For this year's ceremony, organisers have hinted that dance duo Disclosure will team up with "Royals" singer, Lorde, after they tweeted an image of the Kiwi covered in Disclosure's signature sketch face.
Led by Jon Ericson, a former provost and retired speech communications professor at Drake University in Iowa, the group has called for such radical changes as an end to athletic scholarships, the shortening of seasons and full disclosure of team grades and graduation rates.
By way of full disclosure, our team at Clammr is part of the family companies addressing the audience challenge.
Still, Shamou describes the call from Disclosure's team as out-of-the-blue and the subsequent surge of interest in his work even more so.
While that is legally correct, President- Elect Obama is missing the opportunity to champion a reform of the misguided legal standards which do not compel disclosure of transition team records and allow Presidential transition teams to operate in virtual secrecy.
His predictably sunny prognostications were less interesting than his disclosure that the team had its own psychologist, the former pitcher Bob Tewksbury.
That, in essence, is what the plastic disclosure project's team and its backers (it also has a stamp of approval from the Clinton Global Initiative ) are trying to do.
While CounterCraft is not saying very much about what its core tech actually is (security startups do usually err on the side of disclosure caution), the team is claiming some early traction from a handful of Fortune Global 2000 clients in the financial and retail industry, and in government.
Yet, in what amounts to a glaring loophole in public disclosure law, transition team records are not subject to disclosure by either of the two prevailing disclosure laws that cover all government agencies in the Executive branch-The Freedom of Information Act or the Presidential Records Act.
Amid the disclosures about the team's financial situation, ground balls here will be nice and predictable.
