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• Kastle Chairman, Mark Ein joined Washington D.C. Mayor, Muriel Bowser, and DC Metropolitan Police Department Chief, Pamela Smith, to formally announce the expanded program.
• Kastle originally donated over 400 Kastle Video cameras to the launch of the CapitalShield program, and this network of cameras has since grown to over 1,000 locations city-wide.
• "The CapitalShield Program connects private sector security cameras to MPD's Real Time Crime Center for accessing during critical situations," says MPD Police Chief, Pamela Smith.
• If you are interested in registering your business for the CapitalShield program or for more information, go to Capitalshield.org.

• From a distance the paint aligns behind a pollarded cherry tree, creating the timely impression of spring foliage.
• TV coverage revealed onlookers wedged amid a growing assemblage of security fencing in attempts to capture the perfect angle.
• By the end of March, a whole structure of wood and Perspex surrounded the work to protect it from damage.
• The artwork had been splattered with white paint only a couple of days after it was created.

Analysing Banksy

• A 2014 Guardian article quotes the artist stating that: “a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts.
• Many of those who celebrate Banksy hold contradictory positions on precisely the themes his works seem to address.
• The Daily Mail were happy to join MP Jeremy Corbyn in celebrating the Islington “masterpiece’s” symbolic engagement with the climate emergency.
• A 2015 film of work Banksy made in Gaza ended with a quote attributed to Brazilian philosopher, Paulo Freire: “if we wash our hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless we side with the powerful – we don’t remain neutral”.

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• Silicon Valley-based Hans Laser Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of China-based manufacturer Han's Laser Technology Group Co., which makes laser cutting and laser welding machinery, last year announced plans for a $60 million U.S. expansion .
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