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Johannesburg - Business competitors, including those in the media, must work together to build South Africa and the continent instead of trying to destroy each other, Sekunjalo Group[JSE:SKJ] chairperson Iqbal Surve said on Thursday.

"You know, when I led the consortium to buy Independent Media ... the four media houses that control media in this country were untransformed - there was no change since democracy in 1994," he said at an SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry conference in Midrand.

"Then came this young - well not young anymore - medical doctor, an upstart, to buy one of the big media houses.

"The ruthlessness, in which the competition came for me, with no foundation whatsoever, shows that they didn't understand the essence of what it takes to build a new South African society and to build a new business future for our country."

Surve said exclusivity was also something that needed to be worked on. "I was in a meeting last night... where it was discussed - a new [news] syndication for Africa," he said.

"I went into the meeting and said this is my view, this is my vision, let's be completely transparent and open. And all the other media houses there said: 'Oh my God, this guy is really naive, he is telling us everything'."

Surve said there was no use in having secrets.

"If you believe that the future of our country and business is in working together with small business, big business, medium business, government and the private sector, and you genuinely believe that, you must be transparent and walk the talk," he said.

"As South Africans we like to complain, we like to gossip and like to do all these things because they keep us busy at the braai. But at the end of the day we must be very careful we don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

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Pixel Film Studios, a leader of Final Cut Pro X plugins and themes, announced today the release of a new plugin entitled ProSharpen, a sharpening media plugin for FCPX

" ProSharpen gives users the ability to choose from two categories giving them total control over sharpening and threshold sharpening " says Christina Austin, CEO of Pixel Film Studios. " Each media file that uses ProSharpen is given added controls to create the look users want.

With ProSharpen users now have full control over sharpening their media. Users may choose to sharpen their highlights, shadows, or a combination of both. Users have control over horizontal sharpen, vertical sharpen, threshold, radius, amount, and more all with in Final Cut Pro X. Each user now can enhance their media in a whole new way all with a click of a mouse.

With ProSharpen users now have full control over sharpening their media, with full control over highlights and shadows. Users have the ability to adjust each publish parameter to better fit there media with a click of a mouse all with in Final Cut Pro X. Each user has control over amount, radius, threshold, levels, rolloff, softness, erosion, and more.

With ProSharpen users have the ability to choose from two categories giving them control over sharpening and threshold sharpening. Users have the ability to sharpen just the highlights, shadows, or highlights and shadows. With ProSharpen users have control over amount, radius, sharpen threshold, horizontal and vertical sharpen, brightness, contrast, and more all with in Final Cut Pro X.

With ProSharpen users have full control over sharpening a particular light tone within their media. ProSharpen gives each user the power to sharpen highlights, shadows, and a combination of both with total customization. With each publish parameter the user is able to make slight adjustments to change the over all look and feel of their media with a click of a mouse.

ProSharpen was professionally designed to work seamlessly inside of Final Cut Pro X. As a FCPX effect tool, each ProSharpen preset can be dragged and dropped onto the users media and previewed in real time. With the published parameters found in the FCPX inspector, users have the ability to make adjustments with just a few clicks of a mouse.

Established in 2006, Aliso Viejo, California-based Pixel Film Studios is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple FCPX. All Apple, the Apple logo, Mac OS X, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

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Media are invited to interact with NASA experts who will answer questions about technologies being demonstrated on the International Space Station (ISS) during "Destination Station: ISS Technology Forum" from 10 to 11 a.m. EDT (9 to 10 a.m. CDT) Monday, Oct. 27, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The forum will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

The Destination Station forums are a series of live, interactive panel discussions about the space station. This is the second in the series, and it will feature a discussion on how technologies are tested aboard the orbiting laboratory. Thousands of investigations have been performed on the space station, and although they provide benefits to people on Earth, they also prepare NASA to send humans farther into the solar system than ever before.

Participants must be seated by 8:30 a.m. CDT in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration theater at the Space & Rocket Center the official visitor information center for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Forum panelists and exhibits will focus on space station environmental and life support systems; 3-D printing; Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) systems; and Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES).

The forum's panelists are: - Jeffrey Sheehy, senior technologist in NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate - Robyn Gatens, manager for space station System and Technology Demonstration, and Environmental Control Life Support System expert - Jose Benavides, SPHERES chief engineer - Rich Reinhardt, principal investigator for the SCaN Testbed - Niki Werkeiser, project manager for the space station 3-D printer

During the forum, questions will be taken from the audience, including media, students and social media participants. Online followers may submit questions via social media using the hashtag, #asknasa. Panelists will be available for media interviews immediately following the forum.

The "Destination Station: ISS Technology Forum" coincides with the 7th Annual Von Braun Memorial Symposium at the University of Alabama in Huntsville Oct. 27-29. Media can attend the three-day symposium, which features NASA officials, including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operation William Gerstenmaier and Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development Bill Hill. Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of the European Space Agency, will be a special guest speaker. Representatives from industry and academia also will be participating.

Media who attend the forum will have the opportunity to sign up for Marshall's Oct. 27 media day, which includes extensive tours of the center's labs and facilities immediately following the forum. Interview opportunities with NASA managers, scientists and engineers also will be available. Media interested in visiting the center for media day should contact Jennifer Stanfield in the Marshall Public and Employee Communications Office at 256-544-0034 orjennifer.stanfield@nasa.govby 4 p.m. Oct. 21.

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