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A Barcelona summer evening classic is back. Sala Montjuïc is here again with more films and music in one to the city’s most spectacular settings, Montjuïc Castle. This year, with sessions every Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 5 July and 6 August, it has a new, bigger screen. It is 16 x 9 metres, that is, 32 square metres more. This year’s programme is a varied one that includes popular classics like Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday by Jacques Tati. However, the “main dish” consists of more recent films, namely a selection of independent films popular with critics and the public, like the vampire movie Let Me In, the “anti-romantic” comedy In Search of a Midnight Kiss and the acclaimed French film The Class. Apart from that, there will be a concert cinema session with The Gold Rush, by Charles Chaplin, accompanied by live music played by an orchestra conducted by Guerassim Voronkov. The programme also includes animated films like My Neighbour Totoro from Japan and the documentary Waltz with Bashir. As for the closing film, you can vote for the one you like best out of three Catalan films. The Sala Montjuïc programme is complimented by live concerts, prior to the film session, and there is also the chance to have a picnic. You can hire a deckchair too, so you are more comfortable. Castell de Montjuïc -> Ctra Montjuïc, 66 \| Sants-Montjuïc
A wonderful place if you prefer to stay in a nature-based resort. You can find the best collection of orchids, butterflies and ofcourse the colourful birds. A perfect place for weddings as well. The flowers, birds, sculptures, the coitage accommodation. The bird show is a must to see. It is one of the first "star-rated" hotels in the city and a by-word among business travellers. The hotel's ballroom and several function rooms make it a preferred choice for conventions and exhibitions as well as special events like wedding reception, debut, party, etc. Living up to its name, the rooms provide a view of Mt. Apo from a distance and the busy streets below. It is also located at the intersection of several roads providing easy access to public transpo. Aside from the pool, I like to stay here because of its fitness center. Fitness Advantage runs the center and checked-in guests can use the facilities and attend aerobic classes. Bagobo is a minority tribe in Mindanao. But far from being a replica of the tribe's house, the hotel rooms are equipped with urban facilities. Although a bit dark for my liking (there were only 3 lamps inside the room) and not so spacious, it has aircon, TV and hot/cold water. They also provide shampoo in sachet in addition to the standard soap and towel. There is a coffee shop at the lobby or you can request for room service. The thing I noticed and left a lasting impression on me is the very prompt service of the staff. I like its location - directly across and short walking distance to several fast food joints (especially my McDonalds); adjacent to a department store, cinema and beauty salon; few blocks away from a pharmacy, hospital and church - practically everything you need is right at your doorstep, including cabs. This is my second choice of hotel when I am on work travel to Davao as it is only a block away from our office. Each room is equipped with basic amenities such as aircon, TV and hot/cold shower. They also provide basic necessities such as soap and towel. However, not all rooms have windows which is a "must requirement" for me. Hence, when booking I make it clear and make sure that they will give me a room with a window. Just like other standard hotels, it has a coffee shop at the lobby. But its "outstanding" feature is its swimming pool which other hotels in its class do not have. Tower Inn is my first choice of hotel when I am in Davao for work reasons primarily due to its location. It is right beside our branch office making going to the office no sweat and no hurry. Also, I can work late into the night content in the knowledge that my hotel is just a few steps away. Although its name classifies it as an "inn", I would say Tower Inn is comparable to other standard hotels. It has the basic amenities - aircon, TV, towels, soap and hot/cold water. It also has a coffee shop at the lobby serving continental dishes. There's really nothing unique with the hotel except that moment I step out into the street, there are cabs and jeepneys available. The hotel is the tallest hotel /landmark (18 floors) in Davao City, and even the whole Mindanao. It is also relatively new, got great lobby and five star hotel amenities. I like this hotel very much, very competitive price, great buffet breakfast @ Cafe Marco, rooms are huge, and have a view of the city. Next to the hotel is the Aldivenco Shopping Center :-) really cool place for shopping of batik and local crafts.. The hotel got a swimming pool. Several restaurants with great view of the city. The lobby is huge, and got an eclectic feel to it, mostly Muslim inspired, even got a local weaver weaving tinalak. All facilities can be recommended. Personally I liked the huge variety of tropical fruits and the friendly service at the restaurant and also at the pool. Always my favorite, outside of the city, quiet, accomodation excellent, the gardens are well kept, swimming pool or seaside beach where you can hire a boat to the nearby pearl farm. Sort by: Most recent \| Most helpful
- Discover Paradise - Business Directory - About Us/Membership - Contact Us Come and discover the treasures of Paradise! Our intriguing gold-rush past and equally compelling present beckon visitors and newcomers to our beautiful mountain community amid the pines and above the fog. Find Your Paradise here! Small-town values with big-town conveniences. Unique shops, antiques, dining for all tastes, beautiful parks and friendly, good-hearted people. Well-established theater, dance and symphony programs of exceptional quality. Your Paradise is as active or restful as you like! Enjoy your peace of the pines. The Paradise Ridge features affordable housing, excellent medical facilities, and cultural/educational opportunities through proximity to both a community college and a state university. The character of Paradise is largely defined by the small, independent businesses that invest in our thriving community. The roads to Paradise are paved with spectacular sights. From Lake Oroville on Pentz to the “Little Grand Canyon” on Skyway, the Ridge is rimmed with breathtaking vistas. There are activities, sights and attractions to meet every desire. The Gold Nugget Museum, dedicated to preserving and protecting the Ridge’s proud Gold Rush heritage, will satisfy history buffs. Performing arts fans will find a plethora of entertainment at the Paradise Performing Arts Center, and Theatre on the Ridge, the longest running community theatre in the Northstate. Northern California Ballet attracts dancers from all over the world to train and perform with local youth. We even have a seven-plex Cinema! Looking for something more athletic? The Ridge is home to a multitude of hiking, biking, and walking trails, hunting, fishing and boating opportunities and parks for picnics and relaxing. Golfers can tee off at Tuscan Ridge and Lava Creek Golf Courses, and Trailhead Adventures has everything for the outdoors person. Check our events calendar for tournaments, relays and adventures for the sports-minded. Every month there’s an event happening in Paradise that will be right up your alley - foodies, car buffs, gardeners, bird watchers, music fans, history lovers, wine enthusiasts, runners, cyclists and more will find their heart’s desire here! On Memorial Day and Veteran's Day, volunteers place 1080 flags along the Skyway in a breathtaking display. In March, the Ridge blooms with more than 60,000 daffodils. Join us for Johnny Appleseed Days, California’s longest running harvest festival. Stop by and see us at the Paradise Visitor’s Bureau located in the Chamber of Commerce office on Skyway. Hikers, download this handy hiking guide: Hiking Trails. We in invite you to find your very own Paradise!
Fota Wildlife Park: Fota Wildlife Park was opened in 1983. Located in the south of Ireland, in County Cork, the park is set on 75 acres, and is home to nearly 30 mammal and 50 bird species. Many of the animals roam freely with the visitors, such as the ring-tailed lemurs and squirrel monkeys. The larger animals, including the giraffe and bison, live in spacious paddocks with unobtrusive barriers. This allows visitors to enjoy an up close and personal experience with the animals. The museum exhibits have 3 themes i.e. the History of the Barracks, Michael Collins and Peacekeeping with United Nation Missions. Although the core collection has a wide range of memorabilia associated with Michael Collins, it also boasts displays from donated private collections e.g. uniforms, weapons etc. The exterior layout presents a Shaker cannon from the 1550s, a rare mobile ordnance workshop, a 2 pounder 1940s field artillery piece and a Panhard Armoured Personnel Carrier. The Everyman theatre located on MacCurtain street on Cork. Originally opened in 1897/98, it is the oldest purpose built theatre building in Cork. The Everyman has undergone many changes, through its days as “Dan Lowrey’s Palace of Varieties” (hosting Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chapman, life as a cinema, periods of disrepair, and reinvigoration as a modern theatre in the 1980s. Cork Guide - http://www.cork-guide.ie/ Travel Ireland - http://www.travelireland.org/ Ireland Car Hire -http://www.irelandcarhire.com/ Contemporary Summer Arts Festival in Ireland featuring Theatre, Performance, Dance, Music, Comedy, Visual Art The Cork Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held in Cork City, Ireland in late October every year since 1978.The Festival is Ireland’s biggest jazz event and attracts hundreds of musicians and thousands of music fans to the city each year. Renowned as Europe’s friendliest Jazz Festival, the event has hosted many of the jazz ‘greats’ in its history Southern Ireland’s premiere venue for the best in Irish and international concerts, comedy, drama, dance, family fare and opera, performed in a 1000-seat venue, located in the heart of the city and only a few minutes walk from our Hotel Bus Eireann (National Bus service):
just another Monday in Jaipur Monday, 5 November 2012 Hey! Photodiary from this afternoon, we were just walking around in the streets of Jaipur, looking and learning about the magical Indian culture. I made myself a little friend aswell, a 10 year old Indian boy who spoke SUCH good English! I thought he was just beeing cute, asking questions about me and telling me about himself, he even gave me his businesscard (wich 10 year old has his own b.card btw?!), but after almost an hour it turned out to be just another strategy to get money out of another blonde tourist…. Didn’t work. I guess I’m too heartless. No, I’m not heartless. I just use my heart less. Oh, and I almost got married away out there! This lady grabbed my arm, looked at me and yelled something in Indian to her son. She was apparently asking him about what he thought of me, he answered that I was beautiful, and then his father tried to buy me for some spices or whatever. What a flirt. Guys holding hands is a common observation in the streets of India. Here, it doesn’t mean anything else than real friendship. That is so wonderful! The pink city, preparing for a festival. xoxo Indian traffic. pt_priv (c) Jaipur, India Oh, this has been a(nother) great day, and I’m SO looking forward to see what the pink city will bring us tomorrow aswell! I know we are going to this monkey temple, an Indian market and then we’re gonna watch a Bollywood-movie at the local cinema in the evening. Just for the experience, not really for the movie, haha. I’ve heard that it’s normal to chat, beeing on the mobile, scream and run around during the film down here, that’s gonna be a total contrast to the “shut up, I’ll kill you”-cinema-culture of Norway, for sure! Good night, superpeople! See you tomorrow! Til mine norske lesere: Google translate it. Jeg er for trøtt til å konsentrere meg på norsk i kveld….
Katy Perry Confirms 3D Concert Movie 'Part Of Me' For July US Launch The 'Part Of Me' singer has said her new film will be out in cinemas this July in America. The 'Teenage Dream' singer announced at the start of March that she will launch her own cinema hit called Katy Perry: Part Of Me, which will chart her 2011 California Dream tour and behind-the-scenes of her life. Katy told E! reporter Kelly Osbourne at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards that the film will be out in cinemas for 4th July weekend, and told fans to, "Go and see it and be a firework". The production company Magical Elves, who were behind Justin Bieber's own cinema hit Never Say Never, are said to be in talks to direct the project. Katy Perry made the comments ahead of her performance at Saturday night's awards ceremony, which saw her take to the stage to sing her current hit single 'Part Of Me' .
The 20th century, perhaps uniquely in history, produced at least two distinct periods when artists and writers felt emboldened to declare that anything is possible and everything is permitted. The first of these was at the turn of the century in Europe, as hidebound moral constraints collapsed and the avant garde energies of surrealism, Dadaism and other modernisms were released. The most recent, at mid-century in the U.S., injected an intensely repressive, scare-mongering period of Cold War paranoia with a surge of creative release that still astounds us today, or should. The Beats: Ginsberg, Kerouac, et al. and groundbreaking novelists like Joseph Heller, Ken Kesey and William S. Burroughs, produced a string of literary firecrackers aimed at shooing the demons conjured by the nightmare imaginations of Puritanical authorities with nuclear weapons. It’s arguable that the times themselves made it possible for that generation to produce its best work, making it urgent and essential and widely popular. And also, in many cases, wildly funny. Less well-remembered now, but no less worthy of mention in this company, was Terry Southern.1 Southern was and is primarily known as a satirist, I suppose, but that’s like saying the guys who designed the atom bomb were “just” mechanics. He wrote both satirical and non-satirical pieces in a variety of genres: journalism, novels, short stories, screenplays, reviews, and precocious, unclassifiable mélanges of fact and fiction. Probably the best-known work attached to his name is Dr. Strangelove, the classic Cold War farce-majeur of nuclear annihilation. Director Stanley Kubrick is Strangelove’s originating genius, of course, but Southern collaborated with him on its unforgettable screenplay. The extent of his contribution is apparently still contentious, and this may be an indication of why his career path led him to greater obscurity than many of his peers. The movies have been a cruel medium for many writers, and Southern’s later writing was almost entirely in collaborations on screenplays. But if you read any of his prose, you’ll see that his particular sensibility, highly involved with depicting the clownishness and deadly “preversity” (his preferred rendering of this term) of the powerful is there throughout the film. You can bet that signature dialogue from each of its indelible cast of characters, and possibly their monikers themselves, from General Buck Turgidson to Colonel “Bat” Guano (“If indeed that is your name,” as Peter Sellers’ Captain Mandrake remarks tellingly during a crucial exchange) come from Southern. And personally I would hazard that General Ripper’s obsession with Russian infiltration of “our precious bodily fluids” through the monstrous Commie plot of fluoridation, which initiates the whole chain of events that ends in Armageddon, is a Southern contribution as well. And thus many equally brilliant touches in one of the world’s great satirical works, in any medium, of any age or land. Another Southern collaboration, with Mason Hoffenberg, produced the novel Candy, in which Voltaire’s iconic innocent Candide is reconceived as a dim but preternaturally sexy small town girl who travels far (and wide) and finds her ultimate happiness in a very preverse manner. On his own, Terry Southern is perhaps best known for the novel The Magic Christian, a less transcendent but intermittently brilliant lampoon of human greed. Both of these stories became not-so-great movies, their wild imaginativeness stunted by a medium that Southern may have had too much confidence in, after experiencing it at its best with Kubrick. Later interviews with him indicate that he saw the medium to which he’d hitched his fortunes with a very jaded eye. That’s why you need to read the stories. Southern’s short stories, both satirical and “serious,” are distinguished by prose mastery, subtlety and a truly mind-blowing range of genre and subject matter, possibly unique in U.S. fiction, from the magic realism avant la lettre of a Texas dirt farmer battling a mythical sea-monster in his melon patch, through the minutely examined lives of tragically hip expatriates in Paris, and insider views of the French working class, to the anomie and casual sadism of disaffected young boys. Whether the boys in these stories are in south Texas (where Southern grew up) or New York City, the dialogue is always pitch perfect and the milieu is coolly exact. Most of his best stories were collected in the superb 1967 anthology Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, along with some classic pieces of New Journalism, such as “Twirling at Ole Miss,” from 1962, which Tom Wolfe considered foundational to the genre. Here Southern reports on a baton-twirling convention at the eponymous deep South university, full of creamy white pubescent girls in drill team fetish attire, at the height of the dogs-and-firehoses period of the Civil Rights movement. His voice is deadpan and his eye for the telling detail is dead on. There is an exemplary moment in his visit to the college library, when he opens a first edition copy of William Faulkner’s Light in August and finds it raggedly inscribed with “Nigger-Lover” on the title page. Southern’s most creative period was spent toiling in what he dubbed the “Quality Lit Game,” the smug and self-serving world of New York magazine publishing. This world can only be barely imagined by most of us today, not because it’s gotten any less smug and self-serving, but because it’s so diminished in cultural power. But through those then-ascendant, smoke-filled Madison Avenue corridors Southern rambled in a drug-enhanced state of ribald bemusement. He gives us inside looks in completely crazy-ass pieces like “Blood of a Wig,” whose fantastical sequence of events still grounds itself in a kind of realism with fly-on-the-wall boardroom dialogue, in the form of editors who say things like “let’s stroke this one for awhile and see if we get any jism out of it.” Southern, somewhat like his contemporary Lenny Bruce, was fascinated with our night-selves, the unexpurgated utterers of all that language that narrow-minded ideologues of all stripes tend to fear and despise. This marks him as a spirit impossibly out of synch with our times, but quintessential in his own. The stuff he dredged up out of the mid-20th century psyche has all seen the light of day many times over now; concupiscence among the powerful and repressed no longer has the power to shock most of us. Incest, necrophilia, coprophagy, whatever: it’s a commonplace of 24-7 news feeds. And yet, in some way because the times demanded it, Terry Southern made his own uniquely delicious froth out of it all, that’s still tasty today. And still radical, even if it doesn’t shock. (The two qualities are often confused.) Why? Because he forces us to permit ourselves to imagine anything, and his wild and generous humor shows us what a pleasurable act such imagining can be. Southern’s fecund sexual fantasies are always so over the top as to be self-satirizing—which this feminist critic at least would say is quite an apt way of looking at bourgeois male heterosexuality. For a slightly different take on gender relations, there is his gleefully mock-outraged letter to Ms. Magazine in the posthumous collection edited by his son Nile, Now Dig This! (which contains a whole section dedicated to Terry’s spoof complaint letters). He admonishes the editors that if women wish to be taken seriously as full citizens in modern society, they will have to stop acting like “rutting [...] wildcat[s],” during sex: “moaning, sobbing, writhing, scratching, biting,” and so forth (Southern’s italicized list of shocking female copulatory behaviors is much longer). There is an unusual generosity of spirit here—often lacking in satirists from Jonathan Swift onward—that is the antithesis of misogyny or misanthropy. I haven’t even begun to talk about his boundless love of drugs. You’ll have to experience that for yourself; suffice it to say that avid consumer doesn’t do justice to it, and that Southern’s reality is always somehow like a drug experience, even when no drugs are involved. Now Dig This! contains a hilarious transcript of a conversation with Burroughs, as he and Southern go through a bag of pharmaceutical samples Terry has acquired in a mostly futile quest for the real thing. Terry’s exclamation-pointed enthusiasm for the trial and error method of drug testing is dryly riposted by the world-weary Burrows. It’s an overlooked classic of drug literature. Southern paid for that exuberance with his health of course, in later life, as everybody does. How drearily real. So why am I invoking Terry Southern now, when he’s been gone for almost 15 years? Because even in another landmark period for the triumph of folly, I’ve found no other writer in any medium who can generate the deep, hard, hearty and (still) surprised laughter at quintessential Amur-rican absurdity that Southern can, and who is able to do so precisely because of his mastery of the written word. Almost regrettably for those of us who savor the power of words alone to move and enlighten, Southern was not a lit snob: he moved into film and basically left fiction behind because he saw the cinema’s potential to tell the stories he wanted to tell in a powerful way. And so we have Dr. Strangelove, thank God. And of lesser brilliance but still worthy: The Loved One, Barbarella, Easy Rider and The Magic Christian. He even took a stab at writing for Saturday Night Live, but it was way too tame, by the early ‘80s, when it was largely considered to have gone seriously bad anyway. He would have had to survive into the era of cable, perhaps, to find a home in TV writing. And even so, I don’t think so. Southern lived until 1995 but produced almost nothing of note from the early 1970s onward. The times had changed, you see. The historical moment from and to which he spoke most eloquently, when “All Power to the Imagination” was not an empty slogan, was utterly gone. (His unforgettable piece “Groovin’ in Chi” about the 1968 Democratic National Convention, suggests that that hope-slaughtering horror show may have been precisely when and where it died.) While our lives have continued to be coldly revolutionized in the technological sense, far too much human failure, particularly of the social imagination, has intervened since that statement was made for it to resonate in the same way with us now. While some may think the U.S. has become more a more open, more culturally sophisticated society since Terry Southern’s time, I have my doubts. Rather we often seem to me like weird masochists choosing to keep ourselves in cultural lockdown, breathlessly mouthing the words “individual freedom” and “creative potential” and “no limits” and what-not, while our corporatist system, looking metaphorically like the gruesome self-caricature of the late-period Mae West dressed in red-white-and-blue burlesque house lamé, gleefully and unstintingly whacks us with its Naugahyde cat-o-nine tails. Oh, Freedom™. That doesn’t mean there isn’t fresh and marvelous (and funny) stuff bubbling out there today amid all the homeland insecurity, or that there won’t continue to be. Reports of our cultural death tends to be greatly exaggerated. At the same time, factors too numerous to list here—everything from demographics (an aging U.S.) to global economics (an impoverished U.S.) and the exhaustion of natural resources (ditto)—all of which affect the production of culture in ways we ignore at our peril—bode against another upwelling of creative energies in the U.S. with the transformative power and scope of Southern’s time in the foreseeable future. So now in this metaphorical late winter light, as we wait for some chance of another spring, let’s raise a joint or a syringe or a glass or a spoon and toast Terry Southern. Reading his best work gives you the pleasure of believing again, however fleetingly, that anything is possible and everything is permitted.
Luxury to the Max...pamper Yourself in This Stunning - This condo sleeps 10 - Swimming pool - Hot tub Welcome to our beautifully furnished second home located in the quiet mountain community of Wildernest. We are at the top of Buffalo Mountain just above the towns of Silverthorne and Dillon. Wildernest is located just minutes from five 'World-Class' ski resorts; Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper Mtn, A-Basin, and Loveland. The resorts of Vail and Beaver Creek are within 30 minutes. After a fun filled day of winter or summer activities; Relax on the leather sofa in front of the rock fireplace and take in the magnificent views of the Rocky Mountains from the wall-to-wall picture windows. In the morning, enjoy the breathtaking sunrise over the Continental Divide from the breakfast bar which seats four or the lodge-style dining table which seats eight. The views from inside the condo or from either of the two decks are spectacular any time of the day or night. After an incredible sunset, the slopes of Keystone Mountain twinkle before you, ready for night skiing. After a wonderful meal prepared in the remodeled and fully equipped kitchen, 'the best clubhouse in Summit County' awaits to soothe and rejuvenate your senses. Just steps away, the clubhouse hosts a pool, 2 bubbling hot tubs, tennis and raquetball courts, pool table, foosball, ping pong, sauna, showers and a comfy lounge area with large screen T.V. and rock fireplace. Back at the condo an extensive movie library and HD 37" flatscreen await your viewing pleasure. A good night's sleep is sure to follow when you retire to the "Western" or "Outdoor Sports" rooms, which boast queen beds with luxury pillowtop mattresses and down comforters. Or you may choose the upstairs bunk room which houses 2 more queen beds with doctor's choice matresses (oh, so comfy), 2 twin loft beds and 2 twin trundles. In any case you're sure to feel pampered. For the outdoor enthusiast, miles of cross-country, snowshoe and hiking trails are literally right off the back deck. There is so much to see and do in Summit County from dining to nightlife to movie cinemas, rec centers, gyms and spas to outdoor sports, both winter and summer. There is a free shuttle which picks up right in front of our complex and drops you at the outlet mall or right at the base of Breck, Keystone, Copper or A-Basin. You can't beat it! It will also take you to restaurants, the cinema or for a night out on the town. It runs daily from 6:00 am to midnight or 2:00 am depending on the season.
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June 13—August 11, 2013 540 West 21st Street at 11th Ave, New York, NY The legendary Williamsburg video cinema and dining room with four screens returned for a pop up, limited engagement in Chelsea, at Eyebeam in the Summer of 2013. Two seatings each night: 7pm and 9:15pm. We are now CLOSED. Please sign up for our email list above, for future information about Monkey Town 4. 21 Artists/Filmmakers on 4 Screens We released tickets for 4 Limited Engagements in August: Thur, Aug 1: R Luke DuBois + Emilie Baltz + Andre Vida Sold Out Sat, Aug 3: The Shining (Backwards and Forwards) Sold Out Thur, Aug 8: Christina Vantzou + CC Carana Sold Out Sun, Aug 11: The Shhhh Show & Dome Theater Sold Out Our Nightly Video Program features: Jack + Leigh Ruby (produced by Eve Sussman and Simon Lee), Shana Moulton, Tara Sinn, Errol Morris, Trisha Baga, Zefrey Throwell, Kathy Rose, Peter Burr, Will Rahilly, Annie Pearlman, Brian Close, Ben Ridgway, William Strobeck, Lily Sheng + Antonia Kuo, Petra Cortright, Jeremy Couillard, Alison Mennor, Bunny Rogers and Filip Olszewski, Chris Rice, Theo Angell, Montgomery Knott, Astrid Menze NOT SO SMALL PRINT — All menus subject to change based on seasonal ingredients, whims of the chef, or unforeseen forces. — Tickets must be purchased In Advance through Brown Paper Tickets — No refunds (unless shows are cancelled by act of gods) — Tickets can be exchanged for another date and time, up to 3 days (72 hours) before the event by calling Brown Paper Tickets directly at 1.800.838.3006 — Not recommended for children under 16 (unless they’re really cool children) — Vegetarian Options are only available on Fridays and Saturdays. After purchasing your ticket(s), please write us at email@example.com and note the Date and Time you will be attending and how many Vegetarian Options you are requesting
Kaleidescape has announced the arrival of its latest DVD movie server - the Cinema One - which replaces the Kaleidescape Mini System. The Kaleidescape Cinema One is described as bringing "the award-winning Kaleidescape experience to a broader set of customers". That broader set obviously being people that couldn't afford the £7,000 or so for the Mini, but are happy to splash out £4,195. Hmmmm. Anyways, enough quibbling about the large price-tag - let's take a look what's on board. The Cinema One can handle up to 225 DVDs to be loaded onto its system, or 2,500 CDs if you're more of a music man, and allows for instant playback of your titles. You can also hook it up in two different rooms, allowing you to watch a flick in one room, whilst your house buddies get their groove on in another. It also comes with a child friendly remote control which, when used, switches the on screen menus to a more kiddy UI. "We have found that families tend to have the largest collections of DVDs, since most children’s content is in that format," said Kevin Dawson, MD of Dawsons Group, a leading audio and video retailer. "Cinema One is an excellent fit for this market since it enables even toddlers to select and start their own movies – without the delays and complexity caused by menus, trailers, and advertisements." "Our dealers and customers have been asking for a simple-to-install Kaleidescape System," said Michael Malcolm, CEO of Kaleidescape. "The Cinema One makes it possible for many more customers to enjoy the richness of the Kaleidescape experience." Yep many more. At £4,195 people will be no doubt be queuing outside the doors.
Dakota Fanning, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Jared Leto among stars to attend Mill Valley Film Festival Mill Valley Film Festival 36 opens Oct. 3 with NEBRASKA and THE BOOK THIEF. Dakota Fanning, Ben Stiller, Andy Garcia, Jaret Leto, famed director Costa-Gavras are among just some of the stars slated to attend. Dakota Fanning, Ben Stiller, Andy Garcia, Jared Leto, famed director Costa-Gavras are among just some of the stars slated to attend the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF mvff.com). Actors, directors, producers, musicians are set to descend upon Marin County (just north of San Francisco) when the 36th edition of the increasingly influential film festival kicks off next month. As organizers point out the last five Academy Award-winners for best picture (Slumdog Millionaire, The Hurt Locker, The King’s Speech, The Artist, and Argo) received their Bay Area premieres at MVFF. MVFF opens with two films on October 3, and runs 11 days. Shot in black and white across four states, Alexander Payne’s Nebraska stars Bruce Dern as a cantankerous father who thinks he’s struck it rich, and Will Forte as the son who gets wrangled into taking a road trip. Both Dern and Forte are scheduled to appear at the screening which takes place at the Cinéarts@Sequoia cinema. The Book Thief, based on Markys Zusak’s best-selling novel, will screen simultaneously opening night in Corte Madera. Starring Geoffrey Rush (last seen at MVFF in 1996 with Shine) and Emily Watson as a young German girl who discovers that stories have extraordinary power to sustain the human spirit. Directed by Brian Percival (of Downton Abbey), the film is set for a November release. It left me changed for days, and I’ve never felt like that before. As in past years, several tributes, and spotlights are scheduled. Director Costa-Gavras, actors Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club), Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Dakota Fanning (Effie Gray), and musicians Thomas Dolby and Mike Bloomfield will all be honored this year. A tribute to actor/director/writer/producer Ben Stiller closes out MVFF on October 13th with a special screening of his new film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Christmas release). “He’s such a big star, you forget he has a big body of work as a director,” noted festival founder and executive director Mark Fishkin at the press conference today in San Francisco. Peter Coyote will interview legendary French director Costa-Gavras followed by a screening of his new film, and then reception. “He’s a game changer, and life changer for many people,” said Zoe Elton, director of programming. “We’re very glad to be bringing him to Mill Valley with his economic thriller Capital (Le Capital). There’s no beating a master.” Dallas Buyers Club There’s a lot to like this year; and perhaps this is the most star-studded line-up yet. One particular film that caught my eye was Dallas Buyers Club. I noticed that Elton and Fishkin were both emphatic discussing the film this morning - passionately describing the “amazing” performances of the two leads. That would be Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey. Based on a true story, it focuses on the unlikely bond that develops between a transsexual (Leto) and a homophobic, serial womanizer (McConaughey). MVFF is supremely well curated, so this is a film worth keeping tabs on. How timely (coincidence?) that one of the major themes that appears to have arisen in this year’s docket is that of “Black America.” With the Zimmerman story-line seemingly continuing in perpetuity we have Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave – the true story of Salaman Northrup, a free black man abducted into slavery in 1841. Both the British filmmaker and his lead Chiwetel Ejiofor will be on hand in what surely will be an emotional, intriguing evening of film. “It left me changed for days, and I’ve never felt like that before. It’s the pulse of what we’re thinking about,” said Elton. The Young Veteran At 19, it might seem slightly unusual to describe someone as a “veteran,” but that’s exactly the case with Dakota Fanning. Check out her IMDB page and you’ll find a long list of film and television credits for the Georgia born actress. Like Geoffrey Rush, MVFF36 also marks her return. A few years back she was here for The Secret Lives of Bees (2008). This time she’ll be on hand for the screening of Effie Gray (director: Richard Laxton), another film based on a true story – do I detect a trend here? It’s Fanning’s first adult leading role. Time to find your old Jaba the Hut Costume Star Wars fans once again have something to cheer about. Each year it seems as if MVFF is throwing a party for an Indiana Jones or Star Wars film. And, sure enough, 2013 happens to be the 30th anniversary of Return of the Jedi (regrettably now called Star Wars: episode VI – Return of the Jedi). Look for stormtroopers, dreamy princesses, and laser-toting heroes soon on the streets just outside the Corte Madera cinema (October 7). On Digital Film – The Story Rules “Digital transition has happened,” said Mark Fishkin during his opening remarks. “Now that it’s happened the industry–agents, distributors, independent filmmakers– have accepted this fact regardless of where these films will play, be it on an iPad, smartphone or big screen.” “Audiences are always one step ahead of the industry. They are looking for compelling story-telling, diversity in terms of art. The audience wants a diverse selection of films. That’s where we come in.” “The frenzied award season probably won’t go away. Many of these films will be part of that. Whether a film budget is $200 million or $200,000 it does matter — the audience still want great story-telling.” Because this press conference took place at Dolby Labs, inside their tricked out screening room no less, it was probably no surprise that we were given a demo. And, man, it was pretty darn awesome. It was for something called “Dolby Atmos” (Not my favorite name). The minute or so trailer featured 360-sound, thundering (and I mean thundering) bass that was still clean, and incredibly specific sound placement for effects such as thunder, water, etc. as we sat, transfixed within the “hemisphere.” Apparently the new technology has been used so far in 50 films including The Hobbit, Star Trek and Life of Pi. Only 4 or 5 theaters in the Bay Area are equipped, but I’d expect that number to increase as the industry continues to try to pull us out of our living rooms (hey, what happened to 3-D?!) See you at MVFF There you have it, a sneak peek at the 36th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival. As in past years, Stark Insider will be working the beat, running from theater to theater, getting as many sound bites, interviews, and on location reports as possible. If this year is anything like the past, expect to see a few of these artists and films find their way onto the short lists of Academy voters.
The cheetah is not only the fastest land animal in the world, it is also the name of a Barcelona native that is steadily making a name for himself in the European blading scene. What do you know about the Spanish blader known as Tony Cheetah? Well, to be honest, our knowledge is slim to say the least. We know that he was briefly sponsored by the now defunct boot brand Nimh and is now riding for Valo. We are also aware that, over the past couple of years, he has produced some frustratingly short edits that show a lot of promise. The Barcelona native has been flickering on our radar for a while now, so we decided to find out a bit more and discover what the story is behind that nickname. Wheel Scene: Many people know you as Tony Cheetah but what is your real name? Where did the name Tony Cheetah come from? Tony Cheetah: My name is Juan Antonio Alvarez and I got the nickname ”Cheetah” about nine years ago because of some OG bladers I used to blade with in my hometown. It’s a long story and it makes no sense at all. My name is Tony, that’s all. I hate nicknames but everyone calls me Cheetah and I can’t change it. Anyway, like a good friend said, it could have been Tony The Elephant! Haha! When did you start blading and how did you get into it? I have been skating most of my life. When I was six or seven years old, I started to blade with my dad and my little brother. When I was like 13 or 14, I started to skate street because we never had a good park, so I spent years jumping stairs and doing grabs and airs and frontsides ‘til the first day I bought a blade video and realised all the stuff that could be done with skates – that video was Thrash by Jan Welch. Five years ago, I met two friends that were the biggest influence I had on my skating and I started to skate the streets to create something of my own, to see new places, go on tour see every corner of my city and more awesome things. I also started to save money to get a camera and a decent computer. Who are your current sponsors? Jon Julio gives me Valo skates – the only thing I need. I am also sponsored by Inercia Skateshop and I support Josue Diaz from Psyko Clothing. Do you have a job or are you studying at the moment? I work at Inercia Skateshop and do some other freelance stuff. I am also studying communication. What do you like to do when you are not blading? Music in all aspects – playing, collecting, composing – I spend all my money in it. I appreciate the arts, like painting, cinema and drawing with my lovely girlfriend. What are the best and worst aspects of living in Barcelona? Best: Home, spots everywhere, good weather, friends, Balas Perdidas. Worst: Hard to find new shit, Barcelona cops, stupid laws against skating. Spain is the worst. There are no jobs, political corruption, streets full of dumb people and their only goal in their life is to consume football. Plus, the Spanish blading scene is really close minded and full of park rats. Are you filming for any sections at the moment? Probably, I don’t know. I try to get clips every day and who knows what it will become. If you only had to listen to five albums for the rest of your life, what would they be? Brian Eno - Another Green World Stiv Bators - Disconnected Peter Murphy – Deep Bauhaus – BBC Sessions David Bowie – Aladdin Sane Kind grind up by Kiku Comino Roll to makio by Chris Dafick Backslide up and down by IMPRO Gap transfer to bank by Kiku Comino Powered by Facebook Comments
There are box office flops, there are turkeys and then there is Heaven’s Gate. The epic 1980 western destroyed the career of Hollywood’s hottest young director, helped to sink a studio and arguably changed the direction of American cinema. But now Heaven’s Gate is back with a new 216-minute, digitally restored director’s cut, soaking up acclaim at festivals, with a DVD and Blu-ray release scheduled for next month. It will be screened this week in New York, scene of the original’s catastrophic world premiere, for the New York Film Festival. On October 21, the actress Isabelle Huppert, now European art
PEOPLE AND LIFESTYLE OF MAHARASHTRA Life Style : Simple, Spirited and Sedulous Renowned Personalities : Chhaturpati Shivaji and Babasaheb Ambedkar Popular Costume : Nauveri (Nine Yard Sari) Spoken Language : Marathi The simplicity and the traditional costumes and customs of the people of Maharashtra and their simple lifestyle will surely leave you in awe. To experience the simple lifestyle of Marathi folklore and to see their rich customs and traditions that are much depicted in their fairs and festivals. Also the believer of diverse religion the people of Maharashtra mainly follow Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity. Traditional Maharashtrian Wedding The people of Maharashtra are highly influenced by the international metropolitan city of Mumbai and also home to the Hindi film industry Bollywood. It is a maxim that where there are films there is fashion. The people of the state are flamboyant and are known to spend generously to remain up to date with the latest fashion trends. At the same time the Maharashtra folklore did not completely lost their traditions they are going hand in hand with the changing times and protecting the heritage of their ancestors as well. Over the decades the state has been blessed with some of the legendary heroes like Chhaturpati Shivaji and Babasaheb Ambedkar who dedicated their life bringing freedom and reforms in the country. Visit the state of Maharashtra and you will see how the traditions of the state are surviving with the whirlwind growth of the fashion industry. The people of Maharashtra have a rich traditional heritage. Proud and brave Maharashtrians have a very simple life style and believe in hard working. Unlike the Nawabs of Lucknow and the Rajputs of Rajasthan who lived the lavish lifestyle, the Marathas of the state did not believe in having too many spacious palaces and mansions in-fact these people have lived a hard life and were inclined towards freedom struggle. The rustic lifestyle of the people can also be observed in the country-side of the state where people have a belief on universal cult of brotherhood, where the people of all religions lives as a one community. A place where the revered saints like Sai Baba, Osho and Haji Ali preached the religion of peace and prosperity. Visit the state and interact with the locale, as it is the only way to know the about the people and lifestyle of the state. The state of Maharashtra has a majority of the Hindu population while in minority there are Muslims, Buddhists, Parsis, Jews and Jains. Parsis migrated to the state from Persia and established many Zoroastrians fire temples in the city of Mumbai and is presently the dominant community in the state. Muslims mostly belonging to the Sufi cult is the second popular religion of the state with shrines and mosques sprawling throughout the state. Jews now 3000 in number, before the migration to Israel counted around 20,000. The Synagogues established at the Alibag, Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Pen and Revadanda are still active. The Shirdi Sai Baba, Osho's commune, Haji Ali, Ajanta and Ellora are the other famous Hindu pilgrimage destinations in the state. The Most popular language of Maharashtra is Marathi and its history dates back to third century, the tribal population Gondi is also spoken in the central Maharashtra. The filmy language of the Hindi cinema called Tapori ( vagabond lingo) is the latest slangish language, bit awkward to the ears, catching a pace among the youths throughout the country. When you will be visiting the state learn the terminology of tapori language and it will prove very useful to you. Maharashtra Folk Dance It is worth to see the women folk of the state in their traditional sari called Nauvari (nine yard) which has a history of its own. It is said that the women started wearing this attire during Maratha's rule, as it looks like the trousers women started it wearing it at the time war to help there males in the battle field. Men usually wear the shirt and Doti or trouser. If going through the urban area you can find women in Kurta Pyjama or jeans and shirts and men in pant and shirts. Make a tour to the city and experience it yourself. The Maharashtra has a rich history of traditions. A better look of its people and lifestyle can be observed at the time of its fairs and festivals when all the people belonging to diverse regions, religions, caste assemble together to celebrate. Plan your holidays according to the schedule of fairs and festivals of the state and interact with the local people on the common food joints, in their fields, market places and you will see the unique nature of its people. Top 5 Highlights of Maharashtra's Lifestyle Prefect Blend of Culture and Modernity Nauvari Attire of Battle-Women Tapori Lingo of Vagabonds Confluence of Religions Bollywood Influenced The Souls Caves and Beaches Unique Rajasthan and Goa Adventure Tour of India
28 Boulevard des Capucines, No one has favorited this theater yet Located close to the Paris Opera House. This building has a special historic interest for cinema buffs, as it was here in the hall of the ‘Grand Cafe’ of the Olympia, where on 22nd March 1896, the Lumiere brothers gave the first public performance of the Lumiere Cinematograph. Originally opened in 1889 as the Montagnes Russes, a cabaret room operated by Joseph Oller, the owner of the famous Moulin Rouge. It was re-named Olympia in 1893. In 1928, it was converted into a full time cinema, with seating provided for 2,000. Cinema use continued until 1944, when it converted back to music hall use. Edith Piaf gave many performances at the Olympia from January 1955 until October 1962. Today, it is in use as a concert venue, featuring top name stars from around the world. Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater
February 27, 2007 - Jumper - Next Filming in Mexico - "By 11:30 a.m., though, he'd talked to two cameramen and a visual effects person, who told him that the film crew heads to Mexico next for some shooting." Read the entire article about Friday's filming here at Ann Arbor News February 27, 2007 - Jumper Filming in Ann Arbor - According to reports from the IMDB message board, the previous news item describes a scene being filmed about young Millie and young Davy played by Anna-Sophia Robb and Max Thieriot. Also present for filming was Teddy Dunn who plays Mark. February 27, 2007 - Jumper Filming - Beware Spoilers - "Ann Arbor goes Hollywood - The mercury only reached the 20s Friday, but Ann Arbor’s Gallup Park felt like Hollywood, thanks to the presence of a film crew working on the feature “Jumper.”................The scene being rehearsed, and repeatedly filmed from several different angles, featured two students emerging from between two school buses. The boy, Mark, is playing keep-away with the girl’s snow globe, and when Davey (star Hayden Christensen’s character, played by a stand-in yesterday) gets involved, Mark throws the globe toward the frozen lake. As Davey makes his way to retrieve it, the others try to stop him, arguing that it’s not safe." More at Ann Arbor News February 27, 2007 - Factory Girl - London Premiere, March 13, Leicester Square - "Win hot premiere tickets" - "SIENNA MILLER'S Factory Girl is at cinemas everywhere from March 16 and to celebrate its release, Sun Online are giving you and a friend the chance to attend the star-studded premiere in London." More information at The Sun Online. February 23, 2007 - "A cynic might be tempted to brush off George Hickenlooper’s Factory Girl, the newest addition to the life-story-as-legendary-cinema genre, as just one more attempt to replicate the Oscar-friendly formula. Like the best of its predecessors, though, the film succeeds by delving deeper into the purportedly well-known story of its subject matter. In addition, Factory Girl turns out to be surprisingly novel in its storytelling - its worth extends beyond the demands of generic autobiographical cinema." More at The Yale Herald. February 22, 2007 - Factory Girl Poster - "Congratulations to Nashvillian Dimitri LaBarge, who won a national poster contest for the movie Factory Girl sponsored by The Weinstein Company. For his work (seen above), LaBarge won a full-size print of the poster autographed by the cast (including Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen and Guy Pearce) and a private screening for him and 25 friends." Poster and article at Nashville Scene. February 22, 2007 - Jumper - With stars in their eyes More than 300 show up for movie casting call (Ann Arbor News) - "Scenes from the movie "Jumper'' will be shot locally this weekend; representatives of the The Talent Shop of Bingham Farms were on hand to review applications and snap digital photos of the applicants." More at Ann Arbor News February 21, 2007 - Factory Girl - Jimmy Fallon is scheduled to appear on Conan O'Brien on Thursday, February 22 on NBC, 11:35 P.M. Central Time. (Source: TV Guide) February 21, 2007 - Factory Girl - Winner of FACTORY GIRL Poster Design Contest Announced - "NEW YORK, Feb. 21 PRNewswire — After receiving thousands of outstanding entries from across the country, The Weinstein Company is pleased to announce that Dimitri LaBarge, from Nashville, Tennessee, is the winner of the contest to create the best movie poster for the film FACTORY GIRL." View the winning poster at Factory Girl Movie. Source: Digital 50 February 21, 2007 - Jumper - Hollywood pays Huron High a visit - "A crew for the Hollywood film "Jumper'' is expected to arrive in Ann Arbor for three days of shooting Thursday. Based on Steven Gould's 1992 young-adult novel about a young man who, after his mother dies, discovers that he can teleport himself, "Jumper'' stars Hayden Christensen, Dianne Lane and Samuel L. Jackson. Area native Tom Hulce also reportedly appears in the film. The director is Doug Liman." Ann Arbor News February 19, 2007 - Factory Girl Set- "Jimmy Fallon, Sienna Miller, and Hayden Christensen in a video talking about Scott Morrison. Fool: A Hero Story February 18, 2007 - Factory Girl - If you missed Sienna Miller on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, you can catch a repeat of the episode on February 21, at various times during the day and 11:00 P.M. (Eastern Time) on Comedy Central. February 17, 2007 - Factory Girl - "Christensen dominates one of the film's odder scenes when he visits the Factory and proceeds to heap scathing insults upon Warhol and his band of artists before walking out on Edie." Santa Cruz Sentinel More Factory Girl Reviews, February 17, 2007: Factory Girl Screening Event in Shreveport - "Casting coordinator Ryan Glorioso, who helped manage 1,000 to 1,100 extras when the movie was shot in Shreveport in late 2005 and early 2006, said it was a fun project to work on because he got to cast all of the Factory freaks and about 15 local parts." Shreveport Times "[The Musician] Christensen, as a man who sees himself as Warhol's opposite (all content to Warhol's all fashion), creates a worthy competitor. He brings out the surly recessiveness of a star who wants people to come to him, and the subterranean virility, too." Baltimore Sun "But gradually Warhol grows tired of his "superstar," especially when Edie begins an affair with a legendary folk singer (Hayden Christensen, looking uncannily like the Bob Dylan of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" LP." Wichita Eagle February 16, 2007 - Factory Girl - Warhol's Woman - "What truly breaks up her friendship with Andy is her love of "Billy Quinn" - in reality, Dylan - whom the film mostly dubs the "rock star." He's played by Anakin Skywalker himself, [Hayden] Christensen, and once the initial shock of Darth as Dylan wears off, one sees his performance is actually quite good." Source February 15, 2007 - Factory Girl Clips - Check out Hayden Christensen News Fix for a really cool behind the scenes video clip from Factory Girl. Hayden is almost unrecognizable in one scene where he is totally immersed in his character. Hayden Christensen News Fix February 15, 2007 - "The good news is that Americans are still making movies in Canada, thus creating more work for Canadians. Those roles and larger parts in Canadian films and TV shows have given exposure to several young actors. Canadian film and television alumni Hayden Christensen, Adam Beach, and Rachel McAdams all came close to winning nominations in the last few years, and it would appear they’ll be around a while. Throw in Gosling and it’s possible that we are on the verge of creating a core group that will help promote our own industry and even bring a little Canuck glamour to the Oscars." Source February 14, 2007 - Breach Movie Review - "In his remarkable 2003 debut feature, Shattered Glass, the director Billy Ray never quite came out and explained why Stephen Glass, the ambitious young New Republic reporter who made up articles out of whole cloth, did what he did. Yet watching Hayden Christensen's super-sharp performance, you saw how Glass built each ghost of a lie around a childlike need for approval, and the result was a generational X-ray into a new kind of office sociopath a suck-up so pathological that he made his needs more important than reality. Now Ray has directed his second film, the abysmally titled Breach, and it's a bona fide companion piece, another true-life tale of duplicity gone secretly insane." Source February 14, 2007 - Factory Girl - "Another surprising performer - Weinstein Co.'s MGM-distributed "Factory Girl" - continued to disprove its pre-release bad buzz by coming in second with an impressive $10,872 average from 18 runs. It had expanded upward from the previous weekend's three theaters in New York and L.A., where it had averaged $29,159 and led the iWBOT." "George Hickenlooper's "Factory Girl," featuring Sienna Miller as troubled Warhol "superstar" Edie Sedgwick, is now ready for the kind of wide theatrical release the late Sedgwick could only dream about. "We are pleased with the film's strong performance and our expansion strategy. We are going wide this weekend on over 300 runs," said Harvey Weinstein in a brief email statement." Source February 13, 2007 - Factory Girl - Special Screening Event Set in Shreveport. "The movie “Factory Girl” will open for a one-week run at the Louisiana Boardwalk’s Regal Cinemas on Friday . The movie stars Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce and was shot in Shreveport last year. It tells a story about fashion icon Edie Sedgwick and her relationship with artist Andy Warhol." "There will be a special screening at 7:50 p.m. Friday. Organizers are working to recreate a 1960s atmosphere for the event. Moviegoers are asked to wear 1960s-style clothing, but dress participation is not mandatory. The event will feature a question-and-answer session with persons who worked on the movie. The lobby also will offer a display of art and 1960s “mod” fashion wear."Click here for more information. February 13, 2007 - Awake - "Waking up during surgery: It's scary, but not common - Anesthesiologists won't be pleased when the psychological thriller "Awake" is eventually released. It stars Hayden Christensen ("Star Wars: Episode III") as a man who finds himself awake and alert, but unable to move or speak, because he didn't get enough anesthesia during heart surgery." More from the Charlotte Observer February 13, 2007 - Factory Girl Boxoffice Numbers - "MGM's second weekend of the Weinstein Co.'s "Factory Girl" was strong. The Sienna Miller starrer grossed $184,000 on 18 screens, up 15 from the previous frame. The R-rated film boasted a per-screen average of $10,222 for a cume of $310,215." Source The final weekend total for Factory Girl according to Box Office Mojo was $195,698 for an average take of 10, 872 per screen. February 9, 2007 - Jumper On Location in Egypt - From November 2006 - Pictures and brief article about Jumper filming at one of the pyramids in Egypt. The production crew is pictured preparing for the shoot. Egypt Productions (Thanks Sophie.) February 8, 2007 - According to Hayden Christensen News Fix the Japanese blog reporting on Jumper filming in Tokyo says that filming has finished there and Hayden has gone back to Canada. He will then be going to Baja and then on to Chicago for more filming. Read More February 8, 2007 - Steven Gould has a hardcover preview on his blog of the prequel to Jumper and Reflex. The story is about Griffin, the character played by Jamie Bell in the movie currently filming. The book is scheduled for publication August 21, 2007 with mass publication art to tie in with Jumper. Source February 8, 2007 - 411 Mania - Factory Girl -"This is Christensen’s best work to date. Later this year, many other actors will portray Dylan during various points of his life in I’m Not There, but I liked Christensen’s work here." More at 411 Mania February 8, 2007 - Website Update - January News has been added to the archives. Catch up on all the news here: January News Archives February 7, 2007 - The Jumper production is scheduled to finish shooting in Tokyo on February 8, 2007. The production is then scheduled to move to Baja, Mexico/California. February 7, 2007 - Factory Girl Suprises - "We are proud that 'Factory Girl' opened so strongly and we plan to expand it over the next few weeks. Audiences clearly want to see this provocative, sexy and compelling film," said Harvey Weinstein in an email statement." More from IndieWire February 6, 2007 - As reported tonight on E!'s The Daily 10, another legal battle may be brewing over Factory Girl. Chuck Wein, portrayed in the movie by Jimmy Fallon, has had his lawyers send a cease and desist letter to Factory Girl distributors, The Weinstein Company. Wein says the film is "vulgar and historically inaccurate" and defamatory and says that changes must be made to the movie or he must be conspensated. If a settlement can't be reached he intends to sue. More at The New York Post February 5, 2007 - Factory girl - "Christensen may have an even tougher part, essentially playing Dylan without getting to admit it, but he's helped by an uncanny resemblance to the folk poet as a young man, as well as an ability to capture the truth and bluster behind a young Dylan. The various scenes between Sedgwick, Warhol, and/or semi-Dylan all have an odd, alluring art-project charge. But Pearce and Christensen aren't onscreen all the time -- they can't stick around for Sedgwick's druggy fade-out -- and the movie suffers without them." Read the whole reveiw at Filmcritic.com February 5, 2007 - I've been slightly pre-occupied with the Factory Girl release and promotion in the news but there is other news. Hayden has been on location in Japan filming Jumper with castmate Jamie Bell. News and photos have mainly come from Japanese fan blogs and have not been in English but you can catch up on what is known about the shoot at Hayden Christensen News Fix. February 5, 2007 - E! Online Weekend Box Office Report - "On the art-house circuit, Factory Girl, featuring tabloid-fixture Sienna Miller's turn as doomed Andy Warhol protégée Edie Sedgwick, was the standout, making a big $95,291 in only three theaters. Its per-screen average of $31,764 was easily the weekend's highest." More from E! February 4, 2007 - Factory Girl box office numbers in - According to Variety, Factory Girl made a strong showing in just 3 theaters grossing $95, 291 for an average of $31,764 per screen. Look for Factory Girl to expand to more theaters across the country on February 9th. February 3, 2007 - Check out E!'s The Daily 10 Weekend and E! News Live Weekend for clips and news stories on Factory Girl. February 3, 2007 - On Friday's Daily 10, E!'s Ben Lyons gave a big thumbs up to "Factory Girl" saying that as a New Yorker, he absolutely loved it. Continuing, he says that Sienna just knocks it out of the park and there's a great performance from Hayden Christensen as a young Bob Dylan who's only given the title "musician" but you figure out that it's Dylan. February 2, 2007 - MTV Movie Review - "Billy is played by Hayden Christensen, who manages to make something sly and improbably hunky out of this doomed-to-fail imposture. With his harmonica rack, pea coat, Ray-Bans and adenoidal honk, he seems unmistakably intended to be Dylan, even though the filmmakers contend he's a composite that also includes Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison, of the Doors. Please. When Billy tells Edie, "It's not real, babe," the pretense becomes futile." More at MTV February 1, 2007 - Factory Reject - "The movie's best scene pits Warhol (movingly incarnated by Guy Pearce) and Dylan against each other in a junior-high-school-style showdown for the attentions of the popular girl. Dylan, invited to the Factory to film one of Warhol's "screen tests," refuses to sit down to be filmed, and Warhol refuses to give him any direction at all. The resulting power struggle is both funny and painful, with each artist trying to out-"I don't care" the other as the eager-to-please Edie hovers in the background. It's a rare moment in which the movie has something to say about the constant small humiliations of the famous, and the desperate insecurity of those who depend on their favor." More from Slate Be sure and check the December and January Archives for more reviews of Factory Girl and other news
One of the best reasons to attend the O'Reilly Open Source Convention is the unprecedented gathering of top-notch presenters, leaders, and experts. Core developers, unique users, and visionaries share their knowledge with you to help you solve your computing or programming challenges. You won't find a gathering like this at any other convention. Our speaker list is growing daily. Please check back regularly to see who we have lined up for you.DJ Adams DJ Adams is an old SAP hacker who still thinks JCL and S/370 assembler is pretty cool. In recent years he's been successfully combining Open Source software with R/3 to produce hybrid systems that show off the power of free software. He is the author of O'Reilly's Programming Jabber, contributes articles to O'ReillyNet's P2P site, and has to own up to being responsible for the Jabber::Connection, Jabber::RPC and Jabber::Component::Proxy modules on CPAN. Click here for more info.Brian Aker Brian Aker is the director of architecture for MySQL when he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunities to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence, never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd. Click here for more info.Dennis Allison Dennis Allison is a consultant and Stanford University lecturer with forty-five years of experience in the computer industry as both hardware and software designer. Click here for more info.Jeff D. Almeida Jeff Almeida is Chief Scientist for a company delivering web-based HR solutions. He has spent the last seven years working as a web developer and sysadmin, building solutions for high-profile clients like Sprint and the Green Bay Packers. He and his family currently live near Dallas, TX. Click here for more info.Matt Asay Matt Asay is VP of Business Development for Alfresco. Prior to Alfresco Asay co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office, founded the Open Source Business Conference, and ran embedded Linux vendor Lineo's Network & Communications division. Click here for more info.John Paul Ashenfelter John Paul Ashenfelter is CTO and founder of TransitionPoint.com, where he builds web-based business applications for startups and small companies. He has written the aboutSQL column for O'Reilly's onLAMP.com site, written several books, and speaks about data warehousing and other topics at open source conferences. Click here for more info.Michael Athanas, Ph.D. Athanas' unique application of the intersection of his skills and experience as a scientist, data analyst, software architect, developer, IT architect, and project and team manager has provided measurable benefit to many leading life science companies. Formerly Director of Scientific Consulting at Blackstone Computing, Athanas led a highly reputable team of scientists and developers focused upon enabling large-scale vendor-neutral scientific computing solutions. He is the inventor (patent pending) of unique scalable data balancing algorithms that have provided core IP to Blackstone software products. As a Bioinformaticist at Cereon Genomics, he collaborated in the transcriptional profiling team as well as created software infrastructures for high-throughput analysis including a scalable workflow engine based upon mobile agent technologies. Previous to Cereon, Athanas was a Research Scientist at Cornell University¹s Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory exploring four-quark bound states produced in photon-photon interactions. At Cornell, he was Co-Architect of the Nile Project, a National Science Foundation project addressing large-scale databases and distributed computing in experimental elementary particle physics. Athanas received his Doctorate in Physics at the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Click here for more info.David Axmark David Axmark is one of the founders of MySQL AB and has been working with MySQL since before it had a name. His involvement with MySQL began with the idea to make an open source SQL RDBMS to replace an old terminal-based tool named UNIREG. Click here for more info.Mitchell Baker Mitchell Baker is CEO of Mozilla Corporation, and Chief Lizard Wrangler for the Mozilla project as a whole. The Mozilla project strives to maintain choice and innovation in key Internet applications by delivering great, user-friendly software, such as the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. As one of the world's largest open source software development projects, the Mozilla project includes paid and volunteer staff members, engineers at numerous companies who are paid to work on Mozilla, a volunteer population numbering in the thousands, a range of spin-off projects, and a set of companies using Mozilla technology to build products. Click here for more info.Stas Bekman Stas Bekman is an open source developer, spending most of his time working on the ASF mod_perl project. He is an ASF member, online columnist, and a co-author of Practical mod_perl, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. Click here for more info.Melissa Benn Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Artur Bergman Artur Bergman spends most of the time achieving the impossible. He has co-founded four companies ranging from Internet based stock exchanges to content management system solutions. In the open source world, he was mostly involved in the Perl 5 development process as well as working on a wide range of topics from open source large scale storage systems to distributed peer2peer version control systems. Today he works managing the engineering team at Six Apart that develops the software run by LiveJournal.com; another impossible feat. Click here for more info.Gunther Birznieks Gunther Birznieks' early involvement in cutting edge biotechnology research brought him to the Web to manage collaborative research from the start and eventually went on to be a cofounder of eXtropia in Asia where he is CTO. Throughout this time, Birznieks has subsequently published multiple books and talks in various areas of web programming including the CGI Programming with Perl book from O'Reilly. Click here for more info.Ask Bjørn Hansen Ask Bjørn Hansen is a software developer and consultant focused on Perl, Apache, Linux and other open source technologies. He has worked with Perl for more than eight years, building large and small systems in Perl, including mod_perl systems serving thousands of requests per second. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been building and managing much of the perl.org community infrastructure since 1999. Click here for more info.David N. Blank-Edelman David N. Blank-Edelman is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science and the author of the O'Reilly book Perl for System Administration. He has spent the last 18 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He has served as Senior Technical Editor for the Perl Journal. Click here for more info.John Bobowicz John Bobowicz, aka "jbob," is the Community Manager of java.net and is an employee of Sun Microsytems, Inc. During his five years at Sun, he has worked as Technical Manager and Engagement Manager in Sun Professional Services in NYC, as well as Emerging Technology Strategist in Field Marketing and most recently Chief Software Evangelist in the Software Division. Prior to Sun, he has 10 years of IT management on Wall Street building and supporting datacenters, trading floors, and development environments for Merrill Lynch, Chase, and Prudential. Jbob is currently based out of Florida and travels globally to work with CxOs as a trusted advisor and chairing discussions, briefings, and working sessions on applying technical strategies to business objectives. He specialized in Java, wireless, application architecture, and open source technologies. He is on the board of the SIIA Software Division and a founding member of The Lighthouse Council. Jbob has a B.S. in Computer Science from Upsala College. Click here for more info.Terry Bollinger Terry Bollinger is an IT analyst for The MITRE Corporation, a non-profit technical consulting organization that works closely with the Department of Defense. He is the primary author of a recent widely-read report documenting use of free (or open source) software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense, and he is also the author of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Software Engineering article on Linux and open source. Bollinger was co-editor of an issue of IEEE Software on open source software, and he was Assistant Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Software for software construction. Bollinger received an IEEE Millennium Medal for his many years of service to the software community, and he was a co-recipient of the Potomac Forum Leadership Award for his work on open source. Click here for more info.Tony Bowden Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Rich Bowen Rich Bowen is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, where he works on the documentation of the Apache Web Server. He's also the web guy at Asbury college (asbury.edu) in Wilmore, Kentucky. Click here for more info.Jason Brittain Jason Brittain is co-author of Tomcat: The Definitive Guide (forthcoming from O'Reilly), and a Senior Software Engineer at CollabNet Inc. where he works on collaborative software project hosting infrastructure software made up of more than fifty open source software packages. He has also contributed to many Apache Jakarta projects, and has been an active open source software developer for several years. Click here for more info.Leon Brocard Leon Brocard (a.k.a. acme) is an orange-loving Perl/Parrot Eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D.' Click here for more info.Merijn Broeren Merijn Broeren has been looking after the Perl infrastructure of Morgan Stanley for three years, ensuring all platforms have access to binaries, modules and support software in a consistent manner. Before this he worked on content management systems written in Perl. Click here for more info.Zach Brown Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Dan Bruns Bruns is president of Prospero Technologies, a provider of web-based collaboration services for major web sites including Major League Baseball, Fox Entertainment, and NASCAR.com. Bruns is also the chief architect of Prospero's real-time chat, presence, and instant messaging services and oversaw the recent development of Jabber-compliant systems. Earlier in his career, Bruns became well-known for his role as president and CEO of Delphi Internet, one of the first consumer online services, which was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Click here for more info.Ken Brush Ken Brush is enslaved in the Applications Group at WireX Communications. In his last daring misadventure he was a sysadmin for a dot bomb. He likes cats and tea. Click here for more info.Paul Buck Paul Buck, Director IBM Eclipse Development and worldwide Director, IBM OTI Labs, dedicates his career to advancing software application development and supporting the community of software developers. Previously President and CEO, Object Technology International (OTI). Prior to joining OTI he was the director of IBM's Center for Java Technology in Cupertino and Product Manager for IBM's award-winning VisualAge for Java, Paul founded the VisualAge for Java project. His leadership guided the release of the Eclipse Platform and formation of the eclipse.org open-source community. Paul currently is IBM's representative to the Java 2 Micro Edition Executive Committee of the Java Community Process. Paul's IBM career started in 1984 at the company's Toronto Development Lab in Canada. Paul holds both M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in computer science from Queen's University at Kingston, Canada. Click here for more info.Tim Bunce Tim Bunce has been a Perl5-porter since 1994, contributing to the development of the Perl language and many of its core modules. He is the author and maintainer of the Perl DBI module. He is the founder and CTO of Data-Plan Services, a Perl, database, and performance consultancy with an international client base. He is co-author, along with Alligator Descartes, of Programming the Perl DBI, the definitive book on DBI, published by O'Reilly Media. Click here for more info.Katie Capps Parlante Capps Parlante spends her days working on Chandler, the open source PIM from the Open Source Application Foundation, where she's immersing herself in all things Calendar. She's passionate about open standards and great user experiences. She studied Human Computer Interaction and taught introductory programming at Stanford University, and has programmed desktop and web applications at a variety of small silicon valley companies. Click here for more info.Maciej Ceglowski Maciej Ceglowski is lead developer at the Vermont-based National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, where he helps to create advanced open source search engines and runs the NITLE Blog Census (http://www.blogcensus.net). He is an avid Perl programmer and the author of several CPAN modules, including Search::ContextGraph, WWW::Blog::Identify, and AI::General. He keeps a weblog at www.idleworlds.com. Click here for more info.chromatic chromatic is the technical editor of the O'Reilly Network. He edits ONLamp.com, the Linux Dev Center, and Perl.com. In his spare time, he is a prolific CPAN developer, a member of the Perl 6 design team, and a contributor to Perl 5, Parrot, and Pugs. Click here for more info.Wesley J. Chun Wesley J. Chun, author of Core Python Programming, the Python book for Prentice Hall's popular "Core" series, has over a decade of engineering and instructional experience. He is a principal and founder of CyberWeb Consulting, offering website design, software engineering, technical editing, and corporate training services. While at Yahoo!, he helped build Yahoo!Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He can be reached at cyberweb at rocketmail.com. Click here for more info.John Coggeshall John Coggeshall is a Technical Consultant for Zend Technologies where he provides professional services to clients around the world. He got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of three published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O'Reilly. John also is a active contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide. His web site, http://www.coggeshall.org/ is an excellent resource for any PHP developer. Click here for more info.Damian Conway Damian has been a vi addict for quarter of a century. His h, j, k, and l keys are polished blank with overuse. He's noremapped his space and tab keys to more useful functions. His .vimrc is over 600 lines long, about 90% of it scripting code. VIM is his second favorite programming language and his only IDE. Click here for more info.Joseph Conway Joe Conway has been involved with PostgreSQL as a contributor since 2001. His Postgres work includes implementation of set-returning (a.k.a. table) functions, improvements to bytea and array data types, several "contrib" libraries, and other miscellaneous features and fixes. Conway holds an MBA from San Diego State University and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech. He has twenty+ years' of professional experience in a wide range of business, engineering, manufacturing, and software development tasks. Click here for more info.Laura Creighton Laura Creighton has twenty years experience in programming, software training, and Human Factors Engineering. She is a founder of AB Strakt, and a founder and Treasurer of The Python Business Forum, an international non-profit trade association for businesses which develop in Python. Click here for more info.Ward Cunningham Ward Cunningham is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has also served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities hosted by his WikiWikiWeb. He is founder of the Hillside Group and has served as program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programs conference which it sponsors. Click here for more info.Dave Dargo Dave Dargo is vice president of Oracle's Linux Program Office and the Performance Engineering team within the Platform Technologies Division at Oracle Corporation. He leads a cross-division and cross-company team responsible for delivering an enterprise enabled Linux distribution supporting all Oracle products. As part of this role, Dargo is responsible for driving the value-added engineering, product management, partnering and marketing of Oracle products and technologies in the Linux market. In addition to his role with Linux, Dargo also has responsibility for leading the team responsible for testing performance characterizations of various workloads across multiple hardware architectures and operating environments. Prior to his role in the Linux Program Office, Dargo had responsibility for the Enterprise Platforms Division, which included the development and delivery of products across IBM's operating environments including AIX and OS/390, Oracle's relationships with IBM, EMC, Network Appliance, and other storage and systems management partners and the overall development and delivery of Oracle's integration technologies for IBM platforms. Dargo has also served in product management and sales consultant roles at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle thirteen years ago, Dargo spent six years in various roles as a mainframe database consultant and systems programmer for a large retail food company. Click here for more info.Miguel de Icaza As the founder and leader of the GNOME Foundation, de Icaza is one of the foremost luminaries in the Linux development community. With his seemingly boundless energy, de Icaza has galvanized the effort to make Linux accessible and available to the average computer user. He brings this same excitement to his role as CTO of Ximian. de Icaza was instrumental in porting Linux to the SPARC architecture and led development of the Midnight Commander file manager and the Gnumeric spreadsheet. He is also a primary author of the design of the Bonobo component model, which leads the way in the development of large-scale applications in GNOME. Click here for more info.Jesse Dougherty Dougherty comes to ActiveState from Mindquake Software, a full-service outsource development shop. As their vice president, Dougherty was responsible for business development, project management, and software development, and helped grow the company from inception to over sixty fulltime developers. Dougherty has also worked as a software developer at the precursor company to ActiveState, hip communications in the mid-1990s. Dougherty's role at ActiveState is to lead the company's anti-spam initiatives. He also manages and schedules development resources to improve product quality and timeline accuracy. Dougherty sits on the board of Brightwave Ventures. Click here for more info.Peter Drayton Peter Drayton is a Program Manager in the Common Language Runtime team at Microsoft, where his mission is to ensure that Rotor and the CLR is a great place for programming language and virtual machine research & development. Click here for more info.Micah Dubinko Micah Dubinko serves as an editor and author of the W3C XForms specification. He works at Cardiff Software as a Principal Software Engineer and Chief XML Architect. Micah is the author of O'Reilly XForms Essentials available online at http://dubinko.info/writing/xformsand has launched a companion tutorial site, XForms Institute at http://xformsinstitute.com. Click here for more info.James A. Duncan James Duncan is Fotangos Evangelist and spends a lot of his time attempting to improve software and save us from "yak-shaving". He has been active in the open source community for over 10 years and a speaker at conferences for 5. In his spare time he tries to become proficient at all forms of DIY. This effort has, thus far, been futile. Click here for more info.Robin Dunn Robin Dunn, the creator and maintainer of wxPython, has been working in the software industry for 18 years on a wide variety of applications. He discovered both wxWindows and Python in 1995 while looking for a cross-platform toolkit and has never (willingly) looked back. Dunn was awarded the ActiveState Programmers\u2019 Choice Award at the 2002 O\u2019Reilly Open Source Convention. He is working for the Open Source Applications Foundation, improving wxPython for use in their flagship product, Chandler. Click here for more info.Andy Dustman Andy Dustman works as a system administrator and Python programmer at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. His current project is moving a large, mostly static website (with bits of PHP and Cold Fusion and Apache mod_rewrite) into a real content management system. Click here for more info.George Dyson George Dyson is a boat designer, writer, and historian of technology whose interests have ranged from the development and redevelopment of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka, 1986) to the evolution of digital computing and telecommunications (Darwin Among the Machines, 1997) and, most recently, nuclear bomb-propelled space exploration (Project Orion, 2002). Click here for more info.Ryan Eatmon Ryan Eatmon is an EDA specialist for Texas Instruments. He has contributed several Perl applications to the Jabber project and maintains the Net::Jabber Perl library. He is currently serving on the Jabber Council and the Board of Directors for the Jabber Software Foundation (JSF). Click here for more info.Jack Emery Jack S. Emery is a registered patent attorney, veteran litigator, and author of a textbook on civil litigation, now embarked on a much more agreeable second career as a college professor teaching Perl and Java at a small college in the mountains of Southeastern Arizona. He is writing, consulting, and pursuing graduate studies focused on the use of artificial intelligence tools in computational biology and bioinformatics. Click here for more info.Justin Erenkrantz Justin R. Erenkrantz is a Senior Software Engineer at Joost. He currently serves as a Director for The Apache Software Foundation. He has been a long-time contributor to the development of the Apache HTTP Server, Subversion, APR, Serf, mod_mbox, and flood. Click here for more info.Schuyler Erle Schuyler Erle is a free software developer and activist. He is responsible for NoCatAuth, an early open source wireless captive portal, and geocoder.us, an open source U.S. address geocoder. Erle wrote O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks with Jo Walsh and Rich Gibson, and Google Map Hacks, also with Rich. Click here for more info.Lara Fabans An open source proponent for fourteen years, Lara Fabans has worked at both open source and closed source companies. The past four years, Fabans has been working as an offsite consultant. She is proud of having converted two sites from a non-proprietary language and database to open source. Fabans' latest focus is on how to make distributed work teams more effective through online collaborative tools (open and proprietary), and new development methodologies. Click here for more info.David Fetter David Fetter has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past six years in various dotcoms, non-profits and educational institutions including Match.com, bravekids.org and the UC Berkeley Extension. He has worked extensively with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Pl/PgSQL, vi and ErWin on large transaction processing systems, some of them with hundreds of thousands of page views per day, others designed for world-wide use. He has also been called in to solve critical database problems on extremely aggressive schedules, usually with much success. In his free time, he does ceili dancing, brews beer and mead, rides his bicycle and helps run several organizations for computer professionals including the San Francisco Perl Users' Group and the San Francisco Wireless Users' Group. Fetter will be speaking on Geekcruises' Linux Lunacy III. Click here for more info.Mike Fitzgerald Mike Fitzgerald is a writer, author, programmer, and teacher. He is the author of Learning Ruby (O'Reilly, 2007), XML Hacks (O'Reilly, 2004), and Learning XSLT (O'Reilly, 2003). He also wrote Building B2B Applications with XML (John Wiley, 2001), and XSL Essentials (John Wiley, 2001). Click here for more info.Rob Flickenger Rob Flickenger has been writing professionally since 2002. He has written and edited several books, including Building Wireless Community Networks and Wireless Hacks, published by OReilly Media. In 2006 he founded Hacker Friendly LLC, an independent publishing company that uses wiki software and print-on-demand technology to produce books. In its first year, Hacker Friendly produced "How To Accelerate Your Internet" bwmo.net and "Wireless Networking in the Developing World" wndw.net, which have been widely distributed in Africa and South America. Click here for more info.Adele Goldberg Adele Goldberg has lectured extensively on programming languages, methodology, and project management--co-authoring the original books on Smalltalk-80, on visual programming, and object-oriented project methodology. She was research laboratory manager at Xerox PARC, founding CEO of ParcPlace Systems, and a former President of the ACM. Click here for more info.Jody Goldberg Worked on Wall St with lots of spreadsheets. Got fed up with unfixable bugs in spreadsheets. Decided to write one. Click here for more info.Harold Gottschalk Harold Gottschalk has over twenty years of experience in the development of software products. Gottschalk has been involved in all aspects of the software development process, from individual contribution to software product management to large-scale organizational development of products that have twice won, and twice been a finalist for, the most innovative software product of the year awarded by the UCSD CONNECT program. Over the last ten years, Gottschalk has successfully managed large software organizations and provided technical leadership leading to successful software products and satisfied clients. Click here for more info.Michael Granger Michael Granger is a journeyman who aspires to mastery in his chosen craft: programming. He has nine years of professional experience in Perl, Ruby, and C, and has contributed modules to both CPAN and the RAA, including the MUES game engine, Test::SimpleUnit, Text::Templar, Ruby-Poll, HashSlice, Ruby-ODE, and Class::Translucent. He is the project lead of the FaerieMUD project, and lead programmer at RubyCrafters. Click here for more info.Paul Grassie Paul Grassie has been programming in Perl since 1990 and has an extensive background in programmer training and course development. He has over twenty years' experience with Unix programming and administration and has been conducting Unix programmer training seminars for more than fifteen years. Click here for more info.Zak Greant Zak Greant's love of free software and open source is turning him into a penguin. The only visible changes (so far) are a gradual accumulation of blubber, a loss of hair (which he hopes is the prelude to feather growth), and a growing preference for raw fish. When not practicing how to waddle or wear a tuxedo, he works with eZ systems AS as their managing director for North America; with the Mozilla Foundation on various community issues; and volunteers with the Free Software Foundation's Compliance Lab. Click here for more info.Perry Greenfield Perry Greenfield is the head of the Science Software Branch at the Space Telescope Science Institute which is responsible for developing software to calibrate, reduce, and analyze Hubble Space Telescope data. His efforts over the past few years have centered on moving as much as the HST scientific software development into Python as possible while retaining easy user access to a large body of legacy applications. Click here for more info.Christian Gross Christian Gross is a Trainer/Mentor interested in all aspects of Software Engineering, which relate to Internet, XML, Java, Apache, or .NET. Gross has given talks at conferences, including ApacheCon, DevConnections, and TechEd. He has also written various books like A Programmer's Introduction to Windows DNA and now is authoring Software Engineering Using Apache Jakarta. Click here for more info.Peter Gulutzan Peter Gulutzan, co-author of four computer books including SQL Performance Tuning, helps plan new MySQL-server projects from his Edmonton, Canada, base while writing occasional articles and delivering talks on MySQL. He is an enthusiastic proponent of MySQL's efforts toward standards compliance and performance monitoring. Click here for more info.Kip Hampton Kip Hampton is a freelance Web Developer living in sunny Southern California. In addition to having written the monthly Perl/XML column for XML.com, he is the also the author of the XML::Schematron and XML::SemanticDiff modules, co-author of the XML::SAX distribution. He sits on the Apache Software Foundation's Project Management Committee for the Apache AxKit XML Publishing and Application Server project, and has written XML Publishing With AxKit published by O'Reilly & Associates. When he is not hacking Perl or writing, he enjoys avant-garde cinema, improvisational comedy, and off-roading in his Jeep. Click here for more info.Piers Harding Born a "Kiwi," Harding has been involved in the SAP community for longer the he would wish to remember. In more recent times he has fallen in love with the open source community, and its original ideals, becoming an enthusiastic advocate when ever possible. This has prompted him to make some contributions - Click here for more info.Perrin Harkins Perrin Harkins is a senior engineer at Plus Three, an open source-oriented consulting company. His prior experience includes development at large web-based businesses like eToys.com and CitySearch.com. He has published articles on perl.com and contributed to several books about web development. He is a frequent participant in open source projects, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Click here for more info.Erik Hatcher Erik Hatcher co-authored Lucene in Action and Java Development with Ant. He has spoken at numerous conference and symposiums worldwide, including OSCON and EuroOSCON. Most recently he has been integrating the blinding speed of Lucene (via Solr) with the simplicity of Ruby on Rails to build Collex, a folksonomy grounded scholarly tool. Click here for more info.Myron Hattig Myron Hattig works on a strategic research project within Intel Research focused on open source robotics with the goals of enabling proactive computing and developing emergent platforms through robotics. Previously held positions at Intel include software manager for a team of developers working on DSL/Cable residential gateway products and manager/architect for home networking initiatives in Intel Labs. He chaired the IP/1394 Working Group within the IETF that produced RFC 2734, helped form the IETF Zeroconf WG, represented Intel at IEEE, EIA, and other industry standards committees, and presented at several Intel Developer Forums and other industry conferences. He holds a US patent for a 1394 service discovery protocol. Hattig has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Montana. Click here for more info.Ron Hitchens Ron Hitchens is a California-based computer consultant and educator whose career dates back to the disco era. His first exposure to computers was operating mainframes in the Air Force. His first programming language was COBOL, learned from a friend's borrowed textbook. Since that time Hitchens has used just about every computer system and programming language you can imagine: from 6502 assembler to XSLT. Hitchens spent much of the 1980s at the University of Texas at Austin, as student and staffer, where he burrowed deep into the Unix kernel and assisted with many interesting research projects. Hitchens spent the next several years doing kernel work for clients such as IBM and Unisys. He has also developed and taught professional development courses for the same clientele. Following a brief flirtation with C++, Hitchens fell in love with Java and has spent the last several years employing server-side Java technologies to build Web applications for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Hitchens is Founder and President of Ronsoft Technologies. Hitchens is also the author of O'Reilly's Java NIO. Hitchens lives in California with his wife and co-pilot, Karen, and a dog named Boomer. When Ron isn't working (hah!) he and Karen enjoy snorkeling, bicycling and walking the dog. Click here for more info.Steve Holden Steve Holden has a lifetime of experience in information technologies and has supported open source software for twenty years. He is a director pf the Python Software Foundation, chaired the first three PyCon conferences, and is the author of Python Web Programming Click here for more info.Jeff Horwitz Jeff Horwitz has been a system administrator for the past eight years, and is currently Manager of Production Systems at TargetRx, Inc. He has written several Perl modules available on CPAN and is the author of Unix System Management Primer Plus (SAMS Publishing). Click here for more info.Sterling Hughes Sterling Hughes is a PHP core developer, whose contributions, among other things, include writing the SimpleXML, cURL, XSLT, and Mono extensions. He is the author of the PHP Developer's Cookbook and currently writes a monthly column for the PHP Magazine entitled "Programming with PHP." Click here for more info.Jason Hunter Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic, specializing in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He's the author of "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly Media) and the creator of the JDOM open source project for Java-optimized XML manipulation. Click here for more info.Brian Ingerson Ingy döt Net is a hacker with more current projects than years to complete them. Some of his more well-known creations are Inline.pm, Kwiki, and YAML. He is currently homeless, traveling worldwide from hackathon to hackathon. Click here for more info.Keith Jackson Keith Jackson is currently a Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has been involved in developing a PKI based authorization system, and a secure advanced reservation system. He is currently involved in developing component-based interfaces to "Grid" services, and prototyping large-scale "Grids." His interests include distributed systems, access control, distributed system security, advanced reservations, network quality of service, web services component based middleware, and PKI based applications. Prior to joining LBNL, Jackson worked at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Click here for more info.Eric Jones Eric Jones has a broad background in engineering and software development and leads Enthought's product engineering and software design. Prior to co-founding Enthought, Jones worked in the fields of numerical electromagnetics and genetic optimization in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University. He has taught numerous courses about Python and how to leverage it for scientific computing. Jones holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in Electrical Engineering and a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Baylor University. Click here for more info.Christopher Judd Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, LLC, international speaker, open source evangelist, Central Ohio Java Users Group coordinator, and co-author of Enterprise Java Development on a Budget and Pro Eclipse JST. He has spent eight years developing software in the insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation industries. His current focus is consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, J2EE, J2ME, web services, and related technologies. Click here for more info.Mitchell Kapor Mitchell Kapor is active in the world of open source software as the founder and president of the Open Source Applications Foundation, which is developing Chandler, a new personal information manager, and as chair of the Mozilla Foundation. Kaporl founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app" which made the PC ubiquitous in business. He is also the co-founder (in 1990) of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and currently serves as a director of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation and of the Level Playing Field Institute. Click here for more info.Marc Kerr Apart from a brief foray into the world of retail management, Marc Kerr has worked as a software developer for many years and occasionally has been known to reminisce about the joys of Assembly Language programming. A reformed astrophysicist, newly discovering the beauty of pure mathematics, he is a regular speaker at the Belfast Perl Mongers, and is engaged in a long-running battle to rid the Perl community of intellectual corruption. Click here for more info.Richard Kilmer Richard Kilmer is the founder of Virginia-based software and services company InfoEther, Inc.. His background includes peer-to-peer software, wireless web, workflow, and pen computing. His current projects make production use of Ruby on several DARPA research projects. He is an active member of the Ruby development community working on Alph, FreeRIDE, RubyGems, RubyJDWP, Jabber4R, and hosts RubyForge.org. Click here for more info.Satya Komatineni Satya Komatineni is the creator of Aspire/J2EE: a declarative RAD tool for developing server side applications. He has published over 20 articles with O'Reilly on Java, .Net, XML, and Architecture. He has also created 'Aspire Knowledge Central' for knowledge gathering and disemination. He regularly contributes to java.net via weblogs. He is an active member of an SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) team at Indent, Inc., resulting in a number of SBIR grants including a recent phase2 grant. You can also find him in the IT trenches coding everyday java. Click here for more info.Peter Kropf Peter Kropf is a software architect at Legato Systems. In his software development career he has written device drivers, kernel code, financial applications, commercial web sites, electronic commerce applications, system administrative software, real-time systems, distributed systems, and developed various GUIs. Plus things that he's specificly choosen to forget. In his spare time, he enjoys watching chaos in action. Click here for more info.Mike Kruckenberg Mike Kruckenberg is a long-time MySQL devotee who has used MySQL personally and professionally since the early days of web-based applications. Besides being the go-to guy for all things MySQL at his day job, Mike is an active member of the MySQL community. Mike is the co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress) and the MySQL Cluster Certification Study. He did the technical review for Expert MySQL (Apress) on MySQL source code modifications. Mike is a member of a few MySQL Guilds, regularly presents at tech conferences, and actively writes about MySQL and other (mostly) technical things at mike.kruckenberg.com. Click here for more info.Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of the Software Freedom Law Center. During most of the 1990s, he worked as a system administrator and software development consultant on Free Software systems for both small and large companies. In early 2000, he was hired to work for FSF, and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001 until March 2005. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Click here for more info.Scott Kveton Scott Kveton is a Network Engineer for Oregon State University and maintainer of ftp.orst.edu. Kveton is also the lead developer for Ampache and Maintain, which are both PHP applications. Click here for more info.Chao Lam Chao wears multiple hats as the Chandler product manager at the Open Source Applications Foundation. He coordinates and gathers user, developer and community requirements and has responsibilities for what makes it into each product release and the general direction of Chandler. Having successfully started and sold two venture-backed companies, ShoppingList and ClickOver, he is at the same time a veteran, beneficiary and casualty of the Internet boom. Click here for more info.Tom Lane Tom Lane has over ten years open source development experience. He is widely known as organizer and lead programmer of the Independent JPEG Group. Involved with PostgreSQL since 1988, Lane is now a member of PostgreSQL's core steering committee. Most of his Postgres work is on the query planner/optimizer, though he does fix bugs in many other parts of the system. Lane holds a PhD in computer science as well as a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has twenty-five years' professional experience in a wide range of systems software development tasks. Click here for more info.Rob Lanphier Rob Lanphier serves as "open source busybody" from Linden Lab's new Seattle office, working with the community in regular in-world office hours as well as via more traditional venues, and ensuring everyone has the tools they need to be productive participants. Rob worked at RealNetworks from 1996 to 2005, helping craft two key multimedia standards (RTSP and SMIL) and coordinating RealNetworks' open source initiative (Helix Community). Immediately prior to joining Linden Lab, he was a freelance consultant specializing in MediaWiki/PHP development. Click here for more info.Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz r0ml is an software architect and systems designer with over thirty years of experience. For two decades, r0ml worked on Wall Street, developing market data, trading, risk management, and quantitative analysis systems. More recently, as chief technical architect at AT&T Wireless, he drove the improvement of their CRM, ERP, commission, and data warehousing systems. Over the last several years, r0ml has become increasingly interested in open source software strategy at large enterprises, and is a frequent speaker on the topic. Click here for more info.Andy Lester Andy Lester petdance.com has been aprofessional programmer for over twenty years and Perl evangelist for a decade. As one of the core Perl developers, Andy's interests in Perl focus on quality assurance. He maintains eight testing modules on the CPAN, as well as the Perl QA website. Andy is a frequent speaker at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, YAPC, and at Perl Monger meetings around the country. Click here for more info.Hanna Linder Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Ray Lischner Ray Lischner is a professional goof-off, striving to perfect the art of evading gainful employment. He is the author of C++ in a Nutshell and other books and articles about programming. When he has the free time, he teaches computer science at Oregon State University. Click here for more info.Erik Logan Logan co-founded Pogo Linux in 1999 with Tim Lee, CEO, with a shared vision that the power of Linux and open source software. Logan is passionate about educating businesses and fellow Linux users about the benefits of Linux, and is an active participant in the Northwest Linux users network. Logan attended University of California, Santa Barbara and majored in computer science. Click here for more info.Ed Lyons Ed Lyons is a senior consultant at netNumina, a consulting firm specializing in custom enterprise applications. Ed has eight years experience in Java development and has designed and developed many J2EE apps using open source components. He has spoken at previous O'Reilly conferences on open source and enterprise Java. Click here for more info.Dr. Tim Maher Since 1982, Tim Maher has taught many thousands of software professionals to program in C, C++, Shell, Awk, and Perl on behalf of major UNIX vendors and Consultix. He's a CPAN author, a frequent speaker at Perl conferences, and a White Camel award winner. He'd rather be programming in Visual Awk or Awk++, but Perl comes pretty close. Click here for more info.Ayesha Malik Ayesha Malik is a Senior Consultant at Object Machines, a software engineering firm providing Java and XML solutions to businesses. Malik has worked extensively on large XML and messaging systems for companies such as Deutsche Bank and American International Group (AIG). Most recently, she has been researching new ways to make schemas extensible and object-oriented. She also serves on the Architecture Working Group of FpML (Financial Products Markup Language), a data-interchange standard set forth by ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association). Malik holds a B.A. with honors from Harvard University and an M.S. from Columbia University, where she studied operations research, applied mathematics, and computer science. She also worked on computational genomics projects as a graduate student and is currently taking classes in bioinformatics at Stanford University. You can contact Malik at firstname.lastname@example.org. Click here for more info.Alex Martelli Alex Martelli is Uber Technical Lead at Google, Inc. Martelli holds a laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica from Bologna University. He wrote Python in a Nutshell, and also co-edited the Python Cookbook. He's a member of the Python Software Foundation, and won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award. Martelli spent 8 years with IBM Research, earning three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards; twelve as senior consultant (Win32, Fortran, C, C++, Java, etc), think3 inc; and three as a Python freelance consultant, mostly for AB Strakt. He has taught Programming, Numerical Computing, and OO Design at Ferrara University and other venues. Click here for more info.Anna Martelli Ravenscroft Anna Martelli Ravenscroft has an extensive background in use, coaching, and consulting on office applications. Ravenscroft is not a programmer; she just uses Python to get things done. Ravenscroft has been a speaker at several Python Conferences, a technical reviewer on several Python books, and is a co-editor of the Python Cookbook 2nd edition. Click here for more info.Yukihiro Matsumoto Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), the creator of Ruby, is a professional programmer who worked for the Japanese open source company, netlab.jp. "Matz" is also known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan. He's released several open source products, including cmail, the emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in emacs lisp. Click here for more info.Mark D. Matthews Mark Matthews manages development for the J2EE and Microsoft Windows platforms at MySQL AB, and developed the most popular JDBC driver for MySQL, MM.MySQL, which later became MySQL Connector/J, the official JDBC driver for MySQL. Click here for more info.Jason Matusow Jason Matusow is the Director of the Shared Source Initiative for Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for the business strategy and implementation of Microsofts global source licensing initiative. Under his direction, Shared Source has grown to cover a broad spectrum of Microsoft technologies reaching more than 1.5 million participants around the world. Matusow continues to work closely with the core Microsoft product teams to determine the optimal collaborative development and community strategy for their intellectual property assets. Click here for more info.David McCorkhill David McCorkhill is an entrepreneur who recently founded RubyCrafters to promote programming as a craft and to provide a place for companies to find consultants for Ruby (and C extensions for Ruby). He has contributed to modules on both CPAN and the RAA, including the Multi-User Environment Server (MUES, the FaerieMUD engine) and Text::Templar. He is a primary contributor to the FaerieMUD project and president of RubyCrafters. Click here for more info.Andy McKay Andy McKay is a core Plone developer and in his spare time is writing the Plone book. He has been developing in Zope and Python for over three years. Sites McKay has developed include the Python Cookbook and ZopeZen. When not in front of a computer he can be found white water kayaking, canoeing, or hiking. Click here for more info.Craig McLane Craig McLane is VP of Technology at Ticketmaster. Click here for more info.Jeffrey McManus Jeffrey McManus runs Platform Associates, a consultancy that helps platform technology companies bring platform products to consumer and developer audiences. Jeffrey is also the developer of Approver.com, a site that makes it easy to share documents with friends and co-workers online. Previously, Jeffrey led developer relations initiatives at more than a half dozen companies, including eBay and Yahoo!, where he co-founded the Yahoo! Developer Network. He has served as a champion of web services, web syndication, and open source within these businesses. Before that, he worked for nearly a decade as a consultant helping software development teams adopt new technologies. He is the author of six books on software application development. Click here for more info.Peter Millard Peter Millard is a programmer for Jabber, Inc. He has written open-source win32 clients and libraries including Winjab, JabberCOM and Exodus. He writes enterprise level jabber server components for Jabber, Inc.'s commercial products. He is currently serving on the Jabber Council. Click here for more info.Pat Mochel Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Bruce Momjian Bruce Momjian is a co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Momjian is employed by Software Research Associates (SRA) in their PostgreSQL support division. Previously, he was vice president of Database Development at Great Bridge LLC, another PostgreSQL support company. He has spoken at many international open source conferences. Click here for more info.Bram Moolenaar Bram Moolenaar has worked on open source software for more than ten years. He is mostly known as the creator of the text editor Vim. Currently, he is working on a project called A-A-P, which is about creating, distributing, and installing (open source) software. His home page is http://www.moolenaar.net. Click here for more info.Dana Moore Dana Moore is a division scientist at BBN Technologies, and is an acknowledged expert in the fields of software agents, P2P, and collaborative computing. He is author of Peer-to-Peer: Building Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networks and Jabber Developer's Handbook, and over twenty papers for refereed journals. He has lectured extensively on these subjects at O'Reilly P2P Conferences and other venues. Click here for more info.W. Phillip Moore W. Phillip Moore recently left Morgan Stanley, where he was executive director of UNIX Engineering. There, Moore was a senior architect, responsible for the evolution of the firm's UNIX/Linux infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience deploying solutions to problems of extreme scalability, his past accomplishments include the deployment of Morgan Stanley's Perl development environment, global filesystem (AFS), and transactional messaging infrastructure (MQSeries). He is the original author of the MQSeries suite of Perl modules, and a member of the OpenAFS Advisory Council. Moore left Morgan Stanley to more fully participate in the open source community. He is an open source advocate and enterprise technology consultant. Click here for more info.Patrick J. Moran, Ph.D. Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Ian Murdock Ian Murdock is Chief OS Platform Strategist at Sun Microsystems and chair of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), the Linux platform interoperability standard. Prior to joining Sun, Ian was CTO of the Linux Foundation (formed through the merger of OSDL and the Free Standards Group, where he was CTO) and cofounder, chairman, and chief strategist of Progeny, a Linux distribution vendor that builds custom Linux platforms for companies building server appliances and other Linux powered products. A longtime Linux user, developer, and advocate, Ian founded the Debian project in 1993. Today, Debian is one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world, with millions of users worldwide. Debian is also widely considered one of the most successful and influential open source projects ever launched: More than 1,000 volunteers in all parts of the world are currently involved in Debian development, and the founding document of the open source movement itself (the Open Source Definition) was originally a Debian position statement. Ian was also a founding director of Linux International (1993-1995) and the Open Source Initiative (1998-2001). Ian holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University. Click here for more info.Milton Ngan Milton Ngan is the chief architect for the technical infrastructure of Weta Digital. He has been at Weta Digital for nearly 10 years and was integrally involved with the setup of the facility for the "Lord of the Rings" project. Since then, Ngan has continued to lead the IT department through other major projects such as "I-Robot" and most recently, "King Kong." Ngan received a M.S. degree from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Click here for more info.Alan Nugent Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Norman Nunley Norman Nunley, Jr. is a Senior Systems Archetect for Peak Strategy, Inc, where he programs in many languages, including Perl and Java (and occasionally Perl that generates Java code). He is a quiet, but active, member of the open source community, but is currently caught up in his most recent project, Winston Ives (Proof) Nunley, who was released on April 20th of this year. Click here for more info.Patrick O'Brien Python expert Patrick O'Brien is the author of PyCrust, an interactive, graphical Python shell, a developer of the PythonCard wxPython application construction kit, and leader of the PyPerSyst team, which is working on object persistence mechanisms for Python applications. His articles have been published by O'Reilly, IBM, and LinuxFormat Magazine. Click here for more info.Tim O'Reilly Tim O'Reilly is founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to publishing pioneering books like Ed Krol's The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog (selected by the New York Public Library as one of the most significant books of the twentieth century), O'Reilly has also been a pioneer in the popularization of the Internet. O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September 1995) was the first Web portal and the first true commercial site on the World Wide Web. Click here for more info.Karen Pauley Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Marty Pauley Marty Pauley is a Hacker and GNU Guerilla at Kasei. He was a fanatical free software user before people started calling it "open source." He has been working as a programmer and consultant for over a decade, using C, Perl, and GNU/Linux to build database and network systems. Click here for more info.Stormy Peters Stormy Peters joins OpenLogic from Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office. As an early adopter of open source, Stormy was responsible for HPs open source strategy, policy and business practices. She was also a founding member of HPs Linux Division. Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of Open Source Software at major conferences such as the Open Source Business Conference and the O'Reilly conferences. She has addressed the United Nations, European Union and various U.S. state governments on open source software. Click here for more info.Tom Phoenix Since 1982, Tom Phoenix has been working in the field of education. After more than thirteen years of dissections, explosions, interesting animals, and high-voltage sparks during his work at a science museum, he started teaching Perl classes for Stonehenge Consulting Services, where he's worked since 1996. Since then, he's been traveling to any number of interesting locations, so you might see him soon at a Perl Mongers' meeting. When he has time, he answers questions on Usenet's comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.perl.moderated newsgroups, and contributes to the development and usefulness of Perl. Besides his work with Perl, Perl hackers, and related topics, he spends his time on amateur cryptography and speaking Esperanto. His home is in Portland, Oregon. Click here for more info.Chris Pine Chris Pine got his start programming computer games, working on such titles as Alpha Centauri, Alien Crossfire, and most recently Civilization III. Though Pine was happy enough with programming in C/C++, he was a quick "convert" to Ruby. Now he gets to use it every day at HelloTree, Inc. Currently, he's using it to write auto dealership management software. Click here for more info.Mike Pyle Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Antoine Quint Antoine Quint is an independent SVG consultant also participating in the W3C SVG Working Group as an invited expert. He lives with his über-cat Stig Elmer and has a book in the works with his pal Robin Berjon. Click here for more info.Michael Radwin Michael J. Radwin is an engineering manager for Yahoo!'s Infrastructure Software group that develops and supports web platform technologies such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, and more recently SOAP/REST toolkits. His team has been instrumental in helping Yahoo! migrate from proprietary to open source software. Click here for more info.Allison Randal Allison Randal is co-chair of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention and Energy Innovation Conference. Her first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her love of coding drew her away from natural languages to artificial ones. Allison is the architect of Parrot, on the board of directors of The Perl Foundation, and founder and president of Onyx Neon. She co-authored Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, and has edited various O'Reilly books on dynamic languages including Perl Hacks and Programming PHP. Click here for more info.Daniel Ravicher Dan Ravicher is a registered patent attorney and an associate with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York. A significant portion of Ravicher's practice involves open source software legal issues. In addition to counseling clients on these issues, Ravicher has also published numerous articles and made several presentations on the subject. Click here for more info.Randy Ray Randy J. Ray is a long-time member of the Perl community and the author of several CPAN modules, including an XML-RPC implementation. He is also the co-author of Programming Web Services With Perl (O'Reilly). He has been developing in Perl for 13 years and web technologies for ten. Click here for more info.James Reynolds James Reynolds is a member of the University of Utah's Student Computing Labs Mac Group. His main duty is the deployment of Mac OS X. Most of his responsibilities include the OS customizations, scripts, and security of the Mac OS X lab and kiosk computers supported by SCL. Click here for more info.Michael Rimov Michael Rimov is the Senior Developer for Corvallis, Oregon-based Centerline Computers where he is responsible for directing the web application consulting arm of the company. He has been instrumental in the development of the open source Expresso framework and has been the lead developer for the past year. Click here for more info.Amy Roh Amy Roh is an engineer in the Java 2 Enterprise Edition team at Sun Microsystems, Inc. She is also a committer for Jakarta Tomcat project at Apache foundation. Click here for more info.David Rolsky Dave Rolsky is an author and consultant specializing in Perl. Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason, which he co-authored with Ken Williams, was published by O'Reilly & Associates in November 2002. He is the author of numerous CPAN modules. He is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Click here for more info.Greg Sabino Mullane Greg Sabino Mullane does bioinformatics at the National Human Genome Research Institute, and is a developer of DBD::Pg and PostgreSQL. He often uses the GnuPG program, and invites everyone to attend the PGP keysigning BOF. Click here for more info.Peter Saint-Andre Peter Saint-Andre is Executive Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF), Director of Standards at Jabber Inc., editor of the XMPP RFCs, and author of numerous XMPP protocol extensions. Click here for more info.Brian Sam-Bodden Brian Sam-Bodden has spent over ten years working with object technologies, with an emphasis on the Java platform. He holds dual bachelor degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in Computer Science and Physics and is the president and chief software architect for Integrallis Software, where he focuses on object modeling and Java, particularly J2EE, SWT/JFace applications. Sam-Bodden also co-authored the Apress Java title "Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies." Aside from spending time with his wife and son, Sam-Bodden spends most of his time writing code or on the mat practicing Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Click here for more info.Aleksey Sanin Aleksey Sanin is the author of XML Security Library--the first open source C library implementing major W3C XML Security specifications: XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption. He enjoys hacking and researching new technologies. Click here for more info.Gurusamy Sarathy Gurusamy Sarathy has been heavily involved in maintaining the mainstream releases of Perl for the past seven years. He served as the core language Release Manager for the 5.005 and 5.6 releases of Perl. Sarathy holds Undergraduate and Graduate degrees in Architecture and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Click here for more info.Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry--skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing, and training. He has co-authored the "must-have" standards: Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules, and Effective Perl Programming, as well as writing regular columns for several magazines. His offbeat humor and technical mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide (but he probably started some of those legends himself). Since 1985, Randal has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. Click here for more info.Michael G. Schwern Michael G Schwern has authored and maintained more Perl modules than he can remember, and some we'd all like to forget. Test::More, Test::Inline, Exporter::Lite, Class::DBI, Class::Accessor and Sex.pm are some of his creations while ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Test::Harness are under his maintenance. Due to clerical oversight, Michael is the Perl 1 Pumpkin King. Click here for more info.Chris Shiflett Shiflett is a leader in the PHP community - a popular speaker at industry conferences worldwide, the founder of the PHP Security Consortium, a contributor to the Zend Framework, and an author of the Zend PHP Certification. A prolific writer, Shiflett is the author of the critically-acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly) and HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams). His writing has also appeared in numerous articles for php\|architect and PHP Magazine, as well as a number of other popular books including Programming PHP (O'Reilly) and PHP Cookbook (O'Reilly). Click here for more info.Itamar Shtull-Trauring Itamar Shtull-Trauring has been programming since 1994. He has worked on projects ranging from multimedia applications to web sites, distributed servers, and remote object protocols. He has contributed to Python and Zope, and is one of the main developers of Twisted. He is currently seeking employment. Full Resume. Click here for more info.David Sklar David Sklar is a software architect at Ning and the author of Learning PHP 5 (O'Reilly), Essential PHP Tools (Apress), and PHP Cookbook (O'Reilly). Click here for more info.Dave Smith Dave Smith is the founder of the Passel project and a former core member of the Jabber project. He now works for Ping Identity as the Senior Architect for the PingFederate product line. Click here for more info.Robert Spier Robert Spier is an engineer at Google, working on RT and other open source projects. In his spare time, he maintains the perl.org infrastructure and volunteers at a local dog rescue. Click here for more info.Simon St.Laurent Simon St. Laurent is an XML-focused computer book author and editor living in Ithaca, NY. His books include XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, and Programming Web Services with XML-RPC. He is a contributing editor to XMLhack.com and an occasional contributor to XML.com. Click here for more info.Bob Stayton Bob Stayton is the principal consultant of SageHill Enterprises, an independent center for DocBook development and implementation. He has been engaged in computer-based publishing since 1980, starting with WordStar and a daisy wheel printer, progressing to desktop publishing and laser printers, and now implementing XML-based publishing systems for multiple output formats. As Architect of Technical Publications at The SCO Group from 1989 to 2003, Bob designed and implemented computer-based publishing systems for technical documentation. Bob is a member of the OASIS DocBook Technical Committee that develops and maintains the DocBook DTD standard. Bob is also a member of the technical team for the DocBook Open Repository Project on SourceForge that develops the stylesheets and other tools. He is the author of DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, published by Sagehill Enterprises. Click here for more info.Greg Stein Greg Stein is an engineer at Google, working on their open source efforts. Prior to that, Stein was a director of engineering at CollabNet where he managed the Subversion project and releases of their SourceCast product. He also worked at Microsoft as a development manager, in the Commerce Server and Site Server groups. Stein was a co-founder and the corporate technologist of eShop, one of the first electronic commerce software companies, before its acquisition by Microsoft. In Stein's spare time, he works on many open source projects, such as Subversion, WebDAV, and Python. He also spends time with Apache projects and is the current chairman of the Apache Software Foundation. Click here for more info.Wendy Street Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.David Stutz David Stutz has been a professional musician since boyhood. Despite this impediment, he has also managed to actively participate in the evolution of a number of computer languages, programming models, and developer tools - most recently Microsoft's "Rotor" project. As a software architect and kibitzer, he has been involved in the early design stage of many technologies, including software component models, systems, database products, network protocols, and a whole lot of other hard-to-categorize plumbing. Despite repeated attempts to go clean, he remains obsessively attracted to distributed systems, winegrape growing, and the mechanisms of biology. Click here for more info.Louis Suarez-Potts Louis Suárez-Potts is the community manager for OpenOffice.org, as well as the chair of the governing Community Council. An employee of CollabNet, Suárez-Potts has managed OpenOffice.org for more than five years. He is currently working on a study of the contradictions implicit in liberal accounts of open source development. Click here for more info.Dan Sugalski Dan Sugalski is the lead designer and alleged head of the Parrot project, tasked with designing the world's fastest and most full-featured z-code capable virtual machine. (It will also run Perl 5, Perl 6, Ruby, and Python code for extra flexibility in text gaming) He's been at this for near four years with no sign of land yet, though as long as he avoids the dragons he figures things can't be too bad. He's also been a long-time contributor to Perl 5, for a while handling much of the VMS Perl port, tried very hard to get the original Perl threading model working, and has written more than a dozen XS-only Perl modules, all of which likely explain this bio. Click here for more info.Andrew Sullivan Andrew Sullivan joined the Toronto offices of Afilias in 2001, where he helped to launch the first new gTLD on the Internet. He supervises the Afilias data group. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy. Sullivan lives in Toronto with a collie named Latrax and a human named Jill. Click here for more info.Scott Sweeney Scott Sweeney is the creator of SLiP, an open source “Sorta-like Python” syntax for creating XML instances in a quick and terse manner. Formerly a Program Manager for Microsoft, he drove development of their Community infrastructure and various aspects of the Microsoft web sites. Always straddling the fence between business and technology, Sweeney is back on the business side pursuing an M.B.A. from the University of Washington. Click here for more info.Autrijus Tang Born in 1981 CE, Autrijus Tang is a self-educated i18n geek, net a(ctiv\|narch\|rt)ist, and serial entrepreneur. In his spare time from translating Free Software and related books to Chinese, Tang engages in open source and wearable computing advocacy. Click here for more info.Dave Thomas Dave Thomas has been writing software since the mid '70s, and hopes one day to get it right. In the meantime he and Andy Hunt run The Pragmatic Programmers, a consultancy that helps folks develop better software. Hunt and Thomas have co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer and Programming Ruby, and speak at conferences and give tutorials around the world. Click here for more info.Laura Thomson Laura Thomson is a Principal at OmniTI, a consultancy specializing in scalable internet systems design and development. Laura came to OmniTI from Australia, bringing more than ten years experience in web development, IT consulting, and research. She is the co-author of the best-selling "PHP and MySQL Web Development" (Sams Publishing) and "MySQL Tutorial" (MySQL Press), and has spoken at many conferences worldwide. Click here for more info.Doug Tidwell Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on technical topics around the world. He works in IBMs Software Strategy group, evangelizing emerging XML standards such as XForms, SCA and SDO. Click here for more info.Phil Tomson Phil Tomson has been a software engineer for the past ten years and prior to that he was a hardware engineer working in ASIC design. His main interest is in EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software. He has developed in Perl, C++, Java, and most recently in Ruby--his current favorite. Tomson is active in the Ruby community and has contributed some modules to the Ruby Application Archive, including: TaskMaster, installpkg, and Win32::process. He also helped to start the Ruby Weekly News. Click here for more info.Adam Trachtenberg Adam Trachtenberg is the senior manager of Platform Evangelism at eBay, where he preaches the gospel of the eBay platform to developers and businessmen around the globe. Before eBay, Trachtenberg co-founded and served as vice president for development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both firms, he led the front- and middle-end web site design and development. Trachtenberg began using PHP in 1997, and is the author of Upgrading to PHP 5 and coauthor of PHP Cookbook, both published by O'Reilly Media. He lives in San Francisco, California, and has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Columbia University. Click here for more info.Diane Trahan Speaker biography coming soon. Click here for more info.Theodore Ts'o Theodore Ts'o has been a C/Unix developer since 1987, and has been a Linux kernel developer since September 1991. He led the development of Kerberos V5 at MIT for seven years, and is the primary author and maintainer of the ext2/ext3 filesystem utilities. Theodore currently serves on the board of the Free Standards Group and contributes to the development of the Linux Standard Base. He currently is a Senior Technical Staff Member with the IBM Linux Technology Center. Click here for more info.Adam Turoff Adam Turoff is a longtime Perl programmer who has strived to learn a new programming language every year for the last six years. Recently, he has focused on Haskell and functional programming. He currently lives in the Washington, DC area with his wife. Click here for more info.Kirby Urner Kirby Urner studied philsophy with some of the best in the business at Princeton University. He first contacted Fuller with a paper on general systems theory, based on experiences with his family in Cairo, Egypt. Later he become the first webmaster for the BFI (B. Fuller's Institute), snagging the domain name bfi.org with help from Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Fuller's adjuvant. Today, he administers grunch.net and 4dsolutions.net, both domains having literary significance to students of Fuller's philosophy, an off-shoot of New England transcendentalism ala Emerson and Thoreau. Click here for more info.Mark van der Veer Mark van der Veer is a software test engineer working in Beaverton, OR. He has been using python for just about one year and finds the language to be, if not the holy grail of test, pretty darn close! Before finding his true love as a software engineer, van der Veer had a twenty-plus year career in banking and finance. 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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 I never understood what made a pregnant woman walk this way and I was fascinated to find out for myself. I couldn't figure out if it was the weight you're carrying or just what it was that brought on this condition. I was also fairly determined to not be a victim of it, let's admit it, it's not the most flattering. Well I've figured it out (at least my experience), something no one mentioned to me… these very pregnant woman waddle because their poor feet hurt! It has nothing to do with the weight, the back issues or the exhaustion, it all about the swollen puffy feet and the inability to do anything about them. I'm doing my best to avoid the waddle, often I catch myself and have to straighten up. I'm sure looking forward to having my feet back again. Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - Kudos to our 1:00 crew that were so efficient they made our 6:00 crew unnecessary and we were able to leave Calgary 4 hours earlier than planned. - Never have I seen a move go that quickly. My two brothers, my Mom, Dad and Brad unloaded our truck in 20 minutes. Those boys were moving mattresses on their own and doing everything so quickly that the Denise and Jenny just stood aside before they were run over (there will be much more for you to do on the 17th, we can stay inside the new house and move boxes to the proper rooms) - You would think I'd learned the lesson in the last move… my flour and sugar buckets can't just have the lids put on them, they need to be taped. Last move it was the flour that tipped over and spilled, this move it was the sugar. It's a good thing we'd thought to bring a broom. - Our U-Haul experience was entirely satisfactory and we'll be happy to use them again. - As we packed up in Calgary Brad did an awesome job of fitting things in Tetris style until we realized we didn't actually need that much room. Apparently we should have tied things down (don't worry, nothing broke). This leads me to scoff and, laugh and say, "I wish" or "Not even a little". We've had this really frustrating moving situation so for the next week and half we're sort of homeless. All of our stuff has been moved down to Lethbridge to a friends garage (thanks Michelle, it all fit perfectly). We were supposed to move into our new house that weekend but those plans fell through and our new, new house isn't available until August 17th. So until then we store our stuff and we've been living with Brad's parents. The 17th will include a second U-Haul truck and hopefully some Elder's Quorum moving help since I'll be even more useless. So do you we have a nursery ready yet? I'd sort of like to have a bed for myself first and then I can focus on the nursery, although we'll be in trouble if this little girl decides to come early. I've always really liked to swim so I don't know why we didn't think of it sooner but never have I felt more weightless and graceful and cool and comfortable then when I slipped into that pool this weekend. My feet returned to their natural size, I was able to throw my nephew around a little (at his request of course) and for a little while I could feel like my old self. I did make my Mom a little nervous by jumping off the diving board but what's a trip to the Magrath pool with out it. The feeling was so great that we recreated it last night with a trip to Cardel and nothing could have snapped me out of my awful mood quicker. I see many return trips in the remaining 7 weeks. The only drawback is how extremely heavy I feel upon exiting the pool, it takes some time to get used to all that weight again. Monday, July 27, 2009 Well it's suprising how quickly that can all change. I've become hot and puffy, my shoes don't fit anymore and I miss my wedding rings. I wear flip flops all the time which now hurts the balls of my feet. I can't sleep on my back because it hurts my back but sleeping on my side hurts my ribs, I have to use 5 pillows just to be comfortable and don't even get me started on how often I have to pee lately. I'm hoping this is just a phase and I'll go back to enjoying things because otherwise it's going to be a long 7 weeks. I need to start looking on the bright side again. I'm not impressed Monday, July 20, 2009 This last weekend has involved pretty much nothing but packing and I have not been enjoying it. The bending down and sitting and standing and leaning has been hard on my back and at night I fall into bed an exhausted heap. I can't wait for Saturday night when it's all done (at least until the second leg in August). Thank goodness I have an awesome husband who does all sorts of lifting, moving boxes and fetching tape and scissors for me, I couldn't do it without him. The weekend also involved a trip to a random dumpster to get rid of stuff that made us feel guilty and like criminals, I'm not sure we'll do that again. - What time did you get up this morning? The alarm first went off at 6:10 but it was 7:00 before I actually forced myself to get up. - How do you like your steak? Medium rare. It's not worth eating if it's well done and tough. - What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Brad and I went and saw Transformers this weekend, it's not that great. - What is your favorite TV show? So You Think You Can Dance, Malcolm in the Middle though it's in syndication and the episodes are starting to get repetitive. I've begun replacing it with One Tree Hill, completely soapy, crappy show but I'm loving all the drama. - If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? I'm sort of picky but not at the same time… I'd be happy anywhere as long as I have family around. I love being so close to Brad's siblings and I'd be thrilled if mine were closer too. I wouldn't mind somewhere that doesn't get as cold as here but it also can't have giant spiders. - What did you have for breakfast? A Strawberry smoothie. Smoothies are my new favorite and I have a different kind every morning for breakfast. - What is your favorite food? I really love food. I have a hard time picking a favorite because there are so many options. I really like pizza and almost any kind of dessert. Macaroni and Cheese (not yucky Kraft dinner, homemade stuff) would be high on the list of favorite too. - What foods do you dislike? Mushrooms and olives. I was saying to Brad the other day that one of us should learn to love olives since neither of us will eat them, he was fine with the plan as long as I was the one of us, blech. - Favorite Place to Eat? At just about any restaurant I can find something I love so this is a hard one. I really love the pizza at Boston Pizza though and the Calamari at the Olive Garden is so yummy. I love Spicy Hut and Diner Deluxe and the list goes on and on. - Favorite dressing? I've never bought it but I love that Kraft Asian Sesame one, it makes such a yummy salad. - What kind of vehicle do you drive? A 2004 Honda Civic - What are your favorite clothes? I love all of my maternity clothes, especially my jeans. I'll be really sad when I don't get to wear them anymore because they're comfy and super cute. I can't imagine going back to my boring pre-pregnancy clothes. - Where would you visit if you had the chance? Hawaii, Disneyland and I know Brad would love to go back to Montreal. - Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? 1/2 full, although sometimes it's 1/2 empty. - Where would you want to retire? Anywhere close to family, I really like Calgary though. - Favorite time of day? I love 4:00 on Brad's day off when he comes and picks me up. Sometimes he'll come meet me for lunch too, that time is pretty great. I also really like bedtime. - Where were you born? Magrath, Alberta. - What is your favorite sport to watch? Baseball. - Who do you think will not tag you back? I'm skipping this one since I'm not tagging anyone. - Person you expect to tag you back first? Same as 19. - Apparantly there's no 21 - Bird watcher? I'm really not. Brad does have this fascination with birds of prey though, he'll point out hawks and stuff when he sees them. One time at the Wiebe house there was an owl outside and every was in awe and gathered around the window… in my head I was thinking, "meh". - Are you a morning person or a night person? I'm not a morning person but not particularly a night person either. Midday? Although these days I need a nap at noon. - Do you have any pets? No and we'd like it to stay that way. We're going to be those mean parents who don't let their kids have pets, we're just not animal people. - Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? It's not really news but we're moving on Thursday. Boy it'll be a relief when that's done. - What did you want to be when you were little? I always wanted to be a mother. Now as that actually gets closer I'm starting to feel pretty nervous about it. - What is your best childhood memory? I loved our trips to Disneyland. We'd drive down and camp all the way. I remember the yummy breakfasts we'd eat at the KOA's and there would inevitable be some pretty good arguments but overall it was a fun time. - Are you a cat or dog person? I like cats though Brad's allergic. Neither of us like dogs, especially since Brad's convinced they all want to eat him. - Are you married? Best decision I ever made, he makes me so happy every day. - Always wear your seat belt? Absolutely. - Been in a car accident? Not any major ones. I rear ended a car once when it was super slippery out, there wasn't much damage though. Once before Brad and I were dating he turned left and it's wasn't actually all that clear and we got hit, that was stressful for him. - Any pet peeves? Smokers. I become less and less tolerant every day. I hate walking to the bus behind someone who's smoking. Or getting on the bus and someone sits beside you who just put out their cigarette, it's so gross and proven to kill you! I don't get it. - Favorite Pizza Toppings? Pesto, Feta and tomatoes – so yummy together! - Favorite Flower? Lisianthus (that's probably spelled wrong). I'd never heard of it before until the florist who put together my wedding flowers picked it out, it's a pretty purple flower. - Favorite ice cream? Anything with lots of stuff in it. I think that vanilla is a topping, not something to be eaten on it's own so I need a bunch of goodies in my ice cream. - Favorite fast food restaurant? Taco Del Mar, they have the yummies burritos - How many times did you fail your driver's test? Once, I sped through a playground zone… I know, it was stupid. I did much better the second time. - From whom did you get your last email? Brad - Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Right now it would be a furniture store, maybe Leons? It'd chuck all of our furniture, buy brand new everything and have it all delivered so we didn't have to deal with it in the move (I hate moving). - Do anything spontaneous lately? We went out for dinner on Saturday. Not terribly spontaneous but it hadn't been planned in advance. We also showed up at Brad's parents hoping we could eat some lunch yesterday, again, not planned. That's about it though. - Like your job? Not even a little bit, I only have 15 days left though so I can handle it (let's hope none of my co-workers read this) - Broccoli? Love it. Brad doesn't though so I seldom cook it anymore though I have convinced him he likes Broccoli Cheese Soup. - What was your favorite vacation? Mexico with Brad for our honeymoon. We sat around and ate lots and did a cool canopy tour and had so much fun. I'd love to do something like that with him again. - Last person you went out to dinner with? Brad. We went to the Olive Garden, mostly for their Calamari. It was really just an excuse to not go home to our really messy house that was waiting for more packing to be done. - What are you listening to right now? Typical sounds around the office. There are some muffled voices, but mostly I'm listening to the sound of myself typing. Betty just asked if I'm writing a novel so apparently that's what she's listening to as well. - What is your favorite color? I love green. I don't own very much in green but I really like it. I love to decorate in brown too, I think if I had the money to redecorate the whole house would be brown (I know, so boring). - How many tattoos do you have? None. I almost got one once but then thought better of it. That was such a wise decision. - How many are you tagging for this quiz? None - What time did you finish this quiz? 12:40 pm - Coffee Drinker? I can't stand the smell even. I do like Starbucks Hot Chocolate though. Friday, July 17, 2009 There was the first apartment where there was confusion about whether it was ours or not and then the whole heat debacle. We lucked out and found a lovely new place where we've been since January and we've enjoyed it a lot. Then there was our Lethbridge house. We had everything lined up months in advance only to have it all fall apart a couple days ago. We were pretty stressed out about it as we have no time to go look at new places and we were supposed to move our things in a week. One thing about me, I hate looking for apartments, I think it's a long, tedious and frustrating process and my previous landlord history has made me nervous to speak to them at all so I'm lucky I was blessed with a husband who takes care of that for us. I just make sure I'm real supportive and we're both happy. We were a little picky about this Lethbridge house. I really wanted 3 bedrooms, a dishwasher and I was not living on the West side, so when Brad sent me an email and photos of a house on the West I wasn't interested at all, until I looked at the first picture when I thought, "I'm in trouble". This house is beautiful, I'm not sure how you could turn it down. It's less than two years old, meets all our criteria (except the location) and is only slightly out of our price range (we can make it work). The move will not be as smooth as it will now involve a storage unit for a month but at least we know where we'll end up eventually. Click on the photo below for more photos of our soon to be home. Here's hoping the location sacrifice is worth it because I'm excited to have such a beautiful house. Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - When was your engagement? March 23, 2007 (maybe the 24th). We called all of our family right after and then we got to go to an activity where all of our friends were. It was fun to be able to tell people so quick. - When is your marriage anniversary? June 30, 2007 - How long have you known your spouse? 5 years ish? Most of those years I didn't know him well though, we were friends for about a year and a half. - How long did you date before you got engaged? 3 months. I know it's crazy short. I used to hate it when people would say, "When you know, you know". I thought that was hogwash, you can't know you love someone in 3 months. And then I knew and I didn't want to wait. I like to think it helped that we'd been friends for so long. - Where did you meet your spouse? The first time we met was pretty unmemorable for the both of us, it took us a long time to come up with it. I was playing my clarinet in a performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Brad came to sub on the drums for a practice or two until he left on his mission. The meeting left no impression on either of us though. While on his mission I happened to become friends with 3 of his siblings so we naturally ended up in the some of the same places when he got back. - What is your spouses full name? Bradley Earl Wiebe - Do you have any children? Catie Mae is coming in September - How many? Just the one that's still cooking - Do you have any pets? Nope. We're going to be those mean parents that don't let their kids have any pets, we don't like dogs and Brad's allergic to cats. One day maybe we'll let them have goldfish, in a bowl though, no fancy aquariums. - Do you own or rent? We rent though we move at the end of the month and the new place we had lined up just fell through. Hopefully we're not homeless or living with my parents. - Do you live in the country, city/town? City unless we end up at my parents, Magrath is definitely a town. - What is your favourite activity you do together? We love spending time together, it doesn't really matter what we're doing as long as we get to do it together. We do really love going out for dinner though. - Do you have a favourite vacation spot? Brad would definitely say Shushwap Lake but I'd probably say Disneyland or Hawaii. I want to take him to both eventually. - How many siblings do you have including in-laws? Oh man, this is getting complicated. I have 3 brothers and 1 sister, they're all married except one brother. Brad has 1 brother and 4 sisters and they're all married so that gives me a whole lot of in-laws. If you add them all up it totals 17 siblings and in-laws. - What church do you attend? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Is this the church you got married in? We got married in the Cardston Alberta Temple - What town is your current address? Calgary, AB though as I mentioned we're heading down to Lethbridge soon. - Do you work or stay home? I work for another 4 ½ weeks and then I get to go on maternity leave. - Where did you go for your honeymoon? We went to Puerto Vallarta. It was amazing but I don't think we'd go back, next time we'd go to the other side of Mexico, we've heard such great things about it. The beaches are supposed to be way nicer. - Leave a piece of marriage advice: My favorite piece of advice is given on the wedding day, "May be today be the day you love each other the lease." I like that the amount you love each other grows more every day. Marrying Brad was the best decision I've ever made, I look forward to lots of years of fun together. Thursday, July 9, 2009 Brad is amazing though and managed to turn the whole day into just what I wanted even if I didn't know I wanted it. He started things off first thing in the morning. These days we've taken to watching Breakfast Television while we eat our breakfast and when the birthday's came on he turned it up real loud, he'd actually called them to put my birthday on tv, so cute! (I had joked about him doing this the day before so I loved that he followed though, sadly there was a miscommunication and I didn't actually make it on tv. They said they could get it on this morning instead though so we watched anxiously, and still there was nothing. There were only two other birthday's up there today so I think my chances of winning that Marble Slab cake were high but sadly it fell through again. It's certainly the thought that counts though and I loved that he tried.) As mentioned in yesterday's entry I picked up some cupcakes, a pack of 12 assorted mini cupcakes that Brad and I have been sharing between us. So yummy, I highly recommend the caramel. Later that evening we went for dinner at La Dolce Vita and had the most incredible meal! The bruschetta was to die for and my pasta brought out yummy noises on every bite. We had great service and a great view. It definitely deserved a cheer at the end and we'll definitely go back. And, saving the best for last… for about a week now Brad has occasionally mentioned how excited he is about my birthday present, saying that other than the cupcake courier it's the best he's ever given me. I tried to think of what it could be but couldn't even come up with a guess so I was pretty curious when he handed over an envelope. First a little background… I have this thing for big cats. I'm fascinated by them and could watch nature programs about lions all day (that YouTube video about Christian the Lion nearly made me cry and just about convinced me that a lion would make a great pet after all). I often ask Brad if he'll buy me a lion and strangely he always says no. When I saw a photo of my Brother and Sister-in-law holding a baby tiger I was insanely jealous. How surprising that Brad managed to buy me Lions for my Birthday! On August 5th Brad and I have a date to go behind the scenes with the Lions at the Calgary Zoo! I'm so excited! We get to talk about the lions and then we follow the zookeepers behind the scenes with the lions! The groups are all less than 20 people so it will be small and intimate. I'm not actually expecting to be able to hold a Lion but you bet I'll be looking for an opportunity to sneak one into our car as my new pet, hope Brad isn't allergic. Wednesday, July 8, 2009 I'm surprised it took me this long to think of it but what better way for me to enjoy a birthday than with a yummy cupcake. There's pretty much nothing that could stop me from heading down to Bliss & Co. at lunch and eating a super yummy cupcake (maybe two) Tuesday, July 7, 2009 As mentioned in my last post I've started to be a little puffy, this morning I went to put my shoes on and they were just a little tight and I was unwilling to suffer all day so I'm wearing flip-flops. I'm just waiting for the email from HR to come, we'll see how long I can pull these off (it is Stampede week after all). Monday, July 6, 2009 On June 30th Brad and I celebrated our second anniversary. This year was especially casual as we were out at the lake all week. We did go on an anniversary canoe ride but I didn't want to let to day go by completely unmentioned. Here's a list of 24 reasons (one for every month of marriage) I'm thrilled I married Brad. Sorry if the list is boring for everyone but Brad. - He was perfectly willing to stop to let me pee twice as many times as usual on the way to and from BC. - Everything to do with Catie, finding out about her, hearing her heartbeat, seeing her tiny feet. It's all made me love him so much more. - He kills all the spiders for me. - He makes me laugh with his unique silly-ness. It's a shame I'm the only one that gets to enjoy it. - Is so helpful with packing, unpacking and getting ready for our next move. - He often will put his face on my belly and try to get Catie to kick him in the face, so cute. - He's willing to share a DQ Blizzard with me because they're just a little too large for both of us. - He loves to play softball with me. - Is the kindest person I know. - He appreciates me and is always quick to say thank you if I've done something nice for him. - He does the majority of the laundry and is happy to do it. - We share the same ideas on parenting (not that we know anything about it yet) and we're excited to see how we do together. - Sometimes his hair does this awesome flip thing in the morning if he's slept on it wrong, I like that. - I can ask him any question, no matter how stupid and he'll never make me feel dumb. He explains things to me so clearly without being condescending. - No one makes better cookies. - Doesn't complain at all about my super annoying pregnancy snoring, even when it keeps him up at night. - He drives me to work every morning even though it makes him 40 minutes early for work. In two years he's never once complained about that. - If he's not at work he insists on picking me up after I'm done work, even if it's not convenient for him. - I'm happiest when it's just the two of us together and so is he. We're excited to make it the three of us. - He likes to surprise me by doing things he knows I'll like, like doing the dishes or the laundry. - I don't know how he does it but he drinks water so loud! It glug, glugs all the way down. I like that he has random quirks like that. - When I'm sick he won't let me lift a finger, he insists on taking care of me the best he possibly can and would go out and get me anything if it would make me feel better. - He loves new electronic toys and has to find out every possible feature or cool trick available on said toy - He's super musical. I love to listen to him sing and I love that he's so talented. - He loves me in a way no one else would. Listens to me, is super affectionate and looks at me different than everybody else. No one makes me feel better about myself than him. I'm so grateful for the two years we've had together and I can't wait to see what the future brings. Why does it take so little time to be ready to go back?
Fast and The Furious 6 Review By Adam Question: When is Vin Diesel better than Leonardo DiCaprio? The real answer is never, but if you were to compare their current releases at the cinema, ol’ crome dome has the three time Oscar nominee beat, and I’m not just talking about the financials. I know, how the fuck can a sixth film in a brain dead franchise (Fast & Furious 6) possess a higher rating on rotten tomatoes than an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby ? The answer: genre expectations. I’m on the record as saying that that every film needs to be judged according to the genre it inhabits. Sure, I have preferred genres, but I don’t carry a bias; a five star horror film (The Descent) may have a lower over-all quality than a five star drama (Argo), but if it achieves its intended goal — namely, to scare the shit out of you — then I have no problem awarding it full marks. Gatsby promised drama, romance and glamour but (in my opinion) only delivered the last part. Now, I think the majority of the Furious films suck, but they do make simple promises: burnouts, biceps and big ass set pieces, and this latest entry more than hits its requisite quota, in fact, it’s the best of the bunch. Following the convoluted (and frankly, confusing) timeline of the previous films, Furious 6 finds Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his ethnically diverse gang (Hello, international box office!) living happily after their successful heist in Rio. The gang are lurched out of their ludicrous retirements (no pun!) when Special Agent Hobbs (The Rock) comes calling. Hobbs is up against a zippy new threat — immaculately Goateed terrorist Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) — and Hobbs needs a crew of Toretto’s calibre to bring him to justice. Hobbs offers amnesty to the gang, but that is not the driving force (ok, that was definitely a pun) behind their involvement: one of Shaw’s henchmen/henchwoman is one of their own, Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez). Full disclosure: I’ve never liked one of these films, not one. There are some that I can tolerate (the first and the fifth) but the majority of these films suck the fat one, and not just in a general sense, but an action sense. Most of the previous films have failed to utilise their resources: instead of stunts we get CGI, instead of bravado we get posturing, and instead of Vin Diesel we get Paul fucking Walker. Luckily, all of the aforementioned traits have been swapped around for this sixth entry (though Paully ‘Dead Eyes’ Walker still gets a subplot). In what must be a cinematic first, Director Justin Lin (responsible for entries 3, 4, 5 & 6) must actually listen to criticism and has been slowly rectifying the mistakes made in his previous films – hell, the way he is going, by the time they get to Sweet Fast 16, it might be up for Best Picture. While Lin’s skill set is getting progressively better, the same can’t be said for recurring scribe Chris Morgan. Despite conjuring some enjoyably preposterous action sequences, Morgan’s characters are still thinly sketched at best and most of his emotional crises invoke yawns instead of tears. Luckily, Morgan’s sloppy, clichéd framework is elevated by lively, boisterous performances. While it would be easy (and expected) to sleepwalk through this material, most of the cast seem intent on earning their pay checks. With the exception of Mr Walker, the old guard acquit themselves well, especially Mr Diesel, who, despite needing a lozenge, seems fully committed to the absurdly stoic Toretto – his administering of a flying head butt is one of the cinematic treats of 2013. One of this franchise’s smartest decisions (some would argue, it’s only) is its rapidly expanding cast; each entry brings new blood. The Rock readministers the charisma (and steroid) injection he gave Fast 5, Gina Carano threatens to out-pout Michelle Rodriguez and Luke Evans gives this series it’s most compelling villain yet (his ramp/go-cart is the balls). Now, I must reiterate, Fast 6 is no masterpiece, but I must concur with the critical reception described in the first paragraph: I liked it more than Gatsby. I was dreading sitting through another one of these films, but Furious 6 kept me pinned to my seat, unlike Baz Luhrmann’s latest extravaganza. This is a perfectly serviceable (if lunkheaded) Friday night distraction, and in my book, that’s alright. So, if you’re getting dragged along to this, don’t fret, and, if you happen to be a card-carrying member of the rev head brigade, wear baggy pants, as this film is guaranteed to give you an erection (it took my housemate ten minutes to rise after the credits).
Redrock ultraCage expansions I have been using Redrock Micro accessories since I first got in to filmmaking with the Canon 5D mkII. They were one of the first companies out there offering support solutions for HDSLR filmmaking, which we all found out became essential due to the, shall we say "less than ideal" ergonomics of the HDSLR cameras. I’ve since started using a variety of digital cinema cameras on my productions – as have many filmmakers who started out with HDDSLR. While these cameras offer the functionality of a camera meant for shooting video as well as a price point that has only recently become attainable for most lower budget productions, these cameras often still lack in the ergonomics department. That is to say that while many of these cameras have the proper internals for video, their external designs are still simply not conducive for building out a cinema rig with the proper support. So it’s nice to see that Redrock has continued to expand their line of support solutions to include these digital cinema cameras that are also in need of modified ergonomics. These also happen to be some of the sleekest, most refined cage systems out there, both in build quality and also in the way they are thought through with things such as built in power management and the ability to attach a variety of accessories. You may have seen my review on the ultraCage \| blue earlier this year, which was launched in tandem with the Canon 300. The C300 is an amazing camera. It has all the bells and whistles of a proper digital cinema camera, but it’s body design, while lightweight, is not easily useable with standard support accessories and definitely needs a little love when you are going to put it into an actual production – as opposed to a solo handheld shoot. The base of the camera is awkwardly shaped and there are additionally no threaded holes for mounting accessories on support arms. The ultraCage \| blue solves this problem with a baseplate that is made to specifically support the shape of the C300 baseplate and provide a standard rod to lens height, as well as multiple 1/4" 20 and 3/8" 16 mounting points. The ultraCage \| blue also has additional accessories such as the powerPack, which can be powered by an external battery, such as an Anton Bauer, and has 3 power outs, two 12v regulated, and one variable 5-12v DC. This means that everything on your rig can be powered from a single source. I can’t tell you how much grief this saves – not to mention that it’s industry standard in the cine world to power an entire camera and its accessories of a single power source whenever possible – both in terms of convenience, and weight. There is also a rear chassis that extends your cage, adding 48 more mounting points and a place to attach the backPack, which can hold whatever external battery you are using for power, or for external recorders, FIZ controllers, wireless etc. Now Redrock has extended their line of ultraCage systems to include baseplates and cages for the C100 and BMCC cameras. The C100 is similar to the C300 baseplate int hat the bottom is shaped the same, but the uprights have been reconfigured to fit the new curves of the C100 body. Also like the C300 cage, the C100 cage can use the back chassis system. The BMCC cage is different from both of these, as it is machined to fit the odd size and shape of the camera (you can read two of our reviews on that camera HERE and HERE). This cage is slightly more customizable, as you are able to buy many of its components as standalone options. There is the baseplate, which will give you the standard rod to lens height, as well as a top plate that converts the three mounting points on top of the camera into 14 mounting points, and a hot shoe mount. The show mount can then be utilized to attach the top rail mount. The full cage for the BMCC does not add any width to the camera, and has been machined to include vents that allow the camera to properly ventilate. Once this is attached you can then attach the uprights, which gives your even more mounting options and allows you to mate the cage with the back chassis. Both the BMCC and C100 cages can be used with the powerPack to provide power to the camera using the correct cables. Of course there are many out there who still shoot on the Canon 5d mkII/mkIII, and their is a cage system for you too. As I mentioned above, these cameras are in the most need of support. The ultraCage \| blue DSLR provides a baseplate that fits the bottom of most DSLR’s and provides an opening beneath the battery door so that you can swap batteries without taking your rig apart. There is also an option HDMI wire lock that locks in your HDMI mini connection and provides a more solid full size HDMI connection when you are using video out for an external monitor (As I am sure many of you have experienced, the HDMI connection is not the most solid and can come loose quite easily). This is a KEY accessory. There are also uprights with multiple accessory mounting points, and a top mount that provides 15mm top rail support and allows you to attach the back chassis support. The powerPack can also bemused with this iteration of the ultraCage \| blue system. However, Redrock does not currently sell a cable to power the Canon cameras. However, they do sell a pigtail for the variable voltage out not eh powerPack which can be spliced with a Canon DR-E6 – so powering your camera off the rig is still an option.

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