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Join Boxer and our partners at one of the following events, where we will showcase the latest solutions to enhance your production workflow. Our team will be onsite during these events to check out the latest announcements, meet with suppliers/resellers and seek out new and innovative solutions that will bring positive change to your business. We will be showcasing latest innovations and giving you the chance to get hands-on with the technology that is at the forefront of our vision; to create the most fluid end-to-end, distributed media production environment in the industry.
Boxer would be delighted to help you find the best solutions to meet your specific requirements. Contact us on 01582 466100 to set up a demo or meeting with one of our team or suppliers. We look forward to meeting you at these events.
8-13 Sep - ibc.org
28 Feb - 2 Mar - bvexpo.com
We are looking forward to exhibiting at Broadcast Video Expo at Excel, London. Our team will be on hand to demonstrate world-leading media production solutions. Come and talk to any member of the team about features, workflows and implementation.
22-27 Apr - nabshow.com
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Attendees representing every sector of the industry including Broadcast, Digital Media, Film, Entertainment, Telecom, Post-Production, Academia, Houses of Worship, Advertising, Military, Government, Retail, Security, Sports, Live Events, Online Video, IT, Virtual and Augmented Reality and more converge in Las Vegas for six days to embrace the immersive experiences reshaping the new reality of media.


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The full title of the film is Vampyr: the Dream of Allan Grey and follows Allan Grey a young man with an obsession for the occult and supernatural. Portrayed by Julian West, Grey is twitchy and slightly gormless looking and finds himself in a riverside inn in the French countryside. In his first night he is awoken by an old man unlocking the door from the wrong side who talks to him about death. Things continue to get stranger for Grey who then sees shadows about the village moving as ghosts with nobody casting them. These include dancing couples, a running figure reflected in the river and a soldier with a wooden leg climbing a ladder who Grey then observes to return to its rightful owner.
It is soon revealed that the old man lives in a chateau nearby with his two teenage daughters, Gisèlle and Léone, along with a handful of servants. All is not well in the chateau with both girls appearing to be ill with a lack of blood, and it soon becomes clear that both are the victims of a vampire. The audience learn a lot about the vampire folklore present in this film from "The History of Vampires" by Paul Bonnard that Grey is reading, from which we find out that once bitten by a vampire, the victim then develops a lust for blood and becomes a vampire, thus wiping out whole villages. Alongside the unfortunate family is the village doctor played by Jan Hieronimko, who looks like Albert Einstein who has been left to shrivel in a low oven for ten hours. It is clear from the subject matter of the books Grey (and thus the audience) is reading that he doesn't trust the doctor with references throughout to previous examples of doctors joining forces with vampires.
Vampyr holds with many of the traditional vampire myths, for example being unable to be in sunlight and the presence in one scene of a shadowy bat. However, it plays much more on the relationship between vampire and victim, the hold that the supernatural being has over the victim, compelling them to commit suicide, but also the addictive nature of the victim's blood and the vampires need for it.
Vampyr was the first sound film created and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc, Day of Wrath) and as such relies heavily on the use of title cards used in silent films. Based loosely on In a Glass Darkly, a collection of short stories from the nineteenth century by Sheridan Le Fanu, Vampyr is more a series of scenes connected only by the fact Allan Grey is viewing than a fully-fledged storyline. The unconnected feeling however adds to the dreamlike and ethereal quality of the film but also makes it hard to follow. The disembodied shadows and random shots of skeletons seem unrelated to the rest of the film and the ending providing more questions than answers.
Fun Fact: Vampyr was originally filmed in three languages, German, French and English and released in both French and German. Only damaged copies of the film survived and it was restored from both the French and the German in the 1990s.
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Elaine Jackson's Schoenhut dolls, all ready to celebrate the Fourth of July, welcomed members.
Sue Smith (holding dolls) gave a program on foreign costume dolls, assisted by Beverly Evans.
Beverly Evans displayed a trio of 1950s plastic dolls that she had restored and redressed.
Pam Wolf brought her Ginny travel doll, who wears pins from all the places she has visited.


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Continued: Effective Web Analytics Guidelines – Part 1
The last blog discussed some important guidelines about web analytics, and how understanding these guidelines aid website owners in designing effective organic SEO campaigns.
Below are several more useful guidelines for effective web analytics:
5. Data gathered from web analytics help in determining if existing organic SEO campaigns for the website have been effective in "quality" traffic generation. Quality traffic is an indicator of a deeper audience interest in the site. Visitors who stay longer to peruse the pages in the website are "quality" traffic, whose pure interest usually translates to a motivation to buy. Quality traffic statistics are useful in analyzing problem pages, wherein visitors leave quickly, and how to correct these pages for better organic SEO campaigns.
6. Web analytics aid in determining the search keywords or phrases that drive visitors to websites. Keyword analysis is an important part of an organic SEO campaign, and is useful in determining visitors' preferences.
7. Designing high-performing organic SEO campaigns is not only based on web analytics data. Other sources of data are email campaigns, lead generation campaigns, actual sales, among others. Web analytics results, combined with these data sources, influence how future marketing campaigns are designed.
Whatever the tools or methods used for traffic source analysis, the information gathered from web analytics can evaluate existing internet marketing campaigns and redesign them for greater performance results.


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I'll be teaching Pods, Plants and Color on December 3rd and Jiggly, Jointed Dolls on December 4th, from 10:00-4:00. Using polymer clay and a special oil painting technique we'll create beautiful, unique works of art and whimsy! Each class is $90. All supplies included. All experience levels are welcome.
The venue, Hopewell Creative Arts Studio, is a bright, large and airy space.
Hopewell is a walkable, Victorian village, there are loads of farm to table restaurants, coffee houses, fun and funky shops, walking trails and parks.
"It's in New Jersey, but it Screams Vermont', said the New York Times, about Hopewell.
Charming Lambertville, NJ and New Hope, PA are minutes away. Lot's of reasonable Airbnb's and Inns in the area. To register or for more info, questions, lodging links, PM me or email.


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Activities in Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
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Honduras' forest administration (COHDEFOR) and local NGOs, such as MOPAWI, are seeking sustainable alternatives for the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve. The most important remaining strand of humid tropical forest in the region, Río Plátano is home to 2,000 indigenous people, whose traditional lifestyles are threatened by encroaching settlements and agricultural development. Threats are also caused by hunting, illegal wildlife trade and lack of environmental awareness.


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Official-looking teaser image for the Sony Honami appears, launch pegged for September 4
Having gone through an extensive checklist of leaks, ranging from specs, through actual device images down to UI peeks, today marks the day we receive the first allegedly confirmed launch date for the Sony Honami, and there's even more.
An official-looking teaser image for the Sony Honami has been outed on the forum boards of Chinese Digi Wo. As you can probably make out from the images in the gallery below, the almost completely veiled teaser is a departure from what we've been expecting, vis-a-vis an Xperia Z-esque design. An elegant purple line stretches the profile of the Honami, along with a considerably more rounded profile than we were expecting. The good folks over at the XPERIA Blog have provided some close-ups that reveal the power button that's featured on all the latest Sony Xperia smartphones, along with a flap of unknown purpose.
Of course, there's no telling whether this image has been fabricated or not, so we'd take this with a grain of salt if we were you. If we're to disregard this disclaimer, though, it would appear that we may very soon have significantly more to go on: the launch is pegged for September 4 and set to take place in Berlin, Germany.
source: Digi Wo via XPERIA Blog


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Little Ocmulgee also offers complete camping facilities, including a pioneer camp. The campground is in the midst of live oak trees and Spanish Moss, and features 54 campsites for tents, trailers, and RVs. Cable TV hookups are available. There are also 7 picnic Shelters and 2 group shelters.
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How to Choose the Best Green Tea
I know that drinking green tea is great for our health, but is all green tea the same? How can I make sure I am getting the most health benefits from drinking green tea?
You're right, in repeated studies drinking green tea has been conclusively proven to lower the risk for a wide range of diseases, from simple infections to chronic degenerative conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, periodontal disease, and osteoporosis. But all green tea is not the same!
The magic health-promoting ingredients in green tea are flavonoids, which occur in the form of catechins and their derivatives. The most abundant catechin in green tea is epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), which plays an essential role in green tea's anticancer and antioxidant effects.
In a report published by the USDA in 2007 (USDA Database for the Flavanoid Content of Selected Foods Release 2.1) hundreds of food items were compared to determine flavanoid content—what it shows is that the way green tea is produced has a dramatic effect on it's flavanoid content.
The database proves that the more processed the tea is, the less catechins it has. Instant and bottled green tea are shown to contain 12 milligrams of catechins, flavored green teas have 43 milligrams, and decaffeinated has 56 milligrams, while regular green tea rings in at a super healthy 127 milligrams of catechins. Most of the studies proving health benefits are based on a 3-cup per day consumption.
Try to buy organic green tea when you can, and store your tea in a dark, dry place. Don't store it in the refrigerator as that can introduce moisture and food odor to the tea. And here's a trick to determine the freshness of a box of tea bags. Remove the tea from one of the bags and steep the tea-less bag in boiling water for three minutes. If the water tastes like tea, that's a sign that the flavor has transferred to the bag indicating that it is not fresh. If the water tastes like water—you have a box of nice fresh tea bags, just waiting to help boost your health!


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Serbia is going to table its application for EU membership on December 22, 2009, in Sweden's capital Stockholm. The news has been announced by the Serbian Presidency as quoted by the Serbian Radio.
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who currently chairs the rotating EU Presidency, is quoted as saying he would be glad to accept Serbia's President Boric Tadic in Stockholm on December 22.
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The Kung Fu video was directed by the late Great Steven Wells at our gig at New Cross Venue and around Chinatown in Soho. It was a pretty busy day as I remember; we also supported Supergrass at the Astoria that evening for an XFM broadcast. The video really sums up the song and the craziness of our gigs at the time. The video may or may not show a glimpse of my future wife who was down the front for the New Cross show. Rick #KUNGFU20
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We all know that buying and selling agricultural inputs is more than just receiving or offering a lower price. But can we be more specific?
In the 2017 Large Commercial Producer Project, Purdue University asked farmers to rank product performance, price, and supplier relationship when purchasing crop inputs. The result: Most farmers have clear favorites.
Yield and price risk take center stage in most discussions surrounding risk in agriculture. While these are obviously important aspects of risk to any farm business, the risks faced by agricultural producers are much broader than prices received for products sold and the risks associated with physical production of outputs.