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Big Apple Film Festival - Dead Hairy Hipster
One night stiff. Three friends gather in a Brooklyn apartment to fix a problem. Afraid to call the police, Billie enlists her two best friends to handle the 'situation' as the previous evening's shenanigans unwind in this dark comedy.
Interview with Producer Keri Uribe and Anya Migdal
Congratulations! Why did you make your film?
From Director, Ashlin Halfnight: This is an actor-driven project, borne of a desire to lean into a morning of outlandish crisis and showcase the talent of three wonderful women. With Dead Hairy Hipster, we wanted to build a quick, dynamic, relationship and situation-driven comedy. It is a testament to what can be done in a short time when three gifted and intelligent actors commit fully to a ridiculous scenario, and then bring a generous and playful approach to set.
Imagine I'm a member of the audience. Why should I watch this film?
You'll have a good time. We're not trying to change the world with this project. Our goal was a fast and funny romp that takes the audience on a complete journey in under ten minutes.
How do personal and universal themes work in your film?
The examination of women's roles in society and film: challenging a typically male topic and storyline by exploring it from three distinct female points of view. Female empowerment. Action and consequence. The expectation/limits of friendship (both of oneself and others). The film speaks strongly to all of these themes.
How have the script and film evolved over the course of their development and production?
Ashlin's script was funny right off the top. The thing that changed the most was the deepening of the relationships between the actors/characters. The deeper the relationships, the higher the stakes, the funnier the film. The addition of music by Gene Pritsker (composer) added a tremendous amount to the final product, and we cannot overstate the importance of editing in shaping the final story – Joshua Hume (editor) was an amazing addition to the team.
What type of feedback have you received so far?
Feedback so far has been great. Folks are laughing, so that's a win.
Has the feedback surprised or challenged your point of view?
The most surprising/gratifying thing has been how much gents really love this film.
What are you looking to achieve by having your film more visible on www.wearemovingstories.com?
We are looking forward to connecting with a larger community of storytellers, filmmakers and audience members who appreciate an independent point view, and it would be incredible to communicate with other creatives who could be potential future collaborators.
Who do you need to come on board (producers, sales agents, buyers, distributors, film festival directors, journalists) to amplify this film's message?
Film festival directors & reviewers – just getting the word out. Distributors interested in short comedic works. Producers who are interested in a more complete exploration of these three amazing characters in a feature length format.
What type of impact and/or reception would you like this film to have?
We hope to make some folks laugh and embrace the idea of women in this non-traditional scenario.
What's a key question that will help spark a debate or begin a conversation about this film?
How far would you go to help your friends?
Would you like to add anything else?
We appreciate you viewing 'Dead Hairy Hipster' and joining the conversation.
What are the key creatives developing or working on now?
Ashlin Halfnight (writer/director) is currently a writer on the Emmy Award-winning Netflix show, Bloodline. His feature films Astraea and Diving Normal can be found on VOD, and upcoming projects Maybe There's A Tree and Northbound are in post-production and development, respectively.
Anya Migdal co-developed and produced "Queen of Glory", an upcoming feature in the final stages of post production; she is currently translating a collection of short stories, "Aetherial Worlds", by Tatyana Tolstaya, to be published by A. Knopf.
Keri Uribe is currently workshopping The Husk, a new play by Jake Quinn with plans for an off-Broadway run.
Emily Shaffer is working on a couple different writing projects: A feature titled "Pretty Theft" and a one-woman piece. All the while auditioning for television projects.
Interview: November 2016
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Dead Hair Hipster
One night stiff. Three friends gather in a Brooklyn apartment to fix a problem. Afraid to call the police, Billie enlists her two best friends to handle the 'situation' as the previous evening's shenanigans unwind in this dark comedy.
Length: 10min 3sec
Director: Ashlin Halfnight
Producer: Anya Migdal & Keri Uribe
Writer: Ashlin Halfnight
About the writer, director and producer:
Ashlin Halfnight (writer/director) is a Fulbright Scholar, a Howard Stein Playwriting Fellow, and was the 2006 artist in residence at the National Theater of Hungary, in Budapest. His plays have been performed across North America.
Anya Migdal (producer) has often guest starred in the L&O franchise as well as appearing in independent films, such as last year's "Hunter &Game" and the upcoming feature "Queen of Glory".
Keri Uribe (producer) is a founding company member of OnTheRoad Rep. Favorite NY credits include: The Affair, Ugly Betty and recurring roles on both OLTL and All My Children. Recent films include Changed Names and The Gift.
Key cast:
Emily Shaffer - Billy
Anya Migdal - Regina
Keri Uribe - Donna
Bobby Webster - Cinematographer
Joshua Hume - Editor
Gene Pritsker - Composer
Looking for (producers, sales agents, buyers, distributors, film festival directors, journalists): Producers, buyers, distributors, film festival directors, journalists
Funders: Self-financed
Made in association with: Adelos Media and Portage Creative
Where can I see it in the next month?
As we are still submitting on the film festival circuit, the film is not yet available on-line for public viewing. If interested in viewing for journalistic or distribution purposes, please contact us for a private link.


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John McFarland at Oil and Gas Lawyer Blog has a thought provoking post about Chesapeake's trade to Saddle Barnett Resources, LLC in the Barnett Shale. It is incredible that Chesapeake is essentially trading what used to be it's most prized asset while paying $334 million to extricate itself from an onerous gas purchasing agreement.
It should not be lost on the shareholders that the gas purchasing agreements were an accounting trick that Chesapeake negotiated with itself before the midstream company spun off as Access Energy. To quote from McFarland's piece,
"Recall that Chesapeake originally built out its own gathering system for its Barnett wells, which was held in an affiliate called Chesapeake Midstream. It spun those assets off into a separate, public entity called Access Midstream, but not before entering into a gathering agreement with its affiliate that provided very favorable terms to Chesapeake Midstream, including payment of a minimum volume commitment, which required Chesapeake to pay for a minimum volume of gas, even if it could not provide the gas. This gathering agreement greatly enhanced the market value of the spinoff, Access Midstream, which was later acquired by Williams. Since gas prices have remained low, Chesapeake has not been able to deliver its minimum volume commitment, increasing its gathering and transportation costs to the point where they exceeded the price it could get for its gas."
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Intel Announces 'In-Silicon' Fixes For Meltdown And Spectre Coming This Year, 10nm Update
Intel reported its fourth-quarter financials today in what was probably one of the company's most anticipated briefings in recent history.
Intel's financial performance has always been solid, often led by stellar +60% margins, but this briefing was somewhat different as some predict that the shadow of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities threaten to blot out some of Intel's black ink. That surely didn't happen, though, as Intel posted record results yet again and its stock is up 4% after hours. We also learned some new information about the company's plans to address the vulnerabilities and a surprising decline in the company's desktop processor sales.
Overall, Intel reported yet another banner quarter with an 8% increase in quarterly revenue, up to $17.1 billion, with the data center, programmable solutions (FPGA), and IoT groups leading the record revenue (excluding McAfee). Full-year 2017 revenue weighed in at $62.8 billion, a healthy 9% YoY growth rate. Notably, earnings per share were up 37%.
Here Comes The Silicon Patch
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich started the call with a short restatement of the company's commitment to security, which sounded very similar to his statements in the CES 2018 keynote.
Krzanich later said the company would begin to ship products with "in-silicon" fixes for the vulnerabilities this year. He did not elaborate, but logically this means that the company will include these fixes in the 10nm generation of products. Krzanich also later stated that the company expects to continue developing its 14nm products in 2018, so we could see yet another round of 14nm processors (sigh). Of course, one could speculate that these chips might also have in-silicon mitigations for the vulnerabilities.
Intel's newer chips (post-Broadwell) support a PCID (Post-Context Identifier) feature that helps reduce the performance impact of the Meltdown patches on newer hardware. Intel's plans to institute in-silicon fixes could reduce the impact even further, or perhaps remove it entirely. That's a sorely needed feature for a company that is reeling from the never-ending onslaught of press coverage around the vulnerabilities. We're reaching out to Intel for more details about the new silicon fix.
Some analysts are predicting that Intel could experience higher sales as companies refresh their hardware to offset the lost performance from the patches. Considering Intel's apparently fast cadence of in-silicon fixes, that could hold true. Krzanich also said the company is focused on developing high-quality mitigations for customers, and it has created a website dedicated to helping customers deal with the vulnerabilities. (The link to this website has not been provided. We have requested the link.)
Tell Us About AMD
An analyst asked Krzanich if the company had felt any pressure from AMD, but, as per Intel's unspoken policy, Krzanich did not mention AMD by name or respond directly to the question. AMD's increased pressure on Intel has been a godsend for enthusiasts and normal consumers alike, largely because it has forced Intel to deliver better value.
Intel's Q4 volume in desktop processors fell 5% year-over-year, which included the all-important holiday season. Intel's average selling prices also declined in both desktop and notebook segments. Intel's CCG (Client Computing Group), the CPU-making division for desktop PCs, also fell 2% this quarter. Intel chalked up to the continuing decline in the PC market, but it appears the external pressure is starting to take its toll. Intel's supply challenges with Coffee Lake processors might have also had an impact. Many customers may have opted to wait instead of purchasing the less-capable previous-gen models.
Did Someone Mention 10nm?
Intel also re-stated that it shipped some low-volume 10nm products last year, though again, the company did not provide any specifics about the number of units or the customer. Krzanich stated that the company would continue to ship 10nm processors in the first half of 2018 and then kick into high-volume manufacturing in the second half of the year. Intel noted that the cost impact of the 10nm ramp would increase in the second half of the year. That likely means we will see Ice Lake processors in that same time frame.
Potential Financial Impact Of Meltdown/Spectre
It's definitely far too early to see any potential financial impacts from any of the pending lawsuits or the costs associated with the ongoing patch efforts. For instance, during Intel's Q4 2016 earnings call, we broke the story that Intel mentioned it had created a then-undefined financial reserve to deal with a large-scale warranty return for higher than expected processor failure rates. That fund was due to the Atom C2000 failures.
In this call, Intel did not make any mention of any new funds or reserves to deal with pending re-compensation programs for customers, although it did mention that last year's fund cost them some profitability ("four points"). Intel sounds confident that it will not feel any near- or long-term pressure to its business. In response to a question from an analyst about the potential impact of the vulnerabilities on Intel's financial forecasts, Krzanich responded:
"From a cost standpoint [...] we don't expect any material impact of this security exploit on our spending or product costs, or any of that, that's how we bake that in."
Krzanich expanded and said that the company continually re-evaluates its forecasts, including over the first few weeks of this year, and the forecasts have not changed. But then Intel also stated that it had updated its risk factors to reflect the threats and litigation:
We have and may continue to face product claims, litigation, and adverse publicity and customer relations from security vulnerabilities and/or mitigation techniques, including as a result of side-channel exploits such as "Spectre" and "Meltdown," which could adversely impact our results of operations, customer relationships, and reputation. Separately, the publicity around recently disclosed security vulnerabilities may result in increased attempts by third parties to identify additional vulnerabilities, and future vulnerabilities and mitigation of those vulnerabilities may also adversely impact our results of operations, customer relationships, and reputation.
It Isn't All Rosy
There were a few other hiccups in Intel's growth story. The company's oft-maligned 3D XPoint DIMMs are delayed for what is conceivably the remainder of the year—the company says they will not have an impact on 2018 revenue. That's a pretty significant setback for a promising technology that we last heard was coming in the second half of 2018. It's possible that Intel's delayed DIMMs are due to challenges with the first-generation media and bringing those to market with the second-generation 3D XPoint is the obvious fix. As such, this continued delay could mean that second-gen 3D XPoint isn't on schedule for volume ramp.
Intel announced that its enterprise SSDs with 64-layer NAND were delayed for a quarter, which is another setback. The company did not expand on the topic, but Micron released its 5200 enterprise SSDs with the same NAND just this week, so this is due to a qualification delay with Intel's specific device, and not the NAND.
Intel recently announced that it's parting ways with long-time NAND venture partner Micron, but the two companies will continue to develop NAND products together throughout the end of the year. That means Intel will not realize a significant impact on its 2018 financials because it will begin shouldering the extra NAND R&D load in 2020. Intel also signed a few more long-term NAND supply contracts, which is a new tactic for the company that it first mentioned last quarter. Intel now has guaranteed sales of $2 billion in NAND in 2018.
Now Intel's Other Good News
Intel touted its continuing improvement in the AI field and noted that its Nervana processor ran a neural network within the first two weeks that the company had working silicon. Those products are now shipping. Krzanich also touched on the fact that Stratix 10 is shipping, but later in the call, we learned that the company's solid performance in its PSG group (FPGAs) stems from increased end-of-life sales, not Stratix 10.
Intel also continues to profit from its 14nm process as manufacturing costs drop, and the Xeon Scalable Skylake sales ramp is fattening the bottom line. Intel's Q4 data center business (DCG) was up 20% YoY.
Intel is in the second year of a three-year effort to transition itself to a data-centric company, which means less focus on its bread-and-butter desktop PC business. Intel said that even though the PC market is down 2%, it's still a reliable source of profitability (best profit since 2007) that funds investments in the new data-centric growth areas.
Intel also noted that it's increasing its spend in R&D for GPUs, AI, and Automotive, but it did not quantify the issue further. Notably, the company did not provide any financial information for the newly-formed Core and Visual Computing Group headed by Raja Koduri.
A 14% Tax Rate, But First...
Intel revealed that it will pay a 14% tax rate in 2018 (wow), but that a one-time charge this year resulted in an overall loss for this quarter of $687 million, and an effective tax rate of 52.8% for this year:
Intel's fourth-quarter results reflect an income tax expense of $5.4 billion as a result of the U.S. corporate tax reform enacted in December. This includes a one-time, required transition tax on our previously untaxed foreign earnings, which was partially offset by the re-measurement of deferred taxes using the new U.S. statutory tax rate.
Overall, Intel posted solid financial results, but looming litigation and some weakness in desktop PC sales could pose long-term threats. We'll learn more about AMD's financial situation next week during its earnings call.
jasonelmoreI want one of those "new" CPU's with the in-silicon fix. Intel, I just purchased a 7900X 2 months ago, I expect to have this CPU swapped out for a comparable "in-silicon fix" model. If you will not offer replacements, we will sue. This chip is slower than the 4790K it replaced in day-to-day task. I can notice a huge difference just in desktop animation speed after the meltdown/spectre fixes.
Please offer silicon replacements, i'm asking nicely
mwryder55"Krzanich stated that the company would continue to ship 10nm processors in the first half of 2017 and then kick into high-volume manufacturing in the second half of the year."
I think you meant 2018, not 2017.
PaulAlcorn644919 said:"Krzanich stated that the company would continue to ship 10nm processors in the first half of 2017 and then kick into high-volume manufacturing in the second half of the year." I think you meant 2018, not 2017.
Good eye, fixed!
reunicorn182819 said:This chip is slower than the 4790K it replaced in day-to-day task... after the meltdown/spectre fixes.
Is your 7900X also slower than the 4790K with the patches applied on *both* processors? Because if the 4790K is only faster unpatched, it's not a fair comparison and I don't think you'd have any basis for a lawsuit.
bit_user182819 said:I want one of those "new" CPU's with the in-silicon fix. Intel, I just purchased a 7900X 2 months ago, I expect to have this CPU swapped out for a comparable "in-silicon fix" model.
Are you nuts? Of course they won't replace it.182819 said:If you will not offer replacements, we will sue.
Then join one of the class action lawsuits and be prepared to wait a years. When it's all said and done, maybe you get enough to buy a bigger aftermarket heatsink. Then, at least you can O/C to get back some performance.
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bojuWorried about performance don't update or patch bios. Be smart and avoid the obvious clicks. I doubt very much this bug would take an affect on anyone.
It took Google to discover this flaw and my speculation probably their ai program did it and not any human. Not that they'd admit that anyway.
AgentLozenI thought this entire article was interesting. My favorite part was:Author said:Krzanich also later stated that the company expects to continue developing its 14nm products in 2018, so we could see yet another round of 14nm processors (sigh).
This summarizes my feelings about the matter also. I'm wondering if Intel plans to follow the lead set by Broadwell and Skylake. That is - Cannon Lake might come out and be followed up with Ice Lake a month or two later. It feels like both CPUs have been baking in the over for a long time.
I'm looking forward to the -5% power consumption and +3% IPC improvement! Bring it on!
jeremyj_83I am surprised that they are already able to implement in silicon fixed for Meltdown/Specter. That probably means that they have known about it for quite a while longer than they say. Also would explain why 10nm is so late, probably found out about the problem just as Alpha chips were coming out and decided to fix the problem right away, therefore delaying 10nm chips by 18 months or so.
InvalidError2535969 said:I am surprised that they are already able to implement in silicon fixed for Meltdown/Specter.
Nothing that surprising there: since part of the microcode fix is to make the speculative execution less aggressive, baking the fix which already has a soft-fix into silicon or changing its behavior to something more difficult to exploit should be a pretty minor tweak.
I doubt mainstream CPUs designed primarily with speed in mind will ever be safe from side-channel exploits of one sort or another. Even specifically security-hardened CPUs aren't completely immune to side-channel exploits on their own and require software to go out of its way to scramble side-channel leaks. Guaranteeing security comes at a huge performance cost.
wownwowFrom the clown-like Intel CEO:
Before: NO BUG, our chips operate as designed and intended.
Now: SILICON-BASED CHANGES, the products to be appear later this year.
What a dishonest, shameless CEO!
Intel keeps selling and launching faulty chips, what a dishonest, shameless company!
People tolerate both well, what a beautiful world :-D
InvalidError2541221 said:Intel keeps selling and launching faulty chips, what a dishonest, shameless company!
Side-channels are extremely difficult to protect against and even more difficult to predict. In all likelihood, more side-channel attacks will be discovered even in post-Meltdown/Spectre chips, such is the price of designing chips for performance instead of intrinsic security. If you want an intrinsically secure chip, you are going to pay a huge price in performance penalty.
Spectre variants being applicable to both ARM and AMD chips tells you that it isn't an issue specific to Intel architecture or even the x86 instruction set. Intel may have been the worst hit of the bunch in this round, but it isn't alone.
sfhenmAgree with InvalidError. The best fix is with the hardware and is specifically associated with speculative execution (combined with virtualization). Side band access can, however, be limited with hardware based fences and separation of interrupt privileges, amongst other items. The less you do on the hardware side, the more convoluted schemes you need to employ in software to protect against sideband access. I will differ on the cost v. performance advantage of OOE (i.e. the reason for speculative execution), especially given the fact that the beneficial use of the speculative execution has been shown to be limited. The bad thing is that many of the architectures are so far down the path of OOE, they need to continue to pour good circuits at a poor performance to cost tradeoff.... and no, Intel is not the only one that can be impacted by sideband leaks. Other architectures are equally susceptible. The dangers should be lower in a private environment, as the attack needs to be injected in that environment to cause a return in the routine that allows access to other information in the cache... that doesn't belong to that user.
bit_user2535969 said:That probably means that they have known about it for quite a while longer than they say. Also would explain why 10nm is so late, probably found out about the problem just as Alpha chips were coming out and decided to fix the problem right away, therefore delaying 10nm chips by 18 months or so.
They were given 6 months of notice, which is about 5.5 months before we learned of it.
All indications are that 10 nm has been slow to ramp, because it's hard. This is "real" 10 nm, unlike some of the marketing numbers bandied about by other fabs, which have virtually no basis in reality.
wilsonjchanWhere did Intel announce the delay of 3DXP DIMMs?
GeefThe ONE thing I hope they do is put something on the outside of the box of the new processors showing that its a hardware fix chip. I would hate to wonder until after I bought a new processor and opened it and then found out.
InvalidError95725 said:The ONE thing I hope they do is put something on the outside of the box of the new processors showing that its a hardware fix chip.
What is going to be outside of the box will probably be 9000-series model numbers.
wownwowTo clarify, as a CPU design, below is talking about Meltdown, the obvious of Intel's INTENTIONALLY not following the privilege levels/rings itself defined for x86!
From the clown-like Intel CEO:
Before: NO BUG, our chips operate as designed and intended.
Now: SILICON-BASED CHANGES, the products to be appear later this year.
What a dishonest, shameless CEO!
Intel keeps selling and launching faulty chips, what a dishonest, shameless company!
People tolerate both well, what a beautiful world :-D
InvalidError2541221 said:Before: NO BUG, our chips operate as designed and intended. Now: SILICON-BASED CHANGES, the products to be appear later this year. What a dishonest, shameless CEO!
Side-channel attacks aren't caused by design flaws in the product, they are caused by people finding ways to exploit normal operation of the product to infer what is happening in unrelated processes. The chip is operating as designed and intended and hardware changes are required to invalidate the potential vulnerability. However, there is no guarantee that people won't successfully model the fixes and manage to find new side-channel attacks for them.
For as long as CPU and software execution flows remain relatively predictable, a necessity when optimizing for performance, there will be side-channel vulnerabilities: if something is predictable, it can be modeled and a sufficiently accurate model can potentially be used to compromise the CPU or algorithm. Some (potential) exploits are just worse than others.
wownwowSimply questions:
1) Why did Intel define the privilege levels/rings for x86?
2) Why did Intel INTENTIONALLY not follow what it defined?
INTENTIONALLY not following the basic and critical stuff itself defined is not only the CEO's lying but the whole company is lying!
Selling the known faulty chips is even a lot more worse, but whatever as long as people tolerate and are happy.


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· Annual PG Farewell was held on 19 April, 2018. Miss. Neelam M.A (English) 4th Sem was declared as Miss. Farewell(PG) , Miss. Meghna MA (Eco) 4th Sem was declared Ist Runner up and Miss. Deepti, M.A (Pol-Sci) 4th Sem was declared 2nd Runner up, Ms.Natasha M.Com Sem 4th was declared Miss Charming, Ms Manni MA(Eco) Sem 4th was declared Miss. Well Dressed and Ms. Janpreet Kaur , M.Sc(CS) 4th Sem was declared Miss. Beautiful Hair.
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· Lucky Draw was organized in the College on 27th Jan, 2018. Ist Prize- LED was won by Ms. Priya of M.Com Ist sem and many other attractive Prizes were given to students.
· Woolen clothes were distributed in slum areas Nakasi Road, Dinanagar and Kushat Asharam Dinanagar by Amrita Pritam Sahit Sabha, literary society of PG Dept. of Punjabi of the College on 24th Nov, 2017.
· Blood Donation Camp: Bharat Vikas Parishad, Dinanagar honored the Blood Donors in a glittering function held in the college on 10th Nov, 2017. Mr. Hira Mani Aggarwal, President , Punjab North, Mr. Radhe Sham Mahajan, Regional Secretary, Mr. Vinod Sharma, President of Dinanagar felicitated the students by giving them souvenirs and certificates.
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· Science Dept. conducted Blood Group determination camp for students under "Earn While You Learn Scheme" on 17th Oct, 2017.
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· On Festival of Raksha Bandhan Students tied Rakhi to BSF Soldiers posted at Gurdaspur Border. The students were accompanied by NSS Incharge Mrs. Sangeeta Malhotra and other teachers. PG Department of Fashion Designing organized Rakhi Making Competition on 23rd Aug, 2018.


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Of the 23,000 tonnes of waste Bayside households send to landfill every year, almost 50% of this is food waste.
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Reducing and recycling food waste represents a significant opportunity to cut the amount of waste we send to landfill.
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Food scraps such as bread, pasta, cereal, rice, meat (no bones), dairy, egg shells etc could be included in the new service – as well as many items that can be composted. If you already compost, please keep it up and use the new service for your non compostable waste.
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I can't believe it's Friday already - the week simply flew by!
I haven't been posting much lately, nor did I keep up with my favorite blogs. But that's hopefully about to change, though I do intend to spend a little less time on the computer in general. In fact, that's what I've been doing all summer, spending less time just staring at that screen and it actually felt good. I want to try to spend my time more efficiently. Do things and get things done.
So, don't you worry if you don't hear from me for a couple of days. I'm still there. I'm probably in the middle of something crafty, or reading a book maybe, or getting tonight's dinner ready, or baking that NY style cheese cake that I have been craving for a while now - and, yes, of course, I'll continue to share the bits and pieces of our lives, and more importantly the crafty stuff .
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The 5 Best Travel Apps
My phone has become my secret weapon while traveling solo. These tools help me make the most out of my trip, and has allowed me to experience some incredible places that I may not have otherwise found. From booking accommodation to research to transportation, these apps make me feel safer and more secure in unfamiliar places, and I'm hoping they'll do the same for you.
These apps are my superpowers when I'm traveling abroad. Especially as a solo traveler, these applications help me stay safe and make the most out of my time. I'd suggest purchasing a sim card in each country in order to have have full access to these tools while in transit and elsewhere.
Disclaimer: While my phone has been the best tool for helping me get around and make the most out of my excursions, I never take it out on busy streets or stand staring at it on corners or in public places. Do not make yourself a target for pickpocketing, robbery, or worse. I find it is best practice to hop into a coffee shop or convenience store when I'm out and about and need to use it.
The days of roaming the streets looking for a bed are long behind us. I attribute most of my travel success to this application, because it's usually the first resource I look to when I'm going to a new place. Simply punch in the city you're going to, and find a hostel that is within your price range and in the neighborhood that you're interested in (see below for tips on finding neighborhood info on Tripadvisor).
The most important thing about booking a hostel for me is location and rating (I always go for a hostel that is either ranked as Very Good or Superb). If you only have a short stay in a city, you want to limit your time in transit to a minimum, so you can get to all the things that you saved your money to do! Typically the first hostel I stay in when I'm in a new country becomes the foundation for my entire trip. This is the hostel where I start to plan out my route, find other backpackers to travel with, and really start to learn the culture of the place I'm visiting. I find that hostels that include bars tend to be more sociable and loud, while classic homestays tend to be on the relaxed side and feature excellent local food.
Whether you're in the mood to party or in need of a break, choose a hostel according to your living preferences. For example, if I'm traveling in the summer, I look for hostels with air conditioning and if possible, a pool. I also prefer hostels that are associated with corporate style chains like St. Christopher Inn in Europe and UK, Vietnam Backpackers Hostels in Vietnam, and Pariwana Hostels in Peru, because they tend to be extremely organized, clean, and have very good customer service. Hostel chains may sometimes be a few extra dollars than other standalone hostels, but chains also tend to include extra amenities like day trips, tours, and local travel agents on staff, so you can rest assured that your itinerary will be packed with safe activities and efficient travel routes.
I always try to find hostels that include free breakfasts and kitchens so I can prepare my own food using ingredients from local markets. I also tend to book dorms that are all-female as opposed to mixed, just because they tend to be a bit tidier and quieter during the night (no offense boys).
Did you know that not all countries have Yelp? Actually, Tripadvisor is much more highly regarded then Yelp outside of the United States, and many businesses and restaurants will post a decal sticker on their doors if they depend on reviews to promote business. One area of Tripadvisor that I find particularity helpful is the description of neighborhoods in big cities. Buenos Aires, for example, has lots of different neighborhoods with very specific characteristics. If you're hoping to stay out all night dancing you may want to find a hostel in Palermo, and if you're trying to experience a more traditional Argentine lifestyle, you may want to stick to San Telmo.
I usually cross reference the neighborhoods descriptions with my Hostelworld app, to make sure I'm choosing a hostel in the neighborhood that will best suite my goals for the trip. You need to be careful in big cities like Lima, Paris, Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin, where you could end up at a hostel that is far from the sites you are hoping to see.
CityMapper and Google Maps
Citymapper does a good job of planning out your day using up to date public transportation lines. I even use it in my current hometown of New York City! The app does a better job of giving real time arrivals and departures than any other transit app that I've used. Citymapper is always adding new cities to their roster, but currently covers most big cities in the United States and Europe. For all other cities, including Southeast Asia (where I visit often), I use Google Maps and it tends to work well. I have an unlocked phone and always buy a sim card in a new country so I can use data like I do at home, but if you do not, you can always take a screen shot of your travel route and save it to your phone to help guide you when you're on the move. I also pick up a paper map and mark my hostel's location, in case something happens to my phone and I need to ask a local to help me find my way back.
While a paper map can be a good source of information and doesn't require charging, it can also make you look like a tourist, and thus, a target. Remember to consult your map in safe areas like private shops or businesses, and never bury your nose in it on public streets.
The popular car service app now operates in 633 cities worldwide, and is constantly expanding. The best part about the app is that you don't need to struggle with language barriers or cash conversion like you would a local taxi. They know where you're going, and you can use your credit card without needing a local bank account. Due to their robust background checks and helpful customer service departments, Uber tends to be the most reliable form of transportation I've found while abroad (and at home).
While I do believe in supporting local taxis, they can be where many tourists experience the highest rates of scamming. Be especially careful in Vietnam, where scooter taxis in cahoots with the local mafia have been known to rob tourists who jump on the back of their bikes. In most cities, the staff at your hostel can tell you which color taxis and scooters to use, and which to avoid.
Globe Convert
Converting money in a foreign country can be a tedious, stressful, and confusing endeavor. With conversion rates constantly in flux and merchants relentlessly on the hunt to cheat tourists, handling money in a foreign country can be a challenge, but this app makes everything a bit simpler. The app is always up to date with the current conversion rate, and features a clean and simple interface. Before venturing out, I always familiarize myself with some common increments of money, like the value of local money in 1, 5, 10, and 20 US dollars. Especially when you are haggling for the best price on an item (which you should be doing pretty much anywhere besides restaurants), it's best to be confident in your understanding of the local currency, in order to avoid being scammed.
Tiny Scanner
Okay, this one may not apply to all but I have found it to be immensely helpful along my adventures both at home and abroad, so it's a personal favorite. Tiny scanner works just like a scanner machine by converting a photo of a document into a readable PDF. I've used this to take photos of my passport, visa, and travel documents to send to hotels, my family, and consulates.


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John Gilroy: Welcome to "Students vs. Startups Showdown at the Potomac." My name is John Gilroy, I'll be your moderator today. Let's have a round of applause for podcast number 35. Yeah baby, yeah, yeah. Well, if you heard this before, you know the drill. We have a conference room at the offices of Eastern Foundry, we have a table here. One side of the table we have three students. The other side of the table we have a poor startup. We have a little 26 minute conversation and we all walk out of here fast friends. What I do is I'm going to start off and introduce the students first.
Now I normally have students from Georgetown University. We're going to have an actual student from the University of Maryland. Her name is Katherine Dunn. Katherine, tell us about your background please.
Katherine Dunn: I recently graduated from Maryland, and I'm currently working in business development and sales for Foresight CFO with this guy and learning a lot and here I am.
John Gilroy: Oh good, that's good to hear. Our second student, actually he's a graduate of the Technology Management program at Georgetown University, Scott Thompson.
Scott Thompson: Scott Thompson. Been through a couple of these with John and everybody, it's exciting stuff. Now I'm in deep, deep in finance at Foresight, I'm one of the partners there. We tend to look at a lot of companies.
John Gilroy: Fore, F-O-R-E sight CFO.
Scott Thompson: Yes.
John Gilroy: Just for the listeners, want to notice that. Our third student is Connie Chen. Connie, tell us about your background please.
Connie Chen: I'm currently a student still in the Technology Management program in Georgetown. By day, I work as a clinical data scientist for big pharma.
John Gilroy: Well, so we got some brains on this side of the table, Russ. Our startup today, the company's called HawkEye 360. We have the Vice President there, his name is Russ Matijevich. Russ, how are you?
Russ Matijevich: Doing well.
John Gilroy: Well, I usually have one note card for our startup here, but there's so much in Russ' background, I have three. There's tons and tons and tons of aerospace this, aerospace that, I ran out of ink talking about all the aerospace background he has. Let's start off with 22 years in the Air Force and then it piles on top of that. Russ, tell us about our background and maybe a little about your company, HawkEye 360, please.
Russ Matijevich: Certainly. I like to tell people that from an education perspective, I'm an engineer, but from a vocation perspective, I was an operator for the majority of my military career. What that did was it created the ability for me to become a professional problem solver. Be it a technology problem or a systems problem or a tactics problem, I could figure out how to work thought it and get to the results that we needed, so that served me well for 22 years in the Air Force. Got into industry, and carried that same attitude towards industry, and worked with SAIC, with Northrop Grumman, had my own consulting company.
Then I joined HawkEye 360 about 18 months ago. We are a very young startup. We're just post series A. We will be two years old in September. We are going to help folks visualize how the radio frequency spectrum is utilized, both from just a loading perspective, but also from interference detection and geolocation perspective. Then once we start geolocating certain types of emitters, then we can contribute to different mission areas like maritime domain awareness, support the search and rescue, interference detection, geolocation, that type of stuff.
John Gilroy: Essentially, there are satellites around the earth, and they send off an RF, radio frequency, signal and what you can do is you can optimize that for end user experience. Is that essentially what ...
Russ Matijevich: It's a little bit more subtle than that. We do have a network of small satellites. We're basically taking a mission that required a Ford Expedition size satellite, and we've been able to shrink it down to the size of a microwave oven. We fly these little microwave ovens in three ships, formations at low earth orbit.
Much like your brain does when you're geolocating a sound, if you imagine yourself standing on stage in an auditorium, you could close your eyes and be able to point in the general direction of somebody talking or clapping, and you'd hear those sounds, and your brain is using something called "time difference of arrival." You can do the same thing with radio waves, where our three spacecraft are playing the roles of your two ears. As we hear these radio signals, we can understand the time difference it takes to get to each satellite. From there you backwards calculate the math, kind of like GPS in reverse, and we locate where on the earth the signal comes from.
John Gilroy: Sounds like a dream come true for an aerospace engineer, huh?
Russ Matijevich: It is, it is. It's a whole lot of fun.
John Gilroy: Let's say you're sitting on the Metro talking to someone, and they say, "What business problem does HawkEye 360 solve?" What's the business problem that you essentially solve?
Russ Matijevich: Well, as we all hear about, I mean we all have these smart phones, we're running around, and we've got the Internet of things and the interconnected houses, and we've got satellite this and satellite that, and broadband here and broadband over there. Almost everything that we do in our daily lives is enhanced or enabled by the electromagnetic spectrum, but it is a very finite resource. The more you load into that spectrum, the more congestion you get, the more collisions you have, the less capabilities that you can have. That's why your WiFi all of a sudden goes from 54 megabytes per second to a couple kilobits per second, and you're pulling your hair out, why is it so slow?
What we're going to do is be able to look at that and see how the different systems out there are interacting together. Now there are some challenges being up in space. We're not going to listen to your cell phone, we're not going to listen to your home WiFi router, but we will be able to map out cell phone network topographies and say, "With these towers, maybe you're getting an interference wave off this land feature, and that's causing you to have poor service in this particular area of the world." From a satellite communications perspective, we can do the same exact thing. Identify where the spectrum is loaded up, where it's not as loaded and maybe that's where you roll out the new service.
John Gilroy: Scott, this seems like a real focused target audience, doesn't it?
Scott Thompson: It is, and it's really interesting because I mean we're using more and more stuff, right? Saturating, as we would all look at it, there's just tons of waves and tons of stuff out there. I'm interested to see how you guys are thinking about targeting of all this noise and stuff, and what you exactly want to do with this, and where you guys really want to go. It would be really interesting.
Russ Matijevich: Well it's, we're ... There is a tie-in to competitive sailing, which is one of the reasons I got into this.
John Gilroy: I know you'd work it into the conversation somehow.
Russ Matijevich: Which is, as we're building out this network, we can also do search and rescue support. There are rescue beacons that you can go out and buy right now, go to REI, wherever, and buy something called a personal locator beacon. You register it, and then that's all you have to do. You register it, you don't have to pay a subscription fee.
Then if you're out hiking, let's say that you decide to do the Appalachian Trail, and you're hiking out there, and you're going to do this solo walk from Pennsylvania down to North Carolina. Somewhere along the way, you're looking at this beautiful scenery, and you decide to take a selfie, and you slip off, and you fall down into this canyon. Now what do you do? Your cell phone doesn't work because you're so far away. Well, you would light off your personal locator beacon, and there is a program of record out there that does collect it, but it's old, it's aging.
"Our systems would be able to find you very quickly, and very accurately, and then notify the search and rescue people that you're in trouble. We have a broad waterfront of capability that we can support." Russ Matijevich
John Gilroy: Connie, selfies, satellites, a pretty wide range of stuff here, huh?
Connie Chen: Yeah. I also wonder, if you don't have this beacon to send out, is there a solution that your company can offer?
Russ Matijevich: We can. It really depends on what you have to be able to transmit something, that's the key thing. That's what we bring to the table, is the ability to hear a radio transmission. If you've got that, then we can help find you. If you don't have that, then there's not much we can do. We are working very closely with other parts of the commercial satellite world that do imagery systems, so electro-optical imagery, synthetic aperture radar imagery. We're looking at tipping and cueing so we can bring a holistic approach to solving a problem.
John Gilroy: Russ, I'm looking at you, and behind you is a sponsor, it's a logo, it's the Radiant Group, so you must have heard of the Radiant Group, haven't you?
Russ Matijevich: Just a little bit, yeah.
John Gilroy: I'll give them a little plug there too. Katherine, do you have a question, please.
Katherine Dunn: Yeah. Is anybody else doing this?
Russ Matijevich: There are a couple of folks out there doing similar things. There are several companies out there that will collect the automated identification system. It's a Safety of Life at Sea broadcast that is mandated by all large ships that go out on the open ocean. It was originally created to help prevent them running into each other. Because the last thing you want to do when you're at sea is exchange paint with somebody. They have this signal out there, and someone figured out, "Well, I can collect it with a satellite."
There are companies that will collect those signals, and that's all well and good if the ship's master is law abiding and he's following the rules, he's not trying to be deceptive. We've seen many cases of real world situations where someone is trying to do something illegal. Say he's fishing in a game preserve and he wants to get those choice fish, turns the AIS off, or he adds an offset on the self-reported location. He can make it look like he's thousands of miles from where he really is. Most of the world will fall for it. Some of them can say, "Oh, there's something hinky here." They may be able to get you within several tens of kilometers. We however will get you to within about 500 meters.
John Gilroy: Scott.
Scott Thompson: It's interesting. Your company's rather unique, so what's the culture? Obviously, you have a team of very smart people. Do you guys butt heads? Put a lot of egos in a room, sometimes it's ... Very smart ones to be at that.
Russ Matijevich: That's an interesting question. This is something that I kind of ... It was a shock to me when we figured it out. I'm the oldest employee.
Scott Thompson: Interesting.
Russ Matijevich: 51-years-old, I'm the oldest employee. We've got a lot of young, smart kids. I call them kids because they could all be my kids. We have a very collegiate environment. We will have passionate debates, but there's no yelling, there's no screaming, there's no shouting. We sit down and we just nub through the problem, and everybody's got a perspective. It's really a very collegiate type team-based environment. Really happy to see that in a startup.
John Gilroy: Connie, you work with some pretty smart people too. Kind of tough to tangle with a bunch of aerospace engineers, isn't it, huh?
Connie Chen: Yeah, there's a lot of things about the industry that I don't know of, and so all these questions are popping up as we're going along. You mentioned satellite, and locating vessels through satellite, but is it possible that some vessels on the water are not documented? First of all, is there a law that says these vessels need to document their location and report their location?
Russ Matijevich: Yes.
Connie Chen: There is.
Russ Matijevich: If they're a large enough vessel, yeah.
Connie Chen: Would you ever be interested in knowing the location and existence of vessels that are smaller?
Russ Matijevich: Yes. It really comes down to what problem you're trying to solve. For us, we don't really want to go after the law abiding vessel. There are companies out there that are doing it today. It's a very crowded playing field, lots of people. You can go to a website called www.MarineTraffic.com and you can see where all these vessels are.
John Gilroy: Wow.
Russ Matijevich: It is an AIS aggregation site, and it takes messages from satellites, messages from terrestrial stations, messages ... I mean you could become a producer of data for them if you just created your own AIS receiver system that you can either buy or build. If you sat on the Chesapeake Bay, you could become a data feed. I don't really care about the law abiding, what we're looking for are the people who are up to no good, so doing illegal fishing, doing human trafficking, illegal oil bunkering. All of those activities have something in common, they don't want to get caught.
When you're out on the open water, remember I said the first thing you want to do is you want to avoid exchanging paint. If you're up to no good, the last thing you want to do is inadvertently run into somebody, so you're going to have your radars on. If they have their radars on, we will hear them and we will find them, much like Liam Neeson did in "Taken."
John Gilroy: I'm pretty sure that Scott, on his business card, it says "up to no good," but I could be mistaken about that. Katherine, question for our guest here.
Katherine Dunn: Yeah, so as you mentioned, you're a young company, but what are your current or future sales looking like so far?
Russ Matijevich: We've got a couple of contracts right now that are bringing in revenue. We've got a very generous set of venture capitalists and investors. We just went through our series A, as I said. We had a $10 million goal, which we did not meet, we exceeded by almost $4 million, so it was a good startup problem to have.
John Gilroy: Oh, you lured us into that one, didn't you? Look at that. We don't have any donuts at all, four dozen donuts. This guy's luring us in, Scott.
Russ Matijevich: Now going forward, our first satellites launch in February. If SpaceX can hold to schedule, we'll go up in February. Then our next series will go up in mid-summer. Then we'll have another series going by the end of 2018, and then 2019 we continue to launch. Eventually, we'll have a worldwide constellation that will give us access to any spot on the globe, every 25 to 45 minutes. With that infrastructure, then we can actually provide a very valuable service that is very much of interest to the sat-com community, the fishing community, the maritime community. There are elements of U.S. government and other foreign governments that are interested in what we can do.
Scott Thompson: Scott. You mentioned Series A, and I think it's important, startup community everybody's always, of course, series A, "Yay!" Right? It's a good sign. Can you provide some input as to, now that you're working with venture capitalists, you've gone through series A, I just think it's, a lot of people don't reach that point, so it would be interesting to hear your insight.
Russ Matijevich: Well, we had a great effort from our CEO, John Serafini. He comes from the venture capital world, and knows how to talk to the investors. Then, the team worked really hard at putting together the business plan that shows, "Yes, we can close our business plan." The real key thing for us is being able to take advantage of the advances in small SAT technology. In years past, you couldn't really do what we're doing for the budget that we have, but now we can. With that, we can close the loop. A lot of the venture capitalists, they very quickly caught on the fact that we're doing that something that really nobody else is doing.
If you think about the VC space world, space 2.0 companies, everybody is doing some sort of imaging system. "I'm taking a picture of this or a picture of that." We're different. We're not taking pictures. We're sensing something that you can't see with your eyes, and we're making it visible. In fact, that's one of our tag lines, "Taking the invisible and making it visible." Being able to provide insight into various industries that depend on the electromagnetic spectrum.
John Gilroy: Connie, this is an exciting time to talk about satellites. There's a whole world of startups just involved in the satellite business, so there's all kinds of stuff going on here. Do you have any questions for our guest?
Connie Chen: I was wondering if you were thinking about branching into national security.
Russ Matijevich: Well, we are a commercial-based company. We have a commercially viable business plan. As we go down that path to build this infrastructure, there's definitely capabilities that the national security community would be interested in. That's one of the things that I worked, in my military career. In fact, I retired as a Deputy Director of Space Policy, and worked those types of issues. If you read the 2010 National Security Space Policy, it says, "Hey, we need to make better use of the commercial space industry." We provide one of those new capabilities that hasn't really been available to the U.S. government at the commercial level. For those government users that are either geographically challenged or priority challenged, we can provide assistance.
John Gilroy: Katherine.
Katherine Dunn: I'm curious to know what your biggest challenge has been thus far.
Russ Matijevich: Biggest challenge. I think the biggest challenge right now is just getting hardware on orbit as quickly as possible. Because, Scott, as you know, there are startups all over the place. Lots of PowerPoint companies out there.
John Gilroy: That's a good line.
Russ Matijevich: You want to differentiate yourself from the other PowerPoint companies. For us, the biggest thing we wanted to do was show that we're more than just PowerPoint, we've actually got hardware. Satellites take a finite amount of time to build, and then another finite amount of time to get them on orbit, so we knew that was going to take a while.
The first thing that we did was, we went and got prototypes of our payloads, temporarily installed them on some very high-tech aircraft, some Cessna 172s from the Manassas Airport, and went out and flew them over the southern Chesapeake Bay, and demonstrated that our magic actually works. Now we have actual test results of our payload, of our algorithms to show that the geolocation calculations that our system will generate match the predictions that the math and theory says you should be able to do. That's our biggest challenge right now, is showing credibility that what we say we can do, we can actually do.
John Gilroy: Scott, HawkEye 360 is selling magic it sounds like, huh?
Scott Thompson: Yeah, I mean it's crazy. There's tons of opportunity for them. I was in the military as well, so it's definitely an interesting space to be in. I'd be, interesting to hear with a long development time, you guys are actually producing something, which a lot of people don't, as you mentioned. How do you guys make sure you stay on time and on track? I feel like a lot of people struggle with that, so it would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
Russ Matijevich: Well, we are very focused. It's a good question, and that's a very good point. I mean that's, when you're in the startup world and you're trying to do something, it's like, "Oh, I want to do something that I like and enjoy." It's like okay, if it's not monetarily viable, just because you like it doesn't mean you're going to be successful. For us, we are staying very focused on what it is we do. We jokingly say that we're not really a space company, we're a big data company, but to get to the big data that we want to play with, we had to put these satellites on orbit to access the data. In doing that though, we're not building the satellites ourselves.
We are owner, operators, much like an Intelsat or HughesNet or somebody like that where they pay the satellite industry to build the satellite, deliver it on orbit, and then they take delivery on orbit and they operate it. That's what we're doing, and that allows us to push a lot of that risk from our shoulders to our spacecraft prime, and now they have to worry about launch schedules and delivery and that everything works correctly. We take delivery and we go run with it. It's allowing us to stay focused on what our goal is, the differentiation that we bring to the market, and be able to successfully deliver.
John Gilroy: Connie, I went to Twitter and I typed in "satellites" and I have all kinds of good quotes. Here's a quote that technology is changing real fast, here's a quote, "Step out boldly and grasp the new technology." There must be so much stuff. This is just the tip of the iceberg what's going on. Isn't it exciting? There's so much stuff out there.
Connie Chen: Yeah.
Russ Matijevich: I do, everybody gets so enamored with technology, but there's an awesome quote from Admiral Tuttle, when he was in the navy and basically was running the Copernicus architecture. He said that, "Technology without operational context is merely engineering curiosity." If you think about it, it really comes down to the discipline. That's where, when you have a whole room of engineers, and they get all excited, and they're just running off like a bunch of cats going, "Ooh, I can do this, I can do that." Someone's got to come in there and say, "Hey, wait a minute. That's all great, but we need an operational problem. We need to show value. There's got to be a reason for doing this other than it seemed hard, and it's a challenge, and I like doing that."
There are lots of hard problems out there that we can solve, but you want to solve the right hard problems that will bring revenue in, that allows the company to grow. Then as the company grows, you can do more IRAD, (Internal Research and Development). Then that allows your engineers to go off and do more science projects. You got to start that flywheel of having technology that is attractive and something that you can monetize, and get that revenue coming in so that you can grow the next increment, and then you just keep growing from there.
John Gilroy: Katherine, in my world, there's this open source software movement. This is, what it sounds like to me, it sounds like he's taking advantage of some of the open source material. Does it sound like that to you?
Katherine Dunn: Yeah, it does. I saw on your website that you currently have four applications and, obviously, you need more internal research and development, but have you guys discussed any future or other applications that you guys currently don't have listed or on your website that you think you can do with this technology?
Russ Matijevich: I think there's going to be a ton of future applications of this capability. Some of it's going to come from us, but I think a good chunk of it's going to come from our customers. If you look at where the commercial satellite imagery world went from the very first images from IKONIS and some of the early companies, and now you see what geospatial analysis ... My son took a geospatial course in high school.
John Gilroy: Wow.
Katherine Dunn: Wow.
John Gilroy: That's amazing.
Russ Matijevich: He was given a free copy of ESRI's tool set.
Katherine Dunn: Wow.
Russ Matijevich: He was doing geospatial analysis in high school. The first time I ever heard of something called a food desert was at an ESRI users' conference, and they were presenting, "These are my findings," and satellite imagery was just a small piece of it, but that was the little kernel that got the whole ball rolling. As we start to bring out this new dataset to industry, we think that the user is going to start doing stuff and then-
John Gilroy: You can't predict.
Russ Matijevich: Exactly. Then they're going to come back and say, "Oh, what you're giving me is great, but if you could give me this, it would be even better." Then that will help guide our future investments and future application roll outs.
John Gilroy: Well Russ, we're running out of time here. If someone listening to this podcast wants more information on your company, what website should they go to?
Russ Matijevich: Sure. They can check us out at www.HE360.com.
John Gilroy: If you would like to see show notes, links and a transcript, you can visit the OakmontGroupLLC.com.
I'd like to thank our sponsor, the Radiant Group. If you are interested in getting involved in geospatial projects, we just mentioned those, contact the Radiant Group.
We are hosted by the Eastern Foundry. It's a community of government contractors who are bringing innovative solutions to the government marketplace. For more information, go to Eastern-Foundry.com.
If you would like to participate as a student or a startup, contact me, John Gilroy, at OakmontGroupLLC.com. Thanks for listening to "Students vs. Startups Showdown at the Potomac."


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Why George Strait Keeps Selling Records [2012 In Review]
We're just about to wrap up our month-long review of some of MIMO's more intriguing pieces from last year, but we didn't want to finish without pulling out this gem from our country writer Rob Burkhardt. Rob has some interesting insights on George Strait's undying popularity, which could be food for thought for some of the genre's current up-and-comers. Enjoy! –Ed.
The long career of George Strait, the undisputed reigning "King of Country," is a perfect example of the extreme loyalty of country music fans. After more than 30 years playing "old school," western-swing country music, Strait still packs out major venues and sells plenty of records, and his singles are still consistently hitting near the top of the country charts. (Last year's release Here for a Good Time was Strait's 39th studio record; it peaked at Number 1 on the charts and received a Grammy nomination for Best Country Album.)
I had the chance to catch George Strait on tour last year—a double billing with Reba McEntire. It was a sold-out show in a venue holding around 15,000 people. Reba was typically Reba, put on an outstanding show, and the fans ate it up. No surprise there. But when Strait came out for his set, there was really nothing spectacular about it. No pyrotechnics, no crazy on-stage antics (this ain't Garth Brooks, after all). The stage was set up as a diamond in the middle of the arena, and George Strait, carrying his guitar, methodically walked up to a microphone set on one corner of the diamond, sang two songs, walked to the next corner, sang two songs, and so on—all the way around the diamond, for 27 songs. Very understated, very low-key, almost sleepy.
And yet, after every song, the crowd acted like Strait had just played like Elvis. Extremely enthusiastic, from start to finish, for almost two hours.
What is it about this guy that he can bring such an amazing crowd reaction, with very little effort on his part? What makes George Strait so damn popular?
Well, I think perhaps it's a variety of things. First of all, speaking as a man—let's face it, the guy is handsome, even at his age. He still carries a certain appeal with the ladies, as well as the gentlemen who brought 'em to the show.
Second—I think his music is very accessible. He sings about everyday things, and his melodies are easy to sing along to (especially keyed to his medium-low voice). The crowd at the show I attended sometimes almost drowned him out singing along.
And third—he just plays good country music. This guy is definitely not a crossover artist, he's not trying to sing pop or rock like some of the modern groups. His traditional, Texas-flavored western swing style appeals to the die-hard, country music fan base. (And gauging from the results, the fan base is large, and loyal.)
The bottom line is that George Strait comes across as authentic—the real deal. As a result, he appeals to a large number of people, and his fan base is just as authentic as he is. (You certainly can't accuse the guy of putting too much hype into it.) The lesson, if there is one, is to be successful as a country artist, you don't necessarily need to out-perform the next guy. You just need to be yourself, be real, and be very good at what you do.
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