MOSCOW, RUSSIA – The brainchild of an American ex-pat, living in Moscow, STAGE RUSSIA HD is bringing the best of classic and contemporary Russian theater to cinemas in cities across the U.S., beginning with the Vakhtangov Theatre’s sumptuous production of Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, and followed by the Moscow Art Theatre’s vision of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
2016 Data from Annual Kids Count Survey Shows Need to Stand Up For Students Greater Than Ever
Maine drops 5 places from last year to 17th in the overall rankings, 15th in education rankings
AUGUSTA, ME – Stand Up for Students, the campaign working to bring tax fairness and equal educational opportunity to all Maine students is urging Mainers to look at the latest figures for Maine in the annual Kids Count Data Book, released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Emojification of Communication
By Felicia Knight
“You know, sometimes you’ve typed a whole message and you realize at the end that you’re entirely lacking in emojification. So we provided the solution: When you tap on the emoji button, we’ll highlight all the emojifiable words there, and you can just tap, tap, tap, tap and emojify.”
Thus spake Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering, at last week’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Stand Up For Students Announces New PR Firm
Public relations for the Stand Up for Students campaign, a citizen initiative to increase public school funding by creating a 3 percent surtax on income above $200,000, has been taken over by the Knight Canney Group, the campaign announced Monday. The hiring of the PR firm, whose past clients include Angus King and Eliot Cutler, is a signal that the funding question on this November’s general election ballot will be the subject of an intense campaign.
The Future Is Software – This Week, Anyway
By Felicia Knight
This week Microsoft and Apple made it clear that software is the new hardware. For the time being.
Microsoft is buying the business-oriented social network LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash, and Apple is pivoting away from its slow-selling laptops, tablets, and smartphones to focus on improving its software.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called the purchase of LinkedIn key to the company’s corporate image building – a way to reinvent productivity and business processes. “How people find jobs, build skills, sell, market, and get work done and ultimately find success requires a connected professional world.”