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Cairo Time
Cairo Time (2009)
★★★ / ★★★★
Juliette Grant (Patricia Clarkson) decided to visit Egypt because she wanted to spend time with her husband who worked for the United Nations. Her expectations involved her husband picking her up from the airport, heading to the hotel, and maybe seeing some unique tourist attractions. But her visit was far from what she expected. Instead, Tareq (Alexander Siddig), a coffee shop owner and a friend of her husband, picked her up from the airport because Mark had been delayed in Gaza. The more time Juliette and Tareq spent together, they noticed that there was romantic interest simmering between them. "Cairo Time," written and directed by Ruba Nadda, was a mature romantic picture that exuded intelligence and insight in just about every scene. It showed that less really was more. The excitement was in the conversations between Juliette and Tareq as they talked about their own lives. Juliette mostly talked about her kids, the time she had on her hands and the freedom she felt now that they no longer lived at home, her career as a writer for a magazine called "Vous," and the social issues she believed in. On the other hand, Tareq talked about his business and a former lover (Amina Annabi) whose daughter was about to get married. From the moment they met, we immediately felt a possible romantic tension between them because, despite the vast difference between their cultures, they shared excellent chemistry. The way they looked at each other, even if the look lasted for only a millisecond, communicated more than a hundred words. Clarkson was divine. Since she was in every scene, she had to deliver something special in order to successfully keep our interest. I couldn't help but smile when she would flirt as she talked on the telephone, the way she held herself when someone was being rude or failing to respect her personal space, and her attempt to immerse herself in Egyptian culture. She didn't have to be edgy to be interesting. Her character's ordinariness and maturity was enough to make me want to get to know her. The director made a smart choice to showcase the characters first instead of the stunning landscapes especially during the trips to the desert. Despite normally attention-grabbing wide angle shots, twice I caught my eyes transfixed on Clarkson first and then I noticed the breathtaking backdrop. I thought that was a testament in terms of how invested I was in Juliette's journey in realizing that maybe she didn't end up with the right person. When her husband (Tom McCamus) finally made an appearance, like Juliette, I felt as though Egypt's magic and romance was sucked by a vacuum. The car ride toward the pyramids was gut-wrenching in a subdued way. Like our protagonist, it inspired us to think about the many choices we made that shaped our lives to the way it currently is.
Alien (1979)
★★★★ / ★★★★
A spacecraft containing a crew of seven (Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto) was supposed to be on its way to Earth. After waking up from hypersleep, the crew discovered that they were nowhere near Earth because their ship, known as Nostromo, received a transmission. One of the rules of their mission was if the ship received some sort of signal, it was requisite that they investigate the source which most likely could be extraterrestrial. This film held my attention like a vice grip right from the opening credits. There was something eerie and cold in the way the camera scanned the darkness of outer space. It made me feel small and almost insignificant. Even though I knew that Ripley, Weaver's character, was the hero of the story, I liked that I didn't immediately notice her. Her character only began to grab my attention when one of the three crew members was infected with an alien larvae and she refused to let them inside due to a risk of infection. Naturally, their leader ignored her sound reasoning and it was only a matter of time until the crew met their gruesome demise. Ridley Scott's direction took the film to the next level. Stumbling upon an alien planet could have been done in a cliché manner such as showing too much disgusting slime and, worse, showing too many alien creatures in the beginning of the film, taking away some of the effective scares found later in the picture because we would know exactly what the alien looked like. Instead, Scott used the alien planet's environment to mask certain corners but at the same time highlight the areas closer to a light source. Since it didn't show too much, it took advantage of my imagination, making what I didn't see much scarier than what I did see. (But what I was still horrified when I saw the alien in larvae form.) Granted, most of the crew members made some bad decisions. But I think the unwise decisions they made were not equal to brainless teenagers in a slasher film. It was different because the crew faced the unknown and the usual rules did not apply. For instance, there was no way they could have known that the alien's blood was so acidic to the point where it was able to eat through metal. A major theme I focused on was human instinct being pitted against animal instinct. Both were different because human instinct, represented by Ripley, is capable of being controlled, to an extent, given that the person actively takes a moment to evaluate a situation. On the other hand, animal instinct, represented by the alien, cannot. However, both are similar in that instinct has one goal: self-preservation. "Alien" is an intelligent science-fiction film that expertly mixes wonder and horror. Undertones which comment on feminism and technology can be found but it doesn't get in the way of first-class entertainment.
Going the Distance
Going the Distance (2010)
★★★ / ★★★★
Garrett (Justin Long) lives in New York and works for a record company whose main goal is to find bands that have the potential to be popular even though they're not necessarily talented. Garrett finds his job unrewarding because he genuinely loves good music despite a band being non-commercial. Erin (Drew Barrymore) is an summer intern for a newspaper in New York who resides in the Bay Area with her sister (Christina Applegate). Being over thirty years old, she's still in school because she once derailed her career plans for a guy. Garret and Erin meet and they get into an initially undefined long-distance relationship. Written by Geoff LaTulippe and directed by Nanette Burstein, "Going the Distance" is without a doubt a commercial romantic comedy but has an edge because it is actually believable in terms of how it's like to be in a modern relationship. The script contained extremely funny lines and situations, the supporting characters (Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis as Garrett's best friends) were used in a smart way but never overshadowed the leads, and we believe that Garrett and Erin had something special so we are invested in the story. The small details were the things I appreciated most. I liked how the camera consistently focused on the man–the thoughts that were running around in his head and the pain that he must be feeling because he is very attached to the girl. It stood out to me because there were studies I've read about, compared to a woman, a man feeling more pain than he lets on when a romantic relationship is broken. And even though it wasn't addressed directly, there was probably an age difference (Garrett's age was undisclosed). I thought about why the two main characters valued certain things over others, their maturity levels, and the pros and cons of being in long distance relationship. Even though, on the surface, Garrett and Erin had a lot in common, they also had a lot of differences but somehow the director was able to highlight what great chemistry they have without resulting to being sappy and so we want them to be together even though not all of the characters believed they would make it. "Going the Distance" is an unexpectedly fast-paced comedy that manages to capture the diversity and the hustle and bustle of New York City (I actually liked the scenes with purposely bad lighting because it felt that much more realistic). It's an intelligent film that isn't afraid for both men and women to directly talk about sex and address what they really need in order to be happy. The movie even had time to refer to the economy's impact the job market. I strongly believe that couples, not just the girl, will find themselves enjoying this laugh-and-loud romcom.
Diner (1982)
★★★ / ★★★★
Written and directed by Barry Levinson, "Diner" was about a group of friends verging on adulthood who constantly tried to find a distinction between marriage and being in love with a woman. I adored this film greatly because I felt like the guys were the kind of people I could talk to. Even though they were silly and talked about the most unimportant things, they were very entertaining and each had a distinct personality. Eddie (Steve Guttenberg) was about to get married, Boogie (Mickey Rourke–who I did not recognize at all) was a womanizer, Modell (Paul Reiser) got on everyone's nerves, Tim (Kevin Bacon) had issues with his brother, and Shrevie (Daniel Stern) was addicted to music. But my favorite was Billy (Tim Daly), Eddie's best man, because he was the most mysterious of the group. His interactions with Eddie had a certain feeling of sensitivity to it; the look he portrayed in his eyes made me think that he harbored a secret and I desperately wanted to know what it was. While they all had separate personalities, I liked that Levinson surprised us somewhere in the middle. The picture seemed to have flipped itself inside out and showcased something unexpected about them. For instance, Tim turned out to be someone who was genuinely intelligent despite his sometimes unwise decisions. The biggest strength and weakness of this film was its many colorful characters. Since there were so many of them, I was never bored because it jumped from one perspective to another with relative ease. But at the same time, I wished it had less characters so it could have had the chance to dig deeper within the characters' psychologies. Nevertheless, "Diner" was very funny because the guys had chemistry. Their interactions made me think of nights when my friends and I would hang out at Denny's, talk about the most random things, tease each other, and eat until it was either difficult for us to breathe or our mouths were simply exhausted from talking. So I felt like the movie really captured how it was like to be considered as an adult (over eighteen) but not quite reach the maturity level of a real adult. "Diner" is a deftly crafted picture with intelligence despite the dirty jokes, characters who are easy to identify with and a script that flows and sounds natural. I always feel the need to say that a movie may not be for everyone only because the movie is heavy on dialogue. But I think this film is an exception because it knows how to have fun but remain honest so the audiences can feel like they're part of the inner circle instead of simply eavesdropping from another table.
Lucas (1986)
★★★ / ★★★★
Corey Haim stars as the title character who was a smart fourteen-year-old in high school who fell in love with the new girl in town (Kerri Green). Conflict ensued when the new girl started liking a football jock (Charlie Sheen) who had a soft heart for Lucas. Meanwhile, a fellow band member named Rina (Winona Ryder) obviously liked Lucas but he was too focused on winning over the new girl to feel Rina's affections. Written and directed by David Seltzer, "Lucas" is a great simple film with a huge heart. It exuded intelligence because even though its subject was high school kids, the characters were multidimensional because the movie took its time to allow them to voice their thoughts about themselves and concerns for each other. There were some red flags that hinted at possibly taking the stereotypical path in teenage pictures because of the bullying. However, the film offered some surprising elements in terms of where the picture ultimately decided to go. Even though some characters were bullies, some were bullied and some were simply left on the sidelines, all of them were pretty much outsiders. All of them felt some sort of pain at that specific time in their lives. I thought that was an insightful look at high school life and it's so refreshing to watch because most teen movies these days don't come close to (or don't even attempt to reach) the level of introspection that this film had to offer. While I did enjoy its critique on the social high school strata, I wish it had more scenes between Haim and Green. The first thirty minutes of the movie was very strong because it felt intimate and there was a certain sweetness to those scenes that the rest of the movie didn't quite match. "Lucas" started off with a hatching of a locust. As the film went on, I started to realize its symbolism and I couldn't help but feel moved. There was a really touching scene between Haim and Green in the end when Lucas wondered where they would be twenty years from now and if they would still know each other. That scene was a stand out because it captured the level of intimacy between Lucas and the new girl like in the beginning of the movie. It also managed to wrap everything up in so little words while highlighting the innocence youth and how quickly it could disappear. "Lucas" may not be as consistent as I would have liked (I thought it managed to reach some emotional highs comparable to "Stand by Me") but it deserves an enthusiastic recommendation. It goes to show that it's possible to have a simple story and letting the emotional gravity hook us and move us.
Splice (2009)
★★★ / ★★★★
Two biochemists, Clive and Elsa, (Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley) who worked for a pharmaceutical company (led by Simona Maicanescu) decided to make an animal/human hybrid because they felt that they should push the boundaries of science in order to ultimately free humanity from unsolved genetic diseases. As well-meaning as they were on the outside, I loved the fact that as the film went on, I began to feel detached from the characters instead of feeling attached to them like in most other movies. As astute and gifted as they were, I felt that they were selfish, arrogant, rash and they deserved what was about to happen to them. The special and visual effects kept me glued to the screen. I wasn't sure how much of the creature (played by Delphine Chanéac) was computer-engineered but I couldn't take my eyes off her due to fascination and complete horror. From the trailers, I thought "Splice" was going to be a standard sci-fi/horror picture but I was glad it turned out differently. Instead of going for the easy scares (although there were three or four), it took its time to establish the characters and place them (and us) in moral conundrums to see how they would respond to the challenges that faced them. Since the two biochemists were in a romantic relationship prior to the genetically engineered creature, there was something amusing about the way they eventually took on the role of being a parent for the creature including the usual tensions that arise during motherhood and fatherhood. There were even some Freudian implications that became very obvious as the movie unfolded. Having said all that, I felt that the film stalled somewhere in the middle. The movie hinted Elsa's dark past which should have explained why she treated Dren (the creature) the way she did. But the whole thing was so vague, I felt like I was constantly reaching for something in the dark that may not even be there. As the picture reached its somewhat typical and predictable climax of characters running in the woods and fighting for survival, I waited for some answers about Elsa's past but I didn't get any. Instead, there was a completely gratuitous scene that just made me feel uncomfortable and rotten. The last time I felt that badly in a movie theater was when I saw 2009's "The Last House on the Left." I know about Vincenzo Natali's reputation as a director who likes to inject something different in his projects but I strongly believe that the scene in question could have been altered in such a way that it didn't degrade women. Nevertheless, I'm recommending "Splice" because it exhibited intelligence, its ability to surprise and it worked as a cautionary tale.
Zodiac (2007)
★★★ / ★★★★
A lot of casual movie-goers were disappointed with this movie because they expected more jolt-inducing scenes that remained in their spine for some time. Meanwhile, critics loved its realism and labyrinthine-like mystery. I wasn't disappointed with this film nor did I love it as much as the professional film critics when I saw it for the first time. I simply liked it for the following reasons: the two-and-a-half hour span of this movie symbolized the grueling, long-term challenges the real-life detectives went through and Jake Gyllenhaal's mature performance (as Robert Graysmith who wrote a book about his experiences) about a man's journey down the rabbit hole. I was fascinated by his obsessive personality; as he got closer to the identity of the killer, the more he neglected himself and his family. But after watching it for the second time, I almost loved it because of the amount of detail that David Fincher, the director, put into the film. There was a certain crispness with how everything was shot yet still remained very atmospheric and implemented the classic Fincher awkward camera angles. I loved how first part of the movie focused on Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. as a cartoonist and writer (named Paul Avery), respectively, for the San Francisco Chronicle. They had great chemistry because they were so different from one another yet they had a common goal. That is, to catch the very elusive and mysterious Zodiac killer that plagued the San Francisco Bay Area. The second act focused on Mark Ruffalo as Inspector David Toschi as he interviewed possible suspects. I believe this was Ruffalo's most complete performance to date because I got to see him change from an enthusiastic man to a man who became so defeated from getting close to the killer but not quite catching him. And the third act was how Gyllenhaal and Ruffalo worked together to get even closer to solving the mystery. I was impressed with the level of suspense this film had despite not having huge explosions and extended chase scenes. Although the violence was brutal, I found that the scenes that left something for the imagination were more haunting, such as the scene when a woman and her baby got into the car of the notorious murderer. Its craft was in the dialogue as we wade through important and unimportant pieces of the puzzle, the unpredictable twists and grueling passage of time as the characters became more and more worn out trying to chase Zodiac. Since I'm from the Bay Area, I think this picture is special because the possibility that Zodiac still roaming around and passing as one of us just chills me to the bone.
Up in the Air
Up in the Air (2009)
★★★★ / ★★★★
Jason Reitman directed this tale about Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) whose job is to fly to various cities across America and fire people who work for different corporations. Ryan enjoys being constantly on the move, collecting frequent flyer miles, and values the isolation and sense of pride that comes with his work. His way of life and mindset are challenged on two fronts: when he met a woman version of himself named Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga) and a plucky twentysomething named Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) who wants to revolutionize the way the company works. That is, instead of firing people face-to-face, she argues the corporation can save a lot of money by firing people via a computer. Ryan then has to balance his budding romance with Alex as well as helping Natalie realize that there is a real value in having the courage and putting in the time to actually face the people to tell them that they have lost their jobs. In a grim American economy, I thought this film could not have arrived at a more perfect time because not only did it have a real sense of drama, it had a sense of humor, intelligence, and heart when it comes to the lead characters as well as to those who are recently unemployed.
I thought the director's decision to actually put real-life people in front of the camera to express how they felt when they got fired was a wonderful idea. It felt that much more real and heartbreaking. Instead of a movie featuring a corporate person (the bully) and the person being fired (the bullied), which is one-dimensional, there was a certain sense of understanding between the two camps even though the people who were being fired were angry and sad when they heard the terrible news. I enjoyed the conversations between Clooney and Kendrick because they were so different. There was real humor when it came to the generational gap, their outlook on marriage and how to deal with people. I'm very happy with the fact that the movie did not result to Clooney being the teacher and Kendrick being the student. They actually learned from each other even though neither of them was a picture of perfection. Even though they were very different, I felt a certain level of respect between them. I also loved the one conversion that Farmiga and Kendrick had concerning what they wanted in a man. That conversation has got to be one of my favorite scenes in the entire film because, in essence, it's the same kind of question that my friends and I try to answer. It got me thinking about what I really want in a partner ten years from now instead of just focusing on my wants for the present. It also got me thinking about whether I really want to be married. Before watching the film, I thought I knew my answer but now I'm more unsure. I don't consider that a bad thing at all because the picture really challenged the way I saw certain aspects in being a committed relationship. I saw myself in each of the characters so I was invested throughout.
"Up in the Air" is an ambitious film with great writing and heartfelt performances. Even though the film is essentially a comedy (some unfairly label it as a romantic comedy), it really is about the big questions we have about our life, where it was, where it is now and where it is going. It's not the kind of movie that tries to be quirky just to feel different. In fact, it follows some of the same structured formula of Hollywood filmmaking. But the material is so rich to the point where it didn't matter. It felt natural so I thought the characters didn't feel like they were just characters in a movie. When I look back on the movies that came out in 2009, "Up in the Air" is really one of those pictures that really got it right in terms of reflecting real life.


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Carmesine Blauvent
Carmesine Blauvent
Alicante, Spain
About Carmesine Blauvent
-www.carmesine.com- Since my younger years I have been professionally proactive, experimenting at different fields and eager to cross any border. After studying textile and fashion design at the Art School in Alcoy I moved to Brussels, where the company K de Kan offered me an interesting job at their headquarters, I designed women's wear minimalist clothes. Two years later I've decided to move to Milano, where I studied a Master in Design and Communication at the Domus Academy school. During 2001 back at the design industry I started working for Salomon Sports, designing concept related apparel, in Annecy, France. Later I was designing shoes at Camper, Mallorca, for two years. Back in Alicante, in 2006, after two years building and coordinating a new apparel brand for a spanish company, I started a new adventure. I wanted to be independant, to selfproduce my own product, at my own terms. I was so stocked with the idea that I didn't mind the risk, as I wanted to do exactly that and nothing else. Blauvent was launched in October 2009. I had in mind my own project as designer... a sustainable product that would have sense also for a passionate paraglider as I was. For that reason I've started manufacturing my designs with original paraglider textile and from used and recycled ones. I don't know if it was decisive to win the national design award Injuve at 2007, but it surely motivated me to work as freelancer. I think my best success is to do what I like and to find that in the closest places and in the furthest, there are some people liking what I do and connecting perfectly with my designs.
During the year 2001 I have done a Master in Fashion and Communication at DOMUS ACADEMY, Milan, Italy.
At 1999 I had finished my degree in Fashion and Textile Design at EASD, Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Alcoi, Spain.

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EFF and Eight Other Privacy Organizations Back Out of NTIA Face Recognition Multi-Stakeholder Process
EFF, along with eight other consumer-focused privacy advocacy organizations has backed out of the National Telecommunications Information Administration's multi-stakeholder process to develop a privacy-protective code of conduct for companies using face recognition. After 16 months of active engagement in the process, we decided this week it was no longer an effective use of our resources to continue in a process where companies wouldn't even agree to the most modest measures to protect privacy.
EFF was joined by ACLU; Center for Democracy & Technology; Center for Digital Democracy; Consumer Action; Consumer Federation of America; Consumer Watchdog; Common Sense Media; and Alvaro M. Bedoya, the executive director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University Law Center.
How Private DNA Data Led Idaho Cops on a Wild Goose Chase and Linked an Innocent Man to a 20-year-old Murder Case
The New Orleans Advocate recently published a shocking story that details the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases and familial DNA searching.
In 1996, a young woman named Angie Dodge was murdered in her apartment in a small town in Idaho. Although the police collected DNA from semen left at the crime scene, they haven't been able to match the DNA to existing profiles in any criminal database, and the murder has never been solved.
The FBI plans to roll out the face recognition component of its massive Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometrics database this summer—but the Bureau has six years of catching up to do in explaining to Americans exactly how it plans to collect, use and protect this data. Today we called on Attorney General Eric Holder to do just that.
As we explained in the letter:
As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read other blog posts in this series.
Around the world, systems of identification that employ automatic recognition of individuals' faces, fingerprints, or irises are gaining ground. Biometric ID systems are increasingly being deployed at international border checkpoints, by governments seeking to implement national ID schemes, and by private-sector actors. Yet as biometric data is collected from more and more individuals, privacy concerns about the use of this technology are also attracting attention. Below are several examples of the year's most prominent debates around biometrics.
Courts are investigating the legality of a European Union regulation requiring biometric passports in Europe. Last month, the Dutch Council of State (Raad van State, the highest Dutch administrative court) asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to decide if the regulation requiring fingerprints in passports and travel documents violates citizens' right to privacy. The case entered the courts when three Dutch citizens were denied passports and another citizen was denied an ID card for refusing to provide their fingerprints. The ECJ ruling will play an important role in determining the legality of including biometrics in passports and travel documents in the European Union.
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It's been a streaky season for Highland's football team in 2013, and the Hornets are enjoying the good part right now.
After losing its first three games — two by a total of just nine points — Highland enters District 7 Six-Man play on Friday with a four-game winning streak when the Hornets (4-3) entertain Rotan (3-4) at 7:30 p.m.
And an open date last week allowed the Hornets a chance to get back to basics, according to their head coach Jeff Shelton.
"We welcomed the chance to look at ourselves and the areas we need to improve," he said. "We focused on im-proving our fundamentals, staying in game shape and improving our overall und-erstanding of our offensive and defensive concepts."
Shelton said improved depth has been a key to the recent success, but he wants to make sure that all of his players fully understand the team's offensive and defensive philosophy as Highland prepares for its final three games of the season.
"We never know when we are going to have to rely on a person who's not used to getting many game reps at a position," he said. "Lack of depth has hurt us the past two seasons, but this year I think it's an area of strength for us."
Right now Rotan is the team's only focus, Shelton said, although Ira — the No. 1-ranked team in Six-Man Division I — and Hermleigh (4-3) are right behind.
Highland's last game was a 76-60 win over its county rival Blackwell two weeks ago, while Rotan fell to No. 7 Rankin 56-18 last week.
"We're going to have to play well (Friday)," Shelton said. "Obviously we need to tackle well in the open field and we need to take care of the football offensively.
"We had way too many mental mistakes and loose footballs against Blackwell, which made a difference in the final score of that game. We need to play at top form on both sides of the ball."
Shelton said Rotan, now in its second year of play-ing six-man football, has improved from a year ago when the Yellowhammers were just 2-9 overall — yet still advanced to the playoffs in District 7 by beating Highland and Hermleigh.
"They run multiple sets on offense and are very ag-gressive on defense," the Highland coach said. "Like everyone we play, they have better overall team speed and we will need to play great as a team to negate that speed."
Shelton said his team is ready for the challenge. "I think we're eager to get back out under the lights on Friday night," he said.


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Let's face it. We Indians revere white skin. So it's strange that Bollywood, which caters to dreams and aspirations, never had a foreigner making a huge splash.
Oh, we've had the occasional stars - like the brilliant Tom Alter or the infinitely forgettable Negar Khan - but never a face that launched a thousand films, or at least item songs.
That is, until Yaana (the erstwhile Yana Gupta) rode into people's hearts on a buffalo in her Babuji number.
Text: Surya Praphulla Kumar
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Breault Research Organization, Inc. 11-Nov-2009
BRO is an optical engineering firm with software products and training to help engineers turn creative visions into working prototypes. Projects include optical design for the aerospace, automotive, aviation, bio, display, solar and other industries.
Yuen Chang Stainless Steel Co., Ltd. 09-Nov-2009
Manufacturer of stainless steel sheet, stainless steel plate, stainless steel coil, stainless steel strip and 304 material.
UNION OPTICS CO.,LTD. 19-Oct-2009
UNION OPTICS mainly produces all kinds of high quality optical components.Such as Prisms,Windows,lens,Filter,Aspherical mirror, etc. And the material of the crystal, for example, MgF2 , CaF2 , BaF2, ZnSe, Sapphire, YAG, etc.
LIOS Technology Inc. 12-Oct-2009
LIOS Technology, leading provider of frequency domain based distributed temperature monitoring solutions(DTS) has opened an office in Morganville, New Jersey to service the growing demand for distributed temperature solutions in the United States.
CodeSScientific 12-Oct-2009
CodeSScientific is focused on publishing and providing high quality Scientific Codes (SCODS) to students, researchers, scientists and engineers in universities, research labs, government organisations, private companies and corporations.
environmentalresearchweb.org 15-Sep-2009
environmentalresearchweb is a community website devoted to news and discussion on developments in environmental science. It provides free-to-read analysis and opinion on many environmental concerns and all the latest information in one location.
Spinlab.ca 30-Sep-2009
Spinlab is a marketing consulting company focused on delivering a wide range of services to industrial and technology companies.
Deposition Sciences 18-Sep-2009
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Good thing I read this article. I was going to shoot them on sight.
To the editor. I don't have a problem with your opinion (repeat, your opinion) over the half-mast honor for Ms. Houston, provided you equally fault the naming of a naval vessel after Ms. Gifford's. Failure to do so is revealing of the Times' political bias and your hypocrisy.
I'm a combat veteran, too, and I served under both Democrat and Republican CinC's. Everytime some Democrat politician feigns a public show of veteran support, it makes me gag. Patriotism is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel -- Samuel Johnson, 1775.
Welcome to the real world, including that of retired military and retired federal government workers.
I'm retired military. In 1979 as a commissioned officer I made just under $9K and, for the next 20 years, I was paid significantly less than my private sector counterparts. Money was never a motivator so its impossible to explain this to those who are fixated on money. Since my retirement, my COLA has been frozen several times and I have 25% co-pays on health care. The Federal, State, and Local governments can not continue to spend money they don't have. They must either stop squandering on the social programs or cut yours and my pension benefits. They don't have the courage to do the former so, welcome to the latter. This is not a complaint, it is a fact of life. I've seen the world a time or two, and, I'd much rather live in the US with COLA freezes and higher health care costs than anywhere else in the world. I bet you have never been hungry a day in your life. Be thankful for what you have.
I was trusted by the US Government to carry a hand gun (and sometimes a shotgun) in the defense of our nation. Yet, here in Blue Jersey (Castle Doctrine excluded) I'm not trusted and hence, unable to legally defend myself or my family in public.
I know this might be a difficult concept for you to comprehend but, Rights come with Responsibility. For example, you have a right to own a gun and a responsibility to use it in a manner not detrimental to our society. If you don't embrace the responsibility, you will lose the right. The same should apply to health care. If you give someone the right to taxpayer funded free (or subsidized) healthcare they have a responsibility to be a productive member of our society, to include working and paying taxes. Problem is that liberals want rights without the burden of responsibility.
As a result, we are giving health care to the willingly non-productive and I have to work longer to pay for it. Frankly, I'd rather you and your ilk die than have my taxes give you another freebie.
As a combat veteran I also fought to preserve the right of free speach for fools like Mr. Grasso.
Our US Military is in trouble when Political Correctness trumps competence and command decision. I read the referenced verses. They are benign references that wish no ill-will towards anyone.
Hopefully Corzine gets a job in the Obama administration. I can live with that "redistribution of wealth".
Here we go again... wasting more tax dollars on yet another bungled project. If you are not smart enough to know whether or not you are registered to vote, you shouldn't be voting.
They must have polled the same nitwits who voted for Corzine
Thank you Gibbstown Mayor George Shivery for your persistence on getting this work done and your proven ability to work across party lines with our Freeholders. Obviouly, thanks goes to the Freeholders as well.
Come on Governor, its OK to admit you are wrong and change your position on drilling. Obama did.


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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A man who was having little luck catching salmon decided to look for fossils over the weekend and found a wooly mammoth tusk in the same Alaska location where his mother found one 22 years ago.
Andrew Harrelson found the 12-foot fossilized tusk on Sunday in a bend of the Fish River near his home village of White Mountain about 63 miles east of Nome, the Alaska Dispatch News reported Wednesday.
Harrelson was 3 in 1992 when his mother, Luann Harrelson, spotted a 79-pound mammoth tusk fossil in the muck of the river. His father pulled it from the water and Andrew posed for a picture with it.
This big, old log-looking thing, he said. I had no clue what it was until they told me.
Harrelsons father, Daniel Harrelson, said villagers previously found mammoth teeth at the site.
I think at one point, thousands of years ago, it must have been a mud hole or something that animals got stuck in and then died in it, Daniel Harrelson said. Everything froze in there and then slowly, over time, thaws out a little bit year by year.
On Sunday, Andrew Harrelson, who now lives in Nome, was fishing with his fiancee and two children in the river. He had caught just one coho salmon in two hours so he decided to look for tusks.
They arrived at the bend where his mother had found the tusk. Almost immediately, Harrelson saw the base of another tusk, covered by a stump. His fiancee, Renee Parker, looked on the other side of the boat and saw the tip of the fossil.
Harrelson drove his family back to White Mountain and returned with a relative. Together, they pried out the fossil. Back at White Mountain, he weighed it on a bathroom scale and it registered 162 pounds.
Tusks of wooly mammoth range in age from 12,000 to 400,000 years old.
Dale Guthrie, a Quaternary Period paleontologist who retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said the last glacial period in Alaska was about 18,000 years ago. Mainland mammoths died off by about 12,000 years ago, he said.
The (White Mountain) tusks could be that young or they could be when mammoths first arrived here, which is 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, Guthrie said. Youd have to radio carbon date it to see its age.
They can fetch as much as $75 per pound.
Prospective buyers have been calling Harrelson to inquire about the tusk. The couple want to buy a home in Nome.
Im pretty sure hes going to try to use the money for down payment for a house, Daniel Harrelson said.
AP Photo/Andrew Harrelson In this photo taken Aug. 10 and provided by Andrew Harrelson, is Andrew Harrelson posing with a 12-foot fossilized tusk that he found in a bend of the Fish River near the village of White Mountain, about 63 miles east of Nome, Alaska.×
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I get a lot of questions on "how do you do this blogging thing?". I guess it must appear to be pretty difficult. Really, it's not all that hard when you break it down into pieces.
There's the creative side of blogging which I will make no attempt to explain. For example, outside of work, I'm a musician -- but I could never teach someone how to do it like I do it. I know, I've tried and failed utterly at this.
The mechanics, however, can easily be shared.
And it's really not all that exotic ... nor time-consuming.
The Life Of A Corporate Blogger
Blogging does not appear in my job description, nor is my compensation in any way directly tied to my blogging activities. I choose to blog.
Maybe you should too.
I do not have an editorial staff. Every word that appears here came from my own keyboard. There is no formal approval process for anything I write.
I've been doing it a while with some modicum of success: over a thousand posts, and over two million lifetime page views. It's probably the best thing I've ever done for myself, career-wise.
Sourcing Material
I'm always on the lookout for bloggable topics -- stuff that I find interesting, and hopefully others will as well. Like many of you, I cruise cyberspace and surf what everyone's talking about. Occasionally, I find an engaging bloggable topic there, but I've got a much better source -- my own work.
I get exposed to vast parts of EMC, and indirectly VMware and now Pivotal. I also have the privilege of meeting some amazing customers and partners who frequently have fascinating insights of their own. I interact with our industry ecosystem: competitors, alliance partners, startups, etc.
There is no shortage of raw material in my world.
Lots of people at EMC know I blog, and they send along ideas that may or may not turn into a blog. Sometimes these are about products or technologies, sometimes it's about an internal effort that's worthy of sharing, other times it's just an observation they've made and they want to share. Not everything is useable, but much of it is. I also try to spend time "coolhunting" -- tracking down interesting people who are doing interesting things.
I have about 60,000 potential candidates to work with :)
Extracting The Content
Much like an investigative reporter, often I'm motivated to go deeper than whatever summary I've been presented. I collect powerpoint decks, white papers, talk to people, maybe conduct an interview -- it's sort of on me to pull out the less-than-obvious aspects that make things interesting.
And then the distillation process starts ... getting to the root of the story at hand. That is entirely subjective work, I've found.
There are a large number of themes I work with, and that sort of serves as a framework to tell the story at hand, and hopefully tie it back to other things I've talked about in the past. I am not shy about sharing my personal perspectives and inherent biases -- that's what makes us people vs. automatons.
We're not writing press releases here ...
Assembling The Story
I then sit down and write something. I use a simple ASCII editor because embedded formatting characters are not your friend. I time-box myself -- if the story doesn't tell itself, it's probably not worth telling. Maybe 30 minutes max for a first pass in most cases. About 20% of my first efforts are eventually abandoned.
If I like what I've written, I then send usually send my draft off to the people who are involved -- embedded in an email -- just to get their quick feedback. Usually, it comes back unscathed, but they often spot one or two things I might have missed. I politely tell them they've got 24 hours to respond, otherwise I'll assume what I've written is OK with them :)
This delay gives me some time to go work on other things, and to come back later and look more critically at what I've written. I usually spend another 10 minutes or so cleaning up spelling, story flow, word choice and similar.
Time To Create The Post
I host my blog on TypePad, which has proven to be a great paid service. I own the blog, even though it's clearly labeled as "EMC" at the top. I chose not to put in the standard "fig leaf" disclaimer that you see so often. I believe I'm entirely responsible for what I write, and no disclaimer is going to change that.
A cut-and-paste into the TypePad editor, and it's time for some light formatting: bold, italic, white space etc. I then embed images: either PPT content that's been part of the story, relevant screen shots, or a short jaunt with Google Images for some fun. The next pass is embedding links, adding tags, and doing a final spell check.
And, of course, frequently saving the draft as I go along.
The Moment Of Truth
Finally, I think the post is ready to go -- it looks good, it reads well, etc. And then I take a short break. When I come back, I give it a final "how will this be perceived by others?" pass to avoid unintentional self-destruction, and I then hold my breath and press the irreversible "post" button.
I grab the link address, jump on Twitter, and share the link with my followers. And we're almost done ...
Gauging The Feedback
Part of being a competent blogger is trying to assess whether people find any value in what you've written. Sure, it'd be nice if they'd tell you, but that's the exception rather than the rule.
Instead, I have to try to discern this indirectly: number of page hits, retweets on Twitter, signs of syndication in other publications, etc.
It's not entirely accurate nor precise, but you can sort of gauge when people are engaging with your content, and when it's simply being passed by.
The Long Tail
There's often a multi-week lag between posting and sufficient dissemination with reaction, so I don't form an opinion on a piece of work until it's been out there for a while. You get emails from people, or you see a steady popularity in the page hits for a piece, and so on.
There's an even longer tail thanks to Google and PageRank. Don't ask me to explain how and why it works, but when you take a longer view (e.g. more than six months), some pieces hold up surprisingly well in terms of attracting readers.
That's About It
Learning to blog at a corporate level is like learning to ride a bike, or speak a new language, or pick up a new instrument: the more you do it, the easier it gets.
Until, one day, you don't really think about it much anymore :)


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La Marana
Fed by the rivers Bevinco and Golo, the Étang de Biguglia is the largest lagoon in Corsica, and one of its best sites for rare migrant birds. In summer, reed and cetti warblers nest in the reeds, while in winter, Biguglia supports a resident community of grey herons, kingfishers, great crested grebes, little grebes, water rails and various species of duck.
The Roman town of MARIANA, just south of Étang de Biguglia, can be approached by taking the turning for Poretta airport, 16km along the N193, or the more scenic coastal route through La Marana. It was founded in 93 BC as a military colony, but today's houses, baths and basilica are too ruined to be of great interest. It's only the square baptistry, with its remarkable mosaic floor decorated with dancing dolphins and fish looped around bearded figures representing the four rivers of paradise, that is worth seeking out.
Adjacent to Mariana stands the church of Santa Maria Assunta, known as La Canonica. Built in 1119 close to the old capital of Biguglia, it's the finest of around three hundred churches built by the Pisans in their effort to evangelize the island. Modelled on a Roman basilica, the perfectly proportioned edifice is decorated outside with Corinthian capitals plundered from the main Mariana site and with plates of Cap Corse marble, their delicate pink and yellow ochre hues fusing to stunning effect.
Marooned amid muddy fields about 300m to the south of La Canonica stands San Parteo, built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries over the site of a pagan burial ground. A smaller edifice than La Canonica, the church also displays some elegant arcading and fine sculpture on the south side, the door lintel is supported by two writhing beasts reaching to a central tree, a motif of oriental origins.
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Mother Courage and Her Children
Editorial Staff • West End • 7 Apr 2000
A production of a Bertolt Brecht drama that is utterly approachable may sound unlikely, but that's just what Shared Experience and Lee Hall, the exciting young playwright who can do no wrong at the moment, have given the theatre world. Hall and director Nancy Meckler have managed to dispense with Brecht's patronising air whilst retaining the power of the anti-war epic.
But, while Hall also forefronts some Dad's Army-style comedy and some hilarious and vulgar colloquialisms, and Phuong Nguyen's fine accordion playing keeps, for some reason, reminding me of 'Allo 'Allo, the night really belongs to the talented Kathryn Hunter. Old alienation master Brecht would be less than thrilled to know that you can't help being moved by Hunter's Mother Courage. Hunter is quite simply amazing as the profiteering, cart-pulling, child-protector who sees her three children die one by one during the Thirty Years War that the play chronicles. I'm not one to gush, over-hype and acclaim actors unnecessarily, but if this isn't a stellar performance, then I don't know what is.
Hunter is aided by a fine supporting ensemble that includes Hayley Carmichael (who's engrossing as mute daughter Kattrin), Francis Lee (gormless son Swiss Cheese), Marcello Magni (comedy Cook) and Rachel Sanders (Yvette). The sense of fun is furthered as David Fielder, Clive Mendus and Simon Walter draw heavily on the past television antics of Captain Mainwaring and Private Pike for their battle skills. Three hours in a theatre seat could have been unbearable, even without the Brecht ingredient, but the stage direction keeps everything moving at a heady pace.
This is not as flippant a production as it may sound - Hall has obviously realised that the best way to make people 'think' about the tragedy of war is to make them laugh. In doing so, he injects a real and often absent vitality into Brecht's work and gets more to the point than most. As a man in the seat in front proclaimed during the tumultuous applause, 'That was powerful. That was entertaining. That was theatre.' My God he was right.


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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The parent grant (5R01TW005964-03) funded a successful collaboration between Loma Linda University (LLU), Ministry of Health (MOH) Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Laos from 2002-2004 that has resulted in training six promising Lao MOH and DRA health professionals in tobacco control research methods during a 28-unit graduate level certificate program. This FIRCA application now includes the six trainees as foreign collaborators in pioneering tobacco research in Lao PDR. Among the 47 ethnic groups in Lao PDR - many found in minority populations throughout Southeast Asia - the regional terms for "cigarette", "pipe", and "tobacco" in rural areas are often not accurately known by local health professionals or researchers (including our trainees). The current absence of such basic information substantially hinders progress in conducting valid surveys of tobacco use n this multiethnic population. Our aim is to conduct a three-year research and capacity building program to validate (Phase I), design (Phase II), and pilot test (Phase III) a survey of tobacco use among adults (ages 8 and older) in the multiethnic population of Lao PDR. Phase I (Year One) will validate questionnaire items and picture cards of tobacco use in published qualitative (ethnography, key informant interviews, validating focus groups) and quantitative (correlation with biomarkers of cotinine and exhaled carbon monoxide) studies of 1200 adults sampled (multi-stage cluster design) from the language groups (Khamu, Ekhor, Lao, Hmong, Talieng) and regions that contain the major ethnic groups of Lao PDR. B. Phase II (Year Two) incorporates the findings from Phase I into the design of a comprehensive questionnaire to measure tobacco use, knowledge/attitudes about tobacco use, second-hand smoke, quit attempts, health status, and women's health. This phase will include the publication of qualitative (focus groups, key informant interviews) studies of tobacco-related knowledge and beliefs among 350 adults sampled from language groups and regions that contain the major ethnic groups of Lao PDR. C. Phase III (Year Three) involves a pilot test of the survey designed in Phases I and II among 500 adults sampled from language groups and regions that contain the major ethnic groups of Lao PDR. Publication of these pilot test data will establish a comprehensive tobacco questionnaire that can be used in large-scale revalence studies and/or to provide baseline data for interventions targeted at specific regions and ethnic subgroups. These collaborative studies will build the capacity of local investigators to conduct large-scale studies of tobacco use in ethnic groups found in Lao PDR and throughout Southeast Asia.


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We grill gamers at the PS3 pre-launch party, asking about high-def, favourite features and how the newest consoles compare.
At the PS3 pre-launch party hosted by Dick Smith Electronics on March 14, a bunch of eager PlayStation fans took the chance to play on the shiny new console, mingle with a celeb or two, and partake of the free popcorn being offered up by a Lara Croft lookalike.
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Ridgway girls soccer lost 2-1 to Curwensville in the D-9 semifinal Thursday night at DuBois High School.
Johnsonburg volleyball honored six seniors before a 3-0 loss to Elk County Catholic Thursday night.
The Elk County Catholic Crusaders lost 6-0 to Brockway in the District 9 soccer quarterfinal Wednesday night.
Ridgway girls soccer won their playoff opener by a 6-1 score over Clarion Tuesday.
Ellie Woodford, left and Katie Oknefski were honored before Ridgway's volleyball match against Kane.
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JOHNSONBURG – Playing on Johnsonburg's home field brought the same result as much of Ridgway's home matches at Francis S. Grandinetti Elementary School.
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Ridgway started strong and controlled play for much of the match in a 5-0 victory over the Brockway Lady Rovers Wednesday night at Memorial Field in Johnsonburg.


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Instagram has been one of the hit Apps for iPhone users in the
last year or so and it's not hard to see why. Take your photo, and
then select from the range of filters and effects templates at the
bottom of the Instagram interface.
Retro black & white, 70s fuzzy colours, or Lomo-fi, which
gives your photo a moody bit of contrast - there are 12 different
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The other nice feature is that you can `friend' up other
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Phantasm II
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
I think Phantasm II would sit better in the franchise if Phantasm III had followed up on it in a meaningful way. The biggest addition of II was Liz and her psychic link with Mike and the Tall Man but since she's tossed like gutter trash in Phantasm III and Mike is played completely differently, it makes Phantasm II a little pointless and an anomaly to the series. There are some great shots and parts to Phantasm III but I think it's mostly bogged down by silly zombie characters, new sidekick characters that do not provide anything new to the franchise and will also be quickly discarded and by giving Mike little to do.
Phantasm IV I really enjoyed because it lost the silly humor, did not focus too much on new characters that will never be explored again (instead it even brought back the fortune teller - nice touch), it returned to the low-key surrealism of the original, answered questions but left you with more and brought back the themes that made the original thought provoking and not just a "typical horror picture". I also thought the ending of IV was a genious ending to the series if they close it out that way.
That's exactly my take on the series, and in that same order. Downright eerie, like I could have written that myself.
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Two health-related concepts have won the top prizes at this year's Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition at Purdue University. One idea involves a technique to select the best anti-cancer drugs for patients and the other is a new a diabetic testing device.
February 20, 2013
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A device for non-evasive diabetic testing and a biological imaging technique for personalized cancer care won the top prizes Tuesday (Feb. 19) at the $100,000 Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition in Purdue University's Discovery Park.
In the Gold Division, for graduate students, Animated Dynamics won the $30,000 top prize for its efforts to commercialize a new laboratory approach designed to select the best anti-cancer drugs for patients. Using tissue dynamics spectroscopy (TDS), doctoral student Ran An and Purdue physics professors David Nolte and John Turek are developing the technique that captures dynamic cellular motions deep inside living tissue.
NanoBio Interface Systems, a nanotechnology-based in vitro diagnostics company led by Purdue communications and philosophy major Aaron Trembath, claimed the $20,000 first prize in the Black Division to undergraduate students.
Each team had 20 to present their plans and 10 minutes for questions from the panel of 10 judges during the event at Discovery Park's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. Sponsors for the event, marking its 26th year, are the Burton D. Morgan Foundation, Ice Miller LLC and Purdue's Krannert School of Management.
In the Gold Division for graduate students, Team VACCINE claimed the $15,000 second prize for its advanced law enforcement toolkit software. Team VACCINE members Abish Malik, Silvia Oliveros, Satish Kunchakuri and Nimish Dharawat are developing the software for equipping law enforcement agencies and citizens with situational awareness and risk assessment tools for analyzing criminal, traffic and civil incident patterns in their neighborhoods.
Telos Discovery Systems, which is advancing a drug discovery product that eliminates the need for researcher-mouse interaction, received the $7,500 third-place prize. Led by Ted Daniels, Telos is advancing a technology that could yield more accurate behavioral data and a tenfold increase in experimental throughput.
Finalists receiving $3,750 each in the Gold Division were Skyepack and Applied Battery Technology.
Led by Nick McCollum, Skyepack is a content-focused educational software environment designed to facilitate the delivery of learn-anywhere mobile content as an alternative to texts, course packs and class handouts.
Applied Battery Technology, led by Mark Suchomel and Subhash Ghosh, is developing a novel battery-sensing technology in development to increase rechargeable battery reliability and safety, and reduce application costs for equal end-user performance across all sectors.
In the Black Division, Cornucopia Farm, an established agritourism operation in Scottsburg, Ind., finished second and received $10,000. Presenter Michael Baird, a horticultural production and marketing and agricultural management student, is looking to expand his family-owned business' seasonal education and entertainment operations.
E3 Labs, a nonprofit organization developing products and services that address basic needs, quality of life and scarcity issues for developing countries, was third, receiving $5,000. E3 Labs is led by Nicolas Guerra-Mondragon and Fernando Segovia.
The other two finalists were Tapped and Super Resolution, each receiving $2,500 for their presentations. Tapped, led by liberal arts major Kevin Lee, is a planned mobile application for iPhones and iPads that allows bars and restaurants to highlight what beers are currently on tap.
Super Resolution team members Yuxing Zhang, Colin Sandbach and Jian-Wei Khor are working on an optic technique and device to improve the resolution of imaging systems for research microscopes and telescopes.
In addition to their prize winnings, Ice Miller will provide free legal and consulting services to the top three finishers in the Gold Division valued at $5,000 for Animated Dynamics, $3,000 for Team VACCINE, and $2,000 for Telos. The Purdue Research Park also will provide incubator space for those three companies.
Krannert provided one free registration in the 2013 Applied Management Principles (AMP) condensed management certificated program to Animated Dynamics. With a value of $4,995, AMP is offered by Krannert�s Executive Education Programs.
In the Black Division, Nano Bio, Cornucopia Farm and E3 Labs will receive free affiliate status from the Purdue Research Park, permitting. Nano Bio also receives a free registration in Krannert's AMP certificate program, which has a value of $4,995.
The late Burton D. Morgan was a Purdue alumnus who started 50 companies, six of which have become major corporations, including Morgan Adhesives, one of the world's largest makers of pressure-sensitive adhesives. He also was president of Basic Search Co., an idea-development firm, and wrote several books on entrepreneurism.
The entrepreneurship competition started in 1987 with an endowment gift to Purdue from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. The Morgan Foundation also funded the $7 million, 31,000-square-foot Center for Entrepreneurship.
The center leads Purdue's Kauffman Campuses Initiative, which is focused on making entrepreneurship education available across the university's main and regional campuses, enabling any student, regardless of field of study, access to entrepreneurial training.
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