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O2 Czech Republic Upgrades Customer Communications With Scriptura Engage Technology and Pro Document Services
PRAGUE and ANTWERP, Belgium, June 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
O2, the leading telecom operator in the Czech Republic, has appointed Pro Document Services (Prague, Czech Republic) in partnership with Scriptura Engage (developed by Inventive Designers from Antwerp, Belgium) to implement a centralized OMS (Output Management System) as part of a strategic core IT infrastructure change plan. With this transformation O2 has the objective to significantly save costs, to improve its ability in responding to the high competitive market requirements and to better service and maintain its customer base.
The new OMS solution will generate and manage batches of invoices (and attachments) over 20 million pages per month as well as ad hoc documents for CRM, ordering and other agendas. Furthermore, it will manage both paper-based and digital customer communications in one central platform, Scriptura Engage, instead of the current systems. Entirely integrated within this digital-first communications platform Archiva, the high-performance and high-volume archiving solution created by Pro Documents Services, will enable automated digital archiving making the documents on-line accessible by users as well as customers.
The implementation by Pro Document Services has started in middle of 2015. By the end of 2016, O2 estimates to go live with the new invoicing and other processes.
Customer communication as strategic competitive advantage
Mr. Radim Woznica, Head of Architecture, Analysis and IT Transformation department at O2 Czech Republic says: "The new solution brings O2 a robust platform enabling the telecom provider to compose and distribute complex and sensitive communications accurately, fast and through the customer's preferred channel. This is one way to improve customer experience, a key skill most disruptive players in the telecom business have in their DNA. Moreover, the platform makes sure that O2 is not only equipped to today's industry standards, but that it's also future-proof."
The power of a partnership
The partnership between the services company in the Czech Republic and the software developer and vendor in Belgium goes way back and is to be called a smart, trending collaboration in today's globalized enterprise IT world. Joke Dehond, chairwoman of the board at Inventive Designers, adds: "It goes to show that the combination of state-of-the-art software and local servicing based on profound know-how and experience is a big win for organizations that need flexibility, personal follow-up and true collaborative engagement, given the fact that we as rather small but agile players in the Customer Communications Management (CCM) market won this and also other deal against larger, global competitors."
"Scriptura Engage greatly responds to the requirements for comprehensive, open-standards technology to acquire a truly centralized communications hub interacting with all core business agendas like billing, CRM and ordering," says Zbyněk Zbořil, Business Development Director and Co-owner of Pro Document Services, "and it allows us as an integrator to successfully fulfil our services assignment at our local customers."
About O2 Czech Republic
O2 is the largest integrated telecommunications provider in the Czech market. At present the company operates close to eight million mobile and fixed accesses, which ranks it among the market leaders in fully converged services in Europe.
To users of mobile services in the Czech Republic O2 offers state-of-the-art HSPA+ and LTE technology. In 2012 and 2013, O2 completely altered the landscape of the Czech telecommunications playing field when the company, as the first operator in the country, opened its network to virtual operators, and, in spring 2013, revolutionized the market with its unlimited free rates.
O2 has the most comprehensive proposition of voice and data services in the Czech Republic, and it actively exploits the growth potential of the various business lines, especially ICT. O2 has access to the data centers, with a total floor area of 7,300 square meters, ranking the company among the leaders in hosting, cloud and managed services. These data centers are the only ones in the Czech Republic and in Central Europe to have TIER III certification.
With its O2 TV, the company is also the largest IP TV provider in the Czech Republic.
In Slovakia, where O2 has had operations since 2007, close to 1.7 million people had used its services at the end of 2014. O2 is presently No. 3 in the Slovak telecommunications market.
More info at www.o2.cz
About Pro Document Services
Pro Document Services provides solutions for corporate organizations in the banking, insurance, telecommunication and utility markets. They offer an innovative approach to customer communication and digital document archiving.
Their specialists have been involved in a vast majority of the digital printing and multichannel communications projects that have been implemented across the Czech Republic in the past 15 years. This experience has provided us unique know-how and insight that allows for the design and delivery of add-value projects.
Our solutions are based on the latest technology combining Scriptura Engage (we are partner of Inventive Designer, leading innovator in customer communication technology, since 2010) with own technology: Archiva, making the high-volume digital document archive an integral part of the costumer communication platform, ProDoc Channel, automating business correspondence management in distributed agendas and IT environments, available also in cloud.
Pro Document Solution also focuses to excellence in Project Management, not only in own projects in Output Management. They developed ProMan, a complex system for project and resource management in multi-project environments used by customers in various business segments.
Their customers are market leaders in various segments, for example: Raiffeisenbank, Komerční banka (Commerce bank); Kooperativa Pojištovna, Vienna insurance Group (Insurance); Allianz (insurance), O2 Czech Republic (telecommunication); PRE (Prague Electricity), ČEZ (Czech Electricity Company); Centropol (utility and telecommunication) W.A.G Payment Solutions (payment solutions for vehicle fleets), Cash Direct (financial services); Optys (printing services).
More info at http://www.prodocumentservices.com/
About Scriptura Engage (by Inventive Designers)
Scriptura Engage helps companies in utilities, banking and insurance improve their transactional customer communications by automating and simplifying the creation, delivery and interactivity of communications. It helps companies converting from pure print to multichannel and giving business users autonomy in - usually very IT and legacy bounded - tasks.
The software suite allows you to improve communication processes, reduce costs, and deliver highly relevant communications.
Scriptura Engage is developed by Inventive Designers, a Belgian based company operating in 32 countries and active on the market for over 20 years.
More info at https://www.scripturaengage.com and https://www.inventivedesigners.com
Nathalie Sysmans, Marketing,
nsysmans@inventivegroup.com,


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Q: How to disable a UITextField keyboard without hiding it? I have an animation, during which I want to disable the keyboard but not hide it. I even tried self.view.userInteractionEnabled = NO;, but that hides the keyboard. I guess it must call resignFirstResponder.

A: To disable everything, you can use
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Les llengües mon-khmer són un grup lingüístic que forma part de la família austroasiàtica. Tradicionalment se les ha considerat, juntament amb les llengües munda, com un únic subgrup: recentment, però, hi ha nombrosos estudis que ho posen en dubte i es proposen altres classificacions. Agrupa unes 150 llengües parlades sobretot al sud-est asiàtic, tot i que el nombre varia molt a causa de la disparitat de definicions del concepte llengua.

Història
La història del grup mon-khmer va molt lligada a la de la seva família. Els primers senyals que constaten l'evidència de correspondències sistemàtiques són a les pàgines del diari The Journal of the Indian Archipielago de la mà de James Logan a mitjans del . En estudis posteriors el mateix autor deixa entreveure la diferència entre les llengües munda i la resta de les llengües de la família austroasiàtica, que més tard són les que esdevindran les llengües mon-khmer.

A principis del , en plena guerra entre neogramàtics i difusionistes, Pater Schmidt, fa una proposta d'anàlisi del grup lingüístic amb l'objectiu de reconstruir el protomon-khmer basada en un model de monosíl·labs que acabarà influint en pràcticament tots els treballs del . A més a més, comença ja a parlar de llengües mon-khmer, malgrat que per a ell aquest terme era més restringit, només en formaven part el bahnar, el khmer i el mon.

Molts altres autors han fet estudis sobre aquest grup lingüístic i sobre la família en general, destaquen en aquest aspecte Ernst Kuhn, Charles Otto Blagden, Jean Przyluski i Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow.

Propostes de classificació actuals
Hi ha tres autors que han publicat recentment propostes de classificació de les llengües austroasiàtiques, només un dels quals considera com a vàlid el grup de llengües mon-khmer. Les propostes que fan són les següents:

Classificació d'Ilia Peiros (2004)

Classificació de Gérard Diffloth (2005)

Classificació segons Paul Sidwell (2013)

Com es pot comprovar, en tots els casos es manté la diferència entre les llengües munda i la resta de parles. Això facilita el donar el nom de mon-khmer a totes aquelles llengües no-munda, excepte segons Sidwell, segons el qual austroasiàtic i mon-khmer són sinònims.

Característiques lingüístiques
La principal diferència del grup mon-khmer és que manté les arrels monosil·làbiques del protoaustroasiàtic, a diferència del grup de llengües munda, que les reduplica o crea mecanismes per fer arrels bisil·làbiques. A continuació es mostra aquest fenomen en relació a la hipòtesi de reconstrucció del protoaustroasiàtic:

Per altra banda, una altra característica que distingeix les llengües mon-khmer de les llengües munda és l'ordre bàsic de les oracions, que en les llengües que ens ocupen és SVO (subjecte-verb-objecte) mentre que en les altres és SOV (subjecte-objecte-verb).

Vegeu també
 Munda (llengües)
 Llengües austroasiàtiques
 Lingüística diacrònica

Referències

Bibliografia

 SIDWELL, PAUL (2015). The Austroasiatic language phylum. A typology of phonological restructuring.
 ANDERSON, GREGORY i ZIDE, NORMAN H. Issues in Proto-Munda and Proto-Austroasiatic nominal derivation: the bimoraic constraint.
 PEIROS, ILIA (2011). Some thoughts on the problem of the Austro-Asiatic homeland.
 SIDWELL, PAUL (2013). Issues in Austroasiatic classi?cation.
 MANN, NOEL; SMITH, WENDY i UJLAKYOVA, EVA (2009). Linguistic clusters of mainland Southeast Asia. A description of the clusters.
 SIDWELL, PAUL (2009). Classifying the Austroasiatic languages: history and state of the art.
 DIFFLOTH, GÉRARD (1999) Classificació austroasiàtica apareguda a CHAZÉE, LAURENT (1999) The Peoples of Laos: Rural and Ethnic Diversities: Bangkok White Lotus

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Hi! Welcome to "About China"! In today's program, we will talk about "New Year's Eve".
New Year's Eve is one of the most important traditional festivals in China; it refers to the night of the last day of lunar year, the night before the Spring Festival. It is a festival of ringing out the Old Year and ringing in the New Year, and everything is fresh again. Along with Tomb Sweeping Day, Hungry Ghost Festival and the Double Ninth Festival, it is a traditional festival for ancestor worship in China as well as a traditional cultural festival popular in the cultural circle of Chinese characters.
People stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve, just as a poem "children struggle not to go to sleep, with laughter and noise in the night " written by Su Shi, litterateur in Tang Dynasty. Moreover, people will clean the room, paste Door-god, paste the Spring Festival couplets, paste New Year pictures, hang out lanterns and people will wear new clothes with festive colors.
New Year's Eve is of special significance in the hearts of Chinese people. No matter how far one is away from home, he or she is eager to go home for family reunion. People ring out the Old Year and ring in the New Year with firecrackers and fireworks blooming in the sky.


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How can I download image from Swedish link ?

A: The answer by Abdelahad Darwish is an improvement and perhaps fixes your particular problem (illegal characters), but in general you would want to detect these kind of errors and fail gracefully instead of risk crashing your app.
In particular, stay away from ! on methods that return an optional value (i.e., can potentially fail) and add the necessary checks instead:
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Drug Rehab and Treatment Centers Information Cambridge, Ohio
Looking for Drug Rehab and treatment centers in Cambridge, Ohio?
There are many drug treatment centers possibilities open to people residing in the Cambridge area. You should recognize each one of the varieties of rehabilitation possibilities that are offered in Cambridge, AB., to be able to select the appropriate treatment approach for yourself or a loved one. Choosing the right drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in Cambridge is the most important element in the treatment of substance abuse, drug addiction and alcoholism. This information will help ensure you fully grasp your various treatment possibilities so that you have the best chance of a successful outcome.
Let's take a look at the different drug treatment programs in Cambridge, Ohio possibilities that coincide with the condition of the individual in search of treatment.
Inpatient drug rehabilitation in Cambridge, AB. can be a treatment possibility best for people who need medical treatment during rehab or individuals with substantial drug use histories. Men and women can develop both mental and physical dependence to alcohol and drugs even after a brief amount of time, so inpatient alcohol and drug rehab in Cambridge is considered the best rehabilitation option in nearly all scenarios. Because of substance abuse and addiction, women and men will often not be able to make a full recovery with the limited services provided by outpatient rehab programs in Cambridge, Ohio where drugs are still easily available when they leave the outpatient facility. In addition, people in treatment who take part in outpatient treatment as an alternative to inpatient alcohol and drug treatment in Cambridge continue to be prone to detrimental influences and circumstances that might get in the way of their recovery process. If an individual resides with an abusive companion or maintains associations that entail substance abuse, any rehabilitation endeavours in outpatient rehabilitation are done in vain. This is the reason in-patient drug rehabilitation in Cambridge, AB. will produce more fruitful outcomes which will prove lasting in contrast to an outpatient drug treatment program where benefits could be very limited and short-lived.
In Cambridge there is both short-term and long-term inpatient alcohol and drug rehabilitation. Short-term is often a 30-day program, while long-term inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation in Cambridge, Ohio is significantly more extensive and treatment can last 3 to 6 months on average. It becomes an excellent setting for clients as it is a completely drug-free setting where they are able to recover both physically and mentally without distraction. Preferably, people proceed in a long-term in-patient alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in Cambridge for the maximum stretch of time allowed, in order to deal with anything which can jeopardize their abstinence when they depart rehab. Because of the fact that detoxing and becoming physically stabilized can require 2-3 weeks by itself, the three to six months in long-term in-patient alcohol and drug rehabilitation in Cambridge will be time wisely spent and much more effective than short-term programs.
The most important component of all if you or someone you love is struggling with a substance abuse or addiction issue is to get it resolved right away, call someone and seek the advice of trained addiction specialists and get an assessment and rehabilitation possibilities to guarantee the best chance for a recovery.
The following are a combination of 5 local drug rehab listings and 1 nearby drug rehab listings for Cambridge, Ohio:
Chillicothe VA Med Center
(Cambridge is from Cambridge)
2146 Southgate Parkway
Cambridge, OH. 43725
Contact Chillicothe VA Med Center, by calling 740-432-1963.
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance
Cambridge Behavioral Hospital
66755 State Street
Contact Cambridge Behavioral Hospital, by calling 740-432-4906.
Hospital Inpatient Services, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Treatment Programs That Accept Medicare, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance, Drug Treatment Centers That Accept Military Insurance
1200 East Wheeling Avenue
Contact People to People, by calling 740-432-1800.
Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For HIV and AIDS Clients, Drug Rehabs For Gays and Lesbians, Drug Rehabs For Senior Citizens, Drug Rehab Programs For Criminal Justice Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Six County Inc
2500 Glenn Highway
Contact Six County Inc, by calling 740-439-4428.
Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Rehabs For Gays and Lesbians, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Medicaid, Drug Treatment Programs That Accept Medicare, State Financed Insurance, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance, Drug Treatment Centers That Accept Military Insurance, Drug Rehabs With Sliding Scale Fees
Alcohol and Drug Services of
Contact Alcohol and Drug Services of, by calling 740-439-4532.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Rehab Centers For Teens and Adolescents, Drug Rehabs For Senior Citizens, Drug Rehab Centers For Pregnant Women, Drug Rehabs For Women, Drug Treatment Centers For Men, Drug Treatment For DUI and DWI Offenders, Drug Rehab Programs For Criminal Justice Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Southeastern Ohio Counseling Ctr LLC
(Old Washington is 8.9 from Cambridge)
239A Old National Road
Old Washington, OH. 43768
Contact Southeastern Ohio Counseling Ctr LLC, by calling 740-489-5571.
The estimated number and percentage of persons aged 12 or older who used cocaine in the past month in 2008 (1.9 million users or 0.7 percent of the population) were similar to those in 2007 (2.1 million or 0.8 percent) and 2002 (2.0 million or 0.9 percent). However, the number and percentage of past month crack users in 2008 (359,000 or 0.1 percent of the population) were lower than in 2007 (610,000 or 0.2 percent) and all other years going back to 2002 except for 2004.
In 2008, an estimated 8.3 million adults aged 18 or older (3.7 percent of the adult population) had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year; 2.3 million (1.0 percent) made a suicide plan; and, 1.1 million (0.5 percent) attempted suicide. Young adults aged 18 to 25 were more likely than adults aged 26 to 49 and those aged 50 or older to have had serious thoughts of suicide (6.7 vs. 3.9 and 2.3 percent, respectively), to have made any plans for suicide (1.9 vs. 1.1 and 0.7 percent), and to have attempted suicide (1.2 vs. 0.4 and 0.3 percent). Of the adults who attempted suicide in the past year, 62.3 percent received medical attention for their suicide attempts, and 46.0 percent stayed overnight or longer in a hospital for their suicide attempts.
Predictors of Substance Abuse Treatment Completion or Transfer to Further Treatment by Service Type SAMHSA's annual Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) not only provides data on completion rates but on significant predictors of treatment completion for those with discharge information provided by the States for their specialty substance abuse treatment facilities. In general, the significant predictors of substance abuse treatment completion or transfer for clients discharged in 2005 were: alcohol as the primary substance of abuse, less than daily use at admission, being over age 40, having 12 or more years of education, being White, referral to treatment by the criminal justice system, and being employed. Among clients discharged from intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment, men were more likely than women to complete treatment or be transferred for further treatment to another program or facility. Among clients discharged from long term residential substance abuse treatment, women were more likely than men to complete treatment or be transferred for further treatment to another program or facility. Clients referred by the criminal justice system were 58% more likely to complete outpatient treatment or be transferred to further treatment than clients from any other referral source.

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It was an emotional weekend for Phil Collins as he performed for the last time ever with Genesis.
Collins' health has been in tough shape over the past 15 years due to an injured vertebra in his upper neck, which has caused extensive nerve damage.
During this last tour, he performed on stage while seated in a chair. The 71-year-old joked with the crowd in London during Saturday night's last show,
"After tonight we all have to get real jobs."
The Last Domino tour has seen Genesis travel around the U.S. and Europe, with Collins' son Nic taking over drumming duties from his famous father.
Phil Collins bids emotional farewell to fans at his final concert
Music legend Phil Collins held his last concert ever amid his ongoing health issues. Collins was joined by Genesis bandmates Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks for their last show ever at London's 02 Saturday evening . Collins, 71, performed the show sitting down and quipped to the crowd he will now need to find a real job, the Daily Mail reported .
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Despite Rising Crime, Violence, Caribbean Economies Booming
The sun-drenched islands of the Caribbean are enjoying a welcome stretch of good times, with economic growth led by the Dominican Republic—whose gross domestic product will rise 7 percent to 9 percent this year.
Virtually every other country in the region will also finish 2007 with rapid growth, including Trinidad and Tobago (6 percent) and Barbados (5 percent).
In Cuba, where the Castro regime expects its economy to expand by 10 percent this year, caretaker leader Raúl Castro is calling for increased foreign investment and a crackdown on inefficiency and corruption in the state-controlled economy.
Even Haiti—the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere—will see its shattered economy grow by 3.5 percent, while Jamaica, where the long-suffering Jamaica Labour Party has just regained power after 18 years in opposition, will enjoy GDP growth of 2.9 percent.
Yet runaway crime may threaten development. Drug traffickers, who use the Caribbean as a transit point, have driven up crime rates by introducing firearms and narcotics with street value exceeding the size of the region's legal economy.
And with 30 homicides annually per 100,000 people, the Caribbean now has the world's highest murder rate, according to the World Bank. This drives away investment and forces small island nations—especially Jamaica—to divert scarce resources to security.
"The challenge of subduing crime and violence is a major issue for our country," said Sharon Miller, deputy chief of mission at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington. "The government is doing all it can to curb crime and violence and bring it under control."
In early September, Bruce Golding of the Jamaica Labour Party defeated incumbent Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller by only 2,940 votes in one of the closest elections in Jamaican history. Simpson-Miller, whose People's National Party had been in power for 18 years, now controls only 27 of the 60 seats in Parliament.
Golding, 59, campaigned on his promise of reducing Jamaica's crushing national debt while improving the lives of its large underclass. He also said he'd hire more police officers to deal with Jamaica's horrendous murder rate and that he would bring universal health care for the island's 2.8 million people.
In early July, the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) approved a plan to create a regional trading market by 2015. A blueprint agreed upon in Barbados calls for the establishment of a regional financial services accord and the free movement of workers among Caricom countries over the next 18 months.
Although tourism is the Caribbean's economic mainstay, the region has also benefited from tremendous expansion in another industry: call centers.
In 2002, some 11,300 people worked at these centers. But thanks to plunging communications costs, English-speaking workers, relatively low wages and the region's proximity to the United States, today some 55,000 people work at call centers, generating an economic impact of .5 billion for the region.
Jamaica is a leader in this sector, with about 14,000 call-center employees. In the Dominican Republic, 18,000 agents handle calls in English and Spanish. Call centers dedicated to customer service have also opened in Barbados, Trinidad, Dominica and St. Lucia.
"Overall, we see prospects remaining strong but mixed in 2007," said Olga Kalinina, lead Caribbean analyst at Standard & Poor's, which issues sovereign ratings for the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Suriname and Trinidad. "On the real economic side, growth will remain somewhat slower than 2006, but still about 4.3 percent on average for the eight Caribbean sovereigns that we rate [compared to 5 percent for 2006]. This will be backed by construction activity and the tourism sector.
"On the other hand, the fiscal situation will remain challenging for most of the Caribbean, depending on their rating level," she warned. "We may see some deterioration due to Cricket World Cup expenditures, but at the same time, we are expecting to see more revenues thanks to robust growth and some advancement in tax administration."
Luis Molina Achécar, chairman and chief executive officer of Banco BHD, the second-largest private bank in the Dominican Republic, said his country's GDP could grow as much as 9 percent this year. "The Dominican economy is doing very well. We've maintained a stable exchange rate with very slow depreciation, and there have been practically no devaluations," he explained. "The Central Bank has been accumulating reserves and we are meeting all the goals of the IMF [International Monetary Fund]. There's great interest from overseas investors in our country, and a lot of foreign investment is coming in."
In fact, in 2006, direct foreign investment in the Dominican Republic rose by 15.7 percent from the year before, said Eddy Martinez, chief of the Dominican Center for Exports and Investment. According to his office, 2007 exports will reach .5 billion, of which .9 billion will come from the country's growing free-trade zone network.
In addition, the Dominican Republic boasts the Caribbean's largest tourism venture ever, Cap Cana. The billion project is being developed in stages over the next 10 years and should yield 5,000 residential units and 500 hotel rooms.
Yet some storm clouds have appeared on the Dominican horizon. "I think we're starting to be a little expensive by Caribbean standards," said Alejando Fernández, director of BetaMetrix, an economic forecasting firm based in Santo Domingo. He sees the peso as overvalued at 32 to the dollar, and says it should be around 40.
"Because of that, our export business has basically stagnated. Some maquila-type businesses [labor-intensive factories] have not done very well or have disappeared in the last two or three years," said Fernández. "Some of the most important industrial groups have actually shut down or transferred business to other countries on account of the DR-CAFTA agreement," he added, referring to the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement with the United States.
A mega-project of a different kind is underway in Port of Spain, the bustling yet rundown capital of Trinidad. The ambitious 5 million Port of Spain Waterfront Development Project includes two 26-story towers and a 22-floor, 428-room Hyatt Regency Hotel, along with a conference complex featuring exhibition space, pre-function rooms and retail shopping facilities.
"Trinidad is booming. The markets are, of course, driven by the downstream energy sector," said Ian Chinapoo, managing director of capital markets at FirstCaribbean. "Overall, it's one of the strongest-performing economies in Latin America and the Caribbean, and it's not only because of oil."
Trinidad—where Prime Minister Patrick Manning won re-election on Nov. 5—is also a major exporter of liquefied natural gas, methanol and ammonia, and the country's GDP growth is being driven by the continued high prices and strong demand for these exports. Among major industrial projects being contemplated is a class="import-text">2007December.Caribbean Economies Booming.txt.7 billion steel plant owned by Essar Steel Caribbean.
In addition, the Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust (UTC) launched the Unit Trust Energy Investment Fund earlier this summer. The fund will invest 0 million in the energy sector and is basically a vehicle that allows ordinary citizens to purchase shares in the wealth generated by large energy conglomerates.
Gail Daniel Warrell, vice president of UTC's marketing division, pointed out that "BP, Texaco, Chevron, British Gas, BHP Billiton, Petro-Canada and others have made billions from oil and gas. Yet until now, the ordinary man and woman could not have a direct stake in these companies that have profited so handsomely from Trinidad and Tobago's natural resources."
Although Trinidad itself is not much of a tourist destination, nearly all other Caribbean islands depend on the dollars that tourism generates to feed their people and keep their economies functioning. From Barbados to the Bahamas, the trend is increasingly toward upscale properties and the "luxury second-home" market.
"The bank continues to see a growing demand for project financing in the real estate, hotel, hospitality and tourism sectors across the region," said Chinapoo. "Major luxury resort developments are under way in several territories, with world-renowned resort brands leading the way."
Despite rising construction costs, demand remains high, yet not all the news is good. Relatively high inflation, the expiration of preferential trade agreements for bananas, and the new U.S. law requiring passports to travel to the area are expected to present further challenges to the overall performance of Caribbean economies.
"Growth has slowed to some degree in the Eastern Caribbean, primarily because these countries—particularly St. Kitts-Nevis, Belize and Antigua—find themselves overburdened by debt to some degree," said Lyndon Guiseppi, managing director of RBTT Merchant Bank in Port of Spain. RBTT (Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago) is currently financing a number of projects around the region, including a million expansion of St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, an million refurbishment of cruise ship and cargo port facilities on St. Maarten, and a 0 million toll-road expansion in Jamaica.
Meanwhile, Haiti, the region's poorest country, has earned duty-free entry into the United States for locally sewn apparel. Lawmakers passed the bill in March as a way of helping the violence-plagued nation. Last year, Haiti sent 0 million worth of clothing to the U.S. market, accounting for 90 percent of its exports to the United States.
Larry Luxner is news editor of The Washington Diplomat.
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"Flying Out The Gate" - The Red Hot 8-0 Warriors
"Air Iggy" (Photo by Ezra Shaw)
By Michael S. Rampa
The Warriors improved their record to 8-0 after defeating the Detroit Pistons 109-95 on Monday night at The Oracle. That makes it 23 straight regular season W's for the Warriors in Oakland dating back to last year. No other team in Golden State history has started a season this hot since they moved to the Bay Area in 1962. Michael Jordan's record season of 72-10 is still in play. Hell, 82-0 should still be considered a possibility so long as Steph Curry is in the lineup every night. The Warriors are stupid good.
Through the first eight games, this might be the most unselfish Warriors team I've ever watched. They lead the league in scoring, averaging just an eyelash under 115 points per game and their assists per game is sitting north of 26 per. They move the ball so beautifully and players routinely pass up a good look at the rim to get a teammate a better shot. It's truly the way basketball was meant to be played.
The Dubs are always laughing, slapping hands and the bench goes crazy when Curry hits a big three or Iguodala slams down a dunk with authority. These Warriors set picks and screens for each other. They are willing to step in the lane and take a hit from a 6'10" power forward barreling down on them to force a charge. Everywhere you look, up and down the lineup, every player seems to be fully invested. Winning is their bottom line and it's all they seem to care about.
I realize team chemistry alone will not win you championships, not to mention back-to-back titles. You have to have the talent to go with it. Steph Curry, the reigning MVP and the team's clear alpha dog, is the fourth highest paid player on the team this year. The fourth! He could have walked into Joe Lacob's office before training camp and demand he rip up his current contract.
Of course, he didn't do that. Not Steph's style. He is a team first guy and realizes he needs good players around him to add to his championship résumé. Steph knows he will get his monster contract soon enough and we all are aware that he could score 50 points almost every night if he wanted to. But is that what's best for the team? Not according to Curry. An assist is just as important to him and he loves getting his teammates the ball with a nifty pass to excite the Roaracle crowd.
Surely, the road through the Western Conference will be tougher than ever this year. The Clippers are better than last year, as is San Antonio, and Houston will be right there again down the stretch. Oklahoma City has Kevin Durant back, so that instantly makes them a force again as well in the West.
As it stands, the Warriors are clearly the best team in the NBA. They are firing on all cylinders through these first eight games and doing it without their head coach, Steve Kerr. Fortunately, Luke Walton has done a nice job running the team in his absence. Similar to when a CEO goes on a safari and someone under him or her is left in charge of the company. They simply need to read the "how to manual," follow the CEO's orders and don't change anything while they are away. Walton has taken over the reigns beautifully, and there is no reason to believe he can't keep it up. Clearly, the players respond well to his style.
If the next 74 games are as entertaining as the first eight, then Dubs fans are in for a wild ride. Somehow, Steve Kerr's back injury has done nothing more than speed this team up, rather than slow them down. Tomorrow they'll walk into Memphis 8-0. The smart money says they'll fly out unblemished. Perhaps the haters should have held their tongue. The Dubs are rolling.
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I often think there's something wonderful in not being an expert on anything. Take the annual immigration of Cranes, for instance. It makes this completely unexpected event, in our ignorance, so much more of a pleasure and surprise. Such a beautiful intrusion on our lives. We gaze up in wonder at dozens of V-formations of these great birds from Spain and North Africa and the Sahara dessert through the South West of France, on their way to the temperate breeding places in northern and western Europe.
The date - 4th March 2010 - we are attracted by their mystical, distant and bubbly cry. Masses of them flying in their V-formations. It isn't just one or two flocks that fly over - there are thousands of them. Some seemingly, with intent, flying onwards to distant lands. They cross the sky from right to left, going north. The phenomena lasts for the whole afternoon - each thousand of the birds followed by another. Some are intent on crossing over us to prescribed destinations - others hesitant and starting to gather up in less organised groups, soring and cavorting upwards as if suddenly in doubt as to their life's purpose. Thermal columns of air seem to be driving them upwards higher and higher. Then another more disciplined skein comes in much lower, distracting us from the first who have disappeared heaven-wards.
What a joy it is to see such a wealth of natural life, in such abundance, so many large birds doing what they have always done, when we are so often made fearful about our crumbling planet through the constant intrusions of the media. How little I know. How I am full of wonder and relief.


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Grand Guilds – February Update & Announcements
Published by Justin on March 3, 2019
Hello everyone! This past month we've made a lot of progress with the game's main story campaign and overall feel of the game. Some of these things will impact the game's level of polish and player experience.
Before anything else though, we have 2 big announcements to make. First is we'll be at GDC this March 18 to 23 as part of the MIX Asian Game Showcase and we're also going to PAX East on March 28 to 29. Thanks to our publisher Keybol Games for making it happen!
Second, we're going to have another Kickstarter campaign! Yes, you read that right, Grand Guilds is launching a crowdfunding campaign. Our 1st attempt last September 2018 was unsuccessful but we're highly optimistic for this re-launch, especially with the amount of support we've recently had.
No official launch date yet for the Kickstarter but it will be somewhere between last week of March and first week of April 2019.
Now on to the monthly progress report for February! As usual, we've been working on the story-related content for the game. This includes enemies, maps, characters, and combat encounters.
NEW VOICE LINES
One huge progress we've had is with the voice lines in the game. We recently had a highly successful casting call. Hundreds of voice talents auditioned for our main and supporting roles which was really awesome! We have such a talented new cast and I'm extremely happy about it. We're currently in the process of recording and integrating the new lines into the game.
As part of our upcoming Kickstarter campaign, we redesigned the Grand Guilds logo as well. We wanted to move away from the Final Fantasy feel of our old logo but still keep it relevant. We also made it so the "guilds" concept is more apparent.
ENEMY UNIT SUMMONING
In terms of gameplay, enemy unit summoning is back! We had this system as a core feature in the very early development stages of the game. I scrapped it in an attempt to make the game more focused on skill cards instead of character cards. Now it's back but to a lesser degree. Only some boss enemies will be able to summon units as part of their deck. These summoned units will also work differently compared to regular ones. A summoned character will not have cards and will have to rely on their basic attacks and the boss enemy's cards. Hopefully this will make things more balanced and less overwhelming for the player.
NEW MENU SCREEN & MUSIC
Lastly, I redesigned the main menu screen to fit better with the current story we have. I'm also planning to have the menu's background change depending on the player's current stage in the story.
Alongside this, our composer made a new soundtrack for this menu. It's designed so it kinda tells you the story of the game or what to expect. You can listen to it here:
That's all for this post! If you haven't already, come join our Discord server! We don't bite – Discord.gg
Thanks for reading! See you in the next one!
– Justin V.
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Deer Park, NY: The SBA recently nominated MCG Surge Protection of Deer Park, NY, for the Administrator's Award of Excellence for their collaboration with TRW on a critical, time-sensitive requirement for the US Army.
TRW approached MCG to design custom surge protection for application between the GPS link and the computer. The installations, plagued by transients that were being generated when the GPS system was linked to the computer, were sustaining damage and malfunction. Five thousand units in the field are vulnerable.
A military exercise was scheduled to start that fall, necessitating the delivery of 688 of the TVSS units. The requirements called for a Data Line Protector that could easily plug into and become an integral part of the system. It must divert transients in nanoseconds. Physically, the unit need to have hardwired connections on both ends and be housed in a waterproof enclosure compatible with the application.
MCG had less than 4 weeks to design a prototype, get approval, order parts, assemble and drop ship to Fort Hood, Texas. TRW sent quality assurance personnel to the MCG plant to approve its quality control system, which is now ISO-9001:2008 compliant. MCG employees worked overtime to ensure that the 688 pieces arrived on time for the military exercise. The effort of everyone involved was huge.
Under a seemingly impossible deadline, MCG was able to successfully satisfy a critical need, and was proud to do so. To date, there are zero reported failures in the MCG protectors or the protected equipment.
MCG Surge Protection was founded in 1967 and specializes solely in the design and manufacture of AC Power Line, Data/Signal/Telephone Line and DC Surge Protectors. MCG pioneered many of the innovations that are commonplace today including modularity, redundancy, low impedance Micro-Z wiring, and advanced local diagnostics for ease of servicing, event monitoring, audible alarm, etc.
For more detailed information, please visit MCG's website at: www.mcgsurge.com. Or call (800) 851-1508.
August 2005 - MCG Surge Protection of Deer Park, New York recently introduced the LS Series of AC Power Line Surge Protectors for Main and Branch Panel applications. These rugged protectors offer an array of standard features and a variety of mix and match options enabling the user to customize the unit and pay only for what is actually needed. There are over 120 different configurations possible. The protectors are available in 120kA, 200kA, 300kA and 560kA.
Standard features include 40kA MOVs, redundant surge paths per phase, LED diagnostics, easy application upgrade of motherboard assembly, field-replaceable protection modules, NEMA 4 enclosure and EMI/RFI filtering. All units are UL-1449 listed, NEMA LS-1 compliant and come with a ten-year, no nonsense warranty.
Per the application, the user can add any or all of the following options: internal disconnect switch, Audible alarm with mute/transient event counter/remote relay, NEMA 4X SS enclosure, flush mount kit, and MCG's proprietary Micro=Z low-impedance connection cable.
The unit is available to protect 120-1600VAC, 1-3ph, wye and delta. Prices start at $2200; delivery is stock. The unit is covered by a no-nonsense 10-year warranty and a lifetime warranty on the protection modules. For more information, please contact Sue Baron at (800) 851-1508, or email : info1@mcsurge.com or visit us on the web at www.mcsurge.com .
April 2003 - Deer Park, New York - Voltage transients on power supply bus result from excessive fluctuations in prim power source voltage, loss of integral voltage regulation, maladjustments, series regulator faults, etc. The new LVC Series sense when a DC over voltage occurs and switches rapidly from an "open" to a virtual "short" circuit. Any potentially destructive energy from resultant transients is now provided with a very low resistance path around sensitive components such as ICs, transistors, etc.. The crowbar will automatically reset when the current is removed.
Transients generated by the power supply itself can wreak havoc on the downstream load. The LVC protectors install inside a power supply or between the power supply and sensitive equipment. Operating in microseconds, the LVC offers a quick, sure, economical fix.
The protectors are available in the following trip voltages: 7.5V, 18V and 30V for 7A, 25A and 55A applications. Mil Spec and other trip voltages available. Delivery is from stock. For more information, contact MCG Surge Protection, 12 Burt Drive, Deer Park, NY 11729; 1 (800) 851-1508 or 1 (631) 586-5125. Visit our comprehensive website at www.mcgsurge.com or e-mail us at info@mcgsurge.com .
One of my distributors, who has only purchased MCG equipment once before, called me yesterday, looking for a price. I wasn't in and, in true New York fashion, he couldn't wait so he called MCG.
Anthony took the call, checked the records to see what he had paid on his last order and gave him my standard distributor pricing. In addition, he had some technical questions that Glenn Clifford handled.
By the time I got to call my customer back, which was about one hour after his initial call, he was absolutely thrilled with the service he had received from MCG. He told me that no one tried to over-sell the job and he was given practical, sensible advise.I should mention that this particular customer does not normally throw around compliments.
Our company, located in south of China, is a high-tech joint-venture enterprise specializing in fiber optic technologies. We are one of the world's largest manufacturers of leading edge Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) optical components.
In February 2004, our company acquired a new production line and transferred it to a facility in south China. Unfortunately, that factory is located in one of China's worst lightning zones, and the millions of dollars of high-tech sensitive equipment installed in the premises are exposed to many dangerous lightning strikes. We contacted many experts who recommended various solutions including complicated and expensive improvements to our grounding system.
We installed one of their 200 kA models at our building entrance and smaller models inside our assembly –line room.
The service was friendly and professional. And the protectors are working great. Since we installed our MCG surge protectors several huge lightning storms have hit our facility, but our assembly-line equipment has remained on-line with no damage what so ever. In addition our MCG surge protectors protected our equipment form huge branch panel explosion caused by a power line short circuit incident.
Thank you so much for the translations of the installation instructions. (from English to French). The Libreville, Gabon Post and our office appreciate the outstanding effort and support that MCG has given us over the years.
Let us know if this sounds interesting to your management. We like to work with brand-name quality vendors and MCG fills the bill. Have a good weekend!
An endorsement from one of our Global Healthcare Manufacturer customers.
Enclosed please find the one of the two damaged surge protectors - the subject of our prior correspondence . The enclose surge protector is the one shown in the digital photographs I sent previously.
As an ISO-9001: 2000 Company, we are required to keep an on-going Customer Feedback Log.
"Good product at a good price. "
"Buys our DLP-4.71's, has no failures, will continue to purchase these. "
"Our units always are delivered as requested; therefore they will continue to order. "
"MCG has great customer service and technical support. "
"Our units are of excellent quality, well built."
"MCG has a great warranty."


Jennifer Dykes Henson is a writer, wife, and mom to two young girls. She has coauthored several bestselling books, including The Generosity Ladder and Tongue Pierced. Previously, Jennifer worked with Dr. Charles Stanley as the marketing communications manager for In Touch Ministries. She lives with her family in Atlanta, Georgia.


in Lytham St Annes, Situated just behind the promenade, yards from the beach, local restaurants, cafes and pubs and St. Annes Square, for the Flyde Bike Meet, which takes place every Monday evening on the town square, with cafes and bars and lots of Biker banter!
A short ride to Blackpool, Preston, Southport, Fleetwood, The Lake District and the Lancashire Countryside. Free Wi-Fi. Parking on the forecourt.
Surrounded by beautiful countryside, yet only five miles from the M6, convenient location for the coast and countryside, Blackpool, the Lake District, Forest of Bowland, Rivington Barn and Preston.
Blackpool, Promonade, Clayton Le Dale, Lancaster, Lancashire, Ribble Valley, Lytham, Lytham St Annes, Preston, Fleetwood, Biker Friendly B&B, Biker places, stay Blackpool, Illuminations parking, close to Lancaster, the Lakes and Dales, Carnforth Station featured in the classic film Brief Encounter and a pleasant ride to Devils Bridge in Kirkby Lonsdale - a popular biker meet, the West Pennine Moors Lytham St Annes. Flyde Bike Meet, Southport, Fleetwood, The Lake District and the Lancashire Countryside, historic Lancaster to Heysham ferry for the Isle of Man or for exploring the Lake District. Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales, the Forest of Bowland, Blackpool and the Lune Valley, of the village of Eccleston Off the M6 at junction 27 and within easy distance of the seaside resorts of Southport, Blackpool, and Lytham St Annes, the Lake District, North Wales and used as a stop off on the Lands End to John O'Groats route.


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At this year's INTA, the 136th Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association, which took place in Hong Kong from May 10 until May 14, BARDEHLE PAGENBERG's partners Claus M. Eckhartt and Henning Hartwig shared their expertise about IP, trademark and design law by giving presentations in the INTA program items "Table Topics" and "Concurrent Sessions", respectively.
By staging the exchange platform "Table Topics", the Annual Meeting offered more than 200 guided discussions on a wide variety of contemporary and central themes. Not only did the "Table Topics" trigger professional conversations but the program item also gave participants the opportunity to network with colleagues from all around the globe. In the said setting, Henning Hartwig gave a presentation on European Design Law on Tuesday, May 13. Thereby, he specifically focused on issues relating to the guidance from the General Court, providing the other participants with first-hand insight from a design law expert and advice on legal challenges and controversial issues.
Further information on "Table Topics" can be found here.
Claus M. Eckhartt was amongst the speakers on the Concurrent Session "Working with Customs in Europe" on Monday, May 12. Speakers from the European Union discussed issues on transshipment and customs in Europe, including a comparison of national approaches to EU customs in a harmonized system and providing the attendees with practical tips for working with EU customs. The speakers from this panel also included representatives from the European Commission/DG TAXUD and the World Customs Organization.
Further information can be found under here.


The King is getting into the swing of spring; are you? Join the Neptune Festival at our 24th Annual Golf Tournament at Bayville Golf Club. Drive, chip, and putt your way to prizes at a tournament that truly gives you the royal treatment! Tournament is limited to 36 foursomes, and sells out annually.


An independent, private non-profit organization, IDRA works with thousands of K-12 educators, and family, community and higher education partners to achieve equal educational opportunity for every child through strong public schools that prepare all students to access and succeed in college.
The Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) is a recognized international leader in dropout prevention and research-based effective practice for ELs. In STEM areas, IDRA has partnered with public schools to achieve impressive teacher and student outcomes through innovative mathematics and science professional development models.
IDRA began in 1973 based on the belief that it is not possible to have excellent, equitable schools without an excellent, equitable system of funding for schools. Since then, IDRA has broadened its scope to include other issues related to excellence and equity in education. As a result, IDRA has changed the face of education at the local, state, regional, and national levels.
IDRA propelled the reform of state funding systems, designed and implemented school-based programs that cut dropout rates by 90 percent, developed programs that work for young learners, fostered student and teacher leadership development, and conducted research that informs policy reform. Everything we do is built on a model for success, IDRA's Quality Schools Action Framework, which is a comprehensive action model for graduating and preparing all students for college.
IDRA is celebrating 45 years as a national pioneer in promoting excellent, equitable schooling for diverse students by intersecting research, policy and practice.
IDRA was founded in 1973 by Dr. José A. Cárdenas and, today, is directed by President & CEO, Dr. María "Cuca" Robledo Montecel. For more than two decades, Dr. Robledo Montecel has led IDRA as a dynamic, independent organization with constancy of purpose, commitment, principles and courage. The organization remains dedicated to the improvement of educational opportunities for children. The issues IDRA has framed and the solutions that have been created, by IDRA and our partners, are all firmly grounded in this purpose.
• IDRA is a recognized leader and innovator in educational equity as evidenced by being the only organization to operate an equity assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education since their inception in 1975. IDRA has guided thousands of school districts to focus on educational opportunity as a fundamental responsibility and civil right for which all schools and districts are accountable.
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• Stemming from IDRA's early childhood education research, we developed Semillitas de Aprendizaje, an early childhood supplemental curriculum. From bilingual big books to small readers, storytelling videos, STEM activities and cartitas ("letters home"), the materials are designed to help teachers foster literacy, numeracy and social-emotional development, while valuing children's home language and culture.
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ADVENTURELAND Is Something Special
So, your life must be utter shit or you wouldn't be here.
It's two o'clock in the morning. I'm tired and I have a headache. But I had to turn my laptop on and write. I just watched ADVENTURELAND; for the second night in a row. I have no idea what I want to write, I just know that I have to. This is how I know it's a great movie. When you start figuring out clever things to write in your blog midway through a film, then you know it sucks.
'Adventureland' is about being in your teens or in your early twenties, at that stage when you're trying to figure your life out whilst surviving a bullshit job and falling in and out of love. Pretty much as soon as we love movies about these topics we begin to hate them and look for something more meaningful-- just like in real life. We're young people in dead end jobs for our whole lives but we're only really open and honest about it at the beginning -- at the age the characters in this movie are portraying. We spent the rest of life being grown up, pretending we have it figured out, refusing to dance the dance of emotion and love and lust and pain. We're only reminded of how big a part of ourselves these things are when we see a piece of art like 'Adventureland.'
Don't you just love that movies like this exist? That the guy who directed SUPERBAD (Greg Mottola) can follow it up with something so understated and honest. Who'd have thought? And who'd have believed that the girl from TWILIGHT would follow it up with something like this? While we're on the subject, it's important to say: Kristen Stewart is amazing. Everyone seems to hate her now because she's in these big blockbusters and because she doesn't smile and act like a whore every time her agent forces her onto television to do promotion or every time a group of journalists interrupt her holiday abroad to see if she's still with her boyfriend. We seem to hate her for the fact that she just likes to act, just likes to do her job. But she's something special. She's great in INTO THE WILD and IN THE LAND OF THE WOMEN and she does a solid job in TWILIGHT, but it's in films like this one where you really get to see what she's capable of. And what is it she's capable of? Honesty. Subtlety. Humanity. I can't help but watch her and feel like I know her. Or feel like I knew her, like we went to school together. She knows what acting is, she knows what her job is; and she does it with a grace and skill that is rare.
But then, so does Jesse Eisenberg. What I love about him on screen, whether it's in 'Adventureland' or THE SOCIAL NETWORK is that he just knows how to be himself. And of course, actors get criticised for 'always being themselves' but people don't realize how tough that is. Most actors spend their whole careers trying to be someone else because they haven't got a clue how to be themselves. These guys know how to do it and the results are incredible. Watching Eisenberg and Stewart in this movie; we get to really see the characters, we get to really feel something real; and as a result, we get to see ourselves.
You might think you're watching a bunch of young people working at a theme park but what you're really seeing is yourself back when you worked in that store, or at that leisure center or at that bowling alley or wherever the hell it was back when you kept falling in and out of love whilst trying to figure out what the hell you were going to do with your life. This is a movie about you and it's a movie about me. It's a film that dares to be honest and dares to be small.
They struggled to market this movie. It had the 'elements' like the big actors and the hotshot writer/director -- but there was a problem: it had a story, and it had heart. How the fuck do you market something like that? The problem is, you can't. You can't market heart. If a good heart was an easy sell then all the lonely people on dating sites tonight would be out there falling in love. But it's not that easy. Good heart doesn't sell well. It's hard to recognize, and people will misunderstand it and people won't be expecting it. You have to just do it, be it, create it. Heart will find its way eventually. Films like 'Adventureland' sneak up on you when you don't expect it. They are disguised as typical studio comedies and they're generally thrown out in cinemas and swiftly dumped because no-one really knows they exist or they know they exist but have been sold some bullshit by a trailer that made the movie seem like some contrived, typical junk.
But 'Adventureland' exists. And it's a little slice of magic.Thank you, Greg Mottola.
Wait, Em -- I think, I maybe see you a little differently than-than you see yourself. Yes, I-I see the person who fucked up but I.. I also see the person who saved me from being knifed over a giant-ass-panda.
TheUnwashedMass 27 October 2010 at 19:36
I enjoyed this film. It's sweet. Interested to see what Mottola makes of Pegg and Frost in "Paul".
Danny King 27 October 2010 at 21:07
I LOVE this post. I remember seeing "Adventureland" in theaters, and I was moved and entertained by it, but it kind of fell by the wayside by the year's end. But I have since rewatched the film three or four times, and it is hands down one of the best romantic comedies I've seen in years. Eisenberg and Stewart are so well-matched, and that scene you highlighted in the rain is just beautiful.
By the way, Stewart is awesome in "The Runaways" if you have a chance to check it out. I can only offer a slight recommendation of the film overall, but her performance is electric.
Shruthi Padmanabhan 28 October 2010 at 00:16
Kristen Stewart, I don't like too much. I'm yet to see a performance of hers that has made me change that opinion. One of her problems is that she does the same thing in all her performances - the messy hair, her refusal to look you in the eye, the kind of stammered speech... same thing, every film.
Adventureland as a film, apart from that, is great. I loved watching it. It's a slice of life from a land far, far away and more than anything else, I'm glad that it's told in a way that I can see it for what it is - life.
Erika @ Health and Happiness in LA 28 October 2010 at 00:50
I agree that you see yourself when you watch this movie. And it's one thing I liked about Kristen Stewart's performance - I had an experience very similar to hers, being the "secret girlfriend" - and I thought she expressed the pain of that situation perfectly.
Milly 28 October 2010 at 04:35
I love Adventureland, this is an awesome post!
I really didn't like Kristen in Twilight, but she actually really excelled my expectations in this. One of my favourite movies :)
JP 28 October 2010 at 06:02
You know, I also watched this movie on-demand awhile back...and then watched it again the next night. I think one of the things that makes it great is that it has that 80's tone to it...yet it's not necessarily set in 1985. Just a good all around movie.
And I actually really liked Kristen Stewart in the film.
LEAT 28 October 2010 at 07:06
I have this waiting at home and nearly watched it the last 2 nights. Sounds exactly like the stories I love. But for me deep down it's only ever about the people and the relationships, however they get dressed up and displayed.
Now I'm not sure whether to sort it out and get watching, or go to the Camden NaNoWriMo meet....!
DM Hartropp 28 October 2010 at 08:15
I'm with JP and Milly and the other guys above - Adventureland is a very good piece of work. I enjoyed Ryan Reynolds' performance too.
The Kid In The Front Row 28 October 2010 at 14:58
You guys have no idea how happy it makes me to see that you all love this movie too. Seems we are not alone -- I have been reading many other reviews-- this film REALLY is something SPECIAL. Wow. This movie reminds me of how much I friggin' LOVE movies!
Marc 28 October 2010 at 23:39
I just saw it some days ago and liked it, too. Didn't love it but liked it. Especially that it was set in the 80ies where everything was still great. Okay, I was under 10 in this decade. This is exactly WHY it was great ;)
Kristen, Kirsten or what is her name was a good fit for the part, I think. Haven't seen a lot of movies with her but she can really play the troubled girl that has few smiles left for the world. Never saw Twilight and never will, so I can like that girl a while...
Agreeing with what Dan Man said, Ryan Reynolds was excellent, and someone I really rate as an actor. Having said that, the whole ensemble on the movie are excellent!
I knew there would be someone besides me who found there to just be something more to this movie. Every single person I know who has seen it says it's either bad or ok and theres not much too it. Im 17 now and have been watching the movie for two years and it only gets more and more relatable every time I watch it. And this I think is the kind of movie you have to watch by yourself too to really take it all in. And it just feels good to be able to say something like that and not sound like I'm trying to overpraise/overanalyze it. Because unless you are in that sweet spot age group you mentioned you will really not be able to appreciate it in my opinion. If only there were more movies with such hidden beauty such as this...
Cory R. 29 September 2011 at 08:53
This is one of my favorite movies and one of the reasons why I insist Kristen Stewart is talented (despite the awfulness that is Twilight).
I can't explain it, but there's something that this movie does to me. I was born in 1985, so I don't relate to the 80's atmosphere, but I relate to graduating college and not knowing what I want to do. I relate to the 15-29 young love that makes your heart go all giddy.
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I'm off to Romania, to work with Outstretched Hands of Romania for a few days. So posts likely to be ....few-non existent?
Because we will be busy busy busy, we've had fun already collecting and packing all this stuff to take.


This week 4F and 4E made Easter eggs. In Social Studies, we consider how the art, narratives and literature of various ethnic groups have contributed to the vitality of the culture, language and identity of diverse Alberta communities over time. We were very lucky to welcome Jean to our class. She explained to students the significance of making Easter eggs for the Ukrainian community here in Alberta. Students were very intrigued by her explanations. They watched her demonstration of how to design eggs and were able to use beeswax, candles and tools to create their own designs on eggs. We very much appreciated that grade 8 leadership students came to our classroom to assist grade 4s in making their eggs. Jean will varnish the eggs and we will likely be able to bring their eggs home next week as a unique and beautiful souvenir of Jean's visit and of the knowledge we have gained from this unique and worthwhile cultural activity.