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It's the week after Gallifrey One which means two things: post-Gally malaise AND a giant pile of news, including a release date of April 12 for Season 2 on iPlayer (and also theoretically Disney Plus), speculation on the future of Doctor Who as per usual, a boatload of Big Finish, new books, a new RTD-penned series called “Tip-Toe” coming next year to Channel 4, and endless Youtube cogitation mostly revolving around Steven reacting to things. Take a listen if you dare! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who returns April 12 “Doctor Who has not been shelved” – BBC responds to rumours Russell T Davies writing Tip Toe, a new 5-part series on Channel 4 debuting in 2026 Juno Dawson's Season 2 episode “the most ridiculous episode they've ever done… and the most expensive” Doctor Who season 2 – Christopher Chung joins the Whoniverse Re-edited “Fear Her” back on iPlayer Doctor Who Collection: Jon Pertwee Season 1 coming June 3 (US link) Missing Doctor Who story ‘The Savages' returns as animation Classic Doctor Who YouTube channel now has multiple complete stories (US only) New Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda Chandra novels due May 29 Black Archives Silver Nemesis book by James Cooray Smith released Script Doctor 20th anniversary edition due Mar 7 Doctor Who: The Moon Cruise Hardcover due Nov 13 Radiophonic Workshop Archive now available for online purchase Spitfire Audio – BBC Radiophonic Workshop [Walkthrough] Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper reunite for Big Finish in August Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Fractures and Knightfall starts June 2025 Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Fallen Heroes due May 2025 Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures: Operation: Vengeance due Oct 2025 Big Finish Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: Mirror Matter due July 2025 Doctor Who: What Still Remains: 7th Doctor Audio Original Audio CD due Aug 7 Doctor Who: Counterstrike: 15th Doctor Audio Original Audio CD due Oct 2 Doctor Who: Firefall: 15th Doctor Audio Original Audio CD due Oct 2 Survival's Julian Holloway dies, aged 80
This is an opportunity to hear from Australian actor Christopher Chung about being a cast member of Emmy Award-winning Apple TV series Slow Horses, including Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Jonathan Pryce. Actor Nicole Nabout will talk to Christopher about his journey from acting training at St Martins Theatre in Melbourne to his role as Roddy Ho in one of the most prestigious and well received television series of the last decade. Please note: This is an edited version of a live event and as such there are some small interruptions.
Join us for another week of laughter, TV shows, streaming, movies and all things entertainment. THIS WEEK WE'RE TALKING TV Star Trek: Discovery (S5) Mr McMahon (Limited-series) Slow Horses (S4) WATCH OF THE WEEK & PEAK PERFORMANCE Slow Horses (S4): Starring: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rosalind Eleazar, Saskia Reeves, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Efion Edwards & Kadiff Kirwan. And finally our Peak Performance nominations are in for Cillian Murphy Come and have a listen EPISODE TITLE This weeks episode title is dedicated to the cast and crew of Slow Horses S4. Remember folks. You don't blow a Joes cover. RUNNING ORDER 08m17s | What we've been watching 32m23s | Watch of the week: Slow Horses (S4) 50m59s | News & Mailbag 56m56s | Peak Performance: Cillian Murphy GET IN TOUCH Support us on Patreon Follow us on Instagram Post (Tweet) us @HalfMeasuresPod Talk to us on Discord Follow us on Facebook Visit our website halfmeasurespodcast.com This episode of the Half Measures Podcast is brought to you by our Patreon Producers: Samara Whiting-King, Diana Knauer, Tricia Brady, Michael Chalmers & Tony "Baby Horse" Foale.
Join us for another week of laughter, TV shows, streaming, movies and all things entertainment. THIS WEEK WE'RE TALKING TV Shows Love & Death (Limited Series) The Crown (S6) Ozark (S3) Slow Horses (S3) Movies Step Brothers (2008) WATCH OF THE WEEK & PEAK PERFORMANCE Slow Horses (S3). Staring: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rosalind Eleazar, Saskia Reeves & Christopher Chung. And finally our Peak Performance nominations are in for George Clooney. EPISODE TITLE This weeks episode title is dedicated to the cast and crew of Slow Horses. The full quote is: 'Do you really think that you are happier than me at Slough House?' - Diana Taverner, 'Yeah, I do. And I'm f***ing miserable.' - Jackson Lamb RUNNING ORDER 05m30s | What we've been watching 32m40s | Watch of the week: Slow Horses (S3) 51m40s | News & Mailbag 1h03m00s | Peak Performance: George Clooney GET IN TOUCH Support us at Patreon Follow us on Instagram Post (Tweet) us @HalfMeasuresPod Talk to us on Discord Follow us on Facebook Visit our website halfmeasurespodcast.com This episode of the Half Measures Podcast is brought to you by our Patreon Producers: Samara Whiting-King, Diana Knauer, Tricia Brady & Michael Chalmers.
CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Christopher Chung discusses the latest on luring new businesses to North Carolina.
CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Christopher Chung discusses the latest on luring new businesses to North Carolina.
Christopher Chung is an Australian native who relocated to the United Kingdom in early 2012. He has worked in theatre, film and TV, alongside institutions such as the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, and various stages on the West End. From Heathers the Musical on the stage, to Horizon Forbidden West in voice over, to Slow Horses on your Apple TV+ screen, Christopher is a prolific working actor. Today he joins Jenn and Jess to discuss his journey, booking a series regular role, and how the industry in the UK differs from the industry in the States. — Diversity in Casting — Choosing London as a Home Base — Australia vs. United Kingdom vs. United States — Transitioning from Musical Theatre to Film/TV — Booking Slow Horses — Staying Grounded — Being Married to an Actor — The Process of Casting Commercials — Meeting Nina Gold — Casting Stories from Producer's Sessions — Choosing Sides for Auditions Episode Resources: Christopher Chung's IMDb Follow Christopher on IG ──────────────────────────── Stay Tuned with Tipsy Casting on IG Follow Jessica & Follow Jenn Learn More About Jess & Jenn's Casting Journeys Get Casting Life Away Merch here! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tipsycastingpodcast/message
Thursday marked final passage in the NC House for Medicaid expansion, leaving only Governor Roy Cooper's signature, and an approved State budget from improving access and affordability of healthcare to 600,000 North Carolinians. The process to get to this point was a long one, filled with enough gridlock and partisan politics to last a lifetime. How could this process better reflected the needs of rural North Carolinians?On this week's Mind Your Business, we discuss the art of consensus building, and how taking conversation to decision-makers could give a fighting chance to advancing other key community issues, like childcare access, affordable housing, infrastructure improvements, and other similar topics.We also give a listen to a timely excerpt from our sister podcast, Reaching Your Peak, where Christopher Chung of EDPNC talks about the value of building consensus, and what to expect in terms of economic development priorities in rural North Carolina in the years to come.Mind your Business is produced weekly by the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce. The radio show airs each Thursday morning at 10:05AM on WATA (1450AM/96.5FM) in the High Country. The podcast version of the program is made possible each week by Appalachian Commercial Real Estate and sponsored in part by Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.Support the show
Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. On today's episode, Colin Campbell speaks with Christopher Chung, the CEO of the Economic Development Association of North Carolina. Chung talks about the state's streak of major jobs announcements, the need for more industrial megasites, and how he became an economic developer. This podcast series, a collaborative partnership between the NC Economic Development Association and Business NC, will feature guests with a statewide perspective on issues critical to the economic competitiveness of our state. The NC Economic Development Association is the VOICE for economic development in North Carolina, providing advocacy, valuable content, and professional development for its members.
Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. On today's episode, Colin Campbell speaks with Christopher Chung, the CEO of the Economic Development Association of North Carolina. Chung talks about the state's streak of major jobs announcements, the need for more industrial megasites, and how he became an economic developer. This podcast series, a collaborative partnership between the NC Economic Development Association and Business NC, will feature guests with a statewide perspective on issues critical to the economic competitiveness of our state. The NC Economic Development Association is the VOICE for economic development in North Carolina, providing advocacy, valuable content, and professional development for its members.
Christopher Chung, CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, joins us to discuss how businesses are recruited to the state and what could be on the horizon.
Christopher Chung, CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, joins us to discuss how businesses are recruited to the state and what could be on the horizon.
Vegas Film Critic (Jeffrey K Howard) speaks to Christopher Chung for Slow Horses.
This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas in the new spy series Slow Horses.
This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas in the new spy series Slow Horses.
This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas in the new spy series Slow Horses.
This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas in the new spy series Slow Horses.
This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas in the new spy series Slow Horses.
This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas in the new spy series Slow Horses.
This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas in the new spy series Slow Horses.
Playing to an audience of over 200 Watauga County business leaders attending in both in-person and virtual formats, the Boone Area and Blowing Rock Chambers of Commerce hosted the 6th Annual High Country Economic Kickoff Breakfast, Thursday, January 20th, at the Grandview Ballroom on the campus of Appalachian State University.On this week's installment of the Mind Your Business Podcast series, we hear excerpts from presentations given by Christopher Chung, CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina and Dr. Harry Davis, professor and economist at Appalachian State University. In his annual remarks regarding the state of the High Country economic picture, Dr. Davis, said, “every piece of economic data you can look at for Watauga County is strong, and that is going to continue. We are lucky to live here and be in an area with such consistent growth.” Serving as the State's chief business recruiter, Chung shared observations about North Carolina's economic path through the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the State has overcome obstacles to maintain its position as an attractive landing place for new business while also serving its existing business interests in a manner that promotes future expansion. Mind Your Business is presented each week thanks to a partnership between Appalachian Commercial Real Estate and High Country Radio.Support the show (https://www.boonechamber.com/membership-information)
Why are so many expanding and moving to North Carolina?In the past year, we have seen hundreds of millions of dollars coming to North Carolina from companies of all sizes and it leads us to ask why are so many companies excited about doing business in North Carolina. We sat down with the CEO Christopher Chung of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) to hear his take on the matter and wow we learned a lot about the great benefits of doing business in North Carolina. Christopher also shared a few valuable lessons learned from the successes of the many companies that he has had the privilege of interacting with so you definitely want to check this out.---If you like what you've been hearing on this podcast, we invite you to go wherever you're listening to this episode and leave us a comment or review. Tell me what you love about this episode! Or better yet, tell me what you want to hear more of in the future.---You can find all of the information about this episode and the show at: www.businesstalklibrary.com/thefinanceandaccountingshow---“If you want to learn more about finance and accounting as it related to business, check out our courses at the Business Talk Library university:https://btl.thinkific.com/
Chief executive officer of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, Christopher Chung joins us to discuss recruiting businesses to North Carolina as well as the impact of COVID-19 on businesses.
From our Mobile Monday's series on Facebook, Christopher Chung, CEO with the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, gives an economic development update and talks about impacts on North Carolina REALTORS®
The CLT Alliance's Laura Foor invites Christopher Chung, CEO of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC), and Jonathan Eaton, Principal, National Supply Chain Practice Leader at Grant Thornton, to take a deep dive into the Charlotte Region's supply chains and manufacturing. From discussing supply chain risk and resiliency to exploring how our local economic development groups are helping our region’s manufacturers find local solutions to strengthen supply chains, you won’t want to miss this insightful information.For more information on STREAM 2021, visit https://stream2021virtual.pathable.co/.
Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Economic Development Partnership Christopher Chung is our guest as we talk recruiting business to the state and growing established businesses.
Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Economic Development Partnership Christopher Chung is our guest as we talk recruiting business to the state and growing established businesses.
Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Economic Development Partnership Christopher Chung is our guest as we talk recruiting business to the state and growing established businesses.
Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Economic Development Partnership Christopher Chung is our guest as we talk recruiting business to the state and growing established businesses.
Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Economic Development Partnership Christopher Chung is our guest as we talk recruiting business to the state and growing established businesses.
Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Economic Development Partnership Christopher Chung is our guest as we talk recruiting business to the state and growing established businesses.
Jane Ferguson: Hello, and welcome to episode 26 of Getting Personal: Omics of the Heart, the podcast from Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine. I'm Jane Ferguson. It's March 2019, and I'm ready to spring into this month's papers, and apparently make really bad seasonal related jokes. Sorry all. Okay, let's get started. First up, is a paper from Oren Akerborg, Rapolas Spalinskas, Sailendra Pradhananga, Pelin Sahlén and colleagues from the Royal Institute of Technology in Solna, Sweden entitled "High Resolution Regulatory Maps Connect Vascular Risk Variants to Disease Related Pathways." Their goal was to identify non-coding variants associated with coronary artery disease, particularly those with putative enhancers and to map these to changes in gene function. They generated genomic interaction maps using Hi-C chromosome confirmation capture, coupled with sequence capture in several cell types, including aortic and ethelial cells, smooth muscle cells and LPS stimulated THP-1 macrophages. They captured over 25,000 features and they additionally sequenced the cellular transcriptomes and looked at epigenetic signatures using chromatin immunoprecipitation. They looked at regions interacting with gene promoters and found significant enrichment for enhancer elements. Looking at variants previously implicated in genome-wide associated studies, they identified 727 variants with promoter interactions and they were able to assign potential target genes for 398 GWAS variants. In many cases, the gene associated with a particular variant was not the closest neighbor, highlighting the importance of considering chromatin lupane when assigning intergenic variants to a gene. They identified several variants that interacted with multiple promoters, influencing expression of several genes simultaneously. Overall, this paper is a great resource for the community and takes many of these GWAS hits to the next level in starting to understand their biological relevance. They have a lot of supplemental material available online so it's definitely worth checking that out and taking a look for your favorite non-coding variant or chromosomal region to see if you can get some more information on it. Next up, Pierrick Henneton, Michael Frank and colleagues from the Hopital Europeen Georges-Pompidou in Paris bring us "Accuracy of Clinical Diagnostic Criteria For Patients with Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in a Tertiary Referral Center." The authors were interested in determining the accuracy of the diagnostic criteria used to select patients for genetic testing for suspected vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This is because, despite the Villefrench criteria being recommended for diagnosis, the accuracy of the diagnostic criteria was never formally tested. They selected 519 subjects, including 384 probands and 135 relatives who had been seen between 2001 and 2016. They assessed the sensitivity and specificity of the Villefrench classification. Almost 32% of tested individuals carried a pathogenic COL3A1 variant. The sensitivity of the Villefrench criteria was 79% with a negative predictor value of 87%. Symptomatic probands had the highest accuracy at 92% sensitivity and 95% negative predictive value. However, the specificity was just 60%. Applying revised diagnostic criteria from 2017, it was actually less accurate because even though there was an increase in specificity, the sensitivity was reduced. Overall diagnostic performance was worst in individuals under 25 and neither set of diagnostic classifications allowed for early clinical diagnosis in individuals without a family history. Our next paper is a Mendelian randomization analysis from Susanna Larsson, Stephen Burgess and colleagues from Uppsala University and the University of Cambridge. This paper entitled "Thyroid Function And Dysfunction In Relation to Sixteen Cardiovascular Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Study" aims to understand how subclinical thyroid dysfunction relates to risk of cardiovascular diseases. They generated genetic predictors for thyroid stimulating hormone, or TSH, through a GWAS meta-analysis in over 72,000 individuals. They then analyzed the association of genetically predicted TSH with cardiovascular outcomes in large GWAS studies of atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, and ischemic stroke, and further assessed associations with phenotypes in the UK Biobank. They found genetically decreased TSH levels and hyperthyroidism were associated with increased risk of atrial fibrillation but not other tested phenotypes. Overall, these data support a causal role for TSH and thyroid dysfunction in atrial fibrillation but not in other cardiovascular diseases. The next paper is also a Mendelian randomization analysis from members of the same group, Susanna Larsson, Stephen Burgess and colleagues published "Resting Heart Rate and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis." In this letter, they describe a study of the relationship between genetically increased resting heart rate and cardiovascular diseases. They constructed genetic predictors of resting heart rate and similarly to the previous study, used that as an instrument to test for associations with coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, and ischemic stroke in the cardiogram, atrial fibrillation, and mega stroke consortia respectively. They also looked at 13 CVD outcomes in the UK Biobank. They found that genetically predicted heart rate was inversely associated with atrial fibrillation with suggestive evidence for an inverse association with ischemic, cardioembolic, and large artery stroke. The inverse association with AF was replicated in the UK Biobank, supporting previous reports linking resting heart rate to atrial fibrillation. Next up, we have a letter from Robyn Hylind, Dominic Abrams, and colleagues from Boston Children's Hospital. This study entitled "Phenotypic Characterization of Individuals with Variants in Cardiovascular Genes in the Absence of a Primary Cardiovascular Indication For Testing" describes their work to probe incidental findings for potential cardiovascular disease variants in individuals undergoing clinical genomic sequencing for non-cardiac indications. They included 33 individuals who had been referred as carrying variants that were indicated as being associated with cardiovascular disease in primary or secondary findings. The variants were reclassified using the 2015 ACMG guidelines, and then were compared to the original classification report obtained at the time of sequencing. Of 10 pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants, only four of these were actually considered pathogenic or likely pathogenic after reclassification under the 2015 ACMG criteria, and none of these were associated with a cardiac phenotype. None of the variants could be definitively linked to any cardiac phenotype. The costs ranged from $75 to over $3700 per subject with a cost per clinical cardiac finding estimated at almost $14,000. This study highlights the relatively high cost and low yield of investigating potential cardiovascular variants and prompts consideration of how to implement strategies to ensure that variant reporting maximizes clinical return but minimizes the financial, time, and psychological burdens inherent in lengthy follow-ups. The next paper is a clinical letter from Serwet Demirdas, Gerben Schaaf and colleagues from Erasmus University Rotterdam entitled "Delayed Diagnosis of Danon Disease in Patients Presenting with Isolated Cardiomyopathy." They report on a clinical case of a 14-year-old boy presenting with cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation during exercise. Echocardiography and MRI showed cardiac concentric hypertrophy, particularly in the left ventricle. The boy's mother had died at age 31 after being diagnosed with peripartum dilated cardiomyopathy. Sequencing in the boy revealed a variant in the LAMP2 gene, known to be responsible for Danon disease, which typically presents as cardiomyopathy, skeletal myopathy, and intellectual disability. This same LAMP2 variant was found in preserved maternal tissue, but not in other family members. In this case, there was no evidence of muscle or intellectual abnormalities. However, sequencing had allowed for this diagnosis of Danon disease in the child and posthumously in his mother. This study demonstrates a utility of using extended gene panels in clinical sequencing to aid in diagnosis and to inform management of patients. The next letter is from Alvaro Roldan, Julian Palomino-Doza, Fernando Arribas and colleagues from University Hospital of the 12th of October in Madrid and is entitled "Missense Mutations in the FLNC Causing Familial Restrictive Cardiomyopathy: Growing Evidence." This report also highlights clinical cases. In this case, two individuals with variants in the filamin C, or FLNC gene. Two unrelated individuals presenting with restricting cardiomyopathy were sequenced and found to carry two different variants in the FLNC gene, one of which had not been previously reported. This expands the number of reported cases of filamin C mutations in restrictive cardiomyopathy and highlights the need for further study of the pathophysiology linking filamin C to cardiac function. Finally, we have some correspondence related to a previously published article. In the letter, Christopher Chung, Briana Davies, and Andrew Krahn comment on the recently published article from Jody Ingles on concealed arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in sudden unexplained cardiac death events. In that paper earlier this year, they had reported on four cases of individuals presenting with cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death, attributable to concealed arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy with underlying mutations in the plakophilin-2 gene. In the letter from Chung et al, they report similar findings where individuals may first experience electrical phenotypes before manifesting structurally detectable disease. Indeed, in their response to this letter, Ingles et al report identification of an additional case since publication of their original article. Taken together, this further strengthens the case for development of additional strategies to identify at risk individuals and predict and prevent disease events. That's all for the papers for March 2019. Go online to check them out and follow us on Twitter @Circ_Gen to see new papers as they are published online. Thanks for listening. Until next month everyone. This podcast was brought to you by Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine and the American Heart Association Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine. This program is copyright American Heart Association 2019.
Announcer: 00:00 You're listening to Trade Show Live - On the Road, featuring conversations with the people who bring trade shows to life, including attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, and trade show, industry thought leaders. We attend trade shows around the country in a wide variety of industries from healthcare consumer products and everything in between. The podcast is a production of the trade show manager, a trade show consulting firms, and now let's go on the road with Trade Show Live. Janet: 00:28 Welcome to a Trade Show Live - On the Road. This podcast is a production of the trade show manager and features an in depth look at the people, companies, and organizations that bring trade shows to life. In January 2019, we are headed to CES, the consumer electronic show, which is an amazing event that takes over all of Las Vegas every year. This year we're going with amazing group of startups and business leaders will be in Eureka Park and displaying some of the best new ideas coming from the startup community of North Carolina. One of the organizations in the North Carolina Startup pavilion is the EDPNC, which stands for the economic development partnership of North Carolina. With me today, is the chief executive officer Christopher Chung, or do you prefer Chris? Chris: 01:20 Chris is just fine. Thanks, Janet. Janet: 01:22 Welcome to Trade Show Live - On the Road. Chris: 01:25 Great to be here. Thank you. Janet: 01:27 Well, I know that the economic development of North Carolina is hot, hot, hot right now and we are making a lot of news while we didn't lay into Amazon. That's okay. There are a lot of other things come into the pipeline and a lot of exciting news. So Chris, start me off with a little bit and explain what exactly is that EDPNC. Chris: 01:47 Sure. Thanks Janet. So the economic development partnership in North Carolina or the EDPNC, we're a nonprofit organization that works to advance economic development here in the state of North Carolina. The way we approach it is really through a five fold mission, if you will. Probably what we're best known for is our work in trying to recruit companies here from outside the state. So a lot of our work involves manufacturing companies, corporate headquarters, companies in biotechnology, life sciences, information technology, food processing. Those are the kinds of industries and the types of companies that were regularly in conversations with trying to convince them to either look at North Carolina or of course ultimately locate their future growth and operations in our state. Obviously there are many, many players and partners who are involved in that process, but as a state organization, we're typically that first point of contact that gets to to hear from those companies and start laying out that sales pitch, if you will, for why we think North Carolina is the right place for their future growth. Chris: 02:47 But like I said, that's just one part of our mission overall. We're also responsible among other things for promoting North Carolina for tourism. We happen to live in a beautiful state. Everything from the Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge mountains in the all the way out to the outer banks and the crystal coast on the east at 300 miles of shoreline and a lot of wonderful things in between. So we're very fortunate to draw tens of millions of visitors to North Carolina spending billions of dollars on our local economies all throughout the state. So we want to make sure that we continue to put out a message that's going to be treating people and get them to come visit North Carolina. We also help a lot of our manufacturers to find new markets for their products overseas regions of the world. Still export assistance is what we call it, but nothing more complex than helping our companies figure out whether it makes sense for them to sell into overseas markets and if so, how do they go about getting as many customers as possible. Chris: 03:41 And then of course we try never to forget that a in spite of our efforts to recruit new companies in North Carolina, there are quite literally tens of thousands of companies already here in our state that we want to make sure we're serving their needs and helping figure out how they can grow and expand right here in the state. So it's a pretty broad mission, but all of it is important to you. In North Carolina, if we're talking about increasing job creation, we're talking about increasing tax space and of course just increasing economic opportunity for the people who call North Carolina home. Chris: 04:14 Okay. That really does sound like a very long laundry list of responsibilities, but the thing is you're not very old. This, this organization hasn't been around for a really long time. Chris: 04:26 No, we haven't. So we're celebrating our four year. Actually, we just celebrated our four year anniversary back in October. Now it's not as if North Carolina wasn't doing any of these things before. Our organization was created to essentially take over these responsibilities which used to be housed within state government in the public sector, so North Carolina followed the lead of a number of other states which in recent years have moved their state economic development functions into this kind of nonprofit or public private partnership model. Really to give a couple of things. One is just more operating flexibility than what sometimes possible within the public sector, but more importantly as a nonprofit, we're able to go out there and receive support from private industry, construction companies, utilities, banks, real estate development firms. Those are just some of the types of companies that help our operation by investing their dollars into our work, and so what that ultimately does is it gives us more resources to go out there and do all those different things that were trusted and I think that's why North Carolina made that move and a number of states have as well. So again, all of that's important work. It's just in the past four years we've changed that model and evolved it to the competitive industry that we're in right now and change different economic development goals. Janet: 05:41 Now. Do you still liaise with a governmental office? Chris: 05:45 Absolutely, yes. So the North Carolina Department of Commerce is probably the partner that we interact with by far the most often they're the ones who used to have those responsibilities that we now perform on their behalf under contract, the North Carolina Department of Commerce though still does a lot of really important things that are critical to economic development success in our state, for example, they focus a lot on workforce development. All of those things designed to make sure that when companies expand or locate here, they have access to the best talent and best training resources to help them groom their talent as possible. The Commerce Department also administers all of the state's financial incentive programs. We know that that's a pretty critical factor for a lot of the companies that are looking to locate here, whether they're small, whether they're large, whether they're everything in between. We know that they are often times looking to maximize their return on investment and reduce their costs of doing business and incentives have been one way for companies to do that, so the Commerce Department still controls all those programs. It's pretty straightforward when we've got a company that we know is interested in North Carolina, when those incentives come up in conversation, we absolutely bring our partners from the Commerce Department to the table so that we can all jointly work on getting that company to eventually decide on a location here in our state. Janet: 07:03 No, I know we've been making all kinds of top 10 lists for places to live, for talent in the marketplace for experience in certain areas, but I understand that we also have interests internationally. Chris: 07:20 Yes, absolutely. So of course, as you can imagine when we're talking to all these call them, hundreds of companies every year that we have a chance to recruit and attract here from outside the state, probably one out of three and these days is a company that's headquartered somewhere outside the United States. The United States remains a really attractive market for companies to sell into and in recent years, more and more companies have decided it makes sense for them not only to sell into the US, but to actually have a footprint or presence operating and doing business here in the United States. And so when more companies are looking at being in the US, then of course by definition that means we get more chances here in North Carolina to get those companies to call our state home for their US operations. So historically we've seen a lot of interest from western Europe and East Asia, but these days you're seeing much more activity from markets like India, Turkey, Brazil, and Israel. These are also increasingly important sources of inbound investment companies coming from those markets looking to establish operations somewhere in the US. And of course we want that somewhere in the US to be right here in North Carolina. Janet: 08:30 Okay. So that means you are marketing globally. That sounds kind of expensive. Chris: 08:36 It is. So there's never enough money. I don't think any organization ever complains about having too much money. I think our efforts to promote North Carolina, of course are, as you said, both domestically and overseas. We don't have a lot of money to go out there and take out advertisements on tv or even online or on and all these different markets, at least not on the business side. We have a little bit more to play around with when it comes to tourism promotion because we're trying to reach individual consumers as opposed to businesses, but what we do have on the business front is a network of international offices that compliment our team sitting right here in North Carolina, so we have offices in Germany covering in Europe. We have offices in China, Japan and Korea and we just opened up here in November an office in India. Chris: 09:24 Those five offices are responsible for getting in front of companies in their parts of the world, trying to convince them of the business case for why North Carolina makes sense for future expansion and so that's probably one of our best tools to get in front of the audience that we want to reach, which are growth minded companies overseas. Thinking about where they want to be. And then of course here in the United States it's a lot easier because we're sitting in the US and so it's a lot easier for us to get out to industry conferences, industry gatherings, association meetings, events like CES. These are all prime, fertile territory for us to get out there with the message of North Carolina and why we're an excellent location for companies to do their future expansion. Janet: 10:07 Well, I certainly love wearing my North Carolina hat and I represent probably the typical North Carolinian ... I'm not from around here, so I was born and raised in New England and Gosh Dolly, they have a snow up there in the wintertime and went to college in Baltimore and they still had snow so I finally had to make it to North Carolina and wow, did I find home! I'm just think the Carolinas or are the perfect climate and you could get to the from the mountains to the ocean in a single day drive and it's just a beautiful, beautiful place to live. And I think a lot of folks, US Yankee, so moved down here sort of adopt some of the hospitality focused that the south is so famous for and this is really just a wonderful place to live. Chris: 10:54 It really is. I mean, there's a reason why North Carolina has been one of the fastest growing states when it comes to population. We've grown at roughly double the national average over the past two decades or so. Of course, some of that population growth happens organically when you have more people that die, but for states like North Carolina, we've also seen so much of that population growth result from migration, so people moving here from other parts of the US. We certainly get people moving here from outside the US, but a lot of it has been those transplants that are moving here from either the northeast or the Midwest, even places like California who are deciding that either for quality of life reasons or economic opportunity reasons. North Carolina is where they want to be. That's really good for our businesses as well. Because what that means is the talent pool is not only being filled with university and college graduates, but it's also being filled by people who move here after college. People who move here in the middle of their careers who have plenty of years of productivity ahead of them. That deepens the talent pool in a way that's really attractive for the companies that we're speaking to. Again, I think all of this goes back to some of those quality of life issues that make North Carolina is such a great place to be. Janet: 12:11 What are the things that I found fascinating is the number of industries that you all represent or anyone who wants to have a business in North Carolina. How do you keep a talent pool at the EDPNC that knows how to talk to different verticals like health care or consumer electronics or manufacturing or furniture or whatever. That sounds like you have to have a pretty big staff. Chris: 12:36 Well, it obviously helps to have some background and knowledge of a particular industry, especially what that industry is often looking for when it comes to selecting a new place to do business. But all that said, I would say that economic developers, including our team of recruiters here by definition, have to be more generalists than specialists. That's because on any given day today, you could be working with a fortune 500 corporate headquarters that's looking to relocate because they don't feel like they've got enough talent where they are right now and they need to move to a market that does. Or the next day you could be working with an automotive assembly plants that's looking at where it's going to locate the next day. After that. It could be a consumer package goods manufacturer that's looking at where it's going to set up a new production facility. The next day after that. It could be a biotech research and development center. Chris: 13:29 Bottom line is every single day really does bring a different set of conversations, so rather than focus on becoming experts in all of these industries or a jack of all trades, master of none. What's more important for us as the salespeople or the frontline salespeople for North Carolina is really be able to plug those companies in and that we're trying to recruit. Get them in front of some of those subject matter experts and other resources that are here in North Carolina. That can articulate the case for why those companies can be successful here. It's ultimately about building the right team around the table that can collectively make that pitch and convince that company why this is the best location for them. So I think for us it's about understanding what that company's looking for and then matching them up with the information and the resources that will help them get to that understanding that North Carolina is really the only place they need to look. Janet: 14:24 I am curious about the word partnership in your title. So who are you partnering with and why would a current company be interested in partnering with you to bring more companies here? Chris: 14:37 Sure. So great question. I mean it's very deliberate why we have that word in our name. As I said, even though we are fortunate to often be that first point of contact that companies and their consultants reach out to when they're thinking about where to expand, nothing we do is accomplished without a very broad team efforts. Again, we're working at a state level. We have partners like the North Carolina Department of Commerce around the table. Sometimes you'll even get agencies like the environmental quality department which handles all the permitting, very important issue for manufacturers. Sometimes you may have the state transportation department, which of course could help with somebody infrastructure needs that a company is thinking about that's just at the state level alone. You get down to a regional level and down to a local level and there are a lot of partners at each of those stages that are also wanting to be able to add value and help further that argument to accompany as to why they need to be here and then of course we've got a lot of private sector partners. Chris: 15:36 Again, utility companies play a big role in that business recruitment effort. Construction companies can often be very valuable in that effort. We are, as I said earlier, we are trying to put the best team around the table that can articulate the most impactful case to companies as to why North Carolina's their best choice for their future growth. That symphony of partners is going to look different probably every single project that we're working on because the needs of every single company are different. When it comes to their future growth, so I think that's a big part of why that term partnership is part of Our Name and it doesn't just come into play when we're trying to recruit companies that you look at what we do on the tourism front or helping companies export and in all of those areas we also team up with a lot of other organizations that can help us accomplish the mission that we're entrusted with. Chris: 16:30 So like I said, partnership is a key part of economic development. Everyone who's in this business will tell you it very much is a team sport. We of course hope that as more companies come to North Carolina, we can convert some of those companies into being surrogate spokespeople and ambassadors for North Carolina. The best success story tellers that we can recruit are the ones who have come here and done business and been successful because if they can go out there and tell their peers in the industry by North Carolina is a great place to be, that's going to be far more than those words coming from the mouths of folks like us paid to say good things about North Carolina. That business to business, peer to peer testimony. That's another way that we hope to partner with companies as we get that story out there about North Carolina. Janet: 17:15 One of the unique things about the consumer electronic show where we're going to be in Eureka Park is it's all about the startup community and what I love about North Carolina is it does have everything from the a five decade companies with experience to brand new startups and I know that's one of the things that North Carolina has focused on and what we're looking at is what we're growing in our own backyard. So tell me a little bit about the economic development partnerships role in helping startups in North Carolina. Chris: 17:48 Sure, absolutely. I think we would assist startups in pretty much the same way we would assist any company that approaches us for assistance. Those startup companies, whether their needs are around capital, whether their needs a hiring a certain kind of talent, whether those needs are the ability to partner with universities. We have a number of world class universities here in North Carolina. Sometimes those early stage startup companies may even be looking for access to particular types of customers or an entree into a particular customer relationship that would benefit them down the road. Any and all of these ways are ways that we believe we can add value by helping those startup companies get to where they want to be. Of course, it's on those startup companies to prove that a venture capital firm should invest in them. It's up to them to prove that a potential customer should buy their product or service. Of course, that's always going to be the case, but if we can help facilitate some of those introductions to those resources here in North Carolina, that ultimately is something we want to do because that can lead to those startup companies starting right here in our state or putting all of their future growth here. Janet: 18:58 Well, of course we're on a podcast talking about trade shows and trade shows must be an important part of how you're getting the message out of the EDPNC Chris: 19:08 they are, as I said, it'd be great if we had infinite resources for marketing and could plaster every available surface, Pro North Carolina message, but unfortunately that's not the not the world we live in or wherever the world, but I will live in so we have to be very strategic and very focused about how we get out there and tell that story of North Carolina as a business location, industry conferences, industry, trade shows, events like CES. These are great platforms for us because they congregate so many companies in that targeted industry sector that we want to go after. When you think about CES and the kinds of innovative technology companies that CS attracts large, small in between, it really ought to be fertile grounds for us to make connections, develop relationships, and most importantly, get that message out about North Carolina being an excellent place for business to start, grow or locate. Janet: 20:03 I think one of the interesting things, you will find it CES, where we are in Eureka Park is interestingly, it is predominantly foreign countries who are represented there and we found our experience last year was that most of the states were not represented, so we're very excited that North Carolina is going to be banned or leading with prison said the Eureka Park as part of CES. Chris: 20:29 We're absolutely thrilled as well. It'll be our first time at CES. I suspect it won't be our last time though. Like I said, when you think about the kinds of companies that will be gathered at CES, you think about the value proposition. North Carolina has everything from talent pool to university research to quality of life, cost of doing business. We have all of the elements that any of these companies, again, large, small and in between would be craving as they think about where they're going to expand in the future and we're just really excited to be able to get out there and start telling that story in this setting. Speaker 2: 21:02 And for those who are listening who planned to come to CES, you can find the North Carolina Startup pavilion in Eureka Park, which is the startup park. We saw Mark Cuban there last year, so who knows who's going to come by this year and to find us more easily. Look for Singapore. We're across the street from them. Chris: 21:21 It is a small world, right? Janet: 21:23 Absolutely, and I'm really. It's like being in an international environment. Absolutely. In, in Eureka Park. Well, Chris, I am so excited that the economic development partnership of North Carolina is going to be with us at CES and I very much look forward to telling more stories about the exciting things that are going on in North Carolina. I'm a big fan girl and hopefully I'll be wearing a North Carolina shirt while I'm there. Chris: 21:48 We'll count on seeing you in it. Janet: 21:50 You've been listening to trade show, live on the road. This podcast is a production of the trade show manager and features in depth interviews with people, the companies, and the organizations that really bring trade shows to life. We'll see you in January at CES, the consumer electronic show. Thanks for listening. Announcer: 22:11 Thanks for listening to Trade Show Live - On the Road for production of the trade show manager, a trade show consulting firm. 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Today Christopher Chung (Lanterns: The Harvest Festival) looks at board game design based on the word "vanward".: located in the vanguard : advancedhttp://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD118-Vanward.mp3
Today Christopher Chung (Lanterns: The Harvest Festival) looks at board game design based on the word "thimblerig".1 : to cheat by trickery2 : to swindle by a trick in which a small ball or pea is quickly shifted from under one to another of three small cups to fool the spectator guessing its locationhttp://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD119-Thimblerig.mp3
Sen brings Jessey Wright and Christopher Chung on to talk balance in game design. And maybe some Star Wars stuff. Maybe.
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Shelley and I try two games that involve light...one that's lighter, the other that's rather heavy. Bretagne by Marco Pozzi from Placentia Games and Lanterns by Christopher Chung from Foxtrot Games both of which are solid, interesting games that we MAY be discussing next week during our Top 10 Games of 2015 on EPISODE 500!!!!
In today's podcast Randy Hoyt, of Foxtrot Games, goes into a lot of detail regarding all of the costs associated with running a Kickstarter campaign. We also talk about what it was like when Lanterns won the Mensa Select award, and we learn that Randy doesn't like getting wet. RICHARD: Hello, this is Richard Miles with boardgameauthority.com and today my guest is RANDY: Randy Hoyt, owner of Foxtrot Games. RICHARD: Hi Randy, thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. You have a Kickstarter coming up for World's Fair, tell us when we can expect to see that? RANDY: Yeah, we're targeting September 29th, which is about two weeks from when we're recording. RICHARD: Now, we'll certainly get into World's Fair but, first let's talk about the other games that Foxtrot has. You have two games on store shelves right now, is that correct? RANDY: That's correct, we have Relic Expedition, our first game. It's a jungle exploration game, think, like Indiana Jones. The board starts small and as you explore out a bunch of new tiles are revealed and the jungle grows in unpredictable ways each time. The second game is Lanterns the Harvest Festival, that's another tile laying game, you're playing an artisan in imperial China decorating the palace lake with floating lanterns to gain favor with the emperor. RICHARD: Now, I must confess, I haven't played Relic Expeditions but I have played Lanterns and that's a family favorite. It's actually a big hit anywhere I take it: board game night, a relative’s house, everybody seems to really enjoy this game and, as I understand it, Lanterns the Harvest Festival won a Mensa Select Award. Is that correct? RANDY: It did, yeah, it was in, I guess, the beginning of May. RICHARD: And what was winning the Mensa Select Award like for Foxtrot Games? RANDY: Oh, man, it was so great to, hear the news. It was on Twitter, we'd been told that it would be about two weeks after the judging that we would hear but that afternoon it started coming up on Twitter and, you know, we saw the first tweets I'm like, "Is this for real? This person seems to be, like they're part of the Mensa Select, like, is this, is this, really happening?" And so, just sort of over the course of an hour seeing a bunch of different tweets that it finally seemed real and it was, just great to, when you put so much effort and energy into a product that you love and to just have, you know, just hundreds of people that participated in the judging love it also, it's just so rewarding and so wonderful, yeah, it was, I was grinning like the whole next week. RICHARD: Congratulation, it is well-deserved, that game is deceptively simple, with some underlying complexity, due to the fact that on your turn you not only select the colors that you're going to receive but also what colors you're going to give your opponents. I haven’t really seen that mechanic in a lot of games and I really enjoy it. RANDY: And when I first saw, when I first read the rulebook for it, I mean, this was a game designed by Christopher Chung, and he submitted it to us, and when I read the rulebook and saw that mechanic where when I place a tile I give everyone else, including myself, a resource I just thought, "Wow, that's really cool. That’s a really easy sale when I explain it to people and if the game is really fun, I’m going to want to make this.” And, still, to this day when I explain the game to people, I get 30 seconds, and their eyes just light up when I tell them, "You get a resource but so do all your opponents." And, that's the hook in that game and it plays out so nicely. RICHARD: Yeah, it really does. I read a few days ago where Lanterns is about to sell 10,000 copies. RANDY: That's right, we just sold out of our second print run and when we sell out, as a publisher,
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