We believe that Jesus Christ is both true God and true man (Exodus 3:13-15 and John 8:58-59; John 1:1-18; John 10:30-33; Galatians 4:4-5; Philippians 2:5-8; Hebrews 2:14-18). We believe in His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-23; Luke 1:26-35); His sinless life (Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26); His miracles (John 2:11); His substitutionary death (Romans 4;25; Romans 5:8; Galatians 3:13-14; Hebrews 2:9); His physical resurrection (Luke 24:39-43; 1Corinthians 15:1-22); His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:50-53); and His personal, visible, and bodily return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead (Acts 1:11; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:12).
We believe that man was created by God in His own image (Genesis 1:27; Genesis 9:6) but was spiritually separated from God because of sin (Genesis 3:23-24; Romans 3:10-12; I John 1:8-10), and is incapable of being reconciled to God apart from the work of Jesus Christ (Romans 5:6-8; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:1-5).
We believe in the absolute necessity of rebirth by the Holy Spirit for salvation (John 3:1-3; I Peter 1:23). We believe that man is justified (declared righteous) by God on the single ground of the righteousness of Jesus Christ (namely, His sacrificial and atoning death on the cross to pay the penalty for sin, and His perfect obedience) freely given to all who believe in Him. We believe that this saving work and perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ can only be received by faith alone (Isaiah 53:1-12; Jeremiah 23:6; Matthew 20:28; John 3:16-19; John 5:24; Romans 3:21-26; Romans 4:1-3; Romans 5:8-19; Romans 10:1-10; I Corinthians 1;30; II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 2:21; Ephesians 2:8-9; Philippians 3:7-9; I John 4:10).
We believe in the physical resurrection of both the saved and the lost. Those who are saved will rise to eternal life, and those who are lost to eternal punishment (Matthew 16:27; John 5:28-29; Matthew 25:46; I Corinthians 15:12-17).
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The two types of British films at TIFF 2010. The King's Speech, Route Irish, Neds.
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https://danielgarber.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/culturalminingsep243.mp3There were a surprising number of good British films that played at TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival) this year, but they tended to fall on two sides of a great divide. On one side is the palatable, Masterpiece Theatre-type England, nicely doled up for North American sensibilities, with its crowned heads, palatial estates, tally-ho, ta-ta, Shakespeare, umbrellas, Churchill, and crisp enunciation fit for television. You're likely to see Hugh Grant or Colin Firth or Ralph Feinnes. It's like the future described in Julian Barnes' satirical novel England, England, where the whole country, including members of the royal family, are replicated on a small island and reduced to a mini-theme park built for foreign visitors.
On the other side is a grimier, grittier UK, where people speak in gruff regional accents and dialects, get in fights, do unfortunate things, try to get rich, and get caught up in problems they don't know how to solve. I tend to like this version better than the pasteurized one.
The winner of this year's People's Choice award at TIFF is
Dir: Tom Hooper
This movie falls neatly into the first category.
Lionel (Geoffrey Rush) is an Australian speech therapist who invented techniques for returned soldiers from WWI. He's hired, in great secrecy, to help a man (Colin Firth) — known to his friends as Bertie, and who later becomes King George VI — because he has a terrible stutter. With the advent of radio, he needs to fix his speech to stop freezing up whenever he's asked to make an announcement. The meeting is arranged by his wife. Elizabeth (the future Queen Mother).
But Lionel is a commoner, the first Bertie has ever met, and he is used to being addressed as his "Royal Highness", or just "Sir". Lionel works in a dirty, broken-down basement while Bertie lives in a palace. But Lionel insists they talk to each other as regular people do. He decides Berties problems are psychological – he's intimidated by his father the King, and his brother, the Prince of Wales. So through the use of his experimental and amusing methods, he tries to get him comfortable pronouncing words without a stammer.
Now this is based on a true story, and Canadians I've talked to who lived through that era all remember that the King did indeed have a stutter. So it's interesting to watch his speech improve. And the acting was all credible, with Derek Jacobi (I Claudius) as the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the frowzy, redoubtable actress with the double-barrelled name, Helena Bonham Carter, as the future Queen Elizabeth, mother of the current Queen.
But… this movie rubbed me the wrong way. Everything is so homogenized that the accents of the working-class Aussie therapist and the King aren't really that different. And the history had such a story-book feel to it: Here's Winston Churchill harrumphing about this, and there's Wallis Simpson, whingeing about that…
The whole movie felt like an American TV view of what England was like, made only to attract more Oscar votes. It was even visually tiresome, with its constant, awful use of a wide-angle lens (where characters lean forward into the camera at a distorted angle, like in a bad 80's TV commercial) giving the whole movie a sort of a geddit? geddit? tone…
I can tell this movie's going to be popular, but it didn't do much for me.
More to my taste was the excellent
"Route Irish"
Dir: Ken Loach
Wri: Paul Laverty
Fergus and Frankie are lifelong best buddies from northern England — almost like brothers. They've even shared girlfriends. So when he's told Frankie was ambushed by unnamed terrorists in Iraq, on that dangerous stretch of road to the Green Zone known as Route Irish, Fergus is crushed. He is sure that something bad happened to him, that it was someone's fault. Frankie was born lucky, he says; he can't have died just by chance. So Fergus decides to investigate. They were both working as well-paid mercenaries for a shady security firm, and it was Fergus who got him the job. So he feels guilty and responsible for his death. He also receives the celphone Frankie had sent him before he dies, complete with photos and video footage. For his sake, (and that of his widow) Fergus decides to investigate the case to uncover the truth and bring whoever was responsible to justice.
This is an amazing war movie, the best so far about the Iraq war, even though it mainly takes place back in England. It brings up the issues of torture, terrorism, interrogation, and cover-ups – not as something to be feared of an unknown, al-Qaeda middle-eastern enemy, but more by how all this has changed the attitudes and practices of "Us", of the west. It also works as a very engrossing drama, with great characters you care about. Most surprisingly, Ken Loach has directed a genuine thriller, as the exciting secret events are gradually revealed.
Ken Loach is the director of great movies like "It's a Free World…"; "Bread and Roses;" "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (about the Irish revolution); and "Land and Freedom" (about the Spanish Civil War). I remember his movies as politically progressive, but sometimes bogged down when long discussions would trump the plot. But he's just gotten better and better. This one is the best he's ever done, that functions both as a politically astute view of the war in Iraq, and as just a really good movie. There is some rough violence, but it's not gratuitous. I really recommend this one and hope it'll be widely released.
Finally, a surprise movie at TIFF was
Dir: Peter Mullan
John McGill is a good boy in 70's Glasgow, Scotland. His aunt says he can do anything he wants: He reads so much… he should be a journalist! But from day one at school, he's streamed into the "Neds" category — that's Non-Educated Delinquent – because his big brother Bennie is in a local gang. So on his first day of class he's told he's a loser and is put on the lowest rung. And it's horribly competitive: Every semester the top two in each form move up to a better class, and the bottom two move down. And if any kid is late or talks out of line, he has to hold his hands, palms up, in front of him, to be flogged! These are little kids.
The story progresses as he grows older, and despite his efforts he gradually, fatalistically, falls in with the bad crowd and becomes a juvenile delinquent. As his anger builds, and his behaviour worsens, he turns into a bit of a street-savvy monster. But guilt also steps in, when he has to face what he's done.
Anyway, I don't want to give it away, but it's quite a cathartic movie, and though long, it gets more extreme but also more interesting, until there's a completely unexpected, shocking, and then oddly touching, ending. It was a great movie.
I should also mention, unlike "The King's Speech", both "Route Irish" and "Neds" were subtitled, since the accents of Glasgow and Liverpool are not as plummy and smooth as the palatable, made-for-TV-style accents usually shown on this side of the Atlantic.
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10 Stay safe
For other places with the same name, see Fargo (disambiguation).
Fargo Theatre
Fargo is a modern city of just over 100,000 in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Many people relate Fargo to the eponymous 1996 Coen Brothers movie starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and William H. Macy, though none of the movie was filmed in Fargo. Neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota is across the river from Fargo and the area is generally referred to as Fargo-Moorhead. Fargo is the seat of Cass County.
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Fargo's 46.919874-96.825591 Hector International Airport (FAR IATA) is served by Allegiant, American, Delta, and United with flights to Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City.
46.880983-96.7860162 Amtrak, 420 4th St N. Station hours 11PM-6:30AM daily. Amtrak serves the city with its Empire Builder line, with one train east and one train west every day. Departure times in both directions are in the middle of the night. There are several restaurants near the station, and during the summer you may eat outside overlooking the train tracks. The Empire Builder goes from Seattle/Portland to Chicago.
46.867783-96.863063 Jefferson Lines, 855 45th St S, ☏ +1 701 293-1222. Jefferson Lines provides bus service to Fargo from cities in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana.
Fargo is located at the intersection of Interstate Highways 29 and 94. It's about 230 miles northwest of the Twin Cities on I-94, about a three-hour and twenty minute drive.
Matbus Bus transportation is available to most parts of the city. They are phasing out the tokens, so if you want a souvenir, get one now. Parking is plentiful, even on the main thoroughfares in downtown areas.
Two interesting landmarks in the surrounding are the KVLY-TV mast and the KXJB-TV mast, which were the tallest towers on earth until the construction of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
FargoDome, 1800 N University Dr, ☏ +1 701 241-9100. Offers athletic events, broadway shows, music concerts. During some concerts 1/4 of the population fits inside the Fargodome.
Roger Maris Museum, 3902 13th Ave (West Acres Shopping Center (at I-29)). Open year-round. Admission is free.
Fargo Theatre, 314 Broadway, ☏ +1 701 239-8385. The Fargo Theater show mostly independent films, on actual film, not digital. Inside the theatre there is a statue of Marge Olmstead Gunderson, of the movie Fargo carved out of wood, also inside on the stage is a functional Wurlitzer pipe organ that is occasionally used to score silent films.
North Dakota State University.
Plains Art Museum, 704 First Ave, ☏ +1 701 232-3821.
Fargo Air Museum, 1609 19th Ave N, ☏ +1 701-293-8043. Open year round.
Children's Museum, 1201 28th Ave (Yunker Farm).
Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks (Newman Outdoor Field, NDSU campus). Minor league baseball. While you are there, check out the Maury Wills Museum.
Horse Racing, 5180 19th Ave N (North Dakota Horse Park), ☏ +1 701 277-8027. Season is from early August to mid-September.
Red River Zoo, 4220 21st Ave SW. Open May to October, has red pandas.
Cass County Pioneer Village, Ayr, ☏ +1 701 668-2991, fax: +1 701-668-2249. Antique car collection, old barber shop, school, ice cream parlor, bank, gas station, depot and cook shack. Open by appointment, May–August.
Celebrity Walk of Fame, 2001 44th St. SW (Exit 348 Interstate 94), ☏ +1 701 282-3653. The walk where more than 100 celebrities have left their marks in cement. Stars from music, the arts, politics, and sports, like: Garth Brooks, Neil Diamond, KISS, Maury Wills, Debbie Reynolds, and Governor Jesse Ventura, have left their signatures, handprints and footprints. No fee.
Fargo Thunder Road. Go-kart racing, batting cages, adventure golf. Open May–September.
Vietnam Week, 1609 19th Avenue North. (4/30/2005-5/8/2005) dedicated to Vietnam era.
Life's Options (Fargodome). (5/6/2005-5/7/2005) Entertainment for mature adults.
Scheels Fargo Marathon (Civic Center). (5/14/2005)
Fargo has many interesting boutique and specialty style shops downtown.
West Acres. Fargo shopping means the million square foot West Acres, featuring Sears, JC Penney and Macy's plus a hundred other stores. During and post construction West Acres was colloquially referred to by residents as "Wasted Acres" as it was build on farm land.
Zandbroz Variety. Has an eclectic collection of books and trinkets, including a fargo memorabilia.
Ristreto Coffee & Tea, 5050 13th Ave S (near West Acres). Locally owned Ristreto Coffee & Tea serves Fair Trade/organic coffee, tea, frappes, smoothies, Italian sodas, gelato, and pastries quickly, consistently, and exquisitely. Free wireless Internet access is available. No extra charge for Credit/Debit card purchases!
Babb's Seattle Coffee House. A fantastic independent coffee shop located across the street from the Fargo Theater downtown. Credit cards are accepted for a $0.25 surcharge.
Grand Junction. East Coast Style Subs serves hot subs grilled fresh right in front of you. A local favorite. Try the Chicken Cordon Bleu sandwich, very delicious.
Boppa's Bagels, 3051 25th St S # O, ☏ +1 701 241-7800. Boppa's Bagels makes wonderful bagels, of note are their speciality bagels, that are also available at some coffee shops around the city.
Passage to India, 855 45th St, ☏ +1 701-281-0277. An excellent Indian buffet place. A flavourful and delightful selection from soup to dessert is available.
Santa Lucia. Offers excellent Greek and Italian food.
The HoDo Restaurant (Hotel Donaldson). An elegant but unpretentious restaurant.
Monte's Downtown. A fantastic and modern upscale restaurant.
The Bismark, 6th Ave. and Broadway. The PBR is always cold, all the whiskey drinks are doubles, and pull tabs litter the dirty floor that is inexplicably emblazoned with the New York Yankees logo. This downtown Fargo watering hole is Fargo's best dive bar. Black jack tables, off-sale liquor, and pinball are available.
Dempsey's Public House, 226 Broadway. Fargo's only traditional Irish pub. Upstairs of Dempsey's is The Aquarium, a live music venue featuring bands of every musical style.
HoDo. The Hotel Donaldson bar featuring pub food and tapas-style dishes as well as beers and ales on tap.
Great variety of hotels and motels ranging from budget to luxury. Major national chains like Motel 6, Comfort Inn, Best Western, Howard Johnson's, Ramada, Radisson, Courtyard by Marriott, and Travelodge all have Fargo locations.
In addition, you may rent rooms from $300 per month or less. There are signs everywhere and some interesting residential hotels scattered about.
Airport/Dome Days Inn, ☏ +1 701 232-0000, toll-free: +1-800-329-7466.
Chez Susanne, ☏ +1 701 293-9023, toll-free: +1-866-787-2663.
C'Mon Inn, ☏ +1 701 277-9944, toll-free: +1-800-334-1570.
Flying J Inn, ☏ +1 701 282-8473, toll-free: +1-800-845-1311.
Lindenwood Park Campground, ☏ +1 701 232-3987.
Motel 75, ☏ +1 701 232-1321, toll-free: +1-800-828-5962.
Microtel Inn & Suites Fargo, 12th Ave, ☏ +1 701 281-2109.
AmericInn Lodge and Suites, ☏ +1 701 234-9946.
Best Western Doublewood Inn, ☏ +1 701 235-3333, toll-free: +1-800-433-3235.
Best Western Kelly Inn, ☏ +1 701 282-2146, toll-free: +1-800-635-3559.
Comfort Inn East, ☏ +1 701 280-9666, toll-free: +1-800-228-5150.
Comfort Inn West, ☏ +1 701 282-9596, toll-free: +1-800-228-5150.
Comfort Suites, ☏ +1 701 237-5911.
Country Inn & Suites, ☏ +1 701 234-0565.
Econo Lodge, ☏ +1 701 232-3412, toll-free: +1-800-553-2666.
Expressway Inn, ☏ +1 701 235-3141, toll-free: +1-800-437-0044.
Fairfield Inn by Marriott, ☏ +1 701 281-0494, toll-free: +1-800-228-2800.
Hampton Inn, ☏ +1 701 235-5566.
Holiday Inn Express, ☏ +1 701 282-2000.
Holiday Inn, ☏ +1 701 282-2700, toll-free: +1-877-282-2700.
Howard Johnson Inn Downtown, ☏ +1 701 232-8850, toll-free: +1-888-232-8850.
Kelly Inn, ☏ +1 701 277-8821, toll-free: +1-800-635-3559.
MainStay Suites, ☏ +1 701 277-4627.
Microtel Inn & Suites, ☏ +1 701 281-2109, toll-free: +1-888-771-7171.
Motel 6, ☏ +1 701 232-9251, toll-free: +1-800-466-8356.
Red River Lodge, ☏ +1 701 282-9100, toll-free: +1-800-843-7663.
Rheault Farm, ☏ +1 701 241-1350.
Rodeway Inn, ☏ +1 701 239-8022.
Scandia Hotel, ☏ +1 701 232-2661, toll-free: +1-800-223-2913.
Select Inn, ☏ +1 701 282-6300, toll-free: +1-800-641-1000.
Sleep Inn, ☏ +1 701 281-8240, toll-free: +1-800-905-7533.
Super 8 Motel & Suites, ☏ +1 701 232-9202.
Wingate Inn, ☏ +1 701 281-9133, toll-free: +1-800-228-1000.
Hotel Donaldson, 101 Broadway, ☏ +1 701-478-1000. A beautiful experience. The Donaldson has only 17 rooms, each featuring original works by a Plains artist. It was immaculately renovated in 2003. Room decor is modern. Amenities include flat screen cable TV, rooftop spa and high speed internet access. Outstanding personal service includes complimentary gourmet breakfast bar in the morning and wine and cheese bar in the early evening.
La Maison des Papillons B&B, ☏ +1 701 232-2041, toll-free: +1-888-273-3380.
Radisson Hotel Fargo, ☏ +1 701 232-7363, toll-free: +1-800-333-3333.
Ramada Plaza Suites & Conference Center, ☏ +1 701 277-9000.
Fargo is a safe city, with little violent crime, however, use common sense especially when it comes to personal property, just as you would anywhere else. The only area in which a person would need to be on the look-out is downtown on the weekends, especially during the school year. With the many colleges and bars it makes for an unpredictable experience.
There is free wireless internet access in the food court at the West Acres Shopping Center.
Most coffee shops and even a few bars also offer free wireless internet access.
High Plains Reader The source for what is happening in the city, an alternative newspaper that from the start was doomed to fail due to the small population of the city, but has since lasted over 10 years and remains as strong as ever. Free.
KNDS Radio for Everyone. A collaborative university and community radio station, that thanks to the extreme flatness of Fargo can broadcast about the whole metro area on a Low Power FM Dial.
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Routes through Fargo
Minot ← Grand Forks ← W E → Detroit Lakes → St. Paul
Grand Forks ← Argusville ← N S → Oxbow → Sioux Falls
Bismarck/Minot ← West Fargo ← W E → Moorhead → Minneapolis
END ← West Fargo ← W E → Moorhead → St. Paul
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I cannot believe how amazing Stuart is. He made me feel so at ease from the minute he arrived to the minute he left. He had a vision and understood when he needed more footage. His directions were great and when not directing he blended into the day perfectly. He was very professional and so kind. Communication before the wedding was great and he answered any questions I had and responded quickly and thoughtfully. Completely amazing experience from start to finish with a lovely and talented man.
Stuart is AMAZING! Booking him for our destination wedding was simple, with one quote to cover all. He gathered info from a form, skype call & face to face at the venue to fully understand our day. He arrived early to capture everything & was part of the family as we got ready, I hardly noticed him at the venue, he slotted in so well. He came to our beach party he following day to get some extra candid shots and provided an amazing teaser before we were back in the UK. I would highly recommend!
Absolutely amazing! Stuart at Appleyard Productions is so professional and the quality of his videos are unbelievable! We received a teaser clip just hours after our wedding which was amazing! The highlight clip and full video were also amazing and came in a special keepsake box with popcorn (such a lovely thought)! We will cherish our videos forever. Stuart is worth every penny!
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Im April 2022 stand Kokojew auch erstmals im Kader der Erstligamannschaft Krasnodars. Im Mai 2022 debütierte er dann gegen Lokomotive Moskau auch in der Premjer-Liga. Dies blieb sein einziger Erstligaeinsatz in jener Spielzeit, für Krasnodar-2 absolvierte er 17 Zweitligapartien.

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Smoking Ban Enforced on UK Drivers
News Article by Marie Law on 18th December 2014 in Car News, Health News, United Kingdom News
Smokers who light up with their children in the car should suffer on the spot fines of £50 if the ban on smoking in a car with children is enforced by the police.
It is illegal to smoke in a car (or other vehicle) with anyone under 18. The law changed on 1 October 2015, to protect children and young people from the dangers of secondhand smoke.
Both the driver and the smoker could be fined £50. The law applies to every driver in England and Wales, including those aged 17 and those with a provisional driving licence.
It's Illegal to Smoke in a Vehicle with Anyone Under 18
It means a fine of £50 will be incurred upon people who smoke or who fail to prevent another person from smoking in their vehicle that contains a child under the age of 18.
What are the Effects of Smoking in a Car
Research indicates that 300,000 children in the UK visit their GP every year due to the effects of second-hand smoke, with 9,500 Children being admitted to hospital or an out-patient unit.
Smoke in a car stays in the air for up to two and a half hours even with windows open.
4,000 chemicals are contained in second-hand cigarette smoke, some of which are highly dangerous and known to cause cancer.
Exposure to second-hand smoke in children has been strongly linked to chest infections, asthma, ear problems and cot death.
Smoking in a car has a higher concentration of toxins than smoking in a bar, research has put it at 11 times higher
The news was been welcomed by anti-smoking campaigners. Chief executive Deborah Arnott from Action on Smoking and Health said:
"We are delighted. We also urge the government to put the regulations on standardised packaging to Parliament before the general election. This, together with the protection of children from second-hand smoke in cars, will help de-normalise smoking and protect children from this deadly addiction."
Public health minister Jane Ellison commented that:
"Second-hand smoke is a real threat to children's health and we want them to grow up free from the risks of smoking. The only effective way to protect children is to prevent them breathing second-hand smoke and our plans to stop smoking in cars carrying children will help us to do this."
Smoke in a Car is 11 Times more Concentrated than a Smoky Pub
Banning smoking in cars in the UK isn't news to every ones ears, Simon Clark director of the pro-smoking lobby group Forest said:
"The government is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The overwhelming majority of smokers know smoking in a car with children is inconsiderate and they don't do it. The regulations are unnecessary and excessive. Do we really want to criminalise people for lighting a cigarette in a private vehicle?"
Scotland and Wales have also put forward a bill to stop smoking in a vehicle containing a child and Northern Ireland have said they are considering a ban.
Marie Law
: Home educator for 20 years, Online retailer for 5 years, aspiring fiction author. Main interests: Politics, Entertainment, Art, Nature, Science, Trending, Good News, General Interest.
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About time it was banned in cars.
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Bella Vita Massage and Spa services really isn't about us...it's about you.
Our focus is central on your feeling, what you're feeling, what's hurting, how you're sleeping...and most of all, on how you live.
Our appointments are never rushed and are always a full 60 or 90 minutes of treatment focused on you. You're never rushed and times are never booked back to back. We always allow time outside of your treatment period for pre and post planning and reflection.
Jacqueline Frame began her career in treating others as a nurse with a focus on holistic care and advanced acute care. But her passion for others was often limited by how little time she was allotted to actually spend helping her patients. To that end Bella Vita is committed to always putting the you first with a customer tailored massage, all natural and encompassing sensory therapy, from the comfort of your home or our local studio.
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An .org.au domain name is the best way for an Australian association or non profit organisation to be represented on the web. An .org.au domain name immediately identifies an association or organisation as being non profit and/or a charity and most importantly, Australian.
By registering an .org.au domain name, eligible associations/organisations now have the ability to register domain names for anything that pertains to their work or cause. For instance, a charity organisation may want to register their up-coming fundraiser or an awareness group may want to register a future campaign.
.org.au domain names are intended for Australian non-commercial organisations.
These domain names can only be registered by Australian non-profit organisations and registered charities. Commercial organisations and individuals are not eligible for .org.au.
(2) the domain name has a close and substantial connection to the organisation.
Note that the "close and substantial" connection is interpretted quite broadly and can include for example the name of a program or event run by the organisation, the name of a product or service provided and so on.
Organisations can hold multiple org.au domain names, so it is easy and cost-effective to have domains for various different projects, special events, fundraisers and so on.


In Settings tab, users can change the sample size to any numerical value or select full sample size.
Note : Sample size is the size of data that would be visualized while you create a report.
Users can unselect the option of prepending the table names. Doing this, users would then only see the column names in the selection area instead of table name plus the column name for selected columns.


Effort by the Indian Police to track , trace and restore the Stolen and lost vehicles to the real owners by using modern methods and information Technology.
One of the major responsibilities of the police is to safeguard and protect the society from crime. It is imperative that the police have to be vigilant about the internal security. The world of crime has spread its horizons as days go by. The methods of committing crime have become more dangerous and obnoxious whereas the criminals have turned smarter and mean or ruthless. It has become the primary duty and obligation of police to unearth the crime and give deterrent punishment to the criminals. Due to the harsh punishments, people's idea about the police has been changed. The police are considered as agents of horror and a social evil by the public. This has caused the tarnishing of the image of police in the eyes of public. The decline of dignity of the police was the result of a gradual process.
A compilation of the engine and chassisno.'s of all the vehicles impounded in the police stations needs to be created with utmost responsibility and forwarded to the national level data base center through the higher authorities. It is extremely important that the whole exercise is carried out under the direct supervisions of police officers as the possibilities of errors such as mistaking 5 for S , 2 for Z and 1 for I are very high. In this pursuit of realizing our dream high level of coordination between Ministry of Home, DGP (State) ,IPG(Range), SP(Dist.), DSP, ISP, Sub Inspectors and SHO's of various police stations is required.
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We are delighted to have partnered with one of Stockholm's most famous IB schools SIS (Stockholm International School). The facilities are modern, comfortable and provide the perfect environment for concentration and intensive exam preparation. SIS is ideally located in the centre of the Swedish capital close to public transportation. The closest tube station is Rådmandsgatan with Stockholm Central Station only a 15-minute walk away with direct buses or trains to Stockholm's all airports.
The address is Luntmakargatan 34, 111 37 Stockholm.
Best Western and Hostel is conveniently located a 3-minute walk from Stockholm International School, where classes will be held. The rooms are basic but comfortable and breakfast is included. The hotel is a 10-minute walk from Stockholm Central Station with shuttle buses or direct trains for Arlanda Airport, Skavsta Airport and Västerås Airport. Please note that facilities might be shared*.
Students traveling to the course center alone have the option of booking one of our single rooms. If you are coming to the course with a friend, you have the option to book a single room or share a twin/double room. When booking a twin/double room you have to specify the name of a friend whom you will share with and your friend needs to place a separate booking specifying your name in turn.
Single Rooms cost from £95 per night and Twin Rooms cost from £65 per night and person.
* If rooms in Vanadis Hostel are no longer available, we reserve the right to book students into a different hotel of equal standards.
Please book by February 14th 2019 to ensure availability. After this date, please contact us to check availability.


Isla Fisher has signed on for the female voice lead in Gore Verbinski's cartoon adventure Rango.
According to Variety, the Confessions of a Shopaholic star will play alongside Johnny Depp and Abigail Breslin, who have already boarded the Paramount Pictures project. Alfred Molina, Ray Winstone, Harry Dean Stanton and Ned Beatty round out the voice cast.
No word on when production will begin.


Real estate appraiser ethics - High Country Appraisals, Inc.
Appraisal is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. In our field as with any profession appraisers are bound by ethical considerations.An appraiser's primary responsibility is to his or her client. Normally, in residential practice, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal to decide whether to make the mortgage loan. Appraisers have certain duties of confidentiality to their clients -- as a homeowner, if you want a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to request it through your lender -- obligations of numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, an obligation to attain and maintain a certain level of competency and education, and must generally conduct him or herself as a professional. Here, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.


Eric Dolphy & John Coltrane together at The Gate in warm up sessions to their eventual Village Vanguard recordings made a month later. Recordings which have become seminal sessions for their originality and excitement.
It was such a joy to be around musicians who could really "lay it out."


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Rooster P Incognito's debut Ep. Two tracks of deep, warm disco by Swedish discocat Mikael Persson. 'Swing Ratio' is pure class late nite wobbly disco, reminiscent of Daniel Wangs old Balihu sound, a similar loose feel and swing but with an added hybrid electrofunk touch. Flip for 'Love Deluxe', a sweet and beautiful early doors space groover.


The future of web design!
Without doubt, responsive web design is the new standard. Companies that choose responsive design now will maintain a competitive advantage.
So what is responsive web design? Responsive web design is the methodology used to build a website that will look excellent on all devices. Today, there are so many types of devices and screen formats that the ability to display well on all of them is extremely advantageous and necessary. With mobile use on the rise, it is important to engage your customers on their terms...mobile, tablets, notebooks, wide screens, and yes still the PC.
So how does responsive web design work? Responsive design uses a method called the media query. When a user goes to a responsive website, the site files load to the browser. Next, the files tell the browser to ask the device what size the screen is. Once the browser gets the answer back from the device, it looks at the files again to see how it should display the site on this device size.
Blue Phoenix Creative makes responsive web design a cohesive process between our designers, developers, and the client. This approach produces a truly organic solution. The result for the client is an experience that does not deviate far from the usual development process but provides a higher degree of excellence for a more complete and successful web solution.


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Wild shut out again on the road, falling 4-0 in Nashville
Chances come early, then dry up, against Predators.
By Sarah McLellan Star Tribune
NASHVILLE – The Wild's performance in the first period was the kind of start that can set up a team up for success even though there's still two-thirds of the game to go.
Not only was the action almost exclusively in the Predators' zone, but the pressure applied by the Wild was meaningful — 13 shots, with many quality chances.
"That was probably our best period of hockey in this building in a long time," coach Bruce Boudreau said.
But the push wasn't perfect because one important ingredient was missing.
After the Wild failed to capitalize while it was in charge, the Predators recovered and pulled away for a 4-0 victory Thursday in front of 17,386 at Bridgestone Arena that halted the Wild's momentum from back-to-back wins.
Video (00:40): Coach Bruce Boudreau recaps the 4-0 loss to the Predators Thursday.
"You see it every game," Boudreau said. "One team controls the play. If you don't get rewarded for it, the other team eventually is going to pick it up."
If the Wild's inability to bury the Predators in the first period opened the door for a Nashville revival, lapses in the first and last minutes in the middle frame completed the transformation.
Only 37 seconds into the second, winger Miikka Salomaki accepted a drop pass from center Colton Sissons after Sissons shrugged off defenseman Jonas Brodin and wired the puck by goalie Alex Stalock's blocker. The goal came during a Wild delayed penalty.
Nashville padded its lead with 29 seconds to go in the period on another drop-pass sequence. This time, Viktor Arvidsson fed Calle Jarn- krok, who smashed a shot off the post and past Stalock.
"It was a shot that probably could have been stopped or should have been stopped," Boudreau said. "It's a deflator when they score in the first minute and last minute of the period."
This outburst by the Predators was a change of pace from the first period, when the Wild (3-7) dictated play.
Winger Marcus Foligno tipped a puck off the post soon after puck drop. So did winger Luke Kunin later in the period. Defenseman Matt Dumba also hit the post, while winger Jason Zucker was stymied on a partial break into the Predators' end.
Mikko Koivu's attempt in the crease was also kept out.
At one point, shots swelled to 9-1 in favor of the Wild.
Give credit to Predators goalie Pekka Rinne, whose 26 saves sealed his first shutout of the season and fifth in his career against the Wild.
"It was a winnable game, and we didn't stay with it," Boudreau said.
Had the Wild found a way to sneak at least one puck by him in the early stages, the team wouldn't have been forced to chase — an approach that made it vulnerable in the third.
Winger Craig Smith was left alone in front of the net to shove the puck by Stalock at 6:58 before Sissons scored shorthanded on a breakaway at 16:53.
"The first period was great, but we don't get rewarded for anything," Boudreau said.
Sarah McLellan covers the Wild and NHL. Before joining the Star Tribune in November 2017, she spent five years covering the Coyotes for The Arizona Republic.
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Ex-youth center counselor's lawyer sees greed behind charges
An attorney for a man charged with repeatedly raping a teenage boy at New Hampshire's state-run youth detention center in the 1990s said Friday the allegations are motivated by "money and greed."
One-armed Canadian amateur Laurent Hurtubise made a hole-in-one playing alongside two PGA Tour pros in The American Express pro-am event.
Former Walmart Inc. chief executive David Glass, who owned the Kansas City Royals for nearly two decades before selling the franchise last fall, died last week of complications form pneumonia. He was 84.
Reusse: Finally given chance to lead, Brian Dutcher rides the wave at San Diego State
Brian Dutcher had to wait until age 57 to become a head coach, but he is running with the opportunity. San Diego State, 18-0 overall and 7-0 in the Mountain West, is the last remaining undefeated team.
The NCAA will discuss rule changes next week that could pave an easier promotion path for schools such as St. Thomas.
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The Church of Our Saviour () is a parish church in Esbjerg, Denmark. Completed in 1887 to a design by Axel Møller, it was the first church to be built in the rapidly growing new town.

History
When Esbjerg was first developed in the late 1860s, the nearest church was in Jerne to the east. A committee set up in 1885 called for a new church to be built in the centre of Esbjerg as soon as possible. The government responded in 1886, granting half the necessary funding, the remainder being provided by Ribe Diocese. Construction began in May 1887 and the church was consecrated on 18 December the same year. In late 1990, the church became a parish in its own right. The first priest was installed in March 1891.

Architecture
Located on the corner of Skolegade and Kirkegade, the church is a typical Neoromantic building in red brick with belts of grey stone on a granite socle. It originally consisted of a nave with a chancel and apse at the east end and an entrance through the tower to the west. Møller expanded the building in 1896 with transepts to the north and south fitted with galleries, doubling the seating capacity from 400 to 800. The outer walls are decorated with lesenes, round-arched friezes and a toothed cornice. The roof is slated, including the roof on the pyramid-shaped spire.

Interior
In 1929, the church was decorated with frescos by Ole Søndergaard: the Paschal Lamb on the apse vault, Jesus blessing the children on the north wall, the Return of the Prodigal Son on the south wall and the Crucifixion on the chancel arch with groups of people on either side. The large Emmaus painting on the altarpiece is also the work of Søndergaard. The granite font is an old Romanesque piece which was found in the rectory garden in Jerne. The bowl is decorated with a relief with small triangular heads. There is a finely carved wooden pulpit with a canopy.

I.C. Møller park
The church's former cemetery was converted into I.C. Møllerparken in 2013.

References

Literature

External links
Vor Frelser Kirke, Esbjerg, website

Buildings and structures in Esbjerg
Churches in the Region of Southern Denmark
Churches completed in 1887
Churches in the diocese of Ribe


In an effort to grow the company's beauty retail portfolio, Macy's announced on Feb. 4 that it will purchase beauty business Bluemercury for $210 million in cash, according to The Drum. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of Macy's first fiscal quarter of 2015, which will come on May 2.
In a statement, Macy's chairman and chief executive touted the company's plan to "operate and significantly expand Bluemercury stores as a standalone business with an enhanced omnichannel component for a seamless customer experience across stores, online and mobile," referencing Macy's long-standing commitment to its successful strategy of integrating multiple shopping methods and inventory for an improved shopping experience.
This purchase comes at a time when Macy's has shaken up its senior management to re-focus the company on profitable sales growth, especially through its omnichannel operations that have necessitated a larger office space to manage effectively. One recent example of this shift was the early start to Cyber Monday last November that included 50 percent off most goods as well as free shipping for online purchases. This will be headed by former Chief Merchandising Officer Jeff Gennette, who will make that his full time job, according to CNBC, as Timothy Baxter takes his place. In addition to greater integration of e-commerce, Macy's is in the midst of reworking how its shops will present themselves to stimulate increased buying, as well as additional outlets going in over the next three years.


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Home / Food Facts
The microwave was invented by accident in 1945, when an engineer working close to high powered radars noticed the candy bar in his pocket had melted.
Originally biscuits were baked twice, leaving them very hard and almost tasteless. "Bis" comes from Latin meaning "twice," and "cuit" from French meaning "baked."
Canned food was invented in 1810 in order to supply Napoleon's army. The modern version of the can opener was invented 60 years later.
The Saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. He didn't gain much monetary compensation for his invention, and had to fight numerous attempts to copy his patent and even an attempt on his life.
The first ever tool to resemble a chainsaw was invented by German doctor Bernhard Heine. It was a medical tool used for cutting bones.
Wheat is the most traded crop in the world. It's grown on more than 500 million acres (2 million square km) of land.
French people eat 2 million eclairs every single day. It was invented in France where it was originally called "Pains à la duchesse."
The world biggest restaurant buffet organized in November, 2010 by Art of Living Foundation in India offered more than 5000 different dishes.
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The Bibhorr formula is a new mathematical formula to calculate the angles of a right angle triangle without using Sine and Cosine functions. Once the length of all sides are known, the numbers are simply plugged into the formula which results in the angle that is opposite to the middle sized side. The formula is: 90*(Longest Side + Medium Side - Shortest Side)^2 / (Medium Side)^2 + 1.5*(Longest Side)*(Longest Side + Medium Side - Shortest Side)


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This is the most arid in Bergonia; the coastal lowlands get around 15 inches o rainfall a year. However Corifoi, Giles and Balupic embrace the southern Spichelamo Mountains, which receive considerable rainfall.
Bergonian Places--
Detailed descriptions of cities & regions, according to Lesre.
The Southeastern States
The atrei living in this region speak Minidun. The Whites living in this region are descended from English settlers.
Balupi -- from high mountains and dense cloud forests, to dry flat plains, fiercely independent.
Corifoi -- ditto.
Dhentamina -- dry & flat, progressive, modern.
Erithin -- a little island far off to southeast, very dry, like the Canaries, quite Portuguese.
Giles Free State -- small iconoclastic home of descendants of English Dissenters.
Serpei -- very English and very dry, with coastal swamps, oil, cotton, shipping.
Serpei
Speakers of European languages all call it Serpia-- the first syllable, like the first syllable of Serpei, rhymes with "lair," pronounced as in "Sara," not as in "serpent" or "Serbia."
This constitutes the most southeasterly part of Bergonia, save for Erithin. It is also climatically the driest of all the regions, and the part of Bergonia which remained the longest under European-- specifically British-- control. The British were driven out from this, their last redoubt, in 1869 by John Rarsa. 80% of the population speak Minidun and 18% speak English.
Serpei also produces 60% of Bergonia's petroleum. Over 600,000 barrels of crude are produced a day, almost as much as all the production of Alaska.
The entire territory of Serpei is flat and arid, part of the southeast coastal plain call the Bienton. The entire lesre's rainfall consistently stays at approximately 10 inches of precipitation a year. The Bienton is covered by a depressing open shrubform growth, including succulents. There are spots virtually barren, covered by a pale rocky cover. There are thickets of aromatic shrubs sporting small brilliantly colored flowers. In the moister areas, along riverbanks and in the irrigated areas, grow the date palm, the coffee tree, sugar cane, banana and orange tree, all introduced from Europe and Africa. Here and there are cactus, particularly the spindly Cune, native to the region, and a tree similar to the Dragon tree (Dracaena) of the Canary Islands. There is also a euphorbic plant (i.e. cactus-like plants with a thick, milky juice, like the poinsettia) called the Brisote, which sports a large six-petaled flower, variously either white, light blue or pale yellow. There is, finally, the ubiquitous scrubby Meti.
However, cutting a swath through Serpei is the Metafon River that drains the Southern Spichel Mountains of Balupic lesre to the north. mountains receive in places as much as 80 inches of rainfall a year, and the creeks, streams and small fast flowing rivers that drain these mountains feed the Metafon and the Esacon River which flows through Dhentamina. By the time this river reaches the flat plains of the Bienton it is wide, meandering and brown. It is an important source for irrigation water, a source employed for centuries by the Serpei natives and Amota colonists in the development of cotton farming.
Harler and Bathilicon
The Metafon River spreads out in a great delta when it reaches the sea at the most southeastern point of the Bergonian Island. Situated on the large islands formed between the branches of the river are several cities, collectively governed under the regional name of Sentamano. Among this group of cities are Harler and Bathilicon, commonly regarded as part of one metropolitan area.
Together, Harler and Bathilicon and the allied cities include 3,466,000 people, making them combined the seventh largest city in Bergonia. The main course of the Metafon separates Harler and Bathilicon from the city of Rivers, with 242,000 people, from Shina with 125,000, and Cintla with 186,000 people. Thus, Sentamano, with all its cities, includes a total of 4,300,000 people.
Bathilicon is an ancient city, though the marshy and sandy soil has allowed few ruins to survive. In pre-columbian times bathilicon always had a reputation as the city at the end of the earth, in a marginal corner, so very few conquerors ever made it that far. It had much more attraction for fugitives, however, and became a place where many people had secrets they didn't speak of. It was always a rather poor, isolated and uncouth city with its own idiosyncrasies that most other Bergonians found amusing, distasteful or bizarre.
The English founded Harler in the late 1600s on a neighboring island, and set about exploiting the atrei in Bathilicon for their labor. Harler was originally a naval port and a stopping off point for ships traveling to the West Indies, but after an influx of settlers it became the principle center for British culture in Bergonia. The British built banks, a commodities market, a large complex of warehouses and dry-docks, mansions and country clubs. The British installed a Governor General there for all their Bergonian colonies. The Anglican Church built a great cathedral there. There grew a large university, Carlton University, named after its founder.
In modern times Bathilicon has become the poorer, more industrialized of the two cities. In the 1800s it grew into a sprawling slum of Minidun, poor English, Blacks and immigrants from other parts of the British Empire, working as stevedores, warehouse laborers, workers in the cotton mills, and laborers on the harbor and river projects.
Since the Revolution massive rebuilding of Bathilicon has occurred, so it, rather than Harler, is the modern, progressive city. Nowadays, Bathilicon is the site of the nation's biggest concentration of oil refineries, and has skyscrapers, large parks, big large housing projects and public works. Bathilicon is home to the largest zoological park and biological research institution in the nation, the Shanitle Institute. It is engaged in extensive crop development research, gene pool development, and species propagation programs for endangered animals from all over the globe.
By contrast Harler has been allowed to retain much of its beautiful 19th century colonial character, even though its population has become much more heterogeneous. Carlton University is still there, a large liberal arts college and the nation's premier institution for English studies.
Even though several towering bridges have been built to connect all the islands with each other and the mainland, most transportation between the islands is still by a system of red-painted water buses called colloquially "Fatties," for no reason anyone can fathom, and thousands of water taxis called "Blue Boats" for the distinctive aqua blue painted hulls of the small motorboats. Typically, these boats are leased to individual operators by a regional syndicate. For a price, one can ride anywhere in the Sentamano region along the hundreds of miles of waterways.
The Serpi People
The people of Serpei are addicted to spicy cuisine. They grow and eat plenty of blistering hot peppers that make most other Bergonians wince. This has given rise to the expression, "he's as crazy as a Serpi at dinnertime."
"Serpi" is the name of a distinct national group. The Serpi speak a dialect of Minidun, characterized by a clipped accent and abbreviated grammatical forms. The Serpi also use many idioms unknown to other Minidun speakers. Other Minidun speakers tend to look askance at the Serpi accent, considering it slovenly and crude. Most of the Pre-Columbian history of this region is the story of tension between the native Serpi population and other Minidun speakers who migrated from points north, attracted by the dry hot climate and the opportunities abundant in the the rich cotton harvests.
The British hung onto what they called "Harler Colony" until the mid-1800s, long after most of the rest of Bergonia had shaken off European rule. British rule in the south of Bergonia receded in steps, and the last step was Harler Colony that comprised all of what is now Serpei. In 1852 the brilliant maverick General John Rarsa abruptly marched his army across the border and successfully invaded Harler Colony. His unauthorized invasion caught the British fully off guard, since the Second Commonwealth had been consumed in a violent civil war in which Rarsa fought. As a result of the invasion, the British ceded to Bergonia all the Colony save for the City of Harler-Bathilicon and the immediate environs, as well as the island of Erithin. Rarsa became a widely acclaimed hero and within a few short years he became the all-powerful dictator of Bergonia. In 1869 Rarsa procured a negotiated evacuation by the British from Harler-Bathilicon and Urthin. "We will suffer no Gibralters on our continent," Rarsa roared to the cheering crowds.
Nevertheless, the prolonged British rule over this corner of Bergonia left its mark. English remains a second language for everyone, even the Serpi themselves. Many English settlers remained behind. The lesre displays many fine examples of Romantic era English architecture, which influences building styles today. The English founded many large plantations for cotton and tobacco, and many of these fine old homes remain, even though the Revolution of the 1930's destroyed the last of the big farms. The people of Serpei observe teatime and enjoy cricket. They inherited a British style civil administration. There are even people who enjoy the bagpipes, much to the horror of other Bergonians who revile the "dying monster's cry."
Dhentamina
Dhentamina is located in southeastern Bergonia. To its south is Serpei. To the west is Balupic, the border being formed by the Chuzutino Mountains, a forested, rainy range of 1,000 to 3,000 feet. To the north is Salienta. To the east is, of course, the sea.
From the Chuzutino Mountains flows the Esacon' River. It first flows south for seventy miles and leaves Dhentamina to flow into the eastern most corner of Balupic, but at a point just seven miles across the border it doubles back and flows back into Dhentamina in a northeasterly direction. It continues in this direction across the flat dry plains for 110 miles. Along its banks are situated the small cities of Palna, Conda, old-time cities dependant on the centuries old production of cotton in the irrigated fields, and then the English city of St. Joseph. At St. Joseph the Esacon doglegs to flow due east for fifty miles to the sea. At the mouth of the river is the city of Bergoni-Tunec, a new modern city, planned and built after the Revolution. It is a center for medical technology development and manufacture. This is a field in which Bergonia excels all the other nations of the world. With 1,600,000 people, Bergoni-Tunec is the largest city in Dhentamina.
88% of the Minidun people of Dhentamina speak the Amota dialect of the Minidun language. 11% speak English.
The Zontla Peninsula
The city of Bergoni-Tunec is situated at the base of a peninsula that extends with a northeasterly orientation into the sea. This peninsula, called Zontla, forms the southernmost shore of the Birekun, the long bay formed by the large Sargaso Islands and the mainland coast. Just a few miles across the water from the northern tip of the Zontla peninsula is Cloilago, one of these Sargaso islands. The strait that passes between Zontla and Cloilago, called the Zontla-pesi, is a strategic strait, being one of two major ways that ship traffic gets into the Birekun from the open sea and to the seaports situated on its shoreline. There at the northern tip of Zontla on a rocky promontory surrounded by an expanse of dunes and sea oats, the British in the early 1700's constructed Fort Chrislip. At the time the Spanish dominated the northern approach into the Birekun. Fort Crislip enabled the health of the English colony of Cheshire on the inland coast of Birekun.
Bergoni-Tunec
Bergoni-Tunec is a thoroughly modern city situated among the palms along the beach that has increased its population tenfold since the 1940s, now 1.2 million.
The revolutionary government engaged in a program of city building in the 1940s, Although most of this program concentrated on rebuilding existing cities, such as Alai Arsai and Lefitoni. But here the modern city of Bergoni Tunec-- which literally means "Bergonian City"-- was conceived from scratch. The planners wanted to demonstrate a new urban socialist culture where rationally deliberate planning could produce a happy community. They wanted Bergoni Tunec to serve as a beacon to the world. They borrowed heavily from the grandiose ideas of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and even consulted with him.
In our time Bergoni Tunec appears overall a little extravagent and artificial, thus less lively, with buildings so large and spaces so expansive as to intimidate the inhabitants a little. But the city contains some the greatest examples of Art Nouveau architecture & design in the world, and also some of the grandest gardens in the world, and great lush subtropical expanses, in which the residents show deep pride. Gardening has become an abiding obsession with many residents of Bergoni Tunec. This is one of the few places where big apartment blocks were ever built, but most were torn down in the late 1980s and 1990s, during the "Greening." and replaced with thousands of small structures of brick, stucco and glass, including duplexes, row-houses and small apartment buildings.
The broad white beach, lined with tall skinny palms, the Boardwalk, the extravagant gardens, and the grandiosity of the city's layout, all combine to attract hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. As mentioned, Here is the home of the nation's superb medical technology industry, attached to the Bergonian University of Sciences founded in 1955. Bergoni Tunec is also the home city of the National Dance Competitions, occurring every August, an immensely popular event, drawing over a half-million people every year to the various venues and events. The Dance Finals are broadcast live nationwide from the Adhameina, a huge Art Nouveau dance hall situated along the city's Boardwalk, and millions tune in.
The "English Strip," also called Cheshire.
A small strip of land along the southern Birekun coast is included in the territory of Dhentamina, while the rest of the coastline and the inland area behind this strip of land is included in the territory of Salienta. The boundary between Salienta and this part of Dhentamina twists and meanders in a very irregular manner, but was drawn by a treaty between the British and the Spanish in the mid 1700's in order to separate their respective settlements in the area. The English colonists had settled in this strip. This small strip of territory is important for including the two coastal cities of Fentan, a predominantly Minidun city, and Cheshire, an English-speaking city. The population of this strip is 69% English speaking, while just across the border in Saldeia live Portuguese speaking people. In a bit of a coincidence, in ancient times this same little of coastland was called Mjishire, with its own political & civic identity that separated it from the surrounding country.
Itligavec
The southern portion of Dhentamina is an arid land called Itligavec, covered with hardy grasses and succulent scrub, with an occasional patch of thorn trees. This land is desolate. This is one of the most thinly populated lowlands in Bergonia.
Along the coast one finds salt marshes, some of the most unpleasant land in all Bergonia. Here stretches a web of inland waters, and a checkerboard of mangrove, salt marsh grasses, and totally dead, wet, sandy land. The defect in this marsh area is that hardly any fresh water flows in from inland. Much of the water movement in the marshes is related to the tides. At the extreme south of the marsh system, on the border of Dhentamina with Serpi, small freshwater streams flow in from the inland, but they drain only a small portion of the plain and therefore the flow is seasonal, matching the seasonal nature of the rainfall. The marsh system extends beyond the border into Serpi and there the most northern channel of the Metafon River flows into the marsh system. A large part of the marshland is organized into a National Wilderness Zone, to preserve the unique biome that, in many respects, is unique to the world. Very few people live in this region.
Erithin
This is a small volcanic island lying off the southeast tip of Bergonia, about one hundred miles east of the port city of Harler. Erithin was settled by atrei before the coming of the Europeans, but perhaps for only about eleven hundred years. The settlers were Svegon sailors. In colonial times, the Portuguese settled the island, and now a sizable fraction of the residents speak Portuguese. The island came under British rule, however, with the Peace of Utrecht in 1763. In the 1800s many atrei from the mainland were brought there by the British to work the sugar plantations. In 1859 Britain ceded Erithin to Bergonia.
The island is a monstrously complex volcanic formation, with a cluster of six volcanoes forming the island's center, and five others in a range running along the eastern coast. Three of the volcanoes in the center are alive; they smoke and occasionally spew lava. There have been many small eruptions during recorded history, but nothing serious. However, long formations of hardened lava and several strata of ash show that Erithin has seen cataclysmic eruptions from both central and eastern volcanoes within the past twenty thousand years. The activity of these peaks has been used to explain the disastrous floods described in the Atlantean epic Mineoathi, and modern geologists suggest that eruptions in Erithin caused a tsunami that crashed over Bergonia and affected three continents. The geologists have confirmed that Erithin was once a lot larger than it is now, but that approximately twelve thousand years ago a major eruption caused perhaps as much as a hundred square miles collapse into the ocean. Such an event would explain the massive tsunami. Erithin, not surprisingly, is famous for its hot springs. The island receives much rainfall in the windward side, and little on the leeward, which is covered with dry shrub, succulents and grasses, with trees growing along the streams and creeks.
The island is devoid of mineral wealth, save for some deposits of precious stones that the original Svegot settlers exploited, and some oil wells, both on land and off shore to the west. The small population engages in little agriculture, chiefly because of the lack of water for irrigation, but they do grow enough food for self-sufficiency, and their goats and sheep graze on the yellow grass. Tourism is now the largest industry.
Balupic
This lesre is located in southeastern Bergonia. Its geography is extremely diverse, ranging from sharp mountain peaks in the north to the flat dry coastal plain in the south.
The northern border is formed by the South Range of the Spichelamo Mountains, called the Utechamo, with peaks of over 10,000 feet high. Reaching south from the Utechamo are five forested ranges, each with peaks reaching over 8,000 feet. The northern heights of Balupic were the Balupi people's ancient homeland. In these moist hills they still grow tea, coffee, nuts, and redbean. The forests of the northern ranges produce some of the best mahogany in the world, in addition to other fine woods. Balupic as a result has numerous furniture factories.
In contrast the southern third of Balupic is almost completely flat, part of the Bienton' coastal plain (See Serpei), very dry and sparsely planed with thorn trees, shrub and short grass. While the Beinton plain is very arid, the mountains collect moisture in the easterly trade wins and the result is that the mountains receive in excess of 60 inches of rainfall. The rain feeds rushing steams that tumble south through the valleys and on to the plain. They feed into the Metafon River' which meanders across the plain into Serpi and meets the sea at the extreme southeast corner of Bergonia. Agriculture in the flat, dry south has depended largely on use of these rushing river waters for irrigation. Here, as in Serpi, is grown cotton and tobacco.
The Balupi are a tight knit people who have always valued their independence. They speak Minidun like all the other atrei of the east, but their dialect is quite distinct. It is the Sampana dialect, also spoken by the natives of the Kurin people of Kalicon. The Sampana dialect shares features and historical antecedents with the Foi dialect. However the dialect is somewhat unintelligible to the main Dura-Amota dialect of the Minidun language, due to its peculiar pronunciation, its odd idioms, and the six hundred words unique to it.
Before 0 A.D. the Balupi fought off the advance of Kuan-Amota colonists who came south, and also the military advances of the First Ceoilaian Empire. The Balupi people enthusiastically embraced the new Shufrantei religion as it spread east. Being on the winning side increased the Balupi's power, and they moved down out of the mountains and valleys and into the plains. In the 400's the Second Ceiolaian Empire dispatched its armies all over eastern and central Bergonia, and only two nations were able to stop them. One was the big rich state of Halemarec and the other was the small state of Balupi. Afterwards the Balupi courageously maintained their independence against all other nations until the British came in the late 1500s. Like all other atrei nations, the plagues devastated the Balupi people, but the survivors stoutly resisted the British until as a compromise the British established a protectorate over them. During the war for Independence in the 1770s they tied down so many British troops by threatening the Colony of Harler that the great patriot general Peislei credited them with making his own successes possible. Even so, for the next sixty years they resisted incorporation into the Bergonian state. Presently the Balupi stand proudly in their independence. They fly a distinct square flag with a stylized spray of redbean on a gold field with a red border. This flag is ubiquitous throughout the lesre.
The Balupi are a very homogeneous people-- 97% of the population is of Minidun blood and presumably 90% of these speak the Balupic dialect. There is little Christianity here, since the Balupi always resisted European influences. In the colonial era they fiercely resisted both English and Spanish encroachments, but they finally submitted to indirect English rule in exchange for a promise not to allow English settlers within their demarcated territory. Throughout its modern history the Balupi tend toward uniformity in their tendencies, and they tend to vote as a bloc, typically giving big majorities to the favored candidates. In the 1800s they strongly favored the Mountain Lion party. After Rarsa's reign the Feral Cats recruited heavily there, though until the leftward shift in the 1920s the Conservative Party won most elections. They resisted the Ciranic movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s that called for synthesis between all the native and European cultures. Since the Revolution they have given almost unqualified support to the Social Federalists, who support greater autonomy for the lesre at the expense of the national government.
Corifoi
This southeastern province is largely flat and dry. The plains, however, end in northern CorifoiI, where ranges of hills extend down from the southeastern edges of the Ifuno Plateau, where breathtakingly steep ridges stretch southward into Corifoi. While the lowlands that cover most of the province are relatively dry, these ridges are densely forested. There are many outcroppings of bare granite rock. The Bergoli River forms the eastern border of the province, with Balupic on the other side. The main river in the province is the Iuchitat that flows southward from the ridges, across the plains. In the south of Corifoi, the Iuchitat turns eastward and flows into the Bergoli. Between the Iuchitat and the Bergoli one finds some of the most fertile, productive cotton growing country in all Bergonia, thanks to irrigation.
Corifoi derives its name from the Corifon people who comprise 85% of the population. The territory along both banks of the Iuchitat has always been the home of the Corifon people. They have lived there as a coherent tribe since the time of the Second Ceiolaian Empire. They were descendant of colonists from the Amota lands of the east. Their dialect has been called Corifon as well and is virtually identical to the Amota in vocabulary, although it has its own idioms and accent.
The Corifon people are traditionally big farmers who grow cotton and citrus fruit on irrigated farms. They have also raised cattle on big plots. They have been among the most iconoclastic people on the island, and also among the most conservative. The ancient clan structure is still strong among them. Outsiders find them dour, serious, and unfriendly. They are considered hicks, although a great many Corifons have gone on to achieve prominence in politics, sports and the arts. There is a longstanding feud between the Corifon and the Balupic people, making for derisive jokes, barroom fights, and spirited sports competition, although to other Bergonians they seem very similar. In the past, Corifoi and Balupic have warred and competed politically against each other. They have no impressive dance, song or literature, but, compatible with their serious character, they have developed very impressive traditions of serious folk drama and lamenting poetry.
Corifoi is the home to a large number of Black people. These people are the descendants of slaves who ran away from the English cotton and sugar plantations of Serpi and Soleinia. A small number of Blacks were brought over from Africa in the 1700's to work as slaves when the English planters decided the Bergonians were too intractable to make good field peons. But in the late 1700's and early 1800's many of the Blacks simply fled the fields of slavery. They sought refuge in what was then the semi-independent state of Corifoi into which direct British rule did not extend. They settled in small farms and formed little villages. They came to speak Corifoi. They intermarried with the native Corifoians.
Politically the SFP is very strong there. Before the revolution the Conservatives predominated.
The Free State of Giles
Giles is a very small lesre located along the lower part of the Bergoli River valley, just south of the border of Foi-Pentanta. Giles used to be part of Foi-Pentanta, but was made independent in 1953. Giles now has 700,000 people, 83% of which are of English descent. The people are descended from Puritan settlers who came to Bergonia in 1660 and who moved inland from the coast to avoid domination by the English Anglicans. They established what they wanted to be a Christian Commonwealth. Throughout the next century English dissenters found Giles a good refuge. The name honors George Giles, a militant dissenter, the settlement's founder. He brought a number of sects and groups to Bergonia from England after the Restoration. (See Dissenter Christian origins of socialism.)
The main town is Kingston, located on the banks of the Bergoli River. Nearby is a high bluff, atop which is a great high cross, 700 feet tall, visible for miles around. The arms are shortened out of design necessity, but its Christian identity is immediately apparent. It was built in the early part of this century, as the result of a major drive for funds from Christians all over Bergonia and the world, and regarded as an engineering marvel. But in 1945 a hurricane storm caused the cross to fall, killing twenty-eight people. Another fund drive commenced, this time with Bergonians of all faiths chipping in, and it was rebuilt in the 1950's.
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Tips on Platforms and Services for Selling Your Film By Sheri Candler and Orly Ravid for The Collaborative Blog
Posted by Grace Wu on May 31, 2014
By Sheri Candler and Orly Ravid for The Collaborative Blog
These tools and services are either ones that were used by filmmakers in the book Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul or ones that we reached out to for support of the book because we believe in what they're doing.
1. Amplifier Ecommerce Tool
amplifier.com/what-we-do/
This company powers the estore for Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues. She sells DVDs (both standard edition and artist signed edition), tshirts, necklaces, pins and soft toys. Amplifier is an ecommerce tool that allows you to sell custom merchandise directly to your fans, cutting out the retailer middlemen, by providing fulfillment and customer service. If you don't have a warehouse and staff and equipment to store, pack and ship your merchandise and deal with any complaints (and I know you don't), Amplifier takes orders from your site, stores your merch in their warehouse or fulfills just in time merchandise, ships it out and handles any customer problems seamlessly. They can also service custom orders (like give freebies to any order over $50 if you want to do that, or they can fulfill print on demand merchandise) all under one roof.
2. Believe Limited
believelimited.com/
Monetizing YouTube and Viral Videos
Adventures of Power utilized this service to help raise their Youtube profile. There is a whole section in the book written by Ryan Gielen about what Believe did for the film. The gist of their service is video marketing that helps a film reach the top spots on Youtube, Amazon, iTunes etc by spreading video content around, collecting large amounts of views, comments and subscribers (in the case of Youtube). They design branded channels and help craft video content that is compelling enough to spread and help seed it around the Internet to ensure that it spreads. According to their service sheet for a $50K campaign that runs 6 months, they recommend creating 20-25 pieces of video content that they can drive roughly 5-6 million views on Youtube. They start from the film's target release date and work backward to help plan out the content release strategy that will ensure a continuous build up of interest and viewers.
3. ConneXtion
www.theconneXtion.com
Fulfillment services of all Media Jon Reiss recommended them to handle fulfillment for our book and he has been happy with them as is Topspin which considers them a preferred vendor. The ConneXtion was founded in 1997 and has been running the direct2fan (d2f) business for artists, labels, authors, filmmakers, comedians, nonprofits ever since. They've worked with films such as The Yes Men. They handle fulfillment and manufacturing for DVDs, CDs, Merch, books both on digital and brick and mortar side. COSTS are: OFFICIAL D2F STORE: $200 setup fee & 80% paid on all physical items and digital albums sold direct2fan. DISTRIBUTION to DIGITAL RETAIL: No setup fee; 85% paid on each dollar from retail. ConneXtion's services are: DISTRIBUTION -D2F: physical and digital cds/merch/etc sold via an estore; DIGITAL to RETAIL (ie iTunes, Amazon, Emusic/400+ others); PHYSICAL to RETAIL (ie. brick and mortar stores); DISTRIBUTION of PHYSICAL items via AMAZON, eList/Newsletter Management (coming Fall 2011), Tix, Licensing, and Clearance of Cover Songs, and eMarketing.
4. Distrify
www.Distrify.com
DIY Toolset
One can use Distrify to sell a film anywhere on the web and via social media platforms by embedding their widget. Ideally one gets one's fans to embed the widget on forums, blogs, websites, etc.. If your trailer and film are on Distrify, when you share the clip, you're also sharing the store to buy the film or find out about upcoming screenings. When your audience shares it further, you're always spreading the point-of-sale along the way. Anyone who shares it gets paid a share of sales they generate. One does not have to start selling through Distrify right away - one can use it to promote screenings and events through the trailer interface. If the film's not available in the user's area, they can make their interest known directly through the player as well. Distrify compiles the statistics for filmmakers and give them the mailing list data - all part of their service. Any new screenings you add are also automatically listed in all the players that have been embedded around the web. And when one wants to start selling the film, one can add it as well. There are no up-front charges, fully non-exclusive, and they don't need any rights. They take a 30% transaction fee on sales and split the 5% affiliate revenue with the filmmaker. Distrify worked with Adventures of Power and is also working with Lionsgate in the UK, for example. Excerpt from the book regarding Adventures of Power: "In terms of the player/purchase options, Ari noticed a huge emerging fan base in Mexico that he speaks of in his interview. He realized 50% of his 100,000 Facebook fans were in Mexico. Distrify added Spanish closed captions as well as English and they introduced streaming as an option in Mexico. They've been told that several companies prevent streaming in Mexico, and they added the Mexican Peso as a currency that people can sell with." The Adventures of Power team was especially impressed with the Facebook tab - which will soon have customizable art, html linkage, and of course, the Distrify player widget. It's easy to add (embed) the widget - so not only is it easy to get on the film's website and blog, etc. but it is easy for affiliates to embed as well. NOTE: The key will be to have consumers be comfortable with buying films this way and via DIY services in general and that should get easier and easier with time. And of course marketing and publicity are up to the filmmaker's team as usual.
5. Dynamo Player
www.Dynamoplayer.com
DIY Tool
Filmakers use Dynamo Player by embedding the video viewer on their own website and by having a film's fans embed it on their websites or blogs for a rental period of the filmmaker's choosing. Prices are set by the filmmaker, payment is immediate via Paypal and a monthly statement is sent letting one know how many streams were sold, geographic information, and where the traffic originated. Dynamo is non-exclusive and enables any filmmaker to immediately upload their film, set a price, publish the film on their own site and elsewhere with no up-front costs or monthly fees. Filmmakers receive 70% of every transaction, every time, with no hidden costs, no matter what features they use and they get paid immediately by every viewer, no matter where they watch the film. They can include a free trailer, supplemental videos, multiple language versions and other bonus material at no additional cost. Viewers pay easily with PayPal, Amazon or credit card in just a couple of clicks. A single-click auto-debit option is coming soon as well. Payments are made to the rights holder by PayPal or Amazon, on-demand, at any time. Some filmmakers get paid every week if they want and we are happy to write checks for high volume publishers. Dynamo accepts all currencies and works in any country. Dynamo provide sales numbers and a range of related data by day, week, month or by a custom range of dates. Sales statistics are immediately available, so there is never a need to wait for a monthly report to see your sales performance, but a formal downloadable or printable monthly report will be available in July. Filmmakers can also see statistics for trailer views, player interaction, payment follow-through and more, so they can gain insight into viewer behavior and tweak the presentation of their film to boost sales. Filmmakers can control access by DVD Region, continent or country with a simple set of checkboxes. Dynamo enables geo-blocking at no cost because we consider it absolutely necessary for independent filmmakers to have this option while shopping their films in different markets. Dynamo often includes films in public announcements, blog posts, tweets and other marketing efforts. Dynamo filmmakers have been featured in stories on IndieWire, GigaOm and other media sites, and have earned new sales when their films have been embedded within the articles.
6. EggUp
www.EggUp.com
DIY Platform / Tool
EggUp is a publishing platform for filmmakers and film distributors. They note that they "help filmmakers and distributors rent and sell their films online while preventing piracy". Their free online publishing tools can help one distribute and sell film or video which is all packaged and encrypted into a file called the "Egg". The Egg is made available for download and allows consumers to watch and share with friends and family virally while filmmakers are able to make money. With EggUp gets a website to promote their film together with an integrated pay per view solution. They also list your films in our film catalog called GoEggit. One can distribute the Egg on a website, and other online retailers with your very own buy now button without setup fees and inventory. They are Worldwide and can Geo Filter as needed. Again the key is marketing one's film; they can't do it for you.
For pricing and fees etc go to:
https://www.eggup.com/how_it_works/transactionfees
https://www.eggup.com/pricing
7. LBi
www.lbi.com/us/
ePR and Internet/Viral Marketing Services
Case study Adventures of Power utilized LBi for their ePR services paid for by their distributor Phase4. LBi focused on media placement for trailers and news stories on a large array of film and entertainment websites. LBi provides a multitude of services, including social media maintenance, but AoP did not find their "voice" authentic for the film's social media sites and instead funneled the firm's work into utilizing relationships with website editors and bloggers to secure unpaid editorial features for the film, a useful service since filmmakers typically do not have these relationships.
8. Prescreen
www.Prescreen.com
Prescreen is a new platform that curates films and distributes them via a daily email to an opt-in audience. Their list is presently approximately 40,000 and growing daily. It is free to sign up to receive the Prescreen daily email. One has the opportunity to 'rent' the movie to stream. Each movie they feature lives on Prescreen for 60 days (and this is an exclusive period in terms of digital distribution). On Day 1, the movie costs $4 and one will have up to 60 days to view the film; while on Days 2 - 60, the movie costs $8 and one has 60 - (x days) to complete the film. Though a moviegoer has up to 60 days to complete the film, 'renting' on Prescreen is similar to that of any other mainstream steaming services offering 48 hours to complete the film once one starts the stream. TFC worked with Prescreen for its first film during the Beta phase, HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY, and the numbers of transactions are as follows: As of 10/18/2011 (when this was drafted) the movie will still be available on Prescreen for another 27 days, so the numbers will probably change. 19 sold during Private Beta; 46 sold on Day 1; 18 sold after Day 1 (21% of total sales have come after Day 1). Prescreen noted: "This 21% is consistent with the breakout we're seeing for other movies as well. Across the site we've seen about 22% of purchases come after Day 1." RE: The 60 Days and WINDOWS (I quote Shawn Bercuson Founder & CEO): "Individual filmmakers typically view Prescreen as a marketing and distribution outlet while bigger libraries and producers tend to see prescreen as a promotional tool given the finite amount time a movie lives on Prescreen (60 days)... We built Prescreen as a way for content owners to gain more visibility into their target market and transparency about their core audience. At scale, we believe Prescreen is most powerful when used as a promotional tool along side other distribution windows in other mediums (theatrical, DVD, etc). By doing so, a content owner is able to leverage existing marketing dollars from other windows and capture (and capitalize) on the audience however way they want to consume online. Once the content owner understands his/her audience, they can market within the digital medium much more efficiently and cost effectively. "
9. Sonicbids
about.sonicbids.com/bands/how-it-works
Pairing Bands to Brands
Sonicbids is an online matchmaker between bands looking for gigs and promoters and brands who need music. According to their website, their mission is to help create and empower an Artistic Middle Class through the use of innovative technology. The site helps fashion an EPK for bands who are looking for bookings, either live or in partnership with brands (your film is a brand) so that they may be found by promoters or marketing people. They also allow bands to search people looking for talent for international music festivals, clubs, songwriting contests, radio, licensing and more and vice versa. This how Hunter Weeks and Mike Dion found music for their film Ride the Divide's soundtrack.
Excerpt: "In the case of Ride the Divide, they specifically targeted bands that lived in one of their niche communities. They used a source for music called SonicBids.com, where musicians offer their music for use in films, events and concerts. Half of the musicians in RTD came from Sonicbids and they specifically searched for musicians from the states along the Rocky Mountains."
10. VODO
www.vodo.net
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Monetized File Sharing
Case study Pioneer One has been releasing their episodes on VODO since day one. To date, their series has been downloaded over 3.2 million times and raised almost $80,000 for the production costs through fan donations.
According to their website, VODO was launched in late 2009 to help creators promote and distribute their independent films, music and books using Peer to Peer technology [some call them pirate sites]. VODO believes there is immense untapped potential for independent creators in P2P distribution and that the new model of networked, free-to-share, peer-powered distribution will soon present better opportunities for creators than the old scarcity-powered models (theaters, DVD, etc.). Each month they release and promote one free-to-share film, in conjunction with their distribution partner BitTorrent and viewers are encouraged to donate funds to the productions they view. Pioneer One raised $30,000 in its first eight weeks using VODO. The Yes Men Fix The World raised over $25,000 in its first month using VODO.
FULL DISCLOSURE: Both Prescreen and Dynamo player sponsored our book but we pursued them because we believe they provide a good service to films and filmmakers and are great solutions.