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Foster School of Business, Founders Hall, Washington

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Foster School of Business, Founders Hall, University of Washington

September 21, 2021

Design: LMN Architects

Location: 4215 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, Washington, USA

LMN Architects Celebrates The Design And Topping Out Of The Foster School Of Business Founders Hall At The University Of Washington

The Founders Hall Learning Facility Expands The Michael G. Foster School Of Business While Vitalizing The Historic Campus Core.

Founders Hall, Foster School of Business, University of Washington

Seattle, Washington – September 21, 2021 – LMN Architects is proud to celebrate the “topping out” of the mass timber structure for Founders Hall at the UW Foster School of Business. Framing the northeast edge of historic Denny Yard, the open space at the heart of the original campus plan, the new 85,000 sf building is expected to be completed in the Summer of 2022.

Founders Hall expands the Foster School business education complex with a diversity of student-facing programs to further embed its interactive culture of learning, strategic thinking, and entrepreneurial initiative fabric of the central campus. The building is organized in two parts to optimize program functionality of workplace, learning and collaboration activities.

Active-learning, collaboration and event spaces are positioned at the south edge of the site to engage the distinctive qualities of the Denny Yard landscape, as well as link to the intensively used pedestrian pathways that traverse the precinct. Landscaped terraces and rain gardens reinforce the natural slope and evergreen plantings of the treasured open space. By contrast, the north building façade along Stevens Way is clad in masonry in response to solidity of campus buildings that front the ring road.

An open circulation space serves as a central connector with a feature stair that provides shared access to tiered classrooms, student commons, special event venue and outdoor terrace. The tiered classrooms are designed to serve multiple group sizes, from 65 to 135 students, with active-learning functionality. The collaboration zone is further activated by twenty-eight team rooms, four conference rooms, a student commons, and an event forum with an adjacent roof terrace.

Frank Hodge, Orin & Janet Smith Dean, Foster School of Business, comments: “LMN Architects has been a true partner in designing Founders Hall. Decisions were made in a collaborative manner with ideas openly shared and outcomes respected by both parties. Our decision to switch from a concrete and steel structure to a mass timber structure was a monumental shift in design. LMN excelled at incorporating all of our ideas to celebrate the use of wood in the project, and created a more open, inviting, beautiful, and highly functional design.”

Founders Hall reflects the highly interactive nature of business in the new century and is designed for sustainable performance and social connection to inspire future generations of business leaders. The project is a model for sustainable design at the University of Washington and is embracing UW’s Green Building Standards to reduce emissions from embodied carbon by 83%.

Mark Reddington, Partner, LMN Architects, comments: “This project completes a complex of interconnected buildings and spaces which we have been designing for the Foster School over many years. It serves multiple program functions with an inclusive and equitable social environment, integrated into the historic landscape of the UW campus.”

The building features a system of collaboration spaces designed to encourage teamwork and foster spontaneous interaction amongst students, program staff, and the broader business community. The classrooms, conference facilities, and recruiting spaces provide expanded opportunities for community and corporate engagement through hosting events and inviting outside speakers, alumni, and corporate recruiters.

Robert Vincent, Project Manager, Hoffman Construction Company, comments: “The guiding principle for our design-build team has been to identify the best alternatives and solutions for the project. We embraced the client’s desire for a mass timber structure, and although we experienced some supply chain disruption due to the pandemic, we are on track to become a model of what is possible with new technologies and construction techniques. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with everyone at the University of Washington, LMN Architects, the team of consultants, and all the trade partners involved in the success of the project.”

Robert Smith, Principal, LMN Architects, comments: “This project demonstrates how an integrated client and design-build team can translate a vision of sustainability into a building that is equally successful at fostering social performance of the users as well as the operational performance of the building. The 83% reduction in operational carbon is a result of careful balancing between envelope performance, the mechanical system design, and the users’ commitment to leverage operable windows and ceiling fans in lieu of energy-intensive air conditioning.”

The building is LMN’s most recent project within the Foster School of Business, which began with the initial master plan in 2002 and also includes the PACCAR Hall and Dempsey Hall projects. Founders Hall is one of the first projects at the University of Washington to be delivered through progressive design-build project delivery.

LMN Architects has designed more than 140 projects on 47 campuses in the United States, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle; the Voxman Music Building at the University of Iowa in Iowa City; Edward J. Minskoff Pavilion at Michigan State University in East Lansing; and the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business at Clemson University.

Founders Hall, Foster School of Business, University of Washington – Building Information

Design: LMN Architects

Project Title: Founders Hall, Foster School of Business, University of Washington.

Location: 4215 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA

Design Years: 2018-2020

Construction Years: 2020-2022

Major Building Materials: Curtain wall, brick, mass timber structure (cross-laminated timber floors with glulam post and beam), concrete shear cores, steel long-span beams at classrooms.

Program: Case study classrooms, event space, student commons, team rooms, conference rooms, informal learning areas, administration and research offices, lounges, and outdoor event terraces. Includes surface parking, bike parking, and shower rooms.

Site Area:: 80,200 SFT (7,450 s.m.)

Floor Area: 85,000 SFT (7,897 s.m.)

Building Height:70’. (21.3 m.)

Number of Floors: 5

Project Images

Project Renderings: LMN Architects

Construction Images: Adam Hunter/LMN Architects

Project Credits

Architect: LMN Architects 801 Second Avenue, Suite 501 Seattle, Washington 98104

Project Team: Kjell Anderson, AIA David Backs James Blanchard Hank Butitta Nicholas Freese Andrew Gustin Emily Hankins Hanna Kato, AIA Mark La Venture, AIA John Lim, AIA Susan Lowance, AIA Vanessa Ly-Nguyen, AIA Veronica Macalinao, AIA Chris Patterson, AIA Mark Reddington, FAIA Chris Savage, AIA George Shaw, FAIA Robert Smith, AIA Masako Wada Kate Westbrook, AIA John Woloszyn, AIA Rushyan Yen

Design-Builder: Hoffman Construction Company.

Structural Engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates with Katerra.

Civil Engineer: Mayfly Engineering & Design, Pllc.

Landscape Architect: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Ltd.

Lighting Design: HLB Lighting Design.

Mechanical and Electrical Engineer: PAE Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Plumbing Engineer: Burman Design.

Signage: Studio Matthews.

Commissioning: Wilson Jones Commissioning.

Envelope Consultant: Morrison Hershfield.

LEED Administration and Energy Modeler: O’Brien360.

Environmental Graphic Designer: Advent, LLC.

Acoustics: The Greenbusch Group.

Trade Partners: Pellco Construction (Earthwork & Utilities), Steelkorr (Steel), Performance Contracting, Inc. (Interiors), McKinstry (Mechanical), VECA (Electrical), and Herzog Glass (Glazing).

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Location: 4215 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, Washington, 98105, USA

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“I’m Compelled To Do It”; an Interview w/Lisa Jane Persky, Photographer, Writer, and Artist

In high school I was going to move to New York and grab the city by its throat. I was going to have at least 500 friends, own a punky couture boutique, and hold gothic open mics there every night and maybe date a Stroke for a few months. My imagination was like an entire universe of different identities, with tiny planets for NYC, Paris, 90s Seattle, 20s Greenwich Village. My favorite magazine was Pitchfork Review, and when I read Lisa Jane Persky’s piece, “X Offenders: A Typical Day in the Life of an NYC Proto Punk”, I got really jealous of her and then I got over that and wanted to know more. So I sent her a pouring my heart out email about how boring my neighborhood was, and how her story gave me hope for my own “New York story.” Sappy, right? Also, it was likely the truest thing I had ever written, before or since. As an over emotional messy artist, I’ve learned that the only way for me to get anything done is to rip open my heart and be as (healthily!) vulnerable as I can. In my experience, this has led me to knit a sweater for my favorite lead singer (Luke of the Walters) throw pads at Mario of the Orwells, and interview one of the coolest people I know.

Hi Lisa! How are you?

Lisa Jane Persky: I’m fine, just doing so many things at once! How are you?

I’m good! What are you working on right now?

LJP: I’m going to do a ten-day residency in London in June with my friends at Underground, a subculture inspired brand that makes some cool favorite stuff of mine. We found each other in 2015 and have been plotting something to do together ever since. June is Music Month in the UK and the residency will first of all be a show of my early photography, mostly of the Blondie days, and CBGB's time, really early, like 74-75. Along with that I’m programming various events, so different artists will come, DJs, musicians, underground comic book illustrators, all along the lines of subculture and music.

What made you want to photograph Blondie, since you were already familiar with them as friends?

LJP: Mostly it was access to a camera! I had a camera my dad used to use, and the band was just so cool looking, and I was going out with Gary Valentine at the time. Chris and Debbie were living in my friends loft, which is now known as the Blondie loft on the Bowery, where the band also rehearsed, and up there on the fourth floor was a big, torn white backdrop for portraits. It all started with an *official* session where I took 5 rolls of film in the loft, and those were pretty cool so I just kept going.

What is a good picture to you?

LJP: I like looking at people, studying them and observing what they do. When I shoot portraits we create an atmosphere together. I try to make a comfortable space for the subject to play, to be who they are with me, in spite of my lens I really enjoy seeing that, and the collaboration of it. It has to mean

something to me and I try to frame in the camera, and not edit it later. My eyes really were the frame then. Everyone looks so beautiful, was so young. When you’re young, you think, “we’re all so that!” And they were. Debbie’s a beautiful woman. She makes a picture look good, without much effort. I’m all

about making Instagram a place for my work right now. I like the shooting for that square shape. I love seeing other people’s photography evolve there.

Who were some of your other musical subjects?

LJP: I photographed Martin Rev of Suicide, I did a series on keyboard players, Cherry Vanilla’s, Zecca, and Richard Sohl, Patti Smith’s keyboard player, Kristian Hoffman of the Mumps, Lance Loud and the other Mumps, The Fast, mostly my friends and mostly portraits. I prefer to see live music rather than photograph it.

Yeah! I photograph shows sometimes and I prefer to ask to take pictures of the band after because I feel like the subject will give me more than when they’re thinking I’m just an anonymous photographer. What motivates you as an artist?

LJP: I’m compelled to do it, I want to do it. That said, writing is harder for me than all the other things I do. I’m not really sure why. I think it’s because there’s a loneliness to it that the others don’t have. Even when I’m out photographing my landscapes, which I call Lonescapes because there are no people in them, I never feel lonely. But there’s some kind of foreboding loneliness in writing that keeps me away from it. But I love having written, which is how most people probably feel.

”The picture of me is a photo booth pic. I’m wearing an Eagle’s Nest T-Shirt. The Eagle’s Nest was a gay hardcore leather bar in the Meatpacking District (no girls allowed) and their symbol was that Eagle on the shirt, which is the eagle that in part inspired Arturo Vega to design the Ramones Eagle. There are all kinds of other stories out there about Arturo's art but he loved America and being in it, had a great sense of humor about its hypocrisies. The Bicentennial was coming up and that was a very big deal in New York City with sailors from the fancy wooden Tall Ships arriving and all. Anyway, I thought you might like to see that and know about it. The Eagle's Nest is now called The Eagle and it has moved uptown from its old location.”

What do you get out of making art?

LJP: The most important thing is what connects me to different people. I like being able to be in the world with others to share stories with people who aren’t necessarily like myself. Each of these things I do connects me to others in different ways. I value that, making and having friends and exploring the world through art and music together more than anything. But I also have no idea what else I’d do. I really don’t.

So the way we met online was through me reading your piece in Pitchfork; what made you want to write that?

LJP: Every year my husband and I go to a conference that highlights music writing of all types, a very eclectic mix of people and papers, and I one year presented a paper on my interview with the Ramones, which I did the day after their first record came out. And then I wanted to write another paper, since everyone had been asking me, “what was it like back then?” And I had read something Tommy Dean (Mills), who owned Max’s at that time in the 70s had said in an interview. He said that all the girls who came to the club with or to see the bands back then were either hookers or groupies. And I read that and it made me really mad, because all of us had been working our tails off, we were not hookers or groupies! Not that there is anything wrong with being a hooker or groupie, it’s just that way he characterized all the women. It said more about him than us but that quote coupled with people asking what it was like, made me decide to write what it was like for me. So I wrote that and presented it at the conference, and used photos I had or had taken or found that went with the text, so people could get a three dimensional look at what a day in the life in downtown New York back then was like.

What was writing for the New York Rocker like?

LJP: Well, that is why I was interested in what you’re doing, because it’s very similar. It was just a bunch of us going to these shows. Early on there was hardly anyone going, just us, the people in the bands and the neighborhood, other artists, our friends and then Alan Betrock. He was older and always a superfan of rock music, especially pop and girl groups. He had a zine before there were zines. I don't know what you'd call them but it was amateur publishing by smart people and he and others like Greg Shaw would

write to each other about records newsletter style sometimes on mimeograph paper because they didn’t even have Xerox machines then and they’d snail-mail it around because it was the only way. So he showed up and we knew he was a kind of force and then it was like “Lets have a newspaper!” and he gave birth to New York Rocker with us as his staff and we wrote about each other and it was much more representative of the downtown music scene in the early '70s than PUNK magazine was. PUNK magazine was great but was its own more specific world.

What do you think was the most interesting thing one of these musicians said to you?

LJP: One of my favorite answers, when I asked the Ramones in July of 1976 what they liked to do when they weren’t making music, they all agreed, and I think it was Johnny who said it, “we like to hang out in stairwells.” And he wasn’t kidding; they liked to hang out in stairwells in Queens. One of the things that was good about being there and these early interviews was you got an idea of who everyone was in an unguarded way except for Patti Smith who always seemed strategic and cautious. It was before anyone else there was famous or known, and no one knew whether they were going to be anyone or not. We were all hanging out with our pants down, there was no hiding going on.

What do you think were punk’s biggest inspirations back then?

LJP: In the beginning, they were all pop bands, really. Everyone really liked pop, and everyone was a fan of real rock n roll, and what we heard on the radio was more like Bread and yacht rock before it was called that, and it didn’t feel like what we grew up with and times were tough and a lot of us were just furious, had a ton of energy that needed an outlet. And then, too, we all liked glam. These things, the pop sensibility, the love of glam and the performative aspects of that and the furious energy was the most visible, in many of the Max's and CBGB'S bands 74-76. In 76 the Sex Pistols who had been influenced by The Ramones but had their own kind of fury and other UK bands started to have an effect. There was a lot of discussion, which I wrote about in the New York Rocker and the LA Weekly, about whether our New York music was punk. And we didn’t think so. We were, most of us, a bunch of punk kids but Punk wasn’t a good moniker for most NY bands.

A lot of your Pitchfork article was also about your acting career. How did you get into acting?

LJP: Yeah, that article was about the time when you could still get an apartment for $65 a month in Greenwich Village. There was a lot of experimental theater in the neighborhood, and this guy who lived in my building was a wonderful, known playwright and all around character in The Village named Harry (H.M. Koutoukas), and he came up to me on the street one day and said, “Darling I've written a play for you. Rehearsals start on Sunday. The pay is $25 a week. I’m sending someone to pick you up.” And I didn’t really have anything better to do, I wasn’t sure what I was doing. It was right after I graduated from high school. The guy he sent to pick me up, came to my apartment, walked me from there to the East Village to La Mama Experimental Theater Club and we started rehearsals, and that got my career started. I was enthusiastic and had a passion for it and even more important, I got laughs. The guy who picked me up and walked me to the first rehearsal of the play was the same person who let Chris and Debbie move into the loft on the Bowery with him. The theaters I worked in were right around the corner from CBGB’s so it was convenient to go to shows after I’d perform. The acting part of my career went on until about 2005. I haven’t done much of it since then but I'd welcome the opportunity to play some juicy part with fun people.

What was your favorite acting role? LJP: Well, that’s a hard question to answer because I’d almost always think, “this is the best job, this is the most fun I’ve ever had!” I loved the film The Big Easy, because I had worked with the director Jim McBride before, and we knew each other pretty well. And there was a preponderance of male characters in that script and I said to him, “you should make one of these detectives a woman. It would be so much more interesting.” We had to convince the producer, and we did, and I basically got to write my own role. And you were in the Golden Girls! What was that like? LJP: Well, those ladies are pretty amazing and admirable, as you might imagine. Bea didn’t like to talk very much. She would come in every morning and say “good morning everyone” and not really talk to anyone all day, unless she had a note for you about your performance. It was quite odd. It was fun, but there were more fun jobs. It was more fun to watch them work. What music/art/other stuff do you like today? LJP: Theres a band called Shame that’s from the UK, and they just put out a record called Songs of Praise. I’ve seen them live and they’re fantastic. They have the spirit that I saw back then, in the mid 70s from all the punk bands that we didn’t call punk. I love Mary Epworth who is putting her own unique ethereal spin on psychedelia. She has a beautiful voice. I love so many artists and musicians that I don’t know where to start listing but I’ll tell you this, at any given time you might find me listening to Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio Is My Life! I’ve been listening to Simple Minds again lately. I like Orwells, who I learned about from you. When I was growing up I was the only girl that I knew who had a record player and records. My father worked at a newspaper, so I got a lot of free records. My stepfather was a violinist and he would buy me more experimental music. I always liked noise and I was the only girl I knew who liked prog, and I still like prog. I love Steven Wilson, from Porcupine Tree--but not Porcupine Tree. I like his prog band which goes by his name. I like his work in part because he writes interesting songs about women. No one’s really paid enough attention to that. Prog is leaving behind it’s reputation as a masculine ghetto. Someone needs to write about it. Maybe me, but I haven’t gotten around to that.

Interview by Chloe Graham

All Images Courtesy of Lisa Jane Persky

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jordan202 · 7 years ago

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My Boys: Beyond the Horizon - Chapter 5

there you go @francescabuccino, upon your insistence! lol thanks @jia911 for proofreading this baby.

Previous chapters are HERE.

My Boys: Beyond the Horizon – Chapter Five

Emily swallowed hard as she fell back on the chair, instantly noticing the look of recognition on Lucas’ face and just how absolutely stunned he seemed.

But as quickly as the surprise became evident on his face, it disappeared. The star soccer player easily pulled himself back together, allowing his momentary response to go unnoticed amidst a wave of questions and photography flashes.

The way Emily’s stomach churned as the car had pulled up to the stadium parking lot now made every sense. A few days before, the girl had heard Thomas saying his brother was back in town as well, but at first, Emily supposed it was only for a visit. The obvious dimension of what really was happening caught her off guard and yet now, the journalist couldn’t even properly process it, because she had a job to do and needed to focus on it.

Emily wasn’t one to believe in things such as fate or conspiracy from the universe, but right at that moment, she was wondering if maybe some of that could be true. After all, what possible reason could there be for her past to be catching up with her, all at once?

Across from the stand, Lucas leaned over the microphone and politely answered a long series of questions, once or twice flashing his most charismatic smile. He was genuinely happy to be back in Seattle and that was evident in every answer he gave the reporters gathered in the press conference.

But even though his eyes would sway back and forth according to the journalist whose turn it was to talk to him, his mind couldn’t let go of the figure seated in the third or fourth row, hiding in plain sight. Since he was much too experienced in those events, during the round of questions Lucas was able to figure out a few things. One, Emily was in a party of three journalists and amongst the entire audience, she seemed the least inclined to actually ask him anything, settled for making rapid notes on a yellow paper pad instead. Two, she was having a hard time keeping up with everything, he assumed, judging by how out of place in that environment she seemed to be.

And at last, not only did she seem uncomfortable to see him there - and Lucas felt absolutely surprised -, something about the way she’d so blatantly avoided his gaze made him wonder if Emily wasn’t as shocked as he was.

The conference extended for another thirty minutes. It ended with Lucas breaking protocol and instead of flashing the jersey number 3 with his name on it, the athlete actually took off his own shirt and put the jersey on, expressing to the fans that when it came to playing for the Sounders, his commitment wasn’t only because of his contract but rather to genuine devotion to the team.

By the time the interview was over, Emily planned to get out of there as soon as possible and hopefully take the rest of the day to come up with a piece that would thoroughly make use of all the information she’d gotten on her notepad. Some of the journalists had been able to plan an individual interview with the athlete for after the conference, and those were scheduled for the next hour, but Emily had no interest in being a part of it. The last thing she wanted that day was to face Lucas Hunt. Much to her dismay, she found the group of journalists being escorted to an adjoined room where a coffee break was taking place.

Before she left the auditorium, Emily had the distinct impression of watching from a distance as Lucas whispered something in the ear of a middle aged woman who was dressed as an executive figure for the team. The woman laughed, obviously delighted as the young athlete flashed her a satisfied smile.

Emily sighed impatiently, rolling her eyes. She bet those habits were too hard for him to let it go.

Fifteen minutes later, the journalist was about to suggest to her two colleagues that they left at once when the executive woman she’d noticed moments earlier discreetly came in her direction.

“Miss Spencer,” she started, noticing by the way Emily raised her eyes that she had come to the right person. “Will you please come with me?”

The unknown lady then gently made room for Emily to pass and before the journalist could take notice, she was being guided to a room across the auditorium. Emily was just about to ask what was going on when the woman walked in after her.

“Can I get you a coffee? Tea?” the stranger offered, looking at her with warm friendly eyes.

“No, thank you, I…”

“Please make yourself comfortable,” she smiled through the lenses of her glasses, moving around with the practicality of a businesswoman who didn’t waste unnecessary seconds on small talk. “We’ll be right with you.”

After saying the words, the executive left, leaving Emily alone in the room. She wondered if they’d made a mistake and gone to the wrong person, but her name had distinctively been said. After a few minutes of waiting that felt like an eternity in the state of mind she was in, the journalist decided to look for someone to ask why she’d been separated from her colleagues.

But just as her hand reached out to exit the room, the doorknob turned around and the one person Emily least expected to see walked into the room.

In a fraction of a second, it felt like all the air had been sucked out of her lungs, making Emily unconsciously hold her breath. Steely, blue eyes met hers and studied them carefully, taking their time to purposefully torment her with that thick silence.

The idea that the slight crease on the corner of lips could mean a smug smile was enough to make Emily lose her head with how impetuous, shameless and absolutely annoying her ex-boyfriend was.

“Spencer,” his voice broke the heavy atmosphere between them just as Emily was about to say something. She wondered if he had waited on purpose until she was just about to talk to interrupt her thoughts. “I am ready if you are,” he raised an eyebrow, politely pointing to a couple of comfortable chairs next to a coffee table.

Lucas secretly was having a hard time understanding what was going on. He had a million questions in his head. Why was Emily there? Wasn’t she in New York? Since when did she work covering sports news?

Emily’s confusion was evident on her face though, and she lost her patience completely.

“What the hell are you doing?” she asked when she saw Lucas taking a seat in one of the large chairs, crossing his long legs at his ankles as he leaned back on it.

“You’re a reporter, right?” he smiled almost wickedly. “I suppose that’s what you're here for. To interview me? Well, report away.”

“I’m not…”

The sound of the door opening interrupted Emily and she looked over her shoulder to find the expectant face of the same executive woman who’d led her there.

“Miss Spencer, you have fifteen minutes.”

Just like that, she left again, pretty much sentencing the girl to being stuck with Lucas in that private audience for the next quarter of hour with the risk of looking extremely unprofessional if she walked away like she’d been about to do.

Emily took a deep breath, trying to understand how she’d come to find herself in that situation to begin with. Her career was very important to her, but no more important than her dignity. So far, she didn’t have a concrete reason to leave the room, but if she had to, even though she couldn’t afford to lose that job, she wouldn’t hesitate to storm out.

“So… Are you planning to ask me any questions in the following fourteen minutes?” Lucas raised one eyebrow at her, his excessive confidence irritating the girl more than it should.

Emily followed the trail of his gaze and noticed the small round clock atop one of the high walls. Feeling undermined and angry, the journalist took a seat on the chair opposite to him.

As she did, their eyes made contact once again and she couldn’t help being assaulted by a flash of memory. Events of days past ran in front of her face like they’d happened just yesterday and Emily swallowed hard, refusing to go back there and open that box of feelings.

Reaching out to her pad, Emily scanned through the notes she’d taken. The journalist had conducted several interviews before, with many businessmen and women who ran the most notorious and influential companies and corporations in the country. She’d had publications printed on Forbes magazine, discussed economy policies with important CEOs and even debated state taxes with a senior senator.

But it was only while interviewing a soccer athlete that she had ever felt that nervous.

“Okay, this is obviously not working out very well,” Lucas pointed out, straightening in his chair and bending forward as he narrowed his eyes. Her silence was getting to him, more than he imagined it would. “I don’t have to explain to you how it works, do I?”

Emily looked up, directing at him her most despicable contempt.

“Five years later and you’re still the same obnoxious, condescending, cocky idiot, aren’t you?” Emily acidly replied before she could contain herself.

Lucas chuckled and the way he seemed delighted by her answer enraged Emily even more. She was irritated at him. Great, now they had walked into known territory.

“You know, Spencer, this is the very first time I see you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing,” he stated, looking from the notes on her lap to her fiery hazel eyes, exposing her lack of experience with the job she was supposed to perform.

And God… her eyes! Lucas had full conscience he wasn’t being the most pleasing person at the moment, but he couldn’t help it. For too long he’d been hoping for a twist in his life, something that would defy and test him, and get him out of his comfort zone. Moving from Los Angeles to Seattle had seemed like the toughest challenge of all.

But to see Emily Spencer so unexpectedly and realize she was still as gorgeous and stubborn as she’d ever been had completely thrown him off balance. Lucas had spent the past years convincing himself he was now indifferent to her and yet in less than five minutes, she had just proven him wrong.

The athlete kept staring at the girl with a satisfied smirk, watching as the fair skin on her face was now reddened with a flush of sheer anger. It was obvious he could still get to her, and the realization boosted Lucas’ desire to mess with her just as much as she didn’t know her presence was messing with him.

“I wish I could say that this is the first time I am seeing you and you’re not being a complete jerk, but unfortunately, I can’t,” Emily fired back, too upset. He had gone exactly where it stung her ego by attacking her professional abilities and she wondered if he was aware of it. But Emily wasn’t ever going to give him the satisfaction of knowing how easily he could get to her. “Now we got that sorted out, I am going to ask you a few questions so we can get this unpleasant encounter over with as fast as possible.”

Lucas chuckled, once again too amused by her bluntness. It was obvious she was just as uncomfortable as he was, but he had no idea what to take from it. He had never imagined they’d see each other again and yet, there she was, openly defying him in his own territory, calling him out on his own bullshit and refusing to be intimidated by what he said.

As she flipped opened her notepad and scribbled down the answer to her questions, refusing to make eye contact with him, Lucas took his time studying her.

At seventeen, Emily had been an adorable teenager, with cute hazel eyes hiding behind glasses and a charming smile that hardly ever made an appearance. Back then, on their first encounter, she’d made it pretty clear to Lucas that he needed her and she didn’t need him, embarking the two of them in a journey that lasted months before they could figure each other out and become aware of their own self worth.

Now, at twenty-four, she still looked just as stubborn and determined. But her eyes now sparkled with fury, her soft, straight auburn hair descended down her shoulders in easy cascades, adding a delicate fragility to her looks. And even though it was obvious she hadn’t grown an inch, still being adorably short, her figure had changed. Despite the fact she was wearing an appropriate formal business attire, it was very clear that time had been generous enough to add feminine curves to places Lucas really shouldn’t be looking at right now.

Feeling angry with himself for not being able to resist it, Lucas forced himself to focus on her question, unconsciously deflecting his anger on her.

“So you said being close to your family played a major role in signing with the Sounders,” Emily’s voice sounded impersonal and focused. “Do you think that could also potentially be a distraction for you when the season starts?”

“No.”

“Okay…” Emily waited for an elaboration, but Lucas just sat back on his chair, looking to be somewhere between bored and irritated. She couldn’t wait to get that over with and even though Emily hadn’t planned that interview, despite her mind being distracted, it was in her nature to give it her all and do the best she could, always. She might not have liked to be given that assignment, but it didn’t mean she wasn’t going to give her one hundred percent to come up with a good piece, like she always did. “I was wondering if you would authorize the Seattle Times to publish a childhood picture of you wearing the Sounders uniform? I think it could be a great way to tell the story of how you…”

“No,” Lucas cut her short, knowing exactly which image she was talking about. His mother had a picture of him all dressed up with the Sounders uniform in a frame somewhere in the living room of his parents’ house. Lucas must not have been more than four or five at the time. “My personal life is private,” he added with an angry tone, confusing Emily.

“I am sorry,” she sheepishly said, regretting having asked. She respected his privacy, but at the same time, her request hadn’t been outrageous enough to invoke such a negative reaction in him. Feeling like she’d had enough, the girl got up to leave.

“You know, I know it’s a little hard for you to understand that, Spencer, but in my family, our personal feelings are more important than our work.”

Emily frowned, completely taken aback by his outburst. She turned around, ready to face him and call him out on the nonsense.

“Why are you attacking me, I didn’t…”

“I hope you know I absolutely do not authorize you to report anything personal that you know about me other than the answers you got today.” Lucas defensively said, mistaking her intentions. He got up too, taking three large strides in her direction and easily catching up with her. It was then that became very obvious to Emily that he was nearly a foot taller than her.

“Why would I even…” Emily gasped, more confused than when she’d first arrived. “Are you accusing me of something, Hunt?” She scowled at him, infuriated. “Because if you are, stop being such a dick and just say it to my face!”

Lucas took another step towards her, engulfing her within his shadow. He hoped that would be intimidating enough for her to give up and retreat, but Emily just kept on proudly sustaining his gaze, looking at him with anger boiling in her eyes.

“I am not accusing you of anything,” Lucas cruelly affirmed, looking at her with the resentment that had been bottled up for years. “I am merely stating the truth that to you, your career is more important than people’s feelings, than family, than...”

“How dare you,” Emily interrupted him, feeling the low blow. Her stomach took a turn and she felt a sickening wave of nausea that momentarily left her lighthearted. “How dare you accuse me of that?” she asked, her wrath present in every word. “You’re nothing but a selfish, arrogant jock who’s never…”

“Yeah, I am.” Lucas stated, sounding convincing. “I am all of these things. It’s just easier to accept to truth than to be outraged by it, Spencer.” He narrowed his eyes with despise, bringing his face down just inches away from hers. “Just stop pretending you care about anyone when you obviously only worry about yourself.”

A small pair of hands pushed his chest with determination, claiming her personal space back.

“God, grow the hell up!” Emily shouted before turning around to grab her things.

How did he have the nerve to accuse her of not caring enough about the people she loved when she’d just turned her life upside down to be with her relatives? Emily wouldn’t tolerate that. Especially not today, when she’d just lost her mother.

She didn’t need to hear any of that. If that was the idea Lucas had of her, Emily wouldn’t give him the pleasure of knowing how destroyed she felt on the inside. Before the tears started to accumulate, she walked past him, striding towards the door with determination.

“Great, run away…” Lucas shouted, too irritated and ashamed of his own behavior. But he couldn’t help it. Even though he knew he was acting out, he couldn’t contain those feelings anymore. “Run away, Emily!” he added, unaware that for the first time that day, he’d called her by her first name and that long ago, their interaction had crossed the line between professional and absolutely personal. Lucas’ thoughts were still on the day when, five years before, she’d left him in the middle of a discussion to never again come back. “It’s what you always do, anyway.”

He expected her to lash out at him, to call him names or even come in his direction and shove him away with outrage.

Damn it, if he had to be honest, Lucas had to admit he pretty much hoped that she would.

But instead, she looked as if she was trying to stiffen up her lip and control her own reactions. A pool of tears had gathered in her eyes as she straightened to look at him, too proud to shed any of them.

“Screw you, Hunt,” her voice sounded hoarse and weak as she ended their discussion.

The last thing Lucas saw before she walked out the door was the way her hazel eyes were shinning. Except now, instead of fury, they were stained with nothing other than pain.

And Lucas wasn’t at all prepared to acknowledge how that absolutely bothered him.

“Did you bring your own body guards?”

Megan looked from Aaron’s adorable brown eyes to the spot over her shoulder that the boy had been staring at.

“Those are my brothers,” she smiled with contentment as she noticed Danny and Robbie engaged in a conversation with Claire on the top rows of the football field bleachers, occasionally throwing a glance in her direction. The twins were spending time at home during their summer break and today, they’d gone with Megan to watch the football practice.

“I know who they are,” Aaron smiled back at her. By the time he was a freshman, Megan’s twins brothers were seniors and both guys had played in the school football team. “Do they know we are going out?” he asked with careful expectancy.

Megan looked back at her brothers and then again at Aaron, an amused grin growing on her lips.

“Why?” she asked with unmistakable curiosity. “Are you scared of my brothers?”

“Of course not,” Aaron denied a bit too quickly. He’d only spent a year in the company of the Hunt twins, but even then he’d noticed they were very protective of their younger sister by the time he and her had made their high school debut. And judging by their size and shape, Danny and Robbie Hunt weren’t exactly the kind of people a guy would want to mess with. “I know they are not violent,” he winked at her, hoping to lighten the atmosphere.

“They are godsend angels compared to my dad,” Megan reminded him, hoping that didn’t sound like a challenge.

“Let’s slowly climb up the family hierarchy,” Aaron suggested, studying her brothers once again. Megan had four big brothers and a former military father. Judging by what Aaron knew about the guys, he wasn’t looking forward to meeting them just yet. Especially her dad. “At least, I am a guy with the best intentions,” he reminded her.

Megan looked at the twins, noticing Danny was now staring at her talking to a guy with narrowed eyes, and then back at Aaron.

“Yeah, they are not going to care about that,” she informed him, knowing it was true. It didn’t matter if she brought home the epitome of perfection. Her dad and brothers would always find a long list of faults in any guy who ever dared to date her.

Aaron seemed a bit alarmed, but by the time it seemed like he was going to say something, one of the assistant coaches called out the boys to the field. Megan planned to go up the bleachers and sit next to her brothers and Claire, but she saw her friend Marianne approaching.

“Hey, stranger,” Megan greeted the girl with a hug. “It’s good to finally see you here,” she mixed her censoring tone with a smile, hoping Marianne would understand she was just missed and Megan wasn’t reprimanding that for once, she and Claire weren’t their friend’s center of attention. “How have you been?”

“So good,” Marianne sighed happily, looking from Megan to the football field. “I think I am in love.”

Megan wasn’t sure whether she should laugh with joy or get seriously worried at the confession. She followed her friend’s dreamy gaze with her eyes and noticed the object of her affection standing just a few feet away from them, putting on dark green cleats while being instructed by a coach.

“Meg…” Marianne hesitatingly started, clearly unsure whether she should go on or not. But the girl looked so obviously excited that Megan didn’t need to wait more than three seconds to hear the rest of her sentence. “I think I am going to do it. With JD.”

Megan frowned, unsure if she’d understood it correctly.

“You are?” the girl asked, trying not to sound too judgmental. Marianne was her friend and she didn’t want the girl to think she was against her. “Are you sure, Marianne? I mean… Have you thought this through?”

“What is there to think about?” Marianne asked as if it was obvious.

“This is your first time. It should be with someone special. Someone you care about, and who cares about you.” Megan stated firmly, absolutely sure of what she was saying.

The two girls knew that while Claire had lost her virginity to her boyfriend Steve the year before and most of their other girlfriends also weren’t virgins, they shared the common opinion that the first time they had sex it should be special, and not a random hookup with just any guy just for the sake of taking that step before school was over.

“Don’t you think about it?” Marianne asked her with interest. “With Aaron, I mean?” she raised her eyebrows, looking like a young child who was unsure of many things. “Do you two talk about it?”

“Aaron and I have gone out on three dates,” Megan reminded her. “I barely even know him yet. Really know him, I mean. If that’s the agenda he has for now, then there won’t be a fourth date.”

“Gosh, you make it all look so easy,” Marianne confessed with honesty. Megan had always been opinionated and didn’t just say things, but also lived by them. And she had everybody’s respect. Marianne always felt like her friend always knew exactly what to do.

“Why, is that guy pressuring you?” Megan asked, unable to contain the anger on her voice. Her eyes drifted to the bench and she spotted the tall figure of JD Callaghan as he put on his shoulder gear and then his helmet, ready to walk into the field. “If he is, I swear I am gonna…”

“No, he isn’t,” Marianne cut her short, thankful for her friend’s loyalty. “It’s that I really feel like I should do it.”

“If you are comfortable, then I will support you,” Megan said, studying her friend’s features to learn more than what she was really saying. Deep down, she feared Marianne was doing it for the wrong reasons. “I just don’t want you to get hurt.”

The girl lifted her shiny blue eyes and gave Megan a look of appreciation.

“Thank you, Meg… hey are those your brothers up there?” she changed subjects as quickly as customary. “Wow, they look hot.”

“I thought you just said you were in love with someone else,” Megan laughed, walking up the bleachers with her friend close behind.

“That doesn’t mean I am blind to all the other guys,” Marianne wisely pointed out.

From their place up in the highest rows, the small group had a privileged vision of the field. Claire wasn’t that much of a football fan like Megan, but she enjoyed coming to watch her boyfriend play.

“It’s good to see most of the freshmen stayed in the team,” Robbie pointed out after the round of warm ups was over. “And Cole made it to starting QB… I have to say I am surprised.”

“Why? Megan frowned heavily.

Robbie shrugged, keeping his eyes on the field. When he and Danny had last played at school, Aaron Cole was still a freshman and didn’t really have a space in the team yet.

“He has never really liked taking hits.”

“Does anyone?” Megan looked at her brother, hoping he’d do the same, but Robbie was still watching the practice.

“I meant he avoided it at all costs. He prioritized it over passing the ball. Cole seemed to have grown up and filled in a little, so that’s good.” Her brother admitted, closely studying the play. “And he has a good throwing arm, I see.”

“He led us to State finals last season,” Megan pointed out.

“I know you’re a big supporter of the team, but you can’t really compare these guys to the group we had back in the… wow.” Danny meddled the conversation but early on interrupted himself. “Who is that guy?” he asked, pointing to one of the defensive players who had just intercepted a pass Aaron Cole had thrown.

“Which one?” Megan frowned, secretly hoping her brothers didn’t have such a weak opinion of Aaron.

“The Free Safety,” Robbie answered instead of Danny. “Number twenty nine.”

Megan rolled her eyes, unwilling to believe her brothers had actually been impressed.

“That’s TJ Callaghan,” she said, unaffected. “He is new.”

“It’s JD,” Claire corrected her.

“Whatever,” Megan sighed impatiently.

At that point, Marianne had already made her way down the field to cheerfully scream the guy’s name in a celebration that was obviously exaggerated for the achievement in question. A few other girls around her did the same, chanting his name like the new guy had the potential to actually save their team, which wasn’t true, and Megan thought they looked pretty pathetic trying so obviously to get his attention. Especially considering he was a guy who judging by what she knew didn’t deserve it one bit. As she watched the scene, Megan overheard her brothers talking in the background, discussing the plays and the chances that that year’s team seemed to have.

Usually, Megan would be up for that kind of conversation, but right now, her mind was too distracted. She just couldn’t stop thinking about Marianne, the important news her friend had shared and how, considering Callaghan’s apparent indifference to Marianne’s attempts to get his attention, that situation slowly seemed to be boiling to an impeding disaster.

Lucas paced back and forth inside his room, nervously trying to come to terms with the events of the day. After an exhausting press conference and many interviews, the only thing that had stuck in his mind was the look of utter disappointment and heartbreak in Emily’s face by the time she’d left earlier that afternoon

He had so many questions... Why was she even there? Her presence had caught him completely by surprise and Lucas felt like he was going to explode if he kept all those feelings to himself.

Storming out his bedroom, he went downstairs, hopeful to find someone he could talk to.

“You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

Lucas diverted his gaze over his shoulder and found Thomas lying back on the couch with a laptop computer on his legs.

“I sort of did,” he confessed, finally putting an end to his nervous pacing. Lucas looked around, trying to make sure there weren’t any distractions before he finally added, “you won’t believe this, but I saw Emily today.” The athlete finally sat down. “Emily Spencer.”

He looked at his brother, expecting some sort of reaction, but Thomas kept staring at him, waiting for more details that didn’t come.

“How did that happen?”

Lucas was so immersed in his own confusion that he didn’t noticed his brother’s calm façade.

“She was at the press conference today,” the athlete shared, shaking his head in disbelief. “I… I don’t know what the hell is going on.”

“I do.”

Lucas stopped nervously running his hand through his hair and faced his brother with a puzzled expression. Thomas finally closed off his laptop screen and put it aside, dedicating his full attention to the oldest one.

“I’m sorry I didn’t say anything to you before,” Thomas said sincerely. “I really thought it would disturb you to hear it and you were busy enough with your move and everything.”

“You knew?” Lucas frowned, unable to believe it. “How come you didn’t tell me? Why would you even know that she…?”

“I ran into her at the hospital a few days ago,” Thomas explained, realizing how worked up his brother was getting. “I went there to sign some papers and I saw her near the main entrance.”

“Wait… I don’t…” Lucas raised his head to meet his brother’s gaze. “You never told me.”

“I’m sorry, I wasn’t sure if I should,” Tom said with honesty. “You said she was at your press conference today, though?” The young doctor found it just as strange, watching as his brother nodded in agreement. “That’s weird. When I ran into her I had the impression she wouldn’t stick around for long... At least not to the point of getting a job.”

“Why?”

“Well…” Thomas adjusted on the couch, not really knowing what the information would mean to Lucas. “Emily briefly filled me in on the reason why she came here,” he admitted, noticing by his brother’s expression that he was about to ask the question. “Her mother is sick. She has terminal stage cancer.”

“What?”

“It’s a long story but she told me her mom is too sick and she found out her sister had left the family in a nasty financial situation. So she came back to clean up the mess and set her mother’s hospital bills in order. I think she even left her job or something like that back in New York… I am sorry, Luke. I know you weren’t expecting to see her, I should have said something.”

“No…I get it.” The young athlete said, falling back on the couch with turbulent thoughts going on his mind.

Lucas was taken aback, feeling a mix of anguish and empathy. He then remembered the nasty way he’d treated Emily earlier that day and the things he’d accused her of.

“I hadn’t seen her in five years and when I walked out to the conference I spotted her face…” He confessed, reliving the moments. “I was so shocked to see her there, I didn’t even bother to ask why she…” his voice trailed off as he increasingly felt worse about himself. “And then when I finally got to talk to her, I was horrible.”

Thomas studied the expression on Lucas’s face, seeing how tormented he looked.

“What did you do?”

“I accused her of not caring enough.” Lucas ran both his hands through the sides of his hair. “I am such a dick…”

Now, it made every sense as to why Emily hadn’t fought back when he’d said all those horrible things to her.

Lucas wasn’t about to admit that to his brother, but he’d spent the past five years convinced that if he ever saw Emily Spencer again, he would be absolutely indifferent. She had been his first love, but they had grown out of it and he had long ago told himself that it was over.

But today she had walked back into his life and nothing occurred the way he had hoped it would. Her presence was still able to bring a lot of unresolved feelings back and the minute Lucas noticed he was looking at her in the least professional way possible, he just got too mad at himself for not being able to control his reactions. Then Emily had gone and indirectly made a reference to his childhood, bringing back all those memories of the happiest days Lucas had ever had.

And how she’d been a part of many of them.

Blinded by anger and resentment, Lucas had attacked her in a nasty way, unconsciously hoping for a fight. But after firing back some blows, Emily had walked out of that room looking the most defeated Lucas had ever seen her. He had never met anyone as proud and determined as Emily, so to see her show any sign of vulnerability had really messed with him. And afterwards, realizing how that vision so easily constricted his heart completely added to his restlessness.

“What did you do, Luke?” Thomas asked, concerned. “Did you bring up the fight you guys had all those years ago? You can’t possibly still be angry with her for it.”

Lucas opened his mouth to immediately answer no, but on a second thought, he held it back.

Was it possible that was the reason he had become so irrationally angry so suddenly?

“She left me, Tommy,” Lucas reminded his brother as familiar emotions got him worked up again. “Should I rejoice in the memory?” he asked sarcastically, too mortified to have indirectly admitted the event in the past had affected him so deeply.

“She didn’t leave you,” Thomas stated with security. “She didn’t agree with your decision at the time and then you two had a fight and she left. And you were too stubborn to do anything about it.”

Lucas rose to his feet, completely outraged.

“She and Mom plotted against me behind my back and tried to sabotage my career.” He stated, irritated at his brother for apparently taking their side.

“Don’t be such a baby and grow the hell up, Luke,” Thomas advised, unaffected by the tantrum. “Mom called her and she flew from Yale to Seattle to see you and just because she caught you in an uncomfortable situation it doesn’t mean that…”

“It means that she betrayed me,” Lucas heatedly replied.

“That happened five years ago,” Thomas reminded him. “You gotta get over that and move on.”

“I did!”

“Well, clearly you didn’t,” Thomas got up too, grabbing his computer and heading towards the stairs, “otherwise you wouldn’t be standing here regretting that you weren’t able to hold a conversation with her because you are still too angry to be reasonable.”

Lucas wanted to shout out at Tom and said he was totally wrong by making such accusations. But they were so absolutely true that he couldn’t even think of what to say.

As his brother left the room, Lucas stayed back, processing everything that had happened that day. When he felt like his mind was going to explode, he went to the back of the house, finding his mother in the kitchen preparing dinner in the company of his twin brothers.

“Mom… Do you have a second?”

Lucas’ unusually serious tone of voice interrupted the cheerful laughter that was taking place as three different pairs of blue eyes stared at him.

“Sure,” Amelia diverted her eyes from the stove to her oldest son. “Are you okay?”

“I am,” Lucas lied, deciding to go straight to the point. “I need to ask you a favor, actually… Can you get information about a patient for me?”

Amelia frowned, finding the request strange.

“A patient?”

“Yeah, it’s a forty something woman with pancreatic cancer… I have no idea where in the hospital she is.”

“Luke, baby, you know that patient information is confidential,” Amelia gently reminded him. “As a hospital employee, I am not authorized to…”

“It’s Emily’s mom,” Lucas cut her short. “She is at Grey Sloan. And apparently, she is not doing so well.”

Amelia stopped talking immediately, noticing by the dark shadow in her son’s features that something terrible was happening.

“I am right on it.”

Lucas watched as his mother grabbed her cell phone on the counter and started making phone calls. In the meantime, he dealt with his brothers’ curiosity and concern, briefly filling them in on what had taken place and the discoveries he’d made that day.

About a minute that felt like an eternity later, Amelia hung up and looked at her son with heavy eyes filled with sadness.

“Luke, I am so sorry…” she started, just as confused about the meaning of the situation, but aware now it wasn’t the best time to ask questions. “Mrs. Spencer passed away early this morning. The resident on call said her youngest daughter signed all the paperwork already,” the neurosurgeon shared. “Emily’s mom died today. I am so sorry.”

In any other moment, Lucas would notice the look of sympathy and concern on his mother’s face and be thankful for it. But at that moment he was so shocked that he simply couldn’t process anything.

Emily Spencer was back. She had dropped everything behind and come home because her sister had buried her family in a financial crisis and their mother was sick.

Earlier that morning, Emily had just lost her mom.

And on that very same day, Lucas had been the one to stand in front of her face and accuse her of horrible things, including being too selfish and focused on her career to care about anything else, family especially.

It was no wonder she had left that room looking so destroyed. Emily was already hurting. And he had only made it worse.

Feeling like the worst of human beings, Lucas turned around and grabbed his car keys, storming outside after making a quick stop at the living room to snatch an old photograph. His impulsiveness and unresolved issues had caused too much damaged already.

It was time to finally start repairing it.

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North America is expected to hold dominant position in the global webcams market during the forecast perio

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North America held dominant position in the global webcams market in 2019, accounting for 33.4% share in terms of value, followed by Europe and Asia Pacific.

Figure 1: Global Webcams Market Share (%), By Region, 2019

North America held dominant position in the global webcams market in 2019 and is projected to retain its dominance throughout the forecast period, owing to increasing need for security and rapid development under smart city initiatives in the North America region. Web cameras are used in North America for recording security and surveillance, live events, online education, and visual marketing. For instance, according to Coherent Market Insights’ analysis, North America security systems integration market revenue increased to 3,700 million in 2018 from 3,219 million in 2017.

Asia Pacific region is expected to exhibit highest growth during the forecast period. This is owing to rising need for webcams for online education, healthcare sector, and video conferencing. Countries such as India and China are focusing on improving infrastructure and surveillance system, which is expected to provide lucrative opportunities for the industry over the forecast period. For instance, according to Coherent Market Insights’ analysis, the number of surveillance cameras installed in public and private areas of China is 622 million in 2020 from 146 million in 2017.Owing to the above mentioned factors, the webcams market is expected to witness significant growth during the forecast period.

Major players operating in the global webcams market include Canon Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., D-Link Corporation, Koninklijke Philips N.V., Lenovo, Logitech, Microsoft, Razer Inc., Sony Corporation, Xiaomi, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Quantum, Intel Corporation, AUSDOM, and others.

Increasing demand for webcams in live events for real time streaming and security purpose is expected to drive the market growth during the forecast period

Among end users, the live events segment is expected to hold dominant position in the global webcams market during the forecast period. This is owing to increasing demand for webcams in live events for real time streaming and security purposes across the globe. For instance, in 2019, according to Coherent Market Insights’ analysis, Facebook is the biggest social networking website with live streaming of 2,500 million users in the world.

Figure 2: Global Webcams Market Value (US$ Mn), 2017 - 2027

The global webcams market was valued at US$ 6,524 Mn in 2019 and is expected to reach US$ 11,843 Mn by 2027 at a CAGR of 8.9% between 2020 and 2027.

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Event | Online Doctor’s Hours for Visual & Multidisciplinary Artists

Monday, June 29 Doctor’s Hours event will offer remote one-on-one consultations with art professionals.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will host the next edition of its popular Doctor’s Hours program, which is designed to provide practical and professional advice from industry professionals, online on Monday, June 29.

This event will serve Visual and Multidisciplinary artists working in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Film, Photography, New Media, Multidisciplinary, Performance Art, Socially-Engaged Practices, Folk, and Traditional Art.

Starting Tuesday, June 9 at 11:00 AM EDT, you can register for 25-minute, remote one-on-one appointments with up to three arts professionals to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career.

How Online Doctor's Hours works:

To adopt the online model, each consultant meets six artists over the course of three hours.

Each consultation session is 25 minutes. There will be a three appointment limit per artist.

The Online Doctor's Hours sessions take place through the Zoom platform. Please download the Zoom app before the event date to participate.

Title: Online Doctor’s Hours for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists Program Date and Time: Monday, June 29, 2020, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT, unless otherwise noted below Location: Online through Zoom* Cost: $25 per 25-minute appointment; three appointment limit per artist Register: The event is fully booked, please click here to sign up for the waiting list to be informed of any cancellations.

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To make the most of your “Online Doctor’s Hours” appointment, please read the entire confirmation email you receive after completing your registration; it includes all the details you need for your session.

*We are able to offer this support via phone if you are unable to access reliable internet service.

For questions, email [email protected].

Consultants

Ylinka Barotto, Associate Curator, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University As Associate Curator, Barotto is responsible for developing, organizing, and executing visual art exhibitions that support Moody's mission of fostering interdisciplinary conversation. Barotto is also involved in the expansion of Rice Public Art through commissions of site-specific work and is responsible for conceptualizing and coordinating the “Platform” and “Off the Wall” series. Before joining the Moody, Barotto served as Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum where she worked on major modern and postwar retrospectives and contemporary exhibitions. She helped shape the Guggenheim’s permanent collection through acquisitions of emerging artists through the Young Collectors Council and hosted and moderated conversations between contemporary artists, activists, and journalists on topics such as feminism, activism, identity, and representation for the Guggenheim Public Program. Barotto received a MA degree in curatorial studies at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy.

Alaina Claire Feldman, Director, Sidney Mishkin Gallery at CUNY’s Baruch College* Feldman is the new Director and Curator of the Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College (CUNY), where she also teaches in the MA Arts Administration program. Recent exhibitions include The Aesthetics of Learning, Minerva Cuevas: Disidencia, and Lamin Fofana: BLUES.

*Please note appointment times for this consultant will be between 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Monday, June 29.

Gabriel de Guzman, Curator & Director of Exhibitions, Smack Mellon Gallery At Smack Mellon, de Guzman organizes group and solo exhibitions that feature emerging and under-recognized mid-career artists whose work often explores critical, socially relevant issues. Before joining Smack Mellon’s staff in 2017, de Guzman was the Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, organizing solo projects for emerging artists as well as thematic group exhibitions. As a guest curator, he has presented shows at BronxArtSpace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, En Foco at Andrew Freedman Home, the Affordable Art Fair New York, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and the Bronx Museum's 2013 AIM Biennial. Prior to Wave Hill, he was a curatorial assistant at The Jewish Museum. His essays have been published in Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal and in catalogues for the Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, and the art institutions mentioned above. He earned a MA degree in art history from Hunter College and a BA degree in art history from the University of Virginia.

DJ Hellerman, Curator of Art & Programs, Everson Museum of Art A few of Hellerman’s recent curatorial productions include solo exhibitions Yoko Ono: Remembering the Future, Edie Fake: Structures Shift, and Jeff Donaldson: Dig. Recent theme-based group exhibitions include: Civic Virtue: all over the floor; Seen & Heard; Of Land & Local, an annual place-based exhibition about art and the environment; and Taking Pictures, an exhibition exploring how artists associated with the Pictures Generation anticipated and recently turned their critical attention to digital networks used in the dissemination and consumption of images. Hellerman has spoken at conferences across the country, and has written extensively on American Art, popular culture, and the post-war American City. Prior to his position in Syracuse, Hellerman served as Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Burlington City Arts. A native of Ohio, Hellerman began curating and educating people about art while helping Progressive Insurance build a collection of contemporary art designed to encourage innovation and change. He received his MA degree in Art History from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH and his BA degree in English and Philosophy from Lake Erie College in Painesville, OH. He loves live music and literature as much as he enjoys visual art.

Lilly Hern-Fondation, Programs Manager, CUE Art Foundation Hern-Fondation is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer and the Programs Manager at CUE Art Foundation, a nonprofit art space located in Manhattan that is dedicated to exhibitions, arts education, art criticism, and public programming. Prior to CUE, she served as Assistant Director of Freight+Volume on the Lower East Side, as co-founder and co-director of Nightwood Exhibits in Chicago, and as Curatorial Fellow at SAIC. Originally from Los Angeles, Hern-Fondation studied literature and photography at the University of Washington, Seattle and received her MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Eileen Jeng Lynch, Curator, Wave Hill At Wave Hill, Jeng Lynch organizes the Sunroom Project Space for emerging artists, co-curates exhibitions in Glyndor Gallery, and is involved in all aspects of visual arts programming including publications and the annual Winter Workspace program. Recent exhibitions at Wave Hill include Figuring the Floral, Emily Oliveira: Mundo Irrealis (Wish You Were Here), Duy Hoàng: Interarboreal, Bahar Behbahani: All water has a perfect memory, and Ngoc Minh Ngo: Wave Hill Florilegium. Jeng Lynch is also the Founder of Neumeraki, which collaborates with artists, organizations, and galleries on curatorial, consulting, writing, and editing projects. Independent curatorial projects include exhibitions at The Yard: City Hall Park, Trestle Gallery, LMAKbooks+design, Sperone Westwater, Lesley Heller Workspace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Garis & Hahn, and Radiator Gallery, among others. In 2017, Jeng Lynch initiated the ongoing Give Voice Postcard Project. She has contributed to Two Coats of Paint and On-Verge. Previously, Jeng Lynch worked at RxArt, Sperone Westwater, and the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Art. She earned her MA degree in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA degree in Art History and Advertising from Syracuse University.

Larry Ossei-Mensah, Independent Curator and Cultural Critic, Co-founder of ARTNOIR* Ossei-Mensah uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring artists such as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan Fernades, Ebony G. Patterson, Glenn Kaino, and Stanley Whitney to name a few. Moreover, Ossei-Mensah has actively documented cultural happenings featuring the most dynamic visual artists working today such as Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Federico Solmi, and Kehinde Wiley.

Ossei-Mensah is also the co-founder of ARTNOIR, a 501c3 and global collective of culturalists who design multimodal experiences aimed to engage this generation’s dynamic and diverse creative class. Ossei-Mensah is a contributor to the first ever Ghanaian Pavilion for the 2019 Venice Biennial, with an essay on the work of visual artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Ossei-Mensah is the former Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at MOCAD in Detroit. He recently co-curated with Dexter Wimberly the critically-acclaimed exhibition at MOAD in San Francisco Coffee, Rhum, Sugar, Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox in 2019. Ossei-Mensah currently serves as guest curator at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Rudin Family Gallery. He also will be co-curating with Omsk Social Club the 7th Athens Biennale in Athens, Greece. Ossei-Mensah has had recent profiles in such publications including The New York Times, Artsy, and Cultured Magazine, which named him one of seven curators to watch in 2019. Follow him on Instagram/Twitter at @youngglobal or www.larryosseimensah.com.

*Please note appointment times for this consultant will be between 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Monday, June 29.

Alice Russotti, Curator, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) As Curator at LMCC, Russotti is focused on programming at the Arts Center at Governors Island and public art partnerships with LMCC’s downtown supporters. Originally from London, Russotti graduated from high school in Costa Rica and has since lived in New York City, London, and Singapore. She started her career in the arts on the commercial side, first at Christie’s, New York, and then with Sotheby’s, London, in the Post-War & Contemporary department. Finding the secondary market’s lack of interaction with artists and their process frustrating, she started working at The Vinyl Factory, London, curating and producing multimedia, cross-disciplinary installations in the Brewer Street Car Park that were free and open to the public. Russotti holds a BA degree from Brown University in Art History and a MA degree from the Sotheby’s Institute in Contemporary Art and Theory.

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Image Detail: Mark Ferguson (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts ’17); NYFA Artist's Statement; 2017; graphite, crayon, tape on synthetic paper

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