pure musical truth," "clarity," "space," "soul." It's an unavoidably subjective space open to myriad interpretations. Who really knows what the artist intends, apart from the people in the studio when the record was being made?
"The way I describe our approach as a home speaker company is like being a clear window from the studio to your home."
It's perhaps a clumsy simile, but the way I describe our approach as a home speaker company is like being a clear window from the studio to your home. Our job, and the job of the speaker, is to deliver music to your home with the same clarity and meaning as was heard in the studio when the artists and producers completed the master. Not to color it, or fix it or pump it up. The challenge is: what happens to the music after it's left the studio? Historically, the artists and producers have had zero control over your experience at home. But with software innovations and an incredibly talented team of engineers, we're able to deliver the sound as it was intended to be heard, without any compromise for you listening at home.
Working with Sonos on the new Play:5 and TRUEPLAY has been fascinating because, not only do these projects fulfill the artist's ambition of getting the sound into the home in the best way possible, completing the last mile between the artist and the listener, but also because it's given us an insight into how homes really sound. For the first time, we can see how people really listen to music at home, and it's not at all like our socks-and-sandals world of acoustically optimised listening rooms and perfect listening positions. The implications of that and the resulting opportunities for artists, producers and speaker-makers are incredible.
Don't let anything get in the way of the music.
My role at Sonos is really that of a middleman or translator, bridging the gap between the artist, the listener and the people who make the speakers. We do our best work when there is a forced tension – in the studio, the hottest arguments between band members or producer and artist can result in the most powerful music. It's the same in the speaker world. When science meets art, both win.
Acoustic engineers are masters of measurement, acoustic savants; they look for a flat frequency response and distortion-free sound reproduction. Hilmar holds a PHD in psychoacoustics. He loves music and plays a mean bass, but his work is based on physics. It has to be–acoustics is vastly complicated. Record producers and artists, on the other hand, judge sound on instinct and emotion – the pure, visceral feeling of a kick drum or a soaring vocal. The meeting of these two very different mindsets comes in the end goal: we both want the music to sound as good as it possibly can.
"It's a privilege to call artists such as Rick Rubin, Hans Zimmer and Q-Tip collaborators."
That is why we at Sonos work with so many great artists and producers. It's a privilege to call artists such as Rick Rubin, Hans Zimmer and Q-Tip collaborators. Our job is to better the bond between the music and the listener in the home by providing a link between the artists and the scientists.
From the moment we opened the doors to collaboration, it's been extraordinary how enthusiastic the artist community is about making music sound great in your home. They care deeply about the music they have made, and it is fantastic to be involved with something that is helping us and music lovers to turn their backs on bad quality listening and return to music as it should be.
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|Volume 6 | Issue 10 | October 2012 |
Marriages: Made in Heaven,
ARUNA KASHYAP describes the visible as well as intangible forms of gender violence that result from discriminatory family laws.
Zahedul I Khan
"I am old -- maybe in my 50s -- there is no one to even give me a glass of water. I live all alone." Those were Mehbooba's first words to me. I met Mehbooba last year when she visited a local NGO office to follow up on a maintenance case long pending in a family court in Dhaka.
Mehbooba was one of 120 women I interviewed in Bangladesh last year about their experiences regarding family laws on marriage, divorce and separation, and how they fuel poverty and marital violence.
Bangladesh's family laws for Muslims, Hindus and Christians, some dating to the 19th century, grant men far greater powers than women in marriage and accessing divorce. They do not recognise women's many contributions to marital homes, husbands' businesses and other family property. They give virtually no guidance to courts for determining maintenance amounts when marriages break down. Yet these laws have remained frozen in time for decades, and in some cases more than a century.
Each one of the women I interviewed had a story of suffering directly related to these laws. They told of being trapped in violent marriages because they had nowhere else to go, or struggling to cope financially after their marriages broke down. Where there was no family support, many women ended up in shoddy housing or on the street until they found help. Some women and their children went hungry or begged for food. Some also pulled their children out of school to work. Many faced ill health and could not afford treatment. The laws' meagre protections of their rights failed them time and again.
Mehbooba struggled her whole life due to inadequate Muslim family laws. Her father remarried without telling her mother, and abandoned them. As a result, Mehbooba spent much of her childhood as a domestic worker. Her mother was too poor to raise her alone. Mehbooba's employer married her off at puberty to a much older man, whom she later discovered was already married. His first wife was horrified to see the new bride -- she had not consented to the remarriage.
"On some days she starved me, sometimes she beat me, she insulted me," said Mehbooba. Her husband joined in the beatings too. After years of abuse, she mustered the courage to run away and divorce her husband. Mehbooba left the marriage penniless, with none of the marital property and no maintenance. She earned a living in Dhaka doing domestic work and factory work.
Years later she married another Muslim man, hoping for a second chance at happiness. But the love soured quickly. Her new husband demanded that she give him her earnings, beating her if she did not. She fought to save and hide money. One day she woke up to find her husband and her life savings of 60,000 takas gone. She searched for him and learned in his village that her husband was already married, and further, that he had recently purchased land in his name.
Mehbooba filed a case in the family court several years ago to try to recover her mahr (the contractual amounts promised by her husband in the Muslim marriage contract) and maintenance, but the case was still pending when I spoke to her in 2011.
"I had saved enough money to survive in my old age but now I have nothing," she told me. "I got nothing from him -- not even laalsuta ['red thread']. Do you know what I eat now-a-days? I eat left over panthabhath [fermented white rice] in the houses where I work," she said, fighting back tears.
Polygamy fuelling female poverty and domestic violence
None of the 40 women had given informed consent to be in a polygamous marriage or experienced local government arbitration council reviews as required under the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance. In fact, several union parishad members I interviewed seemed completely unaware of their duties under the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance. The ordinance has been in place for over 50 years.
Many women told me their husbands misrepresented their marital status in their kabin-nama, saying they were single when they were actually married. Because there are no digitised marriage records accessible throughout the country, qazis complained that they had no way of verifying men's marital status.
Barriers to divorce
One of the most horrific cases I came across was that of Namrata N., a Hindu woman in her 20s who had given her life savings -- 2,00,000 takas -- to her husband to set up a business. He misused the money and beat her when she demanded that he return it. One night, when Namrata was sick and wanted some water, her husband gave her acid to drink, then absconded. Since that day, Namrata has not had so much as a sip of water because she does not have a food pipe. She cannot even swallow her saliva -- she uses a spittoon. She is fed ground up food poured into a feeding tube attached to her intestine. Even the smell of food makes Namrata sad. Justice, Namrata said, means two things -- she wants to see her husband behind bars and also wants to divorce him. But Hindu family laws make the latter impossible.
Hindu leaders are divided on the idea of reform. Some Hindu scholars joined with women's groups in 2011 to organise consultations across Bangladesh on changes to Hindu marriage and divorce laws, but other conservative Hindu leaders oppose any reform. Meanwhile, law reform has stalled, and women like Namrata go unheard. Even the most reasonable demands of Hindu women and women's rights activists -- for example, allowing divorce at least on a few grounds including cruelty and abandonment -- have gone nowhere.
Married women can go to court and seek separate maintenance and residence. But this is difficult too. Hindu family laws have no provision for mandatory registration of Hindu marriages, making it convenient for husbands to dispute the very existence of a marriage when their wives go to court.
Ironically, some of the very Hindu leaders who oppose personal law reform and mandatory marriage registration in fact need proof of marriage for other purposes. Kajal Debnath, the President of the Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian Unity Council last year, told me that some Hindu leaders came to the Dhakeshwari mandir and asked for marriage certificates in order to apply for visas for their children to live abroad. The Dhakeshwari mandir, he said, issues four or five marriage certificates every week. Yet, when women's rights activists asked for a simple system of mandatory marriage registration to be made available across the country, they opposed it citing religious grounds. The government had moved forward with a bill on Hindu marriage registration, but under pressure from these leaders, it was watered down to an optional registration system. This was passed in parliament just last month.
While Muslim and Christian personal laws do allow divorce, they make it more difficult for women to get a divorce than men. Under Christian law, men can seek a divorce on the ground of adultery alone. Wives, on the other hand, must prove adultery and one or several other acts. These include: conversion to another religion, bigamy, incest, rape, sodomy, bestiality, desertion for two years, or cruelty.
Muslim family law also makes it far easier for men than for women to divorce. All Muslim men have an absolute right to unilaterally divorce at will, whereas Muslim women may only do so if men "delegate" them this right in the kabin-nama. While men's right to divorce is supposed to be subject to arbitration council review, this rarely happens. Women may seek divorce by mutual consent, including through a khula divorce, but many say they have to pay a consideration to their husbands (usually foregoing mahr). Alternatively, women can divorce through the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, but only on specific grounds, involving a lengthy process in family courts.
No recognition of women's right to marital property
All the women I spoke to had contributed to their families' property in many ways. Every one of them performed unpaid housework, enabling their husbands to participate in paid work. Some handed over savings to their husbands who bought property in the husband's or in-laws' names. Some worked for their husband's grocery shops or tailoring businesses. A few women paid for additional rooms to in-laws' homes. Some cultivated family fields. All cared for children and elderly in-laws. At least one study in Bangladesh shows that married women spend far more time than men on unpaid household work, which reduces women's capacity to undertake paid work. A 2007 study in Bangladesh found that 57% of men and 55% of women surveyed estimated that women spent between 16 and 20 hours every day performing household work. More than 40% of both men and women surveyed reported that men do no household work whatsoever.
But when marriages ended, despite these contributions, many women are left with virtually nothing.
For Muslim women, the kabin-nama, which has a standard format, has terms that women can negotiate to better protect their rights, including property rights. But the women I spoke to either said they were too young at the time of marriage to be able to negotiate better terms, or were unaware of how the kabin-nama clauses could be adapted to protect their rights. Some women were not even aware of the mahr amounts that were fixed at the time of marriage. Older women had miniscule mahr amounts -- 2.5 takas, 500 takas, 600 takas -- which had little or no value when their marriages broke down after years. Even larger mahr amounts in no way substitute for an equal right to marital property.
No clear maintenance criteria
Family court judges who heard cases on maintenance told me they felt women's contributions should be recognised, but they had no legal mandate to do so. One judge recalled a case where a wife had spent all her savings to put her husband through medical school. As soon as the husband graduated and became a doctor, he divorced his wife. The wife sought maintenance, and her contribution to her husband's career was undisputed. Yet, the judge did not take it into account while awarding maintenance.
Family court delays
Women on the brink of poverty after marital breakdown need to be able to rely on quick family court proceedings to rule on maintenance or mahr claims. Instead, family courts often take years to decide and enforce such cases. A lawyer told me of one case in which a maintenance order took 18 years to be executed.
Sitara S. was seeking legal assistance to claim maintenance from her husband after he divorced her, but she told me she had little hope of success. "After he left me he didn't give me anything. Not even one piece of cloth," she said. "I am begging [for food] all the time. When I told him I'm going to court he laughed, saying, 'Go to court. You will get nothing.' When will I get anything from court?"
The Bangladesh government has proposed much-needed amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure to improve summons procedures, a notorious source of delay. But these procedural changes should be accompanied by better oversight and infrastructure support for the summons department staff. These staff members, who say they do not get travel allowance for serving summons, sometimes take bribes, making the entire system corrupt and inefficient.
The government of Bangladesh -- and certainly the women of Bangladesh -- cannot afford any more inertia on family law reforms. On September 17, seven leading women's and human rights groups made it perfectly clear that they are not going to stand by and let women like Mehbooba, Namrata and Sitara suffer under these laws any longer. After a national conference, these groups issued a powerful statement calling for an overhaul of family court procedures, for fair and just laws on marriage and divorce, and for other measures to ensure that the government lives up to its commitments on equality and poverty reduction.
Mehbooba deserves far more than left-over pantha bhath. She and all women in Bangladesh deserve basic rights, including equality within marriages and at the time of dissolution, access to timely justice, and social protection.
Aruna Kashyap is a researcher with the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She is the author of the report, '"Will I Get My Dues…Before I Die?" Harm to Women from Bangladesh's Discriminatory Laws on Marriage, Separation, and Divorce' and helped produce a video on the topic. Follow her on twitter: @aruna_kashyap.
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New California Laws Set Up Framework for Spending Cap-and-Trade Revenue
While businesses deride California's new restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions as a giant tax, lawmakers have taken steps to carve up the money.
While businesses deride California's new restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions as a giant tax, lawmakers have taken steps to carve up the money.
Gov. Jerry Brown over the weekend signed two bills establishing general guidelines on how the expected $1 billion-plus in annual revenue will be spent.
Assembly Bill 1532, by Assembly Speaker John A. Perez, D-Los Angeles, requires that the money be spent on environmental purposes, with an emphasis on improving air quality.
Senate Bill 535, by Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, requires that at least 25 percent of the money be spent on projects that help "identified disadvantaged communities" -- mainly poorer communities that tend to suffer the worst air pollution. At least 10 percent must be spent on projects specifically within those communities.
The two bills don't identify specific projects that will get money. Rather, they "set up a framework for how the state is going to invest the revenue," said Lauren Faber, West Coast political director with the Environmental Defense Fund. "It sets up the parameters."
The Legislature, the Department of Finance and the California Air Resources Board will oversee the expenditures.
The revenue will come from a series of state-run auctions of greenhouse-gas emissions allowances, better known as the cap-and-trade program. The first auction is set for Nov. 14.
Refineries, food processors and other industrial users subject to the cap will be required to reduce their carbon emissions or buy enough allowances to bring themselves into compliance with the program.
The state can't plow the revenue into its deficit-ridden general fund. If it did, Faber said, cap and trade would be considered a tax and would have to be approved by a two-thirds supermajority of both houses of the Legislature.
Big-business groups blasted the program at an Air Resources Board meeting last month. They expect to spend $1 billion on the allowances in the first year, with the amount growing significantly in future years.
State regulators defended the program, saying it's a reasonable, market-based approach to fighting global warming.
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All muskellunge shall be immediately released unless the fish is to be tagged for harvest. If harvested, it should be tagged with a valid muskellunge harvest tag. The possession limit for muskellunge (including tiger muskellunge) is one per angler per fishing season (April 1 through March 31). While registration of muskellunge harvest is not required, registering all harvested fish greatly assists the DNR with management of this important species and is encouraged. For more information or to register a fish, visit www.michigan.gov/muskie.


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Men are from Earth, and so are women
It seems a simple question "Do you want a lift this morning?", but little do most people know that this is a dive into the mindset of the stereotypical man and women.
Q. Do you want a lift this morning?
Female Answer: Well I am running out of [X] it might last to [day] when I do the main shop, but I'm not sure. Then again [Y] is coming over, she's just [Z], so I'd have to make sure I'm back in time. I'd better not risk it.
Male Answer: [pause] No thanks.
The important point is that both answers are correct while at the same time being completely incorrect; it all depends on the sex of the questioner. If they're the same sex - no problem; otherwise - wrong followed by tension.
So as a public service here's how to stop the tension arising.
Tips to women when being asked a question by men:
Think of men as simple creatures, a bit like dumb dogs, when they ask you a question all they want is the answer. They're not interested in the reasons behind your answer, just the answer itself. This isn't to say they don't care or aren't listening, they are; it's just they're parsing your response for the answer to the question and everything else is discarded. So with that in mind here are some things to consider:
- Telling a man about X, or Y's problem with Z during the response to a question is not the same as informing them about X, Y or Z. Do not be frustrated/surprised when the man in question expresses no knowledge about these events at a later point in time.
- If at any point during your response you give a definite answer do not be frustrated/surprised if the man interrupts you. As far as he is concerned the question has been answered and no further discussion required.
- If at the conclusion of your response you have not given a definite answer or you have done so in a way that can be interpreted in multiple ways, do not be frustrated/surprised if the next thing you hear is "So is that a yes or a no?"
Tips to men when being asked a question by women:
Think of women as chatty social creatures who will happily use ten words when only one will do. It is important to remember that any time they ask a question it isn't solely about what they ask, it is instead an invitation for social interaction. So with that in mind here are some things to consider:
- If you respond with a simple definite answer do not be frustrated/surprised if the if the next thing you hear is "Why?".
- If your answer is slightly longer do not be frustrated/surprised if you are interrupted with other questions or statements regarding your response.
- It is important to note that anything you say will be remembered. If you cannot do something because of X and later mentioned you did Y instead expect questions to follow.
Tension may arise when a conversation does not follow the pattern expected by the participants, hopefully these guidelines will help explain and remove any frustrations that may be caused by some inter-sex conversations :-)


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Mytical Visions of Jesus Birth, Why Did God Become Man, About Those Christmas Animals, and more!
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The Birth of Jesus, Revealed to St. Bridget - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement
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The Priest Whose Preaching was like a 'Spiritual Earthquake' - Catholic Herald
Christmas Myths & Furrowed Brows - Rich, Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber
The Activism of the Ordinary - Nathaniel Gotcher, Ignitum Today
"What, Really, is the Point of Christmas? Why did God become Man?" - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop
Washington at Bay - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic
About Those Christmas Animals - Ray Sullivan, Catholic Lane
Blood, Bones And Flesh: God Joins The Human Race - Vanessa Barnes, Gulf Coast Catholic
An Apology to Cardinal Pell - R.R. Reno, First Things/On the Square
Church in Nigerian Capital Abuja Hit by Explosion - Daily Telegraph
Bombs, 'Sects' and Questions in Nigeria - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion
LGBT Groups Using Anti-Catholic Rhetoric & Klu Klux Klan Tactics - Y.M. Daviyd, David Gray
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Newsweek Merges With The Daily Beast... To Shut Down Newsweek?
from the sense-and-nonsense deptLots of talk today about the fact that Newsweek, the struggling magazine that's been around for 77 years, has merged with two-year old website The Daily Beast, which never really picked up all that much traffic considering its ambitions. But in an odd move, reports now are saying that the plan is to shut down the Newsweek site and to keep The Daily Beast running. If that's the case... um... why merge at all? Newsweek has the more well known brand and much more traffic. This sounds like an ego merger, where the idea is just to promote the fact that The Daily Beast devoured Newsweek. And that gets you, what, the attention of a tiny group of media business insiders for a couple weeks?
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The Fresh And Processed Fish Western Europe
Market demand for years 2009, 2013, 2014 and forecasts for years 2015, 2016 and 2017. Company market shares and brands for 2014 and continuously updated.
5 Individual Product Markets in each country covered:
Fresh Fish,Canned Fish,Frozen Fish,Dried Smoked Salted Fish,All Fresh & Processed Fish
Country markets: Austria,Belgium/Lux,Denmark,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Ireland,Italy,Netherlands,Norway,Portugal,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,United Kingdom
80 Product and Country Markets - being 5 Single Product Markets (Market Groups not counted)
times 16 countries.
A complete quantitative, hard data demand and supply analysis of final human consumption in the country and product markets covered. All product markets are carefully defined so as to be comparable across all countries.
Based on FFT's international food and drink markets database, now in its 23rd year, the report includes (see detailed Table of Contents for more):
This report entails a fully up-to-date mapping of the market providing valuable support to strategic marketing decisions, in particular regarding:
Retail, Foodservice and Total Historical and Forecast Demand - by volume and by value for 2009, 2013 and 2014 , as well as forecasts for 2015, 2016 and 2017
Historical Trend - % growth by volume and value for 2009 - 2014.
Forecast Growth - % growth by volume and value for 2015 - 2017
Supply structure in each product and in each country in 2014: producer shares, own label share, branded share, unbranded share and artisanal share (own made for own sale, e.g. independent bakers).
Major brands listed by country, product, holding or independent companies and subsidiaries.
Company Profiles. All holding companies identified are listed alphabetically with their key subsidiaries by country, detailing the product markets in which the latest market shares have been identified. The overall share in the market covered is provided. The estimated percent contribution of each product to final (retail + foodservice) sales is also provided.
Estimated 188 pages.
The report is produced at time of order from the updated database, and consists essentially of hard data provided in the form of flow charts and data tables.
The standard PDF report delivered by e-mail can be printed and then photocopied recto-verso, and is designed to then drop into a 4-ring folder as a complete report, including cover, table of contents, etc. Electronic Excel file can be provided by FFT on request.
Any combination of countries, products and demand and supply data possible.
Almost 150 products and product categories covered in each of these countries:
Europe, including Eastern Europe, 22 countries covered.
North America: Canada, Mexico, USA.
Other emerging markets: Brazil, India, Turkey, Russia, China
Product coverage and definition
Fresh Fish - Fresh and fresh/frozen unprepared fish and shellfish, wet fish, roundweight.
Canned Fish - Canned and marinated fish and shellfish. Includes long-shelf-life marinated canned fish, but short-shelf-life marinated fish is classified as delicatessen.
Frozen Fish - Frozen convenience fish (breaded, prepared), including seafood and molluscs [Spain includes unprepared frozen fish]. In CEE, includes frozen fillet fish, and excludes frozen fish without head but with all bones.
Dried Smoked Salted Fish - Dried, salted, and smoked fish, and surimi products
All Fresh & Processed Fish - All products in this group in ready-to-eat form (fresh fish and shellfish volumes multiplied by 0.6 to obtain plate weight).
Country coverage : Austria,Belgium/Lux,Denmark,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Ireland,Italy,Netherlands,Norway,Portugal,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,United Kingdom
For each of the products covered (listed above) and in each of the countries covered (listed above), as well as for the aggregate data for the entire market covered, the following information is provided:
Flowchart of Major Suppliers, Demand and Distribution Channels
Historical Demand in 2009, 2013, 2014 (in volume)
Historical Demand in 2009, 2013, 2014 (in value)
Forecast Demand 2015, 2016 & 2017 (in volume)
Forecast Demand 2015, 2016 & 2017 (in value)
Historical 5-year growth rates 2009 - 2014 (in volume)
Historical 5-year growth rates, 2009 - 2014 (in value)
Breakdown between Foodservice and Retail Market in 2014 (in volume)
Breakdown between Foodservice and Retail Market in 2014 (in value)
Per capita consumption in retail, foodservice and total market, 2014 (in volume)
Per capita expenditure in retail, foodservice and total market, 2014 (in value)
Strategic Assessment: percentage represented by the country product market from the regional product market (North America, Western Europe or Central Europe). Does not apply to Brazil, India, Russia, China and Turkey.
Definition: Company Market Shares given for the Total Market (retail, foodservice and artisanal).
Updating: underlying food and drink database updated regularly, including for Mergers & Acquisitions
Supplier market shares (usually up to 10 shares cited by product and in each country)
Who Owns Whom: Key Local Subsidiaries of each Ultimate Holding Company
Distribution Channels % Shares: Branded, Unbranded, Own (Private) Label and Artisanal (own-produced for own sale, e.g. bakers)
Major Brands for the suppliers cited
- Especially important where FFT has identified more than 10 holding companies
Company Market Shares and Rankings within the aggregate market covered by the report
List of all Holding Companies identified for this market covered
Who Owns Whom: All Key Local Subsidiaries identified
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The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe.
THE GOOD: They're Back! For the second time in three seasons, the Rays will be in the playoffs despite playing in the toughest division in baseball. How improbable is what the Rays did this season? Of SI.com's 13 baseball "experts," only three predicted the Rays would make the playoffs and only one thought they would win the division. Congrats to all the players and the front office. It has been an up and down season, but it has been a fun ride so far…Cy Price? David Price put an exclamation point on his season with 8 shutout innings and 8 strikeouts. It was his 19th win. More importantly, he improved to 4-0 with a 1.67 ERA in September when the games matter most…Red Sox Are Now Officially Roadkill. With wins by both the Rays and Yankees, the Red Sox were eliminated from postseason contention. Better luck next year.
THE BAD: The Wild Card. This is the downside to the Wild Card. What exactly were the Rays celebrating last night? "Hey, we are at least the Wild Card team!" It is just awkward and will diminish the celebration should the Rays win the East.
THE TELLING: Last night's attendance was 17,891…The Rays' magic number to clinch the division is now 4 with 5 to play (the Yankees have 4 games remaining)…According to CoolStandings.com the Rays now have a 100% chance of making the playoffs (82.0% chance of winning the division).
WHERE THEY STAND: The Rays are 94-63, a half-game ahead of the Yankees. After 157 games in 2008, the Rays were 95-62.
- Here is video of several players talking about clinching a playoff spot during the postgame celebration. [Sun Sports]
- More videos of the celebration from the clubhouse including Briggy Baseball dancing. [The Heater]
- Roger Mooney has comments from different members of the team on clinching a postseason berth. [Tampa Tribune]
- Joe Bucs Fan looks at whether the Rays postseason schedule will conflict with any Bucs games. [Joe Bucs Fan]
- Gary Shelton argues that David Price should win the AL Cy Young. [St. Pete Times]
- Remember that Rays exec that had his AL Championship ring stolen? Instead of paying the pawn shop a few hundred dollars to get it back, he is suing to have it returned. The comments from the Pawn Shop owner don't paint a great picture. [St. Pete Times]
- The Lakeland Ledger calls Dan Johnson the Rays' Mr. September. [Ledger.com]
- A Yankees bloggers understands that the Rays attendance issues are much more complicated than "they have no fans." [TYU]
- Here is part 2 of the look at the Durham Bulls' season. [Watching Durham Bulls Baseball]


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One of the best films I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival was writer-director Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal's first feature, The Words. The film stars Bradley Cooper as a writer who, after discovering an extraordinary lost manuscript, passes the work off as his own and receives overwhelming critical acclaim. Jeremy Irons plays the man who originally wrote the manuscript, and the film weaves multiple narratives to tell the story. The Words also stars Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Ben Barnes, and JK Simmons. CBS Films bought the film after its first screening and they plan to release it later this year. It's definitely a film you should be excited to see. For more on The Words, here's Matt's review.
Shortly after seeing the film, I did an extended interview with Bradley Cooper and co-writer-director Brian Klugman. We talked about being at Sundance, how the project came together and how it changed along the way, deleted scenes, how the two of them became friends (they've known each other for decades), karaoke, film versus digital, and a lot more. In addition, Klugman talked about his early draft of Tron: Legacy, and Cooper talked about what it was like to work on director Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines, and the status of Paradise Lost (it's hopefully filming this June). Hit the jump to watch.
As usual, I've time indexed the interview so you can watch the parts that interest you. And if you missed my video interview with Ben Barnes for The Words, click here.
Brian Klugman and Bradley Cooper Time Index
- :16 Klugman and Cooper pull Steve on camera to showcase his Threadless T-shirt.
- 1:03 Talk about the Sundance experience. They developed the script at the Sundance screenwriter's lab in 2000.
- 1:29 Cooper tells a funny story about bringing Wet Hot American Summer to Sundance and writer-director David Wain constantly referring to it as the Suntans Film Festival.
- 2:35 How much of the project changed from when they first wrote the script to the finished film? Cooper first read the script 12 years ago, but the bones of it stayed the same.
- 3:42 Briefly describe what the movie's about and who Cooper plays. It's a romantic drama seen through the lens of three different characters and their lives. Cooper plays a writer who comes across a manuscript that he didn't write, and turns it in as his own.
- 5:49 How many takes does Cooper prefer to do? Says it's a case-by-case basis depending on a bunch of factors. If it's a small budget and time is of the issue, fewer takes are necessary.
- 7:46 What's their go-to karaoke song? Klugman says Neal Diamond and Cooper says Led Zeppelin.
- 8:17 Film or digital? Klugman says The Words was shot on both. The Paris 1940s stuff was shot on old film with old lenses, the Cooper and Zoe Saldana stuff was on film, and the Dennis Quaid/Olivia Wilde scenes were shot on the Alexa (digital). Klugman and Cooper both prefer film. Cooper says film adds to the limitations aspect of filmmaking that pushes the actors and crew, but he says he's really doesn't care as it's really about the director.
- 9:53 Deleted scenes. Almost no scenes were deleted from the film; there are only a few scenes that were truncated. The Words was so structured that there wasn't much that could be taken out.
- 10:33 How did Klugman and Cooper meet? Cooper transferred from public school to private school and met Klugman there. They bonded because many of the other kids were wealthy and Cooper and Klugman were outsiders.
- 12:25 Cooper talks about working on The Place Beyond the Pines. Says it's a very structurally ambitious film.
- 13:51 The filming dynamic. Talk about the fractured filming schedule. They shot all the Cooper and Saldana stuff up front, then shot all the Cooper/Jeremy Irons scenes. They shot the film in 25 days.
- 16:10 Klugman talks about working on Tron: Legacy. He and Lee Sternthal wrote an early draft of the script.
- 17:08 How did their version of Tron: Legacy differ from the finished version? Says their draft was quite a bit darker.
- 17:30 Cooper talks Paradise Lost: "I think we're gonna be going in June, hopefully." I then asked with Warner Bros. wanting to shoot The Hangover 3 sometime this summer, does that mean Paradise Lost might be pushed back further? Cooper replied, "I don't know about what the scheduling is, but I hope both of those movies happen."


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Further to my posting on the forum re: radio interviews, just some further information in connection with 808 State gig at the Victoria Baths and the project.
Victoria Baths Trust (winners of the BBC restoration program) have commissioned a 6 month series from ALL fm to promote the restoration of the Baths for the people of Manchester. This is a charitable organisation which is working towards saving a vitally important piece of Manchester's history from destruction. In this context we are exploring both the history of the Baths and the potential future use of them in close connection with the regeneration of Longsight and surrounding areas.
Come on guys and girls....any assistance would be greatly appreciated... Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you. Georgina
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