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The Boss Baby 2 2021 Movie Review Poster Trailer Online
Director: Tom McGrath
Writers: Marla Frazee(characters), Michael McCullers
Stars: Alec Baldwin(voice), James Marsden(voice), Amy Sedaris
Well, they made a sequel to "The Boss Baby." The 2017 DreamWorks film, extremely loosely based on Marla Frazee's children's book series, bet big on the appeal of a dyspeptic, super-intelligent, black-suited infant speaking with the voice of Alec Baldwin while doing un-babylike things, and it was a bet that paid off handsomely, to the tune of half a billion in worldwide box office and an Oscar nomination. Arriving in theaters earlier that initially planned, with a simultaneous streaming bow on Peacock, "The Boss Baby: Family Business" is making a similarly big bet that family audiences, otherwise bereft of new attractions, are ready to return to theaters. The film itself, unfortunately, is generally less interesting than the business matters behind it, a thoroughly competent affair that tosses in just enough off-the-wall elements to liven up a fairly basic retread of the original's formula.
And honestly, kudos to returning director Tom McGrath for twice managing to hit all of the standard kidpic paces with a concept this insane. For film with a one-joke premise, the original "Boss Baby" actually had a rather complicated plot, in which a standard sibling rivalry conflict between a seven-year-old boy and his baby brother is complicated by the fact that the baby in question, Ted (Baldwin), is in fact an undercover agent from the all-powerful Baby Corp. conglomerate, equipped with specially powered formula and pacifiers, and sent on a reconnaissance mission to take down Big Puppy. Wasting nary a minute of its nearly two-hour running time catching newcomers up on the larger Boss Baby lore, "Family Business" dives headfirst into a plot that's no less dense.
Now an adult with children of his own, "Boss Baby" protagonist Tim (James Marsden) has become estranged from his younger brother, now a high-powered, busy Boss Man with no memory of his unusual infancy. (If the first film invited parallels to Donald Trump largely due to Baldwin's regular impressions on "SNL," here Baldwin's adult character seems consciously modelled on the disgraced ex-president's pre-politics aesthetic.) Tim's oldest daughter, Tabitha (Ariana Greenblatt), has been growing increasingly embarrassed by her goofy stay-at-home dad, while becoming obsessed with studying and worshipful of her successful Boss Uncle. His youngest, Tina, appears to be just a normal baby, so it's no surprise when one night she reveals herself to be a Baby Corp. agent, swapping her onesie for a suit and tie, and speaking with the no-nonsense authority of Amy Sedaris.
As Tina explains, her baby bosses back at the head office have sent her to reunite Tim and Ted to investigate the principal of Tabitha's competition-obsessed private school, a smooth-taking technocrat named Dr. Armstrong (Jeff Goldblum). First, she shrinks the two of them back down to their ages in the original film – Tim a grade-schooler, Ted a baby – then sends them off to school, where Tim gets to befriend his own daughter in the guise of a new classmate, and Ted is forced to rally his fellow babies to break out of the nursery.
Even more so than its predecessor, there's something perversely praiseworthy about how successfully "Boss Baby: Family Business" nods to the inherently dystopian elements of its premise while sanding them down into something so inoffensive. The idea of a doe-eyed, diapered infant weighted down with all of the cynicism and lovelessness of the corporate world is the kind of prospect that becomes more and more depressing the longer you think about it, and there are some admirably strange moments here – particularly the sight of a vast workfloor populated by toddlers who have been trained to code iPhone apps – where one realizes just how easily this light family lark could tip into a brutal capitalist critique. (There's also a brief musical number about the coming climate-change apocalypse, which is even stranger.)
But these moments are fleeting, overwhelmed by the more paint-by-numbers emotional arcs (Tim learns to appreciate his daughter, Ted re-learns the importance of family) and plenty of DreamWorks' patented cultural references aimed far above the heads of the target demo. (To be fair, there is substantially less diaper-based humor here than in the first go-round, which is welcome.) The action scenes are brisk and well-orchestrated, and the sequences set inside Tim's imagination, though generally untethered from the rest of the film, are nonetheless its most inventive and colorful, making one wonder how much more fun "Boss Baby: Family Business" might be if this sort of idiosyncratic visual creativity were allowed to flourish throughout. But ultimately, this film isn't personal – it's business.


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Axiom Verge Review
Axiom Verge is a fantastic Metroidvania that can stand tall amongst the competition in the genre (and there's plenty). Over the last few years, many stand out game of the year contenders have been Metroidvania titles, and Axiom Verge is among the best.
We start the game with our hero, Trace, who's experimenting in his lab. The experiment, unfortunately, goes wrong, as they often do in these situations, and there's an explosion. Trace wakes up in a strange new environment, not knowing where he is with little clues in a dark, dank world. The only thing accompanying Trace is a strange voice which guides him. Has Trace been killed or teleported to a strange new world? Axiom Verge keeps you guessing from the start and provides you with that motivation to keep playing and finding out.
There's a sense of speed and urgency to the gameplay. The controls are slick and responsive and the game feels fast, more so than it's genre counterparts. When you start the game you have a standard issue weapon, but as you play you discover more weapons quickly and your power increases exponentially. The array of guns available to the player is great and provides many ways to play the game. There are long-range and short-range weapons – all of which are upgradable with stats like range, damage and ammo size.
As well as the action in the game there's a certain amount of exploration too. Every room you enter there are new enemies to kill, new items to find and secrets to find. As you clear out rooms of enemies you get map markers added to your screen allowing you to keep track of where you've been on the map. More often than not in Metroidvania games, you'll explore, hit a big wall and then have to find a way around it (or perhaps a tool that will get you through it). Axiom Verge promotes this sense of exploration and guides you with an invisible hand to the next area with skill.
One of the early weapons in the game is a gun that allows you to stabilise and destabilise the environment and objects. Use it against the environment and you may reveal a secret room, hit an enemy with it and they may be easier to kill (or harder if you're unlucky). It provides a random element to the game which keeps you on your toes and keeps you guessing but always makes the gameplay fun. There are drills, guns and projectiles but also weapons that allow you to interact with the environment in interesting new ways. The weapons and upgrades are plentiful and there's an array of power-ups and items that affect health, jump abilities and damage. Each new ability and power boost helps you crack the puzzle, or hit the switch that allows you to progress to the next area.
Boss battles are a highlight in the game with big set pieces that challenge you. Learning the attack patterns of the bosses is key to each encounter. The game is fairly forgiving when it comes to dying. There's plenty of regular save points and when you die you head back to the most recent checkpoint. You don't lose your items when you die either, which is a nice trait. This isn't to say the game is a cake-walk because it most certainly isn't. As you progress through the game it gets tougher, enticing you to play more. Together with the story beats Axiom Verge does a great job of motivating you to keep on playing with mechanics progressing you through the levels.
The graphics and sound hark back to the great games of the 80s and 90s with pixel art, a colour palette which is true to the restrictions of the era and excellent chiptune audio. The game was made entirely by a single pair of hand, belonging to Tom Happ. You can see the care, attention and hard work that's been poured into the game. Not only the graphics and game design but also music too…
In summary Axiom Verge is a great addition to the indie Metroidvania genre with great weapons, fast movement and the boss battles are fun and rewarding. The game is available on nearly every platform that can play video games. Although I played on PC, the game would entirely be at home on Nintendo Switch allowing you to play on the move. If you enjoy indie games then this is a must buy.
Developer: Tom Happ Games LLC
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC
Release Date: 31st March 2015
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CUT NATURAL SLEEPING BEAUTY TURQUOISE RONDELLES, 4mm – 4.4mm, 15, 145 beads. PLEASE NOTE: We do not use studio lighting to improve the colour of our beads – unless otherwise stated all images are taken in indirect natural daylight. Unlike round beads where it is a simple matter of putting the rough material into a machine, pressing a button and waiting for the process to be completed, each and every one of these beads has been made by hand. These beads have been through 3 (or 4) processes. Firstly the rough material is cut into a cuboid shape before it is ground into the desired profile, (faceted) and then polished. These beads do naturally cost more, and are priced according to the following criteria. Quality and availability of the stone. Weight of the stone and wastage depending upon the shape. Amount of labour involved (small beads take a huge amount of labour to produce). All of our images are the actual beads for sale. At the time of listing we haven't yet used these beads, but with a number of our recent additions we have found that 0.45mm wire can be a little thick and some beads don't fit, although we've had few problems with 0.38mm wire (and none whatsoever with 0.3mm). We are more than happy to answer any questions that you may have. The item "CUT NATURAL SLEEPING BEAUTY TURQUOISE RONDELLES, 4mm 4.4mm, 15, 145 beads" is in sale since Saturday, March 11, 2017. This item is in the category "Crafts\Beads & Jewellery Making\Gemstone\Other Gemstone Beads". The seller is "yourbeadsandfindings" and is located in Newport, Newport. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, all countries in continental Asia, Australia.
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"A failure in the hot air department"
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objc_msgSend's New Prototype at 2019-10-11 12:09
Apple's new OSes are out. If you've looked through the documentation, you may have noticed that the prototype for
objc_msgSend has changed. Previously, it was declared as a function that took
SEL, and variadic arguments after that, and returned
id. Now it's declared as a function that takes and returns
void. Similar functions like
objc_msgSendSuper also became
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I've spent my morning listening to podcasts on parenting children from hard places…which I do often. As I look at this beautiful photo of these precious kids that God has entrusted to us I was prompted to write down my hopes, dreams and desires for them. I welcome your prayers to help us be able to lay the foundation for them to live this life.
What I want for my children…
❤ for them to receive healing from their trauma…to reprocess what has happened to them in a framework where they can live a life of peace, love, confidence, strength, resilience and faith and belief in their ability to overcome.
❤ that they will glorify God in their unique journey & story and that they can embrace His unconditional love for them and love and serve Him and testify to His miraculous providence in their lives.
❤ they will learn and commit to a life of loving relationships that are full of patience, forgiveness, kindness, bearing, believing & hoping all things. That they will be good siblings, cousins, aunt & uncles, friends, spouse, parents and grandparents throughout their lives.
❤ that they will find their God given purpose in life and pursue it with passion!


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Head of SEO at Novos, Dan Cartland, talks through how – by using Google Data Studio – he went from hating reporting to loving and automating it.
With advice suitable for Google Data Studio beginners and experts alike – Dan walks through some of his top tips, with examples, on how to get the most out of this powerful data visualisation tool. And how you can use it to save time; make your data more useful and accurate; win-over clients or colleagues; and improve your SEO efforts.
Video & Slides
- Download the slides to accompany Daniel's talk: Local SEO After Checklists. (4MB PDF)
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Cheers, thanks a lot for having me, it's great to be here.
I'm here to talk to you about the secret weapon that is Google Data Studio and how you can use Data Studio to save loads of time and loads of effort.
So, to introduce myself (I don't have a name badge yet but I'll pick one up straight after the talk), my name is Daniel Cartland, I work at an e-commerce SEO agency called Novos.
In today's talk, I'm going to run through Data Studio, here's what you can expect: a run-through of what data studio is, some basics such as how to set up a report, and pull through some really useful things, we'll be diving a bit deeper into categorising information and how to do that, connecting to your favourite web crawlers such as DeepCrawl and Screaming Frog, adding commentary that stays with your report, and finally making your report really user-friendly.
So at this stage you might be thinking, okay he's doing a report, he's doing a presentation on a reporting platform – he must love numbers, he must have an affinity for data.
I hate reporting
Well this isn't actually the case. I hate reporting, and that's sort of the reason that I found Data Studio. The reason I use Data Studio is because I really hate reporting, and it makes it way easier.
Why do I hate reporting?
It takes loads of time, I find it incredibly boring, it takes loads of time – I don't know if I mentioned that already, and it's also dangerous. You might be sitting there thinking okay you know yeah it takes loads of time, yeah it's pretty boring, but how's it dangerous? Well, who's ever received an email that looks a little bit like this:
This is the kicker…
"Thanks in advance!"
So you don't really have a choice in the matter, you have to pull this data.
I'm going to talk to you about Data Studio and how this can really help with situations like this, to free up your time and spend it on something more useful – whether that's really analysing the data rather than pulling it, or it's just something else that you do in your day to day job.
This is why Data Studio is really useful – compared to sort of an Excel report that's really static and clunky and doesn't look great and that's probably gonna crash right before you've saved it so you have to do it all over again. Data Studio is automated, it's shareable, it's scalable and it's very very flexible, so you can dig into the information and see exactly what you want to see.
What is Data Studio?
You know, this all sounds great, but what exactly is it?
- It's a reporting platform from Google
- It connects to APIs, so it connects to APIs on Google's platform such as Search Console
- Data Studio also connects to external APIs such as Sistrix (shoutout to them!)
- You can put through loads of data and have it all in one place
- It also allows you to customise your visualisations, so in Google Analytics you might just have a sort of generic line graph, and in Data Studio you can really play around with how you visualise information. What is the best way for you to show that information to your boss or to your client? How do you get your message across?
- And perhaps most importantly – it is free
All your data sources in one place
So these are some of the sources you can pull through, obviously you've got Analytics, Search Console, Google Sheets as well.
And this is a really great way to connect to other tools that maybe don't have their own API – things like DeepCrawl and Screaming Frog which I'll talk about a little bit later. If you're connecting to those, you'll pull them through via Google Sheets.
But also, a lot of ranking platforms have their own APIs or make it very easy to pull through ranking data. It also pulls through Google Ads if you're running paid campaigns – I'm not going to talk about that today because I'm an SEO, but I understand there's some people that like paid search. You know… won't hold it against you!
Data Studio is really powerful, it has all your data sources in one place – you don't have to open several different tabs and dive into data and get lost – everything you want to see will all be contained in your Data Studio report.
How do you set up a report?
Now I'm not going to go into too much detail, because I do think the best way to get your head around data Studio is to really try it yourself.
But I'm gonna sort quickly jump in on how to do it and some things to consider.
So head to Data Studio, set up a new report, create a new data source – at this stage you have to authorizse Data Studio to see all your data. Log into your Google account and you'll see a screen that looks a little bit like this – so a load of green boxes, a load of drop downs.
And I remember when I was just sort of getting into Data Studio, I was incredibly daunted by this. I was thinking – right I'm falling at the first hurdle here, I don't know what any of this means!
But don't worry about it at this stage, just add it to report. It's essentially just saying this is the information you can access through Data Studio, this is what we've pulled from your data source.
Now my top tip at this stage is to name everything. You can see in the top right, it says All Web Site Data. This is what your Data Studio is named.
When you're first getting started, it won't make much of a difference. But if you're working for an agency or you're pulling in multiple data sources – it can get confusing very very quickly, so you want to make it a really clear and concise name – what is that data source you're pulling through?
Similarly, if you do create filters, anything you're creating – make sure you name it in a really clear manner. Trust me, I learned the hard way when I had about ten data sources that were all website data, and had to go through trying to figure out which was for which client.
Don't do what I did, start off on the right foot and name everything!
So once you're in you'll see something like this. You can add a chart, it's really easy. Select the visualisation you want, just click on there.
On the right you'll see something like that – you can select your dimensions. Again, it's exactly the sort of stuff you'd see in Google Analytics and you can split it by the metrics you're after.
This is things like page views, sessions, bounce rate, time on page… you can pretty much spit up however you want.
The beauty of it is you can report on exactly what you want, and we're going to talk about some features of Google Data Studio – probably some more advanced features of it today.
But I think this is really the crux of the talk – what do you spend time reporting on that you don't want to spend time reporting?
Report on what you want
What, when you're in Google Analytics sort of going down a rabbit hole, what could you pull and see really clearly straight off the bat in one report? What's something your clients always ask for, what's something that your boss always asks for? What's something you always look for?
And again, if you can automate this and find that information really easily – this is what's going to free up your time so you can spend it doing something else, or analysing that data to find things that going to push your business, push your website forward.
Basics First
So put your basics first – I've got a couple of examples here – here's a Data Studio for Novos, the company I work for.
It's really simple, we've got KPIs and sessions which are always things that I have to look at, so why not make it really easy? I can just log into my date studio and see it right there.
Top landing pages, device split… as I say we're an eCommerce agency, so for that sort of thing you might want to dig into revenue, transactions, conversion rate.
Over the course of a month I can see which days where I performed particularly well, maybe there was a traffic spike, maybe I own a lot of revenue on one particular day. I might want to dig into that a bit further. I can really clearly see it all in one place.
Categorise Information
You might have noticed that in both of these reports I have also split my data by Segments – I've categorised my data.
This is another really powerful feature in Google Data Studio, rather than pulling reports into Excel, applying filters, totalling data, you can categorise your data once, and then every time you come back to it those same categories will be there.
You can then easily track categories over time and compare different categories.
How'd you do this?
So pages can be grouped using regular expressions. I'll give you a couple of examples of how I've used this and why I think it's very powerful.
Brand vs Non-brand
One is brand versus non brand split from Search Console. So what I've basically said here is whenever my query matches Nov for Novus, count it as branded. If not, count it as non-brand.
The reason I've chosen Nov rather than the full Novos is because the amount of times people misspell brand names is quite shocking, so I'm just trying to capture all the data I can and make sure it's all really relevant.
If you're sitting there thinking this is all well and good, but this looks pretty complicated – I don't know the regular expression… Well neither do I, but I've managed to get through this with a few Google searches and a couple of bits of knowledge.
Dot Asterix matches any character any number of times, so that's what I've used here. If Nov is included anywhere in the query, that'd be counted as branded traffic or branded searches, and the pipe means "Or" and I'll show you an example of that in a little bit.
To give an example of what this looks like in a report – this is my search console data, I've got my queries and everything showing.
I can select a filter and filter it down so I'm just looking at branded searches. It's really easy to dive into your data to find exactly what you're after.
If you're an SEO agency, you might be more interested in non-brand traffic – you have a bit more power to influence non branded traffic, so you might be more interested in seeing how that's increased.
It will have increased obviously, because your SEO is working on the account!
Website content sections
Similarly, content sections.
Here I've split my website by the categories you get in Shopify. But equally it's really flexible, if you're an e-commerce website and you have a subfolder for t-shirts, a subfolder for shorts and a subfolder for sunglasses, you can split your information up to reflect those subfolders.
And again, that means you can analyse them at the category level.
If maybe t-shirts one month has seen a particular increase, I can see that really really clearly. I can dive into a bit more to see which products have driven this – maybe I want to push them a bit harder, maybe I want to find out why people are buying this particular product.
You set it up once, and you can keep going back to it rather than having to pull all the raw data every time and analyse it that way. This is exactly why Data Studio is so great – spend your time analysing your data instead of preparing it.
A few more examples of how you can use Data Studio and how I've used it in ways that I've found really really useful:
Applying multiple filters
So in Search Console and Analytics, I think you have the option of adding two filters, whereas in Data Studio you can add as many as you want. What this means is you can get really really granular data, really really granular insight.
So for example, here I'm looking at two different content segments – just new visitors and any people visiting from the desktop.
Again, if we think back to the email at the beginning – if your client's asking something really specific – great! They can dive into it themselves, feel free, You won't have that back and forth anymore you won't be having to spend your time pulling the data yourself.
It's really user friendly, really easy for them to dig into the data themselves.
Easy to access all of your data
If this isn't enough, you can have a search functionality.
Everyone I've worked with and myself included, there's always like a specific landing page that they're championing. Maybe they've asked the client to set it up, they said yeah this is going to be the big money-maker, and they'll always want to check on that one specific landing page.
Well they can do that really easily, there won't have to be the back and forth – everyone can dive into the information they want, you can dive into the information that you find the most useful really easily.
Things like queries, landing pages, particular products, or even country data – it's really flexible and saves loads and loads of time.
Interactive Data
You can make your chart look good with interactive data.
So you can see I've got a date filter at the top – I can set it so you can select a date range from the graph itself.
What this means is, if I see a particular particular peak on the graph, I don't have to worry about changing the date range and figuring out which dates it's between. I've made you go straight to the source, highlight it, and it'll update all the other information around it so I can see what's driving that – what's really driving up that traffic, driving that increase.
Again this is saving loads and loads of time.
This is another really powerful feature. What it does is use a single graph or a single visualisation with ever-increasing levels of detail.
In my example here, what I've done is I've plotted my sessions and my revenue across a course of a month. We are asking okay, what days are people visiting the site?
And I can drill down and see another layer of data on top of my monthly data – okay people are visiting on Tuesday – maybe I want to plan a campaign around a Tuesday, as that's when I know people will be receptive – people are visiting the site and spending money on the site on those days. I might want to stay away from Friday evening when everyone is out having a beer.
If I want more than that… what time of day? For an email campaign – what time of day do I send it? Well, Drilldown even further.
I can see hour on hour average data and again, if we compare this to if you were pulling in the raw data, you have to pull three sets of data, find it in analytics, pull it out, total it, somehow create three charts around it.
Whereas in Data Studio, once it's set up you can keep visiting this data, you can change the date range, it's really easy and there for you to analyse.
Another great use of Drilldown, is if you categorise your information – for example…
I can see my t-shirts are selling really well, I can then set my landing pages to Drilldown, so I can then see which landing pages are driving that year-on-year increase or month or month
So again, all in one place – really is really easy to visualise.
Crawl Me Maybe
I started my career at Screaming Frog, so I do have a bit of an affinity for web crawlers and the information they provide.
I've been trying to pull these through into Data Studio for quite a while, and I finally cracked it. It's actually not as hard as I thought it was!
DeepCrawl Report Connector
DeepCrawl have a really great guide on how to do it, and DeepCrawl in particular is very very powerful, because once it's set up, it's completely automated.
What I've used is Zapier, and I've said every time a new crawl completes for a particular website, it'll update a new row in Google sheets. I've connected my Google Sheets to Data Studio, and so I can pull through data such as the number of pages that are resolving on the site, the number of pages that are redirecting, the number of pages that are resulting in 404 errors.
And I can plot this over time. I can see if my number of resolving pages completely skyrockets – uh-oh, what's happened here? Maybe someone's opened a parameter, equally if my number 404 pages shoots up, I can dive into that and ask okay where are they coming from?
These are the sorts of things that you check anyway when you're looking at crawls, but you can make it really easy to spot the trends as you go.
Screaming Frog Connector
Screaming Frog is slightly more manual, because I haven't figured a way to pull it directly in, but it's a very simple sort of copy and paste into a Google Sheet once you've got your export.
You can automate it as much as possible – if every week you have to run a health check on your website, maybe schedule it to run on a Sunday evening. Schedule it to export your report of choice (which is all functionality within Screaming Frog).
By the time you get in Monday morning – great your reports ready to go! Open it up, copy and paste it into Google Sheets and you've got the information there ready to go and ready to analyse.
Using Zapier you can actually set it up so you get a text when your crawl's completed. I'm not sure why you want to do it but it made me laugh… it's sort of like peak SEO isn't it. Getting excited over getting a text that your crawl's finished. But yeah, have a bit fun with it.
Add commentary, forever
You might be thinking at this stage, this is great but you know, I get paid to give some insight – I need to add commentary, I need to explain the trends, I send an email with my reports explaining exactly what's going on.
Well Data Studio can help there as well.
What you can do is set up a Google Sheet again that matches your commentary to a particular date.
Why this is really useful is because it means that if you change your date range, it will pull through that commentary with it. So instead of scrolling through thousands of thousands of email archives to find out why six months ago there was a dip in traffic, you can just increase the date range on your report and it's right there.
Example here: when I'm just looking at October, it's only pulling through one comment… Wow how cool, I agree. Whereas when I increase the date range it pulls you the relevant data with it.
To take this to the next level, you don't even have to store your sheets somewhere different, you can embed URLs in Data Studio, and if you insert the editable Google Sheets URL.
Data Studio Inception
What that means is you can edit Google Sheets to update your data to do commentary within Data Studio. This is kind of confusing, but I like to refer to it as Data Studio Inception. Basically all it means is you can have everything in one place and it's really easy to do.
You can then hide the page when you're sending over the report, so whoever you're sending it to doesn't have to see these – you keep it nice and clean. It's really functional and again really aesthetic.
Making your report user friendly
Finally I get to touch upon making reports user-friendly.
So I learned the hard way that aesthetics do mean a lot in business.
I was fairly new to SEO and I just ran a meeting – my first meeting. I was talking about strategy and I was saying "oh create this landing page and your visibility is gonna skyrocket". I'm thinking, I've nailed this, I saw the promotion on the horizon, I can't wait for the feedback.
I go back to work and got some feedback… but unfortunately all they said was I'd use the wrong brand logo. So I learned that the hard way – aesthetics do matter.
And again, it's really easy to make your Data Studio reports really visually pleasing and really aesthetic.
Create a dashboard
For example: Create a dashboard. So if you're sending this report to multiple people in a company that each have a different product area or different area of interest, you can link off to particular reports.
You might have an organic report and a paid report – they can just click on that area of interest and be taken straight there. They don't have to worry about scrolling through everything.
Some other use cases of this – if you've got your SEO strategy maybe in Google Slides – linked to that. Any time your client will know where to find your new SEO strategy, they can check in on that without having to sort scroll through their folders, or send you an email saying can you send it over again, it's lost somewhere. Everything's in one place.
If you're running an outreach campaign and you've just secured a massive link from a national website – again why not put that in there and link to that? It's really is put everything in one place and it's really usable and really user friendly.
How to link?
Well unfortunately, Data Studio doesn't yet allow you to link from images or shapes, so you can have a little bit of a hack-y way around this. I learned this from Mehdi – I've never actually met him, but he's a Data Studio wizard, so definitely check out that link if you've got time.
But you can basically create a text box, fill that with text, link from it, and then set the opacity of the text to 0%. Essentially what that means is it looks exactly like you're clicking on the button, but you're not.
Little bit of a hack, but it works really really well.
Make it branded
As I said earlier, the little things can matter.
What are your client's fonts? What colours do they like using? Showing that you're aligned with their brand can really go a long way and make your report powerful. It probably shouldn't matter – it should be the data that counts, but it does. So why not get on board with it?
So how might you pull a few of these things together to make a useful report, maybe as a one-off case? Website migration for example.
Use case – Site Migrations
No matter how well prepared you are for website migration, they do often go wrong. Maybe your staging environment is inexplicably completely different from your live environment (we've all been there).
What I might do is connect to DeepCrawl, so as soon as my site goes live, I can crawl the site, get that information presented in a really visual way.
In my example here, I'll know my number of 200 pages has dropped massively, my number of 404 pages has shot up. I want to investigate this.
Maybe I haven't linked to a category page, and maybe one of my redirects hasn't gone through properly, resulting in a 404.
What I can do is then add some commentary tied to your dates – I can say on the 30th, this is where the migration went live. On the 31st, I'm saying this is what we're seeing and these are the fixes.
I can communicate with the devs and say to the client that these are the fixes we suggest you implement. I can embed a URL so they can check it out for themselves, and I can link to the list of 404 that I want them to fix – it's really easy.
But I don't have time!
I'm a busy person, I don't have time to set up these reports, set up a new report for every client every time I have to do something.
Well you can scale up really easily.
You can literally copy and paste the report that you've got, match up the data sources, and again you've got a new report for a new client.
You can also beg, borrow and steal reports. I wouldn't recommend stealing reports, but I guess in theory you could. There are loads and loads of templates out there, and again you can just copy it over.
If you're interested in say a site speed report, google it and you can find the template, copy your data sources, and you've got it there ready to go in literally minutes.
Switch data sources
You also switch data sources within Data Studio. So if you've got maybe an international website, you can switch between the UK version of analytics to your German version of analytics, to your French version analytics really easily all in one place.
I've blurred out the client there (they didn't ask me to but everyone seems to do it, I guess it gives a bit of an air of mystery), but it's really functional and really easy.
Share your reports
You can share your reports and add people to view them. If your client or your boss is worried about security, you can assign only certain people to view the reports.
Similarly, if you want to add in commentary to it – if you're just sending a report over every month, schedule it to be sent out on the first of the month. You don't have to worry about – you won't get that email chaser, "Where's my report? I'm in a meeting I need it!"
Again, making life really easy, saving loads of time (and you can also download as a PDF).
Time savings add up
So what I'm trying to say here is time savings really do add up.
We work around 261 days per year – it's kind of depressing but you know, can't do much about it. But…
[tweetshare tweet="If you can save just 10 minutes every day (and I think that's easily easily achievable using Data Studio), that's 43.5 hours a year. – @DanielCartland at an #Optimisey event" username="optimisey"]
And I've done the math here to put it into a bit of context – this is completely true and verified – this is equivalent to about 87 beers every year, that's a lot of beers. If this isn't enough for you, if you're saying I'm trying to run a business here, you know beers are great, but I'm trying to run business…
If you have five employees, they spend a day reporting every month and you charge about £400 pounds a day, over the course of the year this will save you around £12,000 pounds – so a significant amount of money.
Thank you for listening and hopefully I have described to you the story of how I went from hating reporting to loving reporting via Google Data studio thank you very much.
Have you used Data Studio? Are you going to try after reading/listening to Dan's talk? Do share your experiences or comments below.
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19 February 2021
Attorney-General's Department
By Email
The Group of Eight (Go8) welcomes the opportunity to make this submission regarding the exposure draft of the Commonwealth Integrity Commission Bill.
Please note this submission represents the views of the Go8 which leads policy and advocacy for Australia's consistently leading-research intensive universities with seven of its members ranked, again consistently, in the world's top 100 leading universities. Each member Go8 university may submit its own related submission.
Also note that the Go8 is happy for this submission to be published and does not wish any of it to be treated as confidential.
I believe it is critical to begin the submission with a short statement which sets out, unequivocally, where the Go8 is positioned as it relates to all of the Government's legislation that is targeted to aspects of national security and the potential of foreign interference and its management.
The below statement has been and will continue to front Go8 submissions in this vexed area of national importance.
"The Go8 supports the Morrison Government's view that national security risks must be dealt with. Australians deserve no less an approach. The Go8 has a solid and therefore beneficial working relationship with Australia's security agencies, having been instrumental in the development and now implementation of the University Foreign Interference Taskforce (UFIT) guidelines for our universities. These guidelines are seen as an exemplar by our Five Eyes Plus group of nations and their leading research-intensive universities.
The Go8 believes that a strong partnership with Government is essential to ensure its member universities can continue to do everything in their power to keep our campuses and our research 'safe' in accordance with what is required of us to ensure national security.
Our universities are committed to working cooperatively with Government and urge it to recognise the longstanding commitment we have to protecting our national security interests. We are not naïve to geopolitical imperatives and neither have we ignored security risks to secure funding nor knowingly put national security at risk.
The Go8 sees this submission therefore as an important step; integral to working constructively by providing Government with facts that too easily have become masked by popular misconceptions of how we operate, and who we are in within a respected global research community, and leading academic community."
The Go8 is committed to ensuring confidence and integrity in Australia's public sector and our public institutions.
To this end, Go8 members regularly and proactively engage in a range of integrity measures, including, for example, the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012 and the University Foreign Interference Taskforce (UFIT).
It is vital to state here, as a matter of record, that the Go8 was in fact integral – as a leader – in the establishment of UFIT, and also worked collaboratively over the long term on the development of a mutually accepted and workable Defence Trade Controls Act 2012.
The Go8 takes the potential for any corruption within our universities very seriously and actively supports genuine efforts to strengthen legislative and non-legislative measures that enhance the integrity and anti-corruption efforts of its members.
It is for these reasons that the current exposure draft of the Commonwealth Integrity Commission ('CIC') Bill does not reassure the Go8.
- Fundamentally, the legislation does not seek to target or investigate corruption in the public space in its myriad of forms, but instead focuses upon a narrow set of pre-existing criminal offences.
- It proposes the duplication of existing functions of law enforcement agencies both within universities and the proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission. This is lazy construct and not fit for purpose.
- The CIC cannot self-initiate investigations based upon referrals from the members of the public, nor can it hold public sessions where it is deemed to be in the public interest. It is not only important that there are efforts to combat corruption, but also that these efforts are seen to be made.
The Bill's duplication 'approach' is administratively unwieldy and therefore very costly for higher education providers and research bodies to implement. There is also no evidence (or confidence) provided regarding how it can ever prove to be effective at uncovering 'corruption' as the Australian public would define it. Go8 members already have firm processes in place to refer suspected criminal activity to law enforcement authorities, and it is difficult to understand the justification for this duplication of activity. Where there are criminal concerns that have a unique dimension within the university sector, they are more appropriately covered under existing fit-for-purpose regimes such as the Defence Trade Controls Act and the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme.
It is therefore unclear what the proposed CIC process would add separate to the referral of any potential criminal offences by university staff for investigation by our well-established law enforcement agencies. This lack of 'value-add' stems from the CIC being given the mandate to investigate a list of pre-existing offences rather than actual corruption.
Further, of the criminal offences listed in the Bill that relate to higher education providers and research bodies, not all appear to be relevant. For example, there are several offences under the Biosecurity Act, and offences related to court orders which have already engaged the attention of the judicial system. A more tightly targeted list would also allow for a more targeted application of limited administrative resources.
As a result of all of the above, the Go8 suggests the following – none of which would in any way damage or dilute what the Government is seeking to achieve:
All entities that are already subject to the jurisdiction of a State or Territory-based anti-corruption or integrity agency – including higher education providers and research bodies – should be excluded from the jurisdiction of the CIC.
Go8 members are subject to oversight from State and Territory-based anti-corruption or integrity bodies, and there is no clear or compelling reason for why this oversight function should be duplicated at the Commonwealth level.
Further, the policy reason for singling out higher education providers and research bodies for inclusion within the CIC's remit, whilst excluding other recipients of Commonwealth funding that operate in the public space – such as charities, residential aged care operators, childcare centre operators, public and private schools and vocational education providers, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) providers, and employment services providers, to name but a few – is unclear and harmful.
The Go8 is therefore seeking no more than consistency in the policy approach.
Lastly, but far from least important, there are deep concerns created in the Bill about the consistency of State and Federal law, including operational consistency, which must be clarified and resolved.
For example, if Government does not accept the recommendation that universities should not be subject to the CIC net, higher education providers and research bodies will ultimately be subject to the jurisdiction of both State-based anti-corruption commissions and the CIC.
In this unwieldy situation, clarification will be required on how the overlap and interoperability of these commissions – such as parallel investigations and potentially conflicting operable powers – will be demarcated.
Key points:
- The Go8 does welcome genuine efforts from the Australian Government to combat public sector corruption.
- The Go8 understands its responsibilities. It has and does play an active role in upholding a wide range of integrity measures under a variety of Government initiatives and legislative schemes, including, but not limited to, the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012 and The University Foreign Interference Taskforce (UFIT).
- It is because the Go8 is so serious about the subject matter that the current exposure draft of the Commonwealth Integrity Commission ('CIC') Bill does not reassure the Go8 in any shape or form.
- The Bill only leads to a Commonwealth Integrity Commission duplicating existing legal obligations faced by universities rather than to a genuine enhancement of anti-corruption measures which would always have our support.
- Go8 members are subject to oversight from State and Territory-based anti-corruption or integrity bodies, and there is no clear or compelling reason for why this oversight function should be duplicated at the Commonwealth level.
- Given the focus on criminal offences rather than on public sector corruption, it is especially unclear what policy purpose the CIC serves beyond duplicating the role of existing law enforcement agencies.
- There continues to be no compelling reason provided why higher education providers and research bodies are uniquely singled out for inclusion in CIC jurisdiction whereas all other non-Government entities in receipt of Commonwealth funding, or that otherwise exercise delegated or contracted Governments functions, have been excluded from its jurisdiction.
- The duplication of the criminal investigatory functions within universities required to determine reasonable suspicion is not only extremely inefficient, but clearly far less effective than providing additional resourcing to existing law enforcement agencies.
- Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard ordinarily assessed by law enforcement agencies with experience in criminal matters. Higher education providers and research bodies do not possess this expertise. This leads in dangerous directions for individuals and entities.
- The Bill's comprehensive duplications, which cannot be seen as a value add in any shape or form, add a disproportionate administrative cost upon universities.
- There are potential circumstances that would permit investigation both by a State anti-corruption body and the CIC, leading to whether operational inconsistency will affect the operation of the State law, raising inconsistency and operational inconsistency issues under section 109 of the Constitution.
Our key recommendation is that All entities that are already subject to the jurisdiction of a State or Territory-based anti-corruption or integrity agency – including higher education providers and research bodies – should be excluded from the jurisdiction of the CIC.
If that does not occur we recommend the following:
- If higher education providers and research bodies are to be included, the CIC should have the power to investigate all recipients of Commonwealth funding.
- The legislation should include a clear definition of "corruption".
- The CIC should investigate corruption, broadly defined, rather than a list of criminal offences.
- External to the public sector, the CIC's investigatory powers should be limited insofar as they relate to that funding and/or its expenditure or is otherwise in direct connection to the exercise of a contracted or delegated Commonwealth Government function.
- The thresholds that apply to higher education and research bodies for notification of a matter to the Integrity Commissioner should mirror those facing public service agencies; namely, for the conduct of a staff member of a higher education provider or research body to constitute corrupt conduct, it should require that it involve abuse of their office or that it perverts the course of justice.
- The following offences from the list of criminal offences that higher education and research bodies are to have regard to (section 18 of the Bill) should be circumscribed:
- an offence against section 37 (contravening restraining orders) or 71 (dealings with forfeited property) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 – these offences relate to matters that have already proceeded to judicial involvement, placing investigation and enforcement of offences related to court orders squarely within the remit of law enforcement agencies and the law courts. These matters are more appropriately managed by these organisations rather than universities and should be omitted from the list.
- An offence against… [the] Biosecurity Act 2015 – the Biosecurity Act contains a wide range of offences that have no clear connection to corruption, including, for example, discharging ballast water in Australian seas, and disposing of sediment in Australian seas. The Bill should limit itself to those offences that have a direct connection to corruption in order to accord with the mandate of the Bill (outlined in section 3), but also to minimise unnecessary administrative burden upon higher education providers and research bodies.
- Instead of listing entire Acts, the legislation should refer to each specific offence to safeguard relevance, especially where those Acts may later be amended without regard to the appropriateness of the alteration or expansion of the CIC's jurisdiction.
- If the 'list of offences' approach is retained in the Bill rather than a 'corruption approach', then that list should include the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
- Clear guidance is required (as a matter of criticality because of potential ramifications) in the legislation for higher education providers and research bodies on 'reasonable suspicion.'
- Clarification should be provided in the legislation regarding whether an instruction from the Integrity Commissioner not to take action in relation to a corruption issue (currently narrowly construed as reasonable suspicion that a listed offence has been committed) can prevent a higher education provider or research body from reporting reasonable suspicions that an offence has occurred to the appropriate law enforcement authorities, or from otherwise acting in accordance with the law.
- Clarification should be provided on whether the stopping of a higher education provider or research body from taking any other action relating to a corruption issue (section 38(2)(b)) prevents that entity or staff of that entity from adhering to other laws or legal obligations (for example, referring the matter to law enforcement authorities), and if so, what exemptions from liability would be afforded.
- Clarification should be provided in the legislation on whether allegations or information in the public domain, but not internal to the organisation, give rise to a notification requirement.
- Separate to the provisions regarding vexatious complainants, additional safeguards should be considered to filter out patently spurious or baseless allegations or information, or at minimum, how this would, if at all, affect the threshold for reasonable suspicion.
- Clarification should be provided in the legislation on how the CIC will affect the operation of State law and resolve inconsistency issues, including operational inconsistency, in circumstances where investigations would be permitted both by a state anti-corruption body and the CIC (as per section 109 of the Australian Constitution).
- At a minimum, where an investigation of an entity – including a higher education provider or research body – by a State or Territory-based anti-corruption body is underway, the CIC should be prevented from being able to undertake a parallel investigation unless the Integrity Commissioner secures the permission of their counterpart at the State or Territory-based anti-corruption body.
The Go8 looks forward to an ongoing engagement in the development of this legislation which is critical in helping to maintain and grow public trust in the Australian Federal Government and Australian public institutions.
If you have questions regarding the Go8 submission please do not hesitate to contact me at email@example.com or 0417 808 472.
Yours sincerely


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Felicity Diane Briggs
Unexpectedly, Felicity died in Don's arms at their home on Sheba's Island on September 9, 2018. Married for 33 years, Felicity and Don Mayne shared a joyous journey of life that took them to Toronto, Ottawa and The County. She will be greatly missed by her sister Fiona, brother-in-law Bernie and their children Myles and Kaitlin. Felicity was predeceased by her brother, Andy Briggs. Felicity shared her love of family and friends through her passion for cooking. Each meal together was full of lively conversation and delicious food. Never did you leave the table uninspired or hungry! Felicity loved and thrived practising as a labour relations mediator and arbitrator. Her ability to bring parties together made her well regarded in her field. A celebration of her County life will be held in the MacDonald Hall, Isaiah Tubbs Resort, Prince Edward County on Sunday, September 23rd from 1 – 3 pm with remembrances being shared at 2 pm. We will choose to celebrate her living rather than mourn her passing. In keeping with the relaxed way of life in The County, please come casually dressed with a smile in your heart. A Toronto celebration will be held at a later date (announcement to follow in the Globe and Mail). Felicity's involvement with Casey House www.caseyhouse.com and World Vision Canada donate.worldvision.ca would make them excellent choices for a donation in her memory. Whattam Funeral Home www.whattamfuneralhome.com
BRIGGS, Felicity Diane
Felicity Diane Briggs


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Filipino restaurant 'Musang' of Filipino-American Chef Melissa Miranda has been named the Seattle Met's "Restaurant of the Year" in Seattle, Washington, USA.
'Musang,' a community-driven restaurant that focuses on the education and experience of Filipino cuisine, was featured in the November 30, 2020, edition of Seattle Met lifestyle magazine.
The Filipino restaurant was cited for its "stunning Filipino food" along with a heart-warming tribute to the Filipino culture.
The proud Pinoy business that gives diners the experience of "reliving childhood memories through Filipino food", captured the hearts and taste of the Western community through the recreation of Chef Miranda's family recipes such as her grandfather's 'kare-kare', her grandmother's 'lumpia', 'sinigang', and an upgraded version of 'adobong pusit pancit'.
Musang also had the dish names in the menus written in Tagalog such as 'minatamis na saba,' 'ensaladang taglamig,' 'isda't mantikilya,' and 'malutong na sitaw' among others.
Other mouth-watering Filipino dishes mentioned in the article are roasted chicken adobo, dinuguan, garlic rice, kinilaw, kare-kare, adobong pusit pancit, and tapsilog.
The Filipino restaurant in Beacon Hill has young Filipino chefs who share a passion for exploring Pinoy food and driving the narrative of it to the community.
Musang team expressed their gratitude on Facebook with a heartfelt message over their newest milestone that read:
"As @jjtiamson said… we didn't start this place to win accolades, we started this place for our culture, for our community, for the need to take space and to exist for us…"
"We have built this place with all heart, with integrity, tenacity, resilience, and our blood, sweat, and tears. It has been a journey, one that has not been met with challenges, but also one that has been full of so much joy and so many blessings…"
"Musang as a restaurant is only the beginning. We know and we dream that this is far greater than we even can begin to realize. It is a community space, a healing space, and this is our home…"
"This one is for the town. This one is for all of us. All of us dreamers. All of us hustlers, grinders, and everyone that just shows up."
Filipino food specialties are also on the menu of Cantina Sunae, a Southeast Asian Restaurant in Argentina, and at the New Dupont Circle resto in Washington DC which serves unique delicious Chicken Adobo.
SEND CONGRATULATIONS in the comments below to Filipino restaurant Musang for being named Seattle Met's Restaurant of the Year!
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2023 Program and Contest Rules
To enter the contest you must agree to these official rules. Submission of an entry constitutes an agreement to these rules. Please also review our FAQ and Entry Process. View and share our promotional flyer here.
Eligibility – To participate, you must be a youth or young adult in the following categories:
To enter as a Middle School Student, you must meet all these requirements:
- You may only submit to the Walk in Our Shoes or Hope & Justice categories
- You must be in middle school (grades 6-8) and your middle school must be located in California
- You must have an adult advisor, such as a principal, teacher, or counselor
Note: If you are an organization (not a school) that works with middle-school-aged youth, contact us to discuss how you can participate.
HIGH SCHOOL or YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT
To enter as a High School Student or Youth and Young Adult ages 12-25 you must meet one of these two requirements:
- Be associated with a high school located in California and be in grades 9-12. Any high school in California is eligible, including but not limited to: public, private, charter, alternative, and home schools OR
- Be between the ages of 12 and 25 and associated with a college, university, club, community-based organization (e.g. a chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention or NAMI), or other agency or program in California. If you are 12-14 and in middle school, you must submit as a middle school student.
Submission Deadline – Midnight PST on March 1, 2023 – For every submission category, EXCEPT non-60 second film submissions in the Hope & Justice category.
60-second films in the Hope & Justice category must also be submitted by midnight on March 1, 2023 to be eligible to compete with all other statewide submissions in that category.
However, any other non-60 second film submissions (poem, drawing, animation, TikTok, etc.) must be submitted by midnight on the last day of each month. There is a separate Entry Form for the Hope & Justice category.
Judging Process and Prizes
All films are first pre-screened by the Directing Change Team. Then, the strongest films move to a panel of regional or statewide judges, who will select 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in each category (as well as 4th and 5th place for Animated Short). Films in the Suicide Prevention and Mental Health categories are first judged within one of five regions within the state of California. To see which region your school falls into, click here.
At the discretion of the contest organizers, some categories may be combined or split depending on the number of entries received. Prizes will then be based on these new categories and awarded accordingly.
Hope and Justice – Monthly winners will be selected by a special judging panel and announced the following month. 1st to 3rd place Statewide winners will also be selected by a special judging panel and announced at the same time of statewide winners in all other categories. All 60-second film entries entered in the monthly contest and received prior to March 1, 2023 will compete in the statewide Hope and Justice category for a chance for another prize.
**Note: Statewide winners will not receive additional cash prizes. Directing Change "Team Picks" (films selected by Directing Change team to move on to statewide judging) will not receive cash prizes unless also a 1st-3rd place regional winner.
Additional Prizes
All winning films will be featured on the Directing Change website. Additional prizes include:
- Schools and organizations associated with the first-place regional film in each category will receive a trophy.
- First-place regional winners will move on to statewide judging to compete with other winning films across the state.
- Up to two participants from the first-place film team will be provided with travel stipends to attend the award ceremony (subject to availability of funding).
- Films will be integrated into the statewide suicide prevention awareness social marketing campaign and possibly shown on TV, online, and in movie theaters.
Submission Formats
For submissions in the Suicide Prevention, Mental Health, Through the Lens of Culture, Animated, or Walk in Our Shoes category, entries must be either 30-seconds or 60-seconds in length, depending on the submission category.
- For submissions in the Hope & Justice category, art can be submitted in any format suitable for sharing via social media including but not limited to original music, dance, spoken word, art, poetry, a speech, ANYTHING! For information on submission formats for this category visit the Entry Format Tips page.
- For all 30 and 60-second film submissions, Vimeo is our video services partner, and all technical specifications need to be in line with their requirements. You will be asked to upload your film file as part of the entry form. By uploading your film, it will automatically be uploaded to Vimeo meaning you agree to their terms and conditions.
Submission Requirements
All films and art need to meet certain submission requirements. These vary by category – please review the requirements for each category. Requirements include, but are not limited to:
- Required logos and resources (available as an end slate that can be added at the end of the film)
- Every film must begin with a beginning title slide (not counted in the 60-second or 30-second limit) that needs to include: The Film Title, Filmmakers Name(s), School/Organization Name, County in which School or Organization is located, Adult Advisor Name, Submission Category. A title slide template is available for download, but youth are welcome to create their own.
- Required end slate (Updated as of January 2022):
- End Slate – Black (png)
- End Slate – White (png)
- Please note that a different end slate is required for all Hope & Justice category submissions.
Submission Language
Films in languages other than English are encouraged for the Through the Lens of Culture and Hope & Justice categories. These films must have English captioning.
Brands and Logos
Please try to avoid use of brands when creating your film or art. This can include logos on shirts, brands on laptops, store signs in the background of outdoor shots, etc. You can avoid logos by dressing your actors in clothing without recognizable brands, covering laptop brands with a sticker or sticky note, or framing your shots so that recognizable stores are not highlighted. While using a brand will not disqualify your film, it may limit the use of your film in television or movie theaters, due to brand copyright laws. We recommend avoiding the hassle and making smart, brand-free choices during the creation of your film!
Music and Copyrights
Entries must meet all copyright standards by obtaining releases for all copyrighted music and materials before submission. Entries that include copyrighted materials (such as images, supers or audiovisual materials) or music (such as music purchased from iTunes, on a CD, or other downloadable services) without the proper permission and signed release forms will be disqualified. Please review the forms and copyrights page for more information and to download the appropriate forms.
It's best to provide original music! When getting permission, you're seeking permission for all places that the film could be used, such as online and on television.
Release Forms
As of this year, Directing Change requests that all release forms be completed electronically. Please review the forms and copyrights page for more information and other requirements.
Youth and young adult producers: please avoid potentially dangerous production situations that could put crew, actors, or the public at risk. Safety during the project is of the highest priority. Directing Change staff and sponsors take no responsibility and assume no liability for any acts or damages that may result from preparing the materials to submit to this contest. Further, all the submission categories are sensitive subjects that need to be addressed with respect and understanding for how they might impact those involved in the project. If at any time, you or someone working on the project experiences an emotional crisis let an adult know immediately or call the national Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255. This is a free, 24-hour hotline.
Films can be disqualified for the following reasons:
- Providing false information
- Not meeting the submission deadline
- Not obtaining the proper release forms or copyright permissions
- Violation of the safe messaging policy (in each submission category)
- Violation of the rights of any third party or US, state, or local law
- Any other violation of the contest rules
The Directing Change Team reserves the right to disqualify any entry that they believe at their sole discretion to violate these rules. Further, the advisor can refuse to submit an entry that is not suitable for schools and a general audience. All categories have special content that must be included and specific content that must be avoided and can lead to disqualification.
If an entry contains disqualifying content or the entry promotes inaccurate information or statistics, the Directing Change team may reach out to suggest revisions. If the revised entry is not submitted within the deadline provided by Directing Change, the film will be disqualified.
Note: Entries should not be uploaded to Vimeo, YouTube, or any other video service sites accessible to the public (other than the official contest website as part of the entry form) until after winners have been announced on the website. See "Submission to Other Film Festivals" below as an exception.
Submission to Other Film Festivals – Entries submitted must be original work created by the individuals listed on the entry form. Entries can be submitted to other film festivals after the submission deadline. For a list of film festivals, visit the For Youth page. Special note to students in Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, and Tulare Counties: Directing Change partners with the SlickRock Film Festival. We strongly encourage you to also submit to this festival if your entry is in the Suicide Prevention category. The entry description and judging guidelines for both contests are aligned.
Contact us if you have any questions about the contest rules!


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- Nushrratt shared two sets of throwback pictures
- "This is an appreciation post for all that I had when I had it,"she wrote
- "One year later, today I remember it all so fondly," she added
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Nushrratt Bharuccha revisited throwback memories from her vacation diaries on Wednesday. The actress was holidaying in the Maldives around this time last year. In her recent Instagram posts, Nushrrat posted some stunning pictures from her vacation and accompanied them with thoughtful notes. Her latest post, which features the actress making memories in the Maldives in a pink bikini, comes with a caption that read: "This is an appreciation post for all that I had when I had it… all that I did when I did. One year later, today I remember it all so fondly… miss it all so dearly but feel so blessed and lucky to have had it. To have lived it the way I wanted it. So, thank you Universe for giving me all that you have, the way that you have! #Gratitude."
Sharing another set of photos, in which she can be seen swimming underwater, Nushrratt Bharuccha wrote: "This time last year, I let my hair down…felt the rising sun warm me up… dived deep into the blue water…. swam with fishes… almost stopped breathing when a sea turtle swam past me…Ate the best food, drank the best wine, danced all day all night… slept out on the porch under the bright full moon…woke up to the sound of the ocean… pure joy!"
Nushrratt Bharuccha's vacation wardrobe was fabulous last year, just like her. On one day, she enjoyed the breathtaking view of the beach destination in a yellow bikini while on another, she lit up the Maldives in pink and red bikinis.
Check the photos that Nushrratt Bharuccha shared from the Maldives last year:
Nushrratt Bharuccha made her debut in Bollywood with the 2009 film Kal Kissne Dekha. Post that, she went on to feature in films such as Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety and Dream Girl. Nushrratt Bharuccha was last seen in Hansal Mehta's Chhalaang, in which she shared screen space with Rajkummar Rao. The film was earlier titled Turram Khan. Chhalaang premiered on Prime Video in November.


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Our PCOS class of Womans/HRT medications are used to treat polycystic ovary syndrome to relieve symptoms of hormonal imbalance, which can cause hirsutism and infertility.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common condition found in Pre-menopausal women and is characterised by the appearance of many small cysts along the outer edge of the ovary. The condition is thought to have a genetic component and is caused by an imbalance in the hormones that regulate ovulation (Follicle Stimulating Hormone, FSH and Leutinising Hormone, LH). This prevents the normal development of the ovarian follicle, resulting in fluid filled sacs or cysts containing an immature egg.
PCOS is also associated with other metabolic syndromes, which includes high blood cholesterol, obesity, high levels of insulin and Insulin resistance, all of which predispose to increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Symptoms of PCOS inclue:
Treatments for PCOS focus on the symptoms and can include use of diabetic medications to reduce insulin levels, oral contraceptive pills to regulate menstrual cycle and antiandrogens to reduce androgen production and prevent symptoms due to overproduction of androgens.
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This study, "A SURVEY OF ROLES AND PERFORMANCE EFFECTIVENESS OF SECRETARIES IN MODERN COMMUNICATION INDUSTRIES" contains concise information that will serve as a framework or guide for your project work. The project study is well-researched for academic purposes and are usually provided in complete chapters with adequate References.
Keywords: A SURVEY OF ROLES AND PERFORMANCE EFFECTIVENESS OF SECRETARIES IN MODERN COMMUNICATION INDUSTRIES
This study examined roles and performance efficiency and effectively of secretaries in modern communication industries in Enugu Urban.
People hold different opinions about the secretaries roles. they fail to understand that the secretary is an important officer in every communication industry and her contributions and effectiveness can either enhance or diminish the efficiency of an industry.
The study also seek to find out whether lack of appreciate communicating machine affect the roles of secretaries. It went further to stress whether lack of knowledge of the administrative principles may hinder secretarial roles, whether executives do not give the secretaries free-hand to implement the necessary administrative principles.
In collecting data, the study was designed to cover selected communication industries as the population through sampling of the secretaries. The population were made up of 100 people and the researcher made use of questionnaire which was distributed to the respondent. Was later collected.
It was concluded that regular seminars, workshops and conferences should be organized for the secretaries in order to up-date thir knowledge and experience on the secretarial profession and that the employers should work hand-in-hand with their secretaries, be able to delegate duties to them and provide enough working equipment for carrying out their duties.
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.3 Purpose of the study
1.4 Delimitation of the study
1.5 Significant of the study
1.6 Assumption of the study
1.7 Research question
1.8 Definition of terms
Literature Review
The Responsibilities / Duties of secretaries in Communication industries
The true image of secretaries in Communication industries
The roles of secretary in developing the office
The roles of secretary in selected communication
Secretary as a personal officer
Factors responsible for Non-application of secretary roles
Effects on the performance of secretaries
3.1 Area of study
3.2 Instrumentation
3.3 Population and size
3.4 Method of data collection
3.5 Method of data Analysis
3.6 Validation of Instrument
Presentation and Data Analysis
4.1 Research Question
Summary of Findings, Conclusion and recommendation
Summary of findings
Limitation of the study
Suggestion for further studies
Keywords: A SURVEY OF ROLES AND PERFORMANCE EFFECTIVENESS OF SECRETARIES IN MODERN COMMUNICATION INDUSTRIES


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"I first began working with Xert on an experimental basis back in the late fall of 2015. In early 2016, I used it exclusively to train for a stage race that was to be held in April. The workouts were REALLY hard, but Xert showed that my fitness was improving, and my 'focus' was hitting the goals. Furthermore, Xert told me when to back off and 'focus' on recovery. I was really skeptical at first, but became more and more convinced as time went on. I ended up with one of my best efforts at the event in five years. The latest versions of the software and the interval protocols have further convinced me that Xert is accurate, predictive, and is an all-new paradigm for cyclists and triathletes looking to improve their fitness and performance. I love it so much that I have begun to implement it with clients at my studio and online. Anyone with a current-generation Garmin or Android App can run the program, witness the workout in real-time, and challenge themselves mentally and physically to regular fitness breakthroughs. As a full-time coach since 1993, I really have never seen anything like this at all, and I can't wait to see what's next!"
Richard Wharton – USA Cycling Certified Coach – Cycling Center Dallas


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Amman, Jordan
I did some shopping today at the local souq, for juice glasses and a notebook, fruits and vegetables, and a plug converter (which I failed to find). As Yvonne and Alice and I were walking up, up, up and down, down, down the steep hill behind ACOR to get to the souq, I was reminded of something I thought a lot about in Peace Corps Pre-Service Training, which is that living in Jordan is a constant exercise in the art of anticipation:
- Where should I step on and off the high, uneven sidewalks that I will expose the least amount of leg beneath my skirt?
- Should I keep my long sleeve 'abaia next to me in case someone knocks on my door while I'm in this tanktop?
- If I purchase food here, where will I eat it so that I'm not eating in the street?
- What's the most efficient order in which to buy these supplies so that I walk (and therefore sweat) the least?
- I must be sure to have that drink of water before I leave the shop, because I can't drink it in the street!
In some ways there's less of the art of anticipation this time. I'm in Amman, where the rules are not as strict. I'm potentially only here for two months, so I don't really need to think so far into the future as last time. And perhaps most significant of all, I'm here for myself this time, not to do for others, which makes it far less necessary to be more Arab than the Arabs, because this time I'm not asking anyone to trust me with the security and honor of their children.
Nevertheless, the imperative to be not only respectful of the culture but to hold myself to local standards of propriety is deeply ingrained in me. I don't know whether to blame it on Rotary or Peace Corps or Fakhria's influence on the way my mother thinks about the rest of the world, especially the Muslim world. In any case, I have this strong feeling that I am an ambassador of my country, that everything I wear and do reflects on how people see America and Americans. I know that Jordanians have an extraordinary and admirable ability to distinguish between individual Americans, American pop culture and American politics, and I know that most Jordanians don't paint all Americans with the same brush, be it good or bad. Still, I can't help myself from thinking about … anticipating what impact my dress, actions and words might have on others' perception of America and Americans.
Worse, I can't seem to stop myself from judging others in this group of students by my own extremely and perhaps even unreasonably high standards. I'm trying very hard not to offer my opinion unless asked first, but it's a struggle.


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America's Favourite Superhero Movie Is Black Panther, Britain's Is Captain Marvel
Argue with the process all you want. But CashLady has commissioned some research to discover which superhero movie is which country's favourite. They base this on the average monthly search volume taken from Ahrefs Keyword Explorer. And they note that some Ahrefs doesn't hold data for some countries and for some, the search volume was too low to determine a favourite movie. But here are the results. Black Panther is the world's favourte superhero movie, but there is plenty of variance. Spider-Man follows, then Captain America and Deadpool before DC Comics' first title, Wonder Woman, pops up…
Black Panther
Favourite in Afghanistan, Antigua And Barbuda, Bahrain, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Estonia, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Ireland, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad And Tobago, United Arab, Emirates, United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Favourite in Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Italy, Laos, Madagascar, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Peru, Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia, Venezuela.
Captain Marvel
Favourite in Australia, Austria, Brunei, Denmark, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, United Kingdom.
Favourite in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay.
Wonder Woman
Favourite in Bahamas, Croatia, Finland, France, Iraq, Israel, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Vietnam.
Justice League
Favourite in Bangladesh, Fiji, Libya, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Pakistan, Saint Vincent And Grenadines, Sri Lanka.
Favourite in Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Mongolia, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey.
Deadpool 2
Favourite in Angola, Bhutan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Seychelles.
Avengers: Infinity War
Favourite in Bolivia, Egypt, India, Panama, Suriname.
Favourite in Brazil, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Gibraltar, Mozambique.
Favourite in Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Palestinian Territories, Ukraine.
Avengers: Endgame
Favourite in Kyrgyzstan.
Favourite in Russia.
Guardians of the Galaxy.
Favourite in Germany.
Suicide Squad
Favourite in Belarus.
Favourite in Luxembourg.
Favourite in Japan.
Average monthly search volume taken from Ahrefs Keyword Explorer. Note that some Ahrefs doesn't hold data for some countries and for some, the search volume was too low to determine a favourite movie.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Three people were injured during a house fire Wednesday in the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia.
Chopper 6 was over the scene on the 3500 block of North Warnock Street.
Heavy flames were showing throughout the building when firefighters arrived around 7 a.m.
Fire officials say one person was injured when the porch collapsed.
Another person was injured after jumping from a second story window.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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One of rarest game cartridges ever created is currently for sale on eBay.
The listing, described as one of the best condition gold cartridges ever sold, currently has an asking price of $99,999.99—the same price as one of the last sales of the cartridge in 2014.
The gold cartridge being sold is one of 26 copies that were given away in sweepstakes held by Nintendo Power magazine. The cartridges were created to act as promotional material for the the Nintendo World Championships in 1990.
Another gold cartridge is also on sale on eBay right now, but with a missing label and significant cosmetic damage it's available for just $3,000.
Regionals for the Nintendo World Championships were held in 29 cities across the United States. Winners of the 29 events won tickets to the finals of the tournament that were held in Los Angeles later that year.
90 standard grey cartridges were given to finalists of the event, but the gold cartridges is the most sought after piece of gaming memorabilia in the world.
The tournament tasked players with completing a series of challenges over three games—Super Mario, Rad Racer, and Tetris— in an allotted period of time. The player who scored the most points won.
The winner of the grand final event won $10,000 in savings bonds, a Mario themed trophy, and a host of Nintendo themed prizes like consoles and games.


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Come to the Stoweflake Hot Air Balloon Festival and watch a parade of hot-air balloons soar through the sky. Enjoy free admission when you stay at Stoweflake and don't miss a single moment. View breathtaking launches, enjoy live entertainment, all while sitting back and relaxing with offerings in the beer and wine garden.
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Life is filled with opportunities and there are always roads to travel and places to go. Everyone has their own ideas about what they want to accomplish and the destinations they want to reach. We can decide to do whatever we desire, make a plan and set forth determined to reach the goal. We're in complete control of everything we do, but that is all. Other people may make decisions that stand in our way, situations may develop we don't expect, and the road may turn away from us. Things are constantly changing, and although we may be very clear on what we want to do, we may face times when it seems everything is working against us. The door ahead may be closed and shut down and we might get stopped in our tracks. We can't move ahead, and we're stuck. What happens next is up to us. We can stand around and wait for things to change and just stay in place until that happens. Maybe it'll take an hour, or a day, or a week, or a month or longer. We may remain for as long as we like. We may believe if we're just patient, and wait, eventually the situation will change and we'll be able to push through. That might happen, but how long it takes for that to come is undefined. In the meantime, our lives will continue on and if we do nothing but wait, the goals we desire will wait as well. Life goes on even if we stand still. There is no way to predict the future, or when our lives will change. Instead of standing around and waiting for an opening, we can set the goal aside and move onto something else. Nothing stays the same forever, and in time, we can return and try again. Our lives are important, and time is precious. By doing all we can to continue forward, no matter what is in the way, we will find great success. We can trust ourselves to choose the next best step, and move toward our dreams.
Nobody knows everything and there may come a time when we need someone else's help or assistance to reach a specific goal. We may ask them for advice or guidance, and they may be happy to help. But we're all busy and sometimes the help we need may not be available right away. We can be patient and wait for things to change, but while we wait, it isn't necessary to stop our forward progression. We can continue moving ahead with something new, and step forward with confidence toward our next destination.
It takes courage and determination to step forward toward something new. Although we know what we want, we may be unsure about beginning the journey. Nobody knows what lies ahead or what the next turn will bring, and if we're not confident, we may decide to wait. Simply standing and waiting will do nothing to change our situation. If we're unsure, we can look into all the possibilities, and make a solid plan. Once we've decided how we'll proceed, we can begin. It doesn't matter what complications may come, we will handle them. There isn't anything we can't do and nothing is strong enough to keep us from success.
Today if you've been waiting for something to change so you can move forward, remember how strong and capable you are. If the road ahead isn't available right now, move onto something else. Nothing is permanent, and when things change you'll be able to start again and reach success. You have everything you need to do anything you desire. Trust yourself and be wise. Everything is there for you and you will make your dreams come true.