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As someone I knew, consulted Dr Reema Das and they referred us. She is one of the best physicians in city. Reema Das has so much knowledge that for everything my family takes her reference. she did my lasik surgery. The nurses at the Wellness Eye Center were really helpful. Her treatment suited me the best and now I am fine.
As someone I knew, consulted Dr Reema Das and they referred us. I consulted her for the routine eye checkup. She is not just highly qualified, but has years of experience in handling cases. The friendliness of staff is the best in the Wellness Eye Center. She is very patient and explain the problems in detail.
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Dr. Reema is a great ophthalmologist with excellent clinical experience in treating any kind of eye diseases including Glaucoma, Cornea or Retina. Me and many of my family & friends have received treatment from her for eye related issues.
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The cornea is a highly organized and advanced tissue present in the eye. It is one of the few tissues in the body that doesn't contain any blood vessels. It nourishes itself from the aqueous humor (or tears). The cornea has three different layers with two membranes embedded in it. Every membrane has its own set of functions.
Here is a list of 10 important facts about the cornea and corneal diseases:
- The cornea plays a pivotal role in helping the eye to focus on the light rays that enter it. Approximately 70 percent of the focusing power comes from the cornea. The cornea, along with the lens, is responsible for reflection and refraction in the eye.
- The epithelium is the outermost layer of the cornea. It restricts the entry of foreign particles into the eye and absorbs oxygen. This membrane is followed by the Bowman's membrane. The third layer is known as the stroma. It is responsible for the eye's elasticity and strength. The fourth layer is called the Descemet's membrane. This is a protective layer that safeguards the eye from any injury. The last layer is known as the endothelium. The primary task of this layer is to pump excess fluid into the other layers of the eye.
- Tears play a key role for an eye to function properly. Tears have three layers, namely lipid, aqueous and mucin. It helps the eye to heal any possible wounds and infection.
- The cornea, for the most part, heals by itself. Deeper injuries of the cornea can result in vision loss. Some of the common symptoms of corneal diseases are light sensitivity, pain in the eye, redness and reduced vision.
- The most common of eye allergies are caused due to pollen. This often happens when the weather is dry or warm. Some common symptoms include burning sensation, redness, tearing and stinging.
- The eye encounters a condition called 'dry eye' wherein the quantity of tears reduces, thereby creating a problem for lubrication. An ophthalmologist should be immediately consulted if this condition is encountered.
- Corneal dystrophy is a condition that clouds the cornea. It is a gradual progression and often affects both the eyes. It is usually inherited and can affect healthy individuals as well.
- Keratoconus is an eye condition that thins the cornea over a period of time. It is mostly prevalent among young adults. This condition results in changing the shape of the cornea and development of an outward bulge.
- Shingles is a recurrence of the viral infection caused by the Vatic El - La Zoster Virus. This virus has the capability to remain dormant inside the eye. It can become active after many years of dormancy and affect the cornea by travelling through the optic nerve. Doctors mostly prescribe an oral antiviral treatment to avoid inflammation.
- Some advanced treatment for corneal diseases includes corneal transplant surgery, anterior lamellar keratoplasty and endothelial lamellar keratoplasty
We are surrounded by light from everywhere on all sides. Wherever we go, there is some source of light, be it natural or man made. However, exposure to bright light in excess can cause strain to your eyes and if this is continued your vision quality might decrease.
Here are some ways you can adjust light in order to lessen eye stress and to increase your visibility.
Make adjustments in your workplace
According to studies, it has been shown that half of people who work in front of computer screens every day suffer from eye strain. Not only the computer, but the entire lighting around your workstation may also be causing damage.
1. Reduce the brightness of interior lights. Many offices have bright, fancy interior lighting. Use of light bulbs and fluorescents should be lessened.
2. In case of the presence of a window right behind or in front of your work desk, more strain is imposed upon your eyes because of the reflections on the screen. You should change the place or use dark, thick curtains or coat the glasses with anti-reflective material in order to reduce the glare.
3. The blue light emitted from the computer causes a great amount of eye strain. You should adjust the brightness and keep it as low as possible.
Improve your home lighting
For people who spend a lot of time at home working, adjustments should be made to the lighting in order to reduce eye strain.
1. Avoid reading in a dim light room. This can give you headaches and produce eye strain. Any kind of activity where a lot of focus is required in dim or poorly lighted environments causes damage and strain to the eyes.
2. Use desk lamps, reading lamps, under cabinet lights in the kitchen and other types of lights everywhere you work.
3. If you work in a place for more than an hour, a nearby light would make it less stressful for the eyes.
For people with low vision.
1. For people with less power of vision, proper lighting is a must. A 60-year old man would need to double the amount of light to carry out any activity which a man of 30 years would require.
2. People having disorders such as macular degeneration, glaucoma and similar vision disorders need advanced lighting and should consult a doctor for ideas on improving their home lighting.
The presence of proper lighting improves our concentration, our ability to read, and we can differentiate between colors better. Therefore, always opt for the best lighting to avoid giving stress to your eyes.
If you have got diabetes, then it is quite natural that you will soon face acute eye troubles. This is the reason diabetic patients are always suggested to keep their blood sugar levels controlled so that eye troubles can be easily avoided.
Thorough medical check-up is required in order to detect conditions of the eyes. Some of the commonest eye troubles occurring due to diabetes are cataract, glaucoma, blurry vision, diabetic retinopathy and others.
List of eye diseases caused by diabetes
- Diabetic retinopathy: when retina' s smallest blood-vessels get severely damaged due to increased blood-sugar, then this kind of eye condition occurs. Early detection of this eye condition can save your
eyes, but if it is too late, then nothing can be done, and it might even lead to blindness.
- Cataract: Fogging or clouding condition can bring this kind of condition, and this can only be corrected by wearing proper corrective lenses. However, if you fail to control diabetes, then in spite of wearing glasses, your eye condition might get deteriorated day by day. Glared or blurred vision is the commonest symptom in this regard.
- Glaucoma: When the eye-fluid is not drained properly, then this kind of eye trouble occurs. In fact, eye pressure increases to a great extent as a result of which delicate eye nerves can get severely damaged. The blood vessels of the eyes can get clogged causing greater interruption in vision. Medicines can make aqueous humor to get drained in a proper manner, and thus you should go for a proper eye check-up so that you can acquire the requisite medicines. Some popular symptoms of glaucoma are headaches, eye aches, blurred vision, watery eyes, vision loss and others.
- Diabetic macular-edema: This eye disease mainly occurs in the advanced stage of diabetic-retinopathy. Macula is nothing but the most delicate part of retina and when it gets swollen, then you might face this eye trouble. Only medications can help you to get rid of the same and thus immediate medical help is needed.
- Blurry vision: Though this is quite a small and temporary eye issue for diabetic patients, but this condition might turn into a serious one if you neglect to correct the same in the very beginning. You might even face blindness due to negligence of this trouble. Also, fluctuating sugar-levels should be stabilized so that this kind of trouble can be easily tackled. In case you have a concern or query you can always consult an expert & get answers to your questions!
There are a number of eye conditions that make the use of glasses and eye lenses mandatory for a more comfortable life where your vision is as normal as is medically possible. Poor eyesight and conditions like inward eyelids and others can lead to the prescription of contact lenses and glasses. Contact lenses are delicate optical tools that glide easily over your eyes and need a lot of care. One should also know how to wear them properly. If one does not wear and care for the contact lenses properly, it may lead to a variety of complications. Read on to know how you can take better care of your contact lenses.
Cleanliness: To begin with, keeping the lenses clean is of utmost importance. Since these lenses will go on to the eye and remain there for most part of the day, it is imperative that they should be clean so that no dirt comes to settle on the eye to cause complications and even possible infections in the long run. While the disposable soft contact lenses do not need a whole lot of care as they can be disposed as and when the wearer needs a new pair, the soft lenses are the ones that need regular care so as to avoid vision affecting problems in the long run.
Clean Hands: Before you handle the contact lenses, you must wash and clean your hands thoroughly with a non cosmetic soap that is free of additives like fragrances and artificial perfumes, oils and other lotions. These may get transferred to the lens which will leave you with blurry vision. Dry your hands properly using a lint free towel.
Makeup: If you have to wear makeup, we would suggest doing so after you have safely installed the contact lenses in your eyes. Also, you must remember to remove your lenses before you begin the makeup removal procedure. This is to be done so that you do not get any makeup on to the delicate surface of the lens.
Disinfecting Solution: When you buy your contact lenses, you will also get a disinfecting solution as well as a set of instructions for taking care of your lenses. So ensure that you use the correct disinfecting solution, eye drops as well as the prescribed enzymatic cleaners to keep your lenses clean and free of germs with a light rubbing action. Let the lenses stand in this solution at night too so that the germs cannot travel to the surface.
Never use tap water or your mouth to clean these lenses as the microorganisms found even in distilled water can latch on to the surface. In case you have a concern or query you can always consult an expert & get answers to your questions!
If you thought smoking was causing damage to only your lungs, thing again. Your eyesight, one of your most valuable possessions, is at high risk of damage because of your bad habit.
The damage done to your eyes by cigarettes happens from two sources; the toxic smoke that hangs in the air which surrounds you as you puff on the cigarettes and 4000 odd toxic substances that enter your bloodstream once you smoke. In extreme cases, smoking also causes loss in vision. Here is a list of eye disorders and diseases, which can be caused due to smoking-
Macular degeneration
The risk of developing Age-related Macular Degeneration is there for people above the age of fifty. In case of smokers, the chance of developing AMD is three times more than in nonsmokers. It has been proven that smokers develop the chance of AMD ten years prior to non smokers.
This process involves the clouding of the lens inside the eye. Cataract develops with old age, usually. The risk of developing early cataract is common among smokers, who are twice at risk of cataract than non smokers. The effect of the cataract in the case of smokers is more severe.
Glaucoma is the eye disorder where the death of nerve fiber layer behind our eyes takes place, and that results in loss of vision. The increase in pressure within the eyes leads to glaucoma. Smoking enhances the pressure in your eyes, and so smokers are at a potential risk of acquiring this disease.
Diabetic eye diseases
A number of eye diseases are accompanied with diabetes. This can result in blindness when left ignored or not paid attention to in severe cases. Diabetic patients who are smokers are three times more at a risk of eye diseases associated with diabetes.
Optic neuropathy
This eye disease causes sudden loss of vision to the eyes without any pain. It happens due to the disrupted flow of blood in the arteries of the eyes. Smokers are 16 times more at a risk of developing optic neuropathy at an earlier age.
Thyroid associated eye diseases
Patients having thyroid issues or Grave's disease have disorders in their vision. Grave's disease patients who smoke tobacco are likely to develop severe eye diseases associated with the thyroid.
Dry eye
Smoking causes irritation to the eyes and affects the tear film of the eye. Smokers and passive smokers are likely to develop dry eye disorders. Smoking causes a lot of eye diseases and disorders, and smokers are at a higher risk of acquiring eye diseases than non smokers.
Amblyopia is commonly known as 'LAZY EYE'. It is a vision development disorder, which affects eyes and the brain during infancy and childhood. It signifies that the eye does not achieve a normal visual acuity even with refractive correction in form of glasses or contact lens. During normal visual development, the eye and brain learns to 'see' and develop binocularity, that is the ability to perceive depth (Stereoacuity). This occurs in the first 8 to 10 years of life. Each eye transmits a clear and identical image from retina to the brain, which fuses the two images into a single image with 3 dimensions ( adding depth). When the image is formed on the retina of two eyes is too dissimilar, the brain cannot fuse the two images and suppresses the more blurred image. As a result, the worse eye does not learn to 'see' and becomes 'lazy'. This condition is seen in 1-4% of population.
The common causes for dissimilar images or Amblyopia are:
Misalignment of the eyes or squint: It is the primary reason for Amblyopia is misalignment of the eyes. In case both your eyes are not aimed in the same direction, the image captured by each eye is different , resulting in diplopia. The brain will see from the dominant eye and suppress image from the other eye. Over a prolonged period of time, the eye dissociates from the visual cortex of the brain.
Refractive Amblyopia:
- Unequal refractive error in both eye. When the eye power of both eyes differ by more than 1.5D of spherical equivalent, which results in dissimilar images between the two eyes. As a result, the visual development in restricted in the worse eye.
- High refractive error or astigmatism in both eyes, since there is a blurred image in both eyes, the normal vision development does not occur in either eyes resulting in bilateral lazy eyes.
Cloudiness in visual system or visual deprivation Amblyopia: Any kind of obstruction or cloudiness in the normal visual axis of the eye tissues can lead to Amblyopia. Disorder of any kind, which blocks a clear image from being focused blocks the formation of a clear image on your retina. Commonly due to congenital or developmental cataracts or corneal opacities or prolonged closure of one eye in early childhood( drooping of one eyelid, eyelid swelling, patching of one eye).
Treatment for Amblyopia
For treatment of Amblyopia, a child must be compelled to utilize his affected, weaker eye. This can be done by correction of causative factor such as, treating refractive error with glasses, surgical correction of misalignment of eyes followed by patching and vision therapy, cataract surgery.
Patching or occlusion of the good eye: This is done to force the brain to pay attention to visual input from the worse eye. This allows nerve connections between affected eye and brain to develop due to, which the eye 'learns to see'. Eye drops such as atropine are also used for blurring the vision of the good eye. Some form of vision therapy may also be required to train both eyes to see together and develop some degree of depth perception.
To be effective, treatment should be implement as early as possible , within the period of normal visual development best within first 8 years of life. Some visual gain has been seen in selected patients up to age of 14 to 18 years. This also highlights the importance of a comprehensive eye examination as a routine in young children. In case you have a concern or query you can always consult an expert & get answers to your questions!
A cataract is defined as a clouding of lens in the eye where your vision gets blurred. A cataract affects the eyes, when light that passes through the lens prevents a clearly formed image from reaching your retina. The disease is very common and usually develops as your eyes age or due to any injury caused to the tissues that cover your eye's lens.
Types of cataracts:
- Senile Cataract: This is the commonest of all. It is age-related clouding of the lens. It can affect the near or distance vision and can also cause glare and change in glasses power.
- Secondary Cataract: It can be developed after surgery for other eye problems like glaucoma and other health conditions such as diabetes.
- Traumatic Cataract: It can develop many years later after an injury caused to your eye.
- Congenital Cataract: As the term explains, the disease may be inborn or some children might develop it at a later stage which often affects both eyes.
- Radiation Cataract: It can form after you are exposed to some form of radiation.
A cataract surgery involves the extraction or cleaning of the cloudy lens, which is then replaced by a clear artificial lens.
Why does it happen?
There are lens that lies behind our iris and pupil which act much like a camera lens. It helps concentrate light onto the retina at the back of our eye to form a sharply defined image. Besides, the lens also helps our eyes to adjust focus and allows us to see things clearly both far away and up close. The lens is composed of protein and water where the protein is arranged in a manner to keep the lens clear thereby letting light pass through it.
However, as we grow old, some of the protein starts to become thick and cloud a small lens area. This is known as a cataract. With the passage of time, it may inflate and cover more of the lens, making it difficult for us to see.
Besides, there are other causes of cataract such as smoking, addiction of alcohol, prolonged sunlight exposure, to name a few.
When should you opt for a cataract surgery?
Believe it or not, but till date no eye drop or medication has proven to reverse or prevent the formation of a cataract. If a cataract is affecting your nearsightedness or alteration in your prescription, then new prescription eyeglasses may help to better your blurred vision. However, the only treatment for a cataract is the surgical removal of your natural lens. And, most eye doctors recommend this surgery only when the problem becomes severe and starts hampering your day-to-day activities, such as studying or driving at night.
In case you have a concern or query you can always consult an expert & get answers to your questions!
Your eyes are an important part of your health. There are many things you can do to keep them healthy and make sure you are seeing your best. However, there are a number of myths regarding what you should do and what you shouldn't do when it comes to maintaining good eye health.
Here are 5 of those myths busted:
Myth #1: reading in dim light and sitting too close to the tv hurts your eyes
Fact: sitting too close to the tv, you may feel eye strain or get a headache from reading in the dark, but it will not weaken your eyes. It fatigues your eyes but does not harm your eye health in any way.
Myth #2: eating carrots will improve your vision
Fact: carrots are rich in vitamin a, a nutrient essential for good vision. But eating carrots will only provide a small amount of vitamin a. To get the optimum amount, you need to include other sources of vitamin a in your diet as well, some of which are milk, cheese, egg yolk and liver. Spinach is best for eye health. It has lutein and zeaxanthin, both of which can help prevent cataracts.
Myth #3: if you wear glasses or contacts for a continuous period, your eyes will weaken
Fact: your eyes will not grow weaker by using corrective lenses. The prescription may change over time due to aging or absence of disease but it has nothing to do with your current prescription. Some children have correctable eye problems that do require glasses to improve the condition.
Myth #4: when you get something in your eye, rub it out
Fact: this is not true for everything that gets in your eyes. If any particle falls in your eyes dust it off. But if it is sand and small debris that gets in your eye, don't touch it. Use an eye wash for flushing it out. If an object gets stuck in your eye, don't remove it or rub your eye constantly. Visit a doctor at the earliest because some serious injuries may seem minor at first.
Myth #5: dark sunglasses can protect your eyes from the sun
Fact: the color of sunglass does not ensure eye protection. Look for sunglasses that block both uva and UVB rays. Exposure to the UV-rays of sunlight can have cumulative effects on your eyes. It increases your risk for cataracts, solar retinitis, and age-related vision loss. Even if your contacts have UV protection, wear sunglasses that block 100% of uva and UVB rays for full protection.
In case you have a concern or query you can always consult an expert & get answers to your questions!
Hypermetropia, commonly known as long-sightedness, is a common vision condition in which distant objects appear clear, but nearby objects seem blurry or foggy. A person's ability to focus is greatly dependent on the degree of farsightedness. This condition of the eye is usually observed at birth and is also hereditary to some extent. Although, contact lenses and eye glasses are common methods of treatment, surgeries are also an option.
Before getting to understand the causes one should be aware of the structure of the eye.
The eye has two parts that focus on images:
- The clear surface at the front of the eye known as the cornea
- The second part is the lens, which is a clear structure
In a normal eye, these clear surfaces have a smooth curvature. The cornea and the lens bend or refract the incoming light to direct a sharply focused image on the retina, situated at the back of your eye.
Hypermetropia is caused when:
- The cornea or lens in the eye is not even or smoothly curved. In such cases, light rays are focussed behind retina which gives a blurry vision.
- The condition can also occur when the cornea of the eye is not curved enough. A shorter than the normal eye can also lead to such a condition. Convergent squint with eyes turning in is common in hypermetropes.
Due to these factors, the image is not precisely focused on the retina, causing blurry vision for nearby objects.
Some of the symptoms of farsightedness include:
- Objects that are close may appear blurry or cloudy
- Squinting the eyes might be necessary for viewing clearly
- A person may experience strain in the eye, aching and even inflammation in and around the eye
- Prolonged periods of close task like reading, writing or drawing may cause discomfort in the eye or minor headaches
Chronic eye strain and cross eyes are some of the commonly observed complications. If you wish to discuss about any specific problem, you can consult an Ophthalmologist.
You never tend to pay a lot of attention to your eyes unless they are affected by some serious disorder or unless your vision is disrupted. But did you know that your eyes are capable of doing much more than you can imagine? here are 10 surprising facts about your eyes you didn't know about.
1. How intricate!
Your eyes take more than 2 million working parts to function. No wonder your eyes are the second most complex organ of your body after your brain.
2. A lot depends on them
As much as 80% of your memories are determined by what you see. Also, 80% of what you learn is because of your eyes.
3. Retina and security
The iris of your eyes has approximately 256 unique characteristics, which is more than even your fingerprints. This is the reason why retina scans are used so widely today for security purposes.
4. It's a colourful world
Your eyes can distinguish between approximately 10 million different colours. And women with a particular kind of genetic mutation can see millions of more colours.
5. Upside-down
The retina of your eyes receives the vision of the outside world as upside down. It is your brain, which flips the image for you so that you can see the world as it is.
6. Sunscreen for the eyes?
It is possible for your eyes to get sunburnt. Therefore, it is advisable for you to wear sunglasses in order to protect your eyes from the ultraviolet radiations.
7. Godspeed!
The eye muscle is the muscle that reacts at the fastest rate out of all the other muscles in your body. It can contract in less than even 1/100th of a second.
8. Paint it red?
The retina of your eyes cannot detect the red colour. The retinas do have green, red and blue receptors, but the red receptor can detect only the colour yellow-green and the green one can recognise blue-green. It is your brain that combines these signals to give you the impression of the colour red.
9. Dreams and sight
Even if you become blind later in life, you can see images in your dreams if you were born with sight.
10. We are blink-eyed peas
You blink approximately 17 times every minute. That makes it 5.2 million times in a year.
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The demise of Propaganda came swiftly, but it didn't come as a surprise. When SCP Private Equity Partners, a Pennsylvania-based investment fund, purchased the company for $10 million in 1999, many felt it was only a matter of time. Most of the company's key players - like co-founder Steve Golin and longtime commercials head Stephen Dickstein - didn't make it through the transition, and many directors - like David Fincher, Stephane Sednaoui, and Michael Bay - had followed them out. "I kind of knew that going in, but it was a risk I was prepared to take," says Philip Fox-Mills, who left production company Headquarters to become Propaganda's East Coast rep earlier this year. "It didn't surprise me that it happened the way it did."
Signs of trouble began this summer. Expense accounts were suspended, and other expenses, for both vendors and staff, were slow to be paid, if they were paid at all. "It was making it difficult for us to book jobs, because the word was on the street and the agencies knew something was up," Fox-Mills says. "By the middle of the summer people were spending too much time persuading the accounting department to pay them what they owed them."
In October, management arranged a cash infusion to fund a restructuring. By that time, however, the magic number for the company to appear profitable - to current or potential investors - was $1.5 million in billings a week, ambitious even in a good economy. An eleventh-hour deal to sell the company, reportedly to Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad, never materialized, which led to the November 8 meeting. "It's hard to believe it's gone," says one staffer. "Whatever you thought of those companies, some great work came out of both Propaganda and Satellite over the years. It hurts everyone in the business."
That's because Propaganda, in a sense, was the business. The shop won four Palme d'Or awards for Best Production Company at Cannes in seven years, and many U.S. production houses - from Anonymous Content to Partizan to Palomar - were grown from seeds planted at Propaganda. As Bryan Farhy, executive producer at production house BrandTV observes: "They really were, and maybe still are, the only real brand we've had in this business."
Propaganda was founded in 1986, when Generation X wasn't even a book, never mind a demographic. Producer Steve Golin and music video director Nigel Dick, both of Mark Freedman Productions, joined with directors David Fincher, Greg Gold, Dominic Sena and producer Joni Sighvattson - all of N. Lee Lacy Productions - and forged out on their own with the idea of forming a production company run by directors. "We were all dissatisfied for various reasons with our current homes, so we decided to join forces," says Dick. "Initially, it was wonderful because we were all high on having our own shop. Every piece of work you did, you thought you were contributing to a bigger machine. It felt great to have control."
At the time, pitching music video directors to ad agencies was a tough sell. "I was selling the idea," recalls Dickstein, who repped the company for commercials, initially via Directing Artists, and later as head of the commercials division. "People would really ask me, 'What does this have to do with advertising?' " At the same time, hiring video directors to shoot visually cutting-edge spots had a readymade niche in the rise of MTV-inspired youth marketing. "They were making images that people weren't using in commercials, and it was really attractive to young art directors who were trying to do cool, groovy stuff," he says.
Dominic Sena led the way with a Chic jeans ad for FCB/New York, followed by Fincher, who scored three Clios in 1988 with a Colt 45 spot, out of W.B. Doner. Coupled with video work for the likes of Madonna and Sting, Propaganda was hot - an attitude the company wore proudly. "It was a great thing to have," Dick says of the shop's ultra-hip mystique. "We had a coffee bar in the first real building we had. There were beautiful women walking through the door all the time. Everybody wanted to work there." In 1989, Golin and Sighvattson sold 49 percent of the company to Polygram with the hope of moving into features.
One thing Propaganda proved very successful at was spotting talent. Dickstein, who had by then been hired to run Propaganda's commercials division, added directors Michael Bay, David Kellogg and Simon West to the roster. As the company's success drew its top talent toward features, they drifted away from spots. "The day Fincher got Alien 3, we were thrilled for him," Dickstein recalls. "Then we realized we had no commercials division." But the company had more talent waiting. As Fincher and Sena - who led the shop to its first Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1992 - concentrated on films, the spot work passed on to up-and-comers like Bay, and later to a young video director whose reel consisted of long-form skateboarding videos.
Spike Jonze signed with Satellite Films at its formation in 1992, just as the remaining 51 percent of the company was being sold to Polygram. "We needed to have a company that would be big enough to support directors in their goals and still be able to support a business plan," Dickstein says. Jonze's first spot was for the Gen-X event par excellence, 1994's Woodstock II, and he'd eventually inherit the Nike legacy with spots like "Guerilla Tennis," in which Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras play tennis in the middle of a New York intersection.
By then, however, some of the original founders were leaving. Sighvattson, now chairman/CEO at Palomar Pictures, left in 1994, as did Nigel Dick. Nonetheless, revenues continued to grow and Propaganda/Satellite won its second Palme d'Or in 1997. The following year, Polygram was bought by Universal, and the former's assets were divided up piecemeal. Propaganda's commercials, music video and management divisions were sold to SCP for $10 million in a deal that is still the subject of controversy. The deal was engineered by SCP head Gary Beer, who, according to Dickstein, planned to install himself as Propaganda's CEO. Shortly after the deal, however, Beer left the company. Three outsiders - COO Trevor Macy, president Rick Hess and CFO Severin White - were brought in to run Propaganda. Dickstein was fired; he's currently suing both SCP and Beer for fraud, claiming he only backed the deal with the understanding that he and Beer would run the company.
Other key figures departed as well. Co-founder Golin left to form what would bcome Anonymous Content, eventually taking fellow founders Fincher and Kellogg with him. Satellite head Jeff Armstrong resigned, and head of production Tim Clawson left. Yet the company continued to thrive, at least for awhile, billing $90 million in pre-strike 1999 and winning back-to-back Palmes d'Or at Cannes in '99 and 2000. But there was a sense, both inside and outside the company, that the new rule by committee was lacking. "Creatively, yes it was there," says one ex-staffer. "But I don't think the leadership was there."
Even in the competitive world of commercials production, Propaganda's passing is less a victory for other companies than a warning. "We talked to a lot of competitors after it closed, and I think everybody was saddened by it," says Vince Landay, longtime producer for Spike Jonze. "As much as they want to be the best and beat everybody else, the competitors are like, 'This is a bad sign.' " But if Propaganda's fall is a cautionary tale, what is the moral? Defenders of the chestnut that the production business is a people business - as opposed to, say, a money business - might find ammunition in the end of Propaganda. With management gutted, the house was left without a public face. "My outside perspective is that there were some very talented people involved in trying to keep the company running in the later years," says Dick. "But I think it needed one visionary person to run it, rather than a collective."
The company did continue to spot hot talent - including the team of Kuntz & Maguire, who took home a Gold Lion this year at Cannes - and bagged a third and fourth Palme d'Or behind young, prolific talent like Dante Ariola. According to the Gunn Report's rankings of the winningest production houses at 2001 awards shows, Propaganda/Satellite placed fifth. Tellingly, the top spot went to Partizan, a shop headed by jilted Propagandist Dickstein.
A contributing factor in the demise of the legendary house may have been the legend itself. Propaganda gained a reputation for great creative by choosing projects carefully, and in the end - when the company needed to shoot anything it could get its hands on to survive - the boards weren't there. "Over the years, the agencies had gotten used to the directors being kind of arrogant and passing on a lot of boards," Fox-Mills observes. "It's a Catch-22. We wanted to see the work, but there was a lot of work the company had alienated."
Others blame the demise on a lack of focus; a vice that has claimed many in the dot-com bust, including broadcast design firm Pittard Sullivan earlier this year. "They just tried to do to much all at once, instead of focusing on the core business," one staffer says. "I think it was very brave of Propaganda to have a management wing and features wing and spinoffs like Satellite," Dick adds. "But after awhile, it became difficult to tell what the core business was." At the end, Fox-Mills says, "they tried to tighten up, but it was too late."
Of course, the reason behind Propaganda's fall may be much simpler - and more universal. Any successful revolution risks falling prey to the things it revolted against; Propaganda, a shop run by directors, became a shop run by venture capitalists. "You set out to reinvent the business, and by the time you're done, you are the business," says Dick. "It's like punk rock. At first you're the Sex Pistols, but before you know it you're the Sex Pistols on a reunion tour."

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The BIGGEST Mistake
For goodness sakes, don't make the BIG mistake I did.
And, what is it? Ok, well, here it is… drum roll…
Now, I'll admit when you first hear it, it's easy to think…"That's no big deal!" or "Don't worry, I'll never do that!"
But it's not necessarily that easy. Let me tell you a quick story…
We felt pretty satisfied. We let out a much-needed sigh of relief – Ahhhhhhh…
That's right – we told ourselves it was OK to slow down, and stop our marketing efforts for a little while. Why not? We were already "busy" and it would give us time to get "caught up" on "loose ends" – we told ourselves.
You guessed it -big mistake!
Suddenly, we lost 3 accounts! And it all happened in just a couple of weeks; As I recall, one – was going to move, another, a BIG account for us- was going to start having a couple of their own employees take care of the cleaning, and I can't remember what the deal was at the 3rd.
Thud! Ouch!
I remember being so shook up that I immediately went out cold calling, of all things, up and down the major industrial roads, racing to get more business to replace the ones we lost.
The good news, it doesn't have to happen to you … if you make up your mind to never pull the plug and completely stop marketing – ever again.
An ongoing, series of sequential marketing pieces delivering your most powerful service messages consistently to your prospects can insulate you from having to face the fear and desperation that comes with not having a steady flow of new business.
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Yay- I've made a whole week back in my chair-HAHAHAHA, I've had great fun getting back into the swing of things and am soooo engrossed in a new kit at the moment I didn't even notice the time today- NOW that is called FUN!- wheeeeeeeeeee.
I don't know if you remember me showing you a LO a while ago of my house keeper Cynthia in her Traditional Orange outfit ?
The Orange outfit was made for her by her future daughter in law for the family wedding. It can only be worn by an Older much respected lady who has earned the respect of her community and family?
Well today, Cynthia was dressed up in a traditional White dress and asked me to take some photo's for her. She's sooo proud of her traditional outfits and I love learning about each one. So I thought I would share these of her ;-)
She LOVES having photo's taken but I battle to get her to give me a full smile as she has no teeth- lol. She had them removed a while ago and didn't like the false ones and won't wear them. She has a giggle like a little girl and laughs out loud with ease in my house and I LOVE it as both of us land up laughing at each other laughing ;-)
Wearing the traditional White outfit and Xhosa beads. Both of which are hand made and sewn.
Love the swirled pattern detail on her shawl too.
I had to wait for the sunglasses to be put on as she say's it makes her look wealthy ;-)
Even the handbag matches.
The white outfit is worn when a mother or grandmother celebrates her son becoming a man. ( in this case it's Cynthia's grandson). Traditionally all boys go into the *bush or isolation* for a circumcision ritual (umkhwetha). It is a very old tradition and every Xhosa boy has to go through the ceremony before he is regarded as a man. If he does not, his people will always refer to him as a boy and no woman with any self respect will want to marry him. You can read up more about it here if you would like ;-)
So this is her CELEBRATION outfit that she will wear to a ceremony for the *coming out* of her grandson- who is now a MAN ;-)
And yes- I have another reveal for you today- WOOT
5 Brand New CU ok products.
Textures, prints and edges, all Quality Checked for your peace of mind.
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And I thought I would give you a REVEAL a DAY for the week ;-)
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More next week- but don't miss it- 5 full products for only $5 ;-)
My CT team have been busy too and have a ton of FREEBIES up for you this week! Be sure to click their blog links on the right hand side of my blog ;-)
Bekah_E has this stunning freebie up for my Colour Challenge.
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PHEW- that was quite a post today again- I sure am making up for all the Christmas Holiday missing ones huh?- hahahahaha. Have a great weekend everyone and see you Monday.
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I have wanted to make a quilt for most of my life. I remember as a young girl starting a quilting square. I had no access to a sewing machine, so the radial star with small blue flowers was completely hand sewn. The square sat. My aspirations grew. Although a quilt can be a simple process, the process intimidated me.
So I read about making a quilt. People who have done it. How to do it. And I studied quilts I saw. I pulled out materials I had on hand & placed them together to see how the patterns and colors would mix. I decided this Christmas, I will make my sons quilts. A simple quilt with large blocks of fabrics I had on hand.
And I thought and thought about it until December 21st hit. I jumped into action. The boys have a small bunk bed, so I sized the quilts to fit the bed without a lot of extra fabric that would hang down the side of a traditional bed. I cut multiple pieces in 15 inch widths. To size to the bed, one row would be nine inches in width. My fast approaching deadline quelled any over-thinking on the piecing (except for the decades of thought that went in to reaching my quilt making action potential). I made a diagram of how it would look and cut the pieces to length. To back the turn-quilts (no binding), I used mattress ticking and some chestnut drapery fabric I picked up at an impromptu yard sale in the Rite Aid parking lot down the street.
Making a quilt is like magic. You piece together fabrics & they magically transform into a blanket. I literally jumped up and down when I saw them together & giggled like a school girl who just had a disappeared coin pulled from her ear by a slight of hand illusionist.
The boys unfurled their quilts in thrilled delight.


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The Microsoft MVC Dot Net is an structural design that distinguishes a software into three main sensible components: the design, the perspective, and the operator. Each of these elements are built to handle specific growth elements of a software. MVC is one of the most frequently used industry-standard web growth structure to create scalable and extensible tasks. So you can learn mvc by joining any asp.net mvc training and that is what this CRB Tech reviews is all about.
Model-View-Controller (MVC) Model
The MVC Development Model
MVC is one of three ASP.NET programming designs.
MVC is a structure for building web programs using a MVC (Model View Controller) design:
1. The Model symbolizes the applying primary (for example a list of data source records).
2. The View shows the information (the data source records).
3. The Controller manages the feedback (to the data source records).
The MVC design also provides full power over HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The MVC design describes web
applications with 3 reasoning layers:
1. The business layer (Model logic)
2. The display layer (View logic)
3. The input management (Controller logic)
The MVC Model is the section of the application that manages the reasoning for the applying information.
Often design things recover information (and store data) from a data source.
The View is the parts of the application that manages the show of the information.
Most often the opinions are created from the design information.
The Controller is the section of the application that manages customer connections.
Typically remotes read information from a perspective, management customer feedback, and send feedback information to the design.
The MVC separation helps you handle complicated programs, because you can concentrate on one aspect a time. For example, you can concentration on the perspective without based upon on the company reasoning. It also makes it much easier to test a software.
The Microsoft MVC Dot Net separation also makes easier group growth. Different designers can work on the perspective, the operator reasoning, and the company reasoning in similar.
Brief of Model-View-Controller (MVC)
ASP.NET MVC Features
The ASP.NET MVC provides the following features:
Suitable for creating complicated but light-weight applications
It provides an extensible and pluggable framework which can be easily changed and customised. For example, if you do not wish to use the in-built Blade or ASPX Perspective Motor, then you can use any other third-party view google or even change the present ones.
Uses the component-based design of the program by rationally splitting it into Design, Perspective and Operator elements. This will give the designers to handle the complexness of large-scale tasks and work on individual elements.
The MVC framework increases the test-driven growth and testability of the program since all the elements can be developed interface-based and examined using idea things. Hence the Microsoft MVC Dot Net Framework is wonderful for tasks with huge group of web-developers.
Facilitates all the present wide ASP.NET features such as Permission and Verification, Expert Webpages, Information Executed, Customer Manages, Subscriptions, ASP.NET Redirecting, etc.
It does not use the idea of Perspective State (which is present in ASP.NET). This can be useful for building programs which are light-weight and gives full control to the designers.
Visual Studio Display is an improvement device personalized for MVC (and Web Forms).
Visual Studio space room Display contains:
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Sophie is super talented, she makes lovely intricate books and is brilliant at creating and developing characters. She is currently exploring her art further focusing on photography and is showing her work in Sheffield. She also has a number of residencies and exhibitions under her belt, she is one talented lady.
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New Kamen Rider Series Named?! Kamen Rider 鎧武 (Kamen Rider Gaimu)
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A trademark for "Kamen Rider Gaimu" was filed in Japan by Toei on May 20 and made public on Thursday. The first live-action Kamen Rider television series that launched the special effects franchise premiered in 1971, and the current series, Kamen Rider Wizard, premiered last September.
Bandai Namco Games released Kamen Rider: Battride War for the PlayStation 3 last month. The game united Kamen Riders from Toei Productions' long-running franchise into one game.


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Ursula Le Guin's classic A Wizard of Earthsea was one of those books on the list that I had read before. However I read it many years ago when I was a child, more than once I believe, but I couldn't remember a huge amount of it, beyond that the main character was called Sparrowhawk and he had attended a school for magic.
This time around it was a lot gentler and less exciting than I remembered. As it was originally written for a younger audience it does seem rather light in tone, not big on the description, but there's a lot of darkness in it, and Sparrowhawk himself is not a particularly likeable protagonist for much of it, although he does pay a heavy price for his earlier hubris and does his best to put it right.
The plot is simple and easy to follow. A young man grows up in a remote community, shows some aptitude for magic is initially instructed by a local female, and then fostered by a gruff old wizard, eventually being sent to a thriving metropolis to a college where he can hone his abilities. He unleashes a darkness upon the world and spends the rest of the book trying to put right what his actions have caused.
It's very much a coming of age book and it deals with complex and interesting characters who are neither all good or all bad, but a combination of the two. It's deeply atmospheric and Le Guin uses her words with economy. The book is one of those that can be read by young or old alike and appreciated for different reasons.
The world was, for the time, rather unique. Earthsea is a collection of islands of varying sizes with their own histories, languages and cultures. Geographically it reminds of the Philippines or Indonesia. Further books explore more of the islands and their culture.
At the time when A Wizard of Earthsea was published (1968) not many genre books wanted to stray too far from the ground broken by earlier writers. Le Guin dared to do this with her Earthsea concept and it was a welcome change. I rate A Wizard of Earthsea as importantly in the genre as The Lord of the Rings, and I think it's been almost as influential.
It's take a long time, but over the last 20 years authors have begun to look to A Wizard of Earthsea for inspiration as much as they used to look at The Lord of the Rings. If you wanted to read more of Earthsea, A Wizard of Earthsea is often thought of as a trilogy along with The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore. A fourth book; Tehanu, came along in 1990, 18 years after The Farthest Shore, and it does largely complete the story begun in A Wizard of Earthsea, although all the books can be read as standalones. Although Tehanu is titled The Last Book of Earthsea, two further books; The Other Wind and Tales from Earthsea (a collection of short stories) came out in 2001. Many say that Harry Potter was significantly influenced by A Wizard of Earthsea, and the idea of a magical college is certainly present, although I think Hogwarts owes it's creation as much to the British novels of the early to mid 20th century that spoke of boarding school life (Elinor Brent-Dyer, Angela Brazil and Enid Blyton were prominent authors of this type of work) as much as it does to A Wizard of Earthsea. Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind contains a section at a magical college which reminded me very much of the same scenes in A Wizard of Earthsea, and Lev Grossman's Magicians also takes place in a magical college. The latter two are fairly recent publications and owe a great debt to Le Guin's ground breaking work.


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Ready to pay $7,400 more to refuel your car over its lifetime? According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), that's what could happen if a bill that's already passed an important House committee becomes law.
The bill, from Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) targets the EPA, and most of the coverage has focused on its attempt to stop the agency from setting greenhouse gas standards. But it's more sweeping than that, and would block the agency's much heralded and widely supported effort to set unified fuel economy rules for the auto industry in 2017 to 2025. It upsets California's ability to set fuel economy standards, too.
The bill has easy sailing in the House, where it's likely to pass with the help of the Republican majority. Much harder will be getting it through the Senate and a threatened Obama veto.
Of course, Upton claims that his bill will save consumers money, because the EPA's regulations -- which crank cars up to 35.5 mpg by 2015 -- lead to higher gas prices. It's unclear how. "It's opposite day on the science," said Brendan Bell, senior Washington representative in the UCS vehicles program. "The ideology on the right that says that climate science doesn't exist, that says the Clean Air Act can't regulate greenhouse gases, causes them to put out legislation that actually hurts America. It's the triumph of ideology over reality."
UCS predicts that Upton's bill, far from helping beleaguered consumers, would increase our foreign oil dependence by as much as 2.4 million barrels per day by 2030, when we'd be paying $100 billion more for gasoline than we do now.
Both Ford and Toyota sent letters to the House committee that just passed Upton's bill expressing concern both about the 2017-2025 standards, and about California's separate effort to create state rules. They don't come out and support Upton's bill, but they seem increasingly sympathetic.
"They see an opportunity," said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign at the Center for Auto Safety. "When the original standards passed, Congress was Democratic and they didn't see any alternative. But now that the Republicans have taken over the House, they think they might be able to defeat the process."
Needless to say, Upton has a different take about what his bill will do. He says it's the EPA regs "that will send jobs overseas and increase gasoline and energy prices." He's striking a blow against "a runaway federal government and restoring the principles of free enterprise and personal liberty."
Nonsense, said Becker. Actually, he said something stronger than that, but this is a family website. "At a time when the Middle East is erupting, and gas prices are going through the roof, this Republican bill would go back to the 'better bankruptcy than clean cars' approach that Detroit used to have. It's the return of the Flat Earth Society."
OK, Dan, OK. Easy, boy, it's probably not gonna pass. But if it were up to our duly elected House of Representatives, it would probably already be law. But current political realities make that unlikely.
Upton is now chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and he's used that pulpit to push quixotic legislation (including the repeal of Obamacare) that isn't likely to reach homeplate. This former moderate, with the Tea Party uppermost in his mind, is now throwing bones to red-meat conservatives. Upton is also a Congressman from Michigan, and that means carrying water for automakers. But it's certainly debatable if this bill is actually in their interests.
Upton had to "tilt hard to the right" to get re-elected, says Politico, and this video explains how the energy/climate politics play out in Washington today with him at the helm:


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By Scott Tichenor
January 9, 2004 - 6:00 am
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Marilyn Mair and Uncommon Strings present the 19th Annual American Mandolin & Guitar Summer School (AMGuSS) June 21-27, 2004 on the campus of Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island.
For 2004 the AMGuSS Guest Artist is virtuoso solo mandolininst Evan Marshall from Los Angeles, California.
AMGuSS was founded in 1986 to promote the art of ensemble playing for the guitar and mandolin family. All instruction is hands-on, and instructors work to develop students' musicianship and artistic interpretation. Classical study is combined with an exploration of folk and world music. From Baroque ornamentation to Brazilian choro, AMGuSS is guaranteed to broaden your musical horizons.
AMGuSS is held on the beautiful waterfront campus of Roger Williams University, in Bristol, Rhode Island. Students range in age from 18 to 85, and in ability from beginner to professional. If you're looking for an exciting week of non-stop music-making and fun, come join us for AMGuSS in 2004!
Additional information, event registration and scholarship application instructions are available from the AMGuSS web site.
Contact information:
AMGuSS web site
Ralph Costanza, Registrar
The American Mandolin & Guitar Summer School
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While Micromax has started taking pre-bookings of its forthcoming flagship smartphone Canvas 4, another Canvas mobile has been listed online. Dubbed Micromax A92 Canvas Lite, the smartphone is now available through online retailer Flipkart.com for Rs. 8,499. It comes with 5-inch TFT capacitive touch screen display with a resolution of 480X854 pixels. Micromax A92 Canvas Lite is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor alongside 512MB of RAM.
The smartphone has 4GB of internal storage, of which 0.94 GB is user accessible. The storage can be further expanded by up to 32GB via microSD card. It is a dual-SIM GSM+GSM smartphone. Other connectivity options include 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth and GPS.
There is a 5-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash. The camera is also capable of recording videos at 30 fps. There is no front camera on this smartphone.
Micromax A92 Canvas Lite has G-Sensor, light sensor and proximity sensor. It runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean).
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Morning from Berlin! I hope you guys are following me on instagram or you may be very surprised to see me with grey hair! Surprise surprise! Oh, it feels so good, a fresh cut and a brand new style with this very light grey in my hair. So, tell me your thoughts about it! I can't wait to hear what you think about this brand new ME actually!
Sorry for the low updates on the blog the past days but I've been keeping the "activity" on my social media channels! I am currently in Berlin where I had a great weekend with the Zalando team at the Lollapalooza festival! I won't tell you more about it as a "festival diary" article is coming up very soon on the blog. Don't miss it!
This is a look I wore in Berlin before getting ready to head to the lollapalooza. Maxi denim shirt paired with my fav sneakers from Adidas. As you see, my Hare + Hart backpack is always coming with me abroad! It is so practical while sightseeing a city.
Shirt : Zara
Backpack : Hare + Hart, available here
Sneakers : Adidas, stan smith mid
Earrings : Zara
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Combined Insurance Chubb Associate Program-Underwriting in United States
About Chubb's Early Career Development Program
Chubb is looking for professionals with a Bachelor's Degree to join our Early Career Development Program. This is a permanent full-time position and a compelling opportunity to join a global, growing, financially stable and successful company. As the industry leader, Chubb is an employer of choice for students aspiring to develop a meaningful career in a fast-paced, diverse company with offices in most major US cities. At Chubb, we have designed our Early Career Development Program to hone your skills and talents, to help you reach your career goals. By joining the Chubb Early Career Development Program, you will be part of an experience that supports the well-rounded development of critical business skills which in turn contributes to the future success of our company. Our blended program is designed to include hands-on business assignments in a variety of disciplines, interactive classroom instruction, team assignments and direct interaction with many of our senior executives. As part of this program you will receive:
Business training unique to a career at Chubb;
Technical training to deepen your skill level within your chosen discipline; and an understanding of our broader industry;
Interpersonal effectiveness training to help you gain strong communication and interactive skills;
Access to additional training to compliment your professional development.
You, along with your program peers, form a unique community of achievers who we believe will become the future leaders of Chubb.
Who are we looking for?
Successful professionals at Chubb come from many backgrounds and experiences and bring that rich diversity with them to our company. They also have some things in common and these attributes will lead to your success at Chubb:
Results orientation : a demonstrated ability to meet commitments under pressure
Practical intellectual adaptability: capable and successful at adapting to new knowledge
Personal capacity : accepting and welcoming of additional responsibility over time
Communication skills : an ability to communicate successfully in various settings
Interpersonal/team skills : works effectively with colleagues at all levels
Self-leadership : an ability to take full ownership of work and show initiative as needed
Client focused : understanding of the needs of customers and clients
Work ethic: a commitment to hard work and a high ethical conduct
How to apply?
Bachelor's degree in many majors will be considered, with a slight preference to Risk Management or Business majors
Some knowledge of insurance concepts, practices, and procedures is desirable
MS Office experience, including Word, Excel, and Outlook
Oral and written communication skills, negotiation skills
Geographic flexibility and a willingness to work in most major US regions
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Jack Ryan (full name John Patrick Ryan, Sr., Ph.D., CPA, KCVO) (born May 17, 1950) is a character created by Tom Clancy who appears in the film adaptations referred to as the "Ryanverse".
In the novel, Patriot Games was a prequel to The Hunt for Red October, However, the chronology of the movies was altered for The Sum of All Fears. While the novel takes place after Clear and Present Danger, the film takes place earlier in Ryan's career.
The The Sum of All Fears was not part of the Alec Baldwin/Harrison Ford trilogy, but rather an intended reboot of the franchise. The discrepancy can be seen in the fact that he met John Clark for the first time in Clear and Present Danger and the Clark character was significantly different; Ryan is also married in the first three films.
It was reported on January 21, 2008, by the Empire official website and Moviehole, that a new reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise will take place in the near future, featuring Ryan Gosling in the title role. The film will be titled By Any Means Necessary. The film was never made, and Chris Pine was the next actor to play Jack Ryan.
On March 18, 2008, Variety reported that Sam Raimi and Paramount Pictures were in negotiations to have Raimi direct the franchise reboot, with intentions of having him spearheading multiple sequels. At the time, Tom Clancy was writing a new novel. Paramount had not decided to use this new story, or create an original story for the Jack Ryan reboot. The next film was Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, with Chris Pine and directed by Kenneth Branagh.
(5 films)
- 1st series (3 films)
- The Hunt for Red October (First appearance) – Alec Baldwin
- Patriot Games – Harrison Ford
- Clear and Present Danger – Harrison Ford
- 2nd series (1 film)
- The Sum of All Fears (First appearance) – Ben Affleck
- 3rd series (1 film)
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (First appearance) - Chris Pine
See AlsoEdit
- Jack Ryan, Sr. (Non-film adapted character)
- Ryanverse
- Alec Baldwin
- Harrison Ford
- Ben Affleck
- Chris Pine
- Category:Ryanverse
- Jack Ryan (first film series)
- Jack Ryan (second film series)
- Jack Ryan (third film series)


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A review of hydrology, sediment and water resource use in the Blue Nile Basin.
This report presents a comprehensive literature review and broad-based analysis of the water resources of the Blue Nile (Abay) River. This work was undertaken as the initial phase in a study to evaluate approaches for improved land and water management in the Ethiopian highlands and assess the likely implications for downstream stakeholders in Sudan. Data and information have been compiled in relation to hydrology, sediment and water use in the basin. Section 1, Introduction, provides a context through the consideration of water resources both in Africa and the whole of the Nile Basin. Section 2, Blue Nile Physiography, presents an overview of the characteristics of the Blue Nile Basin, including a description of the meteorological monitoring network and the availability of historic data. It also reviews the geology, soil and land-use, and land-cover of the basin based on secondary sources. Section 3, Hydrology of the Blue Nile, describes the hydrology of the Blue Nile, including seasonal variation and trends over time. A summary of past hydrological modeling in the Nile and the Blue Nile is also presented. Section 4, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation, focuses on erosion and sediment transport and presents an overview of sediment in the major tributaries, including seasonal variations and trends over time. Section 5, Water Resource Development, reviews existing water resource development in both Ethiopia and Sudan and discusses the future potential with respect to major water uses (i.e., irrigation and hydropower). Section 6, Discussion/ Recommendations, provides a summary of the research methods and models to be used in the study. The reference materials collated and listed at the end of this report provide an important resource for water management and future research to be undertaken in the basin.
Awulachew, S. B.; McCartney, M.; Steenhuis, T. S; Ahmed, A. A. A review of hydrology, sediment and water resource use in the Blue Nile Basin. International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2008) 87 pp. ISBN 978-92-9090-699-5 (IWMI Working Paper 131)
A review of hydrology, sediment and water resource use in the Blue Nile Basin.


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When was the last time you heard anything about neutral particle beam technology? It seems like it almost vanished from the vocabulary after the 1980's "Star Wars" program. From the information released by defense sources over the last few years one would conclude there isn't much happening in that field. One might have concluded it was found to be a dead end.
But… why is everything to do with neutral particle beam technology included in the State Department's ITAR Munitions List? In the most recent revision I've looked at (Sept 19, 2002) energy weapons technology has been promoted to an even higher profile. Neutral particle beams are included.
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Finally i can reveal the creations i made for The World Scrap Battle and Tournament.
There are 5 categories in the tournament and i have entered in 4 of them. Layout, card, alter and mixed media. I will post the creations one at a time over the next four days. Starting with my alteration.
The inspiration we were given for the first challenge is this picture:
I have altered a large clothespin
I was inspired by the colours of the banner of the photo. Since this happening is going on in Sweden i decided to go for the colours of the Swedish flag, blue and yellow as you also can find in the pic.
I started with gessoing the whole thing. Then i covered both sides with washitape. Then i coloured the whole thing in blue and a spot of yellow. I have used Tim Holtz`s Mustard Seed yellow distress ink for the yellow spec and Twinkeling H2O Autumn skies for the blue hue.
I also used the H2O to colour the Prima flower which started out completely black. I just loooove how it turned out. The seam binding is also coloured with Mustard seed Distress ink.
I have also used a stencil from The Crafters Workshop using one of the butterflies. Created the texture with modelling paste from Prima`s Finnabair collection. I coloured it with Mustard seed and topped it with some Golden sleighbells Magicals from Lindy`s Stamp Gang. Just a tiny dash to get the shimmery look.
To finish it off i have used bling from Marianne Design, a friendship sticker from Authentic, a butterfly chipboard piece from Make it Crafty. This one i just heat embossed with white embossing and glued on some clear class beads from Prima Finnabair. Also some tiny blue specs of H2O. A metal piece under the flower, some lace and a paper clip from my stash. Oh and i almost forgot. All the edges are smeared with Black soot distress ink.
With this creation i made it through to round 2 on walk over. Later today we will get the new task for round 2. I`m so excited, lol . Hope you come back and visit me tomorrow. I will show you the card i created for round 1.
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Googles first-quarter 2012 earnings call was notable for both what executives shared and didnt say. In addition to announcing a two-for-one stock split, $10.7 billion in revenue for the quarter and a cash pile totaling nearly $50 billion, there was much talk of the value of clicks and developments in search. With 850,000 Android devices being activated each day, its easy to forget that advertising and clicks are Googles primary businesses. However, Android plays an increasingly starring role in both.
CEO Larry Page emphasized his and co-founder Sergey Brins personal investments in Google, their enduring love for the company, their impatience to make it a company that does important things in the world and the necessity of taking a long-term view to achieve this objective. Below are four more notable points that Page and company touched on during the hour-long call.
1. Searches are going to continue to become more sophisticated, helped by social features like Google+.
Privacy concerns hover over much of what Google doesamid some controversy, it recently updated its privacy policyas personal information is key to Googles ability to improve itself.
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When asked about Googles investments in Google+, and whether the company with the best social signal would be able to offer the best search capabilities, Pageas he did in a recent 2012 Update posted to Googles Investor Relations pagegave the example of searching for his friend Ben Smith. Google searching, he explained, has advanced to where it knows enough about a user to understand which Ben Smith, for example, is being searched for, despite the fairly common name.
Having real feedback from users about what they like and dont like and things theyre sharing and so on is very useful for search. We have a lot of those signals already, but we can always use more ¦, said Page, according to a transcript from Seeking Alpha. I think search is going to change a lot. Were going to make it a lot better over the next five or 10 years, just as its changed a lot in the past. And it will include a bunch of those signals and a bunch of other things as well.
2. As mobile devices become intrinsic to users everyday lives, mobile costs per click (CPCs) are on track to surpass desktop clicks.
During the first quarter, Googles average CPC declined by approximately 12 percent, though paid clicks rose by 39 percent. Discussing CPC, Google CFO Patrick Pichette described mobile as still crude, and where search functionality was in 2002 or 2004.
But its going to get better and better, said Pichettean idea Page agreed with, saying that while desktop is the focus for now, over time he expects the reverse be true, especially with Google increasingly focused on things like Google Offers, Google Wallet and Click-to-Call.
Its a lot easier to call someone from your mobile than it is from your computer right now, said Page. [Were getting] more and more focused on that, both on our sales side, and our customers are getting more focused on that. Im very, very bullish on that.


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It's a bit amusing, I suppose, that my issues with static can warrant an entire post, but jokes aside, I hate static! I don't like the way clothes cling to me, how I get a tiny shock every time I touch anything, and how the hair on my legs and arms are constantly on red alert!
This is my second winter in Jersey, and certainly not my first winter at all, so I was wondering why, all of a sudden, static has become such a hindrance.
Naturally the static comes right straight from the washing machine. Every fabric comes out static as hell. And it only just began a few weeks ago. I've been washing clothes in that particular machine for a while now. So I googled around and did some research and it wasn't because of my fleeces or winter clothes. I had assumed it might have been the material that fleeces are made of, but its due to something called the triboelectric effect being enhanced in my home environment. The triboelectric effect is the technical term for stuff rubbing against each other and static charges being exchanged. We've all done those experiments like rubbing balloons on our sweaters in elementary school. Well, that is the effect.
It can be magnified by dry air, which is basically what winter is all about. Winter, coupled with my central heating system, really creates a dry environment, which is ideal for charge transfer. Additionally this charge stays on my clothes and sheets for a while too. I thought leaving my shirt for a couple of days would be cool, but, static charge actually hangs out for a while.
Solutions are aplenty as well. An industrial source recommends rubbing your clothes on metal pipes. Okay...
A more home oriented site recommends rubbing metal hangars on shirts, shaking them after they come out of the drier, or adding vinegar to your wash cycle. Fabric softener, which I had seen people use, but I hadn't until now, is what I use now to eliminate this charge. The problem has pretty much been solved by now, but there are some other things one can do.
Having a moist environment has helped as I bought a air humidifier. Wetness, and humid air dispense electrons at a greater rate from surfaces, hence your bathroom after a shower, or rainy environments aren't conducive to static electricity as this site explains.


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|Oxide mineral
(repeating unit)
|Silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2)
|Formula mass
|60 g / mol
|Crystal system
|no cleavage
|Uneven, conchoidal
|Mohs scale hardness
|Vitreous, silky
|Specific gravity
|Optical properties
|Refractive index
|1.530 to 1.543
Onyx is a banded variety of the oxide mineral chalcedony. Agate and onyx are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ only in the form of the bands: agate has curved bands and onyx has parallel bands. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color (save some shades, such as purple or blue). Commonly, specimens of onyx contain bands of black and/or white.[3]
Onyx comes through Latin (of the same spelling), from the Greek ὄνυξ, meaning "claw" or "fingernail". With its fleshtone color, onyx can be said to resemble a fingernail. The English word "nail" is cognate with the Greek word.[4]
Onyx is formed of bands of chalcedony in alternating colors. It is cryptocrystalline, consisting of fine intergrowths of the silica minerals quartz and moganite. Its bands are parallel to one another, as opposed to the more chaotic banding that often occurs in agates.[5]
Sardonyx is a variant in which the colored bands are sard (shades of red) rather than black. Black onyx is perhaps the most famous variety, but is not as common as onyx with colored bands. Artificial treatments have been used since ancient times to produce both the black color in "black onyx" and the reds and yellows in sardonyx. Most "black onyx" on the market is artificially colored.[6][7]
Imitations and treatments
The name has sometimes been used, incorrectly, to label other banded lapidary materials, such as banded calcite found in Mexico, Pakistan, and other places, and often carved, polished and sold. This material is much softer than true onyx, and much more readily available. The majority of carved items sold as "onyx" today are this carbonate material.[8][9]
Artificial onyx types have also been produced from common chalcedony and plain agates. The first-century naturalist Pliny the Elder described these techniques being used in Roman times.[10] Treatments for producing black and other colors include soaking or boiling chalcedony in sugar solutions, then treating with sulfuric or hydrochloric acid to carbonize sugars which had been absorbed into the top layers of the stone.[7][11] These techniques are still used, as well as other dyeing treatments, and most so-called "black onyx" sold is artificially treated.[12] In addition to dye treatments, heating and treatment with nitric acid have been used to lighten or eliminate undesirable colors.[7]
Geographic occurrence
Onyx is a gemstone found in various regions of the world including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Madagascar, Latin America, the UK, and various states in the US.[1]
Historical usage
It has a long history of use for hardstone carving and jewelry, where it is usually cut as a cabochon or into beads. It has also been used for intaglio and hardstone cameo engraved gems, where the bands make the image contrast with the ground.[13] Some onyx is natural but much of the material in commerce is produced by the staining of agate.[14]
Onyx was used in Egypt as early as the Second Dynasty to make bowls and other pottery items.[15] Use of sardonyx appears in the art of Minoan Crete, notably from the archaeological recoveries at Knossos.[16]
Brazilian green onyx was often used as plinths for art deco sculptures created in the 1920s and 1930s. The German sculptor Ferdinand Preiss used Brazilian green onyx for the base on the majority of his chryselephantine sculptures.[17] Green onyx was also used for trays and pin dishes – produced mainly in Austria – often with small bronze animal figures attached.[citation needed]
Onyx is mentioned in The Holy Bible many times.[18] Sardonyx (onyx in which white layers alternate with sard) is mentioned in The Holy Bible as well.[19]
Onyx was known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans.[20] The first-century naturalist Pliny the Elder described both type of onyx and various artificial treatment techniques in his Naturalis Historia.[10]
Slabs of onyx (from the Atlas Mountains) were famously used by Mies van der Rohe in Villa Tugendhat at Brno (completed 1930) to create a shimmering semi-translucent interior wall.[21]
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Onyx". mindat.org. Retrieved 22 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Onyx". gemdat.org. Retrieved 22 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Lavinsky, Rob. "Onyx". mindat.org. Retrieved June 10, 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Online Etymology Dictionary". etymonline.com. Retrieved 22 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Assaad, Fakhry A.; LaMoreaux, Philip E. Sr. (2004). Hughes, Travis H., ed. Field Methods for Geologists and Hydrogeologists. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. p. 8. ISBN 3-540-40882-7.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Sinkankas, John (1959). Gemstones of North America. 1. Princeton, New Jersey: Van Nostrand. p. 316.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "The Manufacture of Gem Stones". Scientific American. New York, New York: Munn & Company: 49. 25 July 1874.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Onyx". mindat.org. Retrieved 22 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Hurlbut, Cornelius S.; Sharp, W. Edwin (1998). Dana's Minerals and How to Study Them (4th ed.). New York, New York: Wiley. p. 200. ISBN 0-471-15677-9.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 O'Donoghue, Michael (1997). Synthetic, Imitation, and Treated Gemstones. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 125–127. ISBN 0-7506-3173-2.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Read, Peter G. (1999). Gemmology. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 160. ISBN 0-7506-4411-7.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Liddicoat, Richard Thomas (1987). Handbook of Gem Identification (12th ed.). Santa Monica, California: Gemological Institute of America. pp. 158–160. ISBN 0-87311-012-9.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Kraus, Edward Henry; Slawson, Chester Baker (1947). Gems and Gem Materials. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 227.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Liddicoat, Richard Thomas; Copeland, Lawrence L. (1974). The Jewelers' Manual. Los Angeles, California: Gemological Institute of America. p. 87.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Porter, Mary Winearls (1907). What Rome was Built with: A Description of the Stones Employed. Rome: H. Frowde. p. 108.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ C. Michael Hogan (2007) Knossos fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian
- ↑ "Ferdinand Preiss". Hickmet.com. Retrieved 18 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "BibleGateway". biblegateway.com. Retrieved 22 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "BibleGateway". biblegateway.com. Retrieved 22 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Administrator. "Onyx". gemstone.org. Retrieved 22 August 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ http://www.tugendhat.eu/the-building/the-interiors.html; http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1052
External links
|Look up onyx in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Onyx.


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text: Home > Sports 2020 Games trio prepare for IOC file delivery by Pirate Irwin, Agence France-Presse Posted at Jan 06 2013 07:19 PM | Updated as of Jan 07 2013 03:19 AM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn PARIS - The three candidates to host the 2020 Olympics will take a huge step on the road to who will be designated the winner in Buenos Aires on September 7 when they present their candidature files to the International Olympic Committee on Monday in Lausanne. Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo will all be sending high profile delegations to hand over their dossiers which have been painstakingly put together and will be hoping the details meet with the approval of the majority of the 100 plus IOC members when they vote in eight months' time. With IOC members visits a thing of the past, since the reforms brought in following the Salt Lake City bribes for votes scandal, the dossier will be carefully studied before the all-important visit of the IOC Evaluation Commission, headed by IOC Vice-president Craig Reedie, to the three cities for four day visits in March. The common perception has been that Istanbul has a fantastic chance to become the first country with a majority Muslim population to host the Games and has made great play on being situated on two continents. "The athletes will have the unique experience of sleeping on the European continent and competing on the Asian continent," their chief executive Hasan Arat told AFP. Now their emotive and effective message will have to be backed up by the facts in the dossier if they are to maintain momentum in what is the most competitive of the five bids the city has put up. Istanbul too is making great play out of their relative upbeat economic situation exemplified by a record breaking mark on their stock exchange just before the New Year which edged over the 78,000 points mark. Turkey's government is aiming to take the country into the top ten world economies by GDP in time for the republic's 2023 centenary, and in 2012 Turkey's credit rating was upgraded to 'Investment Grade'. "This news proves that our spectacular Games vision is founded on an economy that offers delivery security and the capacity to take the Olympic Movement forward in partnership with the IOC," said Arat. Tokyo, who are the only one of the three cities to have previously hosted the Games in 1964, have been seen as the main rivals to Istanbul and importantly received the full backing of the newly-elected national government. "I was elected in Tokyo, so this bid means very much to me," said Hakubun Shimomura, the new Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, after meeting with members of the bid team. "I plan on attending the Candidature File submission press conference in Tokyo (January 8) to reiterate the unequivocal support our newly formed national government will continue to provide the bid." Madrid too will travel in a confident frame of mind. Despite having had people question their ability to host the Games, given the parlous state of Spain's finances, they have a ready answer as their bid leader Alejandro Blanco told AFP last year. "Some host cities were in a totally different economic situation when they were awarded the Games to when they actually delivered them," he said. "To my mind, it's not how you start that matters so much, but how you end. "And the fact that Madrid already has about 80 percent of the necessary infrastructures in place -- including the airport, ring roads and underground -- is a solid guarantee of stability. "Our investments will be reduced to the minimum. We also have the full support of the Spanish, regional and local governments and will travel the whole way with them hand in hand." pi/dj © 1994-2012 Agence France-Presse Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Read More: International Olympic Committee 2020 Olympics