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17 December 2021, Vientiane Capital - Women and girls at quarantine and treatment facilities in 16 provinces, will receive hygiene kits to support their sexual and reproductive health and rights during COVID-19. Over 5,000 women and girls will receive hygiene kits consisting of toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, reusable mask, sanitary pads, and buckets. Good Neighbour Laos has contributed $50,000USD through the UNFPA network of partnerships and services.
The handover ceremony was convened at Lao Women's Union, attended by Mme Inlavanh Keobounphanh, President of Lao Women Union; Dr. Phonepaseuth Ounaphom, Director of Department of Hygiene and Health Promotion; Mr. Yongki Choi, Country Director of Good Neighbor Laos; and Mariam A. Khan, UNFPA Representative for Lao PDR.
Mme Invalahn Keobounphanh, President of Lao Women Union, expressed her appreciation to UNFPA and Good Neighbor Laos for their support. She said: "These hygiene kits are important and necessary to protect women and girls' sexual and reproductive health at the quarantine centers. As COVID-19 infections continue to increase in many provinces, these essential supplies are urgently needed. Therefore, we must ensure continuity of assistance to women and girls, especially providing hygiene kits so they can protect themselves and prevent COVID-19 infection."
Dr. Phonepaseuth Ounaphom, Director of the Department of Hygiene and Health Promotion, Ministry of Health, said, "services on sexual and reproductive health, including maternal health for women and pregnant women, must be continually provided, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to ensure women of reproductive age, pregnant women, and mothers are healthy and safe. These essential supplies will contribute to ensuring that. "
Mr. Yongki Choi, Country Director of Good Neighbor Laos, said, "Representing GN Laos, we would like to be a part of contributing and helping on the Covid-19 pandemic response. Especially, female migrant returnees in quarantine centers in different parts of Lao PDR ensure reproductive and sexual health and rights of females in response to COVID19 as we could see the number of migrants in the southern & Northern zone also increased a lot from months ago. Hence, GN Laos also decided to support hygiene kits to females in quarantine centers in 11 provinces. Facilities by UNFPA."
Mariam A. Khan, UNFPA Representative for Lao PDR, said, "We must protect women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, especially in times of crisis like COVID 19 pandemic. The unique health needs of women and girls require women centered and specific responses. This valuable contribution from Good Neighbor Laos will enable women and girls to have access to essential items they need to keep them safe and healthy during the quarantine period."
About UNFPA
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, works in over 150 countries including Lao PDR, to achieve zero maternal deaths, zero unmet need for family planning, and zero gender-based violence.
About Good Neighbor Laos
Good Neighbors is an international humanitarian development NGO founded in Korea in 1991 to make the world a place without hunger, where people live together in harmony.
For more information please contact:
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INDIANAPOLIS — Hundreds of people, some carrying signs reading "no hate in our state," gathered Saturday outside the Indiana Statehouse for a boisterous rally against a new state law that opponents say could sanction discrimination against gay people.
Since Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed the bill into law Thursday, Indiana has been widely criticized by businesses and organizations around the nation, as well as on social media with the hashtag #boycottindiana.
Local officials and business groups around the state hope to stem the fallout, although consumer review service Angie's List said Saturday that it is suspending a planned expansion in Indianapolis because of the new law.
The law's supporters contend discrimination claims are overblown and insist it will keep the government from compelling people to provide services they find objectionable on religious grounds. They also maintain that courts haven't allowed discrimination under similar laws covering the federal government and 19 other states.
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"This law does not openly allow discrimination, no, but what it does is create a road map, a path to discrimination," he told the crowd, which stretched across the south steps and lawn of the Statehouse.
"Indiana's version of this law is not the same as that in other states. It adds all kinds of new stuff and it moves us further down the road to discrimination," said DeLaney.
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I have not been keeping up with all the latest details of Steven Jones's research and all the critiques thereof, so I'm not going to say a lot about it right now. The main purpose of this post is simply to set up a page where those who want to talk to me about his research, for whatever reason, can post comments about it, rather than mixing this topic with miscellaneous other discussions.
So far, I've written the following other relevant posts:
- Demolition of WTC: Let's not overstate the case, please – see the section on Thermite (or Thermate) – good so far, though not conclusive
- Reply to "9/11 Guide," part 1 (to ref1)
- He oughta know better: Mark Roberts and the iron spherules
There has also been some discussion about Steven Jones in the comment thread following my post Two WTC 7 collapse videos: Can both be real?. Among other things, ref1 provided a link to this post by Frank Greening in the JREF thread JONES new paper: Microspheres and Temperatures, which discusses the new paper by Steven Jones and others, Extremely high temperatures during the World Trade Center destruction (PDF).
If anyone would like to call my attention to other critiques of Jones's work, feel free to post links here. Please note that I am interested mainly in substantive, in-depth critique by scientifically knowledgeable people such as Frank Greening. I am not likely to be impressed by a priori dismissals or by attacks on his character. Also, please keep in mind my blog's comment policy.
P.S., 2/23/2008: Please see also my subsequent post Questions for "debunkers" about Steven Jones's research.


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Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I've heard for the first time this week and come recommended.
Knuckleball (Levine / Hannaford / Gray) – Knuckleball (2016)
CARL – Moon Pools and Petroleum Play (2016)
Kshatriya – Samantabhadra (2016)
Anna Högberg Attack – Anna Högberg Attack (2016)


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The Commission's Secretary-General, Catherine Day has told CEO that:
"The Commission has carried out a proper analysis of possible conflicts of interest before deciding to appoint Mr Frydman, and it did not identify any conflict of interests which would have prevented his appointment."
Jan Eric Frydman is a partner in the Swedish law firm Ekenberg & Andersson*, where he leads the transatlantic practice. In March 2015, he was appointed special adviser for trade policy and transatlantic affairs to EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström, a position that grants him extraordinary access to the current negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Frydman has been allowed to keep both positions simultaneously, raising concerns that potential conflict of interests have not been duly assessed.
Frydman's background
Frydman's professional career has been split between law and business, private and public positions. In the 1990s, Frydman worked as a business lawyer at Mannheimer Swartling where, according to his CV as published by the Commission, he worked with "international transactions and mergers and acquisitions" and he "was also the Firm's Head of Information and Knowledge Management." Years after Frydman had moved away, Mannheimer Swartling controversially represented Swedish energy giant Vattenfall in an investor-to-state challenge against the German government for its divestment from nuclear energy.
Frydman joins the Commission
In 1996, Frydman became a European Commission official (legal adviser). In the following years, he held a variety of roles at the Commission, including those related to trade policy, including acting as principal administrator for relations with the US and Canada (1999-2002), deputy and acting head of unit for international affairs (2002-2011) and head of unit for international regulatory affairs and toy safety (2011-2012) at DG enterprise and industry.
Frydman's time in the Commission gave him detailed insights into trade policy, especially at the transatlantic level. His CV highlights that, during this time, he "coordinated with the US department of Commerce the government side of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)" and "created the structure for regulatory cooperation between the EU and the US".
The TABD (now renamed TABC – Transatlantic Business Council) links business leaders of more than 70 multinationals from both sides of the Atlantic with US cabinet secretaries and European commissioners. TABC's main aim is to reduce barriers to inter-Atlantic trade and for the past 20 years it has been targeting domestic regulations on each side of the Atlantic as "the new obstacles to trade". Its deregulation hit lists included a wide range of environmental, health and safety regulations.
Other transatlantic dialogue structures were created at a later stage, focusing on the environment, labour and consumers, but these were never given the same access and influence by public officials as TABD.
Frydman joins Ekenberg & Andersson
In 2013, Frydman retired from the Commission and went on to serve as adjunct judge of the Sva Court of Appeals in Stockholm for eight months. Frydman then joined law firm Ekenberg & Andersson in 2014.
The Commission authorised Frydman's moves to the Sva Court and Ekenberg & Andersson; for the latter he was asked to "notify the Commission again when he would intend to accept an individual client whose activities are related to those which he had in the Commission in his last 3 years of service".
In response to questions from CEO, Frydman described his work saying:
"I work on general civil (i.e. not criminal) law issues. This means I advise clients on things like contract law (draft or review contracts, for example the sale and purchase of goods or real estate, cooperation agreements, etc.), company law, liability issues, international private/family law, pension law, citizenship issues, etc. I also do some EU law, in particular related to the internal market, and also work on human rights law (I specialised in human rights law while at law school). I have particular expertise in transatlantic relations, so I would also be available to advise international clients, including clients in the US, on Swedish law, and also work with clients in France on Swedish law matters as I speak French."
Ekenberg & Andersson and trade policy
Ekenberg & Andersson's website places a different emphasis on Frydman's role saying that he "works mainly with international transactions, EU-law and leads the firm's transatlantic practice". His hiring certainly seems to have been a welcome addition to the firm's international practice as was made clear in the firm's press release where senior partner Thomas Ekenberg declared that:
"With Sweden's membership in the EU, the need for knowledge of EU law and, not least, how the EU institutions work is increasing. Transatlantic relations are also becoming increasingly important. Many decisions affecting Swedish business are taken either in Brussels or in Washington, something that can be expected to continue given the negotiations between the EU and the U.S. on a free trade agreement (TTIP). With Jan's many years of experience in both the EU and the U.S., our Firm will be able to offer a unique expertise in these areas."
Early on in his time at the law firm, Frydman promoted his interest and pre-existing knowledge of TTIP by writing about the hurdles facing regulatory cooperation and possible ways forward solutions for the TTIP negotiations. The regulatory cooperation chapter negotiated as part of the trade agreement aims to reduce differences in EU and US regulations and is likely to significantly change the way regulations will be decided in the future. Under current proposals, the EU and US will be able to negotiate on contentious topics such as chemicals or banking regulation behind closed doors, far away from public and parliamentary scrutiny, but likely following the agenda of big business. Regulatory cooperation has been described by consumer groups as the "surreal institutionalisation of lobbying".
This negotiating chapter follows a similar logic to TABD's, targeting regulatory standards in the name of harmonized rules to favor transatlantic trade and investment. The proposed system currently on the table has been built upon the bedrock of decades of transatlantic business dialogue and the groundwork laid down by Commission insiders like Frydman.
Intellectual property rules are another controversial issue in the TTIP negotiations and the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) has already warned that the new "international benchmarks" established between the EU and the US could limit citizen's access to knowledge and medicine. Frydman's law firm has an "intellectual property practice" (covering patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights).
Frydman becomes Commission special adviser
It is unsurprising that the law firm welcomed Frydman's appointment as special adviser to Cecilia Malmström, the commissioner directly handling the TTIP negotiations. Thomas Ekenberg said:
"We are all glad that Jan, as the only Swedish attorney in such a role, has been appointed Special Advisor to the European Commission. With his vast experience in international trade matters, Jan will support Sweden's EU Commissioner and contribute to the successful implementation of the EU's trade agenda, not least the important negotiations now under way for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). With continued globalization and increased trade, trade law will become increasingly important, and our Firm is able to offer unique expertise in this area [emphasis added]."
This press release could be interpreted as an attempt by Ekenberg & Andersson to benefit from Frydman's new role as special adviser, to attract new clients. The law firm's website does include a footnote stating that:
"*) Update: In March, 2015, our partner Jan E. Frydman was appointed Special Adviser to the European Commissioner for Trade. In this role he is bound by rules on confidentiality and impartiality in accordance with European Union rules governing Special Advisers and he therefore does not offer expertise covered by such rules"
CEO is not clear whether this was added before or after an article was published by CEO which criticised Frydman's appointment.
In response to CEO's enquiries, Frydman declared that:
"I perceive no overlaps at all between what I do at Ekenberg & Andersson and my role as Special Adviser to Commissioner Malmström. As I already mentioned, I don't take on lobbying matters. Moreover, our firm only practices Swedish law. The trade, regulatory or transatlantic issues that I would possibly work on would typically involve advising international, including American, clients on Swedish law and Swedish clients on how the legal system works in the US in cooperation with local US counsel, something I used to do when I practised law before I joined the European Commission. I would of course never advise clients on anything that involves what I do or have learnt in my role as Special Adviser to Commissioner Malmström."
When asked about what areas of expertise he considered to be excluded from his activities as a result, Frydman said that
"as I will be advising Commissioner Malmström on trade policy and trade relations with the USA, I will not advise any clients on anything that would be a part of such issues."
CEO complaint to the Commission
As part of the rules relating to the appointment of special advisers, Frydman had to sign a 'Declaration on the Honour' stating that he has no conflicts of interest. CEO has requested access to the documents on the assessment of such conflicts but only received a declaration of activities form that sets out the positions Frydman holds and a statement of assurance signed by Malmström's head of cabinet. Following an access to documents request, the Commission informed CEO that "no other documents […] were drawn up on this assessment."
Considering the information provided in response to our questions by the European Commission to be insufficient, in April 2015 CEO wrote a complaint to the Secretary-General Catherine Day arguing that it had not performed an adequate scrutiny of conflicts of interest, particularly in respect to Frydman's experience in regulatory cooperation issues and how Ekenberg & Andersson could benefit from privileged access to this and the intellectual property chapters in TTIP.
Day's answer did not appease our concerns and instead stated that
"the examination of possible conflicts of interest that was carried out in accordance with the Rules on Special Advisers did not reveal any element which would have stood in the way of Mr Frydman's appointment as Special Adviser. It was confirmed by the Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Malmström in the Statement of Assurance that the tasks performed by Mr Frydman in his capacity as Special Adviser will have no link with cases related to his activities as lawyer."
Day mentioned that "Mr Frydman does not take on any cases that could represent a conflict of interest with his role as a Special Adviser", but this seems insufficient in the light of his role as head of Ekenberg & Andersson's 'EU and transatlantic practice'. It would seem that the obligation to avoid conflicts of interest should apply to Ekenberg & Andersson as a whole or at the very least to its EU and transatlantic practice. It remains unclear whether the European Commission has assessed whether Ekenberg & Andersson (and its clients) might unduly benefit from Mr Frydman's role as Special Adviser.
CEO's report on revolving door cases related to TTIP can be found here.
* Update 5 July 2017: Jan Eric Frydman seems to have stopped working for Ekenberg & Andersson in March 2017. According to his Linkedin profile, he is now Head of Delegation of the Swedish Bar to the Council of European Bars.
"The Commission's responses to both CEO's complaint and request for access to documents were highly unsatisfactory. We were told that there were no other documents relating to the assessment of possible conflict of interests in Frydman's appointment. This lack of a paper trail strengthens CEO's suspicion that the Commission did not undertake an adequate, proactive and critical assessment of possible conflicts of interest in this case."
"CEO considers that there is an inherent conflict of interests between Frydman's position as head of Ekenberg & Andersson's "EU and transatlantic practice" and his role as special adviser for trade policy and transatlantic affairs. Both Frydman himself and the Secretary-General refer to the rules governing special advisers and to Frydman's declaration of honour as enough protection against possible conflicts of interest. In our opinion, this is unconvincing as the rules are ambiguous and unclear and do not specify which activities are off-limits. Even if Frydman had removed himself from a wide range of clearly defined areas of work within Ekenberg & Andersson, his role as partner at Ekenberg & Andersson would still give rise to potential conflicts of interest, as his advice could be biased towards the wider financial interests of this company."
"The Commission should be more thorough when appointing special advisers and it should take the initiative of putting far stronger safeguards in place to prevent possible conflicts of interests."


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Please send the DLF
Director your comments or suggestions.
Present: Lee Chamberlin (NYU), Murtha Baca (Getty), John Weise
(Michigan), Linda Barnhart (UCSD), Greg Zick (Washington),
Sherman Clarke (NYU), Michael Ester (Luna Imaging), Heike Kordish
(NYPL), Jane Murray (NYPL), Susan Williams (Yale), Chris Sundt
(Oregon), Elisa Lanzi (Smith), Ann Whiteside (Harvard), Daniel
Greenstein (DLF)
This report summarizes consensus that emerged at the meeting
about the design, use, and benefits of a visual resources
cataloguing service, and the next steps that should be taken in
the development of that service.
For the benefit of participants, the report concludes with
comments that distinguish this initiative from others in which
the DLF is involved, notably the Academic Image Cooperative and
the Open Archive Initiative metadata harvesting testbed.
(Note, the term "service" is currently under discussion and
may well be replaced by "workstation" or "tool").
The service will support and promote the shared development of
high-quality, consistent, reliable, and professionally developed
descriptions of visual resources.
The service will permit different levels of use including the
The catalogue service will have a number of direct benefits
for VR cataloguers and slide and art librarians. For members of
this community it will:
The service may also have a number of indirect benefits for
other communities as follows:
Description contributors. Institutions with online VR
catalogues will be more likely to contribute records to the
service if the service supplies them with tools capable of
enhancing records in those catalogues.
Contributions from trusted "level 3" users (those
specialists able to add or approve authority controls) may be
sought in a variety of ways:
Service developers. Previous efforts in this area have
been limited by their heavy reliance on voluntary effort.
Accordingly, any initiative that may be undertaken to fulfill the
goals set out in this document should seek appropriate support
and develop from the outset with organizational and financial
sustainability as a pre-eminent goal.
The service will need to investigate use of different
approaches for updating and searching respectively, possibly
putting updating on an incremental as opposed to a dynamic
Design of an effective user interface will be challenging
given that the service will need somehow to present users
(cataloguers) with multiple descriptions, authorities and
vocabulary choice, etc
Architecturally, the service should be developed in a manner
that will cost effectively support the evolution and extension of
its functions
Steps to be completed by end March 2001
Preferably steps listed under 2 should completed by end
April 2001
The OAI is an international initiative that has developed a
metadata harvesting protocol. The DLF supports the OAI but is not
the OAI. Information about the OAI is available from
Using the OAI metadata harvesting protocol it may be possible
to assemble VR descriptions stored and managed in a single place.
In this respect, metadata harvesting might provide one means for
a cataloguing service to assemble raw VR descriptions.
The metadata harvesting protocol is relatively untried; its
application is highly experimental.
In the meantime, the real effort for the VR cataloguing
service is not assembling VR descriptions but developing the
tools for editing, enhancing, and disseminating descriptions.
Accordingly, although the OAI harvesting protocol might
contribute a single, relatively small component to a VR
cataloguing service, its experimental nature suggests that any
prototype work be conducted on the basis of physical assembly of
This should not preclude work on experimental or prototype
harvesting services that focus on visual resources. Indeed the
DLF is actively hoping to encourage the development of such
With funding from The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation and the support of the College Art Association, the AIC
was initiated in January 1999 as a planning process to develop a
scaleable database of curriculum-based digital images for survey
courses in the history of art. The planning process was completed
formally in August 2000 and resulted in a prototype database and
image collection. It also developed technical, organizational,
and policy frameworks that have the potential for sustaining a
more ambitious online service; one capable of identifying,
developing, and disseminating a far large number of
curriculum-based and scholarly image collections.
Since the completion of this planning process, ongoing
discussions between the DLF and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
have focused on how the AIC's image collection - and the learning
derived in its development - might contribute to a broader
initiative under consideration by the Foundation and
provisionally named ArtSTOR. Briefly, ArtSTOR is looking to do
with visual resource materials something analagous to what JSTOR
did for periodical literature in the humanities and social
sciences: create an essential digital library that responds to
widespread scholarly needs.
The result is a collaboration whereby the DLF is helping the
foundation to develop circumscribed, strategically identified
image collections that respond to widespread teaching and other
specialist scholarly needs. It is envisaged that these
collections, including the one developed by the AIC, will be
incorporated into the evolving ArtSTOR service, which eventually
will be managed as a project of the Foundation or an organization
that they designate.
For a programmatic and preliminary description of the ArtSTOR
initiative, please consult the 1999 President's Report available
from the Mellon Foundation website at http://www.mellon.org/President
annual report 99.pdf. These pages document the AIC's
development as a DLF initiative.
The DLF wishes to support the VRA in its development of
implementation guidelines. Obviously such guidelines would make
an important contribution to any VR cataloguing service. Work on
the service is viable in advance of any such guidelines being
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Hello Tuesday and your Hollywoodness how are you today?
- Starting off this week's cuteness we have the oh so adorable Ava Jackman. Seriously I hope my future kids are just as silly and cute as she is because I freaking love this picture of her.
- Also super cute is Nahla Aubrey. Seriously with parents as good looking as hers it's no wonder she's so darn precious.
- Also in bebe news, Judy Reyes aka Carla from Scrubs just had her first baby, Leila Rey, and Amy Adams (Giselle!) is pregnant with her first baby, seriously she will be such a cute mom I cannot wait.
- Also going on in Hollywood…Carrie Underwood channels her inner Dolly Parton…Katherine Heigl's foundation saved 25 chihuahuas….Victoria Beckham and her kids like pirates too! Who'd a thought?…Rihanna reveals the new "slut dress"…..and although everyone was raving about Brad and Angelina at the Invictus premiere, I personally think Matt and Luciana are divine.
- In Twilight news…
There are talks of making Breaking Dawn into two movies and to have Chris Weitz direct. Say what?
Also in Twilight news, Taylor Lautner is still seventeen and still looking good (man I sound like a pedophile) but really, super cute.
- And in movie news…
One of my faves, Jame Van Der Beek is in a new Holiday movie on the Hallmark Channel. If only Dawson was directing it then it would be a guaranteed hit!
Celebrating it's twentieth anniversary, Empire Magazine did a pretty cool photo shoot reenacting some famous movie characters and it's pretty great.
- And in TV news….
The Hollywood Reporter came out with a list of the Top 10 most watched episodes from shows of the past decade and I can say that I saw 8 of them when they originally aired, haha. Why yes I have always been a TV addict and I love it.
Glee. Love this show. Love the song they sang while dancing on mattresses. Love that Shue finally knows about his wife's fake pregnancy because it was just getting annoying and ridiculous. LOVE that Idina Menzel wants to guest star and possibly be Rachel's birth mom, LOOOOVE.
Brothers and Sisters. Oh man I felt so bad for Justin he was just so scared and nervous to get married and have a baby, but at least he still wanted to get married in the end and they almost did until Kitty collapsed, oh right she COLLAPSED! Ah! On top of it I have a feeling Nora's new boyfriend ran off with the huge check she just wrote for his foundation, seriously how much money does that woman have?! On top of it all Tommy was back and Elizabeth is precious and I'm glad Julia let her go to the wedding and yeah, wonderousness.
Scrubs. Did you watch the new season? Did you know that one of the guys on it is James Franco's younger brother? I did not. Crazy pants. And the show was actually pretty funny, hopefully it stays that way.
The Jersey Shore. Have you watched this gem?!?! It's ridiculous. However Dlisted and Julie sum it up best. If you're into trash, this is the show to watch.
Desperate Housewives. As always check out my review over at BSC Review.
- Lastly in WTF news…Apparently Family Ties is just making a comeback in the news. First Meredith Baxter comes out as a lesbian and is writing a book about it, now the baby of the show Brian Bonsall has been arrested for hitting his best friend with a barstool. Yeah and in his mugshot he definitely looks like someone who would throw barstools, haha.
Anything I missed? Tiger related – I don't really care about it so I'm not posting it, anything else and we're money.
happy tuesday!


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Oreo cookies have been eaten and washed down throughout periods of momentous historical importance. On the celebration of the Oreo's 100th birthday there were many such highlights to contemplate. The Oreo, points out the Christian Science Monitor, is "older than the sinking of the Titanic (by a month), women's voting rights, and the Russian Revolution."
Advertising Design alumna Dana Ganci, '10, who is Junior Art Director at Draftcb, worked on an ad campaign that captures cultural moments the Oreo survived — from Prohibition and the Moon walk to Pac Man and "Jaws." Her team was asked to "brainstorm events and create visual executions that incorporated Oreos and milk into those events," said Ganci.
Milk is still the favored beverage to accompany Oreos. Perhaps we can thank Prohibition.
"We came up with hundreds of ideas and covered the office with our sketches," says Ganci. "Working with creative directors from Draftfcb Paris, our chief creative officer and group creative director, along with other creative directors on the Oreo brand, [we] narrowed down which events they wanted to highlight."
Christian Science Monitor reports that 490 billion Oreos have been sold in the cookie's hundred year history. One on top of another, the Oreo stack would be two million miles high — ten times further than the Moon.
"I got to help with laying the images out, with the copy and logo to create the full ads. I worked with two other art directors and a designer at this phase. We ended up doing 17 ads total."
"In the end I was responsible for laying them out and adapting them for various publications (three of the ads broke in People's Oscar issue and another ran in Food and Family), tablets (digital versions for the iPad), and a digital billboard in Times Square.
Pac-Man was a popular arcade game when Ronald Reagan was president. Oreos are the right shape for a Pac-Man.
A pop-up party was held in Union Square to celebrate the 100th birthday. "I worked with a really great team to execute everything. It was a ton of work, but such an awesome, rewarding experience," says Ganci.
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text: Born and raised in Upper Egypt, Maximos has been living in Australia for 10 years and is considered a community leader among Egyptian migrants who have settled in Australia in recent years. This segment of Australia's Coptic Community has not been appropriately represented, socially and politically. Maximum will focus on all ethnic media overseas and locally.


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Boca Raton Bridge Hotel Reborn As Hilton
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The Boca Raton Bridge Hotel will soon come back to life as a Hilton property. To be known as the Waterstone Resort and Marina — A DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, the resort has been completely gutted and renovated. It's slated to reopen at 999 East Camino Real towards the end […]Continue Reading