"CHASING ICE" captures largest glacier calving ever filmed - OFFICIAL VIDEO

Published on Dec 14, 2012

 

"CHASING ICE" is NOMINATED for an Academy Award: Best Original Song
"Before My Time" by J. Ralph featuring Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell.

Hear the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4UEQ...
And watch the TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTMV...
IN THEATERS NOW!! Showtimes at www.chasingice.com/showtimes

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On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.

Chasing Ice won the award for Excellence in Cinematography at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and the Best Documentary from the International Press Association. It has won over 30 awards at festivals worldwide. Still playing in theaters nationwide.

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Time Management Tips

If you find yourself long on ambition and short on time, manage your work more efficiently
 
by incorporating pointers:




1. Stop multitasking immediately.

Studies have shown that multitasking is actually less efficient than doing single tasks sequentially because you work with better focus doing one thing at a time.

 
2. Prioritize, Prioritize, Prioritize. 

You’ve probably heard of the 80/20 rule. It says that 80% of the profits you’ll see will actually only come from 20% of the products or services that you offer. This philosophy should also be applied to your work in general.

There are certain tasks that will give you much more ‘bang for your buck’ in terms of moving things forward than others. The idea is to sit down and identify those products or services (and tasks) that are going to be most profitable for you, and then organize your day such that you are giving more of your energy to those items.

There are two benefits to this: you’ll feel more accomplished and see greater profitability, and you know that if something has to fall by the wayside it won’t be one of your most important items.

 
3. Be Honest With Yourself About Being A Human. 

David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals advises to “plan for 4-5 hours of real work per day.”

If you consider yourself someone who works an 8-hour day, this may seem like a low estimate. But if you look at the numbers with an eye toward allowing for your own biology to factor in, it’s pretty realistic.

Now, nobody is telling you to AIM for 4 hours of work per day, but when you are estimating how much time it will take you to get a project done, be aware of that reality.

Why not 8 hours straight? The most science-y stat we found points to the human brain consuming more glucose (energy) to do it’s job than your other organs. It will use up your reserves in approximately 60-90 minutes. So if the work you’re doing depends on your brain, you have to give it breaks, healthy snacks, and time to recharge every hour to hour and a half if you want it to continue performing at its peak.


 
4. You are only human: Know Your Limits. 

Temporal Limits:

There are 16 or fewer waking hours in any to complete all your tasks at work and at home so put limits on what you imagine you can accomplish...


 Physical Limits:

The human brain consuming more glucose (energy) to do it’s job than your other organs. It will use up your reserves in approximately 60-90 minutes. So if the work you’re doing depends on your brain, you have to give it breaks, healthy snacks, and time to recharge every hour to hour and a half if you want it to continue performing at its peak.

Financial Limits:

Be careful to avoid the stress of burgeoning debts.  Money worries paralyze creative thinking...



5. “Done is better than perfect.” 

If you’re looking for a motto role model for your small business, your could do a lot worse than Facebook. As is implied in their unofficial company motto,

...if you always expect your first crack at something to be absolutely perfect, you’ll never get off the ground.

Take Facebook as an example: The number of iterations of the product we’ve seen are innumerable, but that’s what makes it continue to succeed.

They came up with the best they could do at the time, launched it, and made changes as they went based on the learnings they got along the way.

Start with the best work you can do at the time, and know that you will make changes and improvements as you go forward.

The important thing is that you get moving in the first place.



"A  journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."

Lao-tzu (604 BC – 531 BC)
 






Source:
http://www.webs.com/blog/2013/04/03/4-big-time-management-tips-for-small-business-owners/


Posted by Sarah in How To / Tips on April 3, 2013

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Pissed-off Maori: Imitation, inspiration or appropriation?

via NZEdge:

Imitation, inspiration or appropriation?
2006 has seen a rash of advertising and design taking inspiration - with varying degrees of offensiveness - from Maori art and culture. An Italian ad for the Fiat Idea showing a group of black garbed women performing a mock haka has gone to air despite warnings of cultural insensitivity from NZ diplomats. According to Brad Tattersfield of NZ's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, "we advised the advertising company that the use of Ka Mate in this way was culturally insensitive and inappropriate. MFAT advised the advertisers to either use a Maori group or a haka composed for women. However, the advertising company indicated they were proceeding despite this advice." In the US, an American developer's proposal to build a Maori-themed apartment complex in Texas has divided Maori opinion. While activist Ken Mair calls the plan "cultural theft and possibly theft of intellectual property" author Alan Duff thinks Maori have bigger problems to worry about: "Greece is not up in arms because Las Vegas did Ancient Greece themes in their casinos. Why are we so precious about things that don't count?" Finally, cult US fashion brand Paul Frank has released a T-shirt print titled 'Warrior Julius,' depicting its distinctive monkey mascot with a full facial moko.
(4 July 2006)

via The Art Newspaper:

New Zealand Maoris furious over plans for a themed apartment complex in Texas
By Jason Edward Kaufman | Posted 19 October 2006
NEW YORK. A proposed Maori-themed apartment complex outside Dallas recently served as a platform for the New Zealand natives to proclaim their pride. In June, after California-based Legacy Partners announced plans to build a residential complex featuring Maori themes and folk art in suburban Plano, the company received dozens of emails charging the company with "cultural theft." Complaints centered on the name of the complex, "Kiora Park," taken from the Maori expression of welcome. The problem was that the phrase is properly transliterated as "Kia Ora." "How many more mistakes will there be?" Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia asked. "We're all very proud of the culture and more than willing to share it with people who come here, but to have it transplanted into Dallas, that sounds a bit incredible," she said.
No harm was meant, explains Richard Brownjohn, a vice president in Legacy's Dallas office. "Our marketing people thought it had an unusual ring but was something people would easily pronounce. It was spelled as one word at first because Americans might butcher the spelling and we wanted it pronounced right. We didn’t think it would get Maoris upset," he says. The name was quickly changed to "Kia Ora Park".

Mr Brownjohn—a New Zealander who is not Maori—is overseeing the $30m, 15-acre, 250-apartment complex which broke ground in June and will open by next summer. The apartment buildings have Maori-inspired steeply pitched roofs with finials, and landscaping includes ferns, a significant motif in Maori culture that appears on Kia Ora promotional literature and the web site. "The theme came from us looking for something new and different," he explains, noting that Tuscan and Spanish-colonial themes are more common in Texas. "My being from New Zealand was the impetus that got us going in that direction," he says, noting that the complex is more broadly New Zealander than merely Maori with some buildings imitative of Victorian colonial architecture.
"We are not trying to create a theme park, but trying to create name recognition," he says, "and we are trying to be sensitive." But Maori activist Ken Mair has called the plan "cultural theft and possibly theft of intellectual property" and suggested that Legacy consult with Maori advisors. Mr Brownjohn says the company has no intention to do so, but he did contact the New Zealand consulate in Washington which put him in touch with Maori Aotearoa (Maori Arts New Zealand) Red Feather Gallery in Auckland which is described as the only Maori-owned art gallery in New Zealand.
"The plan is to incorporate art and sculptural pieces—maybe three or four pieces total—that will be by Maori artisans or represent Maori works, with label information about the artists and their significance for Maori culture. That's the most authentic way I can think of doing this," says Mr Brownjohn.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Series - American Indian Art

 

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2003 | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art Series


Ralph Coe has collected American Indian art for half a century, forming a renowned collection that represents all regions and periods of American Indian art. This catalogue presents 200 works from Coe's remarkable collection. Featured are exquisite examples of prehistoric stone objects, button blankets, crest objects, masks, canoe and tipi models, dolls and figurines, woven basketry, tobacco paraphernalia, and a selection of contemporary works, all of which bring to life the vivid cultures of the American Indian throughout the centuries. In the accompanying text, Coe describes his extensive travels in the United States and Canada as he searched for objects for his collection. The catalogue also includes an essay by Eugene Thaw about Coe's contribution to the awareness of the artistic heritage of American Indian art; an overview of the collecting of American Indian art by Jonathan King; and a discussion of aesthetic theory in relation to this art form by Judith Ostrowitz.

From the Publisher

This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of art (September 9 to December 14, 2003).

About the Author

Ralph T. Coe is former director of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Eugene V. Thaw is a well-known collector; Jonathan King is a curator at the British Museum; and Judith Ostrowitz is an independent scholar.

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North Korea Hacked

Everyone seems to be getting hacked these days. And now, so has N. Korea.

Here's a picture uploaded by hactivist group Anonymous that has apparently hacked at least two of North Korea's government-run online sites yesterday. It was posted directly on N. Korea's Flickr site. Underneath, the text reads: "Threatening world peace with ICBMs and Nuclear weapons/Wasting money while his people starve to death."

Spread the word. Spread the picture.

 

Apple Scotland

Uploaded on Jan 31, 2012

UPDATE: Here's the story behind the video... http://bit.ly/zY3eV9

After reading this story in the LA Times, we decided Apple Scotland needed their own commercial.

http://lat.ms/z2w1Mj

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  The iPhone's Siri doesn't seem so smart in Scotland

  FOREIGN EXCHANGE

  Many in Scotland find that their voice-activated virtual assistant can't understand them, but that hasn't prevented the new iPhone from becoming a top seller.

   By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times

   

   

  Reporting from Edinburgh, Scotland —

  D'ye want me tae spaek more clearly, Siri?

  Aye, ye would.
  
  The Scottish have long been accustomed to ridicule and bafflement over their accents from their fellow Brits, who strain to decipher words like "cannae" and "daftie" (for the record: "can't" and "fool").
  
  But you'd think that Siri, the voice-activated virtual assistant in Apple's latest iPhone, would take a nice Scottish brogue in its stride.

  

  Think again. Since the phone debuted in October, many of the Scots who rushed to buy it have discovered that their new "smart" gadget can't understand them. This is true despite the fact that their phones are set to "English (United Kingdom)" under the "language" setting for Siri, which doesn't seem to take the distinctive Scottish burr into much account.
  "What's the weather like today?" Darren Lillie said hopefully into his iPhone recently here in the Scottish capital, in a demonstration for an American reporter.
  Lillie, 25, is Edinburgh born and bred, and his thick accent shows it.
  Siri thought for a moment, then decided it best to repeat what it thought it heard.
  "What's available in Labor Day?" it asked.
  Lillie shook his head. "I don't even know what Labor Day is," he said ruefully to the American, who told him.
  Such misunderstandings haven't prevented the new iPhone from being the top seller in the cellphone store where Lillie works. But talking up the benefits of a virtual assistant is a wee bit harder when the assistant virtually has no idea what you're telling it to do.
  Even in the U.S. and in England, where Siri recognizes speech patterns better, the system is far from flawless. That's because the program is, in effect, still being tested and fine-tuned. Apple encourages customers to persevere, because the more use the system gets, the more information it has to draw on next time.
  In other words, practice helps make Siri perfect.
  "Once you've been using it for a while, it should pick up your accent," Lillie said, then paused.
  "But if you've got a broad accent, you've got no chance."
  A number of Scots have found this out already, and given up in frustration. Others have grumbled loudly on Internet forums.
  A few amused and befuddled users have posted videos of themselves to show the world what happens when irresistible accent meets immovable assistant.
  In one, a bearded young Scotsman, eyes dancing and Rs rolling, tries repeatedly to get Siri to "create a reminder," only to receive in puzzled reply, "James, I don't understand," or "I don't know what you mean by 'create Alamain.' " (Does anyone?)
  Finally, after multiple failures, James' most deliberate and emphatic attempt ("Create. A. Reminder.") yields something close: "Create our remainder." No one breaks out the whiskey.
  In other clips, "Can you dance with me?" gets misinterpreted as "Can you Dutch women?" and the question "How many miles are there in 10 kilometers?" elicits the helpful, if irrelevant, response: "I don't see any email for yesterday."

  
  

  

  Lillie admits to adjusting his speech patterns to get Siri to understand him.
  "I find I speak slower. It's like when I speak to tourists," he said to the American reporter, who felt at once both patronized and relieved.
  To be fair, not all the blame for the verbal miscues ought to fall on Siri's cold electronic shoulders. Even their fellow Scots complain of being mystified by people from Glasgow, whose brogues can be as thick and impenetrable as a Highland fog.
  At Hector Russell, a traditional kilt-maker along Edinburgh's Royal Mile, manager Mark Cassidy, a friendly Glaswegian, gamely gave Siri a go.
  "Can I make you a kilt?" he offered, twice.
  "I don't know what you mean by 'Telemedia kilt,' " Siri answered politely, both times.
  Ella Bendall, an Edinburgh native, said she finds her thumbs more reliable than getting Siri to obey her. "I don't even bother using it because I'd have to speak even more slowly," said Bendall, 18. "It's quicker typing."
  An attempt to reach Apple for comment was unsuccessful.
  But it also turned out to be unnecessary, since it was possible to go straight to the source.
  Reporter: "Siri, why do you have trouble understanding Scottish people?"
  Siri: "Let me check on that.... I don't know that. Would you like to search the Web for it?"
  Nah.
  Reporter: "Do you like Scottish people?"
  Siri: "This is about you, not me."
  Clever.
  Reporter: "Are you deliberately trying to annoy people from Scotland?"
  Siri: "No comment."
  henry.chu@latimes.com