OMG, i didn’t just receive THIS

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Dear customer,

Help stop your TV fees from increasing. CTV, Global and the CBC have recently asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to significantly increase TV taxes.

The CRTC has been asked to do this by having Bell and the other operators pay more, which would result in higher fees for you.

We don’t think that’s right, you shouldn’t either. So please speak and have your say.

This is what’s happening.

The CRTC has told satellite and cable companies to hand over $100 million a year as of September 1, 2009. These fees are being passed on to you.

This money is passing through something called the Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF) – straight to media giants like CTVglobemedia and Canwest Global, straight to the CBC.

No new local programming, no improvement to anything other than the bottom line of broadcasters.

You are now likely paying for this on your TV bill.

You should also know that hot on the heels of that campaign, CTV, Global and the CBC are now lobbying for even more.

Each year, satellite and cable companies pay hundreds of millions of dollars to broadcasters. We contribute to the CRTC’s operating budget. Although to date these fees have not been broken out on monthly bills, you need to know they exist – especially because the TV networks still want more.

If the CRTC gives in to the broadcasters’ latest demand and lets local TV stations charge for their currently free over-the-air local signals, it would more than double the portion of your Bell TV bill going to government fees – and into the bank accounts of the broadcasters, like CTV, Global and the CBC.

In fact, if the CRTC lets broadcasters have their way, then government-imposed fees will be just shy of one billion dollars.

It’s time to say enough. Help make it stop. Let the CRTC know what you think about new TV taxes — have your say.

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I am sorry for a lot of reading, but it was so interesting to read this from the face of a company. I am not saying that Bell Canada should not have defended their customers, that was nobel, go Bell Canada. *pets Bell Canada*

What I really thought of – is how generally companies aren’t the ones who pay taxes. We do. And you’d think “O’right I pay my income tax, my purchase tax, thats fine..”
Heck no – it’s not fine. When you go and buy something, for instance tooth paste. You pay your $2 + 14% that goes to the government. But really out of that $2 you also pay at least a $1 to the government as well. How does it work ? Simple, as government charges taxes from companies that produce and sell their product.

So what you really end up paying is your own tax + the tax that company pays for this tooth paste.

So what I am really saying is that we don’t need to pay ~60% of our purchases to the government. Thats nearly a stealing, if I may say so.

Spread the word. And have your say, if that means anything..

I had mine just now, thanks.

ps: did they just accuse CRTC of being greedy bustards ? ahaha !

I don’t have any comments.

this is the letter i received from Rabbi Yoseph Y. Zaltzman of JRCC with the following text:

With the Gaza offensive now well into its third week, it is natural for the feelings of deep concern we all initially felt to subside somewhat. Life resumes…

But life as normal has not resumed for our brethren in Israel. And as a united people, we must make an exerted effort to keep our minds and hearts focused on our brothers and sisters who find themselves in distress.

The current situation underscores the principle of “Kol Yisroel Areivim Ze Lozeh” – every Jewish person is responsible for the other. A Jew in the North must defend the Jew in the South and vice versa. All of Israel will come to the defence of a few poor Jews in Sderot, no matter how few to save them from being assaulted from Gaza on a regular basis with missiles – placing their lives in mortal danger. This is what makes us all so proud of being Jewish, our amazing commitment to save the life of every single Jew.

and that all right after reading the following articles:

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GAZA CITY, Jan 16: At least 10 people were killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City during a funeral vigil, according to Palestinian medics.

Earlier, a woman and her five children — all under the age of 13 — were killed when an air strike destroyed their house in Jabaliya.

Amid feverish diplomacy in Cairo and Washington, Israel said its offensive could be “in the final act”, but again bombarded the Gaza Strip, where more than 1,150 Palestinians have been killed and 5,000 wounded in three weeks of fighting.

Gazans savoured some respite a day after fierce combat that some had seen as a final Israeli push before a ceasefire.

But Israeli strikes intensified later, killing 30 Gazans.

read the full article here

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Brown condemns Gaza attack on UN

Gordon Brown has said an Israeli attack on a United Nations building in Gaza was “indefensible” and reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire.

There were 700 people sheltering in the UN relief agency compound when it was hit by rocket shells and caught fire.

Israel has apologized to the UN for the incident but maintained that Hamas fighters were firing from the site.

Mr Brown said “no-one could defend” the attack which, he added, showed a ceasefire was “absolutely essential”.
read the full article here

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Am I missing something ?

I don’t really know what to think. You tell me.

Funky.

Earlier this year, when I took Interactive Media from Centennial College, I applied to the ADCC (theadcc.ca) student competition. The Club recognizes all our fellow Canadian advertisers, art directors, copywriters, innovators, their brave clients, and other cool dudes. As the part of their annual awards they have a student competition, usually with a challenges like “relaunch Bell Canada brand” (this year).

Kind of “Can you do better than Zulu Alpha Kilo, Leo Burnett and 3 other agencies put together ?”..

It was before Bell relaunched with all these Ers, they still had beavers and apparently were not satisfied with them. I thought beavers were cute.

So for the competition I came up with rather silly campaign with the dear old Alexander Graham Bell him self a center of all ads. Its not a complex concept, very straight forward, “it’s our ground” – not that literary though, “it’s our roots”, “innovation, creation, kill degradashon and stagnaaaashon”, and turned the whole thing into the microsite.
currently unavailable due to unpaid hosting ;P

So the awards happened few days ago, where I got the Silver. But to my great horror I was called on the stage and spoke some stupid stuff for 5 minutes without even thanking anyone. Lol.

But practice makes perfect. You know..

For now just congratulate me ! :}

Thats what I saw today checking the listings on IMDb 250 raiting

I have a tough time believing in these results. 23000 votes in one day ? Hm..

Hm.

Over a year now I’ve been studying 2 matters:
magnetics and lasers.
Both of these, I felt, are future and use of these will make the human live so much easier and the planet cleaner.

Today however just for fun I decided to cross them.
What I came up with is some sort of a magic wand.

The idea is to have a concentrated stray of particles with a determined aspect of polarity and frequency.
What it will give us is a stream of strong magnetic field in a concentrated limited space.

The polarity may either be positive or negative and depending on the one you use you can manipulate the object with the set polarity.

So imagine a small stick object that has an ability to manipulate objects on a distance without use of any force.

Here’s how it’d work:

A. Laser magnet stick closed

B. Laser magnet stick open

1 – cap; 2 – magnetic laser; 3 – change of polarity change; 4 – the stick it self; 5 – concentrated magnetic laser beam; 6 – the opposing side, either opposing or same polarity – receiver of the beam; 7 – an object.

In fact anything can include a small magnetized chip with a set frequency, which you will be able to manipulate.

Another use can actually be the gravity breach. Extreme concentration of the polar rays can do anything.

NOTE: If you currently work on this or came up with the similar invention, please contact me – ikantsurova (at) gmail.com

In our fast moving century it is not enough to have only a book, or only a movie or tv-show. After creation of such online experiences as Second Life, company now really try to create their own little worlds, rather than just producing a piece of media in it self. It is simply not enough. You have to engage the audience further, take every possibility to keep their attention on a product. Create ‘an experience’, rather than just ‘a product’ and to sell the whole thing not just a part of it. And that’s when first ideas about integrated digital media started coming into play.

We are in the digital age, age of interaction between customer and an ‘intelligent product’. Every film now has a story to it integrating featured DVD and website with experience. Take for example Pirates of Caribbean and scroll down the google search page. All you see is a part of so called Integrated Digital Experience. The movie in it self is not enough, what really sells product is the branding around it, and branding is an old term for Integrated Digital Experience in media industry. A common sense. So lets look closer at the components of it.

Pirates of Caribbean integrated experience contain

1. Official website with embedded flash site to each of 3 movies, DVD overviews, PoC video games overviews, shop with everything from DVDs it self to teeshirts, mobile games, wallpapers, trailers, icons, interviews, news.. It is huge.
2. As mentioned, each of 3 parts has its own website, for instance Pirates of Caribbean: The Curse of a Black Pearl
3. Big online strategy game
4. Video games (not online) for PC, PS2, PSP, Nintendo, Game Boy etc
5. Huge following of other flash games made by other people
6. DVD’s with the whole new movie about the movie, interviews, sneak peeks, trailers, etc..

It doesn’t cover the whole ‘experience’, however. That would be only the ‘interactive part’ of it. Yet the industry uses it hugely in any way possible. Take another example: we all seen these silly ad billboards with “i hate sarah marshall” slogans. To spoil a surprise for you, it is a campaign for the new movie called “Forgetting Sarah Marshall“. The movie itself doesn’t seem to be anything special, yet their interactive strategy is, in fact, quite interesting. They created the series of campaign promoting “http://www.ihatesarahmarshall.com/“, which will lead you to the blog of the main character in the movie, Peter Bretter, who is writing about his life, his ex, his journal, etc.

Not to mention that almost every teenage group oriented movie will have their characters on myspace, posting comments, pictures, blog posts, etc. They all are no longer just characters, they are the real people, only living in the virtual space.

Breaking the borders between reality and show is not new to the media industry, take for instance Blair Which Project. They sold experience, not the movie or website. And that’s what I believe the biggest idea behind the Integrated Digital Media component. It is about experience that user gains from collective media tools and features. User doesn’t like to be a passive consumer of the product, they want to be in the crux of it, be the hero in the story, change it along the way, make a decisions along the way, to participate at least.

You never sell a product in it self, you sell the integrated experience formed in one story. And interactive tools are only tools, the idea/concept of how making it real, feasible and engaging is what giving it value. And that’s the bottom line.

Since I am in a rather communicative mood in this wonderful Sunday afterMoon there’s another discrepancy I’d like to clarify here.

Undoubtedly misunderstanding the subject matter my friends and teachers keep protesting against the use of the word ‘but‘. But, they say, is a negative word, which creates contradiction instead of coming to a peace of matters. Ha !

Well, you can certainly use ‘and‘ instead of ‘but‘, but it won’t make anyones life easier or reveal, as they say, a spiritual knowledge, and I am certainly vote for a knowledge than for a peace.
You could also consider that ‘but‘ used after ‘yes‘ (“Yes, I agree., but &^*(), isn’t it ?”) is there not to create a contradiction, but to bring a new edge of the question into the sight. So ‘but‘ is not only positive, but most beneficial word in the world.

And thats how you know you communicate with a real debater. :}

Incredible. So much heart, how wisely put, how delicately emphasizes words they all want to hear, how philosophically inclined, how selflessly he puts it all together.
How noble it all sounds !

He speaks of children, of his country, his nation, future generations for which they try to do a Germany a better place. How selfless he encourages people to be towards their nation.

A pure phenomenon:

Yet it is incredible level of deception of ignorant people in that nation, who was promoted to obey (yet again) and _did_, in fact, obey without taking into account anything but the nobility of that speech.

The ironic thing is – i fell for it too when i watched it just now.

Curious thing is that to create such a change is an adventurous thing to do, why not make your own nation so much more powerful compared to the rest of the world. Not for the sake of fulfillment, riches or power, but for the sake of change. For the sake of experiment.

It is a common sense that when responsibility as such involved, one have no right for such ignorant and selfish experiments. But then maybe for that very reason Adolf was one of the few able to capture people’s interest in world-peace creation. World-peace viewed from a practical domestic point of view understandable to general masses.

That makes me think that creating the actual world-peace based on the pure love, loyalty and moral is not a close concept to a normal human being since it is not based on the tangible result. They were creating world peace for them self, for their kids, for people around them who spoke the same language, for riches of their country or them self. Thus the result from that theoretical world-peace is actually more-less distinct and real to be captured and understood.

But how bizarre the whole concept of deception, dogmatism and ignorance is. Its simply dangerous to be ignorant !

ps: nothing personal towards the nation !

I actually watched Blue Velvet on my iPod Touch one time.. Not that I’ve watched it for a first time on the iPod, but it’s just really funny.

And what’s ironic I actually feel his pain. Not that I was throughly bothered by the quality of sound or video but it just not right to watch real artistic film in the subway.