My name is Trint & here is a brief run down about myself. I have been working here at Area for over three years now and have found my job to be challenging, interesting and fulfilling. I am a prepress/production artist and have been responsible for testing new art, making custom changes to existing art and ensuring that we print the right amount of wallpaper to meet our client's needs. I have always had a deep interest in art and have an extensive background in the world of graphics and printing.
I should mention that I am an aquarius and probably do exhibit some of the signs typical traits. According to the Chinese zodiac, I am a dragon, so yes, very powerful.
I have three kids aged 6 months to 5 years old, so my hands are full, but having a blast with them. This summer we have spent a lot of time at the pool and the lake which is fine with me.
When I have the time I like to travel, play guitar, watch "Game of Thrones" and more recently diving into the show "Mr. Robot".
I have just rediscovered my old ipod and have been listening to it at work. Not to date myself but have enjoyed listening to Sonic Youth, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks and Minneapolis local band Vampire Hands.
Today I had leftover spagehtti for lunch.
The Area team is gearing up for the release of the 2016 Collection! We've been working so hard for the past 6 months on building this new collection which includes some amazing new artwork. There is so much that goes into creating and producing a new line but it all feels worth the effort when we are at this point.... ready to share it with all of you.
Artist-designed wallpaper line Area Environments and contemporary art space Public Functionary have joined forces to create a collaborative series of exclusive wallpapers designed by emerging contemporary artists. PFxAE partner artists are selectively chosen based on their works ability to make a bold, unexpected and beautiful impact when translated into the large format medium of wallpaper.
Each series is a limited edition sold for a short period of time. Designs are presented as the artist intended and are available in a variety of substrates and finishes. Each series will focus on an individual artist or collective of artists, and will be introduced via a full scale exhibition at Public Functionary, showcasing original pieces as well as large-scale wallpaper installations.
San Francisco-based artist Aaron De La Cruz will be the first featured artist in the PFxAE Exhibition Collection line. The limited edition series of wallpaper will be revealed on opening night!
San Francisco based artist Aaron De La Cruz cryptic line work invokes an archeological inquisition that is suggestive of both ancient Mayan hieroglyphics and contemporary graffiti, allowing the viewer to relate, interpret and decipher the work on their own terms. From his wooden sculptures and large scale outdoor murals to his stark two dimensional ink paintings and installations, De La Cruz bridges the gaps between fine art and design, the sum of its parts being simultaneously practical and decorative.
De La Cruz has exhibited most recently at Honolulu's Loft in Space where he is a regular contributor to the seminal Pow Wow arts and culture annual event. Previous exhibitions include Known Gallery in Los Angeles, which followed his acclaimed large scale showing at the Arkitip Project Space in 2012. De La Cruz has exhibited in Australia, Berlin, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York, Art Basel Miami and has produced collaborations with Diesel/55DSL (Italy), Birkenstock (Germany) and Casio G-Shock (Taiwan).
Arkitip has produced an exclusive 24″ x 36″ Aaron De La Cruz silk screen print for the exhibition at Public Functionary. The limited-edition piece will be available at the opening reception and also online at Arkitip.com.
How did you get started as an artist? What's been the most exciting thing that has happened thus far in your career?
I went to school for graphic design. After I graduated I got a job as a designer at a small shop in Minneapolis and continued doing my own personal studio work from home on the side. My focus shifted more and more to my studio work until I was able to make the jump to a full time artist.
I've been fortunate to have a number of great opportunities. I'm currently in Japan working on a large scale installation which has definitely been one of the most exciting experiences of my career. A couple others that come to mind include creating a 60ft mural on the facade of the Aqua Art Fair in Miami for Art Basel in 2009, and more recently being invited to participate in my first museum exhibit next year at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana.
Can you tell us about some of the themes that show up in your work?
A lot of the content and themes in my work are rooted in popular culture. I've always been drawn to the bold aesthetics and exaggerated narratives in old comics, pulp novels, advertising, and tabloids. Those fragmented elements often show up in my work placed within a new context.
Where do you draw inspiration from? Certain places etc..
I find inspiration in a variety of places, often the decay and deterioration of the urban environment. Fading signage, torn billboards, old street posters, and chipping paint; I've always been interested in those moments where man-made objects succumb to the inevitable effects of nature. I try to reflect those textures and spontaneous juxtapositions within the process of my own work.
If you could meet one artist from past or present who would it be?
I'd have to say Robert Rauschenberg. Seeing his work for the first time is what inspired me to push my own work as an artist.
If you could have one superhero (magical) power, what would it be and why?
Not much for personal superpowers, but Superman's flying ability would be cool.
My grandpa said anything worth doing is worth doing right.
As I get ready to move (AGAIN!) I am reminded of all the stuff I have. Most of which is completely unnecessary. As an artist of many mediums, I have a tendency to collect things. Fabric, because someday I am going to make _________ (fill in the blank with just about anything). I collect rocks, sticks, dried flowers, leaves for found object sculptures I am going to make (soon, I keep telling myself, soon). Spools of thread, paper, cards, frogs, books and the list goes on. As I pack I think to myself, "Do I really need this?" I am clear that need is relative in this context.
Then I remember sitting lakeside on the North Shore with my two boys collecting those rocks. I remember how excited I get when I receive a new frog for my collection from loved ones. I think about the effort a friend made to collect leaves from a particular tree that I love and I realize they are memories. What better way to make a house a home than by filling it with wonderful memories.
So I am packing up and hauling all these trinkets and totems to my new house to craft a home. Some day I will find a plot of land somewhere and build a tiny home on it and much of this excess will have to be reserved in the memory banks of my mind. However, until that day happens, I am getting excited by the possibilities of the new space. In true Diane fashion, I have collected all sorts of images for inspiration. Now my biggest question is what AREA wall mural am I going to choose next?
Of course I am doing this!
This my someday tiny home inspiration.
Today's post is all about my love for artist, José Parlá. Parlá started his career at a young age painting on the streets of Maimi and New York. He decided to take his art form into the the museum and gallery world. This jump from painting outdoors to showing in the gallery and museum setting is a big one, one that most artists cannot do successfully. He worked tirelessly on trying to create a mood or feeling of the streets in the gallery. Here is an excerpt of Parlá's artist statement which eloquently describes his journey and feelings about his art.
I am now cutting myself off from posting the hundreds of pictures I have from his work... Thank you, José, for producing the most amazing murals and spaces! Here is my Mr. Roger's advice for the day... go out into the world whether it's in person, instagram, email, however you choose and tell an artist that you love THANK YOU.
I love finding great design, I seek it out on a regular basis. I was downright ecstatic when I stumbled across Watershed Sculpture about two months ago. This duo of amazing artists Daniel McCormick and Mary O'Brian stole my heart with both their art and mission. Based out of California, Daniel and Mary have created their environmentally focused sculptures throughout the US.
The sculptures they create are not only beautiful and aesthetically pleasing, they are actually good for our environment. McCormick and O'Brian concentrate on repairing and healing riparian zones, the area between land and a river. The sculptures are built with the intention to prevent erosion, protect water quality, provide corridors and natural habitat for wildlife, and maintain the health of the in-stream biota. Many of our rivers are being affected by land clearing, livestock grazing, pollutants, invasive species, etc. The sculptors use natural resources that are found in the same area they are repairing to build their works of art. This allows the sculpture to integrate seamlessly into the environment.
There is a beautiful balance of structure and impermanence when one sees these works of art. McCormick's and O'Brian's sculpture is wonderful to observe, to see the natural and leading lines created, the placement of the materials, and the skill and artistry of the assemblage itself. To understand the artists' mark, their signature, dissolves into the landscape and becomes a living, evolving entity, challenges the viewer to remember the art as well as the purpose.
I am enamored with the transformative process and the partnership with mother nature that these artists have created. I wrote about the ten principles of good design a couple of weeks ago and this work touches every single one, effortlessly. I encourage you to read more about Watershed Sculptures and their mission. Someday, I hope to volunteer on one of their teams.
We have been busy this week in the Area studio getting ready to launch our final artist for our 2015 wallcovering collection. We are so excited to collaborate with multi-layered cultural pop art Artist, Greg Gossel. Placing his work into large scaled mural wall paper has opened a new aesthetic for Area and for our clients. We are getting ready to launch his four piece collection that he has created specifically for Area. Due out at the end of the month, stay tuned!
Artist Greg Gossel, was born in 1982 in western Wisconsin. With a background in design, his work is an expressive interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. Gossel's multi-layered work illustrates a visual history of change and process that simultaneously features and condemns popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, and London. His commercial clients include Levi's, Burton Snowboards, Stussy, VICE Magazine, and Interscope Records while his work has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, Artslant, and ROJO Magazine. Greg currently resides in Minneapolis, MN.
Where to begin... I stumbled upon Julie Tremblay's work last year and fell in love. Her work spans various mediums and genres from abstract sculpture and drawings to realistic sculptures that depict figures so real they seem to float around in your subconscious long after you've stopped thinking about them. Her work feels effortless to me, timeless, all while knowing full well that these works are laborious and full of minute details. Tremblay was born in Quebec, Canada and now resides in Brooklyn, NY. After reading many interviews with her it's clear she has always been an artist. As a small girl she loved to draw and was always drawn to materials. This fascination with materials is part of what drives her work today. She is always on the lookout for new materials to experiment with. Her sculptures have been constructed out of punched out steel, tin plates, recycled metal, chicken wire, aluminum mesh and LED lights. What's interesting about her work is it feels and appears weightless despite being made from steel scraps and other metals. She is able to control the density of the pieces by filling the core with chicken wire and other lighter wires. The translucent effects that she is able to create with her sculptures are magical and other worldly. She is able to transport the viewer into a space and time that is truly unique, filled with mystery and inspiration.
This week at Area we have been busy getting ready for the IIDA MINNECON Minneapolis Trade Fair. We've teamed up with our showroom partners at Holly Hunt to share our new mural collections. We couldn't be more excited to collaborate with Holly Hunt.
There will be 114 Exhibitors from a variety of design trades that will be participating. This is a one day event that includes seminars of new commercial product introductions, educational programs, student events, and networking for designers, as well as manufacturers' representatives.
If you are attending MinneCon this year, we'd love to see you! Come check out our AREA | Holly Hunt booth #317, we will be giving out bags full of goodies and providing sample request forms for those of you who have any upcoming projects that you would like samples for.
Both AREA and Holly Hunt are looking forward to today's activities as well as meeting all of you great designers out there!
Here are a few Sneak Peak images of our "behind the scenes" booth-building process for MinneCon. Stay tuned for next weeks recap of the MinneCon Trade Show.
Special Thanks to Apropos & Holly Hunt for making this all happen!
I'm drawn to David Renggli's work for a lot of reasons. What initially caught my attention was his larger 2-dimensional pieces (for purely aesthetic reasons). They stood out not only for their scale and bold colors but they also had a multi-dimensional quality to them due to the fact that they were created using a reverse painting technique that involves painting behind glass using ink and anodized aluminum. He started working primarily as a sculptor but over time progressed into using many mediums to carry out his concepts. The deeper themes in his work range from observing the serious and humorous aspects of dealing with the mundane parts in life to social critique on the fashion industry. There are more in depth pieces written on his conceptual ideas behind the work but in this post I'm going to simply post pictures to give you an overall idea of his talent, his use of color, scale, 3 dimensional and 2 dimensional art. David was born in 1974 in Zurich, Switzerland. He lives and works in Zurich and Texas.
What makes for good design? I have agonized over this question so many times in various papers I had to write for school. Now I can cheat and share with you the 10 Principles of Good Design by German designer Dieter Rams. And really, why rewrite what is already well done. I believe he hit the nail head-on when he generated this list. It is the best reference I have come by when asking if a design is worthwhile. Rams generated this list back in the 80's after questioning his own designs. They are every bit as relevant today as they were 30 years ago.
I also cannot help but be drawn to his ideas and beliefs. A belief that products should be designed to last. Products and designs that are useful and not created for the sole purpose of making money or to be disposed of so that another has to be purchased.
"The value, and especially the legislation of design will be, in the future, measured more in terms of how it can enable us to survive...on this planet."
Nicolas Party is a Swiss born artist currently living in Glasgow, Scotland. I was turned onto him through his most recent show at the Inverleith House in Edinburgh called 'Boys and Pastels'. I only saw pictures of the show and was completely blown away. If I could have transported myself magically (i.e. free of charge) to this show I would have. I'll start by saying the gallery space is airy and beautiful and would be a dream location for a solo show. It looks like they encourage the use of the entire house.
What caught my eye about this show was the use of the space. Party uses the entire wall to create a place for his work to live. The walls could stand on their own without the framed art and the art could as well. But instead he uses both elements to create a beautifully unique experience. Obviously, I love the idea of playing with scale and artwork that spans entire walls and in itself creates a type of installation art. Area was born out of this concept, the desire to see art dominate and evoke a sense of the space. Nicolas Party was a graffiti artist originally and I can see the concept of filling a wall or creating large-scale stories with his work has stayed with him. What I love so much in his work is his ability to capture so much energy in his still life's. The vibrancy of color in his paintings and the perfectly paired walls form a relationship with each other creating a playful energy with objects as mundane as a teapot or spoon.
I was captivated by him and I hope you can find some inspiration from his work. More pics here!
We at Area have been a bit lazy in our blog posting. This is all about to change as several of us have decided to be blog authors on a more regular basis. Be gentle in thought, for we are not literary geniuses nor are we grammatical hotshots. We do however have opinions. Opinions about art, life, design, and this crazy cool company we work for called Area Environments.
Join us in our crazy adventure of blogging. Please comment and suggest what you would like to hear. We are collaborators, we will learn from our readers what is relevant and worthwhile and at the end of the day, we will probably need more ideas.
Hi it's Kathryn here... My offerings on the Area blog will be writing about my latest artist obsession every Wednesday. If you're an artist that would like to be featured, write to me. Every Friday I will give you a mixtape of music. Music is my other main love beyond art so I will geek out with you every Friday with a compilation that I put together from the latest stuff I am listening to. I'm thinking themes... so if you have a good theme let know and I will do my best to soundtrack it.
Each Tuesday will be all about design. With a degree in Graphic Design I lean towards the realm of commercial art but I was a photographer long before I was a designer. The lens of my camera has been my window to the world. I have documented nature for so long that I have boxes upon boxes filled with thousands of negatives from my awe (thank goodness digital came along). My inspiration is generated from nature for my own artwork, so I am sure it is bound to show up in my Design Tuesday posts.


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Powering Progress Together 2018 continues discussions on more and cleaner energy
Mar 19, 2018 7:00 PM PHT
Marj Casal Handog
MANILA, Philippines – How do you provide more but cleaner energy to meet the world's growing demands?
This is the shared challenge that everyone is facing right now. And this is the focus of Shell Powering Progress Together 2018 – how to provide more energy that can power economies while reducing emissions.
Powering Progress Together returned to Singapore for the second year last March 8. Business leaders, representatives from the government sector, academics, entrepreneurs and students joined Shell executives at the Changi Exhibition Center to talk about technology, powering economies, and energy solutions.
"Energy is a vital hidden ingredient in almost every economy, and cities are the biggest users of energy" said Goh Swee Chen, Chairman, Shell Companies in Singapore and Vice President, City Solutions – New Energies. "It's clear to us that something is going on. The world needs more energy."
Shell wants to continue playing an active role in ensuring that there's enough energy for all to develop and progress.
"Powering Progress Together is important because it is a venue for us to bring people with bright ideas together to discuss, debate and engage on the important topic of delivering more energy and cleaner energy," said Goh.
Imagining future scenarios
For companies such as Shell, developing possible scenarios about the future is a key component in making important decisions, where 10-15 years is considered a medium term while 50 years, long term.
This is the kind of mindset they want to impart with the young people of today. Through the Imagine the Future Scenarios Competition, students from Asia Pacific and the Middle East were challenged to develop contrasting scenarios based on the theme: "More and cleaner energy in urban Asian and Middle Eastern homes in 2050: How we live, work and play."
"We launched this competition to engage with young people on a very difficult topic – the future," said Doug McKay, Vice President, Government Relations Asia-Pacific. "Scenarios are not predictions but they provide plausible, fundamental views."
Students from Yale-NUS College in Singapore and their vision of 'A Binary World vs A Dispersed Planet' emerged as the winner.
"Regardless of which world we find ourselves in, we think the energy sector should work more closely with data-centered industries and start forming strong ties today because these sectors are what would be driving the energy consumption in the future," said Joshua Phua, a representative from Team Singapore.
The role of technology for better living
Does technology improve lives?
This was another question that needed answers during a discussion featuring the following panelists:
"Technology is impactful. It shapes my perspective on how my world is going to look like and how I can be a part of it," said Salma El Maghraby, a student from The American University in Cairo.
For Dr. Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of Housing & Development Board (HDB), however, technology is only good if you are responsible. "Technology is just an enabler. Technology alone doesn't improve lives."
One good way to use technology, according to Dr. Cheong, is by building smart and sustainable towns – a goal that HDB has for Singapore's fiber-enabled homes.
Mark Gainsborough, Executive Vice President of Shell New Energies, couldn't agree more. "We are in danger of wasting resources because of our obsession with technology. What we should be obsessed with is improving lives," he said.
So, through Shell's #IdeaRefinery Accelerating Accelerator Programme, innovative start-ups are empowered to develop solutions to better generate and use energy for a more sustainable future.
"We should all get together to innovate and think about and develop solutions to power progress together," said Goh Swee Chen.
Watch the highlights of the forum on top of this article. – Rappler.com
@marjcasal
Marj Casal heads the content team of BrandRap, Rappler's sales and marketing arm. She helps create native advertising campaigns for brands like San Miguel Brewery, Shell, GCash, Grab, BDO, and more.
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David Crosby believes that the times call for a reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. Both Graham Nash and Neil Young have been on the outs with Crosby for several years, with the trouble starting back in 2014 when Crosby called Young's then-girlfriend — and now wife — Daryl Hannah a "poisonous predator." Crosby has since publicly apologized. Graham Nash has gone on record numerous times about how poorly Crosby has treated him in recent years.
David Crosby will next perform on February 8th, 9th, and 10th at Miami Beach's Ground Up Music Festival at the North Beach Bandshell.


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Poll : Was the PC the best option for home users in 1992?
Oh course, no one ever got fired for buying Big Blue!
Yep, my Pop used one and I'd played my NES to death so we needed Commander Keen!
Yes, bleeper sound chips and playing fighting games with a flight stick was my jam!
Surely we had to buy PCs or we wouldn't learn MS apps and fail at life?
No in those days the Amiga was the thing!
The Apple Mac was more expensive so they must have been better?
What was wrong with the C64?
agami
Re: How rubbish was the PC in 1992 and why did most people buy one without thinking?
Posted on 8-Dec-2021 5:13:29 [ #21 ]
From: Melbourne, Australia
Other things that come to mind about just how rubbish the IBM-compatible PC was in 1992.
Colour-space management
This is more of an issue with Windows, and I'm not sure if it was the same in OS/2.
Let's face it, if a person wasn't just using MS-DOS, they were more likely to use MS Windows instead of OS/2.
This affected how images were printed. In Windows, the colour space was defined by the graphics/display card. So if your card can only output an 800x600 image in 256 colours, then it will print that image in 256 colours, even if the printer can print 24 or 32 bits. The colour space in Apple's System (MacOS) and Amiga OS, were not defined by the display capabilities. Either system can print a high-res 24-bit image, even if it is being displayed in grayscale, or not displayed on the screen at all.
With the availability of low cost graphics cards on the PC which were able to handle display of 24-bit images at very high resolutions 1600x1200 or greater, this was no longer as much of an issue. But that didn't happen until the late '90s.
Hardware compatibility and drivers
The more cards a person installed on their VESA/ISA bus, the more challenging the hardware compatibility became. Setting of jumpers on each card, making sure they're in the right/correct ISA slot, and then managing drivers inside the DOS applications/games, or Windows.
Sure, there was an increasing amount of options for cards on the PC, but so many of the people I knew with a PC would get excited about the new card they've purchased, e.g. sound card, only to find out that it is only supported in half of their applications/games.
Multitasking, or lack thereof
Eight character file/folder names
Needing to get clever with naming files and folders so that you could remember what they were when you saw them again months later.
Also, the dependency on the three-letter extension for file association instead of the file metadata.
And also an overall character limit of folder/file name nesting path, which if IRC was 256 characters.
Boot times
Not a big issue, but an annoying one nonetheless.
So why DID most people buy one without thinking?
Outside of the US, where capitalism tricked its workers to continue to work on work projects at home without getting paid, I can think of only a few reasons why a person would buy a 286/386 PC for the home in 1992:
1. They asked the salesperson at the computer store which computer they should get.
2. They bought a PC from work which was being replaced. Quite a few teens I knew at the time ended up with a bleep-bloop 16-colour PC in their room this way.
3. The kid who asked for a PC never cracked open a computer magazine, nor had any friends with an alternative platform. Dad, can I get a PC? Like the one that Billy down the street has?
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@agami
Colour-space management with support for 24 bit is in Windows since Windows 3.1 which was released in summer of 1992.
Nonefornow
Posted on 8-Dec-2021 15:40:47 [ #23 ]
From: Greater Los Angeles Area
I do not think anyone would argue that the PC-compatible was technically superior or better than the Amiga.
The real issue is that while the Amiga was really big in the last part of the '80, by 1992 it was very difficult to find a store that would carry that brand of computers.
On the contrary any inky dinky PC shop could assemble an IBM compatible clone for their customers in a matter of hours.
Or at least that was my experience here on the west coast.
I think the answer can be even simpler. They just didn't know any different. They walked into a computer shop and the computer sold PCs. The shop didn't sell Amiga or Mac, an Acorn or an Atari ST. So effectively they didn't even know what else a computer could be. A computer was a PC. That's all they knew. They weren't ignorant, they just didn't know. The PC shop didn't open their eyes. That's my take.
It goes even further. From then to today people are Microwashed. A scammer calls you up to fool you into giving him control of your -PC- and ignorantly give you instructions for Windows. Must be hack kiddie. He's never heard of a Mac?
My niece didn't know what a word processor was. She's only used a "Word". This has infected Macs as well where you can buy a foreign Office package. I say foreign because it looks strange seeing Word on OSX. And it just adds bloat. For most purposes TextEdit is a fine word processor that can give Wordworth a run for its money.
So for a lot of people, a computer was a machine called a PC, that ran windows, you browsed with Explorer, read email with Outlook and typed documents with Word.
From: N-Space
My niece didn't know what a word processor was.
Quite a few people don't know what a web browser is; even fewer know what an operating system is. I used to think this was just common among old people (i.e., my age + 1), but there are younger people who don't know these things as well. I find this strange, since we are all marinating in the Internet.
"Unix is supposed to fix that." -- Jay Miner
spudmiga
From: England, United Kingdom
Amiga could rock it for home users quite happily until about 1997 (an expanded A1200 by this time)
Then the 3D accelerated graphics, CD-ROMs, explosion of Win95/MS Office and all the compatibility requirements that brought, games library etc... the Amiga could just no longer compete.
For what its worth, I don't think 'most' people bought a PC in 1992 anyway.
Most of the public (in the UK at least) did not get their first computers until the late 90s/early 2000s and by then the choice of platform was binary.
Spud.
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And they say a free market creates choices for the consumer.
As long as you're choosing form one of the pre-sellected highly profitable options.
Like the old Ford quote regarding the Model T "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black."
fishy_fis
From: Australia
Dumbest.Poll.Ever.
Zero choices that are based on reality.
In 1992 the pc had dx2 66mhz cpus, pci vga and svga gfx, pci soundcards, etc.,etc.
A major upgrade to the Amiga a few years later was the pixel64... an ISA solution. Years later again the Amiga got PCI options..... implementations hugely inferior to what the PC had in 1992.
Software support second to none and already completely outclassed the Amiga.
Business software, it outdid the Amiga, games wise, it was a *completely* different league already. Productivity software, again the PC outdid the Amiga, Raw gfx and cpu power,.... the Amiga was a toy in comparison. Prices were already much, much better than the Amiga. And so on and so forth.
The *only* place the Amiga could compete was the OS.
The irony of putting "without thinking" in a poll created without thinking is hilarious.
"Only Amiga makes it possible" (to have a display of such stupidity)
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@fishy_fis
Friend fishy_fis,
still in search of intelligent life on Amigaworld?
And, out of all people, could you ever expect any from bigot extraordinaire, mental-institution-candidate BigD?
Oh, friend fishy_fish, my dearest, of all friends... OH!
/MEGA!!!!!!!!!!
I suppose the question should've been better defined with 'How rubbish was a sub-$700 USD PC in 1992'.
Mostly, people are referring to their A500s, A600s, and at the end of 1992 their A1200s.
Lots of high-end tech existed in 1992 at very high prices, and a decked-out 486 DX2 66MHz PC would've beat the equally expensive A4000/040 at most things, except image printing, multi-media and video applications, and multi-tasking.
Whilst the A4000/040 was expensive, it was not as expensive as the Apple Macintosh Quadra 950 at $7,200 USD, which was more so its competition.
The beauty of the Amiga platform was that most of the features of the big-box Amiga were present in the wedge case Amiga's, only running slower. Where with the PC, once you start dropping below $1,000, the features were just no there.
paolone
Following on from the AGA chipset thread I thought we'd analyse the ultimate victor in the market the venerable IBM PC with Soundblaster (if you were lucky or a bleeper if not), single 15-pin game port, VGA graphics and MS-DOS.
PCs were dull machines that businessmen dragged into their homes because safe grey suited IT managers bought similar machines for the office. It was neither suited or the best machine for home use in 1992 IMHO.
The case rests but obviously America knew best and the rest of the world had to follow suit. We just had to wait for Windows XP before PCs could actually operate in a half acceptable reliable way for home users.
This is *exactly* the kind of crap amigans had in mind about PCs, and the motivation why they simply couldn't understand the change it was occurring at the time.
As an A1200 early buyer I couldn't understand, as well, why people would buy pricey PCs to get as many colours on the screen my A1200 could show, while working hard to buy a sound card that could somehow beat the Paula chip. But, to be honest, it took me just a little time to understand I was wrong and that explanation was very simple.
We simply THOUGHT that "only Amiga" made it possible, but that's wasn't the real truth.
Once I stumbled upon a voxel environment demo running on a rather poor 486DX33 machine with a S3 SVGA card, I perfectly understood what reality was: Amiga COULD do many things in a really good fashion, but when it came to processor speed and power grunt, PCs were already taking on the lead. Not to talk when I ran DooM the first time: I immediately understood Amiga was a dead end.
Yes, you COULD bring the Amiga "on par" through accelerators. But once you did, you spent more than you would have, if you simply bought a PC with the right configuration.
During 1994 (so, much time before Windows XP release) I could afford to buy a 16MB Pentium 90 machine (the bugged one!) with a Cirrus Logic SVGA board, a 240MB hard drive and I ran OS/2 Warp on it. It was amazingly responsive. Then I started following the beta releases of Chicago, later renamed Windows 95: it had been a huge step ahead 3.1 and MS/DOS, a step in the wrong direction for some reasons, but a massively upgrade if compared to the older OSes. Plug'n'Pray wasn't comparable to Autoconfig, but you can easily argue that a heavily expanded Amiga has its quirks as well.
Just 2 years later I got my first 3D accelerator. There was no doubt about that: shrinking Amiga users COULD somehow follow me and add 3D cards as well, but the PC was leading the market and creating new opportunities every year, while Commodore almost sucked at this and died long before.
In the end, expandability and wider market made the PC a far better option long before the middle of the '90s, while Commodore's protectionism and scarce development speed didn't bring the Amiga on par in the right time. This killed the Amiga in 1993 already. Amigans just couldn't realise this for a while.
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A 68k Amiga 1200 in 1992 was more competitive in performance and had a better games library compared to x86 than the ARM Raspberry Pi compared to x86-64 hardware today. How many Amiga users here that say the Amiga was not competitive in 1992 want an AmigaOS port to the Raspberry Pi which is relatively less competitive in performance today?
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Not that it matters now since the PC improved and the classic Amiga faded away. I fail to see how you thought a flakey 1992 sub $1000 PC was a better solution as a home computer than a A1200? I really do. Just because you put a better engine in a rust bucket it doesn't suddenly make it a great car! Buggy, slow loading, non-autoconfiguring mess of a machine in 1992 and Wolfenstein, WordPerfect and Lotus didn't change that IMHO.
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Wolfenstein3D development interview
While this makes inspiring reading they were working on 386DX 33Mhz 4mb Ram machines with the PC version of Deluxe Paint and many in-house tools and no scanner or version control system!
What a horrible way to work! Surely if they'd have been gifted a A3000+ with DSP and Amber card they'd have done all of C='s marketing for them! I guess better Amiga hardware would have done John Carmack out of a job regarding his clever screen refresh tech but talk about PC evangelists!
In my view the effort to get the PC to this point was ridiculous and akin to the Los Gatos team building the Lorraine Amiga chipset with breadboards! Reinventing the wheel to give sub standard but ubiquitous business computer PC hardware the edge over much more equipped home computer platforms!
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@paolone
It's unfair to put it all on the shoulders of 1992 Amigans. Most people, consumers and companies such as Apple, IBM, and NeXT, were not able to predict the rapid rise of the open computing platform which gave the world the IBM-compatible PC, and particularly the aggressive rise in price/performance of the x86 CPU which solved most problems through brute-force number crunching.
As much as my Amiga experience of the late '80s and early '90s coloured my view of what computing should be like, it didn't blind me to what was going on in the industry at the time. Especially as I was using Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x at work for several years on 386 and 486 PCs, before eventually in late 1995 getting a Pentium 90 Win95 PC for the home.
That said, that first PC cost me almost $2,500 AUD. But I would've gladly paid $3,000 AUD for a near equally performing 060 AAA Amiga, if Commodore had not gone bankrupt and kept developing computers of comparable performance.
For me it wasn't about Doom II and a CD-ROM drive with Microsoft Encarta 95. By the mid '90s I've had the personal and professional exposure to Apple's System 7.x, Windows/NT 3.x and Windows 95, SCO Unix, and Amiga OS (all); And the computing paradigm that most aligned with my personal computing philosophy was the Amiga. Other platforms had their fortes, but for me the Amiga was a generalist. Which is what the PC platform eventually became during the Windows XP era, a decade later.
Distorting the conversation and adding your own narrative doesnt change reality.
I never mentioned a "flakey 1992 sub $1000 pc".
That was your contortion of the conversation.
As for "slow loading",....faster than an a1200. And no, 3 pieces of software dont showcase *anything*, which makes your attempt to suggest it does bizarre.
And an Amiga isnt autoconfiguring when it approaches anything like a pc spec.
Do you actually *try* to appear stupid?
It sure appears that way.
When was an a1200 $35?
And its a ridiculous point of comparison even disregarding that.
A Pi has enough grunt to be useful. It doesnt need to be "relatively competitive".
On top of that, Ive yet to see someone who accurately pointed out the Amiga wasnt competitive in '92 even mention OS4.
Aha, but do you acknowledge that in 1992 PCs under $700 USD were rubbish?
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Friend agami,
warmest of friends,
back in 1992 there was no such thing as a $700 USD PC, let alone one UNDER that price.
A CRT monitor alone, costed $700, in 1992.
Are you perhaps training yourself in the fine and ancient art of provoking,
or are you merely mentally impaired?
In 1992 a price war started among PC manufacturers (The Great Price war...) with Compaq in the lead of price cuts. As the year ended, you could buy a PC with 386SX 25 MHz, 4 MB RAM, 1 MB ISA SVGA, 14" SVGA monitor and 80 MB HDD for under 1300 USD (Gateway 2000 advert in InfoWorld 14 December 1992 p. 91; note Windows, MS DOS and MS Works included). Plain 386SX VGA PCs were even cheaper. Basic VGA card (256 kB) cost 60 USD and plain VGA monitor 120 USD (mono) or 230+ USD (colour) (CDW advert in PC Mag 24 November 1992 p. 543).


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Armistice Day in Dafen, 2018
Written by Caroline Streek
On 4th November, one week before the official commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the 1918 Armistice which ended the First World War, LCH installed an interpretive panel on Maescanner Road, Dafen.
More than one hundred people attended a very moving memorial service in the parish church of St. Michael and All Angels, conducted by the Revd. Sulin Milne and the Revd. Eldon Phillips. Hymns and songs were sung by the church choir and members of Prince Philip's Hospital choir, Hospital Notes. Representatives of the services paraded their colours into the church, and the Last Post was played.
One of the wrought iron memorial benches
The Dafen Memorial stone
The Dafen Memorial plaque
LCH Memorial Interpretive Panel
Visitors view the LCH Memorial Interpretive Panel
The Sponsor Mr George Parker lays a wreath of poppies
A member of the band stands in silence and respect
Llanelli Veterans parade before the Memorial Garden
The Sponsor Mr George Parker (L) and LCH Committee members
A piper then led the scarlet-coated band of the Llanelli Corps of Drums the few hundred yards down Maescanner Road resplendent with bright red poppies on every available railing and lamppost to the memorial garden. Smartly uniformed cadets from all branches of the services marched behind, followed by a large crowd of friends, relatives and Dafen residents.
The Revd. Eldon Phillips, George Parker (the generous sponsor) and Cllr. Robert Evans who did much of the organising, spoke briefly about the young men whose lives and deaths were being commemorated.
The panel stands on a triangular green alongside a substantial memorial stone, two wrought iron benches and some pretty planting which all together make this an attractive garden garden for quiet rest and contemplation.
We understand that four of the soldiers named had once lived in the road within sight of the panel which now commemorates their deaths.
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Q: Instantiate Null Object Inside Extension Method I am wanting to know if it's possible to instantiate a null object inside of an extension method for that object.
Example:
Simple class
public class TestClass
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }
}

Extension Method
public static class ExtensionMethods
{
    public static void GetTestClass(this TestClass tc, string name)
    {
        using (SqlConnection cn = new SqlConnection(myConnectionString))
        using (SqlCommand cmd = cn.CreateCommand())
        {
             cmd.CommandText= "SELECT Name, Age FROM Person WHERE Name = @Name";
             cn.Open();

             cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Name", name);

             using (SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader())
             {
                 if (dr.Read())
                 {
                     tc = new TestClass();
                     tc.Name = name;
                     tc.Age = int.Parse(dr["Age"]);
                 }
             }
        }
    }
}

The user is going to give me a name, and I want to validate that the name exists by doing this...
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    TestClass tc = null;
    tc.GetTestClass("Some Name");

    if (tc == null)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Not Found");
    }

    Console.Read();
}

Is this possible?  My current code leaves the original object as null.  I didn't know if I was doing something wrong of it this was just not possible.
Thanks.

A: This cannot work, you need a method that returns an object.  Assigning the this argument in an extension method won't do what you want it to do, it isn't going to modify the tc variable.
You might be falling victim to the trappings of IntelliSense here, yes it is going to show you the GetTestClass() method.  But the code you'd have to write doesn't pass the right side code review door:
  tc = tc.GetTestClass("some name");

Clearly you want a static factory method here:
  tc = Mumble.CreateTest("some name");

A: I agree with @Stuart. It looks like you are hoping that the extension method will overwrite the current instance of the class with something retrieved by the database.
Either you need to remove the tc = new TestClass(); in the read loop or rewrite this extension class as a static factory method on TestClass or maybe a TestClassFactory.

A: No - this code doesn't make sense:
TestClass tc = null;
tc.GetTestClass("Some Name");

This could looks like it should throw a NullReferenceException...
OK - so it doesn't (see example on http://www.pvle.be/2008/11/extension-methods-and-null-objects/) but it also doesn't pass tc in by ref either... so it won't update tc for you

MSDN on extensions says:

In general, we recommend that you
  implement extension methods sparingly
  and only when you have to. Whenever
  possible, client code that must extend
  an existing type should do so by
  creating a new type derived from the
  existing type.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx

IMO it would be better to implement what you are looking for as some sort of Factory method.
Or you could use something like:
   TestClass tc = new TestClass();
   if (tc.TryFillFrom("Some Name"))
   {
       // do stuff
   }
   else
   {
       // handle missing error
   }

or you could use a FillFrom method which throws some NotFoundException

A: No, that is not possible.
It's only a copy of the reference from the variable that is sent to the method, so you can't change the contents of the variable.
It wouldn't be intuitive to use an extension method like that, anyway. Eventhough you can call an extension method on a null reference, your method would rely on it.
Just use a regular static method instead, and return null if the record is not found:
TestClass tc = TestClass.GetTestClass("Some Name");

A: It is possible, but when you assign to tc, the assignment only affects the parameter inside the method, not the variable passed to that parameter. It's no different to what happens with conventional parameter passing:
public static void GetTestClass(TestClass tc, string name) {
    ...
    tc = new TestClass();
    ...
}

static void Main() {
    TestClass tc = null;
    GetTestClass(tc, "Some Name");
    // The assignment to tc in GetTestClass doesn't affect the tc variable in Main.
    ...
}

As for a solution, avoid invoking extension methods on null references. It is obviously confusing. Just get the new object via simpler, more conventional idioms:
public static TestClass GetTestClass(string name) {
    ...
    TestClass tc = new TestClass();
    ...
    return tc;
}

static void Main() {
    TestClass tc = GetTestClass("Some Name");
    ...
}

A: I'm surprised that everyone is offering static method solutions. If this is how your class is always instantiated, use a constructor. That's what they're for. If it's not the only way then create an empty constructor and overload it to pass in your parameters when you DO want it instantiated that way. I would prefer to have the two constructors like this
public class TestClass
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }

    public TestClass() { }

    public TestClass(string name)
    {
        using (SqlConnection cn = new SqlConnection(myConnectionString))
        using (SqlCommand cmd = cn.CreateCommand())
        {
             cmd.CommandText= "SELECT Name, Age FROM Person WHERE Name = @Name";
             cn.Open();

             cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Name", name);

             using (SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader())
             {
                 if (dr.Read())
                 {
                     Name = name;
                     Age = int.Parse(dr["Age"]);
                 }
             }
        }
    }
}

To me, this is more straight forward. Extension methods should be used when you don't have access to a class's code to add a method of your own.

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The Orientation Session advises on the roles and responsibilities of members and how you can volunteer in activities such as animal rescues, caring for wildlife at home, food collecting, fundraising, phone monitoring, woodwork, sewing and public education and much more.
This is followed by a short session of our phone and transport training as we encourage all members to help with our 'intake' end of wildlife rehabilitation.
The fee for Orientation includes membership for the year.
Although you may attend any of our training courses at any time it is a requirement that, before members can care for wildlife they must have attended the Orientation Session. All species courses are open to members and non-members, anyone who would like information about native animals. Only members, who are covered by the ACT Wildlife licence to care are able to take up caring.
This all day Basic Bird Course will give members a basic knowledge and understanding of what is involved in the rescue, rehabilitation and release of injured, sick and orphaned birds.
This course will cover every aspect of caring for birds including, identification, basic anatomy, diet, husbandry, identification of common ailments and injuries, care and release. Orphaned birds will also be discussed in detail. There will be opportunities for practical demonstration with a bird and scenarios for discussion.
As 80% of all wildlife coming into care in the ACT region are birds this course will provide the basics for caring for all rescued wildlife. It is therefore a preference of ACT Wildlife for all new members wanting to care for any wildlife to gain experience in caring for birds and then after an assessment process progress onto caring for other species.
This is an all day course to give you a greater knowledge and understanding of native birds.
Topics include anatomy, flight, evolution, diet, husbandry, medications, identification of common ailments and injuries. Each stage from rescue to release is discussed. This course is aimed at carers who have had previous experience in caring for birds and have attended the Basic Bird course and gained a good basic knowledge of how to handle and rehabilitate wild birds in captivity.
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The most commonly seen reptiles are Blue-tongue Lizards, Shinglebacks and Bearded Dragons that have been attacked by dogs and cats, and Eastern Long-necked Turtles that have been run over by cars. Reptiles are generally hardy creatures and often recover from serious injury. A reptile can remain in care for months due to injuries and seasonal considerations, so the correct set-up is essential.
ACT Wildlife does not rescue snakes or provide long-term care for domestic reptiles. You'll need to be prepared to house wild animals that come into care separately from any pets you might have.
From time to time we run extra courses if enough people are interested in helping out with the phone and transport duties that are an essential component of our operation. WildMan is the database we use to enter phone calls and animal details.
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She was charged with treason for her involvement in the Babington Plot.
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Just like the Redmi Note 4/4X, the Mi 5X packs a Snapdragon 625 Processor coupled with 4GB RAM. It is having a 5.5-inch Display with unknown resolution.
Earlier leak reveals that the Mi 5X will be priced at CNY 1999 (18940 INR/ 294USD). The price seems to be a little bit higher, as we already have the Redmi Note 4 with same specs in a low price. However we have to wait till 26th July to see the full specs of this upcoming beast.


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Datawatch Corporation is the data intelligence solutions provider that will fuel your business. Datawatch can confidently position individuals and organizations to master all data – no matter the origin, format or narrative – resulting in faster time to insight. Datawatch solutions are architected to drive the use of more data, foster more trust and incorporate more minds into analytics and reporting projects. With over 25 years in business, organizations of all sizes in more than 100 countries worldwide use Datawatch products, including 93 of the Fortune 100. The company is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, with offices in Toronto, New York, London, Stockholm, Singapore and Manila
https://datorama.com/
With Datorama, customers can automatically connect all their disparate marketing tools and reports in one centralized place, access and act on the right cross-channel KPIs, dashboards, reports and AI-powered insights, and optimize and report on every investment, performance, and outcome across the customer journey. Datorama powers marketing intelligence for thousands of brands, agencies and publishers globally including IBM, Nike, Ticketmaster, Viacom and Neo@Ogilvy. They have a global presence with 16 offices worldwide and were recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranks #35 on the Deloitte Fast 500 list
https://energywatch-inc.com/
EnergyWatch helps organizations reduce energy expenses, simplify energy reporting, and measure and verify performance through utility invoice analytics, utility budgeting and reporting, real-time consumption analytics, and energy procurement. The company's proprietary, fully-integrated, cloud-based energy management program, watchwire, identifies and analyzes the interactive effects of operational and capital improvements on utility supply and delivery costs; measures, verifies, and reports on key performance indicators; and summarizes the results for key decision makers. They distill complex utility data and rate structures into actionable and meaningful results for their clients
https://www.fticonsulting-asia.com/?rl=apac
FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. Individually, each practice is a leader in its specific field, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle – from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected events and dynamic environments
Information Builders
https://www.informationbuilders.com/
Information Builders provides the industry's most scalable software solutions for data management and analytics. They help organizations operationalize and monetize their data through insights that drive action. Information Builders' integrated platform for business intelligence (BI), analytics, data integration, and data quality, combined with their proven expertise, delivers value faster, with less risk. The company believes that data and analytics are the drivers of digital transformation, and they are on a mission to help customers capitalize on new opportunities in the connected world. Information Builders is headquartered in New York, NY, with global offices, and remains one of the largest privately held companies in the industry
Interstates Control Systems, Inc
https://www.interstates.com/
Interstates offers electrical construction, electrical engineering, and control systems services. For over fifty years, they have tackled complex challenges and developed innovative solutions for industrial manufacturing and processing facilities around the world. What started out as a small electric company, has evolved into an organization with over 800 employees and multiple locations throughout the Midwest. Interstates has created a collaborative workplace based on trust, integrity, and support. Using software defined networking, NIST components, and cloud-based modules, they combine the latest Operational Technology (OT) with a team that proactively monitors an organization's system and neutralizes potential threats
MapR Technologies
https://mapr.com/
MapR Technologies, provider of the industry's next generation data platform for AI and Analytics, enables enterprises to inject analytics into their business processes to increase revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. MapR addresses the data complexities of high-scale and mission critical distributed processing from the cloud to the edge, IoT analytics, and container persistence. Global 2000 enterprises trust the MapR Data Platform to help them solve their most complex AI and analytics challenges. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, SAP and other leading businesses are all part of the MapR ecosystem
MicroStrategy [Nasdaq: MSTR]
https://www.microstrategy.com/us
In 1989, MicroStrategy was founded on the principle that the future belongs to organizations that effectively harness the power of their data. This vision has driven them from day one to deliver world-class software and services that redefine what's possible and help transform customers on their journey to becoming the Intelligent Enterprise. MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a worldwide leader in enterprise analytics and mobility software. A pioneer in the BI and analytics space, MicroStrategy delivers innovative software that empowers people to make better decisions and transform the way they do business. They provide enterprise customers with world-class software and expert services so they can deploy unique intelligence applications
PARIS Technologies International
https://paristech.com/
PARIS Technologies develops and delivers software solutions that provide the highest levels of Connectivity, Collaboration and Governance—connectivity across database systems; collaboration among users with their tool of choice (Excel, BI products, web, mobile); governance of secure, single-source, non-proprietary data models. For over 20 years they have worked with customers around the world to implement exceptional Planning, Analytics, Reporting Information Systems—the PARIS acronym. Their solutions lead to unprecedented gains in productivity, transforming data into actionable knowledge and providing critical insights to key staff all the way up to the C-suite. Our products are graceful, powerful and robust, and make business intelligence dynamically available in the tools people prefer to use
Simpleview
https://www.simpleviewinc.com/
Simpleview helps destination marketing organizations (DMOs) succeed on every front, from convention sales to tourism marketing and day-to-day operations. The company offers integrated products and services, including the industry's most advanced customer relationship management (CRM) and content management system (CMS) platforms, powerful forecasting and reporting tools, dynamic websites, sites for mobile web, search engine optimization and interactive marketing. Founded in 1991, Simpleview employs more than 220 people with offices in Arizona, Texas, Minnesota and California who serve more than 540 domestic and international DMOs
Tableau Software[NYSE:DATA]
https://www.tableau.com/
Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Offering a revolutionary new approach to business intelligence, Tableau allows clients to quickly connect, visualize, and share data with a seamless experience from the PC to the iPad. Companies can create and publish dashboards and share them with colleagues, partners, or customers—no programming skills required. When it comes to elevating people with the power of data, only Tableau combines a laser focus on how people see and understand data with the kind of robust, scalable platform you need to run even the world's largest organizations. From connection through collaboration, Tableau is the most powerful, secure, and flexible end-to-end analytics platform for an organization's data
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeWave®, Inc., which provides unparalleled inbox protection from today's exploding messaging threats, today announced that the company recently promoted Steve Kelley to serve as CEO and appointed Louis Ryan as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Previously, Kelley had served as President and Ryan as CEO of EdgeWave. The two executives will continue to collaborate on driving company strategy through EdgeWave's next growth phase.
"The board and I are confident that Steve is the best person to lead EdgeWave as CEO as the company accelerates growth," Ryan said. "Email users worldwide face an onslaught of socially engineered attacks, which makes our mission to deliver the World's Safest Inboxes™ more important than ever before. With the experienced and dedicated EdgeWave team, our patent-pending technology and Steve's leadership, I'm excited about our future."
Ryan brings more than two decades of experience to the Executive Chairman role, having served as a board member since 2006 and as chairman since 2008. His broad experience in the technology industry includes key founder and leadership positions at several startups, including Delrina and Living VideoText, which were both sold to Symantec Corp., and Entercept Security Technology, which was sold to McAfee, Inc. Ryan remains an active investor and board member in the technology space.
Kelley has more than 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity sector, serving in crucial leadership positions at Trustwave, BeyondTrust and Websense prior to joining EdgeWave. Earlier in his career, Kelley cofounded and served as CEO of Taasera, which pioneered the "trust as a service" model for preemptive breach detection and protection befor the company was sold to Full Circle Investments. Kelley began his career at Accenture.
"I'm excited to lead the EdgeWave team as we move into our next growth phase as a disruptor in the email security space," Kelley said. "EdgeWave has developed a unique, holistic approach to email security — covering predelivery protection, postdelivery detection and incident response — that sets our platform apart from traditional and emerging email security providers. I'm grateful to Lou and the board for this opportunity, and I'm thrilled to continue working alongside the amazing EdgeWave team as we continue to close the gap in traditional email security solutions.
EdgeWave eliminates email-borne security risks for organizations, including targeted, socially engineered attacks. A multiple InfoSec Award winner, EdgeWave offers a range of products that protect content, secure email and safeguard web gateways. Find out more at www.edgewave.com.
EdgeWave Delivers the World's Safest Inboxes™ by eliminating email-borne security risks from targeted, socially engineered attacks. Our multi-layered Email Security Platform provides unparalleled pre- and post-delivery inbox protection from today's proliferating messaging threats like ransomware, spear phishing, business email compromise and more. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, EdgeWave has more than 2,500 customers and over 3.5 million protected users worldwide.


OK. Tracy is begging for more. She said, just write down what you eat and drink. OK, no. No, thank you on that one, Trace!
I'm going to write about the $47 snowman.
Mikelle and I went to Wood Creations on Friday to find something for her Super Saturday. She has a budget of $200 for the whole day so we were looking for something cheap, easy and cheap. Oh, yah, I already mentioned that. I am doing a couple of crafts for Tracy's Maggie Day but those, evidently, didn't catch Mikelle's eye.
So, our plan was to just get some little embellishments for the snowman — an evergreen branch with a pine cone on it, a bell, ribbon. A big ruler or something for the brim of the hat. Well, I'm here to tell you, I spent $47 at JoAnn's on three different colors of orange paint for the nose, white and light ivory paint for the face, black for the hat, snaps for eyes, little gems for the mouth, a sprig of red berries for a splash of color and of course the evergreen which was 30% off!
Every little thing adds up. Mikelle and I gasped quite audibly at the checkout, while cursing ourselves for not having the coupon sheet that we got just the week before, stating that all of the above could have been purchased for half that much!
I went to Home Depot and got the big 5-gal paint sticks that would work well for the brim and to cut a long carrot nose from. That was free, but I only got two and need at least 20 more. And, last night I started on the little project so I could get a picture to Mikelle for her Enrichment calling. The thing that really killed me, as in stuck-a-pointed-paint-stick-right-through my-little-clutch-purse, was that when I went down to my craft area I found I already had evergreen branches, three orange paints, lots of black, white and ivory, as well, many red Christmasy berries. I already had black snaps for snowman eyes. The only thing I really needed was the little black gems which would have cost less at WM. And, notice, I didn't even use them on the snowman. I think he looks better without a mouth.
But, hey, I've got a year's supply of crafts in case the world comes to an end. Or, when I need to do a craft next year.
He is dang cute! We should add him as a choice…then you could use up all the stuff you bought!
Actually, we only got two pieces of wood. And I already used both of them. Maybe a door prize, tho.


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Alaska Cargo and Cold Storage Launches Major Addition to the Global Cold Chain
Alaska Cargo and Cold Storage, LLC signed a 55-year ground lease with the State of Alaska for a 700,000-square-foot cold storage facility strategically located at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, the sixth-busiest cargo airport in the world. Business Wire
ACCS signs 55-year ground lease with State of Alaska for new, runway-adjacent, 32.5-million-cubic-foot cold storage development at ANC
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Cargo and Cold Storage, LLC (ACCS) and the State of Alaska executed a 55-year lease agreement at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC), marking a major milestone in the development of a more than 700,000-square-foot, climate-controlled warehouse facility. With 32.5 million cubic feet of capacity, the facility will provide ANC with a critical piece of infrastructure at the world's sixth-busiest cargo airport.
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"This project will improve shipping to and through Anchorage, create jobs, and show the world that Alaska is open for business," said Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy. "We're excited about the potential this integral piece of the global cold chain has to make Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and Alaska a more attractive place for global companies to do business."
ACCS is a joint venture of industrialist Chad Brownstein and McKinley Capital Management, LLC (McKinley Capital), which is led by Rob Gillam. Brownstein is the founder of Rocky Mountain Resources which has aggregated an industrial complex throughout the Mountain West. Gillam is the chief executive officer and chief investment officer at McKinley Capital.
Located on the Great Circle Route, ANC is within 9.5 hours of 90% of key markets in Asia, Europe and North America. Illustrating this importance, during COVID-19 air travel disruptions, ANC was the busiest airport in the world on select days in 2020. Historically, a limited supply of warehouse and transfer facilities at ANC designates ANC's air cargo support as "gas-and-go." Brownstein and Gillam say the development of ACCS — located runway-adjacent and within a Foreign Trade Zone — will position ANC to be transformed into a key cold chain transfer hub for global air cargo carriers.
"We believe Alaska offers world-class development and investment opportunities," said Gillam. "ACCS is a clear instance. There are many industries that require cold storage. One example is Alaska seafood, one of Alaska's biggest exports, and it's shipped globally. For decades, almost no value-added or fresh production occurred in-state. ACCS will lead the way in changing that trend. Now, Alaska can capitalize on its valuable position as a hub between North America and Asia. We see this project as something with potential to increase air cargo traffic and spur local economic development. We're confident ACCS will ultimately bring more dollars and jobs into Anchorage and across the state."
"The addition of this facility with cold storage capabilities brings new opportunity for the global distribution tenants and customers already benefitting from the unique features of the Anchorage trade and tariff exemptions," said Brownstein. "The facility will serve as the cold storage gateway between the Americas, Asia, and Europe, and further integrate Alaska into the global cold chain."
"Cargo carriers and their industry partners are recognizing the advantages of operating at ANC. ACCS's new facility will strengthen our already powerful cargo network," said Airport Director Jim Szczesniak. "ANC offers daily, nonstop freighter service to more than 30 destinations and near daily service to an additional 20. This facility will allow perishables to be consolidated from North America and Latin America and then distributed to freighters bringing perishables closer to the consumer. Cutting the time from field or sea to the consumer will provide a better product."
In September 2020, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA), a $21 million BUILD grant to administer in support of the ACCS project.
"It's incredible to be a part of this project that has the potential to improve Alaska's position on the global supply chain," said AEA Executive Director Curtis W. Thayer. "Our partnership with the ACCS team enables AEA to deploy its expertise to assure that the best of cutting-edge technology will make the building a showpiece in energy-efficiency."
The facility will be constructed in phases. The first phase will be roughly 190,000 square feet with plans to begin construction in the second half of 2021. When fully completed, the facility will offer cold and warm storage, quick cargo, and general warehousing options, logistics services, and auxiliary space for tenant offices.
About Alaska Cargo and Cold Storage, LLC
Alaska Cargo and Cold Storage, LLC (ACCS) is a joint venture of industrialist Chad Brownstein and McKinley Capital Management, LLC (McKinley Capital), which is led by Rob Gillam. Brownstein is the founder of Rocky Mountain Resources which has aggregated an industrial complex throughout the Mountain West. Gillam is the chief executive officer and chief investment officer at McKinley Capital. ACCS signed a 55-year ground lease with the State of Alaska to develop a secure, more than 700,000-square-foot and 32.5 million-cubic-foot, climate-controlled warehouse facility at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC).
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