Bipod 2016 - SIDEWAYS RAINS | CIE ALIAS
BIPOD / BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM OF DANCE
12TH EDITION / 13 - 30 APRIL 2016 maqamat.org
ORGANIZED BY MAQAMAT BEIT EL RAQS
SIDEWAYS RAINS
CIE ALIAS
Performance in Beirut supported by Prohelvetia - The Swiss Embassy in Lebanon
Tuesday April 19th
8:30 pm | Al-Madina Theatre
Wednesday April 20th
9:00 pm | Al-Madina Theatre
Duration: 60 minutes
During this edition of MOULTAQA LEYMOUN, 15 dancers from Lebanon and the Arab world will work hand in hand with renowned choreographer Guillermo Botelho and company ALIAS on their already touring performance Sideways Rains.
The Arab dancers will rehearse for 10 days in the Chouf Mountains at MAQAMAT - Beit El Raqs with the dancers and choreographer of the Swiss dance company.
After Beirut they will travel with the piece to Jordan and Palestine to perform in the Amman and Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festivals.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
The dancers cross the stage, then start again, tirelessly. They march, run, fall, stand up, stop, leave, moved by a pure force and an inexplicable will to run. Towards what? Towards a common destiny, that seems to slip through their fingers. Passage after passage draws at once the human condition, the evolution of mankind and the transformation of the universe.
CAST & CREDIT
Choreography Guilherme Botelho
Assistante Madeleine Piguet Raykov
Original music Murcof, Pablo Beltrân Ruiz
Light design Jean-Philippe Roy
Set design Guilherme Botelho, Stefanie Liniger, Gilles Lambert
Decor realization Ateliers du Stadttheater Bern,
Atelier GGN-Martin Rautenstrauch
Costumes Marion Schmid d’après Julia Hansen
Outside eye Gilles Lambert
Dancers:
Fabio Bergamaschi, Angela Rabaglio, Luisa Schofer, Erik Lobelius, Jadd Tank, Charlie Prince, Hamdi Dridi, Mounir Said, Sharaf Darzaid, Bassam Bou Diab, Sina Saberi, Moustafa Shabkhan, Yousef Sbeih, Ghida Hachicho, Romy Assouad, Hoor Malas, Nataly Salsa, Amal Khatib, Mitra Zieikia, Nowwar Khaled Salem, Jumana Dabis, Jassi Murad, Ramz Siam
With support from
Ville de Genève, République et canton de Genève, Pro Helvetia -
Fondation suisse pour la culture, Commune de Meyrin, Fondation
Meyrinoise du Casino, Fondation Corymbo, Fondation Leenaards
Production Alias
Coproduction La Bâtie, festival de Genève, Théâtre Forum Meyrin,
Théâtre du Crochetan
Website
alias-cie.com
Exhibition -- Autofictions et mythologies personnelles
Exhibition -- Autofictions et mythologies personnelles
Artist: Solo-Mâtine
Gallery: Théâtre Forum Meyrin | Geneva, Switzerland | 2011 06.4 - 05-28
La femme que j'aurais pu être c'est 12 photos d'inspirations trouvées aux puces, 12 divers caractères, 12 mois, 12 transformations. Ce travail a débuté, pour moi, en avril 2009 et s'est achevé en mars 2010. La femme que j'aurais pu être est un travail de métamorphose dans ces aspects plastiques, où le maquillage est un moment essentiel où je quitte mon enveloppe pour me mettre dans la peau d'une femme que j'aurais pu être.Après, le jeu se corse. Les douze femmes imaginaires sont lancées, l'une après l'autre, sur le marché de la séduction. Direction: les sites de rencontres sur le web. | Solo-Mâtine
More infos on artist blog: sms-projects.ch/agenda/3-Agenda-2011-Solo-Matine/ 22-Exposition-%E2%80%93-Autofictions-et-mythologies-personnelles.html
female voice : Florence Heiniger
male voice : José Ponce
Audio recorded at la Comédie de Genève | 2010.03.08
Music and sound : turntable 78RPM old LP by lacava
Shot 04-28-2011 w/ AF101 1080 25p + 14/45 lumix lens
and Cineslider by Kesslercrane
Post prod: none
Extra light: none
Linda Ellia
About the Exhibition
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf, the extraordinary exhibition in its first North American showing, is based on the collective artwork and book, Notre Combat (Our Struggle, in English).The book and exhibition are the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellias, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005.
The books weight in her hands embodied the heaviness of the Holocaust; she felt compelled to respond. After personally altering a number of the pages to express her anger, she invited hundreds of people from all over the world to paint, draw, sculpt, and collage directly on the pages of the book.
On view in the exhibition will be 600 of these altered pages from a multitude of participants from artists, writers, poets, musicians, film makers, journalists, victims, students, and Jews from as many as 17 different countries. The hundreds of pages in the exhibition offer a remarkable display of different artistic styles and present a multiplicity of voices and perspectives ranging from angry to mournful to hopeful. Creativity emerges from tragedy in this riveting exhibition of the altered pages, reminding us that the hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and discrimination inscribed in Hitlers book must never be repeated.
Also on View
Ellias concept for the public exhibition of the work is to create a dynamic place of memory, haven and testimony. To that end, Our Struggle features an opportunity for visitors to leave their own responses to the contents of the exhibition and the feelings the pages and book evokes. A large blackboard area invites visitors to draw or write, adding their voice to the hundreds.
The documentary LArt et la Maniere (English subtitles, narrated by Linda Ellia), along with a selection of snapshots taken of the participants while they worked, chronicles the making of Notre Combat.
There is also is a resource room developed in partnership with the Holocaust Center of Northern California that provides visitors with more information about the publication history of Mein Kampf and the rise of Nazism in Germany.
Linda Ellia
Linda Ellia is a Paris-based artist working in photography and painting. Born in Tunisia to a Sephardic Jewish family, Linda Ellia moved to Paris with her family at age eight to escape the increasingly violent antisemitism of 1960s Tunisia. In Paris, Ellia studied at the Beaux-Arts de Glaciere, as well as the Ateliers d'Arts Decoratifs. Always a painter, Ellia strayed from her usual medium to pursue her Notre Combat project in 2005. Two years later, the project culminated with the publication of the book by the same name and an exhibition of the original pages at Theatre Forum Meyrin in Switzerland. In 2008, she created a sculpture for the Place St. Germain and participated in the Paris-wide, all-night event Nuits Blanches with a public artwork for the Paris Metro. Currently, Ellia is working on a second book with Seuil Editions on her art entitled Hors Classe, forthcoming January 2010.
Meet the winners of the Swiss Music Prize 2017: #1 Pascal Auberson
Born in Lausanne 1953, Pascal Auberson has explored multiple artistic forms in a career spanning more than 40 years. He started out in 1972 as a drummer in the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and from there progressed to jazz – for example as a pianist with Piano Seven – as well as chanson, theatre, dance, painting and film. Today, this stylistically accomplished multi-instrumentalist, composer and chansonnier moves easily through an artistic universe shaped by constant change and an eagerness for new encounters. His is a strong and unmistakeable voice that resonates far beyond French-speaking Switzerland.
Produced by Federal Office of Culture, Bern
and Collection, Paris/Lausanne
Project Management - Martine Chalverat
Direction and editing - Julien Chavaillaz & Mathieu Cacheux
Image - Arthur Touchais & Maxime Kathari
Production - Collection / Tom Guex
Sound - Grégoire Pasquier
Translation - Ariane Zehnder
Calibration - Fabio Caldironi
Graphic Design - Noémie Gygax
Expo Le Combat responding to Mein Kampf by Linda Ellia, french american tv,, february 2010
About the Exhibition
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf, the extraordinary exhibition in its first North American showing, is based on the collective artwork and book, Notre Combat (Our Struggle, in English).The book and exhibition are the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellias, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005.
The books weight in her hands embodied the heaviness of the Holocaust; she felt compelled to respond. After personally altering a number of the pages to express her anger, she invited hundreds of people from all over the world to paint, draw, sculpt, and collage directly on the pages of the book.
On view in the exhibition will be 600 of these altered pages from a multitude of participants from artists, writers, poets, musicians, film makers, journalists, victims, students, and Jews from as many as 17 different countries. The hundreds of pages in the exhibition offer a remarkable display of different artistic styles and present a multiplicity of voices and perspectives ranging from angry to mournful to hopeful. Creativity emerges from tragedy in this riveting exhibition of the altered pages, reminding us that the hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and discrimination inscribed in Hitlers book must never be repeated.
Also on View
Ellias concept for the public exhibition of the work is to create a dynamic place of memory, haven and testimony. To that end, Our Struggle features an opportunity for visitors to leave their own responses to the contents of the exhibition and the feelings the pages and book evokes. A large blackboard area invites visitors to draw or write, adding their voice to the hundreds.
The documentary LArt et la Maniere (English subtitles, narrated by Linda Ellia), along with a selection of snapshots taken of the participants while they worked, chronicles the making of Notre Combat.
There is also is a resource room developed in partnership with the Holocaust Center of Northern California that provides visitors with more information about the publication history of Mein Kampf and the rise of Nazism in Germany.
Linda Ellia
Linda Ellia is a Paris-based artist working in photography and painting. Born in Tunisia to a Sephardic Jewish family, Linda Ellia moved to Paris with her family at age eight to escape the increasingly violent antisemitism of 1960s Tunisia. In Paris, Ellia studied at the Beaux-Arts de Glaciere, as well as the Ateliers d'Arts Decoratifs. Always a painter, Ellia strayed from her usual medium to pursue her Notre Combat project in 2005. Two years later, the project culminated with the publication of the book by the same name and an exhibition of the original pages at Theatre Forum Meyrin in Switzerland. In 2008, she created a sculpture for the Place St. Germain and participated in the Paris-wide, all-night event Nuits Blanches with a public artwork for the Paris Metro. Currently, Ellia is working on a second book with Seuil Editions on her art entitled Hors Classe, forthcoming January 2010.
Reportage - Père Jakob - Soral/Genève
En mode « motard/reporter »
Je ne le dirai jamais assez la moto et un excellent vecteur de communication alors aujourd'hui je vous emmène en moto, caméra au poing dans la campagne genevoise à la rencontre de Fabien et d'Emilie. Nous voilà donc à la Brasserie du Père Jakob, au cœur de Soral.
Encore de bien belles rencontres !
Pour en savoir plus sur la brasserie du Père Jakob et la traditionnelle BierGarten qui se déroulera du 24 au 27 juillet 2014 / Site internet : perejakob.ch
Les photos :
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Geneva
Geneva (/dʒɨˈniːvə/; French: Genève, IPA: [ʒə.nɛv]; Arpitan: Genèva, IPA: [dzəˈnɛva] and German: Genf; IPA: [ɡɛnf]) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
The municipality (ville de Genève) has a population (as of August 2013) of 194,458, and the canton (which is essentially the city and its inner-ring suburbs) has 474,169 residents. In 2011, the compact agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise (Greater Geneva or Grand Genève) had 915,000 inhabitants in both -- Switzerland and France (less than 30mins distance). Within Swiss territory, the commuter area named Métropole lémanique contains a population of 1.25 million. This area is essentially spread east from Geneva towards the Riviera area (Vevey, Montreux) and north-east towards Yverdon-les-Bains, in the neighbouring canton of Vaud (less than 60mins distance).
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Geneva (, French: Genève [ʒənɛv], Arpitan: Genèva [dzəˈnɛva], German: Genf [ɡɛnf], Italian: Ginevra [dʒiˈneːvra], Romansh: Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
The municipality (ville de Genève) has a population (as of December 2017) of 200,548, and the canton (essentially the city and its inner-ring suburbs) has 495,249 residents. In 2014, the compact agglomération du Grand Genève had 946,000 inhabitants in 212 communities in both Switzerland and France. Within Swiss territory, the commuter area named Métropole lémanique contains a population of 1.26 million. This area is essentially spread east from Geneva towards the Riviera area (Vevey, Montreux) and north-east towards Yverdon-les-Bains, in the neighbouring canton of Vaud.
Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and a worldwide centre for diplomacy due to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross. Geneva hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world. It is also where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.
In 2017, Geneva was ranked as the world's fifteenth most important financial centre for competitiveness by the Global Financial Centres Index, fifth in Europe behind London, Zürich, Frankfurt and Luxembourg. A 2009 survey by Mercer found that Geneva has the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world (behind Vienna and Zürich for expatriates; it is narrowly outranked by Zürich). The city has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the Peace Capital. In 2017, Geneva was ranked as the seventh most expensive city in the world. Geneva was ranked third in purchasing power in a global cities ranking by UBS in 2018.
Geneva | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:16 1 Name
00:03:16 2 History
00:05:05 3 Geography and climate
00:05:15 3.1 Topography
00:08:10 3.2 Climate
00:10:05 4 Politics
00:10:14 4.1 Coat of arms
00:10:22 4.2 Administrative divisions
00:10:55 4.3 Government
00:12:34 4.4 Municipal Council
00:14:05 4.5 Elections
00:14:13 4.5.1 National Council
00:14:55 4.6 International relations
00:15:13 5 Demographics
00:15:22 5.1 Population
00:24:47 5.2 Historical population
00:25:10 5.3 Religion
00:28:12 5.3.1 Protestant Rome
00:30:29 5.4 Crime
00:30:59 6 Cityscape
00:31:08 7 Heritage sites of national significance
00:34:51 8 Society and culture
00:35:01 8.1 Media
00:36:20 8.2 Traditions and customs
00:38:20 8.3 Music and festivals
00:39:22 9 Education
00:43:23 10 Economy
00:48:14 11 Sport
00:49:19 12 Infrastructure
00:49:28 12.1 Transportation
00:52:11 12.2 Utilities
00:53:41 13 International organisations
00:55:54 14 Notable people
00:56:03 14.1 A–C
00:58:56 14.2 D–G
01:01:38 14.3 H–M
01:04:24 14.4 N-R
01:06:25 14.5 S–Z
01:09:17 15 See also
01:09:48 16 Notes and references
01:09:58 17 Bibliography
01:10:29 18 External links
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- Socrates
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Geneva (; French: Genève [ʒənɛv]; Arpitan: Genèva [dzəˈnɛva]; German: Genf [ɡɛnf]; Italian: Ginevra [dʒiˈneːvra]; Romansh: Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
The municipality (ville de Genève) has a population (as of December 2017) of 200,548, and the canton (essentially the city and its inner-ring suburbs) has 495,249 residents. In 2014, the compact agglomération du Grand Genève had 946,000 inhabitants in 212 communities in both Switzerland and France. Within Swiss territory, the commuter area named Métropole lémanique contains a population of 1.26 million. This area is essentially spread east from Geneva towards the Riviera area (Vevey, Montreux) and north-east towards Yverdon-les-Bains, in the neighbouring canton of Vaud.
Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and a worldwide centre for diplomacy due to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross. Geneva hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world. It is also where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.
In 2017, Geneva was ranked as the world's fifteenth most important financial centre for competitiveness by the Global Financial Centres Index, fifth in Europe behind London, Zürich, Frankfurt and Luxembourg. A 2009 survey by Mercer found that Geneva has the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world (behind Vienna and Zürich for expatriates; it is narrowly outranked by Zürich). The city has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the Peace Capital. In 2017, Geneva was ranked as the seventh most expensive city in the world. Geneva was ranked third in purchasing power in a global cities ranking by UBS in 2018.
Hewlett-Packard Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:46 1 History
00:04:55 1.1 1960s
00:07:06 1.2 1970s
00:11:10 1.3 1980s
00:12:12 1.4 1990s
00:14:07 1.4.1 Sales to Iran despite sanctions
00:15:35 1.5 2000–2005
00:18:29 1.6 2006–2009
00:21:34 1.7 2010–2012
00:29:17 1.8 2013–2015
00:31:51 2 Facilities
00:33:30 3 Products and organizational structure
00:39:36 4 Staff and culture
00:40:36 4.1 Notable people
00:41:16 5 Corporate social responsibility
00:47:19 6 Brand
00:49:13 7 Controversies
00:49:23 7.1 Restatement
00:49:57 7.2 Spying scandal
00:50:58 7.3 Hardware
00:53:08 7.4 Lawsuit against Oracle
00:54:14 7.5 Takeover of Autonomy
00:58:23 7.6 Israeli settlements
00:59:21 7.7 Bribery
01:00:38 8 See also
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-Packard ( HEW-lit PAK-ərd) was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and initially produced a line of electronic test equipment. HP was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013, after which Lenovo came to rank ahead of HP. It specialized in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines included personal computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP marketed its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also had services and consulting business around its products and partner products.
Hewlett-Packard company events included the spin-off of its electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments part of its business as Agilent Technologies in 1999, its merger with Compaq in 2002, and the acquisition of EDS in 2008, which led to combined revenues of $118.4 billion in 2008 and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009. In November 2009, HP announced the acquisition of 3Com, with the deal closing on April 12, 2010. On April 28, 2010, HP announced the buyout of Palm, Inc. for $1.2 billion. On September 2, 2010, HP won its bidding war for 3PAR with a $33 a share offer ($2.07 billion), which Dell declined to match.Hewlett-Packard split the PC and printers business from its enterprise products and services business on November 1, 2015, resulting in two publicly traded companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise spun off its Enterprises Services division as DXC Technology and its Software division to Micro Focus.
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Geneva
00:02:16 1 Name
00:03:16 2 History
00:05:05 3 Geography and climate
00:05:15 3.1 Topography
00:08:10 3.2 Climate
00:10:05 4 Politics
00:10:14 4.1 Coat of arms
00:10:22 4.2 Administrative divisions
00:10:55 4.3 Government
00:12:34 4.4 Municipal Council
00:14:05 4.5 Elections
00:14:13 4.5.1 National Council
00:14:55 4.6 International relations
00:15:13 5 Demographics
00:15:22 5.1 Population
00:24:47 5.2 Historical population
00:25:10 5.3 Religion
00:28:12 5.3.1 Protestant Rome
00:30:29 5.4 Crime
00:30:59 6 Cityscape
00:31:08 7 Heritage sites of national significance
00:34:51 8 Society and culture
00:35:01 8.1 Media
00:36:20 8.2 Traditions and customs
00:38:20 8.3 Music and festivals
00:39:22 9 Education
00:43:23 10 Economy
00:48:14 11 Sport
00:49:20 12 Infrastructure
00:49:29 12.1 Transportation
00:52:12 12.2 Utilities
00:53:42 13 International organisations
00:55:54 14 Notable people
00:56:04 14.1 A–G
00:56:12 14.2 H–R
00:56:43 14.3 S–Z
00:56:53 15 See also
00:57:24 16 Notes and references
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Geneva (; French: Genève [ʒənɛv]; Arpitan: Genèva [dzəˈnɛva]; German: Genf [ɡɛnf]; Italian: Ginevra [dʒiˈneːvra]; Romansh: Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
The municipality (ville de Genève) has a population (as of December 2017) of 200,548, and the canton (essentially the city and its inner-ring suburbs) has 495,249 residents. In 2014, the compact agglomération du Grand Genève had 946,000 inhabitants in 212 communities in both Switzerland and France. Within Swiss territory, the commuter area named Métropole lémanique contains a population of 1.26 million. This area is essentially spread east from Geneva towards the Riviera area (Vevey, Montreux) and north-east towards Yverdon-les-Bains, in the neighbouring canton of Vaud.
Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and a worldwide centre for diplomacy due to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross. Geneva hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world. It is also where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.
In 2017, Geneva was ranked as the world's fifteenth most important financial centre for competitiveness by the Global Financial Centres Index, fifth in Europe behind London, Zürich, Frankfurt and Luxembourg. A 2009 survey by Mercer found that Geneva has the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world (behind Vienna and Zürich for expatriates; it is narrowly outranked by Zürich). The city has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the Peace Capital. In 2017, Geneva was ranked as the seventh most expensive city in the world. Geneva was ranked third in purchasing power in a global cities ranking by UBS in 2018.
Geneva
Geneva is the second most populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
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Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP (styled as lower case on its official logo) is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides hardware, software and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
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00:03:27 1 History
00:06:18 1.1 1960s
00:09:12 1.2 1970s
00:14:33 1.3 1980s
00:15:53 1.4 1990s
00:18:28 1.4.1 Sales to Iran despite sanctions
00:20:25 1.5 2000–2005
00:24:11 1.6 2006–2009
00:28:16 1.7 2010–2012
00:38:34 1.8 2013–2015
00:41:55 2 Facilities
00:44:04 3 Products and organizational structure
00:51:58 4 Staff and culture
00:53:14 4.1 Notable people
00:54:03 5 Corporate social responsibility
01:02:04 6 Brand
01:04:34 7 Controversies
01:04:44 7.1 Restatement
01:05:26 7.2 Spying scandal
01:06:45 7.3 Hardware
01:09:39 7.4 Lawsuit against Oracle
01:11:05 7.5 Takeover of Autonomy
01:16:37 7.6 Israeli settlements
01:17:52 7.7 Bribery
01:19:34 8 See also
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-Packard ( HEW-lit PAK-ərd) was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and initially produced a line of electronic test equipment. HP was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013, after which Lenovo came to rank ahead of HP. It specialized in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines included personal computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP marketed its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also had services and consulting business around its products and partner products.
Hewlett-Packard company events included the spin-off of its electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments part of its business as Agilent Technologies in 1999, its merger with Compaq in 2002, and the acquisition of EDS in 2008, which led to combined revenues of $118.4 billion in 2008 and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009. In November 2009, HP announced the acquisition of 3Com, with the deal closing on April 12, 2010. On April 28, 2010, HP announced the buyout of Palm, Inc. for $1.2 billion. On September 2, 2010, HP won its bidding war for 3PAR with a $33 a share offer ($2.07 billion), which Dell declined to match.Hewlett-Packard spun off its enterprise products and services business as Hewlett Packard Enterprise on November 1, 2015. Hewlett-Packard held onto the PC and printer businesses, and was renamed to HP Inc.
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00:02:58 1 History
00:05:25 1.1 1960s
00:07:54 1.2 1970s
00:12:30 1.3 1980s
00:13:41 1.4 1990s
00:15:53 1.4.1 Sales to Iran despite sanctions
00:17:33 1.5 2000–2005
00:20:49 1.6 2006–2009
00:24:22 1.7 2010–2012
00:33:14 1.8 2013–2015
00:36:05 2 Facilities
00:38:00 3 Products and organizational structure
00:44:55 4 Staff and culture
00:46:01 4.1 Notable people
00:46:46 5 Corporate social responsibility
00:53:37 6 Brand
00:55:47 7 Controversies
00:55:56 7.1 Restatement
00:56:33 7.2 Spying scandal
00:57:41 7.3 Hardware
01:00:10 7.4 Lawsuit against Oracle
01:01:24 7.5 Takeover of Autonomy
01:06:09 7.6 Israeli settlements
01:07:14 7.7 Bribery
01:08:43 8 See also
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The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-Packard ( HEW-lit PAK-ərd) was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and initially produced a line of electronic test equipment. HP was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013, at which time Lenovo ranked ahead of HP. HP specialized in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines included personal computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP directly marketed its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also had services and consulting business around its products and partner products.
Hewlett-Packard company events included the spin-off of its electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments part of its business as Agilent Technologies in 1999, its merger with Compaq in 2002, and the acquisition of EDS in 2008, which led to combined revenues of $118.4 billion in 2008 and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009. In November 2009, HP announced the acquisition of 3Com, with the deal closing on April 12, 2010. On April 28, 2010, HP announced the buyout of Palm, Inc. for $1.2 billion. On September 2, 2010, HP won its bidding war for 3PAR with a $33 a share offer ($2.07 billion), which Dell declined to match.Hewlett-Packard spun off its enterprise products and services business as Hewlett Packard Enterprise on November 1, 2015. Hewlett-Packard held onto the PC and printer businesses, and was renamed to HP Inc.
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The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-Packard ( HEW-lit PAK-ərd) was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and initially produced a line of electronic test equipment. HP was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013, after which Lenovo came to rank ahead of HP. It specialized in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines included personal computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP marketed its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also had services and consulting business around its products and partner products.
Hewlett-Packard company events included the spin-off of its electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments part of its business as Agilent Technologies in 1999, its merger with Compaq in 2002, and the acquisition of EDS in 2008, which led to combined revenues of $118.4 billion in 2008 and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009. In November 2009, HP announced the acquisition of 3Com, with the deal closing on April 12, 2010. On April 28, 2010, HP announced the buyout of Palm, Inc. for $1.2 billion. On September 2, 2010, HP won its bidding war for 3PAR with a $33 a share offer ($2.07 billion), which Dell declined to match.Hewlett-Packard split the PC and printers business from its enterprise products and services business on November 1, 2015, resulting in two publicly traded companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise spun-off its Enterprises Services division as DXC Technology and its Software division to Micro Focus.
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Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-Packard ( HEW-lit PAK-ərd) was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and initially produced a line of electronic test equipment. HP was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013, after which Lenovo came to rank ahead of HP. It specialized in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines included personal computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP marketed its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also had services and consulting business around its products and partner products.
Hewlett-Packard company events included the spin-off of its electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments part of its business as Agilent Technologies in 1999, its merger with Compaq in 2002, and the acquisition of EDS in 2008, which led to combined revenues of $118.4 billion in 2008 and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009. In November 2009, HP announced the acquisition of 3Com, with the deal closing on April 12, 2010. On April 28, 2010, HP announced the buyout of Palm, Inc. for $1.2 billion. On September 2, 2010, HP won its bidding war for 3PAR with a $33 a share offer ($2.07 billion), which Dell declined to match.Hewlett-Packard split the PC and printers business from its enterprise products and services business on November 1, 2015, resulting in two publicly traded companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise spun-off its Enterprises Services division as DXC Technology and its Software division to Micro Focus.