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Prototype of cutting-edge three-screen Razer laptop computer stolen in 'industrial espionage' at CES
A spokesman for the company revealed in a Facebook post that the Project Valerie design was stolen from the press room at CES in Las Vegas
Project Valerie: The world's first automated triple display gaming laptop
Luke Edwards
A prototype laptop of a laptop computer heralded as a sea-change in gaming has been stolen from a major trade show.
PC maker Razer presented the three-screen laptop computer - known as Project Valerie - to the world at CES in Las Vegas earlier this week.
But a spokesman for the company has revealed in a Facebook post that the cutting edge design was stolen from the press room at CES, along with another model, at around 4pm on Sunday in what he says is a case of 'industrial espionage'.
Min-Liang Tan - Razer's Co-Founder, CEO and Creative Director - wrote: "I've just been informed that two of our prototypes were stolen from our booth at CES today.
"We have filed the necessary reports and are currently working with the show management as well as law enforcement to address this issue.
Min-Liang Tan/Facebook)
"At Razer, we play hard and we play fair. Our teams worked months on end to conceptualize and develop these units and we pride ourselves in pushing the envelope to deliver the latest and greatest.
"We treat theft/larceny, and if relevant to this case, industrial espionage, very seriously – it is cheating, and cheating doesn't sit well with us. Penalties for such crimes are grievous and anyone who would do this clearly isn't very smart."
The prototype garnered widespread coverage when it was revealed at CES.
Razer, a gaming hardware specialist, designed Project Valerie to house the world's first triple screen display.
The idea is to offer an immersive screen setup for gaming and plenty of space for multi-tasking while working.
The result is three 17.3-inch 4K IGZO screens, which stack on top of each in normal mode. When entering immersive mode, two of the screens slide out to the sides and automatically deploy on sturdy aluminium hinges to lock into place.
All those high-res screens mean a staggering 12K resolution of 11,520 x 2160.
It needs a lot of graphical processing to fill all that space, so under the hood is a powerful Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, meaning native support for Nvidia Surround Sound too.
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As if all that wasn't futuristic enough, the laptop also comes filled with multi-colour lighting for a cool glow. Plus Project Valerie will still fit in a laptop bag, as it isn't much thicker than the average 17-inch gaming laptop, says Razer.
How all this will affect battery life hasn't been mentioned but the screen is a large power drain on laptops. Without a thicker build for more batteries it will likely rely heavily on mains power top-ups.
Project Valerie is based on the Razer Blade Pro gaming laptop which launched priced at £3,500. So we dread to think how much a triple screen version will cost.
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Woodswomen, Inc. was a nonprofit organization focusing on education and adventure travel operated by women, for women out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1977 to 1999. Woodswomen, referred to as the 'grandmother' of women's outdoor adventure groups, was one of the first adventure travel companies serving exclusively women and served more than 8,000 women and 1,200 children in its tenure.

History

The name 'Woodswomen' was first used in 1977 when Judith Niemi, Elizabeth Barnard, Shirley Heyer, and Trudy Fulton organized a Boundary Waters Canoe Area trip for women. Though these three women are generally credited with the initial organization, they maintain that it was founded organically. This means that each woman has her own Woodswomen history and no one person started out to make a business out of adventure travel for women. For example, Judith Niemi's personal Woodswomen began when she decided that women needed an organization that would run outdoor trips solely for them, following a trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, where she saw no other women for two weeks.

In 1980, Woodswomen launched a women-and-leadership course which turned into a well-respected leadership program that trained many women who led Woodswomen trips and trips for other companies. Woodswomen was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1982. Also in 1982, the organization coordinated and sponsored an expedition commemorating Mina Benson Hubbard's 1905 George River trip in Labrador, Canada. A seven-member expedition team traveled for four weeks on a 200-mile journey following Hubbard's route.

In 1985, Kathy Phibbs opened the Northwest office of Woodswomen and served as its director. Two years earlier, she had organized the first meeting of Women Climbers Northwest (WCN) in 1983.

In 1987, Denise Mitten secured a grant from the Emma B. Howe Foundation and started the Women and Children Bonding in the Outdoors Program. Expanding their reach, in 1989 Mitten answered a request for proposals from the Minnesota Department of Corrections and secured funding for the Wilderness Experiences for Women Offenders Program.

In 1990, Woodswomen sponsored the 100th year Commemoration Climb of Fay Fuller's assent of Mount Rainier, Washington. Kathy Phibbs and several other women led the climb which included over 30 women, many wearing dresses, and one woman who completed the climb with an artificial leg.

In 1992, Woodswomen started Minnesota Youth Outdoors programs for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth, who participated in a series of one to two day trips.  Woodswomen guides and "adult supporter team members hope that sense of self and success will help gay and lesbian youth negotiate a time fraught with difficulties."

In 1993, Woodswomen had 59 domestic trips and 11 international trips ranging from cross-country skiing in Minnesota to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Woodswomen closed its doors in 1999, passing on the mailing list to Marian Marbury, who went on to found Adventures in Good Company.

Philosophy and trip outcomes

Woodswomen's mission was to "offer supportive and challenging learning opportunities for women and for women and children to help foster individual growth, responsibility, and relationship skills." Woodswomen was set up with feminist and environmentalist ideals in mind, and as such, empowering women and protecting the environment.

Woodswomen was an organization that pioneered several programmatical aspects of adventure therapy and adventure education.
Valuing emotional safety as well as physical safety
Valuing personal choice and individual goals
Valuing healthy relationships with people and the environment, thus hiring and training staff who could exemplify healthy bonding both within the group and with nature.
Valuing women and women's ways of knowing, thus hiring and training staff who could model that women's strengths are an asset to outdoor living and traveling.

Judith Niemi explained part of Woodswomen's philosophy as, "Not worrying about competition, achievement, ego. Especially not thinking we are conquering nature." Many people go into the wilderness with the mindset of "conquering the great outdoors." Woodswomen trips worked to counter that mindset and instead learn through nature, getting to feel comfortable, and ending up feeling blissful, in the outdoors. The idea was that it was not important how far you went, how fast you climbed, etc., but rather what you saw, what you experienced, what you did. Guides completed extensive training and emphasis was placed on leadership styles. Woodswomen directors would look for "alternatives to hierarchical leadership and centralized authority," working to have everyone participate in decision-making.

Especially in the early years of Woodswomen (1970s and '80s), many women did not have strong outdoors skills because they had not been given the opportunity to learn them. This would lead to women on outdoor trips being marginalized for their lack of skill and not getting the opportunity to learn. When men on trips would teach women some skills, it would be condescending and hierarchal, and women would get frustrated when they didn't get it right away.

"When women learn from women, they take more credit for learning," said Elizabeth Barnard in an interview. Traveling with other women also gets women out of passive roles they may take at home and on trips with men, where they may be marginalized in favor of having the supposedly stronger and faster men do the job. When men are not around, it's impossible for women to fall into gender roles in terms of the tasks they perform and the skills they must learn.

In addition to learning new skills and becoming comfortable in the outdoors, one of the main byproducts of Woodswomen trips was increased self-esteem in participants. Women coming back from trips reported an increase in confidence, saying things like "now I know I can go for that job promotion." Woodswomen affiliates conducted research over the years about the outcomes of trips, and how empowered women felt by them.

Programs
Woodswomen Inc.'s primary function was to offer adventure travel trips for women.

In 1993, Woodswomen ran 70 trips in 8 different countries, and when it closed in 1999, Woodswomen had served over 8,000 women and 1,200 children through its outdoor adventure programs.

The trips focused on activities including biking, rock climbing, backpacking, cross country skiing, kayaking, canoeing, whitewater canoeing and rafting, winter camping, sea kayaking, snorkeling, SCUBA diving, mountaineering, horse packing, llama packing, wild ricing, and dogsledding.

Woodswomen guides completed an extensive guide-training program, focusing on leadership styles and group dynamics. Hollis Giammatteo, writing for Ms. magazine, took a leadership course that included climbing Mount Adams in Washington state.  According to Giammatteo, Denise Mitten refined Woodswomen's acclaimed leadership program, creating a style stressing ethical and inclusive leadership.

For Woodswomen guides, leadership was viewed as a role that encouraged appropriate participation, not as a characteristic of a personality type. The rigid idea of goal-setting and the language of right and wrong were removed.  Woodswomen guides, for example, would avoid words that connoted domination, such as 'attack the trail,' 'summit assault,' or 'conquer the mountain.'" Rather, they would say things like "'run the rapids,' 'climb the mountain,' or 'let's start hiking.'" Giammatteo wrote that Mitten taught the hostess concept, meaning that one guides in areas in alignment with one's ability. Just like one would throw a party in a place where one is comfortable and know where things are, ones leads trips in an areas where one is comfortable.

Woodswomen ran a number of special programs along with the adventure travel trips. One, called Minnesota Youth Outdoors, was a program which served gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth and allies. Minnesota Youth Outdoors ran one and two day trips to various locations in Southern Minnesota, giving participants opportunities to go rock climbing, canoeing, skiing, and hiking.

Trips were designed to expose LGBT youth to the outdoors and to provide them with positive interactions with adults, potentially leading to higher self-esteem, a greater affinity for nature, and hope for the future. Wilderness Experiences for Women Offenders was another of Woodswomen's special programs. Through this program, women felons would go on three-day outdoors trips, gaining confidence, and trust in themselves and other participants. Another program was called Women and Children Bonding in the Outdoors provided opportunities for low-income women and their children to experience outdoor activities. This program was designed to expose inner-city women and their children to outdoor activities; in the process women and children would gain self-respect, the courage to accept challenges, cooperation skills, and respect for nature.

Woodswomen affiliates taught various classes and workshops about the outdoors at colleges and schools around the Twin Cities metro area, in subjects ranging from log-cabin building, Minnesota ecology, feminism and ecology, botany, the history and literature of women and living in the wilderness, first aid, knots and ropes, bike touring, kayaking, bird watching, orienteering, working consciously and conscientiously with women in the outdoors, and camping with children.

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Organizations established in 1977
Organizations disestablished in 1999
Outdoor education organizations
Adventure travel
Travel and holiday companies of the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Minnesota
Organizations based in Minneapolis
Women in Minnesota

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