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Counterpoint merged with fellow publisher Catapult in 2016. Subsequently, Soft Skull reopened its New York office with Yuka Igarashi as editor-in-chief, [ 7 ] and began to reissue backlist books. These included The Amputee's Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise, Something Bright, Then Holes by Maggie Nelson , and Wayne Koestenbaum 's 2004 novel, Moira ...
Jack Shoemaker (born 1946) is an American editor and publisher, and current editorial director and vice-president at Counterpoint Press in Berkeley, California. Shoemaker has edited and published books under several imprints, including North Point, Pantheon Books, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Counterpoint.
The Western Company moved from Fort Worth to Houston in 1990. The company featured an innovative oil museum open to the public on the first floor of their office building in Fort Worth, which was moved to Beaumont, Texas. The Western Company of North America was sold to BJ Services in 1995. The founder of the company, Eddie Chiles, died in 1993.
The company was purchased by Coleman (the famous manufacturer of outdoor equipment) in 1984. Camillus Cutlery Company purchased Western in 1992. In February, 2007, Camillus closed as a result of bankruptcy due to competition from companies making cheaper knives in other countries. The Western brand and Camillus brand are now owned by the Acme ...
Western Asset Management Company was founded in October 1971 by United California Bank (which later became First Interstate), and became an SEC-registered investment advisor in December of that year. In December 1986, Western Asset was acquired by Legg Mason, Inc. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Anderson graduated from Ohio State University. [2] After interning at the Louisville Courier Journal, he became the newspaper's editorial cartoonist in c. 1990. [2]Soon after winning the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, his winning cartoons were shown on air by Fox News' Sean Hannity as evidence, Hannity argued, of liberal bias by the Pulitzer judges.
The company was formed by the merger in 2000 of two of the world's largest seismic contractors, Western Geophysical (founded in 1933) [2] and Geco-Prakla. Schlumberger, owners of Geco-Prakla paid cash to Baker Hughes , which then owned Western, for a 70% stake in a joint venture of the combined companies. [ 3 ]