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If you're travelling for a school event, church trip, family reunion, or other private outing, let GOGO Charters find the perfect transport option for your group. You'll enjoy personalised travel accommodations with comfortable amenities and a knowledgeable, professional driver.
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Boulder offering technology companies and startups 'talent, tech, recreation and sun'
By Paul Hagey May 6 2020
Editor's note: May is BLDRfly's tech startup issue, where we'll profile Boulder tech startup luminaries, stand out startups and some of the other important players in the city's outstanding startup ecosystem such as venture capital firms and accelerators.
Boulder has always attracted big companies — it offers employees a world-class place to live and execs a wonderful outpost to live or visit. IBM, of course, established a campus here in the 1960s.
Homegrown tech companies have also risen to great heights here such as Zayo Group (pending $14.3 billion acquisition by Digital Colony) and Rally Software (acquired by CA Technologies in 2015).
Boulder's tech ecosystem has deepened over the last decade and a half, led by pioneering leaders such as Brad Feld, who co-founded global tech accelerator Techstars in Boulder and runs one of the city's largest venture capital firms in Foundry Group and wrote his 2012 book "Startup Communities" based on his experience in the Boulder startup scene.
In recent years, driven by Boulder's small-town charm, talented workforce and big-mountain lifestyle, the nation's largest consumer tech companies have begun opening shop here. Google, Amazon, Twitter and Apple have all amplified their presence here, each bringing hundreds of employees to town.
This further amplifies Boulder's already significant stature. Pound-for-pound, the city stands on par with some of the nation's most dynamic startup ecosystems such as Silicon Valley, Seattle and Boston.
It also has all the foundational components to a strong startup ecosystem:
a smart workforce (Bloomberg ranked Boulder No. 1 on its 2019 Brain Concentration index, a measure of science and technology degrees, advanced degrees and business formation)
a vibrant entrepreneur ecosystem (12 percent of Boulder businesses are defined as startups)
an active investment scene (Boulder has a lot of VC companies, particularly those focused on early stage investments; Boulder companies attract a lot of VC money)
a high quality of life
Among the 18 startup cities analyzed by the Boulder Chamber in its 2020-updated Boulder Innovation report, Boulder ranked fourth with $3,813 in per-capita venture capital investment behind only San Francisco, Palo Alto (in the heart of Silicon Valley) and Boston.
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"Boulder has one of the nation's most dynamic, robust, diverse, highest-performing economies," says Clif Harald, Boulder Economic Development Council executive director and an organizer of the report.
These big companies not only bring jobs, but executive expertise and hungry entrepreneurs who, themselves, will join other smaller companies, attract more investment and further burnish Boulder's tech scene.
Google, of course, has been building a $131 million three-building, 300,000-square-foot Boulder campus at 2930 Pearl Street over the last several years. It had plans to move employees into the final building on the campus, which has room for about 1,500 employees, this spring.
In 2019, Google expanded its footprint with an additional 160,000 square feet, taking over the space at 3333 Walnut Street, vacated by CA Technologies Inc. At a gauge of 150 square feet per employee, the building could accommodate approximately 1,000 additional Google employees. Google also has space at 2590 Pearl Street and 2600 Pearl Street.
Several Google subsidiaries also have a presence in Boulder, including health care technology firm Verily Life Sciences and Google smart home device developer Google Nest, which has a perch at 2525 28th Street. Currently, Google says it has approximately 1,300 employees in Boulder among its various divisions.
Google had 27 open Boulder positions listed on its website at press.
Amazon opened a small office in Boulder in July 2017 and expanded to a 37,000-square-foot downtown space at 1900 15th Street in 2018. Amazon employees in town focus on digital advertising, consumer electronics and cloud computing. We don't have exact numbers, but Amazon's Boulder office has room for 1,500 staff.
The company has upped its hiring in Colorado this year; it has almost doubled its Colorado employee count this spring to nearly 8,000. Amazon pitches Boulder to potential hires as a place with "talent, tech, recreation and sun."
Amazon is hiring for 37 Boulder jobs on its website at press.
Twitter swooped into Boulder in 2014 when it acquired Boulder startup Gnip, a social media data aggregation and presentation tool. Twitter Boulder employees, last reported at over 100, work out of the Wencel Building at 1301 Walnut Street.
Twitter had 49 open Boulder jobs listed on its website at press time.
Apple, which operates a software hub at 5360 Sterling Drive in Boulder, has declined to comment on its Boulder operations beyond making a statement about a year ago that the firm's local headcount could jump to 500 by 2022.
Apple has 16 open Boulder jobs listed on its site.
Big Tech, Small Tech
It's in this big-tech milieu that Boulder continues to operate as a world-class hub for tech and innovation.
It does not have the size and scope of tier-one startup areas such as Silicon Valley, Seattle or Boston, but it offers companies, founders, entrepreneurs and innovators something they can't get in busier parts of the world — a tight-knit community, a "help-first" mantra, and close proximity to mountain lifestyles and one of the nation's best airport hubs in DIA.
With a wealth of next-gen jobs, it is also well-positioned to rebound from Covid-19.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth "You owe me."
Shamanic Freedom and Power Up! Sunday 15th November 2015.
Facilitated by Katie Chalis and myself.
Venue: Airy Fairy, Goddess Temple. 10am til 5.30pm.
The focus of the day is to gain insights into our current conundrums by accessing the deep wisdom & compassion of Spirit, then diving deep into forgiveness and cord cutting. The rituals will be interspersed with music, dance, qi-gong and anything else that seems to suit the mood. Expect to leave with more love for yourself and your neighbours!
Katie Challis, who uses techniques from the Sundoor lineage, Sandra Ingerman & Celtic Shaman Stephen Mulhearne, will lead us into the Spirit Council. I will be teaching and leading us into Cord Cutting.
Cost £25.00. Please contact us if financial constraints are blocking you from joining us.
The cafe will be closed that day, so bring your own lunch.
To book email info@jobrierley.co.uk or phone me on 0777 609 1439.
For me, Shamanism means recognising that the One-spirit of God is alive in every aspect of our world. Understanding that energy enlivens not only the human, but all living things including animals, birds, microbes, plants, soil, the rock beneath the soil, everything. Recognising also that there is more to our reality than just what we can see. A person on a shamanic path will learn how to communicate with the energies of spirits and other realms. These relationships can be used for personal growth, healing or the evolution of our species. (Contact me to book an appointment).
What to expect from a healing appointment.
I create an energetically safe place for us to work in, then I call in the energies that I work with and let them do the work that they deem necessary. Experience has show me that the best I can do for my clients is get out of the way and let these awe inspiring energies/beings do their work for you….for the highest possible good and the best possible outcome.
Sessions can be fluid with me sharing/showing you some exercises that open/strengthen your energetic bodies. We may find ourselves shaking to some fine tunes. I hasten to add that this will all be an invitation only. You only do what your agree to. Come in loose, comfy clothing that you can move around in.
Appointments usually last an hour and a half.
Clients have experienced everything from subtle shifts in perception to profound healings and transformation. Consistently clients report feeling incredibly calm, centred and lighter. Sometimes they report seeing lots of colours or going on meaningful journeys in their imaginations. Modern neuroscience proves that our imaginations and our bodies are deeply connected. See the links page for more info.
At all times you are in control and can ask to have the session stopped. More often than not I am simply a catalyst for release of old patterns that you are ready to let go of. If your life isn't working for you, then a healing session may well be the beginning of a new way forwards.
Where it is appropriate for the client to be more involved in the process, we work together in a more interactive way using ritual, visualisation, meditation, movement, breathwork, mantra and voice. I teach my clients tools that they can use, easily and safely, at home to enable them to progress as they wish, at their own pace.
Britain does have its own indigenous spiritual/sacred culture, but much of this knowledge was lost (or driven underground) during the past few hundred years, for a variety of reasons. Hence we borrow from cultures that still have their lineage intact. I prefer not to use the words Shamanka (the feminine) and Shaman as these refer to a level of integrity with the spirit world that I don't yet possess (if indeed I ever will), but they do seem to be coming common parlance.
In 'de olden days' I might have been called Wise Woman, Witch, Druid, Hedgerider or Healer. Each one a profound path in its own right. I chose to learn to sense energy and to communicate & build relations with some non-human spirits. Life runs much more smoothly with so many friends & allies.
Although I was already doing energy work in an intuitive way with my massage clients, my formal training began in 2000 with an element based form of Reiki (Japanese for life-force) called Tera-Mai Seichem (see Reiki and Seichem). I trained with this system through to it's then highest level, Seichem Master/Teacher. I was introduced to Shaman Peter Aziz in Buckfast, Devon, (2003-6) with whom I studied shamanic healing techniques, met and began my association with the fairy realm, dragon and crystal energy. I qualified as a Tethatu practitioner level 1. This level felt sufficient for the work I wanted to do.
Needing a mentor and wanting to integrate my knowledge, I chose earth shaman, druid and psychic, Jamie Blackwater, who's based near Loughborough, in 2008. He took me back to basics enabling me to develop a personal relationship with the elements (now including Ice in the mix which is amazing for clarity, but not for too long!!) and we deepened my connection to the fairy realm.
Since then I have explored and deepened my experience of the One energy that some call Love, God or Allah, through a Sufi practise. Polishing my heart, all the better to reflect your beauty. My journey continues to take twists and turns as I deepen my awareness of myself, the other and this mystery we call Life.
Protection is a frequent topic. There are many ways in which to 'protect' yourself from 'negative' energies. This is a complex subject, the study and practice of which usually leads to the raising of ones consciousness. There are simple tools for beginners and these can be developed as the student/clients gains power and awareness. My current practise is to divert energies I find challenging or to 'allow' them to move through me, but completely. Any stickiness that arises is often an area of the self to explore and new awareness gained and often new boundaries developed. Essentially, as I currently understand it, the aim is to be a being of light, radiating strongly from our core outwards. This, whilst being highly attractive, is also the most powerful position to interact from. Always in the flow, moving outwards, always clearing.
Personal Power, the use and abuse there of, is my favourite topic. We start by learning a ritual to focus awareness on personal energies and how we use them to manipulate the world around us. Forgiveness, Gratitude and Giving are key topics here too. These topics are covered in a workshop called Reclaim Your Power and Cut the Cords that Bind (see Workshops).


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Historic Bridge Available for Adoption
Longer closure in place for US 50 between Montrose & Gunnison
U.S. 550 North of Durango Closed 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 29
I-25 Frontage Road (Elizabeth Street), Eagle Ridge to Ridge Road Resurfacing Begins in June
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May 4, 2021 - Northwestern Colorado
DELTA COUNTY – The Colorado Department of Transportation is making the historic Gunnison River Bridge on CO 92 available for adoption to any public or private entity interested in relocating it.
Located about six miles east of Delta, the 83-year-old structure is the longest of three remaining Camelback pony truss bridges on the state highway system. Each span is 125 feet long and 33 feet wide (photos below). Two of its three trusses are available and could be good candidates for reuse as part of a recreational trail or road for motor vehicles. However, a new deck and abutments are required at a new location.
The recipient is responsible for relocating and reassembling the bridge. Due to its age, the paint contains lead and other possible constituents requiring careful removal and containment, which may require additional cost. Interested adopters must submit a relocation plan detailing its proposed use, location, and the available resources to assure future maintenance. Potential recipients also should state their intention to follow all environmental regulations concerning the treatment of lead-based paint on the structural steel components.
The structure currently is eligible for placement on the National Register of Historic Bridges. "Our infrastructure is a tremendous part of our history and the state's cultural landscape. But, it also has to work, which means ensuring that our bridges remain safe and functional at current standards," said CDOT Executive Director Shoshana Lew. "CDOT is working hard to develop innovative approaches to help preserve historic structures that have outlived their useful life. This partnership is an example of that creativity at work to integrate past and present."
Although CDOT would like the reassembled trusses to look and function as originally designed, other uses for the trusses will be considered, according to CDOT Senior Staff Historian Lisa Schoch.
The current bridge is rated as structurally and functionally obsolete and will be replaced beginning in November 2021. Please visit www.codot.gov/projects/co92-gunnisonriverbridge for more information about the project.
Gunnison River Bridge on CO 92 - underside view
Gunnison River Bridge on CO 92 - side view
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Jamil Anderlini was named Beijing bureau chief for the Financial Times in February 2011, having already worked for four years as Beijing correspondent for the paper.
In 2010 Anderlini was named Journalist of the Year at the prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Awards, and won the Best Digital Award at the Amnesty International Media Awards for his coverage of Chinese petitioners seeking justice in Beijing.
He has won numerous other awards, including a UK Foreign Press Association Award in 2008, several individual SOPA awards and the inaugural Jones-Mauthner Award in 2012, which recognizes outstanding reporting of international affairs by a young reporter at the Financial Times.
In 2013 Anderlini was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and short-listed for Foreign Reporter of the Year at the Press Awards in the UK and also the Orwell Prize, the UK's most prestigious prize for political writing.
He is the author of a recent ebook, published by the Financial Times and Penguin and entitled "The Bo Xilai Scandal" (2012).
Anderlini was born in Kuwait and grew up in New Zealand, where he received a BA from Victoria University and a post-graduate diploma in journalism from Auckland University of Technology. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese and has lived mostly in Shanghai and Beijing since 2000.
Prior to joining the Financial Times he was Beijing business correspondent for the South China Morning Post for two years. Before that, he was chief editor of the China Economic Review.


Long after her divorce from Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe remained close to her stepson, Joe Jr, speaking to him on the telephone hours before she died.
Sadly Joe Jr had a difficult life and could never escape his father's shadow although Joe Sr tried to support him as best he could. Joe Jr died, ravaged by years of alcohol abuse, just six months after 'the Great DiMaggio'.
"Joe's happiest days may have been those that he spent with Marilyn Monroe. One early fall day, just as we all had returned from our summer vacations, Joe told of his stepmother Marilyn making his breakfast and serving it to him.
I have often thought that if Marilyn had lived longer, she might have been able to help Joe Jr. His father was a distant, reserved man, as Marilyn knew all too well. Joe Jr's mother was DiMaggio's first wife, former showgirl Dorothy Arnold.
Marilyn, who came from a broken home herself, never tried to replace Dorothy but was sensitive to her stepson's emotional needs. Next to DiMaggio, Joe Jr was perhaps more hurt by Marilyn's untimely death than anyone else.


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A review of the Sahibzada v. Sahibzada case decides whether a trial court has the jurisdiction to prohibit minors from traveling outside the US.
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In In Re Parentage of J.W., 2013 IL 114817, Illinois Supreme Court decided that the visitation was more of a right than a privilege.
In In Re Parentage of J.W., 2013 IL 114817, Illinois Supreme Court decided that the visitation was more of a right than a privilege.	Read more
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A review of the parental rights case Williams v. Williams that went through Georgia in 2014.
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A review of the de facto parentage case In Re Custody of B.M.H. that went through the Washington Supreme Court in November 2013.
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A review of the de facto parentage/third party custody case In Re Custody of A.F.J. that went through the Washington Supreme Court in November 2013.
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Establishing and Disestablishing Paternity in a Divorce Case
When it comes to establishing paternity in a divorce case, it's important that you understand the laws, rules, and methods for defending a client properly.
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By Laura Morgan: Superior Court retained jurisdiction over an interstate visitation dispute where the safety of the ex-wife's home and could affect child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships if visitation were enforced.
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LAbbaye de Lyse ou Lysekloster est un monastère cistercien aujourd'hui en ruines, situé dans la commune de Os, au sud de la ville de Bergen (Norvège). Il fut à l'origine en 1207 de la fondation de l'abbaye de Tautra.

Le nom « Lyse » provient du Lysefjorden, le « fjord de lumière » au bord duquel est bâti l'abbaye.

Avant la Réforme

L'abbaye a été fondée en 1146 par Sigurd, évêque de Bergen, sur les terres d'un ferme qu'il possédait, alors que la christianisation du pays était presque complète. Les premiers moines sont venus de l'abbaye de Fountains en Angleterre. Il s'agit de la première abbaye cistercienne de Norvège, construite sur le modèle de celles existantes à l'époque en France et en Angleterre.

Comme c'est la règle de cet ordre, les moines ont fait vœu de pauvreté, renonçant à tous les revenus sauf ceux de la terre, ils développèrent ainsi beaucoup d'habileté dans les cultures. Avec le temps, cela a mené l'abbaye à acquérir beaucoup d'autres fermes, la rendant toujours plus riche et puissante. En tout, le monastère possédait 50 fermes à Os et bien plus encore dans la région.

Après la Réforme
L'abbaye fut dissoute en 1537 quand Christian III décréta le luthéranisme comme religion d'État en Norvège. Les possessions furent confisquées, devenant la propriété du roi. Lors des deux siècles suivants, les pierres des murs de l'abbaye furent utilisées pour d'autres constructions, notamment la forteresse de Bergenhus ou le château de Kronborg au Danemark.

Le monastère aujourd'hui

Les ruines sont protégées en tant que monument national pour préserver les fouilles archéologiques qui y continuent. Le site est visité par de nombreux touristes qui profitent également des promenades pédestres des alentours. C'est également un lieu prisé pour les mariages et les photographies.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Abbaye cistercienne en Norvège
Abbaye fondée au XIIe siècle
Fondation en 1156
Édifice religieux à Bergen (Norvège)

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Tony Martin Wins Fourth ITT World Title
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Oct 12, 2016 – Germany's Tony Martin won the men's time-trial title in Qatar on Wednesday for a record-equaling fourth time. Martin obliterated the field of 66 riders, winning the 40km race by 45 seconds from last year's champion Vasil Kiryienka of Belarus, with Spain's Jonathan Castroviejo a further 25sec back in third. Martin previously won the title in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and joins Fabian Cancellara as the only four-time winners of the event.
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"It's amazing, I can't believe it," said Martin afterwards.
"Everybody knows that I haven't had a good year. "But this makes everything OK — the course was made for me."
One of the pre-race favorites, Tom Dumoulin, the Olympic silver-medallist, finished way back in 11th place, more than two minutes off the pace. The race was surprisingly led for a long time by Ireland's Ryan Mullen, who eventually finished fifth.
It is the second time this week Martin has taken gold, having also triumphed in the team time-trial in his last race for his Etixx-Quick Step outfit. Martin told reporters that his first victory in Copenhagen was the most special to him, but he would try and beat the record he shares with Cancellara.
"I am still motivated to go for the fifth or sixth title, I am not close to the end of my career, and after today I am more motivated to go for more titles." He added that before this season his form was such that he had begun to doubt whether he was still a "really big time-trialler".
The race began in temperatures of 37 degrees Celsius (99 degrees Fahrenheit) as the flat course took riders from just north of Doha to the finish on a man-made island on the fringes of Qatar's capital. Martin said he had prepared thoroughly for the conditions — he said earlier in the week he had trained on rollers in a heated room — and averaged almost 54 kilometers per hour throughout the ride.
He was ahead of his rivals by the second checkpoint and his victory was never in doubt after that, yet the 31-year-old admitted he was surprised by the margin of victory. Second-placed Kiryienka said he was very satisfied with his performance and placing, despite losing his world title, and had the "deepest respect" for Martin's victory.
"This (result) is not a surprise," he said. "The surprise was last year when Tony Martin did not stand on the podium."
Martin finished seventh last year, more than a minute behind the Belarussian. Castroviejo admitted he struggled with the heat in Qatar and called the course "very difficult".
1. Tony Martin (Germany) 0:44:42.99
2. Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus) 0:00:45.05
3. Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spain) 0:01:10.91
4. Maciej Bodnar (Poland) 0:01:16.77
5. Ryan Mullen (Ireland) 0:01:21.75
6. Rohan Dennis (Australia) 0:01:27.12
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It is noteworthy that as finance has been on the 'rise,' some activists began to formalize anti-corporate and targeted activist campaign strategies through pension and personal investment funds. In Canada and the U.S., several faith organizations began to argue that anti-social corporate behaviour should be, in some sense, sanctioned by individual investors and ultimate owners, on the basis of social principle or humanitarian values. These initiatives then crystallized and drew broader support with the rise of the sanctions and divestment movement directed against corporate and government support for apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.
Such initiatives have seen their labels evolving from "ethical investment," to "socially responsible investment" (SRI), to the most recent simplified term of "responsible investment." While many trade unions, NGOs, and activists have embraced these efforts, others have not, and a substantial differentiation on the political left has emerged. Most recently, Queen's political economist Susanne Soederberg has produced a sharply critical analysis of these investor-activist efforts from a Marxist political economy framework. This critique follows previous analyses by CAW economists Sam Gindin and Jim Stanford, both of whom have raised serious questions about these strategies as projections of trade union or working class power. Other unions and labour organizations have embraced these strategies with enthusiasm, as is notable in the establishment of a "Committee on Workers Capital" at the international level. Click here to view complete outline.
Susanne Soederberg (Queen's University) – Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism .


Looking at legal industry marketing trends and statistics can help you get a better idea of how to market your law practice. For instance, you can learn about what marketing strategies are currently working, and also identify some of the common mistakes others are making, which might be areas where you can gain a competitive edge. To give you a better idea of what today's legal marketing landscape looks like, we rounded up eight legal marketing statistics from around the web, some of which came as quite a surprise. Read on to learn what these statistics mean, and how you can use this information to get an edge on your competition.
Simply put, this stat means that more than one out of every three people looking for an attorney will turn to the internet before asking a friend or family member for a referral.
Referrals will always be an important driver of business for law firms, since the attorney client relationship is based heavily on trust. But this statistic makes it clear that you cannot ignore the web if you intend to grow your practice.
This statistic illustrates the importance of having a strong web presence for your firm. Long gone are the days of just building up a rolodex. Today's clients use the internet to research their legal issues and find legal help, and this trend will only continue into the future.
What this stat tells you is that ignoring internet marketing will essentially eliminate 33% of all your potential clients. They will simply never even know you exist.
It doesn't get much more straightforward than this. If you aren't focusing on web marketing today and you hope to grow your practice, you should look into developing an internet marketing plan immediately.
This survey included a wide variety of law practices. It essentially found that the majority of law firms spend at least 50% of their entire marketing budget online. In fact, 40% of the survey respondents indicated that online marketing accounts for 76-100% of their marketing budget.
This statistic just further reinforces the importance of internet marketing in today's legal industry. Not only are clients using the internet to find lawyers, but most lawyers are putting a significant amount of money toward online marketing initiatives.
Online legal marketing clearly works. If it didn't, most firms would not continue spending the majority of their budget on it.
If you aren't already using online marketing strategies, by starting right now you can immediately get a jumpstart on about 35% of your competitors who are doing minimal marketing online at this point.
This stat tells us a lot about what is working today, and where we are headed in the future. You simply cannot ignore the fact that the majority of your competitors are already out there marketing themselves heavily online. In order to keep up with the trends, you should expect to join them.
This statistic tells us that about half of law firms get more clients from lead generation services than they do from any other channel, including referrals.
You can learn a couple of things from this stat. For one, law firms are not very good at online marketing, which is why they are willing to buy leads from other companies rather than use their own marketing methods to capture leads themselves.
Additionally, it once again reinforces just how essential online marketing is to grow a law practice. If almost to 50% of the firms surveyed think buying leads is more effective than getting referrals, you know for a fact that digital marketing is necessary for success.
Many lawyers suffer from analysis paralysis when it comes to digital marketing. In other words, they don't know where to begin because it's complex and they don't fully understand it.
Fortunately, buying leads online is the easiest entry point. The lead generation company does all the hard work for you (the content creation, the advertising, the website design, the social media, etc.). You simply buy the leads from them on a per-lead or per-month basis.
Average leads cost anywhere from $25 – $250, depending on the nature of the case. But considering that most legal services cost a minimum of $500, it's usually well worth the investment.
This is one of the most surprising legal marketing statistics we could find. The stat basically says that in 42% of instances recorded in the study, a potential client that contacted a firm by leaving a voicemail or submitting a website contact form did not hear anything back for at least 3 days.
Yes, of course lawyers are busy. So is everybody else. But letting a potential paying customer wait around for this long to hear back from you is simply inexcusable. You are literally shooting yourself in the foot if you ever hope to grow your practice.
There are very few marketing mistakes that are easier to correct than this one. If this sounds familiar to you, you just need to do a better job. Period.
At the very least, you can fire off a quick email to let the person know you got their message and you'll be in touch soon. Or better yet, you could use a virtual receptionist service so no call goes unanswered.
Studies have shown time and time again that reducing any delays in your lead response time is one of the most critical factors in closing a sale. The longer you take, the colder the lead gets.
The good news is, by simply putting in just a little bit of extra effort to make sure that you follow up the same day, you can easily get ahead of some competitors.
This statistic indicates that about one in every four law firms does not use any mechanism whatsoever to keep track of the fact that a potential client contacted their firm.
Not a Post-it. Not a spreadsheet. And certainly not a CRM. Just…nothing. If you think a three day average response time is surprising, this one should come as a complete and utter shock.
Tracking leads is just basic business 101. How can you ever expect to succeed if you aren't keeping track of your potential customers? You might as well just light money on fire.
Tracking leads is a no brainer, even if you just use a spreadsheet at first. It's still better than nothing.
The best way to manage leads is by using a CRM system, which is designed specifically for the very purpose of managing leads and closing sales.
Better yet, by using a CRM designed for law firms, you not only have an easy and organized way to track leads, but you can also do things like trigger automated follow up emails, send appointment reminders, and get intake forms filled out online.
As ridiculous as it seems, this statistic makes it clear just how bad many law firms are at managing their basic business practices. By simply doing the basics, like following up promptly and keeping track of your leads, you will have a clear opportunity to get ahead of the competition.
This stat tells us that almost nine times out of ten, law firms failed to capture a prospect's full, basic contact information. And nearly half the time, law firms fail to collect any contact information at all, aside from the person's name.
How on earth do you plan to follow up with somebody if all you have is their name? Yell for them out the window?
Taking a long time to follow up is one thing, but not even giving yourself the opportunity to follow up is a whole different story. Again, you might as well just light your marketing dollars on fire.
Ideally you should have as many ways to interact with your potential clients as possible: name, email, phone number, address, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.
The more touch points you have, the better your chances will be to build their trust and eventually retain the person as a paying client.
At the very least, you should take down the full name, email address, and best phone number for every single prospect that contacts you. That way you will have the ability to follow up when necessary, and you won't have to rely on your potential clients to come circling back.
This stat means that more than one out of every three calls from potential clients are not answered by a human. Instead, they go to a voicemail or an automated message of some kind.
As you can probably imagine, when nobody picks up the phone, the prospective client will be significantly less likely to hire your firm, even if they do leave a voicemail or listen to your automated message.
Think about it…if you were calling a restaurant to ask about making a reservation and nobody answered your call, you would probably just move on to the next place, right?
It's no different for your clients. Failing to answer calls from prospects can severely impact your conversion rate.
The best thing you can do with regard to this statistic is have a dedicated staff member responsible for picking up every phone call. One reason that virtual receptionist services are becoming so popular is that they operate 24/7, regardless of whether anybody is at your office or not.
This ensures that every single prospect's call is answered by a real human. The additional costs you will have to pay for the answering service can easily be made up by the boost you will get in your conversion rate.
This statistic shows us the somewhat bleak outlook for the future of traditional legal services. Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, demand for legal services each year has been flat or even negative.
This means that clients are turning elsewhere for their legal needs, whether it's to free legal information they get online, or alternative, technology-driven service providers.
For your law practice, this stat indicates that winning clients will only get harder and harder with time. You've got to really go the extra mile to succeed in today's market.
You need to let go of all your preconceived notions about how to run a law practice, and start innovating. Come up with new types of service offerings and new business models. Run your law practice like an online business to make things easier on clients and more efficient for your staff.
Above all, don't settle for being just like everybody else! Do something to make your firm stand out and focus on providing other worldly customer service. That's always the best way to get ahead no matter the industry.
We hope you found these legal marketing statistics informative and useful. Looking at legal marketing statistics can help you get greater insight into what your competitors are doing, and where they might be making mistakes which you can capitalize on.
If you were as surprised by some of these statistics as we were, that's probably a good sign. It means that your firm is ahead of the curve when it comes to marketing and managing your prospective clients. And that's always a recipe for ongoing success.


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Q: SOQL select product with lookup to account fails for users, not for admin I have the following query:
select Id, Name from Product2 where Provider__c = :providerId ORDER BY Name

Provider__c is a lookup field to Account.
Normal users don't get any results, while the admin does, so it seems to be an issue with permissions.
The following query returns all products, also the one I was looking for.
select Id, Name from Product2 ORDER BY Name

The product is accessible to the user, the lookup field is accessible to the user and the account is accessible to the user. What am I missing?
Regards, Stijn

A: The query was correct, the user had created a different account with the same name...but this new account did not have any products linked through the lookup...So the query functioned as expected...Because the name was the same I overlooked the fact that it could be a different Id.

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I fell in lone with this dress as soon as I saw it. The flow, grace and sophistication of this dress is effortless.
Whoever receives this dress will be one lucky girl.
My daughter is 2 years old and I was going to try to hold onto this until she got married – but by the time that comes around, I'm sure she'll want nothing to do with it.
All that sass that she gives me already, ha!
We did have an amazing reception of course, and my uncle did spill some wine down the side of my dress, but aside from that, this should easily come out at the dry cleaners. 0 alterations. It was a true to form size 12.
I did have this stored in a preservation bag up until 6 months ago. A friend tried it on and my husband put his suit in it while traveling, and left the bag at the hotel.


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Local firefighter crews responded quickly to the call and helped save much of the building. "We can't thank the local firefighters enough," says Watertown Store Manager Justin Ruesch. "They contained and extinguished the fire quickly, and we're open and here to help customers finish their final Harvest push because of them."
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Q: How do I minimally represent the check state of a check tree? If i have a tree structure whose nodes can have zero to many children, with each node holding some data value along with a boolean switch, how do i minimally represent the state of this tree for nodes with a particular switch value?
For example, say that my tree looks something like:
A[0] -> B[1] -> C[1]
        |-----> D[1]
        |-----> E[1]

Here we have a state where 4 nodes are checked, is there a way to represent this state in a concise manner?  The naive approach would be to list the four nodes as being checked, but what if node B had 100 children instead of just four?
My current line of thinking is to store each node's ancestor in the data component and describe the checked state in terms of the set of ancestors that minimize the data required to represent a state.  In the tree below, an ancestor of node N is represented as n'.  So the above tree would now look something like:
A[0, {a}] -> B[1, {a', b}] -> C[1, {a' b' c}]
             |--------------> D[1, {a' b' d}]
             |--------------> E[1, {a' b' e}]

Now you can analyze the tree and see that all of node A's children are checked, and describe the state simply as the nodes with data element a' are set to 1, or just [a'].  If node D's state switched to 0, the you could describe the tree state as [a' not d].
Are there data structures or algorithms that can be used to solve a problem of this type?  Any thoughts on a better approach?  Any thoughts on the analysis algorithm?
Thanks

A: Use a preorder tree traversal starting from the root. If a node is checked don't traverse its children. For each traversed node store it's checked state (boolean 0/1) in a boolean bitmap (8bits/byte). Finally compress the result with zip/bzip or any other compression technique.
When you reconstruct the state, first decompress, then use preorder tree traversal, set each node based on the state, if state is checked set all children to checked and skip them.

A: In general there is no technique that will always be able to store the checked elements in fewer than n bits of space, where n is the number of elements in the tree.  The rationale behind this is that there are 2^n different possible check states, so you need at least 2^n different encodings, so there must be at least one coding of length 2^n since there are only 2^n - 1 encodings that are shorter than this.
Given this, if you really want to minimize space usage, I would suggest going with an encoding like the one @yi_H suggests.  It uses precisely n bits for each encoding.  You might be able to compress most of the encodings by applying a standard compression algorithm to the bits, which for practical sets of checked nodes might do quite well, but which degrades gracefully in the worst case.
Hope this helps!


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Mary Macgregor
Sir Galahad and the Sacred Cup
"My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure,"
sang Galahad gladly. He was only a boy, but he had just been made a knight by Sir Lancelot, and the old abbey, where he had lived all his life, rang with the echo of his song.
Sir Lancelot heard the boy's clear voice singing in triumph. As he stopped to listen, he caught the words,
and the great knight wished he were a boy again, and could sing that song too.
Twelve nuns lived in the quiet abbey, and they had taught Galahad lovingly and carefully, ever since he had come to them as a beautiful little child. And the boy had dwelt happily with them there in the still old abbey, and he would be sorry to leave them, but he was a knight now. He would fight for the King he reverenced so greatly, and for the country he loved so well.
Yet when Sir Lancelot left the abbey the next day, Galahad did not go with him. He would stay in his old home a little longer, he thought. He would not grieve the nuns by a hurried farewell.
Sir Lancelot left the abbey alone, but as he rode along he met two knights, and together they reached Camelot, where the King was holding a great festival.
King Arthur welcomed Sir Lancelot and the two knights. "Now all the seats at our table will be filled," he said gladly. For it pleased the King when the circle of his knights was unbroken.
Then all the King's household went to service at the minster, and when they came back to the palace they saw a strange sight.
In the dining-hall the Round Table at which the King and his knights always sat seemed strangely bright.
The King looked more closely, and saw that at one place on this Round Table were large gold letters. And he read, "This is the seat of Sir Galahad, the Pure-hearted." But only Sir Lancelot knew that Sir Galahad was the boy-knight he had left behind him in the quiet old abbey.
"We will cover the letters till the Knight of the Pure Heart comes," said Sir Lancelot; and he took silk and laid it over the glittering letters.
Then as they sat down to table they were disturbed by Sir Kay, the steward of the King's kitchen.
"You do not sit down to eat at this festival," Sir Kay reminded the King, "till you have seen or heard some great adventure." And the King told his steward that the writing in gold had made him forget his usual custom.
As they waited a squire came hastily into the hail "I have a strange tale to tell," he said. "As I walked along the bank of the river I saw a great stone, and it floated on the top of the water, and into the stone there has been thrust a sword."
Then the King and all his knights went down to the river, and they saw the stone, and it was like red marble. And the sword that had been thrust into the stone was strong and fair. The handle of it was studded with precious stones, and among the stones there were letters of gold.
The King stepped forward, and bending over the sword read these words : "No one shall take me away but he to whom I belong. I will hang only by the side of the best knight in the world."
The King turned to Sir Lancelot. "The sword is yours, for surely there lives no truer knight."
But Sir Lancelot answered gravely, "The sword is not mine. It will never hang by my side, for I dare not try to take it."
The King was sorry that his great knight's courage failed, but he turned to Sir Gawaine and asked him to try to take the sword.
And at first Sir Gawaine hesitated. But when he looked again at the precious stones that sparkled on the handle, he hesitated no longer. But he no sooner touched the sword than it wounded him, so that he could not use his arm for many days.
Then the King turned to Sir Percivale. And because Arthur wished it, Sir Percivale tried to take the sword; but he could not move it. And after that no other knight dared to touch the fair sword; so they turned and went back to the palace.
In the dining-hall the King and his knights sat down once more at the Round Table, and each knight knew his own chair. And all the seats were filled except the chair opposite the writing in gold.
It had been a day full of surprise, but now the most wonderful thing of all happened. For as they sat down, suddenly all the doors of the palace shut with a loud noise, but no one had touched the doors. And all the windows were softly closed, but no one saw the hands that closed them.
Then one of the doors opened, and there came in a very old man dressed all in white, and no one knew whence he came.
By his side was a young man in red armour. He had neither sword nor shield, but hanging by his side was an empty sheath.
There was a great silence in the hall as the old man said slowly and solemnly, "I bring you the young knight Sir Galahad, who is descended from a king. He shall do many great deeds, and he shall see the Holy Grail."
"He shall see the Holy Grail," the knights repeated, with awe on their faces.
For far back, in the days of their boyhood, they had heard the story of the Holy Grail. It was the Sacred Cup out of which their Lord had drunk before He died.
And they had been told how sometimes it was seen carried by angels, and how at other times in a gleam of light. But in whatever way it appeared, it was seen only by those who were pure in heart.
And as the old man's words, "He shall see the Holy Grail," fell on their ears, the knights thought of the story they had heard so long ago; and they were sorry, for they had never seen the Sacred Cup, and they knew that it was unseen only by those who had done wrong.
But the old man was telling the boy-knight to follow him. He led him to the empty chair, and lifted the silk that covered the golden letters. "This is the seat of Sir Galahad, the Pure-hearted," he read aloud. And the young knight sat in the empty seat that belonged to him.
Then the old man left the palace, and twenty noble squires met him, and took him back to his own country.
When dinner was ended, the King went over to the chair where his boy-knight sat, and welcomed him to the circle of the Round Table. Afterwards he took Sir Galahad's hand, and led him out of the palace to show him the strange red stone that floated on the river. When Sir Galahad heard how the knights could not draw the sword out of the stone, he knew that this adventure was his.
"I will try to take the sword," said the boy-knight, "and place it in my sheath, for it is empty," and he pointed to his side. Then he laid his hand on the wonderful sword, and easily drew it out of the stone, and placed it in his sheath.
"God has sent you the sword, now He will send you a shield as well," said King Arthur.
Then the King proclaimed that the next day there would be a tournament in the meadows of Camelot. For before his knights went out to new adventures, he would see Sir Galahad proved.
And in the morning the meadows lay bright in the sunshine. And the boy-knight rode bravely to his first combat, and overthrew many men; but Sir Lancelot and Sir Percivale he could not overthrow.
When the tournament was over the King and his knights went home to supper, and each sat in his own seat at the Round Table.
All at once there was a loud crashing noise, a noise that was louder than any peal of thunder. Was the King's wonderful palace falling to pieces?
But while the noise still sounded a marvellous light stole into the room, a light brighter than any sunbeam.
As the knights looked at one another, each seemed to the other to have a new glory and a new beauty in his face.
And down the sunbeam glided the Holy Grail. It was the Sacred Cup they had all longed to see. But no one saw it, for it was invisible to all but the pure-hearted Sir Galahad.
As the strange light faded away, King Arthur heard his knights vowing that they would go in search of the Holy Grail, and never give up the quest till they had found it.
And the boy-knight knew that he too would go over land and sea, till he saw again the wonderful vision.
That night the King could not sleep, for his sorrow was great. His knights would wander into far-off countries, and many of them would forget that they were in search of the Holy Grail. Would they not have found the Sacred Cup one day if they had stayed with their King and helped to clear the country of its enemies?
In the morning the streets of Camelot were crowded with rich and poor. And the people wept as they watched the knights ride away on their strange quest. And the King wept too, for he knew that now there would be many empty chairs at the Round Table.
The knights rode together to a strange city and stayed there all night. The next day they separated, each going a different way.
Sir Galahad rode on for four days without adventure. At last he came to a white abbey, where he was received very kindly. And he found two knights there, and one was a King.
"What adventure has brought you here?" asked the boy-knight.
Then they told him that in this abbey there was a shield. And if any man tried to carry it, he was either wounded or dead within three days.
"But to-morrow I shall try to bear it," said the King.
"In the name of God, let me take the shield," said Sir Galahad gravely.
"If I fail, you shall try to bear it," said the King. And Galahad was glad, for he had still no shield of his own.
Then a monk took the King and the young knight behind the altar, and showed them where the shield hung. It was as white as snow, but in the middle there was a red cross.
"The shield can be borne only by the worthiest knight in the world," the monk warned the King.
"I will try to bear it, though I am no worthy knight," insisted the King; and he took the shield and rode down into the valley.
And Galahad waited at the abbey, for the King had said he would send his squire to tell the young knight how the shield had protected him.
For two miles the King rode through the valley, till he reached a hermitage. And he saw a warrior there, dressed in white armour, and sitting on a white horse.
The warrior rode quickly towards the King, and struck him so hard that he broke his armour. Then he thrust his spear through the King's right shoulder, as though he held no shield.
"The shield can be borne only by a peerless knight. It does not belong to you," said the warrior, as he gave it to the squire, telling him to carry it back to the abbey and to give it to Sir Galahad with his greeting.
"Then tell me your name," said the squire.
"I will tell neither you nor any one on earth," said the warrior. And he disappeared, and the squire saw him no more.
"I will take the wounded King to an abbey, that his wounds may be dressed," thought the squire.
And with great difficulty the King and his squire reached an abbey. And the monks thought his life could not be saved, but after many days he was cured.
Then the squire rode back to the abbey where Galahad waited. "The warrior who wounded the King bids you bear this shield," he said.
Galahad hung the shield round his neck joyfully, and rode into the valley to seek the warrior dressed in white.
And when they met they saluted each other courteously. And the warrior told Sir Galahad strange tales of the white shield, till the knight thanked God that now it was his. And all his life long the white shield with the red cross was one of his great treasures.
Now Galahad rode back to the abbey, and the monks were glad to see him again. "We have need of a pure knight," they said, as they took Sir Galahad to a tomb in the churchyard.
A pitiful noise was heard, and a voice from the tomb cried, "Galahad, servant of God, do not come near me." But the young knight went towards the tomb and raised the stone.
Then a thick smoke was seen, and through the smoke a figure uglier than any man leaped from the tomb, shouting, "Angels are round thee, Galahad, servant of God. I can do you no harm."
The knight stooped down and saw a body all dressed in armour lying there, and a sword lay by its side.
"This was a false knight," said Sir Galahad. "Let us carry his body away from this place."
"You will stay in the abbey and live with us," entreated the monks. But the boy-knight could not rest. Would he see the light that was brighter than any sunbeam again? Would his adventures bring him at last to the Holy Grail?
Sir Galahad rode on many days, till at last he reached a mountain. On the mountain he found an old chapel. It was empty and very desolate. Galahad knelt alone before the altar, and asked God to tell him what to do next.
And as he prayed a voice said, "Thou brave knight, go to the Castle of Maidens and rescue them."
Galahad rose, and gladly journeyed on to the Castle of Maidens.
There he found seven knights, who long ago had seized the castle from a maiden to whom it belonged. And these knights had imprisoned her and many other maidens.
When the seven knights saw Sir Galahad they came out of the castle. "We will take this young knight captive, and keep him in prison," they said to each other, as they fell upon him.
But Sir Galahad smote the first knight to the ground, so that he almost broke his neck. And as his wonderful sword flashed in the light, sudden fear fell on the six knights that were left, and they turned and fled.
Then an old man took the keys of the castle to Galahad. And the knight opened the gates of the castle, and set free many prisoners. He gave the castle back to the maiden to whom it belonged, and sent for all the knights in the country round about to do her homage.
Then once again Sir Galahad rode on in search of the Holy Grail. And the way seemed long, yet on and on he rode, till at last he reached the sea.
There, on the shore, stood a maiden, and when she saw Sir Galahad, she led him to a ship and told him to enter.
The wind rose and drove the ship, with Sir Galahad on board, between two rocks. But when the ship could not pass that way, the knight left it, and entered a smaller one that awaited him.
In this ship was a table, and on the table, covered with a red cloth, was the Holy Grail. Reverently Sir Galahad sank on his knees. But still the Sacred Cup was covered.
At last the ship reached a strange city, and on the shore sat a crippled man. Sir Galahad asked his help to lift the table from the ship.
"For ten years I have not walked without crutches," said the man.
`Show that you are willing, and come to me," urged the knight.
And the cripple got up, and when he found that he was cured, he ran to Sir Galahad, and together they carried the wonderful table to the shore.
Then all the city was astonished, and the people talked only of the great marvel. "The man that was a cripple for ten years can walk," each said to the other.
The King of the city heard the wonderful tale, but he was a cruel King and a tyrant. "The knight is not a good man," he said to his people, and he commanded that Galahad should be put in prison. And the prison was underneath the palace, and it was dark and cold there.
But down into the darkness streamed the light that had made Galahad so glad long ago at Camelot. And in the light Galahad saw the Holy Grail.
A year passed and the cruel King was very ill, and he thought he would die. Then he remembered the knight he had treated so unkindly, and who was still in the dark, cold prison. "I will send for him, and ask him to forgive me," murmured the King.
And when Galahad was brought to the palace, he willingly forgave the tyrant who had put him in prison.
Then the King died, and there was great dismay in the city, for where would they find a good ruler to sit on the throne?
As they wondered, they heard a voice that told them to make Sir Galahad their King, and in great joy the knight was crowned.
Then the new King ordered a box of gold and precious stones to be made, and in this box he placed the wonderful table he had carried away from the ship. "And every morning I and my people will come here to pray," he said.
For a year Sir Galahad ruled the country well and wisely.
"A year ago they crowned me King," thought Galahad gravely, as he woke one morning. He would get up early, and go to pray at the precious table.
But before the King reached the table he paused. It was early. Surely all the city was asleep. Yet some one was already there, kneeling before the table on which, uncovered, stood the Sacred Cup.
The man kneeling there looked holy as the saints look. Surrounding him was a circle of angels. Was it a saint who kneeled, or was it the Lord Himself?
When the man saw Sir Galahad, he said, "Come near, thou servant of Jesus Christ, and thou shalt see what thou hast so much longed to see."
And with joy Sir Galahad saw again the Holy Grail. Then as he kneeled before it in prayer, his soul left his body and was carried by angels into heaven.


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By Laurie Stradling, posted on August 24, 2014.
Hymn text by Felicia D. Hemans, 1793-1835. View the full text of this hymn.
The thing I like best about this hymn (besides it being written so beautifully by LDS composer Evan Stephens) is the parallels it draws between the pioneers and the children of Israel.
The group of Latter-day Saints who migrated from all over the world to the Utah Territory to escape religious persecution and establish Zion have some notable differences from Moses' exodus out of Egypt. The Mormon pioneers' main push lasted about 20 years, while we know the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40ish years. The children of Israel were struck by fiery serpents for complaining about the food, the handcart pioneers struggled and died through harsh weather conditions and illness, but overall the similarities far outweigh the differences. The Lord led His Chosen People to a new land back in the days of Moses and in the early days of His restored church, He did it again with the Saints.
This hymn is an anthem to the people who made the trek to Zion in the latter days, those who had "borne and suffered long," yet still praised God for being the "guardian of the loved ones [He had] brought from many lands." This trek still continues to Zion and its outposts and stakes all over the world, the call to gather and establish communities, know Christ and act in love towards all our fellowmen.
As we read in Psalms 95, "O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation…let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand" (verses 1, 6-7).


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The Battle Hymn of Republic Pictures
Posted by R. Emmet Sweeney on July 3, 2012
On July 18th, Olive Films will begin their roll-out of the Republic Pictures library with DVD/Blu-Ray releases of High Noon (1952) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Republic has long been one of the most underutilized holdings in the home video market, passing from corporation to corporation with little concern for the treasures it contained. But upstart Olive has closed a massive licensing deal with Republic parent Paramount Pictures, and is set to release a flood of material (from B-Westerns to prestige pics) in 2012 that had mostly been overlooked in the digital age. While these first two releases have been well-represented on DVD, it is their premiere on Blu-Ray, and there are plenty of rare gems coming down the pike (all transferred in HD), including Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar, Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door and Orson Welles' Macbeth.
Herbert J. Yates began his career in film processing in 1915. By the 1930s his Consolidated Film Laboratories was a major developer of B-film. As the Great Depression sent many Poverty Row studios into the red, Yates took them over, combining six companies (Monogram, Mascot, Liberty, Majestic, Chesterfield and Invincible) into one Republic in 1935. They made money off of disreputable serials and Westerns, giving daredevil action directors like William Witney endless opportunities to hone their craft on a shoestring budget.
Witney started his career at Mascot, riding horses in films for his brother-in-law, and director, Colbert Clark. Witney directed his first film, The Painted Stallion (1937), for Yates, and remembers the set-up in his autobiography, In A Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase:
Republic's main office was in New York where taxes were lower than in California, and Consolidated Film Industries, which made all the release prints, was located next door in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The office in New York City was located at 1776 Broadway…
Then, after Yates bought out the last of the executives from the six former companies, Witney writes, "I will say one thing for him. He screwed a lot of very smart men." Witney wasn't one of them, working productively for the company in serials (Daredevils of the Red Circle, The Adventures of Captain Marvel), Roy Rogers Westerns and teen-sploitation (Juvenile Jungle, Young and Wild) until the company was sold in 1959. It was because of money-making B-pictures like Witney's that Yates had the money to invest in prestige productions like Orson Welles' Macbeth and John Ford's The Quiet Man and (the less expensive) The Sun Shines Bright. Yates rubbed Ford the wrong way, as the curmudgeonly director told biographer Joseph McBride, regarding The Sun Shines Bright:
Well, they didn't ruin it, they couldn't ruin it. But they cut a lot out of it. You're working with a stupid lot of people, the executive producers, so what the hell, you've got to expect it.
But whatever his shortcomings as a producer and a shameless money-grubber, Herbert J. Yates, through accident or circumstance, funded some of the glories of the Hollywood Classical Cinema, both the high art of Ford and the low of Witney, and for that he deserves our reluctant thanks.
Yates sold his company's library in toto to National Telefilm Associates (NTA) in '59, bowing to the rising dominance of television. They had severely curtailed production, and were mainly making their money selling TV rights anyhow. A Dec. 23rd, 1957 issue of Billboard announces the sale of syndication rights to NBC of 218 features and 15 serials for $3,5000,000, with the writer noting that, "the move by Republic to put its package in active sales is concurrent with reports that the studio is in the process of terminating film production." At this point the demand for B-pictures had disappeared, as the 1948 anti-trust Paramount Decision had divested the studios of their theater ownership. They could no longer "block-book" their product and force theater managers to run whatever they sent them.
NTA made money syndicating the TV rights, with the rise of cable TV in the 1980s reinvigorating profits, leading them to change their name to Republic in 1986, and producing their own TV shows like Beauty and the Beast (1987). In 1994, Aaron Spelling Productions purchased NTA/Republic, and essentially used it as a distribution arm, and as a name to sell its own projects, completely divorced from the low-budget studio it once was. Now Republic Pictures Home Video would release a Spelling mini-series like James Michener's Texas on VHS, while Johnny Guitar languished in the vaults. This was followed by some swift multinational swallowings, as Blockbuster purchased Spelling, and then Viacom bought Blockbuster. The Republic library then became the custody of the Viacom-owned Paramount Home Entertainment, all by the end of 1995.
There had been sluggish attempts to release the Republic library on home video during this period. Spelling licensed it to Artisan Video in 1995, who released The Quiet Man and a few others until the company was gobbled up by Lionsgate in 2003. Artisan's rights expired in 2005, reverting briefly back to Paramount, but Lionsgate then decided to renew this license for another six years, starting in 2006. For what must have been effective but arcane accounting reasons, Lionsgate effectively sat on the Republic library. They released the comparatively unknown Arch of Triumph (1948), Only the Valiant (1951), and One Touch of Venus (1948) on DVD, but left the vast, and vastly better known, titles sitting on the shelf.
Once Lionsgate's laissez-faire reign ended this year, Olive Films leapt into the fray, manically licensing Republic titles from Paramount, and almost immediately putting them into production. In the first few months of their stewardship, Olive will have released more of the Republic library than Artisan, Lionsgate and their forebears combined. As fast as they are releasing them, there are some quality control concerns, but the early returns are encouraging. Both High Noon and Invasion of the Body Snatchers have received high marks from tech review site Blu-Ray.com, as well as my own eyes. The transfers are clean and sharp with rich contrast. Paramount's archival wing had obviously had done strong HD transfers on these, and Olive presents them with no digital blow-drying. High Noon comes with a making-of documentary, while Invasion contains no extras, which is the norm for the company. And while Olive has had notoriously poor cover art in the past, their Republic discs all seem to have original poster artwork – a huge improvement over some of their early Photoshop jobs.
While it would have been ideal for Paramount to push its massive resources behind the restoration and release of the Republic library, perhaps it's more appropriate for the scrappy and relatively under-funded Olive Films to do the job. Releasing its discs quickly, efficiently and with little marketing muscle, the Republic Pictures library has finally found a licensor that can match its huckster spirit, and that has the smarts to take advantage of other companies' mistakes.
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Posted By Juana Maria : July 3, 2012 10:12 am
Yay! An article about "High Noon"! It is not likely I will go and rush out and buy the Blu-Ray version,because I still don't know what Blu-Ray is! I do have a VHSD copy of "High Noon" I made by taping off of AMCtv. I wish TCM would play "High Noon" again! They used to show it about 3 or 4 times a year,lately not so much. I know I methodicaly watch the film schedule of TCM for my favorites. Obsessive,yes,but I'm not alone. It is a classic and deserves more attention. I know it was the favorite film of scertain U.S. Presidents. Being an English and History teacher,that caught my notice. It had been chosen as an essential on both TCM:the Essentials and TCM:Essentials,JR. Why didn't I tape it then?!
Posted By Marty : July 3, 2012 11:07 am
There are all kinds of stories about Republic and 'the old man" Yates…that he chewed tobacco and had spittoons in virtually everywhere. That Republic Studios in the San Fernando Valley was beautifully landscaped and serene. Yates, always pinching pennies and the story is that one day he looked out his office window and saw a gang of landscapers mowing and trimming. So he asked the accountant how much the studio spent each year on landscaping. When he heard how much, he had the grass cemented and then painted green. No more mowing!
My family owned a restaurant in New Jersey and one of our executive chefs had been the resident food styling chef at Republic during the late 40s and early 50s. He was in charge of preparing every meal or fresh food prop that was seen on screen.
He told many great stories about Republic stars like Vera Rhuba Ralston, John Wayne and Roy Rodgers having to eat take after take of food…from campfire beans and coffee to elegant buffets.
Posted By Ghijath Naddaf : July 3, 2012 12:24 pm
Are there any plans to restore "The Quiet Man".
As far as i know,this is one of Mr.Scorsese´s favorites.
That would be a great Coup for the Film Foundation.
Posted By Kingrat : July 3, 2012 12:46 pm
Considering how gorgeous SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR looked when TCM showed it a couple of years ago, that is definitely a film I would buy.
Posted By robbushblog : July 3, 2012 2:03 pm
This is great news. Hopefully they will all look great.
I forgot to click on the notification.
Posted By Juana Maria : July 3, 2012 2:49 pm
Extra facts about "High Noon",my favorite film,the townsfolk are singing "the Battle Hymn of the Republic" in church. No one has explained to me what Blu-Ray is and what makes it so wonderful.
Posted By swac44 : July 3, 2012 11:29 pm
I'm also hoping for a HD edition of The Quiet Man, I've held off getting a copy until now because of the disparaging reviews of previous editions that I've read over the years. I'm guessing given its perennial popularity that it's ripe for reissue, probably closer to the next St. Patrick's Day. And as someone who buys anything Fritz Lang directs, Secret Beyond the Door is a must-have as well.
Posted By robbushblog : July 5, 2012 9:09 am
Juana- Blu-ray is high definition video and sound. The picture is clearer and the sound is crisper than on DVDs. You can play your DVDs in a Blu-ray player and it makes them look better too.
Posted By Juana Maria : July 5, 2012 9:33 am
Robbushblog(or Duke):I doubt a Blu-Ray machine could improve those cheap DVDs I bought at the Dollar Tree or Dollar Store!
Juana- I'm sure you're right about that. I never buy those cheap DVDs because I know their quality is no good. I have some old TV shows on cheap DVDs that I inherited from my dad, but I don't buy any myself.
Posted By swac44 : July 6, 2012 10:17 am
I've occasionally been surprised by those dollar bin DVDs, I once picked up a copy of The Private Life of Henry VIII that looked like it was probably mastered from the old Embassy Home Video laserdisc and was more than watchable (same goes for Vincent Price's The Last Man on Earth, which turned out to be widescreen, and was fine until MGM put out a proper release of it).
But of course for every surprisingly watchable PD DVD, there's dozens more that look like they were filmed through a screen door.
Posted By Juana Maria : July 9, 2012 10:32 pm
Duke & Swac44:You are so right both of you!! I have found some very unique films in my treasure hunts through bargain bins and 2 for $1. Yes,regrettably there are those movies that look like they were filmed through a screen door! I hate that! Oh well,I guess you get what you pay for!Guys I don't have a lot of money for those fancy schmancy machines and ulta-cool Blu-Ray stuff! So I save my pennies and buy cheap DVDs instead. Don't cry for me my dear friends,I'm quite happy with my cheap DVDs,TCM,and of course my many friends,thanks and adios!
Posted By Ghijath Naddaf : October 31, 2012 4:40 am
The Quiet Man in January.
http://www.classicflix.com/official-quiet-standard-january-a-1334.html?osCsid=96403f54240714bfd4e68701358a7504
Posted By Mike Newton : August 27, 2013 10:49 am
What does the author mean when he says "disreputable serials." Where we Front Row Kids come from, them's fightin' words. Republic got more action on the screen for less money than any other studio in Hollywood. The majors liked to kid Republic about their westerns, but "the studio in the Valley" laughed all the way to the bank. Theater owners in the Thirties and Forties could always count on a big box office at the Saturday matinee. Roy, Gene, Sunset, Rocky, Wild Bill, and the latest chapter of a Republic serial meant a full house. Even on DVD discs today, the viewer can tell the difference between the quality of a Republic and that of a Universal or Columbia.
Posted By R. Emmet Sweeney : August 27, 2013 11:02 am
Mike- I just meant that the Republic serials were considered disposable entertainments at the time. To critics and the world at large they were pure kid stuff – while now it's clear they were artfully crafted and worthy of study and attention.
So I'm with you.


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Sarkis Erganian
Սարգիս Էրկանեան
Trebizond (Trabzon), Ottoman Empire
1950 (aged 79–80)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Sarkis Erganian (Armenian: Սարգիս Երկանյան; 1870 in Trabzon, Ottoman Empire - 1950 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an Ottoman Armenian painter.
Of Armenian descent,[1][2] Sarkis Erganian was born in Trebizond (now Trabzon) and went to Constantinople (now Istanbul) to study art in 1884. In 1894 he went to Paris, where he took lessons from Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.[1] Subsequently, he entered the Paris Academy of Fine Arts and became the pupil of Gerome. In 1897 and 1898 he participated in the Paris Salon exhibitions.[1] He lost his father and brother in the Hamidian Massacres of 1894-1896,[1] and in 1897 he sought refuge in New York city. He worked for a while as an artist for the New York Herald. He was awarded third prize for a work that was exhibited at the world fair in St. Louis in 1904, and won the right to American citizenship.[1] He married around this time. He went on to participate in exhibitions in various American cities and won prizes. In 1905 two of his oil paintings were shown at an exhibition in Portland, Oregon.[1] He became homesick for Turkey, and in 1912 he traveled to Constantinople, where he taught for a while at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi), predecessor of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. When World War I broke out in 1914 he decided to go to Tbilisi. There he spoke out against the Bolsheviks, and after the revolution in 1917 he was obliged to flee from Russia. He traveled to Constantinople and from there to St. Louis. In 1921 he restored the frescoes by Frederick Lincoln Stoddard in the St. Louis City Hall. He spent the rest of his life in St. Louis, where he is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Many of his paintings are in collections in the city.
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^ a b c d e f Kurkman, Garo (2004). Armenian painters in the Ottoman empire 1600-1923. İstanbul: Matüsalem Publications. ISBN 9789759201555.
^ La Coss, Louis (March 23, 1930). "Sarkis Erganian, Armenian Artist". The Globe-Democrat Newspaper. St. Louis.
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Bug description: On Galaxy Nexus wallpaper is black. I can only see it through recent app tiles. Setting up an ambience doesn't solve the issue.
This is a really annoying problem, I hope that it will be solved as soon as possible.
Currently the wallpaper is rendered as a single OpenGL texture and for larger resolutions it gets over 2048 pixels tall. This happens to be the texture size limit on Galaxy Nexus apparently, thus you see black where the texture would be.
Well, using glbench I get GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE 2048. So this seems to be the main problem. Should be fixed... maybe put a smaller wallpaper for devices that don't support it, or automatically resize when needed.
We hope to fix in a future update.
This issue should be fixed in release 0.2.2, can you try?
On Play Store i see only v0.2.1.


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#include "core/dom/ExecutionContext.h"
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#include "core/loader/DocumentLoader.h"
#include "core/workers/SharedWorker.h"

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