Launch Haus Announces Fort Collins Start Up Week Headliner Futurist Gerd Leonhard Keynotes

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Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) February 10, 2014

Launch Haus LLC, a local venture catalyst firm along with its co-organizers Steve Hamaker and Kari Henley announces the first ever Fort Collins Startup Week May 20-25th.

Register at http://www.ftcstartupweek.co.

Gerd Leonhard, the well-known futurist and five-time author, will kickoff the 5 day event thats slated to unite the entrepreneurial community across the Front Range of Colorado while bringing in global entrepreneurial rock stars to the local scene.

Learn more at http://www.ftcstartupweek.co/keynote.

The event will explore and celebrate success from local leading companies, provide inspiring speakers, uncover real innovation and share game-changing ideas happening in the City, State and Nation.

The City of Fort Collins is pleased to participate in this event, which will help highlight many of the small businesses and entrepreneurs in our community and help them connect with resources, said SeonAh Kendall, the Citys Economic Policy and Project Manager, who works with businesses on retention and expansion.

This event is not only at the right time, following Boulder Startup Week May 12-16th, its in the right place according to the 2013 study by the Kauffman Foundation which named Fort Collins number 2 of its Top 10 Metro Areas for High-Tech Startup Density.

Fort Collins Start Up Week is slated to highlight everything entrepreneurial in Northern Colorado, from leading-edge tech to social innovation, maker labs to music, tasty hops to leaps in bioscience, and some of the coolest and quirkiest main street establishments anywhere in the country said Chris J Snook, Organizing Chair and Co-Founder of Launch Haus, LLC. Were blessed to have the week culminate with the unprecedented size and energy of the Blue Ocean Enterprise Challenge.

Fort Collins Startup Week tracks include: Capital Access, Design Thinking, Talent, Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, & Public Policy. Stay tuned as the panelists and session leaders reveal their content for the program.

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Beautygram: Alexander Wangs Future Boys

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Brooklyn smelled like bleach yesterday, at least within a one-mile radius of the Duggal Greenhouse or the Navy Yards, whichever was easier for your Uber driver to put into his GPS. Several models took a "quiet" moment (as quiet as Alexander Wang's backstage can be) and "relaxed" by sitting back and having their eyebrows bleached. The theme was weird, boyish futurism. As Diane Kendal for NARS Cosmetics explained, the makeup with its monotone face and slightest hint of NARS Matte Multiple as an eye contour (out in spring 2014 inAltai, Vientiane, or Cappadoce) was "futuristic, but still boyish for Alex. "Cries of "no, weirder. Guido [Palau] wants the hair to be weirder," were a constant refrain backstage.

Guido Palau, creative director for Redken, explained the "weird" hair this way: "Alex showed me his fashion illustrations and this hair was drawn on. I wanted it to look fake and unreal, so it has a weird boyishness kind of thing. He wanted it to feel pulled together in a simple way and not too normal." Makeup was put on the hairline to make it look completely monotone. Redken's Control Addict 28 and Shine Flash were both used to mold the hair into a stiff ponytail, with a severe rectangle front that was shaped to cut sharply across the forehead. In the finale, a select group of models, such as Candice Swanepoel and Anne V, stood on a rotating platform. Their hair was sprayed black on the top and left natural on the bottom. Nails were given a coat of Alexander Wang's favorite colors, Essie's cement-colored Sand Tropez, topped with a coat of Mademoiselle and a matte topcoat in Mad About You, for the slightest feminine kick. Welcome to tomorrowland beauty.

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Taiwan to raise press freedom in landmark China talks

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TAIPEI: Taiwan said on Monday it would raise the issue of press freedom with China at their first government-to-government talks since 1949, after media outlets were refused accreditation for this week's meeting.

The Mainland Affairs Council, which formulates the island's China policy, said its chairman Wang Yu-chi would "discuss issues related to equal exchanges of news information" when he meets Tuesday with his counterpart Zhang Zhijun, China's Taiwan Affairs Office chief.

"Press freedom is a universal value. We've repeatedly said that the most important thing regarding news exchange between the two sides is the free and equal flow of information," it said in a statement.

The talks in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu province, and a later visit to Shanghai, are the fruit of years of efforts to normalise relations and mark the first official contact between sitting governments since a split six decades ago.

Two million supporters of the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan -- officially known as Republic of China -- after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong's Communists in 1949. The island and the mainland have been governed separately ever since.

The mood surrounding the talks soured in Taiwan after Beijing refused to issue credentials to the Taipei-based Apple Daily and the US government-funded Radio Free Asia on the weekend.

China's decision also sparked rebukes from the Association of Taiwan Journalists (ATJ) and the affiliated International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) over what they described as an attack on journalists.

"Again this indicated that the Chinese government has gravely suppressed freedom of press," the ATJ said in a statement on Sunday.

The IFJ said it also called on the governments of Taiwan and China to sign an "Agreement to Ensure News Freedom" and to immediately refrain from using visas or permits as "instruments of censorship".

Apple Daily was founded by Hong Kong business tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of human rights standards in China, while Radio Free Asia was established to provide an alternative to state-run media for people living under repressive regimes.

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Call for action over oil spills

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The study found that while there is an inquiry following any big incident, after initial investigations there is not always an assessment of the long term effects on areas such as the eco-system and marine life.

The report The Impact Of Oil & Gas Drilling Accidents On EU Fisheries, also says lessons learned in the North Sea should be applied to the newer areas of oil and gas exploration such as the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the Baltic.

It urges the EU to liaise more closely with involved non-EU states to ensure those countries adopt the same stringent health and safety rules, response and compensation legislation as those that have been developed for the North Sea.

The study, presented to the Fisheries Committee in the European Parliament on January 23, was conducted by Dr David Green and Dr Cristina Gomez of the University of Aberdeen.

Dr Green said: "Our report concluded that more needs to be done to look into both the short- and long-term effects of these spills on fisheries, fish species and the ecosystem.

"After any big incident there is an inquiry and it is very much in the public eye, but after the initial investigations, we found that scientific studies do not always investigate the long-term effects of e.g. spills on the eco-system and on marine life.

"We know a lot about the short term - estimates of fish numbers affected etc. - but we know relatively little about the duration and effects of oil in the system? How far does it spread? How long does it persist? How toxic is the oil? And does the system clean itself over time? Most research often focuses only on the event at the time and then interest fades without the funds to carry on further research studies.

"We currently do not know enough about the spread and persistence of oil pollution and chemicals in the environment or on fisheries and we need to know more about where the oil ends up, how toxic it is, and how long it will affect different fish species. "

The report found that there has been an overall decline in the number of offshore oil and gas accidents since the industry's birth, as well as a decline in the impact these accidents have on the environment and fisheries.

It notes that historically, tanker spills were the cause of the majority of oil spills in European waters, but this has declined as the result of more oil being transported through pipes, and the improvement in tanker safety features and technology.

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