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Silkscreen Madness
Morgan and I spent the day sunday slikscreening on the CD boxes for "I'm Worried Now". We got about 1/2 way through the 2nd color when we had to quit do to wrists turning to jello. 1000 pulls of the silkscreen squeege is more strenuous than we had planned. We got enough finished packages though to hold us for awhile. The finished CD disks are due to be done tomorrow so we'll be able to load up a few packages to take down to the Portland Old-time Gathering this weekend. This is an amazing event in case you've never attended. Here are couple pictures from the screen printing marathon the other day.
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I'm Worried Now - Progress!
Morgan, Susan and I just got back from a trip to Port Townsend to have Neville Pearsall at Synergy Sound do the mastering of our final mixes. Mastering is a process where Neville, with his finely-tuned ears, sweetens the sonic quality of the tracks and balances out the levels of all the tracks and the whole cd itself so that if you listen to it in a rotation with other CDs it will fit in.
Neville's studio is in one of the old bunker-like military buildings at Fort Worden and it's great to be there in the winter and reflect on the great summer fiddle festival experiences we've had there. After a really long, tedious day of watching Neville tweak menus on his computer and listen to the tracks over and over it was amazing how much better they sounded compared to what we came in with. Well worth the trip...... plus we got to play tunes the night before till all hours with Tony Goldenberg, one of our favorite fiddlers who lives in Port Townsend.
Next steps on the CD will be to work out the mechanical licences we need to pay on several of the songs on the CD, then get the disks pressed. We decided to try silkscreening the packaging ourselves using blank Arigato Boxes from Stumptown Printers in Portland. This may be a decision we'll live to regret but at least these first 500 should be collector's items!


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Yes, Leonidas deserves the credit, but I'm a fan of Demophilus.
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"When Leonidas learned that the Phocians had not held, he called a council at dawn. During the council some Greeks argued for withdrawal in the face of the overwhelming Persian advance, while others pledged to stay. After the council, many of the Greek forces did choose to withdraw. Herodotus believed that Leonidas blessed their departure with an order, but he also offered the alternate point of view: that those retreating forces departed without orders. The Spartans had pledged themselves to fight to the death, while the Thebans were held as hostage against their will. However, a contingent of about 700 Thespians, led by general Demophilus, the son of Diadromes, refused to leave with the other Greeks, but cast their lot with the Spartans."
In the history and the legend of Thermopylae, nothing can be taken away from the Spartans. By custom, by training, by law, by loyalty and a great leader, the royal guard of King Leonidas fulfilled their heroic destiny at the Battle of Thermopylae. But Demophilus was no Spartan, no warrior born and bred from the womb. He was a Thespian general and he led 700 volunteers of his countrymen alongside his fellow Greeks against the overwhelming army of Xerxes I. He easily could have retired from the field of battle with the other Greeks when the Spartans made their last stand, in what was possibly a designed rear-guard action. He didn't. The Thespians stayed, shoulder to shoulder with the Spartans, as equals, as brothers, as Men. Demophilus understood this act was necessary for the greater good, and it would mean the sacrifice of his soldiers and himself. He died in battle, and in so doing, he and his Thespians have shared for all time, with the great Spartan warriors, the honor of the Battle of Thermopylae.
We all die - there's no choice about that. Normally, I would wish for a long, happy, and fruitful life ending, if it must end, in a painless death. However, I can't help but believe some deaths are more worthy than others, that there is such a thing as a good death. At the end, Demophilus earned a heroic death, a Spartan's death, that wasn't his by birthright. I'm no warrior and I can't identify with the Spartans. But I can hope that when the moment of clarity arrives, I'll acquit myself as honorably as Demophilus the Thespian at Thermopylae.
** Post was inspired by reading Frank Miller's graphic novel, 300.
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Ginny Ades, President
Ginny is a founding board member of Evergreen's Alliance for Sustainability and has worked with a variety of nonprofit organizations in the Evergreen area to promote the missions of conservation, energy efficiency and healthy communities.
Ginny studied Environmental Science and Philosophy as an undergraduate; after moving to Evergreen with her husband in 1976, she earned a graduate degree in Urban Planning and Community Development. She worked as a planner for the City of Greenwood Village and in the Community Development section of the Jefferson County Planning Department in her early career, and, while raising her children, has spent most of the past 30 years utilizing her skills to advance community development and conservation through local nonprofit work.
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Jim Dunn, Vice President
Jim has been an Evergreen resident for more than 26 years, living in the home where he and Yvonne raised their family, now all young adults. He enjoyed a successful career as a water resources engineer with the US Environmental Protection Agency, retiring in 2003. Since then, he has been active on various boards of directors at Denver Metro area nonprofits, including Sprout City Farms and Rocky Mountain Earth Institute. He has led numerous Earth Institute discussion groups as well as annual Mountain Area Earth Day Fair celebrations in Evergreen.
Jim continues to advocate living a sustainable lifestyle, always eager to learn and apply new lessons in living lightly on the Earth. He is an avid organic gardener and grows much of his family's produce throughout the year in a geodesic dome greenhouse. He has volunteered to help construct community gardens in the Foothills area, and he is always interested in finding new ways to sustain this community. Jim joined the EAS+Y Board of Directors in November, 2014.
David Lystrom, Treasurer
David Lystrom and his wife Karen have lived in Evergreen for 33 years enjoying the mountain life style. Dave retired in 1999 as a senior executive with the U.S. Geological Survey. Since retirement, he has worked in the Evergreen community for about 10 years building homes as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. He especially enjoyed organizing construction activities and providing on-the-job training for new volunteers. Dave has served as Chairman of Trustees for the Evergreen United Methodist Church and as treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the Evergreen Unity Church.
During his professional career and retirement Dave has had a long standing interest in environmental sustainability. At his home he has implemented energy efficiency, solar hot-water, solar electric, composting and outdoor plus greenhouse gardening. He has been active with the Evergreen Alliance for Sustainability + You (EAS+Y) and has taken part in the Northwest Earth Institute courses. During 2013 he was a member of the EAS+Y community garden committee and served as the project manager for construction of the Evergreen Community Garden at Buchanan Park.
Kristen Costello, Director-at-Large
Kristen and her husband, Brian, moved to Evergreen in 1988 and raised their family here. She holds a BS in Community Health Education and a MS in Exercise Physiology. Her diverse work in the community has included 10 years as the director of the EPRD Gymnastics Program, the Experiential Education Coordinator for the Montessori Middle School, and the Program Director for the Mountain Area Land Trust. She is dedicated to Sustainability Education in the schools and recently developed a curriculum at Montessori for 4th and 5th year students using our greenhouse and newly build outdoor classroom. She believes that the concept of sustainability extends to how we care for our bodies and in 2011 opened Bear Mountain Yoga. Kristen joined the EAS+Y Board of Directors in December of 2012.
Wendy Neuman, Director-at-Large
Wendy, originally from Wyoming, moved to Evergreen after working overseas and in New York city for twelve years. Wendy and her husband have a young daughter and love the outdoor life that Evergreen offers. With twenty years of market research experience Wendy has a good understanding of consumer behavior. She holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology and master's degree in Gerontology. Wendy currently is the director of market research with the non-profit, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association who works on behalf of beef producers across the US.
Wendy's passions include travel, outdoor sports, gardening and helping her daughter discover all the beauty and possibilities in life. Wendy joined the EAS+Y Board of Directors in January, 2014.
Betsy Hoke, Director-at-Large
Betsy Hoke, a Midwestern transplant who has lived in Evergreen for 35 years, served on the board of the Mountain Area Land Trust during the period when it preserved the Beaver Brook Watershed. She is passionate about protecting the environment and inspiring children to experience the beauty of the natural world. At Montessori School of Evergreen where she served as Head of School for three decades, Betsy had a goal of making outdoor experiences an integral part of the curriculum. She is currently an education consultant and an instructor at Montessori Education Center of the Rockies in Boulder. In the past five years, she has made numerous trips to Tanzania where as a volunteer she established a Montessori early childhood program in an existing school. Betsy and her husband, Roy, appreciated the opportunity to raise their two children in this beautiful community and have a strong desire to preserve it for future generations. She joined EAS+Y in 2016.
Bette Warn – Director at Large
Bette moved to the Evergreen/Conifer area twenty six years ago to enjoy the mountain lifestyle, clean air and beautiful environment. She and her husband John have participated in many of the activities afforded to them in our communities. Bette particularly enjoys landscape photography, hiking, golf and birding of which our mountain environment provides an abundant supply.
Bette retired in December 2014 after a long career in medical practice management. She has a BS degree in Business Management with an emphasis in systems design. Her career experiences spanned a wide spectrum of managing medical practices, providing consulting to hospitals, medical and dental practices as well as providing workshops and education to healthcare providers.
She looks forward to participating in the success of EAS+Y as they endeavor to impact and sustain the beautiful communities we all enjoy and share.
Rachel T. Emmer, Interim Executive Director
Globe trotting taught Rachel an appreciation of the beauty and promise of her home town. An Evergreen High School graduate, she returned to Evergreen decades later, now rich with experience and academic letters she pledges to build community resiliency into all her endeavors. She earned her Master's degree in Business Administration – Sustainability from the pioneering Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Washington State. Rachel is a past President of EAS+Y (2010-2011), just prior to accepting the roles as Executive Director.
A natural leader, Rachel rose in rank on the Board and in the field with Evergreen's Alpine Rescue Team, and has earned American Red Cross' Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year Award. As a sustainability consultant Rachel collaborates with non-profit, municipal and business sectors to meet today's challenges within development, food systems, built environment and renewable power arenas. She is also adjunct faculty at Red Rocks Community College where she brings sustainability principles to her business curriculum. Rachel is a passionate gardener and is a Master Community Gardener awarded through Denver Urban Gardens. The creative catalyst in Rachel brings collaboration and inclusiveness to every project she embraces.


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People all around the country out in the streets, up in arms about a situation that is, where you come from, a state of total normalcy – this is what it's like to tour through the culture of solidarity.
In mid-June, German high school and university students staged a nation-wide educational strike. They were protesting, among other things, against the gradual introduction of (arguably small) tuition fees, the introduction of Bachelors and Masters programs (as opposed to the traditional five- to seven-year courses of study, the Magister and Diplom), the influence of corporate interests on the university, and the exclusion of students from working-class and immigrant backgrounds from higher education. And behind these ambitious and diffuse demands, around 270 student groups united and formed a federation that brought out 200,000 students from over 20 cities for a week of coordinated actions.
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I was in Berlin at the time, almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on a three-month journalism program designed to fulfill a prominent anchorman's Cold-War dream as he went into retirement: to bring Russians and Americans together in the unified city, talk about the ideals of his profession, and generally witness the fact that we wouldn't come to blows when put in the same room.
The strike came at the start of a time when we were being told, repeatedly, to look around and ask of Germany: "Why do you do things so and not so?" Germany was supposed to throw our American-ness in relief, but predictably, when it came to strikes, Quebec came to mind. When an organizer from the central press agency was talking about people from certain parts of society getting shut out of the university system, the 2005 conflict over bursaries turning to loans was my first point of reference. And with tuition in Quebec being defrozen in 2007, seeing campaign posters from the mainstream-left SPD [Social Democratic Party] go up in late August saying that "free, quality education is a right" made for a stark contrast.
All over the campus of the Freie Universität were posters advertising the student strike, in that aesthetic of bold yellow and black that we'd see again later in cities around the country.
And there were other signs that we weren't exactly in Kansas anymore – where we have a group called "Make Poverty History," they have one called "Make Capitalism History." Posters announced a conference debating the future of capitalism planned for the fall; signs of "socialism" being taken seriously as an idea were all over the school. Our lecturers were blasé – that's a student thing, one of them said, there are always anti-capitalist rumblings coming from the universities.
But after years of studying a language and culture, it still required physical presence for it sink in that the taboos are different here than in America – that the history associated with concepts is different, and that this has weight and presence in everyday life.
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Still, the tone of the rhetoric at the Freie Uni wasn't unfamiliar – Dieter Lenzen, the university president, was framed much like we talk about Heather Munroe-Blum at McGill. And maybe that's because the issues behind it are, in fact, fairly international, the corporatization of the university in particular.
The current controversy is over governance bills in Quebec, which mandates all post-secondary education institutions in the province to have a minimum of 60 per cent of the board of governors come from outside of the university.
"It really fundamentally is an ideological statement, stating that people who work within the institution have no capacity to look objectively at what is good for their institution…[and] that CEOs in the corporate world are far better at managing any kind of organization or structure than someone within the organization," explained SSMU VP External Sebastian Ronderos-Morgan.
"It posits a corporatist model onto the University," he added. "Of course the University is an incorporated organization, but [they're seeing it that way rather than] seeing it as a community with innumerable links to society and an importance that goes far beyond the selling of a product: education."
The defreeze of tuition in the province falls in a similar vein – and while student pressure has kept increases within a certain margin, Ronderos-Morgan explained, a leak from the people involved in UQAM's budget in June showed they were expecting tuition to keep increasing. In response, student organizations were quick to issue press releases around the province, and the provincial government denied plans of future increases. "Ideologically," Ronderos-Morgan remarked, "it's very much part of the agenda of governments across North America to funnel the bill of public service more on the citizen than on the society."
A similar ideology seems to be encroaching on the German university, though these kinds of trends seem to hit Germany differently. When a reformed member of the SED [Socialist Unity Party] – the GDR's former ruling socialist party – was talking to us about neoliberalism during a lecture on re-thinking the legacy of East Germany, it took many follow-up questions to tease out of him just what that meant in a country with such an entrenched tradition of social programs.
He faltered for a moment, and then conceded that what he'd been describing as a threatening development – cuts and revisions to the welfare system from the Schroeder years, for instance – were hard to recognize as problematic in comparison to developments in America and the U.K. during the Reagan and Thatcher years.
Add to this cultural climate the fact that it seemed you couldn't walk several feet without stumbling onto a strike. It was Sommerloch – slow-news season – in late July when the internship portion of the program rolled around, and a friend posted at the Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten told me that the paper was doing a series of tours – an "architec-tour," a "cul-tour." One of the staff jokingly suggested a strike tour.
In retrospect, that's what we were on in that second week of June.
Students against social selection
The central press office of the Bundesweiter Bildungsstreik was based out of a room on the ground floor of the Technical University of Berlin. Jan Latza, the representative who met with me on the eve of the strike, passed a couple of office chairs out the window before climbing out himself, and we sat in the concrete backlot while he smoked hand-rolled cigarettes and explained to me in endless, elegant multi-claused sentences why students were about to take to the streets.
The three-tiered school system, which sorts children into vocational and college-bound tracks early in life and, the protesters contend, systematically disadvantages children from immigrant and working-class families, has long been the cause of protest among younger students.
"There have been protests at the secondary schools for years already," Latza explained. "Last year there were about 100,000 students out on the streets, and at a certain point there was this big discrepancy – the high-schoolers were in the streets and the university students, who'd already been seeing massive re-structuring in the system for years, were doing relatively little outside of the struggle against tuition fees."
The introduction of Bachelors and Masters programs as part of the Bologna Process – a series of accords between European countries made in the hopes of streamlining education in different member nations and giving students more mobility within the EU – provided another impetus for university and high school students to combine their efforts. They were protesting against what he called the "soziale Auslese" – social sorting-out process, "Auslese" meaning something like "selected harvest," a term used to describe the culling of grapes to make fine wines.
Previously, students could pursue a Diplom or Magister, programs that involved a longer study time. Now with the Bachelors and Masters programs, there's another round where students can be sorted out of the system, Latza argued, with significantly fewer places in Masters programs and fewer opportunities for students to get the same depth of education that they could in the old system. "There's a clear connection with the debate being raised by the high school students, that this social sorting-out process…and the exclusion that essentially begins in kindergarten and continues into university has to stop."
So where is our bail-out?
Germany's education system is also chronically underfunded, and more than a few people in the crowd on the day of the strike saw a point in paying tuition. But in Germany as in Quebec, the student movement asserted that the crisis merits reinvestment in education.
The "week of action" culminated on June 17 – a loaded day in this country's collective memory, when, in 1953, a worker's uprising against the Stalinist government in the then-Soviet Sector of Berlin sparked a popular protest, only to be violently repressed by the authorities.
Planning for the week had been in the works for almost a year, with General Assemblies leading up to it, and major educators' and service industry unions coming out in support of the students.
The week of the strike was supposed to have us travelling away from Berlin, but it didn't matter – the strike followed us, or we followed it. Every city we visited had a poster on the wall of some building, with the unified aesthetic of black block letters on a bold yellow background.
In Jena, a university town in the east German province of Thuringia, students at the pre-strike rock concert were skeptical that the strike would have any effect, though there was a general sense of support for the effort. On the day of the strike in Bamberg, a medieval Bavarian town, the few over middle-aged onlookers that we encountered expressed a certain disdain and resentment. Wolfgang and Therese, a couple who wouldn't give their last names and identified themselves only as a retiree and homemaker, said that the students are always demanding more for themselves while ordinary working folks get pushed under. "You're always hearing about the poor students, sitting in cafés – when did I ever have time to go to a café? Everything I earned in life went to my children," Therese remarked.
Back in Berlin, students rushed into banks and demanded several billion euros to bail out the education system.
In Nurnberg the day after the strike, chalk slogans from the protest still covered the streets.
According to a social study by the Sociology Institute of the University of Münster conducted in the months afterward, the strike made an impression on the collective consciousness – over 80 per cent of the city residents surveyed knew what the strike was about.
And the politicians did register a reaction, as much as Latza spoke bemusedly about the "arrogance of power" that they'd been seeing – on the eve of the federal election, education policy made it into the agendas of most of the parties.
Born in the U.S.A.
The fall of the Wall was everywhere, reminders of America were everywhere – a Michael Jackson memorial under the world clock on Alexanderplatz; an exhibit running across the Platz about the peaceful revolution of November 1989 began a stone's throw away; a tiny group of leftists gathered every Monday at a corner of it to protest against one-euro-per-hour jobs (arguably one of the faces of neoliberalism in the social state); other days of the week, they'd be replaced by McDonald's employees holding up picket signs inviting you to try their new specials.
And our lectures still made it clear that we were in the American sector – particularly in the discussions of the country's divided past and the two-dimensional descriptions of the two Germanies: a picture of freedom versus unfreedom.
"You have to explain to these people why you have so many types of yogurt in the supermarket – they don't understand freedom!" one guest lecturer remarked, a former government official whom I was told not to quote unless I asked explicit permission.
And the thought kept coming back throughout the summer – when discussions of what people basically deserve to be provided with or critical looks at the continent we'd come from would stop on this kind of note – freedom from what, and for whom?


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The Vacancy
Ryan Owen 24/07/2007
Rating: 3/5
This film's trailer tells us pretty much everything we need to know. After their car breaks down, a middle-aged couple stay in a motel. They play one of the videos lying around which turns out to be a graphic horror with woeful production values. Obviously seeking something with better lighting, they watch the other tapes, only to realise these "slashers" are set in the same motel room they are currently staying in. The penny drops that they are going to be the stars in a forthcoming snuff movie unless they make a swift exit.
The concept is fairly generic but you find yourself wanting Vacancy to be better than it actually is. After a very smart credit sequence, we are introduced to our two protagonists. Refreshingly, there is some inspired casting with the middle-aged Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson instead of some random teens ready for the slaughter. Making use of the good cast, Nimród Antal executes good character exposition and allows for great interplay between the main couple playing their part in a disintegrated marriage. This makes for an interesting dynamic choice when compared to the archetypal over-sympathetic characters within the horror/thriller genre.
This is further replicated with clever composition and idiosyncratic lighting by Andrzej Sekula (See Pulp Fiction & American Psycho), which separates the couple visually.
However, for all its good points, Vacancy loses its original dynamism and falls flat by providing stock 2D antagonists. We are introduced to our first local, who is overly-helpful without motivation but if you've seen any horror/thrillers, or more specifically The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you will have an inkling that this "first local" will turn out to be mental. In the same vein we are introduced to a motel owner/manager who just riffs off Norman Bates with his nervous twitches and ambiguous back room, and again, turns out to be mental.
Vacancy then turns into a protracted thriller, with no horror elements to speak off and then finishes without a conclusion or finale and the final credits roll with a whimper.Better than any stock horror-thrillers out there but very underwhelming from a film that showed so much promise.


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On our second night in Paris we saw a comedy show called "How to Become Parisian in One Hour?" Amongst all the hilarious scenarios, there was a bit on how to behave like a Parisian on the Metro. He described how to laugh at people who have tripped over ("not my problem") and how to ruthlessly grab the last seat in the carriage. What do you do if a little old lady struggling to stand smiles hopefully at you? Smile back – enjoy your seat! What about a pregnant lady? Shrug – "you play, you pay."
I did notice that on the Metro there are apparently no priority seats like we have in London… so it really is a case of courtesy (or not!) Fortunately I didn't have much opportunity to test how Parisian the Metro really is as we only used it out of commuter hours, but one time I was offered a seat by a MAN! I emphasise the maleness because as Elly has already pointed out, it does tend to be women who notice your pregnancy and seem more sensitive in that respect. He even appeared to be a Parisian as well. Quelle joie!
In terms of the food situation, Elly is right that there are many and varied temptations on offer in Paris. On the whole I just used my common sense and tried not to worry about anything (yes, that ice cream might have contained unpasteurised milk or eggs… but if so, it is very unlikely they were contaminated with salmonella) and avoided all the obvious pitfalls. I consumed my body weight in macaroons, croissants, chocolat chaud and Orangina and was relatively happy and well-fed, with one exception.
We were in a local Swiss restaurant as Mr Cath fancied raclette (yes, I did have a bite or three, but it was cooked till bubbling). There were two set menus we could choose from, one cheaper than the other. I ordered from the more expensive one but in a couple of minutes the waiter, who looked a bit like John Hannah in Four Weddings, informed me my starter was not available. I was at a loss to choose something else – all the other starters seemed to include goat's cheese or a selection of charcuterie. I turned to the cheaper menu. Having found a starter I thought I could eat, I asked the waiter whether the cheese was "pasteurise" (it was Beaufort, which I wasn't sure about). He looked at me blankly and when I explained in my best French accent that I was pregnant the blank look took on something of a sneer. Imagine John Hannah turned mean! I felt like leaving the restaurant but that would have meant missing out on the raclette so in desperation I went for the salade nicoise. But there was one more hurdle: because I'd now mixed and matched the menus, I had to change my main course as well… of course, they wouldn't swap something from the cheaper menu even though we would have paid the more expensive price!
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Finally, in Paris, our baby started earning us money already! When we checked out of the apartment, the lady came over to return our deposit and after asking questions about pregnancy in the UK and reminisced about the birth of her own daughter, the following things happened, which I am sure is to do with her friendly feelings towards the bump:
(a) She returned our deposit cheque without even inspecting the apartment (not that she would have found anything… honest)
(b) She waived the fee of 40 euros that we would normally have had to pay for leaving the apartment on a bank holiday.
(c) She told us that if we booked directly through her next time rather than through the agency, she would give us a discount.
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Display is moving to lead the next-generation mobile display industry with its organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) panels for smartphones.
The move comes as part of the display panel manufacturer's ongoing paradigm shift into the emerging and highly-lucrative small OLED display industry. This also reflects the firm's aggressive bid to stay ahead of emerging Chinese rivals which have in recent years made massive investments to steal the limelight from the Korean display giant leading the global market.
To tackle the ever-growing competitive landscape, the nation's top-tier display panel manufacturer said Tuesday that it would remain more agile in finding its next growth engines by launching a series of highly value-added products for which the firm identified the small OLED panels as its key cash cow.
"OLED displays are regarded as the most optimized option for mobile devices, thanks to its excellent color reproduction and energy-efficient power consumption," the company said in a statement.
On top of that, OLED offers endless design options for smartphone manufacturers, as it can be flexible and even foldable. This is not the case for the bulk of existing smart devices equipped with LCDs.
For these futuristic features, the display industry identifies flexible OLED as the next design standard for smartphones.
Shipments for flexible OLED panels will top 146 million this year, with the number estimated to exceed 3.96 billion in 2020, according to market researcher IHS Markit. The flexible OLED market will be worth some $9.26 billion (10.6 trillion won) this year, with its value skyrocketing to $20.68 billion in 2020, it added.
In the small- to medium-sized OLED market, Samsung Display is the dominant leader with a market share of some 97%, backed by its decade-long technological expertise. To maintain its leading position, the firm is making massive investments to develop not just flexible, but foldable and rolling displays, in what the company says is a move to remain agile to tap into the next emerging display areas such as healthcare or fashion.
Despite its leadership in the industry, the company is also seeking to secure diverse and stable revenue streams by leading a premium TV industry.
"We are going to diversify lineups for large UHD TVs, in our bid to strengthen value-added product lineups and improve profitability," the company said.
According to IHS, UHD TV shipments this year are forecast to grow more than 40%, compared to a year ago. The sales volume will also reach some $57 billion in the same period, taking up more than a 60 percent share of the total TV market.
Toward that end, the firm said it would continue to develop and combine differentiated features ― such as frameless or curved displays ― for UHD TVs.
Aside from the existing cash cows, Samsung Display also aims to widen its R&D footsteps into other emerging revenue areas ― such as displays for vehicles, education or commercial purposes, according to the company.
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I thought this device wasnt coming out...
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I thought this device wasnt coming out...
Google hasn't announced anything one way or the other. The rumors for this are generally based on a bit of code that referenced it, but anyone not a Google employee that says whether it is or isn't (today) is speculating. So far everything (100% rumors also) about the Silver line indicates it will begin in early 2015. That doesn't seem to impact the Nexus line, which typically releases in Q4 - although it is obviously possible that it could. evleaks is the primary origin of almost (if not) all of the information about the Silver line and said it will start with a device in 2015 made by LG.
If it's coming out and LG gets a third shot at it, then these could be the possible specs:
5 inch 1080p display
Snapdragon 805 with 2 GB of RAM
13 MP camera that has OIS and Dual Flash (I kinda doubt it will have Laser Auto Focus)
Improved front camera
1 Watt speaker with booster amp (probably moved to the back)
16 and 32 GB internal storage options
2600 mAh battery
Well if there is indeed a Nexus 6 then we should get one leak or another in the coming 2 months, be it some dodgy screenshot of some component caught on camera that is rumoured to go into the device or a passing through the FCC around July-August.
Though with Evleaks saying that the Nexus line is over and a giant Silver Android statue was spotted, if I had to put down 50 quid on a gamble then I would say there will be no LG G3 style Nexus 6 in November but there will be a first Google Silver device in Q1 2015 with a Snapdragon 810.
Makes the most sense to release a new ''Google'' phone when the 64bit SoC drops, as Google was reportedly working on a 64bit Android version already.
If it does it likely won't be called Nexus 6, I base this on the lawsuit relating to Blade Runner. Nexus alone was enough to get them in legal trouble but being that specific might invite more copyright issues.
IMO they will skip any new hardware until they come out with the silver project.
A google play edition LG G3 would be an excellent thing to put in the product lineup hole this year, even if it is $600.
Nexus devices were really starting to pick up steam too. In years past if I mentioned Nexus anything to friends they wouldn't know what I was talking about but now it's become more popular. They may have to start from scratch if they replace it with a different branding.
i am waiting for nexus 6 i wish it,s have 3 GB ram, 6 inches HD Display, Octa core cpu, 64 GB ROM, 16 MP Camera and more awesome specification
October 31, 2014.
There will be no Nexus 6, there will be an Android Silver device early in 2015 with probably the new 64 bit Snapdragon SoC.
Also with the specs you are mentioning there would be no way that they could hold the low price point, Google will just pay OEM's to run near stock android on their future flagship devices to ''replace'' Nexus devices but you will lose the Nexus price point cause the device will have 0 compromises.
You are free to believe that there will be a new Nexus device ( and maybe by some miracle there still will be one ) but until today there has been 0 leaks about the Nexus 6 and if you haven't seen any leak by August ( some part about the phone or some dodgy photo from the device ) then there will be no Nexus in October.
I don't see the reason for the N6
If Google is putting out the silver line using LG.
If that's the case.
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The Silver line rumors indicate they start in 2015.
XTNiT-1060 through spacetime.
Seems interesting. Would like to see a new Nexus phone.
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same as LG G3. coincidence? sister?
If it will be a 5.5 inch screen then these are likely specs:
5.5 inch QHD display
Snapdragon 805 with 3 GB RAM
13 MP OIS Camera
Improved front camera
16 and 32 GB
3000 mAh battery
5.2 inch 1080p display
Snapdragon 805 with 3 GB RAM
13 MP OIS Camera
Improved front camera
16 and 32 GB
2600 mAh battery
Are these likely specs or your own wants?
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Those are possible specs. I'm not getting the 2014 Nexus phone (if it will even exist) because I already am content with my 2013 Nexus 5, so those aren't my wants.
- Google had used the most powerful Snapdragon processor available at the time for the Nexus 4 (S4 Pro) and Nexus 5 (Snapdragon 800). The 805 will be out by the time of the possible fall release.
- If the 5.5 inch display rumor is indeed true then I'm certain it will have a 1440p display otherwise the ppi count would fall by a significant amount. The 7a and One Plus One have a 5.5 inch 1080p display, but I doubt Google would want a successor to take a step back in ppi count.
- 5 inch 1080p ~ 441 ppi
- 5.5 inch 1080p ~ 401 ppi
- Flagship cameras these days have been coming out with higher megapixels. The 13 MP seems like the new standard of this year. HTC does a good job with there front cameras (5MP, wide angled and all that shizz). Maybe we will finally get a decent front camera this year.
13 MP Phones of 2014
- One Plus One
- Oppo Find 7/7a
- 3000 mAh battery seems reasonable for a 5.5 inch display.
- One Plus One: 3100 mAh
- LG G3: 3000 mAh
- Oppo Find 7: 3000 mAh
- Oppo Find 7a: 2800 mAh
- Google offered 8 and 16 GB storage options for the Nexus 4 and 16 and 32 GB options for the Nexus 5. We might see a 64 GB option this time around, but I doubt it. To make the most profit Google is probably going to settle for 16 and 32.
It will be interesting if that rumor is true. Hopefully we will find out soon.
It would be consistent with the pattern they used for the Nexus 5. The LG G2 and the Nexus 5 are closely related. It would make sense to derive a Nexus phone from the LG G3.
No, Google Isn't Going To Kill Its Nexus Devices – ReadWrite
Now that we have confirmation that the Nexus program is not ending. Lets get those juicy rumors flowing!!!!!
I read something the other day which implied the new Nexus will still be called Nexus 5. Not sure if I can find that link again.
So what do you all think the N6 will look like, and what will the specs be?
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I would personally be happy with the current shell and updated hardware.