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hanikurumsaldik · 11 months

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İşveren Markası Kavramının Yaratıcısı Simon Barrow, Employer Brand Summit’te

Türkiye’nin en saygın işveren markası zirvelerinden olan Uluslararası Employer Brand Summit için geri sayım! 8 Haziran’daki zirve bu yıl “Take A Step Ahead, Lead The Change” temasıyla gerçekleştirilecek. Zirvenin bu yıl çok önemli bir konuğu da olacak. İşveren Markası kavramının yaratıcısı Simon Barrow, Employer Brand Summit’te olacak!

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workplace-awards · 29 days

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24 becomes 42!! 🎊 24 was great, but 42 is twice as nice, presenting the Workplace Awards Categories! If you have not nominated yet, now is the time!

https://workplaceawards.in/nomination/

#gcc awards #gcc awards 2024 #workplace awards #workplaceawards #workplace #awards #employer awards #employer brand awards #employer recognition awards #workplace recognition awards #best employer awards #top employer awards

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itcstories · 2 years

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ITC features among the top 3 at the first ever LinkedIn Talent Awards

ITC made it to the list of top 3 companies at the LinkedIn Talent Award in the Best Employer Brand Category

https://www.itcportal.com/itc-stories/itc-among-top-3-at-linkedin-talent-awards.aspx

#linkedin talent awards #best employer brand awards

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cheeseanonioncrisps · 28 days

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Love how Vox and Velvette seem to alternate between portraying themselves as the ‘head’ of their little trio, with Velvette referring to herself as “the backbone of the Vees” and Vox plastering his logo over everything and vehemently denying Alastor's insinuation that he couldn't go on without the other two.

And meanwhile, like… Hells entire cinematic industry seems to mostly centre around porn.

Like, I'm sure there are other films out there (Blitzø has apparently seen Shrek) but the “cinephiles” are all off watching “award winning demon bukkake shows”. And I'd be very surprised if the internet porn industry wasn't also pretty big.

Outside the main three Vees, Angel Dust appears to be the figure most associated with their brand. Not any of Velvette's models or Vox's stars. And posters of Angel appear in the Lust Ring in Ozzies, implying that Val's influence extends outside Pride, something that doesn't seem to be the case for the other Vees.

And the whole reason Vox had to hire Sir Pentious to spy on the hotel is because Val hires so many people that all the randos on the street who might be looking for a quick buck were already working for him. Given how sex-obsessed the culture is generally (and considering that for every pornstar Val hires, he's also going to need several camera people, sound people, set designers, editors, etc.) Val could easily qualify as the biggest employer in Pride.

And if he owns even a fraction of those souls, he'd probably be one of the most powerful Overlords with or without the other two backing him up.

And that's not even getting into the age thing!

All the Media Demons seem to be loosely associated with the era when their chosen form of media got popular.

Vel is the social media demon, and one of the youngest Overlords, seeming to have died in the '10s. Vox is the TV demon and supposedly died in the 1950s. Alastor is the Radio Demon and died in the 1930s.

Photographic porn first became a big thing in the late 1800s. Val's style of dress to me loosely indicates 1910s or 1920s. If we're sticking with the established pattern then Valentino could well be older than Alastor.

What I'm saying is: the reason Valentino seems so much less concerned with the image and branding of the Vees compared to the other two might not just be him being dumb and impulsive.

From his perspective, the whole Vee thing might just be something his boyfriend and best friend are invested in, that he just kinda puts up with (and, heck, probably finances) because it makes them happy and gets him out of Overlord meetings.

Out of the three of them, Val may actually be the one who would be most able to go it alone, and the one who is the main source of their power. Possibly the only reason Vox and Vel even get to argue over who is the top dog in the group is because the actual top dog is too busy with his real business to give much of a shit about their fun side project.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin headcanons #hazbin meta #vox hazbin hotel #valentino hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel velvette #the vees #vox and vel are having serious group meetings to discuss preserving their territory and exploiting weaknesses in their political enemies #while val is bedazzling his gun in his boyfriend's aquarium #while the other two bitch about some tiff they're having with another overlord #and he pretends to listen #just in general i love the idea of val actually being way more intelligent than most people give him credit for #but his priorities are different to the other vees #so he doesn't show it much outside his own business

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blackswaneuroparedux · 10 months

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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist Billy Wilder is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood‘s golden age. With ‘The Apartment’, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film.

Born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria (now part of Poland) in 22 June 1906, Billy Wilder spent his early professional life as a reporter in Vienna. In 1926 he relocated to Berlin, where his reputation as a journalist grew. But by then a different dream had taken hold - the movies. Selling his first script to an extremely grateful and quite naked producer he helped hide from the jealous boyfriend of a neighboring young lady, Wilder’s career as a screenwriter began. After several successful years in the German film industry, Wilder fled to Paris a week after the Reichstag fire in 1933.

Ten months later he emigrated to America, where an initially difficult time in Hollywood gave way to employment as a screenwriter.

In 1938 Wilder was teamed with Charles Brackett. Through their scripts for such films as ‘Bluebeard’s Eight Wife’, ‘Ninotchka’, and ‘Ball of Fire’, they became the best-known and most respected writing team in Hollywood. This success enabled Wilder to fight for and win his first American directing assignment, the now-classic comedy, ‘The Major and the Minor’, and “the Billy Wilder Film” was born.

“The Billy Wilder film.” The phrase is at once as specific and difficult to casually categorise as the filmmaker himself. Billy Wilder, the master of the American comedy who wrote and directed the grand melodramas of ’Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘Double Indemnity’. The hard-hitting dramatist who created the funniest movie ever made, ’Some Like It Hot’. The “great cynic” who steeped us in the lyric romanticism of ‘Love in the Afternoon’ and ‘Avanti!’. The “classic romantic” who confronted us with the harsh realities of ‘Ace in the Hole’. Simultaneously one of the most European and American of all directors, the man refuses to stand still long enough to allow us our neat and easy definition. But, to put it in his own words, “Nobody’s perfect.”

Through his work on films as daringly varied as ‘The Lost Weekend’, ‘A Foreign Affair’, ‘The Apartment’, and ‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’, this “imperfect genius” has proven himself a true master of all aspects of the language of film, as comfortable and adept t telling a story thorough his brilliant visual style as through his unparalleled dialogue. And although the characters, the locales, the tone and genres may change, one subject seems to remain constant - the bizarre and glorious state know as the human comedy. Through the drama and the farce and the romance and despair, what we’re watching up there is, as in all great art, a reflection of ourselves.

Often running into criticism for his presentation of taboo topics such as alcoholism and prostitution, the high quality of the films redeemed him in the eyes of both the public and the industry. Of the many great stars he directed, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Shirley MacLaine, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon are only a few.

The late 1960s and 1970s, however, were not as kind to Wilder. His brand of cynicism, irony and satire were out of step with this generation’s view of peace, love, revolution and individual experimentation

A 7 time Oscar winner, Steven Spielberg called him "the greatest writer/director who ever lived." Here's some amazing footage from his birthday party where he was joined by a host of famous directors.

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scotianostra · 1 year

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On May 10th 1850 Thomas Lipton, founder of the Lipton's grocery chain was born in Glasgow.

Before the big supermarkets took over we lhad ots of wee ones, every street had a Liptons, or a Galbraith even a Templetons!

Liptons was one of the originals started by a guy from Glasgow who built an empire and the tea brand still bares his name.

Born in a tenement flat in Crown Street, the Gorbals, Liptons parents were Irish and had left the Emerald Isle during the potato famine, the smallholding their family had farmed on for generations no longer viable they settled in Glasgow. 'Tommy' Lipton was educated at St. Andrew's Parish School close to Glasgow Green and by the time Tommy was 12 his parents had a shop in the street they lived selling ham, butter, and eggs. It was with the aim of supplementing his parents' limited income that Thomas Lipton left school at the age of thirteen and found employment as a printer's errand boy, and later as a shirtcutter. He also enrolled at a night school, the Gorbals Youth's School, during this period. He then found work as a cabin boy a steamer running between Glasgow and Belfast and was captivated by life aboard the ship and the stories told by sailors who had traveled to the US After being let go by the steamer company, Lipton quickly used the wages he had saved to purchase passage on a ship bound for the U.S., where he would spend five years working and traveling all over the country.

Back in Scotland on his 21st birthday, In 1871 Lipton opened his firstown shop at 101 Stobcross Street in Glasgow. In the heart of industrial Glasgow, full of smoke and fog, the shop was said to be so brightly lit that at night it became a beacon in the street. Goods were stacked in the American fashion, not for the convenience of the proprietors, but with the purpose of catching the customers’ attention. Lipton used another selling technique learned from his time in the States and from his Mother's shop.

When his parents had opened their small shop, Mrs. Lipton, rather than deal with middlemen at the markets, dealt directly with the farmers of her homeland. Lipton followed this example. He bought his bacon, eggs, butter and other produce directly from Irish farmers. The firm traded as a supermarket until 1982 when another group bought the shops that were to become Presto’s, the decision was made as they wanted to solely concentrate on the Tea business which it does to this day, in 2009 Lipton received a Corporate Green Globe Award for its work with the Rainforest Alliance.

As well as the tea and the shops but Lipton was also a keen sailor, he holds a place in the America’s Cup heart as being the most reliably consistent and deftly congenial loser. Five times he challenged for the Cup, five times being defeated. Despite his best laid plans and momentous effort to win the cup, the tea magnate simply didn’t cut the mustard. Nonetheless, he did have a penchant for beautiful boats. His last challenger, Shamrock V, never really stood a chance of winning the race but it did win marks for pure beauty. His well-publicised efforts to win the cup, which earned him a specially designed cup for “the best of all losers”, and also made his tea famous in the United States.

During the first world war Thomas Lipton helped organisations of medical volunteers. He placed his yachts at the disposal of the Red Cross, the Scottish Women's Hospitals Committee of Dr. Elsie Inglis, the Serbian Supporting Fund, etc., for the transport of medical volunteers (doctors and nurses) and medical supplies. Not content with just allowing his boats to be used he also took a keen interest in the work of Elsie Inglis and the womans hospital, visiting Serbia, where he insisted on humble lodgings and was renowned for his humility and modesty. .In addition to visiting many hospitals, where he encouraged doctors, nurses and soldiers, he found time to attend traditional fairs and to take a part in blackberry gathering and fishing. Sir Thomas Lipton was proclaimed an honorary citizen of the city of Niš.

Lipton even made the cover of Time magazine during 1924. He was knighted in 1901. Sir Thomas Lipton passed away on 2nd October 1931 in London and is buried alongside his parents and siblings in Glasgow's Southern Necropolis, his grave, like the man himself, a humble, simple understated affair, he bequeathed the majority of his fortune to his native city of Glasgow, including his yachting trophies, which are now on display at the Kelvingrove Gallery.

#scotland #scottish #grocer #tea merchant #sailor #philanthropist #glaswegian #history

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 month

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By: Kemi Badenoch

Published: Mar 20, 2024

In 2021, a manager at Lloyds bank took an internal EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) course, during which he asked how he should handle a situation where someone from an ethnic minority background uses a word that would be considered offensive if it was said by a white person.

Lloyds branded him a racist for quoting the “n-word” as part of his question, and he was dismissed for gross misconduct. He then took his former employer to a tribunal, won his claim for unfair dismissal, and was awarded £800,000 in compensation.

This is not an isolated incident. For several years now, I have read reports of employers misapplying equality law under the guise of EDI initiatives. Sometimes it is egregious gold plating as above.

Most employers mean well when they set about to improve diversity and inclusion. However, actions such as positive discrimination and quotas are unlawful, even if used to diversify an organisation. This Government believes that EDI policies should unite rather than alienate employees, and crucially uphold fairness and meritocracy.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of snake oil about. Just this week, a government minister found that the training materials for one of their departmental quangos included references to outmoded concepts like “unconscious bias”, and “white privilege”, and used a picture of someone holding up a placard saying “white silence costs lives”.

All of this bunkum was contained in mandatory training for 1,400 poor souls whose primary job is to help further the Government’s economic agenda.

Rooting out the rubbish

With the number of organisations out there – and the frequency of these incidents – it is unreasonable to expect government ministers to intervene every time this happens. And no one should assume that a future government’s ministers will be as vigilant as current ones are in rooting out rubbish.

That’s why last year the Government set up an independent Inclusion at Work Panel to address this issue in an evidence-led way. The panel was made up of private and public sector experts, and was advised by a leading professor at Harvard University.

We tasked the panel with looking at the latest research to understand how employers in Britain are applying EDI, and how we can help them improve their practice. Our goal was clear: diversity and inclusion should never put any individual or group at a disadvantage, and should never damage cohesion and morale in the workplace.

The panel has today published its final report. Much of it makes for concerning reading. The UK has seen an explosion of EDI roles in organisations. Studies found that the UK employs almost twice as many EDI workers per head than any other country. This same analysis estimates that EDI jobs in our public services are costing the taxpayer at least half a billion pounds a year.

Despite this, the new report shows that, while millions are being spent on these initiatives, many popular EDI practices – such as diversity training – have little to no tangible impact in increasing diversity or reducing prejudice.

In fact, many practices have not only been proven to be ineffective, they have also been counterproductive. Data from Employment Tribunal suggests that recent years have seen a notable uptick in cases brought using the Equality Act in comparison to the years 2013-17.

The report finds that, in some cases, employers are even inadvertently breaking the law under the guise of diversity and inclusion by censoring beliefs or discriminating against certain groups in favour of others.

What’s also concerning is how few employers are using evidence when making decisions. According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, only 1 in 4 business leaders say they consult data before coming up with new EDI initiatives. One in 4 say that their approach to EDI is reactive – for example, “in response to societal events like the Black Lives Matter protests”.

The panel found that organisations are crying out for better evidence on how they can practise diversity and inclusion in a way that widens their talent pool, while fostering belonging rather than division.

No group should be worse off

Sadly, even a prestigious and respected institution such as the RAF was recently found to have discriminated against white men in trying to improve diversity. No group should ever be worse off because of companies’ diversity policies – whether that be black women, or white men.

Performative gestures such as compulsory pronouns and rainbow lanyards are often a sign that organisations are struggling to demonstrate how they are being inclusive.

These clumsy diversity policies aren’t a substitute for rigorous, evidence-based measures that ensure everyone participates and thrives in the workplace.

As both Secretary of State for Business and Minister for Women and Equalities, I welcome the findings of this independent report. Over the next few weeks and months, the Government will consider seriously how we can best take forward its recommendations.

We will ensure that we do all we can to make sure that those entering or already in the workplace feel they will be treated fairly and according to merit.

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#Kemi Badenoch #DEI bureaucracy #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity #equity #inclusion #discrimination #racial discrimination #racism #diversity training #snake oil #DEI must die

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yano2519 · 2 years

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Interesting Guest Column at The HW Reporter

The 'Outlander' star and former model speaks out on a proposed state bill that would reform modeling agencies, creating, she says, "basic protections for fashion's creative workforce."

Long before I started acting, I spent almost 10 years working as a fashion model. I walked the runways of brands such as Victoria’s Secret and the fashion houses of Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Chanel and many others. But despite my success, I still experienced the detriments of working in a largely unregulated industry, like not getting paid on time, if at all. Everything changed when I became an actor, but it’s still the same grind in fashion — and worse.

On the surface, acting and modeling have a nearly identical business structure: Agencies book gigs on your behalf as talent. Why, then, do these two industries have totally different responsibilities to their creative workforces?

Well, for one thing, fashion is an industry largely made up of young women and girls. To many, the labor of models is not seen as “work” but rather the benefits of winning a genetic lottery. So, models are perceived as being privileged, with no talent or skill, and therefore unworthy of basic protections or even empathy. That’s contrasted with actors who are seen as talented — and even get an entire, widely televised awards season celebrating those talents — on top of the protections they enjoy from being part of a heavily unionized workforce.

But the real issue here is that many modeling agencies have created and benefited from a system in which they take zero responsibility for advancing a model’s career or financial interests, but yet they dictate terms for those models. That’s vastly different to the relationship I’ve experienced with my agency as an actor.

Unlike talent agencies, which are considered employment agencies, modeling agencies are instead classified as “management companies.” Many contracts hand over “power of attorney” to modeling agencies, allowing them to accept payments and negotiate pay rate on behalf of the model without her knowledge; deposit checks and deduct unexplained expenses on top of a hearty commission; force models and creatives to sign multi-year, exclusive contracts that auto-renew, without any obligation to book them jobs; and they even can give third parties permission to use a model’s image or collect royalties without having to pay the model for that usage.

And yet, modeling agencies have no fiduciary responsibility to the talent they represent. So, it’s common for agencies to negotiate low rates or even payment “in-trade,” i.e., in the form of clothing, while collecting overcharged rents from stuffing 10 girls into a two-bedroom apartment.

While I was lucky to be represented by some amazing agents when I modeled, I still experienced what in any other industry would be considered massive violations of my rights as a worker. While working in Milan, I amassed earnings of €240,000, but I never saw a dime of it. That’s because the financial backers behind the agency had allegedly siphoned off their models’ money to private bank accounts and the agency declared bankruptcy. Recovering those earnings would have required calling every single client I had worked for — including Miuccia Prada, Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, Angela Missoni and so on — and asking them to testify that they had hired me for my time. That clearly was not a winning strategy if I wanted to continue working. I was not the only model to lose money from this agency, nor did I even incur the largest loss. To my knowledge, no funds were ever retrieved.

After that, I knew I’d had enough. I did something models are told never to do: I told my agency that I refused to continue working for another brand who never paid on time until I received all the money I was owed. It took a year to get my earnings.

Shortly after that experience, I pursued my dream of acting. And suddenly, for the first time in my working life, I knew when my paycheck was coming and how much would be in it. There was finally a structure to when my day would start and end. And there were contracts, which I would have access to and my own lawyer could discuss with me. These were the dramatically simple changes I experienced when my career was in the hands of talent agencies who are obligated to act on behalf of their client’s interests.

Every worker deserves that level of financial transparency. Now, a new bill in New York could disrupt that power imbalance that’s ruled the $2.5 trillion fashion industry for decades.

The Fashion Workers Act, which the Model Alliance launched earlier this year, would close the legal loophole through which management companies escape regulation and engage in predatory behavior. It would create basic protections for fashion’s creative workforce by forcing companies and clients to do outlandish things such as pay talent within 45 days of completing a job, provide talent with copies of their contracts and agreements and conduct a reasonable inquiry into health and safety on the set they’re sending talent, to name a few.

Models are taught to take these injustices in stride: Be cool and don’t rock the boat. That doesn’t breed an environment for organizing. And it’s why New York lawmakers must act and pass the Fashion Workers Act and change the rules of the industry for good.

Caitriona Balfe is an actress, producer and former fashion model. Since 2014, she has starred as Claire Fraser on Starz’s historical drama Outlander, for which she has received five Golden Globe nominations. Most recently, she starred in Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast, for which she received SAG Award and BAFTA Award nominations. Balfe has also starred in such films as Ford v Ferrari, Money Monster, Now You See Me, Escape Plan and Super 8.

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brookspayroll · 4 months

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Recruitment service in Gurgaon

Gurgaon, India's millennial hotspot, pulsates with the energy of startups, MNCs, and ambitious individuals all vying for their piece of the pie. But in this dynamic landscape, finding the right talent can feel like scaling Mount Everest blindfolded. That's where Brooks, Gurgaon's premier recruitment service provider, steps in, acting as your sherpa to the talent summit.

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We leverage cutting-edge AI-powered platforms to streamline the recruitment process, but never lose sight of the human element. Our experienced team of consultants personally interacts with both candidates and clients, ensuring a personalized and effective experience for everyone involved.

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We understand that recruitment is not just about filling positions; it's about building long-term partnerships. We work closely with you to understand your company's growth trajectory and talent needs, providing ongoing support and strategic guidance to ensure a successful talent acquisition strategy.

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hanikurumsaldik · 1 year

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Hani Kurumsaldık; Employer Brand Academy tarafından düzenlenen Employer Brand Stars ödül töreninin medya sponsoru oldu!

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mi4011minadigajaweera · 1 year

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Craig McCracken - further research

His Career and Work

In 1993, Craig was recruited by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (now Cartoon Network Studios) to work as an art director on the series 2 Stupid Dogs, but as his first job in the animation industry, he was never really happy with how that show worked.

While McCracken was working at Hanna-Barbera, studio president Fred Seibert started a brand new project: an animation incubator with 48 brand new cartoons that are each about seven minutes long. What a Cartoon!, as it was known, inspired McCracken to continue working on his Whoopass Girls! idea from his work at CalArts. He recalled that the network could not market a show with the word "ass" in it, so two of his friends came up with name ‘The Powerpuff Girls’ as a substitute for the original title.

As a backstory note how it all started, in June 1991, McCracken was in his first year in the character animation program of CalArts and drew three girls with large eyes, visually inspired by the paintings of Margaret Keane on a small sheet of orange construction paper as a birthday card design for his brother.

His new work with a refined plot, "The Powerpuff Girls in: Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", premiered on February 20, 1995, on Cartoon Network's World Premiere Toons, along with its follow-up, "Crime 101", which aired on January 28, 1996. The first short to be picked up by the network was Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory, which McCracken contributed to in the early seasons.

The fourth cartoon to greenlit a full series was McCracken's Powerpuff Girls. It premiered as a short in 1995 and debuted on November 18, 1998 as full half-hour episodes that was aired until its final episode on March 25, 2005. The Powerpuff Girls aired on Cartoon Network for six seasons, three specials, and a feature film, with the final episode airing on March 25, 2005. A total of 78 episodes were aired in addition to two shorts, a Christmas special, the film, a tenth anniversary special, and a special episode using CGI technology. Various spin-off media include an anime, three CD soundtracks, a home video collection, comic books, a series of video games, a 2016 reboot series, and an upcoming second reboot, as well as various licensed merchandise.

The series has been nominated for six Emmy Awards, nine Annie Awards, and a Kids' Choice Award during its run.

In 2002, McCracken also directed The Powerpuff Girls Movie, a prequel to his series. Although the film received generally positive reviews, unfortunately it was a box office failure.

Leaving The Powerpuff Girls after four seasons, McCracken focused on his next project; Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. He created this series with his wife Lauren Faust and Mike Moon and it premiered on Cartoon Network with the 90-minute television special "House of Bloo's" on August 13, 2004. The show also won Emmy and Annie awards and ran for six seasons, all directed by McCracken, ending on May 3, 2009.

He became the executive producer of The Cartoonstitute; a brand-new Cartoon Network showcase project, in April 2008. He left Cartoon Network in 2009 after 17 years of employment when the network began to emphasize on live-action and reality shows. In August 2013, he created Wander Over Yonder for Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel. Following the cancellation of Wander Over Yonder, McCracken pitched Disney a new show based on his 2009 comic strip The Kid from Planet Earth. The concept was later dismissed by Disney, and in 2017 he finally departed the company. After presenting his idea to Netflix, Kid Cosmic was selected as the working title. On February 2, 2021, the show made its debut, and it aired till February 3, 2022.

It marks McCracken's return to the superhero genre after The Powerpuff Girls and the first of his original works to include a serialized style. He pitched Netflix with 10 proposals in August 2021, however due to Netflix Animation's huge layoffs, he eventually left in April 2022.

On July 18, 2022, it was revealed that McCracken will make two reboots at Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe of the Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

McCracken was also awarded the Winsor McCay Award in 2023 for his "unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation" at the Annie Awards ceremony.

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pilawturkey · 11 months

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Investment Opportunities in Turkey

Overall, this article aims at highlighting growing investment opportunities in Turkey. In doing so, this paper will also clarify the effort of Pi Legal Consultancy family to meet increasing enquiries made by foreign companies.

Does Turkey offer a resilient business environment to investors?

It is necessary to make a reference to several advantages of setting up a business in Turkey:

rapidly increasing young population,

growing value of currency rates,

and thus decreasing production and labor costs.

So far, Turkey has attracted the foreign direct investments around the globe. Particularly since the 2000s, total capital stock of Turkey has risen gradually.

Having said that fragmentation of regulatory framework and legal obligations focusing on investment impose reverse impact. Accordingly, it is critical to benefit from investment advice for a successful investment project in Turkey.

Do foreign investors have the same investment opportunities in Turkey as Turkish citizens?

Article 48 of the Turkish Constitution stipulates that everyone has the freedom to work and conclude contracts in the field of his/her choice and the establishment of private enterprises is free. Under Article 10 protecting the right to equality, there shall not be any limitations for foreign entrepreneurs in Turkey. Coupled with the provisions of the Constitution, Article 3 of the Foreign Direct Investment Law provides that foreign investors shall be subject to equal treatment with domestic investors.

What is the most critical city to invest in Turkey?

Definitely Ankara, the capital of Turkey, is one of the most important destinations for all ongoing and future investment projects. The basic reason is that Ankara hosts leading competent national authorities. The organization and the provision of proper assistance by public institutions is of great importance in managing investment programs. Ankara law firms have a particular role upon providing legal guidance to entrepreneurs.

What makes Istanbul different for investment opportunities in Turkey?

Undoubtedly, Istanbul is deemed as the most leading city in the facilitation of foreign investment projects. Hence, we should examine the special role of Istanbul city to manage and facilitate long-term business engagements. From the geographical point of view, it has the main connection between Black Sea and the Marmara Sea. Istanbul is also among one of the developed cities owing to its modern infrastructure, roads and communication lines.

What is the role of Istanbul city for foreign investors?

In the light of the foregoing, foreign investors prefer to establish their start-ups projects in Istanbul at first stage in terms of their Turkey projects. Therefore, Istanbul is such an appealing city to not only employers but also employees. Indeed, Istanbul hosts numerous alien citizens living or working. The idea behind this inspiration lies in the fact that Istanbul plays a critical role in better and proper management of any investment project with its geographic, strategic, demographic and cultural importance. Most foreign companies open their main headquarters, namely their central offices in Istanbul.

New Step from Pi Legal Consultancy Investment Working Group

Despite the negative impacts of global financial turmoil in Turkey, Pi Legal Consultancy continues to grow its operations step by step. After a detailed overview of our client profiles, our service quality, satisfying nature of our articles and papers together with our marketing and branding efforts, we have been recently chosen by the London-based Prestige Awards Group as the international law firm of 2022/2023. Accordingly, bearing in mind growing interest and requests by foreign investors, Pi Legal Consultancy, as a Turkish law firm, has newly opened up a workplace based in Istanbul. In this way, Pi Legal Consultancy family takes its fundamental role for investors among international law firms in Istanbul. It is also inspiring that Pi Legal Consultancy is deemed as one of the best law firms in Turkey by international organizations.

Pi Legal Consultancy Investment Advice Working Group, including investment advice team, develops strategies now more efficiently and more closely for entrepreneurs in the light of changing trends of the Turkish marketplace and investment laws and regulations in Istanbul.

Conclusion

In a nutshell, this article concentrates on analyzing the investment environment in Turkey. In doing so, this paper has also shed light on the significance of Istanbul’s role in designing the models of and the scope of foreign direct investments. Pi Legal Consultancy family is very glad to take an effective step by establishing a new office in Istanbul. Now Pi Legal Consultancy is more well prepared to offer legal and business guidance to entrepreneurs as an Istanbul law firm.

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kimbureh · 2 years

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Character History Sheet by Hirohiko Araki

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#in case anybody is interested #writing #he says he defines the character backstory before he does his first drawing #and has been doing so for 40+ years of his career #so here ya have it if you want to give a try #jojo's bizarre adventure #hirohiko araki #araki hirohiko

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nicklloydnow · 1 year

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“At its core, the Cizeta project was a cunning and daring exhibition that finds its roots within Lamborghini. Following Chrysler's purchase of Lamborghini in 1987, a strong portion of the Italian company's staff had bailed out. In fact, there were more of Lamborghini's original team members working upon the Cizeta V16T than there were on the Diablo project, which was being conceived at roughly the same time.

Cizeta's founder, Claudio Zampolli, had previously been a test driver and engineer for Lamborghini, and following the Chrysler buyout, had found himself in Los Angeles to create his own, world-class supercar. In essence, the Lamborghini brand had never utilized motorsport to sell their cars, instead relying on an overall sense of outrageous flamboyance and overall speed to attract buyers. Zampolli had utilized this same mindset with Cizeta, ultimately creating something far more extravagant and powerful than his former employer could offer to the public.

Adding further Lambo flair to the Cizeta was their utilization of Marcello Gandini, one of the greatest automotive designers of all time, who'd previously styled the Lamborghini Countach. His work is evident in the overall design of the Cizeta V16T, especially on the front end, which bears a strong resemblance to the Lamborghini Diablo. This is no accident, as Gandini had apparently hustled himself overseas to pen the design of both cars.

However, unlike the Diablo, or pretty much any car offered for sale during its run, the Cizeta offered something inherently distinctive; 16 cylinders of pure, unadulterated power. Its 6.0L V16 engine, mounted transversely, was the heart of the entire car and also the source of its name. That nameplate, originally dubbed the Cizeta-Moroder V16T, is a direct reference to Giorgio Moroder, the academy-award winning composer and "Father of Disco", who'd originally set up half of the financial backing to create the V16T.

In an interesting twist, none other than Sylvester Stallone was first offered the chance to finance the car, although the actor apparently backed down for unknown reasons. Moroder would also back down from this position, resulting in only one of the original Cizeta cars to bear his name.

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In terms of outright performance, the Cizeta V16T is rated at a staggering 540bhp (533 hp), which was absolutely insane in 1991, the first year the car was marketed. In comparison, the competing Lamborghini Diablo offered 492 bhp (485 hp), which honestly wasn't much less.

Nonetheless, the Diablo topped out at 180mph, whereas the V16T managed to pierce the 200mph barrier, which was highly novel for the early 1990s. Over at Ferrari, their Testarossa only managed to shell out 385 bhp (380 hp) for 1991, putting it well below the performance chart in comparison. Truthfully, the Cizeta V16T can be compared to virtually all supercars produced over the last 31 years without scrutiny, as this model still remains available to this day (although it seems that few have actually decided to pony up the cash to order one).

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At this very moment, if you've got the finances, you can head over to Cizeta's official website and place your order for a new V16T. The website itself looks a bit archaic, so it's unsure if anyone is still tending the light at the end of this tunnel, but the company was on record as late as 2018, saying they were still open for business. With an MSRP listed at $800,000, it would definitely be far more interesting than virtually any other new car for that price.”

#cizeta #lamborghini #giorgio moroder #moroder #disco #cars #super cars #sylvester stallone

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brian-in-finance · 2 years

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