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Employers of disabled people awarded
Awards for outstanding employers of people with
Massey University is the winner of the State Services Commission's Mainstream Employer of the Year Award for 2002. This organisation has gone the extra mile to provide equitable, supported employment of people with disabilities in the State sector.
The State Services Commissioner, Michael Wintringham, today presented three merit awards and an overall award winner at a celebration which also marked International Day for Disabled Persons and the launch of "Moving Forward: EEO for People with Disabilities in the Public Service", a new State Services Commission publication.
The Mainstream Employer of the Year Awards are presented each year in recognition of employers who have made an effort to provide employment, training and career development opportunities for people with disabilities participating in the Mainstream Programme.
In presenting this year's awards, Mr Wintringham said the provision of the Mainstream Programme was a tangible way in which the State sector is helping to remove employment barriers faced by people with disabilities.
"Mainstream is a small but very successful employment programme. Over the past four years, between 55 and 65 percent of participants in the Mainstream Programme have gained long-term meaningful employment. That's a success rate envied by many in both the disability and regular employment services.
"The Mainstream Programme shows what can be achieved by people with the most significant disabilities when the human and financial resources are provided to allow them to overcome the employment barriers put in their way. This requires creative employers who can see what is possible," Mr Wintringham said.
Merit awards were also presented to the Accident Compensation Corporation, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Social Development, at the ceremony today.


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Scan Display wins South African exhibition industry awards
Exhibition and events supplier, Scan Display, was awarded the Best Service Contractor Award for 2023 by the Exhibitions & Events Association of Southern Africa (EXSA) at the association's annual awards evening in Johannesburg, South Africa last month.
12 Feb 2024
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Scan Display and its MD win SAACI awards
Exhibition and events supplier, Scan Display, was delighted to be recognised with an award from the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry (SAACI) at its national congress earlier this month. The company's managing director, Justin Hawes, was also acknowledged with an award in his personal capacity.
25 Aug 2023
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Exhibition and event trends identified at Germany's EuroShop 2023
EuroShop is the largest retail trade fair in the world, taking place every three years in Düsseldorf, Germany. The 2023 show drew 81,000 visitors from 141 countries, and the 15 exhibition halls showcased 1,830 exhibitors.
29 Mar 2023
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Scan Display up and running after Cape Town fire
In the early evening of 23 December 2022, a fire broke out at exhibition and events supplier Scan Display's Cape Town offices on the Foreshore. The fire resulted in part of the facility being destroyed.
9 Jan 2023
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Catch the EuroShop 2023 roadshow in Joburg and Cape Town
EuroShop is recognised as the world's leading retail and display trade show. The last edition in 2020 filled 16 halls, totaling 123,800m², and covered all the latest developments in retailing, merchandising, shopfitting, displays, and exhibitions and events.
5 Oct 2022
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Exhibitions make a comeback
1 June 2022 marks the seventh annual
Global Exhibitions Day
. The day was conceived by the Global Association for the Exhibition Industry, also known as UFI, to commemorate and celebrate the exhibition industry for its role in facilitating business opportunities, knowledge sharing and cooperation, and contributing to regional economic and social development.
1 Jun 2022
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Scan Display builds retail space for 22 local fashion brands
Scan Display supplied a full shopfitting solution for The Fashion Cube at Table Bay Mall in Cape Town in November last year. The 360m² store was created as an incubation space for small local businesses that are looking to establish or grow their retail footprint. It is one of three similar concept stores (the other two being The Food Cube and The Creative Cube) that the mall has created to nurture entrepreneurs, while offering shoppers a greater selection of South African brands and products.
1 Mar 2022
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Scan Display focuses on shopfitting and brand activations
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa in March 2020, and the subsequent banning of exhibitions and events, Scan Display has shifted its focus to shopfitting, retail displays, brand activations and large format printing.
27 Jul 2021
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Scan Display expands its large format print offering
Scan Display has expanded its printing portfolio with new branding solutions for corporates, retail, events and activations nationwide. Its increased range includes custom wallpaper available in seven different textures, vinyl and PVC branding, indoor and outdoor signage, and portable outdoor branding such as flags, gazebos, and pop-up, telescopic and sharkfin banners.
29 Mar 2021
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Scan Display can build vaccination centres at scale
"South Africa's exhibition industry has a proven track record of providing quick and affordable solutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. From testing and isolation centres to field hospitals, the exhibition industry's temporary structures have allowed us to re-purpose our stock and create solutions in response to this health crisis," says Justin Hawes, MD of Scan Display, a company that builds exhibition stands and infrastructure. "We can help with the next step in the pandemic response, with the set-up of vaccination centres around the country."
16 Feb 2021
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Scan Display launches affordable and flexible shopping kiosks
Branding and retail display specialist, Scan Display, has devised a new cost-effective solution for shopping kiosks. Its Showcase Kiosk range is available for short-term rental, and the standard modular components can be readily configured for retailers' unique requirements.
25 Jan 2021
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Scan Display supports PinkDrive with outdoor branding
Scan Display recently partnered with outdoor display equipment manufacturer, Zimstone, to provide PinkDrive with branded outdoor display products. Zimstone donated the hardware and Scan Display produced the branded flags, pop-ups, and parasol and gazebo canopies.
28 Oct 2020
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Scan Display built the largest Covid-19 hospital in Africa
Scan Display designed and built Africa's largest dedicated Covid-19 temporary hospital at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in Cape Town, South Africa.
30 Jul 2020
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Scan Display's MD elected global association's first African president
Scan Display's managing director, Justin Hawes, has been elected president of the Brussels-based International Federation of Exhibition and Event Services (IFES) for 2021 and 2022.
30 Jun 2020
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Scan Display offers temporary infrastructure for Covid-19
Exhibition, events and display specialist Scan Display has a range of products and infrastructure solutions that are ideal for managing the Covid-19 health crisis.
28 Apr 2020
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5 display trends seen at EuroShop 2020
EuroShop, the world's number one retail trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany is where the trendsetters of the retail and display industries gather every three years. Showcasing what is new and how best to apply it, the show sets the design tone for the foreseeable future.
10 Mar 2020
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Scan Display to identify EuroShop 2020's industry trends
Exhibition, events and display specialist, Scan Display, first visited the world's #1 retail trade fair, EuroShop, in 1999. Since then, the South African company has returned to Düsseldorf, Germany, every three years for each subsequent show - and is preparing to visit its 2020 edition later this month.
10 Feb 2020
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Scan Display Rwanda delivers seamless solution at AIDS conference
The 20th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) was held at the Kigali Convention Centre in Kigali, Rwanda, from 2-7 December 2019. It attracted over 10,000 delegates from around the world, and featured a 3,500m² exhibition - for which Scan Display Rwanda was contracted to supply shell scheme and custom package stands.
27 Jan 2020
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Africa's exhibition challenges and opportunities
South African exhibition and events specialist, Scan Display, has extensive experience working on projects throughout Africa, with a network of distributors on the continent. Scan Display's managing director, Justin Hawes, addresses some of the issues related to the African exhibition industry.
11 Nov 2019
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Scan Display hosts first African Distributor Conference
Scan Display hosted representatives from 12 African countries at its first African Distributor Conference in Johannesburg at the beginning of June 2019.
15 Jul 2019
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Scan Display's new, improved fabric lightbox
Lightboxes have become a sought-after medium for branding in retail stores and commercial properties. This is not surprising, as they are visually striking, versatile in size and placement, and the graphics are easily updated.
18 Mar 2019
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Scan Display scoops four local exhibition industry awards
Scan Display was delighted to be recognised by local exhibition industry associations, AAXO (Association of African Exhibition Organisers) and EXSA (Exhibition & Event Association of Southern Africa), at their combined awards evening at Montecasino last week.
4 Feb 2019
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Scan Display is open for business in Rwanda and Kenya
South African exhibition, events and display specialist Scan Display has been growing its operations in Africa. In May this year, it launched Scan Display Rwanda in collaboration with Rwanda Events. This follows the establishment of Scan Display Kenya in September 2017, through a partnership with Nairobi-based Exhibition Stand Contractors.
13 Aug 2018
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Scan Display halves its exhibition stand costs at Madex 2018
Exhibition and event specialist Scan Display halved the cost of its exhibition stand at Madex 2018, compared to its stand at the same show in 2017. Both stands were the same size (6m x 6m) and had an equally impactful design.
9 Jul 2018
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UFI recognises Scan Display for best practices in sustainable exhibiting
UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has announced the results of its 2017 Sustainable Development Award. Due to the high standard of entries submitted, the judges could not agree on a single winner. Instead, UFI awarded six companies the title of "Best Practice for Sustainable Exhibiting" - including exhibition display specialist, Scan Display.
28 Jun 2018
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Future-proofing events - one eventuality you can expect
The term "future-proofing" was first used in the electronics industry. It describes a design goal to make software, computers and other electronics usable long after they're sold, despite the constant improvements and developments that technology undergoes. Since then other industries have picked up the term, as they recognise the need to anticipate threats, trends and opportunities to make sure they stay relevant in the marketplace.
31 May 2018
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Goodbye Malaria's retail roll-out
This is the story of how a simple retail product can be used creatively and effectively in a life-saving project.
2 May 2018
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Scan Display Cape Town's new water-wise plant nursery
Sustainability is a journey, and one that exhibition and event display specialist Scan Display has embraced. Its most recent project to promote greening has been the Cape Town branch's installation of its own plant nursery which exclusively stocks water-wise, non-invasive plants.
4 Apr 2018
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Exhibiting made easier, and more affordable
Would you like to reduce your annual exhibiting costs? Do you want a stand design that can be adjusted for each exhibition you attend? Do you need an impactful solution for road shows?
26 Feb 2018
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Scan Display honoured to receive four exhibition industry awards
Justin Hawes, MD of Scan Display, admits that being a stand builder for the exhibition industry is challenging: tight deadlines and limited budgets constantly need to be balanced with exacting standards and a hugely competitive market. Which is why, when a year's hard work culminates in the industry awards evening, he says it is such a privilege to be acknowledged with an award.
21 Feb 2018
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Scan Display's November newsletter: Win tickets to the Rugby Sevens
This year is a milestone for us as we celebrate 21 years in the exhibition and events industries. In our latest newsletter we cover some of the highlights of the last 21 years, share some product information, and include an exhibition case study. And one lucky reader will win three tickets to the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in Cape Town next week!
30 Nov 2017
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EXSA forms an alliance with international federation, IFES
On 9 November 2017, the Exhibition and Event Association of Southern Africa (EXSA) and the International Federation of Exhibition and Event Suppliers (IFES) held an association meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa. What made this a landmark event was the signing of a reciprocal membership agreement between the two organisations, which will benefit them as well as EXSA's members.
22 Nov 2017
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Scan Display's solution to Cape Town water shortages
Cape Town's population has grown by 55% since 1995, while dam storage has only grown by 15% in the same period, reports the news agency, GroundUp. So while Cape Town has previously experienced lower levels of rainfall compared to the past two years, the pressure the city is under to supply water is greater than ever before. Add to this the likelihood that climate change is impacting rainfall patterns, and increased water scarcity is most likely going to be the new normal in this region.
16 Oct 2017
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Mining Indaba appoints Scan Display official contractor
Scan Display, an exhibition, event and display specialist, has been appointed the official exhibition contactor for Investing in African Mining Indaba 2018.
20 Sep 2017
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Exhibiting with VR and AR: What we learned
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are sophisticated technologies that have the potential to change the way we do many things, especially in the field of marketing. This is because of their ability to - as their names imply - alter our realities, either through adding to, or augmenting, them (AR), or by re-creating alternative, new ones (VR).
10 Jul 2017
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You're invited to test the latest tech at Madex/Markex
Visualise this: you're attending a conference on urban planning, and the speaker pulls up a virtual 3D model of a city which he navigates you through as he explains the infrastructure you are seeing. Or you're at an automotive exhibition, and you really want to test drive one of the luxury cars on display - and you can! You get into a seat and put on a headset, and soon you are cruising down a beautiful country road, the wind in your hair and the engine purring under your hands.
5 Jun 2017
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2016 an award-winning year for Scan Display
"I know I sound like an Oscar winner – but for those of you I forgot to mention in person: thank you! Thanks to everyone involved!" These are the words MD Justin Hawes shared with Scan Display staff in an internal communication, where he congratulated those whose hard work and abilities have been recognised with awards at the EXSA and AAXO joint Industry Awards Evening on 26 January 2017. In total, the company received six awards, while its partner company, Synergy Business Events, received one.
6 Feb 2017
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A greenie's guide to recycling exhibition waste
By virtue of the temporary nature of its projects, the exhibition industry tends to be a wasteful business sector. This makes the introduction of innovative waste management solutions essential.
28 Nov 2016
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International events and exhibitions Master Class comes to Cape Town
The International Federation of Exhibition and Event Services (IFES) is bringing its annual Master Class to South Africa. The event will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) from 23 to 25 November 2016.
27 Sep 2016
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Scan Display's leading women honoured by
Top 40 Women in MICE
It is heart-warming to see the achievements of the women who make it onto the annual
Top 40 Women in MICE
list. The list is published by
Meetings Magazine
and celebrates women who have made their mark on the Meetings Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) industry.
8 Sep 2016
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Connect with Scan Retail at the 20th Annual Shopping Congress in Sandton
Yes, it's that time of the year again - it's the 20th Annual Congress of the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) and its taking place from Wednesday, 7th to Friday, 9th September 2016 at the Sandton Convention Centre. Two thousand professionals in South Africa's rapidly growing retail industry have signed up to exhibit their products and connect with others. We will be joining them and we couldn't be more excited.
29 Aug 2016
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Case study: The merits of integrating social media into exhibition stands
When Scan Display set out to create a completely unique stand for this year's Markex show, a major consideration was how social media would add value to the stand, driving foot traffic and increasing interaction with attendees.
4 Aug 2016
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Scan Display looks forward to an innovative Markex 2016
Fifteen years after first exhibiting at Markex, Scan Display will be thinking 'outside the box' at this year's exhibition by creating a stand from cardboard materials.
27 Jun 2016
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Special offer on Scan Display's events and activations 'box'
Scan Display is running a special offer until the end of August 2016 on its solution-in-a-box, the Modulbox. It is available for hire at a cost of R8,000 per unit per event with one custom-designed graphic panel and two standard black or white panels, or R12,000 per unit per event with three custom-designed graphic panels. The Modulbox is a tried and tested solution for both indoor and outdoor events, activations and exhibitions.
26 May 2016
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Scan Display's Mo5 gets a makeover
One of Scan Display's most popular solutions for events, the Mo5, is getting a refresh to make it lighter and easier to set up than the original model.
17 May 2016
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10 tips for easy (and successful) exhibiting
In a busy marketplace, a face-to-face meeting with a potential client can be priceless. Exhibitions offer remarkable opportunities to meet with new clients and market your products or services. The question is, how do you make sure your exhibiting experience is both easy and successful?
5 Apr 2016
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Interactive mall activations on the rise
Mall activations are becoming more interactive, creative and engaging for brands using this popular direct marketing method. In recent months, Scan Retail has begun using multimedia, social media and gamification elements on its clients' mall activation stands to attract new customers and build brand loyalty.
16 Feb 2016
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Scan Display's Fabric Shell Scheme proves its popularity
Providing a fresh alternative to conventional shell scheme structures at exhibitions and events, Scan Display has recently introduced the Fabric Shell Scheme option. These shell scheme structures are not only easier to transport, but also offer a greener alternative.
24 Nov 2015
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The Wing - an indestructible, green product
As the South African meetings and events industry aims to increase levels of sustainability across all aspects of event organisation, the consideration of older products sometimes falls by the wayside. Managing Director of Scan Display, Justin Hawes cautions against this.
30 Sep 2015
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Scan Display goes 'green' with solar power
The Johannesburg office of Scan Display has decreased its reliance on South Africa's electrical grid by installing a Smart Grid solar system. This follows a conscious plan by the company to enhance its environmental responsibility and live up to the 'green' standards it has set for itself.
28 Aug 2015
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Scan Display forges ahead with exhibition builds in Africa
Focusing on major upcoming exhibitions scattered across the African continent, Scan Display opts for innovative and affordable exhibition build options that are easy to set up and transport across the continent.
5 Aug 2015
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Scan Display to build infrastructure for 2nd World Congress on Healthy Ageing
The 2nd World Congress on Healthy Ageing, organised by the Healthy Ageing Society of Africa (HASOA), will take place at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from 30 July to 2 August 2015.
2 Jun 2015
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Scan Display, proud infrastructure sponsor for Investec Kirstenbosch Plant Fair 2015
A celebration of all things fynbos and food was recently showcased at the annual Investec Kirstenbosch Plant Fair, a consumer show focusing on sustainability and the conservation of natural resources.
25 May 2015
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Saving time, money and the environment with reusable exhibition elements
Constantly on the lookout for ways to create more sustainable exhibition stands, designers are incorporating products that can be reused and modified to suit any exhibition or event. This not only saves time and money, but also reduces the negative environmental impact associated with consistently building new structures from scratch.
12 Mar 2015
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Scan Display cements position as top exhibitions supplier at EXSA
Scan Display has started 2015 on a high note after the announcement late last year that the company was a double EXSA Award Winner. Both awards are highly prized and cement Scan Display's reputation as a top stand building supplier in South Africa.
3 Feb 2015
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Scan Display is honoured by the conference industry
At the prestigious gala dinner on the final night of the SAACI 2014 Annual Congress, Scan Display walked away with two awards acknowledging its commitment to the conference and meetings industry.
8 Sep 2014
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Scan Display celebrates successful stand-build in Angola
Working with a new client, Dodecaedro, Scan Display managed the building of a stand focused on Argentinian products at the recent FILDA (International Fair of Luanda) in Luanda, Angola.
18 Aug 2014
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Scan Display appoints Martina Komane as director
Scan Display has announced the appointment of Martina Komane as director. Martina has also been appointed the chairperson of the Scan Display BEE Trust, which was established in 2005 to empower previously disadvantaged staff members.
11 Aug 2014
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Scan Display goes big, and goes home, with Modulbox
Using one of the latest innovations in outdoor stand design, Scan Display created a conceptual village for potential buyers at the recent Century Property Developments Home Design Expo 2014.
28 Jul 2014
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For new ideas, prizes and Bubble Tea visit Scan Display at Markex
Earlier this year Scan Display sent a team of nine staff members to Euroshop 2014, the world's largest retail trade show. Euroshop takes place in Düsseldorf, Germany every three years and showcases the latest exhibition and display trends from around the world.
6 Jun 2014
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Scan helps shape the future of African travel
It took 18 months to negotiate and plan, and involved building 6,000 non-standard components such as walling, graphics and bulkheads with LED lights - but the 'We are Africa' 2014 show was a seamless experience, thanks to Scan Display's Cape Town branch.
30 May 2014
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Scan Display and Zimbabwe telecoms giant take top Fair prize
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, one of the country's largest providers of telecommunications services, recently contracted Scan Display to build an eye-catching stand for the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF). The result? A prestigious award, a delighted client and valuable skills transfer between the two countries.
14 May 2014
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Scan grows fresh design ideas at historic Kirstenbosch
The annual Kirstenbosch Plant Fair took place in Cape Town for the 39th time (12-13 April) this year - but the latest edition had fresh appeal and a more contemporary look. This was thanks to close collaboration between the Kirstenbosch branch of the Botanical Society of SA and Scan Display, a leader in the southern African exhibition and display industry.
5 May 2014
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Scan sets up Event Industry Summit
The inaugural Event Industry Summit (EIS) took place at Hackle Brooke Conference Centre in Randburg, Johannesburg on 13 March - and Scan Display (Johannesburg) was an event partner and exclusive exhibition infrastructure provider. Scan MD Justin Hawes was also a keynote speaker, in his capacity as founding member of the Event Greening Forum.
1 Apr 2014
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Scan Display reports on global retail and expo trends
The extensive use of fabrics on walls and ceilings of exhibition spaces - to hide the infrastructure of modular systems and to give the illusion of a custom-built space - is a major contemporary trend in exhibition spaces.
24 Mar 2014
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Scan Display acknowledged for advancing the exhibition industry
The Exhibition & Event Association of Southern Africa's (EXSA) annual awards function is always a glittering affair, but this year the description was literal as attendees dressed up in gold to fit the night's theme of 'all that glitters is gold'. For exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, the night held even more sparkle when it received two prestigious accolades: Justin Hawes was inducted into the EXSA Hall of Fame and Pippa Naude received the Chairman's Award.
28 Nov 2013
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Port in a storm
What do two Bedouin tents, 16 pairs of gum-boots, 60 beanbags and 50 Pilates balls have in common? They were all part of a state-of-the-art corporate hospitality project at the recent FNB Wines2Whales mountain biking race - a case study in just how high the bar has been raised in customer cosseting at premier sporting events.
18 Nov 2013
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Scan builds COP11 internal infrastructure in Namibia
Scan Display was contracted by Conference Systems Namibia to build 2 600m² of meeting rooms, 1 500m² of office space and 600m² of exhibition space for the 11th Conference of Parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification (COP11 UNCCD).
25 Sep 2013
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Scan Display wins international sustainability award
Exhibition, events and display specialist, Scan Display, is honoured to have received a 2013 Sustainable Development Award for the South African Climate Change Response Expo hosted at COP17 in November 2011. The award was presented by the Paris-based UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry.
18 Jun 2013
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Reminder: Markex begins tomorrow
Make sure you visit South Africa's leading marketing exhibition this week: Markex is starting tomorrow and running until Thursday, 13 June, from 9am to 5pm daily at the Sandton Convention Centre.
10 Jun 2013
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Calling all marketing professionals: visit Scan's stand at Markex!
As a display specialist, Scan Display is renowned for its beautiful custom-designed and crafted exhibition stands. At this year's Markex Gauteng show, Scan plans to deliver its largest self-branded exhibition stand yet - with an 84m² foot print.
27 May 2013
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How an exhibition company is going 'green'
"Greening is a process, made up of a series of small actions and steps that gradually take you closer to where you want to be. However, you never really get 'there', as the goal posts keep advancing too," says Justin Hawes, MD of Scan Display, about the challenge of making his company more sustainable.
11 Feb 2013
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Scan's MD is the first African board member for IFES
Justin Hawes, MD of exhibition specialist, Scan Display, has been elected to the IFES Board as Treasurer. IFES is the International Federation of Exhibition and Event Services, and has a global network of 192 members from almost 40 countries. The Board consists of four members, and this is the first time that an African member has been represented on the Board.
14 Jan 2013
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Scan wins record number of EXSA Awards
Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, was delighted to receive eight Exhibition and Event Association of Southern Africa (EXSA) awards at the association's glittering year-end function at Monte Casino on Wednesday, 21 November 2012.
3 Dec 2012
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Give your expo stand more impact
Making your exhibition stand 'stand out' in an exhibition hall isn't easy. This is why Scan Display, designer and supplier of exhibition and event infrastructure, is constantly searching for innovative new products for its clients.
19 Nov 2012
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IFES 2013 conference comes to Cape Town
Every year, the International Federation of Exhibition and Event Services (IFES) hosts an AGM and Conference in a different city around the world. In 2013 it will be held in Africa for the first time, in Cape Town at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).
22 Oct 2012
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Scan Display a finalist at the Loerie Awards 2012
Scan Display provides creative design and construction solutions for exhibitions and events. These abilities were showcased to maximum effect at the COP17 South African Climate Change Response Expo (CCR Expo) in 2011, resulting in the project's nomination as a finalist in the Live Event category at the recent 34th Loerie Awards.
15 Oct 2012
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Scan's MD a finalist in Entrepreneur of the Year
Each year, the Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) Awards set out to uncover the most creative, driven and successful entrepreneurs in South Africa. By honouring them as role models, the awards seek to encourage entrepreneurship and, ultimately, economic growth and increased employment in South Africa.
25 Sep 2012
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COP17 legacy for children
A number of social legacy projects were built into the South African Climate Change Response Expo (CCR Expo) hosted at COP17 in Durban last year - including the recent opening of the Maphephetheni Children's Playground.
17 Sep 2012
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Scan Display lights up event industry with tech innovation
Exhibitors and event organisers can now access a newly designed distribution board for stands, that takes up half the space and ends the problem of wires trailing on the floors.
15 Aug 2012
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The ultimate interior signage solution: TFS and LED lightboxes
"Fabric has exploded on the retail scene both internationally and now in South Africa, and is quickly becoming the preferred medium for interior signage," says George Kairuz, General Manager of Scan Retail Solutions, a division of exhibition and retail specialist, Scan Display.
28 May 2012
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Scan Display now offers the convenience of online shopping
Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, launched its online shopping platform this month. Visitors to the website can now browse available products at their leisure, view the cost, and place an order through a simple process of three steps. Payment can be made by credit card or EFT.
21 May 2012
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Scan Display appointed as a preferred supplier to the CTICC
The Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) has appointed exhibition specialist Scan Display to be a preferred supplier for electrical services.
21 May 2012
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Sound dampening meeting rooms
Exhibition and events specialist, Scan Display, faced a challenge when designing and building the COP17 South African Climate Change Response Expo (CCR Expo): it needed to create a number of temporary and environmentally-friendly sound proof meeting rooms in a marquee.
26 Mar 2012
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CCR Expo proves to be one of SA's most exciting exhibitions
At the end of last year, Scan Display and Interactive Africa combined their respective talents for building exhibitions and designing events to manage the Department of Environmental Affairs' (DEA) South African Climate Change Response Expo (CCR Expo).The Expo proved to be one of the most exciting - and complex - exhibitions hosted in this country.
6 Feb 2012
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South Africans' response to climate change
From 28 November to 9 December 2011 the city of Durban will host the United Nation's 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) event, the leading international conference on climate change.
25 Nov 2011
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Scan Display takes five EXSA Awards
The Exhibition & Event Association of Southern Africa (EXSA) held its annual awards evening on Thursday 3 November 2011, at the Sandton Convention Centre. The EXSA Awards are the only awards in South Africa to recognise excellence in the exhibition industry, commending the best custom and system exhibition stand designs, the best trade and consumer exhibitions, and the best supplier, venue and organiser.
14 Nov 2011
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New appointments at Scan Display
Scan Display has expanded and made a number of new appointments over the past six months.
30 Aug 2011
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Scan Display's MD is a Boss of the Year Award semi-finalist
Scan Display's MD, Justin Hawes, has been chosen as one of fifteen semi-finalists nominated from around the country for the Boss of the Year® Award 2011.
8 Aug 2011
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Cool stuff at Markex Jhb 2011
Markex Jhb 2011 featured a number of cool innovations from exhibition, event and display specialist, Scan Display.
12 Jul 2011
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Scan Display to showcase award winner at Markex Jhb
Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, will showcase an award-winning product at Markex Jhb. The Mo5, designed by Scan's German partners MoSysteme, won an innovation award presented by AIT (the architecture journals) earlier this year at Euroshop, the biggest international retail trade show.
24 May 2011
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Trendspotting at Euroshop 2011
Euroshop is the leading global retail trade show and sets the industry standard worldwide. Local exhibition and event company, Scan Display, recently exhibited at Euroshop 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the team has returned from the show with insights on the latest trends, technology and products in the marketing and retail industry.
29 Mar 2011
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Scan Display to exhibit at #1 retail trade fair, Euroshop
This year Scan Display will be among the 1 800 exhibitors at Euroshop, the world's leading retail trade fair. The show will run from 26 February to 2 March 2011, in Düsseldorf, Germany.
14 Feb 2011
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International brands choose Scan Display for AfricaCom 2010
Scan Display's Cape Town branch was the exhibition stand provider for 12 overseas clients at AfricaCom, Africa's premier telecommunications conference and exhibition. The show, which is owned and managed by Informa UK, was held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 10-11 November 2010.
3 Dec 2010
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Scan Display - new appointments
Scan Display has recently made a number of appointments at its Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town offices.
6 Oct 2010
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Soweto Sewing Company benefits from exhibition industry generosity
The Soweto Sewing Company has recently benefited from the generosity of the South African exhibition industry. Three exhibition organisers have given the Soweto Sewing Company free exhibition space, and Scan Display has provided them with a branded pop-up stand and counter.
4 Oct 2010
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The future of exhibitions: fabric graphics and green power
At the recent Markex Jhb exhibition, Scan Display implemented new technology in the form of fabric graphics (called tension fabric systems) and green power. Both of these have positive applications within the exhibition industry, and are expected to become increasingly popular choices for exhibitors.
1 Oct 2010
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Office space to rent in Cape Town office
Scan Display Cape Town is offering fantastic office space to rent.
3 Sep 2010
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Scan's 2010 Soccer World Cup activations
Scan Display experienced a 350% increase in business for the month of June because of World Cup related jobs, with a variety of interesting projects including activations for adidas, Budweiser, Sony, Globex, Football Federation Australia, the SABC, the City of Cape Town and the City of Johannesburg.
20 Aug 2010
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Scan Display to showcase European innovation at Markex
Exhibitions, events and display specialist, Scan Display, will showcase European innovation in the form of a Modulbox at SA's premier marketing and promotions trade exhibition, Markex Jhb 2010. The Modulbox was designed in Germany by Mo Systeme, and Scan has the exclusive rights to produce this product in South Africa.
13 Aug 2010
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Business opportunities at City of Johannesburg's 2010 World Cup Public Viewing Area
From 11 June to 11 July 2010, the Mary Fitzgerald Square in Johannesburg's vibrant Newtown district will host the City of Johannesburg's Public Viewing Area (PVA) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It is anticipated that during the month more than 200,000 visitors will flock to the PVA to watch the soccer matches on big screens.
5 May 2010
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SA Tourism appoints Scan On Show
South African Tourism appoints Scan On Show to manage their business tourism exhibitions.
After an extensive tender process, Scan On Show has been selected for the exhibition management of Meetings Africa - 'Africa's business tourism lekgotla' - and the national pavilion at IMEX in Frankfurt.
4 May 2010
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Scan Display creates designer expo
Scan Display embodied the values of Design Indaba at this year's show, striving for innovation blended with intelligent design.
16 Apr 2010
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Industry first: Scan uses 'green energy' at Meetings Africa
Scan Display powered its exhibition stand at the recent Meetings Africa show with certified green power, using the Renewable Energy Certificate system. This is the first time that an individual exhibitor has used renewable energy for its stand's lighting and electrical appliances.
17 Mar 2010
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The Modulbox faces up to the Cape of Storms and wins
Scan Display's mobile exhibition system, the Modulbox, recently proved its outdoor versatility and stability when it withstood Cape Town's notorious gale force Southwester on Camps Bay beach. This promotion was part of an extensive national roadshow which saw the Modulbox placed in various locations around Durban, Plettenburg Bay, St Francis Bay, and Knynsa.
12 Feb 2010
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30% of retail space wasted in South African shopping centres
On average South African shopping centres have around 30% of wasted retail space. This is the view of Justin Hawes, MD of Scan Display, which was exhibiting at the recent South African Congress of Shopping Centres (SACSC) in Johannesburg.
26 Oct 2009
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Sports branding that guarantees maximum brand exposure
Scan Display has launched a comprehensive range of portable indoor and outdoor sports event advertising products.
7 Oct 2009
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Modulbox: the solution for tight eventing deadlines
Scan Display's unique 'exhibition stand in a box', the Modulbox, demonstrated its amazing mobility and functionality when it recently allowed Scan to exhibit at back-to-back events without breaking a sweat!
21 Aug 2009
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Corporate gifts with purpose
In these hard economic times it is more important than ever for corporates to make sure that the corporate gifts they give have meaning beyond a pure branding exercise. The women at the Thusanang Sewing Centre in Soweto create bags, table clothes, table mats and coaster sets - all ideal for corporate gifts with a purpose.
11 Aug 2009
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New Retail Merchandising Unit maximises retail space
Scan Display has launched a range of Retail Merchandising Units (RMU's) specifically designed to allow retailers to capitalise on previously unusable space within shopping centres.
21 Jul 2009
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Scan Display launches mobile exhibition and retail solution at Markex
Scan Display, in partnership with Modulbox Germany, is now manufacturing the innovative Modulbox system locally. Scan Display will be launching the system at the upcoming Markex Jhb show, where it will be used to create the company's stand.
3 Jun 2009
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Scan's new factory ensures success of Easter Festival projects
Scan Display was awarded the contracts for the City of Johannesburg and Gauteng Provincial Government's pavilions at the Joburg Easter Festival, held at the MTN Expo Centre from 3 to 13 April 2009.
4 May 2009
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Scan Display helps Design Indaba wow visitors
The look and feel of the Design Indaba Expo was taken to new heights this year thanks to Scan Display, the show's official service contractor. Scan was responsible for the design and project management of the exhibition which showcases the best of SA design.
11 Mar 2009
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Scan Display makes history with a record five EXSA awards
Scan Display Solutions has ended the year on a high note with five wins at the Exhibition & Event Association of Southern Africa's (EXSA) year-end function held at Expo Centre on 13 November 2008.
17 Nov 2008
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Scan Display Solutions - new appointments
Scan Display's Johannesburg office has recently made a number of appointments.
17 Oct 2008
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Scan shows commitment to exhibitions at Markex Cape
When it comes to the exhibition medium, Scan Display puts its money where its mouth is, exhibiting at eight annual shows and conferences. Over the past decade, the company has generated good business and grown its brand at local and international expos.
10 Sep 2008
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Scan Display reaches new heights on Kilimanjaro
Scan Display reached the top of Africa (5 895m above sea level) when the team's account executive, Kylie Shaw, summited Kilimanjaro on 6 August.
26 Aug 2008
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Scan wins again at Markex
Scan Display's stand was named Runner Up in the Medium Stand category at last week's Markex & World of Events 2008, at the Sandton Convention Centre. The latest win means that the exhibition and display specialist has won an award at Markex Jhb for the last five years.
18 Jun 2008
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Scan stand wins award at Indaba
Scan Display recently designed and built an award-winning stand for the Three Cities Group at the Indaba travel and tourism show in Durban. Kagiso Exhibitions, the show organisers, gave the Three Cities stand a Platinum award, based on its aesthetics, messaging, branding and its capacity for interaction with delegates.
27 May 2008
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Scan rolls out new carpeting option
Scan Display has introduced rolled carpets for use at exhibitions and events, a first for South Africa.
24 Apr 2008
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Scan Display Botswana moves and expands into printing
Scan Display's Botswana branch has moved to new offices in Broadhurst, Gaborone. The exhibition and display specialist has been operating in Botswana since 1999 and the company's recent growth was the motivation for the move to bigger premises.
15 Apr 2008
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Scan Display partners with Design Indaba Expo
For the third consecutive year, Scan Display was the official services contractor for the Design Indaba Expo, held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 23 to 26 February 2007.
27 Mar 2008
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Scan Display re-awarded Cape Town Routes Unlimited business
Scan Display Solutions' Western Cape branch was recently re-awarded the contract for Cape Town Routes Unlimited's (CTRU) exhibition stands and displays. For the next three years, Scan Display will supply the tourism marketing body for Cape Town and the Western Cape with exhibition stands for local and international tourism shows.
6 Dec 2007
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Scan Display wins two exhibition and event industry awards
Scan Display Solutions won two awards at the Exhibition & Event Association of Southern Africa's (EXSA) year-end function at the Sandton Convention Centre last week.
13 Nov 2007
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Scan Display creates SA's biggest temporary exhibition for a business event
Scan Display Solutions is building the biggest temporary exhibition 'hall' ever used for a business event in South Africa. The 4 500m² structure will host the trade show component of the inaugural South African Automotive Week (SAAW), to be held in Port Elizabeth from 3 to 5 October 2007.
27 Sep 2007
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Scan Display scoops first prize at Markex KZN
Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display Solutions, won the Best Stand Award in the Medium Stand category at the inaugural Markex KZN show, held at the ICC Durban from 14 to 15 August 2007.
16 Aug 2007
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Scan Display subcontracted for upcoming soccer expo
South African exhibition and display company, Scan Display Solutions, has teamed up with Service Graphics, the official stand contractor for the upcoming Soccerex 2007.
15 Aug 2007
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Scan Display targets international market in London
South African exhibition and display company, Scan Display Solutions, exhibited at Exhibiting Show at Earls Court, London for the first time this year.
11 Jul 2007
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Scan Display pushes creative boundaries at Markex
Scan Display's stand at last week's Markex show at the Sandton Convention Centre stood out from the crowd with its sophisticated glass walls and subtle branding. A four metre high tree and a fish pond drew the attention of visitors to the show.
11 Jun 2007
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Will Scan Display make it three-in-a-row at Markex?
Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display Solutions, is under pressure to make its stand at Markex 2007 a winner. Scan has won the prestigious Large Stand award at the Markex shows for the last two years and is gearing up to make this year number three.
1 Jun 2007
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Scan named finalist in Homegrown Awards
Exhibition and display company, Scan Display Solutions, is a finalist in the Wesbank/Proudly South African Homegrown Awards 2006. Scan is one of seven finalists in the programme's SMME Corporate Social Investment (CSI) category.
10 May 2007
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Scan teams up with Design Indaba
For the second consecutive year, Scan Display was the official services contractor for the Design Indaba Expo held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 21 to 25 February 2007. The Expo ran alongside the award-winning Design Indaba Conference and showcased the finest in SA design.
4 Apr 2007
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Scan builds largest exhibition stand in Africa
For the fourth consecutive year, Scan Display Solutions has been awarded the contract to build the Gauteng Provincial Government's stand at the Rand Show.
22 Mar 2007
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Scan revs it up for MPH 07
Scan Display Solutions was the exhibition services contractor for the MPH 07 show hosted at the Coca-Cola dome last weekend. More than 30 000 Gautengers flocked to the innovative motor show to see a collection of the world's most desirable performance cars.
15 Feb 2007
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Complimentary diary of exhibitions
Scan Display Solutions is giving away copies of the Exhibition Association of Southern Africa's January 2007 diary.
5 Feb 2007
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A new director for Scan Display
Scan Display Solutions has appointed Gary Van Der Watt to its board of directors with effect from 1 December 2006. Gary has been General Manager of Scan's Western Cape operation since June 2004.
13 Dec 2006
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Complimentary training for exhibitors
Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, invites you to attend a complimentary, half-day exhibitor training workshop covering the steps for successful exhibiting.
28 Nov 2006
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Scan Display wins exhibition industry 'Oscar'
Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, won a Best Stand award at the exhibition industry's annual awards evening at Gallagher Estate on 15 November 2006.
20 Nov 2006
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Scan Display appoints new GM in KZN
Leading Southern African exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, has appointed Moses Rulashe as General Manager of the company's KwaZulu-Natal operation with effect from 1 September 2006.
11 Sep 2006
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A double win for Scan at Markex shows
Leading exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, won the Large Stand award at Markex Cape, held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 26 to 28 July 2006.
31 Jul 2006
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Scan Display wins Markex Large Stand Award
Scan Display was announced the winner of Markex's Large Stand Award at the Sandton Convention Centre on Wednesday, 7 June 2006. This was another coup for the exhibition and display specialist which has notched up a record number of wins at SA's premier marketing and promotions show.
11 Jun 2006
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Scan Display gears up for Markex
Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, will be showcasing its new corporate identity and latest products at Markex Jhb 2006 at the Sandton Convention Centre from 6 to 8 June. For the 2006 show, Scan has created a spectacular, Zen-themed stand complete with floating Japanese garden.
31 May 2006
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Scan-built exhibit is 'Best Stand' at Oil Africa 2006
Local exhibition and display company, Scan Display, built MAN Ferrostaal AG's award-winning stand for Oil Africa 2006. The show, representing the South African oil servicing industry, took place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 22 to 24 March 2006.
24 Apr 2006
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Scan Cape Town launches its new foreshore offices
On Thursday 20 April 2006, exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, launched its new Cape Town premises with a Moroccan-themed party for clients and business associates. The celebration was held at the new headquarters, which are centrally located on the foreshore, with great visibility from the N1 highway into the city.
23 Apr 2006
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Scan Display gives Design Indaba's Expo a new look
Scan Display was the official service provider for this year's Design Indaba Expo, hosted at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 24 to 26 February 2006. At this year's show, Scan broke away from the traditional exhibition floor plan of rows of cubicles, with a design resembling the layout of a European city.
9 Mar 2006
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Scan continues winning streak at EXSA awards
Scan Display won three awards at the Exhibition Association of Southern Africa's (EXSA) annual awards ceremony on 18 November 2005 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg.
21 Nov 2005
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International network pays dividends for Scan Display at WPC
As preparations for the 18th World Petroleum Congress and the accompanying 1st Southern Africa Oil & Gas Exhibition get underway at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, local exhibition business, Scan Display Solutions, is building stands for a number of international exhibitors.
22 Sep 2005
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Scan Display makes it two in a row at Markex Cape
Scan Display Solutions was delighted to win first prize in the Large Stand category at Markex Cape, for the second consecutive year. This win comes soon after Scan's success at Markex Gauteng in June 2005, where the exhibition and display specialist also won the Large Stand award.
10 Aug 2005
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Scan Display takes top honours at Markex
Scan Display Solutions has won the Large Stand award at this year's premier marketing and promotions show, Markex. The award was announced by show organiser, Exhibitions for Africa, at its exhibitor cocktail party last night.
8 Jun 2005
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Scan's MD is new EXSA Chairman
Scan Display Solution's MD, Justin Hawes, was elected Chairman of the Exhibition Association of Southern Africa (EXSA) at the Association's AGM in March. Scan Display is a leading exhibition and display company with offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Gaborone and a staff complement of 47.
26 Mar 2005
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Scan takes notes at Euroshop 2005
In February 2005, leading exhibition and display company, Scan Display Solutions, took seven staff members to Euroshop 2005, the world's leading global retail trade show. The Scan group attended the show in Düsseldorf, Germany as part of the Exhibition Association of Southern Africa's 28-member delegation.
16 Mar 2005
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Did you hear about the flap in the Blogosphere when Facebook removed photos of women breastfeeding from their site and then banned one woman who continued to post them? How about the recent nationwide breast-in at Applebee's restaurants? How about when Bill Maher compared breastfeeding in public to masturbating in public?
Breastfeeding in public continues to be a hot button subject in our society. Everyone seems to agree that "breast is best," the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the World Health Organization, even our Department of Health and Human Services. But breastfeeding rates in the U.S. are abysmal. Why? Because no one wants to see mothers actually doing it and our government, employers, and fellow citizens aren't willing to give mothers the time and the respect they need to successfully breastfeed.
Apparently we're supposed to lock ourselves in our homes for 12 months and never emerge. Never visit the doctor, or the dentist, go the grocery store, the mall, or a playground. And heaven forbid a breastfeeding mother enters a restaurant and actually attempts to feed her child. She's likely to be the subject of stares, recrimination, and discrimination.
Breastfeeding is protected by statute in one way or another in the majority of states in this country. Despite this, discrimination against breastfeeding mothers continues to happen. In response to this, The League of Maternal Justice formed to support mothers. The women of The LofMJ created a lovely breastfeeding montage in response to Facebook's banning of breastfeeding photos. They put it on You Tube, where it became one of the most watched videos.
YouTube banned it, stating that it was "inappropriate." No further explanation. Here's the press release from The LofMJ:
For immediate release 11/27/07
Youtube Bans Protest Video
Video Depicted Breastfeeding MomsA mom-produced internet protest video attacking Facebook's banning of breastfeeding pictures was itself banned by the popular video sharing service Youtube after gaining recognition as the top-five most discussed of its day. The email from Youtube stated that it was due to the video's inappropriate content/inappropriate nature. A group of moms called Youtube's action hypocritical and harmful, and pointed to dozens of sexually explicit and harmful videos currently allowed on the service. The moms also pointed to a number of state laws specifically stating that public breastfeeding was not inappropriate.
You can view the video, the press release, and contact information in full on The LofMJ if you want to see what all the flap is about.
Now you're wondering: How the heck is breastfeeding related to politics?
It's simple. Attitudes towards breastfeeding mothers and mothers in general are a symptom of something wrong with our society. We don't value motherhood. Not really. If we did, paid maternity leave would be a no brainer. Mothers would have more guaranteed time with their children after birth.
John Edwards has some wonderful ideas for making the U.S. more family friendly. He has proposed universal health care coverage, affordable child care for those who need it and expanding FMLA to provide 8 weeks of paid family and medical leave.
The U.S. fails to fund the minimum of six weeks of maternal leave recommended by doctors for both mothers and newborn children. Many parents must rush back to work, leaving their newborn babies in suboptimal or ad hoc care. In many states, day care centers are prohibited from accepting children that young due to the risk of infection. By not guaranteeing any mothers paid leave, America departs with a worldwide consensus of 169 countries to stand with only five countries including Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Swaziland. [ACOG, 2007; NPWF, 2003; IHSP, 2007]
None of these steps will individually change how mothers, and the essential role that they play in our society, are viewed. But to change attitudes we need new policies, popular or not. I believe that John Edwards is the candidate who will work hardest for mothers. Maybe in 10 years women breastfeeding in public will be applauded instead of vilified.


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Update: COVID-19 – Distribution of masks to seniors and to people at risk
July 7, 2020
Update – 8,000 masks have been distributed by the City
Mask distributions ended last week. In total, 8,000 masks were distributed to seniors over the age of 70 and people whose state of health makes them vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19.
May 25, 2020
The City of Pointe-Claire is distributing masks to Pointe-Claire citizens aged 70 and over, as well as those with chronic illnesses or a weakened immune system.
Four masks are given per address.
It is recommended to wear a mask in public places and when a physical distance of two metres is not possible; for example, at the grocery store or when taking public transit. This is a preventive measure to protect others as well as yourself.
To obtain these masks, citizens must contact the City at 514-630-1314, Monday to Thursday, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., and Friday, between 8 a.m. and noon.
Masks can only be picked up by appointment at City Hall. A delivery service is available for those who cannot come to pick them up.
Appropriate health measures have been put in place for safe distribution.
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🎧 Inside the Big Day Out (DoubleJ)
For music fans across the country, The Big Day Out was a rite of passage headlined by some of the biggest names in music. A day out in the sun with mates and an introduction to mind-blowing music. For the people who created it, it was a wild ride of legendary line-ups and backstage shenanigans. And then it all fell apart.
In this 5-part series Double J takes you inside the story of this iconic music festival. Meet the characters who kept this juggernaut rolling and find out what really went down on tour. From the coup of securing Nirvana in its first year, to its tumultuous downfall in 2014, and all the partying in between. Follow the story of the rise and rise, then sudden demise of Australia's Big Day Out.


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Event Location:Center for Spiritual Emergence, 370 North Louisiana Avenue, Suite D4, Asheville, NC, United States
The results from modern science indicate that we live in a universe far richer and more wonderful than anything we could have ever imagined. In this engaging presentation, we'll explore some of the innovative insights of this emerging holistic vision of the cosmos and the ways it is changing spirituality, education, and culture at this time.
Presented by Stephan Martin, MS.
Steve is an astronomer, educator, and author who has taught astronomy, physics, and consciousness studies at colleges, universities, and learning centers across the US for over twenty-five years. He is currently adjunct faculty in the Consciousness and Transformative Studies program at JFK University and also co-director of the continuing care program at the Center for Spiritual Emergence in Asheville, NC where he assists clients in living more conscious lives from an expansive perspective.
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The 46-year-old man and 19-year old youth were arrested after information about them was received on June 1, prompting an immediate criminal investigation. During the probe police found that the resident of Rēzekne working as a taxi driver in Riga had taken advantage of three boys between the ages of 15 and 18 after the accomplice lured them to the hotel room with alcohol and promises of entertainment.
According to news obtained by national information agency LETA, the detained man is former chairman of the Rēzekne Russian Society Aleksandrs Pušņakovs, who was previously accused of lewd acts with minors in 2012, earning him a two-year jail sentence.
Reports state that the man used his vehicle on the day of the crime. Evidence shows the man was introduced to the victims with the help of the 19-year old accomplice.
Police officers at the scene of the crime expressed their shock at the indifference of the hotel staff, who witnessed the arrival of both the victims and accused, cleaning up the spent condoms but failing to inform police of the obviously suspicious nature of the incident.
Both men are still being held by police under suspicion of violent sexual crime against a minor performed in a group, for which the accused could face from five up to twelve years in jail.
Police have published mug shots of the arrested men as there is reason to believe they may have perpetrated their crime against other underage victims as well.


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["Quantum foundations" series] [Updated December 2019]
Introduction to this topic
If Murray Gell-Mann was right that Niels Bohr brainwashed a generation of physicists to accept the Copenhagen Interpretation, either his influence has waned or he didn't do a very good job in the first place.
For in an informal poll conducted at an international meeting in 2011 on 'quantum physics and the nature of reality', fewer than half of the attendees professed an allegiance to Bohr's position. True, his was still the most popular interpretation by a considerable margin. But it can hardly claim to represent a consensus.
Sixteen years previously, another show of hands had been taken by the MIT physicist Max Tegmark at a similar meeting in Maryland. The Copenhagen Interpretation triumphed on that occasion too, albeit also without a majority. But Tegmark was delighted to note that in second place was his own favoured view of quantum mechanics: the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI).*1 – Ball, Philip. Beyond Weird (p. 288). University of Chicago Press. Kindle Edition. [*1 It's been suggested, however, that what these polls really tell you is who organized the meeting. – Ibid (p. 360)]
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll recently published a new book. I've read some of his books. His blog, podcast. Articles. He has a robust online media presence. And is skilled at promoting his new book (or has a skilled publicist). So, I've read several articles on different sites about his new book, as well as downloaded a Kindle sample of the book.
Here're a few examples of articles promoting the new book, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime.
• PBS NewsHour: YouTube video "Sean Carroll: Universe a 'tiny sliver' of all there is" (published on Sep 15, 2019)
• NPR: In 'Something Deeply Hidden,' Sean Carroll Argues There Are Infinite Copies of You (September 13, 2019) by Adam Frank, astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester
• Whatever: The Big Idea: Sean Carroll (September 12, 2019) by John Scalzi, author of the "Old Man's War" series of novels
• Wired: Sean Carroll Thinks We All Exist on Multiple Worlds (September 10, 2019) by Sophia Chen
• New York Times: Even Physicists Don't Understand Quantum Mechanics
Worse, they don't seem to want to understand it (September 7, 2019) by Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology
After almost a century of pretending that understanding quantum mechanics isn't a crucial task for physicists, we need to take this challenge seriously.
I found NPR's book review particularly interesting. That article recaps around a 100 year old debate about quantum mechanics and realism, a debate harkening back to its original seminal figures and regaining new life in the last few years after decades of what has been characterized as "shut up and calculate" successes.
There are a variety of reasons that this debate about quantum foundations – foundational questions related to quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum theory – has renewed vigor. Often cited are the rarified mathematics of current theories (particularly those pushing beyond the Standard Model), questions about the future of particle physics (viability of further discoveries by the LHC and investment in even greater colliders), and new perspectives by some modern well-known physicists.
The NPR review notes that no matter what your QM interpretation or perspective is (or take on the many popular tropes about what QM says), Carroll's emphasis is that foundational questions be returned from the backwaters of legitimate research – whether you agree with his advocacy of the Everettian many-worlds interpretation of QM.
Carroll's Everettian many-worlds perspective is included in his July 10, 2018, podcast "Episode 2: Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality" – an interview with Carlo Rovelli. [1] Here's an excerpt.
Carroll: But it's not so far from mine in that part in the sense that I am an Everettian, a believer in the many worlds interpretation, at least I think that's my favorite. I'm happy to change my mind some day down the road, but Everett himself, when he invented it in the 1950s, when he published his paper, he called it the relative state interpretation. And the point that he was trying to emphasize was that what you see is only relative to the thing seeing it. This interaction creates an impression of the measurement outcome, that is intrinsically part of the relationship between the thing that is doing the measuring and the thing that is being observed. So I think that there's some similarity of words there.
Rovelli: Some similarities. I shouldn't talk for you, but let me try it for one second. I think what you would add to what I say, is that you want to take a realist position where beyond that there is nevertheless a deterministic non-relational overall quantum state of the system, that we may take as the proper description of reality.
Carroll: I would like to say that, yeah …
Rovelli: Would that be so?
Carroll: Yeah, I would. I'm a realist. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be a scientist and not be a realist about reality. [laughter] And yet I know …
Rovelli: Right, so I would like to be a realist, but less radically so. …
And so I find that if we want to be a realist about the wave function, we have … Actually, let me step back for a moment. I think, given the strangeness of quantum mechanics, any way we think it is, comes with a price. So we have options. We have a number of options, and we have been talking about two options, okay, the sort of many world interpretation, in which you have this wave function of everything, which come with a price, or the sort of strictly relational view which I described, which also come with a price. And there are others and they have their own price.
Carroll: Right, that's right.
Rovelli: And many discussions about quantum mechanics are, "Well, which price are we ready to pay?" And the price of the relational interpretation I described is this weakening of realism. So to say, what the state of the system … Well, I don't know, it doesn't matter, it doesn't have a state, it only has a state with respect to A, and it is the same with respect B, and it is the same with respect to C, and there is no solid objective, overall picture. The price of the many world interpretation, is that I have to accept …
Carroll: Many worlds.
Rovelli: In some sense all these many worlds.
Carroll: Yes, absolutely, it's a big price, it's a big price.
Rovelli: So it comes with an enormous ontology, a very heavy ontology, and which price do we wanna pay. In one way or the other, it contradicts our previous way of thinking of reality.
Carroll: Absolutely, and I … So I couldn't agree more about the idea that there is a price to be paid. I could disagree a little bit about the heaviness of the ontology that is associated with many worlds, but I think that this is a good lesson, because all we need for today's conversation is the clear fact that we have at the same time, a way to do quantum mechanics, we use quantum mechanics as physicists every day, it's been spectacularly verified experimentally. We know how to use it, we have a recipe, we have a black box.
Rovelli: Yeah, and it works, it works fantastically well.
Carroll: And we don't have anything close to an agreement on what it is, what the fundamentals of it really say. So that will be a wonderful thing to figure out once and for all, but maybe we don't need to do that for the question of quantizing gravity. So just to put the puzzle, the task, in perspective, since we grew up, we human beings, as classical people, classical mechanics was invented first. It is very intuitive to us, even if pendulums and inclined planes tortured us as undergraduates, we kind of get it in a fundamental, visceral way. So we always start by thinking about systems from this classical point of view and then we quantize them, we elevate the classical description to some quantum mechanical theory. Now, presumably nature or God doesn't work that way.
Okay, what's my personal take on this topic? Well, I agree that quantum foundations is important. Studying philosophy (including philosophy of science) has shaped my perspective. Generally, I side more with Rovelli than Carroll on realism and QM.
Carroll is well grounded in the mathematical framework of QM, and my grasp of that is all too limited. I sometimes think that his conviction (no matter how provisional) is based on mathematics for which any explanation to "mere mortals" is problematical; so, metaphorical language misses the core of the argument.
[Carroll] And we look at and say yes, I see the worlds, there they are. I see them in my math. I don't see them in my telescopes or microscopes.
The many-worlds interpretation focuses on the so-called measurement problem (wave function collapse), and there are many tropes which blend the terms measurement, observation, and even decision (by the PBS NewsHour) – as splitting other worlds. Carroll is careful in discussing this point, repeatedly stating that it's an open question as to what "measurement" means (what counts as an "observation" or whether consciousness is required or not, for example). Yet, I thought that advances in understanding decoherence had diffused the problem. As Philip Ball said, "The universe is always looking." [3]
And indeed the PBS NewsHours' characterization that QM claims that "two objects can occupy the exact same space at the same time" is misleading. Their use of the words "object" and "exact" miss even a visualization of radio waves (EM photons) overlapping or interfering: positional and spatial concepts of waves – wavelength and superposition. Discussing wave functions is even more arcane.
[Carroll] But what is the wave function? Is it a complete and comprehensive representation of the world? Or do we need additional physical quantities to fully capture reality, as Albert Einstein and others suspected? Or does the wave function have no direct connection with reality at all, merely characterizing our personal ignorance about what we will eventually measure in our experiments?
So, Carroll talks about the measurment problem. And Rovelli's Relational quantum mechanics replaces measurement with interaction as the way to remain a "realist about the wave function." That is, a "property becomes concrete when two systems interact."
You replace measurement with interaction. But to make the machine work, you have to assume that when two systems interact, the property of one system becomes actual, with respect to the other system, and not with respect to everything else. And that point is really shocking.
There are a lot of quantities in physics which are relational, we know that they are. The velocity of an object is not a property of the object. There's no sense in which the velocity of an object is a property of the object … The velocity of an object is a property of an object with respect to another object.
So I can say that the Earth is set to velocity with respect to the Sun, but the Sun is not measuring, it's not going out with meters and kilometers. So we use this language, measuring, and we interpret this language to say that some properties are relational. I want to be a realist about relational properties. And I want to think of reality in a realistic way … to our direct experience of reality [observables]. I see the photons coming in, I see the table being the table …
But in his book, Carroll defines his Courageous Formulation of an Austere Quantum Mechanics this way:
This minimalist approach has two aspects. First, we take the wave function seriously as a direct representation of reality, not just a bookkeeping device to help us organize our knowledge. We treat it as ontological, not epistemic. That's the most austere strategy we can imagine adopting, since anything else would posit additional structure over and above the wave function.
Personally I am not sure about the reality of the wave function – as ontic vs. epistemic.
Wiki: "If the wave function is physically real, in some sense and to some extent, then the collapse of the wave function is also seen as a real process, to the same extent."
Fermilab's Don Lincoln takes on this topic in his November 18, 2019, YouTube video "What is quantum mechanics really all about?" (below). In particular, regarding the reality of the wave function and its so-called collapse.
Additional videos from Carroll's book tour
• Chicago Humanities Festival > Sean Carroll: Many Worlds (published November 14, 2019 on YouTube)
Additional critiques of Carroll's book
• Forbes > "Many Worlds, But Too Much Metaphor" by Chad Orzel, Contributor (Sep 17, 2019)
Orzel discusses the notion of a wavefunction of the universe ("in an indescribably complex superposition"), localized superposition, probability, measurement, and decoherence.
That process of interaction with the changing state of an unknown environment gets the name "decoherence," and it's what enables the bookkeeping trick that lets us split off pieces of the wavefunction and consider them in isolation. If the piece you're interested in is big enough and interacts with the environment strongly enough, there's no hope of doing the interference measurement that would show it's in a superposition state. If you can't do a measurement that would show the existence of the other piece(s) of the superposition, you can safely treat it as being in a single definite state.
Orzel sees the math much as Carroll does. But he concludes that the typical language in which the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) is cast takes us down a counterproductive rabbit hole (much like the "rubber sheet" analogy for spacetime curvature in General Relativity). As mere mortals, we tend to become enchanted with a vivid metaphor – too literally – because the mathematics is so impenetrable.
As Philip Ball says in his book: "The Many Worlds Interpretation denies language, but gets away with it because language has a notorious capacity to express things that appear to have meaning yet do not. – Ball, Philip. Beyond Weird (p. 360). University of Chicago Press. Kindle Edition.
Orzel suggests an alternative perspective on "an otherwise incomprehensibly vast wavefunction."
I actually like the start of Carroll's presentation quite a bit, where he casts MWI as "Austere Quantum Mechanics," with the only postulates being that the universe is described by a wavefunction, and that the wavefunction evolves according to the Schrödinger equation.
The problem is that after that austere beginning, Carroll dives back into the somewhat baroque metaphor that's grown up around the simple initial idea, talking at great length about branches of the wavefunction that contain copies of everything in the universe that differ only in the results of particular measurements. This language is really an additional interpretive superstructure on top of the actual austerity of MWI, an extended metaphor for the experience of observers within the theory. It's also where everything goes wrong, from the standpoint of communication.
Talking about "parallel worlds" or even "branches of the wavefunction" as real separate things invites a whole bunch of questions that are really about the metaphor, not the theory, and thus ultimately unproductive.
Thinking about MWI in this way – as a bookkeeping trick to simplify an otherwise incomprehensibly vast wavefunction – clears up most of the typical objections that arise from taking the "separate worlds" metaphor too literally. There's no "Occam's Razor" problem because there's only one wavefunction obeying one set of rules. There's no issue with "creating copies" of everything, because there are no copies: there's one universe, with one set of components described by one wavefunction. It's not even a problem that the criteria for "splitting" are kind of nebulous, because it's clear that it's a fundamentally arbitrary process – the choice of which pieces to isolate and discuss is purely a matter of bookkeeping convention for the convenience of puny human physicists.
So, that's my argument for why the way we talk about the Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics sucks, and should be revisited. Please note that I'm not saying that Sean Carroll or any of the other super-smart people who spend time and energy thinking about and working with MWI are Doing It Wrong in terms of the physics – mathematically, thinking of the different pieces we can carve out of the giant wavefunction of the universe as separate branches works perfectly well. That's how you keep the books. All I'm arguing is that, on a conceptual level and in terms of the language used to communicate to non-experts, we should do a better job of making clear that it is just bookkeeping.
Rather than "Many-Worlds Interpretation," I'd go with "Metaphorical Worlds Interpretation," to reflect the fact that all the different ways of cutting up the wavefunction into sub-parts are fundamentally a matter of convenience, a choice to talk about pieces of the wavefunction as if they were separate, because the whole is too vast to comprehend.
• Quanta Magazine > "Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems" by Philip Ball (October 18, 2018) > The idea that the universe splits into multiple realities with every measurement has become an increasingly popular proposed solution to the mysteries of quantum mechanics. But this "many-worlds interpretation" is incoherent, Philip Ball argues in this adapted excerpt from his new book Beyond Weird.
Ball's article recaps the history of the Many-Worlds Interpretation (vs. multiverse hypothesis), with references to Bohr, Everett, DeWitt, Deutsch, Greene, Vaidman, Wallace … And how to characterize the breakdown of superpositions – as separations, splits, parallels, alternative outcomes, bifurcations, copies, etc. And how the theory of decoherence "helped to revitalize the MWI by supplying a clear rationale for what previously seemed a rather vague contingency."
But he then notes that MWI's theoretical austerity ("parsimony of assumptions") does not banish conceptual and metaphysical problems.
My own view is that the problems with the MWI are overwhelming — not because they show it must be wrong, but because they render it incoherent. It simply cannot be articulated meaningfully.
As Carroll does in his book tour (as in the Chicago Humanities Festival video from November 2019), Ball distinguishes between weak objections to MWI and strong ones. The better objections include:
• The insouciance with which MWI is cast – the casual egalitarianism of each of an infinty of infinte atomic quantum "measurements" (and the weighting of all those countless "Butterfly effects" on everyday macro objects and creatures).
• The notion of self and doppelgänger tropes and consciousness: "the level of the discourse about our alleged replica selves is often shockingly shallow."
• The interpretation of probabilities: "If all outcomes occur with 100-percent probability, where does that leave the probabilistic character of quantum mechanics?"
He concludes that: "We are not just suspended in language; we have denied language any agency. The MWI — if taken seriously — is unthinkable."
But (as Carroll might agree), Ball notes that MWI "should be valued for forcing us to confront some tough philosophical questions."
Additional note
The chapter "There is no other 'quantum' you" in Ball's book examines the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) and the Everettian vision of the entire universe as an immeasurable incomprehensible wavefunction.
As [the 'universal wavefunction'] evolves, some of these superpositions break down, making certain realities distinct and isolated from one another. In this sense, … we should speak of the unravelling of two realities that were previously just possible futures of a single reality.
And he notes the foundational question regarding reality of mathematical constructs (akin to Plato's theory of Forms):
• The reification of Hilbert space: "Hilbert space – the mathematical construct that contains all the possible solutions of the variables in the Schrödinger equation … is a construct – a piece of math, not a place."
Elsewhere is his book, he writes: "… the notion of a universal wavefunction is popular with cosmologists, for the perfectly valid reason that in the earliest moments of the Big Bang the entire universe was smaller than an atom and surely needs to be considered, in that moment, a quantum-mechanical entity."
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Related pages
Online video: Perimeter Institute Lee Smolin Public Lecture "Einstein's Unfinished Revolution" (published on Apr 18, 2019)
[1] Other podcasts by Sean Carroll:
- Episode 63 Solo: Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics, September 9, 2019
- Episode 59 Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics, August 12, 2019
- Episode 55 A Conversation with Rob Reid on Quantum Mechanics and Many Worlds, July 15, 2019
- Episode 36 David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds, March 4, 2019
- Episode 31 Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory Landscape, January 28, 2019
[2] From Carroll's Research overview page:
These days my physics research is a bit different, focusing on two big themes. The first theme is the foundations of quantum mechanics, especially connections to cosmology and emergent spacetime. I'm a proponent of the Everett ("many-worlds") approach to quantum mechanics. It's a great theory, but raises a number of questions to which the answers are not yet clear, including the origin of probability and how the furniture of our semi-classical world (space, time, fields) emerges from an underlying wave function in Hilbert space.
[3] Wiki: Quantum decoherence
However, decoherence by itself may not give a complete solution of the measurement problem, since all components of the wave function still exist in a global superposition, which is explicitly acknowledged in the many-worlds interpretation. All decoherence explains, in this view, is why these coherences are no longer available for inspection by local observers. To present a solution to the measurement problem in most interpretations of quantum mechanics, decoherence must be supplied with some nontrivial interpretational considerations (as for example Wojciech Zurek tends to do in his existential interpretation). However, according to Everett and DeWitt, the many-worlds interpretation can be derived from the formalism alone, in which case no extra interpretational layer is required.


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Philip N. Eskew Jr. is an IU alumnus and former member of the IU Board of Trustees. Eskew earned a B.A. in pre-medical sciences from DePauw University, where he played football, ran track, and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He went on to earn an M.D. from the IU School of Medicine in 1970.
After medical school, Eskew spent six years as a captain in the United States Army Reserves, earning the Army Commendation Medal. Eskew was the founder and managing senior partner from 1974 to 1994 at the Carmel, IN., OB/GYN, Inc. He worked at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis for over two decades, serving as the OB/GYN Residency Program director (1994-1999), and medical director of Women and Infant Services (2004-2007). Eskew was a volunteer clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, rising from clinical assistant professor (1989-1995) and clinical associate professor (1996-2004) to clinical professor (2004-2013).
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Eskew has been recognized with many awards and commendations throughout his career. He has received the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Distinguished Physician Award, the Distinguished Physician Award from the St. Vincent Hospital, and the Burgess L. Gordon Memorial Award from the American Medical Association. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997. A colonel and battalion surgeon with the Indiana Guard Reserve, Eskew was recognized by the governor in 2011 with the Indiana Commendation Medal for service to the Indiana Guard Reserve, and, in 2014, the Indiana Guard Reserve Merit Medal. Eskew was named a Sagamore of the Wabash in 1996. He has been an active member and former president of the DePauw University alumni board.
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