The Rappers Rapp Group is one of the first West Coast rap acts. The group was founded in 1981 by Duffy Hooks, founder of Rappers Rapp Records. Even though the group had a short fame, they had an impact on the West Coast hip hop scene.
The Begining
The year is 1981. Hip hop has started gaining national appeal. Duffy Hooks, influenced by Sugarhill Records realized that Hip hop is going to be one of the greatest music genres in the world. In the same year, he held auditions in Hollywood for a 6 member act. The group consisted of King MC, DJ Flash, Lovin C, MC Fosty, Mr. Ice and Macker Moe.
The End
In 1982, they released "Rappers Rapp Theme". In 1983, the group changed its name to Dark Star and they signed with AVI Records to make the EP Sexy Baby which was released only in Europe. The group broke up because MC Fosty & Lovin C went solo and released Radio Activity Rapp and When Doves Cry Rapp. In 1984, DJ Flash & MC Fosty regrouped as The Future MCs who would release "State of Shock Rapp", "Beverly Hills Cop Rapp", "Erotic City Rapp". In 1986, King MC returned with What Have I Done for You Lately Rapp and Nasty Boy Rapp.
Members
°DJ Flash (Lee Johnson) - producer for the group and the first white rapper
°King MC (Robert Marshall) - one of the first MCs on the West Coast
°MC Fosty
°Lovin C
°Mr. Ice
°Macker Moe
The Begining
The year is 1981. Hip hop has started gaining national appeal. Duffy Hooks, influenced by Sugarhill Records realized that Hip hop is going to be one of the greatest music genres in the world. In the same year, he held auditions in Hollywood for a 6 member act. The group consisted of King MC, DJ Flash, Lovin C, MC Fosty, Mr. Ice and Macker Moe.
The End
In 1982, they released "Rappers Rapp Theme". In 1983, the group changed its name to Dark Star and they signed with AVI Records to make the EP Sexy Baby which was released only in Europe. The group broke up because MC Fosty & Lovin C went solo and released Radio Activity Rapp and When Doves Cry Rapp. In 1984, DJ Flash & MC Fosty regrouped as The Future MCs who would release "State of Shock Rapp", "Beverly Hills Cop Rapp", "Erotic City Rapp". In 1986, King MC returned with What Have I Done for You Lately Rapp and Nasty Boy Rapp.
Members
°DJ Flash (Lee Johnson) - producer for the group and the first white rapper
°King MC (Robert Marshall) - one of the first MCs on the West Coast
°MC Fosty
°Lovin C
°Mr. Ice
°Macker Moe
EDIUS is a video editing software package originally developed the Japanese based Canopus Corporation until 2005, when the Canopus Corporation was sold to Grass Valley.
Foreword
EDIUS is a non-linear editor (NLE) that states that it can handle nearly all HD and SD video formats on a mixed timeline and output to most modern delivery formats, including Tape, Web, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (from version 5). EDIUS is designed for any broadcast and post-production environment, especially those with newer, tapeless forms of video recording and storage. EDIUS also states that it offers real-time, multi-track, mixed-format editing, compositing, chroma keying, titling, and timeline output capabilities. EDIUS supports all DV and HDV cameras and decks plus AVCHD, Infinity JPEG 2000, DVCPro and DVCProHD, P2, VariCam, Ikegami GigaFlash, MXF, XDCAM, and XDCAM EX video.
Properties
* Real-time, mixed format HD/SD editing, including DV, HDV, HD, MPEG-2 and uncompressed SD video
* User interface, including unlimited video, audio, title and graphics tracks
* Real-time editing and conversion of different HD/SD aspect ratios, such as 16:9 and 4:3
* Real-time editing and conversion of different frame rates, such as 60i, 50i and 24p
* Real-time editing and conversion of different resolutions, such as 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x720 and 720x480
* Real-time HD/SD effects, keyers, transitions and titles
* Real-time, render-free DV output directly from the timeline
* Multi-cam editing of up to eight different sources simultaneously
* Nested timeline sequences
* High-speed HDV timeline export, built for Dual Core CPU technology
* High-quality, multi-format video exporting with ProCoder Express for EDIUS
* Direct-to-DVD timeline export
* Inscriber TitleMotion Pro for EDIUS*
Version 5.0 was released in September, 2008. Version 6.01 Is availabele now.On December 2010 onwards
Foreword
EDIUS is a non-linear editor (NLE) that states that it can handle nearly all HD and SD video formats on a mixed timeline and output to most modern delivery formats, including Tape, Web, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (from version 5). EDIUS is designed for any broadcast and post-production environment, especially those with newer, tapeless forms of video recording and storage. EDIUS also states that it offers real-time, multi-track, mixed-format editing, compositing, chroma keying, titling, and timeline output capabilities. EDIUS supports all DV and HDV cameras and decks plus AVCHD, Infinity JPEG 2000, DVCPro and DVCProHD, P2, VariCam, Ikegami GigaFlash, MXF, XDCAM, and XDCAM EX video.
Properties
* Real-time, mixed format HD/SD editing, including DV, HDV, HD, MPEG-2 and uncompressed SD video
* User interface, including unlimited video, audio, title and graphics tracks
* Real-time editing and conversion of different HD/SD aspect ratios, such as 16:9 and 4:3
* Real-time editing and conversion of different frame rates, such as 60i, 50i and 24p
* Real-time editing and conversion of different resolutions, such as 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x720 and 720x480
* Real-time HD/SD effects, keyers, transitions and titles
* Real-time, render-free DV output directly from the timeline
* Multi-cam editing of up to eight different sources simultaneously
* Nested timeline sequences
* High-speed HDV timeline export, built for Dual Core CPU technology
* High-quality, multi-format video exporting with ProCoder Express for EDIUS
* Direct-to-DVD timeline export
* Inscriber TitleMotion Pro for EDIUS*
Version 5.0 was released in September, 2008. Version 6.01 Is availabele now.On December 2010 onwards
Graham Bowers is a musician, composer, designer, artist and engineer.
Early life and musical influences
Graham Bowers was born during a World War II bombing raid on Manchester in 1943. Brought up on a mixed diet of his older sisters’ interests in 1940s and 1950s popular music, and his father’s record collection of jazz and country blues, an eclectic mix of artists such as Johnny Ray, Guy Mitchell, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and Leadbelly were household names, and marked the milestones of his early life. His interest and fascination in “associative listening” (the association of sound related to life experiences) was thus already formed, and has developed throughout his life acting as the cornerstone and benchmark of his creative output.
His early teenage musical activities were involved in forming and being part of skiffle groups, a genre of music in England championed by Lonnie Donegan, at that time the banjoist in the Chris Barber traditional jazz band. Songs such as ‘Rock Island Line’, ‘Cumberland Gap’ and ‘John Henry’ which although well known to Bowers were new to most post-war English listeners.
Engineering and industrial design
Marital and parental duties at the young age of seventeen, and the necessity of providing an income, diverted him into the engineering industry. Extensive technical studies led to a career in draughtsmanship and design projects relating to Airframe Structures and Flight Instrumentation within the aeronautical industry (Avro Shackleton Bomber, Avro Vulcan Delta-Wing Bomber, Blue Steel missile, SEPECAT Jaguar, Panavia Tornado, Concorde Prototype).
His knowledge and expertise in sheet-metal fabrication led to his involvement in a small design team set up by Wellcome Medical Equipment, a division of the Wellcome Foundation, to design and manufacture a new concept in Medical Operating Theatre design, many hundreds of which are now installed throughout Europe, and the Middle and Far East. This was followed by his own independent design which was lodged and patented as an invention for the building of environmentally controlled rooms (Medical Operating Theatres, MRI/CAT/PET Scanning Rooms, RF Shielded Rooms). Other areas of work within this field of industry included the design and invention of a rapid deployment environmentally controlled enclosure for emergency medical usage in disaster areas (ongoing).
He also became involved with Amek Systems & Controls, a small company at the time, but which became one of the world leaders in the production of professional audio mixing consoles for the recording and broadcasting industry. His input was the design, realistion and manufacture of the mechanical hardware and styling aspects of all their product lines . The company received the “Queen’s Award to Industry” in 1985, 1986 and 1987.
Sculptures, structures and dance-works
Although the work in the engineering world of industry limited any serious and professional musical activity for some time, his artistic activities had found an outlet in painting and sculpture. It was this work and a chance meeting with the legendary American choreographer Alwin Nikolais which led to his involvement in the world of ‘Performance Theatre’, where he was involved for several years, working and collaborating with theatre directors and choreographers (Royston Maldoom, Shelley Lee, Peter Royston, Tamara McLorg, Ailsa Burke), dancers (Elaine McDonald, Paul Russell, Andrea Durant, Frank McConnell), composers (Gordon McPherson, , Tony Moss, Jon Anderson, William Henshall), musicians (Peter Gallagher) on large and small scale productions, from regional experimental theatre groups, international ballet companies to international rock tours.
Sculpting has resulted in private and public commissions (St David's Hall, the national concert theatre of Wales, The Space at Dundee) and the creation and realisation of animatronic characters for a television series in collaboration with the writer and creator of The Bradshaws, Buzz Hawkins.
Music, film and multimedia
His approach to musical composition developed out of his life-long fascination with “associative listening” and evolved into a genre of music which he describes as "Sound Theatre". His debut album, ' was released in 1995 on the Red Wharf label. The first in a trilogy, ' combined classical, progressive and experimental music into one long continuous track. Produced and recorded with Peter Gallagher, with musical contributions from Mark Porter, it received critical acclaim from the international music press (The Wire, Audion, EST, e/i, Mouvement-Nouveau) as did all of his subsequent releases. It was followed in 1997 by Transgression, and the trilogy finished up a year later with Eternal Ghosts, featuring musical contributions from Tim Franks, Peter Gallagher, Mark Porter, Jim Keddie, and William Henshall. The CDs of each published work were accompanied with a fold-out booklet containing a triptych of his surrealistic paintings.
After an absence due to a serious accident, he wrote and recorded several sound scores for fine art animation films, in collaboration with film-maker Clive Walley; these included an MTV ident and a series of “Short Shorts” for the British television channel S4C. He has also produced several of his own short films notably Hiraeth, “conception deception discovery” and “Yr Aelwyd” all of which have been shown at international film festivals. “Yr Aelwyd”, a 36 minute film set to the music of Tobias Fischer and Miina Virtanen, won the best film in the Avant-Garde category at the Swansea Film Festival 2010.
Bowers finally returned to his own full length conceptual compositions of "Sound Theatre" with Pilgrim .
The musical works have been played and written about extensively in recent years, receiving extended half-hour and two-hour air-play features on national and regional radio stations in the UK, Holland, Germany, Australia and the USA.
Early life and musical influences
Graham Bowers was born during a World War II bombing raid on Manchester in 1943. Brought up on a mixed diet of his older sisters’ interests in 1940s and 1950s popular music, and his father’s record collection of jazz and country blues, an eclectic mix of artists such as Johnny Ray, Guy Mitchell, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and Leadbelly were household names, and marked the milestones of his early life. His interest and fascination in “associative listening” (the association of sound related to life experiences) was thus already formed, and has developed throughout his life acting as the cornerstone and benchmark of his creative output.
His early teenage musical activities were involved in forming and being part of skiffle groups, a genre of music in England championed by Lonnie Donegan, at that time the banjoist in the Chris Barber traditional jazz band. Songs such as ‘Rock Island Line’, ‘Cumberland Gap’ and ‘John Henry’ which although well known to Bowers were new to most post-war English listeners.
Engineering and industrial design
Marital and parental duties at the young age of seventeen, and the necessity of providing an income, diverted him into the engineering industry. Extensive technical studies led to a career in draughtsmanship and design projects relating to Airframe Structures and Flight Instrumentation within the aeronautical industry (Avro Shackleton Bomber, Avro Vulcan Delta-Wing Bomber, Blue Steel missile, SEPECAT Jaguar, Panavia Tornado, Concorde Prototype).
His knowledge and expertise in sheet-metal fabrication led to his involvement in a small design team set up by Wellcome Medical Equipment, a division of the Wellcome Foundation, to design and manufacture a new concept in Medical Operating Theatre design, many hundreds of which are now installed throughout Europe, and the Middle and Far East. This was followed by his own independent design which was lodged and patented as an invention for the building of environmentally controlled rooms (Medical Operating Theatres, MRI/CAT/PET Scanning Rooms, RF Shielded Rooms). Other areas of work within this field of industry included the design and invention of a rapid deployment environmentally controlled enclosure for emergency medical usage in disaster areas (ongoing).
He also became involved with Amek Systems & Controls, a small company at the time, but which became one of the world leaders in the production of professional audio mixing consoles for the recording and broadcasting industry. His input was the design, realistion and manufacture of the mechanical hardware and styling aspects of all their product lines . The company received the “Queen’s Award to Industry” in 1985, 1986 and 1987.
Sculptures, structures and dance-works
Although the work in the engineering world of industry limited any serious and professional musical activity for some time, his artistic activities had found an outlet in painting and sculpture. It was this work and a chance meeting with the legendary American choreographer Alwin Nikolais which led to his involvement in the world of ‘Performance Theatre’, where he was involved for several years, working and collaborating with theatre directors and choreographers (Royston Maldoom, Shelley Lee, Peter Royston, Tamara McLorg, Ailsa Burke), dancers (Elaine McDonald, Paul Russell, Andrea Durant, Frank McConnell), composers (Gordon McPherson, , Tony Moss, Jon Anderson, William Henshall), musicians (Peter Gallagher) on large and small scale productions, from regional experimental theatre groups, international ballet companies to international rock tours.
Sculpting has resulted in private and public commissions (St David's Hall, the national concert theatre of Wales, The Space at Dundee) and the creation and realisation of animatronic characters for a television series in collaboration with the writer and creator of The Bradshaws, Buzz Hawkins.
Music, film and multimedia
His approach to musical composition developed out of his life-long fascination with “associative listening” and evolved into a genre of music which he describes as "Sound Theatre". His debut album, ' was released in 1995 on the Red Wharf label. The first in a trilogy, ' combined classical, progressive and experimental music into one long continuous track. Produced and recorded with Peter Gallagher, with musical contributions from Mark Porter, it received critical acclaim from the international music press (The Wire, Audion, EST, e/i, Mouvement-Nouveau) as did all of his subsequent releases. It was followed in 1997 by Transgression, and the trilogy finished up a year later with Eternal Ghosts, featuring musical contributions from Tim Franks, Peter Gallagher, Mark Porter, Jim Keddie, and William Henshall. The CDs of each published work were accompanied with a fold-out booklet containing a triptych of his surrealistic paintings.
After an absence due to a serious accident, he wrote and recorded several sound scores for fine art animation films, in collaboration with film-maker Clive Walley; these included an MTV ident and a series of “Short Shorts” for the British television channel S4C. He has also produced several of his own short films notably Hiraeth, “conception deception discovery” and “Yr Aelwyd” all of which have been shown at international film festivals. “Yr Aelwyd”, a 36 minute film set to the music of Tobias Fischer and Miina Virtanen, won the best film in the Avant-Garde category at the Swansea Film Festival 2010.
Bowers finally returned to his own full length conceptual compositions of "Sound Theatre" with Pilgrim .
The musical works have been played and written about extensively in recent years, receiving extended half-hour and two-hour air-play features on national and regional radio stations in the UK, Holland, Germany, Australia and the USA.
APOS Systems Inc. is a business intelligence (BI) and location intelligence (LI) software solution provider and SAP PartnerEdge program channel partner. Headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, APOS has over 850 customers in 37 countries. The company's products span four categories:
* BI Platform Management - BI tools for SAP BusinessObjects administrators and platform managers, including report scheduling, instance management, and report archiving and restoring;
* BI Publishing - report post processing, including bursting, consolidation, and bulk scheduling;
* Pervasive BI - integration of enterprise BI systems with report distribution media such as Microsoft Excel, and integration of enterprise BI systems with enterprise content management systems such as Open Text and Microsoft SharePoint; and
* Location Intelligence - bi-directional integration of Esri geographic information systems (GIS) with enterprise BI systems.
History
APOS was founded in 1992 by Dan Clements to provide custom software development services. APOS is an acronym for "Advanced Point of Sale," reflecting the company's original software development focus. In the mid-90s, APOS started doing custom work for customers using Crystal Decisions business intelligence products. In 2003, Crystal Decisions was acquired by BusinessObjects, which was in turn acquired by SAP AG in 2007.
As the business intelligence market developed, APOS began to develop applications to complement enterprise BI platforms, particularly SAP BusinessObjects. APOS' BI focus has always been on back-end support: simplifying and extending key administrative and platform management functions, and enabling power users to complete tasks more efficiently and effectively.
Products
APOS' products by BI Platform Management
APOS Administrator - complements and extends SAP BusinessObjects administrative capabilities. Lets you maintain object settings, security, user preferences, users, user groups, limits, in bulk. Simplifies object promotion and replacement. Permits bulk scheduling and "what-if" scenarios using a Microsoft Excel interface.
APOS Insight - complements and extends SAP BusinessObjects metadata management and audit capabilities. Extracts SAP BusinessObjects system and report meta data into a database for reporting. Lets you establish thresholds for alerts and monitor system statistics using an active monitoring console. Let's you Monitor schedule failures system wide. Let's you control system resource allocation by activating and deactivating SAP BusinessObjects services on a schedule.
APOS Storage Center - Let's you archive and back-up report instances, back-up report objects with versions, and perform partial restores.
BI Publishing
APOS Publisher - Let's you burst reports in multiple ways to multiple destinations and in multiple formats, consolidate multiple reports to one indexed document, or schedule individual reports to multiple destinations and formats using one schedule. Provides a Microsoft Excel-based bulk scheduling interface to let you schedule large numbers of reports and run what-if scenarios.
APOS Output Management - combines the publishing capabilities of APOS and SAP BusinessObjects with the enterprise output management capabilities of LRS Inc., in a single package. Provides system administrators with a secure platform for end-to-end monitoring and control of output management processes.
Pervasive BI
APOS Microsoft Outlook Integration - connects information consumers across the enterprise to SAP BusinessObjects using Microsoft Outlook, providing on-line and off-line report viewing and scheduling within Microsoft Outlook.
APOS Content Fusion (PDF)- integrates SAP BusinessObjects with content management systems, including the Open Text Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite and Microsoft SharePoint, making business intelligence content accessible to content management workflows.
Location Intelligence
APOS Location Intelligence Solution (LIS) - integrates Esri ArcGIS Server and enterprise BI systems such as SAP BusinessObjects to provide better data visualization and access to data from interactive maps.
- hosted location intelligence.
- integration with large-scale data warehousing and processing systems such as Teradata.
* BI Platform Management - BI tools for SAP BusinessObjects administrators and platform managers, including report scheduling, instance management, and report archiving and restoring;
* BI Publishing - report post processing, including bursting, consolidation, and bulk scheduling;
* Pervasive BI - integration of enterprise BI systems with report distribution media such as Microsoft Excel, and integration of enterprise BI systems with enterprise content management systems such as Open Text and Microsoft SharePoint; and
* Location Intelligence - bi-directional integration of Esri geographic information systems (GIS) with enterprise BI systems.
History
APOS was founded in 1992 by Dan Clements to provide custom software development services. APOS is an acronym for "Advanced Point of Sale," reflecting the company's original software development focus. In the mid-90s, APOS started doing custom work for customers using Crystal Decisions business intelligence products. In 2003, Crystal Decisions was acquired by BusinessObjects, which was in turn acquired by SAP AG in 2007.
As the business intelligence market developed, APOS began to develop applications to complement enterprise BI platforms, particularly SAP BusinessObjects. APOS' BI focus has always been on back-end support: simplifying and extending key administrative and platform management functions, and enabling power users to complete tasks more efficiently and effectively.
Products
APOS' products by BI Platform Management
APOS Administrator - complements and extends SAP BusinessObjects administrative capabilities. Lets you maintain object settings, security, user preferences, users, user groups, limits, in bulk. Simplifies object promotion and replacement. Permits bulk scheduling and "what-if" scenarios using a Microsoft Excel interface.
APOS Insight - complements and extends SAP BusinessObjects metadata management and audit capabilities. Extracts SAP BusinessObjects system and report meta data into a database for reporting. Lets you establish thresholds for alerts and monitor system statistics using an active monitoring console. Let's you Monitor schedule failures system wide. Let's you control system resource allocation by activating and deactivating SAP BusinessObjects services on a schedule.
APOS Storage Center - Let's you archive and back-up report instances, back-up report objects with versions, and perform partial restores.
BI Publishing
APOS Publisher - Let's you burst reports in multiple ways to multiple destinations and in multiple formats, consolidate multiple reports to one indexed document, or schedule individual reports to multiple destinations and formats using one schedule. Provides a Microsoft Excel-based bulk scheduling interface to let you schedule large numbers of reports and run what-if scenarios.
APOS Output Management - combines the publishing capabilities of APOS and SAP BusinessObjects with the enterprise output management capabilities of LRS Inc., in a single package. Provides system administrators with a secure platform for end-to-end monitoring and control of output management processes.
Pervasive BI
APOS Microsoft Outlook Integration - connects information consumers across the enterprise to SAP BusinessObjects using Microsoft Outlook, providing on-line and off-line report viewing and scheduling within Microsoft Outlook.
APOS Content Fusion (PDF)- integrates SAP BusinessObjects with content management systems, including the Open Text Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite and Microsoft SharePoint, making business intelligence content accessible to content management workflows.
Location Intelligence
APOS Location Intelligence Solution (LIS) - integrates Esri ArcGIS Server and enterprise BI systems such as SAP BusinessObjects to provide better data visualization and access to data from interactive maps.
- hosted location intelligence.
- integration with large-scale data warehousing and processing systems such as Teradata.