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Harkness Screens India: Introducing World Class Screen Technology

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Harkness Screens India: Introducing World Class Screen Technology
Having operated in India for over 15 years, Harkness Screens India is an integral part of the companies global presence. In this article, Harkness Screens employees Matt Jahans and Dan Hutchinson discuss their experiences in the country.

Harkness Screens has been operating in India for over 15 years, establishing its manufacturing unit in 2013. Based in Bangalore, Harkness Screens have recently completed orders of Protective Shields and Barriers for the Indian Navy, Ministry of Health, Bangalore Police and several local hospitals surrounding the factory with medical curtains, aprons and face shields.

At the heart of India’s IT heartland, Harkness Screens India is a market favourite in the country and is a major part of Harkness’ global footprint. Harkness has invested considerably into the facility, with key members of the Harkness Screens contributing to the establishment of the facility as a key contributor to the Group.

However, it hasn’t been all plain sailing for the India facility. In 2018, Dan Hutchinson, Operations Support Manager, was part of a team sent to Bangalore to educate and introduce new screen technology within the factory.

“We had identified that the factory was ready for the latest process upgrades,” Hutchinson said, “Rinosh Tom Raj came in and very quickly identified some of the requirements. We helped to identify the areas that needed a bit of extra support through the process. At the end of all that, we put together a continuous improvements plan and supported Rinosh for the next six months to get things where we now needed them to be.”

It wasn’t until the end of February in 2020 that Hutchinson and his team would return to Bangalore to see how effective the changes that had been implemented were. Carrying out pre-planned maintenance, Hutchinson was pleased with the improvements that had been made.

“We were able to put together improvements that meant the commercial team were able to go back to customers and spread the word that production across the board included all the latest technology.”  Hutchinson said, “Then to communicate to the rest of Harkness that the plant was now more advanced than before was extremely pleasing from a personal point of view.”

SVP Technology, Matt Jahans, was also part of that journey to Harkness Screens India earlier this year. Focussing on the development of customer relationships and the education of technical team members, Jahans, similarly to Hutchinson, found the journey extremely beneficial.

“It was a good opportunity to see how they work,” Jahans said, “To give them a bit of additional training on our product portfolio, company messaging and ensure that they are up to speed with what Harkness are doing as a brand globally. I was very impressed with what I saw as it is always good to see what is happening with the different Groups.

“I also took the opportunity to visit some key customer cinemas. I always find it really beneficial to be on the ground, seeing exhibitors in their own cinema, informing them about our technologies or seeing the technology in action and the smile on the exhibitors face. It helps us relay the message that they are supported, not just on a local level, but globally too.”

Jahans also did a series of technical roadshows whilst in India. Travelling to Chennai, Hyderbad, Mumbai and Bangalore, Jahans presented key technologies, along with several other Harkness employees, to customers and explained how they could enhance a viewing experience.

On May 1st, Jahans was promoted to SVP Technology, one of his key aims being the overseeing of the Technology Group. Bringing together over 40 years’ experience in the cinema technologies industry, one of the key aspects that the Technology Group will tackle is the reopening of cinemas once social distancing measures are lightened globally.

“In India, we had several guys doing presentations, explaining the portfolio of technologies that we have available and I think is a good example of what Harkness Screens is all about,” Jahans said, “We know, a screen isn’t just a screen. Anybody can make a screen, but it is making a good screen and how it works when using cinema technologies.

“Particularly now. We have a lot of customers asking about RGB laser projectors, different sound systems, different 3D systems, so there can be confusion and with the knowledge within the Technology Group, we can assist them.”

Matt Jahans is joined on the Technology Group by Nicolas Chiovini, Associate Director for Cinema Technology, and Cody Polla, Curolux Product Manager. Both have vast experience and the three together have some of the foremost knowledge in the cinema technology sector.

Mark Ashcroft, CEO Harkness Screens, is extremely pleased with the improvements that the Bangalore factory has made since 2018 after having been a key figure in the establishment of the facility in 2013, the year he joined the Group.

“India is a huge market for cinema, so naturally it is great to see that the facility we have there has turned a corner,” Ashcroft said, “Rinosh and Preetham Daniel (SVP Asia) are doing a fantastic job there, the facility is producing cinema screens to the highest specification and at the top end of the market.

“Not only that, we love being able to not only provide Indian jobs, but to be helping our local community in these uncertain times. Harkness Screens is a global brand and I look forward to being able to get back on the ground there in the future.”

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Make little things bother you. Don't just let them, MAKE them.

Lose your perspective on things and keep it lost:don't put first things first.

Get yourself a good worry, one about which youcannot do anything.

Be a perfectionist, which means not that you work hard to do your best, but that you condemn yourself and others for not achieving perfection.

Be right. Be always right. Be the only one who is always right, and be rigid in your rightness.

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I have a confession: I eat breakfast with The Cat in the Hat every morning. I send two of my kids off to school then sit down with my breakfast and two-year-old to watch The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! on PBS. The thing is, I’m know I’m not alone. I know quite a few other mothers who do the same thing.  The show is adorable with its silly rhymes and songs and I’ll admit I’ve even learned some new things.

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  1. When the laws were overturned in 1967 Virginia, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia’s laws banned marriage with all non-whites. Tennessee and North Carolina’s barred marriage with Blacks and Indians which of course were the only non-whites one was generally likely to encounter in one’s life assuming you didn’t leave the state

    The key there being “when the laws were overturned in 1967.”

    Both the anti-miscegenation laws and the color line evolved over the course of three hundred years. There wasn’t just one anti-miscegenation law in every Southern state. They were changed over the years and were passed at different points in time.

    Thus, you will see that the anti-miscegenation laws of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Florida, Delaware, and West Virginia only applied to African-Americans and did not apply to Indians. I think there is an error in the Wikipedia entry because I believe Mississippi did eventually pass an anti-miscegenation law that applied to “Mongoloids.”

    Virginia passed the Racial Integrity Act in 1924 (almost three hundred years after the frontier passed through Virginia) which criminalized intermarriage with Indians. This was due to the tireless efforts of Walter Plecker to classify “Indians” as African-Americans. Some “Indians” were really mulattoes claiming Indian ancestry to pass the color line.

    As far as this pertains to the Choctaw Indians, an Indian tribe from Mississippi and Alabama, intermarriage with them was never criminalized in the Old Southwest. That is why there are so many Choctaws like MacDonald King Ashton who are predominantly European in ancestry.

    In any case, the original point stands: White Southerners did not treat the Indians like they treated African-Americans. In every Southern state, intermarriage with African-Americans was criminalized, but this was not true of Indians.

  2. Here’s an essay on Georgia’s anti-miscegenation law which was stronger than those of other states prior to Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924:

    At the basis of anti-miscegenation laws lay the white-supremacist belief that white womanhood — a symbol of white purity and superiority — had to be protected from the innate lust of the black. Out of all the multitude factors of discrimination, miscegenation, and racial amalgamation, was the by far the one that instilled most fear and images of utter ruin in the minds of the whites. Georgia, and more specifically the greater Atlanta area including Fulton County and the Southern belt including Macon, Columbus, and Albany, encompassed this belief perhaps more than any other state (except for its bordering sister states that had similar racial paradigms). To fully delve into the impact that anti-miscegenation laws portended, and how they eventually ended and what changes they brought about, a closer look into their whole course must be chartered, specifically in the greater Atlanta area. When the Supreme Court ruled in 1967 in Loving vs. Virginia that all state anti-miscegenation statutes were void, the greater Atlanta area slumbered to its reality, and de facto acceptance of miscegenation was extremely painful and slow.

  3. I’m sorry Hunter but you are incorrect about Virginia’s original anti-miscegenation law from 1691.

    The relevant text of the statue reads:

    “Be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, that for the time to come, whatsoever English or other white man or woman being free shall intermarry with a negroe, mulatto, or Indian man or woman bond or free shall within three months after such marriage be banished and removed from this dominion forever, …”

    That is 1691 and is most definitely not after the frontier. That is the first anti-miscegenation law. The one that was copied by Massachusetts almost word for word and enacted in 1705 which also banned intermarriage with Indians there.

    It had been illegal to marry an Indian under Virginia law for 52 years before the birth of Thomas Jefferson and it would remain illegal under Virginia law for 141 years after his death.

    The racial integrity act of 1924 enacted the one drop rule and strengthened the law to cover all non-whites. Indians had always been illegal since 1691 though.

    North Carolina banned marriage with Indians and Negros in 1715.

    You say it proves “The South” didn’t treat Indians like blacks. What it really proves is the new states watered down the statutes of the original South.

    Glory to the Old Dominion. Glory to the Old North State.

  4. The key there being 1691: 83 years after the founding of Jamestown colony.

    The same website shows how both the anti-miscegenation laws and the color line and relations with the Indians evolved in Virginia over the course of the seventeenth century. The first anti-miscegenation laws were passed in the early 1660s in Virginia and Maryland and applied to negroes. Virginia spent much of the 1600s practicing white slavery with indentured servants and trying to Christianize the Indians.

    “The Racial Integrity Act was subject to the Pocahontas exception. Since many influential Virginia families claimed descent from Pocahontas, the legislature declared that a person could be considered white with as much as one-sixteenth Indian ancestry.”

    Thomas Jefferson is the best example of the how racial attitudes varied in the South toward Indians. This comes from Winthrop Jordan’s White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward The Negro, 1550-1812:

    “Nowhere was Jefferson’s efforts to Americanize the Indian more apparent than in his reiterated hope for cultural and physical amalgamation of Indians with white Americans. Together they formed one nation: “We, like you,” he once addressed an Indian chief, “are Americans, born in the same land, and having the same interests.” His purchase of Louisiana raised the possibility of encouraging the Indians to remove beyond the Mississippi, but he preferred that they be encouraged to give up hunting and farming and cede the resultant surplus of land to the United States. “In truth,” he wrote, “the ultimate point of rest and happiness for them is to let our settlements and theirs meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people.” This would “best promote the interests of the Indians and ourselves, and finally consolidate our whole country to one nation only.” Ten years later in 1813 he wrote regretfully that war had now intervened: “They would have mixed their blood with ours, and been amalgamated and identified with us within no distant period of time.”

    Amalgamation and identification, welcomed with the Indian, were precisely what Jefferson most abhorred with the Negro. The Indian was a brother, the Negro a leper. White Americans had always regarded the two peoples as very different, Jefferson underlined the dichotomy with a determined emphasis not matched by other men. His derogation of the Negro revealed the latent possibilities inherent in an accumulated popular tradition of Negro inferiority; it constituted, for all its qualifications, the most intense, extensive, and extreme formulation of anti-Negro “thought” offered by any American in the thirty years after the Revolution.”

  5. The ultimate example of the romanticization of the Indian was James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans.

    I’ve always found it amusing how the Indians were often honored and respected (think of the Apache helicopter or Tomahawk missiles or the Florida State Seminoles or the Atlanta Braves or the Washington Redskins or the North Dakota Fighting Sioux) while the Negro was never romanticized except at great distance.

    The Indian was always contrasted with the Negro. He was a “savage,” a product of his uncivilized wilderness environment, whereas the Negro was thought to be racially inferior. This shows that popular racial stereotypes were a product of experience and observation and were almost always based upon truth.

    Indians were often considered an honorable opponent. Their savagery was often compared to Germanic barbarians fighting against the Roman Empire. The Negro didn’t have honor. Even when they lived in cities and practiced iron working, they were still considered inferior.

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Naso the day started, very ordinary, very plain like this, but I was starting it exhausted. I worked the night shift the night before, and it was my first night shift in a long while. So I knew my own and Gee's shakara no go plenty. I was tired. It was going to be a dull Sunday.

     I sha put Gee in a jogger suit and threw on myself a very reliable, always cute top, pair of semi cute pants, boots and shala shala ✨ we're dressed and off to church we went. I managed to be half awake through the day and finally, I arrived... My dear, this is the arrival of the tea

     I went to a baby shower and tired me was debating like 50/50 do I want to be jolly and be a happy friendly Ola or do I want to just show face and go back to my bed. Well, I decided on a 50/50 of my two choices. I stayed for just an hour, had a few bites, opened up and was very friendly. It was a bit of an awkward event for me because I only knew a handful of people there. It was an event for my mom, but she was on weekend duty and couldn't make it. So I went instead of her.

     There I was being friendly, trying to eat small small and dancing in my seat. I only had like 15 left of my 1 hour, and then she walked in.
It was one of those Aunty's, you know?! The kind that if you don't greet, it is hell. If you do greet them, it is still hell! I sat very close to the entrance and even tried to greet her from a distance, but as life goes, she didn't see me.

I used 5 minutes more and figured I'd say hello and goodbye on my way out. 🤦🏾♀ Mistake. And this is how our convo went:

Me: Good Evening Ma
Aunty: *long blank stare* Good Evening darling
Me: thinking maybe she doesn't recognize me, It's me ma, Ola
Aunty: now very lively, Ehn I know it is you! I'm just looking at how big you have gotten! What are you going to do about this your weight?! You are big again!
Me: Trying to play off this display of ignorance  Yes, I've lost weight and I've gained it again, but I'm doing great. As I gracefully try to walk away...
Aunty: Ehnnn!! How is your son? I'm sure he's a big guy now! Where is he?
Me: Yes! Yes, he is he's doing great! He's great with my dad. And before I could inhale...
Aunty: Ehhn Ehhhnnnn!!! Where's his dad? You remember I was at your introduction? Why are you here by yourself? Why do you go out without your husband? How is his mom?
Me: Ma'aaaammm!!!!!! Obviously, you did not get the memo! I am very Single right now! Can I walk away in peace? Why are you bombarding me?!
Me: Ehem, yea he traveled. Alright, I'll see you la......
Aunty: Buh still now, why are you out at night, by yourself? And try and package yourself so other men won't look. And how is school? I'm sure after the baby you never went bah

Me: Nawl bruh, you not gone discredit all my hard work and sweat bruh. It's my turn to do the interrupting!! The ack of the back never made it passed her lips before I started fiercely, loudly, and with a smile! I'm doing GREAT in school! Me ke?! I went back ohh! I did great then, I'm doing great now, and the future will be even better!!!
Aunty: Smiling, shouting, and jumping Aaayyyyyeeeee!!!!!!! That's my girl!!
Me: Yes now! I will soon be inviting you to my graduation!

Now yall know, I was lying. She can't get a ticket. Even if I had a million! I'mma run out when it gets to her.

     I walked away from that convo confused with laughter. Ma'am...? Ma'am?! MA'AM?! Did you really?! Is a married woman not to leave the house without her husband?! Ma'am, did you see a ring on my finger? You ain't put two and two together, or you just want to hear it from the horse's mouth? Because I'm confused? I'm not as hurt by the emotional trauma and the fact that I was actually engaged and it not being a figment of my imagination. All that is for therapy. Right then, the issue was her!

     Why couldn't my son be with his grandfather? What made you question that?! What is wrong with him visiting his grandparentals? Or would you just like to show your yansh?!

     Why was my weight such a big deal to this woman? The last time she saw me, I literally had my baby 8 days prior and I surely am not the same weight as then. I am also carrying more bakasi (back side, junk in the trunk, boo-tay)!!
I mean, I know I didn't walk in the door looking one hunnit, but I was iight! Or was her comment that I was too fine? Was my girlies bouncing too nicely? LBVS like whaaa?? whhhaaaatt??? Well Ma'am, I have gained the weight I lost in preparation for my trip to the Bahamas, buh lissen hurr! Lemme tell you how goood I feel! I mean, I am fat fat and happy happy!!
If I did anything in 2018, which I did do a lot, one thing I did well is learn how to love myself. I can't tell you how sexy I feel!
I'm aware of the extra pounds, but NOW! But Now, I love myself every step of the way. Fat fat Ola is sexy, fat Ola is sexy, and thick Ola is sexy lol I doubt there will ever be a skinny Ola but hey, she goin' get love too!!  And any aunty, or fella, or sis, or woman or any gat dang body, yall can deal with it! Because my happiness is to expensive to be without! I is single. I is fat. and I is happy.

Buh fr fr, have you seen my insta? Yewl see the happy and the fat look good together 😉

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Móðguðr stood towering over the River Gjöll. Her mighty giant’s frame, rippling with muscle, was barely contained under the scarred and weathered skin. She looked as any jötnar might. However, rather than be clad in the simple leather armours and armed with barbaric weapons, Móðguðr was adorned in fine chain and plate armour, with a shield of the strongest oak and a longsword with a fearsome bite. In the wind, the pleats of her jet black hair floated gently and snow swirled around her face. But she was un-phased and kept her eye trained along the length of the river.

A Man was approached from downhill, walking along the banks of the great frozen river. From where he had left the other giant down many leagues away, the river had been soft and quiet. Not a sound could be heard from the frozen waves. But now, as he must be reaching the source of the river, the sounds had become louder and louder. The torrent seemed to rage unending, trapped forever in its frozen prison.

He looked to Móðguðr. She was proud and tall, keeping vigilant watch over the Gjallarbrú. The Gjallarbrú spanned the wide and formidable river, might arches stepping through the frozen waters. A roof thatched from gold strands covered the walk way along the length of the bridge.

‘The dead may not pass,’ said Móðguðr, strong and proud in her voice. ‘Turn back, draugr, or feel my blade through what skin you have.’

‘What good would a blade be against the dead?’ asked A Man, coming to stand before the legs of the giant.

‘The dead are saved from the ultimate death of oblivion here in this after-life. Even those who are deemed to go to Hel want to be kept from the nothingness I will send you to.’

A Man glanced to Móðguðr’s sword. It was as long as he was tall and forged from mythril so heavenly that the gods would be in awe. It wore chips and tarnish along its length like badges of honour.

‘I met a giant some way down the path,’ said A Man, although when he turned to look from where he had come he saw just an endless tundra. ‘He said you might answer some questions I had?’

‘You spoke with Þmyr?’ said Móðguðr, ‘What say he?’

‘He said that this was the way across.’

‘There is no way across.’

The jötunn and A Man stood and met eyes, her large jewel-like gaze falling down with disdain onto A Man’s frozen ice stare. She looked him up and down, looking into his soul and searching his face.

‘I do not recognise you,’ said Móðguðr, ‘How did you come to stand upon the grounds of the dead?’

‘Perhaps you forgot a face in a river of but a million dead that cross into this land.’

‘No,’ said Móðguðr firmly, ‘I would remember each face that passes by. Especially more now. The Ragnarök broke the ways through which the dead crossed over here. Only a few lucky souls have found themselves crossing my bridge. And you were not one of them.’

‘What happens to the dead if they cannot make their way here?’

‘They are lost,’ said Móðguðr, now losing her patience, ‘And you will be too if you do not tell me who you are and where you are from.’

‘I am a bard,’ said A Man, although the words were a surprise in his mouth. How did they come to be there? Why would he be a… bard? ‘But I have no name. I am just A Man.’

‘You were not dead when you arrived here, where you?’ said Móðguðr, ‘The death clings to you like a sickness - like some foul disease which you caught. I can see it on your skin. The death of a draugr and the life of… A Man.’

‘I think I fell,’ said A Man, a sudden flood of thoughts coming to him, thoughts which he could never remember thinking before, ‘I fell through a gaping maw, in a battle against death. A battle against death itself. Crossed swords with Hel back to back with men whom I have since forgotten.’

‘You are a lost creature,’ said Móðguðr, almost mournful, ‘This land will take the life of the living. It will try to correct the mistake of you being here. It will do it the only way it can.’

‘How do you live here then?’

‘I was born into the spring of Hvergelmir from which this river flows. It is the source from which all rivers, and thus all life, flows. My blood is the waters of the world and I cannot die.’

‘You cannot die?’

‘Words that many dead men have spoken. My soul will never part into the afterlife, and this land knows it cannot claim me. But I am like all creatures, and I can be cursed into the void of oblivion.’

‘Death beyond death,’ said A Man softly, ‘Hel’s hearth is cold but oblivion’s is unlit.’

Móðguðr smiled, the first she had done so. ‘So you are a bard after all. Come, I will light us a fire before you journey on.’

‘Journey on?’ asked A Man, confused.

‘To Hvergelmir. The waters there cleanse the darkest souls, and then perhaps you can cross.’ Móðguðr drew her sword, and a mighty flame leapt along its shaft. She placed it upon a pile of kindling, a bonfire to A Man. For the first time since he could last remember, A Man felt true warmth in his body. For a moment, he remembered he was more than just A Man.

‘Do you often entertain the dead?’ asked A Man, feeling himself pulled ever closer to the warmth of the bonfire.

‘No,’ said Móðguðr as she sat down beside the flames, loosening her breastplate, ‘But neither do I have the ever entertain the living. But you are neither.’

‘I fear I have nothing to offer my host,’ said A Man, starting to feel himself breaking from his shell.

‘You are a bard? Surely you have a song to sing, and a flute to play?’

‘A flute?’ said A Man. He dropped his satchel and dug his hand into a pocket he had not known was even there. A flute found its way into the palm of his hand. He brought the carved metal mouthpiece to his lips and began to play a soft tune. The river seemed to silence, the land hearing music for the first time. A Man saw Móðguðr smile as she brought out a barrel of mead from the stores around her camp. Her eyes seemed to glitter in the firelight.

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If you have questions after reading the Program Outline, Business FAQ and Customer FAQ, please contact Kristina at the Ord Area Chamber and Valley County Economic Development office at (308) 728-7875.

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Balsamic Roasted Brussels Sprouts

For spring break last week, we took a family vacation to Colorado to do a little skiing.  And ski we did! What I didn’t expect was what wonderful food we’d eat in Vail.  Wow!  The… Read more »

March 29, 2012 | Sides

Creamy Lemon Tortellini

March 27, 2012 | Main Dishes

BBQ Grilled Chicken

I don’t know about you, but spring weather makes me want to grill (and sneeze)! This is my go-to grilled chicken recipe because 1) it’s super easy and 2) the kids absolutely love it. I… Read more »

March 14, 2012 | Main Dishes

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

We liked this cake because it’s not too sweet, but sweet enough.  It got even better the next day.  It’s also super easy since you bake it in a 8 inch pan…no layers to frost. … Read more »

March 11, 2012 | Desserts

Rosemary Lemon Vanilla Home Scent

  You know that wonderful smell when you walk into Williams Sonoma?  I like to recreate it at home with this simple recipe.

March 9, 2012 | Miscellaneous

Veggie Lettuce Wraps

I’ll tell you the truth: my kids didn’t like this dish.  I cooked in secrecy, hoping to hide the tofu.  Didn’t work.  The kids flat out spit it out.  John and I, however, really liked… Read more »

March 9, 2012 | Main Dishes, Sandwiches

Slow Cooker Chicken Burrito Bowl

It’s like a burrito without the tortilla.  Make it Chipotle style and you’ll love it. Alternately, you could make this same recipe into tacos, burritos, or quesadillas..

March 8, 2012 | Main Dishes

Balsamic Chicken with Mozzarella and Pesto

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I am an “Outsourcing Professional”: Violeta Roșu

With an experience of over 9 years in Customer Service and leading large call center teams, we strongly recomand Violeta Roșu, Managing Partner Blue Point Call Center as a true Outsourcing professional!

Violeta accepted Outsourcing Advisors invitation to give us her perspective on Outsourcing Industry.

  1. You are familiar with the Romanian service industry since 2003, how do you see customer expectations evolution since 2003 till present?

The Romanian service industry has come a long way from 2003 and customer expectations have evolved accordingly.

Initially, Romania emerged as an outsourcing destination on the European map for its low cost profile and for its proximity to the main European business centres. A few years down the road and one major economic crisis later, these key reasons kept their validity allowing established companies and major corporations to consider Romania for their inbound and outbound needs.

Moreover, customer expectations have evolved in a positive way along the years thanks to the existing potential in human resources, which permitted Romania to launch on the market high skilled professionals in technical fields and a large number of individuals competent in foreign languages.

Constant communication with the European space continues to influence the local work environment and I am proud to be part of the current service industry that manages to deliver better customer support with respect to the latest demands for quality in the market.

  1. You are a leader of one of the local call centers who managed to pass successfully the economic crisis interval when many call centers just disappeared from local map. Which are the secrets of your leadership success?

It is true the past economic crisis left its mark on the local economy and the entire service industry has been affected to a certain degree.

Though our company preserved its momentum and continued to grow over the years, I must admit that we were ready to consider new strategies in order to adapt to the latest changes in the market.

Do we have a secret for our leadership success?

To be honest with you, I don’t know if we have a secret, but we do have over 300 people working in Blue Point for more than 30 different clients. So, if I have to name a secret for our leadership success, that is our need to set an example and place the individual in the centre of our activity, no matter we talk about an employee or about one of our clients’ customers.

  1. As a leader of a call center business, motivating employees is a critical success factor – could you give us some example from your practice? How do you motivate your direct reports?

It is a very good question and I am glad I have the chance to answer it. As I replied in the previous question, our leadership model is to place the individual at the centre of our activity and provide trust and support.

To clarify things a bit, I have to say that though it’s important to provide your employees with professional trainings and fun team building events, we do not stop there. To keep people within your company, you have to involve people in your everyday activities and offer possibilities for development.

We have to remember that managing a call center means to be surrounded by young people, who are interested in social interaction activities, learning new skills and engaging in new work experiences.

Most of the time, our company becomes their first job opening and we are aware of this challenge.

  1. What differentiates Blue Point from other similar call center businesses, active in Romania?

Our company has become active in 2007 in the service industry and from that moment on, we did our best to be different from our competitors by employing a bespoke approach to every client that needed our services.

To keep our edge in the market, we deploy efforts to understand our clients’ philosophy and align their interests with our own. After a few years in the industry, we have come to be recognized by some of our clients as a separate department in their companies and treated accordingly.

For that reason, we continue to work with our clients and we are delighted to be considered as trustful partners.

  1. Which is your vision about Blue Point evolution for the next 3 years?

We are obviously interested to evolve in the following years and add more clients to our portfolio, which in return will allow us to recruit more candidates for the new created positions.

Nevertheless, we are interested not only in growing inside the service industry, but reach out to new areas and fields of interest offered by the flourishing IT industry in Romania.

We must not forget that Romania produces some of the highest numbers of IT professionals in the European Union and we work to implement new departments of research inside our company where their skills could be used with success.

  1. Dealing with customers it is not always easy, could you share with us top 3 challenges in interacting with your call center customers?

First of all, I have to say that working with people is not easy and I do believe that you require a high degree of flexibility and empathy in order to develop a strong long term relationship with a client.

We need to remember that every new client brings along new customers, and these customers come with different needs. Therefore, keeping your mind open to new challenges is a necessary condition in our field of activity.

However, if I have to specify 3 top challenges our company encountered along the years, I would name the following:

  • hiring a large new team for a new project in a very short period of time;
  • hiring new people with rare foreign languages skills;
  • implementing the door to door way of selling, a new service that we just launched.
  1. Could you share some of the key projects implemented for improving customer service, in your business?

We have more than 9 years of experience in this field of activity and along the years we have developed multiple methods and strategies to respond to our clients’ demands.

Though we don’t want to disclose the key projects that enhanced our customer service level, we are able to mention our continuous drive to maintain a pro-active attitude towards our clients’ businesses so that we may find the best ways to deliver more than the required support services.

For instance, to optimize a business, we noticed that it is possible for our people to cover administrative tasks too in order to allow the client focus on the most important parts of the business, like promotion, marketing and sales.

Additionally, since we are dealing with a high number of businesses from many industries, our level of expertise increased and we are now able to come up with a set of recommendations for clients that require our assistance.

  1. How the future sounds for Violeta Rosu?

The future sounds great!

I am very excited to grow along Blue Point and, together with my associates, we are quite thrilled to take Blue Point to the next level.

At the same time, I trust Romania will improve its economic background and with so many talented professionals out there, I am certain the local market has not revealed its full potential for the players in the service industry.

Though the future may still deliver some unexpected surprises, I am determined to continue my work to create stable business relationships and deliver the best services for our clients and partners.

  1. How do you balance professional with personal life?

I must confess that keeping the right balance between professional and personal life is not an easy thing to do. Many times, I have to say, these two areas of life collide and it’s hard to say where one ends and the other begins.

But, I guess I’m not the only one who deals with this challenge and I believe that if you are passionate about what you do, the two areas of life should not be separate.

Finally, I have to say it: I love what I do! I love working with people for people, helping my colleagues grow and knowing our help is appreciated by our clients.

  1. Which are your current hobbies?

One of my favourite hobbies is photography.

I love taking long walks in the park or into the mountains to catch a glimpse of life or discover the beautiful landscapes for which Romania is famous. For me, photography is also a way to relax and unwind, forget about work for a while and simply have fun in a natural environment.

  1. What book do you read these days?

I recently read “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, by Daniel H. Pink.

I found it quite interesting due to its insights into the human psychology and the way individuals connect their personal lives to their work experiences. Apparently, it is not a bad idea to empower your employees and give them a sense of accomplishment and progress.

I strongly recommend this book to people trying to achieve a better work-life balance.

  1. You participated recently at Romanian Outsourcing Summit, do you have any advice, suggestion for the Romanian Outsourcing Community?

I was happy to participate in the Romanian Outsourcing Summit and be part of a great community of professionals and experts in the field.

I agree with the ideas that were discussed there and I strongly believe that we need to take advantage of the present growth in the Romanian IT world. Additionally, we need to continue building better businesses, improve the overall market environment and impose our point of view in the larger European context of the IT industry.

Determined, proactive and hardworking – Violeta Roșu is a Senior Romanian Outsourcing Professional!

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Pau is situated on the plains just below the mountains in the far northeast part of Catalonia and Spain. On the peninsula and national park of Cap de Creus  the Pyrenees steeps into the Mediterranean Sea. The plain below is an old wetland and today a national park with a rich bird life. The area has been inhabited since ancient times and there are several ancient ruins from 10000 BC and onwards. In Pau there are some bars and restaurants within walking distance of Paó Blau.

The coasts of Costa Brava offers both long sandy beaches and bold rock formations. You can practice a variety of mountain and beach activities such as mountain hiking, biking, sky diving and windsurfing. There are also several golf courses in the area.

In the mountains, there are both short and long hiking trails. Go straight from the house for an hour up to Creu Blanca, a memorial built 400 meters above sea level  in the 15th century . From Creu Blanca you will have a wonderful view over the countryside and the sea. Or start your trekking all the way to the Campostella di Santiago, one of the world’s most famous religious routes.

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Sep 29, 2012

(you) set me on fire

(you) set me on fire (CAN, US, INT)

Written by: Mariko Tamaki

Published by:  Penguin Canada

Published on: September 4. 20120

Ages: Young Adult +

Allison Lee is a smart, funny, generous, and loyal and teenager. She just doesn't know it yet. We learn all those things about her as she goes through her first year away at college in a dorm.

Her time in high school wasn't great. Her only friend turned love interest had public second thoughts after leading Allison on. She's been burned in not one, but two fires. Allison has a lot of things go wrong when her emotions are heightened.

She decides to make a fresh start in college and makes some different choices than her high school persona would have. But like the scars on her neck, the person Allison has always been and her experiences are still with her. When her new friendship becomes increasingly toxic Allison is too afraid of both being alone and having history repeat itself to stand up for herself. Until she decides to fight fire with fire.

My previous experience with Canadian writer Tamaki was in Emiko Superstar, which changed my opinion on graphic novels. Tamaki is excellent at capturing the awkwardness of teens who are choosing their paths. Both Emiko and Allison are trying to find their place in the world, and unsure of how much to give of themselves and how much to learn from and mould to the world around them. The best thing is that although they both make mistakes, there is hope at the end that their new choices will lead to happiness (and not toxicity!).

I'm glad that Tamaki is stretching out from gaphic novels to print novels, just because more words and details from her is always good!

This is the fifteenth book I have reviewed for the Sixth Canadian Book Challenge.

Sep 26, 2012

What Are You Reading? Wednesday

What's open on your nightstand this week?

I am on the latest book Louse Penny's Inspector Gamache series, The Beautiful Mystery. So addictive. Other mystery series I have read have been great at the beginning and then a little formulaic. But this series keeps getting better and better. The last two books have been amazing, and I hope this one lives up to it. It kind of reminds me of Ken Follett's World Without End, since it is about the intricacies of monastic life.

Spinky has got out Shark Vs. Train. Such a favourite!

Tell me what words are moving you this week!

Sep 24, 2012

It's Our Nature

It's Our Nature (CAN, JP, US, INT)

Written by: Rebeca Orozco

Illustrated by: Menena Cottin

Published by: Tundra Books

Published on: September 25, 2012

Provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Animals exhibit social behaviours similar to humans in this beautiful modern picture book.

Children who are just learning themselves about such values as altruism, generosity, and solidarity will enjoy learning about how certain animals put these values into action. Orozco has chosen facts about animals that are fascinating for kids and adults, and a variety of animals in many types of habitats.

If you were going to choose an animal to show the concept of trust, which one would you choose? Orozco chose the crocodile! This was definitely the showstopper for my son and his friends, who love the idea of a big scary crocodile's mouth being a warm retreat for baby crocodiles. My daughter really enjoyed the story of the elephant and how the other young elephants babysit the littlest ones. I was interested in the flamingo daycare and how wildebeests accept zebra integration to protect them from predators on the savanna.

The art is a true highlight. Any one of these minimalist illustrations would be a fantastic choice for nursery art, with the chevron-like ocean and dolphin mother-and-baby illustration standing out as the best of a great collection.

This is an amazing resource for those wanting to understand what feelings people have in common with others in the animal kingdom. Children are left with the idea that people too are part of the same animal kingdom and can live in harmony with those animals.

This review is for Nonfiction Monday, hosted this week by A Teaching Life.

Sep 22, 2012

Without You

Without You (CAN, JP, US, INT)

Written and Illustrated by: Geneviève Côté

Published by: Kids Can Press

Published: February 2012

Ages: 3+

This is the next picture book nominee for the 2012 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards. See the others here.

The adorable Rabbit and Pig from 2009's Me and You are back in a brand-new adventure. In the first book these two forged a lasting friendship.

Now, however, Rabbit and Pig are on the outs. They have found that they like to do some things on their own. Does this spell the end of a beautiful friendship?

Fortunately, no! Rabbit and Pig are able to bond over an activity that they love to do together, reading books.

Côté’s ability to capture the true nature of children's friendships is what stood out in Me and You and this has carried over to this book as well. It works equally well for siblings too! Her illustrations are adorable and very appealing to kids.

The best thing is the easy vocabulary and rhythm makes this a great book for a new reader to puzzle out. How could anyone resist these two friends?

This is the fourteenth book I have reviewed for the Sixth Canadian Book Challenge.

Sep 19, 2012

What are you reading? Wednesday

What's open on your nightstand this week?

I am still reading Louse Penny's Inspector Gamache series. I started last week and am now starting the fifth in the series, The Brutal Telling. I am really enjoying them. But I keep having to take breaks to look up poetry, some by real people and some not. My John Donne knowledge is getting a workout too. I would love to be a parent like Inspector Gamache who takes his kids for walks and spouts famous poetry. I have to memorize some first!

Spinky is trying hard to read Froggy Plays Soccer. It's a little above his level and has made-up words which is hard. But he likes to chant "Head it, knee it, but don't use your hands!" Domba chants along with him.

What are you reading in your neck of the woods?

Sep 16, 2012

Picture a Tree

Picture a Tree (CAN, JP, US)

Written and Illustrated by: Barbara Reid

Published by: North Winds Press

Published on: September 1, 2011

Ages:  3+

The next picture book nominee for the 2012 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards that I am reviewing is from Canadian picture book legend Barbara Reid.

Barbara Reid has a long history of Canadian picture book successes. Every Canadian picture book bestsellers list I have seen at Quill & Quire has included at least one of her books. Read Me a Book is a personal favourite.

The reason Barbara Reid is so loved is because her Plasticine illustrations are so unique and inviting. The textures her plasticine scenes provide add extra dimensions to every single one of her books and this one is no different.

 A tree seems like a simple thing, and it's one of the first things kids learn to draw. But the trees Reid portrays are more than just a green and brown thing off by itself. She gives us so many different perspectives on trees. These trees are habitats, community members, shades, and mimics of humans.

This is the kind of book that is perfect for the new core curriculum standards. It introduces nature, seasons, a child's place in the world and their neighbourhoods, and new ideas about art. We all really enjoyed all the details.

Check out this great trailer for the book.

This is the thirteenth book I have reviewed for the Sixth Canadian Book Challenge.

Sep 12, 2012

What are you reading? Wednesday

What are you reading this fine autumn Wednesday?

I am finally getting around to reading Louse Penny's Inspector Gamache series. I just read the first one, Still Life. I loved it. It's set in a typical English southern Quebec. ;) I love the townspeople, Three Pines reminds me of Stars Hollow (Gilmore Girls), places I would love to live if they existed!

I've just started the second, A Fatal Grace, and I'm still enjoying it just as much. I heard the latest book has turned up at #2 on the NYT fiction book list! How amazing, not many Canadians have done that!

My son got an autumn nature guide from school and we are having fun going through it. I don't know half the flower and bug words in English so it's an education for me too!

What are you and your family reading this week?

Sep 11, 2012

I'm Bored

I'm Bored (CAN, JP, US, INT)

Written by: Michael Ian Black

Illustrated by: Debbie Ridpath Ohi

Published by: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Published on: September 4, 2012

Ages: 4+

When I reviewed the 3/11 tribute book Tomo in March, the short story that immediately stood out to me for uniqueness and quality was Debbie Ridpath Ohi's Kodama. Written like a teen's sketchbook entry, it had a fascinating and twisty-turny storyline, and the accompanying illustrations added so much to the experience of reading. I wanted more from this Canadian sensation! So I was thrilled when I learned that she would have a children's book coming out!

I'm Bored is the story of a young girl who is bored. Super bored. But she discovers what is awesome about being a kid through a little reverse psychology from a cheeky spud. Her imagination really takes flight but it is the twist at the end that takes this to a higher level!

Michael Ian Black is a comedian and this is his fourth picture book. His dry wit and timing really work for kids. This book elicited a number of belly laughs from my daughter, and anything that can move that bowl full of jelly is okay by me. I love that he infused a little old potato with a lot of personality.

Ohi's illustrations totally lived up to my high expectations. With a minimal colour palette (think My Name is Elizabeth) and pencil sketching she creates a feisty little girl in an inviting modern world. The sense of movement is amazing. She does the same thing she did in the Tomo, creating more depth in the story. I can't wait to see her next project.

This is the twelfth book I have reviewed for the Sixth Canadian Book Challenge.

Sep 9, 2012

As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier

As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier (CAN, JP, US, INT)

Written by: Gerry Fostaty

Published by: Goose Lane Editions

Published on: April 1, 2011

For a Canadian cadet, whether army, air force, or navy, the single most important day on the calendar every year is November 11. Remembrance Day. Whether cadets are standing in parade or saluting veterans, they are part of that day everywhere in the country. The point of this day is to remember the sacrifices the men and women of the armed forces and their families have made and are making for Canada. It is to remember our successes and our failures. Lest we forget...

It seems that the military brass has forgotten the importance of remembering.

Gerry Fostaty, who was a non-commissioned officer (NCO) at Valcartier at the time of the tragic blast, is still doing his job 38 years later. Even if the army has washed over this event, he still remembers and has written this book so that others can learn about this event.

In the summer of 1974, Fostaty was an NCO at the Valcartier cadet camp in Quebec, when on July 31, during a training session a real grenade was mixed in with the dummies. When the pin was pulled out, it exploded, leaving 6 boys dead and 54 wounded.

 He sets the scene of what it's like to be an army cadet, from the toothbrushes used to clean boots to the meals in the mess. The contents of the documents he received from the Department of National Defense under the Access to Information Act he explains clearly, setting the scene. The events of July 31, 1974 are described clearly and succinctly and it was so easy for me to see the mayhem through Fostaty's eyes. He includes the aftermath, up to the 35th anniversary where the survivors met for the first time since the incident. It's all extremely well-written, and so compelling I was unable to put the book down after thinking I would just read the first chapter before bed. That doesn't happen very often with nonfiction books!

This was a pretty amazing first book. Fostaty is very careful to not put words in anyone's mouth and to give his own truthful account in painstaking detail. His commitment to the truth shines through. I am sure that part of this is because it is a memoir and it is personal, I hope he applies his research skills and storytelling ability to other nonfiction tales in future, and not just limit his writing foray to this book.

What this book did was make me angry. Why haven't the Department of Defense and the army stood up to make sure that those who lost their lives or were injured are recognized for their sacrifice? Why aren't the men who still have grenade shrapnel in their bodies being taken in to see specialists who have better technology than they would have in the 1970s? Why aren't the men with PTSD from being involved in this incident seeing army psychologists on the DoD's ? Why is there still no answer as to what exactly happened to all of these boys? What procedures have been put in place to ensure this never happens again?  Why aren't people more upset about this, when if there were 6 fatalities by contaminated water there would be hell to pay? Why, when I was a cadet exactly 20 years later, was I memorizing the names of World War I fatalities and there was no mention whatsoever of the fellow cadets who had lost their lives?

Gerry Fostaty, with his excellent account of this tragic event, has ensured that the Canadian public knows that it at least happened. I for one will not forget the names of the boys who lost their lives that day:

Yves Langlois
Pierre Leroux
Eric Lloyd
Othon Mangos
Mario Provencher
Michel Voisard

I hope the army and Department of Defense remember too.

 This is the eleventh book I have reviewed for the Sixth Canadian Book Challenge.

Sep 7, 2012

Frozen (CAN, JP, US, INT)

Written by: Mary Casanova

Published by: University Of Minnesota Press

Published on: September 7, 2012

Ages: 12+

Provided by the publisher for review through NetGalley

This is a coming-of-age story for a teenage girl, who is mute after childhood trauma, has mixed feelings toward her foster parents and especially her foster father's politics. She sets out to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother, and gets involved with environmental activists and makes a friend who is dealing with what is probably bipolar disorder.

Sounds like a very modern YA book, right? Actually, it's a historical novel, taking place in the 1920s at the beginning of prohibition.

 Sadie Rose is a likeable character who has a lot of gumption. The supporting characters, from her friend who gets involved with dangerous bootleggers to the Norwegian caretakers are also interesting and fleshed out well.

The environmental concerns brought up by the book have kept me thinking. We've been brought up to think that Hydro is a fantastic renewable resource and one of the best sources of energy that is good for the environment. Certainly it's safer than coal or nuclear. But it extracts its own price from the environment when a dam is built, and this book got me thinking about the human face of that issue.

This would be a great book for teens making their first venture into historical fiction.

Sep 5, 2012

What Are You Reading? Wednesday

It's a big week in Canadian fiction!  Books I have been waiting for from Mariko Tamaki and Debbie Ridpath Ohi were released yesterday. It was so nice to have Tamaki's (you) set me on fire delivered straight to my Kindle but so hard to not peek when I am at work.  #firstworldproblems

I have to say that the cover is not my cup of tea at all. It doesn't seem to suit the topic of the book or the author (who wrote my beloved Emiko Superstar). But that's the good thing about an ebook, you don't see the cover if you don't want.

In other big Canlit news, the Giller longlist was announced yesterday. The book I was rooting for wasn't nominated. Booo. The shortlist will be announced on Oct. 1 and the winner on Oct. 30. I would love to be able to read a few of these books before then to choose my own favourite. But so many of these books are not available outside Canada until next year, and others not at all. I did locate a copy of nominated short story collection Whirl Away by Russell Wangersky which pleased me.

My kids are totally enjoying I'm Bored from Ohi and comedian Michael Ian Black. Lots of belly laughs from their rooms.

What are you reading this week? Any early favourites for the Giller Prize?

Sep 3, 2012

Nature's Patchwork Quilt: Understanding Habitats

Nature's Patchwork Quilt: Understanding Habitats (CAN, JP, US, INT)

Written by: Mary Miche

Illustrated by: Consie Powell

Published by: Dawn Publishing

Published on: September 1, 2012

Ages: 5+

This is a great little book for introducing a variety of animals and their ecosystems. Every page has a variety of familiar and new animals for children to wonder over. There are many different areas and climates within, from oceans and deserts to forests and towns.

The author introduces a great deal of new vocabulary, from niche to phytoplankton, in easy-to-understand terms. All of the animals on the page are related to the new vocabulary words.

The illustrations are very unique in that they are pieced together to look like different quilts, so in addition to scientific information there is a soft introduction to various shapes as well as crafts. The pages are, like many quilts, quite busy, so this is more suited to sitting down and reading rather than reading aloud to a number of children.

The back of the book has a supplemental section with illustrations of famous environmentalists like Wangari Maathai and David Suzuki. Teachers and parents will especially like the game suggestion for role-playing the animal food chain.

This post is for Nonfiction Monday, hosted this week at the Swimmer Writer.