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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Mobile Advertising Market (Cross Platform): 38.3% CAGR Forecast Globally to 2018

DALLAS, September 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
The Cross-Platform & Mobile Advertising Market by Solutions (Campaign, Delivery, Reporting & Analytics, Proximity), by Advertising (Search, SMS/MMS/P2P Messaging, Rich Media, Coupons, In-App) - Worldwide Market Forecasts and Analysis (2013 - 2018) research report, now available with ReportsnReports.com, forecasts the industry to grow from $15.13 billion in 2013 to $76.57 billion in 2018, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 38.3% from 2013 to 2018. In terms of regions, APAC is expected to be the biggest market in terms of revenue contribution, while emerging economies such as Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Latin America (LA) are expected to experience increased market traction with high CAGRs, in the due course. Complete report is available at http://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/269205-cross-platform-mobile-advertising-market-by-solutions-campaign-delivery-reporting-analytics-proximity-by-advertising-search-sms-mms-p2p-messaging-rich-media-coupons-in-app-worldwide-market-forecasts-and-analysis-2013-2018-.html .

The consumption of mobile media and the integration of cross devices platform continue to grow at a phenomenal rate due to the rapid adoption of mobile and other devices. The next level of advertising is cross-platform advertising that targets on reaching audiences on their desktops and follow them to their smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. The market for mobile advertising and cross-platform advertising is doubling Year-on-Year (Y-O-Y) and the growth of smartphone usage is expected to drive this market in the coming years. This report outlines the global spending on mobile as well as cross-platform advertising's (ads) revenue distribution pattern of different types of channels. This report also provides a complete analysis of all vendors within the mobile advertising and cross-platform advertising ecosystem.
The major cross platform and mobile advertising market players include Google, Millennial Media, Apple, Jumptap, Yahoo, Microsoft, Mojiva, InMobi, Tapad, and Drawbridge. Some of these players provide cross-platform and mobile advertising platform and some focuses only on mobile advertising. Complete list of companies profiled in this cross platform and mobile advertising market report include 4info, Amobee, AOL, Apple, Drawbridge, Facebook, Google, Inmobi, Jumptap, Millennial Media, Microsoft, Mojiva, Nokia, Rhythm, Tapad, Telenav, Valueclick and Yahoo! Order a copy of this report for US$4650 (single user PDF) at http://www.reportsnreports.com/Purchase.aspx?name=269205. Alternatively, ask for a discount at http://www.reportsnreports.com/contacts/Discount.aspx?name=269205 to manage acquiring required research data within your budgets.

The report on cross-platform and mobile advertising provides global market trends, overall adoption scenarios, competitive landscape, and key drivers and opportunities in this market. It aims at estimating the current market size and the future growth potential of this market across verticals and regions based on various types of advertising and devices. The report also focuses on various regional markets for each of the sub segments within the cross-platform and mobile advertising market. The major geographical regions include North America (NA), Europe (EU), Asia Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Latin America (LA).

This research segments the global cross-platform and mobile advertising market by advertising platform types, solutions, services, devices, advertising types, organization size, verticals, and regions:

On the basis of advertising platform types:
Advertising platform types are classified into mobile advertising platform and cross-platform advertising.
On the basis of solutions:
Solutions are segmented into advertisement campaign solutions, content delivery solutions, integrated solutions, reporting and analytics solutions, mobile proximity solutions, and other solutions.
On the basis of services:
Services are classified into consulting services and integrated services.
On the basis of devices:
Devices are classified into feature phones, smartphones, tablets, Personal Computers (PCs), laptops and notebooks, smart Televisions (TVs), and other devices.
On the basis of advertising types:
Advertising types are segmented into search advertising, Short Message Service (SMS)/Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)/Peer-to-Peer (P2P) messaging advertising, rich media (video advertising) and display advertising, voice SMS or outbound dialer and audio advertising, mobile digital coupons advertising, and in-app advertising.
On the basis of organization size:
Organization size is classified into Small and Medium-Scale Businesses (SMBs) and enterprises.
On the basis of verticals:
Verticals are segmented into consumer goods, retail, and restaurants, telecom and information technology (IT), banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), media and entertainment, travel, transportation, and logistics, supply chain and manufacturing, healthcare, energy, power, and utilities, academia and government, and others.
On the basis of geographical regions:
Geographical regions are classified into North America (NA), Europe (EU), Asia Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Latin America (LA).

This research supports the belief that complexity in cross-platform advertising and location and privacy issues are the major issues in the cross-platform and mobile advertising market. These challenges are restraining the enterprises and customers to adopt cross-platform and mobile advertising for their online transactions and marketing.

Another report titled In-Stream and Virtual Video Advertising 2014 - 2017 says In-stream and virtual video ad billings are forecast to realize 24% growth in 2014, led by extensive monetization against broadcast and cable programmer inventory, supported by a stable of multi-screen media executions, brand-direct spend, mobile, social, internet music radio and VOD avails. This research provides brands, marketers, agencies, buyers and sellers a detailed inventory map of the entire marketplace including sellout, views by site and screen, CPMs, spot length, insertion frequencies by publisher, programmer, device, aggregator and network, plus spend traversing ad tech serving systems and media player/recommendation platforms.

In-stream inventory allocated against premium content (and their syndication partners, including Hulu) increased 40% in 2013, to 1.75 impressions per video play and captured 50% of spend across this $3.2 billion patch of the marketplace. The virtual video ad industry exhibited a CAGR of 54.2% over the past ten years. Order a copy of this report for US$3495 at http://www.reportsnreports.com/Purchase.aspx?name=282572.

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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Google Glass Revolutionizes Practice of Law Pilot Program

"Glass Action" is a pilot program recently launched by Fennemore Craig personal injury attorneys Marc Lamber (left) and James Goodnow (right) who equipped several clients, including double-amputee Gary Verrazono with Google Glass, not.

Google Glass Revolutionizes Practice of Law Pilot program
"Glass Action," creates new evidentiary perspective

PHOENIX, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Fennemore Craig, a leading Mountain West regional law firm, is changing the way lawyers interact with clients by lending them Google Glass. With the use of Google Glass, firsthand, live-action experiences are shared in real time between clients and Fennemore Craig attorneys, creating new mechanisms to convey evidence to juries, judges and mediators.

The pilot program, called "Glass Action," was launched in January 2014 when Fennemore Craig personal injury attorneys James Goodnow and Marc Lamber equipped several business and personal injury clients with the new Google Glass technology, not currently available to the public.

Double-amputee Gary Verrazono is one of those clients and has been using the firm-provided Glass for three months. Verrazono lost his right arm and leg in a tragic accident in 2012 while working at a racetrack. Glass is a game changer for Verrazono. He can stream his life as it unfolds, send a text or email, record video, teleconference with his attorneys and photograph, exchange and distribute legal documents — all with a simple voice command or blink of an eye.

"It's the experience of the client unfiltered," says Goodnow. "Jurors will now be able to see the nuances of a victim's daily challenges firsthand."
Lamber adds, "This technology gets us the information instantly, lightening the burden on the client and allowing for more frequent communication. Knowing more about our clients helps us build the strongest case possible."
"Glass Action" comes on the heels of the firm's innovative use of the Apple iPad, which Apple profiled in a case study.

Lamber believes that Fennemore Craig has just scratched the surface of what Google Glass can do for its practice. The firm is now testing the technology with expert witnesses and in mock trials. "We can put Google Glass on jurors during trial simulations to see what's catching their attention," says Lamber.
Goodnow and Lamber have been widely recognized by the media for their use of technology. The ABA Journal named the attorneys to its list of "America's Techiest Lawyers."

Fennemore Craig is a full-service law firm with nearly 200 attorneys and offices in Phoenix, Tucson, Nogales, Las Vegas, Denver and Reno. For more information on Lamber and Goodnow's personal injury practice at Fennemore Craig, visit http://lambergoodnow.com. For more information on the firm, visit http://fclaw.com.

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Nigeria, Kenya And Ghana Remain Confident

In second-quarter 2014, consumer confidence remained high in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana—new entrants in Nielsen’s Global Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions Survey that made their debut in the first quarter of this year. Nigeria’s score was highest, rising one point to 121, while Ghana’s score increased the most, jumping six points to 103. Kenya also reported an optimistic, above the 100 baseline index of 111, an increase of one point in the second quarter.

While confidence was high in the three countries, finances and spending intentions were disconnected. Eighty-one percent of Nigerian respondents were confident about their personal finances, but just under half (48%) said they believed now was a good time to spend. In Kenya, 66 percent of respondents believed money matters were good or excellent while 42 percent were confident in their current spending capacity. Likewise, in Ghana, 67 percent were optimistic about their finances, and only 36 percent of respondents were confident about spending.

The majority of respondents in the three countries did not have spare cash (66% in Kenya, 64% in Ghana and 59% in Nigeria), and Ghana reported the only improvement, with a 7 percentage point change from the first quarter. Among those who did have discretionary funds, saving was a priority for 90 percent in Kenya, 79 percent in Nigeria and 75 percent in Ghana, followed by spending on home improvement projects (74% in Nigeria, 70% in Kenya and 66% in Ghana).

Other spending intentions include: investing in stocks (Kenya, 67%; Ghana, 48%; Nigeria, 56%), buying new technology products (Nigeria, 49%; Kenya, 43%; Ghana, 38%), spending on out-of-home entertainment (Nigeria, 44%; Kenya, 42%; Ghana, 27%) and buying new clothes (Kenya, 69%; Nigeria, 42%; Ghana, 31%).

Other findings include:

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For more detail and insight, download Nielsen’s Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions.

About the Nielsen Global Survey

The findings in this survey are based on respondents with online access across 60 countries. While an online survey methodology allows for tremendous scale and global reach, it provides a perspective only on the habits of existing Internet users, not total populations. In developing markets where online penetration has not reached majority potential, audiences may be younger and more affluent than the general population of that country. Additionally, survey responses are based on claimed behavior, rather than actual metered data.

Victim's Family Writes Letter to 9-Year-old Female Uzi Shooter

Victim's family reaches out to 9-year-old female Uzi shooter. Wants to meet her, hug her and tell her it's OK. (PRNewsFoto/Fennemore Craig).

Victim's family writes letter to 9-year-old female Uzi shooter
Wants to meet her, hug her and tell her it's OK.

PHOENIX, Sept. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The four children of Charlie Vacca, who was tragically shot and killed last month by a 9-year-old girl learning to shoot an Uzi submachine gun, have released a video statement. That statement is directed to the 9-year-old and can be viewed at http://lambergoodnow.com.
The Vacca children, ages 11, 14, 15 and 19, each deliver a message in the video describing their father, how they feel about the young shooter and what their dad would want.

According to Marc Lamber and James Goodnow, injury and wrongful death lawyers at Fennemore Craig, P.C., this incident has spawned a broader national discussion about gun safety and automatic weapons in the hands of children.

"Although we feel this discourse is important, and we intend to participate, Charlie's loved ones don't want it to overshadow the impact this tragedy has had on everyone involved. On behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy during this difficult time," said Goodnow.

"Now, we intend to work cooperatively with authorities and investigative agencies to determine how this could have happened and more importantly, how it could have been prevented," added Lamber.
Lamber and Goodnow represent the mother, sister and children of Mr. Vacca.

About Fennemore Craig
Fennemore Craig is a full-service law firm with nearly 200 attorneys and offices in Phoenix, Tucson, Nogales, Las Vegas, Denver and Reno. For more information on Lamber and Goodnow's personal injury practice at Fennemore Craig, visit http://lambergoodnow.com. For more information on the firm, visit http://fclaw.com.
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Friday, September 12, 2014

'No Rights No Dignity' - A Powerful Tale of Slaves in the Twenty First Century

'No Rights No Dignity' - A Powerful Tale of Slaves in the Twenty First Century and a Warning About Inequality and Male Domination

GLASGOW, Scotland, September 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Scottish writer Ernie Hasler has re-launched an Amazon Kindle version his book now titled 'No Rights No Dignity' a compelling suspense fiction about the plight and powerlessness of trafficked people and the evil empires of male dominated ruthless power.

As he lives through the largely unquestioned news of illegal wars and rumours of subsequent resulting wars led by the United States of America loyally supported by their British allies, he can't help comparing the propaganda of justifying murder in our name by Tony Blair, to the present political manipulation of the truth in the lead up to the Scottish referendum and the blatant lies and propaganda of the Westminster political parties.

As Ernie Hasler a retired worker with 51 years full time work experience behind him and now an aspiring writer and also a long-time volunteer in the now burgeoning homeless sector, thinks about his book and the powerlessness of poor people in this world, he realises that is all part of domination by a pecking order of male bullies backed up by their illegal idols, nuclear weapons.

The United Kingdom has become a most unequal country under Westminster rule and Ernie well remembers 'Old Labour' heroine Barbara Castle whose biggest achievement, even putting at risk to her own political career, was the Equal Pay Act introduced in 1970 following the strike by women workers who were treated second class to men workers at Ford's Dagenham plant.

But subsequent Westminster Tory and Labour governments have abysmally failed to deliver gender equality law in a timely fashion including Scottish Labour controlled councils and gender inequality persists into the twenty first century in the UK.

On the subject of pensions he said, although we workers paid full National Insurance contributions, Westminster governments squandered all our National Insurance money and Chancellor Brown raided the enormous private pension's reserves.

Labour's 'stealth raid' took £118 Billion off pensions, paving the way for the end of final salary schemes as they were suddenly unaffordable because of this raid.

The proven reality is that there are no pension guarantees worth a pinch of salt from Westminster politicians.
Comparing his book to present UK national inequality he quotes; 'The 2014 Human Development Report by UNDP.'

"The United Kingdom, unfortunately, has an exceptionally high degree of inequality." The gap in Britain and Australia is exactly the same as in Nigeria, much worse than in Jamaica, Ghana or the Ivory Coast and twice as bad as in Sri Lanka or Ethiopia. The UN report revealing that the UK is the most unequal country in the West - Huge gap between rich and poor in Britain is the same as Nigeria and worse than Ethiopia.

He goes on to quote TUC research, carried out using official figures from the Office for National Statistics, found that the highest 10% of earners in London receive £82,000 a year on average, followed by those in the South East who are on £57,000 and the East of England where they earn about £52,000.

By contrast, an annual salary of about £46,000 puts workers in the top 10% of earners in Yorkshire and the Humber and £45,000 makes the top 10% in the North East. Meanwhile in Wales, the top earners get the least, just £43,000 a year, nearly half what those in London are taking home.

The poorest 10% of workers are on less than £18,000 a year, less than £15,400 in the South East and less than £14,800 per annum in the rest of England, Scotland and Wales. Leading to the question, what's equal about this union?

The reality on the streets is shear misery being cruelly exacted on the poorest and weakest by heartless Tories, now supported by Labour and Liberal Democrats, who's ruthless class prejudiced dogmas affects and degrades millions by unjust targeting of benefit rights by unscrupulous private companies, will blight the future of many British children for generations to come.
He thinks back to his book and how the evil males dominate their poor slaves and how it compares with modern right wing politics in the United Kingdom.

To thwart the Scottish reaction to break free of this unequal union 'Better Together' has simply imported a repressive strategy of fear from American political phycologists.
This is a scary well refined Doctor Strangelove type cold war product, extensively proven by the CIA to consistently work in manipulating political voting in resource rich 'Third World' countries and most recently in Quebec Canada.

He says that it is like frightened trafficked slaves being trapped in a dark single candle lit room with the bullies projecting large life like shadow images on to the wall to frighten the captive children with illusions of fear but no substance.

As we approach Scottish referendum day so the fear stories and emotional appeals to stay (Love Bombing) will be ramped up by the London based media who control most of the Scottish propaganda machine, after all this is what worked in Quebec.

Are we all Jock Tamson's bairns looking out for each other, or do propaganda lies and the American political phycologists win?
Ernie says, immersing yourself in the compelling story 'No Rights No Dignity' is probably the best way to get enjoyable relief from the blatent lies of Westminister politicians.

Contact: Ernie Hasler +44(0)1389-800190 erniehasler@btinternet.com

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Nigerians on MoboFree Will Sell Unused Items Worth US$ 1.5 Billion by 2015 - Neringa Kudarauskiene, MoboFree CEO

MoboFree CEO and co-founder Neringa Kudarauskiene.

Two million Nigerians are selling unused items worth US$ 526 million and will reach US$ 1.5 Billion in 2015 on http://www.mobofree.com, the leading African social marketplace on the internet.
MoboFree members upload thousands of new classifieds every day, generating an average of 60 million page impressions monthly.

The best-selling items on MoboFree.com are phones, tablets and mobile devices, followed by clothes, fashion and beauty and electronic devices.

The MoboFree technological platform makes buying and selling online easy for any African user with any device, not only for PCs and smartphones but also for old phones with small screens (so called “feature” phones).

"Africa is home to six of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. Our strong performance once again confirms the success of our model and is indicative of the high level of activity in all markets in which we operate. We are now looking for new partners with which to share our exciting expansion plans as we see enormous opportunities arising in Africa," said MoboFree CEO and co-founder Neringa Kudarauskiene.

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Offshore Drilling Market Worth $134.02 Billion by 2019

Offshore drilling vessel. Photo Credit: Orlean Invest.

DALLAS, September 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
The report "Offshore Drilling Market by Services (Contract Drilling, Directional Drilling, Logging While Drilling), Applications (Shallow Water, Deepwater, Ultra-deepwater) and Geography - Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, defines and segments the global Offshore Drilling Market with analysis and forecast of the global market share. The Offshore Drilling Market is estimated to grow from $80.8 Billion in 2014 to $134.02 Billion by 2019, at a CAGR of 10.6%.
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The increase in demand for energy drives the need for exploration activities and investments. This increases the need for offshore exploration and production activities, which further leads to the demand of offshore drilling infrastructure and associated services.

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In the current offshore drilling services global market, the shallow water activities dominates offshore market and is projected to grow with significant growth in the near future. On the other hand, the deepwater and ultra-deepwater activities are also projected to increase, escalating the requirement for semisubmersibles and drill ships in offshore application.

The report analyzes and projects the Offshore Drilling Market by applications, by service, and geography. The Offshore Drilling Market includes contract drilling services, as well as directional and logging while drilling services, and its various submarkets with respect to main regions such as Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa, Middle East, North America, and South America. Offshore drilling activities are also analyzed on the basis of the shallow, deep and ultra-deepwater activities.

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Annenberg Space For Photography Announces Sink Or Swim: Designing For A Sea Change

A woman makes her way down the seawall along the Kitakama and Ainokama coastline in Sendai, Japan. After the tsunami in 2011 the Japanese government has spent billions of yen on the reconstruction of a 31.8 km seawall along the Sendai coastline ...

Annenberg Space For Photography Announces Sink Or Swim: Designing For A Sea Change

Featuring Works By Iwan Baan, Stephen Wilkes And Paula Bronstein Photography Exhibition Focuses on Resilient Design in a Time of Rising Seas on View from December 13, 2014 to May 3, 2015.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Annenberg Space for Photography announces Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change, on view from December 13, 2014 to May 3, 2015. Sink or Swim explores the human story of resilience, from adaptation for survival to ambitious infrastructure planning, in some of the richest and poorest of the world's coastal communities. Rather than showing pristine architectural photography, the photographs present viewers with various human responses to changes in their landscapes due to sea level rise. Sink or Swim aims to foster critical dialogue through the provocative juxtaposition of diverse responses to a challenge shared by millions worldwide.

Curated by architecture writer and radio host Frances Anderton with the Annenberg Space for Photography, Sink or Swim features newly commissioned and archival works by photographers Iwan Baan, Stephen Wilkes, Paula Bronstein, Jonas Bendiksen and Monica Nouwens. This is the first exhibition for Annenberg Space for Photography to feature commissioned works. Through the work of this select group of architectural, fine art and news photographers, the exhibition casts an eye on both the problem of climate change in densely populated coastal regions and contemporary design as a means to navigate the changing landscapes.

"We were eager to organize an exhibition focusing on architecture but adamant that we wanted it to tell the story from a human perspective," says Wallis Annenberg, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation. "We are delighted that these new works tell such powerful stories about resiliency, climate change and architecture as well as engage with viewers on a humanistic level. The exhibit's capacity to foster dialogue that offers fresh perspectives on the environmental issues of our day -- and how communities are rising up to meet the challenges -- is very much keeping with the mission of the Photography Space and the Annenberg Foundation."

In the face of increasing global attention on climate change and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, Superstorm Sandy, and the Tohuko tsunami, Sink or Swim is a timely examination of resiliency strategies in architecture and design. Images range from highly complex coastal flood-mitigation in the Netherlands, controversial sea walls in Japan, to innovative homes and community buildings by leading architects including Pritzker prize-winners Thom Mayne, Toyo Ito and Shigeru Ban.

Anderton collaborated with photographers experienced in capturing fragile built environments to determine the locations, design projects and communities across the world that served as subjects for the commissioned works in the exhibition. Sea walls, floating schools and temporary disaster relief housing in disparate ecological and social contexts provide concrete starting points for considering questions about nature, culture and design at the heart of Sink or Swim.
"It has been a privilege to dig into these extraordinary photographers' rich archives and also send them back out on assignment to create compelling new work that we look forward to sharing with the public through the exhibition," says Anderton.

"Photography is an ideal medium through which to explore climate change and the built environment because ultimately this is a human story and the photographs get to the emotional heart of that story. Through images of coastal communities—the devastating impact of climate change, including super-storms and rising sea levels, and also the varied and innovated design solutions—Sink or Swim offers visitors the opportunity to engage with and enrich dialogue about all aspects of this predicament."

An original documentary film commissioned by the Annenberg Space for Photography and produced by award-winning director Steven Kochones and Arclight Productions will include interviews with the artists, architects, historians and scientists engaged with climate resilient strategies for waterfront communities.
A collaboration between the Annenberg Space for Photography and the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands will offer visitors to Sunnylands a preview of select prints from the Sink or Swim exhibition. The images will be on display beginning in October 2014 to coincide with a retreat at Sunnylands on the topic of rising sea levels and ocean acidification. An exhibition catalogue will be published by Sunnylands Press for release in December 2014.

The Photographers Following his experience photographing the celebrated Makoko Floating School (designed by Kunlé Adeyemi for the Makoko community on the water near Lagos, Nigeria,) Dutch photographer Iwan Baan was drawn to the lake village of Ganvie in Benin, where residents have lived on the water for centuries. New work by Baan in the exhibition also includes photographs of the massive Deltaworks sea defenses; the promenade at Scheveningen near The Hague in the Netherlands, a flood-protection system interwoven with a tourist destination designed by Spanish firm De Solà-Morales; and the post-tsunami Home-For-All community buildings by Toyo Ito and other leading architects in Japan.

U.S.-based fine art photographer Stephen Wilkes revisited communities he first encountered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy. His images include striking aerial photographs that present a unique perspective on infrastructure improvements within the context of natural landscapes that remain susceptible to flooding. Wilkes also created portraits of New Orleans area residents in the newly built homes, intended to be models for resilience, by the Make It Right Foundation and Global Green in the Lower 9^thWard and Holy Cross neighborhoods of New Orleans. One of the first photographers to capture aerial images of the coastline damage following Hurricane Sandy, Wilkes documented Staten Island's Oakwood Beach where homeowners have elected to sell their property to the state, which plans to return the area to wetlands rather than rebuild.

Veteran photojournalist Paula Bronstein traveled to Japan for Sink or Swim and captured the immense sea walls now being built off the tsunami-hit coast of Japan. She also captured daily life in the storage container structures designed by 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban to house refugees following the Tohuko earthquake and Tsunami.

Dutch-born, Los Angeles-based, photographer Monica Nouwens turned her lens on California, finding in the restored Malibu Lagoon a local example of wetlands restoration. She also captures a very human story of denial, exemplified in a photograph of a California woman walking her dogs, oblivious to a tsunami sign above her head.

Sink or Swim also features Norwegian Magnum Photos photographer Jonas Bendiksen's documentation of Bangladesh coastal and delta communities, where increasingly unpredictable and intense flooding has prompted innovative adaptations in a culture that has dealt with seasonal flooding for centuries. Bendiksen spent two years capturing the low-tech structural and farming innovations in the challenging landscape, as well as the floating schools project designed by Mohammed Rezwan for his nonprofit Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha.

The Venue Annenberg Space for Photography, the only cultural destination in Los Angeles devoted solely to photography, strives to encourage the community to explore universally-important subjects through one of the most accessible and personal forms of art. During its 14-exhibit and five-year history, the venue has approached a series of thought-provoking subjects, such as the precarious state of the world's fresh water, vanishing cultures and climate change.

The Annenberg Space for Photography Skylight Studios will continue to host the popular Iris Nights lecture series with exhibit-related speakers. The schedule will be announced at a later date. Educational programming will be also offered in conjunction with the exhibition. The Annenberg Foundation provides bus funding to Title 1 schools, allowing educators to bring thousands of students to experience the Photography Space, free of charge. The exhibition catalogue as well as other exhibit-related merchandise will be available for purchase in Skylight Studios' Retail Gallery.

About the Annenberg Space for PhotographyThe Annenberg Space for Photography is a cultural destination dedicated to exhibiting photography. The intimate environment features state-of-the-art, high-definition digital technology as well as traditional prints by some of the world's most renowned and emerging photographers. It is the first solely photographic cultural destination in the Los Angeles area. The Photography Space conveys a range of human experiences and serves as an expression of the philanthropic work of the Annenberg Foundation and its Directors. 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the Annenberg Foundation.
Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067
www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org

Hours: Wednesday through Sunday: 11 am – 6 pm; closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Admission is free.
Parking with validation is $3.50 Wednesdays - Fridays and $1.00 on weekends.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Gates Foundation Commits $50 Million to Support Emergency Response to Ebola

SEATTLE, Sept. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will commit $50 million to support the scale up of emergency efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and interrupt transmission of the virus.

The foundation will immediately release flexible funds to United Nations agencies and international organizations involved in the response to enable them and national governments to purchase badly needed supplies and scale up emergency operations in affected countries. In addition, the foundation will work with public and private sector partners to accelerate the development of therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics that could be effective in treating patients and preventing further transmission of the disease.

"We are working urgently with our partners to identify the most effective ways to help them save lives now and stop transmission of this deadly disease," said Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Gates Foundation. "We also want to accelerate the development of treatments, vaccines and diagnostics that can help end this epidemic and prevent future outbreaks."

To date, the Gates Foundation has committed more than $10 million to fight the Ebola outbreak, including$5 million to WHO for emergency operations and R&D assessments and$5 million to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to support efforts in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to purchase essential medical supplies, coordinate response activities, and provide at-risk communities with life-saving health information. An additional$2 million will also be committed immediately to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support incident management, treatment, and health care system strengthening.

In August, Nigeria responded to the current crisis by opening an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Lagos, with support from the foundation and the Dangote Foundation. Leveraging expertise and lessons from the national polio program, the EOC has been at the center of an aggressive push by the federal and state governments to contain the spread of the virus, and there is cautious optimism that this prompt action may have helped avert a broader outbreak.

As additional grants are made, the foundation will provide further details on its funding commitments to on-the-ground operations and to research and development for Ebola drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics.
About the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

SOURCE Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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