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Tientsin, Treaties of
A set of agreements that opened China to further foreign penetration. It was one of the unequal treaties signed between China and the Imperial powers. The First Opium War had started the process of active foreign aggression against China. The treaty of Nanjin, concluded between Britain and China in August 1842, had forced China to open its doors for foreign commerce. The Second Opium War, or Arrow War, was the result of tension between China and foreign powers after 1842. The immediate causes were the murder of a Catholic missionary and the seizure of a British registered ship, the Lorcha Arrow . Anglo-French troops took Guangzhou and Tientsin, forcing the Chinese to accept a treaty. It was signed at Tientsin, the largest commercial city in Chih-li, the metropolitan province of China and hence the name of the treaty. The first phase of the Arrow War was over. France, Britain, Russia, and the United States were party to the treaties, and the preamble of each treaty affirmed the "lasting and sincere friendship" between sovereign of the Chinese Empire and the respective governments.
China provided 10 new ports, including Niuzhuang, Danshui, Hankou, and Nanjing for foreign trade and commerce. Britain, France, Russia, and the United States were also permitted legations in the closed city of Beijing. The Yangtze River became free for foreign ships, and even the warships could anchor at 15 Chinese ports. Where the treaty of Nanjin had opened up 5 ports, 10 more were now added. Toleration for Christianity and missionary activity was guaranteed. Foreigners with passports could travel to interior regions of China for trade. The humiliation was complete when China agreed to pay a huge war indemnity to Britain and France. The opium trade was legalized and millions of Chinese became addicted. It took two years to ratify the treaty. Meanwhile, hostilities broke again in 1859. The imperial summer palace was burned and Beijing besieged. By the Beijing Convention in October 1860, the terms of the treaties of Tientsin were confirmed and the weakness of China fully exposed.
See also <>.
Beeching, Jack. The Chinese Opium Wars. London: Hutchinson, 1975;
Epstein, Israel. From Opium War to Liberation. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co, 1980;
Polachek, James M. The Inner Opium War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992;
Waley, Arthur. The Opium War through Chinese Eyes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968.
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Bitcoin could soar to $100,000 this year on the basis of current trends, according to Marcus Swanepoel, chief executive of Luno, a London-based cryptocurrency platform. The leading cryptocurrency reached $34,800 for the first time on Sunday, extending a record-breaking rally in the volatile currency that delivered a more than 300 percent gain last year. Bitcoin soared nearly 800% to reach $34,800 earlier on Monday. The second leading cryptocurrency Ethereum also went past $1,000 for the first time in three years.
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A DISCORDANT NOTE. President Foster awarded diplomas to Reed's first graduates in 1915. Howard Barlow '15 didn't get one.
Fanfare in a Minor Key
Howard Barlow '15 was the heart and soul of Reed's music program. The English Department didn't approve.
By John Sheehy '82 | October 13, 2021
By all accounts, Reed's first commencement in 1915 was a joyous affair. As graduating seniors gathered before the rostrum of Eliot Hall's back steps, the sun came out, beaming down on the assembled throng of proud parents and the college's five founding trustees. News that Stephenson Smith '15 had been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship helped to validate the college's claims of intellectual rigor, as did the hard-won achievements of those in the first graduating class. Of the fifty students who had enrolled in Reed's inaugural freshman class, 64% received their diplomas that day, a graduation rate that would not be topped for half a century.
Among the robes and mortarboards, however, lay a discordant note. Howard Barlow '15, the English major who had more or less singlehandedly run the college's music program, did not receive his diploma when he walked to the podium. Instead, Reed's president, William T. Foster, presented him with a consolation prize—a gold medal bearing the seal of the college. It was a demonstration of the college's unsparing adherence to academic integrity.
Perhaps, thought President Foster, too unsparing.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. Howard Barlow '15 was the heart and soul of musical life on campus. He led the chorus, organized Sunday Vespers, and staged concerts that drew fans from all over Portland. Unfortunately, his grades suffered and the faculty deemed his thesis insufficient. Decades later, he returned to Reed for a dramatic final cadence.
Barlow transferred to Reed in his sophomore year from the University of Colorado. His arrival was an indication that Foster felt something was missing in the nascent student body. Part of that had to do with the expectations that Foster, a thirty-one-year-old, first-time president, himself had created.
Barnstorming the country to promote the new college, Foster created a buzz by brazenly criticizing the common practice of admitting students "on condition," meaning their academic deficiencies were essentially overlooked. Foster contended that accepting such "unfits" for the sake of securing tuition dollars reduced the college experience for all into little more than "a sheep-dip assembly line."
Reed, he promised, would be different. Devoid of fraternities, intercollegiate athletics, and other "sideshows," the school would forge its sense of community from a devotion to scholarship, expressed through independent thinking, tolerance of opposing views, free speech, and a relentless, painstaking search for the truth. That message was spelled out in the marketing materials, which advised prospective students that they must be "willing to work, and to work hard."
Thanks to Reed's initial endowment from the estate of Simeon and Amanda Reed, Foster was able to guarantee that no student would be admitted "on condition," nor any student turned away for inability to pay the $100 annual tuition fee ($2,500 in today's currency).
Because Reed's trustees decided on a soft opening for 1911—quickly throwing up a downtown warehouse for temporary classes while the permanent campus was being built in Eastmoreland—there were no dormitories available freshmen year, meaning that the student body was largely restricted to Portland commuters, our students from out of the area willing to find boarding on their own.
Foster received 263 applications for fifty slots in the very first freshman class. After personally interviewing each of the finalists, as well as their parents, ministers, teachers, and other intimates, he chose twenty-four women and twenty-six men. Described by one professor as "a thoroughly wholesome and unsophisticated lot," the majority of students received financial aid; ten of them full scholarships. Although the gender balance was essentially even, men and women were to be taught separately, as a discrete college was planned for women on the new campus, along the model of Harvard and Radcliffe (the plan was ultimately dropped in 1914 due to financial constraints).
SLIGHTLY OUT OF TUNE. Reed's first class, assembled for the first time in 1911, was big on brainpower but light on musical talent—music was not part of the academic curriculum. (Professors, trustees, and President Foster are standing on the right.)
Despite his declaration to create the ideal academic boot camp, Foster soon realized there was something missing in his handpicked student body—something that would lead him to recruit Howard Barlow to Reed the following year.
That missing piece was music.
Music was prominent at Reed's opening convocation on September 18, 1911. Workmen, still applying finishing touches to the college's temporary quarters at SW 11th and Jefferson streets, were asked to put down their tools as fifty wide-eyed freshmen made their way through the building debris to a small storeroom designated as "the chapel." In a brief thirty-minute ceremony, trustee chairman Thomas Lamb Eliot offered an invocation, sociology professor Arthur Evans Wood, fresh out of Harvard Divinity School, read from scripture, and Frances Sheehy '15 sat down at the piano to perform a musical interlude.
A DIFFERENT DRUMMER. Frances Sheehy was an outlier among the class of 1915. She was ten years older, she was a Catholic at an overwhelmingly Protestant college, and she was an outstanding musician. Unfortunately, she had to leave Reed after just two years when her father died of a heart attack.
Sheehy was clearly an outlier among the freshmen. The daughter of an Irish painting contractor, not only was she the sole Catholic among the Protestant students, she was a decade older than most of them, and could have easily been mistaken for one of the college's four professors, whose average age of twenty-seven was equal to hers. After graduating from Portland High, Sheehy had trained for two years at a Chicago music conservatory before returning to Portland, where she became a popular concert pianist and a piano instructor at Pacific University.
Following Sheehy's musical interlude, Foster addressed the students. "The future of this institution," he told them, "is, in a peculiar sense, in our hands."
He wasn't exaggerating. With only four professors, courses the first year were restricted to mathematics, literature and languages, public speaking, history, and College Life—an introduction to Reed's values and study habits. Science courses were postponed until the second year, when labs would be available on the new Eastmoreland campus.
SUPERCONDUCTOR. After Reed, Howard Barlow went on to a stellar career. He led many national symphonies, including the New York Philharmonic Symphony, and served as music conductor of CBS radio and finally NBC's Firestone Orchestra, whose show, the "Voice of Firestone," aired on national TV every Monday night for almost two decades. Wielding the baton in a distinctive white tie and tailcoat, he was instantly recognizable to a generation of Americans in an age when televised concerts were touchstone cultural events.
School days began with chapel service at 8:40 a.m. Although not compulsory—Reed was nonsectarian—morning chapel became a popular ritual, with the crowd of students standing outside the small chapel as large as those jammed inside. The service consisted of a brief talk by Foster or one of the professors, followed by a classical piano performance by Sheehy, who served as the college's defacto music director. To appeal to students who lacked formal musical training, she favored selections with strong melodies.
Morning chapel service continued at the Eastmoreland campus when it opened in the fall of 1912 with just two buildings, the Arts Building (later renamed Eliot Hall) and the Old Dorm Block. At the new chapel's dedication, Sheehy was joined on stage by Howard Barlow '15, who had just arrived on campus from Colorado and formed the Reed Chorus, assuming from Sheehy the reins of defacto music director. Sheehy, accompanied by Barlow's chorus, performed a song from the Wagner opera Tannhauser.
With freshmen and sophomores now living on campus, Sheehy and Barlow decided to introduce to the chapel a Sunday vespers, or late afternoon prayer service, featuring works by Schubert, Mozart, Mendelsshon, and Handel. As word of the vespers spread, the student performances were opened to the public, drawing in as many as 500 music lovers from Portland. Soon Barlow was conducting regular concerts on campus featuring Sheehy and the Reed Chorus, raising Reed's musical profile in Portland and inspiring students to lobby Reed to create a formal music department.
Foster had no problem with a music department, but most of Reed's faculty members disagreed. They felt that the so-called applied arts—including music, dance, and drama—veered too close toward craft or pre-professional training, and therefore had no place at the "ideal college" Foster had recruited them to, with its uncompromising devotion to scholarship. There could be clubs, they declared, but no classes.
More Reed History
Black Student, White City
The Minister Who Shaped a College—And a City
Burying the MG
Music at Reed suffered another blow in 1913, when Frances Sheehy's father died of a sudden heart attack the summer after her sophomore year. She left Reed to find work, landing at the Portland Symphony Orchestra. She eventually opened a prominent piano school in Portland, which she maintained until her death in 1953.
Meanwhile, Barlow dedicated countless hours to making music at Reed, singlehandedly organizing the vespers and directing the chorus for the next two years. Unfortunately, his studies suffered as a result. In the spring of 1915, the English department rejected his senior thesis. President Foster took the unusual step of appealing their decision. Surely, he argued, Barlow's achievements in music were as original and valuable as any of the accepted theses. But the department refused to budge.
Howard Barlow walked away from the stage that day in 1915 without a diploma, only the gold medal Foster had given him. One can only guess his state of mind, but his dedication to music had paid off in one way, at least—Columbia University had offered him a graduate scholarship. After serving as a sergeant in the US Army during WWI, he went on to a stellar career as a conductor. He led many national symphonies, including the New York Philharmonic Symphony, and served as music conductor of CBS radio and finally NBC's Firestone Orchestra, whose show, the "Voice of Firestone," aired on national TV every Monday night for almost two decades. Wielding the baton in a distinctive white tie and tailcoat, he was instantly recognizable to a generation of Americans in an age when televised concerts were touchstone cultural events.
But the story doesn't end there. Many years later, in 1948, Foster (by then an economist based in Boston) was invited back to campus to deliver the commencement address. By that time, music was no longer considered a sideshow at Reed—Prof. Herb Gladstone had finally established a music department. Rising to address the college he had done so much to shape, Foster spoke on the theme of "Pay the Price and Take It."
"Without freedom of speech," he told the assembly, "there can be nothing worth the name of college. If students say nothing which meets vigorous opposition in the community, either the students are not thinking or they are not allowed to speak. If you wish to have a college worth the name, pay the price and take it."
After his speech, Foster called Howard Barlow to the stage and did something he was not able to do when he had been president. On behalf of the college, Foster presented Barlow with an honorary degree.
Tags: Alumni, Performing Arts, Reed History


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Q: Wrap simple JavaScript plugin using JsInterop i'm currently upgrading my Gwt 2.7 project to 2.8-beta1 and i'm trying to refactor the Javascript plugin wrapper from JSNI to JsInterop.
Here the JSNI wrapper :
public class MyPlugin extends JavaScriptObject {

    protected MyPlugin(){
    }

    public static native MyPlugin init(MyPluginConfig config) /*-{
        return new $wnd.MyPlugin(config);
    }-*/;

    public final native void addItem(MyPluginItem item) /*-{
        this.addItem(item);
    }-*/;

    public final native void setEnable(int itemIndex, boolean enable) /*-{
        this.setEnable(itemIndex, enable);
    }-*/;
}

What i've tried :
@JsType(namespace = JsPackage.GLOBAL, isNative = true)
public class MyPlugin {
    public static native MyPlugin init(MyPluginConfig config);
    public native void addItem(MyPluginItem item);
    public native void setEnable(int itemIndex, boolean enable);
}

The problem, i have no idea how to wrap the constructor.
In the JsInterop doc

A native @JsType class can only have
      Public native methods,
      Public and uninitialized fields,
      Empty constructor,
      Final non-native methods that doesn't override any other methods,

So, this is my question : How to wrap a JavaScript plugin where in the JS the constructor looks like var myPlugin = MyPlugin({option1 : value1, option2 : value2,...}); in JsInterop ?
Thanks for help :)

A: Ok, i found the solution.
Just declare a constructor with params and empty content :
@JsType(namespace = JsPackage.GLOBAL, isNative = true)
public class MyPlugin {
    public MyPlugin(MyPluginConfig config) {} //<--- here
    public native void addItem(MyPluginItem item);
    public native void setEnable(int itemIndex, boolean enable);
}

And it works.
Hope it helps other people :)
EDIT : MyPluginConfig structure
MyPluginConfig is just a POJO class.
@JsType(namespace = JsPackage.GLOBAL, isNative = true, name = "Object")
public class MyPluginConfig {
    @JsProperty public void setXXXX(String str);
    @JsProperty public String getXXXX();
    ...
}

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I recently experimented with my first crochet hair install and I want to tell you guys all about it! I got plenty of comments (and lots of questions) about what I did to get such defined curls and I said, "I ordered it from Divatress.com and paid someone to put it on my head!" Sounds like some of you, too, are interested in a crochet install, so I decided to do a post sharing my experience with my Divatress Crochet Hair and answering some FAQ's you had for me.
For those of you who don't know what a crochet install is, it means your natural hair is cornrowed into a braid pattern and the hair is installed to the braids. A crochet needle (or hook) is used to pull the hair through the cornrow and secured with a loop or knot. There are hundreds of styles and looks you can achieve with the crochet technique and I choose a beach wave curl. I'll give you the exact link for the hair I used later in this post.
Anywhere from 4-8 weeks. This will depend on the quality of the install/hair, your hair care routine, and your own personal preference. For me, I took my hair out just shy of 4 weeks not because of a bad install/hair or that I lacked caring for my hair, but because of my headaches (I am prone to migraines). I can normally keep a protective style in for 4-6 weeks before the weight starts to bother me. Which takes me to the next question.
Is The Crochet Hair Heavy?
I'm sure some hairs are heavier than others, but this particular one was not. It was light and fluffy and I loved it so much! I could barely tell I had extra hair on my head. When in fact, I had 5 extra packs of hair on my head, not to mention the length was much longer than my natural. However by Week 3, it started to feel slightly heavier than Week 1 and it slowly started pulling on my hairline. Especially because I love a good top knot. By Week 3 I found myself doing a half up/half down style, so I could still have my beloved (less heavy) top knot.
What Is The Hair Care Like?
For this particular hair, it was very important to separate and detangle so it didn't cluster into one massive knot – especially at the back. I would just use my fingers to detangle the hair a few times a week. It almost just becomes natural to make sure the curls are separated and I found myself doing it while I was watching TV, stuck in traffic, or randomly thorough the day. A few times a week I would oil my scalp (avocado, olive, or coconut oil) to make sure it stayed moisturized. This helps to keep the natural hair happy and also prevents breaking and itching. I also like to spray the hair with a moisturizing sheen spray to make it shiny and bouncy!
TIP: I love adding a few drops of peppermint to my oil to make my scalp feel (and smell) insanely refreshed. Peppermint can also help stimulate the scalp and promote hair growth. I also like to use peppermint because it's great for headaches, which for me, works amazing because I get headaches often. Win- win!
Can You Wet/Wash The Hair?
Yes! I would wash my scalp (in the shower) once a week, and also shampoo and condition the crochet hair. Like natural hair, product needs to be washed out to avoid build up. On my scalp I like to use a clarifying shampoo to make it feel fresh again. On the crochet hair I will opt to use my less expensive shampoo and conditioner which works great on synthetic hair. Shampoo gently, then condition as normal. I never used a brush or comb on this hair, I only finger combed.
I found the synthetic hair air dries pretty quick, but I will always take the blow dryer and dry my natural hair underneath so it doesn't stay wet in a braid for a day (I have thick hair). When I'm about 80% dry I will start to finger comb through the curls and start to detangle and separate. This is when you might find some shedding and all I do, is take scissors and snip that away to maintain a defined looking curl. It's so satisfying- this was one of my favorite parts!
After my head is completely dry, I add oil back into my scalp and spritz the hair with moisturizing spray (sometimes I add frizz-free foam) and VIOLA! Like new! Light, airy, fresh, and so clean!
The hair I ordered online at Divatress for around $40 USD. It was on sale at the time, and I believe still is! Regular $12.95 on sale for $6.95 wa-hoooo! Shipping was quick, easy, and I'm pretty sure it came within 7-10 business days. Here is the link for the exact hair I used "Mane Concept Caribbean Bundle Braids – Beach Curl 18″ in the color "T1B/27". I ordered 5 packs of crochet hair and used about 80% of it- close estimate. Phew! It's always better to over estimate than under. I will keep the rest of the hair for another install =).
The install price will depend on where you go. I paid in between $150- $200 and the process took about 3-4 hours. I'm always told by stylists that my head is small, but I have lots of hair. Which is deceiving for them when they estimate on how long it will take. My hair is definitely thick and needs the extra TLC haha. After the install, my stylist cut length, added layers, and framed my face. I looove the way she cut it, it was exactly what I was looking for!
Does It Damage Your Natural Hair?
Well, I guess this will heavily depend on your maintenance. I always make sure I take care of my natural hair under my protective style. Like, alwaaays! I wash, oil, and moisturize my scalp like crazy. I am sure to treat my hair with deep conditioners before an install and book a moisturizing treatment and trim after my protective styles are taken out.
What is the Removal Process?
Easy! I just took scissors and snipped the hair to be an inch short and the pulled at the loop. It comes out pretty swiftly with the occasional one giving me a little trouble. The trickiest part is cutting the thread that was used to sew the cornrows tight to prevent the braid from unravelling. This took the most time for me. If you're removing it yourself, just be patient, have a good mirror, and watch a couple episodes of your favorite show (Game of Thrones for me!).
The best part? Getting in the shower and giving your scalp and hair a good ol' wash! Nothing feels better than massaging your scalp after removing all that hair and those cornrows. YES! BLESS THE HEAVENS!!
What are your thoughts on crochet hair? Love/hate it? I'd love to know your thoughts!


A sneaky one that is. It's everywhere, and you know it actually becomes so familiar that we don't even notice we are doing it.
This "control" keeps us very limited and confused… because we feel like we have to control ourselves, the way others think, feel and react, control how things happen, when they happen, what the result will be, control how things manifest, or control our healing or awakening process!
How do I recognize when I am caught up in the frequency of CONTROL?
And how do I release that?
The answer is so cool because it's so simple.
"When we are able to just BE.
When we allow ourselves to BE in the moment.
SO the link between CONTROL and NEED has integrated on a deeper level now, and I understand how important this is.
When I notice that I am hanging onto a NEED, I know I'm being lead by the frequency of control.
To let go of this control frequency is to let go of that need, whatever it is, how big or small.
Getting into that space of total alignment with my true Being / Source, lights up the absolute Trust and Faith within me, and there is no need to look outside myself for anything, because I am content and fulfilled.
When we start to look outside of ourselves it's a sign we are not content with who we really are. We are then focusing on that which has not happened yet, instead of trusting that being in this perfect alignment will attract and manifest all that we truly need… which becomes a funny thought because you feel that "need" is no longer present anyway! You realize that you are not lacking anything at all… well… that is inner peace and surrender right there!


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A couple months ago I had the pleasure of being a part of my friends over at Femme Regard Productions' podcast! The ladies asked me to specifically talk about my experience being on the festival circuit for my award-winning film PLUNDER, as well as a short I star in called,Weltschmerz, that recently picked up an award as well! I always enjoy offering up tidbits of information that I learn along the way, only because I know how difficult it can be within this industry, especially if you are trying to produce your own content. I am grateful for the amount of support I've received in return!
But first, we dive into a fun game, where I get to put on a little accent that goes along with how the game is played, which was super fun!
Click the link and scroll down to mine, and have a listen!
I had an absolute blast at the LA premiere of my film, Weltschmerz, at The Pasadena Int'l Film Festival yesterday! Being able to hear an audience react to certain moments in the film will never get old, and the fact that I had a good amount of my friends there to support me is something I couldn't be more appreciative of.
I ended up staying and watching the Sci-Fi block, and saw some pretty incredible films. Making it a point to support other artists, and seeing what other works are being produced is important to me. Networking with other, like-minded individuals, and working with them is essential for myself.
If you're reading this, and want to collaborate on a project, please don't hesitate to contact me. Let's get to work!
Great news from the acting front! Weltschmerz will finally be screening at a couple of local film festivals, so you can finally see this story! On March 17th, it will screen at The Pasadena International Film Festival Block 14 at 12:00 PM. And on March 25th it will screen at The Golden State Film Festival at The TCL Chinese Theatre at 6 PM.
We wrapped in November 2016, and when it premiered at The San Jose Int'l Short Film Festival back in October '18, I was given a lot of great feedback in how authentic everything was, including my portrayal of this nasty character. Proud doesn't cover how I feel about being able to be in this film, and tell this story, even though it was a very difficult on to tell.
I cannot wait to show you all this work! Come on out and support us. I'd greatly appreciate it! Let's talk film afterward!
Great news from the filmmaking front! My film, PLUNDER, won Best Sound Design short at Culver City Film Festival back in December! It was a really nice way of ending the 2018 festival run. I am waiting on a couple more festival notifications, and am looking forward to the film screening in Michigan again next month!
Starting out 2019 with a bang!
I had a fantastic time at the Culver City Film Festival earlier this month, and even received an opportunity to be interviewed, to talk about my film, PLUNDER, a short film that was my writing/directorial debut! I am super proud of this project, and it continues to be getting some attention, which in-turn, has given me additional exposure. I couldn't ask for anything more!
As I gear up for 2019, I'm still not done with 2018, and will have more news to share in the coming days!
I had such a great time at The Culver City Film Festival this year! I met, and networked with quite a few artists, and filmmakers after the screening of my film, PLUNDER. It was a unique block, as my short film opened right before a feature film screened, which was nice.
I will also be posting an interview I was a part of during the opening night festivities earlier this month, which I am always happy to be involved in. Any chance that I can discuss the process, or share a memorable story about what I do is something I look forward to. We all have plenty of stories to share, and I am happy to have been able to share mine.
Lastly, I will be announcing some news related to this festival! It's good news, so stay tuned!!
As always, I appreciate the support!! It means the world to me.
I am happy to announce that my award-winning short film, PLUNDER, was accepted into The Culver City Film Festival! It will be screening on December 9, 2018 at 7:30 PM at the Cinemark 18 & XD.
This marks the 6th festival appearance, and 5th locally in Los Angeles, which has been ideal. Since the new score has been added on by the talented, Emmy-Nominated composer, John Robert Wood, it offers up a much different feel to the film!
I, once again, have to say how proud I am that this film was finished to completion, and it being my writing/directorial debut is a huge bonus!
Here's a short excerpt from the Q&A I was a part of after Weltschmerz premiered at The Sane Jose International Short Film Festival on October 13th. I always enjoy being able to discuss parts of my process with a particular project I work on. For me, the process isn't always the same, especially Weltschmerz as I had to prepare a German dialect. I love a good challenge, and this definitely presented itself as a pretty big one to conquer!
What an incredible week is was last week! I attended all days at The San Jose International Short Film, and could not have had a better experience. I did a little red carpet interview on opening night, talked about Weltschmerz, a film I am starring in, and premiered there, and even plugged my own film, PLUNDER, as it's screening in MI on the 25th, and 27th of this month in MI.
I got to meet a lot of talented artists, producers, and cannot say enough about the festival creators, Bill and Sinohui, and how generous, and hard working they are. They. Love. Films! I highly suggest submitting to them for next year!
Here's a short teaser trailer for my upcoming film, Weltschmerz! It will be premiering at The San Jose International Short Film Festival on October 13, 2018, and also at The CSU Media Arts Film Festival on October 16, 2018!
Hot off the press! Another win for myself, and my film, PLUNDER! It will be making its Michigan premiere in Grand Rapids next month, and will screen at Thriller Chiller!, which is now the 5th festival it will screen at!
I am currently working hard to figure out a way to be able to attend as I always love going back to my home state/seeing family, representing my films in-person, and making new artist friends who have the same passion as I do!
Things are heating up over here, and I am thrilled for the future of PLUNDER, and my other film, Weltschmerz!
I am thrilled to find out that a film I starred in called, Weltschmerz, has been accepted into The San Jose International Short Film Festival, which is only the beginning with this in-depth period piece that I am very proud to have been a part of.
It will allow me to gain much more exposure, and I am really hoping to attend! I know this film will be going places, and I'm really looking forward to taking the journey!
I will be attending all of the screening days, and I'm really looking forward to being able to support all of the talented artists participating in this festival!
Here is a throwback from when my talented friend, Keri and I put up a scene from the film, Best in Show. Here is a snippet of our rehearsal, and what is so exciting is that we actually got to be able to work with a real poodle! As we know, working with babies, or animals can be very unpredictable, and it was nice to get the chance to run the scene with this adorable poodle, Garmin. Needless to say, he stole the scene later in the week, when we did put it up in front of an audience. So much fun!
Here's a screenshot of a film I was a part of back in June for Femme Regard Productions. To make the experience even better we were able to shoot the film on the Warner Bros lot, which was a nice bonus. Every experience for me, big or small, I am so appreciative of, because it's just allowing me to maintain my creativity, meet/work with new artists, and become an overall better actor/director/artist. Couldn't be happier!
I am always happy to be given the opportunity to discuss my process from the original thought/idea to the final cut. Here's a snapshot of me during the Q&A at The Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival last month.
I had the pleasure of sitting amongst quite a few very talented women while attending a screening of my film, PLUNDER. Sitting to my right is Alyssa Carter. She wrote, directed, and produced a beautifully told short, dramatic narrative called, The 17, taking place in San Salvador. And sitting beside me to my left is ZiJun Xiao who wrote a really gritty short called Salty Dish.
Just as love is love...art is art. I couldn't be happier being surrounded by so many talented artists!
I was given more great news as I landed back into LA today! PLUNDER, has been accepted into its 4th festival - The iFilm Festival!
So far, it's the only online-based film festival that I had submitted to, and out of 7 submissions the film has gotten 4 acceptances thus far. That's huge! Here is to giving myself more exposure, and allowing others to see the great work we all did!
My overall goal has been to create opportunities for myself so that I can work with like-minded, motivated, and creative artist's who truly care about the work they complete. Since this film has been in the can, and since it was given the award of Best Short Thriller at The SBFF back in April, I could not be more proud of this project. Here's to attaching myself to many more, and to being able to work with amazing artists!
I've also been busy shooting sketches with my group, onewordnocaps.com/the-button/. This particular screenshot is from a sketch that will be released very soon. Had a blast pretty much getting all the coverage in one day. That's how we do! Quality sketches, and our days are always made. Yes, I can do funny stuff AND do the dark projects, too! Both are equally fun (in different ways).
I couldn't be more excited to be able to have another opportunity to showcase my talents, and to gain a little more exposure within this industry as well help showcase my friend's talents! That's what it's about!
I was thrilled to be able to be a part of the Q&A after my film, PLUNDER, screened a couple weeks ago at The Silicon Beach Film Festival. Speaking about my process a little bit was fun! Here's to more events like this in the future!
I am so honored to have been given the award for Best Short Thriller for my film, PLUNDER! Out of a 170 films that screened, mine was 1 of 58 to be given an award, so I am feeling pretty happy about that. It's extra special to me, because this film was my writing/directorial debut! My cast and crew worked hard to be able to help me finish this, and I am so thankful I had them behind me a 100%. This is only the beginning!
I am thrilled to share with you the first article published having to do with myself, and my film, PLUNDER! It offers up a little insight into why I love creating original art that matters. Having FilmLocal do a write-up will certainly give me and the film some exposure, which is much-needed!
I am so proud of having put this trailer together in such a short amount of time. Since PLUNDER is being screened at The Silicon Beach Film Festival later this month, I wanted to be sure to entice some viewers that haven't seen the film yet. I specifically did new music just for this trailer, and think it turned out really well!
Excited news to announce! My film, PLUNDER, has been accepted into another film festival! It will be screening at The Silicon Beach Film Festival at the Cinemark 18 later this month! Details to follow!
I can't stress enough how proud I am of this project, and that I can finally say that I've experienced my writing/directorial debut. The decision to accept this challenge given to me by my friends over at Some Assembly Required is one that I won't ever regret!
Today marks one year since I shot my film, PLUNDER. It's actually really hard to believe a year has gone by, but as we know, time flies when you're working hard (and having fun!) Here's to another great year of continuing to get my film out there to audiences, and continuing to gain exposure in this crazy industry!
I was so happy to have been able to attend the festival premiere of my movie, PLUNDER, tonight! The turnout was great, and the rest of the shorts in my block were fantastic!
Proud is an understated feeling, when I talk about how this movie was made. It being my writing, and directorial debut as well as producing the music for this project, I am thrilled to be a part of Some Assembly Required. Every single one of those artists are amazing people, and they deeply care about what they create. So very happy to around such great work!
I am very excited to announce that the film I wrote, directed, acted in, did the music for, and edited was just accepted into its first film festival! PLUNDER will be premiering this Sunday, December 17, 2017 at The California International Film Festival in the Complex Theatre in Hollywood.
I am beyond thrilled as this was my writing/directorial debut. Thank you to the cast and crew for your work on this!
Here's a screenshot of my most recent booking! It was such a cool/fun experience shooting Two-Shot, and one of my favorite sequences is the last one, because it was with a drone! It had a soft screening last night, and even though I wasn't able to attend, I heard it was well-accepted!
I am very happy that the last 3 films I have been a part of have been dynamite. A great story, specific vision, and a film that an audience cares about is why I choose to go out for certain projects. Making art that matters!
Exciting news! I am now represented by the wonderful Lisa over at Castle-Hill Talent Agency for both theatrical and commercial! It's a great way to finish out the last quarter of the year, and I look forward to more and more bookings! Keep the work coming!
I am beyond thrilled to attend the Family and Friends screening of my newest film, Weltschmerz, tonight at The Don Powell Theatre in San Diego at 7:30 PM! This will be the first time I'm seeing the film, and I couldn't be more excited! Here's a little behind-the-scenes photo of me prepping before one of the climactic scenes while the crew set up the shot. You will be hearing about this film, I guarantee it!
I recently went down to San Diego to do a little ADR for my upcoming film, Weltschmerz! It's almost finally completed, and I am very excited to see it screen later on this week! I've heard great things so far, and it will be amazing to finally see this film after 10+ months of collaborative work.
I absolutely love being in class! It's the happy accidents that are most enjoyable. Those moments can charge up a room like no other. The environment we created for this scene was on-point! Maintaining creativity while not working on a project is extremely important!
Here's a screenshot of a scene from my film, PLUNDER, pre-color grade. My DP, Zach Ginnever, sure knows how to fill the frame with an added natural light source coming in from the window! What a fun scene to play, and direct, too!
I am so proud of the environment my scene partner, and I created for our scene in Gary Imhoff's Professional Artists Workshop today! His weekly classes always give me the creative freedom I need to maintain my art. The joys of being in class, and continuing to learn are always fulfilling!
After the friends and family screening of my film, PLUNDER, was shown last month, I am very happy to say that it's finally finished! I ended up editing, and also doing the music for this, too! I am so proud of everyone's work on this. I hope to start submitting to some festivals soon. Exciting stuff!
That's a wrap! I am thrilled to announce that PLUNDER, the short film I wrote, directed, acting in, and produced, is now in the can! We are in editing mode, and will be premiering the film at the www.someassemblyrequiredla.com/ screening on March 16th! I am so proud of allowing myself to rise to the challenge in taking on this beast of a project! Cast and crew were amazing!
I am starting out this year being back in acting class, and it feels great! I just started studying with Gary Imhoff, and I am thrilled!
Be sure to check out the website for my newest film! Stay up-to-date with new movie stills, trailers, how their Kickstarter is coming along, and anything Weltschmerz related!
I just checked out the short teaser trailer in the pitch video, and this film is already looking amazing! Don't miss out on being in the know!
Happy New Year! To celebrate the beginning of 2017, here is a screenshot from my most recent film, Weltschmerz!
I am very excited for this year, because, as I've said before, it's about small successes that bulild into bigger ones. It's all about having proactive patience in this industry.
 That's a wrap! Thank you to the cast and crew of Weltschmerz, for an intense, but amazing experience on this film! I cannot wait until it's finished, and to show all of you the final product!
Hello, Internet! It's been a while, but I've been busy shooting with my sketch group these past few months. Exciting news to share! I've been cast in the lead role of a brand new film called Weltschmerz! I will be playing an SS Officer that takes place in 1940's Germany. We'll be shooting in San Diego, so it'll be nice to go back down there for some fun on set!
I had a blast performing our Disney parody last night at IO West in Hollywood with Hilarity Over Therapy! Catch me as "Slick Willy," Bill Clinton in a song parody on June 8th at 11 PM @ IO West!
Along with performing live with the comedy troupe, Hilarity Over Therapy, in Hollywood, I am now also apart of onewordnocaps Comedy! We've been shooting a few sketches, so keep a look-out for me in the coming months! Here's to keeping the laughter going!
Awesome news! I was just nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award for the Rome Web Fest in Italy for my work in the Stay At Home Mom web series I was in! I am honored and overjoyed!
Great news to share! I am now apart of a very talented LA-based sketch comedy group called Hilarity Over Therapy! Very excited to begin all the funny with this great group of people!
I was very happy to have been called in to audition for a National Hershey's commercial today to play a cop arresting people for eating poorly! Ha! Had a blast! Thank you for having me, Julia Kim Casting!
Merry Christmas, everyone! I truly hope the holiday brings you closer, and you are able to spend this joyous occasion with your loved ones!
That's a wrap! It was such a pleasure working with the cast and crew for this hilarious new web series! Pink bow ties are in! Here are some behind-the-scenes pics! Web series website coming soon!
I am very excited to announce that the web series, Mental Issues, that I was the lead in is now online! Please check out each episode, enjoy, and share if you'd like!
After living in NYC for a little over 10 years, I have moved to LA! Very excited to see what the West Coast has in store for me!
I'm looking forward to the trailer, For Peace, that I shot back in June, to come out very soon!! Also, a web series I was the lead in should be coming out soon as well!
After doing a bit of research and a lot of character work, I am ready to shoot for the next two days! Here we go!
I was cast in a short film (political thriller) called For Peace and will be shooting in roughly a month!
I'm headed to sunny LA in a couple weeks to book some projects! Here we go!
I booked my first project for this year! I will be doing a live, interactive event for Time Warner Cable Studios! I will be playing a producer on the ESPN set. Here's to booking more projects this year!
Happy New Year! I look forward to this year and the projects I will be booking!
Boom UP!, a very unique short film where I play the lead, has been completed and is now being shopped around to many festivals around the country including Sundance! Fingers crossed!
I recently wrapped the first 3 episodes of Mental Issues, a web series in which I play the lead! Very exciting! We shot 70 pages in 6 days, which was quite the ambitious project, but I am happy to be apart of it. Here's to the director/crew and their post-production ventures!
Exciting news! I will be starring in a new web series! Details to come soon.
I have some new business cards on the way! I am always networking and now with the new design and photos (3 per card), I will be able to convey a few different looks within a few seconds of handing it out to any new contact I meet.
Just a quick update as to what's been happening! I have wrapped all 3 of the projects he has been working on. Two short films, one of which is SAG and a music video. Updates as to when/where they can be viewed coming soon!
I have been working on a couple of projects from last year and is now finishing up the second one early next month. I also have another project I'll start shooting late April! Exciting stuff!
Tried switching website platforms in the past year, but am now back to this one!
Chris was just cast in a SAG short film called Boom Up! in which he plays Mike, the boom guy. Stay tuned for pictures and updates!
Chris has started to freelance with an agency here in NYC. Great news!!
Chris was accepted into The Wynn Handman Studio and he couldn't be more excited! Continuing his training is very important to him. Next up on the list...attaining representation!
While continuing to audition, look for representation and attending seminars, Chris had his first audition to study with Wynn Handman. It went extremely well!
Chris has been auditioning and attending seminars in order to maintain his knowledge about the changing industry while also networking as well.
11/22/11Chris had a great time shooting with Brianna LaRocco of Brianna LaRocco Photography!
Happy Birthday, Chris! He celebrated his birthday while on set of the new indie film, HairBrained starring Brendan Fraser in a featured role as an MIT quizbowl student.
Chris booked and shot an online Coca-Cola commercial for the Johannes Leonardo Ad Agency!
CURRENTLY SEEKING REPRESENTATION! Chris is looking to build a working relationship with a manager.
Chris had fun at an improvised audition for Celebrity Close Calls with Lesley Mallgrave casting!Chris was able to do some work on the set of . The episode will air in Japan in the coming months. This week, Chris will be doing some background work on the set of the film, New Year's for four days. Chris has finished editing the first cut of yet another one of the films he and his colleague, , have completed called He is currently seeking an original score to accompany the feel of this film.Chris is set to co-star in a holiday music video, which will pay tribute to Wham's! 1984 Last Christmas. He is really looking forward to the shoot!Chris is gearing up to begin editing the third short film he and his close collaberator finished months ago. They have been promoting and , but now it's time to begin post-production on !Chris' newest film, Time In, has been accepted into the Riverside Saginaw Film Festival in Michigan. It made its world premiere! Here's hoping for additional acceptances into festival.Chris just got back from Philadelphia where he premiered his movie, Patient Zero. He always enjoys his time in Philadelphia. His next plan is to promote the newest film he is in called Time In.Chris has been called in to do a lot of background work for the HBO Television show Boardwalk Empire for the past couple of months now and is set to have a featured shot of him in Episdoe 9 of Season 2!
Chris has officially finished his short film, Time In with friend and close collaberator, Justin Muschong. It will be playing within the festival circuit hopefully early next year! Chris has also wrapped on Patient Zero, the film that Hard Boiled Productions did for this year's Project Twenty1 Film Competition.
Chris will also be heading to Philadelphia in early October to premiere Patient Zero, which he is extremely excited for. His film will be up against 56 others. And lastly, he will begin editing One Night Strange, another HBP film, after he gets back from Philly. Exciting things happening!
Another short film called One Night Strange is under Chris' belt. The film, Time In, is extremely close to being finished. Chris also will be participating in a film festival called Project Twenty1 again this year, which start on July 31, 2010.
Chris finished filming, Time In and other than being in post-production for that film, he will be shooting, One Night Strange, in a couple of weeks! Very exciting!
Chris will begin filming, Time In, next weekend and could not be more thrilled!
Chris is in pre-production for 2 new short films, Time In and One Night Strange. They are being produced by Hard Boiled Productions. Stay tuned for updates!
Chris has continually been looking for the next project he will be doing for Hard Boiled Productions. A web series is in the works.
Chris just recently came back from Philadelphia. He and his close collaborator and friend, Justin Muschong, entered their short film, TUMBLER: the boom, in toProject Twenty1, a short film festival that accepts submissions from all over the world. The film was awarded Best Writing out of 27 film submissions.
On another positive note, Chris and Justin submitted their first film, Duly Noted, in to Short and Shots, another event within Project Twenty1, and that was awarded Best Film!


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Microsoft Launches IE11 Developer Preview For Windows 7, Updates Modern.IE With New Tools
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Almost exactly a month ago, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 11 as part of the Windows 8.1 preview and today, it is also launching a developer preview of IE11 for Windows 7.
Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft's group program manager for IE, told me earlier this week that IE11 for Windows 7 will bring all of the advances of IE11 for Windows 8.1 to users of Microsoft's older operating system. One area Microsoft has focused on with this release is speed, including a much-improved JavaScript engine and a stronger emphasis on GPU hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D content, including fonts, JPG images and WebGL-based experiences.
IE11 is Microsoft's first browser to embrace the WebGL standard for accessing the computer's GPU for rendering advanced 2D and 3D experiences. As Microsoft's senior program manager for IE Frank Olivier told me, his team has worked hard to ensure that WebGL in IE (both on Windows 7 and 8.1) is as safe as possible and can't crash the system (it does, after all, allow very low-level access to your hardware). Indeed, Olivier showed me a demo that stressed IE11 s WebGL implementation to the point where it crashes. IE11 handles this situation gracefully and simply restarts its WebGL core as needed.
To show off IE11 s WebGL features, the company teamed up with GlacierWorks, a site that aims to raise awareness about the effect of climate change in the Himalayas, to add more WebGL content to its site.
Fast, But Not SPDY On Windows 7
All of these features will also be available to Windows 7 users and Singhal expects the Windows 7 version to offer virtually the same performance as on the new operating system. One feature Microsoft doesn't bring to Windows 7, though, is support for Google's SPDY networking protocol.
As for Windows 8, Microsoft tells me that it will ship IE11 with the free Windows 8.1 upgrade. Microsoft clearly expects most Windows 8 users to upgrade to 8.1 and it doesn't look like it plans to make IE11 available as a standalone download for 8.
With today's update for Windows 7, Microsoft is also updating modern.IE, its site for tools and resources for developing for IE. The site now features virtual machines for testing IE11 on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, as well as a new screenshot tool that lets you see how your sites look across different browsers and devices. For a limited time, Microsoft is also offering developers a 25 percent discount on Parallels for Mac so they can run these virtual machines. IE11 itself, it's worth noting, also includes a number of updated developer tools.
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Study: Apps and Content Startups Miss Out Because Affiliate Model Is Broken
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Skimlinks, the platform which gives publishers greater control over affiliate links and content monetization, releases some major research today which could well concentrate the minds of online "publishers", and that includes apps, startups and bloggers.
It's white paper reveals that while editorial or social websites can point a user towards a product they might go on to buy, publishers rarely receive the financial reward for doing so because of problems with the "Last Click" attribution model used in affiliate marketing. Now, while the study is clearly a ploy to get apps and content publishers to run their affiliate programs through Skimlinks rather than through traditional affiliate platforms, the research itself does bear examination.
The study found that content sites were the first place users read about a product 27% of the time, and were in the first quarter of the user's path to purchase 36% of the time. And when a user started their journey to a purchase with a content site, she or he was a new customer 55% of the time. However, content sites were the Last Click only 6% of the time and 94% of the time, the content affiliate was NOT awarded the sale. Plus, 65% of the time when a content site is the first click in a purchase journey, sparking purchase intent, another channel is the last click, taking all the credit for the sale.
They also found that content sites drove nearly 30% more new customers to brand sites than the average of all other channels. In addition, when consumers started reading about a product on a content site their desire to purchase grew over time: in this case, 9% of the sales would occur within one hour, 16% within 24 hours and 31% happened within 3 days.
In other words, if online marketers shifted their affiliate strategy away from the Last Click attribution model towards online publishers, apps and social sites, they'd basically get faster and more robust sales.
This would be music to the ears of many social and content sites.
Alicia Navarro, CEO and co-founder of Skimlinks says: "The general view is that better attribution is required – that distributes the cost-per-acquisition across multiple parties responsible for creating and driving purchase intent. By only remunerating the last-click publisher, you create the wrong incentives, and end up with a ton of low-value deal/coupon sites, rather than rich apps and content, who have less incentive to link out to merchants because they don't get paid for top-of-funnel activity via affiliate marketing."
Ryan Jones of Shop Direct, where the study was based, points out that it's a two-way street: "Retailers are probably missing out on exposure as commercially savvy content sites tend to promote the brands they earn more from."
For the research Skimlinks analyzed data provided by Shop Direct's ecommerce site, Very.co.uk, which spanned all orders between July and November 2012 that included a click from a Skimlinks content site.
Skimlinks clients include Conde Nast, Gawker, AOL Europe, WordPress, Hearst Digital, Haymarket Consumer Media, Telegraph Media Group, among others.
Skimlinks' main competitors are the Google-backed VigLink and the seed-backed startup Yieldkit. This year it completed an undisclosed growth financing round led by Greycroft Partners and others.
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Dorm Room Fund-Backed Skillbridge Is A Freelance Marketplace For High-End Professional Services
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A startup called Skillbridge is trying to create a new kind of marketplace for freelance work – not for the programming and writing jobs that you'd find on a site like Elance, but for strategy, finance, marketing and other professional services.
The company is announcing today that it has been backed by First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund, the firm's student-run investment arm that offers mentorship and $20,000 in funding to each company. (Skillbridge is also part of Highland Capital's summer incubator and the MassChallenge accelerator..)
Co-founders Brett Lewis and Raj Jeyakumar have worked as consultants themselves – Lewis, for example, spent nearly three years at Bain & Company. They're both recent graduates of Wharton Business School, and they said that when they were students, they wanted to use their experience for freelance work. However, they discovered that it was incredibly difficult to actually find interested companies, so they created Skillbridge to match qualified workers with businesses looking for professional services.
Lewis outlined the vision in a post for the Wharton Entrepreneurship Blog, where he said that the United States' freelancers have grown from 6 percent of the total workforce in 1990 to 20 to 30 percent now: "Elance, an early talent marketplace, has focused on low-end providers of technology and creative talent. Yet the biggest growth trends are in areas of financial planning and analysis, accounting and legal strategy, where only behemoth white-shoe firms have dominated until now."
Lewis and Jeyakumar said their core talent base consists of stay-at-home parents and graduate students who have either an MBA or at least three years of experience at a finance or consulting firm. These are people who either aren't in a position to work full-time or aren't interested, but they are willing to take on smaller projects or part-time work with flexible hours. And by hiring these workers, companies don't have to pay for the overhead of a traditional consulting firm.
Not that Skillbridge is trying to replace the big firms. Jeyakumar compared them to Ferraris: "There will always be a need for Ferraris, but there are people for whom a BMW is just fine." If the BMW doesn't seem like much of a compromise, that's Jeyakumar's point. With Skillbridge, companies that probably couldn't afford to hire a traditional consulting firm can still pay for high-quality work. He added that there's already been interest in companies ranging from "pre-revenue startups that need help with market sizing for their pitch decks" to large e-commerce organizations.
The company supposedly delivers a "highly curated" experience, where it provides customers with templates for work requests, identifies two or three of the best matches that they can choose from, and helps to create milestones for the project to ensure that things stay on track. It's currently in beta testing, with plans for a full launch later this year.
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Amazon Cloud Drive Photos App Expands To Support Video Upload & Playback On Android
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Amazon Cloud Drive Photos, the photo-uploading utility that helps move photos from a mobile device into Amazon's online storage, may have to change its name. Now, the tool doesn't just support photo uploads, it supports videos, as well. Videos can be manually uploaded one by one, or users can opt to have videos auto-save from their devices directly into Amazon's cloud.
This automatic upload option was already available for photos through an update out at the beginning of the year, but videos within Cloud Drive Photos had not yet been supported, whether manually or through the auto-upload feature within the application.
Amazon says that videos are restricted to 2 GB in size or 20 minutes in length, whether they're being uploaded or downloaded from the Cloud Drive service – that's slightly longer than YouTube's default setting ahead of account verification. This is fine for the majority of users' personal videos, of activities, pets, kids or events, for example, recorded on their mobile devices.
After the files are in Amazon's cloud, the video can be played back to any device, including, of course, the Kindle Fire and other Android tablets. According to a post on Amazon's Web Services blog about the technical underpinnings to the new feature, Amazon's Elastic Transcoder service was used, which supports over 20 file formats and 40 video codecs. The team says its goal was to have videos transcoded within 15 minutes after uploading, but ended up achieving videos that are often ready within a minute or two. They also went ahead and processed all the videos stored in Amazon users' Cloud Drive libraries ahead of launch.
Though the company offers a version of its Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app on iOS devices, too, only the Android version has received the video support at this time. That makes sense because not only is the Kindle and Android-based tablet, and therefore Amazon's priority, the Android app was also the first to launch, back in November 2012.
The iOS version didn't arrive until this May, and it serves as a viable alternative to Apple's own iCloud sync and storage service, with reasonable pricing of 5 GB for free, then $10/year for 20 GB, $25/year for 50 GB and so on, all the way up to 1,000 GB for $500/year. Keep in mind that the storage goes up so high not because users need so much space for photos (and now videos, too), but because Amazon Cloud Drive is meant to serve as a competitor to Google Drive or Dropbox, with support for a variety of file types, including office documents and music, which can also be streamed back through Amazon Cloud Player.
In other words, this isn't the first time users could upload videos to Amazon's cloud. This is just making it possible to do so within the Cloud Drive Photos application.
The updated Cloud Drive app is available now on Google Play and Amazon's Appstore.
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London, We Want To See You At Our Pitch-Off+Meetup On Monday
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In preparation for TechCrunch Disrupt Europe I've been running around the Continent for more than a month, hitting the Balkans for a huge tour and Warsaw for an amazing meet-up. Now I'm back for a meet up+pitch-off with our own Mike Butcher and the rest of the UK team. Tickets are free so grab yours now.
There will be great networking opportunities, and a battle to the death to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite in under 60 seconds.
PitchOff details:
LONDON INFO HERE
Participants interested in competing in the pitch-off will have 60 seconds to explain why their startup is awesome. These products must currently be in stealth or private beta.Application form for London is here or simply enter below.
ONLY FILL OUT **ONE** APPLICATION.
Office hours details
Office Hours are for companies selected for the Pitch-off, these 15 minute 1 on 1 talks will be held on the day of the event. We'll hear about your company, give feedback, and talk about the best pitch strategy for the 60-second rapid-fire competition. More information on Office Hours will follow in a post on TechCrunch.
Pitch-off winners
We will have 3 judges who will decide on the winners of the PitchOff. First place will receive a table in Startup Alley at the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin. Second Place will receive 2 tickets to the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt. Third Place will receive 1 ticket to the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt.
Venue in London
Ground Floor – CAMPUS LONDON, 4-5 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4BX
Event runs from 3 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Monday July 29th, 2013
We will de-camp to a local bar afterwards, sponsors welcome to support (email sponsors@techcrunch.com)
Remember we are holding our Berlin meetup later this week so if you don't want to wing your way North we'll come to you. Application form for Berlin is here.
Questions about the events? Please contact: events@techcrunch.com.
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And whether you're an investor, entrepreneur, dreamer or tech enthusiast, we want to see you at the event, so we can give you free beer and hear your thoughts. Come one, come all.
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Wunderlist Pro Gets File Sharing And Business Plan Pricing As Wunderlist Nears 5M Users
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Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder is adding more features to its new Wunderlist Pro paid tier of service today, answering the number one request of its users with the addition of file upload and sharing. Users can add files to tasks and synchronize them across devices and team members for collaboration purposes. That, along with newly introduced pricing plans for Wunderlist Pro aimed at businesses, should help growth of the revenue-driving service skyrocket, says 6Wunderkinder founder and CEO Christian Reber.
"We had large corporations contacting us the first day we launched Wunderlist pro and ask us 'Can we use this in our business, what can I do to sign up my entire team of 250 people?,' etc." he said in an interview. "That was exciting for us but unfortunately we didn't have the business accounts yet, we didn't have the dashboard to manage those people." This change will help them sign on these new customers who have just been waiting for an opportunity to get on the platform.
The changes today aren't only aimed at business customers big and small, however; Reber says that file sharing is something that should appeal across its user base, and drive up the value perception even for individual Wunderlist users who have been considering the paid option. "We think that files is a feature that everyone wants, and we think that we will see a very high conversion rate of free users to premium users also, because it's a feature that everyone just asked us to build," Reber explained.
Reber says they "quadrupled" their own internal expectations for new user growth with the introduction of Wunderlist Pro. The entire user base of nearly 5 million Wunderlist users (including free and paid) is around 29 percent U.S.-based, he said, but 40 percent of the paid customers come from the States. Over 40 percent of paying customers are businesses, too, which is why the business plan rollout is designed to unlock more of that potential market.
Ultimately, 6Wunderkind's strategy is to become just as essential and widespread a productivity tool as a Dropbox or an Evernote, Reber tells me. Those have validated their business model, he says, though they target a completely different market. The aim is to grow from a simple to-do list to more full-featured collaboration software, while retaining focus on both individuals and business customers, instead of just one or the other.
Reber wasn't ready to share specifics about conversion rates on Wunderlist Pro just yet, but he says that 6Wunderkinder does plan to be much more transparent about that kind of data with future releases, since it believes there's value in showing other startups how it's doing building a business, so expect to see more granular detail about how Wunderlist's monetization strategy is working out in the near future.
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Uber Looking To Raise An Uber Round Of Funding Led By TPG, At A $3.5B Valuation
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On-demand car service Uber is looking to raise another big round of funding, this time led by private equity firm Texas Pacific Group we're hearing. And so is Dan Primack. And Liz Gannes. The round is expected to be between $150 million and $200 million, at a valuation of about $3.5 billion. The round hasn't closed yet, but it's close to being completed, or so our sources say.
The funding comes as Uber is growing fast, expanding into new territories and adding lower cost services. AllThingsD reports that the company is expected to pull in $125 million in revenue this year, which is higher than had been expected.
Uber is now available in more than 35 cities around the world with its on-demand black car service. But it's quickly adding lower-cost options in many of those markets. In several cities, that means lower-cost hybrid cars taking passengers, while in others, the company is partnering with local taxi companies to use its e-hail service. With the funding, it will likely expand even more quickly.
TPG isn't your typical tech investor, although it has held stakes in companies like SurveyMonkey and Travelocity parent company Sabre Holdings. But it has done a fair amount of investing in travel and leisure companies, including a number of airlines and hospitality businesses.
On that front, Uber seems like a good fit, as it's not your typical tech investment. The company is looking to disrupt the urban transportation industry, which has been stifled by decades of regulation. But it's also built a logistical framework that could be used for any number of things: in the past it's experimented with barbecue and ice cream delivery, and it's even been used to order canal boats in Amsterdam and water taxis in Sydney.
Google Ventures is also expected to be an investor in the round, according to Gannes and Primack, though we hadn't heard about that.
Uber has raised $57 million since being founded in 2009. Its most recent funding round was for $37 million in late 2011, and came from investors that included Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos, Goldman Sachs, Benchmark, CrunchFund*, and Troy Carter. Other investors include Benchmark Capital, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Founder Collective, and a whole bunch of angels.
Uber, TPG, and Google Ventures all declined to comment for this story.
* DISCLOSURE: Some time ago, Michael Arrington founded TechCrunch. Later, he founded CrunchFund. And at some point after that, CrunchFund wrote a check to invest in Uber. But that all has nothing to do with why I'm writing this story about someone else possibly writing a check to invest in Uber.
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Home 3D Printers Emit Some Nasty Stuff, Researchers Find
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Home 3D printers – particularly FDM, Makerbot-like devices – are still in their infancy and, as such, are untested when it comes to safety. That's why some researchers at the Built Environment Research Group at the Illinois Institute of Technology decided to test a popular model for ultrafine particle emissions, a measure of how much junk these things emit while in use.
The result? PLA, a starch-based material, emitted 20 billion particles per minute while ABS, a plastic, emitted 200 billion. This is similar in scale to using a gas stove, lighting a cigarette, or burning a scented candle. In short, it's a significant bit of potential pollution in an unfiltered environment but it's nothing we don't do to ourselves on a daily basis already.
The study didn't take into account what materials were being expelled, which makes it a bit more troubling. For example, according to PhysOrg, ABS is known to be toxic in lab rats but PLA, oddly enough, is used in nanotechnology for the delivery of medicines.
What's the takeaway? Ventilate your 3D printer.
Because most of these devices are currently sold as standalone devices without any exhaust ventilation or filtration accessories, results herein suggest caution should be used when operating in inadequately ventilated or unfiltered indoor environments. Additionally, these results suggest that more controlled experiments should be conducted to more fundamentally evaluate particle emissions from a wider arrange of desktop 3D printers.
Obviously these devices are designed for home and office use and probably will never end up under a lab-grade ventilation hood. However, given the various processes used to make 3D objects, it's important that this research is done to reduce the effects of UFPs on children who may be using these in schools as well as the teachers, designers, and makers who use them on a daily basis.
You can read the entire paper here or just turn on a fan.
via Physorg
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Today, papers were filed in New York district court to determine who will have custody of a single brain cell — right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk, or miniature right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro.
Kirk is the spokesman and president of Turning Point, USA, a heavily pro-conservative organization that counts Candace Owens among its leadership. Turning Point digital content is often retweeted by President Trump and his sons, Uday and Qusay. Shapiro is a man by legal definitions, and a small wooden boy by all others. Mr. Shapiro is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, and he rose to prominence in the right-wing blogosphere when he started writing for Breitbart, though the 2016 election saw him sever ties with that particular media/white supremacy pamphlet outlet.
Fans of both men might have assumed their similar talking and debate points were attributable to them both being white, conservative males, who happen to have ingested the same regular diet of talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for the same relative period of time. Some might assume that Kirk and Shapiro are just reinforcing the same argument, but from different perspectives. As it turns out, the papers filed in court today show that for at least a couple of years, Kirk and Shapiro have been sharing one, solitary brain cell between them.
Over on Kirk's podcast, the Turning Point president addressed the suit directly.
In the suit, Kirk alleges that since Shapiro has occasionally "lightly criticized" things Trump has done, that disqualifies him from possessing conservative brain cells. Instead, Kirk says that he is the rightful owner of the brain cell he and Shapiro share, and all the thought contained within it. Shapiro forcefully pushed back on that argument on his podcast.
Legal experts say that no matter who wins the suit, humanity will lose because they'll both keep on talking.