Acquisition Sets Stage To Make Light Bulb Obsolete Cree To “Obsolete The Light Bulb”
CEO Chuck Swoboda says deal with LED Lighting Fixtures sets the stage for Cree to obsolete the light bulb. (Photo Courtesy http://www.moonbattery.com)
Cree, a market leader in LED solid-state lighting components, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held LED Lighting Fixtures (LLF).The cash and stock transaction is valued at approximately $77 million, plus up to an additional $26.4 million over a three-year period. LLF is pioneering the development of LED lighting retrofit products. “The combination of Cree’s lighting-class LEDs and LLF’s lighting-systems technologies should set the stage for Cree to obsolete the light bulb, a 19th century invention that wastes energy and pollutes our environment,
" says Chuck Swoboda, chief executive officer of Cree. Cree's business will encompass LED chips, components and lighting solutions.
LLF will be renamed Cree LED Lighting Solutions.
Neal Hunter, chairman and chief executive officer of LLF and Cree co-founder, will rejoin Cree as president of Cree LED Lighting Solutions. Click here for more on the Cree/LLF deal from http://www.pddnet.com
Product Design & Development 199 East Badger Road, Suite 201 199 East Badger R, Madison, WI 53713. CEO Chuck Swoboda says deal with LED Lighting Fixtures sets the stage for Cree to obsolete the light bulb. (Photo Courtesy http://www.moonbattery.com)
The Sex Life of Robots' Michael Sullivan Interview 45 - September 15, 2006 Michael Sullivan, whose short film The Sex Life of Robots was shown at the Tribeca Film festival, has been a commercial artist for nearly forty years. His work has appeared in Time magazine and on MTV. Play
Consistent with its mission, IPCNY makes information about prints and printmaking readily available to the public both on its website and in an information facility located at the entrance of the gallery. Visitors to the space may browse through periodicals, brochures, a modest selection of print related books, and listings of local exhibitions and workshops. A New Editions file, available by appointment, contains announcements and documents from print publishers on current print editions.
Opportunities for artists are posted on IPCNY's website, as well as listings of print shows and events for the general public, and a newly posted Directory of North American Print Workshops. The separate links section includes museums, universities, publishers, workshops, auction houses and galleries worldwide.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Green Exquisite Corpses: PO-COLLAGE/Assemblage curated by Valery Oisteanu This popular commingling of the arts and poetry is returning to the Topmkins Square Public Library during the month of November with the theme of The Greening of the East Village. More than 30 artists and poets will be separated into groups of three to create Exquisite Corpses: heads, bodies and legs made from cut-outs and small found objects. The words and images will be crafted independently by team members who do not see in advance what their co-creators are making. The pieces are fitted together at the end, when the completed works are unveiled along with a reading of the collaborative poem. Each artist also can contribute to the title of the piece.
In 2006, several workshops at the library successfully yielded two separate art shows: Po-Collage in East Village, organized by Valery Oisteanu with the help of Jeffrey Rakien Nomura (artist-in-residence at the Tompkins Square Library) and Mixd Trix (writers who do art plus artists who write), curated by Valery Oisteanu and Jeffrey Wright (East Village poet/collagist). Workshops are specifically tailored to develop a collaborative atmosphere between artists and writers and to create works incorporating elements of both media to revive visual poetry as Po-Collage. Here are some visual examples : http://web.mac.com/digitalfossil/iWeb/native/pass.html With an environmental theme, this collaboration of the visual and oral will give free expression to the ideas and voices of local poets and artists who mostly support green causes. Using recycled materials and paper is a fundamental sign of civic duty, and collage-assemblage artists are in the forefront of the greening of New York! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIZ GOLDNER
LIZ GOLDNER'S unique life experiences enable her to think outside of the box. She often approaches subject matter with a magnanimous viewpoint, drawing parallels between a particular topic and the larger world.
She has written for periodicals in Southern California since 1998, having previously published in the East Coast and Midwest. Her fields of expertise include art, architecture, health & fitness, restaurants and retail.
For six years, through May 2006, Goldner wrote a popular art column for OC Metro, an Orange County, CA magazine with a half million circulation. The articles contain discerning analyses of art—especially as individual works relate to a broader creative perspective.
These writings span the breadth and depth of art shown in the Orange County area, with references to Southern California, national and international art pieces. The articles bring to life the works and lives of artists, gallery and museum directors, and continue to receive accolades from the art community.
In a recent article she wrote: "As an art columnist, I am privileged to enter a world that resonates with color, light, form, texture and the often-intense emotions of the artists as translated onto canvas, photo paper, wood, clay or virtually any material. I converse with artists who draw inspiration from sources as diverse as Renaissance paintings and modern conceptual pieces, and then pay homage to these influences in their own works, filtering these influences through the prisms of their inner muses."
Goldner uses her aesthetic understanding and sensibilities to bring to life a wide range of topics.
Her appetites take her to many restaurants where she has interviewed the owners and sampled fine food. Restaurants and proprietors include: Antonello Ristorante, Antonio Cognolo; Pascal Restaurant, Pascal Olhats; The Golden Truffle, Alan Greeley; and Pinot Provence (of the Patina Group), Florent Marneau,. She has interviewed Christine Splichal, co-owner of the Patina Group.
Community leaders, entrepreneurs and celebrities she has interviewed and written about include: Larry Agran, Mayor, Irvine, CA; Jesse James, custom motorcycle designer, host of "Monster Garage," Discovery Channel; Bob Roubian, proprietor Newport Beach's Crab Cooker restaurant and former gold record performer; Henry Segerstrom, founder, South Coast Plaza; Mark Singer, award winning Laguna Beach architect; Joan Irvine Smith, philanthropist, environmentalist; and John Waters, filmmaker, producer of "Hairspray."
People in the arts Goldner has written about include: Liz Armstrong, Orange County Museum of Art's Chief Curator; Dave Barton, Rude Guerrilla Theater's Artistic Director; Don Cribb, Founder, Santa Ana Artists' Village; Peter Keller, President, Bowers Museum; Nancy Moure, nationally known curator/author with an expertise on California art: Richard Stein, Executive Director, Laguna Playhouse; Jean Stern, Executive Director, Irvine Museum; Tyler Stallings, formerly Chief Curator, Laguna Art Museum: Dennis Szakacs, Executive Director, Orange County Museum of Art; Peter Max, Richard MacDonald, Josh Agle and Tony DeLap, world-renowned artists.
She has covered many museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Huntington Library, San Remo, CA and Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, among others.
Goldner has published in Women in the Arts, published by the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Art and Living magazine, Riviera magazine, Orange Coast magazine, The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, California Homes, Laguna Life & People, among others. She also offers a fresh approach to newsletters, brochures, websites and promotional copy.
She edits books, including My Teacher by internationally known flutist Susan Fries, about celebrated flutist/master teacher Marcel Moyse (1889-1984) and Blackjack for Bob Roubian, Crab Cooker owner. The novel, set in 1960's Reno, is about a gambler whose experiences border on the miraculous.
As a book editor, she often takes on the role of a muse, inspiring those she works with to dig more deeply into their subject matter—to express themselves more clearly. While working with a fiction writer, she suggests more explicit dialogue and descriptions for particular passages.
Liz Goldner is passionate about her writing and respectful of those she works with. She approaches every assignment, article and book chapter with authenticity and attention to details.
Hi Mingus, open up I see some impressive your visuals "Pimpo... Hoover and ginger, Cheyney", they are stronger than past works. Keep doing it as Victor Hugo said: "An invasion can be stop by an army but nothing can stop when an idea his time has come". N D
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower “ The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. ” —Rachel Carson
There are atoms and space. Everything else is opinion. -- Democritus ....
Ask any scientist ( evan your High school science teacher ) all of the real questions about the American goals in space. How Many How Much How Long Many of us never question the most basic of the so called space mission issues.
Question: #1. What is the total absolute number of human beings that will ever be able to live in "space or off this planet ? #2. What is the total amount in money fuel, food what ever of the Innumerable materials required to maintain that life. #3. How much time will it take to place our resources wherever ? Based on Fuel and Weight costs what is the total cost of sending the maximum number of humans that can ever be deployed ( in any possible future ) in permanent habitat in living quarters off earth in outer space or on a moon or a “ better planet ” ? #4 What does that mean to majority of human beings left on earth with less resources and no means of “escape”?
One answer is :
Number of human beings = 1000
Fuel cost = All available matter. on earth.
Time line = 100 years starting now!
So why did this space race continue even though most of the word population ( 80 % live in poverty) when they could be fed housed educated and contributing if freed from debt ?
