The initiative for the project came from the Houston Ballet, which commissioned "In the Beginning" and also performed "Company B" in a reprise of its milestone premiere of that work at the Kennedy Center nearly 12 years ago.
The cable operator threw out some interesting factoids to help measure the magnitude of its milestone.
The films selected have not always taken place in New York, but as part of its milestone celebration, Grand Classics has gone back to its Big Apple roots with its "New York in Film" summer screenings.
Some of its milestones can be seen, far from Tasmania, in the British Museum's South Africa show.
Plus, I wanted to know more about the team members (hello, Andre, you didn't introduce yourself!), how they will execute and market the business and where the business is in terms of its milestones.
Oddly, the Web site of Gene Sciencee lists as one of its milestones a 1997 visit to the company by Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China's food and drug regulatory agency who was executed this year for corruption.
Chris Williams, the 3i partner who led the transaction said: "We hadn't planned to make any partial realisation at this stage, but with a business well ahead of its milestones, and strategically attractive to others, the board of NCP decided that Macquarie's offer provided the right solution for developing both of the businesses further".
He noted that about 10% of the human genome has now been sequenced in final form and 7% more in draft, and boasted that the collaboration has met all of its milestones, "without exception".
It was retrospectively acclaimed by several publications as an "ahead of its time" milestone in the history of the role-playing genre for the consoles and credited for having pioneered film noir style in video games.
One of its more milestone events in the UK, which could have been a persuading factor in the decision announced today, is that in July last year, the company developed Huddle IL3, the first commercial public cloud service to be modified and accredited for pan-government collaboration on restricted data.
The cathedral, which sits at the top of Stag Hill, has begun a year of celebrations to mark its milestone.
