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The Myth of the Global Brown Messiah in Kollywood Cinema
Recent films from the action-masala genre project India as a global sheriff, replacing a toothless West as an expression of muscular nationalism.
Above: From the poster for Vishwaroopam (2013)
Tamil Cinema's Action-Masala Genre Goes Global
Since the advent of the talkies, when the visual medium of film acquired an aural element that transformed its techno-teleological appeal and created the institution of cinema in India, the Tamil movie hero has been mired in parochialism. An insular worldview that saw him spend the last 70 years battling a variety of local tyrannies on-screen: feudal landlords, industrialists, fake godmen, gangsters, smugglers, malfeasant cops and bureaucrats, militant feminists, and of course, corrupt politicians ["Rage against the State: Historicizing the 'Angry Young Man' in Tamil Cinema", Kumuthan Maderya, Jump Cut 52 (Summer 2010)].
Since the end of the noughties however, a new kind of action hero exploded on screen via big budget Tamil blockbusters. Seemingly tired of languishing in the shadow of the Bollywood hero who has acquired a global presence, the Tamil hero has started to project himself as an international gendarme battling transnational hazards to peace. His aggressive assertion of Indian power in recent action flicks is represented as a force for global stability, a cinematic synecdoche for Pax Indica. While it's a grandiose vision consonant with the ambitions of the Tamil film industry to look beyond traditional markets to sell its films, it's incongruous with actual Indian foreign policy.
Like Hindi-language cinema, now globally known as Bollywood, which began in the colonial Bombay Presidency, Tamil-language cinema had its roots in Madras, the capital of Madras Province, British India. Once Hindi became the lingua franca of postcolonial India, Bollywood became the de facto national film industry and gained greater international presence. Yet, Tamil cinema, now based in Chennai, the capital city of the state of Tamil Nadu, still produces more films than Bollywood, and has also travelled wherever the South Indian diaspora has gone. Southeast Asia, and to a lesser extent, the Middle East have been big overseas markets for Tamil cinema since the '60s. The Chennai-based film industry is amongst the biggest worldwide, largely because there are more native speakers of Tamil in India alone than there are of many languages worldwide, and Kollywood, Tamil cinema's trading name, has successfully staved off competition from Hollywood unlike many national cinemas [Dennis Hanlon, "Detachable transnational film style and the global-local dialectic in Mani Ratnam's Indian adaptations of Amores perros", Transnational Cinemas 4, 1 (January 2014)].
Nonetheless, aiming to capitalize on intensifying globalization, Kollywood is on the lookout for bigger markets, and larger audiences comparable to what Bollywood has achieved. Over the last three decades, cosmopolitan filmgoers in North America, Western Europe, and Japan have started to embrace Kollywood. To compete effectively with Bollywood, Kollywood must manufacture cultural products to appeal to different target groups and segmented audiences: local filmgoers in Tamil Nadu, a pan-Indian audience through post-production dubbing or multilingual versions (the same movie made imon three different languages sometimes with different casts), overseas Indian communities, and increasingly, foreign audiences across the world. No longer content with being mere import-substitutes to Hollywood and Bollywood, an export-oriented industrial outlook has prompted Kollywood to weave stories with a transcendental appeal, in a bid to surpass Bollywood.
Yet, the severest challenge to Kollywood's dominant aesthetic form did not come from without. For decades, the action-masala genre (described so since Tamil movies like most of India's cinemas do not abide by the genre taxonomy of other film cultures) amalgamated song-and-dance numbers, comedy interludes, alongside staples like stunt sequences, fight scenes, extended shootouts, and car chases. Organized around a popular action star with a fanatic fan following as lead, profits were almost guaranteed from this formula.
Because Tamil films began as an ethnic rebellion to North Indian political domination, a site for the assertion of ethno-linguistic nationalism against Hindi, and the celebration of local folk culture ["How a Tamil star is born" Jason Overdorf, Global Post, 3 July 2012], it was unlikely that Hollywood or Bollywood could seriously erode its niche market in Tamil Nadu. The threat came from an unlikely source: what has been referred to as the Tamil "new wave" cinema ["The New Southern Sensation", Pradeep Sebastian, The Caravan, 1 February 2010]. Circa 2006, an aesthetic revolution began with a series of gritty neo-realist thrillers, ethnographic dramas, and indie black comedies ["After the Cinema of Disgust", K.Hariharan, OPEN Magazine, 10 August 2013]. The reasons for the emergence of the "new wave" will not be explored here, but all three categories of films gained widespread critical acclaim, financial success, or both.
Seduced by the refreshing "new wave", the globalized Tamil filmgoer, who was also exposed to transnational film culture, began to expect more from his action films. Soon, a genre purification process began that made the mongrel action-masala films seem insultingly inferior.
Most importantly, the innovations associated with the Tamil "new wave" challenged the hackneyed formulas of hero-centric star-dominated potboilers. The majority audiences rejected movies without a compelling narrative, focused solely on glorifying the cult of the star, which satisfied only their fans. Studios and producers who banked solely on the charismatic presence of the major action stars to sell their films soon found themselves facing a loss. The offbeat low-budget films ended up as winners at the box office. A paradigm shift had taken place in Kollywood. Film critics and intellectuals declared that the larger than life Tamil action hero, who could never perish on screen, was now artistically dead.
In order to resurrect the action-masala genre, and to justify the return of the Tamil action hero, exotic locales, new missions, and new villains tethered to weighty new stories, were found. The regenerative enterprise seems to be to invoke the jingoism of Tamil, and national audiences against real and imagined threats to India from outside, to facilitate the suspension of disbelief critical to the success of the action-masala genre and its heroic excesses.
At the same time, Kollywood had to produce narratives based on global themes resonant with the political consciousness of non-Indian audiences. Whether this particular brand of revived Tamil action-masala genre is merely a coincidental commonality or is indicative of a growing trend is immaterial. Examining these movies as texts offers insight into the collective fears, national aspirations, and Weltanschauung of India's Tamils vis-à-vis the rest of the global society.
In these fictional narratives, the mission of the Tamil action hero, the coalescing signifier of the films' various components, is to annihilate antagonists from parts of the world beyond the control and influence of the West. He forestalls the acquisition of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) by unnamed foreign terrorists in Thaandavam (2012), disrupts illegal genetic engineering by Eastern European scientists in Maattrraan (2012), and polices the Indian Ocean from African pirates and the transnational drug trade in Singam II (2013). His personal struggles are also magnified into an assertion of muscular Indian nationalism in fights and shootouts with Russian arms dealers in Billa II (2012), and a hostage crisis with Sudanese paramilitia in Maryan (2013).
Closer to reality, a Chinese PLA assassin attempts to paralyze India by spreading a contagious virus but is foiled in 7aam Arivu (2011), and he wages a covert war of attrition with Pakistan-sponsored anti-Indian anarchists in Thuppakki (2012). And in the most compelling narrative of all, an Indian secret agent infiltrates Al-Qaeda posing as a jihadi to support NATO operations in Afghanistan in Vishwaroopam (2013). Emanating from the genre's reorganization, hitherto unseen or uncommon plot devices and conventions have found greater cinematic commitment in Kollywood. There appears to be a genuine interest in faithfully recreating popular genres in the West, like the spy flick, the terrorism thriller, and films about nuclear weapons, to appeal to an international audience.
While on the other hand, the characterization of the weakened West, and the allegorization of confrontations between the Tamil action hero and foreign antagonists ["Foreign baddies muscle into Tamil cinema", Janani Sampath, The New Indian Express, 1 September 2013] emerge as gimmicks to satisfy pan-Indian audiences. Since in reality India's foreign policy appears to have limited imagination, the impulse is to elevate the aspiration to the mythic, seeking a vicarious Pax Indica through the action-masala genre.
The novelty is not in the search for foreign locales or a multinational cast, it is in the thematic preoccupation of the genre. Since 1969, Tamil films have on occasion been shot in offshore locations, and Tamil action heroes have sometimes battled foreign-coded henchmen of the principal villain who was invariably South Asian [Selvaraj Velayutham, "The diaspora and the global circulation of Tamil cinema", Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry, ed. Selvaraj Velayutham (London: Routledge, 2008)]. However, the regenerated Tamil action-masala genre focuses on macroscopic issues of global concern: the rapidly metastasizing potential of threats, anxieties over lawlessness in the international system, the collapse of hegemonic stability, and fears of a nuclear conflagration, have all generated a sense of impending catastrophe. These films would have us believe that an imminent cataclysm threatens to engulf not just India but also all of humanity, unless the Tamil action hero, the 'brown messiah', does something about it.
In the second half of the Vishwaroopam, Wizam, and his team of RAW agents, and a senior MI6 commander, help the FBI root out sleeper cells in New York city, foiling Al-Qaeda's latest strike. At the end of Vishwaroopam, Wizam swears not to rest till the more dangerous of the two Al-Qaeda leaders, who have escaped, is dead, setting up to continue the pursuit in a forthcoming sequel. By the end of Vishwaroopam, the multilayered poignancy of its Sanskrit-based title is lucid.
Vishwaroopam intimates to the confluence of Hindu mythology, and atomic theory made famous by the "father of the atomic bomb", American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer's adaptation of a quote from the Bhagavad Gita, to describe the effects of an atomic explosion, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," was in effect describing the polycephalic multiarmed avatar of the supreme Hindu deity, Krishna, thereby converging the terrifying image of a wrathful god with the deadliest weapon in human history. The naming of the film more directly refers to the ubiquitous universal threat that radical Islamist terrorism has manifested beyond just the Middle East and South Asia. Finally, the theme song, a paean to the star persona of its lead actor, and the character of Major Wizam, alludes that Vishwaroopam refers to the heroic qualities of the global 'brown messiah' who will take on a terrifying form to save humanity.
Vishwaroopam reserves its harshest criticism for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency as the mercenary interloper, chiefly responsible for the continued political unrest in Afghanistan. The ISI and its double game of being publically allied with NATO but covertly helping Al-Qaeda is exposed in one scene as "the greedy scum that eats in the gutter one day, and in the kitchen the other day." Facilitated by award-winning cinematography, costume-design, and casting that constructs verisimilitude to war-torn Afghanistan, it draws attention to the troubled country while like most spy films also revealing the national loyalties and fears generated by public and official opinion in India, about the impact that the civil war would have on the rest of South Asia [Lenny Rubenstein, "The Politics of Spy Films", Cinéaste 9, 3 (Spring 1979)].
Vishwaroopam's characterization of the Tamil action hero as saviour of both Afghans and Americans, and punisher of threats to global security also reveals the hawkish tendencies some members of the India's intelligentsia. Kamalhaasan's grand vision appears to be for India to play a more active role not just in South Asia as an American ally displacing Pakistan, but to be a great power that can project its political and military influence across the world. Hence, a discernibly strident pro-American tone underpins the narrative of Vishwaroopam.


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Eonline's Kristin Dos Santos is reporting that, while nothing is official, ABC is in very early talks about a possible reboot of the J.J. Abrams created series, which starred Jennifer Garner.
Dos Santos says that the network, having failed to find a foothold with the cancelled FlashForward, is looking at other ways to create a new series that could resonate with the kind of audience Lost had, and Alias is one title that is brewing among the execs. Apparently this new version of the series would "borrow some elements" from the original, but "would most likely not include any sort of complex mythological throughline such as the Rambaldi prophecy."
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I just read Xinran's last book about lost daughters of China. This book touched me deeply. I have been thinking with my husband how we could be able to send a message to our son's birthparents and this book gives even more feeling to try harder.. We know something about how he was abandoned and clearly he was loved. If there was a way to let birthparents know this baby is loved so much and we have deep gratitute for them…
I'm an adoptive mother to a chinese boy. He has a special need. Xinran's last book was mainly about girls, but I was wondering about boys. There was a mentioning that no one wants disabled boys. On the other hand being a member of the community who have waited very long to adopt a child with special need from China, I know there are also lot's of people who don't want the "healthy small chinese girl", but a child with special need. On the CCWA's adoption special need list there a lot of children waiting to be adopted. I also truly hope adoptive parents wouldn't be so afraid of disabilities. After all anyone of us can get injured any time. And these children are children the same way that healthy children.
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I'd like to hear more about the true stories of these boys and their birth mother's. I hope Xinran writes about them also some day. I do know some day my son will ask us hard questions (he is 2,5 years old). Questions about his chinese parents and the big "WHY".
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02 Memory, is caught up in the struggle of changing values, and this battle is called progress, the evolutionary path of choice leading to truth.
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04 The intelligent man is the summation of intelligence; his is an absolute, direct perception without twists and perversions which result when memory functions.
05 What I am saying can only apply to those who are really in conflict, not to those who want to reform, who want to do patchwork.
06 How is one to have this intelligence which destroys struggle and conflict and the ceaseless effort which wears out mind itself?
07 When the mind is not imparting values, which is mere conformity, when there is spontaneous understanding of the prison, which is environment, then there is the action of intelligence, which is freedom.
08 As long as the mind, clouded by memory, imparts values, action must create further walls of prison;
09 There is a great subtlety, an infinite subtlety and delicacy, and if you use words merely as a means of getting to that delicacy, to that simplicity of thought, then I am afraid you will not comprehend what I want to convey.
10 I am not talking of a simplicityI say there is this living reality, call it God, truth, or what you like, and it cannot be found or realized through search.
11 Search implies duality, contrast. Now where there is contrast, duality, there must be identification with one of the opposites, and from this there arises compulsion.
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Educating the public about Mono Lake and the impacts of excessive water use is the centerpiece of the Mono Lake Committee's mission. Every year the Mono Lake Committee leads education programs that reach thousands of people.
Before 1978, few people in California had ever heard of Mono Lake, yet millions of people in Los Angeles were unknowingly using water diverted from its tributary streams. Education has made the difference in protecting Mono Lake and conserving water in Los Angeles.
Today over a quarter million people a year visit Mono Lake. The long-term health and protection of Mono Lake depends on continued public understanding and appreciation for this vital water resource, as well as support for its protection.
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The Committee's education staff and volunteers use science-based programs to teach students about Mono Lake's natural history and the significance of the Mono Lake water issue. During the summer, we offer daily interpretive walks, weekend canoe tours, and a variety of weekend field seminars.
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We would like to welcome you and your family to the Ark Association, which is a registered charity run by a committee of parents and friends for the benefit of the community. There are two Arks in Oakham, all of which are registered with Ofsted Early Years and comply with Children Act 1989 regulations, providing care and education for 3 months - 5 year old children.
Parents of children attending either of the Ark Nurseries are members of the Ark Association and are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting, on a scale of one vote per family. The Committee comprises of Trustees, Management and Fundraising members. They have a legal obligation to run the Association in accordance with its constitution. One of the committee's major functions is to raise funds.
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NEW JERSEY and JINJIANG CITY, China, Feb. 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pacific Bepure Industry Inc. (OTCBB:PBEP), one of China's leading domestic casual and sports footwear manufacturers with products sold under the brand name "Baopiao" a.k.a. "Bepure," today announced that it has retained Crescendo Communications, LLC ("Crescendo") as its investor relations and corporate communications advisory firm to help broaden awareness of the company within the U.S. financial markets.
"The team at Crescendo has unique expertise and a successful track record advising small- and micro-cap public companies," said Mr. Haiting Li, President and CEO of Pacific Bepure. "We are confident that Crescendo, an innovator with new communications services and technologies such as www.InvestorRoadshow.com , will help us more proactively communicate our business model and the important steps we are taking to become a leading player in the global footwear marketplace."
"We are impressed with the powerful franchise that Pacific Bepure Industry has built, with one of the most recognized footwear brands among young women in China, itself the single largest footwear market in the world," said David Waldman, President of Crescendo. "The company's expansion in the fast-growing casual and sports footwear segments of the Chinese market is impressive. We are pleased to begin representing Pacific Bepure as they work to execute on their business plan to expand production and leverage their brand awareness and reputation for quality and value. We look forward to helping implement a comprehensive investor communications and outreach program to increase awareness of the company within the investment community."
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Crescendo Communications, LLC, headquartered in New York City and with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Moscow, is an emerging leader within the investor relations industry. The principals of Crescendo have represented hundreds of companies across all market caps and industries. The firm was founded on a strategic and professional approach to investor relations that builds awareness of public companies through tailored outreach programs that target institutional investors, analysts, and the financial media. Crescendo's approach is centered around properly educating investors and cultivating trust between the firm's clients and the Wall Street community.
About Pacific Bepure Industry Inc.
Pacific Bepure footwear, sold under the brand name "Baopiao" a.k.a. "Bepure," is one of the most well- known footwear manufacturers in China. The Company's four lines of "Travel Time" casual and sports shoes are targeted primarily at people aged 15 to 50 years old in China's second- and third-tier cities who appreciate comfort, style and value. The brand is especially known for its hidden height shoe technology, which makes the wearer appear taller. The products are primarily manufactured internally and sold to all provinces and autonomous regions in China except Xinjiang Autonomous Region, as well as on the Internet, through an expanding network of distributors in retail stores and other outlets and through a distributor in South America.
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What started as a dream in a cornfield between two brothers is now a world class manufacturing powerhouse. Samsill is still family-owned and has been manufacturing top-quality products for the retail market for over 60 years.
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I sometimes think we lack good contemporary lay models of holiness among the saints and blesseds of our Church. Certainly, there are more contemporary saints taken from the priests and religious than among the laity. Pope John Paul II felt similarly and asked the Congregation for Saints (and local bishops) to find us more lay saints. They did in Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925). He's known as "explosion of joy," "a Man of the Beatitudes," a natural man. The Church honors Frassati with a liturgical memorial on July 4.
Frassati's Luciana said, "He represented the finest in Christian youth: pure, happy, enthusiastic about everything that is good and beautiful." And that "He gave his whole self, both in prayer and in action, in service to Christ." Frassati's prayer life consisted but not limited to praying the morning offering, the daily rosary, Eucharistic adoration, lectio divina. His prayer life was made visible in his concern with the poorest people of Turin.
In his following Jesus Christ Blessed Pier Giorgio was a member of the lay Third Order Dominican.
Brandon Vogt's interview with Seattle's Archbishop Peter Sartain, "Pier Giorgio Frassati, Man of the Beatitudes: An Interview with Archbishop Peter Sartain" sheds some light on getting to know a blessed of the Church who's gaining influence.
Pray for grace to adhere to Christ and to live in joy from Blessed Pier Giorgio. I am sure he'll get the Lord to give you what you need.


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Designers love open shelving, but will it work in your kitchen? Let's look at some of the pros and cons of open storage. First off, why do designers love open shelving so much? The esthetics: open storage adds interest; it creates a focal point. It looks different, and we love different! Here are some great examples of where, how, and why to use open shelves: Open storage breaks up a monotonous run of cabinets: Shelving creates a focal point where otherwise you might not have one: The look of open storage can help transition from one living space to another, or … [Read more...]


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She's one of nearly two dozen residents we recruited as Community Advisors to initiate community-led transformation of Flushing Meadows Corona Park (FMCP) in Queens. The group is spending four months at our Community Design School to improve wayfinding and circulation in the Park, and its connectivity to the surrounding communities. Read more about these sessions.
Name: Sandy Qiu
Occupation: High school student with interest in art and design, and getting involved in community and civic organizations.
Neighborhood: Elmhurst, Community Board 4
Neighborhood Involvement: Asian Americans for Equality Youth and Community Education, Flushing International High School
Languages Spoken: English, Cantonese
I visit FMCP: With family for large events like the Dragonboat festival.
Sandy is focusing on how to improve navigation in the Park. Together with the members of his Team Navigation, she's exploring ways to:
At a community forum on March 1st, she introduced her preliminary design concepts, alongside the other Advisors, for feedback from the wider community. At the second forum on April 12, they will present their final concepts. It will also mark the opening of the exhibition at the Queens Museum that features all of these community-driven design proposals, on view until May 3, 2015.
Sandy, like the rest of the Community Advisors, is eager to present her ideas to the NYC Parks Department, participate in further planning and design of FMCP, and motivate neighbors to do so too.


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Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English
Poesías en inglés animales
Animals - The tortoise
The tortoise can't go out to play
Or sell his house or rent it;
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KANSAS CITY — When a young man hears the call to the priesthood, often he attends a seminary college for a liberal arts education, then is sent to a four-year seminary for intensive study of Theology and other course work designed to prepare and form him to be a priest. Many newly ordained priests, however, find themselves assigned as Associates for a parish with few management and leadership skills. But that is changing.
Kansas City-St Joseph diocesan Bishop James Johnston, Jr. had requested regular ongoing educational opportunities for the priests.
Father Justin Hoye, pastor of St. Thomas More Parish and Director of the Office of Priestly Life and Ministry, said that part of that office is providing priests with formation and regular educational opportunities.
Last Spring, he continued, Jesuit Father Bill Oulvey (now at Regis University in Denver) who was then the Jesuit representative on the diocesan Presbyteral Council, invited the council to consider using the Helzberg School of Management for newly ordained priests. He and Father Charles Rowe, Vicar General for Pastoral Affairs, met with Helzberg School representatives, held a focus group with a number of diocesan priests and from that created a 9-month program.
Since September, Rockhurst University, in conjunction with the Helzberg School of Management and the Office of Mission and Ministry, has offered a monthly program, Priest Leadership Formation Program, to newly ordained priests in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The course is taught by Rockhurst faculty or Alumni with expertise in the areas of management and leadership, and /or ties to the diocese.
The diocese chose 13 men for the initial course, all ordained within the last 7 years, most with pastoral assignments. The priestly group meets monthly at Rockhurst for case studies, discussion, short presentations and expert panels, depending on the topic. Some of the topics in the course syllabus include: Personal Leadership Style, and Different Leadership Styles; Situational Communication Essentials and Listening; Conflict Management and Communication; Meeting Management and Communication; Crisis Communication and Complex Human Relationships; Leadership vs. Management; Language and Format of Financial Statements and Cash Flow; Hiring and Termination and Liability, and Performance Evaluations, Setting Expectations and Conducting Performance Reviews. Between the monthly sessions, the priests are expected to read assigned material and write reflections.
A recent session on Conflict Management and Crisis Communication was taught by Bill White, VP of Corporate Communications for Sprint. Bishop Johnston sat in on the session for a time, as did Rockhurst University President Father Tom Curran, SJ. The session was interactive with White and Helzberg Professor of Analytics and Management Myles Gartland both asking and answering questions. Social media was discussed as were the difference between issues and crises, and how communication is best managed.
Bishop Johnston recalled, "One of the things that hit me like a ton of bricks when I was ordained was that as soon as you're ordained, the second half of your education begins. Everything up to ordination is, in a sense, Theory." He added that yes, seminarians do practical things in their practicums, but "almost immediately after ordination, someone asks, 'Can you bless me? Can I talk to you? Can we go to confession?' and you realize this is different!
The first years are really a continuation of learning. You have real people, real life, real sorrows, real challenges and real joys. It's human life with all its complexities. It's a mix of the human condition.
"When made pastor," Bishop Johnston said, "there's another layer of complexity that's added. It's personalities, conflicts, money, communication, basic leadership. It's then that you realize, 'I don't remember too many classes on this!'"
Father Hoye is one of the students. He reflected on what he has learned as a student and how he has implemented his new understanding and skills as a pastor. "I've learned that good communication skills are something that must be practiced intentionally.
"As a pastor," he continued, "I've implemented some best practices learned with regards to management, specifically with my parish staff meetings. The staff seems happy with the new approach!"
A similar program was initiated in 2005, but fizzled out. This program is going strong. Father Hoye said he wanted to "note how appreciative he is of the Helzberg School of Management and its leaders … generous with their time and resources in helping us form priests into effective leaders for their communities."
Jesuit Father Tom Curran likened his job as president of a large university with a pastorate of a large parish. "It's making responsible decisions, maintaining good communication with staff and students/parishioners, and balancing the mission of the institution while staying true to your vocation. That's part of the Rockhurst University niche: bringing leadership and management skills to bear while balancing vocations."
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Use cases
Most of the content in this page still pertains to the usage of live plans in Advanced Roadmaps.
Check out some of the popular use cases of Advanced Roadmaps in the market, depending on your role.
What's your role?
I'm a Product Manager
As a product manager, you need a way to quickly turn feature ideas and customer feedback into a compelling product roadmap. This roadmap is then used to provide visibility into the team's progress for your stakeholders and for yourself as well. You especially need visibility so you can keep your roadmap up-to-date as things change. If this sounds like you, read on about the ways Advanced Roadmaps can help you plan work better for your team.
Organize your ideas
Start by defining initiatives in Advanced Roadmaps. Think of initiatives as chunks of work that span multiple epics and teams, so you can see what needs to be done in the next planning cycle.
Once you've defined initiatives, they need to be broken down into smaller chunks to populate the backlog:
1. Define your initiatives
Define your initiatives by following the steps provided in Configuring initiatives and other hierarchy levels.
2. Break down initiatives into epics and stories
Break your initiatives down into epics and stories that are ready for implementation; they can be turned into actual Jira issues. Follow the steps provided in Creating and deleting issues.
Build a roadmap
A roadmap is based on scope, time, and people. You can play with these variables in Advanced Roadmaps to see different roadmap scenarios. Once you have a backlog of ideas in the form of work items, you need to get everything on a roadmap to share with your stakeholders.
These are the three things you need to build a roadmap:
1. Set the scope
Once you've organized your ideas and the mental backlog is laid out, the work just needs to be estimated.
- Create the strategic focus areas by categorizing items by themes.
- Divide them into smaller projects in the scope view of your plan.
- Estimate them by following the steps in Configuring scheduling settings.
2. Determine target release dates
Configure your release dates by creating project-specific releases.
3. Select your teams
Define your teams and their velocities in hours or points. The velocity can be linked directly to a board in Jira. Learn more at Adding and removing teams.
I'm a Development Manager
As a development manager, you're responsible for making realistic commitments on your team's behalf. During the planning, you need a clear roadmap that you and the product manager have agreed on so you can run the numbers and ensure your team can get it all done. You need a way to easily plan your team's resources and see the capacity of the team at any point in time so you have data to show what's possible and what isn't. You also want to keep stakeholders informed of progress and status without too much hassle.
If this sounds like you, keep reading to learn how Advanced Roadmaps can help you plan work better.
Master the art of capacity planning
In cases where you have specialized and diverse capabilities in your team, you may want to be more granular with capacity planning. This helps you keep your plan realistic and avoid bottlenecks caused by the fact that you need certain skills to complete a work item. Learn more about your team capabilities in Stages and skills.
Check team capacity on the roadmap
Advanced Roadmaps can make it easier for you to understand what your team is working on at a much more granular level. This helps when you're planning work scope with project and product managers — you will then have the data to support your views on what's possible and what isn't.
Capacity view
The capacity view displays both planned capacity and resource utilization. Capacity is displayed as story points for Scrum teams, while for Kanban teams, capacity is plotted using calendar weeks. You can view capacity by release, team, and even team members.
Story view
The story view shows individual stories and their stages of work. When using Scrum, the schedule creates a swimlane per team and shows the team's sprints, as well as the stories scheduled for each sprint. When using Kanban, this view plots stories on-a-day granularity timeline. You can also view the schedule as stories by team member. Learn more at Scheduling behavior.
Track the progress of projects
You can see the progress of individual story items, epics, and initiatives. For anything that is unestimated, you can show those items in relation to items that are estimated. This lets you see the percentage of work done on estimated items while also seeing that some unestimated items are still outstanding and require work.
Set your tracking options
Advanced Roadmaps can support different ways to track progress depending on your team's requirements. Learn more at Tracking progress and status.
View your status and progress in the scope view
The progress and status columns in the scope view of your plan display the progress of your plan items.
- Issue status – Only exists if the work item links to one or multiple Jira issues. It shows the actual workflow status of these issues. In the case of multiple issue links, an icon is shown for the status of each linked issue.
- Progress – Sum of work logs on the linked Jira issues, as well as their child issues.
I'm a Project Manager
As a project manager, you plan and coordinate work against milestones to make sure you're meeting deadlines, and to show how projects are tracking against business goals. Dependencies are a big thing for you – they account for 90% of your planning-related headaches – so you need to map out these dependencies, and not just track them. Having a graphical or visual presentation of information is really helpful at times.
Plan according to milestones
- Set the scope – Once you've organized your ideas, you can re-prioritize work items accordingly.
- Define your releases – Configure your release dates by following the steps provided in configuring release dates.
Manage dependencies to produce a realistic timeline
It's possible to control the sequence in which items are scheduled on the roadmap by setting explicit dependencies.
- Create and manage your dependencies – Configure your release dates by following the steps provided in managing dependencies.
- Configure hierarchy levels – Display the dependencies in the graphical schedule by following the steps given in configuring initiatives and other hierarchy levels.
Track progress towards your goals
You can set themes and track progress against these themes to make sure the organization is executing on strategy, and everyone is aligned to the same priorities.
- Create your focus areas – Themes are high-level strategic focus areas, value streams, or investment categories. You can use themes to set priorities and define where your teams should devote most of their time. Learn more at Themes report.
- Keep track of progress – The graphical schedule shows the results of resource calculations and forecasting based on your plan data. It also provides visibility into forecasted release dates. Learn more at Tracking progress and status.
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A Celestial Task
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DescriptionAre you familiar with the August Celestials? Yu'lon, Chi-Ji, Xuen, and Niuzao watch over the four corners of Pandaria.
They watch you as well.
Their knowledge is most ancient, and most powerful. To those they favor, they can bestow enormous power.
You may seek to earn their trust, but they need you for a more important task.
The Vale of Eternal Blossoms is in danger. First, we must all defend the Vale. Then, we can turn our eyes to the Celestials themselves.
The Vale is safer now, thanks to you. Now, you must help the Celestials.
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text: The 100-some dresses Patrick Demarchelier photographed for "Dior Couture" (Rizzoli, $115) constitute a high-gloss tribute to the venerable fashion house. But the book is also a curiously timed retrospective of Dior's fallen creative director, John Galliano, who designed the bulk of what's included here. Demarchelier dusted off frocks by Dior and his successors, Yves Saint Laurent and Marc Bohan. (Gianfranco Ferré, who was creative director from 1989 to 1996, is left out.) The foreword is by Jeff Koons — a Dior fan, apparently — who sees the couture pieces as "reminiscent of a spider's web, mirroring nature."


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With the growth in DVR usage and commercial skipping, marketers and advertisers have increasingly turned to alternatives to the 30-second spot, with product placement being a common option. Now Nielsen is reporting that product placement dropped a cumulative 15% in the first half of the year while showing a distinct shift – broadcast network placements were up 12%, but cable placements were down 20%.
I found the report interesting reading just from the data on the numbers of actual product placements. I was surprised by just how many placements there are. For example, in the first half of 2008 American Idol alone had 4,636 product placements, followed by Biggest Loser with 4,364. Coca-Cola was the top brand, with 2,990 placements. The market was bombarded with 204,919 product placements in just the first half of 2008. So if you thought there were a lot of products slipped into your shows, you're right.
Not surprisingly, reality programing has the most product placements as its easier to work products in than it is in a scripted show. But with the deluge of reality shows clogging up the airwaves, there may be too many programs to go around. Audiences can only take so much, and with more shows on the air advertisers may not get as much of a concentration of viewers.
Personally I abhor most reality shows and do everything I can not to watch them. I guess I few shows I watch, like Iron Chef America, technically fall into the category though. But even avoiding the big reality shows, I've noticed a growing amount of product placement. One of the shows I enjoyed last season, The Big Bang Theory, had a lot of product placement worked into the program. Characters made very obvious use of Dell laptops, and one character works at The Cheesecake Factory, as is mentioned repeatedly. This season of Eureka is partly sponsored by Degree antiperspirant, which includes fairly intrusive, annoying product placement in the program itself. It is so clumsily handled that it'd be better if the characters just stopped and pitched the product for 30 seconds. It is annoying enough to make me want to never use the product.
I wonder if the increasing 'in your face' aspect of product placements is a symptom of the same saturation effect. It reminds me very much of web-based advertising, and how ads became increasingly aggressive with pop-ups, pop-unders, sound, animation, etc. Desperately trying to attract consumers, while in reality it was increasingly driving them away. Unfortunately I don't expect an ad-blocker for product placements any time soon.
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Oxford, Mississippi has experienced 36% population growth during the last ten years. Their economy is booming with excellent growth in sales tax revenue. The University of Mississippi continues to have record enrollment which has reached 23,838 students.
The city of Oxford serves as the county seat for Lafayette county, which has become a cultural center of North Mississippi. The former home of the late, great William Faulkner hosts a great art and music scene, as well as a slough of great restaurants, due to it being the home of "Top Chef's" John Currence.
Blake Tartt III has a deep commitment to the Oxford community with an emphasis on maintaining the town's rich Southern traditions. This is the over arching principle in all of his investments in Oxford, bringing innovative ideas amidst a real estate context rich with Southern charm and culture.


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General Electric, Marriott and Condé Nast Weigh In on Digital Storytelling
Experiments on new platforms can pay off
As social media channels continue to grow, with mobile feeds dominating storytelling, brands like General Electric, Marriott and Condé Nast have had to work out the best way to position themselves on social platforms.
General Electric, for example, needs to feel more tangible and accessible to its consumers. Energy, after all, is an invisible product that consumers don't think about until it isn't there.
"For us, for Thomas Edison's brand, it makes sense to be [one of the] first [brands] on a new platform," said Linda Boff, executive director of global brand marketing for GE, at Advertising Week's digital storytelling panel. "We experiment on new platforms, and it's OK if something doesn't work. … It's about finding a great way to use that tool."
According to Boff, GE was one of the first brands to use Vine when it launched in January 2013.
"It's important for consumers to be able to feel that they are engaging with brands," said Marla Kaplowitz, North American CEO of MEC.
As for Marriott, the brand aims to reposition itself as the world's largest travel company that just happens to sell hotel rooms, according to Marriott's vp of creative, content marketing and global marketing, David Beebe. In fact, the brand just launched a creative and content marketing studio.
"We're selling an experience, and we have to balance what our consumers' real experience is with our marketing [message]," says Beebe, who explained that Marriott wants to own the travel journey on social platforms. "The future of digital storytelling is to use it in a way that adds value to the consumer."
Condé Nast, according to vp of partnerships Josh Stinchcomb, is leveraging its photography heritage on increasingly popular image-based digital platforms. The brand is also betting big on video content, as that is the preferred method of content consumption for younger consumers, according to Stinchcomb.


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Is Sibcoin a New Dash?
A Dash fork Sibcoin has hit the headlines a while ago with bold promises of finally bringing cryptocurrencies closer to average people. Initially developed back in 2015 by a group of Russian residents, it sought to appeal to the local cryptocurrency community.
However, as the time went by, the cryptocurrency's popularity has expanded beyond the snowy domain of Siberia where it was conceived, and gained some traction in the Chinese market.
The project's team claims that they managed to retain all advantages found in Dash while seriously improving its technological underbelly by developing a few unique cryptographic algorithms specifically for the purpose.
Dash is an honorable member of Coinmarketcap's Top 10 of cryptocurrencies. Initially created under the name of Darkcoin, the project has also made some attempts to become closer to wider audiences; it changed its name to Dash to avoid associations with the darknet, and invested a great effort in becoming a truly anonymous cryptocurrency.
The architecture of Dash makes use of masternodes, which can be operated by anyone who holds 1,000 Dash, and that make the entire network operate much faster than that of Bitcoin. Masternode operators are those who can vote for questions regarding the project's further evolution. However, this solution is widely criticized now due to significant growth of Dash's price; while in the beginning Dash was worth a speck of a dollar, its current price of just under $200 makes having a 1,000 Dash a thing that most people cannot afford.
Finally, Dash was widely promoted as the only major cryptocurrency that cannot be effectively mined with ASICs. However, devices designed specifically for Dash mining were released, and this advantage faded away.
Sibcoin, on the other hand, uses Stribog algorithm to make the entire system ASIC-resistant while making use Dash's X11 algorithm as well. For that reason, Sibcoin mining is currently possible only with GPU. This ensures higher degree of decentralization.
The price of Sibcoin, however, might follow in Dash's wake. Though its chart spent most of 2016 as a flatline, in 2017 the situation has changed dramatically; in just a few months, the price managed to grow to $1.00 from nearly non-existent levels, and the currency's market cap has reached $15 million over the same period of time.
This owes to the fact that the project's team dedicated a lot of effort to building a dedicated community around Sibcoin.
The project does a lot to literally make cryptocurrencies closer to people. In recent months, Sibcoin has announced several services that could appeal to those who have only superficial knowledge of cryptocurrencies, or, in some cases, have none whatsoever.
One of such services is Perevod.io, which, through the use of a cellphone and a few partner exchange services, allows one to send Sibcoin to any place in the world. Most notably, the recipient may have no idea of any cryptocurrency involvement in the transaction as all they would get is their local currency.
Another recent development in Sibcoin is about the coin's integration in Moneypolo, an international payments processor that works both with traditional and cryptocurrency-related companies.
It all makes Sibcoin one of only a few cryptocurrencies that have been grounded to the real-life use cases, and can be exchanged for fiat directly, not through bitcoin. With Perevod.io, users can bypass all traditional money remittance services while avoiding all complexities inherent in dealing with cryptocurrency; with Moneypolo integration, Sibcoin may actually be sent to a plastic card and then used for regular shopping.
The team has also announced it is working on a service that could enable users to send money directly to numerous plastic cards issued under any jurisdiction at once.
With its price steadily growing and new services being rolled out on almost regular basis, Sibcoin might eventually become one of the world's most noticeable cryptocurrencies.
And, as the community around Sibcoin is growing, and the cryptocurrency itself is expanding to global markets, it may eventually play a big role in the future's blockchain revolution.


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Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States will be watching closely to see if Syria lives up to its promises to take action against terror groups. Mr. Powell spoke in a series of interviews on American television, one day after his return from a trip to Beirut and Damascus.
Secretary of State Powell says Syria knows what it has to do. He says he welcomes the assurances he got from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But at the same time, Mr. Powell stresses mere words are not enough.
"It is not what he says, or what he said to me, or what he professes," he said. "It is what he actually does. So, it is performance that we will be looking at in the days and weeks and months ahead."
Mr. Powell told NBC's Meet the Press that his talks in Damascus were "candid." He said President Assad is under no illusions, and knows exactly what the United States is looking for, an end to support for terrorism, and cooperation in rebuilding neighboring Iraq and capturing leaders of the ousted regime.
The secretary of state carried on that point in an appearance on the CBS news program Face the Nation. He said Mr. Assad is well aware a lack of action by Syria could result in some sort of penalties under U.S. law.
"He also knows there are consequences lurking in the background, whether it is the Syria Accountability Act that some members of Congress are considering, or triggering of the Patriot Act, which could have consequences for Syria," he said.
The trip to Syria and Lebanon marked the start of a new phase of intense personal U.S. diplomacy in the region. Before the week is out, Mr. Powell will return for talks with Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and the new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Just days ago, they were formally presented with a new peace plan devised by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. The so-called "roadmap" details a step-by-step process that could result in a Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace with Israel by the end of 2005.
The secretary of state told NBC television that both sides will have to make concessions, if there is to be progress toward peace. But he made clear nothing will happen until the Palestinian leadership ends violence directed at Israeli civilians.
"They have to get the violence under control," he said. "We cannot move forward with the roadmap, just as we have not been able to move forward with other plans and ideas, in the presence of continuing violence and terrorism."
Mr. Powell also stressed the Israelis will have to end settlement activity in the Palestinian territories. He said that may be one of the most difficult issues to resolve, along with the status of Jerusalem.


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Sun is the best make-up.
I think, as you watch the waves lap matter-of-factly against the multi-coloured, pebbled shore.
I can't not hug you from behind.
It's our height differences that bring us together.
You stretch your leg and wiggle your painted toes in the cool salt water.
You can always count on a breeze to rustle a sundress.
You can always count on a sundress.
You snuggle back into my chest and make a swoony sound.
Or maybe it was me.
Seagulls glide overhead. They can recognize a moment when they see one. Circling. Watching from a distance I'd hate to be from you. From this.
The wind catches your hair. I tuck it behind your ear, letting my hand graze your cheek.
We stand quietly. I'm holding you as close as possible.
"Which one are you looking at?" you whisper in a voice that coats me like a warm bath.
I point to the lighthouse on the right.
You try to remember the story I told you about the island. But not too hard. You're too cozy for memory-searching.
I exhale in your ear and goosebumps chase goosebumps across your soft, smooth, freckling skin.
I rub my big hands up and down your arms.
Then hug again.
A sailboat appears from around behind the tiny island. The breeze has it leaning. Picking up speed. A little. Leaning more. The sailor knows it's about the journey.
I've been there.
It doesn't compare to here.
I take your flip flops in one hand, and your hand in the other. I help you up on top of the big rock. I climb up and sit behind you.
You lean back.
My arms are around you again. Always.
The sun moves. It reflects differently off the waves.
I'm jealous of the light falling on your face.
I squeeze you a little more.
I want to say so much. I want to tell you just how thankful I am for the impossible confluence of events that led to us finding each other. I want to tell you how impressed I am with your strength and determination. I want to tell you that sometimes I still get shy when you stare at me. I want to tell you that I've never wanted anyone more. And that the desire is growing. I want to tell you that I have your back. So fucking much. I want to tell you that I see your "weaknesses" as strengths. That I see your strengths as you. And that I see you as an evolving dream. I want to say louder that I will fight anyone who tries to put you down, keep you down, or make you feel for one second that you're less than what you actually are. I want to tell you that you can do anything and, softer, that I want to be beside you when you do. I want to tell you that I amazed daily that I get to be yours. I want to tell you I'm proud, excited, determined, protect-y, supportive and, frankly, in awe of you. I want to tell you to hell with what others say, I am putting you on a pedestal. And I am climbing right the hell up there with you. I want to say so much.
"I just…"
"God, me too…"
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This might be embarrassing to admit, but I can't remember the last time I cleaned my computer screen. Now some people might not admit that, but I'm certain I can't be the only person who's been too busy (for like 8 years) to notice the yucky build- up on my computer screen. Sure, I didn't notice for awhile, but when I did – Lord, have mercy! I was mortified! How did I walk around with a laptop with a screen cloudier than a winters day in Ohio?
Apparently, how to clean your computer screen isn't as easy as pulling out a paper towel and some Windex. Luckily, I Googled beforehand and came across a few nifty tips to make sure the process was easy and effective!
Want to get your computer screen sparkling and clean the safe way? Here's what worked for me!
Don't Use Paper Towels
Anything "paper" is a bad plan to use on your delicate computer screen. As The How To Geek Guide points out, " Paper towels are not designed for cleaning delicate surfaces, they're designed for wiping up bacon grease and hairballs; the surface of paper towel, on a microscopic level, is fairly abrasive and can lead to buffed spots and scratches on your monitor." Same goes for general cleaning rags. Soft microfiber is the way to go when it comes to how to clean your computer screen. I simply used the microfiber that came with my sunglasses!
Let It Cool
Simple stuff, but turn off and unplug your computer before attempting to clean it. The How To Geek is right on when they warn that cleaning a still-warm computer is not just difficult – but damaging to your delicate (and expensive screen).
Don't Spray The Screen
Guilty as charged. I did this with my first Mac, and even though I wiped the solution up pretty quickly and avoided serious damage, the screen was never the same. Always moisten the microfiber first – with a warm water. Just like CNET suggests, it's best to avoid any liquid besides warm water – and only use a mild soap mixture if you MUST. Never use alcohol or other harsh ammonia based cleaners.
Dust First
Before using any water, remove the dust with your dry microfiber cloth. This helps prevent streaking and using excess moisture. In some cases (not mine) dusting is all that ends up being necessary!
If you end up wiping your screen with your damp, soft cloth, don't forget to go over it again with a dry cloth once you're finished cleaning. This also prevents streaking and removes any moisture than can end up getting trapped.
Do you have any favorite tips on how to clean your computer screen? We'd love to hear about them in the comments below!


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The Navigators Group Inc. announced on Dec. 21 that its preliminary estimate of losses relating to Superstorm Sandy ranges between $18 million and $25 million, net of reinsurance and the effects of reinstatement premiums.The Rye Brook, N.Y.-based Navigators Group's preliminary estimate includes the following items: the sum of estimates of claims and claim expenses incurred, reinsurance recoveries and reinsurance reinstatement premiums.
The company's estimates are based on claims information reported to date, a review of its potential exposures, preliminary discussions with certain insureds, and catastrophe modeling techniques.
But the Navigators Group said its estimate is subject to change based on new or revised data being received from the company's insureds as well as other factors. The company listed the following factors that can influence loss estimates:
• The magnitude and recent occurrence of Superstorm Sandy
• Relatively limited claims data received to date
• The contingent nature of business interruption and other exposures
• The unusual complexity of the coverage and legal issues relating to Superstorm Sandy
• And the other uncertainties inherent in loss estimation.
The Navigators Group is an international specialty insurance holding company with insurance company operations, underwriting management companies, and operations at Lloyd's. Headquartered in Rye Brook, N.Y., Navigators has offices in major insurance centers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe.


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WPC Innovation Award: Submissions Wanted
nova-Institute GmbH, Huerth, Germany, would like to invite interested persons to apply for the WPC Innovation Award and to present their WPC innovation to an expert audience.
For the fourth year running, the WPC Innovation Award will be presented at the German Wood-Plastic Composites Conference at the Maritim Hotel Cologne, Germany, 10-11 December 2013.
The three winners will be elected by the expert conference audience and for the second time the Award is sponsored by BASF Color Solutions Germany GmbH.
The WPC Innovation Award 2013 seeks to inspire the WPC industry – and also interested companies from outside the industry – to come up with innovative product development and product design ideas. The competition aims to stimulate the development of new, material-appropriate applications and markets for Wood-Plastic Composites (WPC).
The Innovation Award focuses on innovations that are already in production or close to market launch. Mere ideas, product prototypes without business plans and designs will not be considered.
After the Innovation Award jury has selected the top six candidates from among the applicants, their application documents will be made available for download from the conference website to give our audience and other interested individuals a first glimpse of these innovations.
Each of the top six nominated companies will give a short 10-minute presentation about its innovation on the first day of the WPC Conference. Following the presentations, the audience will pick the three winners, who will be presented with their awards at the evening event.
The six selected companies must be able to attend the event in Cologne on 10 December 2013 in order to present their product to our audience.
The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2013.
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Skiing Buttermilk
Not many ski resorts can boast a mountain dedicated for specialty use but Aspen has just that with the Buttermilk ski area. Buttermilk is the perfect beginners area with low angle and wide open runs that are groomed to perfection every night.
The Bumps and Powder Panda ski schools operate at Buttermilk and every year teach untold number of adults and children how to ski. Expect the same level of experience and professionalism as instructors from Aspen on a mountain that is suited for beginners.
For kids there is Panda Peak, a area specifically designed to be kid friendly, giving young ones a comfortable place to experience the joy of skiing, nurturing them for the bigger runs to come. Once they little ones advance from Panda Peak and onto the main part of the mountain there is a life sized for to explore and a serpentine ski maze to play in.
Once you get your ski legs under you and are ready to try something a bit harder, the Tiehack side of Buttermilk has great groomed advanced/single black diamond runs. These are ideal as they are not as intimidating as the black diamonds on Aspen or Highlands but still steeper than blue runs. There are also even less skiers on Tiehack than anywhere else, so the pressure of other advanced skiers flying by is removed.
Almost ironically Buttermilk is a bit of a dichotomy in that while having amazing learning terrain, it is also home to the worlds premier annual extreme skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling competition, the Winter X Games. Voted #1 by Transworld Snowboarding Magazine Reader's Poll for best pipe. The 22-foot superpipe does not disappoint, as many X Games winners, Olympians and up-and-comers can attest. The legendary terrain park runs from the top to the bottom of the mountain covering almost 2,000 feet with rails, kickers, jibs and gaps, with the big air launch right before the base for everyone to see your best!
Stop in for lunch at the Cliff House and you are rewarded with breathtaking views of Pyramid Peak as the back of the mountain drops off into Maroon Creek Valley. Buttermilk is also easy to get to, right of the main road leading into Aspen, and has a shuttle running to Highlands every 20 minutes. Buttermilk really does provide an amazingly friendly place to experience the joy of skiing in a comfortable atmosphere.


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