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Magical Hummingbird Nest Ranch wedding: Georgia + Marc
Georgia has always been fascinated by magic, and when she met Marc, that feeling only grew. So for the wedding they wanted to create a sacred space full of fairytale energy that their fam + friends could share in too. They enlisted an epic team to help bring their vision to life, with planning by La Boheme Event Planning, design from Jesi Haack Design, JL Designs in charge of florals, and Scott Clark to document the whole thing. What could be better?
Georgia wanted her ten bridesmaids to resemble fairies. So pretty!
Hallie of La Boheme Event Planning created this dream fairytale setting so guests would have the feeling of walking through a forest and stumbling upon an enchanted party. She says, Since the event took place in a wide open lawn, we brought in 75+ bushes and trees to create our forest (not to mention hundreds of ferns for our forest floor), and had A Rental Connection build tiered guest seating to create more of an intimate space surrounded by lush greens.
They let their team of vendors really run with the fairyland theme, with stilt walkers (second stilt walker in a week here on 100LC, actually!), fire dancers, and fortune tellers.
Magical indeed!
Jesi of Jesi Haack Design says, We added our quirk by donning the tables with soft white fur placemats. And to keep it real with our dark magic vibe, we melted berry colored candles over lush wood stained candle holders. The guests were able to get their fortune read in our fortune teller tent. Each guest took home a tiny velvet spell bag filled with magical goodies. We made a fairyland forest of trees on stage and accented it with twinkle lights and oversized 3d origami stars.
On the ceremony…
Georgia tells it: Our ceremony was an actual handfasting, an ancient Pagan tradition where our officiant bound our hands (and hearts and souls) together with a beautiful ribbon. And at the end we released monarch butterflies, to symbolize this new journey that we are on together. What our vendors did for us was take my vision and spew it out on our canvas.
See more in Atomic Tangerine Film Co.'s video below…
Photographer: Scott Clark / Videographer: Atomic Tangerine Film Co. / Venue: Hummingbird Nest Ranch / Event Planner: Hallie Slade of La Boheme Event Planning / Event Designer: Jesi Haack Design / Florist: JL Designs / Hair: Lecie Matters / Makeup: Evelyn Ramirez / Invites & Paper Goods: Jen Ebert of Prim & Pixie / Cake: MJB Cakes / Catering: Command Performance / Rentals: Found Rentals / Vintage Rentals: A Rental Connection / Tabletop Rentals: Borrowed Blu / Ceremony Music: Vonette / Band: Jordan Music Entertainment / Officiant: Rev. Leslie Bockian / Photobooth: Smilebooth / Transportation: Modern Classic Limo / Psychic: Book A Psychic / Stilt Walkers & Fire Dancers: Christina Bullard / Bride's Dress: Lazaro / Shoes: Stuart Weitzman / Bride's Heart Diamond Necklace & Groom's Wedding Band: Custom IVX Karat / Lipstick: MAC / Groom & Groomsmen Tuxedos: Vera Wang / Groom's Skull Cufflinks: Scott Kay Designs / Bridesmaids' Dresses: The Dessy Group / Flower Girls' Dresses: David's Bridal / Ring Bearers: Men's Wearhouse
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Magical Hummingbird Nest Ranch wedding: Georgia + Marc - Social Weddings R UsSocial Weddings R Us on Oct 27, 2014
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Mjb_cakes on Oct 27, 2014
Thank you for the feature! ❤
Cristen of Captivatingly Chic on Oct 27, 2014
This absolutely amazing! Huge props to everyone that worked on this wedding! This wedding defines enchantment and fun! All of the details are simply fantastic, the mix of textures flow perfectly with the color tones and feel of the day. And, how cool is that car?!
Olivia Fischer on Oct 27, 2014
Colorful and Nice decor! Nice photography too !
Patty & Joe on Oct 28, 2014
So happy you posted this lovely video! We were excited to be part of the festivities in June & thrilled to relive it again! Many congrats Gigi & Marc~~~Love you all, xoxo Patty & Joe
Liz on Oct 29, 2014
Absolutely stunning. What a beautiful wedding, I am in love with the combination of quirky the glamorous details. So unique and beautiful. And that VIDEO! Seriously so cool.
Georgia & Marc's Wedding on 100 Layer Cake! | Jesi Haack Design Blog on Nov 10, 2014
[…] From fur place mats to psychics to stilt walkers this wedding was the furthest thing from traditional. Just the way we like it! Seriously it was almost too hard to choose from Scott Clark's photos for this post. Below are some of our fav photos, but you can see a whole lot more over at 100 Layer Cake! […]


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Upcoming: Ennio Morricone at The Royal Albert HallThe legendary Ennio Morricone has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. The Italian composer has won two Grammy Awards and two Golden Globes.
He has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions. Morricone is considered as one of the most influential film composers since the late 1950s. He is well-known for his long-term collaborations with international acclaimed directors such as Sergio Leone, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, and Giuseppe Tornatore.
He wrote the characteristic film scores of Leone's Spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). In the 80s, Morricone composed the scores for John Carpenter's horror movie The Thing (1982), Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988).
His more recent compositions include the scores for Oliver Stone's U Turn (1997), Tornatore's The Legend of 1900 (1998) and Malèna (2000), Mission to Mars (2000) by Brian De Palma, Fateless (2005), and Baaria - La porta del vento (2009). Ennio Morricone has won two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and five Anthony Asquith Awards for Film Music by BAFTA in 1979–1992. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score in 1979–2001. Morricone received the Honorary Academy Award in 2007 "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music". He was the second composer to receive this award after its introduction in 1928.
Ennio Morricone at The Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
7:30pm, Sat 10 April 2010
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Every year it happens—one guy in your fantasy league is convinced he's had the most epic draft ever and brags about how stacked his lineup is or how deep his pitching rotation will prove to be.
And then it happens. A key player goes down to an injury. A guy here or a guy there turns out to be a bust. Before he knows it, your buddy has a team of chronic underachievers and a full disabled list.
I know you don't want to be that guy, which is why I've identified five players I think have the biggest bust potential at your draft. From players who have proven to be injury risks in the past to 2012 breakout stars who I don't believe can sustain last year's production, these are guys you should label with a red flag.


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Scientists haven't seen any North Atlantic right whale calves in usual areas
At least 18 North Atlantic right whales have been found dead in the last year in Canada and the U.S.
Scientists say they haven't spotted a single North Atlantic right whale calf in their usual breeding grounds, raising even greater concern over the fate of the endangered mammal.
Clay George, a biologist with Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, says the whales give birth off Georgia and Florida from December until the end of March, with the peak period in January and February.
But he says coastal surveys have not turned up one mother-calf pair — a grim discovery following one of the highest mortality rates for the imperilled animals in recent history.
At least 18 North Atlantic right whales — representing about four per cent of the critically endangered species, whose population is estimated to be below 500 — were found dead in Canadian and U.S. waters over the last year after getting ensnared in fishing gear or hit by large vessels.
Jim Hain, senior scientist at Associated Scientists at Woods Hole, located near Falmouth, Mass., said the birth rate of these creatures has dropped by 40 per cent from 2010 to 2016, and scientists don't know why.
Scientists who monitor the whales' migration path between Canadian waters and the southern U.S. spotted just five calves born in 2017, as opposed to the 20 to 25 researchers saw every year through much of the 2000s.
Philip Hamilton, a research scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life in Boston, said the apparent lack of calves could be linked to not enough food, a shift in the calving grounds or environmental changes that could be affecting the breeding females.
He said they have never seen a year without calves, making it particularly alarming combined with the high death toll.
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Romany Gipsies are forced to leave camp and move to modern houses - they are not happy.
Short Summary
The full title reads "Nr Guildford IT'S AN OLD ROMANY CUSTOM - homes burnt as Gipsy families abandon their encampment for modern dwellings."
Guildford, Surrey.
Several shots of the children taking their belongings out of the small wooden houses in the woods. Woman's voice tells the boys to hurry up. A small girl is carrying a cat and gives it to a man who is loading the things on a cart. Man starts the fire - gypsies watch their camp burning.
A man (reporter off screen) interviews a woman with a child in her arms - she is surrounded by children. She answers his questions. She lived in this area for all her life, she has 11 children and now she is forced into moving to Walton on Thames. They were promised work but she is suspicious.
Natural sound only.
- Film ID:
- 777.21
- Media URN:
- 8562
- Group:
- Pathe newsreels
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 25/01/1934
- Sound:
- Sound
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:02:23:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:25:42:00 / 01:28:05:00
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Yup, I got a new job. I got a job!!! Hey everyone, I hope you are well. I have some exciting news and I'm super excited to share this news with you guys. It's been a long time coming. If you guys read my previous post, All About My Dream Job, you'll understand why I am very excited about this. I will take on the position of a part-time Receptionist for a Solicitor firm. Check me out!!!
Perfect Timing
When I completed my second year in college, I had a plan to get my life sorted and get a job. Due to the fact that Sasha-Ann will be starting Primary School after the summer holidays, there is no other perfect time to start a new job. So I was I stayed focused and then BANG- a miracle happens. So while my daughter starts a new school, I start a new job. It's just perfect.
I GOT A NEW JOB: How Do I Feel?
I feel very emotional about this because it's not just a job, it's my dream job – working in an office environment. My life is about change again and this is a position I have been working hard to achieve. After rejects and rejects, countless unsuccessful letters and letters and years after years – I finally got there. The fact that the job came at the right time, just as before Sasha-Ann starts Primary School, is just like the cherry on top. It feels so good. In other words, I'm actually nervous, although I'm trying to think positive here.
A Single Working Mum
That's me now. A single working mum. This is a new lifestyle and I am looking forward to facing all the challenges that are coming. Nothing motivates more than challenges because it's all about personal development. I'm tired struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table. I really don't want to go back to square one. I'm gonna work very hard and save more money for the raining days. However, I am not gonna stop there. I've still got to a lot of things to do. I honestly can't believe this is happening. This is just the beginning.


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How to Have a Gentle Caesarean
If you're pregnant and you know that you're going to deliver your baby by c-section, you're probably feeling a sense of relief that there's an end-date to your pregnancy and a sense of terror about being out of control of your birth at the same time.
It's totally normal to have mixed feelings, Mama!
In my 20 years of experience, I've led many women down the hall to the operating room for their birth. Some chatter nervously, some get very quiet and some start shaking. Personally, I've had two caesareans and I remember being so nervous that I was a "chatty- shaker"!
What if I told you that you can feel a little more in control of your birth experience?
Over the last few years, as the rate of caesarean has grown, women have started to demand more from their birth. They're trying to infuse a personal, gentle touch into their birth day when it has the potential to be so sterile and cold. The principles for a newborn are the same no matter how the birth happens- skin to skin immediately after birth is scientifically proven to regulate the baby's temperature, improve bonding and make breastfeeding easier.
In fact, skin-to-skin immediately after birth may be more important for a baby born by c-section.
A Gentle Caesarean is still the same surgery. It's not to suggest that the surgeon is otherwise being rough. But typically a baby is born very quickly during a caesarean because of the operating room environment: it's cold, the baby has been subjected to the medications that the mom received so they want to make sure she's breathing well, and let's be honest- the operating room is the biggest money-maker in a hospital so time is money!
A Gentle Caesarean is when the birth team (the doctors,anaesthetists, nurses) all agree to do everything possible to make this birth feel like it's happening in a birthing room, rather than an operating room.
That may include:
- Delayed cord cutting
- Handing the baby to the mom for skin-to-skin and immediate breastfeeding
- Delaying the eye ointment
- Doing the baby assessments while mom is holding the baby instead of taking her to the warmer across the room.
- Playing gentle music.
- Providing clear drapes so a mama can see her baby born
- Some have even been able to help lift their baby out of their tummy!
There are so many small things that can be adjusted if the birth team is on board, so ask for everything that you want and be flexible with the things that just can't be. At the end of the day, this is surgery. And the last thing you want is to risk the sterility of the operating room and get a post-op infection in your wound. There's nothing worse than recovering from your birth, without your baby in the Intensive Care Unit.
Insider Tip:
Start talking about it with your doctor now, while you're still pregnant. Ask if you can have a prenatal consultation with the anaesthetist because that's who's truly in charge of the operating room. Start planting the seeds early and just remember- not all hospitals are going to be on board. If it's really, really important to you, you can get a second opinion or even look for a different hospital.
( For more information about a detailed caesarean birth plan, check out this post by Hanna at Babytalk (she's a labour and delivery nurse, too so she knows what she's talking about!): Planning for Your C-Section: a Detailed Birth Plan )
Gentle Caesareans are becoming more and more popular and this is a time you'll remember forever, Mama. You may have to fight a bit for the best birth experience possible.
If you're having a scheduled caesarean, you may want to check out this post about your baby's microbiome:
Everything You Wanted to Know About Vaginal Seeding
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Joanne Ilaqua - CEO of MamaSoup
Hey there, I'm Joanne.
I've spent about 20 years serving women as a nurse, doula and Lamaze educator. I have 4 kids and I know firsthand how lonely and isolating motherhood can be, so I created MamaSoup. I'm mostly known for my love of red wine, spontaneously singing and my confidence in being my true self on social media. When I'm not busy building women up, you can catch me taking Instagram stories of my bulldog Ruby, watching The Handmaid's Tale, playing MUber (Mom Uber) to my kids or vacationing in my favourite town: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
I love serving the world by providing a space for moms to connect and support each other. In my opinion, moms are the backbone of communities because they are (literally) raising the future!
As the founder and CEO of MamaSoup, I've been featured on CHEX TV Morning Show, KawarthaNOW, Economic Development- The City of Kawartha Lakes and MyKawartha.
Still with me? Join me over at MamaSoup to keep the conversation going!
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Marom Dolphin Fusion System - Unified Molle Modular Carrying System with Detachable Backpack
Marom Dolphin Fusion System – Unified Molle Modular Carrying System with Detachable Backpack
A revolutionary unified carrying system for attaching a vest and a backpack in the most comfortable and ergonomic way.
Details & Specs
The Fusion Revolution:
A revolutionary unified carrying system for attaching a vest and a backpack in the most comfortable and ergonomic way. This new and innovative system was developed to offer a backpack with a detachable carrying system and with removable combatant accessories. Different sized backpacks can be carried with the system without additional configuration. The essential equipment such as ballistic plates, hydration system and radio are integrated into the system, usable even when the backpack is off.
The Fusion System Contains:
- A detachable modular duty belt equipped with our Pat. Pend.
- TPP mechanism for fast and easy donning and doffing, with MOLLE surface for attaching compatible pouches.
Back part:
- Back system and rear ballistic components.
- Two side water bags in the back part of the system, can be used with a connecting tube or as two separate bladders.
- Front panel for ballistic components and surface for MOLLE compatible pouches.
- 60 liter backpack with no additional shoulder straps.
Surface material: Highly durable nylon fabric with high abrasion performance.
Fusion Special Features:
- Unified System: All-in-one solution, allowing the operator freedom of movement with maximum fighting abilities and no friction or disturbances.
- Dynamic System: Many movement axis, allowing freedom of operation in multiple, versatile fighting environments, even climbing.
- Ballistic Compatible: Fits many types and sizes of ballistic inserts of various protection levels and shapes.
- Hydration System: Is always available as part of the vest.
- Ergonomic: Extremely comfortable with heavy loads.
- Weight Distribution: Balanced at all times, no need for training, no shifting of weight.
- Configuration Changes: Can be done easy and fast without help from another person.
- Always-on Duty Belt: Remove the vest and backpack and stay with the most essential equipment.
- Super-Fast Donning: Put the backpack on with no hassle and with no additional shoulder straps.
- Emergency Bag Drop: Quickly discard your backpack in-case of emergency.
- Medical Access: Allow fast access to operator's front torso for medical treatment without taking the entire system off.
- Interchangeable: The ability to use someone else's equipment without any adjustments.
- Reliability: Durable system, will last a lifetime.
Available in three colors: Coyote Tan, OD Green & Ranger Green
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Machinima is a very cartoony art form. However much we improve the graphics - and let's face it, modern game engines have pretty awesomely realistic characters - everything's hugely exaggerated. If we want to show a character being sad, or angry, their performance in a game is usually as melodramatic and hammy as something out of Victorian vaudeville. Or silent movies, come to that. It's not even first year drama school acting.
I'd like Moviestorm to deliver much more subtle performance. You can say so much with a nod, a slight flick of the eye, or a tiny body movement. I'm not just thinking of Sergio Leone movies here (though I will confess that Leone is a bit of an influence on me). I'm thinking of real drama. Many years ago, Michael Caine gave a masterclass for the BBC on how to do a section of Educating Rita. It was fascinating - with just a few minor facial movements, he turned a good performance into a superb one. (I really wish they'd show that again - it was a classic bit of television.) As a result, we have a load of little body animations in, which don't seem to do much, but which should add up to a lot when it comes to characterisation. As Caine pointed out, there's a world of difference between acting for the theatre and acting for the camera. In the theatre, the guy in the back of the circle has to be able to see what you're doing: in a film, they stick a camera in your face and capture every tiny little movement. You don't need to be histrionic to be emotional.
On the other hand, unless you're right up close, all these little animations are meaningless. Tiny little facial twitches don't show up in long shot, so you do need a range of more melodramatic gestures. This kinda makes sense when you think back to my opening para here: games tend not to use close-ups, so they only have the big hammy gestures you can recognise at a distance. Which means we need to have the big exaggerated gestures too... you just have to make sure that you don't use them when you're in close-up.


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Palintest Contour Water Balance Kit – SKH129
A simple visual kit to maintain the water balance of your pool or spa and minimise running costs. Features include:
Cost effective method to assess the likelihood of scaling or corrosion in your pool or spa. Comprehensive kit supplied in a hard case containing everything for portable water balance testing. Simple-to-use tablet methods for all parameters
Contains: Contour Comparator, Chlorine disk (0 – 5 mg/l Cl2), pH Phenol Red (6.8 – 8.4), 4 comparator cuvettes, cuvette brush, crush/stirring rod, dilution tube, 100 reagents for Free and Total Chlorine, 100 reagents for pH Phenol Red, tablet count reagents for Total Alkalinity and Calcium Hardness
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Our client is a ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government, seeking to digitally transform extant ways of working and processes and to benefit from the rapid pace of change and innovation from the latest technological developments.
The Problem
Our client couldn't get their customers, partners and suppliers to collaborate towards solving mission critical problems at the pace required.
Our client's aim was to:
- link customer problems to suppliers' cutting-edge R&D resources
- allow customers and suppliers to work more closely
- allow suppliers to collaborate more easily in a safe environment
- securely hold sensitive data and systems
The existing situation meant suppliers, partners and customers travelling to a fixed location to work from dedicated PCs. We were asked to help design and deliver a solution that provided easy to use access to a secure, collaborative and productive environment to support research and development against potentially sensitive UK data. As such, the client had stringent security requirements for storing data of significant sensitivity.
And notably our client wanted to "make it real' within twelve weeks.
The Solution
Despite some of the challenging security requirements we wanted to "shoot for the moon" and provide a solution that would really help our client deliver against their vision. Our solution to bring technology closer to their users was a centralised system with a gateway to secure, pop-up environments. This system was designed and built on top of AWS. In addition to many of the security features AWS provide out of the box such as Nitro and the Key Management Service, we implemented three factor authentication, dual level protective monitoring and advanced controls to prevent packet sniffing of data sent over remote connections, the use of a private, locked-down instance coupled with encrypted tunnelled links also allows users to securely access resources yet still prevent unwanted data exfiltration.
Our approach throughout the project could really be described as DevSecOps, and we avoided some of the classic anti-patterns we still see in this space.
Early and Regular Engagement : from day one we worked closely with the client and their security accreditor. A two way conversation describing the security requirements with potential mitigations continued throughout the delivery. Delivering security at speed was a key element of this task. It is well documented that traditional paper based review methods don't scale, but the need to reassure stakeholders that risks are known, whether mitigated or not, is still vital. In doing so, we avoided the anti-pattern 'Tell Don't Ask' where often security accreditor engagement looks like – "here's our system, take a look and accredit it".
Focus on Security from the Start : one of our biggest technical challenges in the twelve week timeframe available was to ensure we not only built something securely, but that it was properly engineered as well. For us, proper engineering must include treating everything as code. So all the infrastructure, all the compliance and security is baked into the codebase and re-deployable at the touch of a button (thanks to Hashicorp's Terraform), therefore reducing compliance 'lead time' by embedding security into the complete software development lifecycle. Thus avoiding the anti-pattern 'build first, secure later'.
Make Security a Feature : we prioritised security stories in our backlog alongside functional stories to meet our security requirements and deliver business value. And so we addressed the anti pattern where 'security is not considered a feature'.
Challenge Everything : any good DevSecOps approach should ensure every control is clearly aligned to the risk it is mitigating. This helped avoid the anti-pattern 'we've always done it this way', i.e just because you used to build certain controls to mitigate risk it doesn't mean that they will always be relevant.
Throughout the engagement we worked closely with our partners AWS, who were incredibly supportive and provided access to some of their most influential security team (including the General Manager of the AWS Key Management Store and the Vice President of AWS Cryptography) who helped provide guidance throughout. The support we received from AWS helped us build a solution that was as secure as could be whilst still being easy to use.
The Result
|In Order To
|link customer problems to suppliers' cutting-edge R&D resources
|co-locate partners on the client site
|partners access collaborative environment remotely
|allow customers and suppliers to work more closely
|sharing of systems and data across customer's privately hosted network
|Prototypes, systems, data and ideas quickly shared across centralised, R&D environment
|reduce time taken to initiate new projects
|time to set-up environments from which partners could work took months
|automated on-boarding of new organisations occurs within hours, and new users within minutes
|securely hold sensitive data and systems
|environments would be torn down and destroyed after research and development completed
|environments can be persisted and reused at a later date
|reduce time taken to start new projects and scale existing projects
|provision of new servers and virtual machines took months
|provision of new servers and virtual machines takes minutes
This environment now enables vital research and development work contributing to help make the UK a safer place.
(The client was so pleased with our work that we also won an award for delivery).


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RAINBOW 6 – Community Corner [VIDEO]
Rainbow 6 Siege – Community Corner #2
For this second Community Corner video, we took a question from the Rainbow Six community and opted to provide you with insight on the impact of the Closed Alpha on our game. The in-depth accompanying blog post explains how we are addressing the main topics of feedback we have gotten out the Alpha.
Produit et réalisé par Latrompette Studioet Ubisoft Montréal.


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Union leaders plan to meet with General Electric Co on Wednesday in a bid to avert closure of a Virginia factory that makes controls for GE's power plants, the company and the union said on Tuesday.
General Electric said last week that it intends to cease manufacturing at the facility and eliminate about 265 jobs because of declining power plant orders. The work will be moved to outside vendors and companies in India and China, the union said. GE said the changes will take 12-to-24 months.
The Boston-based industrial conglomerate is under pressure to generate growth and profit in its $35 billion power business after steep declines last year.
Low cost wind and solar electricity are slowing construction of new fossil-fuel power plants and forcing closure of old ones.
GE's stock has fallen 44 percent since John Flannery became chief executive in August. The company said in December it would eliminate 12,000 jobs in its power unit.
"Based on the ongoing challenges in the power industry and a significant decline in orders at this facility, we announced our intent to close our manufacturing facility in Salem, Virginia, and move the remaining work to other GE locations or to supplier partners," GE said in a statement emailed to Reuters on Tuesday.
A GE email sent to the union last week said volume at the plant had fallen 35 percent in the past two years and that the facility was operating at about 40 percent of capacity.
The email also cited price competition in the shrunken power-plant market. "Product cost continues to be a major influencer when customers are selecting their next controls solution," it said. GE competes with Siemens AG, Mitsubishi and others.
Prior efforts to downsize and cut costs at the factory, including layoffs and not filling vacant positions, "have not been enough," the email said.
About 200 workers will remain at the facility, including engineers for GE's power plant control systems.
GE spokesman Greg Gibbons said a small training center at the site will be run by ABB Ltd after it acquires GE's Industrial Solutions business. GE plans to sell the building and lease it back, he said.
Wednesday's meeting will allow the union to begin talks on how to save the plant, Vicky Hurley, president of IUE-CWA Local 82161 told Reuters.
The union has 60 days to propose an alternative to closure of the factory, which opened in 1955 and employed thousands.
Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Bill Berkrot