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May 24, 2013
Tasktop and IBM continue to advance the business value of ALM and enterprise Agile
Dave West
Chief Product Officer
Tasktop Technologies
West is a software industry thought leader (formerly with Forrester) and Chief Product Officer for Tasktop Technologies. At Tasktop he leads the strategic direction of the company's Sync and Dev products that help organizations integrate ALM tools, data, people and processes.
Nicole Bryan
Director of Product Management
Tasktop Technologies
Bryan has more than 17 years of experience in software and product development, focused primarily on bringing data visualization/infographics and human factors considerations to the forefront of Application Lifecycle Management. At Tasktop, she is focused on improving how software is created and delivered.
Why You Need an ALM Data Model: Increasing Visibility and Transparency to Enable Business Agility
Speaker: Dave West, Tasktop
Location: LM-2090
For many organizations, the promise of ALM has been undermined by disconnected tools, processes, organizations and practices. But as organizations pivot business models and deliver faster, the need for ALM is much greater. Increased visibility and flow are the cornerstones to increased business agility. But for many organizations, adopting Agile at the team level has left enterprise ALM in a worse state than before, with teams adopting tools, practices and even process models for their own needs. So how do organizations increase the visibility of software delivery while software is being delivered by a diverse set of project teams, all following slightly different methods and using a variety of tools?
Practicing ALM in a Mixed Lifecycle Tool Environment
Speakers: Nicole Bryan, Tasktop; Gary Cernosek, IBM; Kevin Bauer, IBM
Location: LM-2207
IBM launched the Rational Jazz initiative with a mission for improving collaboration across the software and systems lifecycle. This initiative includes elements from community, architecture and product perspectives. The value of community development can be seen today on Jazz.net, where developers gain insight into products comprising the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). But the Jazz initiative is larger than Rational itself. The Jazz platform is designed to be open and broader in the scope of capabilities and lifecycle tools. This session will show how the Jazz initiative has evolved to integrate lifecycle tools stemming from a wide range of sources.
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel
1500 Epcot Resorts Blvd.
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
#Tasktop and #IBM to share #Agile and #ALM best practices for the enterprise at #IBMInnovate
For additional information about IBM Innovate, please follow this link: (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/innovate/)
For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with the speakers, please contact Christie Denniston, APR:
Office: 303-581-7760
Cell: 303-827-5164
May 23, 2013
Boulder, CO-based PR firm recognized in high-tech PR ranking
BOULDER, Colo., May 23, 2013 — Catapult PR-IR (www.catapultpr-ir.com), a leader in public relations services for technology companies, today announced it has been ranked by O'Dwyer's PR Magazine. (http://www.odwyerpr.com) as one of the Top 50 technology-focused firms in the nation. Catapult placed 41 out of the Top 50 ranked firms in 2012. O'Dwyer's provides the latest news and information about PR firms and professionals, the media, corporations, legal issues, jobs and technology. Each year, O'Dwyer's ranks applicant public relations firms nationally based on their audited, annual net billings. In Colorado, Catapult continues to be ranked first in technology focused firms.
"According to this ranking, technology PR firms made great gains in 2012, and we are proud to be part of it," said Guy Murrel, Catapult's co-founder and principal. "We are pleased to be recognized by O'Dwyer's PR Magazine as one of the top technology public relations firms nationally. Catapult's commitment to and experience in helping technology firms achieve their goals is as strong as it was 13 years ago when we started the agency."
Catapult specializes in helping technology companies define and articulate compelling messages that result in increased brand awareness, thought leadership and building market-leading positions. A boutique agency, its founders and principals play a primary role in both the strategic and day-to-day execution of each and every client engagement. Its proven launch process, and continued commitment to foster win-win relationships between its clients and key industry influencers in the media and analyst community, help tech firms move forward and higher in pursuit of their strategic business goals.
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About Catapult PR-IR
Catapult PR-IR provides strategic public relations and investor relations services exclusively for technology companies. Catapult helps its clients establish new market positions that are shared by only an elite few within their industry. The firm has won numerous awards, including PRSA's Gold Pick Award, Holmes Report's "Best Agency to Work For" award and the Boulder County Business Report's Mercury 100 Fastest Growing Companies Award. Catapult's client roster includes the Agile Alliance, TapInfluence, CollabNet, CrowdIt, FreeWave Technologies, Inovonics, JNBridge, and Tasktop Technologies. For more information on Catapult, call 303-581-7760 or visit the company's Web site at (www.catapultpr-ir.com).
Mary Cochran
Director, Marketing and Social Media
Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760 ext. 10
May 22, 2013
CrowdIt supports passionate entrepreneurs, investors, mentors and executives to build their local communities and enable small business success
SPRINGFIELD, MO, May 22, 2013 – CrowdIt (www.crowdit.com), the crowdfunding site for the "New American Dream," today announced it has partnered with Startup America (http://www.s.co/) in line with its focus of helping promote the next big idea by small businesses of all kinds. The Startup America Partnership supports a national network of communities dedicated to advancing the success of American startups. With more than 32 regions launched and nearly 13,000 members nationwide, Startup America is aiming to reshape American entrepreneurship.
As a new member of Startup America, CrowdIt now is also connected with more than 180 Startup Missouri (http://www.s.co/region/missouri) members. Startup Missouri launched on Jan. 31, 2012 as part of the National Startup America Network. Startup Missouri companies are focused on work in bioscience, technology, and a number of other fields.
"CrowdIt is thrilled to partner with Startup America," said Jason Graf, CEO and co-founder of CrowdIt. "In today's economic climate, we have a real opportunity to reinvigorate the individual entrepreneur and the way we nurture small business development in the U.S. We look forward to working with professionals that share the same values and passion."
CrowdIt is providing an opportunity for everyday people to tap the collective power of the crowd through a second generation crowdfunding site. The company is building a community of dreamers, believers and "suits" to facilitate the success of small business endeavors through peer-review, business networking, team collaboration and mentoring. CrowdIt will fully launch its new crowdfunding portal on June 4. For a chance to be included in CrowdIt's $10,000 Launch Challenge, please visit (www.crowdit.com).
Share This: #CrowdIt Joins @startupamerica 2 support success of #American #startups #entrepreneur #investor #incubator www.crowdit.com
About CrowdIt
Based in America's heartland of Springfield, MO, CrowdIt (www.crowdit.com) is the crowdfunding site for believers of the New American Dream. Its crowdfunding site goes beyond just funding great ideas, but focuses on supporting success through peer and expert advisory support, business networking and sharing of best practices and knowledge. CrowdIt's belief is that crowdfunding will help drive the next wave in innovation and economic expansion, and underpins its mission to support small business growth. A startup, CrowdIt is privately held and backed by venture capital firm Baron VC. For more information, please visit (www.crowdit.com).
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Terri Douglas
Catapult PR-IR
O: 303-581-7760, ext. 18
CrowdIt CEO Jason Graf, an applicant to the 2006 'The Apprentice' television show, beats Donald Trump to the crowdfunding market
SPRINGFIELD, MO, May 21, 2013 – CrowdIt (www.crowdit.com), the crowdfunding site for the "New American Dream," today announced an ironical twist in the crowdfunding world.
If you follow the crowdfunding industry, you might have seen how acclaimed real estate mogul and crowdfunding newbie, Donald Trump, threw his hat in the ring for a new and exciting venture – to provide monetary support through "FundAnything," (http://fundanything.com/en), a new crowdfunding site that aims to do just that – "fund anything."
Now rewind to 2006 – a young entrepreneur by the name of Jason Graf tried out to be a participant in one of Trump's many successful endeavors, a TV show series aptly called "The Apprentice." Unfortunately, Graf was turned away, but like any visionary he still had a burning desire to follow his dreams and trust his intuition.
"Being an entrepreneur means creatively defining your own destiny and it's my desire to succeed that motivated me to get involved in The Apprentice," explains Graf. "Being rejected by the show only perpetuated my hunger for new business opportunities, which eventually led to launching a crowdfunding platform earlier this year."
Fast forward to today – if you're following Mr. Trump's latest endeavor, you probably came across an interesting article last week on IndieWire.com that touts ways for new crowdfunding platforms to gain attention in the public eye: (http://www.indiewire.com/article/how-does-a-newish-crowdfunding-site-gain-attention-hire-donald-trump-or-offer-free-publicity-support).
It just so happens that the once overlooked apprentice hopeful, Jason Graf, has caught the eye of the industry – securing prominence in the story in "IndieWire" and establishing his company, CrowdIt, in a very respectable vein.
"While Trump's support of such an emerging industry is exciting, it's great to see that my colleagues and I beat him to market and now get to compete alongside the celebrity mogul," said Graf.
CrowdIt aims to usher in the next generation crowdfunding site, as the company is providing an opportunity for people to tap the collective power of the crowd far beyond just the prospect of funding. The company is building a community of dreamers, believers and suits to facilitate the success of small business endeavors through peer-review, business networking, team collaboration and mentoring.
CrowdIt's CEO, while humbled by his past failure, is more driven than ever to be a leader in the crowdfunding industry and in society. He hopes to inspire others to embark upon their own journey on the path to success and sees crowdfunding as an easy way to incentivize people of all backgrounds to take that first step.
"One day, I'm going to be looking back on all of this and smile," Graf said. "As for my new competitor in the crowdfunding industry, I have but one question: Who's the apprentice now?"
About CrowdIt
Based in America's heartland of Springfield, MO, CrowdIt (www.crowdit.com) is the crowdfunding site for believers of the New American Dream. Its crowdfunding site goes beyond just funding great ideas, but focuses on supporting success through peer and expert advisory support, business networking and sharing of best practices and knowledge. CrowdIt's belief is that crowdfunding will help drive the next wave in innovation and economic expansion, and underpins its mission to support small business growth. A start-up, CrowdIt is privately held and backed by venture capital firm Baron VC. For more information, please visit (www.crowdit.com).
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Media Contact:
Terri Douglas
Catapult PR-IR
O: 303-581-7760, ext. 18
Innovative 'Dreamers' and startups continue looking to CrowdIt for more than funding
SPRINGFIELD, MO, May 21, 2013 – CrowdIt (www.crowdit.com), the crowdfunding site for the "New American Dream," today announced 10 new projects are now available to preview on its site. These projects represent a wide variety of ventures from fashion and science to housing and technology. Two weeks from today (June 4, 2013), CrowdIt's official website will launch and all submitted projects will be available for funding.
"We've received a wonderful response from people wanting to launch their dreams with CrowdIt," said Jason Graf, CEO and co-founder of CrowdIt. "We are eagerly anticipating our launch when Dreamers will officially be able to tap the power of the crowd."
The latest project submissions include:
• StarDreams – a small business that creates the image of a starry sky on ceilings.
• The Inferno Element Protection System (EPS) (www.infernotek.com/) – a backpack that converts into a full body system and is designed to allow for hours of hunting in extreme weather conditions.
• Brandon R. Gould (@Im_possibleman) – a fashion designer and artist who wants to introduce a new art style called Violin.
• Wireless 4 Less (www.wireless4lessnow.com/) – offers alternative options to traditionally high priced and contracted cellular plans.
• Jens Bilgrav – a four-telescope optical observatory for educational and commercial use in the Sardinian mountains.
• Whale Tails Chips (www.whaletailschips.com) – wants to display the NON Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Verification seal on bags of whale tail shaped tortilla chips, but needs the funds to ensure guidelines are followed, testing procedures are completed, and new packaging can be created.
• One Card (www.home.qrpro.co/) – an interactive, digital business card that changes the way you communicate with your customers.
• Scripted Designs (www.scripteddesigns.com) – a clothing line and fashion movement that has coached and mentored models from all walks of life.
• High Impact Temporary Housing (www.highimpactpanels.com/index.html) – a temporary housing unit designed for protection from natural disasters
• Club Necessary Education Over Nonsense (N.E.O.N.) – a "homework cafe" and nightclub for teenagers.
All projects submitted on CrowdIt before June 4 will be eligible to participate launch challenge with a $10,000 prize (http://www.crowdit.com/LaunchChallenge). To submit a project please visit (www.crowdit.com).
Share This: #CrowdIt adds 10 more #crowdfunding projects to its site @DontJustDreamIt www.crowdit.com
About CrowdIt
Based in America's heartland of Springfield, MO, CrowdIt (www.crowdit.com) is the crowdfunding site for believers of the New American Dream. Its crowdfunding site goes beyond just funding great ideas, but focuses on supporting success through peer and expert advisory support, business networking and sharing of best practices and knowledge. CrowdIt's belief is that crowdfunding will help drive the next wave in innovation and economic expansion, and underpins its mission to support small business growth. A start-up, CrowdIt is privately held and backed by venture capital firm Baron VC. For more information, please visit (www.crowdit.com).
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Media Contact:
Terri Douglas
Catapult PR-IR
O: 303-581-7760, ext. 18
May 21, 2013
CloudForge leapfrogs GitHub and BitBucket by offering a free plan with unlimited projects and users, and TeamForge for every project and user
BRISBANE, Calif., May 21, 2013, CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the leader for Enterprise Cloud Development, today announced a new version of CloudForge that offers the broadest development tool support, storage availability and unrestrictive usage of any cloud development platform, including GitHub and Atlassian BitBucket. The CloudForge Free Plan provides unlimited private projects, and supports unlimited users. It also provides access to TeamForge, the enterprise-class Agile development platform used to synchronize small teams or thousands of developers and projects. An integration with Box powers content collaboration across any organization to further accelerate the development process. With CloudForge, restrictions are removed so developers and teams can get started instantly, realize value immediately and securely scale based on their growing and maturing needs.
To learn more about CloudForge, its four pricing plans and to sign up for a free account, please visit www.cloudforge.com.
"Following Agile and DevOps adoption, cloud-based software development is moving from grassroots, small-scale projects to larger initiatives and adoption in the enterprise," said Nick Bell, Senior Director of CollabNet Cloud Services. "With the new CloudForge we remove the restrictive approach other cloud platforms impose on developers and, with the addition of TeamForge, help connect small teams and larger organizations in a very collaborative and enterprise-friendly approach."
CloudForge disrupts the cloud development landscape by:
• Pricing for value: from the industry's most complete Free program to the Enterprise platform, CloudForge provides instant value, accelerates adoption and offers a practical path to grow.
• Going unlimited: no restrictions on the number of projects and users.
• Adding tooling: TeamForge for Agile and DevOps, including Agile planning, bug and issue tracking, and collaboration wikis.
• Hybrid SCM: the flexibility to use the source code management tool of choice, with both Git and Subversion being available.
• Managing files and documents: TeamForge and Box bring document management and content collaboration to cloud development.
• Enabling scale: from small teams to thousands of users, CloudForge provides the visibility, centralized management and compliance to grow across the enterprise.
• Removing risk: CollabNet pioneered the adoption of open source tools within large enterprises through its Subversion roots – it has a level of cloud based collaborative development experience as well as infrastructure knowledge that is unmatched in the industry.
With the launch of the market-disruptive CloudForge pricing and feature-set, coupled with TeamForge instances for all users, CollabNet continues to build on its leadership position helping enterprise organizations gain value from cloud and open source technologies. Its five-step blueprint, called Enterprise Cloud Development (http://www.collab.net/solutions), guides organizations as they adopt hybrid cloud strategies into the software delivery lifecycle. With CloudForge, developers build websites, mobile/cloud/web applications, and rapidly prototype and deploy business software. For the enterprise, it offers a fast and practical path to grow and scale organization-wide, through a flexible role-based access security framework that makes it incredibly easy for developers to use and administrators comfortable to scale to thousands of users.
"Box and CollabNet share a common goal to bring enterprise collaboration to the cloud and provide a seamless experience to users and development teams," said Chris Yeh, Senior Vice President, Platform for Box. "Cloud development practices are moving beyond small teams to more mission-critical areas of the enterprise and CloudForge offers a strong way to get started and scale in a practical fashion."
"Lowering the barriers of adoption for cloud services and adding value at the base level is a positive move by CollabNet with its new CloudForge platform," said Ben Kepes, Principal, Diversity Limited. "We see continued adoption of cloud-based services within the software development industry and expect strong growth and innovation during the coming years."
CollabNet is also leading the adoption of enterprise Git through CloudForge and TeamForge. IT organizations now have the ability to deploy and manage Git and Subversion instances from a single management platform, with best-in-class automation, tracking and compliance that are a must within distributed, enterprise software organizations. CollabNet was the first to offer Git history protection for governance and compliance, and its integration of Black Duck Code Sight provides a single platform to discover and reuse code across Subversion and Git repository boundaries. CollabNet also launched GitEye, a new, free Agile-based Git desktop that has been downloaded by more than 10,000 developers since its introduction less than 30 days ago. To download GitEye visit: www.giteyeapp.com.
For more information about CloudForge, please visit: www.cloudforge.com
For more information about TeamForge, please visit: http://www.collab.net/products/teamforge
For more information about enterprise Git, please visit: http://www.collab.net/products/teamforge/git-for-the-enterprise
Share this: CollabNet leapfrogs #github and #bitbucket with no restrictions and 2 GB storage with new CloudForge www.cloudforge.com
About CollabNet
CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge™ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro Agile project management and Subversion Edge and Enterprise Git source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).
Media Contact:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
May 20, 2013
Dan Steele is promoted to oil and gas market manager and Curt Goldman takes on position as key account manager for Northern and Western U.S. Territories
BOULDER, Colo., May 20, 2013 – FreeWave Technologies, Inc. (http://www.freewave.com), manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced Dan Steele's new role as oil and gas market manager and Curt Goldman's move to key account manager for Northern and Western U.S. Territories. The boom in oil and gas production, especially within North America, is furthering the need for highly reliable, long-range wireless data communications and FreeWave is aligning its knowledgeable oil and gas team to meet these needs.
"We applaud the promotions of Dan Steele and Curt Goldman," said Ashish Sharma, chief marketing officer at FreeWave Technologies. "Filling these roles and bringing on new team members will allow FreeWave to continue providing the best service and wireless data solutions in the oil and gas industry."
Steele has more than 25 years of experience selling Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks for the water and wastewater, oil and gas, electric utilities, railroad, traffic, government and process control instrumentation markets. He has been an integral part of FreeWave's oil and gas team since 2008 and now steps into a larger role as the company's new market manager.
Goldman will be joining the oil and gas sales team from his previous position as utility market manager. Goldman has been working at FreeWave for five years and will cover key accounts in both the U.S. and Canada.
"Both Curt and I are excited to help lead FreeWave's oil and gas sales efforts at FreeWave," said Steele. "There are numerous opportunities both locally and abroad where FreeWave's solutions can add immediate value for long-term operational success."
Share this story: Dan Steele & Curt Goldman from @FreeWaveTech promoted to drive growth in #oil and #gas industry #wireless #automation
About FreeWave Technologies
Founded in 1993, FreeWave Technologies, Inc. manufactures the most reliable, high performance, lowest power consumption, spread spectrum and licensed radios for mission-critical data transmission. Through engineering excellence and a relentless commitment to best-in-class manufacturing, FreeWave customers enjoy superior network up-time and range, and the lowest cost of ownership in its class. Based in Boulder, Colorado, FreeWave designs and manufactures radios that are the leading choice for oil and gas, utility, military and numerous other industrial applications. Organizations that count on radio data communications for operational success – where failure and down-time are not an option – trust FreeWave for custom network design, system engineering and customer support that is unparalleled in the market. For additional information, contact FreeWave directly at 866-399-4930 or at email@example.com. Visit the company's website at (www.freewave.com).
Media Contact:
Christin Jeffers
Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760 ext. 19
May 17, 2013
INFLUENCER MARKETING LEADER TAPINFLUENCE SELECTED AS A TiE50 2013 FINALIST
TapInfluence recognized as one of the world's most innovative startups within the TiE50 2013 awards program
BOULDER, Colo., May 16, 2013 – TapInfluence (http://bit.ly/18Lhq7P), the leader in influencer marketing, was selected as a finalist for the 2013 TiE50 Awards (http://www.tie50.net/TiE50Awards/TiE50_Finalists_2013.asp). TapInfluence provides the industry's only cloud-based software that enables brand marketers to automate and scale all aspects of influencer marketing programs. The TiE50 awards program recognizes the world's most enterprising technology startups and the list of finalists for 2013 were chosen by evaluating nominations from more than 1,100 companies across 22 countries.
"Being named one of the world's most enterprising technology startups is truly an honor," said Rustin Banks, co-founder and CEO of TapInfluence. "Not only are we appreciative of the TiE50 organizers and judges for this recognition, but we also want to thank our partners, investors and employees for all their support and collaboration – this award is a testament to how hard we've worked and how far we've come in such a short period of time."
All the finalists of TiE50 2013 were chosen based on their business model, IP value and leadership team. Finalists were identified by a team of prominent entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives and other domain experts. The TiE50 winners will be announced upon further evaluation and review of presentations at TiEcon 2013 (http://tiecon.org/), on May 17-18, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
TapInfluence's cloud-based software automates the entire influencer marketing process, thereby enabling brand marketers to distribute actionable, branded content, and measure results all on one platform. TapInfluence helps brand marketers extend beyond blogger outreach and provides an interactive platform to facilitate the influencer/brand relationship. As brands connect and interact with millions of consumers online, only TapInfluence provides the opportunity to do so in a meaningful and authentic way, thereby consolidating work flow management and scaling the reach of each campaign.
Details about the TiE50 awards program and the list of finalists are available at (http://www.tie50.net/TiE50Awards/Default.asp). To learn more and vote for TapInfluence, please visit (http://www.tie50.net/CompanyProfile/TiE50CompanyProfile_2013.asp?VwID=JNRQORG4).
Share this: #TapInfluence named one of the hottest #startup companies! #tie50 @TiEcon Read and vote here: http://www.tie50.net/CompanyProfile/TiE50CompanyProfile_2013.asp?VwID=JNRQORG4
About TiE50 Awards
TiE50 is TiE Silicon Valley's premier annual awards program contested by technology startups worldwide. TiE50 track record since inception in May 2009 shows that 94% of the winners and finalists have been funded, attracting over $20 Billion in investments! More than 110 companies have been acquired, merged or went public. Participating technology startups benefit from a vast ecosystem of venture capitalists, angels, and entrepreneurs. Other participant privileges include significant investor exposure, online virtual showcasing and technology and business partnering/networking. For more information, please visit www.tie50.net.
About TiE:
TiE is a global not-for-profit organization fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, education, and networking. We consider entrepreneurship to be the single most powerful instrument to advance global prosperity. Our greatest strength is our network of over 60 chapters in 17 countries with a worldwide membership exceeding 14,000 that includes successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs. For more information on TiE, please visit www.tie.org.
About TapInfluence:
TapInfluence provides the industry's only cloud-based software that automates the creation, management and measurement of influencer marketing programs from a single platform. Marketers use TapInfluence to scale their online reach and engagement with consumers in a meaningful and authentic way. Social influencers (content creators on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social platforms) use TapInfluence to connect with relevant brands and generate revenue from their content. TapInfluence customers include ABC News/United Nations Foundation, Random House, Horizon Organics, International Delight and Redbox. Founded in 2009 and located in Boulder, Colo., TapInfluence is venture-funded and privately held. For more information, please visit www.tapinfluence.com.
Media Contact:
Christie Denniston, APR
Catapult PR-IR
Cloud-based influencer marketing platform recognized as a leading new software solution by judges of the 11th annual Stevie® Awards
BOULDER, Colo., May 9, 2013 – TapInfluence (www.tapinfluence.com), the leader in influencer marketing, was named a finalist in the New Product/Service of the Year Category for the Best Software Solution in Marketing/Public Relations for the 2013 American Business Awards (ABA). As a finalist, TapInfluence will ultimately be named a 2013 Gold, Silver or Bronze Stevie® Award winner. TapInfluence provides the industry's only cloud-based software that enables marketing managers to automate all aspects of influencer marketing programs.
"We are privileged to be a finalist in this year's American Business Awards program," said Rustin Banks, co-founder and CEO of TapInfluence. "Influencer marketing has become a critical part of large consumer brands' integrated marketing mix. CMOs committed to making the most out of their digital marketing budget need a robust software solution to automate the numerous processes involved with developing quality relationships with their customers online."
The American Business Awards will be presented at two awards events: the ABA's traditional banquet on Monday, June 17 – in Chicago for the first time, after 10 years in New York; and, the new product & technology awards event on Monday, September 16 in San Francisco. Finalists were chosen by more than 140 business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May. More than 150 members of nine specialized judging committees will determine Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists during final judging, to take place May 13 – 24.
With the release of TapInfluence's cloud-based software, the company is executing on its strategy to automate the entire influencer marketing process. It is extending beyond blogger outreach to create an interactive marketplace to facilitate the influencer/brand relationship. As brands connect and interact with millions of consumers online, only TapInfluence provides the opportunity to do so in a meaningful and authentic way, through a single platform, thereby consolidating work flow management and scaling the reach of the campaign.
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA. To learn more about TapInfluence, please visit www.tapinfluence.com.
Share this: #TapInfluence influencer #marketing software a finalist in 11th annual Stevie Awards! @TheStevieAwards www.tapinfluence.com
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. A fifth program, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, will debut this year. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.
About TapInfluence
TapInfluence provides the industry's only cloud-based software that automates the creation, management and measurement of influencer marketing programs from a single platform. Marketers use TapInfluence to scale their online reach and engagement with consumers in a meaningful and authentic way. Social influencers (content creators on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social platforms) use TapInfluence to connect with relevant brands and generate revenue from their content. TapInfluence customers include ABC News/United Nations Foundation, Random House, Horizon Organics, International Delight and Redbox. Founded in 2009 and located in Boulder, Colo., TapInfluence is venture-funded and privately held. For more information, please visit www.tapinfluence.com.
Media Contact:
Christie Denniston, APR
Catapult PR-IR
Industry luminary, Banks to present strategies for creating compelling brand content and meaningful consumer interactions at word-of-mouth marketing conference
Rustin Banks
Co-founder and CEO
Banks is the co-founder and CEO of TapInfluence, formerly BlogFrog, a leading software platform company that automates all aspects of an influencer marketing program with a cloud-based offering. Banks has an MS in Electrical Engineering and left his position in Aerospace, where he designed next-gen satellite systems to start BlogFrog, now TapInfluence, in 2009. An active blogger, he writes about leadership and being the father of three small children.
Native Advertising: Tactics to Integrate Content Into an Authentic User Experience
Communications experts at digital marketing agencies and within corporate marketing teams are always looking for new ways to effectively promote their brands online. If shared content does not resonate with customers in a meaningful way, practitioner's efforts are in vain. Forcing brand messaging on consumers is a tactic of the past. To be truly effective, organizations must engage with customers in a non-intrusive, natural way. In this session, attendees will learn how to integrate brand content online in an authentic way. Banks will share how to create compelling content that reaches consumers and elevates the perception of the brand with native advertising techniques, including influencer marketing, sponsored conversations and promoted content.
Radisson Blu Aqua Chicago
221 North Columbus Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
Monday, May 20 from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. CDT
#TapInfluence @rustinb to share #influencermarketing and #communications strategies at #WOMMU
To learn more about the WOMM-U conference, please follow this link:
To arrange an interview with Banks or to speak with him at WOMM-U, please contact:
Christie Denniston, APR
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760 ext. 13
Mobile: 303-827-5164
Email: (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Thurz - Gravedigger
Artist: Thurz
Featuring: Willie B. (of Digi+Phonics) , Glasses Malone
Producer: THX
Album: None (Promo Single)
Label: Unsigned
When THURZ and his homies jump on an instrumental, you can be damn sure that beat will be dead, tossed in a casket and buried by the time the track is over. The Inglewood emcee's latest promo single is no exception to the rule. Previewed on Chris Paul's The Mission mixtape but presented here in its finished form, Gravedigger finds the DJBooth favorite trading aggressive, blood-spattered verses with Digi+Phonics rapper/producer Willie B and Watts mic-murderer Glasses Malone (also featured today on Neema's Thinking Bout You) over the diabolical, organ-driven production of frequent collaborator THX. Though Gravedigger won't be featured on the project, those who like what they're hearing should keep it locked for the latest on Thurz' Blood on the Canvas LP, due out sometime in the first quarter of 2013.
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Cool collaboration work by all MC's and by THX on this beat...
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The Beat Bangs And I'm A Fan Of Thurz So This Track Is Cool.
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2.5, a bit lackluster first verse, the rest is alright.
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I expect more from Thurz.
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Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein
Methuselah's Children introduces us to Lazarus Long, a popular character in several of Robert A. Heinlein's books. Lazarus, who wears a kilt (but there's guns strapped to his thighs!) and can't remember how old he is, is descended from one of several families who, long ago, were bred for their health and longevity. Lazarus and his extended clan live very long lives — so long that they must eventually fake their own deaths and take new identities so that others don't get suspicious about their supernatural abilities. This has become a problem, however, as technology in the United States has reached the point where people are identified by their DNA and it will soon be impossible to hide. So some of the family members are experimenting with a new plan; they're outing themselves — telling their friends and neighbors about their longevity and hoping for a good r... Read More
Robert A. Heinlein
(1907-1988)One of the founding fathers of the hard SF tradition which sees both story and society as merely a matter of effective engineering, Heinlein started writing for pulp magazines, especially Astounding, in 1939 and was a dominant influence on the field for the next forty years. His early stories — The Man who Sold the Moon and The Green Hills of Earth — are set in a "Future History" in which American society goes through radical changes and it is private enterprise that settles in space. Heinlein wrote a number of influential young adult SF books — Starman Jones, and Podakayne of Mars — which are generally freer in their handling of scientific themes than his books for adults. The right wing strain in his thinking produced a classic of McCarthyite paranoid fiction The Puppet Masters, in which the unwary are possessed by alien slugs. He achieved his major fame, not to say notoriety, with two books of the early 1960s–Starship Troopers, which, filmed satirically by Paul Verhoeven, started a whole sub-genre of militarist SF, while Stranger in a Strange Land with its free love and imaginary religions was a favourite of Charles Manson. Perhaps the best book of his later phase is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, one of SF's more intelligent retreads of 1776 in space; the best of his earlier books is Double Star, a flip tale of impersonation and political intrigue on Mars.
Future History — (1941-1973) Revolt in 2100 is a story collection. Publisher: The Howard Families were the product of a genetic experiment, an interbreeding programme which had produced one hundred thousand people with an average life expectancy of a century and a half. Now, at last, their existence was known on earth, and the entire world demanded to share the "secret" of eternal youth. "It is contrary to our customs to permit scientific knowledge to be held as a monopoly for the few" was what the expert said and it wasn't long before members of the Howard Families were the victims of vicious crime. This dramatic and frighteningly believable novel is a welcome addition to the oeuvre of a brilliant science-fiction writer.
Methuselah's Children: Mildly entertaining
Beyond This Horizon: Did Not Finish
Beyond This Horizon by Robert A. Heinlein
Hamilton Felix is a genetic superman, carefully crafted from the best chromosomes his ancestors had to offer. He lives in a world where most people live long easy lives untroubled by disease, poverty, and tooth decay. It's boring. Until Felix accidentally infiltrates a revolutionary group of elitists who want to take over the world and run things their way.
As boring as Hamilton Felix's life is, this book about him is even more boring. There are lots of ideas in Beyond This Horizon, but very little story to connect them together and make them interesting. One problem is that most of these ideas — eugenics, selective breeding, survival of the fittest — are neither new nor particularly interesting for the 21st century reader, though that's not Heinlein's fault because Beyond This Horizon was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1942. What is He... Read More
Farmer in the Sky: A Heinlein Juvenile in audio
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
As I mentioned in my recent review of The Number of the Beast, I used to be a fan of Robert A. Heinlein's "Juveniles" when I was a kid. I give Heinlein much of the credit for turning me into a speculative fiction lover at a young age, so I was really disappointed that The Number of the Beast was so dreadful. To cleanse my palate, and to restore my trust in a man who was such an influence on me, I decided to read Farmer in the Sky, a Heinlein Juvenile which has recently been produced in audio format by Brilliance Audio.
Farmer in the Sky took me back to my childhood — when I loved to think about riding in spaceships while most girls w... Read More
6xH: Six Stories By Robert A. Heinlein
6xH: Six Stories by Robert A. Heinlein by Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein, certainly one of the most influential authors in science fiction history, was also one of the most celebrated. As reported in The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, Heinlein was the guest of honor at three World SF Conventions, received the first Grand Master Nebula Award, and was selected "best all-time author" in many readers' polls. His four Hugo awards for Best Novel is a record that stands to this day, and in his long and prolific career, the man wrote 32 novels (13 of them juveniles) and 58 short stories. In 1959, six of those shorter pieces were collected in what was to later be appropriately titled 6xH, consisting of tales written between 1941 and 1959. Most of these tales are rather fantasy-oriented and not really science fiction, and indeed, all six appear in a larger collection called The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein.
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Glory Road: Science fantasy by Heinlein
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein is best known for his science fiction, of course, but he did write some fantasy, too. Glory Road is a science fantasy story which was originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1963 and published as a novel later that year. Glory Road was nominated for, but did not win, a Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Evelyn Cyril Gordon, known by his army buddies as "Scar," has finally been sent home from Southeast Asia after too many tours of duty. After wandering aimlessly for a while, hoping the G.I. bill will cover some educational expenses, and lamenting about taxes (a favorite theme of Heinlein's) he reads a personal advertisement in a newspaper:
ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weig... Read More
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: The American revolution in an SF context
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
"Sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small, and starved, and inoffensive."
It's the year 2075. The Earth, which has a worldwide government of Federated Nations, sends its criminals and exiles to the moon where they won't bother anyone on Earth. The "Loonies" are governed by wardens who require them to grow hydroponic grain which is sent back to Earth. This has been going on for over a century, so the lunar colony is no longer just criminals and exiles. They've had families and have built a society, but they're still treated as Earth's slave labor force. They do work for Earth, but get no benefits. Now they want to be free.
When a computer technician named Mannie realizes that the moon's central computer (Mike) is sentient and lonely, he befriends it and they begin, with the hel... Read More
The Number of the Beast: Great audio, awful story
The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
When I was a kid I loved some of Robert A. Heinlein's "Juveniles" — science fiction stories for children and teens. Red Planet was one of my favorites and I must have read it at least five times. These novels are part of the reason I kept reading science fiction — they left such an impression on my young mind.
Despite this nostalgia, I haven't read Heinlein in years. When Blackstone Audio recently started releasing some of his later novels on audio, I thought it was time to check out some I'd never read. The first one I tried was The Number of the Beast, written in 1980 after a seven-year hiatus brought on by ill health when Heinlein was in his seventies.
This story starts when professor Zebadiah John Carter meets Deety (short for Dejah Thoris) Burroughs and her father, mathematician Jacob Burroughs, at a ... Read More
Sixth Column — (1941) Publisher: After the U.S. is conquered, an enclave of brilliant misfits leads a rebellion against near-impossible odds. The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion and the United States has fallen to a dictatorial superpower bent on total domination. That power is consolidating its grip via concentration camps, police state tactics, and a total monopoly upon the very thoughts of the conquered populace. A tiny enclave of scientists and soldiers survives, unbeknownst to America's new rulers. It's six against six million — but those six happen to include a scientific genius, a master of subterfuge and disguise who learned his trade as a lawyer-turned-hobo, and a tough-minded commander who knows how to get the best out of his rag-tag assortment of American discontents, wily operators, and geniuses. It's going to take technological savvy and a propaganda campaign that would leave Madison Avenue aghast, but the U.S. will rise again. The counterinsurgency for freedom is on, and defeat is not an option.
Rocket Ship Galileo — (1947) Publisher: Three high school students formed the Galileo Club to share their interests in science and space exploration. But they never imagined they would team up with a nuclear physicist to construct and crew a rocket bound for the moon. And they never expected to gain some powerful enemies in the process.
Space Cadet — (1948) Publisher: This is the seminal novel of a young man's education as a member of an elite, paternalistic non-military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization, the Solar Patrol, a provocative parallel to Heinlein's famous later novel, Starship Troopers (which is about the military). Only the best and brightest–the strongest and the most courageous — ever manage to become Space Cadets, at the Space Academy. They are in training to be come part of the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others fear, taking risks no others dare, and upholding the peace of the solar system for the benefit of all. But before Matt Dodson can earn his rightful place in the ranks, his mettle is to be tested in the most severe and extraordinary ways — ways that change him forever, from the midwestern American boy into a man of the Solar Patrol.
Red Planet — (1949) Publisher: Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that could save — or destroy — them all!
Between Planets — (1951) aka Planets in Combat Publisher: Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independence from Earth, but he was wrong. War broke out, and he was stuck on Venus, with no way of getting home. Then there was the ring that an old family friend had given him just before he had left Earth. Shortly afterward, the friend had been questioned by Earth's secret police and had died — from "heart failure," they claimed. When Earth troops landed on Venus and started looking for Don and that mysterious ring, he realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever!
The Puppet Masters — (1951) Publisher: First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed. Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in. And four more agents who were sent in also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. What the humans know, they know. What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do. And most of Iowa is already under their control. Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand .
The Rolling Stones — (1952) Publisher: The rollicking adventures of the Stone Family on a tour of the Solar System. It all statred when the twins, Castor and Pollux Stone, decided that life on the Lunar colony was too dull and decided to buy their own spaceship and go into business for themselves. Their father thought that was a fine, idea, except that he and Grandma Hazel bought the spaceship and the whole Stone Family were on their way out into the far reaches of the Solar System, with stops on Mars(where the twins got a lesson in the interplanetary economics of bicycles and the adorable little critters called flatcats who, it turned out, bred like rabbits; or perhaps, Tribbles….), out to the asteroids, where Mrs. Stone, an M.D., was needed to treat a dangerous outbreak of disease, even further out, to Titan and beyond. Unforgettable Heinlein characters on an unforgettable adventure.
Starman Jones — (1953) Publisher: The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was every going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle's prized astrogation manuals — book on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. When Max's mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to the road, only to discover that his uncle Chet's manuals, and Max's near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But serving on a spaceship is no easy task. Duty is everything, and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max loves every minute of his new life, and he steadily grows in the trust of his superior officers, and seems to be on course for a command track position. But then disaster strikes, and it's going to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his uncle's manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond extinction itself. From the First Golden Age of Heinlein, this is the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults) that started them all and made Heinlein a legend for multiple generations of readers.
The Star Beast — (1954) Publisher: Lummox has been the pet of the Stuart family for generations. With eight legs, a thick hide and huge (and growing) size, Lummox is nobody's idea of man's best friend. Nevertheless, John Stuart XI, descendant of the starman who originally brought Lummox back to Earth from a distant planet, loves him. John isn't about to let the authorities take his pet away and, with his best friend Betty, determines to save Lummox even if it takes leaving the life he's known forever. However, what John and Betty don't realize is that the survival of the Earth itself may depend on the true nature of The Star Beast. An all-time great science fiction coming-of-age classic from seven-time Hugo winner and Dean of Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein.
Double Star — (1955) Publisher: One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake — failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line — for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!
Tunnel in the Sky — (1955) Publisher: It was just a test… But something had gone wrong. Terribly wrong. What was to have been a standard ten-day survival test had suddenly become an indefinite life-or-death nightmare. Now they were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with Earth… at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. This small group of young men and women, divested of all civilized luxuries and laws, were being forced to forge a future of their own… a strange future in a strange land where sometimes not even the fittest could survive!
Time for the Stars — (1956) Publisher: Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution — human telepathy. Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth, but one of them has to stay behind while the other explores the depths of space.This is one of Heinlein's triumphs.
Citizen of the Galaxy — (1957) Publisher: In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free Traders — a league of merchant princes — throughout the many worlds of a hostile galaxy, finding the courage to live by his wits and fight his way from society's lowest rung. But Thorby's destiny will be forever changed when he discovers the truth about his own identity….
The Door into Summer — (1957) Publisher: Brilliant engineer Dan Davis finds himself hoodwinked by his greedy business partners and forced to take the Long Sleep… placing him in suspended animation for 30 years. But his partners never anticipated the existence of time travel, enabling Dan to exact his revenge and alter his own future…
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel — (1958) Publisher: A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations. First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Moon. The consolation prize was an authentic space suit, and when scientifically minded high school senior Kip Russell won it, he knew for certain he would use it one day to make a sojourn of his own to the stars. But "one day" comes sooner than he thinks when he tries on the suit in his backyard — and finds himself worlds away, a prisoner aboard a space pirate's ship, and heading straight for what could be his final destination….
Starship Troopers — (1959) Publisher: The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it "The Bug War." Everything up to then and still later were "incidents," "patrols," or "police actions." However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war… In one of Robert A. Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe — and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy.
Stranger in a Strange Land — (1961) Publisher: Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.
Podkayne of Mars — (1962) Publisher: Podkayne Fries, born and raised on Mars, has just one ambition: to earn her wings as a starship pilot and rise through the ranks to command deep-space explorations. The opportunity to travel aboard the Tricorn — on an interstellar journey to Venus and Earth in the company of her diplomat uncle-is a dream come true. Poddy's idea of diplomacy is keeping the peace with her troublesome brother, Clark, but she's about to learn some things about war and peace. Because her uncle is the Ambassador from Mars to the Three Planets Conference, which makes him — and his niece and nephew-potential targets for any radicals looking to sabotage the negotiations between three worlds.
Farnham's Freehold — (1964) Publisher: A Robert A. Heinlein classic reissued with an all new celebrity forward by noted Heinlein biographer Bill Patterson and afterword penned by three-time award-winner for fan writing and science fiction scholar John Hertz. It's a cross-time fight for freedom as a family retreats to a bomb shelter during a nuclear attack – only to emerge hundreds of years in the future, thrown forward in time by the blasts. There lifeboat ethics rule as they struggle to survive… until they're discovered by up-time humans, the survivors of the apocalypse. These survivors are of African descent. Down-time humans – in fact, all of the European-descended – are held guilty for the state into which the world has fallen and designated as automatic slaves. The only escape is to find a way back down-time, to change events sufficiently to make absolute certain this nightmare future never get a chance to happen in the first place!
I Will Fear No Evil — (1970) Publisher: Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delivers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction. Written at the dawn of the 1970s, this novel is the brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant. As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything. Johann Sebastian Bach Smith was immensely rich — and very old. Though his mind was still keen, his body was worn out. His solution was to have surgeons transplant his brain into a new body. The operation was a great success — but the patient was no longer Johann Sebastian Bach Smith. He was now fused with the very vocal personality of his gorgeous, recently deceased secretary, Eunice — with mind-blowing results! Together they must learn to share control of her body.
Friday — (1982) Publisher: Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face….
Job: A Comedy of Justice — (1984) Publisher: After he firewalked in Polynesia, the world wasn't the same for Alexander Hergensheimer, now called Alec Graham. As natural accidents occurred without cease, Alex knew Armageddon and the Day of Judgement were near. Somehow he had to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of grace, and, while he was at it, save the rest of the world ….
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners — (1985) Methuselah's Children, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Time Enough For Love, and The Number of the Beast. Publisher: Framed for murder, married to the exquisite Gwen Novak, fleeing for his life in the Wild West free enterprise zones of the moon, Colonel Colin Campbell (23rd century writer, traveller and bon viveur) is pursued by mysterious forces. Heinlein is also the author of "Stranger in a Strange Land".
To Sail Beyond the Sunset — (1987) The story of Maureen Johnson Long who is a character in several of Heinlein's previous novels. This is a sequel to The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. Publisher: The millions of fans of Lazarus Long — probably Heinlein's most beloved character — will flock to this new tale, which continues adventures of the characters of The Cat Who Walked Through Walls.
For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs — (2003) Publisher: From Grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name. July 12, 1939 Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when suddenly another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before his head connects with the boulders below is a girl in a green bathing suit, prancing along the shore…. When he wakes, the girl in green is a woman dressed in furs and the sun-drenched shore has transformed into snowcapped mountains. The woman, Diana, rescues Perry from the bitter cold and takes him inside her home to rest and recuperate. Later they debate the cause of the accident, for Diana is unfamiliar with the concept of a tire blowout and Perry cannot comprehend snowfall in mid-July. Then Diana shares with him a vital piece of information: The date is now January 7. The year…2086. When his shock subsides, Perry begins an exhaustive study of global evolution over the past 150 years. He learns, among other things, that a United Europe was formed and led by Edward, Duke of Windsor; former New York City mayor LaGuardia served two terms as president of the United States; the military draft was completely reconceived; banks became publicly owned and operated; and in the year 2003, two helicopters destroyed the island of Manhattan in a galvanizing act of war. This education in the ways of the modern world emboldens Perry to assimilate to life in the twenty-first century. But education brings with it inescapable truths — the economic and legal systems, the government, and even the dynamic between men and women remain alien to Perry, the customs of the new day continually testing his mental and emotional resolve. Yet it is precisely his knowledge of a bygone era that will serve Perry best, as the man from 1939 seems destined to lead his newfound peers even further into the future than they could have imagined. A classic example of the future history that Robert Heinlein popularized during his career, For Us, The Living marks both the beginning and the end of an extraordinary arc of political, social, and literary crusading that comprises his legacy. Heinlein could not have known in 1939 how the world would change over the course of one and a half centuries, but we have our own true world history to compare with his brilliant imaginings, rendering For Us, The Living not merely a novel, but a time capsule view into our past, our present, and perhaps our future.
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Street style isn't a new phenomenon, and the resort season isn't an addition to a designer's delivery schedule. But what Derek Blasberg, our editor at large and the man behind the weekly Mr. Blasberg's Best-Dressed List, saw this week in New York was the creation of resort street style, when fashion editors (and the occasional celebrity, like Anne Hathaway and Rihanna) turn out in their best looks to see what the fashion houses are doing for the half season between the fall and spring collections. And, since resort is fast turning into a fashion week in and of itself, the industry did not disappoint. Derek loved Visionaire's Cecilia Dean's 3x1 sailor jeans, legendary Lauren Hutton's quirky Stella McCartney suit and blogger Hanneli Mustaparta's unconventional Calvin Klein crop-top ensemble. Not that his eyes were only on the runways in New York. Inspired by resort's easy-breezy vibes, Derek couldn't help but pick a few fashion moments from elsewhere in the world, like Beyonce's yellow shorts-and-jacket combo worn out on the town and the sweet polka-dot Tory Burch dress that Jessica Alba wore recently. His last honorary mention? A famed beauty who shaved her head this week, but didn't lose an ounce of glamour. Click through to find out who it is!
Well, summer is officially over. The monsoon-like weather in New York following Labor Day weekend wasnt the only indication; the convergence of the international fashion industrys biggest models, designers, retailers and publicists for New York Fashion Week was an even bigger storm. While our editor at large, Derek Blasberg, was sad to see summer go, the silver lining of fashion week was, of course, all the stylishness that hit the shows, the parties and even the streets. Derek says he was even spoiled for choice this week when it came to putting together his list! So, who made the cut? Carine Roitfeld, after taking a season off, came back to New York in a ruffled sensation to fête the launch of her new book, Irreverent. Beyoncé Knowles, a girl who had a glow long before she got pregnant, made the rounds with her newest accessory: a baby bump. Models Karlie Kloss and Karolina Kurkova hit the party circuit looking predictably super, and fashions newest sibling darlings, Elle and Dakota Fanning, made a lasting impression on the Rodarte front row. And then there was Daphne Guinness, a woman who has made getting dressed an art form, who showed up at the unveiling of her fashion retrospective at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the bold, sequined glory that weve come to expect from the style icon.
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A Call to the Beloved Community: A Vision for Justice, Peace and Reconciliation in the 21st Century
Simeon Talley
April 2006
The Beloved Community is a term that was first coined in the early 20th century by the philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which Royce founded, popularized the term and invested within it a deeper moral and spiritual vision. And it is with Kings vision of The Beloved Community that I return to answer the prompt all of the contestants here are responding to. Rooted in the gospel concept of Agape love as King interpreted it, The Beloved Community urges us to examine our humanity and awaken our consciousness. The Beloved Community is a vision for justice, peace and reconciliation in our world. We seek this community out of the agape love as King talked spoke of it. This is not a romantic love or one that is expressed out of reciprocity rather one that is understanding and redeeming for all. This is a love that is creative rather than static and never limited. It is the love of God operating in the human heart calling us to a fuller attainment of our shared humanity. To King The Beloved Community was our shared destiny. This vision King spoke of in the mid 20th century still should morally compel us in the 21st century. For the injustice and inequity that has always plagued our world inhibits the actualization of such a vision. We will never fully be human or a whole humanity, while injustice inflicts so many. Our human existence is fractured and our ability to be in relationship with God and each other as a result of injustice is deficient. Kings vision of The Beloved Community can still morally convict and spiritually awaken us today.
At the dawn of the 21st century our humanity faces enormous challenges to deal with the injustices and inequities that plague our world. Throughout the world, claims of prosperity and economic well-being are contradicted by the increasing income insecurity with which the majority of people live. Institutional racism is still the norm, systematically deferring the hopes of millions who aspire to participate fully and equally in all facets of social life. Wealth continually is concentrated and accumulated within the hands of the few giving rise to a plutocratic political process.
In our American context we have seen the rise of antidemocratic dogmas as Cornel West illustrates in his book Democracy Matters, which tear at the gentle fabric of American democracy. The ideology of free-market fundamentalism has become a reigning cultural theology. The market system promotes income differences, social inequality, while separating and perpetuating age-old hierarchical distinctions along ethnic, gender and age lines. Full citizenship and even the acknowledgement of ones essential humanity increasingly depend upon the amount of money at ones disposal. The market places a premium on buying and selling, consuming and taking, promoting and advertising, and devalues community. The human being is dehumanized and transformed into a thing. The full realization of mans humanity and his/hers emancipation from the social forces that imprison him/her are thus bound up.
We have allowed our fear and insecurity to rationalize unjust military force or rather we were all deceived by faulty intelligence. The use of force, violence and militaristic aggression is seen as our salvation from terrorism. The doctrine of pre-emptive strike represents a furthering bankruptcy of already morally bankrupt American foreign policy. This brand of hubris disregards international cooperation and multilateral diplomacy. Its actions are beyond reproach while it takes the lives of many of the innocent people it claims to be helping.
21st century imperialism necessitates a network of uneven and unjust power relationships. As George Bond points out in his book Buddhism at Work Our relentless pursuit of economic growth is accelerating the breakdown of the planets life support systems, intensifying resource competition, widening the gap between rich and poor, and undermining the values and relationships of family and community (Bond 116). Poverty in the underdeveloped countries is directly correlated to the quality of life experienced by those living in what is called the developed countries. Its historical construction and its perpetuation are linked together. The unwillingness to cancel debt harbors many countries at the mercy of the West. Towards the end of the first semester a group working with debt cancellation organization jubilee USA appeared before many Christian Values in a global community classes. One woman, whom had happened to be a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, commented that indebtedness of the worlds poorest countries to the richest represents occupation; occupation in the historical context of colonialism and imperialism. Simply worded but powerfully spoken she said Debt equals Death. A former president of Tanzania may have most succinctly summarized it with his statement Must we starve our children to pay our debts?"
These challenges and many more await us as we move into the 21st century. How should we respond to them? How should justice loving, peace seeking people interact within a world of so much injustice? This beckons us to examine the true meaning of what it means to be human and participate in humanity. It questions the spiritual and moral depths of our faith to live in community. And what I assert is that it calls us to reaffirm that we strive towards a Beloved Community.
Central to the idea of the Beloved Community is the solidarity of the human family. As articulated in Kings Letter From a Birmingham Jail Cell We are all tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. Society and our very humanity are interwoven together. To King the Civil Rights movement to integrate was to enlarge the concept of brotherhood to a vision of total interrelatedness. The social construction of race physically and spiritually separates us from what King envisioned to be the ideal corporate expression of the Christian faith, community. In such a Beloved Community our loyalties must transcend our race, class and our nation. In such a community the plight of the poor is the plight of us all and we are morally obligated out of love for one another to work towards economic justice. The participants in the Civil Rights movement represented the Beloved Community in microcosm. Drawing from every section of American society, the educated and the illiterate, the affluent and the welfare recipient, white and black, men and women who heretofore had been separated by rigid social and legal codes were brought together in a common cause.
The interrelatedness of human existence means that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, either we will have justice for all or none will have justice. Racial, economic and gender inequality weaken the whole social fabric; furthermore it makes us less human. The liberation of the oppressed liberates the oppressor. We are all in moral bondage when war breaks out, when inequality rises or when we discriminate, these evils hold us all captive. Humanity is indivisible. Making this connection King says Let us be dissatisfied until rat-infested, vermin-filled slums will be a thing of a dark past and every family will have a decent sanitary house in which to live. Let us be dissatisfied until the empty stomachs of Mississippi are filled and the idle industries of Appalachia are revitalized Let us be dissatisfied until our brothers of the Third World of Asia, Africa and Latin America will no longer be victims of imperialist exploitation, but will be lifted from the long night of poverty, illiteracy and disease. And the securing of the right of all to live with dignity and integrity within community requires the eliminations of the structures of economic injustice that capitalism yields.
The Beloved Community can not be disassociated from the alleviation of inequity and injustice. Expressions such as human dignity and brotherhood of mankind mean little when they have no concrete expressions in the structures of society. Institutions must be changed and we must work at systemic levels. Inequities are linked; King had the foresight to see the linkages between racism, economic inequality and Vietnam. Our commonality in seeking peace, justice and reconciliation must unite us.
In conclusion, I would like to illustrate my point with an example that King used to explain his commitment to nonviolence. Most succinctly either we have nonviolence or we have nonexistence. The use of violence is evident of our human brokenness and moral depravity. To fully exist as God has called us to be we must shed our use of force for it detracts from the very nature of our humanity. This is not a utopian idea or goal. The Beloved Community is the most authentic and genuine expression of what we are to be in our world with each other and with our God. Nonviolence and justice are not our ends. The Beloved Community is our end. Thank You.
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Auroral emissions carry messages from the source where they are generated. Because the intensity of auroras is weak compared with sunlight, there are limitations on the collection of auroral data. All ground measurements have to be carried out when the sky is clear and dark. Furthermore, you have to be far away from the Earth's equator.
Auroras have clearly left their marks on our culture. They have been and still are an important source of inspiration for many artists. In the first part of the last century, the northern lights were considered to be very mysterious and so were often connected with superstition and mythology. Others considered the northern lights to be harbingers of war, plague and poverty. Thus, in many countries the northern lights were seen as dangerous, especially for women. During the last 100 years, particularly in the space age, the mythology connected with auroras has practically disappeared – but this characteristic scenery of the polar sky is still an important source of inspiration for authors, painters and musicians.


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The International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS), was founded in 1996 to promote the field of neurobehavioural genetics. IBANGS organizes annual meetings to promote excellence in research on behavioural and neural genetics. IBANGS is a young and rapidly growing society with members in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. We welcome established scientists, students and anyone else who is interested in the field of behavioural neurogenetics. IBANGS is a founding member of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).
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Moronic statement of the week? Step forward the Irish Times and this piece from today's newspaper:
"The introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill by Liberal Party prime minister Herbert Asquith on this day 100 years ago, in exchange for Irish nationalist support for the 1911 Parliament Act's curtailing of the House of Lords' powers, was for John Redmond an extraordinary moment of triumph.
Today we look back on the Third Home Rule Bill as a landmark in our history, the curtain-raiser and necessary prequel to the revolutionary upheavals that would follow. A moment that heralded a temporary breach in the tradition of democratic constitutionalism whose line the founders, and spirit, of the new State would reconnect with a decade later."
I'm sorry? Can I have that again? The failure of the British Third Home Rule bill and the subsequent Irish Revolution was a "moment that heralded a temporary breach in the tradition of democratic constitutionalism"?
And how exactly does one have "democratic constitutionalism" in a state that didn't have a constitution? Did the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland", an artificial entity held together by the violence and the threat of violence emanating from one part of it, have a written constitution? No, of course it didn't. Nor does the rump UK have it now.
And democracy? Excuse me for asking the bleedin' obvious here, but what does "democracy" mean in a nation held captive under foreign colonial rule? Ireland was invaded, occupied, annexed and colonised by the British. I don't remember too many ballot boxes being involved in that exercise of territorial greed and expansionism by our nearest neighbour.
Our nation existed under a system of colonial administration from the medieval period onwards. British governors and British civil servants, later augmented by some locals, native and imported, ruled over the Irish people for eight centuries. That's eight hundred years of unlawful rule. Rule through violence and terror. Forget Stalin. Forget Pol Pot. The British showed all the wannabe imperatores how to well and truly make and rule an empire. And they did it to us!
That "tradition of democratic constitutionalism" didn't do too much for the one million Irish men, women and children left to starve in fields and ditches across the island of Ireland in the 1840s and '50s. Oooops. Sorry. Did I say something unpleasant there? You don't want to be reminded of that sort of thing, now, do you?
You'd prefer to remember the days of the Big House, the Irish R.M. and nanny in the nursery reading to the children (Kipling, of course, not that treasonous white nigger Lady Gregory). Ah, remember the days when one could smear a few bogtrotters with blood and then hunt them with the hounds o'er field and dale for the delectation of your cousins visiting from England? That is how one truly treats the peasants. In Ireland they still did it old school. None of that Chartist or Fabian nonsense here!
The dear oul sod in 1911. What a wonderful place it was. Oh yes, you still had the violent echoes of the Land War, midnight burnings and roadside assassinations, collective punishments and destitute families ejected from their homes. Of course there was an enormous, heavily armed, infantry-trained paramilitary police force, the Royal Irish Constabulary, housed in fortified barracks across the country, with a British administrated system of justice (and judges and clerks or their bastard Anglo-Irish off-spring) ferried hither and thither by armed escorts. But what is wrong with that?
No matter that people were still dying of malnutrition and disease on a massive scale, that "mini-famines" were the norm in the West, that millions lacked the ability to read or write, that the prisons were full to overcrowding. Ignore (if you can) the seditious press, the frequent rioting in cities and villages, the acts of vandalism against British symbols and the agents of British power in Ireland.
Put to one side the whole apparatus of a colonial police state, replete with its hordes of paid informers and spies and double-agents which would put any tin-pot Middle East dictator to shame. Forget the later KGB, my friends; the RIC made them look like amateurs! So what if people we imprisoned, tortured, expelled, banned, exiled. Put aside censorship and the suppression of a free press. Or books (you think the Nazis were the only book burners? Think again).
No. This was the heyday of empire. The British Empire. The time when Ireland celebrated its "democratic constitutionalism" in the British system of imperial and colonial government imposed on our small, oppressed and terrorised island – or as the Irish Times would have it, an island that was actually basking in the warm and welcoming glow of the Pax Britannica. Thus we witness the moment of triumph for John Redmond, that will only be slightly eclipsed by an even greater triumph several years later when he will express his support and great satisfaction at the image of young Irish men being placed up against a wall in front of British Army firing squads while thousands of other young Irishmen succumbed to his haranguing cries and fed themselves into the war machine of an empire in its death throes.
John Redmond. What a man. What a willing servant for those with the biggest king's schilling ready to drop oh so heavily into his greedy, avaricious hand.
Hmmm. Actually, maybe he does represent the tradition of mainstream Irish democracy, after all?
Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Labour, Greens… the true inheritors of the Irish Parliamentary Party?
Just like the Irish Times.
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