Foviance is a customer experience consultancy based in London, UK. The company provides user experience, usability, analytics, accessibility and research consulting services to clients worldwide. Foviance was originally founded as The Usability Company in 2001, by Catriona Campbell, a noted figure in the UK internet industry. The company is privately held, following a management buyout from BrainSpark, the business incubator, in October 2004.
The company is located in London and as of 2009, had clients including: Adidas, Barclays Bank, BP, Dell, Epson, HSBC, Microsoft, Nokia, Skype, Royal Mail and Tesco Direct.
Company history
* Feb 2001: Company founded as The Usability Company by Catriona Campbell
* Aug 2001: Launches partnership with Usability Sciences
* Nov 2001: Catriona Campbell speaks with Jakob Nielsen on the panel of an internet conference
* Mar 2002: Catriona Campbell named one of Internet Magazine’s 50 most influential people in the UK Internet industry.
* Aug 2002: Becomes the first RNIB See It Right accredited partner
* Nov 2002: Marty Carroll appointed Vice President of the UK UPA.
* Oct 2004: Completes management buyout of BrainSpark
* Apr 2005: Merges with Web Abacus, a web analytics software and consulting firm
* Sep 2005: Company relaunched under the new name Foviance
* Mar 2006: Catriona Campbell named in E-Consultancy and NOP World’s list of 100 most significant contributors to the development of the Internet.
* Nov 2008: Foviance acquires Applied Insights. Applied Insight’s director and co-founder Neil Mason joins Foviance as Director of analytical consulting.
The company is located in London and as of 2009, had clients including: Adidas, Barclays Bank, BP, Dell, Epson, HSBC, Microsoft, Nokia, Skype, Royal Mail and Tesco Direct.
Company history
* Feb 2001: Company founded as The Usability Company by Catriona Campbell
* Aug 2001: Launches partnership with Usability Sciences
* Nov 2001: Catriona Campbell speaks with Jakob Nielsen on the panel of an internet conference
* Mar 2002: Catriona Campbell named one of Internet Magazine’s 50 most influential people in the UK Internet industry.
* Aug 2002: Becomes the first RNIB See It Right accredited partner
* Nov 2002: Marty Carroll appointed Vice President of the UK UPA.
* Oct 2004: Completes management buyout of BrainSpark
* Apr 2005: Merges with Web Abacus, a web analytics software and consulting firm
* Sep 2005: Company relaunched under the new name Foviance
* Mar 2006: Catriona Campbell named in E-Consultancy and NOP World’s list of 100 most significant contributors to the development of the Internet.
* Nov 2008: Foviance acquires Applied Insights. Applied Insight’s director and co-founder Neil Mason joins Foviance as Director of analytical consulting.
Andrew "Andy" Gooding (born 30 April 1988) is an English footballer who plays for Hinckley United in the Conference North as a midfielder.
Career
Born in Coventry, Gooding started his career with Coventry City before being released in early 2008. Whilst with Coventry City he spent time on loan at Burton Albion and then Rushden & Diamonds.
Upon leaving Coventry City, he signed permanent for Rushden & Diamonds but was released by them at the end of that season. He signed for Hinckley United in July 2008 and spent two season with the club before moving on to Corby Town. The move to Corby Town did not work out and after a short spell on loan at Solihull Moors he returned to Hinckley United in January 2011 on loan until the end of that season. After his release from Corby Town, he again signed permanent for Hinckley United in June 2011.
International career
He has represented England at Under-17 & Under-19 levels.
Career
Born in Coventry, Gooding started his career with Coventry City before being released in early 2008. Whilst with Coventry City he spent time on loan at Burton Albion and then Rushden & Diamonds.
Upon leaving Coventry City, he signed permanent for Rushden & Diamonds but was released by them at the end of that season. He signed for Hinckley United in July 2008 and spent two season with the club before moving on to Corby Town. The move to Corby Town did not work out and after a short spell on loan at Solihull Moors he returned to Hinckley United in January 2011 on loan until the end of that season. After his release from Corby Town, he again signed permanent for Hinckley United in June 2011.
International career
He has represented England at Under-17 & Under-19 levels.
The Traktionstadtsgesellschaft (roughly translatable as Association of Traction Cities) is an organization of German cities in the novel A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve.
Originally, it was a group of twelve German traction cities who joined together to resist the advance of the Green Storm in destroying all traction cities. The Green Storm were seeming to win until many more cities joined the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft. This led to a stalemate with neither side willing to give. Cities who did not join the Traktionstadtsgellschaft often sent money or supplies to help in the war, and also profited from selling the alliance weapons. The cities agreed not prey on each other (see Municipal Darwinism) until the war was over.
The Traktionstadtsgesellschaft's symbol is that of a wheeled and armoured fist. Members frequently used airships known as Cosgrave Super-Gnats as fighter bombers to support their movements on the ground. This was their reply to the variety of airships deployed by the Green Storm to bomb traction cities and to drop stalkers onto the walkways of the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft members.
Known Members of the Group
*Murnau
*Bremen
*Panzerstadt Koblenz
*Wagenhafn
*Panzerstadt Winterthur
*Traktionbad Braunschweig
*Traktionstadt Weimar (founder member)
*Manchester (later member)
*Dortmund
*Darmstadt
*Panzerstadt-Breslau
*Moloch-Maschinenstadt
*Panzerstadt-Linz (destroyed by ODIN)
Originally, it was a group of twelve German traction cities who joined together to resist the advance of the Green Storm in destroying all traction cities. The Green Storm were seeming to win until many more cities joined the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft. This led to a stalemate with neither side willing to give. Cities who did not join the Traktionstadtsgellschaft often sent money or supplies to help in the war, and also profited from selling the alliance weapons. The cities agreed not prey on each other (see Municipal Darwinism) until the war was over.
The Traktionstadtsgesellschaft's symbol is that of a wheeled and armoured fist. Members frequently used airships known as Cosgrave Super-Gnats as fighter bombers to support their movements on the ground. This was their reply to the variety of airships deployed by the Green Storm to bomb traction cities and to drop stalkers onto the walkways of the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft members.
Known Members of the Group
*Murnau
*Bremen
*Panzerstadt Koblenz
*Wagenhafn
*Panzerstadt Winterthur
*Traktionbad Braunschweig
*Traktionstadt Weimar (founder member)
*Manchester (later member)
*Dortmund
*Darmstadt
*Panzerstadt-Breslau
*Moloch-Maschinenstadt
*Panzerstadt-Linz (destroyed by ODIN)
In Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet, the Green Storm is a fanatical splinter group of the Anti-Traction League, which ends up in control of the League. When first introduced in Predator's Gold, it is a secret organization of young Anti-Traction League officers formed after the destruction of the League's Northern Air-Fleet in Batmunkh Gompa and the loss of a large static settlement on Spitsbergen.
The Green Storm's chief goal is to destroy all Traction Cities and "make the world green again", since the Traction Cities' constant movement and hunting for resources long ago destroyed much of the world's vegetation. The symbol of the Green Storm is a jagged green lightning bolt.
In Predator's Gold, a squadron of Green Storm fighter airships pursue Tom and Hester in the Jenny Haniver. Later in the book, an agent of the Green Storm kidnaps Hester Shaw in Arkangel and transports her to one of their Arctic bases. It is revealed in the book that the Green Storm are not as reluctant to use "Old Tech" as most other Anti-Tractionists, for they use a surviving London Engineer named Popjoy to build armies of Stalkers. Interestingly, the same Engineer also managed to resurrect Anna Fang as the Stalker Fang. Unfortunately, the Stalker Fang did not ever regain a former identity, although she eventually became the leader of the Green Storm. Two years later, the Green Storm overthrows the ruling High Council and takes over the Anti-Traction League.
In Infernal Devices, the Green Storm under the leadership of the Stalker Fang is revealed to have conquered half of the known world with its vast legions of Stalkers, fighter airships and air destroyers. During that time, the Green Storm had waged a long war against the Traction Cities. The Green Storm also has a specialist branch of its military called the Resurrection Corps, which is in charge of the resurrection of dead corpses into Stalkers in support of the Green Storm's war against the cities. It was founded by the same former London engineer that had resurrected her. Popjoy also became her personal surgeon-mechanic.
However, the Stalker Fang was also interested in an ancient artefact from Anchorage called the "Tin Book", which was written in an ancient military code. In the novel, Wren Natsworthy - the daughter of Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw - had managed to leave Anchorage-in-Vineland only to get enslaved in Brighton and sold as a slave to Nimrod Pennyroyal. During her journey, she managed to bring the Tin Book though it became the property of Pennyroyal. However, an agent of the Green Storm - Agent 28 - discovered the Tin Book and alerted her mistress by sending a "resurrected" seagull - a Raptor - carrying a message to the Green Storm's capital, Tienjing. Later, the Green Storm attacked Brighton and retrieved the document. During the raid, their leader was assassinated and the document destroyed in the process. Following that, her second-in-command General Naga assumed command. After Naga's death in A Darkling Plain, the Green Storm was disbanded and the Anti-Traction League refounded by Oenone Zero.
The Green Storm's rule is portrayed as militaristic, totalitarian and absolute, tolerating no dissent.
Notable Cities
* Batmunkh Gompa
* Batmunkh Tsaka
* Tienjing (Capital) (destroyed by ODIN)
* Shan Guo
* Forward command
The Green Storm's chief goal is to destroy all Traction Cities and "make the world green again", since the Traction Cities' constant movement and hunting for resources long ago destroyed much of the world's vegetation. The symbol of the Green Storm is a jagged green lightning bolt.
In Predator's Gold, a squadron of Green Storm fighter airships pursue Tom and Hester in the Jenny Haniver. Later in the book, an agent of the Green Storm kidnaps Hester Shaw in Arkangel and transports her to one of their Arctic bases. It is revealed in the book that the Green Storm are not as reluctant to use "Old Tech" as most other Anti-Tractionists, for they use a surviving London Engineer named Popjoy to build armies of Stalkers. Interestingly, the same Engineer also managed to resurrect Anna Fang as the Stalker Fang. Unfortunately, the Stalker Fang did not ever regain a former identity, although she eventually became the leader of the Green Storm. Two years later, the Green Storm overthrows the ruling High Council and takes over the Anti-Traction League.
In Infernal Devices, the Green Storm under the leadership of the Stalker Fang is revealed to have conquered half of the known world with its vast legions of Stalkers, fighter airships and air destroyers. During that time, the Green Storm had waged a long war against the Traction Cities. The Green Storm also has a specialist branch of its military called the Resurrection Corps, which is in charge of the resurrection of dead corpses into Stalkers in support of the Green Storm's war against the cities. It was founded by the same former London engineer that had resurrected her. Popjoy also became her personal surgeon-mechanic.
However, the Stalker Fang was also interested in an ancient artefact from Anchorage called the "Tin Book", which was written in an ancient military code. In the novel, Wren Natsworthy - the daughter of Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw - had managed to leave Anchorage-in-Vineland only to get enslaved in Brighton and sold as a slave to Nimrod Pennyroyal. During her journey, she managed to bring the Tin Book though it became the property of Pennyroyal. However, an agent of the Green Storm - Agent 28 - discovered the Tin Book and alerted her mistress by sending a "resurrected" seagull - a Raptor - carrying a message to the Green Storm's capital, Tienjing. Later, the Green Storm attacked Brighton and retrieved the document. During the raid, their leader was assassinated and the document destroyed in the process. Following that, her second-in-command General Naga assumed command. After Naga's death in A Darkling Plain, the Green Storm was disbanded and the Anti-Traction League refounded by Oenone Zero.
The Green Storm's rule is portrayed as militaristic, totalitarian and absolute, tolerating no dissent.
Notable Cities
* Batmunkh Gompa
* Batmunkh Tsaka
* Tienjing (Capital) (destroyed by ODIN)
* Shan Guo
* Forward command