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King Tong Street YAO by eWKnWatch
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are you the background illustrator of psycho pass or something? this is really cool!
Sweet man this is epic
We found this on a website that offered this image for free even commercial use. I knew that couldn't be true so I did a reverse image search and found you. Reason being as we would like to use your image for a youtube music channel featuring dubstep and electro music. We do not intend to alt the image besides visual glows to the music that is playing with the billboard lights and windows. I need to hear it from you before I can let anything happen with it.
Hmm, om prints fanns tilldenhär skulle jag faktiskt kunna tänka mig att skaffa en sån Gillar denhär sjukt mkt. Grymt bra! ^^
i like it! have you ever been in hong kong?
Excellente, love to get a massive print. Maybe for Xmas. Blade Runner/Somewhere in Time?
really, really like)
Damn. Looks so muggy. I wanna know what's happening in that room with the light on.
awwwesome! reminds me of Wet
I do. Very much like it.
You have a very impressive coloring method. The lights reflection on the ground is very good. Well done!
night and silence
i like empty streets
Gorgeous urban grunge
awesome. love the sky^^
How could you ignore such an awesome Blade Runner-ish piece of artwork?
Awesome, AWESOME my friend!
Awesome, AWESOME my friend!
Really moody and atmospheric. I love this
looking awesome man, could you possibly do a tut for this piece as well ? i'd really appreciate it!
The whole composition is great. Love the lighting, colors, and reflections, and the way it pulls my eyes all the way along the perspective to the buildings in the distance where it looks like there's an opening in the clouds.
Damn that's great stuff!
Damn that's great stuff!
greate O_O
Looks brilliant!!! Love the lightning the reflectiveness of the street.
i swear you uploaded this before >.< either way ! its still epic
Love it!
I wish I could draw like you. Gives me a lot of motivation to go on though.
this is just great! definitely in my top ten all time favorites! amazing job! wow.
i like
I have no words... amazing!
The lighting is simply phenomenal, and with the color palette, creates an amazing atmosphere. The harsh perspective really adds to the grittiness of the piece. All in all, gorgeous work!
I can't stop liking it!
Oh I do like it
Fantastic work!
Looking great. Loving the signs against the bright sky at the top. Nice contrast.
Top quality. Really nice lighting and perspective.
I love it, this is a great scene and perfect lighting.
your stuff is always so badass!
Exactly my style
I wonder why future chinatown is so popular among the environment concepts.
yup yup pretty awsome raah need to get better at landscape really
Really terrific work.


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Major Changes Are Coming To A Target Near You As They Focus On Groceries!This is going to be amazing!
New Valentine's Day Add Has People All Kinds Of Flustered!
Walmart To Deliver Your Groceries With DronesBack To The Future got a lot of things wrong about 2015, but one thing they got very right was drones. In the movie drones can be seen flying around snapping photos for the news, and walking dogs. Though we didn't see it happen on screen I'm sure many of them were delivering people's groceries too. Walmart plans to make that a reality.
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Naturally, everyone wants the best smart TV experience they can get, and we're here to help. But before we get to the good stuff, we're going to come clean about something: There's really no such thing as a "best smart TV." Virtually every new TV you'll come across these days is a smart TV, so we think what you really need to know is how smart TV platforms differ and which might be best for you.
Smarts should never be the top priority when choosing a TV, but when the running is tight, it could be the tie breaker. With that in mind, we've taken factors like resolution, design, reliability, extras, and overall value into consideration as well. Here, then, is a list of our favorite smart TV platforms, with a few solid models plucked from each brand to help you narrow things down. We'll start with the best of the bunch.
LG Smart TVs
LG webOS platform
Once the operating system for HP's now-defunct Palm devices, webOS takes on new life as the operating system for LG's best smart TVs, and earns our top slot as the fastest, most intuitive, and, well, smartest system in TV land. Rather than force you to navigate multiple screens or sift through several menus, webOS organizes all of your pertinent apps, input options, and other popular destinations in a river of tiles at the bottom of the screen. Adding to webOS's ease of use is LG's Magic Motion remote, which lets users point and click their way around, not unlike a Wii controller.
Looking ahead, we're excited about the improvements the system will take on in LG's 2015 TVs with webOS 2.0, which we got to preview at CES in January. But even in its current form, the system smokes the competition when it comes to intuitiveness and straight-up ease of use.
Prices on this sweet slice of 4K action are dropping fast. Go for 65-inches or higher to make the most of 4K UHD.
Simply put, OLED produces the best picture quality available today, and this is the most affordable OLED out there.
At $700 for a 55-incher, this is one of LG's best values.
Samsung Smart TVs
Samsung Smart Hub platform
One of the most popular smart platforms around, Samsung's current system offers a 5-page carousel that's very approachable for new users, and is frequently updated. For instance, a relatively new feature places recently-accessed apps at the bottom of the screen for quicker access. But what the system really has going for it is its massive app selection, boasting the most content available of all the major brands. It's also one of the snappier interfaces around, and the platform's basic makeup is shared with other Samsung products, like the BDP-H6500.
The thing is, that's all about to change this spring. Samsung's system is getting a complete overhaul, soon to be powered by Tizen software. At first glance, Samsung's coming interface looks a lot like LG's platform, offering the same band of tiles across the bottom, with easy access to apps, and motion scrolling. Interestingly, both systems were raised from essentially scrapped smartphone platforms, giving some perspective on the state of smart TV software in general.
There was some concern that Samsung's transition could diminish its populous app library, but Samsung has done a lot to make sure app developers can make a quick transition. The new system also opens up the potential for Samsung TVs to work even more efficiently with smartphones, though currently there's only one Tizen phone on the market, the Z1 which launched in India.
Samsung UNHU8550 4K UHD TV
Named (by us) as "one of the best-looking (flat) TVs" of 2014, this beauty will only drop in price, and offers a great 4K picture.
Samsung UNH7150 1080p HD TV
This prime choice from Samsung's middle tier offers just about everything you want in an HDTV.
Samsung H5500 1080p HD TV
What this TV lacks in talent, it makes up for in sheer value. Those looking for excellent smarts, a solid picture, and a fantastic price will want to grab this display while it lasts.
Sony Smart TVs
Sony Bravia Smart TV platform
Sony's smart platform isn't the smoothest or snappiest, but there are definitely some advantages to being born into a massive tech conglomerate that's also one of the largest content providers in the industry. Along with a re-arrangeable collection of virtually all of the major streaming apps, those jumping into Sony's Bravia smart platform will gain access to Sony's Entertainment Network (SEN), which offers a ton of music and movies unique to the Sony family, and an excellent online gaming platform that can be used with a PS4 or PS3 controller. However, the lack of HBO GO is disappointing, to say the least.
Like the rest of the cast, Sony's platform is about to change with the class of 2015. Sony's transition is less of a move between schools of thought, and more of a full-on philosophical reawakening to the Cult of Google with the new Android TV, a phoenix of sorts that rises from the ashes of the failed Google TV interface. An early look at the new system shows a similar approach to Microsoft's Xbox One interface, offering large tiles that move fluidly across the screen, a fully fleshed-out gaming platform, and latency-free mirroring from Android smartphones. We'll know more in a few months, but for now, Android TV looks very promising.
Sony XBR-X900B 4K UHD TV
With a dazzling picture that's second to none in the LED TV realm, Sony's X900B is a no brainer for those with a budget to burn.
Sony KDL-W800B 1080p HD TV
With a sweet balance of options and value, and a full helping of that gorgeous Sony glow, this TV has the smarts you need at the price you want.
Sony KDL-W600B 1080p HD TV
One of the cheapest ways to get into the Sony family, the W600B has all the smarts of the rest of the Sony line, a solid picture, and a price that's hard to beat.
Vizio Smart TVs
Vizio Internet Apps Plus platform
Ok, Vizio's smart platform is a little clunky, garnering the unenviable position of taking the lowest slot in our list. However, it beats out platforms from the likes of Panasonic, Toshiba, and others, and it also sits aboard a stable of very affordable TVs. What the system has going for it is its fairly intuitive design, and nearly all the content you'll need, including many of the new 4K-compatible apps. But, like Sony's current platform, it doesn't have HBO Go. Chromecast, anyone?
Vizio M-Series M490i-B2 1080p HD TV
With a heap of features, a full array of direct LED backlights controlled by a 32-zone dimming system, and a highly competitive price, the M-Series is Vizio's 1080p crown jewel.
Vizio E-Series E480i-B2
Vizio's E-series doesn't sport as many local dimming zones, but it still comes with a full array of backlights, and you can't beat the value.
Honorable mention
Roku TV platform
While we can't vouch for the Chinese-born TVs that currently incorporate the service, Roku's interface is among the best in the streaming landscape, offering intuitive search across streaming services, and carrying the most apps out of any streaming platform in existence.


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NatWest and European Telecom have set up a new company, a 50/50 joint venture called Lifestyle Communications, to develop and market mobile phone banking services in the UK.
Lifestyle's first product, a pre-paid mobile telephony service which allows NatWest customers to check balance details, is due out later this summer.
The company intends to research and develop integrated mobile phone and banking services. It predicts customers will eventually be able to use their mobile phone to pay directly for goods and services.
Customers should also be able to settle bills, move money between accounts and could even be able to download electronic cash.
Warren Hardy, chairman and chief executive of European Telecom, said: "The technology NatWest has been working will enable people to buy and pay for services via their Sim card [the card that slots into mobile phones and allows access to mobile phone networks]".
Steve Adams, head of IT at NatWest Card Services and chairman of Lifestyle, said: "I firmly believe that the technology required for telephony, card payment and card-based services is a key area for future development".
Lifestyle's customers will initially be able to use their pre-paid mobile phone only to check their NatWest balances and details of their last transaction. However, Mr Hardy claims the company already has the technology to allow customers to "top-up" their pre-paid air time using a traditional credit or debit card. Rather than buying pre-paid "vouchers" for airtime, customers will be able to top up credit by punching card details into the mobile phone.
The concept of mobile phone banking is not new. Barclaycard has an alliance with Cellnet and last year launched a mobile phone which allows Barclaycard customers to check their account details. Barclays has also signalled its intention to continue developing so-called "value-added" mobile phone services.
Lifestyle says its new product, unlike that of Barclaycard, does not tie customers to one particular handset or one particular network. Mr Hardy also said Lifestyle was set on taking the mobile phone banking concept "several stages further". He claimed the company was as little as 12 months away from developing a combined credit and Sim card - a card that slots into the mobile phone, allows access to the network and also serves as a debit or a credit card. Once this happens, the possibilities are endless, says Lifestyle.
Customers will be able to pay for their mobile phone airtime "as they go". The cost of the airtime will, via the technology contained in the Sim card, be automatically deducted from the customer's account.
But, according to Lifestyle, the possibilities do not end there. Once the combined Sim/credit or debit card is in place, customers will be able to pay for goods and services directly without the need for reading out card details over the telephone.
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Early Saturday morning, Krista was feeling a sharp shooting pain in her abdomen. She didn't think much of it, and we went to bed.
At 3:00 she went to use the bathroom and was feeling woozy. She called for me, and I sat her down on the bathtub edge since we couldn't make it to the bed. She passed out sitting there. I thought that it just might have been low blood sugar, so she ate a cookie and drank a juice box, and she went and laid down on the couch. She called her mom, and she told us to call the doctor. We did, but never got a call back. We got a little sleep.
She needed to use the bathroom again around 5:00am, so she woke me up and I helped her to her feet after about 4 steps, she passed out. She came to, and we tried again to make it to the toilet. 3 more steps and she passed out again. We called her mom for a second time and she came over. Once she got there, we called 911 and an ambulance picked her up and drove her to St. John's hospital.
Once at the hospital, they started running every test to find out what the problem was. She had a urinary test, blood test, CATscan, and X-Rays. At first they thought that she might be pregnant, but after further diagnosis, they narrowed it down to a Cyst that ruptured and the underlying blood vessel was internally bleeding.
Doctor Aikman was on-call and he came and discussed what was going on and said that we were going to have to have surgery. After talking with Dr. Aikman, we felt REALLY comfortable with him. He knew Dr. Robbins from the Health and Wellness Clinic, and they are close friends.
Around noon they took her to the 6th floor and brought her into surgery. The actual surgery didn't take very long, it was about 1hour to 1 hour and 1/2 long. Dr. Aikman came out to talk to us, and he told us that there was 750 mL of blood that they drained from the abdominal wall and they smoothed over the ovary and that everything went well with the surgery. He also said that there will be no furture complications as far as making babies in the future. We went to her room and waited for her.
Her mom and I got to go into the back surgery room once they were done, and talk to her for about 15 minutes. She looked very pale, but seemed to know what was going on and she could remember a lot of what the doctor had told her. It was good to see her awake and talking.
I went to the house to shower and feed the cat and grab some stuff to make her feel at home. I also stopped at the store and got some flowers and a card.
When I got back, she was in the room and her mom had gotten her some flowers and a stuff Frog. She was working on her first pint of blood. She had to have 4 pints put back into her system. She hasn't been able to eat or drink and they had water flowing through her system. She was catheterized so her bathroom was with her all through the day and night. She finished getting all of her 4 pints of blood late in the night.
We watched lots of television and I got a lot of video uploaded, and we went to bed. While I was sleeping, the nurses made sure to close the curtain when they had to come in and take her vitals and decatheterized her. Thank you Nurses!
When I woke up, Krista told me that the decatheterizing was not that painful at all. That was good. They had also took her off of the morphine, and she was looking very flush and beautiful.
Her mom, dad and sister came in this morning. They brought me some breakfast foods, and they stayed with her while I went home to shower, shave and clean up the house a little before they let Krista go. After I finished doing my favorite thing, THE DISHES, a storm came through Tulsa. It had 60-70 MPH winds and our electricity went out. At the hospital, Krista told me that branches were hitting the window to her room, which is on the 6th floor!
I took a nap after picking up around the house, and reading some of my book. I gathered a few items and went back to the hospital. When I got back, Corine (her other sister) was there with her mom, and they were watching some TV. She also had a tray of food at her bedside. They gave her some apple juice and yogurt.
After a while the doctor came back in (around 3:00pm) just to check up on her. He said that she looked great. She could have some real food, and they took the IVs out of her arm. She has been able to get up and go to the bathroom. She will also be able to take a bath! We should be out of the hospital tomorrow!
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History of Islamabad Pakistan in Urdu
Islamabad is a capital of republic of Pakistan. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. History of Islamabad in Urdu is given explained here. "Shakar Paian", "Daman-e-Koh" and "Chatar Bagh" are some of its worth seeing places. It has remained a historic place throughout the history of sub-continent.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Randy Johnson threw a pitch to Fred Lewis that the radar gun couldn't get a read on.
It was too slow.
The suddenly slow tossing strikeout king tossed seven shutout innings to win his fourth straight start and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed their first sweep in San Francisco in seven years, beating the Giants 7-2 on Sunday.
The 44-year-old, who recorded career win No. 292, extended his scoreless inning streak to 15, his longest since 19 straight in September 2002.
"Over the years you change a little bit and this year it's more so than any," Diamondbacks' manager Bob Melvin said. "He's going to different resources but he's still a power pitcher."
The second-most prolific strikeout pitcher even threw a pitch so slow to Lewis in the first inning -- for a strike -- that the radar gun was unable to register its speed.
"I think it was a purpose pitch. It kind of shocked me," Lewis said. "And he threw it for a strike. There was no way I could hit that pitch."
Johnson (8-7) earned his first win in San Francisco since July 16, 2002. He allowed nine hits, struck out two and did not walk a batter.
"I've been around long enough to know you're going to pitch poorly at times," Johnson said. "It was frustrating to go through what I did in June. I was searching and wondering even as I knew it was still there."
Johnson returned to his alma mater at Southern California for a few days to watch film and get some throwing in.
"For me it's all about mechanics," he said. "I feel a lot more comfortable now and I'm making pitches when I need to make them."
Conor Jackson had three hits, including a home run for the NL West-leading Diamondbacks, who have won five of six to move two games over .500 for the first time since June 24. Mark Reynolds added a two-run homer and Stephen Drew drove in a pair of runs.
"I'm feeling good. There's nothing more I can say," Jackson said. "That's all I've got for you. I'm getting my pitch to hit and I'm taking advantage of it."
Lewis had four hits for the Giants, becoming the first left-handed hitter to get that many hits off Johnson in a game. Ivan Ochoa and Randy Winn each had two hits for the Giants, who have lost 12 of their last 16 games.
Barry Zito (5-13) became the first 13-game loser in the majors, giving up six runs and six hits in five innings. He walked five and struck out four in his fifth straight loss to the Diamondbacks.
Zito and Johnson, the 2002 Cy Young Award winners, were impressive through three innings. Arizona scored four times in the fourth, taking advantage of Zito's wildness.
Zito walked four in the inning, including Chris Snyder with the bases loaded. Tony Clark drove in a run with a groundout and Drew added a two-run single.
"I started to nit pick instead of being more aggressive," Zito said. "It's frustrating that I had a good approach the last couple of games and then I fell back into what I was doing."
Johnson allowed hits in all but the fourth but pitched around trouble. Only two runners reached third during Johnson's tenure.
Jackson, a former Cal-Berkeley star, is hitting .478 (11-for-23) in San Francisco this year with four home runs, nine RBI and 10 runs scored.
"I've never seen anyone as hot as him," Johnson said.
Winn scored San Francisco's first run when Aaron Rowand grounded into a double play in the eighth. John Bowker added an RBI single in the ninth.
Drew extended his hitting streak to 12 games. ... Zito received run support of one or less for the 11th time in his 21 starts. ... Rich Aurilia played in his 1,182nd game as a Giant, tying J.T. Snow for sixth on San Francisco's all-time list. ... Jackson's five home runs in San Francisco are his most in a road ballpark. ... The Diamondbacks last swept the Giants in San Francisco in a three-game set May 28-30, 2001. ... Lewis had four hits and stole two bases in a game for the second time in his career.


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Flash/Gif Custom Banners Needed ASAP Today
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I need to have some flash/gif/animated banners created today, ASAP!
Here are the details of what I am looking for. To be selected for this project you must create a mockup showing that you can do this work successfully. Many claim they can, but really they can't. So a mockup IS required!
1. 2 different words/text will appear first on the banner. A small slogan will next appear under each word/text. The first text will start shaking and then explode into little pieces. The second text will turn to red dripping blood.
2. A Map of the U.S. will appear. The outline of the map will be higlighted. Some text will appear saying 'Search The Whole Country'.
3. Next just one state, maybe california, will be highlighted. Text will appear saying 'Or Just Your Entire State'
4. Search fields will appear and and arrow will go and click on one of them, opening a drop down box. Text will appear saying 'Find Exactly What You Are Looking For'
5. Lastly, my website logo will appear very large.
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What does it take to plan an event with 50,000 attendees and dozens of restaurants, vendors and entertainers?
For the four-person team behind Taste of Arlington, planning this year's event started the day after last year's event.
"It's a year-long project," said Tina Leone, CEO of the Ballston Business Improvement District, which organizes the annual event. "It starts off like a tsunami, very calm, then it explodes. We're a four person team and we have many other projects going on. The stress level definitely rises, but we always pull it off, every year."
"You immediately start to renew the sponsors," Catherine Roper, the BID's Chief Marketing Officer, said of the early planning. "When planning something of this magnitude you have to work smart. So we form a lot of strategic alliances, partnerships with folks."
Those partnerships — with organizations from TV and radio stations to local professional sports teams to this very website — have helped the event to grow from around 10,000 attendees when the BID took over its planning to the nearly 50,000 attendees expected this year.
"It's one thing to plan something and execute it well but you need the people to come," said Roper.
This year the BID is also partnering with the Arlington Food Assistance Center. AFAC is helping the BID recruit some 450 volunteers for the event. In return the BID has committed to donating at least $25,000 in proceeds from Taste of Arlington to AFAC.
In years past, the setup on Wilson Blvd took place from midnight to 6 a.m. on the morning of the event. With the growth of the event — it now takes place up over several blocks — the BID decided to start the setup on Wilson Blvd the day before.
"This year we get to set up on Saturday and get the tents up in the daylight," said Roper. "When you're dealing with something outside, you have to bring everything to the streets [and] you have to make sure you have energy to make everyone happy."
The expanded layout means that long food lines and jam-packed streets are mostly a thing of the past.
"We expanded the footprint and fortunately [attendees] don't all come at one time, it's over seven hours," said Leone. "It never feels overcrowded, we've made improvements to the layout of restaurants. You can now buy tickets online so we don't have to worry about" long ticket lines anymore.
The day of the event, hundred of volunteers help to make the event happen while the core team makes sure everything runs smoothly.
"We train our volunteers very well, they know what they're going to be doing that day, they know the map," said Roper. "We couldn't do this without our volunteers. It's crazy, there's a lot of energy, but it's all for a good cause."
Taste of Arlington is taking place this Sunday, May 15 from noon to 7 p.m. This year it will feature a 400-foot "street pub" plus an expanded, family-friendly KidZone and a lineup of eight bands on two stages. Tickets are still available online.
Don't miss ARLnow.com's "tasting table" with our friends Sarah Fraser and Samy K, amid the main restaurant row at Taste. See the four dishes we selected for the tasting table here, here, here and here.
Taste of Arlington will feature a mammoth "street pub" this year.
The 400-foot long portable bar travels the country, offering draft beer from Oregon-based Deschutes Brewery at various large events. Proceeds from the beer sales will be donated to charity, said a rep for the Ballston BID, which organizes the annual event.
"This partnership will not only take the beer garden to a whole new level, but will greatly increase Taste's fundraising clout," said Mollie Wagoner." As a signature event of the Ballston BID's new charitable arm, BallstonGives, they hope to outdo all past fundraising. The BID has already guaranteed a minimum $25,000 donation to Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) with a goal of raising much more."
The event, held along Wilson Blvd in Ballston, features food from more than 50 restaurants and attracts some 40,000 people each year. The beer and wine sales area is consistently one of the most crowded sections of the festival.
This year's Taste of Arlington is scheduled for May 15 from noon to 6 p.m.
Ballston residents are about to get the chance to be more courageous — or at least more honest.
The Courage Wall, an interactive community art piece previously housed in Alexandria, is moving to Ballston and will be unveiled at 4 p.m. on Thursday (July 2) at the Ballston farmers market.
The wall is an 8 by 12 foot chalkboard with the words 'I wish I had the courage to…' stamped across the top. Below are spaces for passersby fill in what they wish they had the courage to face up to, using the chalk that will be made available.
Alexandria native Nancy Belmont first erected the Courage Wall in May, in the Del Ray community, to "create a conversation about fear and allow those passing by to reflect on what is holding them back from achieving their dreams." It quickly went viral and was featured on Good Morning America and the Today Show.
While in Ballston, the wall will be located in Welburn Square, across from the Ballston Metro station. The current plan is for the wall to stay in the square until July 31.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust and the Ballston Business Improvement District worked together to bring the wall to Arlington. The BID says it hopes the wall will provide "an opportunity for reflection as the community begins celebrating the Fourth of July."
The wall will be erased when it is full of entries, but prior to that a photo of the filled-in wall will be taken and posted to Facebook and Instagram.
Photo via nancybelmont.me
The annual street festival in Ballston, celebrating the restaurants of Arlington, is back on Sunday from noon to 6:00 p.m.
This year, Taste of Arlington will feature 49 restaurants and a beer and wine garden that's bigger than ever. Booklets of tickets for tasting and drinking are on sale now.
Stop by the Ballston farmer's market tomorrow evening, from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 901 N. Taylor Street, for a $25 packet of 10 tickets. If you purchase on the Ballston Connect mobile, app, a packet costs $30. Packets purchase online are $35 and packets purchased at the festival will be $40. Tickets to the VIP pavilion, with unlimited beer, wine and hors d'oeuvres provided by SER, cost $100 online, and $110 at the festival.
The festival will close down the streets of Ballston all day: Wilson Blvd from N. Glebe Road to Quincy Street and Stuart and Randolph streets from Wilson to 9th Street N.
In addition to the restaurant booths, beer and wine garden and VIP pavilion, there will be three stages for live music, a Kids Zone with games and face painting and the return of the World Pup Tournament, which costs $10 to enter one's dog to participate.
The restaurants in attendance will compete for a "Best of the Best" food title in the following categories: Best Appetizer, Best Fast Casual Entrée, Best Fine Dining Entrée and Best Dessert. The judging will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the VIP pavilion and the winners will be announced at 4:00 p.m. on the main stage.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Arlington Food Assistance Center. The restaurants participating and competing are as follows:
- Westover Beer Garden
- Sehkraft Beer Garden
- Yona
- Thunder Beast
- Tasty 6
- Naan Stop DC
- Pepita Cantina
- Water & Wall
- Rito Loco
- Postmodern Foods
- Pinzimini
- Curley's BBQ
- Sweet Fix DC
- Bracket Room
- Orient Bowl
- Don Tito
- Sushi Rock
- Urban Bumpkin BBQ
- Ben's Chili Bowl
- American Tap Room
- Dolce Sweets
- Pizza Vinoteca
- Rumalutions
- Koolzone Ice and Treats
- Mac's Donuts
- Northside Social
- Capriotti's
- Lyon Hall
- Mussel Bar & Grille
- Liberty Tavern
- Gua-Rapo
- Commonwealth Joe
- Epic Smokehouse
- RedRocks Pizzeria
- The Melting Pot
- Circa
- Willow
- Which Wich
- The Front Page
- P.F. Chang's
- Nando's Peri-Peri
- La Tasca
- Il Forno
- World of Beer
- Fuego Cocina y Tequileria
- Kapnos Taverna
- Big Buns
- A-Town Bar and Grill
- Lebanese Taverna
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(Updated at 6:20 p.m.) The annual Taste of Arlington food festival in Ballston will be back for 2015 on Sunday, May 17.
Last year, the festival drew a record 40,000 attendees, according to its organizer, the Ballston Business Improvement District. This year, the BID hopes to surpass that mark, with new restaurants Pizza Vinoteca and Kapnos Taverna joining Taste of Arlington regulars P.F. Chang's, Pete's Apizza and Fuego Cocina y Tequileria.
There will also once again be a beer garden with brews from 24 breweries, plus wine from Barefoot.
All food and drinks can be tasted with the purchase of a ticket booklet, which costs $30 until May 1, when the price goes up to $35. Each booklet contains 10 tickets. Tickets to the VIP Pavilion, which includes unlimited beer, wine, champagne and appetizers, cost $75, and go up to $100 on May 1.
With three stages, there will also be music pumping throughout, including from Arlington bar staples Jumpin' Jupiter, White Ford Bronco and Burnt Sienna.
There will again be a KidZone and a Bark Park and World Pup Tournament, so families with pets and children can all have something to participate in. There will also be a Girls on the Run 5K race in the morning, before the main event, which runs from noon to 6:00 p.m.
The actual event is free for all to roam around Wilson Blvd and surrounding streets that will be closed to traffic for the afternoon.
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(Updated at 12:10 p.m.) The wait to try the winner of last year's Ballston Restaurant Challenge is over: SER, the traditional Spanish restaurant, is open for business.
Serving dishes from every region of Spain, chef and co-owner Josu Zubikarai doesn't shy away from the idea that only "foodies" might try certain items from his menu, like the Txipirones — squid in its ink, tentacles and all.
"Spain is less than half the size of Texas, but the variety of food is incredible," Zubikarai said from his resturant at 1110 N. Glebe Road yesterday. He'll cook up baby eels, octopus and barnacles. "I love barnacles and the baby eels are very good, but I know not everyone will order them."
While some of the dishes suit the more adventurous, the chef who founded D.C.'s La Taberna del Alabardero 26 years ago is also happy to offer up Spanish crowd pleasers like six different kinds of paella, including seafood, duck and rabbit. He's especially proud of his bacalao al pilpil, a traditional Spanish cod dish made in a salt and olive oil emulsion.
SER — which is both the Spanish word for "to be," and an acronym for "Simple. Easy. Real." — is in the midst of a soft opening the next two days, offering 20 percent off all food. Thursday will be the restaurant's grand opening. SER will only open for dinner, at 5:00 p.m., until Monday, March 16, when it will start serving lunch at 11:00 a.m.
Happy hour is every day from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the bar, which also features an extensive list of cocktails, three different sangria options and eight different sherries.
Customers will not only be able to enjoy Zubikarai's traditional seafood options, but they can also order plates of Spanish charcuterie and a "cochinillo," which is a roasted suckling pig and serves up to three people for $58. It's safe to say there are not many restaurants in Arlington offering such dishes.
The bold menu is partly a representation of the special circumstance SER — which is co-owned by Javier Candon, whose wife, Christiana, is "the face" of the business — finds itself in. As the winner of the Restaurant Challenge, after the other finalist, D.C. chef Victor Albisu, dropped out, the restaurant was given a year of free rent and an interest-free, $250,000 loan. SER can afford to find a customer base without having to compromise with a more broadly appealing menu.
That's music to Zubikarai's ears, because he reminisces about the days back in Spain when restaurant critics wouldn't write about an establishment until it had been open at least three years.
"In Spain, people love bullfighting and they say a restaurant is like a bull: it has to be 4 or 5 years old before it's ready to fight," he said. "With the year of free rent, we can hire more people, spend that money on training and have much more opportunity to find customers."
(Updated at 3:35 p.m.) The last Ballston "mega market" of the year will be Oktoberfest-themed, with a beer and wine garden, live music and a new public art installation.
The market will run from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Welburn Square on N. Stuart Street, across from the Ballston Metro station. All visitors 21-and-over can enjoy a taste of beer and wine, with additional pours for $5. Anyone who purchases more than $10 of merchandise from some of the market's vendors can have a second free tasting.
The beer will be provided by Northern Virginia breweries Heritage and Old Ox, as well as cider maker Angry Orchard.
While the beer and wine garden is happening, local band Jumpin' Jupiter will perform their brand of, as they put it on their Facebook page, "Crash, boom, bangy kerplopabilly krap."
The beer and wine will be accompanied by Ballston's usual array of farmers selling vegetables, fruits, herbs and other goods, as well market vendors selling their goods. Tomorrow afternoon, the Ballston Business Improvement District will also unveil a new public art installation, called "Clouds."
The Clouds are 50 light-and-sound interactive lanters placed all over the square. The lanterns take in and emit light and sound, and "will be programmed and then connected to form a cloud-like, networked structure," according to a Ballston BID spokeswoman. The cloudlets were designed by artists Aki Ishida and Ivica Bukvic from the Virginia Tech Research Center in Ballston. Members of the public will participate in a workshop all day tomorrow to help build the clouds, which be displayed at 5:00 p.m.
While tomorrow is the last "mega market" in Ballston, the weekly farmers markets will continue to be held on Thursday evenings until the end of the month.
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Christiana Campos, the new restaurateur who won the Ballston Business Improvement District's Restaurant Challenge this year, plans to open her new restaurant this winter.
Originally branded as "Casita," Campos' project at 1110 N. Glebe Road, next to The Melting Pot, will now be called "SER," an acronym for "Simple, Easy, Real," and a play on words with the Spanish verb "to be."
As part of the Restaurant Challenge prize package, SER received a year of free rent from the building's owner, Brookfield Properties, and a $245,000 interest-free loan. Campos told ARLnow.com that the restaurant needs "a bit more," than the loan, so she has launched a Kickstarter campaign for another $15,000.
"The money we raise here [will] be used for the design and renovation of the place," the Kickstarter says, "for an open kitchen where you can watch the cooking magic happen before your very own eyes, patio furniture… tables, chairs, lighting, a new dishwasher… an indoor herb garden, frames for our walls (with photos of friends, family and neighbors), linens, plates, glassware."
As of this morning (Wednesday), SER has raised $2,925 of its goal. The fundraising round will close on Oct. 20. Among the perks that donors can receive:
- For pledging $2,500, a donor will receive a five-course tasting dinner party for eight people and an invitation to SER's soft opening.
- For $800, the donor and a guest will get to shadow SER's chef for a day, plus a five-course tasting meal for two and an invitation to SER's soft opening.
- For $500, the donor and a guest will be given a blind tasting menu; they will be given dishes by SER's chef while blindfold, and receive an invitation to SER's soft opening
The restaurant will specialize in "authentic, comfort Spanish food that goes beyond tapas," Campos said in her email, adding that it is planned to be a casual, neighborhood spot, but the food will be "a gastronomical journey and cultural adventure throughout every region of Spain."
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Among farmers' market attendees, corporate commuters, and bar-goers in Ballston last Thursday night (Aug. 7), something else stood out. Two new interactive art displays debuted on Ballston's sidewalks in the forms of beach chairs and Craigslist poetry.
The brightly painted chairs on the corners of Fairfax Drive and N. Taylor Street, Glebe Road and Wilson Blvd, and in Welburn Square encouraged passersby to sit back and consider rising sea levels. Outside of A-Town Bar and Grill, the jumble of words pulled from Craigslist and projected onto a screen piqued the interests of pedestrians.
These two art installations were part of a series of "Public Displays of Innovation" sponsored by the Ballston Business Improvement District. "Beachfront Potential" and "Missed Connections" were the first of eight projects in the series intended to "bring the character and personality of Ballston to its streets," according to Ballston BID CEO Tina Leone.
"We wanted to see how to incorporate technology and different forms of media for people to experience on the streets," Leone said.
With Beachfront Potential, artist Patrick McDonough wanted to pose Ballston residents with the a new, hypothetical shoreline, and suggested that climate change could bring the beach to Ballston. Those who sat down at each of the beach chairs' three locations were educated and engaged by mobile activities accessed by scanning unique barcodes with smartphones.
"With this project, it's really the juxtaposition of leisure and this mixing of serious and non-serious imagery and content that's really an effective way to deal with these things," McDonough said.
Scanning the barcode at the Fairfax Drive location outside Zoe's Kitchen and The Nature Conservancy brought up an informative video on climate change. McDonough created the 7-minute video using footage he took along Maryland's eastern shore and from interviews with Nature Conservancy scientists. A "Skippin' Stones" melting ice caps game and a list of suggested "beach reads" showed up from the Glebe Road and Wellburn Square locations' barcodes, respectively.
"If you sit in your house and think about global warming, then you might become so morose that you never leave your house," McDonough said.
McDonough teaches art at Corcoran College of Art + Design and American University. He said he got the idea for Beachfront Potential when he was looking at a map of rising sea levels.
"It was a happy correlation that this [predicted shoreline] went straight through the Ballston corridor," McDonough said.
Artist Peter Lee projected a slideshow of black and white imagery and word fragments pulled from Craigslist's Missed Connections section onto a small screen outside of A-Town.
"I worked in the area and it's IT heavy and government heavy," Lee said. "One of the most human things you can have is romance, and living in the D.C. area that's normally synonymous with power and stuff [made it] interesting to find a human element here."
Lee used a prepared slideshow Thursday because of a bad wi-fi connection outside the bar, but he said he can funnel bits of text from Craigslist as they're posted with the algorithm he and co-creator Blake Turner wrote.
"We definitely tailored the data and the aesthetic toward Ballston," Lee said. "We wrote the algorithm so it can chop up the data more, [because] previously we were just pulling subject lines from Craigslist. Now we're pulling the content, and it's like stream of consciousness poetry."
Some of the pre-prepared bits of text said, "was wearing sunglasses" and "interested noww hit me/regularly/up."
Lee and Turner are both George Mason University graduates and members of the Floating Lab Collective art group in D.C. Although their installation only showed Thursday, Friday (Aug. 8) and Saturday (Aug. 9), McDonough's installation will remain on Ballston's streets through September, Leone said.
Leone said the BID plans to debut its other six projects in the next three months. "Quantum Tours Americana" and "Site: WA + FC (Ballston)" will show in September, "Cloud," "Urban Oasis," and "Forest of Knowledge" in October, and "Axon Xylophone Bridge" in November, Leone said.
"We really try to look for things that are unique or haven't been seen before," Leone said. "It's been a long time in the works, but they're really amazing, extremely high quality projects that people can experience together."
(Updated at 12:25 p.m.) The future plans for the Ballston Common Mall include demolishing the Macy's Furniture Store and parts of the current mall to build a 29-story residential tower and an open-air town center along Wilson Blvd, officials announced Monday night.
The 393-unit apartment building, at the corner of Wilson and N. Randolph Street, is projected to be completed by 2017, Ballston Business Improvement District CEO Tina Leone revealed at the BID's annual meeting last night. Leone said the redevelopment — including a revamp of the retail mix at the mall — will be crucial for the branding of Ballston, which is often closely associated with the increasingly run-down mall.
"The mall hasn't quite been able to serve our public," Leone said, noting the mall's future is the main question she gets asked about the future of Ballston development. "The mall is going to 'de-mall' itself. The roof is coming off."
The mall is owned and operated by Forest City, which purchased the Macy's Furniture Store last September. Forest City spokesman Gary McManus told ARLnow.com at the time that the mall had planned retail space with more street access in Macy's place, and those plans now include the residential tower.
The building is expected to have four floors of underground parking and two floors of retail space below the studio, one- and two-bedroom rental apartments. The apartment building and attached parking will have a separate entrance from the restaurants and remaining mall.
Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the main Macy's store — which will fold in the furniture store on its ground floor — the Sport&Health Club and the Regal Cinemas will all remain in the closed-air section of the mall, which is being rebranded as "Ballston Center."
Along Wilson Blvd, parts of the mall — which originally opened as the Parkington Shopping Center in 1951 before it was rebuilt and reopened as Ballston Common Mall in 1986 — will be torn down and replaced with an open-air, town center-like plaza. Demolition is expected to begin by late 2015.
"[Forest City] thought about what was going to have the highest impact," Leone told ARLnow.com, saying the Ballston BID has been "on a very high level" helping to form plans for the mall's redevelopment. "To make it a town center, this is life-altering for the people who live and work here."
McManus said that the pedestrian bridge from the mall to the current National Science Foundation headquarters across the street is tentatively slated to be torn down — private conversations between Forest City and Arlington County Board members led the mall owner to remove it from the plans — but an agreement needs to be reached with the NSF building's property owner before that can happen.
McManus also said that the retail mix in the mall will change, to become more restaurant and entertainment-oriented. It will be aimed at serving the immediate area, not as a mall that brings in most of its shoppers from other areas, despite the fact that it will have "some destination retail, too."
"We don't want to compete with Tysons or Pentagon City," McManus said. "We've started this project before, but this time it's got all the momentum behind it."
In addition to the four-level, 580,000 square foot mall's redevelopment, Leone announced plans for changes to public spaces expected this fall, like public art projects, Ballston-branded signs lining the streets and the new Fairfax Drive landscaping ARLnow.com reported on earlier this month.
Among the proposed projects is a redesigned Metro plaza, which Leone said she hopes will include an "interactive light installation" under the Metro canopy. The light installation is being designed in Amsterdam — it will track pedestrians' movements underneath and project light based on that movement. The Metro plaza is also planned to include an small amphitheater and redesigned bus parking to remove some buses from N. Stuart Street. (more…)
(Updated at 11:55 a.m.) More than a dozen trees that lined the median of Fairfax Drive in Ballston were chopped down this weekend to make room for a new landscaping project.
Seventeen trees, some of which were around a foot in diameter, were removed by the Ballston Business Improvement District last weekend and this weekend. According to Ballston BID CEO Tina Leone, landscapers will be removing the stumps before they put in new trees and other plants.
Leone said 27 bald cypress trees will be planted in the median, accompanied by shrubbery and both annual and perennial flowers. Most of the work is projected to take between four and eight weeks, Leone said, but the perennials won't be planted until the fall.
"We have started the implementation of our really dramatic landscaping for Fairfax Drive," Leone said. "We see it becoming our grand boulevard for Ballston."
The 17 trees removed "were near the end of their lives," Leone said. "We had both our arborist and Arlington County's take a look at them before the decision was made to remove them."
The landscaping is the beginning of a re-envisioning of the way Ballston looks, and next year the improvements will begin in earnest to the "hardscape," Leone said. The planned changes will be revealed on June 23 at the Ballston BID's annual meeting, when attendees will be given a "3-D video tour" of the future of Ballston. Leone said the project should take about five years to complete.
"Ballston is going to look very different in the next five years," she said. "This is just the first step."
ARLnow.com received numerous tips and inquiries about the tree removal.
"A real shame," one tipster said about the tree removal, before hearing about the replanting plans. "[It will result in] less green in the cityscape, less shade, less CO2 consumed, less oxygen produced, more of an urban heat island effect."
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The Ballston Business Improvement District's Restaurant Challenge is over before its long-promoted "Top Chef"-style cookoff could begin.
Del Campo and Taco Bamba chef Victor Albisu has withdrawn his concept, a Mexican restaurant called Bombazo, leaving Christiana Campos and her Spanish restaurant, Casita, as the winner.
Campos will now get to open up shop in the former Red Parrot space at 1110 N. Glebe Road, next to The Melting Pot with a year of free rent, an 11-year lease and a $245,000, interest-free loan from the building's owner, Brookfield Properties.
Campos and Albisu were selected as the two finalists to compete in a final cookoff this Wednesday evening in the restaurant space that will now become Casita. They were selected from a pool of eight semi-finalists who competed in a judging panel during Taste of Arlington last month, and the two finalists' selection generated some controversy because of confusion over the selection process.
The restaurant concept that won the most votes from Taste of Arlington attendees, Kristen Robinson's Laurel, was not named a finalist. Despite Albisu dropping out this morning, Ballston BID CEO said Campos was declared the winner instead of Robinson being invited to the challenge.
"We decided that Casita and Christiana and her team thought they were going up against Victor, and to change that midway and say, 'Oh we're not going to award it to you' and give a chance to someone else, we didn't think it was the right thing to do," Leone told ARLnow.com this afternoon. "They have a great plan, team and concept for that location. All the elements were there for a successful venture. We thought that was the best thing to do to award it to her."
Albisu declined comment on dropping out of the Restaurant Challenge through his publicist. Restaurant Challenge judge and Top Chef alumnus Mike Isabella announced last week that he'd be opening a Mexican cantina, called Pepita, in Ballston, at 4000 Wilson Blvd, last week. Leone alluded to the fact that Isabella's new venture, expected to open early next year, might have chased Albisu off.
"There were restaurant wars going on, it wasn't quite the challenge we were putting on," Leone said. "Things don't always work out exactly the way you want, but we think this turned out pretty great. It's a win for Ballston. We're getting a Mexican restaurant and a Spanish restaurant."
Campos described Casita on the Restaurant Challenge website as "inspired from the timeless taverns that over generations have been offering very unique, yet typical, classic comfort foods from Spain featuring top-quality and seasonal ingredients. These taverns are known for their hearty dishes and "menus del dia" (a three course meal at a reasonable cost), as well as "pintxos" (essentially snacks on a skewer)."
The Restaurant Challenge was a kind of sequel to last year's Launchpad Challenge for startup technology companies. While Launchpad was seen as a success, Leone said there's no certainty that another challenge is in the offing for Ballston. She also pointed out that Restaurant Challenge was the brainchild of Brookfield Properties looking to entice restaurants to its space, not an idea the BID hatched on its own.
There's no word on when Casita plans to open. Campos will be officially announced as the winner at the BID's annual meeting on June 23, when she will prepare an array of food as a preview for the restaurant.
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Taste of Arlington, the annual street festival in Ballston, returns on May 18.
The event, hosted by the Ballston Business Improvement District, will close down Wilson Blvd and part of N. Stuart Street to accommodate about 50 restaurant booths, two live music stages, a beer and wine garden, three golf putting holes and a rock climbing wall.
Among the restaurants being featured are Willow, the yet-to-open Kapnos, World of Beer, Big Buns, Pete's Apizza, Circa and Red Rocks, among others. The restaurants will compete in competitions for best appetizer, best entrée and best dessert. The beer and wine garden will also feature national and local breweries like Port City in Alexandria, Devil's Backbone, Flying Dog and Starr Hill, plus wine and sparkling wine from Barefoot.
The event will go from noon to 5:00 p.m., rain or shine. Tasting tickets can be bought online 10 for $30 before May 1, and 10 for $35 after that. Tickets for unlimited beer, wine and champagne, plus seats to watch the tasting up close can be had for $100, and $110 after May 1, in the VIP champagne tent. Starting April 23, Harris Teeter locations in Arlington will also be selling ticket packets at a discount.
Before the event, at 10:00 a.m., there will also be a 5k organized by Girls on the Run, open to runners of all ages.
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Lavern Chatman Running for Congress — Lavern Chatman, former president and CEO of the Northern Virginia Urban League, has announced that she's running for the 8th District seat of the retiring Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.). "We need leaders who understand the struggles and joys of raising and educating children and the benefits of providing them opportunities for economic empowerment," Chatman, a Democrat, said in a statement. [Blue Virginia]
TandemNSI Launches — TandemNSI, Arlington's initiative to bring national security technology companies together with government agencies and universities, officially launched Tuesday night. The $525,000 public-private partnership is being launched at a time when Arlington is still smarting from the impending loss of the National Science Foundation. [Bisnow, DoD Buzz]
McKinley Elementary Expansion — A plan to add 225 seats to McKinley Elementary School by the fall of 2016 is moving forward. Arlington Public Schools hopes to complete the design of the addition by the end of 2014 and begin construction by mid-2015. [Sun Gazette]
Restaurant Challenge Begins — The Ballston Business Improvement District is now accepting applications for its Restaurant Challenge. The BID is seeking the area's "next signature restaurant." The winner of the challenge will receive an interest-free loan and an 11-year lease on the former Red Parrot Asian Bistro space at 1110 N. Glebe Blvd. "This new program is designed to activate commercial space and showcase the community of Ballston as a magnet for discovery and innovation," the BID said. [Ballston BID, Washington Business Journal]
Marymount Creates Redskins Gear for Women — Fashion design students at Marymount University in Arlington have created new fashion-forward Washington Redskins apparel for women. The student project was initiated in response to what a professor saw as a lack of stylish options for female Redskins fans. [Marymount University]
Flickr pool photo by Ddimick
Some of today's big names in local business gathered in Ballston Wednesday night to decide who will be the big names of tomorrow.
Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis, former United States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) were among the judges for the Ballston Business Improvement District Launchpad Challenge Finale. One company was supposed to go home with $15,000 in cash, office space and furniture and free legal advice.
After hearing four presentations, the judges couldn't narrow it down to just one, so they chose two companies — BuilDatAnalytics and Carsquare — to each go home with the grand prize.
"Both companies made a lot of sense to us," Leonsis said after the ceremony. "We liked the teams and entrepreneurs. In horseracing, sometimes you bet the jockey and not the horse."
BuilDatAnalytics is a business intelligence company aimed at solving inefficiencies in construction projects. Founder Tiffany Hosey Brown worked two years in construction for her family's construction company before deciding the day-to-day operations needed radical improvement. Her company guarantees a 1 percent savings on all construction projects for its clients; considering her pilot clients' projects cost more than $1 billion combined, she said she's already saving them $10 million.
"It was kind of surreal, but it was exciting," Brown said of when Leonsis called her name. She donned a hard hat during part of her presentation, and strode about the stage with confidence. When asked if there was a point during her speech if she knew she was going to win, she answered, "when [Leonsis] asked me 'what are you going to do with the money?'"
Carsquare is billed by its founder and CEO, Khurrum Shakir, as the Kayak for cars; an aggregator of different online car shopping sites, brought together in one place. Shakir, who worked under Leonsis at AOL as a business development manager for AOL Cars, is hoping to raise $2 million in funding to fuel marketing to bring more eyeballs to his site.
"Next for us is taking it to the next level," Shakir said afterward. "We need to finalize the app we have and integrate our new website."
The two finalists not selected, Changecause and M2 Labs, will join BuilDatAnalytics and Carsquare next month in actual pitch meetings with Leonsis, where they will have a chance to convince one of the D.C. area's richest people to invest in their company.
Attorney Mark Gruhin, the fourth judge on the panel and a venture investor in his own right, said each company had a strong idea, but it will take more than a 10-minute presentation in a movie theater to convince investors.
"They're scaling right now. They have to prove their management skills," Gruhin said. "They need to get ready for the curveballs, because they're coming."
There were 14 semifinalists in the field before it was narrowed to four. Before the field was narrowed down, members of the community chose Tomorrow's Lemonade Stand — a company aimed at fostering entrepreneurship in children in grades 2-4 — for the Customer Appreciation Award. The company was founded by 7-year-old Kylee Majkowski and her mother, Amanda Antico-Majkowski, who were presented with the award on stage.
Ballston BID CEO Tina Leone announced 2014's LaunchPad Challenge at the event, a different competition than 2013's startup competition. Starting in January, the BID will accept applications for a new signature restaurant in Ballston. The prize will be a year of free restaurant space and the competition will be helmed by chef Mike Isabella, owner of several D.C.-area restaurants, including an upcoming eatery in Ballston.
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(NEWSER) – Pope Francis spent his birthday last year by going to church with four homeless locals. This year he upped the ante, celebrating his 78th birthday on Wednesday by donating 400 sleeping bags—complete with an imprinted papal coat of arms—to homeless people around Rome, ABC News reports.
Volunteers and Swiss Guard members handed out the birthday gifts in local railroad stations and near a cemetery where the homeless are known to congregate, telling recipients, "This is a gift for you from the pope on the occasion of his birthday," per ANSA. Next up on the pope's to-do list: completing three public showers right off St. Peter's Square.
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