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A networking equipment malfunction has disrupted Twitter, causing the microblogging site to become unavailable to users for hours on Wednesday and forcing company engineers to shut down key features to perform the repairs.
The technical problems have also affected third-party applications that use Twitter APIs (application programming interfaces).
Twitter started displaying its notorious "fail whale" error page to its site visitors late Wednesday morning U.S. Eastern Time, saying its system was overtaxed.
The company acknowledged the problem around noon in its Twitter Status blog, and over the next 90 minutes or so it posted several updates, alerting users about the performance problems and about features, such as its search engine, that it was disabling to fix the issues.
Twitter declared the problem fixed at 1:30 p.m., but four hours later the availability problems re-emerged, a development the company blamed on the same networking glitch they had addressed earlier in the day.
It's the second day in a row in which Twitter's service has run into performance problems. On Tuesday, Twitter.com and third-party applications were unavailable for about one hour.
Outages at Twitter get intense, widespread and instant attention thanks to the service's massive usage. In May, users posted 2 billion "tweets," according to Web uptime monitoring company Pingdom. That is double the number of tweets posted in December of last year.
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It's been a long, arduous journey, but take heart: Voting for the Jalopnik Forza Motorsport 3 Downloadable Car Pack is half over. Round Two begins shortly, but for now, here are Tuesday's winners. Also, some very good news.
Yesterday was the second day of voting for Jalopnik's community-decided car pack. It was a day fraught with intrigue, bloodshed, and strife, to say nothing of a particularly feisty BMW 2002. Good cars were lost. Questionable — and yet inexplicably popular — machines moved forward. Many Bothans died to bring you information that you may not necessarily have wanted.
Nevertheless, a new day has dawned. We enter into this heartbreaking freedom of opportunity with a kind of — how to put this? — opportunistic, heartbreaking freedom. Or something like that. Democracy is working. The people are speaking. The commentariat is, as usual, a lovably grumpy bunch of malcontents and championeers of awesomeness. (Yes, we know "championeer" isn't a word. But it fits.) And we stare into our screens, our pixels, and our hearts with a renewed sense of optimism.
Admittedly, part of that is because we have some good news to deliver: Weepy because a specific car didn't make it in? Frustrated because Internet democracy is just too dang... democratic? After late-night discussions with Turn 10 Studios, the outfit that produces Forza, we have a solution. In the interest of keeping the whole process as excellent as possible, Turn 10 has asked us to introduce something called the Commenter Golden Ticket.
In a nutshell, the Commenter Golden Ticket is a way for once-dead cars to come back to life. At the end of each day, Turn 10 will evaluate polling results and commenter opinion and bring back five cars that they feel are Jalopnik-worthy. These cars will remain a secret until polling opens. Commenters, this exists solely because of you and your willingness to
never shut up speak up. You guys rock, and you should be proud of your grease-stained, rabble-rousing selves.
Housekeeping errata: Because so many of you asked, wallpapers of our Forzalopnik car collages and public-service announcements are on the way. They'll be delivered once the
glorious, mind-breaking mess joyous business of voting is over. (Any interest in posters of this stuff? Speak now.) Along the same lines, we've also included the vote counts (see below) for the also-ran cars from each poll. Voting was accomplished by a bunch of impartial, pint-size servants we keep in the trunk of Wojdyla's suicide-door Continental. Pay no attention to the Lincoln behind the curtain.
Round One, Group IV
The turbocharged thrilla from Munich-nilla took on the best the world had to offer and walked away victorious. Both Thunderbirds went down in flames. The Mitsubishi "Viva Bumbeck" Starion fell a mere hundred votes short, proving that funky greatness does not always rise to the top. And a Fiero beat out a Phase III Falcon? How bizarre!
1. 1973 BMW 2002 Turbo, 7982
2. 1980 Lotus Esprit 2.2, 7706
3. 1998 Aston Martin V8 Vantage V600, 6856
4. 1974 Ford Escort RS1600, 6773
5. 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT, 6071
6. 1996 Audi RS2 Avant, 6026
7. 1980 Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC AMG Group 2, 5709
8. 1992 Jaguar XJR-15, 5589
9. 1989 Toyota MR2 SC, 5432
10. 1997 Honda Civic Type R, 5150
The Also-Rans:
1968 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds 442, 5107
1988 Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R, 5059
1988 Volkswagen Golf GTI VR6, 5059
1970 Buick GSX, 5021
1979 Lancia Montecarlo, 4477
1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III XY, 4281
1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator, 4082
1992 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4, 3838
1957 Ford Thunderbird, 3403
1962 Ford Thunderbird, 2771
Round One, Group V
The Judge has ruled! The Volkswagen Scirocco S lives, as does the sexy Alfa Montreal, but the Volvo 242 dies a horrible, almost-there death. The six-four Impala is down for the count — is the 'pala-loving world asleep at the Skee-Lo wheel? And what the heck is up with the death of the cheese-gratin' Pulsar GTI-R? Justice! Have you forsaken us?
1. 1999 Lotus Elise Sport 190, 6574
2. 1984 BMW M635CSi, 6530
3. 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge, 6528
4. 1981 Volkswagen Scirocco S, 6219
5. 1966 Jaguar XJ13, 6107
6. 1984 Peugeot 205 Turbo 16, 5864
7. 1988 Nissan GTS-R R31, 5857
8. 1965 Pontiac GTO, 5362
9. 1970 Alfa Romeo Montreal, 5277
10. 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, 5211
The Also-Rans:
1991 Nissan Pulsar GTI-R, 5091
1983 Volvo 242 Group A Homologation, 5095
1978 Ford Mustang King Cobra, 5052
1992 Nissan 240SX SE, 5022
1964 Chevrolet Impala SS, 4482
1997 Subaru Alcoyne SVX, 4256
1986 Peugeot 205 GTi, 4204
1999 Vauxhall Vectra GSi, 3689
2000 Lexus SC300, 3504
1994 Volkswagen Polo G40, 2948
Round One, Group VI
The four-cam Porsche 356 is thrashing its many timing gears no longer, but the 550 Spyder lives to bastard another day. The sexy Aston Martin DBR1 made the cut by a wide margin, which is good, because we'd have to smack you if it didn't. And the Ford Probe GTS edges out the Saab 900 Turbo, which only goes to show that Spyker can't fix everything. Bork!
1. 2002 BMW Z3 M Coupe, 7047
2. 1955 Porsche 550A Spyder, 7000
3. 1990 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evo II, 6736
4. 1959 Aston Martin DBR1, 6719
5. 1970 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda, 6248
6. 1965 Ford Mustang Coupe (Fastback), 6216
8. 1970 Datsun 240Z, 6137
9. 1997 Ford Probe GTS, 5883
10. 1995 BMW 850CSi, 5793
The Also-Rans
1965 Porsche 356 Carrera 2, 5553
1995 Ferrari 348 GTS, 5516
1986 Dodge Shelby Omni GLHS, 4982
1993 Saab 900 Turbo, 4606
1986 Ford Capri 3.0S, 4543
1970 Dodge Coronet R/T, 3720
1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX, 3572
1993 Renault Clio Williams, 3560
1970 Toyota Corolla, 3033
2000 Toyota Chaser, 2426


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What's funny is that writer Joss Whedon and writer/director Drew Goddard are going to get praised for how original The Cabin in the Woods is.
It isn't. In fact, the entire fundamental concept of the film relies solely on existing themes and tropes, on the relentless repurposing of the same mundane series of ideas over and over again. It just gives us an excuse to devour those familiar elements like so much comfort food. And that's precisely why it is so brilliant. Now, that may sound confusing, but considering how dumbed-down and revealing most movie marketing is these days, it's kind of great to feel all turned around for once.
Because those who reveal spoilers are only slightly less vile than third-world dictators and people who pronounce the word "wolf " as "woof," this review can't cover the very things that make the film so fun. To talk about it without ruining it is to dance a particularly tricky jig. So let's get to two-steppin'.
A quintet of clichés get into a Winnebago and drive to a place so reminiscent of the Friday the 13th setting, they may as well have called it "Camp Schmistal Shake." There's the virginal Dana (Kristen Connolly), the alpha-dog Curt (Chris Hemsworth), the trampy Jules (Anna Hutchinson), the brainy Holden ( Jesse Williams) and the goofy Marty (Fran Kranz). These characters are the permanent residents of movies like this, but for once we are given a gleefully fun reason why that's always the case.
That reason has to do with Sitterson (Richard Jenkins) and Hadley (Bradley Whitford), two mid-level managers in white shirts and ties, and has to do with the end of all reality as we know it. As the kids are tormented and tortured, the nature of this repetitive song-and-dance becomes clear. The result is a triumph of cleverness that makes this the finest horror film of the last decade. That's practically an irrefutable fact.
By and large, horror is a tired genre. Worse than that, it's so frequently lazy. What Whedon and Goddard have done is make that very fact their entire premise. The best part is that the trailers are underselling the scope of it all, concealing the colossally epic third act that is likely to remain among the best of the year.
It may be slight in nature, with a self-referential conceit that isn't likely to find massive public appeal, least of all from the core horror audiences that made Paranormal Activity 3 a hit. But The Cabin in the Woods is proof that the wheel need not be reinvented so much as repurposed. Essentially, Whedon and Goddard stripped the rubber from that broken down old car, threw a rope in the middle and made us a tire swing to ride on.
Although this isn't a Sixth Sense experience predicated on holding a reveal until the final moments, the less you know going in to this, the better. So see it now before the true movie villains, those dill-weeds who ruin things on social media, claim another victim.
—This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.
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Dennis E. Kelly, a lawyer based in New Orleans, LA whose primary area of practice is Commercial, has earned the AV Preeminent® rating from Martindale-Hubbell®
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NEW YORK, JUNE 26, ARMENPRESS. USA main indexes values for 25 June:
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The Front Range of Colorado is reeling from the biggest—and probably most destructive—flash flood in the region's history, thanks to a storm that dropped a year's worth of rainfall in about 24 hours.
Here's how it happened: A blocking pattern has set up over the western United States, drawing a conveyor belt of tropical moisture north from coastal Mexico. Blocking patterns form when the jet stream slows to a crawl, and weather patterns get stuck in place. When all that warm, wet air hit the Rocky Mountains, it had nowhere to go but up, pushed further skyward by the mountains themselves. By some measurements, the atmosphere at the time of the heaviest rains was the among most soaked it has ever been in Colorado.
Gauge measurements show floodwaters in Colorado have now exceeded the legendary Big Thompson Canyon Flood of 1976, the flood of record for the region. In downtown Boulder, a meandering creek expanded 40-fold in just a few hours. More rain is on the way this weekend.
Earlier this summer, similarly devastating floods have hit Las Vegas, Nevada, and Calgary, Canada, and the basic cause has been the same: tropical moisture making its way to places it shouldn't be, in amounts rarely seen before. This is not a fluke event, nor something that's going to go away.
Why it will keep happening: Blocking patterns are fertile ground for extreme weather. A blocking pattern near Greenland was also to blame for steering Superstorm Sandy toward the east coast of the United States last fall. Persistent high pressure this year in the western United States has led to what is (so far) California's driest year on record. That, in turn, fueled last month's massive Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park, which grew to a size larger than New York City.
Recent research is building toward a theory that the loss of more than 80% of the Arctic ice cap over the last couple of decades may be destabilizing weather patterns, causing blocks to form more frequently. Here's why: As the Arctic regions warm at two or three times the rate of the rest of the globe, the difference in temperature between the Arctic and the tropics gets smaller. That slows down the jet stream, like cars stuck in traffic. The traffic jams become blocking patterns, which is when crazy things start to happen: the warmest temperature in Japan's history, torrential rains in the desert, massive droughts that appear nearly overnight.
The last decade has not been kind to Colorado, weather-wise. Up in Rocky Mountain National Park, the pine bark beetle infestation (itself brought about partly by warmer winters) has killed vast swaths of trees. Winter snowpack has been declining, leading to more intense summer drought. The two most destructive fires in state history have occurred within the last 15 months.
It's difficult to attribute any of these individual events to climate change. Still, over the coming decades, climate science says we can expect more intense, longer-lasting heat waves. Worsening droughts. Increasing frequency of big wildfires. More dramatic rainstorms.
In Colorado, at least, it seems that the climate has already changed.
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Converting Content-Audience Fit to Product Traction
Posted by Bob Warfield on December 18, 2012
Jason Lempkin has a new post out about gaining traction after your product ships. He says it's hard, much harder than building the 1.0 product which was already hard, and he makes some concrete suggestions on how to go about gaining traction:
– Finish hiring your core team. Presumably you've left the sales and marketing until post-1.0?
– Get attention for your app: "Whatever you can possible do. Go to every conference. Speak at any possible event you can, no matter how small. Win every award. Try to get every blog to write about you. Reach out to anyone and everyone in your space. Be respectful, but totally, utterly, shameless here. Do whatever you can possibly think of here."
– Hit the pavement and get early customers and partners
– Lavish attention on every single customer and lead
– Plan your next release carefully–it may be your last
Wow, put that way, the job seems really tough!
After reading the account, I do have memories of startups that had to solve the traction problem through brute force and shoe leather. They were painful and very scary.
The thing is, success is about being prepared (with a healthy dose of luck, though chance does favor the prepared mind). As I tell my kids, "It doesn't matter how smart you are, if the other guy already did the homework and knows the answer while you're still trying to figure it out, he looks smarter."
So it is with achieving product traction. This is why I wrote my earlier post about achieving what I call "Content-Audience Fit" to tell Founders it has to be their first priority, even ahead of building a product. Possibly even ahead of knowing what product you will build. I say this for two reasons. First, if you don't know your audience, you can't build a great product anyway. While you might think you know your audience, how can you be sure until you have Content-Audience Fit?
If you have Content-Audience Fit, the following things are true:
1. There is a reasonably large audience that is steadily growing and is consuming your content. They care about what you have to say in the market you're interested in. They are subscribing to your mailing list, following you on Twitter, liking you on Facebook, or whatever other Social Medium works for your market. Consequently you know what Social means to your market.
2. You are part of the Conversation taking place on the web for your chosen market. You are posting in their online communities. You're on the blogs of the key influencers (you do know who they all are, don't you?) commenting.
3. You are so familiar with the commercial players in the market that you've helped the Market Audience understand some of them better. You're commenting on their blogs too. That establishes you as an agnostic authority in the market.
4. Because of your participation in all the right conversations, and because of the quality of the content you're producing, Key Influencers will recognize your name. You are beginning to get folks asking you unsolicited questions as a recognized Expert.
There is a not-so-subtle difference between this Content-Audience fit and "Get attention for your app". It's because you're getting attention for your content. You're establishing yourself as an expert, not a guy shilling your products and company. Because your content is very high quality and it's being given away freely, you're invoking the principle of reciprocity, which is a powerful force when marketing and selling. You're laying the groundwork to present your selling proposition from a position of strength, after your prospects have already decided you're the expert.
Imagine being able to validate your product vision, and eventually early versions of the product with that kind of Audience insight. It's invaluable. It should be a requirement. Yet so many companies build the product first and consult the Audience afterward.
Second, you need a strategy to make this business of gaining Product Traction easier. I love the definition that strategy is what you do to make winning easier. If you ever needed a strategy, it is when you launch your 1.0 product!
So how do we convert Content-Audience Fit to Product Traction?
Back up. Let's get the timing right first. You don't want to start trying to achieve Content-Audience fit after you've built Product 1.0. That's way too late. Here's a mini-case study:
I took Helpstream, a Social CRM startup, from being invisible to having a successful blog that had achieved Content-Audience fit in about six months. At the end of the six months, the key influencers knew who we were and were starting to write about us. For example, Paul Greenberg, the "Godfather of CRM", wrote a short passage that perfectly signals good Content-Audience fit:
A few weeks ago, I had a discussion with fellow Enterprise Irregular Bob Warfield, who is the EVP of Products for a company called Helpstream. I have to admit, when I saw Bob's rather cogent commentaries on the Enterprise Irregulars site, I became curious as to what he did and what the Helpstream company dealio was. I asked him and we set up a demo and a conversation between me, Bob, and Anthony Nemelka, the President and CEO of Helpstream and a long time industry veteran.
That second sentence telegraphs where we're going and why Content-Audience fit is so critical to a product launch. Because of my "cogent commentaries", Paul asked us for a demo. Imagine Content that is so good, the key influencers are coming to you, rather than you going to them hat in hand trying to get a meeting. I would budget a minimum of 6 months and perhaps as long as 12 months to achieve your Content-Audience fit. Sounds like you need to get started at the same time you start the Product, right?
This is an insight that is missing from many startups. In fact, many want to do a stealth launch and keep everything secretive. Feel free to keep your product aspirations a secret, but you're nuts if you're not belting out super high quality content for your audience from Day 1. That means as you sit around the table with your fellow Founders, and you ask the question, "Who is spearheading our drive for Content-Audience Fit and who is writing all that content?", there had better be a good answer. That marketing guy you partnered with who has never actually done a blog, he has just simply hired people who did blogs? We might be past the evolution in how marketing is done for that to be a good idea. First question I ask any marketing candidate at any level is, "Show me your blog?" If the response is, "Huh?", the interview is not going to go well. It's no different than asking any question about marketing deliverables. Would you hire someone who had never had any contact with advertising of any kind? Content marketing is so critical to small companies, how can it be an afterthought?
As an aside, I recently came across a bootstrap business called, The Wirecutter. The Founder achieved Content-Audience fit before they ever started this little company by writing for Gizmodo, Wired, GadgetLab, and MaximumPC. How about grabbing one of the big name bloggers in your space as a co-Founder? How about at least as an advisor to help you get to Content-Audience Fit? Have them brutally critique your content until you get it right.
BTW, people like Paul Greenberg have extremely high standards. There is a reason they get nicknames like the "Godfather of CRM". They are trusted and they didn't get there by being dummies or shills. If your content doesn't have something really meaningful to say, you'll get nowhere with this strategy. But if you get the meeting because your PR firm pounded hard enough on doors, and then in the meeting you still have nothing to say, you're going nowhere anyway. So:
It is critically important to do the work of achieving Content Audience Fit!
That's it. Full Stop. End of Sermon. Don't.Mess.It.Up!!!
Okay, now imagine you've got that fit, as defined by the 1,2,3,4 list above. Let's use it to produce traction. This is done in the following ways:
The Audience that's ready to Jump Now is ready. Invite them in.
There are always those influencers who get an edge by working harder to learn than the others. Always those prospects who are ready to buy now and want the new new thing. If you have achieved Content-Audience Fit, all you need do is announce the availability of a product and any of these people in your audience will be likely to check in. Start with your Beta Test. You can keep it as controlled as you like, but put the announcement out through your content channel and be sure to communicate at least your value proposition well enough so people will want to jump in. If you don't have a big enough audience yet that having 5% of them answer your invitation, you don't have Content-Audience Fit.
Give the Early Adopters an Amazing Deal and Make Them Heroes
You don't need revenue yet, you need credibility. You put out the call to action, and the right people have self-selected by coming forward. They like you or else they wouldn't have come forward. They're active in the online world or else they'd have no idea you existed. They're raising their hands to tell you they care. Make it easy for them to feel like that was the best decision they ever made. Focus your spotlight of attention entirely on them. Save your bandwidth so you can give them completely unreasonable amounts of it. Make them heroes and they will make you a star.
You need to charge them a little bit or it isn't a real transaction. Give them the best deal you will ever offer in your corporate history and make sure they know that in the nicest possible way. Give them attention and services that will never be available to others in even a year's time. Plug every member of your team into the success of these early customers.
When that fire has caught, you can ask them for a favor. You can ask them to help you get the word out. At the very least, you need them to be a willing and able reference. Next step up, you need them to be a case study. Grand Prize: you need them to be a source of referrals. Try to discreetly make sure when you sign them up that they'll be able to do some of this, at least serve as references. You can't ask for that favor up front, but you can find out if they've ever been involved with early software, done references, yada, yada.
Earn the Right to Raise Your Price and Sell Bigger Deals
The company I mentioned earlier, Helpstream, had nearly every marketing automation company as customers for our Customer Service Social CRM product. I remember calling each of these CEO's, who were all entrepreneurs like myself, and asking them what Helpstream could and should do going forward. Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, shocked me by telling me, "Bob, I don't know if I should be saying this, but you should raise your prices." Even more shocking was that Phil wasn't the only one to tell me that. So we did, after carefully making sure to grandfather existing customers with appropriate agreements so that they were taken care of. There was virtually no pushback whatsoever, and it helped the business tremendously.
What had happened is we had earned the right to raise our prices by delivering on our promises and raising our credibility.
The ability to price higher comes most from credibility. Sure, you might have the world's greatest product, but nobody knows that if you don't have the credibility. Can you see where having good Content-Audience Fit is the first step on the credibility journey? Beyond that first step, it is your conduit for telling your customer's stories and continuing to build that credibility.
The next step is being able to tell your Early Adopter's stories. In terms of closing business, there is nothing like being able to have a prospect talk to a customer that gushes about your product. At Callidus Software we used to invite prospects to our User Conferences precisely to maximize the exposure to that kind of sentiment.
Startups are enaged in earning the right to raise prices and to sell bigger deals throughout their history. Successfully getting your first 5-10 reference accounts is just the first rung on that ladder. Each company you sell to would like to know that they're not the largest deal you've ever sold. Raising the size of your largest deal earns you the right to sell even larger deals. Accumulating this asset of referencibility is your primary deal closing accelerant until you're large enough to point to being the market leader or perhaps to being a public company. Gordon Moore's Chasm Crossing can largely be seen as the process of establishing the credibility needed before those who are not Early Adopters will buy.
All along your journey, your Content continues to establish your company's expertise in its chosen field. You never walk away from that–you just keep building on it. If your references are your Sales Accelerant, your successful Content is your lead generation accelerant. Establish your web properties as the go-to spots to learn about what your customers care about. All the best marketing startups like Hubspot, SEOMoz, Marketo, and Eloqua are working this way. Maybe that's a clue for the non-marketing startups that this is how marketing is done these days?
Lead With Content for Competitive Skirmishes and Insights
Competitors are great for startups. If you're the only one in a market, you have to undertake to grow that market all by yourself. With competition, the cost is shared and the market can grow much more quickly. In addition, picking a fight is a sure way to add passion to your content and help drive more traffic. You can't agree with everybody, but you need to agree with the position your key audience want you to stake out.
Take advantage of that with your Content strategy. See which conversations your competition are dominating and wade into those conversations with your own viewpoint. That viewpoint has to carry substance, but when it does, if you win the audience's hearts and minds who are watching the conversation, they will come your way. You can't win them all, but this is where you start stacking up the different value propositions. This is where you carve up the market into micro-niches that are looking at things each a little differently. Here's where you find out which micro-niches matter, and which ones are dead ends best left to the competition.
Passive sonar gained by just passively consuming the content from your space is great, but so much more can be learned through active pinging of the landscape. See how they respond to your messaging, analysis, and insights.
There's a lot of work required to achieve traction. But, if you subscribe to my Content-Audience Fit idea, you'll begin that work Day 1 at your company. When you're ready to enter Beta Test, you'll have a lot more going for you than your sales guy's contact lists and willingness to burn through shoe leather. You'll have an audience that wants to come to you, embrace your product, and help you spread the word. FWIW, Helpstream wasn't my first or last experience with Content-Marketing Fit. My bootstrap company, CNCCookbook, thrives on the notion today.
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Google on Tuesday invited Windows Phone 7 application developers to start using its AdMob advertising platform.
Google released a beta SDK that will let Windows Phone 7 developers integrate AdMob ads into their applications. They'll be able to control where the ads appear and what kinds of ads are shown. They'll also be able to include text and banner ads and, when users click on the ads, open a Web page or link to the App Marketplace.
Google said it has customized the ad experience to give it the look and feel of Windows Phone 7.
The addition of support for Windows Phone 7 could entice more developers to build apps for that platform. AdMob already displays ads in apps on iPhones, Android phones and webOS Palm devices. Developers might be encouraged to port their applications to Windows Phone 7 if it's now easier to use the same ad system across all the platforms.
Some Windows Phone 7 developers, particularly those outside of the U.S., appear to have been eager to use AdMob. One created a way to integrate AdMob ads into applications and shared it with the community.
Microsoft lets developers use ads from its own ad platform but the capability is not yet available in all countries. That's one reason that developers have started using AdMob, even before Google officially extended support to them.
Another ad platform, from Millennial Media, also recently added support for Windows Phone 7.
Google bought AdMob, one of the largest mobile advertising platforms, last year.
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The collection includes thirty-one poetry broadsides from Frank Tierney's Spring 2008 Typography 3381.301 and 3381.302 taught at Texas Tech University. The project represents the cumulative final project which incorporated typography, graphic design, and poetry. Students chose one of four poems to produce their broadsides. They are as follows: "Following Krill" (Concho River Review, Fall 2003, vol. 18.2, 101), "After the Tornado" (Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 2006, vol. 26, 50), "Dreaming After the Tornado" (Isotope, Fall/Winter 2007, vol. 5.2, 49), and "Witnessing," (Amarillo Bay, Spring, vol. 7.1, e-journal). The poems' versions in the broadside collection do not represent the poems as they first appeared in the journals noted above.


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WASHINGTON—The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress' approach to immigration.
In a matter of weeks, Congress will go from trying to help young, illegal immigrants become legal to debating whether children born to parents who are in the country illegally should continue to enjoy automatic U.S. citizenship.
Such a hardened approach—and the rhetoric certain to accompany it—should resonate with the GOP faithful who helped swing the House in Republicans' favor. But it also could further hurt the GOP in its endeavor to grab a large enough share of the growing Latino vote to win the White House and the Senate majority in 2012.
Legislation to test interpretations of the 14th Amendment as granting citizenship to children of illegal immigrants will emerge early next session. That is likely to be followed by attempts to force employers to use a still-developing web system, dubbed E-Verify, to check that all of their employees are in the U.S. legally.
There could be proposed curbs on federal spending in cities that don't do enough to identify people who are in the country illegally and attempts to reduce the numbers of legal immigrants. Democrats ended the year failing for a second time to win passage of the Dream Act, which would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a chance at legal status.
House Republicans will try to fill the immigration reform vacuum left by Democrats with legislation designed to send illegal immigrants packing and deter others from trying to come to the U.S.
Democrats, who will still control the Senate, will be playing defense against harsh immigration enforcement measures, mindful of their need to keep on good footing with Hispanic voters. But a slimmer majority and an eye on 2012 may prevent Senate Democrats from bringing to the floor any sweeping immigration bill, or even a limited one that hints at providing legal status to people in the country illegally.
President Barack Obama could be a wild card.
He'll have at his disposal his veto power should a bill denying citizenship to children of illegal immigrants make it to his desk. But Obama also has made cracking down on employers a key part of his administration's immigration enforcement tactics.
Hispanic voters and their allies will look for Obama to broker a deal on immigration as he did on tax cuts and health care. After the Dream Act failed in the Senate this month, Obama said his administration would not give up on the measure. "At a minimum we should be able to get Dream done. So I'm going to go back at it," he said.
The president has taken heavy hits in Spanish-language and ethnic media for failing to keep his promise to address immigration promptly and taking it off the agenda last summer. His administration's continued deportations of immigrants—a record 393,000 in the 2010 fiscal year—have also made tenuous his relationship with Hispanic voters.
John Morton, who oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a recent conference call that there are no plans to change the agency's enforcement tactics, which are focused on immigrants who commit crimes but also have led to detaining and deporting many immigrants who have not committed crimes.
The agency also will continue to expand Secure Communities, the program that allows immigration officials to check fingerprints of all people booked into jail to see if they are in the country illegally. Both illegal immigrants and residents can end up being deported under the program, which the Homeland Security Department hopes to expand nationwide by 2013.
Many of those attending a recent gathering of conservative Hispanics in Washington warned that another round of tough laws surrounded by ugly anti-immigrant discussions could doom the GOP's 2012 chances.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a possible 2012 candidate, cited Meg Whitman's failed gubernatorial bid in California despite her high spending. When 22 percent of the electorate is Latino, candidates can't win without a vigorous presence in the Hispanic community and a "message that is understandable and involves respect," Gingrich said. Even so, Gingrich was unwilling to call on his fellow Republican senators to drop their opposition to the Dream Act, saying the legislation should not have been considered without giving lawmakers a chance to amend it.
The next Congress will be populated with many newcomers elected on a platform of tougher immigration enforcement. They'll have ready ears in Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, who will chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who is expected to chair the committee's immigration subcommittee.
That's a recipe for more measures aimed at immigration enforcement, including requiring businesses to use E-Verify rather than eyeballing paper documents to check workers' citizenship and legal residency status.
"I've already told the business community it's going to happen," said Beto Cardenas, executive counsel to Americans for Immigration Reform, a coalition of business leaders who support overhauling immigration laws. Changes to immigration law contained in appropriations and authorization bills, where immigration enforcement hawks are likely to tuck some measures, would also be tough to reject.
But more controversial measures such as attempts to deny citizenship to children of people who are in the U.S. without permission could be tempered by GOP leaders aware of the need to curry more favor with Hispanic voters.
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Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, said she was using her $15m, which was frozen in four companies' accounts, to settle medical bills while she was out of the country.
She, therefore, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Skye Bank to lift the restriction on the accounts.
Patience said this in a letter with reference number GA/Abibo/00226/2016, written by her lawyers, Granville Abibo (SAN) and Co, which was addressed to the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.
The PUNCH had reported that the four accounts belonged to the following companies: Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited.
A houseboy, a driver and other domestic workers of a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to Jonathan, Waripamowei Dudafa, were named as directors, but Patience's $15m was lodged in the accounts and she was given a platinum card and exclusive access to the accounts.
The letter read in part, "It is noteworthy to emphasise that the said accounts, which were in US dollar denomination, were card-based accounts and our client is the sole signatory to these accounts.
"However, our client has been operating the said accounts using the cards for her medical bill payments and purchases for her private purposes without any let or hindrance.
"Our client was therefore surprised when the said cards stop functioning on July 7, 2016, or thereabout. Our client immediately, thereupon, contacted Skye Bank Plc through our solicitors.
''It was only then that the bank officials informed our client that the said accounts were placed on a 'No Debit Order' following investigations and instruction from your commission and this is without notice to our client by either the bank or the commission.
"It is in the light of the foregoing that we urge you to use your good offices to vacate the 'No Debit/Freezing Order' placed on the said accounts."
Patience, who described herself as a law-abiding citizen, said despite all the explanations she offered to the Lagos Zonal Office of the EFCC, the detectives in charge refused to heed her request.
She, therefore, urged Magu to intervene immediately.
She added, "Despite the foregoing, our client, who is a law-abiding citizen, has watched with surprise how efforts are being made surreptitiously to indirectly harass or harangue her and short-change her of her personal funds in breach of her fundamental human rights.
"We urge you sir, to kindly intervene to stop the untoward and wrongful actions of your officials to embarrass, inconvenience and short-change our client."
However, a detective in the EFCC said, "We got a relevant court order to freeze those accounts and we have evidence which we will present in court on Friday.
"We did not know that the accounts belonged to Patience Jonathan at the time we froze them. The accounts do not bear her name neither do they carry her BVN (Bank Verification Number). So, how can she accuse us of harassment?
"She has a separate account in Skye Bank with the title 'Patience Jonathan', which has a balance of $5m. If she claims she needs money for medical treatment, then the $5m should be alright."
In a thanksgiving service held at the State House chapel in Abuja on February 18, 2013, Patience had said she underwent seven surgical operations within one month in Germany, adding that the doctors had given up hope on her survival.
She had stated, "I remember when Chief Obasanjo was the President of the country, I was close to his late wife, Stella. We worshiped together in this chapel. It was a painful moment for me that time when she (Stella) died and her corpse was brought here.
"That was how my corpse would have been brought here.
''It was not an easy experience for me. I actually died, I passed out for more than a week. My intestine and tummy were opened.
"I am not Lazarus but my experience was similar to his. My doctors said all hope was lost.''
FG not persecuting Jonathan, Patience –Mohammed
Meanwhile, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government, under President Muhammadu Buhari, is not persecuting Jonathan and his wife, Patience.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Oro, Kwara State, on Tuesday, Mohammed said it would be wrong to submit that the Federal Government was probing Jonathan or Patience.
He said, "If you look at the history of Mrs. Patience Jonathan's issue, I think she was the one that came out to claim that the money found in the accounts of one of the aides to the former President, her husband, belonged to her.
"It was not the EFCC that claimed so. She claimed that the money that the guy was being prosecuted for belonged to her. It was only then they later found an extra $5m in another account.
"It is not as if anybody has gone out to probe Mrs. Jonathan directly or indirectly. Rather Mrs. Jonathan was the one that said 'that money for which you are accusing Mr. X actually belongs to me. So, you cannot start talking of prosecution or persecution."
The minister said the Federal Government was concerned about the current national economic recession and had initiated measures to address it.
He stated that the current campaign of the Federal Government, ''Change begins with me,'' was not only for the people but also for the leaders.
Mohammed also said it was incorrect to accuse Buhari's government of being partisan, selective and vindictive in its anti-corruption war.
He said Buhari would also not spare any APC member accused or guilty of corruption.
He said, "People have always said that no APC politician had been investigated. The question is 'those who are those being prosecuted today, for what reasons are they being prosecuted?
"It is wrong to say that the government is only investigating and prosecuting PDP members. We have not even started investigating the oil and gas industry. It is not about going out to investigate PDP. No!
''We lost about 15,000 people. Nobody can, in honesty, accuse the FG of being one sided.''
Patience must explain her source of wealth, says CACOL
Also, a civil society organisation, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, has said Patience must explain how she came about the funds with which she reportedly built a N10bn hotel in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The hotel, which is known as Aridolf Resort Wellness and Spa, Yenagoa, was inaugurated by Patience in April 2015, barely a month before the end of her husband's tenure.
But CACOL, which recalled in a statement on Tuesday that Patience was only a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa State at a time, said the ex-President's wife must be made to explain the source of her wealth.
The statement by the group's acting Media Officer, Abiodun Rabiu, quoted the Executive Chairman of CACOL, Debo Adeniran, as saying the EFCC needed no further petition to invite Patience for questioning.
CACOL asked, "How did she (Patience) get the money and even the ones stacked in her accounts? That is what we, Nigerians, want to know. As far as we can understand, she was just a civil servant. So, as a civil servant, how did she manage to acquire such a luxurious property that is worth that amount, because she would have earned less than 10 per cent of the amount even if she had been a Director or Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa State Civil Service all of the entire years she has spent on earth?"
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HIGGINS, DAVID, ship captain, merchant, colonizer, and office-holder; m. 6 June 1773 Elizabeth Prince at Boston, Massachusetts; d. April 1783 at Charlottetown, St John's (Prince Edward) Island.
Nothing is known of David Higgins' background or early life. He first appears in the 1760s as a ship captain in the Gulf of St Lawrence fishery. In 1767, with merchants Hutcheson Mure and Robert Cathcart, he drew Lot 59 on St John's Island in the Board of Trade lottery. Two years later he went into partnership with James William Montgomery, lord advocate of Scotland. Their plan was to develop Lot 59, which fronted on Cardigan Bay, and Montgomery's adjacent Lot 51 as a fishing, lumbering, and mercantile centre. Probably as a result of his connections with Montgomery, Higgins was appointed naval officer of the Island as well as one of the first members of its Council. He was also authorized by the Earl of Hillsborough, secretary of state for the American Colonies, to take over custody of stores and provisions ordered to Charlottetown in 1768 by Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin of Nova Scotia as part of his abortive attempt to favour his friends and business associates.
Higgins arrived on the Island in September 1769 and reported to Whitehall that Governor Walter Patterson would be disappointed if he expected "good houses provisions many utensils boats &c" from the Nova Scotia effort, since the buildings were unfinished and uninhabitable, the provisions spoiled, the boats in bad repair, and the stores and tools badly rusted and useless. Montgomery had supplied Higgins with a shipload of trade goods to sell to prospective settlers and an open letter of credit to the prominent Boston merchant Job Prince, Higgins' future father-in-law. Higgins had no trouble disposing of these goods and subsequent provisions obtained in New England, which helped keep many newcomers to the Island from starvation, but most of his dealings were solely on credit. Higgins kept a store at Georgetown, and on Lot 59 he built a sawmill and grist-mill, cleared 30 acres for St Andrew's Farm, and settled 32 small tenants, including a dozen Acadian families familiar with the fishery. He sent 22 shiploads of timber to Britain in the early 1770s, but because of depressed prices the expenses of preparation and shipment were barely cleared. Higgins served as foreman of the Island's first grand jury, and he was appointed a "Public Pass Officer" for Georgetown in 1771 to prevent unauthorized departures from the Island by indentured servants. He was himself dismissed from the Council in 1773 for being absent from its meetings without leave.
By 1774 Montgomery was appalled at the charges on him, which totalled nearly £4,000 without visible return, and that year he stopped payment on Higgins' bills of exchange and called him home for an accounting. On his way Higgins stopped at Boston to convey to Job Prince his interest in Lot 59 (and the buildings on it, which belonged to Montgomery) in repayment of some of his debts. In Scotland, Montgomery could make little sense of his partner's books, but he wrote off the debt in return for Higgins' third of Lot 59 (whose sale to Prince he did not discover until after Higgins' death), another third of Lot 59 and half of Lot 12, which Higgins had come to acquire, and a bond for £2,400. In return, Higgins became lessee from Montgomery of two-thirds of Lot 59, half of Lot 12, all of Lot 51, and Panmure Island for a yearly rental of £100, which was to rise ultimately to £300. Having already invested and lost his wife's "little fortune" and having resided on the Island for five years "in not much better a state than slavery," Higgins felt obliged to return there in the summer of 1775 with another load of trade goods and an elaborate outfit for distilling molasses. With these items, presumably obtained on credit, he hoped to use Three Rivers (the region around Georgetown) in a triangular trade with Britain and the West Indies in fish, timber, molasses, and trade goods. The American War of Independence ruined his plans. His vessel was taken by privateers on the voyage out and he was able to ransom himself and his cargo only at great expense. Although he saved the precious distilling equipment this time, it was carried off in American raids on Three Rivers later in the war.
In July 1779 Higgins was elected to the House of Assembly but he resigned in March 1780 after serving as speaker. He was still trying to stay in business in 1781, when he wrote Haldimand* offering to serve as his agent in the Gulf, but in 1782 he gave up and moved his family to Charlottetown, returning to Three Rivers in a schooner upon which he loaded everything movable for sale at the capital. Most of the Island's officials helped Higgins in his distress by taking off his hands at bargain prices such items as doors, windows, and blacksmiths' equipment, although according to one observer, "Non will confess any part of it." As a final indignity, one "Mr Barry" (probably Captain Walter Berry) carried off Higgins' wife. Overwhelmed by his debts and his "Wife defiling his Bed," Higgins went on a four-month drinking-bout that culminated in a fatal fever in April 1783. Another of Montgomery's agents, David Lawson*, undertook administration of the Higgins estate and gained custody of the account books which Island rumour held showed large debts owed by leading government officials, especially Attorney General Phillips Callbeck. Montgomery, the principal creditor, was never able to recover the books despite years of litigation.
David Higgins was one of the Island's most active and enterprising early adventurers, and he helped many settlers. Lieutenant Governor Thomas Desbrisay* wrote at Higgins' death that he was "a man that did more service to the Lower Class of People here, than all the officers of Government, put together." But service did not pay bills or satisfy creditors. Most of the money involved did not belong to Higgins, and he died a virtual bankrupt, testimony to the problems of the early merchants of St John's Island.
BL, Add. mss 21734, f.127. PRO, CO 226/1, f.55; 226/4, ff.1–2, 29–32, 119–21, 175–78. Scottish Record Office (Edinburgh), Montgomery estate papers in the muniments of Messrs. Blackwood and Smith, W.S., Peebles, Estate papers, GD293/2/78/23, 28, 30, 45, 47, 61; 293/2/79/1, 19, 46, 49, 51, 52. Brebner, Neutral Yankees (1969), 85–86. A. H. Clark, Three centuries and the Island: a historical geography of settlement and agriculture in Prince Edward Island, Canada (Toronto, 1959).
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Electro-slag welding is a primary method for cast weld assemblies of heavy sections since one of the key characteristics is its suitably high deposition rate.
As with all welding techniques the success relates to the control of the numerous variables of the process and with ESW it is no different in that controlling the mass-transfer coefficient can drive a successful operation.
The quality of welded joint depends greatly on the structure and properties of a weld metal and heat affected zone (HAZ), which are determined by thermal cycle. As well as the melting and crystallization of weld metal, the change of temperature results in structural transformations, volumetric changes, elastic-plastic deformations of product material, which at unfavorable thermal cycle in the HAZ causes arising of brittle hardened structures for carbon and alloyed steels which predetermined the increased tendency of metal of this zone to cracks and brittle fracture of welded joint as a whole.
Therefore, in welding of carbon structural steels the task is put to produce welded joint of a full strength. For the thermal cycle of the HAZ in electroslag welding (ESW) the delayed heating of this zone, its long exposure at the temperatures of overheating and next delayed cooling in the region of temperatures of pearlite, intermediate and martensite transformations are characteristic.
The aim of the work S.M. Kozulin, I.I. Lychko, G.S. Podyma is the study of effect of thermal cycle on the structure and mechanical properties of welded joint in multilayer electroslag welding using consumable nozzle. The measurements of thermal cycles of the metal of heat affected zone were carried out. To study the effect of self-heat treatment on the structure and properties of welded joints the investigations were carried out including macro- and microanalysis of weld layers and their heat affected zones as well as mechanical tests of the characteristic areas of welded joints. It was found that in the overheating zone of base metal, not exposed to the reheating, the growth of grains reaches N2 and N1 according to the GOST 5639—82 and in the zones of reheating (self-heat treatment) – N7 and N8. (Figure 1 a and b).
The hardness of metal of layers and areas of heat affected zone exposed to reheating is on average by 20 % lower than that of the areas of heat affected zone with base metal not exposed to reheating. It was shown that in multilayer electroslag welding alternatively from one edge of a butt to another one the volume of self-heat treatment of the layers of multilayer electroslag weld reaches 38.4 %. In multilayer electroslag welding with deposition of layers from the middle of a butt to its edges, the volume of self-heat treatment of the first (central) layer reaches 87 % and the rest (except of the external layers) is 30—43 %. It was established that the width of heat affected zone scarcely depends on specific energy input in the investigated range of its values.
On the other hand in the work of S.Scnchurov is presented mathematical models of metallurgical processes of electroslag welding (ESW), electroslag remelting (ESR), electroslag hardfacing (ESH) and centrifugal electroslag casting (CESC). The models allow to predict chemical composition of metal along and in transversal sections of an ingot, a weld and a surfacing layer, and in thickness of a casting. Using of the models reduces expenses during selection of optimum process conditions and materials which providing weld metal or ingot metal with required composition.
One of the most important parameters of the mathematical models is a mass-transfer coefficient. A physical modelling method of study of mass-transfer between molten metal and slag in electroslag technologies (EST) was developed. Influence of electrode melting rate and casting velocity on mass-transfer coefficients was studied.
The model is based on the analysis of the kinetics of interaction between the metal, slag and gas.
This approach was used for the processes of ESR (1), ESW (2), ESH (3) and CESC (4). The model makes it possible to forecast the chemical composition of the electroslag metal, including the composition in longitudinal and transversal sections of a weld or ingot, and takes into account the following factors:
Generally, the result of this model indicate that the possibility of prediction of the chemical composition of the electroslag metal enables optimization of electroslag technologies as early as in the design stage, by selecting the composition of the initial materials and the process conditions providing electroslag metal with the required composition.
1. S.M. Kozulin, I.I. Lychko, G.S. Podyma: Structure and properties of steel 35L welded joints produced using multilayer electroslag welding, The Paton Welding Journal, 2013, p.7-12;
2. S.Shanchurov: Modelling of metallurgical processes in electroslag technologies, Accessed Nov 2017.
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Some guy nicknamed "ArtisanTony" has designed and developed an interesting 3D-printed polymer shotgun slug called the "Trifecta Round" for an outfit called Taufledermaus. The non-rifled 3D-printed slug utilizes a lead tip for a modicum of stability and a honeycomb-type matrix pattern inside for lightweight strength.
The Trifecta slug predictably doesn't look all that accurate, but they did manage to hit the target (and penetrate it) at close range. A rifled slug would be significantly more accurate and stable. Penetrative ability, while pretty good for a polymer slug, would probably also be improved with some rifling.
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Here we aim to give you a wide range of projection mapping ideas and examples to inspire and enhance your next event technology engagement.
Southwest Airlines revealed a new look with a stunning visual display. With 35,000 lumen projectors, state-of-the-art mapping software and concert quality audio, the Southwest Airlines hangars were brought to life. Thousands of attendees were able to witness the world's first immersive 3D/4D projection experience in the interior of an airplane hangar.
In 2014, British Airways first flight to Singapore landed successfully. To celebrate the successful trip, the airline company created a projection mapping video. Seven high powered projectors were used to map a world of stunning effects on and around a 1:20-size scale model of an Airbus A380. Following the journey to Singapore, the video depicted beautiful scenes including "the canvas above the clouds," which incorporated physical fog to recreate the feeling of serenity and mimic the beauty of flight.
For the launch of the movie Iron Man 2, Marvel Studios displayed a projection mapping on Rochester Castle in Kent, England. Spectators were treated to an action-packed viewing experience, where the members of the band AC/DC were pitted against Iron Man.
HP ePrint & TRON
Projected on the roof of the QEH on London's Southbank, this immersive visual spectacle helped build intrigue and excitement around both HP's ePrint products and the movie Tron: Legacy. The best part is that it was enhanced with snippets from soundtrack artist Daft Punk, as well as original sound effects from the film.
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE | Facade projection from URBANSCREEN on Vimeo.
Even if you serve the auditory side of the event spectrum, visuals are needed to supplement and support your content. This is why projection mapping is a unique way to communicate an equally unique idea. The Sydney Opera House projection, for example, is a poetic homage to the architecture and its constructional concept of the architect, Jørn Utzon. As Utzon said about his architecture, he wanted to give it a human expression. The projected video layer in that same sense aims to establish an immediate, architectural expression. Similar to Utzon, can this stunning technology relate to your message in a new, unique way?
This building projection was to promote the new movie "The Tourist" starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. The Joule Hotel in downtown Dallas hosted a party with this 3D architectural mapping projection art show on the Praetorian Building.
This campaign was developed to promote the two-part miniseries on the SyFy Channel, Alice. After being displayed on buildings in New York City, the show attracted more than a million visitors to their Twitter page and countless impressions from people passing by the projection.
In this spectacular illumination, the Magic Castle at Tokyo's Disney Resort brings the fairytales to life. Viewers were able to watch as the characters from Beauty and the Beast come alive on the gigantic castle.
For the MTV European Music Awards, musical artist Labrinth was projected onto the Glasgow City Chambers to promote his new song 'Let It Be.' Take a look at the funky display above.
Space Invaders and Chelsea Football Club
In this projection mapping campaign, members of the Chelsea Football Club went head-to-head in the world's largest game of Space Invaders ever. This campaign joins the best aspects of projection mapping and ultrasonic motion sensors to create an interactive way to both play games and promote these two brands.
This artsy German projection asks the question, "What would it be like if a house was dreaming?" Are you curious what it would be like if a house could dream? Take a look at the video above to find out what these artists' interpretation is.
BMW's Joy 3D campaign holds the title of Asia's first interactive 3D building projection. This video projection transforms busy office buildings in Suntec City, Singapore from a symbol of work into a symbol of joy, while showing off the brand's cars.
This architectural projection mapping campaign was done for Volkswagen in Autostadt, Wolfsburg. The way that it is shot is worthy of an award. It's so realistic that you have to keep reminding yourself that it's just an illusion created by projecting light onto the building.
Toyota Auris 'Get Your Energy Back'
This projection mapping campaign from Toyota delves into the story of the car and how it came to be. This certainly isn't the only example of projection mapping on a car, but it's close to being one of the best.
To announce the launch of the Audi A5, the automobile manufacturer crafted another video projection, this time shown at the world premiere of the new Audi A5 Coupe. Check out the spectacle above!
Another projection mapping campaign by Porsche comes from the announcement of their car, the Macan. Hosted at Barvikha Concert Hall near Moscow, Russia, this exhilarating visual display was only enhanced by unique supplemental audio and even a live dance performance.
Go above and beyond to make a great impression – while many projection mapping campaigns are displayed on buildings, New Balance decided to take it up a notch and do projection lighting on one of their shoes. Watch the shoe light up, change colors, and come to life in the video above.
For one of the biggest design events in the industry, London Design Week, six brands came together to create a unique projection mapping experience. The six Italian brands, Relax, Lunardelli Infissi, Ville Venete, AVMazzega, Uno Contract and Bevilacqua Tessuti, developed a projection mapping exhibit that transformed a seemingly ordinary room into a more spectacular space. Take a look above.
Using large, three-dimensional letters, this interesting display projected videos that made the letters "V-A-N-S" appear animated.
For a new store launch in Amsterdam, H&M brought their building to life with 3D projection mapping. The visuals feature a red ribbon that was wrapped around the building; it untangles itself and transforms the building into a vibrant dollhouse where a surreal scene takes place.
To launch Kat Von D Beauty under the Sephora brand name, a live digital makeup performance was conducted to announce the entertainer's line of beauty products. Featuring the first-ever real-time face tracking and projection mapping, this projection rendered images over Kat Von D's face, while accurately following the movements of her torso, neck and face.
Those living in Barcelona in 2014 may have been treated to a projection mapping campaign in which soccer superstar Lionel Messi would have "run past you" on the street. To promote their new Adizero f50 Messi cleat, Adidas created a projection mapping campaign in which Messi was projected onto the buildings, monuments and trees of the Spanish city.
Ralph Lauren decided to show off their clothing and models by projecting a catwalk show on their Bond Street store facade. Gigantic, three-story projections of models create a must-see campaign that people can't help but stop and stare at.
Another projection mapping campaign from Ralph Lauren takes it a step further, projecting the visuals against a 60-foot tall wall of water in the heart of Central Park in New York City. Celebrating the launch of Polo for Women Spring 2015 collection, this groundbreaking projection fused fashion and technology to create a truly lasting impression on the audience.
Harrods Installation - Faberge from Projection Artworks on Vimeo.
Just three years ago, Harrods developed a video projection campaign in which a giant Fabergé egg took over four of the windows in the department store. Visitors could choose their favorite pattern and have it projected onto the egg, creating a custom viewing experience. The technology used a wide variety of light on generally smaller areas, making it possible to see in daytime.
This one-night-only display at Black Bear Casino Resort celebrated their 20th anniversary by lighting up their casino with one of the biggest projection mapping efforts in Minnesota's history. The spectacle included a ten-story, 10,000-square-foot visual centerpiece constructed around the architecture of the Black Bear hotel building.
Canada's Wonderland 30th Birthday Starlight Spectacular from Tantrum on Vimeo.
Canada's Wonderland developed a gigantic projection mapping experience to commemorate its 30th birthday. Displayed on their iconic attraction, Wonder Mountain, this 10-minute video takes 3D projections and transforms the mountain into something as individualistic as it is eye-catching. View the technology in action in the video above.
Built in 1914, the reopening of Tokyo Station, a railway station in the Marunouchi business district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, was certainly something to be excited about. With the visual technology on display, viewers can experience the history of Tokyo Station, railway, and share the vision of its future.
This unique projection mapping technique was unveiled in Florence at the anti-conformer exhibition. Using 3D mapping, 360 projection and custom graphics, production studio DrawLight and the renowned artist Rabarama breathed new life into her famous sculpture 'Bozzolo'.
West Virginia's 150th Birthday
This 3D building mapping was projected on the State Capital of West Virginia to celebrate the West Virginia Sesquicentennial on June 22nd 2013. Included are images of the history of West Virginia, its industries, favorite pastimes and mnemonics of Abraham Lincoln, Senator Byrd, Chuck Yeager, Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton.
With the help of projection mapping company, PointCloud Media, the City of Sugar Land was able to ring in 2015 with a 3D projection mapping onto the city's Town Hall. Viewers were treated to an immersive display to celebrate the new year.
The Enniscorthy Street Rhythms Dance Festival of 2011 featured an interesting 3D projection. Take a look at the video above to join in on the celebration!
This building projection, dubbed "The Elegant Lady," celebrates the Queen of England's Diamond Jubilee. This show culturally traced the six-decade reign of Queen Elizabeth II through the eyes of the glorious Bangor Castle.
Boy Scouts of America's 100th Birthday
This 3D projection was mapped on a basketball court, supplemented with props and set pieces that add another layer of visual interest.
In the sometimes dreary tunnels of the London Bridge, Pepsi gave unsuspecting passersby an augmented reality video projection experience. They revealed a giant portal to everything from prehistoric dinosaurs to futuristic cyborgs as part of the latest installment from the Pepsi Max's Unbelievable campaign.
Molson Coors Pravha Beer Launch
For the new Staropramen beer, Pravha, Molson Coors launched its new product at the NEC. Projection mapping was used on the walls and roof, and on the main screen to give a larger than life impression of a glass of beer.
In this display for the Opening Ceremony of the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, viewers saw the building glow with different subjects, such as the Renaissance, the presentation of the Championships locations and the event winners.
Delighted Florida Gator fans jumped to their feet at the sight of the court floor coming alive.
Vancouver Canucks Opening Game
Fans attending the Canucks first 2014/15 home game saw a spectacular ice projection show that got the crowd ready for a big win.
Since projection mapping is beginning to be used as the perfect way to get crowds at sporting events excited before a match, it's no surprise that the Los Angeles Clippers followed suit. In this court projection for the LA Clippers, they incorporated real objects into the display, with illuminated beach balls being thrown into the crowd to match the visuals on the floor.
This 3D projection image mapping showcase brought the Washington Wizards basketball court to life at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. Watch along with the fans above as you stare in wonder at the visuals projected onto the court.
Hyper Elite NCAA Uniform Launch
NCAA asked the question: what if you could augment a real basketball court with a 3D game world where live players could interact with another reality? This campaign brought together the best streetballers into eight fantasy worlds where they could do things such as jump off the moon, land inside 8-bit video games, dunk off alligators and jump through wind tunnels.
This extraordinary production for the Jordan Melo M8 sneakers surprised viewers with a projection on the Hudson River. Special effects featured Carmelo "Melo" Anthony coming out of the water to play basketball on the surface.
In July 2012, Gillette celebrated the achievements of the US Olympic team with a large-scale, projection event and web video. Over three nights, Klip produced and shot building projections in and around the City of Boston including mobile projections of Tyson Gay running along a fence. The production concluded with the main event, featuring water screen projections in the Boston Harbor outside of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
During the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games, Coca-Cola hosted a projection mapping event every night at the Iceberg Skating Palace. Throughout the two-week event, super bright projectors painted the evening skies in celebration of the Olympic Games.
Temple University launched their "Temple Made" campaign in style. With two nights of mobile street projections around Philadelphia, leading up to a nighttime event on Temple's campus, the message was delivered in a visually innovative way. One of the many highlights of the event was the intricate mapping of the Temple campus' iconic bell tower, which lit up the night sky during the event.
This campaign for York University challenged to students, alumni and the general population to change the world. It also encouraged leadership in advancing research, discoveries and innovation, while opening up the minds of future leaders and strengthening communities, both on campus and around the world.
Produced for the Chicago-Kent College of Law 125th Anniversary Gala, this video was projected on a 3,200 square-foot wall in Chicago's famed Union Station. Event-goers were treated to a viewing experience that displayed law-related themes and subject matter.
To celebrate the launch of The Centennial Campaign for UCLA, the university curated a 3D light and sound show onto iconic Royce Hall. This captivating presentation illuminates the visionaries of UCLA and reflects the optimistic spirit of a university dedicated to changing the world.
The sound and light show was conceived for Rice University's centennial and performed under the stars in Rice's Academic Quadrangle in Houston. Designed by German artist group, URBANSCREEN, this was projected onto three of Rice University's historic buildings.
For the Samsung Galaxy launch In Istanbul, thousands of people gathered to view a multiple projection show at the Bosphorus in 2012. Check out the stunning technology above to see it for yourself!
Technology company Huawei used projection mapping to show off their new smart house products and how they can be incorporated into everyday life. Users are taken into a sample room which comes to life with projection mapping technology.
The Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) took place at the iconic Paris-Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi. The event was a first in this region.
This award-winning projection aims to reopen dialogue between the internal and external, drawing on contemporary art and architecture, geometry, physics, and chemistry. Displayed at the Palace of Parliament, the projection Integrates the facade's architectural characteristics into artwork, adding an extra value to this conversation between artist and audience, the city and its citizens.
To celebrate the launch of Sony PlayStation, this ambitious real-time projection mapping campaign was created using live puppetry, 3D tracking and pyrotechnics for the first time ever.
Take a page out of electronics company, LG's book and use a building as your canvas. LG conducted a projection mapping campaign in which they made a static building appear to come alive.
The Alienware computer/laptop launch not only included projection mapping but actors, pyrotechnics and special lighting to fill the scenes out with a realistic depiction of an alternate reality; one filled with aliens, telekinetics, sci-fi themes and more. If you have an especially unique brand, projection mapping may be the only way to create a world where the consumer can experience something that's truly once-in-a-lifetime.
Another projection mapping example that made the list from LG was created to promote the Optimus Series of Android cell phones. This immersive experience took spectators on an exciting 3D ride that included whales, ice skaters, giant octopi and steaming jungles, among other things. The five-minute show ended with the sage advice, "Optimize Your Life!" which was the tagline of that series of phones.
Sony turned two buildings into giant football-themed pinball machines in Madrid. The spectacle was watched by over 1500 people on the day it premiered.
Using projection mapping, the facade of the New Museum in New York City was transformed into a vivid nighttime environment of temporary, site-specific public art. An artist-driven antidote to light-based advertising and the capitalization of public space, the event represented a fresh way for artists working in light, sound, performance and projection to show-off innovative work that re-works elements of an iconic NYC neighborhood.
Vienna Now or Never Night. A Moment of Vienna
A spectacular performance, this projection mapping was displayed on the facade of the Vienna's Tourist Board building and told the story of the historic city.
Customs House in Sydney, Australia got virtually shattered by Mattel's "Hot Wheels Skull Racers." In spectacular fashion, the notorious Hot Wheels Skull Racers completely wreck the facade of the building as they competed in the adrenaline-pumping race.
One of the more technical examples of projection mapping on this list, BOX created a method of tracking moving objects dynamically to help create a one-of-a-kind viewing experience. This campaign explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces. This short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera without any after effects added.
This projection mapping was displayed on a baroque facade of the Cathedral of Santiago during the St. James Day Celebration. The visuals show the recounting of St. James' life story and a virtual tour of the inside of the cathedral. The production company also used projection mapping in conjunction with vivid light, sound, music, fireworks and other special effects to create a truly one-of-a-kind event experience.
The "Grand Hall Experience" at the St. Louis Union Station is the largest permanently installed indoor immersive projection mapping show in the United States. All transit riders are treated to a variety of shows throughout certain hours of the day, which has transformed the iconic space in St. Louis into a "must-see" area of town.


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