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Multilevel Interventions in Health Care: Building the Foundation for Future Research Goals With his background as an oncologist, researcher and administrator, Dr. Otis Brawley (American Cancer Society) brings his unique perspective on multilevel interventions in clinical practice to Saturday’s keynote address and consider how health care changes and multilevel interventions. Conference Description The research conference sponsored by the National Cancer Institute assembled health care researchers, clinicians, and administrators to discuss the importance of multilevel approaches to improving health care quality in the United States. It occurred over two days and was associated with the American Society for Preventive Oncology’s (ASPO) annual meeting in March of 2011. This presentation is one of 13 research papers. The conference offered platforms for participant discussion and engagement regarding the opportunities and challenges of multilevel intervention research. Recorded sessions, presentation slides, and additional resources are available at cancercontrol.cancer.gov

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A tour of the Golden Nugget Spa Suite 6D that we stayed at on 8/7/08

Corner Suite at Aria Resort and Casino during my trip to Las Vegas over Spring Break. Lighting’s not perfect but at least you’ll get the idea. This is my second time staying at Aria but first in Corner Suite. Please comment.

FACADES…THEY ARE TALKING!

Building facades may get more expressive, even interactive. The Videocon building exterior done up in one-way vision vinyl may have just marked the beginning, says Namrata Kohli

The Videocon building on the national highway is quite a showstopper. As part of a landmark deal in the OOH (out-of-home) industry, Videocon has branded the entire exterior of DLF’s Ship Building in Gurgaon (visible from National Highway 8), using one-way vision self-adhesive vinyl.

Suddenly, building facades have become prime focus for advertisers who are letting the buildings do the talking. Given their large surface area, building facades can certainly be used for advertising as well as promotions. They are not only used as a tool to smarten up a building but can also give the building occupier a huge sense of identity and personality.

According to Ravikanth Gauravaram of Navia Asia, the OOH agency that implemented the work on Videocon building, “Location of the building is of prime importance when you do anything like this. The Videocon building was perfect as it is located next to National Highway 8, which sees nearly 800,000 vehicles every day. Moreover, the building facade is visible to traffic on both sides of the road, though anything like this is prohibitive.” He adds that a building wrap costs anywhere between Rs 15-150/sq ft, depending upon the material of the building wrap. Event managers are pitching for more such sites, and selling premium sites at prices that tend to be on the higher side.

Another interesting facade concept is the Bharti Airtel building – again on NH-8, that highlights logo colours of blue and red on its facade. This helps in reinforcing the presence of the occupant firm in an obvious way, as well as brand recall in a subtle way.

According to Arjun Thapar, an architect, the Indian market for building facades is very nascent. “At best, it is just starting off, is all I can say.” He feels that on the flipside, it will also create a new revenue stream for the building owners, which can be used for the betterment of building services. “They could use in upgrade of common facilities like lifts, firefighting equipment, etc, for which, in countries like India, very little if any investment is made available by building owner associations. Of course, this isn’t applicable to DLF-type buildings, which will use it elsewhere, but for the Nehru Place-types, where the offices are owned by several individuals who are supposed to contribute to a kitty – which never happens. Given that poor maintenance of essential services can cause casualties, not just the owners but also visitors as well, this might just help. Also, these can serve to help reduce the glare from the sun. This is a very big benefit in a tropical country like ours where we have succumbed to the glass tower, and built for ourselves huge energy guzzlers just because our architects were unable to create a match for the glass tower. Reducing heat load means recurring cost benefits in air-conditioning.”

One of the first bold installation-facades done in India may be attributed to Charles Correa – for the British Council Library in Delhi.

“Facade remains a major part of any building elevation and its ‘favorable’ impact is essential for end users as well as onlookers,” says Sandeep Singh who owns a project management company. He adds that a building facade is now established as a good value-add to the overall real estate product. “In the current business scenario, almost every developer is trying to implement it in some or other form to their projects but there are only a few good developers who genuinely appreciate and provide the right material to end users. The price variation is such in the facade material that most of the projects (even high selling) limit themselves to the aesthetic aspect due to budget constraints, however it doesn’t benefit the end users in terms of actual energy saving or heat resistivity.” For example, few of the Mumbai-based Grades A developers are known for their world-class building facades, which is a very good practice since the insulation, ultraviolet ray protection and thermal resistivity of these facades provide good amount of satisfaction to end users.”

While Gateway Towers is one of the first iconic buildings in Gurgaon, which has recently transformed itself with branding on the facade, globally, there are many interesting instances of expressive facades. The first movers in this innovation were Las Vegas buildings, which worked very hard to outdo each other to gain maximum footfalls for their establishments. Over time, this trend has come into the office buildings and some landmark examples include the T-mobile headquarters at Bonn in Germany, which has the world’s first transparent media facade on a 300 square meter surface. There are over 250,000 LED’s within the vertical beams capable of playing moving commercials of the brand.

The concept of a facade “alive and active” was already in vogue in the last decade. These examples are of buildings done up in different techniques, technologies (more as installations), to attract consumers or to showcase some specific events. Over the recent years, these have become an integral part of the building facade design. In a store in Los Angeles, there is an interactive and live display of LED lights, which light up as people walk on the interactive walkway in front of the store. The walkway consists of a luminous field of LED lights, with pressure sensors that correspond to lights on the facade. An office building at Singapore was one of the first retrofit interactive facades in Asia. The conventional glass facade was enhanced with 500 full colour LED lights and a high-end LED screen, mounted along the contours of the building. At Kunsthaus Graz (art museum) in Graz, Austria, the building has a matrix of 930 fluorescent lamps, which are integrated into the plexiglass facade of the museum. Each lamp is individually adjustable and this enables animations, graphics display at a speed of 20 frames per second on the facade.

At Potsdamer Platz 10 in Berlin, Germany, the building had roughly 1,800 fluorescent lamps integrated to the facade glass. The computerized system could display animations and graphics making the facade a moving display. At Iluma in Singapore, the tessellated patterns of plastic panels on the facade have fluorescent lamps superimposed on them. This makes the facade light up in different “forms” on different nights.

At the Beijing Olympics, the stadiums for the Olympics marked the largest integrated approach to interactive facade design. The Bird’s Nest is a conventional design but lit from within and outside. The Water Cube facade is made of ETFE (Ethylene Tetraf-fluoro Ethylene), a translucent material which allows more light penetration and decreases the energy costs by 30%.

At the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi, the hotel has color changing curvilinear form, sitting atop the hotel towers. The facade consists of 6,000 pivoting diamond shaped glass panels, which are programmable. However, ‘how much is too much’ is the question.

The conservationists rightly argue that facade designers need to realize that if they became very loud in their graphics, they will not only be doing themselves a disservice, but also ruining the city by making it look like a big large untidy bazaar, with everyone shouting out for attention, and getting it in at most a limited way. Thus, the city could look like what a typical mall facade looks like today with far too many sign ages cluttered all over.

A blend of aesthetically appealing and functionally sound facades will not only help users but also cheer up the urban skyline.

Courtesy: – Times Property DT: – 16-01-2010

Digital Book World Conference and Consumer Electronics Show: Past and Present

A number of conferences dealing with electronic technology occur on a regular basis. Two of these are the Digital Book World Conference and the Consumer Electronics Show.

The Digital Book World Conference, a conference on publishing and digital change, is for all book-publishing professionals. This includes senior management, editors, agents, marketers, digital strategists, and others. It is unique in that it helps publishers address business challenges created by digital change.

The first annual Digital Book World Conference took place in New York City January 26-27, 2010 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers. Planners of the conference conceived the idea in June, put together the Conference Council in July, and drafted the initial program in August. They geared panels and talks towards the changing digital book business. It had three main themes: Evolving the Business Model, EBooks: Opportunity or Threat, and Marketing in the Digital Age. Topics discussed included management of digital rights, pricing of eBooks, and timing of eBook releases. The goal was to provide an outstanding program with expert speakers for attendees to takeaway practical ideas, and to include sponsors and exhibitors capable of offering appropriate tools for implementing the strategies individuals learned about at the conference.

Attendees were professionals from five continents representing more than 240 publishing companies including Amazon.com Digital, Barnes&Noble.com, Crown Publishing Group, Google, HarperCollins, Macmillan, National Geographic Society, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Random House, as well as many others. Individuals from all areas of book acquisition, production, and distribution were present at the conference. Among them were CEOS, Senior Agents, Directors of Marketing & Sales, Editorial Directors, Directors of Strategic Partnerships, and Directors of Digital Assets.

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The second annual conference, Digital Book World 2011, coming up January 24-26, will again be held at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in New York City. The theme this year is Managing Risks; Seizing Opportunities. On Monday, January 24, conference attendees can participate in three-hour workshops in the areas of eBook Design and Production, Content Strategy and Transmedia Development, and Direct-to-Consumer Marketing and Sales.

Planning for this year’s conference is well ahead of last year’s schedule. As they plan for the upcoming conference organizers need to predict what the relevant digital change questions will be and what will be relevant to the target audience of book-publishing professionals in January 2011.

The Conference Council, a group of about 30 made up of CEOs, representatives from large and small publishing houses, retailers, digital strategists, retailers, and independent leaders, will plan the programs and choose speakers who will address the relevant issues and problems that trade publishers are facing as they move into digital publishing. Not only is the technology of e-readers progressing rapidly, but e-Ink technology is improving alongside it opening new horizons for digital reading. According to the review “What’s Next in e-Ink Technology”, the new generation color E Ink products are certainly crisper and offer better resolution and color reproduction that anything else seen to date and we expect to see electronic ink begin to compete with LCD displays (Digital Book Readers).

Another conference, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is held each year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) puts on this technology-related trade show, which is not open to the public. Attendees must have a professional affiliation with consumer electronics. The CEA reinvests all profits from the show. They go towards such things as industry promotion and services, technical training and education, development of engineering standards, and legislative advocacy.

Originally, in 1967, CES was held in New York. Then in 1978, it started being held twice a year. In 1998 the show once again changed and went back to the once a year format. The CES gained popularity in 2004 after Comdex was cancelled.

The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, held January 7-10, had an attendance of more than 120,000. The most impressive e-book readers at the show were Skiff Reader and Plastic Logic Que proReader – touchscreen devices with integrated 3G. Also at that show, several companies announced 3D-compatible HDTVs and four companies announced standalone 3D Blu-ray players. Intel demonstrated a new Wireless Display technology (WiDi), and Motorola introduced the new Backflip Smartphone.

The next CES, January 6-9, 2011, will have more than 300 conference sessions covering every aspect of the consumer electronics industry. The full conference lineup will be available October 1, 2010.

FACADES…THEY ARE TALKING!

Article by Santosh Baranwal

Building facades may get more expressive, even interactive. The Videocon building exterior done up in one-way vision vinyl may have just marked the beginning, says Namrata Kohli
The Videocon building on the national highway is quite a showstopper. As part of a landmark deal in the OOH (out-of-home) industry, Videocon has branded the entire exterior of DLF’s Ship Building in Gurgaon (visible from National Highway 8), using one-way vision self-adhesive vinyl.
Suddenly, building facades have become prime focus for advertisers who are letting the buildings do the talking. Given their large surface area, building facades can certainly be used for advertising as well as promotions. They are not only used as a tool to smarten up a building but can also give the building occupier a huge sense of identity and personality.
According to Ravikanth Gauravaram of Navia Asia, the OOH agency that implemented the work on Videocon building, “Location of the building is of prime importance when you do anything like this. The Videocon building was perfect as it is located next to National Highway 8, which sees nearly 800,000 vehicles every day. Moreover, the building facade is visible to traffic on both sides of the road, though anything like this is prohibitive.” He adds that a building wrap costs anywhere between Rs 15-150/sq ft, depending upon the material of the building wrap. Event managers are pitching for more such sites, and selling premium sites at prices that tend to be on the higher side.
Another interesting facade concept is the Bharti Airtel building – again on NH-8, that highlights logo colours of blue and red on its facade. This helps in reinforcing the presence of the occupant firm in an obvious way, as well as brand recall in a subtle way.
According to Arjun Thapar, an architect, the Indian market for building facades is very nascent. “At best, it is just starting off, is all I can say.” He feels that on the flipside, it will also create a new revenue stream for the building owners, which can be used for the betterment of building services. “They could use in upgrade of common facilities like lifts, firefighting equipment, etc, for which, in countries like India, very little if any investment is made available by building owner associations. Of course, this isn’t applicable to DLF-type buildings, which will use it elsewhere, but for the Nehru Place-types, where the offices are owned by several individuals who are supposed to contribute to a kitty – which never happens. Given that poor maintenance of essential services can cause casualties, not just the owners but also visitors as well, this might just help. Also, these can serve to help reduce the glare from the sun. This is a very big benefit in a tropical country like ours where we have succumbed to the glass tower, and built for ourselves huge energy guzzlers just because our architects were unable to create a match for the glass tower. Reducing heat load means recurring cost benefits in air-conditioning.”
One of the first bold installation-facades done in India may be attributed to Charles Correa – for the British Council Library in Delhi.
“Facade remains a major part of any building elevation and its ‘favorable’ impact is essential for end users as well as onlookers,” says Sandeep Singh who owns a project management company. He adds that a building facade is now established as a good value-add to the overall real estate product. “In the current business scenario, almost every developer is trying to implement it in some or other form to their projects but there are only a few good developers who genuinely appreciate and provide the right material to end users. The price variation is such in the facade material that most of the projects (even high selling) limit themselves to the aesthetic aspect due to budget constraints, however it doesn’t benefit the end users in terms of actual energy saving or heat resistivity.” For example, few of the Mumbai-based Grades A developers are known for their world-class building facades, which is a very good practice since the insulation, ultraviolet ray protection and thermal resistivity of these facades provide good amount of satisfaction to end users.”
While Gateway Towers is one of the first iconic buildings in Gurgaon, which has recently transformed itself with branding on the facade, globally, there are many interesting instances of expressive facades. The first movers in this innovation were Las Vegas buildings, which worked very hard to outdo each other to gain maximum footfalls for their establishments. Over time, this trend has come into the office buildings and some landmark examples include the T-mobile headquarters at Bonn in Germany, which has the world’s first transparent media facade on a 300 square meter surface. There are over 250,000 LED’s within the vertical beams capable of playing moving commercials of the brand.
The concept of a facade “alive and active” was already in vogue in the last decade. These examples are of buildings done up in different techniques, technologies (more as installations), to attract consumers or to showcase some specific events. Over the recent years, these have become an integral part of the building facade design. In a store in Los Angeles, there is an interactive and live display of LED lights, which light up as people walk on the interactive walkway in front of the store. The walkway consists of a luminous field of LED lights, with pressure sensors that correspond to lights on the facade. An office building at Singapore was one of the first retrofit interactive facades in Asia. The conventional glass facade was enhanced with 500 full colour LED lights and a high-end LED screen, mounted along the contours of the building. At Kunsthaus Graz (art museum) in Graz, Austria, the building has a matrix of 930 fluorescent lamps, which are integrated into the plexiglass facade of the museum. Each lamp is individually adjustable and this enables animations, graphics display at a speed of 20 frames per second on the facade.
At Potsdamer Platz 10 in Berlin, Germany, the building had roughly 1,800 fluorescent lamps integrated to the facade glass. The computerized system could display animations and graphics making the facade a moving display. At Iluma in Singapore, the tessellated patterns of plastic panels on the facade have fluorescent lamps superimposed on them. This makes the facade light up in different “forms” on different nights.
At the Beijing Olympics, the stadiums for the Olympics marked the largest integrated approach to interactive facade design. The Bird’s Nest is a conventional design but lit from within and outside. The Water Cube facade is made of ETFE (Ethylene Tetraf-fluoro Ethylene), a translucent material which allows more light penetration and decreases the energy costs by 30%.
At the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi, the hotel has color changing curvilinear form, sitting atop the hotel towers. The facade consists of 6,000 pivoting diamond shaped glass panels, which are programmable. However, ‘how much is too much’ is the question.
The conservationists rightly argue that facade designers need to realize that if they became very loud in their graphics, they will not only be doing themselves a disservice, but also ruining the city by making it look like a big large untidy bazaar, with everyone shouting out for attention, and getting it in at most a limited way. Thus, the city could look like what a typical mall facade looks like today with far too many sign ages cluttered all over.
A blend of aesthetically appealing and functionally sound facades will not only help users but also cheer up the urban skyline.
Courtesy: – Times Property DT: – 16-01-2010

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Tony Hsieh visits Google in Mountain View to talk about his new book – Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success. Pay new employees 00 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too. Sound crazy? It’s all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that’s doing over billion in gross merchandise sales every year. In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for 5 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO. In 2009, Zappos was listed as one of Fortune magazine’s top 25 companies to work for, and was acquired by Amazon later that year in a deal valued at over .2 billion on the day of closing. In his first book, Tony shares the different business lessons he learned in life, from a lemonade stand and pizza business through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Ultimately, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, passion, and purpose both in business and in life.
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The Top 25 Book Fairs and Book Festivals Authors Should Attend

 As a book publicist and book marketing specialist, I am the first to impress on authors the new and powerful marketing avenues open to all authors on the Internet – from book websites to book trailers to social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. While these are fantastic tools when used properly, authors should never overlook opportunities to meet the reading public face-to-face where they can easily be found – at book fairs, book festivals, trade shows, book conferences and conventions.

Any book event, regardless of size and name recognition, is worth attending by an author who is serious about promoting their book. This requires personal effort and time by the author in person. People don’t want to meet the author’s assistant or friend; no they want to talk to the author.

Book fairs provide an excellent chance to learn more about the publishing industry, about booksellers, publishers, distributors and marketers. The attending author will also learn a great deal about what readers want and how to reach readers. And while acquiring a vast amount of knowledge about the book industry, the author can also take advantage of the chance to expose their book and name to a new audience – leaders in the book industry who are interested in meeting new authors. While you may not walk away with a book deal you’ll make yourself known to the movers and shakers and that has long-lasting benefits. Remember, word of mouth is one of the strongest promotional tools available and authors need to be where the mouths are – the mouths of book publishers, distributors, promoters, agents and readers – at book fairs, conventions and conferences.

Book fairs provide an excellent opportunity to encounter media reps in search of a story. Producers of TV and radio programs, editors of newspapers, magazines, book reviewers and online media outlets attend these events in search of stories that otherwise would be under their radar. Never, never pass up on the opportunity to meet the media. Keep an eye out for small I-phone sized video cameras too as they shoot broadcast quality footage in natural light. If you see somebody using one, invite them over and give them a pitch. They could be shooting for C-SPAN, CNN, a book review blog or the local cable show; you won’t know unless you ask.

The major book conferences and conventions involve travel expenses such as airlines and hotel lodging, and a week’s investment of your time. But book fairs can be found close to home, easily accessed by car and often are only one or two days. A typical regional book fair will have 1,000 or more attendees and 100 or more exhibitors, providing a realistic exposure of 300 visitors a day. Why would an author not want to spend a Saturday and a Sunday within 100 miles of home to meet 600 readers or a reporter, editor or book reviewer?

At a book fair, just as at a book signing event, the author will want to bring promotional literature to pass out. Passing out promotional bookmarks or book covers is a great way to generate future sales for months and months after the book fair ends. The give-away should contain the author’s contact information, the book’s name, the front cover artwork, author’s website address, and where the book can be purchased online.

I also remind my author clients that book fairs often need speakers. By volunteering to speak, the author not only gains great exposure but can also add that appearance to their resume and press releases. But plan ahead; dates for panel participants, speakers and autograph sessions are arranged months in advance.

Book fairs are often attended by best-selling authors who will be willing to spend time with you sharing tips on writing, on how to be successful, and advice on where to find the help you need.

In summary, book fairs are wonderful places to interact with fellow authors, publishers, network with book industry leaders, locate the help you need such as a publicist or book editor, and learn what’s new in the marketplace.

Here is a list of 25 book fairs and events that are worthy of your attendance (courtesy of Noel Griese, Editor of Southern Review of Books,

1. Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival

2. Frankfurt Book Fair, biggest book show in the world, October 6-10, 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany

3. Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge,

4. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, a big festival attracting 150,000 readers, April 24-25, 2010

5. BookExpo America, May 25-27, 2010, Jacob Javits Center, NYC, the premier North American publishing event of the year

6. Ann Arbor Book Festival, Ann Arbor MI

7. National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress on the Mall in Washington, DC,

8. Self-Publishing Book Expo,

9. Miami Book Fair International, draws hundreds of thousands of people, conducted by the Congress of Writers

10. Vegas Valley Book Festival, Las Vegas

11. London Book Fair, April 19-21, 2010, global marketplace for sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels

12. American Library Association Annual Conference, June 24-29, 2010, Washington, DC, some 2,000 seminars and events plus a huge trade show

13. International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) Considered the best show for Christian authors according to Sara Bolme author of Your Guide to Marketing Books in the Christian Marketplace

14. CAMEX/National Association of College Stores, attracts more than 7,000 people, including booksellers from more than 1,000 stores

15. Philadelphia Book Festival, attended by 35,000 and more than 50 authors, performers. Third weekend in April 2010

16. Printers Row Book Fair, a large book fair attended by more than 100,000 book lovers in 2009

17. Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, Nashville, TN, attracts more than 200 authors from throughout the U.S. Second full weekend in October, 2010

18. Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort Convention Center, attended by up to 5,000 people including 150 authors

19. Texas Book Fair, established in 1995 by First Lady Laura Bush, a former librarian, more than 45,000 attend

20. Delaware Book Fair & Authors Day

21. Baltimore Book Festival, attracts more than 100 authors, Sept. 24-26, 2010

22. Book Island Festival, Feb. 12-13, 2010

23. Harlem Book Festival, May 6-9, 2010, Bermuda

24. Spring Book Show, more than 50,000 book titles offered by vendors, Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, GA, March 26-28, 2010

25. South Carolina Book Festival, Feb. 26-28, 2010, Metropolitan Convention Center, Columbia, SC, more than 6000 attend 3-day festival

The bottom line: Make it a point to include book fairs into your book marketing campaign, you’ll be glad you did!

Scott Lorenz is President of Westwind Communications, a public relations and marketing firm that specializes in book marketing and author publicity. His clients have been featured by Good Morning America, FOX & Friends, CNN, ABC Nightly News, The New York Times, Nightline, TIME, PBS, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Family Circle, Woman’s World, & Howard Stern to name a few. To discuss how Westwind Communications helps authors get all the publicity they deserve and more call 734-667-2090. For more information visit http://www.Book-Marketing-Expert.com

Latin Grammy Awards, Miami Music Festival, InfoComm Asia 2010, Dubai International Convention

Article by actorschecklist.com

The sprawling American Film Market (AFM) practically took over the beach front area at Santa Monica beach. Run in conjunction with the AFI Fest film event, the AFM is a marketplace, and not a convention, where production and distribution deals are closed. The AFM transforms The Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, the Le Merigot Beach Hotel, and many other venues along the Santa Monica beach front area into a busy marketplace where 23 screens on the Santa Monica Promenade and the surrounding community become AFM screening rooms for the entire event.

The Oaxaca International Independent Film and Video Festival, November 8-11 in Oaxaca, is an official cultural event of the long and storied city of Oaxaca de Juarez, showcasing films exploring a broad range of subject matter and spanning multiple genres. The Festival will also play host to the Oaxaca International Literature Competition – dedicated to providing a forum for the writer to display their talents – that will run concurrently with the film festival. The “event within the event”, celebrates writing as the interaction of a complex of processes-rhetorical, cognitive, social, and intuitive-that develop through social acquisition, formal training, and reflective practice.

Camila, Pedro Fernández, Juan Luis Guerra, Enrique Iglesias, Rosario, and Wisin y Yandel are early names announced by The Latin Recording Academy as performers for the 11th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards, November 11 in Las Vegas. The awards will be airing live on the Univision Network from 8-11 pm ET/PT (7 pm Central). Actor/comedian Eugenio Derbez and actress/singer Lucero will co-host this year’s celebration. The 11th Latin GRAMMY Awards will be supported on radio via Univision Radio (the official Spanish-language radio network of the Latin GRAMMY Awards), and highlighted on the Internet at http://www.latingrammy.com and http://www.univisionmusica.com.

Mockfest Film Festival of Hollywood, November 11-14, aims to showcase the best mockumentaries from around the world. Mockfest features mockumentaries of all types and lengths. Comedic, dramatic, and experimental mockumentaries are showcased at the festival, including works from the past, present and future. An 80s theme kick-off party will happen at Pangaea. Closes with Awards Ceremony, Sunday at 6:30 pm.

The Miami Music Festival conference, November 12-13, for emerging artists is a series of panels, master classes, workshops and interactive sessions designed to give musicians hands-on instruction and information about navigating the new music industry. While focusing on, all major genres, the MMF conference offers sessions on music creation, performance, publishing, recording technology and live sound, law and more. MMF takes place during the newly arranged Live Music Month in Miami and will include two daytime sessions on five stages in Bayfront Park and a show at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Conference events will feature A&R executives, producers, music publishing and touring executives, entertainment attorneys, leading technology developers, media and marketing executives, radio program directors, film music supervisors, advertising executives and other buyers of music. An all-ages daytime BBQ on Saturday and Sunday features performances at various stages at Bayfront Park.

ASCAP and Music Unites, a non-profit organization supporting musical artists and professionals through performance and education opportunities, have teamed up to present four workshops to offer insight on integral aspects of the music business. Beginning November 16 in New York, the first of the four sessions will focus on music publishing and will feature a panel of executives from EMI Music, Downtown Music Publishing and Shapiro Bernstein. Each workshop will consist of an hour long panel discussion followed by a 20 minute Q&A session. Cantora Records’ Savoir Adore is scheduled to end the first evening with a live performance.

InfoComm Asia 2010 in Hong Kong, November 17-19, presents an opportunity for AV distributors and systems integrators, as well as business operators and IT managers, to find out how to leverage AV technology in corporate or marketing strategies for the goal of optimizing business success. Conference attendees can expect to see the latest AV technology, applied in diverse industries e.g. digital signage and video walls used in retail malls and transit halls; sound, visual and data integration systems for command and control centers in transportation, defense and security; interactive e-boards for classrooms and training centers; collaborative conferencing equipment and fittings for corporate boardrooms; multiple screen presentation systems, complete with state-of-the-art sound and lighting effects for fixed installation and staged events.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, located in Tallinn, November 19 through December 5, combines a feature film festival with sub-festivals of animated films, student films and children/youth films. The festival aims to present its audiences with a comprehensive selection of world cinema, with the emphasis on European films, and providing an atmosphere for interaction between the audience, Estonian filmmakers and colleagues from abroad. The Black Market Industry Screenings at the festival further cooperation on both sides of the Eastern border of European Union (EU) and Nordic countries, and give filmmakers visibility and access to the bigger audiovisual markets around the world. In addition to the Black Market, a Literary rights market “Books To Films” will be presenting, promoting film literature from Estonia, Latvia. Lithuania, Finland, Russia, Georgia and Ukraine. Up to 14 titles will be selected and presented to possible producers and filmmakers who are looking for new ideas.

In 1973, legendary music show host Dick Clark created the American Music Awards to pay tribute to the top musicians who ruled the album charts, topped national sales, and assembled legions of devoted followers. Going into its 37th year this November, the show has honored hundreds of artists with the AMA trophy, allowing the best and brightest stars in the music business to shine. This year the 2010 American Music Awards will air live from the Nokia Theater, Sunday, November 21, in Los Angeles, at 8 pm on the ABC Television network.

There will be three separately themed entertainment industry conventions taking place at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre, opening November 29. MyContent is a marketplace for producing, co-producing, selling, buying and distributing entertainment content, especially geared to professionals involved in the TV, film, animation, kids programs, documentary, mobile and internet content, comics and digital media industry. The Dubai International Character and Licensing Fair conducts the Third Dubai International Character & Licensing Fair dedicated to trade events in the Middle East for production, marketing and licensing of cartoon characters, animation, logos, films, brands, arts and designs. The Third Dubai World Game Expo is devoted to introduce a wide variety of computer games, including entertaining video games, online gaming, mobile games, edutainment and infotainment software, game related hardware, and next-generation platforms.

Government Video Expo attracts a regional contingent of video production, post and broadcast professionals, running November 30 through December 2. The DC based conference is structured for production and post production professionals. In cooperation with GVExpo, the DC Film Alliance has created a special space on the GV Expo Exhibit Floor for the Washington, DC regional film, video and media arts community to come together complete with a screening room and coffee house. If you want to network with government video producers who hire outside contractors for their projects the “Meet the Government Producers” (MGP) panel hosted by TIVA-DC will take place at the event.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page which now has a language translation button to convert its contents into any chosen language. A look ahead into December’s event dates can help you prepare for the International Movie Trailer Festival, in Los Angeles, December 1-2, the International Film Festival Summit, December 5-7 in Las Vegas, and the annual holiday Jingle Mingle in Winter Park, on December 8. The latest Video News Summary presentation now running showcases the talents of: AMSTELLARDAM’s teaser for The Lonely Sound, Gilli Moon’s album release of, The Stillness, pre-feature trailer for dark docudrama, Nitrate, GuerrillaMonster Films’ Grindhouse flick, Cigarette Girl. Past videos from the monthly video news summary are archived on the Free Home Video Showcase which serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration.

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