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Hi there, my DD (14 months) is a pretty heavy wetter too... on the occasions when we've used sposies (trips and such) she regularly pees through them, which is a major pain. We always have used prefolds + covers for normal daily stuff, and at night we use two prefolds (one the normal size, one a size smaller folded up inside) + cover. She has never ever leaked at night that way (though if she sleeps a really long time she occasionally starts to leak while nursing the next morning, but that's rare!). You could try it...prefolds are quite cheap, and so are covers if you just need one or two. We have Green Mountain Diapers prefolds and Thirsties covers, and love them.
But I just wanted to say...please don't feel like a failure! Heck, you CD during the day, that's better than most people. I consider myself a pretty diehard CD person (we CDed without a washing machine or dryer--looking back, it was crazy!)...but really, if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you. Don't be ashamed of it, that's just the way things go!
Mom to the wacky and wonderful Kalyani (August 2011)
No guilt allowed!!
We use a disposable at night, and have for both of our babes. Our daughter was a nightmare to get to sleep but she slept well once she got to sleep. However, she would wake if she was wet and then one of us (me) was back in the rocking chair post-diaper change. She'd sleep through the night (except for semi-awake night nursing) in a disposable so we did that and didn't look back. We didn't even try using cloth at night with our son....just a disposable from the get go.
Its hard enough to stay on top of laundry without adding frequent wet sheets and nightclothes to the mix. Carry on, and remember that in addition to your time and sanity with extra laundry, there's added energy, water, and soap to do it, as well as energy/chemical expenditure at the waste water treatment plant to process the extra wash water.
Mama to F (3/09) and S (3/11); and never forgetting my babe gone too soon (4/10).
Heck yeah. I spent tons of time, money, and frustration trying to find a nighttime CD solution for DD1. With DD2 I just decided to bite the bullet on the nighttime disposable and it has made things so so very much better.
Me, DH, DD1 (5/2009) and DD2 (10/2011).
I'm not crunchy. I'm evidence-based.
Vaccines save lives.
I noticed that the Wal-Mart pull ups worked really well for us; we never had any leaks, but, if you need the Huggies brand pull-ups, I know they're a bit cheaper at Costco.
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My DS wasn't even that heavy of a wetter (that's a strange phrase!) and I still switched to disposables around 12 months (thankfully he potty trained at 18 months, so it wasn't that long.) DS would soak through his diaper every every few nights, and since he wasn't a great sleeper to begin with, we avoided any disruption in his sleep that we possible could. I felt guilty about it for awhile, but realized that the guilt wasn't helping anyone, so I threw it out with the sposies ;)
Although Cd'ing is great for the environment and great for your DD her getting a good night's sleep is so important (and you getting enough sleep too, so you can be a great mama), so no guilt allowed! You're still using cloth during the day, so I don't think one Pull-Up a day really matters.
If you want to keep trying different configurations of cloth to see if you can get one to work for her I would try having her sleep on a fleece blanket. It will keep the actual crib sheets dry so you can pull it off if it gets soaked, but it will probably just dry quickly and hopefully she won't even wake!
A'ing, ,,, Momma to one DD 1/1/12 . Trying to and hoping for a next time!
So glad I read this! I've been feeling guilty too, but I'm glad to know I'm not the only doing this. We use Huggies overnights, I got a subscription through Amazon, they arrive every 2 months and as long as nobody messes up and uses them during the day, we are good with the 60 pack. Before that it was terrible. Some nights we'd be fine, using a BumGenius diaper with 2 microfiber and one hemp/bamboo insert, but others it'd leak. We also had hit and miss with prefolds ( 2 refolds + 1 insert for extra protection) and Thirsties covers. My main problem was that what worked one night wouldn't the next, and I'd have to strip the bed, lose slight, etc. We finally caved and got the overnight disposable diapers. We've all gotten much more sleep since then, even though I sometimes still wish I could stick to cloth 24/7.
We also reluctantly started using a disposable at night at around 7months when our LO started sleeping longer stretches and really not wanting to wake up at night, although she was still taking in plenty of milk in the evening and overnight, and peeing a lot by morning. It was easier and less disruptive for everyone to avoid diaper changes during the night, and none of our cloth combinations lasted 12 hours. We settled on pampers baby dry, after some experimentation with others that leaked after all night (even these were often bulging by the morning, but rarely leaked).
HOWEVER, I think a lot of us would be happy to go back to cloth at night if it worked out, so I have a couple of suggestions to share:
1. Natural fibers! Some of you are talking about microfibers, but synthetic inserts like those that come with most pockets are not actually as absorbant as natural fibers like cotton, bamboo and hemp, which also "hold" liquid better. Microfiber inserts will leak when full and compressed, so if the diaper reaches capacity and the baby's weight is on it, it leaks faster than cotton etc. Of course, natural fibers are much bulkier, so you need to physically be able to get the right amount of diaper+inserts under your diaper cover... not always possible for a heavy wetter!
2. Revisit the question as your child changes nighttime eating habits. Now at 13m, mine been more or less night-weaned for a couple of months, but if something changes and she doesn't get enough during the day, she'll go back to needing one feed during the night, and that makes the disposable necessary. The other night, when I knew she wouldn't need another feed, I tried a bamboo fitted diaper with an extra hemp insert (but on the outside, between the diaper and the cover = less bulky), and it was fine for the night! So we are not doomed to use disposables for the baby's whole "diapering lifetime" - we can continue doing what works FOR NOW, being happy to be using only one disposable per day, and maybe not even that if we re-evaluate once in a while.
3. No guilt anyway, obviously :) We're all doing our best.
No guilt!
I will add though, I have had HEAVY wetters, where disposables would never hold it all. I used doubled prefolds under a prorap pul cover or a fulled wool cover and that worked better than any sposie. I even have had friends that sposie during the day switch over to the prefolds at night because of leaks!
Shelley, mom to dd 5/19/01, ds 9/06/02, and ds 4/01/07. Lost babe 4/09
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This week marks my 16th anniversary of writing music columns for the Times Record News.
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But looking back over the 2,000 or so albums I've commented on, mainstream country music really hasn't changed all that much. There hasn't been another "Urban Cowboy"-like revolution or another game-changing Garth Brooks, despite the temporary Dixie Chicks effect on female country artists.
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And speaking of radio, there still are more country-only radio stations in the U.S. than any other format. But the number of country listeners has been overtaken by Talk Radio listeners.
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So let's talk about some new country albums just coming out by a couple of guys named Aaron.
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The iLL Trio Review is a series where we have three of iLLGaming's editors review a game together across different platforms, in a conversation format. Each reviewer gives a review score, the final review score is an aggregate of the three scores. It's all over. Everyone's reviewed Watch Dogs. The verdict is out. Everyone's got their hits organically, via N4G, ... Read More »
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Watch Dogs new trailer reveals twisted and shady characters you'll love
Ubisoft seems to be steady with revealing bits of details about its upcoming blockbuster Watch Dogs. Last time it was the unboxing of the Vigilante Edition. This time, Watch Dogs finally reveals something more connected to the actual game, the characters. These are the personalities that you will come across as Aiden Pierce, the character you will play and the protagonist in ... Read More »
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I fell some problem in homepage. I want to show image in homepage same size but some image but some image height going long some Width going long also its happen on related post image. Please help me how I can show the image called future image in same size in my homepage, related post page and category page.
You can see the problem in my website homepage at http://amarrannaghar.com/
Thanks Moktar
Hello Moktar,
By default, images are set to auto height. You can change that inside Appearance > Theme Options > Image Sizes. Provide a fixed width and height, and enable crop mode. After that, save settings and regenerate thumbnails.
Instead of cropping and resizing images, you can provide all featured images of consistent width and height. Both methods work well for equal heights.
I have installed buddypress and bbpress. All looks good – but I have no "create" or "join" a group buttons! Where are they meant to be? http://www.talkguildford.com/groups
Hello wibbler,
Inside WordPress admin, hover your mouse on "Howdy admin" button on top right corner. On hovering, you will see a sub-menu as admin, Edit my profile, Log out, Groups > Create a Group, etc. From here you can create a new group. For more details and documentation, kindly refer to http://codex.buddypress.org/user/
How can i change the font size, its too small?
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Thanks for purchasing the theme. For font size, kindly check documentation/index.html file's section 21. FAQ > Q. 14 How to change font size. It contains CSS rules and details for changing font size on pages, single posts, or both.
I would like to remove the logo and have my header image (displayed via widget) run all the way across my site (instead of just 75% width). Can you tell me how I'd do this?
Hello rbeanland,
Thanks for purchasing the theme. Kindly add this rule at the end of style.css file:
.brand { display: none; } .header-widget-area { float: none; max-width: 100%; text-align: left; }
Another question—when I change the background color of the secondary menu (from light gray to any other color) under theme options, the change does not take. Is this a bug? Is there a work around?
Hello again,
Secondary menu (on top of page) is not available in Theme Customizer. There you can change colors for main navigation and "Secondary Widget Area" which is just before footer. The top secondary menu in grey color can be styled through style.css file or by overriding it's rules in user.css file.
Is it possible to control the word "
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Hello saneyoshi,
The word "Select" is set inside newsplus/js/custom.js file, line no. 86:
'text' : '- Select -'
This is not available in translation files, and will be required to edit inside the file itself.
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Hello sriwirat,
Thanks for purchasing the theme. I hope you have already gone through the documentation file for setting up Home page and other contents. If you are finding any difficulty, kindly send me a mail at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com. I will help in setting up the site.
Working on a new site using NewsPress at http://biz139.inmotionhosting.com/~thever12. Have the main pages and menu built. Want to add subpages to each section, i.e., News, Sports, and have some sort of link or summary appear in the main News or Sports section. Is there a widget for this? Or some setup I've missed?
Hello TheVermilion,
Thanks for purchasing the theme. Sub pages or Sub Menus can be added inside Apeparance > Menus. Add a page, category, or custom link to a menu and set it as sub menu by dragging it to the right side. These menu items are drag-and-drop ready. So moving an item to right side will make it child of the item just above it. After setting sub menus, click on Save Changes.
P.S. On front page you can create a custom Home page and use the markup as provided inside your download_zip/dummy_data/home.txt file. Currently it is showing posts, which can be changed to a custom page.
Hi there! Great theme!
I'm having a minor issue with an vertical offset between col half and col half last. Here's a screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23657041/bug.jpg
I don't see why this is happening. I've tried and checked different things but couldn't find the reason for this behaviour.
I could send you the blog URL and htaccess login data via email if you need it.
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Hello das-joe,
Thanks for the purchase and kind feedback. There seems an extra br tag between the short codes. Kindly open / edit your page and switch to "Text" mode of editor. Next, remove any extra line return or carriage return that might cause this issue. Generally, short codes shall be separated by one complete line return and not a single br tag. If this doesn't work, you can send me your login details at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com.
Great, thank you! Separating the short codes with line returns helped.
Thank you for the advice on my http://biz139.inmotionhosting.com/~thever12 site, it is really starting to come together. I have a question about posts and categories. I've created a couple of Post Categories, News and Sports. Created some posts, assigned them to one category or the other. I've gone into the News and Sports pages and used the Insert Posts tool to enter the code to display posts, and set the Query Type to Category, and in the Category ID for Posts field I've entered either "news" or "sports". However both News and Sports pages are displaying all posts regardless of category. What am I missing?
Hello TheVermilion,
By category ID it means the numeric category ID, not the slug. So it will be required to provide numeric category ID. For example:
[insert_posts display_style="xx" num="xx" cats="3,6,7"]
In the above short code, it will show posts from multiple categories whose ID are 3, 6 and 7. You can use one single ID too. In order to find category ID, kindly refer to the documentation file's section 5. Create Category and Posts.
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where can I change the main menu for small screens (the form dropdown)? I want to change the text "- Select -".
Thank you!
Hello das-joe,
That text is set inside newsplus/js/custom.js file, line no. 86:
'text' : '- Select -'
Great, got it. Thanks!!
Right now when I place a link into a blog post it is not underlined. How do I change this to have links be underlined? Also, how do I change the color of the link?
Thank you.
Hello brandongaille,
Links are set inside style.css file's section 2. Typography:
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You can change to text-decoration: underline; and change color too.
Is there not any place to add "Custom CSS" ?
thanks, Dan
Hello Dan,
Thanks for purchasing the theme. You can place custom CSS inside user.css file. You can access that inside Appearance > Editor.
If you wish to link any custom CSS or JS file, you can do that inside the textarea provided in Appearance > Theme Options > General > Custom Head Markup.
How do I add/change the image for the "About the author" section in the footer of each post? All of the text shows up, but how do I select the profile picture for each author?
Hello Griffin,
Author avatar is displayed according to the Gravatar associated with author email. It will be required to register author email address on gravatar.com and upload a picture on that site. After that it will be available for display on author profiles and comments. It is also supported globally on all sites which support Gravatar.
Hello, it's me again.
I wonder how do I 'NewsPlus Popular Post' show the most viewed posts. In my theme is showing but rather commented on by views.
Thank you.
Hello adalbas,
Popular post widget is based on most commented. For "most viewed" you can use a plugin like http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-most-popular/ or a similar one.
Ok! Thank you!
I want to remove the title on every post. I know that I can hide it with CSS, but then the title is still on the post (if you view the source)! So how can I remove the title on every post?
Hello JohnnyvanM,
Thanks for purchasing the theme. For titles, do you wish to hide them on single posts or inside post short codes? For single posts, title can be removed from single.php file, and for short codes it will be required to remove theme from newsplus/includes/shortcodes/shortcodes.php file.
I want to remove it from single posts! Could you tell me which piece of code I have to remove from single.php?
Hello JohnnyvanM,
Inside single.php file, line no. 38:

<?php the_title(); ?>

Delete this line and save file. You can remove post meta just below this line if required.
Hai SaurabhSharma your theme is very nice. How to place related post after comment? Thank in advance
Hello handris,
Thanks for the purchase and kind feedback.
Related posts is called inside single.php file at line no. 93 using newsplus_related_posts() function. Either this line can be moved below comments_template() at 106, or the comments_template() function can be moved above related posts. If you need any help in moving this line, kindly send me a mail at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com.
Hi. I'm trying to use your shortcodes in so many ways, very gorgeous … but sometimes I need to format each shortcode in a different way, so I'd like to be able to give their styles inline, editing from the HTML Wordpress editor if possible. In particular I'm sending you to your address an image explaining better in particular what I mean. Thanx for you reply.
Hello kkri,
Please check your mail.
Hi SaurabhSharma! Is there a way I can change the <?php newsplus_post_meta(); ?> to not show the number of comments?
Hello Griffin,
If comments are disabled, it will not show any comment number. This can also be disabled from functions.php file inside newsplus_post_meta() function, by removing some lines. I will send you the file with this code removed.


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Alberta's College of Pharmacists is drawing plenty of heat for its decision to ban members from offering incentives and rewards to customers filling prescriptions. It may be unpopular, but the college has made the right call.
The new rules, to take effect June 10, mean people picking up their prescriptions or receiving other professional services from their pharmacist will no longer be able to collect points tied to loyalty programs such as Air Miles or Shoppers Optimum. Those points can be used for discounts on other purchases — sometimes in-store and sometimes out-of-store, depending on the program.
In its policy paper on inducements, the college notes 94 per cent of Canadians reported membership in at least one loyalty program.
Some customers, particularly those with a large prescription load, will find this ban annoying. There are many making the argument that this is a matter of consumer rights.
But pharmacists are part of the health-care sphere, no matter what retailer employs them. The only reward that should come with medication or medical advice is improved health.
Over the years, and especially in the last decade, the role of the pharmacist has evolved from pill pusher to medical professional with a much larger role in patient care. It is disturbing to think that their advice, or patients' trips to fill prescriptions, could be influenced by inducements.
Consider how uncomfortable this practice of customer rewards would be in other parts of the health-care system.
Imagine rummaging through your wallet for your Air Miles card after a visit to the doctor. Really, you only had a sore throat, but threw in a full checkup for the bonus points. What about asking the paramedic, as he put you on a stretcher after a car crash, if he could fish your Aeroplan card from your pocket so you don't miss out on the points. Both ideas are absurd.
Six other provinces, including Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, already have some sort of ban on retail inducements for pharmacists' services.
Major chains have promised to take the issue to courts. They also have mounted lobbying campaigns asking consumers to sign an online petition called "I Earned It."
Medication is not something that should be seen to be "earned." In fact, Albertans should all strive for good health and to be on as few drugs as possible. This "I Earned It" message also ignores the fact that many customers have their drugs paid for, in whole or in part, by an assortment of third-party insurance plans funded by government, corporate or private entities. Just who earned the loyalty points is entirely debatable.
What pharmacy customers should earn, regardless of whether they are signed up for corporate rewards, is competent, unbiased medical advice from all pharmacists and pharmacy staff.
Take inducements out of the equations and it seems patients will go to the pharmacist they trust to best meet their health needs, regardless of retail brand.
If, as some have argued, there are patients who rely on loyalty programs to help bankroll an expensive bundle of medications, that is a separate problem that needs to be considered by government. No one should be relying on inducements to fill essential prescriptions. It is worth noting the college ban on rewards does allow an exemption for gifts, such as the provision of a drug product for compassionate reasons based on the patient's circumstances.
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Twitter will introduce its advertising platform to 12 new markets in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, which is in the middle of a civil war, the company said Tuesday.
The microblogging site pointed to "tremendous growth" in the region over the past 12 months. As part of this expansion, Ukrainian brands and advertisers will gain access to Twitter's direct sales support teams and seller partnerships.
Twitter's TWTR, -0.23% use in Ukraine has skyrocketed over the past year, with revolutionaries using social media to organize protests by using hashtags like #Euromaidan. Read the rest of this entry »
Lyft Hopes to Accelerate With First Integrated Ad Campaign
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on August 21, 2014
For the next three months, Lyft will run digital and out-of-home advertising in hopes of capturing a greater foothold in San Diego and Denver. It's the brand's first campaign that combines online and offline, and it's the latest aggressive move by a ride-sharing company in what's turning into the tech battle of the summer.
"We are trying to get more drivers and more passengers into our network," said Lyft creative director Jesse McMillin, who was recently poached from Virgin America. "We are going to be bringing a lot of interesting stuff." Read the rest of this entry »
AdStage Raises $6.3M to Put Digital Ad Management on Auto-Pilot
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on August 13, 2014
Advertising technology startupAdStage Inc. has raised $6.25 million in Series A venture funding co-led byVerizon Ventures and Digital Garage, joined by Newbury Ventures, Freestyle Capital and individual investors Chris Noble and Neal Dempsey.
AdStage offers an all-in-one ad management platform that advertisers pay to use on a monthly subscription basis. Pricing without a minimum ad spend per month, or based on a volume of ad spending makes AdStage's technology accessible to small businesses or startups and large conglomerates alike, said Sahil Jain, chief executive and co-founder. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook helps small businesses with ads
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on August 7, 2014
Small businesses are a growing source of advertising revenue for social media sites, and Facebook is seeking to cash in.
While large corporations from Macy's to Coca-Cola advertise on Facebook, small businesses – say the neighborhood dry cleaner or corner store – could be a new reservoir of sales.
"There's untapped potential in the smaller businesses, and there's so many of them," saidKrista Garcia, a retail analyst at research firm eMarketer. Read the rest of this entry »
Ryder Launches New Integrated Campaign
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on July 31, 2014
Ryder System, Inc., a leader in commercial fleet management and supply chain solutions, today launched the most comprehensive integrated business-to-business campaign in the company's history. Grey San Francisco, which won the account in February, is responsible for brand strategy, advertising including television, print and digital as well as media.
Ryder's first major campaign in nearly two decades carries the theme "That's Ryder." Striking black and white television commercials, featuring Ryder employees and trucks, deliver the message via strong graphics that Ryder is bolder, smarter, smoother and faster in delivering "beyond what's expected" for its clients. It ends with the tagline "Ryder Ever Better." The cable TV flight debuts on the Golf Channel as well as NBC coverage of the Ryder Cup. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo buys mobile ad company Flurry
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on July 23, 2014
Hoping to lifts it mobile advertising business, Yahoo said Monday it is acquiring mobile ad and analytics company Flurry.
Yahoo didn't disclose how much it is paying in the acquisition, though TechCrunch cited an anonymous source who pegged the price between $200 million and $300 million. Read the rest of this entry »
David Letterman (Sort Of), Justin Bieber (Kinda), Renee Zellweger (Perhaps) Endorse Amazon (Advertising)
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on July 17, 2014
In a brilliant celebration of mistaken identity, Amazon Advertising, a San Francisco-based ad agency with no affiliation to Amazon the online retail giant, has launched the Mistaken Identity Project, a social-focused, self-promotional campaign aimed at having a bit of fun with mistaken identity.
Amazon Advertising began around the time the more familiar Amazon was launched. The agency had big brand clients such as Kashi and Bear Naked. Over the years, the agency has received its fair share of mistaken calls from those who believe they are reaching out to the other Amazon about an order they recently made. Read the rest of this entry »
Stealth World Cup ads raise sponsorship questions
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on July 10, 2014
In an ad for Beats by Dr. Dre stereo headphones, Neymar jams to Jay-Z's remix of the song "Jungle." Fans cheer, toast and pray across Brazilian neighborhoods and cameras flash while reporters shout questions, but the pounding rhythm of the rap drowns out distractions for the Brazilian striker and fellow soccer stars Jozy Altidore and Cesc Fabregas.
As the ad closes, cameras close in on Neymar's determined face for soccer's grandest tournament.
What's missing are the actual words "World Cup." That's because Beats Electronics, recently acquired by Apple for $3 billion, is not an official sponsor of the event. Soccer's international governing body, FIFA, closely holds the World Cup brand as intellectual property. Read the rest of this entry »
Levi's strikes a more honest, accessible note in new global ad campaign
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on July 3, 2014
There surely is no more familiar American clothing brand than Levi's, which created the classic denim jean in 1873.
But in recent years Levi's has — wrongheadedly — introduced ad campaigns that tried to be both iconic and hip. Most of the time, the jeans company erred on the side of trying to be way too hip and youth-oriented, alienating consumers who believed the brand doesn't need to project an excessively cutting-edge image to be fashionable.
But now things seem to be trending in the other direction by emphasizing the jeans company's no-nonsense heritage. Read the rest of this entry »
10 of the fastest movers in the $38B mobile apps and ads market
Posted by admin in SF Advertising on June 25, 2014
The past year in mobile has been characterized by downmarket phones, lagging mobile bandwidth capacity, a move toward single-purpose apps, in-app sales, and lots of energy around the burgeoning mobile advertising space.
But the bigger picture is the historic shift in usage from the desktop to mobile devices. Global mobile app and advertising revenues for 2013 hit a stunning $38 billion in 2013, according to Strategy Analytics and PwC, and the trend line points steeply upward. Mobile apps alone are on a path to reach $70 billion in annual revenue by 2017, says the investment bank Digi-Capital.
With that in mind, here are the biggest, happiest growth and exit stories among mobile startups over the past year. Read the rest of this entry »


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CATEGORIES Drama, Independent, Thrillers, Casting, Scripts, CinematicalStephen Dorff confuses me. He's done some work that I love, whether we're talking years ago with The Power of One, taking on Candy Darling for I Shot Andy Warhol or Waters movie mayhem like Cecil B. Demented. However, he's also a part of better-off-forgotten flicks like Deuces Wild and FeardotCom. He's one of those actors who is never completely written off, yet no one is expecting greatness either. What will become of his latest film? Well, that remains to be seen -- although most of his success is usually in idiosyncratic roles.
The actor's upcoming The Passage was penned by Neil Jackson, who played Marcus Van Sciver in the Blade television series. The thriller is about an American man who falls in love with a Moroccan woman, and finds out that his forbidden romance could prove deadly. Dorff stars along with Jackson, Israeli actress and model Sarai Givati (who recently made a guest appearance on CSI) and Khalid Benchagra, a Moroccan television star. A low-budget film (less than $5 million) financed by Silverwood Films, Passage is the cinematic directorial debut for British theater director Mark Heller. If you're hungry for more Dorff before this film hits the screen, you might be able to see him in prime-time this fall. He's got a television pilot on the pike from The Queen director, Stephen Frears. Called Skip Tracer, the CBS pilot is about a charming man who finds missing people for clients in Los Angeles.


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The clock is ticking on Churchill
Port town faces future challenges
In the up-and-down history of the Port of Churchill, we appear to be experiencing an upswing.
Grain and barley are flowing to the port on the Hudson Bay Railway. With the end of the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly, there is some surprising optimism that an unregulated market may somehow inexplicably make Churchill self-sustaining. Inexplicably because many had predicted the end of the CWB was the end of Churchill.
Last month, Richardson International, as iconic a Manitoba company as there ever was, announced it was pushing grain through the port this season. "Recent changes to Western Canadian grain marketing have opened up new opportunities... and made the Port of Churchill more accessible to us," said Terry James, Richardson's vice-president of export marketing.
Nobody was quite sure how an unregulated grain market would shake down. Producers are now free to sell their grain and barley to whomever they want and there is always a chance, with good marketing, Churchill could muscle in on that business.
However, the majority of the grain-handling and transportation infrastructure does not favour Churchill. Grain and barley move east and west to market, starving Churchill of the tonnage needed to pay its own way. Richardson certainly suggested there could be a new way of looking at Churchill.
Unfortunately, the current grain and barley moving through the port is primarily pushed by a generous $9-per-tonne federal subsidy. The province whined loud and long about the federal Conservative government's decision to terminate the CWB's monopoly because of its philosophical support for the single-desk approach to grain marketing. But also because the CWB is headquartered in Winnipeg. Adding to the concern was the fact the CWB alone accounted each year for more than 80 per cent of all shipments through the port. The feds were indignant about Premier Greg Selinger's "save-the-CWB" campaign, but they eventually came to the table with a five-year, $25-million subsidy program.
Sources in the grain industry say the subsidy is popular enough that it will keep the port alive for the next half decade. Beyond that, however, it's unclear the same volumes will flow without that subsidy, should the will to renew it evaporate in 2017.
The loss of Churchill is really too much for Manitoba to contemplate. The port supports the community of Churchill, of course, but it is also essential for the continued operation of the Hudson Bay Railway. The railway is a vital transportation and re-supply link for communities across the northern regions of the province. The combination of the two has made Churchill a priority for successive provincial governments and most of the federal regional ministers from Manitoba.
Lord knows the federal and provincial governments have tried to sustain Churchill. In the mid 1990s, the two levels of government conspired to help Denver-based Omnitrax take over the railway as a private entity from Canadian National, which along with Via Rail had all but decided to abandon the route. Money was provided to dredge the port and improve grain-handling facilities. Omnitrax was provided with assistance to improve track maintenance. The wheat board promised to continue shipping through the port.
It was an expensive initiative in more ways than one. At the time, Manitoba was facing losses on two major federal-provincial files: Churchill and the Atomic Energy of Canada research facility at Pinawa. Both represented millions of dollars of investment. While the port and railway were of keen strategic importance, the loss of AECL's Whiteshell research laboratory represented not only economic loss, but also the loss of high-paying, high-technology, knowledge-based jobs and expertise.
Ottawa and the province tried to save both, but in the final analysis, both levels of government galvanized their support around Churchill.
Pinawa was slowly starved of support and ultimately sent technology and grey matter off to ply their professions in other cities and countries.
This background makes it important that any discussion about the future of Churchill be conducted with sober analysis. Manitoba has used a lot of its political capital with Ottawa over the years to save the railway and port. Within Manitoba, Churchill is a critically important piece of the strategic transportation infrastructure. And despite the fact Churchill has always had a certain geographic logic behind its drive to be a player in the grain industry, the titans of that industry have invested in a system that simply does not need a deep-sea northern port.
Once again, the clock is ticking on Churchill. In five years, we'll know if there is a business case to be made, or whether Churchill is destined once again to be the welfare case of Manitoba's transportation system.
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