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Directed by Christian Riehs and Wolfgang Peschl
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Languages: German (ORIGINAL) , English (DUBBED)
Format: 16:9 , 16:9
Secrets of the Lagoon
Die Geheimnisse der Lagune
Even people who have visited Venice many times find that the city on the lagoon has plenty of hidden sides that are worth discovering. The historic importance of some of these places cannot be read about in the travel guides. Innovations that began in Venice and conquered the world from the Middle Ages onwards are taken for granted today. We hardly know anything about their origins. This documentary presents what is perhaps the best known city in the world from an unusual angle: a Venice whose secrets, which are exciting and amusing in equal measure, are sure to have been a mystery to most people until now. In the fifteenth century the Republic of San Marco reached the peak of its power and wealth. The state enjoyed the highest revenues in the world. Almost 200,000 people lived in Venice, which was the largest city in Italy and the fourth largest in Europe. Today its population only numbers around 70,000.Available in 1x45 and 1x52 min.
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Abel Ferrara, possibly still stinging from Werner Herzog putting him down after taking on Bad Lieutenant, has decided to launch his own version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Ferrara's version will be called Jekyll and Hyde.
His reading will also feature Forest Whitaker and Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson at the lead characters.
I can't quite imagine why he would want to do this but, given his interesting if not wholly-successful take on the Invasion of the Body Snatchers story in the past, he could at least bring something different to the table.
Separate to this, two other Jekyll and Hyde projects are in the works.
There is the terrible-sounding version with Keanu Reeves playing both lead roles, although possibly with Bronson's Nicolas Winding Refn directing. That one would presently fall into the interesting category alongside the potential Ferrara version.
Alongside those is the most promising but, unfortunately, most unlikely to come in the short-term, from Guillermo del Toro. That one is only in the embryonic stages so little is known other than the character design will be amazing.


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A warm welcome to the 2019-20 Rotary year! This year Rotary International will launch a new strategic plan whose core message is:
Together we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
Rotary International President Mark Daniel Maloney's theme will be Rotary Connects the World. As San Mateo Rotary heads into a new year, we will help implement the new strategic plan and RI President Maloney's theme by focusing on these key areas:
- Continuing to provide scholarship support and mentoring to local high school and community college students
- Increasing our awareness of and participation in international service projects, including micro-credit loans to women in Guatemala, scholarship support for high school students in Belize, hospital-improvement efforts in Lebanon, and climate change reduction
- Working together to bring additional members into our club
- Providing opportunities for fellowship and fun throughout the Rotary year
I look forward to working together with you as we unite and take action to serve our local community, connect the world, and enjoy the special warmth of Rotary fellowship!
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Author: Lauren Oliver
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: 28th February 2012
Find on: Amazon, Goodreads
Quick Review: I'm pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame.
Lauren Oliver delivers an electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Delirium. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.
Then: When she was in the Wilds, weak and lost, she stumbled onto a group of people and was brought back to their homestead. She becomes a part of their family but there is a price. She has to work for the homestead and can't possibly live there for free. Hardships are revealed in these chapters.
Now: She is a spy for a group of uncureds in the wilds, along with her friends Raven and Hunter. She goes to DFA (Deliria-free America) meetings and spy on what happens there. She attends high school. And she forgets about everything that's happened before she escaped into the Wilds: Hana, Grace, the procedure and ,,, Alex. A part of her still longs for him. Until she meets Julian Fineman, son of the founder of DFA, Thomas Fineman. When Lena's caught in a mission involving Julian, she ends up travelling with him.
And falling in love with him.
But... Alex is back.
And he's not the sweet and nice boy that Lena used to know.
Brief Review: Oh my god! This book totally got me tensed, especially on the last page. I really wanted to read Requiem, but it's not even out yet! Arrgh! I can't wait till next year! But seriously, Lauren Oliver's love of cliffhangers makes my desire to read the next book ten times worth it. Good job to the author. All credits belong to her.
Final rating: 5/5 'Totally Amazing' (Wish I could give a six!)
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As Canadians, neighbours and Girl Guides, we extend our heartfelt support to the thousands of B.C. residents affected by the devastating wildfires surrounding their communities. Our thoughts are with our sisters in Guiding and their families who have been evacuated from their homes and the dedicated emergency services personnel who are battling the blazes.
At this time there are no fires reported in the immediate vicinity of any Girl Guide camps, or in the northwest part of the province surrounding Smithers, B.C., the location of our SOAR 2017 provincial camp being held later this month. We will continue to monitor the situation and the SOAR Steering Committee is working closely with emergency management personnel in the area as we prepare to welcome 2,500 campers to the event.


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Inyo and Keynot are two iconic peaks on the southern side of the Inyo Mountains. They are known for their not-so-good terrain quality but very good views of the Sierra Nevada to the west. I had first done both peaks in February 2014 via Forgotten Ridge. I joined up with Craig this time to do the peaks from the standard Union Wash route (with our slight deviation at the start).
|Topographic Prominence
|Summit Coordinates (lat/lon)
|Keynot Peak
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|3,050 ft
|36.707586, -117.962623
|Mt. Inyo
|10,975 ft
|955 ft
|36.735229, -117.985686
Getting to the trailhead: From the North end of Lone Pine, go north on 395 1/2 mile and head east on Lone Pine Narrow Gauge Rd (also abbreviated NPLG Rd on some of the signs.) Head east for approx 3 miles staying on the paved road until you get to a "Y" intersection where you will head north for 5 miles. At this point, look for a notch incut into the dirt berm on the east side of the road. Word has it that there used to be some tires piles up here to mark the correct turn. They were not in place when we did this trip. You should now be able to see the 4WD road heading up Union Wash; this is your objective. A 2WD vehicle will be able to get much of the way up; 4WD will get you another 1/2 mile or so depending on the current conditions and how badly you want to drive rather than walk. (directions from Summitpost)
4WD trailhead coordinates (lat/lon): 36.709082, -118.014412
where we parked (lat/lon): 36.695569, -118.051345
We were only able to get the car about a tenth of a mile up the road heading up Union Wash, so we parked there (3,710 ft) and walked to the 4WD trailhead (5,480 ft), adding roughly 4.7 miles and 1,770 ft of gain to the hike.
The two of us began hiking up the road at around 6:50am, just in time to see the sunrise on the Sierra a short moment after we started.
The 4WD road ends at the toe of an obvious ridge heading east towards the Inyo Crest. From there, the standard route heads up the northern branch of Union Wash to a point where forward progress is blocked by a dry waterfall. A large cairn marks the start of a use-trail heading south up towards the aforementioned ridge.
We deviated from the standard route by ascending the ridge directly from the 4WD trailhead. This provided us with scree, good views, and burning calves. The going became much faster once we intersected the use-trail of the standard route and followed it up the ridge.
ascending the ridge
The use-trail was made up of primarily scree, but it was easy to follow. Once the trail came upon the saddle east of Point 9155 (see topo map), it contoured along the north side of the ridge, dropping into a gully leading up to Bedspring Saddle (10,100 ft). Since we planned to climb Keynot first, we did not head up to Bedspring Saddle, but angled southeast to intersect the Inyo Crest south of the saddle. From there, we followed the crest to the summit of Keynot. The first three quarters of the crest was straightforward class 1 walking with periodic use-trails here and there. For the last quarter, the trail supposedly contoured along the eastern (left) side of the ridge. Upon reaching that point, we could see that the east side was covered with about a foot of soft snow, so we continued ascending directly on the crest. This involved a series of ups and downs on cruddy class 3 crumbles. When the crest itself became too spicy or cruddy, we would drop a short distance down the west side into screeish gullies. We reached the summit shortly after, finding hoards of ladybugs among the rocks.
views from the Inyo Crest
initial easy section on Keynot
terrain gets cruddy
ladybugs on summit
on the summit: "We own you Keynot Peak!"
On the way down Keynot, we were able to avoid the cruddy class 3 stuff by dropping ~100 ft down one of several chutes on the west side of the ridge, and contouring northwards until we had bypassed the crud.
Now it was time for Mt. Inyo. The routefinding was very simple: just head north along the crest until we hit Inyo. There were a total of two false summits before we hit the real one.
heading over to Mt. Inyo
the true summit of Mt. Inyo (photo taken on February 14, 2014)
view southwest from Mt. Inyo
After Inyo, we descended back to Bedspring Saddle and headed down the eastern gully to meet back up with the use-trail.
view of Union Wash from a spot near Bedspring Saddle
afternoon Lenticular clouds
We took the use-trail back to the saddle east of Point 9155 (see map). Now came the fun part. We left the trail and walked over to Point 9155, continued southwest down a loose but short cliff band, and bombed down over 1,000 ft of scree. Shortly after intersecting the trail again, we found another cascading scree field and skied down it to the northwest, intersecting the start of the standard route in Union Wash. Once we had reached Union Wash, we followed the wash out to the 4WD trailhead, and followed the dirt road back to the car, reaching it just after dark.
looking down the first scree ski below Point 9155 (photo taken on February 14, 2014)
second scree ski
intersecting the standard route
Final Stats
15.4 miles
9,470 ft gain/loss
Weather Forecasts
7,180 ft
Keynot and Inyo
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Keynot Peak
Mt. Inyo
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Mobile Marketing Automation: Insight Driven Consumer Engagement
Mobile devices are ubiquitous and people glued to their phones throughout the day account for more than half of all internet traffic. Influencing the mobile consumer requires understanding the "context" in real time to make an impact and add value to their life. Four facts about him/her are necessary to engineer unique experiences:
- Who is the consumer?
- What do they want (to meet both her emotional and functional needs)?
- What have they purchased in the past?
- When and where do they shop?
The Rise of Mobile Marketing Automation (MMA)
The state of the art in digital marketing is the integration of social, local, mobile — or frequently called mobile marketing automation (MMA). MMA is a hot emerging areas that leading Chief Marketing Officers are focused on for mobile apps, precision targeting, and test & learn campaigns.
What makes MMA different is the focus on the propensity to purchase coupled with location intelligence. Segmenting and reaching audiences based on demographics, psychographics, content or cookies has its uses, but these methods don't make the association that matters most – propensity to purchase and actual purchase behavior.
Just a few years ago, the category didn't even exist. The tremendous migration of consumers to mobile as their primary interaction channel has fueled the need for new sophisticated B2C marketing tools. CMOs focused on digital consumer engagement are aggressively piloting new initiatives in this area.
Why? Because Digital shifts power to Consumer. Mobile isn't the future – it's the present. With over 2 billion Smartphone users and growing, mobile channel usage is growing exponentially. Consider these statistics….the number of Facebook mobile daily active users recently crossed 800M; the number of mobile-only monthly actives is 600+M users; % of users who only login from mobile devices crossed 30%.
Mobile-first, mobile-only are new behavior patterns in consumer engagement across all demographics.
Consumers – Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers – all expect brand interactions to be relevant to their immediate context. Established brands are scrambling to appear relevant in this mobile-first world, and brand-specific mobile apps are popping up with never-before-seen speed. Marketing requires meeting consumers where they are with laser-like targeting of offer & message – and mobile is a key place to do so.
It's interesting to see that mobile marketing automation is now learning and picking up techniques from mobile advertising. The insight that is driving mobile marketing automation: People (especially millenials) are more than willing to share data if it's going to be used respectfully—if it's used for what it's collected for, and they're part of the value proposition. The technology fueling mobile programmatic marketing has grown exponentially in sophistication, with big data analytics that enable micro-targeting. Reaching, steering and influencing effectively on mobile devices along the path-to-purchase is the new frontier.
Adapted from Shopper Marketing – 2014 Guide Digital Shopper Marketing
What is Data Driven Mobile Marketing Automation (MMA)?
- More internet access via mobile apps than desktop PCs (as of 2014) – ComScore
- 46% of 18-34 year olds name mobile as 'primary screen' – WEVE
Shopper marketing is evolving with millennials. At the same time, with big data, targeting and segmentation are more precise than at any other point in history. The challenge, of course, is bringing it all together as an integrated solution. Mobile marketing automation is the technology that allows mobile-focused companies to automate, personalize, and measure mobile shopper activities so they can increase relevant user engagement while simultaneously enhancing the real-time user experience.
MMA has evolved considerably in the past decade.
- Spray and pray approach… email based marketing
- Push Notification Services + SMS and In-App Message Delivery Services… We went through the broadcast phase… random and intrusive push messages and alerts that tend to alienate users.
- Simple personalization… We then went through simplistic "personalized" customer experiences that are based on shallow data, such as purchase history, gender, whether you're single or married, where you live, etc.
- Dynamic Personalization… Now we are entering a new phase focused on optimal message + optimal channel + optimal timing + optimal device. This is largely driven by predictive analytics (e.g., Next Best Offer), machine learning, interest graphs, location-aware context-sensitivity, and personalization at scale.
Mobile marketing automation allows companies to meet concrete business goals (activation, reactivation, fulfillment of offers etc.) through audience identification and segmentation, intelligent targeted messaging, enabling brands to reach consumers across all platforms, channels, and levels of engagement. The technology is characterized by an understanding of each individual mobile user and the ability to engage in an automated, personalized, and optimized way.
An entire new breed of startups are converging around data driven Mobile Marketing Automation. They include Kahuna, Urban Airship, MobileROI, Intercom, Juice Mobile. The major vendors, ExactTarget (now Salesforce Marketing Cloud), Marketo, IBM and HubSpot, who are focused on large enterprises are also racing to add MMA features.
Adapted from Parse (firm acquired by Facebook)
Enabling Shopper Marketing: Core Features in MMA Platforms
How to drive shopper engagement throughout the path to purchase? There are five core concepts behind every MMA platform.
- Integration & Understand: components that ensure the system is able to understand your mobile users across devices and platforms. Understanding customers means leveraging transaction history, behavior, content views, profiles and preferences (360-degree customer view).
- Analyze & Discover: Fully understand multi-touch attribution, which assigns values to different touch points of the customer journey, to inform intelligent campaigns.
- Leverage Insights & Engage: components that allow the system to intelligently engage users wherever they are—mobile apps, mobile web, social networks, and wearables. Communication channels include push notifications, in-app messages, web messages, email, and more. Customization of engagement requires sophisticated real-time analytics that leverage location, timing, user preferences and prior transaction history.
- Act & Automate: components that enable the platform to send personalized and automated messages based on a set of campaign business rules, real-time user behavior and location parameters. Ensure customers are receiving the right offer via the right channel at the right time. Every time.
- Optimize, Test & Learn: components that allow the system to track and optimize campaign results (via A/B test design, messaging and timing of campaigns) to achieve specific KPIs.
The new data driven MobileFirst Marketing Automation (MMA) platforms helps companies deliver highly individualized mobile experiences, messages, advertisements, and offers using interest graphs, live signals, and current customer context.
These platforms leverage predictive analytics, context-sensitivity, and personalization at scale and taps into the growing number of smartphone sensors and other external data signals to give brands a periscope into the lives of their consumers, ensuring every brand interaction is delivered when it's highly personal and relevant to the individual customer's immediate situation.
The more sophisticated firms create the closed loop (analytics and engagement and machine learning) seamlessly. They leverage real-time signals like the customer's identity, location, current activity, physical situation (weather, traffic, etc.), purchase history, movement patterns, implicit and explicit intent signals, and social graphs.
Several firms are incorporating predictive analytics into the mobile marketing platforms. By analyzing multiple real-time data streams against historical data, algorithmic models anticipate future trends, user preferences and actions to let brands know what customers are going to do before they do it, like abandon their shopping cart, churn or share their experiences? The objective is to intervene with the right message or offer to motivate or change their behavior.
Source: LiquidHub
Programmatic Shopper Marketing is the New New Thing
For years, marketers have focused on creating strong and recognizable brands by promoting products and services through various channels and creating campaigns to support and advertise their offerings. But customers in today's mobile first economy want something different. They expect a positive, seamless, and personalized engagement no matter how — or when — they choose to engage.
To deliver, marketers must harness their massive datasets and use the wealth of insights available from digital and traditional channels to engage customers and prospects in highly personalized, intelligent, one-to-one messaging, regardless of channel.
Just programmatic advertising has changing online advertising. I am anticipating that data-driven mobile marketing automation is creating the foundation for programmatic marketing. "Programmatic" ad buying typically refers to the use of algorithms to purchase digital advertising, as opposed to the traditional process that involves RFPs, human negotiations and manual insertion orders. Through programmatic technologies, advertisers can automate the buying of ads for most effectiveness.
The same underlying concept is coming to mobile shopper marketing. By triggering campaigns to automatically launch based on consumer's real-time intent, immediate context or actions, brands can intervene with the right offer, message or functionality at the precise moment customer needs it.
Programmatic shopper marketing and targeting enabled by mobile marketing platforms, predictive analytics and machine learning is next big thing.
Additional References and Notes
- Digital Architecture 101
- Digital Integration – Why do you need a new breed of innovation vendor/partner
- Digital 101 – The Basics
- Multi-Channel Engagement Platforms
- A/B Testing
- In-App vs. Out of App Notifications (Source: SWRVE)
- The Notification Economy… Learmer and Simmons determine that American consumers are overwhelmed by an avalanche of over 3000 marketing messages daily.
- Precision Marketing
- Segmentation
In-App vs. Out of App Notifications (Source: SWRVE — slideshare.net)
MMA Case Study: Mobile Marketing Automation with Beacons
ShopperTrak is a provider of consumer behavior insights and location-based analytics. Shopkick is a shopping app and has beacons in various retail stores. Their partnership aims to deliver superior in-store experiences and rewards for mobile shoppers, while also providing the retail community with an analytics tool to optimize the shopper's experience in the store.
How is this done? By integrating ShopperTrak interior analytics solution with Shopkick's in-store beacon technology, the companies will provide retail customers with actionable and anonymized in-store analytics, allowing them to understand in-store shopper behavior, including where customers are going and how long they are staying. This analytical insight enables retailers to shift in-store strategies and operations to match shopper interest and behavior, leading to increased customer loyalty.
Shopkick's shopBeacons, which are already deployed at more than 8,000 large stores, including Macy's and American Eagle, welcome shoppers entering a store via mobile alerts and share location-specific deals, discounts, recommendations, and rewards (called kicks) –- all as you enter the store's front door. The Shopkick app can also tie at-home browsing to in-store benefits— if a shopper "likes" a specific product in the app, shopBeacon reminds her when she enters the store that sells it. ShopBeacons have a five-year battery lifecycle, and have fully encrypted signals.
Additionally, retailers can utilize the shopBeacon network to engage with customers through their own apps, gain rich insight into consumer behavior and, most importantly, deliver more interesting consumer shopping experiences.
The end goal is: new ways to increase shopper traffic, conversion rates and average transaction size.
Additional Reading and Resources
Trackbacks & Pingbacks
- Implementing Digital Architecture: A CIO and CDO Roadmap | Digital Transformation, Engagement and Experience
- Mobile Social Consumerization and "Buy Button" E-commerce | Digital Transformation, Engagement and Experience
- Digital Marketing + Data Science = Programmatic Marketing | Digital Transformation, Engagement and Experience
- Customer Journey Analytics and Data Science | Business Analytics 3.0
- Digitizing Customer Journeys – Programmatic Marketing | Digital Transformation, Engagement and Experience
- The Art of the Possible: Digital Masters | Digital Transformation, Engagement and Experience
- Retailers and the Curse of Digital | Digital Transformation, Engagement and Experience
- The Retail Paradox: the Curse of Digital | Business Analytics 3.0
- Digitizing Wealth Management – The Rise of Robo-Advisors | Business Analytics 3.0
- Marketing Technology Evolving Landscape | Digital Transformation, Engagement and Experience
- Analytics and ML Use Case – Robo-Advisors in Wealth Management | Business Analytics 3.0 – Cameron's Code


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January 2009: A new feature begins on January 29th on Kathy-Diane's blog: http://lettheshadowsfallbehindyou.com
Shadows Fall N Friends is a weekly interview with authors Kathy-Diane has met on the road to publication: Erica Spindler, Gregg Olsen, Louise Penny, Joy Fielding, Donna Morrissey and more. They'll talk about their writing journeys and offer tips. To keep up-to-date on the schedule, subscribe to Kathy-Diane's E-muse monthly newsletter at: email@example.com
April 2009: Let the Shadows Fall Behind You goes on sale on-line at Amazon. Everyone who ordered advance copies will find them in the mail box.
May 2009: Let the Shadows Fall Behind You hits Indigo, Coles, Borders and independent book stores like Westminster and Benjamin Books.
May 2009: Kathy-Diane invites all her friends to join her on May 10, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. to celebrate the offical launch of Let the Shadows Fall Behind You at the Saint John Arts Center. Drop by for a reading and signing, refreshments and the chance to win a gift certificate from Ambience Day Spa.
May 2009: Interviews and reviews for Let the Shadows Fall Behind You at all your favorite on-line spots like Readers Respite, The Novel Journey, Book Nook, Bloggin About Books, LibraryThing. Updates will be posted daily on this blog with links to each.
May 2009: Kathy-Diane and Let the Shadows Fall Behind You is featured in the May issue of The Big Thrill published by the International Thrill Writers. Details and link will be posted on this blog.
May 2009: Books signings at Coles, Indigo, Westminster Books. Dates and times to come.
June 2009: Canadian Crimewriters Bloody Words Conference in Ottawa, Ontario from June 5-7th. Let the Shadows Fall Behind You hits the readers' Book Room and goody bags while Kathy-Diane schmoozes with her friends and fellow mystery/suspense authors.
June 2009: Book signings at Coles, Indigo, University Book Store. Dates and times to come.


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O My Soul - Aaron Keyes
Intro/Outro Verse 1 Notice the nations, summon the peoples Join with the angels giving glory to the Lamb We lift our heads now; we were dead, but now We are alive eternally! Chorus O my soul rise and sing! Highest praise to Heaven's King Boundless love has won the day, the sin of man is washed away…
Writer(s): Aaron Keyes, Matt Mcmichael, Stuart Garrard
Writer(s): Aaron Keyes, Matt Mcmichael, Stuart Garrard


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Greyscalegorilla at Vimeo Festival + Awards
I will be heading to NYC in early June 7th – 9th to speak at the Vimeo Festival + Awards. I have two (that's right) TWO presentations this year at the festival. First, I will be presenting with Philip Bloom and Blake Whitman about building an audience and how to show off your creative work. Then, I also have a How To Make Titles in Cinema 4D tutorial just for beginners to 3D.
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Do you ever speak in Los Angeles?? LA has almost no festivals NY has a bunch i dont get it!!!
would come if i could pay a flying ticket
Philip Bloom also speaks at the festival. Man, why do these things happen always overseas… 🙁
Are you recording your presentations, Nick?
would also be interested to see you in person in Los Angeles
Do you also have discount codes for a flight ticket: Lisbon – NY – Lisbon?? 🙂
Bummer. I'll be in Tennessee for Bonnaroo. Would really love to see one of your presentations Nick.
Already got my tickets! Looks to be an awesome lineup of workshops and presentations. Can't wait!
I'm not attending because i'm in London but i wanna say Nick your simply inspiring.
I'm sure vimeo will be posting your presentation
Would be good if GRAYSCALEGORILLA could organise a WORLD TOUR…. Take 6 -7 month of work and go around the world touring and showing WONDERS of motion graphics to people everywhere in the WORLD.
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– Andy Smirnov of Sydney Australia
I'm there! IAC here we come!
Hey Nick,
What day/time are you presenting?!


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IFL's got it right in some areas
By Adam Morgan | June 9, 2007
By Adam Morgan
The IFL kicks off its relationship with USA Wrestling this weekend at the World Team Trials according to an article at NBC Sports. For all the things wrong with the IFL, aligining itself with USA Wrestling is great for both parties. USA Wrestling gets TV exposure and the IFL will have a talent pool of great wrestlers to draw from. But that's not the only thing the IFL is doing right. They have the right mindset in terms of educating people about the various facets of the sport. The event this weekend is a demonstration of how wrestling can be translated to the world of MMA.
"Our goal is to not have wrestling overshadowed," IFL commissioner and co-founder Kurt Otto said. "We want to work with USA Wrestling as a vehicle to educate wrestlers about MMA. The more they come to clinics, they'll see it's not human cockfighting. It's a pure sport."
Not only does it allow wrestlers to see how wrestling is involved with MMA, it lets fans see how wrestling is a huge part of MMA. For those who are just now becoming fans of the sport due to increased media exposure, there are a lot of things to learn. And this is a step in the right direction to educating fans about MMA and all the various martial arts involved.
"It's one more piece to the puzzle as far as taking MMA mainstream," Otto said. "We feel comfortable working with them."
Exactly. It's all about making the sport legitimate.
Kurt Otto has the correct mindset as far as the sport goes. Educate the people about technique and the sport becomes much more exciting and accepted. This weekend, Matt Lindland and IFL fighter Bryan Vettell will hold clinics to show how wrestling techniques can be applied to MMA. If the IFL was smart, they would tape some of the clinics and air them on IFL Battleground. Educating more people about things other than striking is great for the sport.
I have a feeling it will be all for naught, though, considering that the IFL's financial future doesn't look so good at this point. Oh well, at least they're trying.
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I love the idea…but i kinda get the feeling that its too little too late for the IFL
I think there's hope for IFL if it has a good playoffs and if the Anacondas and Pitbulls have a great Finals. They also need the 4-man individual weight championship tournaments to go well.
But the major flaw of the IFL concept has been exopsed, many of the teams are full of dogs and the matchups suck. Too many teams, too little talent in the league.
I too feel that there are just too many teams in the IFL at this point. They expanded so fast that you hardly even heard about Team A when Team ZZ popped into the fray.
Zuffa lost tons of money when they started and I think the investors behind the IFL have deeper pockets than the Fertittas at the time. It will all depend on their commitment to their investment and if their losses aren't as big as they projected them to be.
That is a great idea. Look at Kos's wrestling ability. I just hope whomever they recruit, doesn't turn into a LNP expert.
I think a wrestler transitions into MMA better than a boxer. A wrestler just needs to learn to block punches to get in for the takedown. Once there, they are in their element. A boxer has to learn takedown defense and the whole ground game.
I must say I really applaud what the people running the IFL are trying to do not only for their league but the overall health of MMA. They really seem to be a positive force for the sport.
Unfortunately with the reports we have seen about their financial figures it doesn't seem like things are going really that well for them. Hopefully things change with a strong playoff push. I really enjoy watching them get young fighters a very good experience and exposure in the sport.
Is the IFL collecting franchise fees or something from these additional teams? If they are, then that would explain their insatiable hunger for new teams, because they're turning around and using that investment to run operations.
IFL is in trouble, but they haven't yet taken up the option of being bought out by a media company. With CBS getting into the MMA act through Pro Elite on Showtime, the continued rumours and unrumours about Time Warner hooking up with UFC via HBO, and Viacom already in bed with UFC, NBC Universal (USA) is obviously looking to get into the act as well. The question is, once they start dealing with IFL, will they allow IFL to go under, or will they bail them out for controlling equity?
I think the investors behind the IFL have deeper pockets than the Fertittas at the time.
Who are these investors?
Body_Shots…it's kind of complicated.
The original founders of IFL were Kurt Otto and Gareb Shamus. Otto is in the real estate game, Shamus is in publishing and conventions (he has the comic mag/price guide Wizard).
Richard J. Kurtz loaned IFL 4.9 million dollars during 2005 and 2006. To pay him off, the old IFL gave him shares that turned into 4,930,213 shares of stock after the merger discussed immediately below.
Last year the company was merged with Paligent, Inc., which had been (theoretically) a biotech company (they sold off all their IP and essentially had no business at the time they merged with IFL, they had never actually SOLD any product). Paligent's largest shareholder (Richard J. Kurtz) ended up with a large chunk of the resulting entity (Paligent had 5% of the new IFL, then they also issued about 5% in new shares to Kurtz because he cancelled a loan that he had made to Paligent for about 2/3 million dollars).
I don't particularly understand why IFL merged with Paligent, except that it was a way of officially bringing Kurtz into the fold and getting on the market. IFL was in no condition to successfully execute an IPO at the time (nor now). Paligent had no business, and essentially no assets (under 12 thousand dollars in assets). Their only significant liabilities were the ones owed to Kurtz.
In December, IFL gave out a lot of newly issued stock to companies and individuals to whom they owed a lot of money (about $22.5 million). In order to issue this stock, they also paid off the investment firm that made the placement with nearly 600 thousand options to purchase stock at $1.25 per share.
On May 31, 2007, these major shareholders filed their intention to sell the nearly 20 million shares in IFL that they were given to settle their debts. These were:
ALK Construction LLC Defined Benefit Pension Plan
Apollo Capital Management Group L.P
Apollo Microcap Partners, L.P.
Atlas Master Fund, Ltd
Bradley Beckerman
Michael C. Borofsky
Chapman Family Trust
Donald D. Drapkin
Matthew A. Drapkin
EagleRock Institutional Partners, LP
EagleRock Master Fund, LP
Sophrosyne Technology Fund Ltd.
HHMI Investments, L.P.
Highbridge International LLC
Adam F. Ingber
Investcorp Interlachen Multi-Strategy Master Fund Limited
Jefferson St. LLC
Michael R. McAllister.
Nader Tavakoli.
SRB Greenway Offshore Operating Fund, L.P.
SRB Greenway Capital (QP), L.P.
SRB Greenway Capital, L.P.
The Tudor BVI Global Portfolio Ltd.
Tudor Proprietary Trading, L.L.C.
Unicom Capital LLC
Walker Smith International Fund, Ltd.
Walker Smith Capital, L.P.
Walker Smith Capital (QP), L.P.
Witches Rock Portfolio Ltd
The company has consistently paid their employees at all levels, in part, with stock options. Based on the recent consistent decline in the price of the stock, it's likely that any options that haven't been exercised previously are now "under water," i.e., the price to buy the share is more than the price to buy a share on the open market, so no sane person would exercise the option.
The company also has a pretty good hoard of shares set aside to give to employees, but they haven't actually given any out yet.
In total, there are about 53.5 million shares of stock that have actually been issued and are being held by entities other than the IFL (there are 75 million total shares authorized, so the company could hand out another 21.5 million shares at some point before even having to ask permission to issue more shares from the board of directors, which is controlled by the largest shareholders anyway.
Of those 53.5 million shares, about 9 million are held by Otto, 8 million by Shamus, 700 thousand by Molnar, and 116 thousand by Bucci (former president of Paligent). 4.5 million are held by Kurtz. 4.8 million are held by Nadir Tavakoli (the owner of the EagleRock companies), 4.8 million are held by Paul Tudor Jones and James Pallotta (owners of Witches Rock and the Tudor companies). About 10 million shares are held by the other companies that received stock when IFL paid off their creditors in December.
That leaves less than 12 million shares on the open market currently.
So basically, IFL announced that the people who hold more than a third of their total shares are about to flood the market with about twice as many shares as are currently on the market. That kind of explains why their stock price dropped to about a dollar a share now.
To stay listed, IFL is probably going to have to undergo a reverse stock split of maybe 5 for 1 after those shares go on the market, I would guess, to keep their share price above the limit where they would no longer be permitted to be publicly listed.
To fund continued operations, I would assume that the company is going to issue those other 21.5 million shares to people they owe money to again, and at the end of this year, everyone is going to be left holding the bag because there will be no money to run the company, with no one willing to lend them more.
The idea that somehow Otto and Shamus have deep pockets is pretty well disproven by the way that IFL has gone about paying for things in the past (handing out stock like lollipops). Typically you'd have a cash call from your current owners at a privately held company before you go outside for money. I don't think they have any that they are willing to put into IFL. They had to borrow from Kurtz, they had to borrow from EagleRock, they borrowed from Witches Rock and Tudor, and they keep spending on credit with the intention of converting it into shares, but their share price won't support that now.
I'm sure that they had good intentions going into it, but IFL's finances indicate that the company is basically a scam at this point. Enjoy the fights while they last.
Oh, an addendum.
Looks like IFL has their annual meeting scheduled for June 28th. On the docket is a decision to increase the authorized shares from 75 million to 150 million. This is essentially certain to pass.
I can't believe that people are still willing to give money to these shysters for worthless pieces of paper.
Thanks for the run down Jeremy, that is very interesting.


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Essential Items For the (Male) Travelling Performer
Anyone man travels as a performer whether musician, singer, comedian, actor – whatever – knows that the long journeys and sitting around waiting can induce serious boredom. So I've compiled a list of Essential Items For the Travelling Performer to ensure you don't get caught out (and can keep your mind occupied whilst killing time).
Why only for men? Because I'm a man and I have no interest in what women carry in their handbags/makeup bags/suitcases. Plus there are already plenty of blogs discussing that subject.
I'm going to skip the obvious things like mobile phone and refreshments. If you can't figure that out for yourself you probably need more help than this blog can provide.
USB PowerBank
If you're travelling in a car, on a plane or train, chances are your phone is going to go flat pretty quickly during the endless checks of social media and Angry Bird battles. A decent USB Powerbank can ensure that you stay powered up on the road. I use the PowerAdd 20,000mAh device which can charge my Samsung Galaxy S6 fully (from flat) around 11 times. It's the best powerbank on the market at the moment.
Spare USB charger adapter and lead
It's always useful to take a USB charger with you, and a lead. This way you can top-up your Powerbank when you get the change of using an AC outlet. I use a fast-charger with my S6 which charges the phone from flat in 1.5 hours.
Anti diarrhoea tablets – important!
Trust me when I say that at some point you are going to need these. You might only ever need them once, but when you do, you'll be SO grateful you packed them. Whether you're waiting at an airport, sitting on a bus or about to go on stage, having a method to medically induce a cork in your arsehole will make you feel a whole lot more comfortable and may just prevent that embarrassing on-stage moment.
Pen and paper
Whether is amending a setlist, writing down that new joke or giving instructions to a stage tech, you're likely to need pen and paper at some point. I carry mine in a clipboard in my bag as I can use it for a stand when on stage.
Earbud Headphones
Whether it's listening to your favourite tunes, catching up on some movies or watching the news, headphones can help you block out the hustle and bustle of dressing rooms and sound checks. Put them in your bag.
Mac, Laptop or Tablet device
Performing often requires lots of of waiting around and it can be incredibly boring especially if you're a solo artiste. For most people something electronic to pass the time is essential Items For the Travelling Performer.
Mini First Aid kit
You might think this is a little over-the-top, but I've forgotten how many times either myself or a member of my band has cut themselves or sprained something. Paracetamol and Ibuprofen should be in it for long journeys where access to a shop may be difficult when travelling. You can buy a mini first aid kit which includes instant cooling pad (ideal with sprains) here.
My son bought me a multitool recently and it wasn't until I had one that I realised how useful they can be. Mine has a little knife, saw, screwdrivers and bottle opener and was inexpensive.
Vocalzone and Sudafed blocked nose spray
If you're a singer or speak a lot for your job, these two items can get you out of trouble. Vocalzone is the industry standard when it comes to people who use their voices to earn money. It helps to open the airways and unlike harsh sweets like Strepsils, it does numb your throat the point where you cause more damage without realising you are straining.
Sudafed will clear a lot of stuffiness from behind the nose and eyes. It can help releave headaches caused by colds and also open the airways.
Duck tape
This stuff can fix, hang, stick and pretty much get you out of trouble in all manner of situations. Keep a roll in your bag.
Finding cash machines on the road can be difficult, and if you find one at a service station it usually wants to charge you to get your own money out. Make sure you carry some cash with you in cash of emergency munchies or drink requirements.
Action Camera and mini tripod to record your performance
Sometimes you might want to record your performance to watch back later. You could by an expenses DVR camera but it's big and bulky. Instead, I opt for the GoPro copy SJ4000 Action Cam. It has wireless capability (so you can trigger recording from anywhere within wifi range) and gives a decent picture.
Some of these items may not apply to you, so think hard about what you need to take with you and make a list. There's nothing worse than being miles from home and not having something you really need!
Got an idea of your own Essential Items For Male Travelling Performers? Drop it in the comments box below.


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Is heat good or bad for skin? What about heat from radiofrequency?
Wow – good questions. I'll try to explain so it makes sense:
- Regular heat from a hot day, exercise, a steam room, a hot yoga class will dilate the blood vessels in the skin as part of our bodies' protective cooling mechanism, but cannot in any way (that I know of) affect the deeper structures of the skin like collagen or elastic fibers. An increase in circulation all over the body is thought to be generally beneficial, but doesn't specifically target skin;
- Radiofrequency/sound waves aren't all good or all bad. They come in all different frequencies so the effect generally depends on the frequency used and the power generated by it, so the waves used in a microwave are very different than than waves used in Thermage, for example;
- You can't lose fat in the face, for example with a radiofrequency device like Thermage, unless the settings are turned up too high. There should be mild to moderate discomfort with that procedure. If it's more than that, ask the nurse or doctor to turn the settings down. Best to avoid the problem altogether by always seeking well-trained, board certified dermatologists or plastic surgeons to do or supervise these procedures.
- All radiofrequency devices on the market now, in my opinion, give a subtle lift and induce collagen formation. None of them are a dramatic result so compare on price, pain, and # of treatments needed. I still think Thermage is the best on these but am hoping new technology from other companies will improve in the future. Questions from other readers.
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Madman Atomic Comics #11 (Second-Take)
Either Mike Allred is on the brink of gumming up one of the most satisfying, longest-running independent comics series in recent memory or he is just a bit cleverer than many of his readers give him credit for being. On the surface, the biggest "story" in issue 11 of Madman Atomic Comics appears to be the impending separation of Frank's erstwhile portmanteau wife. Or, wait . . . maybe it is the now completely unvarnished insertion of Mormon cosmo-theology into the Madman universe. Or perhaps it is neither of these things and instead relates to the revelations of Franks true, true identity.
Though it is ultimately of lesser importance to the direction in which the series is going, the wholesale infusion of Mormon theology into the Madman series is nevertheless significant and deserves attention. The fact of the inclusion of such intimate details of Mormon cosmology seems more a reflection of how neatly these fit into the structure of the science fiction and fantasy genres (see also the novels of Orson Scott Card), rather than any sort of attempt to turn Madman into a vehicle for the propagation of Allred's own religious beliefs. Having said that, the sequence in which Madman is knocking on doors in an attempt to get a telephone call through to Dr. Flem's lab is an obvious allusion to the response thousands of Mormon missionaries receive as they canvass neighborhoods seeking converts.
Brandon is definitely on to something when he suggests that Allred treats the issue of the impending separation of Luna Joe as something of an afterthought, which leads one to ask what is really going on with this issue--or the whole series for that matter. One possibility comes from the revelation of Frank's pre-mortal identity: Prometheus. Of course Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is sub-titled The Modern Prometheus; and this, for the first time, identifies Madman with the title character of Shelley's novel, rather than his creation.
This seems like an academic detail, but if one pays attention to the last several issues in this series, Frank is continually going on about making things go back to how they were. Does this simply mean that he wants Joe and Luna to be individuals again? Or that Allred wishes to return the comic to its roots as a forum for "strange adventures that are wrapped around the very affecting relationship between Frank and Joe and Frank's personal journey away from innocence?"
The problem of course is that you can't go back to the way things were and any attempt to do so would seem the height of hubris. Perhaps in this sense Frank is being compared to Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein, who, with the arrogance of his genius tried to give the world the ultimate gift in the form of creating life, only to spend the rest of his life trying to undo what he had done, to his ultimate destruction.
Of course the more obvious comparison would be to Frankenstein's creation, and this not only because Frank was brought back from death. The creature, having been created by Dr. Frankenstein only to be rejected as a monster, spends the course of the novel looking for acceptance--in effect, seeking a replacement for the 'father' who scorned him. This sort of mythical search for a father is one of Frank's obsessions and variously takes the form of his questions about his past as Zane Townsend, his still unresolved issues concerning the loss of Professor Boiffard, and his strained relations with Dr. Flem.
One could also interpret this pregnant choice of names in terms of the Promethean myth itself. Prometheus stole fire from the gods to benefit mankind and was made to suffer eternal torment for his efforts. Frank has touched the hand of God and has the ability to see and know things that the rest of his associates cannot. This knowledge gives Frank insight and understanding, which ultimately allowed him to save the universe from destruction, but it is also a great burden.
There is clearly some rich, if somewhat obvious symbolism to the choices Allred is making in this issue and the series as a whole. The question becomes, then, does this make for a good comic, particularly in light of Madman's history? Readers who judge Madman Atomic Comics solely through the lens of what has come before are likely to come away disappointed. This is understandable, but equally understandable is Allred's insistence on his prerogative in taking his character where he wants to take him and using him to ask the questions that he wants asked.
Despite the somewhat ambiguous response this issue seems to be getting in this forum, there is still a lot to be celebrated about the book. In his weekly haul notice, Sammy mentioned the "dirty, blurred-crayon style drawings" of many of the backgrounds. There is some of this in the series' earlier issues, but it has never been as overt as this and it somehow strikes the reader as a great way to frame in illustrative terms Frank's visit to his childhood haunt. Similarly, the choice of presenting Frank's pre-mortal pal in the guise of Bowie's Aladdin Sane persona, as with substituting Audrey Hepburn's likeness for Haley Fou Fou, allows Allred to maintain something of Madman's fun, pop-cultural legacy in what is ultimately a more serious comic.
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I had my last regular session with my therapist last week. We both agreed that I have processed all that I need to process from my hellish summer, and I can always schedule another therapy session as needed.
At my last session, we talked about my adaptability in comparison to my husband's inflexibility. I said I found it ironic because I am the one who grew up in an abusive environment while he did not. (His upbringing was dysfunctional but not abusive. His parents loved him, and he knew that they did.) I would expect that someone who grew up in abuse to be less flexible and more distrustful of the outside world.
My therapist said that the opposite actually tends to be true. Because I was surrounded by abuse, I had to look outside of myself and my surroundings to engage in life. My pain drove me to therapy and to reaching out toward others. This resulted in me learning that there is life outside of my pain.
Contrast this with my husband, who grew up in a loving but dysfunctional bubble. He learned that safety was found by staying in the bubble, which moved him toward being inflexible in his life. He needs the bubble to stay intact, and any change threatens the bubble.
I find it ironic that experiencing much more childhood pain through abuse has actually served me better in living my life in adulthood. Another therapist says that the most emotionally wounded are often the most successful and healthy in life because their pain drives them to seek therapy. Through therapy, they learn how to live life in a healthier manner. My therapist points out that we learn to live life, not just exist.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have worked far too hard to settle for merely existing. Just having food on the table and the absence of abuse in my life is not enough for me. I want to make a difference in the world. I want the fact that I exist to matter. I want the world to be a better place because I am in it. I want meaning and purpose in my life.
Additionally, I want to experience life. I want to know what it feels like to walk along the beach in Hawaii. I want to visit different places and see how people live in other parts of the world. I want to feel … to experience … to **be** …
I also want to heal as much pain as I can. I know I cannot take away another person's pain, but I can walk alongside him and show him a way out. I can listen and truly "hear" as another person unburdens herself. I can make a sick person's day a little less hard by dropping off lunch or groceries. I can babysit a single mother's child so she can have a much-deserved break.
Existence is not enough. I want to live!
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If your V3i is noisy, chatty, or just generally "not working right", the Master Reset process will generally take care of any instability issues. Before executing a Master Reset, determine if the issue is with just one program or all programs. If the issue is with just one program, it is suggested that the RESTORE process be executed for that program. This will restore that single program to factory settings, preserving the remainder of your custom setups. The RESTORE process is described in detail on page 46 of your Spectra V3i Owner's Guide and on page 7-2 of your Spectra VX3 Owner's Guide.
The following steps will execute the Master Reset process: (Note differences below for VX3)
- Turn the unit ON
- Press and HOLD the MENU button, then Press and HOLD the ON/OFF button
- You should see the "UTILITY MENU" screen appear
- Select MASTER RESET and press ENTER. DO NOT SELECT "CALIBRATION". Selecting "Calibration" will require you to return your unit to the factory for recalibration!
- You should see the "MASTER RESET – DANGEROUS" screen appear
- Select the TOP FOUR items; (All Programs, Common, Library, All Other) using Arrow / Enter keys
- Press the menu button which will highlight the word "RESET" – lower left of screen
- Press the ENTER button. Wait about 5 seconds
- You should see the UTILITY MENU screen (Master Reset, Calibration) appear
- Turn the unit OFF
- Turn the unit ON
- Observe that all settings have been restored to FACTORY PRESETS
At this point your V3i / VX3 has been reset to FACTORY SETTINGS. All custom programs and settings are gone and must be re-entered manually.
The MASTER RESET PROCESS for the VX3 is identical to the above with the following exceptions:
Step 6. You will see "All Programs, Common, All Other". There is no LIBRARY option for VX3.
Step 7. You will see a warning: "Reset Detector To Factory Settings. (Think twice before doing this.)"
All warnings / cautions for V3i are applicable to VX3. Proceed with caution.


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The Inside Column 21/9
Good Morning and a very warm welcome to all. If you are visiting with us today we pray you will feel at home here at St Barnabas. Please make yourself known and feel welcome to stay for tea or coffee after the service.
Yvonne McLean will be speaking to us today about Hospital Chaplains, and the vital role they play. Hospital Chaplains have long played a vital support role in public hospitals throughout New Zealand. When faced with hardship or loss, many people find it difficult to talk to their loved ones, or to cope alone, and Hospital Chaplains are there to listen and to help.
Regardless of a person's religious or spiritual beliefs, they seek to comfort those in need whenever they can. Life can take many twists and turns, and we never truly know what might be around the corner. The annual Hospital Chaplaincy Appeal Week is from this Sunday 23 September to Sunday 30 September.
The theme of this year's appeal is "When Loneliness Takes Over" which anyone can experience, when health declines or accidents happen and life changes are forced upon us, it is then that Hospital Chaplains can provide much needed support for patients, their relatives and hospital staff. Donation slips are in the foyer.
Over the last couple of weeks we have had envelopes available for people to donate to new chairs for the church. There are several good reasons for having Chairs over the pews, the main one being that the space becomes a lot more flexible in how we can use it, enabling us to set up according to the requirements of various groups. And of course, there is the added benefit of increased seating comfort! If you would like to buy a chair that would be amazing but we all so know that a lot of people are on a fixed budget and coming up with one hundred might be asking for too much, so if you would like to make a smaller donation that is fine as well. We would like to get 100 chairs to start with, we have already been given enough to buy 36 chairs. Donations are tax deductible.
I will be going away for a couple of weeks from Wednesday 24 September until to Tuesday 7 October. My younger brother is getting married in Hamilton, so we are taking the family up to see the family and spend some time travelling around the North Island. If there is an urgent need Jonathan will be on call and Eric will also be available.
David our Parish Administrator has new working Hours. The Church office will be open Tuesday and Wednesday 8.30am to 12.30pm, Thursday 8.30am to 5.00pm and Friday 1.30pm to 5.30pm.
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These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art.
Months ago, I used this space to expound upon the glories of the most famed movie poster for the 1981 Joe Dante werewolf film The Howling. In he comments, I was asked to identify the original artist behind the striking image I celebrated. To my embarrassment, I couldn't — and still can't — put a name to the poster. Although I'm someone who truly believes in giving credit where credit is due, I couldn't pin down the person who rendered the image that stuck with me.
I offer that penitent observation as means to celebrate artist Robert Grossman for creating one of the most distinctive movie poster illustrations of the nineteen-eighties. Understandably, Paramount didn't quite know how to market Airplane!, the brilliantly absurdist comedy crafted by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. The ads touting the preview showings of the film included the completely off-base tag line "The pilot said N.Y., the navigator said L.A., the stewardess said she'd go both ways."
The amenable flight attendant was once part of the poster, too. She disappeared quickly, though. The mainstay was the distinctive sight of a jumbo jet hurtling forward despite the fact it's fuselage was somehow tied into a knot. That was Grossman's doing. The artists, arguably most famed for the distinctive magazine covers he created, was an ingenious visual satirist, and with a single physics-defying drawing he captured the essence of the movie's virtually unprecedented comedy.
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Using the likes of level 7 Magician, Odd-Eyes and Zarc Pendulum monsters bring out the new Number 89: Cybeast Diablosis and other Rank 7 Xyz monsters with a few other extra deck monsters.
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N.S. joins other provinces in lengthening time new parents can take off work
THE CANADIAN PRESS Published Thursday, September 13, 2018 3:21PM ADT Last Updated Friday, September 14, 2018 12:52PM ADT
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia's government is extending the period of time that parents can take leave from their jobs to have a baby and look after the infant.
Changes introduced to the Labour Standards Code will mean parents can to take up to 77 weeks in combined pregnancy and parental leave.
The existing period of leave established under provincial legislation was 52 weeks.
The changes have taken effect in every other province except Prince Edward Island, which is also preparing to change its law.
The new legislation dovetails with federal changes made to employment insurance benefits in December 2017.
The provincial changes will also allow for a four-month period to care for a critically ill adult or child.