Richard Woolfe on Broadcasting
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- Arab youth revel in pop revolution
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- Arabian sights: Mountains and desert, tribes and tradition in the…
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Richard Woolfe on Broadcasting
The Independent - Independent - May 21, 2007
So what are our expectations for this year? Some things are certain in this week of addictive heightened reality. Naturally there are too many “must-have” shows going into the screenings for them to be exactly that (the PRs having done their job well to ensure that this is the case). One show, rightly or wrongly, will become the subject of a furious bidding war and of course the week would not be complete without the public service broadcasters informing anyone that will listen that they will not be entering into any bidding war and are slashing their investment in acquisitions in favour of home-grown content. But the potential pay-offs make all the claims and counter-claims worthwhile. the truth of the matter is that a good series from the US can do so much for a UK channel and its brand.
Can we live without digital technology?
The Age - May 21, 2007
There’s all the obvious stuff such as the computer, the TV,digital cameras, the mobile phone and iPods and PDAs but then youneed to consider all the pieces of kit that come with so-calledembedded systems. These embedded systems processors are the brains behind themicrowave in the kitchen, the washing machine in the laundry andeven the car in the driveway - its engine control unit andanti-lock braking systems, among others. Without feeding the family with home-grown vegies, making ourown clothes and living in a yurt outside Nimbin, dodging theubiquitous stream of ones and zeros will be nigh-on impossible. Time to set some boundaries on my two days of digitaldeprivation. I am not going to go without power and water and Ireserve the right to use my car but otherwise I’ll try to dowithout every other digital device in my life. Day one does not get off to a good start as I fail to correctlyset the old alarm clock that I’d dug out of the bottom of thecupboard. Don’t ask me how but after years of pressing the samebuttons to set my digital clock, the simple act of setting awind-up device appears to be beyond me… When day two dawns things get off to a better start as I havefinally got the hang of the alarm clock. Doing without email andthe internet today should be easier as it’s a Saturday and there’sno work to be done. However, going without music is a much bigger problem. I lovemusic and we have something playing in the house (generally jazz)pretty much all the time. All my music is now stored on a laptopand iPod, making it easy to pipe around the house via a system ofwired and wireless speakers. It’s a neat use of digital technologybut one I’m going to have to get by without using for a day atleast. A mate who lives nearby owns a turntable, which I can probablyuse without breaking the spirit of the experiment.
China warns Ericsson, Nokia to ‘get serious’ on local 3G…
Forbes - May 21, 2007
China’s TD-SCDMA is set to dominate the country’s 3G market but foreign companies have so far failed to get involved with the standard, said Chen Haofei, secretary-general of TD-SCDMA Forum. ‘I believe many foreign companies have misjudged (the prospects of) TD-SCDMA,’ Haofei told China Daily. TD-SCDMA has lagged behind WCDMA and CDMA 2000 in the past but recent strong backing from the Chinese government has moved it forward and given it an edge over foreign standards said, Haofei. ‘Foreign companies need to get serious about TD-SCDMA as they are less likely to get anywhere with WCDMA and CDMA 2000 in the near future,’ warned Haofei.
Arab youth revel in pop revolution
BBC News - May 21, 2007
“I wasn’t trying to do anything, I was just trying to represent myself. People felt that ‘oh yeah, this is what we want, but we want it in a new package, not the same old stuff’. ”
Modern image
The new wave of Arab singers have had their images burnished and glamorised by home-grown video directors like Said El Marouk. They produce hundreds of music clips that have an expensive sheen and are technically far removed from the old style of Arab video, in which singers wandered uncomfortably around cheap sets of palm trees and fountains, bemoaning their lost loves.
CANNES ‘07 DISPATCH | Winterbottom’s Latest Stirs Cannes Fest
Indie Wire - May 21, 2007
Turkey’s box office is perhaps itself a mirror of this liveliness as well. In 2005, Turkish film was 40% of the country’s domestic box office revenues. In 2006, the percentage had increased to 51. 8% of the box office, a figure that gives the country an enviable home grown film industry in comparison to many of its neighbors. [Ashley Adams]The latest from the 2007 Festival de Cannes is available anytime in. ( posted on May 21, 2007 at 07:45PM | filed under Cannes,.
Arabian sights: Mountains and desert, tribes and tradition in the…
Belfast Telegraph - May 21, 2007
The water table has fallen from 10 metres to 800 metres since the 1960s, which has gradually destroyed traditional market gardening. Modern technology is bringing it back, but it’s not sustainable like the old system was. " We spotted bundles of home-grown, fresh herbs on sale at Bab Al Yemen, the main entrance to the central souq. Old women huddled together at the bottom of the mosque steps with bread and onions at their feet. They were wearing bolts of printed cloth draped over their heads; only wrinkled hands protruded from their shrouds. On the other side of the square, the sim-sim camel had stopped for a lunch break. He had spent the morning grinding sesame seeds inside a dingy storeroom, padding round in circles, blinkered and chained to the mill.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune - May 21, 2007
These groups will do anything to continue cashing in on Florida’s broken no-fault system at the expense of drivers. Their political influence and lobbying efforts are the primary reasons lawmakers could not reach a consensus on any no-fault legislation during the regular session. Unfortunately, the potential savings resulting from ending a home-grown fraud industry when the no-fault sytem sunsets are being overshadowed by fabricated claims from the very same special interests abusing the broken system to maintain their gravy train. Their claims about uncompensated care are disingenuous and amount to little more than scare tactics being employed by hospitals to protect their bloated profit margins. The reality is the Florida Hospital Association’s claim of $350 million in lost revenue is based on bad math. The figure skews the real revenues generated from accident-related care because it represents the total amount hospitals billed for care provided to auto accident victims, not the actual amounts they received from insurers for no-fault claims. Hospitals have made similar claims before.