Back in 2007, Santa Monica-based audio mix house Lime Studios partnered with the Global Water Trust to create LIME-AID, a Haiti relief nonprofit, which debuted with a charitable auction of postproduction services benefiting children in Haiti (SHOOT, 8/17/07). The auction was supported by numerous commercial production & postproduction houses. Today, Lime-aid is at it again, securing Haiti quake relief in the form of gathering and delivering critically needed goods to Port-au-Prince.
Lime-aid has set up a secure donations link on their website at http://www.lime-aid.tv/, plus drop off points for donated items at Lime Studios, Cut+Run, Orlee Klempner Casting, Luma Pictures, Optimus, Final Cut, GARTNER, Chrome, Spotwelders, Brickyard and several Los Angeles area schools.
Bruce Horwitz, Lime Studios partner and founder of LIME-AID, explained, “As important as donations of needed items listed on our site, donations of money are critical to insure safe passage of these items to where they are needed. Dovetail Furniture has secured a trucking company that will transport the container to Miami, where it will then be shipped to Port-au-Prince. Air Freight will be extremely expensive, as well as secure transport to the orphanages.”
Collections will be distributed to the ANA Children’s Center and Brebis de Saint Michelle Orphanage. They will also be made available to the communities that surround these facilities.
Items Sought for Lime-aid Quake Relief:
— 25 or 50 pound bag of rice
— Dry beans
— Milk powder
— Liquid formula
— Peanut butter (in plastic jars)
— Dried meat
— Spaghetti
— Cooking oil
— Bleach tablets
— Multivitamins
To see which spotmakers are donating their services, to donate and for more information, visit www.lime-aid.tv.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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