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Like a lot of us, I've been traveling a lot this summer and have not been blogging the past few weeks. My apologies.
At the beginning of the summer, I read a book I had been wanting to read for a long time: Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables. The book tells the story of Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales and Bob, the talking, singing, dancing tomato. If you had children in the late 1990s, early 2000s, then you probably know of VeggieTales. In these videos, vegetables appeared in stories that paralleled Old Testament stories or more general morality tales. I knew that for awhile the videotapes and DVDs of these animated shows were ubiquitous, but I didn't know that in 1998, Big Idea (Vischer's privately-held corporation) sold 7 million VeggieTales videos or that Big Idea made the first 30-minute 3-D animated film. I also didn't know until this year that Vischer lost Big Idea in bankruptcy, and the business (including Bob the tomato) was bought by Classic Media. Here is an abbreviated version of the story; the book tells the whole thing. One could chalk it up to the dot-com boom, but the story has a lot more to it.
The book touches on at least 3 themes, all of which are interesting to me: (1) how does a company go from being a great small company to a great bigger company; (2) how does a company with a social goal avoid mission drift; and (3) how to discern what God wants you to dow with your professional life. I'll leave #3 to some time when you catch me in person, but I'll touch on #1 and #2.
So VeggieTales was an amazingly successful small company, but tried to grow to be a bigger company. Yes, we've all heard the stories of companies growing too big, too fast, but what does that mean? For Big Idea, it meant that the cost-center parts of its budget grew a lot faster than the profit-centers. HR went up, payroll went up, marketing went up, production values went up, expenses went up, but sales couldn't grow at the same rate. Vischer talks about "Things I Learned #1: Never Lose Sight of the Numbers" and "Things I Learned #2: Ignore the Voice That Says "I Deserve It." Vischer characterizes himself as a creative person and acknowledges that he lost sight of the numbers. In his words, he was a Walt Disney who didn't have a Roy: someone who could tell him when ideas were too expensive, too unrealistic. He says good ventures have a Walt and a Roy. If you read the book, you see the train going off the cliff (new fancy building, plans to have the first full-length 3-D animation movie), and you want to yell "Stop!"
The second point is one that my students and I talk alot about in my seminar Law and Microfinance. How do pro-social firms maintain profits and even go public without losing sight of its mission or can they? Vischer created VeggieTales because he wanted to provide children with Biblical entertainment that had one message: God loves you. During the rise of Nickelodeon and the Disney channel, Vischer felt called to counter what he saw as disturbing media influences on the youth. As someone who had been obsessed with filmmaking, puppetry and animation his whole life, he thought he was in a position to change the world. But, as the company grew and hired employees, he struggled with how to maintain this mission. Some hires were in tune with the religious mission, but others were merely talented animators who wanted to live in Chicago rather than L.A. Vischer wanted to keep everyone happy, so eventually none were and the watered-down mission that was left didn't inspire any of them. Eventually, all of the top executives were against Vischer's original mission.
I recommend the book to anyone interested in animation, entrepreneurship or finding one's calling. It reads very quickly. Vischer is very funny. After all, he did create talking vegetables. One amusing tidbit: I had always thought that VeggieTales stuck to the Old Testament to have a wider religious audience. However, the real truth came from Vischer's mom, who told him that he couldn't do anything from the New Testament. Jesus could not be a vegetable!
In case you're wondering what became of Phil Vischer, he now owns JellyTelly, which produces the fabulous and hilarious What's in the Bible.
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If you are at Law & Society this Friday and Saturday, come to the mini-conference on Entrepreneuship & Law that Brian Broughman (Indiana - Maurer School of Law) and our own Gordon Smith (BYU) have organized. Here is the line up:
Friday, June 3, 2011
8:15 am to 10:00 am Regulating Entrepreneurs 2122 (Chair: Brian Broughman)
- Mira Ganor (Texas), The Power to Issue Stock
- Erik Gerding (New Mexico), Shadow Banking, Financial Innovation, and Regulatory Arbitrage
- Michelle Harner (Maryland), Mitigating Financial Risk for Entrepreneurs
- Poonam Puri (Toronto), The Regulatory Burden of Corporate Law
- Discussants: Kristin Johnson (Seton Hall) & Sarah Lawsky (UC Irvine)
12:30 pm to 2:15 pm Governance Structure of Entrepreneurial Firms 2322 (Chair: Brian Broughman)
- Brian Broughman (with (Jesse Fried & Darian Ibrahim), Delaware Law as Lingua Franca: Evidence from VC-Backed Startups
- George Geis (Virginia), Organizational Contracting and Third Party Rights
- Alicia Robb (Kauffman Foundation), Entrepreneurial Finance and Performance: A Transaction Cost Economics Approach
- Discussant: Bobby Bartlett (UC Berkeley)
Saturday, June 4, 2011
8:15 am to 10:00 am Law, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation 3116 (Chair: Gordon Smith)
- Mike Burstein (Harvard), Exchanging Information without Intellectual Property
- Sean O'Connor (Univ. of Washington), Transforming Professional Services to Build Regional Innovation Ecosystems
- Peter Lee (UC Davis), The Accession Insight and Patent Infringement Remedies
- Karl Okamoto (Drexel), Law and Entrepreneurship: An Assessment Approach
4:30 pm to 6:15 pm Global Entrepreneurship 3519 (Chair: Gordon Smith)
- Afra Afsharipour (University of California, Davis), US Private Equity Investments in India
- Sofia Johan (York Univ.)(with April Knil and Nathan Mauck), Determinants of Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in Private Equity
- Gordon Smith, Stability and Adaptability
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Our readers with an interest in entrepreneurship might be interested in a symposium being hosted by The Ohio State Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal on March 10, 2011 that will focus on the damage that the financial crisis has inflicted on the ability of small businesses to raise capital. Details are here.
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Legendary VC Don Valentine tries to explain his success. Why the obsession with the market?
"Because our objective always was to build big companies. If you don't attack a big market, it's highly unlikely you're ever going to build a big company."
An elegant explanation of how to change the world.
P.S. Valentine tells a story (start around 50:00) about Sandy Lerner's termination from Cisco. You might be interested if you know Urban Decay. He describes her as "tough beyond all comparison." Hmm.
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Is it possible to have a spoiler when the story is this well known? If you don't want to know what's in the movie, don't read this post.
The Social Network begins with a frenetic exchange between Mark Zuckerberg and his soon-to-be-former girlfriend, Rachel Something, who becomes a Rosebud for the creation of Facebook. Later in the movie, Rachel utters the memorably stupid line, "The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink," but that was one of the few missteps in this script.
While the supporting actors are terrific, this movie depends on Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg, and Eisenberg is terrific. I will leave the serious movie reviews to others (including Christine and Larry, who seem to have a good thing going at Illinois), but I wanted to note that The Social Network is a fabulous movie for lawyers, particularly transactional lawyers.
One of the main threads of the story is Zuckerberg's alleged theft of the Facebook idea from Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, which I blogged about over three years ago when it led to litigation. Another thread is Zuckerberg's conflict with Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, which involves an attempted dilution of Severin's shares. Then there is the angel investment by Peter Thiel and the distributions of shares to various other people, including Dustin Moskovitz, whose important role in developing Facebook is cheated in the film.
In the end, however, this film is only about one person. And his Idea. That Idea is at the heart of Facebook and the movie, and watching people grasp for a piece of it is what makes this movie fun.
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Our town, Champaign, IL, is participating in Lemonade Day, a program designed to encourage entrepreneurship in children. Here is the Champaign Lemonade Day site. Our eight-year-old is hosting a stand with his fellow second-grade buddy and his little brother. (I have to admit that the other boys' mom has done everything, and I've done absolutely nothing to make this happen. And, she's an OB-GYN, and she just had her fourth child. Not that I am competitive or guilt-ridden or anything.)
Anyway, they participated in the best-tasting lemonade contest last weekend and will host their lemonade stand in front of our house on Sunday, May 2. They did a run-through a few weeks ago and made $60. All of their proceeds will go to Salt & Light here in Champaign.
So, here is the value I'm adding -- there are too many rules. I have added value by pointing this out. Here are the health & safety rules for hosting a lemonade stand as part of Lemonade Day. After I buy new pitchers with lids and a canopy, I can teach the boys a little about start-up cost barriers of regulation. During our run-through, we sold homemade brownies, cupcakes and cookies. Without a license. Maybe I'll add value by drafting a waiver.
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Forget Facebook with their Waiting for Godot IPO teasing! Pandora may be going public.
I'm a medium Pandora fan. My colleague Tom Ulen showed it to me in Fall 2008, and I use it once a week or so. If you live under a rock, Pandora (and it's competitor Slacker) let you create your own streaming radio station by plugging in an artist or a song title -- then the algorithms pick songs that would fit that artist or initial song. You cannot ask the station to play a particular song, however. I listen to music mostly when I'm running, though, and I can't take the uncertainty. If I need something to inspire me to finish strong, Pandora may give me something less than inspiring. Once I set up a "Thriller" station, and I had "Don't Stop Believing" followed by "Don't Stand So Close to Me." That made me wonder if the algorithm used as a characteristic "the first six letters in the title."
What I found interesting about the article, though, was it's description of the founder, Tim Westergren, and his search for capital during its pretty lean first 10 years. The article quotes one of his eventual venture capital investors as saying
"The pitch that he gave wasn't that interesting," Mr. Marcus said. "But what was incredibly interesting was Tim himself. We could tell he was an entrepreneur who wasn't going to fail."
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I posted this in October, but I am moving it up as a reminder ...
Darian Ibrahim, Brian Broughman, and I are organizing a "conference within a conference" for the next Law & Society Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois on May 27-30, 2010. The LSA's call for papers is here. Our goal is to assemble several paper panels of scholars who are doing work relating to law and entrepreneurship (broadly defined). We welcome not only legal scholars, but also scholars in other disciplines.
While much of the work at LSA is empirical -- and we encourage the submission of such proposals -- we also encourage other proposals.
This year the LSA is soliciting proposals for projects in the early stage of development that could be presented at work-in-progress sessions. We would be interested in developing a proposal for such a session focused on law and entrepreneurship, so please feel free to submit such projects to us.
You may submit a proposal to any of us via email, but as a default matter, please send your proposal to Gordon Smith by November 30, 2009.
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Here is a new economics paper that might be of interest to Gordon and the rest of you out there interested in law & entrepreneurship: Azoulay et al., "Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences". Here is the abstract:
Despite its presumed role as an engine of economic growth, we know surprisingly little about the drivers of scientific creativity. In this paper, we exploit key differences across funding streams within the academic life sciences to estimate the impact of incentives on the rate and direction of scientific exploration. Specifically, we study the careers of investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which tolerates early failure, rewards long-term success, and gives its appointees great freedom to experiment; and grantees from the National Institutes of Health, which we are subject to short review cycles, pre-defined deliverables, and renewal policies unforgiving of failure. Using a combination of propensity-score weighting and difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that HHMI investigators produce high-impact papers at a much higher rate than two control groups of similarly-accomplished NIH-funded scientists. Moreover, the direction of their research changes in ways that suggest the program induces them to explore novel lines of inquiry.
What might this mean for law? Shooting from my hip, it might imply that companies that are subject to short-term pressures to produce (either because of the types of investors, the incentives of managers, or incentives created by corporate law) might produce less long term innovation. Any thoughts, Gordon, on what might be the results of a study of similar start-up companies backed by v.c. funds with different horizons?
What might this mean should law firms invest more in r&d? The best results may require a longer gestation.
Something for scholars to think about too in our own scholarship.
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My research has focused on how sophisticated entrepreneurial parties – including angel investors, venture capitalists, venture lenders, and entrepreneurs – structure their relations, and how the corporate, securities, and commercial laws respond to their unique needs. In my venture debt paper, I discuss how lender liability and equitable subordination rules shape venture lender practices. In this post, I'll focus on the securities laws.
First, there's the exit structure of venture capital (with credit to Gordon for an excellent paper of the same name). In the past, hot IPOs allowed VCs to return big gains to their fund investors. In this recent public policy proposal (click on the Apr. 29, '09 doc), the National Venture Capital Association laments that there were only six IPOs total in the U.S. in 2008. The securities laws aren't helping the situation. As Larry Ribstein and others have observed, the costs of going public thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley have dampened the IPO market, and there's a legal minefield we teach in the securities course known as the gun-jumping rules that makes the IPO process far more cumbersome and error-prone than the process for seasoned public offerings. Sure, a start-up needs to provide more disclosure than Microsoft, but it's not like no one has vetted these companies. They have been subject to rigorous and repeat scrutiny from (venture) capital markets from their inception. Why are the gun-jumping rules so complex?
Second, long before exit, private placement rules and broker-dealer laws might be impeding optimal levels of funding from angel investors, the precursor to venture capital. In my last paper, Financing the Next Silicon Valley, I explored both the ban on general solicitations in private placements and the reach of the broker-dealer laws to see whether angels had reason to fear the application of these laws to their activities. I concluded that there is a plausible case that the letter of these laws, if not the spirit, are indeed violated by routine angel group practices. First, when entrepreneurs approach angels (and VCs) without a "preexisting relationship," as they do whenever they send a business plan cold, there appears to be a general solicitation. This leads to a host of potentially bad outcomes including recission rights, dissuading follow-on VC financing, and delaying an IPO. Second, when individual angels take the lead on a start-up's due diligence for their group and receive extra stock in the start-up as compensation, they arguably fit within the definition of a broker-dealer. I can't imagine that the broker-dealer laws were meant to apply to this situation, and granted the SEC hasn't enforced either of the laws I mention (to my knowledge), but the cloud of uncertainty they hang over angel group practice certainly isn't enticing more angel investments, at least according to my sources.
Bottom line: with our traditional economic engines like Wall Street finance and the auto industry in crisis, we need start-ups more than ever, and there won't be start-ups without angels and VCs. Market forces have already hit these investors hard; the securities laws shouldn't exacerbate the problem. The SEC and Congress should re-examine these laws and ease up a bit to help keep our entrepreneurial culture going strong.
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Thanks to Gordon for his nice words about my new paper on venture debt, and for his great help whipping it into present form (a new version just went up on SSRN). When I started the paper, I remember a friend warning me that "debt is not sexy." Worse, the financial crisis has given debt a bad rap. Yes, consumers may take on too much debt, but don't believe all the naysayers. Debt is awesome. It is extremely important in financial markets. Even in the start-up world my paper explores, where equity from angel investors and venture capitalists dominates, the use of debt makes for a fascinating story. Start-up companies have no track records, no positive cash flows, no tangible collateral, and no personal guarantees from entrepreneurs, yet are able to attract billions of dollars in loans each year. How is that possible? Read the paper to find out. Long live debt!
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Anne Miner is giving the opening remarks at a conference entitled "Technology Entrepreneurship and Institutions: Contemporary and International Research," which is being held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. A trip back home for me, and a nice reunion with Anne, Masado Ueda, Timo Goeschl, and others.
Anne's central point -- one that I heard her make often during my time in Madison -- is that entrepreneurship scholarship of the sort she is interested in promoting is not like car repair. The point of entrepreneurship scholarship of this sort is not to produce a how-to manual, but to understand the forces that drive entrepreneurial behavior. Of course, causal theories are nice, and as we develop them, society will benefit. But we shouldn't expect to find a "secret sauce" that can turn any region into the next Silicon Valley. Indeed, Anne asserts that there is no secret sauce.
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Two economists at the Kauffman Foundation, Robert Litan and Tim Kane, have started Growthology, a new blog on entrepreneurship and economic growth. Gotta love the name. The Kauffman Foundation announcement is here.
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The NYT suggests that Ireland's recent entrepreneurial success is the "culmination of nearly four decades of government policies." Here's the formula:
The government rewrote its tax policies to attract foreign investment by American corporations, made all education free through the university level and changed tax rates and used direct equity investment to encourage Irish people to set up their own businesses.
In addition, there was the fact that Ireland is a member of the European Union. What, exactly, has the EU contributed?
One reason for many changes in Ireland is its membership in the European Union, which has brought new perspectives and regulations from its governing councils in Brussels.
New perspectives and regulations? "Perspectives" seems to refer to the fact that some Irish entrepreneurs are transcending Ireland's borders. Of course, that is not just a matter of perspective, but a matter of free movement of goods and services across EU member state borders.
The EU "regulations" referred to in the story aren't new rules designed to promote entrepreneurship, but rather new rules that, for example, aim to improve worker health and safety, thus creating business opportunities for compliance firms. One firm's burden, another firm's treasure.
Of course, all of the EU benefits inure to every member state, so what makes Ireland special? Is it really just a matter of reducing taxes, providing free higher education, and making direct government equity investments? This paper suggests a more complex answer for Ireland:
Regional transformation through technology-based entrepreneurship cannot be easily measured by solely by 'tangible' resource input factors such as access to seed capital or telecommunications infrastructure. Instead, it is important that policy makers need to recognize the importance of fostering a 'bottom-up' approach towards technology-based entrepreneurship especially the role of 'intangibles' such as role models, culture towards risk and failure, and leadership in stimulating technology based entrepreneurship in regions.
I am not trying to suggest that the academics are spot on about Ireland while the NYT reporters are hopeless simpletons. But I believe that finding the root causes of entrepreneurship is a difficult task. In the end, I tend to give more credit to the accounts that describe a stew with many ingredients than the linear cause-and-effect stories.
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Yesterday at the University of Wisconsin Law School, a group of legal scholars gathered to discuss "law and entrepreneurship." Anne Miner, my colleague in the UW Business School, launched the day with a discussion of "What is Entrepreneurship?" in which she mapped to progression of that field of study. Here I am with Anne after her session:
The morning was devoted to teaching law and entrepreneurship, and the afternoon was filled with paper presentations. In between, we took an impromptu hike along Lake Mendota:
Left to right: Vic Fleischer, Mike Guttentag, Usha Rodrigues, Bob Lawless, Gordon Smith, Darian Ibrahim, George Geis, Bobby Bartlett, and Brian Broughman.
At the end of afternoon session, Mike Guttentag provided the recap of what we had learned, though I am not sure you can get that from the whiteboard:
We finished the day on Capitol Square at The Old-Fashioned, which provided an authentic Wisconsin experience, including fried cheese curds. Dan Burk, who will be speaking at the companion conference entitled Technology Entrepreneurship & Institutions: Contemporary & International Research, met us for dinner.
A good time was had by all.
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Director Andrew Stanton, Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres are returning for Finding Dory, the sequel to Pixar's 2003 pic that has been long in the works. Disney has set a November 25, 2015 release date for the movie, which will take place about a year after the original film and focus on Dory (DeGeneres), the blue tang fish who helped Nemo find his way home in the first pic. Finding Nemo won the Best Animated Feature Oscar and is now fourth-highest-grossing animated film worldwide. Stanton returned to the fold in July, and DeGeneres signed on soon after. "There is no Dory without Ellen," Stanton said in the release today announcing the date. "One thing we couldn't stop thinking about was why she was all alone in the ocean on the day she met Marlin. In Finding Dory, she will be reunited with her loved ones, learning a few things about the meaning of family along the way."
Disney Dates 'Finding Nemo' Sequel 'Finding Dory'
Comment by dc — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 9:46am PDT
I want a Bug's Life 2. Severely underrated Pixar classic.
Comment by amirite — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:17am PDT
Yeah, good soundtrack.
Comment by Fred — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 8:20pm PDT
I agree! I love the movie.
Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 9:49am PDT
Ew. Cut it out, Pixar. Stop subjecting all your great films to sequelization. This is awful.
Comment by Tom Sellock — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:34am PDT
I wouldn't be upset with the sequels if they released more than one movie per year. It'd be cool to see an original movie around Christmas and a sequel in the summer, or vice versa. Brilliant CGI is tough to do for sure, but weren't they supposed to be expanding into Canada or something so they could handle more than one yearly release?
Comment by Pixel the cat — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 12:13pm PDT
This may be a difference without distinction, but Disney is making 'Finding Dory', not Pixar. I read this as the Pixar team don't want this considered as a 'real' Pixar title.
Comment by aa — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 4:00pm PDT
Tell that to Toy Story 3.
Comment by Trevor — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 9:50am PDT
That's actually a fantastic idea…why WAS she alone?
Comment by Audrey — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 1:24pm PDT
Short term memory loss does run in her family. At least, I think it does.
Comment by Barry Hussein — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 3:02pm PDT
Because she's a loon.
Comment by Joy — Sunday April 21, 2013 @ 11:07pm PDT
I loved this movie and I thought they should have had a sequel long ago. What happened to the fish in the bag?? lol
Comment by Erin — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 9:58am PDT
I'm excited!(:
Comment by Chris Etrata — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 9:58am PDT
Dory's discovery of herself was the only way Pixar could produce a sequel without harming the original's message. Im surprised its coming out only 5 days after Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 2.
Comment by Clare — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:03am PDT
You mean the sequel of hunger games will be in 2015? I was hoping for this year, or 2014 at the most…
Comment by Eva — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:36am PDT
No like the first part of mockinjay is sooner but the second part is later
Comment by Jared — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:42am PDT
The first sequel to the Hunger Games is this year, Clare. Chris is talking about the third book which will be split into two movies, apparently.
Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:00am PDT
This is a good idea but why is the release date so long from now ?
Comment by Rachel — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:34am PDT
Because it takes so long to make an animated film.
Comment by Sam — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:46am PDT
I would imagine so they could actually make the film.
Comment by Melissa — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:01am PDT
Cant wait!!!!! Our family favorite character!!!
Comment by bill — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:12am PDT
The release date is so long from now because they need to actually MAKE the movie first. Yeesh.
Comment by jer — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:17am PDT
Not a terrible idea in and of itself, but I think we're looking at the long slow decline of Pixar in which they will make all the traditional mistakes yet wonder why they're not as successful as they were in the past.
Comment by Kat — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:18am PDT
I think so long because they haven't started animation yet. More than likely they are still finishing the script or are starting voice acting
Comment by Ari — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:29am PDT
This is a terrible move on Pixar's part. Dory's quote is much too high to merit a sequel, and her lack of appealing to a 18-34 audience will make marketing campaigns for this film sink. I represent the Seagulls from the original motion picture, and Pixar definitely missed the opportunity in nabbing them for a sequel/spin-off franchise. Luckily DreamWorks Animation doesn't have their heads up their asses so we'll be meeting with them soon, along with a courtesy meeting over at Blue Sky animation, just cause I owe them a favor.
Comment by Aaron C. Gull — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 3:50pm PDT
Mine? Mine? Mine?
Comment by Shantia — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:30am PDT
Novemer 2015??? Are you kidding?? Why so long???
Comment by Tin Toy — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:33am PDT
Pixar should be careful with all the sequels. If people start to think of them as just another Dreamworks it's a long climb back up.
Comment by MAXQ — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:38am PDT
Nov 22 2013- Catching Fire
Comment by Judas — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:39am PDT
The kids who watched Nemo have already become teenagers now… Disney have to find a whole new audience now. I doubt this sequel will do as good as Nemo in the box office.
Comment by Chris — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 12:58pm PDT
Do you think they're making this just for those teens? Of course it has to find it's own audience…every film does. And if you think it won't do as well as the first Nemo, check out the grosses for the two Toy Story sequels.
Comment by Potato — Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 10:28am PDT
Your math is wrong. I was eleven when the film came out and will be 23 when the sequel is released. Do you KNOW how powerful childhood nostalgia is for people in their early 20′s? Just look at the Transformers movies!
Comment by Michael Hartman — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:42am PDT
Great news!
This is a great way to handle a "sequel" for this movie. It goes off on a different story without doing something dumb like "Nemo gets lost again."
The only bad news is the 2015 release date. So far away!
Comment by Naomi — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:44am PDT
I look forward to this storyline and movie. Pixar films are some of the best animated movies going. Hearing about Dory and her past (which was never detailed enough in Finding Nemo) will give us all the insight we need! So what if it is a sequel film–it is the #4 rated animated movie EVER! That, in and of itself, is reason enough for me!
Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:50am PDT
I thought that they would have Finding Nemo 2 about his friends from the tank(Gill and them) trying to find Nemo. Hope it doesn't disappoint.
Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 10:51am PDT
"One thing we couldn't stop thinking about…" yeah, right after JC flopped.
Comment by Snarker Lewis — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 11:06am PDT
You're right. It only takes a few days to make an animated feature. Shame on Pixar for having such a far off release date!
Comment by David Smart III — Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 12:19pm PDT
There once lived a man on a spaceship. His voyage lasted for 30, and his only companion was a sophisticated computer system named Vicki. As his capsule made it's final descent through Earth's through Earth's atmosphere the face of Mickey Mouse appeared on the monitor.
You see by then Disney will own the broadcasting right for everything!
Comment by Lee — Thursday April 4, 2013 @ 5:17pm PDT
I am glad we will be getting some resolution on The Dory line …"where are they?" when mentioning her family in the original. Those three words always haunted me. So sad.
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Tucson >Food & Dining > Prince Pizza & Family Restaurant
1763 E Prince Rd, Tucson, AZ | Directions 8571932.272237 -110.945374
Neighborhoods: Campus Farm, Ward 3
Best Italian Food in Tucson – NOTE: The correct phone number is (520) 325-9040.
My husband and I have dined at Prince Pizza and Family Restaurant (formerly Pizzazz Bistro) at least six times in the past two years. I love the beef lasagne and his favorite is the meatball spaghetti. His loves the calamari appetizer (best in Tucson!) My favorite dessert is the tiramisu (also the best in Tucson!)
We recently ordered an 18" Ultimate Supreme pizza to be delivered to our home. It was incredible!
We highly recommend this restaurant. Enjoy!
Nothing out of the ordinary. Stick with the pizza – This is a nice clean restaurant. The staff was very friendly and wanted to please. Very limited beer selection. We did not have the pizza but we should have because it looked good. We ordered the pasta dishes (chicken parmesan and eggplant parmesan). The marinara sauce was thin and tasted like it came from a can. The same for the dishes. I could have sworn the eggplant parmesan was just like the frozen EP I buy at Costco. I might go back to get a pizza one day and maybe the sandwiches are good. The entrees were quite disappointing and I would not go back there for that.
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When I moved to L.A. just over a year ago, there were only a handful of places I really wanted to live near. One of which was the New Beverly Cinema. New Beverly is hands down THE place to go for repertory cinema in L.A.. Sure there are other venues that show classic films in and around the Los Angeles area, but nobody does it like New Bev. The entire experience of going to the New Bev from the $8 double features to the so-cheap-you-could-hardly-refuse concessions is like a trip back in time. And the folks that work there are not only passionate about cinema, they're also super cool. Times have been tough for the New Bev and the Torgan family that owns it. When Sherman Torgan passed away, the family took over the struggling cinema and now thanks to Quentin Tarantino, the New Bev will be here for years to come, because he just bought the place.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Tarantino had heard the theater was in financial trouble and got in touch with Sherman Torgan to see how much money he needed a month to keep up the theater. "The answer was about $5,000," Tarantino said. "So, I just started paying him that per month. I considered it a contribution to cinema."
But when Sherman passed away in 2007, the landlord was quick to react, "Within a week of my father's death, the landlord had a buyer bidding for the theater space," said Michael Torgan, Sherman's son. "Fortunately, I found a copy of our original lease, and it said that the family had the right of first refusal if we could find another buyer."
After months of haggling, Tarantino was successful in his buyout and now owns the space outright.
Although Tarantino will make programming suggestions from time to time, he pretty much let's the Torgan's run the theater how they see fit.
Recently theater regulars have seen new lights and seats put in. According to Tarantino, "As long as I'm alive, and as long as I'm rich, the New Beverly will be there, showing double features in 35mm."
When I think about some of the movies I've seen at the New Bev, I get all giddy. Weird Science and Blazing Saddles top the non-genre stuff. But when it comes to horror, I've had the pleasure of seeing films like Halloween 2 (1981), Dread, Dario Argento's Inferno (with musician Keith Emmerson in attendance), An American Werewolf in London and an Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness triple feature to name a few.
Tonight and tomorrow director Jason Reitman is presenting a double feature of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Election (with promised special guests) and this Saturday at Midnight, Shock Till You Drop is hosting a screening of the 1984 killer pig flick Razorback with director Russell Mulcahy in attendance. How can you refuse?
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Uchumi Supermarket will by the end of 2014 open two new outlets in the Rwandan capital, Kigali in addition to its 30 outlets in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya
This comes after the regional chain store, with its base in Kenya, signed construction contracts with a Rwanda-based property firm which will construct the store premises in the next twelve months.
Jonathan Ciano, Uchumi's chief executive said the move is also expected to reduce its reliance on Kenya, while the EAC regional economy is growing rapidly, especially in Rwanda among other countries.
Ciano said that the Rwandan retail sector is vibrant and has a growing middle class with disposable income such as in Kenya and Uganda. "We hope to sign two more contracts of the same kind next year as a way of expanding Uchumi outlets across other towns in Rwanda"
Uchumi supermarket was cross-listed on the Rwanda Stock Exchange this October 2013; however there has not been much activity on the Rwandan bourse. By having its stores opened in the Rwandan market, it is expected to be a key turning point for the local bourse and a vote of confidence in the local financial sector.
Uchumi is the third Kenyan company to float shares on the Rwanda Stock Exchange. Others include: Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and Nation Media Group (NMG), which have been part of the four firms listed on the stock market, including Bank of Kigali and Bralirwa.
Uchumi, which is aiming to offer up to 100 million shares in a rights issue set for next year and expanding to Rwanda market is seen as an avenue of reaching other markets in the region, especially in Burundi.
"Once we have established ourselves in Rwanda, it will be easier to penetrate the other markets," said Ciano.
Uchumi's profit before tax rose to Ksh486 million in June this year from Ksh406m in June last year. It's earnings per share, increased by 31 per cent, from Ksh1.03 per share last year to Ksh1.35 for the year ending June 2013.
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Downer was a combat medic stationed at Ft. Drum, N.Y. He was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team. His unit deployed to Afghanistan in March.
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Andrew (my guy) has a metabolic disorder. It kills me that we didn't know for over three years. Appropriate metabolic treatment has done wonders for him in development, energy, and health. He feels good finally! I imagine there are more than just a handful of us that this impacts. There are many conditions that can affect special needs kids with various symptoms and also adults. So....
There are many metabolic conditions that might be behind special needs. Indicators of possible metabolic issues
Suspect metabolic issues if you see some of the following in your child:
1. the developmental issue is not typical (example for autism would be a child who seems at first glance to be "too social" for example)
2. any regression in development, loss of physical skills, language, etc.
3. easy fatigue, tiredness, any loss of strength or physical ability.
4. any seizure history
5. you notice changes associated with food; food avoidance; symptom change during illness or fasting
6. child doesn't consistently gain cognitive skills or learn consistently.
7. family history includes other affected siblings; history of miscarriage
8. Issues with growth
9. Motor skill delays.
10. small head or head that does not keep up with growth.
11. blood or urine abnormalities.
12. Particular to mitochondrial (more information below listing specific symptoms in mito areas): three areas of health and/or development are affected in a child. (example, child has constipation, developmental delay, muscle weakness)
No child would have all of these so if you see your kiddo in this at all I think a metabolic and mitochondrial work up is needed. Adapted from: http://www.vsan.org/rok-az/misc/Meta...Geneticist.pdf
One metabolic condition (one of many) is mitochondrial myopathy. I'm highlighting that because so many drs. are still unaware and it is one of the more common conditions.
Here is a clip about mitochondrial disorder--which can be behind special needs even when we as parents are unaware. I think the current estimated incidence is 1 in 1000. I saw a small study that found signs of mitochondrial dysfunction in 20% of those on the autism spectrum. Point is it is much more common that previously believed and is often missed or undiagnosed. **this thread is old so I edited to remove a now dead video link**
Possible symptoms of mitochondrial disorder (it would affect three areas in mito disorder--not all areas so brain may be unaffected; muscle is frequently and it seems energy is as well):
Brain: Developmental delays (inc. autism, ADD, learning difficulties), regression, mental impairment, dementia, seizures, neuro-psychiatric disturbances, atypical cerebral palsy, migraines, strokes. My son's pdd-nos/spectrum is mild and atypical in presentation; I found out that atypical autism is a marker for metabolic conditions--a child more social than expected for example or a child with autism and seizures or regression; atypical CP is too though I don't know what that would look like. Any regression is a sign of metabolic issues. In fact any common disease or disorder or condition with aytpical features probably deserves a look into mitochondrial and metabolic issues. Note: A child who is affected in the brain wouldn't have all of these--just one or a few; not all kids are affected in the brain.
Muscles: Weakness, hypotonia/low muscle tone, cramping, muscle pain.
My son is mildy low tone. His metabolics dr. told me that he doesn't think benign hypotonia probably exists--even in people like me--we likely have something going on. At any rate, hypotonia kids in my opinion need a metabolic work up from someone who is good with mitochondrial and related conditions--and there are limited people with that knowledge unfortunately. I say this because we could have saved my son damage had we known that his mild low tone was a marker and gotten it looked into when he was a baby.
Systemic: Failure to gain weight, short statue, fatigue, respiratory problems including intermittent air hunger. (fatigue was my son's other marker and is common in this disorder at least and some other metabolic conditions; he displayed this only as he got older and likely after damage had been done).
Nerves: Weakness (which may be intermittent), neuropathic pain, dysautonomia, absent reflexes, gastrointestinal problem (gastroesophogeal reflux, delayed gastric emptying, constipation, pseudo-obstruction), fainting, absent or excessive sweating resulting in temperature regulation problems. (reflux was our initial issue with Andrew's health and his only nervous system symptom; constipation is very common in mitochondrial disorders.)
Kidneys: Proximal renal tubular wasting resulting in loss of protein, magnesium, phosphorous, calcium and other electrolytes.
Heart: Cardiac conduction defects (heart blocks), cardiomyopathy.
Liver: Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), liver failure.
Eyes: Visual loss and blindness, some forms of strabismus.
Ears: Hearing loss and deafness.
Thyroid and I see other things listed on another site here
Pancreas: Diabetes and exocrine pancreatic failure (inability to make digestive enzymes). Some individuals diagnosed with diabeties actually have diabetes secondary to (caused by) a primary mitochondrial disorder.
http://www.umdf.org/ Has more information and there are people here with experience (including who to see if there is a concern or help in sorting out if there is a concern). The above is taken from this symptom list on their site.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mito/ This yahoo group is active. People here on mothering or there can often recommend someone to see if you suspect mitochondrial issues in your child. Who you see matters as most doctors aren't familiar with this condition yet.
Mitochondrial symptoms have over-lap with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms. So does another metabolic condition called carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) II. People are often mis-diagnosed as chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia with both of these disorders. So given the prevalence of CPT II in the general population I thought it might be good to add a few links about CPT II. It is actually a very common fatty acid disorder. Symptoms can onset in late adolescence and adulthood. In addition to fatigue it often causes pain. The late onset leads to the mis-diagnosis as chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia. Similarly, mitochondrial disorder is progressive so can become more apparent with age or environmental stressors.
I am going to add some information about testing:
The initial, formal tests run when a metabolic/mitochondrial disorder are suspected are listed here, in the metabolic screening in urine and blood section. The other tests are performed for specific patients to follow up with specific symptoms/concerns.
The problem is finding a doctor who really knows mitochondrial disease well enough to evaluate properly. Here is a list of doctors who specialize in this area. We were evaluated by Dr. Parikh in Ohio and Dr. Hainline in Indiana. If my son's initial blood and urine screens were normal, we were told he would be tested again when his body was under stress/sick. My son's initial labs were not normal, so I'm not sure how that works. I do know, though, that a mito patient can have normal labs at times.
After my son had been formally tested, a doctor ran a Metametrix Comprehensive Urine. We were tested because of some unexplained GI issues. But this test came back flagged for metabolic conditions affecting mitochondrial function and fat metabolism. The suggested treatments were much like Dr. Hainline and Dr. Parikh had recommended. This is not a formal diagnostic metabolic lab. It would not be appropriate for a heavily affected child who needs expert care and follow up. However, I mention it because it might be a good option to explore metabolics for some families. It is much less expensive (our insurance did reimburse us, though at out of network rates) and a urine test--much less invasive. It would provide information without a medical trail/formal diagnosis. So I mention it as an option.
A doctor had ordered our metametrix and so we ran it through insurance. I do know there are patient ordered options too. Here is one (Organix Comprehensive) and here is another, slightly more expensive, one.
One formal test worth running in any low tone/low energy child or adult is carnitine levels (blood) in my opinion. Any doctor can order a level. If you're low, prescription Carnitor can be given. Correcting low carnitine made a huge difference in my son's life. His energy dramatically improved, his constipation was helped, and he gained back lost developmental skills. He was very low though when tested and I know some kids don't have wow results. I personally got great benefit from correcting a low coq10 level.
Finally, here is a listing of typical treatments.
The first tier supplements listed are typically given to all suspected or diagnosed mito patients. A person using the Metametrix could use these are dosing guides.
Most of these are available without a doctor's prescription. Coq10 needs to be in a specific form that is available to the body--Tishcon Corp makes it. So another companies CoQ (from online or Walmart for example) isn't worth the money. Epic4Health sells Tishcon forms. Their Q-gels are Tischon. Other forms of their coq10 may be as well. This is what our doctor recommended. As an aside, I was diagnosed with very low coq10 (I am the source of my son's metabolic issues-I was healthy until my late mid-30's). We did follow up labs and the Tischcon form raised my levels very quickly.
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Google Apps package (previously known as Google Apps For Your Domain). I've been following the Web Office trend for a long time and, like everyone, have been particularly obsessed with Google's gradual progression towards a Web Office suite. Tonight is another step towards fully challenging Microsoft Office, but there is still a ways to go. More on that in a minute, but first a quick overview of what's in Google Apps Premier.The big news tonight is that Google has released a premier edition of its
The new 'suite' includes the existing Google Apps tools - Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Page Creator and Start Page. New to the package is Google Docs & Spreadsheets, a significant edition considering that word processing and spreadsheets are mainstays of Microsoft Office. A comparison between the free edition and premier is here. Also new of note is APIs "to integrate with your existing infrastructure" and ability to integrate with 3rd party applications and services. 'Best of breed' web apps is another theme we obsess over here at Read/WriteWeb - so APIs and 3rd party features will go a long way towards making Google Office an attraction for external developers and startups. Google wants to be the center of the Web Office ecosystem, a very wise strategy.
CNET has a good summary of the other changes:
"The new Google Apps Premier Edition costs $50 per user account a year. It includes around-the-clock telephone support, and 10GB of storage per user compared with 2GB. The new edition also includes a guarantee of 99.9 percent uptime for Gmail and application programming interfaces that businesses can use to migrate data, enable single sign-on and do other integration. A free version targeted at educational institutions, Google Apps Education Edition, offers the same features as the premier edition except for the storage size. There is also Google Apps Standard Edition, which is free, but lacks the features of the premier edition."
Over at Techcrunch, Marshall Kirkpatrick waxes philosophical (for some reason I had Orson Welles' voice in my head as I read the following):
"Beyond competition and concerns, tonight is a good time to recognize the incredible force of innovation that Google is as well. Its nearly full-service suite of sophisticated, integrated online services is something of historic proportion. GoogleÄôs technological brilliance is only beginning to be recognized. What do I mean by that? I mean that with its powerful algorithms to analyze and contextualize information, combined with its growing catalogue of information to analyze - Google is an epoch defining company. Send the worldÄôs business communication through Google and the machine gets a whole lot smarter."
For now, I'm a bit more cautious about this news. I see it more as just another step for Google towards a full Office suite. There's still no presentations app, CRM.... or JotSpot for that matter! Google Apps is still a fairly loose package of web-based office apps, not as integrated as it could be yet. The strength of a Web Office suite is collaboration and other web native functionality - whereas desktop office suites have much more sophisticated functionality. There's also the small matter of offline functionality (which is starting to appear in web apps, but slowly) and whether businesses want to host their office with an external party like Google.
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York police have arrested a suspect and are looking for a second man wanted for a fatal shooting at a party early Monday.
Ruben Delvalles-Vicente, 29, of 344 Smyser Street, has been arrested and charged with criminal homicide, police said in a news release.
Victor Martinez-Raices, 21, of 320 Walnut Street, is being sought in connection with the homicide, police said.
The victim, 19-year-old Carlos Ramos-Diaz, died at York Hospital after the shooting incident at a home in the 1000 block of E. Philadelphia Street at around 2 a.m.
Ramos-Diaz was shot at least twice during a dispute that started at the party and continued behind the house, police said.
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NEW YORK, Nov 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Friday as investors paused after the Dow industrials closed above 16,000 for the first time, amid a dearth of data and ahead of a holiday-abbreviated week in the United States.
* The Dow's new record came Thursday as data on inflation and the labor market soothed fears the Federal Reserve could be ready to start winding down a stimulus program that has lifted the benchmark S&P 500 more than 25 percent this year.
* A decision on whether to approve Bank of America's proposed $8.5 billion settlement with investors in mortgage securities is in the hands of a New York state judge, after a nine-week court proceeding ended on Thursday. The bank's shares edged up 0.5 percent in premarket trading.
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Russian forces kill al Qaeda's envoy to the Islamic Causasus EmirateMuhannad commanded the International Islamic Battalion, the unit comprised of Arab and other foreign fighters. He also was the deputy military leader in Chechnya.
Pakistan closes US Predator base in Baluchistan: report
Taliban overrun security outpost, kill 16 Pakistani troopsMore than 300 Taliban fighters attacked an outpost in Dir from across the border in Kunar province. The Taliban reportedly beheaded five of the Pakistani troops.
US Predators kill 25 in North Waziristan strikeThe strike in the Mir Ali area is the first in more than a week, and took place just one day after Admiral Mullen completed a trip to patch up ties with Pakistan's military.
ISAF targets al Qaeda safehouse in Khost
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group leader ambushed by Qaddafi's forcesA top Libyan Islamic Fighting Group leader known as Urwah was killed in an ambush by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's forces earlier this month. Urwah was reportedly detained by Iran in 2004 but allowed to return to Libya to fight Qaddafi.
17 Taliban, 'foreign fighters' killed during hunt for al Qaeda commander in KunarThe al Qaeda leader "commands and facilitates insurgents throughout the province and border region, directing weapons acquisition, movement, employment of fighters and equipment to Kunar for attacks against Afghan and Coalition forces."
Ex-Gitmo detainee deported from Italy to TunisiaThe Italian government announced the deportation of a former Gitmo detainee to Tunisia. Adel Ben Mabrouk had been convicted of terrorism-related charges, but his sentence was commuted to time served because of his eight-year-long detention at Gitmo. Mabrouk went to Afghanistan to train and fight in early 2001 and was part of an al Qaeda cell that plotted to blow up Milan's Gothic cathedral.
Omar Hassan, whose sister, Omayma, is married to Ayman al Zawahiri, was killed in Afghanistan earlier this year. Hassan likely facilitated the 2006 merger of the external branch of the Egyptian Islamic Group with al Qaeda.
Zawahiri's brother-in-law killed in AfghanistanOsama Hassan was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Group and may have played a role in getting that group's external faction to merge with al Qaeda in 2006.
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Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat was previously known as Cooking Navi in Japan. Nintendo will be releasing the title in the US, and it was available for play at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat is not a game. It doesn't try to be a game, and it doesn't even give you the allusion that it is a game. It's a food and recipe database that runs on the Nintendo DS. It teaches you how to cook several dozen recipes, and shows you via smooth video clips how to prepare certain foods…like cleaning rice and chopping garlic.
Since it's a database, you can go into each recipe and check off the ingredients to pull up in a shopping list, so when you hit the grocery store you'll know which items you'll need to buy to prepare it all. You can also sort recipes by ingredients and ethnicity, and pull up nutritional values. The interface is very clean and adult friendly.
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The Rite of Spring has stirred controversy ever since the composer Igor Stravinsky and the choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky brought it to the stage 100 years ago in Paris. This spring, to mark the centenary of the premiere, dancers who appeared in four of the works more than 200 versions will share their experiences of reinventing an avant-garde classic with Barnard professor of dance Lynn Garafola. The evening will spotlight Millicent Hodsons recreation of Nijinskys original for the Joffrey Ballet along with versions by the choreographers Pina Bausch, Shen Wei, and Molissa Fenley. Information dance.barnard.edu


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Big front lawn with veggie garden and trampoline for the kids.
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It is a 20 minute walk down to Palm beach or a couple of minutes drive also close to Kennedy point car ferry and launching ramp.
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Founded in 2002, we exit to bring dignity to the journey of human life, especially to the golden years of life. Taking care of you or your loved ones is not just our business; it is a cause to us bigger than ourselves. We strive to provide compassionate care by well trained health care professionals that is best in the world. We train our own care staff and hire only those whose prime commitment is to serve you with dedication and compassion.
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Dignity Home Care is primarily based in Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada. Our Management Team is comprised of Doctors, Nurses and other Health Care professionals who are not only well trained to design your care plans but are also committed to the cause of providing a compassionate care that is best in the world. We are building an institution where the purpose of bringing dignity to the journey of human life through dedicated and compassionate elder care will survive and thrive for years and generations to come.
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Eating organic doesn't necessarily mean having to buy organic. You can grow your own. And it's cheaper than anything you'll find at the store (a $2 tomato seedling can produce 10 pounds of tomatoes over a season). Organic tomatoes at my local market are over $3 a pound.
Even if you've never done it before. Even if you think you don't have the time. Even if you don't have a yard. Even if you live in an apartment. We encourage you to do so, as the results are so gratifying: Cheap, healthy food; eating the fruits of your own labor; using fresh herbs in your cooking; the benefits of the vitamins and minerals added to your diet.
For all of you greenhorn gardeners, here are four tips for getting started.
- Pick a pot and a place. You don't need green acres or a plow to have a healthy harvest. You don't even need to have a yard. You can grow a wide variety of herbs, vegetables, and even fruits in containers (on your roof, fire escape, patio, or windowsill). R.J. Ruppenthal, author of Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting, even has tips for using closets and empty bathtubs. Your only limitation is your imagination.
- Start simple. Ensure immediate success by beginning with surefire winners like herbs, sprouts and lettuce. Take it up a tiny notch by growing a pizza garden (basil, oregano, cherry tomatoes) or a salsa garden (cilantro, onion, tomatoes, peppers). There are specific varieties of vegetables and fruits that fare best in containers. You can find a list of them and the specific size of container they need at Garden Guides.
- Enjoy the experiment. Gardening is all about experimentation and even the most adept grower sometimes has a failed crop. It doesn't mean you have a brown thumb. Keep a journal of your successes and failures (including details like type of container, type of soil, lighting conditions, watering schedule, etc), so you won't make the same mistake twice.
- Get some help. Pick up some books from your library, like Organic Crops in Pots by Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell. Join the growing community of home gardeners by visiting websites like Gardenaut. Call your local extension services with questions (for some immediate troubleshooting tips visit Texas University Extension Services).
OK, here's the biggest challenge: After being used to a diet high it fat, salt and sugar, it may be difficult to make changes. Maybe it wouldn't be so difficult if the vegetables actually tasted like they're supposed to, flavorful and delicious.
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Dear Parent or Guardian:
Our school receives federal funds for Title I programs that are part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Throughout the school year, we will continue to provide you with important information about this law and your child's education.
You have the right to request information regarding the professional qualifications of your child's classroom teacher(s). If you request this information, the district or school will provide you with the following as soon as possible:
a. if the teacher has met state licensing requirements for the grade level and subjects in which the teacher is providing instruction;
b. if state licensing requirements have been waived for the teacher on a temporary basis;
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If you would like to request this information, please contact your child's school.
Thank you for your interest and involvement in your child's education.
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