There is a memory corruption vulnerability with 7-Technologies (7T) that affects the Interactive Graphical SCADA System (IGSS) supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) human-machine interface (HMI) application.
7T created a patch that fully resolves this vulnerability. VUPEN Vulnerability Research Team, which discovered the vulnerability, confirmed the patch resolves the issue, according to ICS-CERT.
This vulnerability affects all 7T Interactive Graphical SCADA System (IGSS) versions prior to 9.0.0.11143.
An attacker could perform a number of malicious actions including denial of service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution, which could end up creating adverse application conditions and ultimately impact the SCADA system.
Denmark-based 7T creates monitoring and control systems primarily used in the United States, Europe, and South Asia. 7T's IGSS is in over 28,000 industrial plants in 50 countries worldwide, according to the company's website.
7T IGSS controls and monitors programmable logic controllers in industrial processes in the energy, manufacturing, oil and gas, and water sectors.
The vulnerability occurs through a memory corruption error in the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) component when processing packets sent to port 20222/TCP, which could result in using an invalid structure.
An attacker can remotely exploit the vulnerability by sending specially crafted code to the ODBC service. If exploited, this vulnerability could allow the attacker to execute a malicious payload.
As of right now, no exploits are targeting this vulnerability and it does take advanced skills to exploit the problem.
(current users of 7T IGSS can use the "update" feature from within the application).
•	7T recommends placing the control system behind a properly configured firewall.


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New York: The young and fiery 19th century queen Lakshmibai of Jhansi, who fought the British valiantly in the 1857 war, has been listed by the Time magazine with the likes of Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin among 10 wives who were resolute even in troubled times.
The magazine compiled its list of 10 such women following the much-talked about charge by Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng against the man who tried to throw a pie at her husband's face.
Among others who find their names mentioned in the list are US first lady Michelle, Republican leader Sarah Palin who was John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential election in the US, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra and Tiger Woods former wife Elin Nordegren.
Listing the Rani of Jhansi, the magazine says that she was born in a well-established noble family and was struck by ill luck soon after marrying the King of Jhansi as her son died, followed by her husband.
Then, in 1853, citing a lack of heirs, the British East India Company annexed the territory as its own.
But four years later, Jhansi was swept by a widespread, bloody rebellion against the East India Company rule and the gallant Rani plunged into the battlefield winning a few stunning battles for her husband's kingdom, the magazine says.
She perished, according to lore, while fighting the British on horseback in full armoured splendour at the young age of 22. Her legend lives on in statues and Indian school books to this day, it said about her valiant struggle.
In the magazine's list, the queen of Jhansi rubs shoulders with some very strong women including historical luminaries, first ladies to wives of business tycoons.
Among other historical figures, Queen Isabella of Spain and the legendary Egyptian queen Cleopatra find their name on the list.
Former first lady of the US Eleanor Roosevelt along with the present first lady Michelle also make it to the list which praises their efforts to step out of the shadow of their husbands and contribute in the field of community development.
The one-time Governor and Vice Presidential nominee, Palin, known for her flamboyance and unabashed straightforwardness also makes the cut.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, who have become a model for gay marital bliss, jointly find a place in the list which also includes June Carter Cash and Melinda Gates.
Reason for naming Elin Nordegren, the magazine says, she could have stuck with the cheating Woods and all his fortune, but decided to go her own way.
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Partner Therapeutics (PTx) Announces the Appointment of Ellen Hukkelhoven Ph.D. and Terry Gould to its Board of Directors
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BOSTON, March 7, 2018-PRNewswire
Boston-based cancer company Partner Therapeutics, Inc. (PTx) announced today the appointment of Ellen Hukkelhoven and Terry Gould to the company's Board of Directors. Dr. Hukkelhoven and Mr. Gould join the company's founders Bob Mulroy and Debasish Roychowdhury as directors.
Dr. Ellen Hukkelhoven is a Senior Analyst at Perceptive Advisors, a leading healthcare investment firm. Perceptive invests in highly innovative therapies aimed at the treatment of true unmet medical needs. The team is dedicated to supporting these companies throughout their entire life cycle. Ellen also serves on the board of MeiraGTx. She received her PhD in Cancer Biology from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. During her tenure at MSKCC, she founded and built the life sciences division of InSITE, a top graduate fellowship program that helps early stage companies with their most pressing needs. Ellen graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with degrees in Molecular Biology and Finance.
Mr. Gould is a Partner and Head of Venture Growth Equity Investments with Adams Street Partners. He invests in venture and growth-oriented companies with a focus on the healthcare space. Mr. Gould also sits on the board of directors of Aptinyx, Atox Bio, Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Fusion Pharmaceuticals, LifeBond, Orbus Therapeutics and Outpost Medicine. He was a former board member at Naurex (acquired by Allergan), INC Research, Incline Therapeutics (acquired by the Medicines Company), OncoMed and Proteus Biomedical. Mr. Gould is also a member of the Adams Street Executive and Direct Investment Committees.
"We are thrilled with the additions of Dr. Hukkelhoven and Mr. Gould to our Board of Directors," said PTx CEO Robert Mulroy. "Ellen and Terry bring with them deep experience as stewards of successful growth companies that will help guide our company to ever higher levels of performance."
"I am pleased to have the opportunity to work with the team at PTx to help fill the development and commercial gaps for this important cancer treatment," said Dr. Hukkelhoven. Mr. Gould added, "PTx has a compelling vision and a strong team with a track record of success."
On February 1st, PTx announced it acquired the global rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize Leukine from Sanofi. Leukine is a multi-lineage immune-stimulant that has been demonstrated to promote growth and activation of monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils and dendritic cells. It is the only FDA-approved recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). It is currently indicated for the treatment of AML in older adults to reduce the incidence of severe and life-threatening infections resulting in death; use in the treatment of allogeneic bone marrow transplants to reduce the incidence of bacteremia and other culture positive infections and shorten the median duration of hospitalization; and to prolong the survival of patients who are experiencing bone marrow transplant failure or delay.
Leukine is currently being tested in over 100 clinical studies to assess its ability to increase the efficacy of immuno-oncology therapies, improve the treatment of pulmonary and neurological disorders, and improve the treatment of infections.
About Partner Therapeutics, Inc.:
PTx is an integrated commercial stage biotech company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics that improve health and economic outcomes in the treatment of cancer. PTx's development focus spans the entire range of cancer therapy from primary treatments to supportive care. The company believes in delivering great products in support of medical teams with the purpose of creating the best possible outcomes for patients and their families.
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Partner Therapeutics (PTx) is a commercial biotech committed to improving the lives of patients with cancer and other serious diseases. We're looking for passionate professionals to join us with expertise that spans the biopharma value chain.
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'Mad Max' Rides To $64M; 'Pitch Perfect 2' Chimes In At $27.1M – Intl Box Office Final
2nd UPDATE, Monday, 12:07 PM: Final grosses have come in for Warner Bros. for Mad Max: Fury Road: It ended its first weekend internationally a little under from the Sunday estimate with $64M. Universal Pictures' Pitch Perfect 2, the No. 1 picture in the states with $69.2M, brought in $27.1M from 29 markets. Disney/Marvel for its superhero megahit Avengers: Age of Ultron just keeps climbing past the $1B mark. Disney also reported for its animated Cinderella and Fox reported on three films: Far from the Madding Crowd, DreamWorks Animated's Home and The Longest Ride. Universal also reported final tallies for its megahit Furious 7 and its horror flicks Unfriended and Ouija. Final grosses are now in for the sci-fi film Ex Machina and Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner. Still awaiting final numbers from Sony on Paul Blart Mall Cop 2.
Anita M. Busch contributed to this report.
1st UPDATE, WRITETHRU, Sunday, 12:43 PM PST: International weekend estimates are now in from Warner Bros/Village Roadshow's Mad Max: Fury Road the major new offshore entrant. The critically lauded pic grossed a revised $64M in 68 overseas markets for a global total of $109.4M; it performed especially well in action-loving bases and is expected to have long legs. The worldwide booty makes Fury Road George Miller's best opening ever and positions it atop the franchise as the biggest grosser ever in the series. There were No. 1s in 40 territories. And Max also helped make Warner the latest studio to join the $1B international box office club this year.
Fury Road roared out of the gate on Thursday at the same time it was premiering here at the Cannes Film Festival. There were over 9.1M admissions on nearly 16,900 screens across the session which lost a day it would normally have had given the Cannes event. Many markets like France typically bow on a Wednesday, but the film was held back to coincide with the red carpet, beginning its shows at 2 PM on Thursday.
Benefitting in part from the enhanced media coverage, MMFR had its biggest bow in France at a lower than expected $6.1M (down from $6.8M) on 802 screens for 30% of the market and the No. 1 slot. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron's next best play was the UK with a better than estimated $7M (up from $6.7M) on 950 screens. Although it was bested there by Pitch Perfect 2, whose rating was less restrictive, Max landed the biggest IMAX opening ever for an R-rated pic with $935K. The rest of the Top 5 were all strong starts. Korea scored $6.6M on 799 screens for a 39% share and No. 1. Fury Road captured $764K in its 15 IMAX plays, also an R-rated record.
Further in Korea, the film bested local opener Chronicles Of Evil which took $6.3M. Miller's return to a post-apocalyptic future was No. 1 and worth $5.6M in Russia, one of the markets most affected by the currency crisis. It was playing on 2,434 screens with a massive 75% share of the Top 5 films. Miller took the hometown advantage in Australia for $4.9M from 542 screens — another No. 1 bow, battling day by day with Pitch Perfect 2 (in its second) weekend there.
Fury Road also ranked No. 1 in the United Arabs Emirates with a whopping $1.4M on only 80 screens for a per screen average of $17,500. In Spain, the actioner pulled in $1.2M from 476 screens for a No. 1 ranking there. It also took the top spot in Italy with $1.2M from 555 screens and the No. 1 spot in Thailand with $1.2M from 440 screens. It will next release on June 20th in Japan.
After blasting off in China last Tuesday, Avengers: Age Of Ultron packed houses to a six-day final of $154.1M. It's the best Middle Kingdom debut ever for Disney/Marvel; the 2nd best Friday/Saturday/Sunday of all time there after Transformers: Age Of Extinction last summer; and the 2nd best six-day start after Furious 7. Just shy of its first week, Ultron has already become China's No. 8 industry release ever. In total from 91 territories, Ultron added a better than estimated $191.4M (up from $185M) internationally to raise its offshore tally to $775.9M and a global cume of $1.147.9B, making it the 8th highest-grossing film of all time. What's more, that now gives Disney bragging rights to four of the Top 8 films ever.
Via its IMAX plays, Ultron added $22M worldwide in the frame with $17.5M of that from China. That crushed Transformers: Age Of Extinction's previous $9.75M record.
Elsewhere, Ultron is now the biggest Disney/Marvel release and the No. 2 biggest Western film ever in Korea. It shares that distinction in other markets including Hong Kong, Malaysia and Vietnam. The Top 5 overseas homes for Ultron are now China ($154.1M), Korea ($78.9M), the UK ($65.9M), and much better than expected grosses in Mexico ($45.4M) and Brazil ($42.4M). Japan releases on July 4.
Related 'Pitch Perfect 2′ Raises Voice To $68.9M To $70.3M; 'Mad Max' Stays Course With $44M
Following last weekend's early rollout of Pitch Perfect 2 in Australia and New Zealand, Universal added 27 more territories this frame, tuning up an estimated $27.1M at 2,819 dates in 29 territories for an early total of $38.3M. Combined with the U.S. estimated total of $69.2M (less than the $70.3M estimated from the studio on Sunday), the worldwide cume is $107.5M. At the international level, the Universal Pictures, Gold Circle Entertainment and Brownstone Productions sequel is outperforming the original by 176%.
There were several No. 1 openings including the UK and Germany. That's in harmony with the previous film whose top territories included English- and German-language markets. Building on that movie's sort of cult ancillary status, the Barden Bellas will beat its offshore theatrical lifetime of $50.3M this week. Australia was the best ex-North American market the first time around and now has an 11-day total of $14.4M. That's already better than the lifetime of the 2012 tuner.
In its new plays, the a cappella-themed comedy grossed a final $7.7M in the UK at 482 dates. Germany, which was PP's No. 3 market, opened No. 1 with a final $4.1M at 557 dates; up 112% on the original. The Philippines brought a No. 1 start with a better than expected $2.1M (up from $1.9M) at 136 dates and Taiwan was tops with $1.5M at 76 dates and 41% of the market. Those are notable given that no Asian territory was in the Top 10 on the original save Singapore where it ultimately grossed $1M.
There are 30 openings to come; next weekend adds seven territories including Hungary, Israel, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Serbia/Montenegro and Spain.
Furious 7 reached the checkered flag in China on Tuesday after racing to an historic $390.5M cume – the biggest box office number of all time in the market. In total this frame, F7 put another $6.8M in the tank across 64 territories and now has an international cume of $1.144B and, combined with the U.S. total of $343.8M, it has a worldwide $1.48B. F7 is now the 4th highest-grossing film of all time worldwide and the 3rd internationally in what's shaping up to be a huge box office year for Universal. After China, the top grossing territories are the UK and Ireland ($56.8M), Mexico ($51.5M), Brazil, ($45.9M) and Germany ($39.4M).
Home is in the home stretch after taking residence in Venezuela this frame, landing the No. 2 slot at $1.5M on 91 screens. In total, the DreamWorks Animation release from Fox added a better than expected $5.3M (up from $4.6M) bringing the offshore haul to $186.4M. Korea is the last market to release this coming week.
Disney's Cinderella continues to clean up in Japan where it was off just 2% for a local cume of $33.6M. The international weekend was good for a better than expected $3.7M (up from $3.3M) taking the offshore total to $324.1M and the overall box office to $521.3M.
Sony's Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 grossed an estimated $1.7M on 1,740 screens in 52 territories this weekend, bringing the overseas cume to $31.5M. Germany was up 11% in its 6th frame for an additional $450K. That takes the local cume to $5.2M. Venezuela in its 5th session was off by just 22% for a total of $3.4M.
Fox's The Longest Ride earned $1.75M to take the cume to $18M after three weeks in international release. There were no new openings this frame as it continues to play in 26 territories. Same goes for Unfriended which is in the early stages of international play from Universal. An estimate this frame of $1M in 11 territories in 790 runs to take the total to $10.59M. Notably, the UK has grossed $5M in 17 days; Australia has $2.2M in 18 days and Korea $1.5M in 11 days. This week, the film opens in Thailand.
Universal's other horror film, Oujia, is still playing in 5 markets at 212 dates to add another $338K this weekend to bring its final total to $52M. Combined with the U.S. total of $51.1M, the worldwide total is now $103.2M. This weekend marks the end of the theatrical rollout. The top holdover was France; in its third weekend in play, it grossed anotehr $237K at 166 dates for a 19-day total of $1.7M.
Thomas Vinterberg's Fox Searchlight pic Far From The Madding Crowd had several Middle East bows and suitors lining up for $789K, that includes the UK where it now has a $6.98M cume. The total offshore is $8M in 12 markets. In its expansion in the states, it landed in the Top 10 domestically this past weekend and is planning another expansion for the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S.
Ex Machina, Alex Garland's sci-fi film, grossed another $365K on 324 runs to bring its 17 territory gross to $10M. In its second weekend Down Under, it only dropped 25% — a great hold to take an 11-day total of $220K. The film was No. 13 and will be rolling out to other locales starting May 28th through June. In the states, the total is now $19.6M. The film will release next in France on June 3rd and in Italy on July 30th.
The Water Diviner, Russel Crowe's epic film in which he starred and helmed, grossed another $172K this weekend at the 312 dates that Universal is handling for a seven territory total of $14.9M.
This article was printed from	https://deadline.com/2015/05/mad-max-fury-road-pitch-perfect-avengers-age-of-ultron-china-international-box-office-1201428554/


Irrfan Khan who was away for a while from the industry is back with the sequel to his super hit film "Hindi Medium". The actor has teamed up with Kareena Kapoor Khan for this new project and it is titled "Angrezi Medium".
Apart from Irrfan and Kareena, this film will also feature Radhika Madan. Radhika will be playing the role of Irrfan's daughter and Kareena will play his wife. "Hindi Medium" directed by Saket Choudhary was a big hit at the box office and was well received by the critics. The story revolved around the education system in India. Now the sequel, "Angrezi Medium" revolves around Irrfan's daughter Radhika, who dreams of pursuing higher education, while his father is a sweetshop owner.
Actress Radhika Madan took to her instagram account and shared the news, She shared a picture from the film's shoot and captioned it, "As excited as the man behind! So so so grateful for this new journey. @irrfan@homster@maddokfilms#kareenakapoorkhan#dineshvijan.
On the work front, Kareena Kapoor Khan will be seen in "Good News" and "Takht". On the other hand, Irrfan khan will be seen in "The Songs of Scorpions" and "Nawab The Nautch Girl And The John Company".


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Five Taiwanese boats chased away from Okinotori
Taiwan has asked Japan not to disturb its fishermen operating in the waters around the Okinotori atoll until its status has been determined. That's after five Taiwanese fishing boats were chased away from the area on Wednesday evening.
Taiwan does not dispute Japan's sovereignty over the atoll in the Philippine Sea. But it does dispute Japan's claim that Okinotori is an island entitled to a 200-mile exclusive economic zone. Taiwan views the area around the atoll as international waters.
The foreign ministry on Thursday called on Tokyo not to harass Taiwanese fishing boats operating in the area while the legal status of Okinotori remains undetermined. It also said the government is committed to dialogue to find peaceful resolutions to the issue and uphold the interests of Taiwan's fishermen.
Last year there was controversy when a Taiwanese fishing boat was detained by Japanese authorities and forced to pay a security deposit to secure its release. [FULL STORY]
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Xi Outlines Plans to Open Up Chinese Market Amid US Trade War
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Source: Sourcing Journal
Negotiations between the United States and China on trade may be trudging on with little transpiring at each juncture, but China's greater plans for global trade appear to be moving along just fine.
During a call Tuesday between U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and vice premier and leader of the China-US Comprehensive Economic Dialogue, Liu He, the three continued discussions on how to resolve core concerns and agreed to "maintain communications" toward a phase one trade agreement, China's Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.
On Monday, China, according to Bloomberg, has agreed to raise penalties for intellectual property violations—which has been a sticking point for the U.S. in the talks. President Trump has clearly conveyed his displeasure at the U.S. having to give up sensitive commercial secrets as a condition for doing business there. China said it will work to reduce IP violations by 2022 and intends to make it easier for violated parties to be accordingly compensated.
Little else has yet been said about a resolution on tariffs as the Dec. 15 tranche 4B duties approach, and the U.S. and China don't appear to have honed in on a date for signing the phase one agreement.
However, China is positioned to further facilitate trade on a global scale, tariff war or not.
In remarks during the opening ceremony of the 2nd China International Import Expo earlier this month, Chinese president Xi Jinping spoke about economic globalization and plans to open up China's market.
"China's door to openness will only open wider and wider," Xi said. "We will persist in opening up to promote reform, development and innovation, and continue to promote higher levels of opening up."
And with that will come a greater focus on manufacturing for its expanding middle class and curbing barriers to international trade.
"China will actively build a more domestic market, pay more attention to the role of imports, further reduce tariffs and institutional costs, cultivate a number of important trade demonstration zones for innovation, and expand imports of high-quality products and services from various countries," Xi said.
Addressing intellectual property in particular, Xi said China will "relax foreign market access" and "improve the legal system for intellectual property protection."
Amid scant details on the status of the ongoing phase-one trade deal talks, some surmise that a deal is close at hand, while others don't expect an agreement this year at all. So far, China has been clear that it's willing to make a deal based on "equality" and Trump has been adamant that the deal must be better for the U.S. because the current playing field is already uneven. Until both sides agree to some concessions, the stalemate will continue.


How to work in contemporary art today? The Triennial course Painting and Visual Languages aims to train professionals of the main so-called system of Art, by artists of every discipline to Curators, the event organizers, up to press officers and the Artistic Directors.
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The curricular plan has three guidelines: Curatorship, Marketing & Communication and Contemporary Arts, which develops in particular the study of the elements of analysis and communication related to curating events, with specific focus on the drafting of critical texts, design and preparation exhibitions, communication and off-line, composition and realization of editorial products.
After completing the course, the student can work as a Professional Artist, or play roles in the organization, communication and promotion of events in the field of contemporary arts at Foundations. Museums, Art Galleries, Printing and Publishing Offices with Art Director duties, Assistant Art, Art Register, Art Advisor, Art Critic & Curator, Event Manager, Marketing Manager, Press Office and Editor.
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The three-year course in Painting and Visual Languages, provides a good basic training and an adequate humanistic and scientific training in the field of production, organization and communication of the visual arts. In particular the activities of the course aim to develop a sound overall knowledge of the basics of the history of art - from the modern to the contemporary - and design methodologies and communication of the visual arts, from a plant to know the historical, literary and artistic culture which is the prerequisite for all appropriate specialist examination.
The lessons aim to present the materials in terms of design and placing the system in connection with the dynamics and the new values that fuel the contemporary art market. The professional figure that emerges is that of a professional able to cover different roles within his aesthetic and social areas. Alongside the strictly artistic skills, students are encouraged to develop the ability to design and self-promotion, for ease of insertion on the market and critical awareness of their work. The courses are structured to provide adequate theoretical and practical knowledge for professionals in the so-called Art System (artists, curators, event organizers, press officers and Artistic Directors), with specific preparation, but sufficiently elastic, which can fulfill the communication and organization of artistic materials relating to contemporary art in 'area of the various departments involved in these tasks: museum institution to private gallery, from publishing to specialized libraries, from positions of responsibility and artistic-cultural competence of local authorities to the auctioneers, the art communications.
One of the fundamental aspects of the course is its operating approach, to draw from all subjects of study a real training, flexibility to deal with the real problems concerning the various job opportunities. Career opportunities are extensive and range from real Curator to that of coadjutor in the organization public or private museum, the organizer and planner of artistic events to press officer and public relations, the coordinator of educational activities to support artistic events to the catalogs for exhibitions compiler, the curator of libraries and video libraries specialized in art to the editor for publishing and art magazines to the qualified consultant for conducting of private art galleries.
The course also provides sufficient specific preparation for the start of self-employment relative to the areas mentioned above. During the three years the students will have the opportunity to participate in a wide range of laboratory projects and enter into direct contact with the artists and professionals of the art system. In addition, they participate in a series of interdisciplinary activities through lectures, workshops, seminars and exhibitions in order to produce meaningful patterns in contemporary art.
He lives and works in Milan. Graduated in Sculpture in 1998, his studies continued through numerous workshops on the marble, ceramics, glass. Currently its activity is divided between visual arts and design, together with that of a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts Aldo Galli of Como for the "Sculptural Techniques" course. From 2003 he began collaborating with the artist Veronique Pozzi, together presented sculptures, site-specific installations and interactive.
Among Italians Egyptologists, Professor Angelo Sesana is Chairman of CEFB Egyptologist Francesco Ballerini Center, and is a professor of "Exploitation and management of sites and archaeological areas at the Academy of Fine Arts Aldo Galli of Como. It director since 1997 of the Italian archaeological mission on the temple of Amenhotep II in Thebes west - Luxor.
A graduate in Philosophy and Classics and specialized in Art History at the Catholic University of Milan. He has worked on medieval and modern art, art theory, history of criticism, ontology and aesthetics of the image, with particular reference to classical antiquity, and has taught Iconography and Iconology, History and Methodology of Art Criticism and Aesthetics Academy S. Giulia in Brescia. Today is professor of Theory of Perception and Psychology of Form Academy Aldi Galli of Como, also is an expert professor of Aesthetics at the Catholic University of Milan.
Graduated in Contemporary Art Restoration in 2007, oversaw the preparations for the exhibitions in Italy by American photographer William Willinghton from 2006 to 2008. In 2009 he collaborated with the Gallery Milly Pozzi Como Art and has worked with several design studios in Lombardy . Besides being a teacher he has refined over the years his style in the hyper-realistic drawing, trying to overcome the details in the picture with graphite.
Valerio Gaeti, Mantova 1951. Very young, he moved to Cantù (Como), where he attended the State Art Institute with a teacher like Giuliano Vangi. In 1974 he graduated in sculpture with Alik Cavaliere, at the Academy of Brera in Milan. To artistic research has supported its long teaching activities in schools that have seen student: First Institute of Canterbury and then at the Brera Academy, in the department of Design directed by Ugo La Pietra.
Industrial Designer, following his passion for making design studies at the IED in Milan and concluding with the thesis in Light Design "Therapies of Light" . In 2008 she participated in the Master in Multimedia Communication realizing the communication plan for the "Start-up of a new design studio" . She completed his training by working for six years in two studies as Graphic Design, interior designer and exhibition designer. He works as a freelance designer since October 2009. From 2011 to undertake the teaching experience as a professor Event Design, Brand, Digital Design and Modeling at the Aldo Galli Academy and specializes Politecnico di Milano in Teaching assisted by new technologies.
Painter and sculptor internationally established, is to design at the Academy of Fine Arts Aldo Galli of Como. In recent years he has dedicated himself to sculpture, preferring bronze and steel for public and private spaces. He collaborates with Como newspapers publishing articles critical of art and collaborates with Italian and European institutions and artists.
Roberto Pacella was born in 1978. He began his artistic studies at the Art School "A. Frattini" in Varese. He graduated in painting in 2005 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, under the guidance of Professors Augusto Bernardi and Francesco Porzio. In 2009 follows a teaching degree in graphic and pictorial disciplines. Since 2011 he is Professor in Humanities and Figurative Art History at the high schools of the province of Varese and Milan. "A work of art is good hath been born of necessity" Letters to a Young Poet, R. M. Rilke.
Academic studies and a great passion for design: Monica Sampietro has a past as an art director and a present as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts Aldo Galli and owner of design agency for seson Rose events.
Michael Rotondi was born in Bari in '77, he lives and works in Milan. He invited at the Prague Biennale (2009) and to a residence in London for the University Performance; exhibited in Berlin and Vlora in two collective (2010) to a collective project in New York for Scope Art Fair (2011) Italy-China Biennale at Villa Reale in Monza (2012); a solo exhibition in Mumbai, India, after winning a residence for the Laguna Art Prize of which he is a finalist (2013); another staff in Warsaw (2014). 2014 is the international collection Apt Global and Benetton. He has exhibited at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo for the art collection "Imago Mundi" of Bennetton (2015). Some books where there is his work: Italian Newbrow (Politi Editore, 2011), Brothers of Italy (Giunti Editore, 2011), Italy Laboratory - new trends in painting (Joan and Levi Publisher, 2007), Popism - l ' art in Italy from the theory of the mass media to social networks (Vallecchi Publisher, 2012), "Loveless- chaiher d'artistes" (Space Productions Meme 2013). Since 2009, he carries out a collective project, installative, the design called "I'm * Drawing !!!" from which a book was born in 2011. In 2016, an exhibition and a performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Liss called "Red Noise". Today is professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts "Aldo Galli" in Como.
Angelo Crespi taught History of Journalism at the Catholic University of Milan until 2013. In 2004 he published "Against Third page" (BvS editions). From June 2002 to November 2009 he edited the weekly The Sunday culture. From June 2008 to March 2011 he has been adviser to the Minister for Arts and Culture Sandro Bondi. From December 2009 to February 2012 he was President of the MAGA, Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Gallarate. Since May 2011 he is president of the International Center of art and Culture of Palazzo Te in Mantua. He currently works on pages "Comments and Opinions" the Corriere della Sera and the cultural pages of the Journal. In 2013 he published. "The Ars attack the contemporary bluff" (Johan & Levi publisher).
Born in Milan in 1983. He lives and works in Milan. Professor of Communication and Journalism Details for various degree programs in Visual Arts and Fashion Design at the Academy A. Galli of Como and Event Planning and Management for the International Master in Arts Management IED Florence. Curator, cultural organizer and consultant in the field of creativity and artistic production. Coordinator of #piumusicalive national campaign for the facilitation of procedures for the production of performing arts. he was a consultant for the Performing Arts and has directed the design office the Office for Culture, Fashion and Design of the City of Milan (AA. 2011-2013). In the work two years for the Department he was mainly involved in research projects and policy development for culture, with a special dedication to the design of ex-industrial urban spaces dedicated to young creativity, to workshops and performing arts activities, He has contributed to the conception of initiatives throughout the national territory (City Piano, Chorus City and Book City).
IT professionals in the telecommunications sector, has had decades of experience as a developer of client-server and web applications. In the last five years, he has been fascinated by the furniture industry and is dedicated to developing applications for mobile devices (mainly iOS). Has devoted to it much of his professional efforts with great suffering of friends and relatives more or less close. Throughout his professional life has had the opportunity to develop dozens of business applications in different fields: insurance, finance, banking and industry. The different experiences in the public and private sectors, have given him the chance to meet dozens of people professionally skilful. Today, almost reached the peace of mind, is the Project Manager for a leading Italian company in the computer industry.
Born in 1977, he graduated in Modern Letters with historic address - art at the Catholic University of Milan where he also qualified as a teacher of the discipline. Professor of Art History at the Art School Luini Cantu and Medieval and Modern Art History and at the Academy Galli. He collaborates with magazines and information sites regarding the cultural sector. Care is also the presentation of exhibitions of paintings and sculpture in the local area.
Chiara Canali (Piacenza, 1978) is an art critic, journalist and independent curator. PhD in "Human Sciences" at the University of Perugia. Creator and promoter of events and initiatives dedicated to the new trends in contemporary art, is active talent scout for young artists. She was editor of the Cairo Prize, the Premio Maretti - Valerio Riva Memorial, the Celeste Prize, the Premio Italian Factory for young Italian painting and is one of the curators of the Award-tutor Artivisive San Fedele. In 2010 she edited the second edition of the Sculpture Biennial Val Gardena in 2013 while working as a curator at BRERART project. Since 2007 she is the curator of the cultural association Art Company (www.artcompanyitalia.com), a cultural association born in Milan in 2007, with headquarters in Milan and Parma, which deals with the design, layout and organization of artistic events and exhibitions throughout the country and international. Since 2012 annually by the urban art event as part of the streetscape ComON, squares, courtyards and public places of Como. She currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Aldo Galli - IED Como and at the Academy of Luxury in Milan. As a correspondent writes for the magazine Espoarte where she writes a column for New Media Art.
Dario Campione was born in Palermo in 1965. After high school, he specialized in Archives and Library Science and Special Education. Professional journalist and writer, is editor of the Corriere di Como. He was author and television host. He has taught in secondary schools and was a professor of History of Advertising and Design Institute Superiore di Como Communication.
Born in Genoa in 1966, he lives and works in Milan. He graduated in Pictorial Decoration at the 'State School' Arte of Chiavari (Ge) and Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan. Between 1989 and 1992 he worked for several Italian magazines as an illustrator and attended the Disney Academy. Until 2002 and frescoes decorate the interiors and exteriors of churches and palaces reinterpreting the styles of the great baroque decoration. In later years he participated in numerous exhibitions receiving excellent reviews. Since October of 2015 he holds the chair of Painting Techniques at the 'Academy of Fine Arts Aldo Galli of Como.
Was born in Como in February 1972. The first judgment on his artistic activities is provided in the school report withdrawn from the mother, in first grade, in June of 1978: "outstanding artistic skills in the design and representation." These short words he score the training course that will bring his parents to enroll him in 1987 at the Art School A. Frattini of Varese, where, as a young student, passionately attended courses and workshops of Painting and Sculpture of the masters of Art Piero Cicoli , Segio Fiucci and Ermanno Cristini. The passion for drawing and artistic sensibility, lead him to the discovery and knowledge of numerous representation techniques such as Acrylic Painting, Engraving, the Screen Printing and Lithography. They will become for him an integral part of her work and valuable wealth of experience in the following years. She attended the School of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Always passionate about Travel and Mountain, decides to carry out his thesis at the E.A.G., Ecole d'Architecture de Grenoble, France.
Ivan Quaroni was born in Milan in 1970, but grew intellectually, emotionally and spiritually in the climate postmodern eighties. He studied Art History at the State University of Milan, but is fatally committed to devour books of all kinds and to listen to records of the Smiths, so his course of study ends up looking like a long, indigestible Bildungsroman. His first article, written by an obscure comic magazine, is an avid excursion into vampiric nineteenth-century literature. Become a freelance journalist writing for Art, Literature and Cinema, and then began his short but incredible adventure in the newsrooms of TV and radio programs of RAI and Mediaset. He works for Claudio Cecchetto for the preparation of the program live at 9 and 99 of the Hit Parade in historic Rai studios in Corso Sempione in Milan. Meanwhile, he continues its critical business writing for important Italian and international artists, including Allen Jones, Ronnie Cutrone, Ben Patterson, Gary Baseman, Clayton Brothers, Victor Vasarely, Alberto Biasi, Paolo Icaro, Safe, Archangel, Marco Lodola.
Mr. Savethewall Como is an artist who acts according to the method of the drift and the Situationist détournement to propose works that interpret themes and customs of contemporary society in a playful or polemical, ironic or irreverent. A "deconstruction and reconstruction of the linguistic codes" that Mr. Savethewall operates through the methods and techniques of intervention of Street Art, primarily the use of the stencil on urban derivation media and consumer electronics such as cardboard, wrapping paper, wood , metal, recycled material.
PhD in cultural geography and sociology, is currently working in the Advisory Service and the Institute for Studies il Credito Sportivo, where she conducts research and feasibility studies in the areas of Sport and Culture. Specializing in marketing and communication working in training as a teacher in the management of cultural heritage and the master of Sole24ore Sport. She holds seminars and training courses at various public / private partnerships and Universities. Collaborates with Tecnovia, highly qualified research laboratory by MIUR with experience in the analysis, management, planning, programming of local development and enhancement of territories, Cultural identity and culture of typicality.


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Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment is an evidence-based practice that improves quality of life for people with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorders by combining mental-health and substance-abuse services.
The Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) model is an evidence-based practice that improves quality of life for people with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorders by combining substance abuse services with mental health services. It helps people address both disorders at the same time—in the same service organization by the same team of treatment providers.
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Research shows that over 50 percent of people in the United States who have been diagnosed with a severe mental illness will also have a diagnosable co-occurring substance use disorder (alcohol or other drugs) during their lifetimes (see Regier in "Sources" below).
Historically, people with co-occurring disorders have been excluded from mental health treatment because of their substance use disorder. Likewise, they have been excluded from substance abuse treatment because of their severe mental health symptoms. As a result, they frequently have not gotten the help they need.
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1.) Robert E. Drake, Kim T. Mueser, Mary F. Brunette, Gregory J. McHugo (2006). A Review of Treatments for People with Severe Mental Illnesses and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, v27, n4 Spring, p360-374.
2.) Robert E. Drake E., Susan M. Essock, Andrew Shaner, Kate B. Carey, Kenneth Minkoff, Lenore Kola, David Lynde, Fred C. Osher, Robin E. Clark, and Lawrence Rickards (2001). Implementing Dual Diagnosis Services for Clients with Severe Mental Illness. Psychiatric Services, v52, April, p469-476.
3.) D. A. Regier, M. E. Farmer, D. S. Rae, B. Z. Locke, S. J. Keith, L. L. Judd, and F. K. Goodwin (1990). Comorbidity of Mental Disorders with Alcohol and other Drug Abuse. Results from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Study. Journal of the American Medical Association, v264, n19 November, p2511-2518.
Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT), the evidence-based practice, was developed and continues to be studied by researchers at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center of Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The researchers include Robert E. Drake, MD, PhD; Kim T. Mueser, PhD; and their colleagues.
The Dartmouth PRC has provided leadership for national implementation of IDDT via the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The State of Ohio and the Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University—through its Ohio SAMI Coordinating Center of Excellence (CCOE)—participate in these national initiatives, making significant contributions to the advancement and enhancement of the IDDT model.
Ohio has been among the pioneers in IDDT implementation, bringing the model to the Midwest with a blend of pragmatism, hope, and genuine commitment.
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TMT Trends 2015 – Star Wars, Tech Wars & Talent Wars
November 30, 2014 davidllewelynjones Leave a comment
*Our 2016 trends for the sector can be found here*
Our most popular article this year by far was a piece we wrote on trends in the media and entertainment industry for the coming twelve months. That nothing has been written since January that has proved as popular as that is a little disappointing, but it is a good indication of what users come to this blog for.
It's been an interesting past month or so in the Technology, Media and Telecoms sector. We're going to attempt to recap some of the more consequential things here, as well as the impact they may have into next year.
Star Wars – And the blockbuster dilemma
Friday saw the release of the first trailer for Star Wars Episode VII, due for release December 2015. CNBC covered the release at the coda of European Closing Bell, around the point of a segment a story might be done about a cat caught up a tree ("On a lighter note…"). They discussed the trailer and the franchise on a frivolous note at first, mostly joking about the length of time since the original film's release. One of the anchors then went on to claim that Disney's purchase of "Lucasfilms" [sic] and the release of this trilogy of films, given the muted reaction to Episodes I-III, constituted a huge bet on Disney's part. This showed a profound lack of understanding. Collectively, Episodes I-III, disappointing artistically as they may have been, made a cool $1.2bn. And this is just at the box office. Homevideo revenues would probably have been the same again, almost certainly more. Most importantly (whether we like it or not), are revenue streams like toy sales, theme park rides and the like (see below graphic, from StatisticBrain). So we are talking about a product that, despite many not being impressed with, managed to generate several billion dollars for Fox, Lucasfilm, et al. With a more reliable pair of hands at the helm in the form of J.J. Abrams, to say Episodes VII-IX are a huge bet is questionable thinking at best.
It can be easy for pundits to forget those ancillary streams, but in contemporary Hollywood it is such areas that are key, and fundamentally influence what films get made. Kenneth Turan, writing in mid-September for the LA Times, echoed such thinking. As with our Star Wars example; so "with the Harry Potter films, and it is happening again with 'Frozen', with Disney announcing just last week that it would construct a 'Frozen' attraction at Orlando's Disney World". It is why studios have scheduled, as of August this year, some 30 movies based on comicbooks to be released over the coming years. Of course, supply follows demand. Such generic shlock wouldn't be made again and again (and again) if consumers didn't exercise their capitalist right to choose it and consume it. We have been given Transformers 4 because the market said it wanted it.
But is this desire driven by a faute de mieux – a lack of anything better – in said market? David Fincher may not have been far off the mark back in September when he mentioned in an interview with Playboy that "studios treat audiences like lemmings, like cattle in a stockyard". But a shift from such a narrow mindset may prove difficult in a consolidated environment – Variety's editor-in-chief Peter Bart pointed out recently that "six companies control 90% of the media consumed by Americans, compared with 50 companies some 30 years ago". Some players of course are trying to change the way the business this works. The most provocative statement of this was in September when Netflix announced a sequel to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", to be released day-and-date across Netflix and in IMAX cinemas. Kudos. It's the kind of thing this blog has been advocating since its inception. Though not in accordance with a capitalist model, the market is certainly showing a desire for more day-and-date releases. Netflix isn't a lone outlier as on OTT provider trying to develop exclusive content that goes beyond comicbooks (that in itself should give Netflix pause; about a fifth of its market value has eroded since mid-October). Hulu's efforts with J.J. Abrams and Stephen King, as well as Amazon's universally acclaimed Transparent series (full disclosure, a good friend works on the show; Zeitgeist was privileged to take a look around the sets on the Paramount lot while in Los Angeles this summer). And that's not to say innovative content can't be developed around blockbuster fare; we really liked 20th Century Fox's partnership with Vice for 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes', creating short films that filled the gaps between the film and its predecessor. Undoubtedly the model needs to change; unlike last summer, there were no outright bombs this year at the box office, but receipts fell 15% all the same. The first eight months of 2014 were more than $400m behind the same period in 2013. Interviewed in the FT, Robert Fishman, an analyst with MoffettNathanson put it wisely, "It always comes down to the product on the screen. And the product on the screen just hasn't delivered." An editorial in The Economist earlier this month praised Hollywood's business model, suggesting other businesses should emulate it. But beyond some good marketing tactics there seems little that should be copied by others. Indeed, lots more work is needed. Perhaps the first step is merely rising that not all blockbusters need to be released in the summer. Next year, James Bond, Star Wars and The Avengers will all arrive on screens… spread throughout the year. Expect 2015 to feature more innovation on the part of exhibitors too, beyond having their customers be rained on.
Tech wars – Hacking, piracy and monopolies
Sony Pictures faced some embarrassment this week when hackers claimed to have penetrated the company's systems, getting away with large volumes of data that included detailed information on talent (such as passport details for the likes of Angelina Jolie and Cameron Diaz). The full story is still unfolding. We've written a couple of times recently about cybersecurity; it was disappointing but unsurprising to see the spectre of digital warfare raise its head again twice in the past week. The first instance was with Regin, an impressive bit of malware, which seems to be the successor to Stuxnet, a spying program developed by Israeli and American intelligence forces to undermine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear materials. Symantec said Regin had probably taken years to develop, with "a degree of technical competence rarely seen". Regin was focused on Saudia Arabia, Russia, but also Ireland and India, which muddies the waters of authorship. However, in these post-Snowden days it is well known that friendly countries go to significant lengths to spy on each other, and The Economist posited at least part of the malware was created by those in the UK. Deloitte, ranked number one globally in security consulting by Gartner, is on the case.
The news in other parts of the world is troubling too. In the US, the net neutrality debate rages. It's too big an issue to be covered here, but the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review cover the topic intelligently, here and here. In China, regulators are cracking down on online TV, a classic case of a long-gestating occurence that at some arbitrary point grows too big to ignore, suddenly becoming problematic. But, if a recent article on the affair in The Economist is anything to go by, such deeds are likely to merely spur piracy. And in the EU this past week it was disconcerting to see what looked like a mix of jealousy, misunderstanding and outright protectionism when the European Parliament voted for Google to be broken up. No one likes or wants a monopoly; monopolies are bad because they can reduce consumer choice. This is one of the key arguments against the Comcast / Time Warner Cable merger. But Google's share of advertising revenue is being eaten into by Facebook; its mobile platform Android is popular but is being re-skinned by OEMs looking to put their own branding onto the OS. And Google is not reducing choice in the same way as an offline equivalent, with higher barriers to entry, might. The Economist points out this week:
"[A]lthough switching from Google and other online giants is not costless, their products do not lock customers in as Windows, Microsoft's operating system, did. And although network effects may persist for a while, they do not confer a lasting advantage… its behaviour is not in the same class as Microsoft's systematic campaign against the Netscape browser in the late 1990s: there are no e-mails talking about "cutting off" competitors' 'air supply'"
The power of lock-in, or substitute products, should not be underestimated. For Apple, this has meant the acquisition of Beats, which they are now planning to bundle in to future iPhones. For Jeff Bezos, this means bundling in Washington Post into future Amazon Fire products. For media and entertainment providers, it means getting customers to extend their relationship with the business into triple- and quad-play services. But it has been telling this month to hear from two CEOs who are questioning the pursuit of quad-play. For the most part, research shows that it can increase customer retention, although not without lowering the cost of the overall product. Sky's CEO Jeremy Darroch said "If I look at the existing quadplays in the market, not just in the UK, but pretty much everywhere, I think they're very much driven by the providers who want to extend their offering, rather than, I think, any significant demand from customers". Vodafone's CEO Vittorio Colao joined in, "If someone starts bidding for content then you [might] have to yourself… Personally I have doubts that in the long run that this [exclusive content] will really create a lot of value for the platform. It tends to create lots of value for the owner". Sony meanwhile are pursuing just such a tack of converged services in the form of a new ad campaign. But the benefits of convergence are usually around the customer being able to have multiple touchpoints, not the business being able to streamline assets and services in-house. Sony is in the midst of its own tech war, in consoles, where it is firmly ahead of Microsoft, who were seeking a similar path to that of Sky and Vodafone to dominate the living room. But externalities are impeding – mobile gaming revenues will surpass those of the traditional console next year to become the largest gaming segment; no surprise when by 2020, 90% of the world's population over 6 years old will have a mobile phone, according to Ericsson. So undoubtedly look for more cyberattacks next year, on a wider range of industries, from film, to telco (lots of customer data there), to politics and economics.
Talent wars – Cui bono?
Our last section is the lightest on content, but perhaps the most important. It is the relation between artist and patron. This relationship took a turn for the worse this year. On a larger, corporate side, this issue played itself out as Amazon and publisher Hachette rowed over fees. Hachette, rather than Amazon, appears to have won the battle; it will set he prices on its books, starting from early 2015. It is unlikely to be the last battle between the ecommerce giant and a publisher, and it may well now give the DoJ the go-ahead to examine the company's alleged anti-competitive misdeeds.
Elsewhere, artist Taylor Swift's move to exorcise her catalogue from music streaming service Spotify is a shrewd move on her part. Though an extremely popular platform, driving a large share of revenues to the artists, the problem remains that there is little revenue to start with as much of what there is to do on Spotify can be done for free. The Financial Times writes that it is thanks to artists like Swift that "an era of protectionism is dawning" again (think walled gardens and Compuserve) for content. The danger for the music industry is that other artists take note of what Swift has done and follow suit. This would be of benefit to the individual artists but detrimental to the industry itself. And clearly such an issue doesn't have to be restricted to the music industry. It's not hard to anticipate a similar issue affecting film in 2015.
There's a plethora of activity going on in TMT as the year draws to a close – much of it will impact how businesses behave and customers interact with said media next year. The secret will be in drawing a long-term strategic course that can be agile enough to adapt to disruptive technologies. However what we've hopefully shown here in this article is that there are matters to attend to in multiple sectors that need immediate attention over any amorphous future trends.
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The "Jaws" of death? – Rethinking film industry strategy
July 14, 2013 davidllewelynjones 3 comments
Steven Spielberg on-set for "Jaws". The Leviathan gave birth to the summer blockbuster
This past week, Zeitgeist had the pleasure of enjoying a new adaptation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing". This adaptation was not performed at the theatre but at the cinema. It was not directed by Kenneth Branagh or any other luminary of the legitimate stage, but rather by the quiet, modest, nerdy Joss Whedon, who until a few years ago was best known to millions as the brains behind the cult TV series phenomenon "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (full disclosure: Zeitgeist worked on the show in his days of youth). Whedon was picked to direct a film released last year that can, without much difficulty, be seen as the apotheosis of the Hollywood film industry; "The Avengers". A mise-en-abyme of a concept, involving disparate characters, some of whom already have their own fully-fledged franchises, coming together to form another vehicle for future iterations. "The Avengers" became the third-highest grossing film of all time, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable romp. Moreover, to go from directing on such a broad canvas to shooting a film mostly with friends in one's own home – as with "Much Ado…" – displays an impressive range of creative ingenuity.
Sadly for shareholders and studio executives' career aspirations, not every film is as sure-fire a hit as "The Avengers", try though as they might (and do) to replicate the same mercurial ingredients that lead to success. Marvel, which originally conceived of the myriad characters surrounding The Avengers mythology, was bought in 2009 by Disney for $4bn. Disney for all intents and purposes have a steady strategic head on their shareholders. They parted ways with the quixotic Weinstein brothers while welcoming Pixar back into the fold. They were one of the first to concede the inevitability of closed platforms release windows – something Zeitgeist has written about in the past – they are debuting a game-changing platform, Infinity, which might revolutionise the way children interact with the plethora of memorable characters the studio have dreamt up over the years. However, such sound business strategy could not save them from the uber-flop that was 2012's "John Carter", which lost the studio $200m. This summer, the rationale for their biggest release has been built on what appears to be sound logic; taking the on- and off-screen talent behind their massively successful "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, and bringing them together again for another reboot in the form of "The Lone Ranger". The New York Times said the film "descends into nerve-racking incoherence"; it has severely underperformed at the box office, after a budget of $250m. Sony's "After Earth" similarly underperformed, suddenly throwing Will Smith's bullet-proof reputation for producing hits into jeopardy.
These summer films – "tentpoles" to use the terminology bandied about in Los Angeles – are where the money is made (or not) for studios. As an industry over the past ten years, Zeitgeist has watched as these tentpoles have become more concentrated, more risk-averse and therefore less original, more expensive and more likely either to produce either stratospheric results or spectacular failures. Paramount is an interesting example of a studio that has made itself leaner recently, releasing far fewer films, and relying on franchises to keep the ship afloat. Edtorial Director of Variety Peter Bart seems to think there's a point when avoiding risk leads to courting entropy. It's an evolution that has escaped few, yet is was still notable when, last month, famed directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas spoke out publicly against the way the industry seemed to be headed. Indeed, the atmosphere at studios in Hollywood seems to mimic that of a pre-2008 financial sector; leveraging ever more collateral against assets with significant – and unsustainable – levels of risk. The financial sector uses arcane algorithms and has a large number of Wharton grads whose aim should be to preserve stability and profit. Yet even with all this analysis, they failed to see the gigantic readjustment that was imminent. In the film industry, Relativity Media's reputation for rigorous predictive models on what will make a film successful is rare enough to have earned it a feature in Vanity Fair. So what hope is there the film industry will change its tune before it is too late? Spielberg pontificates,
"There's eventually going to be a big meltdown. There's going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen of these mega-budgeted movies go crashing into the ground and that's going to change the paradigm again."
Instead of correcting course as failures at the box office failed to abate, studios have dug in harder. Said Lucas,
"They're going for gold, but that isn't going to work forever. And as a result they're getting narrower and narrower in their focus. People are going to get tired of it. They're not going to know how to do anything else."
Such artistic ennui in audiences is admittedly sclerotic in its visibility at the moment. "Man of Steel", another attempt at rebooting a franchise – coming only seven years after the last attempt – is performing admirably, with a position still firmly in the top ten at the US box office after four weeks of release, with over $275m taken domestically. It's interesting to note that audiences have been happy to embrace the new version so quickly after the last franchise launch failed; though actor James Franco finds it contentious, the same has been true with the "Spider-Man" franchise relaunch.
Is M&A finally out of vogue in the Media and Entertainment sector?
Part of the problem in the industry, some say, is to do with those at the top running the various film studios. In "Curse of the Mogul", written by lecturers at Columbia University, the authors contend that since 2005 the industry as a whole has underperformed versus the S&P stock index, yet such stocks are still eminently attractive to investors. The reason, the authors say, is that those running the businesses frame the notion of success differently. They argue that it takes a very special type of person (i.e. them) to be able to manage not only different media and the different audiences they reach and the different trends that come out of that, but more importantly (in their eyes) to be able to manage the talent. They asked to be judged on Academy Awards rather than bottom lines. The most striking thing in the book – which Zeitgeist is still reading – is the continual pursuit by said mogul of strategic synergies. This M&A activity excites shareholders but has historically led to minimal returns (think Vivendi or AOL Time Warner), often because what was presented as operational or content-based synergy is actually nothing of the sort. It's a point Richard Rumelt makes in his excellent book, "Good Strategy / Bad Strategy". Some companies are beginning to get the idea. Viacom seemed an outlier in 2006 when it divested CBS. Lately, News Corporation has followed a similar tack, albeit under duress after suffering from scandalous revelations about hacking in its news division. A recent article in The Economist states,
"Most shareholders now see that television networks, newspapers, film studios, music labels and other sundry assets add little value by sharing a parent. Their proximity can even hinder performance by distracting management… they have become more assertive and less likely to believe the moguls' flannel about 'synergies'."
So in some ways it was of little surprise that Sony came under the microscope recently as well, part of this larger trend of scrutiny. The company has experienced dark times of late, with shares having plunged 85% over the past 13 years. The departure of Howard Stringer in 2012 coincided with an annual loss of some $6.4bn. Now headed up by Kazuo Hirai, the company has undoubtedly become more focused, with much more being made of their mobile division. Losses have been stemmed, but the company is still floundering, with an annual loss reported in May of $4.6bn. It was only a couple of weeks later that hedge-fun billionaire Dan Loeb – instrumental in getting Marissa Meyer to lead Yahoo – upped his ownership stake in Sony, calling on it to divest its entertainment division in a letter to CEO Hirai. Part of the issue with Sony is a cultural one, where Japan's ways of working differ strongly from the West's. This is covered in some detail in a profile with Stringer featured in The New Yorker. In a speech he gave last year, Stringer said, "Japan is a harmonious society which cherishes its social values, including full employment. That leads to conflicts in a world where shareholder value calls for ever greater efficiency". But Sony's film division – which includes the James Bond franchise – is performing well; in the year to March 2013 Sony's film and music businesses produced $905m of operating income, compared with combined losses of $1.9 billion in mobile phones, according to The Economist. It ended 2012 first place among the other film studios in market share. Sony is the last studio to consistently deliver hits across genres, reports The New York Times in an excellent article. The article quotes an anonymous Sony exeuctive, "We may not look like the rest of Hollywood, but that doesn't mean this isn't a painstakingly thought-through strategy and a profitable one". Sadly the strategy behind films like 'After Earth' begin to look flimsy when one glances at the box office results. While Hirai and the Sony board concede that have met to discuss the possibility of honouring Mr. Loeb's suggestion – offering 15-20% of it as an IPO rather than selling it off in full – Mr. Hirai also commented in an interview with CNBC, "We definitely want to make sure we can continue a successful business in the entertainment space. That is for me, first and foremost, the top priority". In mid-June Loeb sent a second letter, advocating the IPO proposal and saying "Our research has confirmed media reports depicting Entertainment as lacking the discipline an accountability that exist at many of its competitors". The question is whether selling off its entertainment assets would remove any synergies with other divisions, thus making the divisions left over less profitable, or whether such synergies even existed in the first place. For Loeb, the "most valuable untapped synergies" are still in the studio and music divisions yet after decades as one company they still remain untapped. That point won't make for pleasant reading at Sony HQ.
Another problem is the changing nature of media consumption habits. Not only are we watching films in different ways over different platforms, we are also doing much else besides, from playing video games, which have successfully transitioned beyond the nerdy clique of yesteryear, to general mobile use and second screening. This transition – and with it a realisation that competition is not likely to come from across regional boarders but from startup platforms – is largely being ignored by the French as they insist on trade talks with the US that centre on the preservation of l'exception culturelle. Such trends are evident in business dealings. The Financial Times this weekend detailed Google's significant foray into developing content, setting up YouTube Space LA. The project gives free soundstage space to artists who are likely to guarantee eyeballs on YouTube, and lead to advertising revenue for the platform. From the stellar success of the first season of "House of Cards", to DreamWorks Animation's original content partnership announced last month, Netflix has become the bête noire for traditional content producers as it shakes up traditional models. We have written before about the IHS Screen Digest data from earlier this year, showing worrying trends for the industry; as predicted, audiences are beginning to favour access over ownership, preferring to rent rather than own, which means less profit for the studio. As much due to a decline in revenue from other platforms as growth in of itself, cinemas are expected to be the major area of profit going forward to 2016 (see above chart). We've written before about the power cinema still has. Spielberg and Lucas pick up on this;
"You're going to end up with fewer theaters, bigger theaters with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies will cost 50 bucks or 100 or 150 bucks, like what Broadway costs today, or a football game. It'll be an expensive thing… [Films] will sit in the theaters for a year, like a Broadway show does. That will be called the 'movie' business."
In a conversation over Twitter, (excerpts of which are featured above), Cameron Saunders, MD of 20th Century Fox UK told Zeitgeist that "major changes were afoot". Such potential disruption is by no means unique to the film industry, and should come as a surprise to one. Zeitgeist recently went to see Columbia faculty member Rita McGrath speak at a Harvard Business Review event. In her latest book, "The End of Competitive Advantage", McGrath discounts the old management consultant attempts at providing sustainable competitive advantages to business. Her assertion is that any advantage is transient, that incumbency and success often lead to entropy, unless there is constant innovation to build on that success. Such a verdict of entropy could well be applied to the film industry. The model has worked well for decades, despite predictions of doom at the advent of television, the VCR, the DVD, et cetera ad nauseum. But fundamental behavioural shifts are now at play, and the way we devise strategies for what content people want to see and how they wish to see it need to be readdressed, quickly. Otherwise all this deliberation will eventually become much ado about nothing.
UPDATE (15/4/13): Of course, context is everything. The New York Times published an interesting article today saying investing in Hollywood is less risky than investing in Silicon Valley, though the returns in the latter are likely to be greater. Neither are seen as reliable.
This issue isn't going away. We write again about it, here.
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1. "I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that."
Author: Adam Driver
2. "Years passed. The trees in our yard grew taller. I watched my family and my friends and neighbors, the teachers whom I'd had or imaged having, the high school I had dreamed about. As I sat in the gazebo I would pretend instead that I was sitting on the topmost branch of the maple under which my brother had swallowed a stick and still played hide-and-seek with Nate, or I would perch on the railing of a stairwell in New York and wait for Ruth to pass near. I would study with Ray. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway on a warm afternoon of salty air with my mother. But I would end each day with my father in his den. I would lay these photographs down in my mind, those gathered from my constant watching, and I could trace how one thing- my death- connected these images to a single source. No one could have predicted how my loss would change small moments on Earth. But I held on to those moments, hoarded them. None of them were lost as long as I was there."
Author: Alice Sebold
3. "Today you are only a branch of a tree,tomorrow you gonna be tree yourself,so prepare yourself today so strong,that tomorrow you can hold the branches ."
Author: Amresh Kumar
4. "As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages."
Author: Ann Brashares
5. "A crack of a tree limb and falling foliage forced me to open my eyes. A tree fell right above my head, frightened birds flew out of the leaves and a cackle of laughter echoed across the ravine – extreme happiness mingled with the loathing hate. Selfishly, I prayed the fight would end in my favor and quickly. But then suddenly I heard something that sounded like a sizzling firework and felt someone's surprise turned into fear… then nothing. The evil vanished. I breathed a sigh of relief too soon as the branch shifted in the earth next to me."Hurry!" I cried, but it was too late.I screamed as I fell, knowing I was about to die."
Author: Brenda Pandos
6. "Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there's a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you couldn't be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you're arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it's like cutting off the branch you're sitting on."
Author: C.S. Lewis
7. "I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out."
Author: Daniel Tosh
8. "Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
Author: Frank Zappa
9. "I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative of providing comprehensive security at my personal property would have entailed significant extra costs to the taxpayer."
Author: Geoff Hoon
10. "The Mayor about the fable of the Prodigal Son:'But he came home.''Yes, his courage failed him. He felt very alone on that pig farm. There was no branch of the Party to which he could look for help. Das Kapital had not yet been written, so he was unable to situate himself in the class struggle. Is it any wonder that he wavered for a time, poor boy?"
Author: Graham Greene
11. "Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software."
Author: Greg Egan
12. "Walk into a Chase branch and we can give you so much quicker, better and faster. Like Wal-Mart."
Author: Jamie Dimon
13. "From the Prize winning poem - UNBORN in the book Terra Affirmative."Under the surface / her body is curled, / seed of the one race, / shell of the world. // She is thw waterfall, / she is the womb, / she is the bubble, /she is the tomb. // Her hair flows upward, / blood red of the birth. / Her arms are folded / deep into the earth. // She is the fern, / she is the bark, / she is the lantern, / she is the dark. // Her eyes burn the flame / of the old and the young. / Her breath is the name / of each branch of each lung. // She is the ingredient. / She is the blend. / She is the beginning. / She is the end."
Author: Jay Woodman
14. "Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch of the process of overcoming one's own innate sense that things are inherently produced. The innate non-analytical intellect does not conceive cause and effect to be either the same, or inherently different, or both, or neither; however, if the objects that the intellect misconceives as inherently existent did in fact inherently exist, they would necessarily exist in one of these four ways. Thus, through eliminating these four possibilities, the inherently existent products that are the objects of this innate ignorance are shown to be non-existent. By attacking in this way the falsely conceived object, the falsely conceiving subject is gradually overcome. The false subject is removed by overcoming belief in the false object."
Author: Jeffrey Hopkins
15. "I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas."
Author: Jennifer Carpenter
16. "Some team! The Chief was doing so many jobs alone. I'd fix on the Chief's raw, rope-burned palms or all the gray hairs collected in his sink, and I'd suffer this terrible side pain that Kiwi said was probably an ulcer and Ossie diagnosed as lovesickness. Or rather a nausea produced by the "black fruit" of love—a terror that sprouted out of your love for someone like rotting oranges on a tree branch. Osceola knew all about this black fruit, she said, because she'd grown it for our mother, our father, Grandpa Sawtooth, even me and Kiwi. Loving a ghost was different, she explained—that kind of love was a bare branch. I pictured this branch curving inside my sister: something leafless and complete, elephantine, like a white tusk. No rot, she was saying, no fruit. You couldn't lose a ghost to death."
Author: Karen Russell
17. "As the sweet apple reddens on a high branch, high on the highest branch the apple pickers forgot -- no, not forgot: were unable to reach."
Author: Kathryn Davis
18. "She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree."
Author: Marisha Pessl
19. "The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments."
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
20. "If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy."
Author: Neal Stephenson
21. "He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again."
Author: Patrick O'Brian
22. "Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask of a cedar waxwing on a bare branch a few feet away; the clear bright sun of a frozen winter noon; the rise of Orion in the eastern evening sky-every day, every night, I give thanks for another chance to notice. I see beauty everywhere; so much beauty I often speak it aloud. So much beauty I often laugh, and my day is made.Still if you wanted to, I think, you could feel sadness without end. I'm not even talking about hungry children or domestic violence or endless wars between supposedly grown men…but 'you mustn't be frightened if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you even seen,' said Rilke, 'you must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in it hand and will not let you fall."
Author: Paul Bogard
23. "You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me."
Author: Robert Duncan
24. "Cop a squat, animals and folks. I don't want to be here any more than the rest of you so make it fast and get out of my hair. Let's quickly run down the bullshit pedagogy. Hear ye…Who the hell wrote this crap?...Welcome to the Omegrion Chamber. Here we gather, one rep from each branch of the two patrias. We come in peace (he paused to snort derisively) to make peace. I'm your mediator, Savitar, and if you don't know that by now, you need to be hit in the head with a jackhammer and replaced because you're too stupid to represent your patria. But in case you're dense and forgot, I am the summation of all that was and what will one day be again. I make order from chaos and chaos from order, which is how I got drafted into this shit. Now let's get on with this before I start splitting your hairs. (Savitar)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
25. "I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly."
Author: Suzanne Collins
26. "An Islamic university...structure is different from a Western University; [its] conception of what constitutes knowledge is different from what Western philosophers set forth as knowledge; [its] aims and aspirations are different from Western conceptions. The purpose of higher education is not, like in the West, to produce the complete citizen, but rather, as in Islam, to produce the complete man, or the universal man.... A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge."
Author: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al Attas
27. "Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers."
Author: Todd Tiahrt
28. "But then I have long since grown accustomed to the thought that what we call dreams is semi-reality, the promise of reality, a foreglimpse and a whiff of it; that is they contain, in a very vague, diluted state, more genuine reality than our vaunted waking life which, in its turn, is semi-sleep, an evil drowsiness into which penetrate in grotesque disguise the sounds and sights of the real world, flowing beyond the periphery of the mind—as when you hear during sleep a dreadful insidious tale because a branch is scraping on the pane, or see yourself sinking into snow because your blanket is sliding off."
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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