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Are you watching Mad Men? You have not been getting a truly balanced view of what it was like to be gay in advertising in that time period.

I was there, as a junior writer, then a senior writer, then a group head through the 1950s, and then a creative director in the 1960s. I went on to become one of the highest-paid creatives in the world through the ‘70s and ‘80s.

I beg to differ on the show’s representation of the single gay character, Salvatore, who was fired by the fictional ad agency for being more open about his sexuality. According to the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner, as quoted in The Advocate, “I felt it was an expression of the times that he couldn’t work there anymore. It’s the ultimate case of sexual harassment.”

But there were plenty of gays who, like me, didn’t bother to stay in the closet, succeeded, and thrived in this tough world.

Yes, some agencies were like the one where Don Draper works. But these stuffy, old-line agencies were the big ones — BBDO, J. Walter Thompson, Leo Burnett — not agencies like Draper’s. They were top-heavy with upper-level management from Ivy League schools; they were agencies where women could only be secretaries or work in what was called the “Women’s Division” (food, fashion, and cosmetics). In those kinds of agencies, if you were gay, you were probably closeted, like that poor character on Mad Men. But more likely, if you were gay, you didn’t stay long at such an agency, as many of the smaller agencies were quite different — fun agencies to work for, where being gay was not an issue.

The fact that no one at the Mad Men agency changes jobs is very unreal. In the advertising world I knew, you rarely worked anywhere more than two years, as other agencies wanted you for your knowhow on whatever account you had been working on. And your salary soared. You almost doubled your salary each time you moved. I went from $95 a week when I started at Kenyon and Eckhardt to something over $22,000 a year at Hockaday Associates in four agency moves. In the early 1960s that was good money. I spent two years at BBDO and only about a year at J. Walter Thompson, and voilà! Everybody did it. Why didn’t Salvatore?

After I left BBDO, a friend told me he’d overheard comments about me in the elevator, along the lines of, “So, they were in a lot of trouble here when the queer that was writing all the great stuff left. But then they found another queer who could write just as fancifully.”

When I finally hit Hockaday Associates, a small agency specializing in high-end fashion, furniture, cosmetics, and the like, it was a different world.

All the art directors were gay, and all the account executives were women. The agency president was in fact a Miss Hockaday, and she had her own take on the 1960s. Everyone really dressed to the nines. Everyone was good-looking, and there was wall-to-wall green carpeting in the foyer. A lady with a cart served tea every afternoon at 4 o’clock. Clients came in and were overwhelmed by the chic and wonder of it all. We were famous in the advertising world because Miss Hockaday dropped the Elizabeth Arden account. After Miss Arden kept her waiting for an hour for a meeting, Miss Hockaday swept in and said, “Miss Arden, you are a tyrant. We do not want to have this account,” and swept out.

Can we please have more scenes like this on Mad Men?

The gay men on staff knew everything there was to know at the time about clothes, interior décor, you name it. I learned a lot. This was the early 1960s; being witty was important then. And let’s face it: This was New York, where being gay was hardly a hidden-away phenomenon. In Greenwich Village the gay men were lined up every night along the western side of Washington Square. They sat and lounged against the low pipe railings there, which were called “the Meat Rack.” You could drop in at Mary’s on Eighth Street or go dancing at the Cherry Lane bar (men did the two-step there, clasped in each other’s arms), right next door to the Cherry Lane theater. There was a large sign by the door: “Out of Bounds to Military Personnel.” If you were gay in New York, you didn’t need to run around hiding it.

And there were plenty of places in the advertising world where you could work and it just didn’t matter. What outsiders little realized was the tightrope danger of the advertising industry. There was not a day you went to work that you couldn’t get fired, regardless of whether you were straight or day. If the client vamoosed, the entire group servicing that client was fired. Immediately, to not waste salaries. You deserved “flight pay,” we called it, like the pilots in the Air Force. Employees who could hang onto those slippery, shifting clients were highly valued. I was one of those employees. And I didn’t care who knew I was gay. I was myself. Lots of ladies in the office told me that their closeted gay friends would sigh, “If only I could be as openly gay as Leddick.”

And then I went to Grey Advertising...

I always said that everything I was or ever hoped to be in advertising I owed to Revlon. I was hired as the Worldwide Creative Director of Revlon at Grey Advertising in the mid-1960s. Grey Advertising was huge, the largest agency in the U.S. It was not like stuffy BBDO and other biggies. It was like Hollywood. It had scale, it had dough, and it was heartless. Revlon was the same thing, but only more glamorous, with more money, and heartless in their way, but very loyal to those they valued.

I was never “in” the closet, and actually, I enjoyed making all those white, heterosexual, tough guys face up to the fact they had to have me in that job, because Revlon liked me; they liked a creative director who was taller, blonder, and better-dressed than anyone else in their meetings. When they screamed and cussed and bellowed in their meetings, I would say, “Keep this up and I will lose my enthusiasm.”

And during a tense meeting, when I took out my lip balm, my crew knew the meeting was over.

Every year on Advertising Age‘s “worst clients list,” Revlon was always voted the number-one worst client in the United States. And I didn’t care, because Revlon liked me, and they liked me for what I could do.

In meetings with Revlon, a head honcho would be chewing out the president of Grey Advertising, saying things like, “You guys are useless. You don’t know what you’re doing. You’re a waste of time. The only reason you have this account is him!“ And they would point to me. Gee, it felt great. They were loyal to those who truly were on their team.

At one point, my staff went on strike and told management that it was either me or them. They didn’t want to work for me anymore. The head account executive called Revlon while they sat in front of his desk in assembled mutiny. He spoke briefly to the client and hung up. He said, “They like David. You’re all fired.” I only found out about this later.

Revlon spent $34 million a year on advertising. They were a big deal. That’s $246 million in today’s dollars, and the agency got 17 percent. We had enormous budgets and tremendous creative freedom, to an extent that was never seen again. One of my favorite creations was this commercial for Revlon’s Jontue fragrance.

Some people call it “groundbreaking” and “iconic.” I just thought it was a lot of fun.

Their world included major gays like Mr. Kenneth the hairdresser, Bill Blass the designer, and Mr. John the hat designer. And Halston, who went from hats to being a major design name. Believe me, none of those guys did anything but roar around town looking swell. One of my female writers said, “Some people think homosexuality is a crime. And some people seem to think it’s a sin. But you, David, seem to think it’s a luxury.” Well, Mick Jagger wasn’t out there acting very butch, nor was David Bowie and a host of other entertainers. This was the ‘60s, which I have always thought prefigured our 21st century.

And I think the gay advertising world of the ‘60s that serviced the major beauty and fashion clients like Revlon anticipated the gay liberation that is still in full-swing today. These were big people handling money and taking big chances. They didn’t have time to care about what other people did in bed. They only cared about what you did in the office. It was refreshing, liberating, tough, and unprejudiced. They were only prejudiced against the untalented, and a little bit against those who were not good-looking and didn’t know how to dress.

Revlon was the megastar of the cosmetics industry. It was headed by Charles Revson, whose head creative director at Revlon (and my counterpart) was Kay Daly, the highest-paid woman in the U.S. (hint, hint, Mad Men writers). She was paid $100,000 a year back then, a stupefying salary when writers started at perhaps $9,000 a year. My own observation is that as women became more and more liberated, attitudes toward gays became more liberated, too. Women in business simply did not care. The presence of gay men in the office did not make them examine their own inner sexual feelings as it did straight men.

Revlon was exemplary for this — very macho, but not in the Ivy League, Brooks Brothers tradition. Revlon was much more European, and they realized that they were in a woman’s business. Kay Daly led us to create the Revlon woman: single, beautiful, with a good job, and certainly not a virgin. She was welcomed by millions of women. Headlines like “Fire and Ice” and “Jungle Peach” let us all know something sexy was going on.

C’mon, Mad Men, bring us more juicy stuff like this, please!

In many ways it was also very American: If you can do it, you can be it. As a French friend recently said to me while visiting me in Miami Beach, “The great thing here is that you feel anything is possible.” And so it was, back then, in many parts of the Mad, Mad advertising world. But it wasn’t all just Mad men. Much of it looked ahead to the world we are finally beginning to find ourselves in now. We were anticipating the 21st century about half a century before it arrived.

Every year I negotiated a new contract, and toward the end I was only working 32 weeks a year, finally. When the management at Grey asked Revlon if this would be OK, they said, “As long as he’s here when we need him.” I lived in Paris part of the time and would fly into New York on the Concorde for meetings late in the morning and go back the same night on the 7 o’clock Air France flight.

That was glamour. The fact that I was gay meant nothing and never came up.

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Kroger is presently greater and more productive than such retail legends as Target (NYSE: TGT) and Sears (NYSE: SHLD), which possesses Kmart and Walgreen (NASDAQ: WBA). On Jan. 31, 2015, Kroger revealed incomes of $108.47 billion; around the same time Target detailed incomes of $72.62 billion, and Sears announced incomes of $32.2 billion while Walgreen revealed incomes of $77.52 billion on Nov. 30, 2014. Truth be told, just three American retailers accomplish more business than Kroger: Walmart, which revealed incomes of $485.65 billion on Jan. 31, 2015; Costco, which announced incomes of $115.64 billion on Feb. 28, 2015 and drugstore administrator CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), which detailed incomes of $139.37 billion on Dec. 31, 2014. CVS's incomes are so immense on the grounds that it has an enormous solution handling business notwithstanding its drugstores. Truly intriguing that Kroger continues getting greater; its income developed by almost 10% (8.55% to be careful) during 2014. Interestingly, Walmart's income developed by only 1.43% during a similar period and Costco's by 4.36%.

Kroger now works 3,727 stores that utilize around 375,000 individuals in 37 states. Those stores incorporate 2,619 general stores, 782 comfort stores and 326 adornments stores.[1] Kroger likewise works 37 sustenance preparing and assembling plants and 36 circulation focuses to supply those stores with items. Each one of those areas give Kroger 161.7 million square feet of retail space. That is what could be compared to around 280,000 NFL guideline football fields.[2] The workforce in those stores is presently so huge that Kroger needs 300 distinctive association understandings to keep up work harmony. Around 94% of Kroger's business originates from sustenance. The rest originates from medicines, gems and fuel deals.

Kroger is presently the country's third biggest administrator of filling stations in the United States. As of September 18, 2014, Kroger worked more than 2,000 filling stations in 37 states. Those stations included 1,330 grocery store fuel focuses and 725 comfort stores.[4] Convenience stores worked by Kroger incorporate Loaf N' Jug, Kwik Stop, TomThumb, Quick Stop and Turkey Hill. Truly fascinating that Kroger has just been selling gas since 1983 and just offering fuel at its general stores since 1998. However an ongoing Market Service overview found that Kroger is presently America's preferred gas retailer. Kroger sold $19 billion worth of fuel in 2013.[5] One purpose behind this is the organization's massively famous dependability card program, which gives clients a chance to spare 10¢ a gallon on gas for each 100 points they procure on the card. A client procures one point for each $1 in food supplies in buys at a Kroger general store.

Kroger works 25 diverse grocery store chains in various pieces of the nation, including: Ralph's (California), Harris Teeter (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC), Smith's (Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming), King Soopers (Colorado and Wyoming), Scott's Food and Pharmacy (Indiana),[6] Fred Meyer (Pacific Northwest and Alaska),[7] City Market (Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming), Fry's Food and Drug (Arizona), Bakers' (Nebraska), Food 4 Less (California, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, and Nebraska), Owens (Indiana), Dillons (Kansas and Missouri), Foods Co (California), Gerbes (Missouri), Price Rite (New Mexico), JayC Food Stores (Indiana), Pay Less Super Markets (Indiana), QFC Quality Food Centers (Oregon and Washington State), and Kroger (Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia, Texas, Virginia, Michigan and Florida).[8] That implies Kroger may work in your neighborhood or town, and you probably won't know it.

Staple goods are by all account not the only things you can purchase at Kroger stores. The Fred Meyer[10] and Kroger Marketplace[11], Dillons Marketplace, Fry's Marketplace, Smith's Marketplace and King Soopers Marketplace[12] stores sell gadgets, adornments, furniture, , office furniture, attire, equipment, paint, garden things, office supplies, little apparatuses and toys, among different things. That implies Kroger is one of only a handful couple of spots where you can purchase a TV set, a wedding band, a head of lettuce, a wedding cake and a gallon of milk around the same time. Brands sold at Fred Meyer incorporate Sony, Nike, Kitchen Aid, Adidas, Nikon, Dockers and Apple.[13] At the Kroger Marketplace, you can likewise buy gourmet cheddar and crisp sushi. On the off chance that that isn't sufficient, Kroger additionally works 326 adornments stores under the names Littman Jewelers[14] and Fred Meyer Jewelers.[15] Some of these stores are situated inside markets; others are independent areas in shopping centers. Fred Meyer is currently the country's third biggest chain of gems stores.[16] If you need, you can likewise request fine adornments from both Littman and Fred Meyer on the web. Kroger additionally works its very own remote phone organization, I Wireless.[17]

Kroger is the fifth biggest drugstore administrator in the United States with 1,947 drug stores working in its stores in 2013 and 2,111 drug stores in its stores in 2014. During 2013 Kroger filled 164 million medicines and sold $8.3 billion worth of doctor prescribed drugs.[18] Prescriptions are by all account not the only social insurance administrations you can get at Kroger; its Little Clinic backup worked 110 facilities giving fundamental therapeutic administrations given by attendant professionals and doctors' aides in 2013. Kroger wanted to open 55 all the more new Little Clinics in 2014.[19] That implies you can get a physical or an inoculation at a Kroger's grocery store just as a portion of bread.

To keep its stores provided, Kroger worked an armada of 2,770 semi-tractors and 10,500 semi-trailers in 2013. That armada made 3,300 conveyances every day and drove right around 329 million miles in 2013.[20] Some of those trucks move stock over the United States and even lift a few things up from providers in Canada and Mexico. What's more, Kroger works armadas of littler HomeShop conveyance trucks in certain urban communities that convey food supplies, alcohol and different items legitimately to clients' homes.[21] Customers request the products on the web, and Kroger ships them straightforwardly from the store to the home or business.

Regardless of its size and degree, a standout amongst the most fascinating things is the spots that it doesn't work. There are no Kroger stores in a whole area of the nation—New England—and in two of the country's most crowded states: New York and Pennsylvania. There is only one Kroger store in the country's third most crowded state: Florida. Kroger is additionally missing from a portion of the country's most crowded metropolitan zones, including: New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Des Moines, Jacksonville, Madison, Tulsa City, El Paso, San Antonio and Oklahoma City. That implies there is a great deal of space for Kroger just in the United States.

The state with the most Kroger areas is California, where the merchant works 335 stores. The second biggest number of stores is in Ohio, Kroger's home turf, where it works 212 stores. The state with the third biggest number of Kroger's areas is Texas, where there are 203 stores. The state with the least Kroger markets is Florida, which has only one Harris Teeter area. Curiously enough, there is at any rate one state where Kroger has a permit to work together yet no areas—Hawaii. On Feb. 27, 2015, The Pacific Business Journal announced that Kroger had enlisted as another business with the province of Hawaii. The paper likewise detailed that Kroger was searching for a Hawaii area.

Some Kroger stores can be gigantic. The multi-retail establishments that Fred Meyer works in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska can have up to 165,000 square feet of floor space. All that space empowers some Fred Meyer stores to convey in excess of 225,000 items under one roof.[23] Such a store contains a full market, a home improvement shop, a drug store, a shoe store, a dress store, a hardware store, a machine store, a bank and a home and greenhouse focus under one rooftop. Interestingly, the normal Marketplace store has somewhere in the range of 100,000 and 130,000 square feet of room. The normal general store in the United States is around 76,000 square feet in size.

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Furniture assembly service In Miami

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Furniture Movers In Tampa, FL 33538

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Deerfield Shifting & Storage, Inc. (Atlas) in Wheeling. At St. Pete Transferring and Storage, our environment friendly and price-efficient local moving services will meet all your necessities. Our Miami local movers obtain extensive coaching and perceive how to maneuver your objects with care to make sure a injury-free relocation. · Insurance coverage is also an essential factor to think about so you need to learn about their insurance coverage policies and know their transaction procedures if there shall be broken or misplaced objects. We won't let you set together sick advised decisions, since we understand what we'll be doing, and we be sure you know exactly what to stay up for with the task. One ought to present them the needed details they usually also needs to make certain they know the precise distance that they need to move. All companies that perform lengthy distance strikes in the United States are required by the US Department of Transportation to register in an effort to perform any transfer.

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“Top Picks” in Home Design!

We’re counting down the days until the Miami Home Design and Remodeling Show! From inside to outside and top to bottom, we’ll have everything you need to remodel your home or office. If it’s time to renovate your kitchen or bathroom, you’ll have a plethora of options with experts available all weekend to help turn your design dreams into reality. Are you a renter, live in a small space, decorating or need a few items for the college dorm? The Miami Home Show has it all! Check out the new trends in furniture, décor, art and design.

Here’s some of our Top Picks:

Iberia Tiles

Over the past 40 years Iberia Tiles has been dedicated to providing the South Florida residential/commercial market with design options for hard surface flooring. They have built a reputation of having the highest quality finishes with endless design options relating to porcelain, stone, mosaics and slabs. Iberia Tiles has exclusive distribution rights to some of the best Italian and Spanish porcelain collections from the top brands.

Furnitureland South

Based in Jamestown, NC, Furnitureland South is making its South Florida debut at the Miami Home Show! Since 1969, Furnitureland South has been a one-stop-shop for all things home décor and is the largest furniture store in the world! Their Design Consultants, can help furnish your entire space with furniture that fits your style and budget. Furnitureland South offers top-of-the-line delivery service that includes: blanket-wrapped transport; complete assembly; and placement and installation

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Awards aerospace - The Aircraft Teardown Company That You Want To Know About

"Alaris" is derived from the Latin phrase "below the earth's crust". It was founded by Keith B. Stackpole to develop and manufacture the best lightweight materials for the U.S. military, NASA and other aerospace applications. In keeping with the times, many of the components are produced in the United States, as part of a contract awarded to Alaris Aerospace by NASA. Some of the best known U.S. alaris aerospace products are the R-Pod and the XLR Pod Attachment.

The Company is a leader in providing technical support services for the commercial and defense market. The alaris aerospace technical support team provides aircraft engine overhaul, general maintenance and component replacement. They are experts in high-tech, long- endurance composite materials. They are continually upgrading technologies for extending aircraft life, while protecting our nation's precious assets.

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The alaris aerospace research technical support team at awards aerospace is committed to building a superior aircraft, which is capable of consistently providing mission requirement flights. They strive to provide a first-class product that exceeds all of our customer's expectations. We strive to exceed the customer's expectations by exceeding the performance levels we have promised. At alaris, we believe that people come first. Our employees are motivated, creative and enthusiastic about helping our customers succeed.

Awards aerospace is focused on developing complete systems for maintenance, repair management services and component and program analysis. Awards aerospace collaborates with our customer's aerospace engineers, technicians and mechanics to bring to the market, the most accurate and precise information possible. The goal of this company is to partner with our customers to make sure that the aircraft they own are maintained, repaired and made better for longer-term service. They strive to become the go-to source for the manufacture, repair, maintain, and support of the most technically advanced products and equipment available.

Awards aerospace is focused on providing our members with the most up-to-date information on Airmen and their associated parts. Awards aerospace is committed to providing the most precise and updated information in any aircraft part or component that may be a concern. They offer a variety of unique service options. Each offers a different way to assist our members. Some of the services are standard across all of alaris aerospace's product lines, but some of the other services change from time to time. An example of this is the V2500-A5 nacelles.

This is one of alaris aerospace's newest products and it represents an evolution of the company's products and services. The V2500-A5 nacelles are precision machined aluminum casing. It features a high gloss black enamel finish that covers its entire surface, machined from premium aircraft aluminum. Its two elliptical CNC aluminum bushings and push button tail wheel assemblies ensure this is a vehicle that will not only look good but fly well.

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Awards aerospace has been in business since 1970. This company strives to provide all of our members with the highest quality customer service possible. If you have any questions, concerns or comments about their products or service, we would love to hear from you. They are open to all queries and would never steer you away from what we believe in - aircraft ownership and use. So if you have any questions about this company or their products, simply stop by and talk to one of their representatives. You may even find alaris aerospace to be exactly what you are looking for when it comes to aircraft parts distributor and owner.

Awards aerospace is located in the city of Miami, Florida. Its main building is a Class A office building that has a total floor space of 740 square feet. It has two floors dedicated to the company's aircraft parts collection. Each floor has been equipped with complete retail and office furniture, as well as, fully stocked snack bars. If you own an alarm aerospace vehicle, you can take full advantage of their retail shops and executive offices.

Summary

The report forecast global High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace market to grow to reach xxx Million USD in 2019 with a CAGR of xx% during the period 2020-2025 due to coronavirus situation.

The report offers detailed coverage of High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace industry and main market trends with impact of coronavirus. The market research includes historical and forecast market data, demand, application details, price trends, and company shares of the leading High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace by geography. The report splits the market size, by volume and value, on the basis of application type and geography.

First, this report covers the present status and the future prospects of the global High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace market for 2015-2024.

And in this report, we analyze global market from 5 geographies: Asia-Pacific[China, Southeast Asia, India, Japan, Korea, Western Asia], Europe[Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland], North America[United States, Canada, Mexico], Middle East & Africa[GCC, North Africa, South Africa], South America[Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Peru].

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At the same time, we classify High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace according to the type, application by geography. More importantly, the report includes major countries market based on the type and application.

Finally, the report provides detailed profile and data information analysis of leading High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace company.

Key Content of Chapters as follows (Including and can be customized) :

Part 1:

Market Overview, Development, and Segment by Type, Application & Region

Part 2:

Company information, Sales, Cost, Margin etc.

Part 3:

Global Market by company, Type, Application & Geography

Part 4:

Asia-Pacific Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 5:

Europe Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 6:

North America Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 7:

South America Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 8:

Middle East & Africa Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 9:

Market Features

Part 10:

Investment Opportunity

Part 11:

Conclusion

Market Segment as follows:

By Region

Asia-Pacific[China, Southeast Asia, India, Japan, Korea, Western Asia]

Europe[Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland]

North America[United States, Canada, Mexico]

Middle East & Africa[GCC, North Africa, South Africa]

South America[Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Peru]

Key Companies

Kessler

Step-Tec

Fischer Precise

Siemens

IBAG Group

Guangzhou Haozhi

GMN Paul M ller Industrie GmbH & Co. KG

Westwind Air Bearings., Ltd. (Novanta)

Air Bearing

Nakanishi

Posa

Alfred J ger

SycoTec

Zimmer Group

KLKJ Group Co.,Ltd.

Shenzhen Sufeng

Heinz Fiege GmbH

Parfaite Tool

ZYS

Changzhou Hanqi

Market by Type

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High Power High Frequency Spindle

Market by Application

Indirect Sales

Direct Sales

Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is the USP of the report?

Global High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace Market report offers great insights of the market and consumer data and their interpretation through various figures and graphs. Report has embedded global market and regional market deep analysis through various research methodologies. The report also offers great competitor analysis of the industries and highlights the key aspect of their business like success stories, market development and growth rate.

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Awards aerospace - The Aircraft Teardown Company That You Want To Know About

Summary

First, this report covers the present status and the future prospects of the global High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace market for 2015-2024.

Finally, the report provides detailed profile and data information analysis of leading High Frequency Spindle for Automotive and Aerospace company.

Key Content of Chapters as follows (Including and can be customized) :

Part 1:

Market Overview, Development, and Segment by Type, Application & Region

Part 2:

Company information, Sales, Cost, Margin etc.

Part 3:

Global Market by company, Type, Application & Geography

Part 4:

Asia-Pacific Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 5:

Europe Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 6:

North America Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 7:

South America Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 8:

Middle East & Africa Market by Type, Application & Geography

Part 9:

Market Features

Part 10:

Investment Opportunity

Part 11:

Conclusion

Market Segment as follows:

By Region

Asia-Pacific[China, Southeast Asia, India, Japan, Korea, Western Asia]

Europe[Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland]

North America[United States, Canada, Mexico]

Middle East & Africa[GCC, North Africa, South Africa]

South America[Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Peru]

Key Companies

Kessler

Step-Tec

Fischer Precise

Siemens

IBAG Group

Guangzhou Haozhi

GMN Paul M ller Industrie GmbH & Co. KG

Westwind Air Bearings., Ltd. (Novanta)

Air Bearing

Nakanishi

Posa

Alfred J ger

SycoTec

Zimmer Group

KLKJ Group Co.,Ltd.

Shenzhen Sufeng

Heinz Fiege GmbH

Parfaite Tool

ZYS

Changzhou Hanqi

Market by Type

Low Power High Frequency Spindle

High Power High Frequency Spindle

Market by Application

Indirect Sales

Direct Sales

Global High Frequency Power Amplifier Market

Global High Frequency High Pressure Discharge Ozone Generator Market

Global High Carbon Steel Wire Market

Global Herbicides Market

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10 Tips for Moving Into a College Dorm

Hello everyone! This is V, your moving consultant! I found these tips from moving.com to prepare you for your move.

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Whether you’re moving to college for the first time or returning for another year, we know it can be an exciting yet stressful process. Fortunately, we’re here to help make the experience an easy one. Moving into a college dorm room often comes with a long list of packing to-dos. Not to mention, every college has its own rules and requirements regarding the move-in and move-out process. While much of the overall moving experience will be affected by your college’s moving policies, there are several things you can do to make the process run more smoothly. These 10 tips will help ensure that your college move starts off on the right foot. Best of luck and happy moving!

Helpful Tips When Moving to College

Obtain a list of needs from the college and pack accordingly

Before the school year begins, colleges should provide all students who are moving into student housing with a checklist of necessary items to bring. In addition, the college should provide you with a list of items that are already in the dorm room to prevent you from over packing. For instance, dorm rooms typically come furnished with a bed, mattress, dresser, desk and chair. Oftentimes, a dorm room also comes furnished with a mini-fridge and bookshelf. The college should send around a list of specific items that you’ll need such as twin sheets (many dorm room beds require extra long twin sheets), laundry essentials, bathroom essentials and more. For a look at what to bring when moving into a college dorm room, check here.

Contact your roommate to discuss who will bring what Haven’t met your future roomie? The college should provide you with the roommate’s contact information. You may want to reach out before the move to establish who is bringing what. Not only will this help lighten your load, but it will also make the moving experience easier overall. For instance, both of you do not need to bring kitchen supplies and utensils. Contacting your roommate before the move is also a good idea if you want to coordinate décor and furnishings. For instance, one of you brings a floor lamp while the other brings a set of curtains.

Read over the college’s Housing and Residence Life guidelines Your college should provide you with plenty of details about how to move into your college dorm as well as what to expect on moving day. Important guidelines may include when and where to check in on move-in day, how to register, where to park, who to ask for assistance, etc. The college’s Housing and Residence Life guidelines may also provide you with a list of forms to bring and/or sign once you move in.

Bring a toolkit with you From hanging curtains and assembling furniture to fixing loose screws and placing art on the walls, you’re going to need tools to help you fix and build things in your college dorm room. In addition to being absolutely essential on move-in day, this toolkit will prove handy throughout the entire school year. Make sure to purchase a small toolkit that fits easily under your bed. The toolkit should come outfitted with all basic tools as well as picture hanging hardware.

Dress appropriately Move-in day is not the time for high heels and tight clothing. Trust us when we say that you will want to be comfortable when walking up and down multiple flights of stairs, lifting heavy boxes and assembling dorm room items. We recommend sticking with comfortable shoes (preferably sneakers), socks and lightweight clothing to avoid overheating. Dressing for an active move will not only increase your efficiency, but also your level of comfort throughout the day.

Have at least one family member or friend help with the move Don’t move to college by yourself. We recommend bringing a friend or family member along for the ride. You’ll likely need help lifting heavy items and boxes up and down those college dorm stairs. Having an extra set of hands will also be useful when assembling furniture, unpacking your room and setting everything up. If a family member is unable to drive you to college, make sure to ask a friend well in advance so they can make arrangements to drop you off.

Utilize laundry baskets, bins and vacuum bags Assembling and packing cardboard boxes takes time and effort – not to mention, you’ll likely have to purchase these boxes for one-time use. Instead of using boxes, we recommend first using storage options that you already own such as laundry baskets, vacuum bags and plastic bins. You likely won’t need to keep these bins and bags in your room throughout the school year – though they can also be used as storage, if you need it.

Ship what you can’t fit in your car Remember: you don’t need to bring everything with you on day one of the move. Items such as TVs, extra pillows and books can wait. If you can’t fit everything in your car, we recommend shipping them to the college prior to your move. Items should arrive within the first few weeks. You may also want to hold off on shipping certain items, such as seasonal clothing, until the time comes when you actually need it.

Consider renting a storage unit for seasonal items Moving far away from home? Unless you have a free place to store items nearby, it might be a good idea to rent a self-storage unit near the college. Self -storage units provide the perfect amount of storage space for dorm room and apartment-size belongings. These units also make it easy to temporarily store dorm room belongings during the summer and/or during a study abroad trip. In addition, students can use self-storage units to store seasonal and recreational items (think: snowboards, skiing equipment, surfboards, etc) that they won’t need on a daily basis but may need occasionally throughout the year. To find self-storage in your area, use Moving.com’s Storage Center. All you have to do is type in the zip code or your city and state of residence and click the ‘find storage’ button. From there, Moving.com will pull quotes from the closest storage unit facilities near your new home to compare.

Take the time to meet your roommates and hallmates In the midst of a hectic move-in day, it can be easy to forget about new roommates and hallmates – especially when you’re focused on saying farewell to mom and dad. While this might not be the best time for icebreaker games and long conversations, it’s still a good idea to introduce yourself to roomies, suitemates and hallmates. Remember: a big smile and a friendly “hello” goes a long way in making a good first impression.

Moving soon?

Not sure your car will fit all of your belongings? You may need to rent a moving truck or trailer in order to haul your items to college. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality moving truck rental companies to choose from. To find the one that best fits your moving day budget and needs, check out Moving.com’s truck rental center. Within our truck rental center, you’ll find information and discounts on various rental truck companies.

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RETHINKING CUBAN CIVIL SOCIETY: SOMETHING DEEPER THAN THE TRUTH

By Maria Isabel Alfonso

A young man in a baseball cap with "MIAMI" emblazoned on the front sits on a curb, looking at his phone. Beside him, an older man looks over his shoulder at the screen. Other Cubans sit on the curb or on the steps behind it, staring at their phones and tablets. In Cuba, a scene like this would have once been unthinkable. But since 2015, the government has loosened the rules on Internet access, allowing citizens to go online with their devices (for a fee) at designated WiFi hotspots.

The spread of online access-and people taking advantage of it for activities like blogging about politics and culture-is one of the signs of a renewed interest in bolstering Cuban civil society. But Cuba faces unique challenges in bolstering citizen engagement.

Near the start of RETHINKING CUBAN CIVIL SOCIETY, the film offers a definition of its central theme. "Civil society: The aggregate of non-governmental organizations and individuals that manifest the will and interests of citizens." Then, on the screen, the word "non-governmental" is crossed out. It is a striking visual illustration of Cuba's unique situation-one in which the public sector dominates much of society, playing an ambiguous role in civil society institutions.

Since the mid-1990s, Cuba has seen a rise in independent media, and a resurgence of movements fighting against racism, for economic justice and LGBTQI rights, and for greater democracy and citizen participation. In RETHINKING CUBAN CIVIL SOCIETY, Cuban academics, journalists and bloggers, and writers and musicians grapple with what it means to encourage healthy public participation and dissent in the context of Cuba: a country under embargo in which foreign-funded dissidents seek to overthrow the government, and at the same time a country in which the Communist Party has placed itself above the State.

In city parks and apartments, on stairwells, in classrooms, and in magazine offices, the people featured in RETHINKING CUBAN CIVIL SOCIETY grapple with these questions. Can more competitive elections and greater democracy exist in a one-party State? How can LGBTQI activists successfully influence government policy? How can access to the benefits of economic reforms allowing private business be extended to marginalized populations? Can the government help encourage a healthy, independent media eco-system? And how much of the stifling of civil society can be blamed on the embargo and how much is simply home-grown?

Thoughtful and engaging, the film is conveniently divided into chapters on class and activism, media, Internet and the blogosphere, political opposition, and Cuban civil society across international borders.

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SILENT TRANSFORMATION, A

By Simon Brothers, Luke Mistruzzi, Anton Smolski, Mark Preston

The transformative power of the co-operative enterprise model, illustrated with many inspirational examples.

The co-operative movement was built by people who took on the responsibility for their collective well-being in the face of government neglect, economic exclusion and cultural discrimination.

As the modern economy increasingly denies vast sectors of the population basic amenities for decent life, this co-operative spirit is as critical as ever. However, over the years the co-op sector has become insular and poorly understood.

A SILENT TRANSFORMATION sets out to explore the innovative self-help efforts of different communities across the Province of Ontario, Canada. By addressing their needs collectively they are helping to regain the radical vision of co-operation.

In these communities are the seeds of economic democracy, global solidarity, and a new popular movement to transform society!

Will it grow and flourish?

DVD / 2018 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adults) / 70 minutes

TIME THIEVES

By Cosima Dannoritzer

Forget water, oil and rare minerals - there is a new resource everyone wants: our time. TIME THIEVES reveals how companies monetize our time without our knowledge and how the social networks have, in their own words, become 'the new clockmakers'.

TIME THIEVES is an eye-opening investigation into how our time became a currency; why 'time poverty' is on the rise and how the more we try to save time, the less we have. Who hasn't come across the situation where an airline has us printing our own boarding passes and checking in our own luggage, saving the company a fortune in working hours? Who hasn't spent hours assembling a piece of furniture, or struggled with an automatic cashier? Haven't we all asked ourselves who should be paying whom for doing all the work? Award-winning director Cosima Dannoritzer blends remarkable archival footage and heart-breaking stories with testimonies from leading experts in a documentary that was filmed on location in Japan, USA, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany.

TIME THIEVES investigates how time has become money, how the clock has taken over both our working and personal lives, and how we can take back control over this precious, but finite resource.

DVD (English, French, German, With English Subtitles, Color) / 2018 / 85 minutes

FREE LUNCH SOCIETY

By Christian Tod

What would you do if your income was taken care of?

Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before-intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps.

FREE LUNCH SOCIETY provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities and experiences regarding its implementation.

Globalization, automation, Donald Trump. The middle class is falling apart. One hears talk about the causes, rather than about solutions. Time for a complete rethinking:

An unconditional basic income means money for everyone - as a human right without service in return! Visionary reform project, neoliberal axe to the roots of the social state or socially romantic left-wing utopia? Depending on the type and scope, a basic income demonstrates very different ideological visions. Which side of the coin one sees depends on one's own idea of humankind: inactivity as sweet poison that seduces people into laziness, or freedom from material pressures as a chance for oneself and for the community. Do we actually need the whip of existential fear to avoid a lazy, depraved life in front of the TV set? Or does gainful employment give our lives meaning and social footing simply because we haven't known anything else for centuries? And because we've never all had the freedom to self-actualise in other ways?

That basic income is a powerful idea is indisputable: land, water and air are gifts of nature. They are different from private property that humans create by their individual effort. However, when we receive wealth from nature, from the commons, then that wealth belongs to all of us equally.

From Alaska's oil fields to the Canadian prairie, from Washington's think tanks to the Namibian steppes, the film takes us on a grand journey and shows us what the driverless car has to do with the ideas of a German billionaire and a Swiss referendum. FREE LUNCH SOCIETY, the first international film in cinemas about basic income, is dedicated to one of the most crucial questions of our times.

DVD (English, German, Color, Closed Captioned, With English Subtitles) / 2017 / 92 minutes

SYSTEM ERROR

By Florian Opitz

Politicians, economists and the media are obsessed with economic growth. But why do we still cling to this concept? Clearly it is impossible to have infinite growth on a finite planet.

This investigative documentary seeks to educate audiences about the term "growth", particularly in the world of economics. It seems today's society and financial markets are dictated by an ever-present need to grow. This film uncovers what this means and how it has developed through history. It looks at how and why it stopped during the Great Depression and the growing importance it took on in the '70s and '80s. We also see how growth looks in various industries, such as in the world of agriculture, manufacturing and on Wall Street. Capitalism is explored, as well as the ways in which financial markets determine - perhaps more than governments - the functioning of societies and countries. Finally, SYSTEM ERROR looks at the economic crash of 2008, its origins and its effects on the way we view growth. Is there a limit to this growth, especially now that technology is developing?

In SYSTEM ERROR award-winning director Florian Opitz ("Speed, In Search of Lost Time" and "The Big Sellout") examines the fundamentals of capitalism. He reveals unexpected correlations and lays bare the pathological nature of the current system. He also examines the continuing impact of Karl Marx as an analyst of capitalism.

Filmed in Brazil, China, Germany, the U.K and the U.S.A, System Error gives a fresh perspective on the capitalist system and where it is leading us.

DVD (English, German, Portuguese, With English Subtitles, Color) / 2017 / 96 minutes

WHEN BANANA RULED

By Mathilde Damoisel

Bananas are everywhere: Americans eat nearly 10 billion of them per year, consuming more pounds of bananas than apples and oranges combined.

WHEN BANANA RULED tells the story of the men who made bananas the most ubiquitous fruit in the world, through a multinational empire that dominated production and sales, overthrew governments, and created a business model still largely used by today's tech giants.

The story of bananas as commodities begins with a failed railway project started in Costa Rica in 1871, led by American Minor Cooper Keith. When the Costa Rican government defaulted on its payments to Keith for its construction, the businessman faced ruin. His salvation? Bananas. Keith would go on to co-found the United Fruit Company and within decades-after a concerted campaign led by the father of public relations, Edward Bernays-bananas became a staple of the North American diet. Animated mascot Miss Chiquita Banana was a pop culture icon, doctors recommended bananas as an ideal food for children, and bananas popped up in movies and Broadway musicals.

But, as WHEN BANANA RULED documents, the entire enterprise was built on a rapacious, imperialist business model that required the domination of countries including Guatemala, Honduras, and Colombia. United Fruit took over critical national infrastructure like railways and ports, rapidly expanded plantations by displacing small (often Indigenous) farmers, bought itself favorable legislation, and, like today's largest companies, sheltered profits offshore to avoid taxes.

Life on the plantations was a world within a world: A strict hierarchy with white managers from the best business schools, foremen from the US South (recruited for their knowledge of slavery), and black laborers paid largely in company food coupons and strictly forbidden to unionize. When a new, revolutionary government was formed in Guatemala, United Fruit's plantations were nationalized. What happened next came straight from the playbook that would dominate US foreign policy in the region: claim a Communist threat, persuade legislators back home of its dangers, bomb the country, and install a new, pro-American and pro-business regime.

Using a rich trove of archival footage and documents, including letters to and from lobbyists, telegrams, vintage ads and movie clips, and gorgeous, hand-tinted stills, WHEN BANANA RULED is a story of intrigue that touches on economics, international politics, the history of multinational business and reveals how an array of forces conquered the world through a simple fruit.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2017 / 52 minutes

COMPANY TOWN: THE DARK SIDE OF THE SHARING ECONOMY

Directed by Deborah Kaufman, Alan Snitow

A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future.

The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a "Company Town," a playground for tech moguls of the "sharing economy." Airbnb is the biggest hotel, Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well.

Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are driven out by gentrification, skyrocketing rents and evictions, sparking a grassroots backlash. Can an insurgent electoral campaign overcome corporate power and billionaires' megabucks to change a city's course?

COMPANY TOWN shows how a grassroots coalition of unions, tenants, neighborhoods of color, activists and artists can come together to win.

DVD / 2016 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adults) / 77 minutes

FOOD FOR CHANGE: THE STORY OF COOPERATION IN AMERICA

Directed by Steve Alves

The deep history of cooperatives in America -- the country's longest-surviving alternative economic system.

FOOD FOR CHANGE looks at the current resurgence of food cooperatives in America and their unique historic place in the economic and political landscape. Born in the heartland, cooperatives are seen as the middle path between Wall Street and Socialism.

The film profiles several food co-ops that have revived neighborhoods and communities - right in the shadows of corporate agribusinesses and supermarket chains. It's an inspiring example of community-centered economies thriving in an age of globalization.

DVD / 2016 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 82 minutes

SINGULAR STORY OF UNLUCKY JUAN, THE

By Ricardo Figueredo Oliva

Seven pounds of rice, five pounds sugar, four ounces coffee, half a pound cooking oil, five eggs, 10 ounces beans, a small bread roll and a pound a half of meat - that's the monthly allotment for Cubans under the country's rationing system.

An independent film financed through crowd-funding and without the financial support of traditional Cuban film institutions, THE SINGULAR STORY OF UNLUCKY JUAN is a comprehensive, accessible examination of the particularities of the Cuban economy. Using a fictional worker called Juan as an example, the film shows how the economy affects the daily lives of ordinary citizens - and how badly it squeezes those who don't have access to hard currency.

Cuba has two currencies: the Cuban Peso and the CUC - a far more valuable currency pegged to international exchange rates. Tourists pay in CUCs and shop at CUC stores, which stock higher quality goods at a huge premium.

Divided into chapters covering rations, the marketplace, CUC stores, private business, corruption, economic migration, and future Cuba, the documentary walks us through how each of these affects Juan and those like him. The film interviews a cross-section of Cuban workers and an economist who favours a more free-market approach, and offers sometimes hypnotic shots evoking economic activity: butchers cutting meat, fruit vendors at markets, shops lined with luxury goods inaccessible to most.

Juan starts the month with 250 Cuban pesos. But once he's paid for his food rations, extra food to meet his needs for the month, transit, utilities, and the new energy-efficient fridge he was obliged to buy (and use 20% of his monthly salary to pay off over a 10-year term), there is little left. No wonder so many Cubans rely on living with relatives, overseas remittances, or getting involved in corruption and the black market.

As bad as things are, Cubans worry about what the future will look like once relations with the United States eventually become normalized. Speaking about the US, they worry the Americans "will swallow us whole" and use words like "crushed" and "assimilated" to describe what may lie ahead. The door has already been slightly opened - with a new foreign economic development zone and relaxed rules allowing some Cubans to own private businesses. But these are no panacea either. Small-business owners report frequent harassment, ticketing for endless infractions, and bureaucratic roadblocks. "I don't own this business," says a tired-looking woman, "I am its slave."

DVD (Spanish, With English Subtitles, Color) / 2016 / 52 minutes

WECONOMICS: ITALY

Directed by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin

Weconomics: Italy reports on the extensive and innovative cooperative economy in the region around Bologna.

The Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is widely shared, and cooperatives of teachers and social workers play a key role in the provision of government services.

DVD / 2016 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 19 minutes

CHICAGO BOYS

By Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano

After the 1973 coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power, a group of Chilean economists were given the power to turn Chile into a laboratory for the world's most radical neo-liberal experiments. These men, including Sergio de Castro and Rolf Lüders, both of whom would serve as ministers of finance during the Pinochet years, met in the 1950s at the University of Chicago, where they studied under the famed economist Milton Friedman, and the man who would become their mentor, Arnold Harberger.

CHICAGO BOYS is their story from their student days through the dictatorship, told by the Chicago Boys themselves. Could their program for 'economic freedom,' such a drastic restructuring of the Chilean economy, only have been implemented by an authoritarian regime? What were they willing to do to achieve their goals? And how do they see the long-term results today?

Even though they do eventually acknowledge some of the darker sides of their work, Lüders "couldn't care less about inequality," de Castro feels bad for the torturers, and they all seem completely baffled by those Chileans who have filled the streets, for five years now, in protest against their legacy.

DVD (Color) / 2015 / 85 minutes

FOOD COOP

Directed by Tom Boothe

Looks at the workings of a highly profitable supermarket, Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop, which for 44 years has been a shining example of a successful alternative economic system at work.

FOOD COOP takes us deep into the belly of the Park Slope Food Coop, one of America's oldest cooperative food supermarkets, with a healthy dose of insight and wit.

Nestled deep in New York City, which, for many, exemplifies both the glory and the horrors of the capitalist spirit, you can find this highly prosperous institution, just as American and certainly more efficient than Wall Street, but whose objective is entirely non-profit. Working against everything that defines "The American Way of Life," the basic principles of the Park Slope Food Coop are simple: each of its 16,000 members work 2.75 hours per month to earn the right to buy the best food in New York at incredibly low prices. This Brooklyn coop founded in 1973 is probably the best implemented socialist experience in the United States.

Through FOOD COOP, you will see this institution come to life and witness how the enthusiasm that animates the Park Slope Food Coop demonstrates a potential for change; how the coop's mode of participation viscerally teaches democracy to those who take part in its activities.

DVD / 2015 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 97 minutes

GENERATION JOBLESS

In Canada, while the economic recovery has eased for many, the youth unemployment rate remains staggering-double that of the general population. The documentary Generation Jobless explores the crisis of over-educated youths being underemployed, scraping by in low-paid, part-time jobs that do not require a degree just to pay off their debt while struggling to find real jobs. Some call them the lost generation, but it is not only young people who will pay the price.

If this generation is unable to forge a way into the economy, whose taxes will support the social safety net? If young people can't afford to buy homes, will the real estate market come crashing down again?

Youth unemployment and underemployment is a ticking time bomb with consequences for everyone.

DVD / 2015 / 43 minutes

CAPITALISM

Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of "neo- liberalism," capitalism is by far the world's dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work?

CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world.

Blending interviews with some of the world's great historians, economists, anthropologists, and social critics, with on-the-ground footage shot in twenty-two countries, CAPITALISM questions the myth of the unfettered free market, explores the nature of debt and commodities, and retraces some of the great economic debates of the last 200 years.

Each fifty-two minute episode is designed to stand alone, making these ideal for classroom use or as an additional resource for students:

Episode 1: Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out in The Wealth of Nations. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade.

Episode 2: The Wealth of Nations: A New Gospel? Adam Smith was both economist and moral philosopher. But his work on morality is largely forgotten, leading to tragic distortions that have shaped our global economic system.

Episode 3: Ricardo and Malthus: Did You Say Freedom? The roots of today's global trade agreements lie in the work of stockbroker David Ricardo and demographer Thomas Malthus. Together, they would restructure society in the image of the market.

Episode 4: What If Marx Was Right? Have we gotten Marx wrong by focusing on the Communist Manifesto instead of on his critique of how capitalism works - a critique that is relevant and as penetrating as ever?

Episode 5: Keynes vs Hayek: A Fake Debate? The ideological divide between the philosophies of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek has dominated economics for nearly a century. Is it time for the pendulum to swing back to Keynes? Or do we need a whole new approach that goes beyond this dualism?

Episode 6: Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor An exploration of the life and work of Karl Polanyi, who sought to reintegrate society and economy. Could the commodification of labour and money ultimately be as disastrous as floods, drought and earthquakes?

CAPITALISM is an impressive series that makes economics accessible through an interdisciplinary approach that explores the work of great thinkers, while embedding economics in specific social, political, and historical contexts. The series can be watched as a whole, but each episode also stands alone.

The series features some of the world's top economists, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists, including Thomas Piketty, Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Nicholas Phillipson, Kari Polanyi Levitt, David Graeber, and Abraham Rotstein.

3 DVDs (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2014 / 320 minutes

DOWNTOWN DREAM

By Aaron Matthews

For decades, small town life in the United States has been slowly and quietly eroding. But there are overlooked stories amidst the talk of America's economic decline: the stories of individual men and women in the "Rust Belt" community in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. Once one of the country's largest steel manufacturing centers, Lewistown lost its manufacturing base and industrial might a generation ago and has since become a "ghost town." DOWNTOWN DREAM follows the lives of five dynamic men and women living in Lewistown who refuse to be counted out and instead struggle to reinvent their lives and their dreams in America's chilly economic climate.

Over the course of two years, in DOWNTOWN DREAM, viewers witness five dynamic personal journeys that also concretize the struggles of the town itself. Jon, a developer, reflects Lewistown's wistful remembrance of nobler days; Bernard, a pastor and one of 150 African Americans in Lewistown, embodies the town's potential resurrection; Pam, a would-be salon owner, reflects the can-do spirit that may be a remedy for Lewistown's business community; Barb, a recovering addict, and Katie, her daughter and an aspiring actress and singer, personify its potential physical rehabilitation. Lyrical and intimate, the film reveals typical Americans in a typical American place grappling with the question on everybody's lips today: How do you make it in America anymore?

After more than 40 years of decay, Lewistown is now at a crossroads. The town leaders have drawn up a comprehensive redevelopment plan, and it is taking shape. In order to beautify the deserted downtown, streets have been widened, trees have been planted and buildings have been razed. The centerpiece of the plan-spending $250,000 in state funding to install a park in the town's center-is underway.

The situation in Lewistown mirrors the fate of the nation at this critical point in history. How do Americans make sense of economic and political forces beyond their control? Will they make a go of it and if so, how? In DOWNTOWN DREAM, Jon, Bernard, Pam, Barb and Katie reinvent their dreams in the face of devastation and decay.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2013 / 45 minutes

DETROPIA

Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

A vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.

Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century...the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.

With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score, DETROPIA sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the brink of dissolution. These soulful pragmatists and stalwart philosophers strive to make ends meet and make sense of it all, refusing to abandon hope or resistance. Their grit and pluck embody the spirit of the Motor City as it struggles to survive postindustrial America and begins to envision a radically different future.

DVD / 2012 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 86 minutes

SURVIVING PROGRESS

Director: Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks

Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society? Or too much of a good thing? Based on the best-selling book A Short History of Progress, this provocative documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through a sweeping but detailed survey of the major "progress traps" facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment.

Featuring powerful arguments from such visionaries as Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking, Craig Venter, Robert Wright, Michael Hudson, and Ronald Wright, this enlightening and visually spectacular film invites us to contemplate the progress traps that destroyed past civilizations and that lie treacherously embedded in our own. Leading critics of Wall Street, cognitive psychologists, and ecologists lay bare the consequences of progress-as-usual as the film travels around the world - from a burgeoning China to the disappearing rainforests of Brazil to a chimp research lab in New Iberia, Louisiana - to construct a shocking overview of the way our global economic system is eating away at our planet's resources and shackling entire populations with poverty.

Providing an honest look at the risks and pitfalls of running 21st Century "software" (our accumulated knowledge) on 50,000-year-old "hardware" (our primate brains), Surviving Progress offers a challenge: to prove making apes smarter was not an evolutionary dead end.

DVD-R / 2012 / 86 minutes

MARX RELOADED

By Jason Barker

MARX RELOADED is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis.

The recent crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from collapse. Today the full implications of the crisis in Europe and around the world still remain unclear. Nevertheless, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effects on our society, our economy and our whole way of life?

Today a new generation of philosophers, artists and political activists are returning to Marx's ideas in order to try to make sense of the crisis and to consider whether a world without or beyond capitalism is possible. Is the severity of the ongoing recession a sign that the capitalist system's days are numbered? Ironically, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, could it be that communism might provide the solution to the growing economic and environmental challenges facing the planet?

Written and directed by Jason Barker - himself an experienced writer, lecturer, translator and doctor of philosophy - MARX RELOADED includes interviews with leading thinkers on Marxism, including those at the forefront of a popular revival in Marxist and communist ideas. The film also includes interviews with leading skeptics of this revival as well as light-hearted animation sequences which follow Marx's adventures through the matrix of his own ideas.

Interviews with leading experts include: Norbert Bolz, Micha Brumlik, John Gray, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Nina Power, Jacques Ranciere, Peter Sloterdijk, Alberto Toscano, and Slavoj Zizek.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2011 / 52 minutes

RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM (NAOMI KLEIN)

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism features Naomi Klein explaining the ideas and research behind her bestselling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In this riveting lecture and interview, Klein challenges and exposes the popular myth of the free market economy's peaceful global victory.

Around the world there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos, exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally implement their policies. They are the shock doctors. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.

DVD / 2009 / 77 minutes

WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY?

Directed by John de Graaf

Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives.

Fame, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely and highly-visual monologue about the American economy today, challenging the ways we measure economic success--especially the Gross Domestic Product--and offering an answer to the question: What's the Economy for, Anyway?

Using Gifford Pinchot's idea that the economy's purpose is "the greatest good for the greatest number over the longest run," Batker compares the performance of the U.S. economy with that of other industrial countries in terms of providing a high quality of life, fairness and ecological sustainability, concluding that when you do the numbers, we come out near the bottom in nearly every category.

Batker shines a humorous light on such economic buzzwords as "productivity," and "consumer sovereignty," while offering ideas for "capitalism with a human face," a new economic paradigm that meets the real needs of people and the planet.

DVD / 2009 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 40 minutes

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: HOW WE ARE CONNECTED TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

Everyday we can see things in our lives that show us that we are connected with people all over the world. But exactly how is Australia connected to the other countries in the world, and what are our responsibilities? This program looks at how Australia is connected with the rest of the world in three key areas - trade and travel, communications, and global organisations and agreements. It features interviews with representatives from:

An export firm (Staedtler Pacific) ABC NewsRadio The United Nations The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade There is also a case study of AusAID.

DVD / 2003 / 21 minutes

MONEY AND BANKING: WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

Taught By Professor Michael K. Salemi

From the invention of coins by the ancient Lydians to the 21st-century eurozone, human history tells the story of ingenious financial systems and the never-ending quest for economic solutions. Today, our global economy is both fascinating and dizzyingly complex-challenging even experts to comprehend it fully. But one thing remains clear: Money and finance play a deeply fundamental role in your life.

Money is a social contract that affects the decisions of nations and individuals. Our financial institutions drive our political systems and the growth of nations. And money and banking are indispensable in both your daily financial transactions and your most essential long-term plans. A working knowledge of money and banking systems is critically useful in several ways:

It helps you understand the complex and often bewildering world of finance. It helps you to "read" the current economic climate, to make sense of what you see in the media, and to gauge where the economy is headed. It gives you key insights into society and the economic issues in life. It allows you to comprehend integral aspects of history and the way civilization developed. Perhaps most important, it helps you to plan your own life and to make key financial decisions for yourself and your family.

Speaking to all of this in Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know, economist and award-winning Professor Michael K. Salemi of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leads you in a panoramic exploration of our monetary and financial systems, their inner workings, and their crucial role and presence in your world. In 36 incisive and detailed lectures, he gives you a penetrating look at the financial institutions that are fundamental to your life and well-being. Beginning with the colorful history of money, including the monetary history of the United States, you investigate pivotal topics, including

the crucial role of public confidence in the stability of our financial system; how money is created by commercial and central banks; how "Wall Street" and "Main Street" are inextricably intertwined, each requiring the success of the other; the dramatic history and causes of hyperinflation; the uses of "local" currencies and nontraditional monetary systems; the thorny problem of financial firms that are deemed "too big to fail," and why being named "TBTF" gives firms an incentive to engage in risky investments; the irrational psychology of stock market "bubbles," in which investing becomes speculative gambling; and why the value of the dollar depends on interest rates elsewhere in the world.

6 DVDs (With Course Guidebook) / 1080 minutes

UNDERSTANDING INVESTMENTS

Taught By Professor Connel Fullenkamp, Ph.D.

Understanding Investments helps you do just that. In 24 lectures, it introduces the fundamentals of investing to those new to the subject while broadening and deepening the knowledge of more experienced investors. Taught by Professor Connel Fullenkamp, an award-winning educator from Duke University who regularly consults in the world of international finance, these lectures clearly explain the various kinds of financial markets, the different kinds of investments available to you, and the pros and cons of each. Even more important: The course shows you how to evaluate each of these in terms of your own financial situation.

4 DVDs (With Course Guidebook) / 720 minutes

WHERE IS THE WORLD GOING, MR. STIGLITZ?

Director: Jacques Sarasin

Simply and eloquently, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains how the world's economy works. Drawing not only from his academic expertise but also from time spent on the ground in countries around the world, Stiglitz offers fresh thinking about the questions and challenges facing all of us - from well-off Americans to those mired in Third World poverty.

This five part series will appeal to experts and non-experts alike, as Stiglitz's clear and concise reasoning about the complexities of globalization is revealed. The topics covered include an overview of the world economy; the challenge of global warming and the environment; the future of global trade and immigration; how globalization can benefit (and harm) developing countries; and issues of security and terrorism.

Jospeh Stiglitz is one of the most respected economists in the world today. Some of his positions and achievements include:

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Chairman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors Chief Economist at the World Bank Chair of the Management Board of the Brooks World Poverty Institute Consultant to World Leaders Professor at Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Stanford and (currently) Columbia University Author of the Best-Selling Book Globalization and Its Discontents (translated into 35 languages) and its followup Making Globalization Work

2 DVDs / 380 minutes

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