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Viral Marketing phenomenon explained.

 

(Original version published in the Netscape M-Files, May 1, 1997. Edited Version published in Business 2.0, November 1998)

 

A lot of the energy behind the Internet is the ability for everyone to be a publisher. Consequently, we are in a land grab for precious spectrum - people's attention. Attention is finite. Rising above the noise of a thousand voices requires creativity. Shouting is not very creative. Just hanging up a web shingle and hoping for visitors is not very creative. Rather, new companies can structure their businesses in a way that allows them to grow like a virus and lock out the existing bricks and mortar competitors through innovative pricing and exploitation of these competitors' legacy distribution channel conflict.

 

In 1996, Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith pioneered a great new product category -- free web-based email. But many great ideas and great products have withered on the vine. The special catalyst for Hotmail's torrid growth is what we at Draper Fisher Jurvetson have come to call "Viral Marketing" -- not because any traditional viruses are involved, but because of the pattern of rapid adoption through word-of-mouth networks. Viral Marketing powerfully compounds the benefits of a first-mover advantage. And it's something we eagerly look for when evaluating any Internet startup company. As a founding investor in Hotmail and a member of their board of directors, we think Hotmail is a great case study on the impact of the Viral Marketing strategy over its full life cycle.

 

Hotmail's Amazing Growth:

 

Hotmail grew a subscriber base more rapidly than any company in the history of the world ...faster than any new online, Internet, or print publication ever.

Hotmail is the largest email provider in the world.

In its first 1.5 years, Hotmail signed up over 12 million subscribers.

A traditional print publication would hope to reach a total of 100,000 subscribers within a few years of launch. Hotmail signs up more than 150,000 subscribers every day, seven days a week.

Every Hotmail subscriber, without exception, has filled out a detailed demographic and psychographic profile including occupation and salary. This is an unprecedented supply of personal information.

Yet, from company launch to 12 million users, Hotmail spent less than $500K on marketing, advertising and promotion. This compares to over $20 million spent on advertising and brand promotion by Juno, Hotmail's closest competitor with a fraction of the users.

Other companies may have distributed more unit volume of product than Hotmail did in their first year - especially when releasing upgrades or brand extensions to an established franchise. But for a new entrant with a new product, the challenge is more daunting. "Subscriptions" have their own challenges as well. Users face a trust decision in deciding to share their private information and email with an online entity. And the user may not be certain that the end product is worth the effort. These are barriers to adoption in the subscription model. How did Hotmail overcome these barriers as an undercapitalized startup? Viral Marketing.

 

Hotmail originally approached us as JavaSoft, Inc., a web database tools company, and, as Business Week recounted: Sabeer and Jack went to see "Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but the investor was unimpressed by their idea for database software for the Net. As they were packing up to leave, [the VCs] asked: 'Do you have any other ideas?' Sabeer said they'd noodled over a scheme to offer free, advertising-supported E-mail over the Web. A week and a half later, the venture capitalists ponied up $300,000, and Hotmail was born." (BW, August 25, 1997)

 

In our next meeting, Tim Draper suggested that they should append an advertising message to every outbound email: "P.S. Get your free email at Hotmail. It was very contentious at the time. Would users balk at having this automatic addition to the content of their private messages? Hotmail tempered the idea by clearly demarcating the promotional plug, and removing the "P.S." Nevertheless, every outbound message still conveyed an advertisement and a subtle implied endorsement by the sender - the recipient knew that the sender was a Hotmail user, and that this new free email thing seemed to work for them. Each new user becomes a company salesperson, and the message spreads organically.

 

Hotmail's business model maps well to the medium. By contrast, Juno does not map well to the medium, and they have already spent $20 million in advertising. Hotmail did not spend the money, yet gained over three times as many users in half the time.

 

Elements of Viral Marketing:

The Hotmail adoption pattern is that of a virus - with spatial and network locality. People typically send e-mails to their associates and friends; many of them are geographically close, and others are scattered around with clusters in areas of high Internet connectivity. We would notice the first user from a university town or from India, and then the number of subscribers from that region would rapidly proliferate. The beauty of it is that none of this required any marketing dollars. Customers do the selling.

 

Digital viruses can spread internationally more rapidly than biological viruses that rely on the physical proximity of hosts for their spread - via a sneeze or handshake. Hotmail is the largest email provider in Sweden and India despite the fact that they have done no marketing of any sort in these countries. It's a happy day when you discover your business has displaced several entrenched competitors to become the market share leader in a country you have never visited. What's more, Hotmail is used in over 220 countries, despite the limitation that it is only available in English.

 

Viral Marketing captures the essence of multi-level-marketing and applies it to all customers - the "word-of-mouth" spread of the Hotmail message is involuntary. And it's more powerful than many other marketing techniques that lack the implied endorsement from a friend. Hotmail had "Free Email" buttons on several other highly-trafficked web sites, but they generated comparatively negligible numbers of subscriptions. Juno has shown that advertising is relatively cost-ineffective. It is hard to spend your way to Hotmail-like growth. The snowball effect is a mechanism to greatly leverage a first-mover advantage. Whenever a product involves people other than the purchaser, then there is an opportunity to market to potential new customers. It is no surprise that Amazon encourages its customers to send a book as a gift to a friend. When the recipient receives the gift book, the packaging contains a flyer for the amazon.com service. Similarly, whenever someone uses iShip.com to send a package, the recipient will learn about how iShip.com can save them money on their shipping needs.

 

As more Internet and Intranet applications move beyond computation to embrace communication, the Viral Marketing strategy has wide applicability. E-commerce, groupware, community, messaging and promotions businesses can all use these techniques to further the Internet explosion.

 

In addition to Hotmail, we have seen a similar viral communications approach taken by Mirabilis, an Israeli-based company that signed up twelve million instant messaging subscribers to its ICQ service before its acquisition by AOL for almost $300 million. To use ICQ, both parties need to download the client software. So each subscriber ends up emailing their friends to solicit them to engage in this new communication channel. The friends in turn, experience the product first hand, and may repeat the pattern. It's like the old shampoo commercial refrain "they told two friends who told two friends, and so on." While powerful, these dyadic communication products recruit new customers one by one.

 

Viral Broadcasts:

A sneeze releases two million aerosol particles. In the digital domain, this can get very interesting. For example, Tumbleweed Software enables secure e-mail delivery of documents or newsletters to a huge numbers of recipients. Every recipient also gets a web link to the enabling Tumbleweed service. So when a single new customer starts to use Tumbleweed, thousands of potential new customers receive the Tumbleweed pitch.

 

This viral broadcast model can be creatively applied to a variety of products, such as web-hosted address books, calendars, list servers and news group readers. Homestead enables families, sports teams, alumni organizations, and other affinity groups to create rich and private "community" web sites. When someone builds a Homestead, the system facilitates them to broadcast an invitation to the members they would like to recruit to participate in their Homestead. A new recruit may belong to several affinity groups, and may find the service compelling enough to replicate in these other circles - thus proliferating the Homestead platform.

 

The power of this approach has been demonstrated in the junk email domain. Have you ever gotten one of those email chain letters that urge you to forward it to as many people as possible? Often shrouded with a bogus virus warning or a charitable cause, these messages rapidly spread throughout the globe until people have received multiple copies.

 

These junk e-mails are like digital graffiti in that the people that create them want their "tag" or message to be seen by as many people as possible. Traditional graffiti "artists" choose targets like trains and buses to maximize their exposure. Similarly, many computer virus authors are seeking to promote their name, and they seek maximum exposure - on the PC. You don't see many viruses on niche computer platforms (as the Macintosh market share has dwindled, so too have the number of new Mac viruses). This personal quest for fame, while annoying, is not too different from the desire of many businesses for brand awareness.

 

New businesses also want to let the world know their name, but they do not want to be annoying, and thus, they must provide a compelling reason for customers to help spread the word. In all of these viral businesses, the balance between the customer value provided by the network and the concerns surrounding privacy will be a delicate one.

 

For many network applications - from ICQ to the traditional fax machine - the value of the network, and the value that each member realizes increases disproportionately as more people join the network. The first fax machine customers were delighted to see more people buy compatible machines. A company that can provide a strong enough incentive for customers to share their massive lists of personal contacts - whether for communications or community - will have a powerful viral opportunity at their disposal. A good virus will look for prolific hosts (such as students) and tie to their high-frequency social interactions (such as email and messaging). Viral Marketing is most powerful when it taps into the breadth of its customers' weak connections to others. Tapping the customer's entire address book is more valuable than just reaching their best friend.

 

Viral Marketing Strategies:

The typical viral entry strategy is to minimize the friction of market entry and proliferation with an eye to building in hooks and barriers to switching for customers. If the service is trying to blatantly monetize its subscriber base in every way imaginable, new users will be reluctant to spread the word. Therefore, many of these services are free and light on the revenue generation in the early days of their rapid proliferation. When we first invested in Four11 and Hotmail, we could not say with certainty how they would ultimately monetize their subscribers. We brainstormed several possible scenarios for how they might eventually exploit their large audience and market position as a communications hub. But in the viral growth phase, the simple banner ad seemed the most innocuous.

 

In an extreme example, prior to their acquisition by America OnLine, ICQ's CEO took delight in the fact that they not only had no revenue, but had no current plan for revenue. This is not to say that businesses without revenue prospects are necessarily attractive - just that people's attention (or "eyeballs") have proven to be monetizable in every media.

 

A company that can choose to delay revenue maximization (e.g., by not burdening their service's clarity of purpose and speed of download with excessive ads and promotions) may find that they can exploit a first mover advantage in the Internet land grab to gain a dominant market position. This is one of the reasons so much VC money flows into these Internet start-ups.

 

The Internet is a wonderful substrate or petri dish for the proliferation and replication of intellectual property. A good idea can spread more quickly over the Internet than had ever been possible before in the physical world, where manufacturing and distribution fundamentally limit the rate of product adoption. Especially in the Internet era, a company's competitiveness seems to depend on its velocity of thought and action. Companies can grow more rapidly than ever before, but so too may they suddenly die from obsolescence. The critical differentiator is whether the company has built in switching barriers for its customers and barriers to entry for its competitors. Rapid growth is of no value without customer retention.

 

Whenever we consider an investment in an Internet startup company, we strategize about customer switching barriers, and the impact of the inevitable arrival of competitive imitators. We have witnessed a particular entrepreneur that has used an offshore development team to quickly copy one of our portfolio companies' lead into a new market - three times in a row! First they copied Four11's directory services, then Hotmail's free email, and now Kana Communications' wildly successful email-based customer support software. The Internet supports an ecology of organisms, and the "fast follower" is a classic form.

 

The ability to rapidly recruit subscribers creates market value - but only if a company can retain these customers over multiple visits to their site. In the public markets, many of these consumer Internet companies are being valued at $20 to $100 per subscriber. Investors and bankers are approximating the lifetime economic value of these subscribers discounted back to the present day. How many ad dollars will they generate over lifetime? How much will they buy? A huge variable in this economic equation will be the customer retention rate.

 

Are you like a subway station with banner ads flying by the commuters who are just trying to get to their destination, or are you like a cafe where customers mingle and feel like they belong? Web communities, e-mail, personalization, contact lists, calendars, personal web pages - these are all "sticky" applications that help retain customers. This is where most of Yahoo and the other portals' energy has gone in the last two years. That's why Yahoo bought Four11 for its RocketMail service and Microsoft bought Hotmail.

 

Hyper-Growth:

An interesting side effect of geometric growth is that by the time a virus spreads to the point of being an epidemic, its growth curve relative to a new entrant is somewhat daunting. Hotmail was doubling in size each month, but it took several months to reach one million users. Until then, they were under the radar screen of many potential competitors and acquirers. By the time the industry came to realize that free web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding one million new subscribers per month, and that growth rate was accelerating. A new fast follower would start small and have to grow for several months to reach one million subscribers. But in that same time, Hotmail would have grown to 10 million subscribers. So although Hotmail's followers grew geometrically as well, the absolute difference in subscriber bases widened every month (while the ratio remained approximately constant).

 

Absolute size matters. One significant effect of Hotmail's absolute size is that their efficiencies of scale allowed them to be the lowest-cost e-mail provider on the planet. Server utilization and bandwidth pricing improved with growth. Also, the perceived gorilla in a category tends to get the dominant share of the business and financial partnerships. Many advertisers and media companies do not want to spend time with sub-scale properties. All of this makes it tougher for the smaller new entrant. It also skews the make vs. buy decision toward "buy" for the large portal companies, which realized en masse that they wanted an email solution with proven scalability. A similar buying frenzy is currently underway for "community-building" web sites, such as Tripod, PlanetAll and Homestead.

 

A challenge for the hyper-growth gorilla is scalability. On a technology level, server scalability is a critical concern. Fortunately, companies like Hotmail are turning software into a service. What was sold as email servers and clients is now offered as a web-based service where the customer need only have a standard web browser. This makes product upgrades a lot easier; Hotmail can upgrade its server software several times a month without involving or in many cases, even notifying its large customer base. The customer still uses the same browser.

 

But once one problem is solved, hyper-growth tends to uncover new scalability bottlenecks. Often the young Internet company finds that its growth is constrained by its ability to hire good people. This is why many of these companies try to engineer around people-intensive elements of their business.

 

New Distribution Channels:

New companies are often the primary beneficiaries of new distribution channels, as Dell has shown in the PC industry. Dell just passed Compaq to become #1 in desktop PC shipments. Compaq's legacy channel partners prevent it from entering the lower-cost mail order channel. For many businesses, the Internet is a still lower cost channel of distribution.

 

By lowering prices or offering free products, and employing a "market shrink" strategy, the new entrant can make it very painful for established companies with established distribution relationships to follow them. Although the new market size may be smaller, driven by Internet price efficiencies, the new entrant can gain significant share by restructuring the basis of competition. There may be less revenue in a free email market, but it's tough for Eudora and companies based on selling client software to follow Hotmail's lead.

 

Viral Marketing provides a new distribution channel for almost any Internet application. Although it naturally lends itself to free "communications" or network applications, Viral Marketing could also be applied to traditional stand-alone software to accelerate the word-of-mouth spread of good software. How might this work? Release Software can embed in just about any software application an e-commerce engine for electronic software distribution and "try before you buy" purchasing. When a customer gives the application to a friend, it triggers the embedded sales agent to offer a 30-day trial period, after which the new user has to pay for the software. It turns software piracy into a sales opportunity.

 

Release can also credit multiple distribution partners involved in the sale with a percentage of the transaction. To engage viral marketing, the customer would be treated like a distribution partner. So, in the ultimate pyramid scheme, if a software company were willing to pay a two percent sales commission, a customer could be credited 1% of the sales price for a copy she gives to friend when they buy, and 0.5% for her friend's friends, and 0.25% for three levels down, and so on - thereby spending no more than 2% of sales on "word-of-mouth" promotions. Netcentives, a web currency innovator, could be added to this equation to allow users to accumulate frequent flyer miles for spreading a software application to colleagues and friends.

 

This could lead to some interesting consumer behavior. Customers would have an incentive to post software to their favorite download sites or other distribution outlets to maximize the total sales of their copy of the application. Not only would the customers help resell product directly, they would innovate and discover new distribution networks. Perhaps these should be called "self-organizing viral distribution networks." Established companies are unlikely to experiment with them, because of channel conflict with their legacy partners.

 

Where might this all lead? We are still looking for the emergent intelligence of the hive. An ant colony exhibits a higher order of intelligence than that of its individual members. We don't look at a neuron and think of it as being very smart. In many ways, we are the neurons on the Net, and the network applications that take advantage of that collective intelligence have not been developed yet. The Santa Fe Institute argues that computer viruses are a form of artificial life. Perhaps viral marketing can also find an evolutionary form.

 

But in the meantime, the Hotmail juggernaut just keeps on growing - quietly, and consistently on its own momentum. Hotmail now has over 30 million subscribers. As a technological dislocation, we believe that the Internet provides an unfair competitive advantage to nimble startup companies. A good idea can spread like wildfire if its business model maps to the medium. Viral Marketing adds fuel to the fire.

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Marshall T. Rose: is a network protocol and software engineer, author and speaker who has contributed to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet, and Internet and network applications.

Mike Bloomber: 108th mayor of New York City

John W. Kessler: has been a leader in the economic, social and civic life of Columbus for more than 40 years.

Abigail Wexner: founder of the New Albany Classic which was created to benefit the Columbus Coalition Aganist Family Violence

E. Gordon Gee: president of The Ohio State University

Les Wexner:opened The Limited, a chain of women’s apparel stores, in 1963. Since then, his chain has been described by Forbes magazine as “the fastest growing, most profitable specialty retailer in the country,” and Wexner was described as “the greatest merchandising talent in America.” Wexner presently oversees a $9.2 billion business with over 28 million square feet of retail space in more than 5,600 outlets, making The Limited Inc. one of the largest and most dominant companies in specialty retailing.

  

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Mandi Shivaratri Fair

 

Insignia of deities

Observed byHindus

TypeHindu

SignificanceShivaratri Puja

ObservancesAbout 200 deities gather for the fair

DateFebruary/March

Related toWorship of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva

Mandi Shivaratri Fair (Hindi:मण्डी शिवरात्री मेला) is an annual fair that is held for 7 days starting with the Hindu festival of Shivaratri, in the Mandi town (31.72°N 76.92°E) of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The Mandi Shivaratri fair is held as per Hindu calendar every year on the Krishna paksha 13th day/13th night (breaking fast/'vrata' on 14th after sunrise) of the waning moon in the month of Phalguna that corresponds to February/March as per Gregorian calendar.[1] The festival’s popularity is widespread and hence is known as an international festival. In view of the large number of gods and goddesses that are invited to the festival from its 81 temples, Mandi town has the title of 'Varanasi of the Hills'.[2][3] During 2016, the festival will be celebrated from 7th March (Shivaratri day) for seven days till 14 March 2016.[4][5]

 

The Mandi festival or fair is particularly famous as the special fair transforms Mandi town into a venue of grand celebration when all gods and goddesses, said to be more than 200 deities of the Mandi districtassemble here, starting with the day of Shivaratri. Mandi town located on the banks of the Beas River, popularly known as the "cathedral of temples", is one of the oldest towns of Himachal Pradesh with about 81 temples of different gods and goddesses in its periphery. There are several legends linked to the celebration of this event. The festival is centred on the protector deity of Mandi "Mado Rai" (Lord Vishnu) and Lord Shiva of the Bhootnath temple in Mandi.[1][3][6]

 

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HistoryEdit

Mandi town, where the festival is held, was ruled by Raja Ajbar Sen who was considered the first great ruler of Mandi State in the sixteenth century, since he not only combined the hereditary regions but also added to it by conquering new areas. Apart from his palace, he built the temple of Bhootnath (temple for Shiva) at the centre of the Mandi town, which is one of the two focal temples of the festival.[1][7] In the theocratic state that evolved during this period, worship of Shiva and related goddesses was dominant. However, the theocratic nature of the state received special emphasis when, during Raja Suraj Sen’s reign, Vishnu worship also became integral to the State. Raja Suraj Sen (1664 to 1679), who did not have an heir, built the temple known as “Madhav Rai temple”, dedicated to a form of Lord Vishnu, as protector of Mandi. An elegant silver image of Radha and Krishna was made by his goldsmith Bhima, in the year 1705, which was named "Madho Rai" and deified, and ordained as the King of the State of Mandi thereafter. Since then the rulers served the state as servants of Madho Rai and custodians of the State. Suraj Sen’s successors have also held the deity of the temple in great reverence. This god is represented with precedence over all other gods on various religious occasions. The theocratic nature of the people of the state is amply reflected during the popular "Mandi Shivratri Fair", which is held every year with great fanfare.[1][5][7]

 

However, the specific observance of this festival as a fair, starting with Shivaratri, is linked to its ruler Ishwari Sen. Ishawri Sen was held a prisoner for 12 years after he lost his kingdom in the war waged by Sansar Chand of Punjab, in 1792. He was released by the Gurkha invaders who had invaded the Kangra and Mandi states. Afterwards, the Gurkhas' restored the Mandi state to Ishwari Sen. He was given a reception on the occasion of his return to Mandi, his state capital. On this occasion, the King invited all hill deities of the Kingdom and held a grand celebration, and this day happened to be the Shivratri festival day. Since then the practice of holding the Mandi fair during Shivaratri has been observed every year at Mandi. In recent years, modernity has also set in with Bollywood artists performing at the fair at Paddal in the celebrations in the evenings.[7][8]

 

ObservanceEdit

The observance of the fair is marked on the Shivaratri day when the village gods are carried in palanquins or rathas (chariots by people) to Mandi to pay homage to Madho Rai and the Raja. Members of caste denominations such as Brahmin and Kshatriya carry their gods and goddesses by palanquins or on their back. However, some exceptions of carrying them in vehicles by some caste groups have been noted. Thereafter, the fair lasts for seven days.

 

It is an accepted practice that every deity that is brought to the festival (decorated with glittering embroidered drapery) visits Madho Rai temple first to pay obeisance to Lord Vishnu and then proceed to the palace in a colourful procession called the Shoba Yatra, known locally as 'Zareb,' to honour the ruler (the regent of the Lord Mado Rai). (It is said that Madho Rai comes out of his temple only once a year on the Shivaratri day and leads the procession.[7]). The ruler thereafter pay obeisance to Lord Shiva at the Bhootnath temple where the main festival of Shivaratri is held. The palanquins of the deities are swayed to the drum beats and folk music to indicate their happiness after visiting the temples of Vishnu and Shiva.

 

There is pecking order that is maintained in the sequence of worship by the deities invited to the fair, based on rank and status. The day after the Shivaratri, on the second day of the fair, a pageant of gods with folk bands, dancers and devotees (all dressed in their colourful attire) and with lot of fanfare, is held in Paddal, a large open ground at the confluence of the Beas and Suketi rivers. Some 200 deities arrive from shrines around Mandi town and are assigned places at the Paddal grounds as per the pecking order, where the devotees offer worship to all the deities. The pageant is held every day of the festival.

 

The fair is also an occasion when local traders and people carry out brisk trade in local products such as wool, opium, honey, walnut, ghee (butter oil), and general merchandise from the region of Kangra, Kullu, Shimla, Bilaspur and from the neighbouring state of Punjab. It is said that the festivities promote handcrafted jewellery of the region. However, during the entire Mandi Shivaratri Fair, religiosity is the main theme. It is said that religious synthesis was achieved by combining the worship of Vishnu and Shiva cults during the seven-day fair.[2][5][8][9][10][11][12]

 

One day before the concluding day of the festival at the end of fanfare, music and dance, in the evening, Jagaran ("night vigil," a nightlong worship) is held. On this occasion, a guru and his disciple proclaim prophesies for the following year. On the last day of the festivities, prayers are chanted and, after paying obeisance to Lord Shiva, all the deities assembled in Mandi depart to their original abodes. On this occasion, chadars (a form of devotional drapery offering to the god) are offered. It is an occasion when the head of the state (now a governor) is normally present on the last day, joins the worship, and accompanies the pageant.[13] During all these festivities, it is said that Rishi Kamru Nag (local god of rains), the presiding deity of the Maha Shivaratri, after paying his obeisance to Madho Rai, moves to the Tarna ma temple at the top of the Tarna hill from where he watches the proceedings of the fair for seven days.[5] People from all walks of life and belonging to all strata of the society from adjoining areas come to visit this fair and to [1] seek the blessings of Lord Shiva on this auspicious day.

 

Bhootnath Temple

Bhootnath Temple, with an idol of a manifestation of god Shiva, an ancient temple dated to the 1520s, is synonymous with Mandi. It is in the heart of the town. The Nandi, Shiva's mount, faces the deity from the ornamented double-arched entrance. The festival of Shivaratri is the prime event at this temple; the temple is the focal point of the seven day festival.[11]

 

A legend is told of the building of Bhoothnath Temple. It is said that, in 1526, Raja Ajber Sen heard the story of a cow offering milk on her own volition to a particular stone in a forest in Mandi. Lord Shiva is said to have appeared in the Raja’s dream and directed him to extricate the Shiva Linga that was buried at that site. Thereafter, the Raja found the Shiva Linga at the indicated location, which he deified in a temple that he erected in 1526, at the place it was found. He called it the "Bhootnath Temple" and started the observance of the Shivaratri festival at Mandi. Concurrent with this event, the Raja shifted his capital from Bhiuli to Mandi.[5]

 

Visitor informationEdit

Mandi town is accessible by road from Shimla, Chandigarh, Pathankot and Delhi. The nearest railway stations are Joginder Nagar and Shimla by narrow gauge train. It is connected to Chandigarh and Kalka by broad gauge line of the Indian Railways.[6] Kullu-Manali airport Bhuntar is the nearest airport, it is about 45 km from Mandi town.

  

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Mandi Shivaratri Fair

 

Insignia of deities

Observed byHindus

TypeHindu

SignificanceShivaratri Puja

ObservancesAbout 200 deities gather for the fair

DateFebruary/March

Related toWorship of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva

Mandi Shivaratri Fair (Hindi:मण्डी शिवरात्री मेला) is an annual fair that is held for 7 days starting with the Hindu festival of Shivaratri, in the Mandi town (31.72°N 76.92°E) of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The Mandi Shivaratri fair is held as per Hindu calendar every year on the Krishna paksha 13th day/13th night (breaking fast/'vrata' on 14th after sunrise) of the waning moon in the month of Phalguna that corresponds to February/March as per Gregorian calendar.[1] The festival’s popularity is widespread and hence is known as an international festival. In view of the large number of gods and goddesses that are invited to the festival from its 81 temples, Mandi town has the title of 'Varanasi of the Hills'.[2][3] During 2016, the festival will be celebrated from 7th March (Shivaratri day) for seven days till 14 March 2016.[4][5]

 

The Mandi festival or fair is particularly famous as the special fair transforms Mandi town into a venue of grand celebration when all gods and goddesses, said to be more than 200 deities of the Mandi districtassemble here, starting with the day of Shivaratri. Mandi town located on the banks of the Beas River, popularly known as the "cathedral of temples", is one of the oldest towns of Himachal Pradesh with about 81 temples of different gods and goddesses in its periphery. There are several legends linked to the celebration of this event. The festival is centred on the protector deity of Mandi "Mado Rai" (Lord Vishnu) and Lord Shiva of the Bhootnath temple in Mandi.[1][3][6]

 

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HistoryEdit

Mandi town, where the festival is held, was ruled by Raja Ajbar Sen who was considered the first great ruler of Mandi State in the sixteenth century, since he not only combined the hereditary regions but also added to it by conquering new areas. Apart from his palace, he built the temple of Bhootnath (temple for Shiva) at the centre of the Mandi town, which is one of the two focal temples of the festival.[1][7] In the theocratic state that evolved during this period, worship of Shiva and related goddesses was dominant. However, the theocratic nature of the state received special emphasis when, during Raja Suraj Sen’s reign, Vishnu worship also became integral to the State. Raja Suraj Sen (1664 to 1679), who did not have an heir, built the temple known as “Madhav Rai temple”, dedicated to a form of Lord Vishnu, as protector of Mandi. An elegant silver image of Radha and Krishna was made by his goldsmith Bhima, in the year 1705, which was named "Madho Rai" and deified, and ordained as the King of the State of Mandi thereafter. Since then the rulers served the state as servants of Madho Rai and custodians of the State. Suraj Sen’s successors have also held the deity of the temple in great reverence. This god is represented with precedence over all other gods on various religious occasions. The theocratic nature of the people of the state is amply reflected during the popular "Mandi Shivratri Fair", which is held every year with great fanfare.[1][5][7]

 

However, the specific observance of this festival as a fair, starting with Shivaratri, is linked to its ruler Ishwari Sen. Ishawri Sen was held a prisoner for 12 years after he lost his kingdom in the war waged by Sansar Chand of Punjab, in 1792. He was released by the Gurkha invaders who had invaded the Kangra and Mandi states. Afterwards, the Gurkhas' restored the Mandi state to Ishwari Sen. He was given a reception on the occasion of his return to Mandi, his state capital. On this occasion, the King invited all hill deities of the Kingdom and held a grand celebration, and this day happened to be the Shivratri festival day. Since then the practice of holding the Mandi fair during Shivaratri has been observed every year at Mandi. In recent years, modernity has also set in with Bollywood artists performing at the fair at Paddal in the celebrations in the evenings.[7][8]

 

ObservanceEdit

The observance of the fair is marked on the Shivaratri day when the village gods are carried in palanquins or rathas (chariots by people) to Mandi to pay homage to Madho Rai and the Raja. Members of caste denominations such as Brahmin and Kshatriya carry their gods and goddesses by palanquins or on their back. However, some exceptions of carrying them in vehicles by some caste groups have been noted. Thereafter, the fair lasts for seven days.

 

It is an accepted practice that every deity that is brought to the festival (decorated with glittering embroidered drapery) visits Madho Rai temple first to pay obeisance to Lord Vishnu and then proceed to the palace in a colourful procession called the Shoba Yatra, known locally as 'Zareb,' to honour the ruler (the regent of the Lord Mado Rai). (It is said that Madho Rai comes out of his temple only once a year on the Shivaratri day and leads the procession.[7]). The ruler thereafter pay obeisance to Lord Shiva at the Bhootnath temple where the main festival of Shivaratri is held. The palanquins of the deities are swayed to the drum beats and folk music to indicate their happiness after visiting the temples of Vishnu and Shiva.

 

There is pecking order that is maintained in the sequence of worship by the deities invited to the fair, based on rank and status. The day after the Shivaratri, on the second day of the fair, a pageant of gods with folk bands, dancers and devotees (all dressed in their colourful attire) and with lot of fanfare, is held in Paddal, a large open ground at the confluence of the Beas and Suketi rivers. Some 200 deities arrive from shrines around Mandi town and are assigned places at the Paddal grounds as per the pecking order, where the devotees offer worship to all the deities. The pageant is held every day of the festival.

 

The fair is also an occasion when local traders and people carry out brisk trade in local products such as wool, opium, honey, walnut, ghee (butter oil), and general merchandise from the region of Kangra, Kullu, Shimla, Bilaspur and from the neighbouring state of Punjab. It is said that the festivities promote handcrafted jewellery of the region. However, during the entire Mandi Shivaratri Fair, religiosity is the main theme. It is said that religious synthesis was achieved by combining the worship of Vishnu and Shiva cults during the seven-day fair.[2][5][8][9][10][11][12]

 

One day before the concluding day of the festival at the end of fanfare, music and dance, in the evening, Jagaran ("night vigil," a nightlong worship) is held. On this occasion, a guru and his disciple proclaim prophesies for the following year. On the last day of the festivities, prayers are chanted and, after paying obeisance to Lord Shiva, all the deities assembled in Mandi depart to their original abodes. On this occasion, chadars (a form of devotional drapery offering to the god) are offered. It is an occasion when the head of the state (now a governor) is normally present on the last day, joins the worship, and accompanies the pageant.[13] During all these festivities, it is said that Rishi Kamru Nag (local god of rains), the presiding deity of the Maha Shivaratri, after paying his obeisance to Madho Rai, moves to the Tarna ma temple at the top of the Tarna hill from where he watches the proceedings of the fair for seven days.[5] People from all walks of life and belonging to all strata of the society from adjoining areas come to visit this fair and to [1] seek the blessings of Lord Shiva on this auspicious day.

 

Bhootnath Temple

Bhootnath Temple, with an idol of a manifestation of god Shiva, an ancient temple dated to the 1520s, is synonymous with Mandi. It is in the heart of the town. The Nandi, Shiva's mount, faces the deity from the ornamented double-arched entrance. The festival of Shivaratri is the prime event at this temple; the temple is the focal point of the seven day festival.[11]

 

A legend is told of the building of Bhoothnath Temple. It is said that, in 1526, Raja Ajber Sen heard the story of a cow offering milk on her own volition to a particular stone in a forest in Mandi. Lord Shiva is said to have appeared in the Raja’s dream and directed him to extricate the Shiva Linga that was buried at that site. Thereafter, the Raja found the Shiva Linga at the indicated location, which he deified in a temple that he erected in 1526, at the place it was found. He called it the "Bhootnath Temple" and started the observance of the Shivaratri festival at Mandi. Concurrent with this event, the Raja shifted his capital from Bhiuli to Mandi.[5]

 

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Mandi town is accessible by road from Shimla, Chandigarh, Pathankot and Delhi. The nearest railway stations are Joginder Nagar and Shimla by narrow gauge train. It is connected to Chandigarh and Kalka by broad gauge line of the Indian Railways.[6] Kullu-Manali airport Bhuntar is the nearest airport, it is about 45 km from Mandi town.

  

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BRIEFING WITH SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ANDREW O’BRIEN; DEAN KREHMEYER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS IN SOCIETY; MATTHEW SWIFT, CO-CHAIRMAN, CO-FOUNDER, AND INTERIM CEO OF CONCORDIA; AND NICK LOGOTHETIS, CO-CHAIRMAN AND CO-FOUNDER OF CONCORDIA

  

MODERATOR: Thank you again for coming to the New York Foreign Press Center. Since everyone’s made their introductions, I’m not going to go introducing our speakers by name. But all of you have their bios. Today’s briefing is on the record. After our guests make remarks, we’ll open the floor to questions. Please state your name and your media affiliation before you do. And with that, let me turn it over to Special Representative O’Brien.

  

MR O’BRIEN: Good afternoon, everybody. As I mentioned, I’m Drew O’Brien, and I am Secretary John Kerry’s Special Representative for Global Partnerships at the U.S. Department of State. And our office is, obviously, delighted to share this platform today with the Darden School from the University of Virginia and Nick and Matt from Concordia. I’m going to talk a little bit about the importance of partnerships at the State Department and within the U.S. Government and then – and that will sort of help us frame what we’re doing here with the P3 Impact Award.

  

So our office, the Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships, was launched in 2009, and we look at it as the entry point for collaboration between the public sector, the private sector, civil society, NGOs, universities. We’ve talked a lot about universities over the years, so that’s why we’re particularly delighted that Darden is with us in this and civil society. Under President Obama, public-private partnerships have become a priority for the U.S. Government, also under Secretary Kerry. They’re a critical mechanism for strengthening our diplomatic connections, enhancing our development work, promoting economic growth, and safeguarding our long-term security as a nation.

  

Partnerships bring together the best of the public and private sector resources to leverage the creativity, innovation, and core resources of partners for greater impact and to create a holistic, sustainable solution to critical challenges.

  

We were – our office was created to serve as a resource for the rest of the State Department in learning how to do diplomatic and development work through partnerships. And we manage a number of these things on our own, a number of these partnerships on our own, supporting the tech ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Southeast Asia, to – we’re the office, the point person for diaspora populations within the U.S. Government, to using mobile technology to help people in remote parts of the world. So we do sort of a number of different things. Tomorrow, we’ll have a big gathering on a virtual educational exchange at the Aspen Institute that will connect students and teachers in the Mideast and North Africa with students and teachers in the United States.

  

So what we’re doing – we all do pieces of this work, and we’re here together these next few days – what I call spread the partnership gospel to others. We’re recognizing great work that’s done by our partners and organizations around the world. And that’s what got us to this P3 Impact Award with both Darden and with Concordia. We’ve created the award to recognize partnerships that are changing the world in most impactful ways. This collaboration helps to better understand the mechanisms and best practices of a modern P3. So this isn’t just sort of saying wow, aren’t they creative, aren’t they the best. This is actually looking at the pieces that go into it, recognizing there are pieces that can be employed other places toward success.

  

Judges from each of our organizations read over 50 applications this year and assessed them on each partner’s structure, impact, innovative features, and scalability. And I will tell you, they were – I mean, I don’t like to be – you have these big competitions, everybody’s a winner.

  

MR KREHMEYER: Right. (Laughter.)

  

MR O’BRIEN: But everybody is a winner, because this is – in a lot of ways, this is cutting edge of what government’s doing, and we’re very fortunate that we’ve got some very willing and eager partners and enthusiastic partners in the private sector with Concordia and Darden.

  

So I want to give my colleagues a chance to talk. I think we’ll start with Dean, give a little UVA overview.

  

MR KREHMEYER: Thank you. Thank you. Let me sort of add the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, delighted to once again partner with both the U.S. Department of State and Concordia in delivering the P3 Impact Award.

  

Drew sort of mentioned the finalists, and to say they were impressive and all the applications were impressive is kind of an understatement. What we’re seeing and what we are seeing through last year’s applicants and this year’s applicants is that businesses absolutely and increasingly are joining in public-private partnerships to address global challenges. They are providing a far-reaching impact on the communities and societies in which they operate.

  

What we’re also seeing at the Darden School is this is of interest to our students. This is of interest to students who are going to be the emerging leaders, tomorrow’s leaders, who are going to be engaging in these public-private partnerships. And it’s important that they see this as one of the mechanisms, whereby when they are leading organizations and when they are leading business organizations, that they are looking broadly at how do these organizations really provide value to all of the stakeholders they serve. One of the ways they do that is through the public-private partnerships, and there’s no better examples than the finalists we received.

  

One more note I’ll make about the P3 Impact Award is certainly it’s an award, and we had great applicants. The team did a super job of selecting finalists. But one of the important things about the award is yes, recognizing the finalists and recognizing who was selected as the winner of that, but also important and maybe more important is capturing the insights and the leading practices that come from those applications, that come from those finalists and that come from the winner, and how can we, through the report that we will issue tomorrow, share those insights and leading practices, so that other public-private partnerships or those that are thinking about engaging in public-private partnerships can utilize those learnings to be more effective in their own realm and sphere.

  

So let me just wrap up before – and I’ll turn it over to Matt and Nick – and sort of why is this important to the Darden School? The Darden School – our mission is to improve the world by developing and inspiring responsible leaders and advancing knowledge. And I can think of very few examples that would better illustrate that than recognizing these public-private partnerships – not just recognizing them, but also working with them to take the knowledge and sharing it broadly to have impact.

  

And with that, I’ll turn it over to Nick and Matt.

  

MR SWIFT: Thank you very, very much, and first let me say on behalf of Concordia how honored we are by the partnership with the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and the U.S. Department of State. This is a partnership that has really grown organically, come together very well, and it is one of the things that myself and Nick are most proud of as far as what we do at Concordia.

  

Concordia, as an institute, does three things. We offer programming, primarily most known for our annual summit held every year during the UN General Assembly, and Nick will talk a little further about our annual summit, which is coming up starting tomorrow. The second is our annual Partnership Index, and the third is our campaign series, which is really where we’re taking a lot of the public-private partnerships that are being built within the Concordia community, and we are helping make those have better social impact.

  

But let me talk to the first part, because that’s how it connects really to the award, the raising awareness piece. Concordia, we are proud to say, we strive to be one of the leading advocates for public-private partnerships in the world. And as part of that, our global platform and the community that we have built is a place to highlight some of the best practices and some of the best, frankly, public-private partnerships in the world, and there’s no better way to do that than with the annual P3 Impact Award. I have to say I was very pleased and proud of the number of applicants that came in this year, but also the quality of the applicants that came in this year. The process to judge and determine who was the winner was a challenging one, because all of them were exceptional. And what we hope that this award can do is show leaders of both the public and private sectors the real value of building their own public-private partnerships together.

  

So with that, I’ll pass to Nick.

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: Thanks, Matt, and I’ll just – my name is Nick Logothetis, co-chairman and co-founder of Concordia along with Matt. I just want to add my thanks to Dean and the University of Virginia and Drew and the team at the State Department. I’ll just talk a little bit about our fifth annual summit, which is coming up tomorrow and on Friday.

  

So Concordia initially started as a yearly summit, which then grew to a multifaceted organization, but our summit has always been our flagship event. And this year we’ll have about 1,000 people. We’ll have over 20 current and former heads of state. We’ll have some leading CEOs from companies Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, General Mills, Hershey’s, amongst others. And we’re very particularly excited that this year we’ll have remarks from Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States, at the end of the day tomorrow.

  

So as we continue to expand Concordia, we also have developed partnerships with organizations that are real experts in what they do – organizations like the Atlantic Council, like the Rockefeller Foundation, like others. And so we have individual sessions with those different organizations throughout the day.

  

So we hope that you’ll be able to join us tomorrow and the next day, or one of the days. Will Hummel in the back there is working with us on our press outreach, and so we’d welcome you to come and see and experience what Concordia is about. And I just wanted to say thank you again.

  

MR O’BRIEN: I think if I could add two more cents about both partners – University of Virginia, the Darden School, where there’s – the colloquial expression is “Talk the talk, walk the walk,” and they do. As Dean said, you will see what we’re talking about today is infused in their students, it’s infused in their learning life.

  

And that makes a big difference, because what I think we’re trying to do – the State Department angle of this – we are trying to help people around the world prepare for an economy that’s 21st century and beyond. I – different parts of where I go in the world, I use the metaphor that we’re trying – a lot of places 100, 150 years ago had a shipyard or a big factory in their town, small town, big city. They had something that everybody went to every day and went to work. That’s how they paid their mortgage, fed their families. Those don’t exist anymore; we all know that. There are large companies, but those don’t exist. We are trying in a lot of ways – I use the metaphor, we’re creating the shipyard of the future. And it’s at people’s kitchen tables, at their home offices. It’s at a small business park in a non-urban area. It’s everywhere. And that’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to help people think differently.

  

Concordia. If you have not been to the Concordia summit, my opinion – my opinion – it’s the premier private sector – public-private sector event in the world. I mean, I go to a lot of events. This is a room loaded with excitement, it’s a room loaded with people that are eager to talk about the issue. So we are very fortunate to have this great university partner and this forum that this team here at Concordia’s put together. It is – if you get a chance to go, go. You will be completely overwhelmed. So --

  

MR SWIFT: Thank you. Thank you.

  

MR O’BRIEN: No, and it’s true. It’s very accurate.

  

Questions? I know that you joined a little bit late.

  

QUESTION: I’m sorry.

  

MR O’BRIEN: That’s quite all right.

  

QUESTION: Sorry about that.

  

MR O’BRIEN: No, no worries. We can talk to you a little bit afterwards if you’d like to. Questions?

  

MODERATOR: The floor is open for questions. State your name and media affiliation.

  

QUESTION: I don’t even know where to start. I’m really overwhelmed. This is really very powerful and insightful. So my name is Bukola Shonuga; I’m with the African Views Framework. And I attended a few events this week with the president of Nigeria in town. And they’re looking for foreign partnership – for foreign partnerships and foreign direct investment and so on, and also looking to see how they can harness (inaudible).

  

So when you talk about best practices, Nigeria can be a case study of corruption and lack of adequate resources. Even when you look at a university education in the last 30 years, that’s an issue that (inaudible) taking over the government right now. So there are no existing industries for graduates to directly work when they graduate and come out of the universities. So I think that finding a way to private partner with this group will be one thing that we would like to recommend to the Nigerian Government, like let’s – it’s a new day. So if you’re talking about that much population and you’re looking to have youth employment or reverse, you have to first talk about best practices.

  

So it’s a long-winded, but my direct question is – and I’m really sorry that it was long-winded – will you take Africa in this context? What are your views of what is happening in Africa towards best practices, and how they can better utilize their resources to be the 21st century climate that it should be? And what would you – in terms of partnership with African countries, what would that look like to you?

  

MR O’BRIEN: Would you like me to – it’s a very good question. And – so President Obama in particular has placed a lot of emphasis on our outreach to Africa as a U.S. Government for what is now amounting to a good chunk of his both terms. And there’s – not only is it important in a geographical sort of way, but the reality is the world’s youth population is in Africa, and it will obviously continue to be that way. So it’s – the world population will be very Africa-centric in the years ahead. Africa has the potential to be the world’s bread basket. Africa is a place where people are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship and education, and I can talk a little bit about something our office does there.

  

There are – there’s a lot of opportunity there. It’s a matter of harnessing – doing sort of what we’re doing; making sure that government is focused on bringing the private sector to the equation, working with universities, working with other – we do a lot of work with hospitals and health centers. We – you have to be creative about this, so I think you have to be very open-minded about it, because government – and I’m talking about the United States Government – but government at one time was seen as fixing everybody’s issues here, right. If you look at sort of the post-war – post-World War II economy, U.S. Government did a lot for people, particularly after the Depression; not even the World War, but after the Depression. And that sort of – that influence has waned a little bit. You can see it in our political climate. And the direct foreign investment that we used to give away as a country has declined sort of steadily too.

  

What’s the solution? The solution is public-private partnerships. It’s bringing the private sector into the equation. Now, that could mean a Fortune 500 company; it could mean a Fortune 50 company. But I think for the work we’re doing, it’s getting people to think differently about how this equation works, and it’s finding young entrepreneurs, people who have great ideas, people who haven’t had the opportunity to have a formal education who may need that. And how do we make those links, and how do we show people who are – everybody’s going to – not everybody, but a lot of people make their living around the world, like I said, at their kitchen table, in their home office, at a small business park. Nobody should be left behind because that’s how the world economy is headed.

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: And just to add, what Concordia tries to do is not be an advocate for business and not be an advocate for government. We’re an entirely nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization. We try and bring the two groups together to help them better understand one another, to help them work more efficiently together, but also, as Matt said, I think, to learn from other experiences. Because there are unique ways to do business in different parts of the world, but there are many things that are similar. And so that’s what we try to play a role in.

  

Specifically as it relates to Africa, I’ll be honest with you: Concordia has not been as strong in Africa as we would like. We hope that’s changing. This year we have our first African CEO representative, a gentleman by the name of Jabulane Mabuza, who’s the CEO of Telkom in South Africa. And we’re very excited about that and hope to build upon what – he is on a panel to talk about youth unemployment – and build upon what sort of comes from that panel.

  

MR SWIFT: And I will also say we have a session entirely dedicated to public-private partnerships and health, focusing on Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, which is a very important initiative from the State Department as well. So we will be – this will be the first year that we’re doing programming focused on the continent, and specifically in the area of health.

  

MR O’BRIEN: There’s – so we do – we have – our office has a program called LIONS@FRICA, which makes linkages between entrepreneurship communities in the United States – Cambridge, Massachusetts; Silicon Valley; Charlottesville, Virginia; and – just to name a few of sort of the – Miami – places we work with in connection with aspiring entrepreneurs, and takes them through trainings over the course of five to seven days on how to pitch a product, how to talk to an investor – soup-to-nuts entrepreneurship crash course. We do that. The Global Entrepreneurship Summit was just on the continent this past year. There’s a lot happening there. There’s a lot of things to be excited about.

  

QUESTION: Thank you.

  

MR O’BRIEN: Yes, sir.

  

QUESTION: Bingxin Li from People’s Daily in China, but I’m based at the UN. Talking about the Africa – the partnership in Africa, China has a lot of investment in Africa, and there used to be a lot of state-owned companies there, but now there are more and more private companies in Africa, and also as well as the U.S.

  

MR O’BRIEN: Right.

  

QUESTION: Mainly, they’re private companies. How – is there a possibility of U.S. and China partnership in helping African countries to – especially in the industrialization of them, (inaudible)?

  

MR O’BRIEN: I think one of the things that actually – of the equations – and I’m sorry to jump on this question, gentlemen --

  

PARTICIPANT: Please.

  

MR O’BRIEN: One of the equations we see that works very well is when we do have a multilateral or even a bilateral arrangement with another country on a particular issue area. We see this work very well with health and health care. We see it work very well – I mentioned the event we have tomorrow down in Washington at the Aspen Institute of virtual educational exchanges, because it’s multilateral. It’s the United States Government working not only with the private sector and NGOs, but also with other governments.

  

So I would say the direct answer is yes, and it’s a matter of doing what we’re doing here, which is trying to find the pieces to put together for success.

  

MODERATOR: Yes.

  

QUESTION: Vasco De Jesus Rodrigues, I’m from Vasco Press Communications in Brazil. Any thoughts on the Brazilian situation with the economy --

  

MR O’BRIEN: So --

  

QUESTION: -- on the low side? Okay, please --

  

MR O’BRIEN: Anyone want to – who wants to – I mean, I can talk about --

  

MR KREHMEYER: We’ll let you start on that one. (Laughter.)

  

MR O’BRIEN: Sure, but – so we work with other countries that – whose economies are on an upswing, we work with them that are stagnant, and we work with them when they are on a downturn. So I think what we do is actually – it’s not – I don’t want to say it’s immune from the larger economic situation, but in fact, we’re a solution – what we’re trying to do here. Public-private partnerships are a solution to that. We try – the things that government cannot do, we go to the private sector to help us. For the things that the private sector cannot do, either we’re doing or helping find other pieces to put together.

  

There’s a very significant large corporate U.S. presence in Brazil. General Motors comes to mind. It’s a great – and a great partner to our office – to the Secretary’s office, and they do help with other initiatives around the world. So we’re – I think we’re one of the solutions when it comes to sort of difficult economic times. We’re one of the – we sort of keep on chugging. In fact, opportunity may even knock when that happens.

  

MR KREHMEYER: I would just sort of add, and another way of looking at it is times of stress are often some of the times that create some of the innovations. And we actually, at the Darden School, have another awards program where we have looked at, within the Commonwealth of Virginia and looking at growing it, what makes resilient businesses resilient. And it’s looking at how have those companies that are in some of the most difficult economic areas within Virginia – how have they thrived, how have they grown, how have they added employees.

  

And once again, it’s an award, but let’s don’t stop at the award. We certainly don’t. We want to take the learnings from that, which we’ve done, given it to our faculty to look at what are some of the success factors. And I’ll tell you what one of them is. One of them is kind of what Drew referred to, is is there an ecosystem around those businesses that is providing support. And that includes communities that are engaged with the business, that includes trade associations, that includes government, public sector partners – all those things that create an ecosystem where success raises all those stakeholders together.

  

So we’ve seen that on the scale of a Virginia. I would suggest that the findings would be true globally as well.

  

QUESTION: Could you give us a bit of – sorry, I’m Gabriel Mellqvist with Sweden’s business newspaper. Could you give a historical perspective on the growth of this compared to five, ten years ago as the private sectors obviously demonstrated a bigger interest, or how has this (inaudible)?

  

MR SWIFT: I would say significantly. I think --

  

MR O’BRIEN: They know this stuff inside and out. (Laughter.) This is their thing.

  

MR SWIFT: I think for the last 15 years you’ve seen public-private partnerships, or P3s as we call them, as becoming very trendy in the business community. I think there are so many instances that can be cited where there’s been a failure of the public sector, a failure of the private sector, to accomplish what they need to. I think disaster relief is a very obvious arena where the private sector has stepped in and played an enormous role. And it is partnerships between corporations and governments – state, local, federal government here in the U.S. – where that has played an enormous role. And so one of the reasons why Nick and I founded Concordia in early 2011 was because we saw this as a trend that was growing. And if you’re the CEO of a large corporation, whether it’s your corporate social responsibility initiatives or something else, the public-private partnership model, I think, is a very appealing one to a CEO.

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: And it’s more and more, in certain cases, becoming not only appealing but essential if you want to do business in some places. And I mean, we can say that there are – another reason why Matt and I founded Concordia was there are – at times it is difficult to work with business and it is difficult to work with government. People – I think the question we get asked the most is: Who’s more difficult – business or government? (Laughter.) And it really – there’s no answer to that. It really varies in case to case.

  

In some cases you have a very entrepreneurial government, and I mean in different countries and different cities, who are pushing for it, who are acting like business in a sense. And in other cases you have a very bureaucratic government and a very entrepreneurial business where – but it really varies. And so what we tried to do was, as one of our main tenets, create a hub where those two groups could come together and learn from one another.

  

MR SWIFT: And let me comment on the private sector side. Here’s what – where we see this going. The CSR models at a lot of corporations today I think have an impact, but I think the public-private partnership model – the tool of P3s – are very much going to become the norm as part of the CSR approach that these companies take. And that’s very important, because there’s a lot of goodwill and interest on the public sector side and the private sector side, and in so many instances the public sector brings tremendous scale, the private sector brings great efficiency, and those two brought together really can create powerful P3s. And I think all of the P3s that applied for the award this year, and certainly the five finalists, which will be highlighted over the next two days, with the winner being announced by Drew and Dean and our director of research on Friday – I think you’ll see the evidence of that.

  

MR O’BRIEN: Yeah, and when I first took this position, when I was appointed to this position almost two and a half years ago, one of the first reactions you get from people is that you basically have your hand out, that you’re the U.S. Government going to talk to the private sector about what can – what’s in it for us, can you donate to this, can you donate to that. And that’s one part of the job.

  

I came to understand very quickly that it’s – and again, this is – these folks around the table with me study this and know this – this is about so many other things beyond money. This is beyond you’re – it’s the CSR that sort of everybody has in common, it’s that social responsibility that everybody has in common. It can be a question of resources. And I’m throwing names up, but Bank of America is very good with – a very great partner to our office and to the State Department on resources at different level. IBM has a model where their employees go and work in country. Not only are they working at maybe an IBM facility, but they’re actually engaged in some sort of public-private initiative in the area. That’s a tremendous model.

  

So as much as this can be about money that goes to a certain effort, you name it, this is about a lot of other things – resources, people sort of putting their shoulder behind it and their brains behind it. So again, everybody with me studies this and knows sort of the intellectual promise of this, and it is – as Matt said, it’s – it is where everything is headed on the business front. They were very wise to go down this road.

  

QUESTION: A quick follow-up. Do we know why companies suddenly are so interested in this? Do you have any idea where it comes from?

  

MR O’BRIEN: I would say the pressures of the global economy are making companies better global citizens.

  

MR SWIFT: Yeah. I think also the information revolution has made every person in the world sort of aware of what’s going on around them and sort of created a reporter out of everyone. And that puts a lot of pressure on companies to act in a certain way. I think you also see a lot of cities – cities are really leaders in this front – and countries that are looking to reconstruct or re-reconstruct, like a city like Athens, Greece. It’s not an emerging country. It’s sort of re-emerging, in a sense, after economic depression there, using – trying to use public-private partnerships as a tool to really reinvent their city. And cities often have more flexibility to act over states or countries.

  

MR KREHMEYER: And I will add from my perspective students.

  

MR O’BRIEN: Students.

  

MR KREHMEYER: Students, millenials. This generation is one that – and I think we should all be very optimistic about it – it’s a generation that wants to positively change the world. And you see all those complexities that we talked about. You see the integration of the global economy. You see the information age. They are looking at how can I lead organizations and lead initiatives that are really going to drive a lot of positive impact, notable impact. And for all the reasons that in particular Matt was just describing of why the public sector and private sector are coming together in these partnerships, those are exactly the reasons that students see as well. And that is certainly a tailwind that is pushing these public-private partnerships, I think, in a very positive way.

  

QUESTION: I was just going to – on a (inaudible) note, this sounds like the TED talk. (Laughter.) And on a serious note, I think it’s – I mean, especially with the breakthrough of technology, there are so many ways to get information across the world without having to be there. So I was just wondering again, in developing countries, if there are any plans, especially on the Acordia part – what’s your organization again?

  

MR SWIFT: Concordia.

  

QUESTION: Concordia, I’m sorry – to make this information available via a virtual training platform so that other young people, especially entrepreneurs and professionals around the world, would gain access to this information and be able to use it to empower their community.

  

MR SWIFT: Absolutely. And that’s something that we will do in the future. We have not done that yet, but every – at all of our forums and especially our annual summit, we have a series of sessions that we call P3 toolboxes, which is really where you come and you learn real – the basics, the fundamentals of how to construct a public-private partnership. Those have been very popular with our community, our global community that comes together, especially for the annual summit. But I think incorporating technology in that would be a – would be a great way to --

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: In other words, to package those eventually and then sort of release them to the world.

  

QUESTION: It’s also very clear that young people around the world actually have – they know the solutions to their problems; they just don’t have the resources to make some of these things happen. And I think an organization such as yours do really a lot of good if they have access to that information.

  

MR SWIFT: Absolutely.

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: Absolutely.

  

QUESTION: I’m a little bit slow, so can you give me – can you tell me more about the competition – how it works, who applies, what are the criteria, and just a little background?

  

MR SWIFT: Dean?

  

MR KREHMEYER: Sure, happy to do it. So what we do is we open the competition at the beginning of the year and use a number of media channels, social media channels, including great channels at all of our organizations, to invite applications. And we invite them from, as you might imagine, partners in the private sector, partners in the public sector, and oftentimes NGOs that might be involved as well. So we invite those. We extensively use our network.

  

The applications, when they’re received, are then reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges. Each of the applications gets multiple readings, and the judges then select the finalists – the five finalists and the winner, which, as Matt said, we will be featuring the finalists over the next two days at the summit and announcing the winner on Friday.

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: Are we allowed to say the finalists now or no?

  

MR SWIFT: Of course, that’s public who the finalists are. We can take you through the finalists if you would like.

  

QUESTION: Sure.

  

MR SWIFT: So I think we’ll start with the first one. Partners in Food Solutions. That’s a partnership between USAID as well as TechnoServe, and it’s a partnership with General Mills, Cargill, Royal DSM, and Buhler; also a partnership between the Nature Conservancy and Dow Chemical; a partnership focusing on Madagascar between Coca-Cola, RAIN, WSUP, and the Africa Foundation; TV White Space, which is a partnership between Microsoft and USAID; and then also the U.S. Global Development Lab partnering with Village Capital. Did I – did I miss anything?

  

MR KREHMEYER: Yep, that’s correct. Yep.

  

MR O’BRIEN: That’s it.

  

MR SWIFT: And so they will be – there will be five-minute features of each partnership over the two-day period, and then the winner will actually be announced by Secretary Kerry.

  

MR O’BRIEN: That’s right, via video. (Laughter.)

  

MR SWIFT: Yes. (Laughter.)

  

MR KREHMEYER: Secretary Kerry.

  

MR SWIFT: Asterisk.

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: Asterisk.

  

MR SWIFT: Yeah. (Laughter.)

  

MR O’BRIEN: Via video. Statistic-wise, just important to reference Matt’s indication that this will grow, we had – and we did the first one last year in 2014 – we had 18 applications. This year, I think we had at least 50.

  

MR SWIFT: Fifty-two.

  

MR O’BRIEN: Fifty-two.

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: Read off some of the names. I mean --

  

MR SWIFT: We have Chevron, Dow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wal-Mart, Save the Children, Unilever, Nike, Discovery Education, Walt Disney Company, Yale University, the Nature Conservancy, TechnoServe, RAIN, USAID, Microsoft. All were applicants in some form, those partnerships.

  

QUESTION: Was there a theme of this year’s competition? Is it about water or --

  

MR O’BRIEN: No.

  

QUESTION: Just any --

  

MR O’BRIEN: We look at – I mean, anybody in the partnership space can apply. We had a whole range – health and sanitation, environment, education, technology, public safety, economic development. We had applications from across the board.

  

MR KREHMEYER: What’s interesting to me about the names of the organizations that you read, Matt, is – and encouraging to me – is that these are leading global organizations. These are organizations with – yes, deep resources, both financial and capability leadership skill-wise, and a lot of demands on those resources. And yet one of the important priorities that they place at the head of this list is their engagement in these public-private partnerships, which I think reinforces some of the points we’re making here – is to see these leading organizations, it’s in a lot of ways – we get some, I think, intangible benefit because we actually get to read through all these and really see the exciting things going on in the world of public-private partnerships.

  

QUESTION: In the light of this – something just came to mind – with the recent recall of 11 million cars by Volkswagen – is that the news, something to that effect, they have recalled --

  

MR SWIFT: I think it’s 17.

  

QUESTION: How many?

  

MR O’BRIEN: It’s more than 11.

  

MR SWIFT: I think it’s 17 --

  

MR O’BRIEN: Seventeen --

  

MR SWIFT: -- as of today.

  

QUESTION: Anyone comment on that quickly?

  

MR O’BRIEN: I don’t – I actually don’t know enough about the issue.

  

QUESTION: So – okay.

  

MODERATOR: So I think we’re just about out of time unless I see a hand raised, one more question or so? Well, if --

  

MR O’BRIEN: Thank you.

  

MODERATOR: -- there are no more questions, everyone, thank you all very much.

  

MR O’BRIEN: No, that’s very great. Thank you very much.

  

MR SWIFT: Thank you all for coming.

  

MR LOGOTHETIS: Thank you.

  

MODERATOR: Today’s briefing was on the record and our transcript will be posted as soon as it’s ready at fpc.state.gov, and that concludes today’s briefing. Thank you so much.

  

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Twitter : twitter.com/SundeepKullu

  

Google+ : www.google.com/profiles/wittysam

  

Blogger : www.blogger.com/profile/01479612002532675556

  

Flickr River : www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

  

Fluidr : www.fluidr.com/photos/wittysam

  

Wordpress : sundeepkulludotcom.wordpress.com/

  

Flickr SDBWP : www.flickr.com/search?text=sundeep+bhardwaj+kullu+wittysam

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/show/

  

Facebook Groups I founded -

  

ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY & WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS (1,947 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/AOPworld/

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography SDBWP SunDeepKullu.Com World's my Studio - www.facebook.com/groups/853406461360492/

  

HIMACHAL Kullu Manali, Sundernagar Mandi, Dharamsala,Shimla,Lahaul Spiti12 (448 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/himachal.in

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali Sundernagar & Ghumarwin in Himachal State of India

  

LATEST Solo EXHIBITION by SunDeep Bhardwaj -

  

" The World is my Studio" ™ Fine Art Photography Exhibition by SDB IN Manali Himachal India

Facebook Event Page - www.facebook.com/events/1537066426570536/

  

Theme - " The World is my Studio " Fine Art Photography Exhibition (Showcasing the 47 Art Works in large 36*26 inches and 24*18 inches in size after curation of his best works on his 2 decades of travels to 70 plus countries and 555 plus most exotic destinations across 6 continents).

  

Location - Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh India.

  

Date - 6 & 7 Feb 2015

  

Venue- Morpheus Valley Resort Manali Himachal India

  

Final location decided by ITHC & SunDeepKullu.Com for the Fine Art Photography Exhibition is Manali, Himachal. Its a invite only exhibition and only Travel , Tourism & Hospitality related Dean, Chancellor's, Director's and representatives of Tourism ministry and local SDM and heads of Himachal Tourism Development Corporation and Tourism academic professionals and University educationalists from all states of India and other International Universities (around 55 total universities) are invited and have allready been sent a invite by ITHC and SunDeepKullu.Com. The theme of exhibition is " The World is my Studio" and showcase will include 47 travel related Art pieces by SunDeep Bhardwaj a Himalayan photographer and World Traveller. The images of Himalayas and various Kullu tribes with New 7 Wonders of World and some most exotic photographs from SDB's travels to 70+ Countries 555+ Destinations across 6 Continents will also be showcased in the event. Only ITHM and SDBWP invitees are allowed on event date. However the video and photos of same event will be available on SunDeepKullu.Com and " The World is my Studio " page on facebook soon.

  

SunDeepKullu.Com/ " The World is my Studio " | Photographed & Travelled to 70+Countries 555+Most Exotic Places / Destinations / Wonders of World / UNESCO World Heritage Sites | Nearby 200+Cities | 150+Airports | 300+Villages/Towns/Countrysides across 6 Continents | 2 Decades of World Tour & Fine Art Photography across all 6 inhabited continents.

  

FOUNDER & LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER at SDB wow Gallery in Himachal SunDeep™ Bhardwaj (SDB ™) World Photography (SDBWP ™) ARTISTIC, PROFESSIONAL, COMMERCIAL, FINE ART, WEDDING, CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, EVENTS & FILM

  

WORLD TRAVEL MARKET ( WTM ) London & INDIA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR, New Delhi, HIMACHAL TOURISM Unforgettable Himachal , DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM & CIVIL AVIATION Government of Himachal Pradesh, MONAL Magazine Incredible India INTERVIEW for SunDeep Bhardwaj Kullu SDBK by Anu Sehgal at PARTNERS Publications, Chandigarh, India for HIMACHAL official magazine & International news bulletins :

  

INTERVIEWS -

  

Himachal Tourism Monal Magazine -

bit.ly/HimachalTourismInterview

  

Same interview above as published in In PDF format - bit.ly/SDBKinterview

  

voices.halabol.com/2013/12/04/picture-perfect-story-globe...

  

TIMELINE | CONTACTS | AWARDS | INTERVIEWS - www.sundeepkullu.com/c.html

  

" I live with one vision to create things that would outlast me. I discovered photography as a means for me to connect with my innerself & express myself with Fine Art Photography as a medium "

Sundernagar Devta Mela & Nalwar Fair in Himachal.

A upcoming event starting on 22 March to 29 March, 2015 this month.

  

For Latest News and Photostories of Sundernagar Devta Mela & Nalwar Fair Do visit,like & share www.facebook.com/pages/Sundernagar-Devta-Mela-Nalwar-Fair... & www.facebook.com/pages/Navartri-Fair-Sundernagar-Himachal...

  

Cultural Evenings Schedule for 2015

  

S.No. Date Programme

1.22.03.2015 Bollywood

2.23.03.2015 Programme of Schools and Colleges Laman Band

3.24.03.2015 Reality Show

4.25.03.2015 Comedy

5.26.03.2015 Pahari

6.27.03.2015 Punjabi

  

All cultural programmes will start from 05:30 pm sharp and seats shall be available on first come first serve basis. Entry of VIPs to VIP Lounge will be allowed after the arrival of the Chief Guest . All are humbly requested to cooperate to make the show success. Passes are not allowed after 6 pm.

  

by SDBawe series by SunDeep Bhardwaj in Sundernagar

  

by SDB, A World Traveller, Fine Art, Candid Wedding, Commercial Photographer, Founder & Owner of "SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.Com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery" or in short "SDB Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery" or "SDB World Fine Art Gallery" by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali-Naggar & Sundernagar-Lalit Nagar & Ghumarwin-Kutheda-Jol Palakhi in Himachal India

  

Fine Art Candid Weddings & Commercial Photography by Sundeep Bhardwaj SDB on locations Kullu-Manali-Naggar Mandi-Sundernagar-Lalit Nagar Bilaspur-Ghumarwin-Jol Palakhi Shimla in Himachal Jaipur in Rajasthan & Chandigarh New Delhi Contact for a quote for Still & Film Photography assignments in India and Worldwide.

  

Contact for Exhibition or Workshop enquiries or Commercial Assignments or Wedding or Other Events Still coverage in 35mm and Film coverage in Full HD.

  

I PREFER replying your Quote requests Messages Web Design or any other Requests on Viber WhatsApp & Facebook and if you can't reach me ASAP via these 3 then you can even call me personally on +91 9805305912 . For general queries or feedback or messages you can also contact me via these social media listed below along with my preferred 4 media mentioned above -

  

Viber/WhatsApp/Facebook/Personal Mobile and

Skype/Flickr/Tango/Google+ Hangouts/Facebook Messenger/Yahoo Messenger/Facetime/iOS-iMessage/Line

  

Add me to above social networking applications using Email addresses | wittysam@gmail.com / sundeepkullu@gmail.com / sb@sundeepkullu.com / wittysam@me.com / wittysam@icloud.com | Mobile +91 9805305912 /+91 9805755206 ( Will be reactivated soon )

  

Total 2 Decades of World Travel & Fine Art Photography | 8 years World Tour 2007- 2014 | 2 Years Landscape Photography of most exotic places on Himalayan Arc spreading 2400 Kms in length | 10 years Incredible India tour 1997-2006 | Multiple years Fine Art Photography of Unforgettable Himachal, Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet, China on Himalayas | Fine Art Photography | Professional Portraits Still Photography | Commercial Photography | Product | Celeb | Wedding | Model | Portfolio | Events | Travel | 35mm Film | Photo Journalism | Magazine Editorials | Founder CEO of PhotoTube.Co | Web Designer SEO Expert Entrepreneur Marketing Lead | Personal Online Stock Photgraphy Gallery & Portfolio Website SunDeepKullu.Com | " The World is my Studio".

  

Pages I founded & administer -

  

' Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh ' ( 43,766+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/KulluManaliHimachalPradesh

  

' Sundernagar Mandi Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/SundernagarMandiHimachal

  

' Mandi Shivratri International Fair Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/pages/Mandi-Shivratri-International-Fair...

  

' Cricket World Cup ICC 2015 Feb 14-Mar 29 ' - www.facebook.com/pages/Cricket-World-Cup-ICC-2015-Feb-14-...

  

' Aam Aadmi Party Kullu Manali Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiPartyKulluHimachal

  

' AAP KULLU Aam Aadmi Party Kullu Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiPartyKulluHimachal

  

' AAP MANALI Aam Aadmi Party Manali Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/pages/AAP-MANALI-Aam-Aadmi-Party-Manali-...

  

' Kullu Dussehra International Festival ' - www.facebook.com/KulluDussehraInternational

  

' Himachal ' (10,938+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/Himachal.Pradesh.In

  

'SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography (Sdbwp) 70+Countries 6 Continents' (5,643+ Likes) - www.facebook.com/SundeepBhardwaj

  

' BREATHTAKING PLANET EARTH ' ( 14,831+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/bpearth

  

My Facebook Profiles -

  

facebook.com/sundeepkullu

facebook.com/sundeephimachal

OTHER URL'S -

  

Interesting Photostories on Flickr : www.flickr.com/search/?text=sundeep%20bhardwaj%20kullu%20...

  

Recent Photostories on FLICKR : www.flickr.com/search/?text=SUNDEEP%20BHARDWAJ&sort=d...

  

Flickrflu : flickeflu.com/photos/wittysam

  

Flickr Set Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/

  

Flickr : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/show/

  

Blogger : blog.sundeepkullu.com/

  

YouTube : www.youtube.com/sundeepbhardwajkullu

  

Tumblr : tumblr.sundeepkullu.com/

  

Linked In : in.linkedin.com/in/sundeepkullu

  

Twitter : twitter.com/SundeepKullu

  

Google+ : www.google.com/profiles/wittysam

  

Blogger : www.blogger.com/profile/01479612002532675556

  

Flickr River : www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

  

Fluidr : www.fluidr.com/photos/wittysam

  

Wordpress : sundeepkulludotcom.wordpress.com/

  

Flickr SDBWP : www.flickr.com/search?text=sundeep+bhardwaj+kullu+wittysam

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/show/

  

Facebook Groups I founded -

  

ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY & WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS (1,947 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/AOPworld/

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography SDBWP SunDeepKullu.Com World's my Studio - www.facebook.com/groups/853406461360492/

  

HIMACHAL Kullu Manali, Sundernagar Mandi, Dharamsala,Shimla,Lahaul Spiti12 (448 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/himachal.in

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali Sundernagar & Ghumarwin in Himachal State of India

  

LATEST Solo EXHIBITION by SunDeep Bhardwaj -

  

" The World is my Studio" ™ Fine Art Photography Exhibition by SDB IN Manali Himachal India

Facebook Event Page - www.facebook.com/events/1537066426570536/

  

Theme - " The World is my Studio " Fine Art Photography Exhibition (Showcasing the 47 Art Works in large 36*26 inches and 24*18 inches in size after curation of his best works on his 2 decades of travels to 70 plus countries and 555 plus most exotic destinations across 6 continents).

  

Location - Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh India.

  

Date - 6 & 7 Feb 2015

  

Venue- Morpheus Valley Resort Manali Himachal India

  

Final location decided by ITHC & SunDeepKullu.Com for the Fine Art Photography Exhibition is Manali, Himachal. Its a invite only exhibition and only Travel , Tourism & Hospitality related Dean, Chancellor's, Director's and representatives of Tourism ministry and local SDM and heads of Himachal Tourism Development Corporation and Tourism academic professionals and University educationalists from all states of India and other International Universities (around 55 total universities) are invited and have allready been sent a invite by ITHC and SunDeepKullu.Com. The theme of exhibition is " The World is my Studio" and showcase will include 47 travel related Art pieces by SunDeep Bhardwaj a Himalayan photographer and World Traveller. The images of Himalayas and various Kullu tribes with New 7 Wonders of World and some most exotic photographs from SDB's travels to 70+ Countries 555+ Destinations across 6 Continents will also be showcased in the event. Only ITHM and SDBWP invitees are allowed on event date. However the video and photos of same event will be available on SunDeepKullu.Com and " The World is my Studio " page on facebook soon.

  

SunDeepKullu.Com/ " The World is my Studio " | Photographed & Travelled to 70+Countries 555+Most Exotic Places / Destinations / Wonders of World / UNESCO World Heritage Sites | Nearby 200+Cities | 150+Airports | 300+Villages/Towns/Countrysides across 6 Continents | 2 Decades of World Tour & Fine Art Photography across all 6 inhabited continents.

  

FOUNDER & LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER at SDB wow Gallery in Himachal SunDeep™ Bhardwaj (SDB ™) World Photography (SDBWP ™) ARTISTIC, PROFESSIONAL, COMMERCIAL, FINE ART, WEDDING, CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, EVENTS & FILM

  

WORLD TRAVEL MARKET ( WTM ) London & INDIA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR, New Delhi, HIMACHAL TOURISM Unforgettable Himachal , DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM & CIVIL AVIATION Government of Himachal Pradesh, MONAL Magazine Incredible India INTERVIEW for SunDeep Bhardwaj Kullu SDBK by Anu Sehgal at PARTNERS Publications, Chandigarh, India for HIMACHAL official magazine & International news bulletins :

  

INTERVIEWS -

  

Himachal Tourism Monal Magazine -

bit.ly/HimachalTourismInterview

  

Same interview above as published in In PDF format - bit.ly/SDBKinterview

  

voices.halabol.com/2013/12/04/picture-perfect-story-globe...

  

TIMELINE | CONTACTS | AWARDS | INTERVIEWS - www.sundeepkullu.com/c.html

  

" I live with one vision to create things that would outlast me. I discovered photography as a means for me to connect with my innerself & express myself with Fine Art Photography as a medium "

Sundernagar Devta Mela & Nalwar Fair in Himachal.

A upcoming event starting on 22 March to 29 March, 2015 this month.

  

For Latest News and Photostories of Sundernagar Devta Mela & Nalwar Fair Do visit,like & share www.facebook.com/pages/Sundernagar-Devta-Mela-Nalwar-Fair... & www.facebook.com/pages/Navartri-Fair-Sundernagar-Himachal...

  

Cultural Evenings Schedule for 2015

  

S.No. Date Programme

1.22.03.2015 Bollywood

2.23.03.2015 Programme of Schools and Colleges Laman Band

3.24.03.2015 Reality Show

4.25.03.2015 Comedy

5.26.03.2015 Pahari

6.27.03.2015 Punjabi

  

All cultural programmes will start from 05:30 pm sharp and seats shall be available on first come first serve basis. Entry of VIPs to VIP Lounge will be allowed after the arrival of the Chief Guest . All are humbly requested to cooperate to make the show success. Passes are not allowed after 6 pm.

  

by SDBawe series by SunDeep Bhardwaj in Sundernagar

  

by SDB, A World Traveller, Fine Art, Candid Wedding, Commercial Photographer, Founder & Owner of "SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.Com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery" or in short "SDB Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery" or "SDB World Fine Art Gallery" by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali-Naggar & Sundernagar-Lalit Nagar & Ghumarwin-Kutheda-Jol Palakhi in Himachal India

  

Fine Art Candid Weddings & Commercial Photography by Sundeep Bhardwaj SDB on locations Kullu-Manali-Naggar Mandi-Sundernagar-Lalit Nagar Bilaspur-Ghumarwin-Jol Palakhi Shimla in Himachal Jaipur in Rajasthan & Chandigarh New Delhi Contact for a quote for Still & Film Photography assignments in India and Worldwide.

  

Contact for Exhibition or Workshop enquiries or Commercial Assignments or Wedding or Other Events Still coverage in 35mm and Film coverage in Full HD.

  

I PREFER replying your Quote requests Messages Web Design or any other Requests on Viber WhatsApp & Facebook and if you can't reach me ASAP via these 3 then you can even call me personally on +91 9805305912 . For general queries or feedback or messages you can also contact me via these social media listed below along with my preferred 4 media mentioned above -

  

Viber/WhatsApp/Facebook/Personal Mobile and

Skype/Flickr/Tango/Google+ Hangouts/Facebook Messenger/Yahoo Messenger/Facetime/iOS-iMessage/Line

  

Add me to above social networking applications using Email addresses | wittysam@gmail.com / sundeepkullu@gmail.com / sb@sundeepkullu.com / wittysam@me.com / wittysam@icloud.com | Mobile +91 9805305912 /+91 9805755206 ( Will be reactivated soon )

  

Total 2 Decades of World Travel & Fine Art Photography | 8 years World Tour 2007- 2014 | 2 Years Landscape Photography of most exotic places on Himalayan Arc spreading 2400 Kms in length | 10 years Incredible India tour 1997-2006 | Multiple years Fine Art Photography of Unforgettable Himachal, Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet, China on Himalayas | Fine Art Photography | Professional Portraits Still Photography | Commercial Photography | Product | Celeb | Wedding | Model | Portfolio | Events | Travel | 35mm Film | Photo Journalism | Magazine Editorials | Founder CEO of PhotoTube.Co | Web Designer SEO Expert Entrepreneur Marketing Lead | Personal Online Stock Photgraphy Gallery & Portfolio Website SunDeepKullu.Com | " The World is my Studio".

  

Pages I founded & administer -

  

' Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh ' ( 43,766+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/KulluManaliHimachalPradesh

  

' Sundernagar Mandi Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/SundernagarMandiHimachal

  

' Mandi Shivratri International Fair Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/pages/Mandi-Shivratri-International-Fair...

  

' Cricket World Cup ICC 2015 Feb 14-Mar 29 ' - www.facebook.com/pages/Cricket-World-Cup-ICC-2015-Feb-14-...

  

' Aam Aadmi Party Kullu Manali Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiPartyKulluHimachal

  

' AAP KULLU Aam Aadmi Party Kullu Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiPartyKulluHimachal

  

' AAP MANALI Aam Aadmi Party Manali Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/pages/AAP-MANALI-Aam-Aadmi-Party-Manali-...

  

' Kullu Dussehra International Festival ' - www.facebook.com/KulluDussehraInternational

  

' Himachal ' (10,938+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/Himachal.Pradesh.In

  

'SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography (Sdbwp) 70+Countries 6 Continents' (5,643+ Likes) - www.facebook.com/SundeepBhardwaj

  

' BREATHTAKING PLANET EARTH ' ( 14,831+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/bpearth

  

My Facebook Profiles -

  

facebook.com/sundeepkullu

facebook.com/sundeephimachal

OTHER URL'S -

  

Interesting Photostories on Flickr : www.flickr.com/search/?text=sundeep%20bhardwaj%20kullu%20...

  

Recent Photostories on FLICKR : www.flickr.com/search/?text=SUNDEEP%20BHARDWAJ&sort=d...

  

Flickrflu : flickeflu.com/photos/wittysam

  

Flickr Set Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/

  

Flickr : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/show/

  

Blogger : blog.sundeepkullu.com/

  

YouTube : www.youtube.com/sundeepbhardwajkullu

  

Tumblr : tumblr.sundeepkullu.com/

  

Linked In : in.linkedin.com/in/sundeepkullu

  

Twitter : twitter.com/SundeepKullu

  

Google+ : www.google.com/profiles/wittysam

  

Blogger : www.blogger.com/profile/01479612002532675556

  

Flickr River : www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

  

Fluidr : www.fluidr.com/photos/wittysam

  

Wordpress : sundeepkulludotcom.wordpress.com/

  

Flickr SDBWP : www.flickr.com/search?text=sundeep+bhardwaj+kullu+wittysam

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/show/

  

Facebook Groups I founded -

  

ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY & WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS (1,947 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/AOPworld/

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography SDBWP SunDeepKullu.Com World's my Studio - www.facebook.com/groups/853406461360492/

  

HIMACHAL Kullu Manali, Sundernagar Mandi, Dharamsala,Shimla,Lahaul Spiti12 (448 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/himachal.in

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali Sundernagar & Ghumarwin in Himachal State of India

  

LATEST Solo EXHIBITION by SunDeep Bhardwaj -

  

" The World is my Studio" ™ Fine Art Photography Exhibition by SDB IN Manali Himachal India

Facebook Event Page - www.facebook.com/events/1537066426570536/

  

Theme - " The World is my Studio " Fine Art Photography Exhibition (Showcasing the 47 Art Works in large 36*26 inches and 24*18 inches in size after curation of his best works on his 2 decades of travels to 70 plus countries and 555 plus most exotic destinations across 6 continents).

  

Location - Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh India.

  

Date - 6 & 7 Feb 2015

  

Venue- Morpheus Valley Resort Manali Himachal India

  

Final location decided by ITHC & SunDeepKullu.Com for the Fine Art Photography Exhibition is Manali, Himachal. Its a invite only exhibition and only Travel , Tourism & Hospitality related Dean, Chancellor's, Director's and representatives of Tourism ministry and local SDM and heads of Himachal Tourism Development Corporation and Tourism academic professionals and University educationalists from all states of India and other International Universities (around 55 total universities) are invited and have allready been sent a invite by ITHC and SunDeepKullu.Com. The theme of exhibition is " The World is my Studio" and showcase will include 47 travel related Art pieces by SunDeep Bhardwaj a Himalayan photographer and World Traveller. The images of Himalayas and various Kullu tribes with New 7 Wonders of World and some most exotic photographs from SDB's travels to 70+ Countries 555+ Destinations across 6 Continents will also be showcased in the event. Only ITHM and SDBWP invitees are allowed on event date. However the video and photos of same event will be available on SunDeepKullu.Com and " The World is my Studio " page on facebook soon.

  

SunDeepKullu.Com/ " The World is my Studio " | Photographed & Travelled to 70+Countries 555+Most Exotic Places / Destinations / Wonders of World / UNESCO World Heritage Sites | Nearby 200+Cities | 150+Airports | 300+Villages/Towns/Countrysides across 6 Continents | 2 Decades of World Tour & Fine Art Photography across all 6 inhabited continents.

  

FOUNDER & LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER at SDB wow Gallery in Himachal SunDeep™ Bhardwaj (SDB ™) World Photography (SDBWP ™) ARTISTIC, PROFESSIONAL, COMMERCIAL, FINE ART, WEDDING, CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, EVENTS & FILM

  

WORLD TRAVEL MARKET ( WTM ) London & INDIA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR, New Delhi, HIMACHAL TOURISM Unforgettable Himachal , DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM & CIVIL AVIATION Government of Himachal Pradesh, MONAL Magazine Incredible India INTERVIEW for SunDeep Bhardwaj Kullu SDBK by Anu Sehgal at PARTNERS Publications, Chandigarh, India for HIMACHAL official magazine & International news bulletins :

  

INTERVIEWS -

  

Himachal Tourism Monal Magazine -

bit.ly/HimachalTourismInterview

  

Same interview above as published in In PDF format - bit.ly/SDBKinterview

  

voices.halabol.com/2013/12/04/picture-perfect-story-globe...

  

TIMELINE | CONTACTS | AWARDS | INTERVIEWS - www.sundeepkullu.com/c.html

  

" I live with one vision to create things that would outlast me. I discovered photography as a means for me to connect with my innerself & express myself with Fine Art Photography as a medium "

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Fine Art name " Pursuit of Light "

 

"PURSUIT OF LIGHT PhotoStories SERIES " is set of photographs from SDBWP SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography . It means "In search of light " . This set is a fine art photography resulting after curation of photographs clicked while playing with light effects through window or door into another space in a fort in India in perfect camera setting with a full frame equipment Canon 5D Mark II using fine lenses by Canon 100-400 mm 4.5-5.6 L IS , 17-40 2.8 and 50mm fixed focal in the process of recording images. The process requires proper understanding of light in its fine form with right setting to capture the light . Fine art results after you have spent enough years perfecting art of photography and its curation and understanding all elements of recording best image and only and only when your heart mind and soul says so with your audience and experience that you are ready to name it as Fine Art . The location here is "The Pink City of India" Jaipur , Rajasthan during my Honeymoon in India when i was on a Honeymoon Tour to Golden Triangle covering AGRA DELHI JAIPUR in UP CAPITAL & RAJASTHAN respectively called as GOLDEN TRIANGLE TOUR . Then i headed to Leh in Jammu & Kashmir for more Photostories. A photographer hardly stays without camera even on Honeymoon tour. God bless All

  

by SunDeepKullu.Com/ " The World is my Studio " | Photographed & Travelled to 70+Countries 555+Most Exotic Places / Destinations / Wonders of World / UNESCO World Heritage Sites | Nearby 200+Cities | 150+Airports | 300+Villages/Towns/Countrysides across 6 Continents | 2 Decades of World Tour & Fine Art Photography across all 6 inhabited continents.

  

LEAD FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER at SunDeep™ Bhardwaj SDB ™ World Photography SDBWP ™ PROFESSIONAL & FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

  

WORLD TRAVEL MARKET ( WTM ) London & INDIA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR, New Delhi, HIMACHAL TOURISM Unforgettable Himachal , DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM & CIVIL AVIATION Government of Himachal Pradesh, MONAL Magazine Incredible India INTERVIEW for SunDeep Bhardwaj Kullu SDBK by Anu Sehgal at PARTNERS Publications, Chandigarh, India for HIMACHAL official magazine & International news bulletins :

  

Interview In Magazine Scans PDF :

bit.ly/SDBKinterview

Read full interview here with ease on bit.ly/HimachalTourismInterview

  

Newest interview voices.halabol.com/2013/12/04/picture-perfect-story-globe...

  

I PREFER replying your Messages Comments Feedback Web Design Requests Photography Assignments Quote Requests via

  

Viber/WhatsApp/Tango/Yahoo Messenger/Google+ Hangouts/Facebook Mobile Messenger/Facetime iMessage on iOS/Line/Kakao/Skype

  

Add me to above social networking applications using Email addresses | wittysam@gmail.com / sb@sundeepkullu.com / wittysam@me.com / wittysam@icloud.com | Mobile +91 9805755206 / +91 8627802895 / + 91 9805305912

  

2 Decades of Fine Art | 8 years World Tour 2007- 2014 | 2 Years Himalayan Arc Landscapes 2400 Kms Himalayas | 10 years Incredible India tour 1997-2007 | Multiple years Fine Art Photography of Unforgettable Himachal | Himachal Cultural Village .Com Online | Fine Art Photography | Professional Photography | Commercial Photography| Product | Celeb | Wedding | Model | Portfolio | Events | Travel | Film | Photo Journalism | Magazine Editorials | Owner CEO PhotoTube.Co | Web Designer SEO Expert Entrepreneur Marketing Lead | Personal Online Gallery & Portfolio Website | SunDeepKullu.Com | " The World is my Studio".

  

FINE ART WONDERS OF WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO WEBSITE

  

sundeepkullu.com/

  

OTHER URLS's with SDBWP PhotoStories Around the World

  

FACEBOOK pages i founded

KULLU MANALI HIMACHAL PRADESH facebook page 1 www.facebook.com/KulluManaliHimachalPradesh

HP facebook page 1 www.facebook.com/Himachal.Pradesh.In

SDB facebook page 1 www.facebook.com/SundeepBhardwaj

BREATHTAKING PLANET EARTH facebook page 1 www.facebook.com/bpearth

  

PROFILES

facebook.com/sundeepkullu

facebook.com/sundeephimachal

  

MY PLACES

  

SUNDERNAGAR MANDI HIMACHAL INDIA www.facebook.com/pages/Sundeepkulludotcom-Sundeep-Bhardwa...

NAGGAR BHUNTER KULLU MANALI HIMACHAL INDIA www.facebook.com/pages/Sundeepkulludotcom-Himachalcultura...

MANSOURA DOHA QATAR www.facebook.com/pages/Sundeep-Bhardwaj-World-Photography...

  

EVENTS

  

GROUPS

  

www.facebook.com/groups/853406461360492/

  

OTHER Must Watch URL'S on Tumblr Blogger Google LinkedIn Twitter Flickr Fluidr FlickrFlu Flickr River

 

Flickr Set Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/

Flickr : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/show/

Blogger : blog.sundeepkullu.com/

Flickr River : www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

www.youtube.com/sundeepbhardwajkullu

Tumblr : tumblr.sundeepkullu.com/

in.linkedin.com/in/sundeepkullu

twitter.com/SundeepKullu

www.google.com/profiles/wittysam

www.blogger.com/profile/01479612002532675556

Flickrflu : flickeflu.com/photos/wittysam

Fluidr : www.fluidr.com/photos/wittysam

Wordpress : sundeepkulludotcom.wordpress.com/

Tumblr Archive : tumblr.sundeepkullu.com/archive

Flickr Interesting Stats : www.flickr.com/search/?q=wittysam&ss=2&s=int

F

Flickr Photostream Full Screen Slide Show Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/show/

profiles.yahoo.com/eurekasun

www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

Fine Art name " Pursuit of Light "

  

"PURSUIT OF LIGHT PhotoStories SERIES " is set of photographs from SDBWP SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography . It means "In search of light " . This set is a fine art photography resulting after curation of photographs clicked while playing with light effects through window or door into another space in a fort in India in perfect camera setting with a full frame equipment Canon 5D Mark II using fine lenses by Canon 100-400 mm 4.5-5.6 L IS , 17-40 2.8 and 50mm fixed focal in the process of recording images. The process requires proper understanding of light in its fine form with right setting to capture the light . Fine art results after you have spent enough years perfecting art of photography and its curation and understanding all elements of recording best image and only and only when your heart mind and soul says so with your audience and experience that you are ready to name it as Fine Art . The location here is "The Pink City of India" Jaipur , Rajasthan during my Honeymoon in India when i was on a Honeymoon Tour to Golden Triangle covering AGRA DELHI JAIPUR in UP CAPITAL & RAJASTHAN respectively called as GOLDEN TRIANGLE TOUR . Then i headed to Leh in Jammu & Kashmir for more Photostories. A photographer hardly stays without camera even on Honeymoon tour. God bless All

  

by SunDeepKullu.Com/ " The World is my Studio " | Photographed & Travelled to 70+Countries 555+Most Exotic Places / Destinations / Wonders of World / UNESCO World Heritage Sites | Nearby 200+Cities | 150+Airports | 300+Villages/Towns/Countrysides across 6 Continents | 2 Decades of World Tour & Fine Art Photography across all 6 inhabited continents.

  

LEAD FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER at SunDeep™ Bhardwaj SDB ™ World Photography SDBWP ™ PROFESSIONAL & FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

  

WORLD TRAVEL MARKET ( WTM ) London & INDIA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR, New Delhi, HIMACHAL TOURISM Unforgettable Himachal , DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM & CIVIL AVIATION Government of Himachal Pradesh, MONAL Magazine Incredible India INTERVIEW for SunDeep Bhardwaj Kullu SDBK by Anu Sehgal at PARTNERS Publications, Chandigarh, India for HIMACHAL official magazine & International news bulletins :

  

Interview In Magazine Scans PDF :

bit.ly/SDBKinterview

Read full interview here with ease on bit.ly/HimachalTourismInterview

  

Newest interview voices.halabol.com/2013/12/04/picture-perfect-story-globe...

  

I PREFER replying your Messages Comments Feedback Web Design Requests Photography Assignments Quote Requests via

  

Viber/WhatsApp/Tango/Yahoo Messenger/Google+ Hangouts/Facebook Mobile Messenger/Facetime iMessage on iOS/Line/Kakao/Skype

  

Add me to above social networking applications using Email addresses | wittysam@gmail.com / sb@sundeepkullu.com / wittysam@me.com / wittysam@icloud.com | Mobile +91 9805755206 / +91 8627802895 / + 91 9805305912

  

2 Decades of Fine Art | 8 years World Tour 2007- 2014 | 2 Years Himalayan Arc Landscapes 2400 Kms Himalayas | 10 years Incredible India tour 1997-2007 | Multiple years Fine Art Photography of Unforgettable Himachal | Himachal Cultural Village .Com Online | Fine Art Photography | Professional Photography | Commercial Photography| Product | Celeb | Wedding | Model | Portfolio | Events | Travel | Film | Photo Journalism | Magazine Editorials | Owner CEO PhotoTube.Co | Web Designer SEO Expert Entrepreneur Marketing Lead | Personal Online Gallery & Portfolio Website | SunDeepKullu.Com | " The World is my Studio".

  

FINE ART WONDERS OF WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO WEBSITE

  

sundeepkullu.com/

  

OTHER URLS's with SDBWP PhotoStories Around the World

  

FACEBOOK pages i founded

KULLU MANALI HIMACHAL PRADESH facebook page 1 www.facebook.com/KulluManaliHimachalPradesh

HP facebook page 1 www.facebook.com/Himachal.Pradesh.In

SDB facebook page 1 www.facebook.com/SundeepBhardwaj

BREATHTAKING PLANET EARTH facebook page 1 www.facebook.com/bpearth

  

PROFILES

facebook.com/sundeepkullu

facebook.com/sundeephimachal

  

MY PLACES

  

SUNDERNAGAR MANDI HIMACHAL INDIA www.facebook.com/pages/Sundeepkulludotcom-Sundeep-Bhardwa...

NAGGAR BHUNTER KULLU MANALI HIMACHAL INDIA www.facebook.com/pages/Sundeepkulludotcom-Himachalcultura...

MANSOURA DOHA QATAR www.facebook.com/pages/Sundeep-Bhardwaj-World-Photography...

  

EVENTS

  

GROUPS

  

www.facebook.com/groups/853406461360492/

  

OTHER Must Watch URL'S on Tumblr Blogger Google LinkedIn Twitter Flickr Fluidr FlickrFlu Flickr River

 

Flickr Set Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/

Flickr : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/show/

Blogger : blog.sundeepkullu.com/

Flickr River : www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

www.youtube.com/sundeepbhardwajkullu

Tumblr : tumblr.sundeepkullu.com/

in.linkedin.com/in/sundeepkullu

twitter.com/SundeepKullu

www.google.com/profiles/wittysam

www.blogger.com/profile/01479612002532675556

Flickrflu : flickeflu.com/photos/wittysam

Fluidr : www.fluidr.com/photos/wittysam

Wordpress : sundeepkulludotcom.wordpress.com/

Tumblr Archive : tumblr.sundeepkullu.com/archive

Flickr Interesting Stats : www.flickr.com/search/?q=wittysam&ss=2&s=int

F

Flickr Photostream Full Screen Slide Show Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/show/

profiles.yahoo.com/eurekasun

www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

Sundernagar Devta Mela & Nalwar Fair in Himachal.

A upcoming event starting on 22 March to 29 March, 2015 this month.

  

For Latest News and Photostories of Sundernagar Devta Mela & Nalwar Fair Do visit,like & share www.facebook.com/pages/Sundernagar-Devta-Mela-Nalwar-Fair... & www.facebook.com/pages/Navartri-Fair-Sundernagar-Himachal...

  

Cultural Evenings Schedule for 2015

  

S.No. Date Programme

1.22.03.2015 Bollywood

2.23.03.2015 Programme of Schools and Colleges Laman Band

3.24.03.2015 Reality Show

4.25.03.2015 Comedy

5.26.03.2015 Pahari

6.27.03.2015 Punjabi

  

All cultural programmes will start from 05:30 pm sharp and seats shall be available on first come first serve basis. Entry of VIPs to VIP Lounge will be allowed after the arrival of the Chief Guest . All are humbly requested to cooperate to make the show success. Passes are not allowed after 6 pm.

  

by SDBawe series by SunDeep Bhardwaj in Sundernagar

  

by SDB, A World Traveller, Fine Art, Candid Wedding, Commercial Photographer, Founder & Owner of "SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.Com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery" or in short "SDB Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery" or "SDB World Fine Art Gallery" by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali-Naggar & Sundernagar-Lalit Nagar & Ghumarwin-Kutheda-Jol Palakhi in Himachal India

  

Fine Art Candid Weddings & Commercial Photography by Sundeep Bhardwaj SDB on locations Kullu-Manali-Naggar Mandi-Sundernagar-Lalit Nagar Bilaspur-Ghumarwin-Jol Palakhi Shimla in Himachal Jaipur in Rajasthan & Chandigarh New Delhi Contact for a quote for Still & Film Photography assignments in India and Worldwide.

  

Contact for Exhibition or Workshop enquiries or Commercial Assignments or Wedding or Other Events Still coverage in 35mm and Film coverage in Full HD.

  

I PREFER replying your Quote requests Messages Web Design or any other Requests on Viber WhatsApp & Facebook and if you can't reach me ASAP via these 3 then you can even call me personally on +91 9805305912 . For general queries or feedback or messages you can also contact me via these social media listed below along with my preferred 4 media mentioned above -

  

Viber/WhatsApp/Facebook/Personal Mobile and

Skype/Flickr/Tango/Google+ Hangouts/Facebook Messenger/Yahoo Messenger/Facetime/iOS-iMessage/Line

  

Add me to above social networking applications using Email addresses | wittysam@gmail.com / sundeepkullu@gmail.com / sb@sundeepkullu.com / wittysam@me.com / wittysam@icloud.com | Mobile +91 9805305912 /+91 9805755206 ( Will be reactivated soon )

  

Total 2 Decades of World Travel & Fine Art Photography | 8 years World Tour 2007- 2014 | 2 Years Landscape Photography of most exotic places on Himalayan Arc spreading 2400 Kms in length | 10 years Incredible India tour 1997-2006 | Multiple years Fine Art Photography of Unforgettable Himachal, Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet, China on Himalayas | Fine Art Photography | Professional Portraits Still Photography | Commercial Photography | Product | Celeb | Wedding | Model | Portfolio | Events | Travel | 35mm Film | Photo Journalism | Magazine Editorials | Founder CEO of PhotoTube.Co | Web Designer SEO Expert Entrepreneur Marketing Lead | Personal Online Stock Photgraphy Gallery & Portfolio Website SunDeepKullu.Com | " The World is my Studio".

  

Pages I founded & administer -

  

' Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh ' ( 43,766+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/KulluManaliHimachalPradesh

  

' Sundernagar Mandi Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/SundernagarMandiHimachal

  

' Mandi Shivratri International Fair Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/pages/Mandi-Shivratri-International-Fair...

  

' Cricket World Cup ICC 2015 Feb 14-Mar 29 ' - www.facebook.com/pages/Cricket-World-Cup-ICC-2015-Feb-14-...

  

' Aam Aadmi Party Kullu Manali Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiPartyKulluHimachal

  

' AAP KULLU Aam Aadmi Party Kullu Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiPartyKulluHimachal

  

' AAP MANALI Aam Aadmi Party Manali Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/pages/AAP-MANALI-Aam-Aadmi-Party-Manali-...

  

' Kullu Dussehra International Festival ' - www.facebook.com/KulluDussehraInternational

  

' Himachal ' (10,938+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/Himachal.Pradesh.In

  

'SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography (Sdbwp) 70+Countries 6 Continents' (5,643+ Likes) - www.facebook.com/SundeepBhardwaj

  

' BREATHTAKING PLANET EARTH ' ( 14,831+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/bpearth

  

My Facebook Profiles -

  

facebook.com/sundeepkullu

facebook.com/sundeephimachal

OTHER URL'S -

  

Interesting Photostories on Flickr : www.flickr.com/search/?text=sundeep%20bhardwaj%20kullu%20...

  

Recent Photostories on FLICKR : www.flickr.com/search/?text=SUNDEEP%20BHARDWAJ&sort=d...

  

Flickrflu : flickeflu.com/photos/wittysam

  

Flickr Set Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/

  

Flickr : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/show/

  

Blogger : blog.sundeepkullu.com/

  

YouTube : www.youtube.com/sundeepbhardwajkullu

  

Tumblr : tumblr.sundeepkullu.com/

  

Linked In : in.linkedin.com/in/sundeepkullu

  

Twitter : twitter.com/SundeepKullu

  

Google+ : www.google.com/profiles/wittysam

  

Blogger : www.blogger.com/profile/01479612002532675556

  

Flickr River : www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

  

Fluidr : www.fluidr.com/photos/wittysam

  

Wordpress : sundeepkulludotcom.wordpress.com/

  

Flickr SDBWP : www.flickr.com/search?text=sundeep+bhardwaj+kullu+wittysam

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/show/

  

Facebook Groups I founded -

  

ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY & WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS (1,947 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/AOPworld/

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography SDBWP SunDeepKullu.Com World's my Studio - www.facebook.com/groups/853406461360492/

  

HIMACHAL Kullu Manali, Sundernagar Mandi, Dharamsala,Shimla,Lahaul Spiti12 (448 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/himachal.in

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali Sundernagar & Ghumarwin in Himachal State of India

  

LATEST Solo EXHIBITION by SunDeep Bhardwaj -

  

" The World is my Studio" ™ Fine Art Photography Exhibition by SDB IN Manali Himachal India

Facebook Event Page - www.facebook.com/events/1537066426570536/

  

Theme - " The World is my Studio " Fine Art Photography Exhibition (Showcasing the 47 Art Works in large 36*26 inches and 24*18 inches in size after curation of his best works on his 2 decades of travels to 70 plus countries and 555 plus most exotic destinations across 6 continents).

  

Location - Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh India.

  

Date - 6 & 7 Feb 2015

  

Venue- Morpheus Valley Resort Manali Himachal India

  

Final location decided by ITHC & SunDeepKullu.Com for the Fine Art Photography Exhibition is Manali, Himachal. Its a invite only exhibition and only Travel , Tourism & Hospitality related Dean, Chancellor's, Director's and representatives of Tourism ministry and local SDM and heads of Himachal Tourism Development Corporation and Tourism academic professionals and University educationalists from all states of India and other International Universities (around 55 total universities) are invited and have allready been sent a invite by ITHC and SunDeepKullu.Com. The theme of exhibition is " The World is my Studio" and showcase will include 47 travel related Art pieces by SunDeep Bhardwaj a Himalayan photographer and World Traveller. The images of Himalayas and various Kullu tribes with New 7 Wonders of World and some most exotic photographs from SDB's travels to 70+ Countries 555+ Destinations across 6 Continents will also be showcased in the event. Only ITHM and SDBWP invitees are allowed on event date. However the video and photos of same event will be available on SunDeepKullu.Com and " The World is my Studio " page on facebook soon.

  

SunDeepKullu.Com/ " The World is my Studio " | Photographed & Travelled to 70+Countries 555+Most Exotic Places / Destinations / Wonders of World / UNESCO World Heritage Sites | Nearby 200+Cities | 150+Airports | 300+Villages/Towns/Countrysides across 6 Continents | 2 Decades of World Tour & Fine Art Photography across all 6 inhabited continents.

  

FOUNDER & LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER at SDB wow Gallery in Himachal SunDeep™ Bhardwaj (SDB ™) World Photography (SDBWP ™) ARTISTIC, PROFESSIONAL, COMMERCIAL, FINE ART, WEDDING, CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, EVENTS & FILM

  

WORLD TRAVEL MARKET ( WTM ) London & INDIA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR, New Delhi, HIMACHAL TOURISM Unforgettable Himachal , DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM & CIVIL AVIATION Government of Himachal Pradesh, MONAL Magazine Incredible India INTERVIEW for SunDeep Bhardwaj Kullu SDBK by Anu Sehgal at PARTNERS Publications, Chandigarh, India for HIMACHAL official magazine & International news bulletins :

  

INTERVIEWS -

  

Himachal Tourism Monal Magazine -

bit.ly/HimachalTourismInterview

  

Same interview above as published in In PDF format - bit.ly/SDBKinterview

  

voices.halabol.com/2013/12/04/picture-perfect-story-globe...

  

TIMELINE | CONTACTS | AWARDS | INTERVIEWS - www.sundeepkullu.com/c.html

  

" I live with one vision to create things that would outlast me. I discovered photography as a means for me to connect with my innerself & express myself with Fine Art Photography as a medium "

Sundernagar Devta Mela & Nalwar Fair in Himachal.

A upcoming event starting on 22 March to 29 March, 2015 this month.

  

For Latest News and Photostories of Sundernagar Devta Mela & Nalwar Fair Do visit,like & share www.facebook.com/pages/Sundernagar-Devta-Mela-Nalwar-Fair... & www.facebook.com/pages/Navartri-Fair-Sundernagar-Himachal...

  

Cultural Evenings Schedule for 2015

  

S.No. Date Programme

1.22.03.2015 Bollywood

2.23.03.2015 Programme of Schools and Colleges Laman Band

3.24.03.2015 Reality Show

4.25.03.2015 Comedy

5.26.03.2015 Pahari

6.27.03.2015 Punjabi

  

All cultural programmes will start from 05:30 pm sharp and seats shall be available on first come first serve basis. Entry of VIPs to VIP Lounge will be allowed after the arrival of the Chief Guest . All are humbly requested to cooperate to make the show success. Passes are not allowed after 6 pm.

  

by SDBawe series by SunDeep Bhardwaj in Sundernagar

  

by SDB, A World Traveller, Fine Art, Candid Wedding, Commercial Photographer, Founder & Owner of "SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.Com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery" or in short "SDB Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery" or "SDB World Fine Art Gallery" by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali-Naggar & Sundernagar-Lalit Nagar & Ghumarwin-Kutheda-Jol Palakhi in Himachal India

  

Fine Art Candid Weddings & Commercial Photography by Sundeep Bhardwaj SDB on locations Kullu-Manali-Naggar Mandi-Sundernagar-Lalit Nagar Bilaspur-Ghumarwin-Jol Palakhi Shimla in Himachal Jaipur in Rajasthan & Chandigarh New Delhi Contact for a quote for Still & Film Photography assignments in India and Worldwide.

  

Contact for Exhibition or Workshop enquiries or Commercial Assignments or Wedding or Other Events Still coverage in 35mm and Film coverage in Full HD.

  

I PREFER replying your Quote requests Messages Web Design or any other Requests on Viber WhatsApp & Facebook and if you can't reach me ASAP via these 3 then you can even call me personally on +91 9805305912 . For general queries or feedback or messages you can also contact me via these social media listed below along with my preferred 4 media mentioned above -

  

Viber/WhatsApp/Facebook/Personal Mobile and

Skype/Flickr/Tango/Google+ Hangouts/Facebook Messenger/Yahoo Messenger/Facetime/iOS-iMessage/Line

  

Add me to above social networking applications using Email addresses | wittysam@gmail.com / sundeepkullu@gmail.com / sb@sundeepkullu.com / wittysam@me.com / wittysam@icloud.com | Mobile +91 9805305912 /+91 9805755206 ( Will be reactivated soon )

  

Total 2 Decades of World Travel & Fine Art Photography | 8 years World Tour 2007- 2014 | 2 Years Landscape Photography of most exotic places on Himalayan Arc spreading 2400 Kms in length | 10 years Incredible India tour 1997-2006 | Multiple years Fine Art Photography of Unforgettable Himachal, Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet, China on Himalayas | Fine Art Photography | Professional Portraits Still Photography | Commercial Photography | Product | Celeb | Wedding | Model | Portfolio | Events | Travel | 35mm Film | Photo Journalism | Magazine Editorials | Founder CEO of PhotoTube.Co | Web Designer SEO Expert Entrepreneur Marketing Lead | Personal Online Stock Photgraphy Gallery & Portfolio Website SunDeepKullu.Com | " The World is my Studio".

  

Pages I founded & administer -

  

' Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh ' ( 43,766+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/KulluManaliHimachalPradesh

  

' Sundernagar Mandi Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/SundernagarMandiHimachal

  

' Mandi Shivratri International Fair Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/pages/Mandi-Shivratri-International-Fair...

  

' Cricket World Cup ICC 2015 Feb 14-Mar 29 ' - www.facebook.com/pages/Cricket-World-Cup-ICC-2015-Feb-14-...

  

' Aam Aadmi Party Kullu Manali Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiPartyKulluHimachal

  

' AAP KULLU Aam Aadmi Party Kullu Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/AamAadmiPartyKulluHimachal

  

' AAP MANALI Aam Aadmi Party Manali Himachal ' - www.facebook.com/pages/AAP-MANALI-Aam-Aadmi-Party-Manali-...

  

' Kullu Dussehra International Festival ' - www.facebook.com/KulluDussehraInternational

  

' Himachal ' (10,938+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/Himachal.Pradesh.In

  

'SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography (Sdbwp) 70+Countries 6 Continents' (5,643+ Likes) - www.facebook.com/SundeepBhardwaj

  

' BREATHTAKING PLANET EARTH ' ( 14,831+ Likes ) - www.facebook.com/bpearth

  

My Facebook Profiles -

  

facebook.com/sundeepkullu

facebook.com/sundeephimachal

OTHER URL'S -

  

Interesting Photostories on Flickr : www.flickr.com/search/?text=sundeep%20bhardwaj%20kullu%20...

  

Recent Photostories on FLICKR : www.flickr.com/search/?text=SUNDEEP%20BHARDWAJ&sort=d...

  

Flickrflu : flickeflu.com/photos/wittysam

  

Flickr Set Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/

  

Flickr : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/show/

  

Blogger : blog.sundeepkullu.com/

  

YouTube : www.youtube.com/sundeepbhardwajkullu

  

Tumblr : tumblr.sundeepkullu.com/

  

Linked In : in.linkedin.com/in/sundeepkullu

  

Twitter : twitter.com/SundeepKullu

  

Google+ : www.google.com/profiles/wittysam

  

Blogger : www.blogger.com/profile/01479612002532675556

  

Flickr River : www.flickriver.com/photos/wittysam/popular-interesting/

  

Fluidr : www.fluidr.com/photos/wittysam

  

Wordpress : sundeepkulludotcom.wordpress.com/

  

Flickr SDBWP : www.flickr.com/search?text=sundeep+bhardwaj+kullu+wittysam

  

Flickr Full Screen Slide Show Unforgettable Himachal : www.flickr.com/photos/wittysam/sets/72157626451639890/show/

  

Facebook Groups I founded -

  

ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY & WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS (1,947 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/AOPworld/

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography SDBWP SunDeepKullu.Com World's my Studio - www.facebook.com/groups/853406461360492/

  

HIMACHAL Kullu Manali, Sundernagar Mandi, Dharamsala,Shimla,Lahaul Spiti12 (448 members) - www.facebook.com/groups/himachal.in

  

SunDeep Bhardwaj SDB SunDeepKullu.com Wonders of World Fine Art Gallery by SunDeepKullu.Com at Manali Sundernagar & Ghumarwin in Himachal State of India

  

LATEST Solo EXHIBITION by SunDeep Bhardwaj -

  

" The World is my Studio" ™ Fine Art Photography Exhibition by SDB IN Manali Himachal India

Facebook Event Page - www.facebook.com/events/1537066426570536/

  

Theme - " The World is my Studio " Fine Art Photography Exhibition (Showcasing the 47 Art Works in large 36*26 inches and 24*18 inches in size after curation of his best works on his 2 decades of travels to 70 plus countries and 555 plus most exotic destinations across 6 continents).

  

Location - Kullu Manali Himachal Pradesh India.

  

Date - 6 & 7 Feb 2015

  

Venue- Morpheus Valley Resort Manali Himachal India

  

Final location decided by ITHC & SunDeepKullu.Com for the Fine Art Photography Exhibition is Manali, Himachal. Its a invite only exhibition and only Travel , Tourism & Hospitality related Dean, Chancellor's, Director's and representatives of Tourism ministry and local SDM and heads of Himachal Tourism Development Corporation and Tourism academic professionals and University educationalists from all states of India and other International Universities (around 55 total universities) are invited and have allready been sent a invite by ITHC and SunDeepKullu.Com. The theme of exhibition is " The World is my Studio" and showcase will include 47 travel related Art pieces by SunDeep Bhardwaj a Himalayan photographer and World Traveller. The images of Himalayas and various Kullu tribes with New 7 Wonders of World and some most exotic photographs from SDB's travels to 70+ Countries 555+ Destinations across 6 Continents will also be showcased in the event. Only ITHM and SDBWP invitees are allowed on event date. However the video and photos of same event will be available on SunDeepKullu.Com and " The World is my Studio " page on facebook soon.

  

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" I live with one vision to create things that would outlast me. I discovered photography as a means for me to connect with my innerself & express myself with Fine Art Photography as a medium "

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

*Copyright © 2012 Lélia Valduga, all rights reserved.

 

As redes sociais fazem parte da vida do jovem de uma forma tão intensa que 10% ou mais deles não conseguiriam ficar sem acessar as redes e cerca de 10% só conseguiria ficar desconectado por um dia. Estes ambientes são importantes para os jovens porque é neles que os jovens se atualizam e interagem com os amigos.

Em questão de preferência quanto às redes sociais, o Twitter está na frente para os jovens, inclusive no uso para se relacionar com marcas e empresas. O Facebook é a rede dos aplicativos e jogos, já o Orkut faz mais sucesso entre os de menor idade para postar fotos, vídeos e mensagens particulares. O Facebook é usado para as mesmas atividades, porém pelos mais velhos.

Fonte: www.inovadoresespm.com.br/2011/07/o-perfil-do-jovem-brasi...

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Social networks are part of the life of a young man so intense that 10% or more of them could not go without accessing the network and about 10% could only be disconnected for a day. These environments are important for young people because it is there that the young are updated and interact with friends.

In a matter of preference as to social networks, Twitter is ahead for young people, including the use to relate to brands and companies. Facebook is the network applications and games, since Orkut's popularity among the younger age to post photos, videos and private messages. Facebook is used for the same activities, but their elders.

Source: www.inovadoresespm.com.br/2011/07/o-perfil-do-jovem-brasi...

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

Fine Art name " Pursuit of Light "

  

"PURSUIT OF LIGHT PhotoStories SERIES " is set of photographs from SDBWP SunDeep Bhardwaj World Photography . It means "In search of light " . This set is a fine art photography resulting after curation of photographs clicked while playing with light effects through window or door into another space in a fort in India in perfect camera setting with a full frame equipment Canon 5D Mark II using fine lenses by Canon 100-400 mm 4.5-5.6 L IS , 17-40 2.8 and 50mm fixed focal in the process of recording images. The process requires proper understanding of light in its fine form with right setting to capture the light . Fine art results after you have spent enough years perfecting art of photography and its curation and understanding all elements of recording best image and only and only when your heart mind and soul says so with your audience and experience that you are ready to name it as Fine Art . The location here is "The Pink City of India" Jaipur , Rajasthan during my Honeymoon in India when i was on a Honeymoon Tour to Golden Triangle covering AGRA DELHI JAIPUR in UP CAPITAL & RAJASTHAN respectively called as GOLDEN TRIANGLE TOUR . Then i headed to Leh in Jammu & Kashmir for more Photostories. A photographer hardly stays without camera even on Honeymoon tour. God bless All

  

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SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

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SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

RASHID, Muhammad H. (Ed.). Power electronics handbook: devices, circuits, and applications. 3 ed. Burlington: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011. xviii, 1389 p. Inclui bibliografia (ao final de cada capítulo) e índice; il. tab. graf. quad.; 29cm. ISBN 9780123820365.

 

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Designed to appeal to a new generation of engineering professionals, Power Electronics Handbook, 3rd Edition features four new chapters covering renewable energy, energy transmission, energy storage, as well as an introduction to Distributed and Cogeneration (DCG) technology, including gas turbines, gensets, microturbines, wind turbines, variable speed generators, photovoltaics and fuel cells, has been gaining momentum for quite some time now.smart grid technology. With this book readers should be able to provide technical design leadership on assigned power electronics design projects and lead the design from the concept to production involving significant scope and complexity.

 

Notas de conteúdo:

1. Introduction

2. The power diode

3. Power bipolar transistors

4. The power MOSFET

5. Insulated gate bipolar transistor

6. Thyristors

7. Gate turn-off thyristors

8. MOS Controlled Thyristors (MCTs)

9. Static induction devices

10. Diode rectifiers

11. Single-phase controlled rectifiers

12. Three-Phase controlled rectifiers

13. DC-DC converters

14. DC/DC conversion technique and twelve series luo-converters

15. Inverters

16. Resonant and soft-switching converters

17. Multilevel power converters

18. AC-AC converters

19. Power factor correction circuits

20. Gate drive circuitry for power converters

21. Power electronics in capacitor charging applications

22. Electronic ballasts

23. Power supplies

24. Uninterruptible power supplies

25. Automotive applications of power electronics

26. Solar power conversion

27. Power electronics for renewable energy sources

28. Fuel-cell power electronics for distributed generation

29. Wind turbine applications

30. HVDC transmission

31. Flexible AC transmission systems

32. Drives types and Specifications

33. Motor drives

34. Control methods for switching power converters

35. Fuzzy logic in electric drives

36. Artificial neural network applications in power electronics and electrical drives

37. DSP-based control of variable speed drives

38. Power quality

39. Active filters

40. EMI Effects of power converters

41. Computer simulation of power electronics and motor drives

42. Packaging and smart power systems

43. Renewable Energy Sources

44. Renewable Energy Storage

45. Renewable Electric Power Transmission

46. Distributed and Cogeneration

 

Palavras-chave:

ELETRONICA DE POTENCIA/Enciclopédias.

 

CDU 621.38 / R224p / 3 ed. / 2011

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

Good news for users of mobile devices who enjoy accessing multimedia content and social networking applications on the move!

 

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are exploring ways to bring the speed and quality of wireless network communications up to par with that of wired communications. Better yet, their goal is to develop wireless devices that offer ultra-high-speed mobile broadband services at virtually zero cost to the user!

 

All these could become possible as NTU and National Instruments (NI) join hands to develop the next-generation wireless communication technologies which are cheaper, faster, more reliable and more pervasive.

 

Both parties formalised the partnership by inking a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at NTU today.

 

Under the NTU-NI Wireless Research Programme, NI will provide $2.07 million worth of equipment that will be installed at the Positioning and Wireless Technology Centre (PWTC), a centre under NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE). One key goal of the NTU-NI Wireless Research Programme is to develop future wireless communication protocols. The research team will be using the equipment to research into the practicality and performance of various wireless techniques.

 

PWTC's Programme Director for wireless network research, Assistant Professor Ting See Ho, explained, "One of the major problems faced worldwide currently is the increasing shortage of usable frequency spectrum, which is further aggravated by current spectrum allocation regulations. My research team aims to address these issues by developing the next generation of wireless communication technologies that are able to relay radio signals and scan for available 'holes' in airwaves without interfering with the incumbent users. This would mean that users can enjoy the highest quality, best performance and most cost-efficient networks."

 

"This project will not only bring about a technology breakthrough; it will also have a profound impact on current business models and inspire new designs for various wireless applications for the benefit of both mass-market and military users," added Assistant Professor Ting.

 

"Wireless communication research is gaining tremendous interest from the industry and NTU is a top-notch technological university with strong international standing in this field," said Chandran Nair, managing director for NI ASEAN. "We are pleased to equip PWTC with NI's technologies and support NTU's research efforts towards developing wireless technologies that will impact everyday life."

 

"This partnership demonstrates NTU's active collaboration and sharing of resources and expertise with our industry partners," said Professor Kam Chan Hin, Chair of EEE, NTU. "We look forward to leveraging NI technologies in our research centre to expand our research and training capabilities at NTU. We will also make good use of the equipment for teaching purposes to prepare our graduates for professional careers in high-tech industries and to expose them to advanced research."

 

"The NTU-NI collaboration is a testament to our long-term community engagement. We look forward to helping enhance science, technology and engineering education and research through partnerships that will take academic research to a whole new level," said Victor Mieres, NI's vice president of sales for Asia

Flat concept, Set modern design with happy new year 2015 sign icon, Vector illustration modern template design

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

 

Viva Mobile Technologies Private Limited is a ‘virtual manufacturer’ of mobile phones under the brand name VIVA® with an initial focus on mid-end mobile phones. The company will subsequently reposition itself to provide a full range of mobile products and services across all critical segments in mobile telecommunications.

The Chairman Mr.Sanjeev Bhatia, is a leading entrepreneur, Brand owner of ‘Adcom’ an IT hardware solutions company, among the Top 5 players in India. Having the capability, relationship with the vendors and visualising the prospects for a customer centric Mobile Brand, decided to launch ‘VIVA’ mobile phones. Viva would totally be dedicated to its customers, with best in class products, services and experience. As Viva stands for Value , Innovation, Velocity (speed) and Asset (for the possessor), its core strengths would be innovations, competitive pricing and excellent customer care.

 

All Viva Mobile phones have distinctive features, they stand apart as in, style of an opinion leader, features of a high end phone, looks force you to pick one and in price they suit all pockets. All handsets carry a standard 1year warranty with “FIRST TIME IN INDIA- THE ONLINE WARRANTY REGISTRATION SYSTEM”, this is for the hassle free and document free availability of service at all authorized service centres. Over and above this “100 Roaming L1 & L2 Service centres in North India” The TOLL FREE number for customer care support is ‘18001028752’, this can be used for queries, supports, features and all other relevant information (pre and post sales).

 

The clientele includes the house wives, normal worker class, Government and Private employees, students, office goers, social networking groups, Business class, Traders and people who need speed and all the features at an affordable price.

 

Viva is launching with a range of 11 models in July 2010, around 12 new models are expected to be there by October 2010, Currently all are dual sim phones on the GSM platform. Viva is working on some unique prepositions of dual CDMA and GSM+CDMA, theses all are expected before Dec 2010.

 

In The current range some exclusive features are SIM Lock, Personal

  

Information Lock (SMS, Phone book), WiFi, Video Chat, applications like MSN,

Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, e-buddy, Orkut, Java, Operamini, Office. All the phones come with heavy duty battery back up, Latest processors from MTK like

 

the 6253 which enhances speed as well as reduces the battery consumption. Standard / universal charging ports, battery sizes makes life of the customers easy on availability of these external spares.

 

Some of the unique adorable models in the current range are

V4- looks, screen size, Certified- HD battery, Camera, wireless FM, Bluetooth, Motion Sensor and many more features, comes with a 2GB card as free.

QM- The mini Qwerty, nothing like this is currently available in the country as of now. In 3 colors, Camera, Blue tooth, large screen, Java, Networking, Video, FM and many more features.

Q6- A Music and party edition phone, available in 3 colors, MP3 chipset, Dolby surround sound, Large screen, HD battery, Camera, Java, All social networking applications, comes with a 2GB card as free

Q8- The Business edition, with a large 2.2” display, WiFi, VOIP-Video Chat, Office Java, Operamini, All Video and Audio formats, is an office on the move, comes with a 2GB card as free

Viva would stand for quality products, models, service and a stable business opportunity. Plan for the next 12 months is to reach a 2% market share , be among the top 10 players in mobile handset industry in India and to sell more than a million handsets in the next 12 months.

 

DANNY 9999914978

PUBLIC RELATION COMPANY

 

SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.

 

Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.

 

SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.

 

Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.

 

This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.

A relaxed CEO David Thodey enjoys time TIPM Data and UP Network Applications and Services team, George St.

A Xino Basic for Atmel board that I'm using as part of an OpenEnergyMonitor system. A JeeLabs breakout board fitted with a 433MHz RFM12B transceiver is fitted to transmit the reading from an Efergy CT sensor to a Nanode.

 

Components have been added in the prototype area to regulate the power input as well as a burden resistor, filter cap and resistors for the voltage divider required to connect the CT sensor.

 

Read my blog on building an OpenEnergyMonitor system.

The Nanode is a low cost Arduino compatible board with built in ethernet, it is supplied as a kit of components. Read my Nanode Review here.

 

For more information see nanode.eu and the Nanode Wiki.

Two JeeLabs breakout boards with 433MHz RFM12B transceivers fitted that I built for use with an OpenEnergyMonitor system. The one on the left is assembled for use with a standard Arduino type board and on the right one for use with a Nanode. The one for the Nanode doesn't require the 3.3V regulator or filter caps as the Nanode can provide the 3.3V for the board.

 

Read my blog on building an OpenEnergyMonitor system.

 

Viva Mobile Technologies Private Limited is a ‘virtual manufacturer’ of mobile phones under the brand name VIVA® with an initial focus on mid-end mobile phones. The company will subsequently reposition itself to provide a full range of mobile products and services across all critical segments in mobile telecommunications.

The Chairman Mr.Sanjeev Bhatia, is a leading entrepreneur, Brand owner of ‘Adcom’ an IT hardware solutions company, among the Top 5 players in India. Having the capability, relationship with the vendors and visualising the prospects for a customer centric Mobile Brand, decided to launch ‘VIVA’ mobile phones. Viva would totally be dedicated to its customers, with best in class products, services and experience. As Viva stands for Value , Innovation, Velocity (speed) and Asset (for the possessor), its core strengths would be innovations, competitive pricing and excellent customer care.

 

All Viva Mobile phones have distinctive features, they stand apart as in, style of an opinion leader, features of a high end phone, looks force you to pick one and in price they suit all pockets. All handsets carry a standard 1year warranty with “FIRST TIME IN INDIA- THE ONLINE WARRANTY REGISTRATION SYSTEM”, this is for the hassle free and document free availability of service at all authorized service centres. Over and above this “100 Roaming L1 & L2 Service centres in North India” The TOLL FREE number for customer care support is ‘18001028752’, this can be used for queries, supports, features and all other relevant information (pre and post sales).

 

The clientele includes the house wives, normal worker class, Government and Private employees, students, office goers, social networking groups, Business class, Traders and people who need speed and all the features at an affordable price.

 

Viva is launching with a range of 11 models in July 2010, around 12 new models are expected to be there by October 2010, Currently all are dual sim phones on the GSM platform. Viva is working on some unique prepositions of dual CDMA and GSM+CDMA, theses all are expected before Dec 2010.

 

In The current range some exclusive features are SIM Lock, Personal

  

Information Lock (SMS, Phone book), WiFi, Video Chat, applications like MSN,

Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, e-buddy, Orkut, Java, Operamini, Office. All the phones come with heavy duty battery back up, Latest processors from MTK like

 

the 6253 which enhances speed as well as reduces the battery consumption. Standard / universal charging ports, battery sizes makes life of the customers easy on availability of these external spares.

 

Some of the unique adorable models in the current range are

V4- looks, screen size, Certified- HD battery, Camera, wireless FM, Bluetooth, Motion Sensor and many more features, comes with a 2GB card as free.

QM- The mini Qwerty, nothing like this is currently available in the country as of now. In 3 colors, Camera, Blue tooth, large screen, Java, Networking, Video, FM and many more features.

Q6- A Music and party edition phone, available in 3 colors, MP3 chipset, Dolby surround sound, Large screen, HD battery, Camera, Java, All social networking applications, comes with a 2GB card as free

Q8- The Business edition, with a large 2.2” display, WiFi, VOIP-Video Chat, Office Java, Operamini, All Video and Audio formats, is an office on the move, comes with a 2GB card as free

Viva would stand for quality products, models, service and a stable business opportunity. Plan for the next 12 months is to reach a 2% market share , be among the top 10 players in mobile handset industry in India and to sell more than a million handsets in the next 12 months.

 

DANNY 9999914978

PUBLIC RELATION COMPANY

 

Microchip Technology Inc. today announced its expanded MiWi™ Development Environment (DE), which is a complete ecosystem for designing star and mesh wireless networking products. The MiWi DE is comprised of Microchip’s free, proprietary MiWi P2P, MiWi and MiWi PRO star and mesh networking protocol stacks; the 8-bit Wireless Development Kit (WDK) and ZENA™ Wireless Adapters (2.4 GHz, 868 MHz and 915 MHz); and the multi-purpose Wireless Development Studio (WDS) with cross-platform support for the Linux, Mac OS® and Windows® operating systems. The MiWi DE is ideal for the development of ISM-band wireless networking applications for the home and industrial automation, wireless sensor monitoring and control, and smart energy markets.