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| 16 August 2010 |
| ExScite website overhaul- soon |
Dear ExScite member! We have begun the long process of overhauling the design of this ExScite web site, which was designed in the 20th Century. The new design will include major security and privacy protection features, worthy of the 21st Century.
The process is expected to take a couple of months.
Until then, please take a minute to update your current Member Record, so that transporting all the existing information and data bases from the old to the new, will be as accurate as possible.
Stay tuned.
Etan Rozin & Aharon Nizani
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| 01 August 2010 |
| Charlie_Baum |
The former STA's engineer Charlie Baum has passed away.
We were saddened to hear that Charlie Baum died in January 2010.
Charlie was one of the first ever service engineers in Scitex
America when the office was still located in Stamford Ct. and later in
Manhattan NY, and was still called STNA. Charlie started under the then
president Dick Jaffe in 1974 and later under Bob Pollack.
Eddie Borkovksy,
VP customer Support (who has provided a couple of the pictures), was
his boss from 75-79. Later, Charlie worked out of New York after the
office was relocated to Boston and renamed STA.
Those of us who worked with Charlie remember him as a smiley face with
good nature, yet as an opinionated and resourceful technical engineer,
who could improvise and resolve problems.
We have lost track of Charlie after he had left the company. The
pictures below are of a meeting of Eddie and Charlie in NY in 2002, and Charlie at work in a trade show.
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| 09 January 2010 |
| Vacation home in Tuscany, Italy for ExScite people |
website: www.casameo.it
If you are looking for a magical vacation site, immersed in Tuscany's green landscape, here is a history-laded house offering comfortable rooms within easy reach of the most remarkable Tuscany's spot, and not far from Florence.
Our own ExScite veteran Reuven Anati (who had been born in Italy) and his wife Erela bought the Casa Meo house and have converted it into a magnificent 6 room B&B. Located in the heart of Italy's Casentino area, the house had been built in 1541 and was restored by Anati recently.
Great place, very reasonable daily rate, friendly service and Ex-Scitex atmosphere, combined with a breath-taking view and immersed in intoxicating Tuscany air. Casa Meo, is the perfect vacation spot.
Contact Reuven and Arela (Hebrew, English and Italian) at:
Email: info@casameo.it
Tel: +39 0575 570 498
Address: CasaMeo Loc. Pagliericcio, 74 52018 Castel San Niccolo (AR), Tuscany, Italy |
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| 23 December 2009 |
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Happy new 2010 from the ExScite team.
The graphic presentation of the Scitex logo wavering in the wind, is a cut out section of one of Shmulik Succari's illustrations from the good old days. |
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| 14 November 2009 |
| Phase One Buys The Temaining Leaf Assets |
Phase One Buys Leaf Assets. Leaf Imaging is now part of Phase One company
Medium format camera maker Phase One takes over portions of the Leaf business, and will enter a licensing agreement with Kodak, Phase One announced in a press release today. It's the latest step toward consolidation in the medium format camera space. Earlier this year, Phase One announced it was investing in Mamiya.
COPENHAGEN and TEL AVIV, June 25, 2009 -- Phase One A/S, in conjunction with senior management employees of Leaf, today announced that they have created a new entity, Leaf Imaging Ltd., to purchase certain assets of the Leaf camera business. The assets include the “Leaf” brand product names, engineering design and production tools. The new entity will also enter into an intellectual property license with Eastman Kodak Company that is royalty-bearing to Kodak. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Phase One is a small provider of digital image capture and work flow management technology. Phase One www.phaseone.com is an employee-owned company based in Copenhagen with offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Cologne and Shanghai.
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| 28 October 2009 |
| Professor William F. Schreiber died |
(October 2009) William F. Schreiber, Professor Emeritus at M.I.T, died last month at the age of 84.
Prof. Schreiber was a consultant to Scitex for several years, during the critical phase of the development of the company's color scanner technology. Over the years he contributed to the pioneering color science development at Scitex, and later on at EFI (Efi Arazi's second start-up company).
Prof. Schreiber was the mythological MIT professor that had recognized the potential of his student Efi Arazi and later provided inspiration to the founders of Scitex and its early engineers.
From l959 until his retirement in l990, he was a faculty member at M.I.T as Professor of Electrical Engineering and was director of the Advanced Television Research program from 1983 until his retirement. Dr. Schreiber also won many awards in his field and founded several companies. Among his memorable quotes: “You get to do one big thing every 10 years in your career;’’ “HDTV is not about television; it’s about jobs;’’ “MIT engineers should be building bridges;’’ and “There is no reason to be mean to a student.’’
A commemoration of Dr. Schreiber’s life will be held at the M.I.T. Faculty Club in Cambridge MA, at 5 p.m. on Saturday November 21,2009. |
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| 17 October 2009 |
| Scitex Corp. Historical Profile (circa 1999) |
 For those of you interested in the historical perspective, we posted on ExScite.net a comperhensive historical summary of Scitex from its inception in 1968, until the end of the last century 1999.
This article, and the long list of reference sources at its end, may be a good source for historical studies. Click on the link Read Complete Story below.
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| 22 September 2009 |
| Yair Shamir- we saw you on the radio |
 The ExScite Yair Shamir was a guest on Kol Israel, the Israeli radio service (Ha'arachat Mtzav, Spet 21, 2009, Reshet B)
To listen to the 1 hour program, click here.
The recording is in Hebrew.
Yair manages venture capital firm and is the chairman of the board of Israeli Aircraft Indusry.
See additional profile here.
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| 17 September 2009 |
| Shana Tova |
This Saha Tove was Emailed to us by the Israeli ExScite- Shmuel Dekel |
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| 13 July 2009 |
| The ExScite Haim Shani- Treasury Chief in Israel |
NICE CEO, the ExScite Haim Shani, to be named Treasury chief
Shani will replace Yarom Ariav after the Knesset passes the budget.
Adrian Filut 8 Jul 09 16:48
Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz today appointed Haim Shani, CEO of NICE Systems and former Scitex employee, as director general of the ministry in pace of Yarom Ariav. Ariav is due to leave after the 2009-2010 budget is approved by the Knesset in a week's time.
Shani holds an MBA, and a first degree in industrial engineering and management.
Ariav's term as director general of the Ministry of Finance began in January 2007, when Abraham Hirchson was minister. Since then, he has served under Ehud Olmert, Ronnie Bar-On, and Steinitz.
NICE Systems said that the company did not respond to rumors. The Ministry of Finance spokesperson and the finance minister's bureau categorically denied the report.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on July 8, 2009 |
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